.pm ^.w . \.-''. V'' 1 •;>M.'VVAi '^m it^:"«:s REESE LIBRARY or THF. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA i8i) f zAcc&ssiott No. /(p %? ^T" / . Clms No. '^ *\W/>, • ) •!5^.- V H'' ^n* '< .1.^% '%*m: K z. K Z. < »« » ^ l l «^ THE HUTH LIBRARY. THE NON-DRAMATIC WORKS OF THOMAS DEKKER. VOL. II. THE SEAUEN DEADLY SINNES OF LONDON. NEWES FROM HELL. THE DOUBLE P. P. THE GVLS HORNE-BOOKE. TESTS TO MAKE YOU MERRIE. 1606— 1607. " ^ -^-^ STTV \ O Vtolet ! O Violet ! The hath not all Spring gone ; A little longer linger yet, Thou art not so long born That so we, soon, should thee forget ; Or see thee rudely torn The dark grave to adorn, And thy sweet life for ever fet, Without one sigh, O Violet ! Thou art not so forlorn. What if the grateful dawn Of Summer brighter flowers beget ? Think'st thou, the less we should regret. Or cease the less to mourn ? No ! thy fair charms would never let Our hearts to be withdrawn ; Though gayer flowers may us beset, We ftill fhall love thee, Violet, And would, that thou couldst linger yet, Ere to the dark grave borne I Akthuk Bkiik;k. — "which things are an allegory." 6\?/. iv. 24.) ELIZABETHAN- JACOBEAN zyZ^ey BOOKS \A Verse ahd Prose LA R G E LY TroTTV l^& ZtiroyTy of %i. ^,mx^ '%%l\^ €s^-^. BY TH E FOR PF5IVATE CIRCULATION ON'L^ '' C6e i&utft JLitt^x^. THE NON-DRAMATIC WORKS OF THOMAS DEKKER. IN FIVE VOLUMES. FOR THE FIRST TIME COLLECTED AND EDITED, WITH MEMORIAL INTRODUCTION, NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. ETC. BY THE REV, ALEXANDER B.GROSART, D.D., LL.D.(Edin.), F.S.A. (Scot.), St. George's, Blackburn, Lancashire. VOL. II. THE SEAUEN DEADLY SINNES OF LONDON NEWES FROM HELL. THE DOUBLE P. P. THE GVLS HORNE-BOOKE. JESTS TO MAKE YOU MERRIE. 1606— 1607 PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY. 1885. 50 Copus.\ .'"^^•r y&3¥f Printea by Hazell, Watson, 6^ Viney, Ld., London and Ayksbmy. CONTENTS. PAGE \X^<,^^ ' Seauen Deadly Sinnes of London . i Newes from Hell . ^ , . 83 The Double P. P 155 The Gvls Horne-Booke 193 lESTS TO make you MERRIE 267 tlie "O ! what a cozening Doctor was this ! I riding my horff into water, thinking fome hidden myftery had been in the horfe, 1 had nothing vnder me but a httle ftraw, and had much ado to fcape drowning. Well, I'll go roufe him, and make him give me my forty dollars again. Ho ! firrah. me Doctor, you cozening fcab ! Mafler Doctor, awake and rife, and give for horfe is turned to a bottle of my money again ; your hay." Dr. Faiistus (BULLEN i. 312.) IV. THE»SEUEN DEADLY SINNES. 1606. « D. ir. NOTE. For my exemplar of the "Seuen Deadly Sinnes,'' and the next two works, " "Double PP" and Newes from Hell," I am indebted to the British Museum. See Memorial-Introduction on all. —G. THE Seuen deadly Sinnes of London : Drawne in feiien feuerall Coaches^ Through the feuen feuerall Gates fo the Citie Bringing the Plague with them. Opus feptem Dierw?i. Tho. Dekker. At London Printed by E. A. for Nathaniel Butter, and are to bee fold at his fhop neere Saint Auflens gate 1606. READER, ^T is as ordinarie a cuftome (for vs that are Bookifh) to haue a bout with thee, after wee haue done with a Patron, as for Schollers the (in noble fcience) to play at the woodden Rapier and Dagger at the ende of a Maifters prize. In doing which we know not vpon what Speeding points wee runne, for you (that are Readers) are the moft defperate and fowleft players in the world, you will ftrike when a mans backe is towards you, and kill him could for when he lies (if you fhame) vnder your are able feete. You (if you haue the tokens of deadly Ignorance, and Boldnes at one time vpon you) to breede more infe6lion in Pauls Church- yard^ then all the bodies that were buried there in the Plague-time, if they had beene left ftill aboue ground. You ftand fometimes at a Stationers ftal, looking fcuruily (like Mules champing vpon Thirties) on the face of a new Booke bee it neuer fo worthy : & goe (as il fauouredly) mewing away: But what get you by it ? The Booke-feller euer after when you pafTe by, pinnes on your backes 6 TO THE READER. the badge of fooles to make you be laught to fcorne, or of fillie Carpers to make you be pittied : Comadus Gefner neuer writ of the nature of fuch ftrange beafts as you are : for whereas we call you Le5fores^ Readers, you turne your felues into Li^fores., Executioners & tormentors. I wold not haue him that writes better than I, to Reade this, nor him /that cannot doe fo well, to Raile, or if hee cannot chufe but Raile, let him doe it to my face : otherwife (to me being abfent) it is done cowardly : for Leonem mortuum mordent etiam Catuli : Cats dare fcratch Lions by the face when they lie dead, and none but Colliers will threaten a Lord Maior when they are farre enough from the Cittie. I haue laide no blockes in thy way : if thou findeft Strawes, (Vale, vale,) caue ne titubes. The names of the Arbors in this old Enterlude of Iniquitie. ' I. Poll tike Bankeruftijyne. 1. hying. 3. Candle-light. Seuen may eafily 4. Sloth. \ play this, but not a 5. Api/Jinejfe. without Diuell. 6. Shauing. 7 . Crueltie. The Inducflion to the Booke. ^s^ ^ Finde it written in that Booke where no vntruthes can be read : in that Booke whofe leaues fhall out-laft fheetes of brafle, and whofe lynes leade to eternity : in that yea, euen Booke that was pend by the beft Author of the beft wifedome, allowed by a Deity, the licenfed by Omnipotent, and publifhed (in all Languages to all Nations) by the greateft, trueft, and onely Diuine, thus I find it written, that for were throwne out of heauen for Sinne, Angels ; Sinne, the firft man that euer was made, was made : he was driuen an outcaft out of his liuing that was left vnto him by his Creator : It was a than the Inheritance goodlier liuing, of Princes : he loft Paradice by it (he loft his houfe of hee loft Eden a pleafure :) by it, Garden, where Winter could neuer haue nipt him with cold, nor Summer haue fcorcht him with heate. He had there all fruits growing to delight his tafte. 8 THE INDUCTION all flowers flouriihitig to allure his eye, all Birds to content his eare he had more than finging ; / he could defire becaufe he defired more than ; yet was fit for him, he loft all. For Sinne, all thofe buildings which that great Worke-mafter of the world had in fixe dayes rayfed, were fwallowed at the firft by waters, and (hall at laft be confumed in fire. How many families hath this Leuiathan deuoured? how many Cities? how many King- doms? Let vs awhile leaue Kingdomes, and enter into Citties. Sodom and Gomorrah were burnt to the ground with brimftone that dropt in flakes from heauen : a hot and dreadfull vengeance. lerufalem hath not a ftone left vpon another of her firft glorious foundation : a heauy and fearefull downefall. lerufalem^ that was Gods owne houfe the Schoole where thofe dwelling ; Hebrew Leftures, which he himfelfe read, were the where the Prince of taught ; very Nurfery Heauen was that whofe brought vp ; lerufalem Rulers were Princes, & whofe Citizens were like the fonnes of Kings : whofe Temples were paued with gold, and whofe houfes ftood like rowes of tall Cedars that is a dezert It is ; lerufalem now ; vnhallowed, and vntrodden : no Monument is left to fl-iew it was a Citty, but only the memoriall of the lewes hard-hartednes, in making away their Sauiour : It is now a place for barbarous Turks, TO THE BOOKS. g and Grecians it is rather poore defpifed ; now (for the abominations committed in no at all. it) place Let vs hoyft vp more Sayles, and lanch into other Seas, till wee come in ken of our owne Countrey. Antwerp (the eldeft daughter of Brabant) hath falne in her pride, the Citties of rich Burgundy in theyr greatnes. Thofe feuenteene Dutch Virgins of Belgia, (that had to Kingdomes theyr dowries, / and were worthy to be courted by Nations) are now no more Virgins : the Souldier hath deflowred them, and robd them of theyr Mayden honor: Warre hath ftill vfe of their noble bodyes, and difcouereth theyr nakednes like proftituted Strumpets. Famine hath dryed vp the frefh bloud in theyr cheekes, whilft the Peftilence digd vp theyr Fields, and turned them into Graues. Neither haue thefe bin them for punifhments layd vpon onely ; bloud hath bin alfo drawne of their very next neighbours. France lyes yet panting vnder the blowes which her owne Children haue giuen her. Thirty yeeres together fuffred fhe her bowels to be torne out by thofe that were bred within them : She was full of Princes, and faw them all lye mangled at her feete : She was full of people, and faw in one night a hundred thoufand maffacred in her ftreetes : her Kings were eaten vp by Ciuill warres, and her Subieds by fire and famine. O D. II. 2 10 THE INDUCTION gallant Monarchy, what hard fate hadft thou, that when none were left to conquer thee, thou fhouldft triumph ouer thy felfe ! Thou haft Wynes fiownig in thy veynes, but thou madeft thy felfe druncke with thine owne bloud.