_On an usurer._
Here lies at least ten in the hundred, [14.]
Shackled up both hands and feet,
That at such as lent mony _gratis_ wondred,
The gain of usury was so sweet;
But thus being now of life bereav'n
'Tis a hundred to one he's scarce gone to heav'n.
[8.] In Chancery, one time, when the Councel of the parties set forth
the boundary of the Land in question, by the plot, and the Councel
of one part said, we lie on this side my Lord, and the Councel of the
other part said, we lie on this side. The Lord Chancellor _Hatton_
stood up and said, _If you lie on both sides, whom will you have me to
believe?_
_In praise of the Black Jack[F. 28]_
Be your liquor small, or as thick as mudd. [13.]
The Cheating bottle cryes, good, good, good,
Whereat the master begins to storme,
'Cause he said more than he could performe.
_And I wish that his heires may never want Sack,
That first devis'd the bonny black Jack._
No Tankerd, Flaggon, Bottle nor Jugg
Are half so good, or so well can hold Tugg,
For when they are broke or full of cracks,
Then they must fly to the brave black Jacks,
_And I wish &c._
When the Bottle and Jack stands together, O fie on't,
The Bottle looks just like a dwarfe to a Gyant;
Then had we not reason Jacks to chuse
For this'l make Boots, when the Bottle mends shoes.
_And I wish &c._
And as for the bottle you never can fill it
Without a Tunnell, but you must spill it,
'Tis as hard to get in, as it is to get out,
'Tis not so with a Jack, for it runs like a spout.
_And I wish &c._
And when we have drank out all our store,
The Jack goes for Barme to brew us some more;
And when our Stomacks with hunger have bled,
Then it marches for more to make us some bread.
_And I wish &c._
I now will cease to speak of the Jack,
But hope his assistance I never shall lack,
And I hope that now every honest man,
Instead of Jack will y'clip him John.
And I wish &c.
[Footnote 28: A bottle made of leather. Sometimes they were
ornamented with silver rims, and a silver plate with the
owner's coat of arms thereon; but generally they were very
rough.]
[18.] A melting Sermon being preached in a Country Church, all fell
a weeping, except a Country man, who being ask'd why he did not weep
with the rest? _Because_ (says he) _I am not of this Parish_.
[18.] A Country-man admiring the stately Fabrick of S. _Pauls_
Cathedral, asked _Whether it was made in_ England, _or brought from
beyond Sea_.