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DRUNKEN BARNA9Y'S 
 
 FOUR JOURNEYS 
 
 TO 
 
 THE NORTH OP ENGLAND 
 
 3{tt JLatin ann (JEngii^tj ^tttt. 
 
 WriTILY AND MERRILT (tHO' AN HUNDRED YEARS AGO) 
 COMPOSED ; 
 
 FOUND AMONG SOUE OLD UUSTT BOOKS THAT HAD tAlN A LONG TIKIE 
 BY IN A CORNER, AND NOW AT LAST MADE FUBLIC. 
 
 Together with 
 
 BESSY BELL. 
 
 TO WHICH IS NOW ADDED, (NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED,) 
 THE 
 
 ANCIENT BALL AD OF CHEVY CHASE, 
 
 1?*; LATIN AWD ENGLISH VERSE. 
 
 Hie est quern queeris, ille qucm requiris, 
 
 Toto notus in orbe— Britannus. Mart. 
 
 BARNABAS Ebriu8. 
 
 A NEW EDITION, 
 
 PRINTED fROM THE EDITION OF 17/8, 
 ILLUSTRATED WITH FOUR NEW DESIGNS. 
 
 LONDON : 
 
 PRINTED FOR T. AND J. ALLMAN, PRINCES STREET, 
 HANOVER SQUARE. 
 
 1822. 
 
roAN STACK 
 
 J. G. Barnard, Skinner Street, London. 
 
^3G 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Preface .•.•••••••••••«• 5 
 
 Loyal Pheander to his Royal Alexander . . 9 
 
 On the Errata 13 
 
 To the Traveller and Translator .•..-.•*.. . 15 
 
 Index of this Work 17 
 
 Barnaby's Journal, Part I. . . • ... ••«••• 19 
 
 Upon Bacchus' Bush and Barnaby's Nose. . 45 
 
 Bar^aby'^ Journal, Part II 47 
 
 On the Errata 77 
 
 Barnaby's Journal, Part III , 79 
 
 IV 133 
 
 To Philoxenus • 165 
 
 Bessy Bell 169 
 
 Chevy Chase , 177 
 
 *7?1 
 
Directions to the Binder for placing the Plates, 
 
 PAGE 
 
 The Puritan hanging his Cat • - 21 
 
 Barnaby fighting with the Blacksmith .... 39 
 
 Barnaby led to the Stocks lOS 
 
 Barnaby enjoying a Country Life. ....... 163 
 
 The Plates are designed and executed in Litho- 
 graphy, by Mr. D. Dighton. 
 
ADVERTISEMENT, 
 
 IN presenting this Edition of 
 " Drunken Barnahy^s four Journeys 
 to the North of England,^' to the 
 Public, the Editor has merely to state 
 that it has been done m obedience to 
 their demand for one, at a moderate 
 price. 
 
 He flatters himself, that the Edi- 
 tion which he has chosen to print the 
 
 A 2 
 
4 ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 present one from (containing the ballad 
 of Chevy Chase in addition) will meet 
 with their approval ; and that it will 
 bear a comparison, both in point of 
 Typographical Execution as well as in 
 the Designs for the New Plates, with 
 any of the former Editions of this va- 
 luable little book. 
 
 London^ 
 
 January, 1822. 
 

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THE 
 
 PREFACE TO THE READER. 
 
 Pjcl ^ ^^< 
 
 V;" 
 
 It will not, I hope^ be thought unnecessary, 
 if I lay before the reader my reason for re- 
 publishing this facetious little book, after a N^ 
 delitescency of near a hundred years. Being 
 desired by a gentlewoman to look over a 
 parcel of old books, among 'em I chanced 
 upon Drunken Barnaby, which reading gave 
 me satisfaction for my trouble ; whereupon I 
 took a resolution to publish it, that others might 
 therewith be pleased as well as myself. What 
 I can gather of the author is chiefly from him- 
 self; for he says, coming to a place called Har- 
 rington, he was well pleased with the omen, 
 and spent some money there for namesake, so 
 that 1 conclude his name was Barnaby Har- 
 rington. He further says, that after a tedious 
 journey of about six miles a day, and some- 
 
6 THE PREFACE. 
 
 times three or four, (very weary, and heavy 
 laden) he at last arrived at Appleby, in West- 
 moreland, where he was bom, and where, if I 
 mistake not, there are some remains of the 
 family still living. That he was a graduate in 
 Queen's College, Oxon, is plain, but I have 
 not had an opportunity of knowing what de- 
 grees he took, 'Tis the man, no doubt, of 
 whom the song says, 
 
 Hey, Barnaby ! take't for a warning, &c. 
 
 He says, he afterwards (after four journeys 
 backward and forward) married in the coun- 
 try, turned farmer, and frequented the horse 
 fairs all round the country, buying horses 
 when cheap, and (like a true jockey) selling 
 them when dear, upon which he is very 
 pleasant. I thought fit to say thus much, 
 and more I have not, only wish the reader 
 pleased, as I was. 
 
EDITOR LECTORI. 
 
 QuuM pritnum reperi libellum hunc lepi- 
 dlssimum legendo gaudebam, quod et tii facies 
 cum legeris nullus dubito. Editum inveni 
 absq; aera, absq; nomin^ vel Authoris, vel 
 Bibliopolae, vel Typographic aut ullo alio in- 
 dicio possessorem ullum indicante^ ergo statui 
 Hiei juris esse, inq; lucem emisi. De Au- 
 thore quod certum est subjiciani: ab amico 
 nieo doctissimo nunc praesule intellexi au- 
 thorem Barnabani Harrington fuisse ante mul- 
 tos annos (forte nonaginta aut centum) vel so- 
 cium, vel artium magistrum, aut saltern mem- 
 brum Collegii Reginensis apud Oxonienses, 
 quod innuit etiam authore ssepius. Natus 
 erat, ut ait ipse, Aballabae Westmarorum inter 
 3 
 
8 EDITOH LECTORI. 
 
 septentriones ex antiqua stirpe, prole ibi ad- 
 hue manente. Hie est famosissimus ille de 
 quo decantatuin illud et tritum apud vulgus 
 cantillatur, 
 
 c» 
 
 Hey, Bamaby ! take't for a warning", 
 Be no more drunk nor dry in a morning. 
 
 De libro nulla est necessitas addendi quid- 
 quam, facile perleges, et perlecto judicabis. 
 De versu, de metro, de erroribus neq; est 
 quod addam, ipse enim autor satis ludicre in 
 errata libro praefixa seipsum vindicavit, quum 
 ait, 
 
 Quid si sedem muto sede? 
 q> duid si carmen claudo pede? 
 
 Quid si noctem sensi diem? 
 Quid si veprem esse viam ? 
 Sat est, verbum declinavi, 
 «' Titubo, titubas, titubavi." 
 
 Vale et ride affatim, lector* 
 
LOYAL PHEANDER 
 
 ROYAL ALEXANDER. 
 
 1 HE title, noble friend, of Ale-xander, 
 Were it nought else, implies a great com* 
 
 mander: 
 And so you shall be still of me and mine. 
 With Barnahy couch'd in a reeling rhime : 
 Nor wonder, friend, if his dimensions reel, 
 Whose head makes such iambics with his 
 
 heeL 
 
BARNAB^ ITINERARIUM, 
 
 MIRTILI ET FAUSTULI 
 
 NOMINIBUS INSIGNITUM : 
 
 TIATORIS SOLATIO NUPERRIME EDITUM, APTISSIMIS NUME- 
 
 RIS REDACTUM, VETERIQUE TONO BARNAB.^ 
 
 PUBI.ICE DECANTATUM. 
 
 AUTHORE CORYMBiEO. 
 
 LONDINI: 
 
 IMPENSIS AB ANNO 1774. 
 
BARNABY'S JOURNAL, 
 
 UNDER THE NAMES OF 
 
 MIRTILUS AND FAUSTULUS 
 
 SHADOW'D : 
 
 FOR THE traveller's SOLACE LATELY PUBLISHED, TO 
 
 MOST APT NUMBERS REDUCED, AND TO THE OLD 
 
 TUNE OF BARNABT COMMONLY CHANTED. 
 
 BY CORYMB^US. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 PRINTED IN THE YEAR 1774. 
 
IN ERRATA. 
 
 XiECTOR, ne mireris ilia, 
 Villam si mutavi villa, 
 Si regressum feci metro, 
 Retro ante, ante retro 
 Inserendo, ut praepono 
 Godmanchester Harringtono. 
 Quid si breves fiant longi ^ 
 Si vocales sint diphthongi ? 
 Quid si grmes sint acuti? 
 Si accentus fiant muti? 
 Quid si placide, plene, plane, 
 Fregi frontem Prisciani f 
 Quid si sedem muto sede ? 
 Quid si carmen claudo pede ? 
 Quid si noctem sensi diem \ 
 Quid si vepreni esse viam ? 
 Sat est, verbum declinavi, 
 " TitubOf titubasy titubavi" 
 
UPON THE ERRATA'S- 
 
 JtvEADER, think no wonder by it, 
 If with town I've town supplied; 
 If my metre's backward nature 
 Set before what should be later : 
 As for instance is exprest there, 
 Harrington after Godmanchester. 
 What tho' breve's be made iongo^s, 
 What tho' vowels be diphthongo's ? 
 What tho' graves become acute too ? 
 What tho' accents become mute too ? 
 What iho' freely, fully, plainly, 
 I've broke Priscian's forehead mainly ? 
 What tho' seat with seat I've strained ? 
 What tho' my limp verse be maimed ? 
 What tho' night I've ta'en for day too? 
 What tho' I've made briers my way too ? 
 Know ye, I've declin'd most bravely, 
 " Tituboy titubas, tiiubaviJ^ 
 
AD VIATOREM. 
 
 OppiDA dum peragras, peragrando Poemata 
 
 species, 
 Spectando titubes, Barnabe, nomen habes. 
 
 AD TRANSLATOREM. 
 
 i^ESSiMUS est Cerdo, qui traustulit ordine 
 
 calvo, 
 Non res sed voces percutiendo leves, 
 Ast hie Translator corii peramabilis Actor, 
 Quirythmo pollens fit ratione satur. 
 
TO THE TRAVELLER. 
 
 Towns while thou walk'st 
 And see'st this poetry, 
 
 And seeing, stumblest, 
 Thou art Barnaby. 
 
 TO THE TRANSLATOR. 
 
 1 HAT paltry patcher is a bald Translator, 
 Whose awl bores at the words but not the 
 
 matter : 
 But this Translator makes good use of leather, 
 By stitching rhyme and reason both together. 
 
 B 2 
 
INDEX OPERIS. 
 
 MuLCiBER, TJva, Venus, redolens Ampulla^ 
 
 SilenuSy 
 Effigiem titulis explicuere suis. 
 
 Sic me Parnassi deserta per ardua dulcis 
 Raptat amor 
 
THE 
 
 INDEX OF THIS WORK 
 
 Vulcan, Grape, Venusj 
 Bottle, Silen's hook. 
 
 Have all explained 
 The title of this book. 
 
 Thus through vast deserts. 
 Promontories wild, 
 
 Parnassus-love draws 
 Bacchus* only child. 
 
 b3 
 
BARNABiE HARRINGTON I 
 
 ET NUNC BT DUDUM DECANTATI 
 
 ITINERARIUM BOREAM 
 
 QUATER RETROVERSUS. 
 
 PARS PRIMA. 
 
 MIRTILLUS ET FAUSTULUS 
 INTERLOCUTOBES, 
 
 MirtiL O Faustule ! tende palmam, 
 Accipe calicem vitibus alraam ; 
 Tuuc vinctus es dolore ? 
 Uvae tinctus sis colore. 
 Sperne opes, sperne dapes. 
 Merge curas, rect^ sapis. 
 
THE FAMOUS 
 
 BARNABY HARRINGTON^S 
 
 TRAVELS TO THE NORTH, 
 
 FOUR TIMES BACKWARD AND FORWARD. 
 PART THE FIRST. 
 
 MIRTILLUS AND FAUSTULUS, 
 
 A DIALOGUE. 
 
 MirtiL O little Faustus! stretch thy hand 
 
 out, 
 Take thy liquor, do not stand out; 
 Art thou 'prest with griping dolour ? 
 Let rich wine advance thy colour. 
 Bread's a binder, wealth's a miser. 
 Drink down care, and thou'It be wiser. 
 
20 BARNABJE ITINERARIUM. 
 
 O Faustule, die amico 
 Quo in loco, quo in vico, 
 Sive campo, sive tecto, 
 Sine linteo, sine lecto, 
 Propinasti, queis tabernis, 
 An in terris, an Avernis ? 
 
 FaustuL O Mirtille ! baculum fixi 
 Mille locis ubi vixi, 
 In pistrinis; in popiuis. 
 In coquinis, in culinis, 
 Hue, et illuc, istie, ibJ, 
 Hausi potus, plus quam cibi. 
 
 In progress u boreali, 
 Ut processi ab australi, 
 Veni Banburt/, O profanum ! 
 Ubi vidi Puritanum, 
 Felem facientem fureni, 
 Quod Sabbatho stravit murem. 
 
 Veni Oxon, cui eomes 
 Est Minerva^ fons Platonis ; 
 
barnaby's journal. 21 
 
 Little Faustus, tell thy true heart, 
 In what region, coast, or new part ; 
 Field or fold thou hast been bousing. 
 Without linen, bedding, housing ; 
 In what tavern, pray thee shew us, 
 Here on earth, or else below us ? 
 
 Faustus. O Mirtillus ! I will shew thee 
 Thousand places since I saw thee. 
 In the bake-house I had switching. 
 In the tap-house, cook-shop, kitchen ; 
 This way, that way, each way shrank I, 
 Little eat I, deeply drank I. 
 
 In my progress travelling northward, 
 Taking farewel of the southward. 
 To Banbury came I, O profane one ! 
 Where I saw a puritane one 
 Hanging of his cat on Monday, 
 For killing of a mouse on Sunday. 
 
 To Oxford came I, whose companion 
 Is Minerva, well Plutonian ; 
 
22 barnab;e itinerarium. 
 
 Unde scatent peramoene 
 Aganippe J Hippocrene; 
 Totum fit Atheniense^ 
 Imo cornu Reginense, 
 
 Inde Godstow, cum amicis, 
 Vidi tumbani meretricis ; 
 Rosamundam tegit humus, 
 Pulvis et umbra corpore sumus ; 
 Sic qui teget, quae tegetur, 
 Ordme certo sepelietur. 
 
 Inde Woodstock, quo spectandum 
 Labyrinth um memorandum 
 Ferunt; sed spectare nollem^ 
 Reperi vivam hospitem mollem ; 
 Gratior sociis est jocundis, 
 Mille mortuis Rosamundis. 
 
 Veni Barhley, ubi natus 
 Stirpe vili magistratus. 
 Quern conspexi residentem, 
 Stramine tectum contegentem, 
 
barnaby's jouknai^. £3 
 
 From whose seat do stream most seemly, 
 
 Aganippe^ Hippocrene; 
 
 Each thing there's the muse's minion, 
 
 The horn at Queen's speaks pure Athenian, 
 
 Thence to Godstow, with my lovers, 
 Where a tomb a strumpet covers ; 
 Rosamond lies there interred, 
 Flesh to dust and shades compar'd; 
 Lie he above, or lie she under, 
 To be bury'd is no wonder. 
 
 Thence to Woodstock I resorted. 
 Where a labyrinth's reported ; 
 No more of that, it is above me, 
 I found a tender housewife that did love me; 
 And her guests more sweetly eyeing, 
 Than thousand Rosamonds a-dying. 
 
 From thence to Barklei/, as did beseem one, 
 The may'r I saw, a wond'rous mean one. 
 Sitting, thatching, and bestowing 
 On a wind-blown house a strawing ; 
 
24 BARNABiE ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Et me vocans, " Male agis, 
 ^' Bibe minus, ede magis." 
 
 Veni Daintree cum puella, 
 Procerum celebre duello^ 
 Ibi bibi in caupona, 
 Nota muliere bona. 
 Cum qua vixi semper idem, 
 Donee creta fregit fidem. 
 
 Veni Leicester ad Campanam^ 
 Ubi mentem lassi sanam ; 
 Prima nocte mille modis 
 Flagellarunt me custodes, 
 Pelle sparsi sunt livores 
 Meos castigare mores. 
 
 Veni Gotham, ubi multos 
 Si non omnes vidi stultos, 
 Nam scrutando reperi unam 
 Salientem contra lunam, 
 Alteram nitidum puellam 
 Oflferentem porco sellam. 
 
barnaby's journal. 25 
 
 On me call'd he, and did charm me, 
 " Drink less, eat more, I do warn thee." 
 
 Thence to Daintree with my jewel. 
 Famous for a noble duel, 
 Where I drank and took my common 
 In a taphouse with my woman : 
 While I had it, there I paid it. 
 Till long chalking broke my credit. 
 
 Thence I came to th' Bell at Leicester, 
 Where strong ale my brains did pester ; 
 First night besure I was admitted 
 By the watchmen I was whipped, 
 Black and blue like any tetter, 
 Beat I was to make me better. 
 
 Thence to Gotham, where, sure am I, 
 Though not all fools, I saw many ; 
 Here a she-bull found I prancing, 
 And in moon-shine nimbly dancing : 
 There another wanton mad one. 
 Who her hog was set astride on. 
 c 
 
96 BARNAB-*: ITINERARItM. 
 
 Veni Noftingkam*, tyrones 
 Sherwoodenses sunt latrones, 
 Instar Robin Hood et servi 
 Scarlet et Joannis Parci ; 
 Passim, sparsim peculantur, 
 Cellis, sylvis depraedaiitur. 
 
 Veni Mansfield, ubi noram 
 Mulierculam decoram, 
 Cum qua nudum feci pactum. 
 Dedi ictum, egi actum, 
 Sed pregnantem timens illam^ 
 Sprevi villam et ancillam. 
 
 * Moitimeriados morti dos, gloria pulvis, 
 Atria sunt frondes, nobilis aula seges, 
 
 Nunc gradus anfractus, cisterna fluenta spadoniSj 
 Amplexus vermes, oscitla mista regis. 
 
 Clamat tempus edo, vocemque repercutit echo, 
 Sed nunquam redeo, voce resurgit ego. 
 
 vos heroes ! attendite fata sepulchris, 
 Heroum, patriis qui rediere thoris ! 
 
 Non estis luti melioris in orbe superlns, 
 Hi didicere mori, discite morte sequii 
 3 
 
BARNABY'd JOURNAL, 27 
 
 Thence to Nottingham *, where rovers, 
 Highway riders, Sherwood drovers. 
 Like old Robin Hood^ and Scarlet j 
 Or like Little John his varlet ; 
 Here and there they shew them doughty, 
 In cells and woods to get their booty. 
 
 Thence to Mansfield, where I knew one, 
 That was a comely and a true one, 
 With her a naked compact made I, 
 Her long loved I, with her laid I ; 
 Town and her I left both, doubtful 
 Lest my love had made her fruitful. 
 
 * Brave Mortimer'^s now dead, his glory dust, 
 His courts are clad with grass, his hall with rust, 
 His stairs steep steps, his horse-troughs cisterns are, 
 Worms his emhraces, kisses ashes share. 
 
 Time cries, I eat, and echo answers it : 
 But gone, e'er to return, is held unfit. 
 
 O heroes ! of these heroes take a view ; 
 They're to their fathers gone, and so must you! 
 Of better clay you are not than these men. 
 And they are dead, and you must follow them, 
 C2 
 
28 BARNAB^ ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Veni Overbowles *, ubi Dani f 
 Habitarunt tempore Jani; 
 Pater oppidanus callis 
 Circumcirca clausus vallis, 
 Castris^ claustris^ 8c speluncis 
 Tectus coecis, tectus juncis. 
 Sacra die e6 veni, 
 JEdes sanctae erant plenas. 
 Quorum percitus exemplo, 
 Quia hospes erat templo, 
 Intrans vidi sacerdotem, 
 Ignejatuo poculis notum. 
 
 Glires erant incolae villae, 
 Iste clamat, dormiunt ilii ; 
 Ipse tamen vixit ita, 
 Si non corde, veste trita ; 
 Fortem prae se ferens gestum^ 
 Fregit pedibus J suggestum. 
 
 • Temporibus Jani sedes fuit ultima f Danf^ 
 Conspicuis vallis obsita, fixa palis. 
 
 X Fragmina suggesti sacrarunt fercula festi. 
 
 Luaret, 
 
barnaby's journal. 29 
 
 Thence to Overbozs)les *, where Danus t 
 Dwelt wilh's Danes in time of Janus; 
 Way to th' town is well disposed. 
 All about with trenches closed ; 
 Pallisadoes hid with bushes, 
 Rampires overgrown with rushes. 
 On a feast-day I came thither. 
 When good people flock'd together, 
 Where (induc'd by host's example) 
 I repair'd unto the temple, 
 Where I heard the preacher gravely, 
 With his red nose tipt most bravely. 
 
 Dormice-like the people seem'd. 
 Though he cry'd, they sleeping dream'd ; 
 For his life, tho' there was harm in't. 
 Heart was less rent than his garment: 
 With his feet he did so thunder, 
 That the pulpit J fell asunder. 
 
 * In Janus time was f Danus seated hei^e, 
 As by their pales and trenches may appear. 
 
 ^ The fragments of which pulpit they were pleasM 
 To sacrifice to th' ashes of their feast. Lucret, 
 c 3 
 
30 BARNABiE ITINERARIUM* 
 
 Qua occasione nacta 
 Tota grex *" expuigefacta^ 
 Sacerdote derelicto, 
 Tabulis fractis graviter icto, 
 Pransuni redeunt, unus horum^ 
 Plebem sequor non pastorem. 
 
 Veni Clowney ubi vellem 
 Pro liquore dare pellem^ 
 Ibi cerebro inani 
 Vidi conjiigem Vulcani, 
 Quae me hospitem tractat bene 
 Donee restat nil crumenas. 
 
 Veni Rothram usque Taurum^ 
 £t reliqui ibi Aurum, 
 Diu steti, sed in ponteni 
 Titubando fregi frontem, 
 Quo pudore pulsus, docte 
 Clam putabam ire nocte. 
 
 * O cives, cives, sacris attendite rivis, 
 Praeceptor legerit, vos vero negligitis. 
 
baunaby's journal, si 
 
 Which occasion having gotten 
 All awake '^, the pulpit broken, 
 While the preacher lay sore wounded, 
 With more boards than beards surrounded ; 
 All to dinner, w^ho might faster, 
 So among them I left pastor. 
 
 Thence to Clozme I came the quicker, 
 Where I'd given my skin for liquor : 
 None was there to entertain us. 
 But a Hogging of Vulcanus ; 
 Who afford't me welcome plenty. 
 Till my seam-rent purse was empty. 
 
 Thence to th' Bull at Rothram came I, 
 Where my gold, if I had any, 
 Left I ; long I stoutly roared. 
 Till on bridge 1 broke my forehead. 
 Whence asham'd, while forehead smarted, 
 I by night-time thence departed. 
 
 * Pray you, good townsmen, sacred springs affect, 
 Let not your preacher read, and you neglect. 
 
32 BARNAB^ ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Veni DoncasteVy ubi sitam 
 Vidi levem et Levifam, 
 Quae vieta et vetusta^ 
 Parum pulchra aut venusta^ 
 Cupit tamen penetrari, 
 Pingi, pungi, osculari* 
 
 Veni Aberford^, ubi notum 
 Quod aciculis eniuiit potum, 
 Pauperes sunt et iudigentes, 
 Multum tamen sitientes ; 
 Parum habent, nee habentur 
 Ulla, quai non tenet venter. 
 
 * Eo tempore, quo in hoc paiiperiore vico hospi- 
 tium suscepimns quidam acicularius, e gvege prae 
 cteteris, fama ej^regius, aciculari pulvere suffocatus 
 interiit; in cujus raemoriam hoc inscriptum comperi* 
 mus epitapliium: 
 
 ' O Mors crudelis ! 
 
 Q,ufe tuis telis 
 
 Artificem stravisti 
 Qui meliorem 
 Erasit pulverem 
 Quam tu de eo fecislt 
 
barnaby's journal. 33 
 
 Thence to Donc'ster, who'll believe it ? 
 Both a light'one and a Levite, 
 There I viewed ; too, too aged, 
 Yet to love so far engaged, 
 That on earth she only wished 
 To be painted, pricked, kissed. 
 
 Thence to Aberford^, whose beginning 
 Came from buying drink with pinning : 
 Poor they are, and very needy, 
 Yet of liquor very greedy : 
 Had they never so much plenty, 
 Belly'd make their purses empty. 
 
 * At such time as we sojourned in this poorvillag-e, 
 it chanced that a certain pinner, and of the choicest 
 of all his flock, being choaked with pin- dust, died ; 
 to whose memory we find this epitaph recorded : 
 
 O cruel Death I 
 
 To rob this man of breath, 
 Who, while he liv'd, in scraping of a pin, 
 Made better dust than thou hast made of him. 
 
34 BARNABJa ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Veni Wetherb*, ubi visam 
 Clari ducis meretricem, 
 Amplexurus, porta strepit, 
 Et stiependo dux me cepit; 
 Ut me cepit, aufem vellit, 
 Et piascipitem foris pellit, 
 
 Hinc diverso cursu, sero 
 Quod audissem de Pindero 
 Wakefeeldensiy gloria mundi, 
 Ubi socii sunt jucundi, 
 Mecum statui peragrare 
 Georgii fustem visitare. 
 
 Veni Wakefeeld peramaenum, 
 Ubi quaerens Georgium Grenuniy 
 Non inveni, sed in lignum 
 Fixuni reperi Georgii signum, 
 
 * In Corneolo Angiportu, 
 SubamoBniore Hortu 
 Speciosa manet scorta, 
 JW[eretricia Procans sporta. 
 
barnaby's journal. 35 
 
 Thence to Wetherh^^ where an apt one 
 To be punk unto a captain 
 I embracM, as I bad got it, 
 But door creak'd, and captain smoak'd it: 
 Took me hy th' ears, and so drew me, 
 Till head-long down stairs he threw me* 
 
 Turning thence, none cou'd me hinder, 
 To salute the Wakefield Pindar; 
 Who indeed is the world's glory. 
 With his comrades never sorry^ 
 This was the cause, lest you should miss it, 
 George's club I meant to visit. 
 
 Strait at Wakefield I was seen a, 
 Where I sought for George a Green a; 
 But cou'd find not such a creature, 
 Yet on a sign I saw his feature ; 
 
 * Near Horn-Alle^^ in a garden, 
 A wench more wanton than Kate Ardefi^ 
 Sojonrns, one that scorns a wast-coat^ 
 Waoing cUents with bar basket. 
 
36 BARNAEite ITlNERARIUM. 
 
 Ubi aliain bibi feram, 
 Donee Georgia fortior eram* 
 
 Veiii Bradford, cessi foris 
 In familiam amoris, 
 Amant istae et amantur, 
 Crescunt et multiplicantur, 
 Spiritus instruct! armisj 
 Nocte colunt opera carnis. 
 
 Veni Kighleyy ubi montes 
 Mintantes, vivi fontes, 
 Ardui colles, aridae valles, 
 Lagti tamen sunt sodales, 
 Festivantes et jucundi, 
 Ac si domini essent mundi, 
 
 Veni Giggleswick, parum frugis 
 Profert tellus clausa jugis; 
 Ibi* vena prope viae 
 Fluit, refluit, nocte, die, 
 
 * E gremio coUis saliens scatet unda perennis, 
 Quse fluit et refluit, nil tamen eestus habet» 
 
barnaby's journal. 37 
 
 Where strength of ale had so much stirr'd rae, 
 That I grew stouter far than Jordie. 
 
 Thence to Bradford, where I enter'd, 
 In family where love oft center'd : 
 They love, are lov'd, and make no shew, 
 Yet still grow, and do increase too : 
 Furnish'd with their sprightly weapons; 
 She-flesh feels priests are no capons. 
 
 Thence to Righley, where are mountains, 
 Steepy-threatening, lively fountains ; 
 Rising hills, and barren vallies. 
 Yet boH'Socio^s and good fellows ; 
 Jovial, jocund, jolly bowlers, 
 As they were the world's controulers. 
 
 Thence to Giggleswick most steril, 
 Heram'd with rocks and shelves of peril : 
 Near to th' way as a traveller goes, 
 A fresh spring * both ebbs and flows: 
 
 * Near th' bottom of this hill, close by the way, 
 A fresh spring ebbs aod flows all hours o' th' 4ay. 
 
SB BARNAB^ ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Neque n6runt unde vena, 
 An k sale vel arena. 
 
 Veni Clapham, unus horum 
 Qui accivit voce forum, 
 Prima hora ut me visit, 
 Mihi Halecem promisit; 
 Halecem mihi, calicem ei^ 
 Pignus in amoris mei. 
 
 Veni Ingleton^, ubi degi 
 Donee fabri caput fregi, 
 Quo peracto, in me ruunt 
 Mulieres, saxa pluunt, 
 Queis perculsus, timens laedi, 
 His posteriora dedi. 
 
 Veni Lonesdaky ubi cernani 
 Aulam factam in tabernam; 
 Nitidae portae, nivei muri, 
 Cyathi pleni, paucae curae; 
 
 * Pirgus inest fano, fanum sub acumiaecoUis^ 
 Collin ab elatis actus et actus auctus aquis. 
 
D. Di^Alvn.J^iti'iPi^ 
 
 JWnteet ^ T^owTvry S^^r/ifr. 
 
bahnaby's journal. 39 
 
 Neither know the learn'd that travel, 
 What procures it, salt or gravel. 
 
 Thence to Claphaniy drawing nigher, 
 He that was the common cryer, 
 ^ To a breakfast of one herring 
 Did invite me first appearing. 
 Herring he, I drink bestow'd, 
 Pledges of the love we ow'd. 
 
 Thence to Ingleton *, where I liv'd 
 Till I brake a blacksmith's head, 
 Which done, women rushM in on me. 
 Stones like hail shower'd down upon me; 
 Whence astonish'd, fearing harming. 
 Leave I took, but gave no warning. 
 
 Thence to Lonesdak, where I view'd 
 An hall, which like a tavern shew'd; 
 Neat gates, white walls, nought was sparing, 
 Pots brimfull, no thought of caring: 
 
 * The poor man's box is in the temple set, 
 Church under hill, the hill by waters bet. 
 J) 2 
 
40 BARNAB^ ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Edunt, bibunt, ludunt^ rident^ 
 Cura dignum nihil vident. 
 
 Veni Cowhrow, vaccee collemj 
 Ubi hospitem tetigi mollem, 
 Pingui ventre, laeto vultu, 
 Tremulo cursu, trepido cultu, 
 Uti bibula titubat vates, 
 Donee cecidit supra nates. 
 
 Veni Natlandy eo ventus, 
 Eboraci qui contemptus 
 Colligit, hospitium dedit, 
 Mecum bibit, mecum edit, 
 Semipotus, sicut usi. 
 Circa Mai/'pole plebe lusi, 
 
 Veni Kirkland, veni Kendall^ 
 Omnia hausi, vulgo Spend-aily 
 Nocte, die, peraniic^ 
 Bibi potum mistum pice. 
 * ' Tege caput, tende manum, 
 *' Manu caput fit insanum." 
 
barnaby's journal. 41 
 
 They eat, drink, laugh, are still mirth-making. 
 Nought they see that's worth care taking. 
 
 Thence to CowbroWy truth I'll tell ye. 
 Mine hostess had a supple belly. 
 Body plump, and count'nance cheerfttl, 
 Reeling pace (a welcome fearful), 
 Like a drunken hag she stumbled, 
 Till she on her buttocks tumbled. 
 
 Thence to Natland, b'ing come thither. 
 He who York*s contempts did gather. 
 Gave me harbour light as feather. 
 We both drank and eat together, 
 Till half tipsy, as it chanced. 
 We about the Maz/-pol€ danced. 
 
 Thence to Kirkland, thence to Kendall, 
 I did that which men call Spend-all : 
 Night and day with sociates many, 
 I drank ale both thick and clammy. 
 " Shroud thy head, boy, stretch thy hand too, 
 " Hand has done what head can't stand to." 
 
 D S 
 
42 BARNAB^ ITINERARIUM. 
 
 His relic tis, Slaveley vidi, 
 Ubi tota nocte bibi, 
 Semper lepidus, semper laetus, 
 Inter hilares vixi ccetiis, 
 Queis jurando sum mansurus, 
 Donee Barnabas rediturus. 
 
 FINIS PARTIS PRIMiE. 
 
barnaby's journal. 43 
 
 Leaving these, to Staveley came I, 
 Where now all night drinking am I, 
 Always frolick, free from yellows, 
 With a consort of good fellows ; 
 Where PU stay, and end my journey, 
 Till brave Barnaby return a. 
 
 THE END OF THE FIRST PART. 
 
IN 
 
 BACCHI THYRSUM ET 
 BARNAB^ NASUM; 
 
 EPIGRAMMA : 
 
 ALIAS, 
 
 NASUTUM DILEMMA. 
 
 xiiSDERA laBta bono non est suspensa falerno, 
 Thyrsus enim Bacchiy BarnahcR nasiis erit. 
 Non opus est thyrso, non frondi virent cu* 
 
 pressi, 
 Si non thyrsus erit, Barnaba nasus olet. 
 
 COROLLARIUM. 
 
 Non thyrsus, thyasus; cyathus tibi thyrsus 
 
 et ursus, 
 Thyrsus quo redoles ursus ut intus oles. 
 
UPON 
 
 BACCHUS'S BUSH AND 
 BARNABY'S NOSE; 
 
 AN EPIGRAM: 
 
 OR, THE 
 
 LONG-SNOUTED DILEMMA. 
 
 GrooD wine nobusli doth need, as I suppose^ 
 Let Bacchus* bush be Barnaby^s rich nose. 
 No bush, no garland needs of cypress green, 
 Barnahy's nose may for a bush be seen. 
 
 COROLLARY, 
 
 No bush, no garland; pot's thy bush and bear; 
 Of bear and bush thou smellest all the year. 
 
BARNABiE ITINERARIUM. 
 
 PARS II. 
 
 MirtiL tauste ( Fastule) vQ^mXh^ 
 Narra (precor) quo venisti, 
 Villos^ vicos visitasti^ 
 Coetus, situs peragrasti, 
 Certe scis ab Aquilone, 
 Multum mail, parvum boui. 
 
 Faustul. Ille ego sum qui quondam, 
 Crines, mores, vestes nondum 
 Sunt mutatae, nam recessi, 
 Calceamentis quels discessi, 
 Neque pectine usus fui, 
 Sic me wzeis juvat frui. 
 3 
 
BARNABY^S JOURNAL. 
 
 PART II. 
 
 Mirtil. Young JRa2/5^e, happily returned^ 
 Tell me, prithee, where'st sojourned; 
 What towns, villages thou'st viewed, 
 What seats, sights, or states, were shewed : 
 Sure thou know'st the North's uncivil, 
 Small good comes ihence, but much evil. 
 
 FaustuL What I was once, same I am now, 
 Hair, conditions, garments too; 
 Yea, there's no man justly doubteth, 
 These the same shoes I went out with: 
 And for comb I ne'er us'd any. 
 Lest I lost some of my money. 
 
48 DARNAB^ ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Sed arrectis auribus audi^ 
 
 Quid dilexi, quicquid odi, 
 
 Pontes*, fontes, montes, valles, 
 
 Caulas^ cellas, colles^ calles, 
 
 Vias, villas, vicos, vices, 
 
 Castas, cautas, meretrices. 
 
 Dicam (quod mirandum) verum, 
 
 Non pauperior sum quam eram, 
 
 Uno nee quadrante ditior, 
 
 Lautior, laetior, nee faelicior, 
 
 Mollior, melior, potior, pejor. 
 
 Minus sanus, magis ajger. 
 
 Ego enim mundum totum 
 
 Tanti esse quanti potum 
 
 Semper duxi : mori mallem 
 Nobilem quam vitare allam : 
 '* Sobrius similis apparet agno, 
 " Ebrius Alexandra Magno,'^ 
 Leviore nam maeandro 
 Capite eapto, sum Lt/sandro : 
 Multo fortior, et illassum 
 Puto me capturum Rhesum : 
 
 * Anglia, mons, fons, pons, ecclcsia, foeraina, latia. 
 
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 But attend me^ and partake it. 
 What I loved, what I hated, 
 Bridges'*^, fountains, mountains, vallies, 
 Huts, cells, hillocks, highways, shallows, 
 Paths, towns, villages, and trenches, 
 Chaste, choice, chary, merry wenches. 
 Truth I'll tell thee, nothing surer. 
 Richer am not, nor yet poorer ; 
 Gladder, madder, nor more pleasing, 
 Blither, brisker, more in season ; 
 Better, worser, thinner, thicker, 
 Neither healthier nor sicker* 
 For the world, I so far prize it. 
 But for liquor I'd despise it : 
 Thousand deaths Fd rather die too. 
 Than old ale mine enemy too : 
 ^' Sober, lamb-like do I wander, 
 " Drunk, Fm stout as Alexander^'^ 
 When ray head feels its meander, 
 I am stronger than Lt/sander: 
 Th' isle of Rhe, 1 little fear it, 
 Without wound to win and wear it : 
 
 * England^ amongst all nations, is most full 
 Of hills, wells, bridges, churches, women, woo!. 
 £ 
 
50 BARNABiE ITINERA|tlUSI. 
 
 Sed ne tibi gravior essem, 
 
 Nunc descendam ad progressum* 
 
 Priin6 occurrit peregranti 
 Oppidum * Joannis Ganti^ 
 Sedes nota et vetusta, 
 Mendicantibus onusta^ 
 Janitorem habens qualeni 
 Mundus vix o&tendet talem* 
 
 Veni AshtOTiy ubi vinum^ 
 Militem, et heroinam, 
 Clarum, charum, et formos^m, 
 Damara, domum speciosam 
 Vidi, mersi mero ttiusam. 
 Donee pes amisit usum. 
 
 Veni Garstang, ubi mal^ 
 Intrans forum bestiale, 
 Forte vacillando vico 
 Hue et illuc eum amieo^ 
 
 * Scinditur a clivo turris, bitumine murus^ 
 Mcenia sic propriis sunt feddituia togin. 
 9 
 
barnaby's journal, 51 
 
 But lest tedious I express me, 
 To my progresi I'll address me. 
 
 First place where I first was known-a, 
 Was brave John a GanVs old town-a* : 
 A seat anliently renowned, 
 But with store of beggars crowned; 
 For a gaoler ripe and mellow, 
 The world has not such a fellow. 
 
 Thence to AshtoUj good as may be 
 Was the wine, brave knight, bright lady ; 
 All I saw was comely, specious. 
 Seemly gracious, neatly precious ; 
 My muse with Bacchus so long traded. 
 When I walk'd, my legs deny'd it. 
 
 Thence to Garstang^ pray you hark it, 
 Ent'ring there a great beast- market ; 
 As I jogged on the street, 
 ^Twas my fortune for to meet 
 
 ^ An antient arch doth threaten a decline, 
 And so must strongest piles give way to time^ 
 E 2 
 
50, BARNABiE ITINERARIUM. 
 
 In juvencae dorsum rui 
 Cujus cornu laesus fui. 
 
 Veni PrestoTij ductus eram 
 Ad bacchantem Banisterum, 
 Ac si una stirpe nati^ 
 Fratres fuimus jurati ; 
 Septem dies ibi mansi, 
 Multum bibi, nunquam pransi. 
 
 Veni Euston, ubi hospes 
 Succi plena, corpore sospes,^ 
 Crine sparso, vultu blando, 
 At halitu (proh) nefando, 
 Qua relicta cum ancillis, 
 Me ad ledum duxit Phillis. 
 
 Veni Wigan prope co&nam^ 
 Ad hospitulam obscoenam j 
 Votis meis fit secunda, 
 Ebria fuit et jocunda ; 
 Sparsit anus intellectum, 
 Me relicto, minxit lectum. 
 
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 A young heifer, who before her 
 Took me up, and threw me o'er her. 
 
 Thence to Preston, I was led-a, 
 To brave Banister* s to bed-a ; 
 As two born and bred together, 
 We were presently sworn brether : 
 Seven days were there assigned, 
 Oft I supt, but never dined. 
 
 Thence to EustoUj where mine hostess 
 Feels as soft as any toast is : 
 Juicy, lusty, countenance toothsome ; 
 Braided hair, but breath most loathsome ; 
 Her I left with locks of amber ; 
 Plij/llis light me to my chamber. 
 
 Thence to Wigan about supper. 
 To an hostess, none more slutter : 
 Buxom was she, yet to see to, 
 She'd be drunk for company too ; 
 Wit this beldame soon did scatter, 
 And in bed distilPd her water. 
 e3 
 
54 BARNABiE ITINERAR1UM» 
 
 Veni Newton in SaUdis^ 
 Ubi ludens chartis picds 
 Cum puella speciosa, 
 Cujus nomen erat Rosa *, 
 Centi-pede provocavi 
 Ad amandum quatn amavi. 
 
 Veni Warrington^ profluente$ 
 Rivos ripas transeuntes 
 Spectans^ multo satius ratus 
 Mcrgi terris quam in aquis^ 
 Vixi laute, bibi laBte, 
 Donee aquas signant metae. 
 
 Veni Budworth usque Galium^ 
 Ubi bibi fortem allam, 
 Sed ebrietate captus^ 
 Ire lectum sum coactus ; 
 Mihi mirus affuit status^ 
 A duobus sum portatus. 
 
 * Quam Rosa spiravit ! sed odoribus aquilo flavit, 
 ^t u^as retulit quas meminisse dolet. 
 
BARNAB\'s JOURNAL. 55 
 
 Thence to Nez&ton in the Willows^ 
 Where being bolster'd up with pillows, 
 I at cards play'd with a girl, 
 Hose * by name, a dainty pearl : 
 At centy-foot I often moved 
 Her to love me, whom I loved. 
 
 Thence to Warrington, banks overflowed, 
 Travellers to th' town were rowed ; 
 Where supposing it much better 
 To be drown'd on land than water, 
 Sweetly, neatly I sojourned 
 Till that deluge thence returned. 
 
 Thence to th' Cock at Budworth, where I 
 Drank strong ale as brown as berry : 
 Till at last with deep healths felled. 
 To my bed I was compelled: 
 I for state was bravely sorted. 
 By two porters well supported. 
 
 * Fresh was my Rose, till by a north wind tossM^ 
 She sap, scent, verdure, and her vigour lost. 
 
56 BARNAB^ ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Sed amore captus grandi 
 Visitandi Thomam Gandi, 
 Holmi petii Sacellum, 
 Ubi conjugem et puellam 
 Vidi pulchras, licet sero 
 Has neglexi, mersus mero. 
 
 Hinc ad Tauk-a-Hill perventum, 
 Collem valde lutulentum, 
 Faber mihi bene notus 
 Mecum bibit donee potus, 
 Quo relicto, Ct/thera sponte 
 Cornua fixit Lemnia fronte. 
 
 NovO'Castro Subter-linum, 
 Mulsum propinavi vinum ; 
 Null us ibi fit scelestus. 
 Vox clamantis in suggestis ; 
 Portas castitatis frangunt, 
 Quas extincta luce tangunt. 
 
 Veni Stone ad Catnpanam, 
 Vidi Deliam* non Dianam; 
 
 * O mellea tnea Delia ! 
 
baknaby's journal. 57 
 
 Where no sooner understand I 
 Of mine honest host Tom Gandi, 
 To Holmchapel forthwith set I, 
 Maid and hostess both were pretty, 
 But to drink took I affection, 
 I forgot soon their complexion. 
 
 Thence to Tauk-a-Hill resort I, 
 An hill steepy, slippery, dirty : 
 Smith with me being well acquainted. 
 Drank with me till's brains were tainted. 
 Having left me, Fenus swore it, 
 She'd shoe-horn her Vulcan's forehead. 
 
 At Newcastk'Under-Line'a, 
 There I trounc'd it in burnt wine-a : 
 None o'th' wicked there remained, 
 Weekly lectures were proclaimed : 
 Chastity they roughly handle. 
 While blind zeal snufFs out the candle. 
 
 Thence to th' Bell at Stone^ straight drew I, 
 Delia *, no Diana saw I : 
 
 * O my honeysuckle Delia! 
 
58 BARNABiE ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Hie suspectam habens vitam 
 Pastor gregis, jesuitam 
 Me censebat, sed incertas 
 Nil invenit prseter chartas. 
 
 Haywood properans raalignani, 
 Nocte prasparat aprugnam 
 Mihi hospes ; sed quid restat ? 
 Calices haurire praestat : 
 Nullum Baccho gratius libum, 
 Quam mutare potu cibum. 
 
 Veni Ridgelat/, ubi faber, 
 Cui liquor summus labor, 
 Mecumbibit; nocte data 
 Mihi inatula perforata, 
 Vasis crimine detecto. 
 Fit oceanus in lecto. 
 
 Veni Bruarton, Claudi do mum, 
 Ubi querulum audiens sonum, 
 Conjugem virum verberantem, 
 Et yicinum equitantem ; 
 
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 By the parson I was cited, 
 
 Who held me for jesuited ; 
 
 In his search, the door fast locked. 
 
 Nought but cards were in my pocket. 
 
 Thence to Haywood taking flight-a, 
 Mine hostess gave me brawn at night-a : 
 But, what's that unto the matter ? 
 Whiskins sorted with my nature : 
 To brave Bacchus no gift quicker 
 Than meat changed to strong liquor. 
 
 Thence to Ridgelai/, where a blacksmith 
 (Liquor being all he'd take with) 
 Bouzed with me ; midnight waking, 
 And a looking-glass there taking, 
 Chamber-pot was hol'd quite thorow. 
 Which made me lie wet till morrow. 
 
 Thence to Bruarton, old Claudus 
 Did approve us and applaud us ; 
 Where I heard a woful bleating, 
 A curst wife her husband beating : 
 
60 BARNABiE ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Quo peracto, frontem lini 
 Spuma bynes instar vini. 
 
 Inde Litchfield'^ properabara, 
 Ubi quendam invitabam 
 Perobscaenum opibus plenum, 
 Ad sumendum mecum coenam; 
 Hausto vino, acta coena, 
 Solvit divitis crumena. 
 
 Veni Coleshill^ ad macellum, 
 Ubi in cervisiam cellam 
 Forte ruens, cell a sordet, 
 Uxor niulcet, ursa mordet ; 
 Sed ut lanius fecit focum 
 Lectum, dereliqui locum. 
 
 Veni Meredin, meri-die, 
 Ubi longae fessus viae, 
 Hospitem in genu cepi, 
 Et ulterius furtim repi ; 
 
 * Cautibus, arboribusy cinaris, frondentibus herbis, 
 Crevit in ecdesiam vallis opima tuam. 
 
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 Neighbour rode for his default-a, 
 While I dy'd my front with malt-a. 
 
 Thence to Litchfield * went I right on, 
 Where I chanced to invite one, 
 A curmudgeon rich, but nasty. 
 To a supper on a pasty : 
 Having sipp'd, and supp'd, and ended, 
 What I spent the miser lended. 
 
 Thence to Coleshill, to a shamble, 
 Like an old fox, did I ramble 
 Down nasty cellar, wife inviting, 
 All while cursed bear was biting: 
 But the butcher having made 
 The fire his bed, no more I staid. 
 
 Thence to Meredin did steer I, 
 Where grown foot-sore, and sore weary, 
 I repos'd, where I chuck'd Joan-vt, 
 Felt her pulse, would further gone-a : 
 
 * Enclos'd with cliffs, trees, grassland artichokes, 
 The fruitful vale up to the temple looks. 
 
 F 
 
6£ BARNAB-E ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Cum qua propinando niansi. 
 Donee sponsam sponsum sensi. 
 
 Veni Coventry, ubi dicunt 
 Quod CcBruleum-filum texunt, 
 Ego autem hoc igooro^ 
 Nullum enim emi foro. 
 Nee diserevi juxta morem, 
 Lignum, lucem, nee eolorem. 
 
 Veni Dunchurch per latroncs 
 Ad lurcones et lenones, 
 Nullum tamen timui horum. 
 Nee latronem, nee liquorem ; 
 Etsi dives metu satur, 
 Cantet vaeuus viator. 
 
 Mane Daintry ut vemssem, 
 Corculum quod reliquissem, 
 Avide quaerens per musaeam, 
 Desponsatam esse earn 
 Intellexi, qua audita^ 
 " Vale (dixi) Proselyta:' 
 
barnaby's journal. 63 
 
 There we drank, and no guest cross'd us, 
 Till I took host for th' hostess. 
 
 Thence to Coventry, where 'tis said-a 
 Coventry-blue is only made-a ; 
 This I know not, for sure am I, 
 In no market bought I any : 
 Bacchus made me such a scholar. 
 Black or blue, I knew no colour. 
 
 Thence to Dunchurch, where report is 
 Of pimps and punks a great resort is ; 
 But to me none such appeared. 
 Thief nor bung-hole I ne'er feared : 
 Tho' curmudgeons have fears plenty, 
 Safe he sings whose purse is empty« 
 
 At Daintrt/ early might you find me. 
 But not the wench 1 left behind me : 
 Near the school-house where I boused, 
 Her I sought, but she was 'spoused ; 
 Which I having heard that night-a, 
 " Farewell (quoth I) Proselj/ta." 
 
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64 BARNAB^ ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Veni Wedon, ubi varii • 
 Omnis gentis tabellarii 
 Convenissent, donee mundus 
 Currit cerebro rotundas : 
 '* Solvite sodales laeti, 
 " Plus * reliqui quam accepi.'^ 
 
 Veni Tosseter die Martis^ 
 Ubi baccalaureum ai tis 
 Bacchanalia celebrantem^ 
 Ut inveni tam constantem 
 Feci me consortem festi 
 Tota nocte perhonesti. 
 
 Veni Stratford, ubi Grenum 
 Procis proqam. Veneris venam, 
 Nulla tamen forma jugis, 
 Verdor f oris perit rugis ; 
 Flos ut viret semel aret. 
 Forma spreta procis caret* 
 
 * Nauseanti stomacho effluunt omnia. 
 •f- Verefruor titulo, non sanguine, fronte, capillo ! 
 Nomine si vireo, vere tamen pero. 
 
barnaby's journal, 65 
 
 Thence to Wedon, where I tarry'd 
 In a waggon to be carried ; 
 Carriers there are to be found-a, 
 Who will drink till th' world turns round-a : 
 *^ Pay, good fellows, I'll pay nought here, 
 '^ I have left * more than I brought here." 
 
 Thence to Tosseter on Tuesday, 
 Where an artful batchelor choos'd I 
 To consort with; we ne'er budged. 
 But to Bacchus* revels trudged : 
 All the night-long sate we at it, 
 Till we both grew heavy-pated* 
 
 Thence to Stratford,vfheYe Frank Greenf^a, 
 Daintiest doe that e'er was seen-a, 
 Venus* varnish, me saluted, 
 But no beauty long can suit it ; 
 Beauty feedeth, beauty fadeth. 
 Beauty lost, her wooer 'vadeth. 
 
 * My queasy stomach making bold 
 To give them that it could not hold. 
 
 f Green is my name, from him whom T obey, 
 But tho' my name be green, my head is grey. 
 fS 
 
66 BARNAB^ ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Tenens cursutn et decorum, 
 Brickhilly ubi Juniorem 
 Veni, vidi, propter mentem 
 Unum octo sapientum ; 
 Sonat vox ut Philomela, 
 Ardet nasus ut candela. 
 
 Hocklahole ut accessissem, 
 Cellam Scyllam incidissem^ 
 Antro similem Infemi^ 
 Aut latibulo Lavernae ; 
 Ibi diu propinando, 
 Saevior eram quam Orlando, 
 
 Veni Dunstable, ubi mures 
 Intus reptantj extus fures, 
 Sed vacandum omni metu 
 Furum temulento coetu. 
 Pars ingenii mansit mulla 
 Quam non tenuit ampulla. 
 
 Veni Redbourn, ubi Mimi 
 Neq; medii, neq; primi: 
 
barnaby's journal. 67 
 
 Holding on my journey longer, 
 Strait at Brickhill, with Tom Younger ' 
 I arriv'd; one, by this cheese-a, 
 Stil'd the eighth wise-man of Greece-^iy 
 Voice more sweet than Progne's sister, 
 Like a torch his nose doth glister. 
 
 To Hochlayhole as I approached, 
 Sc?/Ud*s barmy cell I broached. 
 Dark as th' cave of Pluto^s station. 
 Or Laverna^s habitation : 
 Quaffing there while I could stand-o, 
 Madder grew I than Orlando, 
 
 Thence to Dunstable, all about me, 
 Mice within, and thieves without me : 
 But no fear affrights deep drinkers, 
 There I toss'd it with my skiukers : 
 Not a drop of wit remained 
 Which the bottle had not drained. 
 
 Thence to Redbourn, where were Players, 
 None of Roscius* active heirs : 
 
68 BARNAB^ ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Prologus hedera redimitus 
 Simiano gestu fitus, 
 Convivalem* cecinit odeni^ 
 Heus tu corrige diploidem. 
 
 mine stomacho inani 
 Petii oppidum Albani +, 
 Ubi tantum fecit vinum, 
 Dirigentem ad Londinum 
 Manum manu cepi mea, 
 Ac si socia esset ea. 
 
 Veni Barnet signo Bursa, 
 Ubi convenissent ursi, 
 
 Actor. 
 * Dapes convivio, sapore vario. 
 
 Auctor, 
 Diplois spatio lataque medio, 
 Corrige diploidem aegregie nebulo. 
 
 f Hie Alhanus erat, tumulum, titulumq; reliquit; 
 Albion Albanum vix parit alma parem. 
 
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 Prologue crownM with wreath of ivy, 
 Jetted like an ape most lively : 
 I told them sitting at the banquet *, 
 They should be canvass'd in a blanket. 
 
 From thence with a stomach empty, 
 To the town of Jlbane f went I, 
 Where with wine I was so undone, 
 As the hand which guides to London, 
 In my blind hand I received, 
 And her more acquaintance craved. 
 
 Thence to th' Purse at Barnet known-a, 
 There the bears were come to town-a : 
 
 Actor, 
 * Even as in a ban-a-quet are dish-es 
 of sun-dry ta-ast, 
 
 Author, 
 Even so is thy dou-blet too long 
 
 i'th' wa-ast; 
 Go mend it, thou knave, go mend it, 
 
 f Here Alhan was ; his tomb, his title too ; 
 " All Albion shew me such an Alhan now.** 
 
7tt BARNABJE ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Propinquanti duo horum 
 Parum studiosi morum, 
 Subligacula dente petunt, 
 Quo posteriora fuetent. 
 
 Veni Highgafe, quo prospexi 
 Urbem* perdite quam dilexi, 
 Hie tyronibus exosum 
 Hausi Cornu torluosum, 
 Ejus memorans salutem 
 Cujus caput fit cornutum. 
 
 Veni Hollowai/y Pileum Rubrum, 
 In cohortem muHebrem^ 
 Me Adonidem vocant omnes 
 Meretrices Bahi/lonis ; 
 Tangunt, tingunt, molliunt^ mulcent, 
 At egentem, foris pulsant. 
 
 * Tot coUes Roma, quot sunt spectacula TrojiB, 
 Quae septem numero, digna labore tuo 
 lsta.manet TrojcB spectacula : 1 . Busta, 2.Gigantes, 
 3. Histrio, 4. Dementes, 5. Stiaithiones, 6. Ursa, 
 7. Leones. 
 
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 Two rude hunks, 'tis truth I tell ye, 
 Drawing near them, they did smell me : 
 A nd like two mishapen wretches, 
 Made me, ay me, wrong my bretches. 
 
 Thence to Ilighgatey where I viewed 
 City ''^ I so dearly loved, 
 And the Horn of matriculation 
 Drank to th' freshmen of our nation ; 
 To his memory saluted 
 Whose branch'd head was last cornuted. 
 
 Thence to Holloway, Mother Red'Cap, 
 In a troop of trulls I did hap ; 
 Whores of Babylon me impalled, 
 And me their Adonis called ; 
 With me toyed they, buss'd me, cull'd me. 
 But being needy, out they puird me, 
 
 * Seven hills there were in Romcy and so there be 
 Seven sights in New^Troy crave our memory : 
 
 1. Tombs, 2. Guild-hall gianta, 3. Stage-plays 
 
 4. BethVhem poor, 
 5. Ostrich, 6. Bear-garden, 7. Lyons i'th^Tow'r. 
 
72 BARNAB^ ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Veni Islington ad Leonem^ 
 Ubi spectans histrionem 
 Sociatum cum choraulis, 
 Dolis immiscentem sales, 
 Cytharae repsi in vaginam, 
 Quod praestigiis dedit finem. 
 
 ^gre jam relicto rure, 
 Securem Aldermanni-hury 
 Primo petii, qua exosa 
 Sentina, Holhurni Rosa 
 Me excepit, ordine tali 
 Appuli Gryphem Veteris Baily ; 
 Ubi experrectus lecto, 
 Tres Ciconias indies specto, 
 Quo victurus, donee aestas 
 Rure curas toilet moestas ; 
 Festus Faustulus & festivus, 
 Calice vividus, corpore vivus. 
 Ego etiam & sodales 
 !Nunc Galerum Cardinalis 
 Visitantes, vi MinerviB 
 Bibimus ad Cornua Cervi^ 
 
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 Thence to Islington at Li/on, 
 Where a juggling 1 did 'spy one 
 Nimble with his mates consorting. 
 Mixing cheating with his sporting : 
 Creeping into th' case of 's viol, 
 SpoiPd his juggling, made them fly all. 
 
 Country left I in a fury, 
 To the Axe in AldernCn-bury 
 First arriv'd, that place slighted, 
 I at the Rose in Holbourn lighted : 
 From the Rose in flaggons sail I 
 To the Griffin i' th' Old-Baily: 
 Where no sooner do I 'waken 
 Than to Three Cranes I am taken ; 
 Where I lodge, and am no starter 
 Till I see the summer quarter. 
 Pert is Faustulus, and pleasing, 
 Cup brim-full, and corpse in season : 
 Yea, my merry mates and I too • 
 
 Oft the Card'naVs Hat do fly to. 
 Where at Harts-horns we carouse it. 
 As Minerva doth infuse it . 
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74 BARNAB^ ITINERARIUM 
 
 Sed Actaeon anxius horum, 
 Luce separat iixorem. 
 
 Sub sigillo Tuhi fumanlis 
 Et Thyrsi flam mantis, 
 Motu Mulciberi naso-flagrantis. 
 
 OfBcinajuncta Baccho 
 Juvenilem fere tobacco, 
 Vti libet, tunc signata. 
 Quae impressio nunc mutata, 
 Utijiet^ nota certa 
 Quae delineatur charta. 
 
 TcXoc, sine telis non typis. 
 
 FINIS PARTIS SECUND^. 
 
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 But Jctceon^ sick o'th' yellows, 
 Mews his wife up from good-fellows. 
 
 Under th' sign of Pipe still fuming, 
 
 And the Bush for ever flaming ; 
 Muldber the motion moving, 
 
 With nose-burning master shaming. 
 
 A shop neighbouring near lacco, 
 Where Young vends his old tobacco : 
 As 2/ou like it ; sometimes sealed, 
 Which impression's since repealed : 
 As you make it; he will have it, 
 And in chart and front engrave it: 
 
 Harmless, but no artless end 
 Close I here unto my friend. 
 
 THE END OF THE SECOND PART. 
 
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IN ERRATA. 
 
 Inter Accipitrem & Buteonem^ 
 Juxta phrasem percommunem^ 
 Spectans ista typis data^ 
 Haec coniperui Errata; 
 Qua? si corrigas (candide lector) 
 Plena coronet pocula nectar. 
 
 A vertice ad calcem 
 Erratis admove falcem. 
 
 Errando, disco. 
 
 Jam Venus vinis reditura venis, 
 Jam Venus venis peritura plenis. 
 Nam Venus venis patitur serenis, 
 Nectare pknis. 
 
UPON THE ERRATA'S. 
 
 Betwixt hawk and buzzard, O man, 
 After the phrase of speech so common, 
 Having seen this journal at print, 
 I found these errata's in't ; 
 Which if you correct, kind reader, 
 Nectar be thy muse's feeder. 
 
 From the head unto the foot. 
 Nought but error, look unto't. 
 
 This observation have I found most true ; 
 Erring, I learn my errors to subdue. 
 
 Now Venus* pure veins are with zpiwe^-inflamed, 
 Now^ Venus'* full xcins are by wines restrained : 
 For Venus* swoln veins are by Morpheus 
 chained, 
 
 From folly wained. 
 
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BARNAB^ ITINERARIUM. 
 
 PARS III. 
 
 Mirtil. lo Faustule ! gratulantur 
 Quid te amant 8c amantur, 
 Te incolumem rediturum ! 
 Spreta curia^ pone curam, 
 Narra vias, quas calcasti, 
 Queis spirasti; quas spectasti. 
 Ne Ephesios Diana 
 Fit celebriore fama ; 
 Omnes omnia de te fingunt, 
 Statuam pictores pingunt ; 
 ToUe metum, mitte moram , 
 Fac te clarum viatorem. 
 
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 PART III. 
 
 MirtiL yfnovvFanstulusl all draw nigh thee, 
 
 That do love thee, or lov'd by thee, 
 
 Joying in thy safe returning ! 
 
 Leave court care, and fruitless mourning : 
 
 Way th'ast walked, prithee shew it. 
 
 Where th'ast lived, what hast viewed. 
 
 Not th' Ephesian Diana 
 
 Is of more renowned fame-a ; 
 
 Acting wonders, all invent thee, 
 
 Painters in their statues paint thee : 
 
 Banish fear, remove delay, man. 
 
 Shew thyself a famous way-man. 
 
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 FausluL Mitte moram, toUemettim! 
 Quies me unquam minus lastum ? 
 Cum adversis agitatum, 
 Aut secundis tarn inflatum 
 Vidit, ut mutando morem 
 Reddant me superbiorem. 
 Aspernarer ego mundum, 
 Nisi mundus me jucundum 
 Bonis sociis, radiis vitae 
 Sociali tinctis siti 
 Celebraret ; adi, audi, 
 Et progressu meo gaude. 
 
 Primo die satur vino 
 Veni Islington ^ Lond^ 
 Iter arduum et grave, 
 Sero tamen superavi, 
 Acta vespertina scena 
 Siccior eram quam arena. 
 
 Veni Kingslandy terram regis, 
 Speciosam coetu gregis, 
 Equum ubi fatigantem| 
 Yix ulterius spatiantem, 
 
barnaby's journal. 81 
 
 FaustuL Leave delai/, and be not fearful! 
 Why ! who e'er saw me less chearful ? 
 When I was by fortune cuffed, 
 Or by fortune's smiles so puffed. 
 That I shew'd myself far prouder 
 Than when she more scornful shew'd her. 
 For the world, I would not prize her, 
 Yea, in time I should despise her, 
 Had she in her no good fellow, 
 That would drink till he grew mellow : 
 Draw near and hear, thou shalt have all. 
 Hearing, joy in this my travel. 
 
 First day, having dr-^ ^Jf^jwith many. 
 To Islington from Lohu^n came I, 
 Journey long, and grievous weather. 
 Yet the evening brought me thither; 
 Having ta'en my pots by th' fire. 
 Summer sand was never dryer. 
 
 Thence to Kingsland, where were feeding 
 Cattle, sheep, and mares for breeding; 
 As I found it, there I feared 
 That my JRozinant was wear'ed : 
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82 BARNAB-E ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Nec verberibus nee verbis. 
 Motum, gelidis dedi herbis, 
 
 Veni Totnam-altam-crucem, 
 Quo discessi ante lucem ; 
 Hospes sociis paium caret, 
 Nemo Faustulum spectaret; 
 Pratum stratum, & cubile 
 O piaculum ! fit foenile. 
 
 Ut reliqui Crucem altam, 
 Lento cursu petii Waltham, 
 In hospitium Oswaldiy 
 Qui mi regiam Theohaldi^ * 
 Monstrat domum, quo conspecto, 
 Hausi noctem sine leclo. 
 
 Veni Hoddesderij stabant foris 
 Chartis pictis Impostores, 
 
 * De augustissima Domo Theobaldi. 
 O domus augustee radiantia limina nostrae ! 
 An vestrum est mundi lumine clausa mori? 
 Regio quo sponsi pietas dedit oscula sponsse, 
 £t spirare sab@e vota suprema suse ! 
 
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 When he would jog on no faster, 
 Loose I turn'd him to the pasture. 
 
 Thence to Totnam high-cross turning, 
 I departed 'fore next morning : 
 Hostess on her guests so doated, 
 Faust ulus was little noted : 
 To an hay-loft I was led in, 
 Boards my bed, and straw my bedding. 
 
 Having thus left High-cross early, 
 I to Waltham travelled fairly, 
 To the hospital of Oswald, 
 And that princely seat of The' bald ^ ; 
 There all night I drank old sack- a, 
 With my bed upon my back-a. 
 
 Thence to Hoddesden, where stood watching 
 Cheats who liv'd by coney-catchiiig : 
 
 * On the hinges house at Tibbals. 
 * This seat, this royal object of the sight, 
 Shall it for ever bid the world good night ? 
 Where our preceding kings enjoy'd such bliss, 
 And seal'd their amorous fancies with a kiss ! 
 
84 BARNABJE ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Queis deceptis, notis causis, 
 Ante Eirenarcham pacts 
 Eos duxi, ut me videt, 
 Laudat eos^ me deridet. ^ 
 
 Veni Ware, ubi belli 
 Saltus, situs, et Amwelli 
 Amnes lenem dantes sonum, 
 Qui ditarunt Middletonum ; 
 Sunt spectati more miti, 
 " O si essent aqua vitas J' 
 
 Veni Wademill, ubi rit^ 
 Pleno cyatho dempta siti, 
 Quidam clamitant jocos^, 
 Me spectantes otiose, 
 Co-ementem haec flagella, 
 Ubi equus ? ubi sella ? 
 
 Veni Puckeridge, eo ventum 
 Mendicantes fere centum 
 Me praecingunt . dixi verum, 
 " Quod pauperior illis eram;*' 
 
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 False cards brought me, with them play*d I, 
 Dear for their acquaintance paid I. 
 'Fore a justice they appeared, 
 Them he praised, me he jeered. 
 
 Thence to Ware, where mazy Amwell 
 Mildly cuts the southern channel ; 
 Rivers streaming, banks resounding, 
 Middleton with wealth abounding : 
 Mightily did these delight me; 
 " O, I wish'd them aqua vita.'* 
 
 Thence to Wademill, where I rest me 
 For a pot, for I was thirsty; 
 On me cry'd they, and did hoot me, 
 And like beetles flock'd about me : 
 '' Buy a whip, Sir ! No, a ladle :" 
 Where's your horse, Sir ? where your saddle ? 
 
 Thence at Puckeridge I reposed, 
 Hundred beggars me enclosed : 
 '* Beggars," quoth I, " you are many, 
 " But the poorest of you am I ;" 
 
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86 BARNAB^ ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Quo response, mente una 
 Me relinquunt cum fortuna. 
 
 Veni Buntingford, ad senilem 
 Hospitem et juvenilem 
 Conjugem, quae scit afPari 
 Placide, lepide osculari ; 
 Area florida, frutice suavis, 
 Ubi minurizat avis. 
 
 Veni Roystoriy ibi seges, 
 Prata, sata, niveaj greges, 
 Ubi pedes pii regis ; 
 Hinc evolvens Fati^ deges, 
 Mihi dixi : Quid te pejus, 
 Ista legens, male deges ? 
 
 Veni CaxtoTif paupere tec to, 
 Sed pauperiore lecto : 
 Quidam habent me suspectum, 
 Esse maculis infectum 
 
 * Pascua, prata, canes, viridaria, flumina, saltas, 
 Otia regis erant, regpe sed ista ruent. 
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 They no more did me importune, 
 Leaving me unto my fortutie. 
 
 Thence to Buntingford right trusty, 
 Bed-rid host, but hostess lusty ; 
 That can chat and chirp it neatly. 
 And in secret kiss you sweetly ; 
 Here are arbours decked gaily. 
 Where the Buntin warbles daily. 
 
 Thence to Roi/ston, there grass growetb, 
 Meads, flocks, fields, the ploughman soweth; 
 Where a pious prince frequented, 
 Which observing, this I vented : 
 " Since all flesh to fate's * a debtor, 
 " Restless wretch, why liv'st no belter?" 
 
 Thence to Caxton, I was led in 
 To a poor house, poorer bedding : 
 Some there were had me suspected. 
 That with plague I was infected ; 
 
 * Fields, floods, wastes, woods, deer, dogs with 
 well-tun'd cry, 
 Are sports for kings, yet kings with these must die. 
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88 BARNABiE ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Pestis, unde exui vestem, 
 Vocans hospitem in testem, 
 
 Veni Cambridge^ prope Vitem, 
 Ubi Musce satiant shim; 
 Sicut muscae circa fimum, 
 Aut scintillae ia caminum, 
 Me clauserunt juxta murum^ 
 Denegantes rediturum. 
 Media-nocte siccior essem 
 Ac si nunquara ebibissem, 
 Sed pudore parum motus^ 
 Hinc discessi semi-potus : 
 Luci^ loci paludosi, 
 Sed Scholares speciosi. 
 
 Veni Godmanchester^^ ubi 
 Ut Ixion captus nube, 
 Sic elusus d puelia^ 
 Cujus labra erant mella, 
 
 * duercus anilis erat, tamen eminus oppida spectat, 
 Stirpe viam monstrat, plumea fronde tegit. 
 
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 So as I stark-naked drew me, 
 Calling th' hostess strait to view me. 
 
 Thence to Cambridge, where the Muses 
 Haunt the Vine-bush^ as their use is, 
 Like sparks up a chimney warming, 
 Or flies near a dunghill swarming, 
 In a ring they did enclose me, 
 Vowing they would never lose me. 
 'Bout midnight for drink I call, Sir^ 
 As I had drank nothing at all, Sir : 
 But all this did little shame me. 
 Tipsy went I, tipsy came I : 
 Grounds, greens, groves, are wet and homely. 
 But the scholars wond'rous comely. 
 
 Thence to Godmanchester* , by one 
 With a cloud, as was Ixion, 
 Was I gulPd ; she had no fellow. 
 Her soft lips were moist and mellow ; 
 
 * An aged oak takes of this town survey 
 Finds birds their nests, tells passengers their way. 
 H 3 
 
90 BABNABiE ITINERABIUM. 
 
 Lectum se adire vellet, 
 Spondet, sponsum sed fefellit. 
 
 Veni Huntington^ ubi cella 
 Facto pacto cum puella, 
 Hospes me suspectum habens, 
 Et in cellam tacite labens ; 
 Quo audito, vertens rotam, 
 Pinxi memet per aegrotum. 
 
 Veni Harrington, bonum omenl^ 
 Vere amans illud nomen^ 
 Harringtoni dedi nummum, 
 Et fortunae pen^ summum, 
 Indigenti postulanti, 
 Benedictionem danti. 
 
 Veni Stonegatehole nefandum. 
 Ubi contigit memorandum. 
 Quidam servus attornati 
 Vultu pellicis delicatae 
 Captus, intrat nemus mere, 
 Ut coiret muliere. 
 
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 All night vow'd she to lie by me, 
 But the giglet came not nigh me. 
 
 Thence to Huntington, in a cellar, 
 With a wench was there a dweller, 
 I did bargain, but suspected 
 By the host, who her affected ; 
 Down the stairs he hurried quickly, 
 While I made me too too sickly. 
 
 Thence to Harrington^ be it spoken ! 
 For name-sake I gave a token 
 To a beggar that did crave it, 
 And as cheerfully receive it; 
 More he need not me importune, 
 For 'twas th' utmost of my fortune. 
 
 Thence to Stonegatehole, V\l tell here 
 Of a story that befel there ; 
 One who served an attorney, 
 Ta'en with beauty in his journey. 
 Seeing a coppice, hastens thither, 
 Purposely to wanton with her. 
 
92 BARNAB^ ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Mox ^ dumo latro repit, 
 Improvisuin eum cepit, 
 Manticam vertit, moechum vicit, 
 Et post herum nudum misit : 
 Manibus vinctis sellas locat, 
 Hinnit equus, servus vocat. 
 Cogitemus attornatum 
 Suspicantem hunc armatum, 
 Properantem depraBdari, 
 Uti strenu^ calcari : 
 Currit herus, metu teste, 
 Currit servus sine veste, 
 
 Psallens Sautrt/ *, tumulum veni, 
 Sacerdotis locum poenee, 
 Ubi Ransford }\xs fecisset, 
 Et pastorem condidisset ; 
 Vidi, ridi, et avari 
 Rogo rogos sic tractari. 
 
 * Urna sacellani viventis imago sepuiti, 
 Quique aliis renuit busta, sepultus erat. 
 
 Egregium illud Sautry sacrarium sacerdotis a- 
 Tari retinuit memoriam. 
 
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 As these privately conferred, 
 A rover took him unprepared, 
 Searched his portmantua, bound him faster, 
 And sent him naked to his master : 
 Set on's saddle with hands ty'd, 
 Th' horse he neighed, man he cry'd. 
 Th' attorney, when he had discerned 
 One, he thought, behind him armed 
 In white armour, stoutly stirr'd him, 
 For his jade, he keenly spurr'd him. 
 Both run one course to catch a gudgeon. 
 This nak'd that frighted to his lodging. 
 
 Singing along down Sautrj/ * laning, 
 I saw a tomb one had been lain in ; 
 And enquiring, one did tell it, 
 'Twas where Rainsford bury'd xV prelate: 
 I saw, I smil'd, and could permit it. 
 Greedy priests might so be fitted. 
 
 * Here of the whip a covetous priest did lick ; 
 
 Who would not buiy th' dead, was buried quick. 
 
 Nothing more memorable than that chapel of 
 Sautry^ retaining still with her that covetous priest's 
 memory. 
 
94 BARNABiE ITINERARIUM, 
 
 Veni ad Collegium purum, 
 Cujus habent multi curatn ; 
 Perhumanos narrant mores 
 Patres, fratres et sorores : 
 Unum tenent, una tendunt, 
 Omnes omnia sacris vendunt. 
 An sint isti corde puro, 
 Parum scie, minus euro ; 
 Si sint, non sunt hypocritse, 
 Orbe melioris vitae : 
 Cellam, scholam et sacellum 
 Pulchra vidi supra stellam. 
 
 Veni Stilton, lento more, 
 Sine fronde, sine flore, 
 Sine prunis, sine pomis, 
 Uti senex sine comis, 
 Calva tellus, sed benignum 
 Monstrat viatori signum. 
 
 Veni Wansforth'brigs, immanem 
 Vidi amnem, alnum, anum ; 
 Amnem latum, anum lautam, 
 Comptam, cultam, castam^ cautam ; 
 
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 To th' Newfounded college came I, 
 Commended to the care of many : 
 Bounteous are they, kind and loving, 
 Doing whatsoe'er's behoving : 
 These hold and walk together wholly, 
 And stake their lands on uses holy. 
 Whether pure these are, or are not. 
 As I know not, so I care not; 
 But if they be dissembling brothers. 
 Their life surpasseth many others : 
 See but their cell, school, and their temple, 
 You'll say the stars were their example. 
 
 Thence to Stilton, slowly paced, 
 With no bloom nor blossom graced; 
 With no plumbs nor apples stored. 
 But bald, like an old man's forehead ; 
 Yet with inns so well provided. 
 Guests are pleas'd when they have try'd it. 
 
 Thence to tVansforth'brigs, a river 
 And a wife will live for ever : 
 River broad, an old wife jolly. 
 Comely, seemly, free from folly : 
 
96 BARNAB^ ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Portas, hortos speciosos, 
 Portus, saltus spatiosos. 
 
 Sed scribentem digitum Dei 
 Spectans MISERERE MEI, 
 Atriis, angulis, confestim 
 Evitandi cura pestem, 
 Fugi, mori licet natus^ 
 Nondum mori sum paratus. 
 
 Inde prato peramoeni 
 Dormiens temulenter foeni, 
 Rivus surgit et me capit, 
 Et in flumen alte rapit ; 
 Quorsum ? clamant ; Nuper erro 
 A Wansforth'hrigs in Anglo-terra, 
 
 Veni Burleigh *, licet bruma, 
 Sunt fornaces sine fumo, 
 Promptuaria sine promo, 
 Clara porta, clausa domo ; 
 
 * Ista domus fit Dasypodis dumus. 
 
 Statins. 
 
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 Gates and gardens neatly gracious, 
 Ports, and parks, and pastures spacious. 
 
 Seeing there, as did become me, 
 Written, LORD HAVE MERCY ON ME, 
 On the portals, I departed, 
 Lest I should have sorer smarted ; 
 Tho' from death none may be spared, 
 I to die was scarce prepared. 
 
 On a hay-cock sleeping soundly, 
 Th' river rose and took me roundly 
 Down the current : people cry'd. 
 Sleeping down the stream I hy*d : 
 Where away, quoth they,yrom Greenland^ 
 No ; from Wansforth-brigs in England, 
 
 Thence to Burleigh *, though 'twas winter, 
 No fire did the chimney enter, 
 Buttries without butlers guarded. 
 Stately gates were double-warded ; 
 
 * This house is the Levaret's Bush. 
 
98 BARNAB^ ITINERARIUM. 
 
 O camini* sine foco, 
 £t culinae sine coquo ! 
 Clamans^ domum 6 inanem ! 
 Resonabat Echof^famem; 
 Quinam habitant intra muros ? 
 Respirabat Echo, mures; 
 Ditis omen, nomen babe ; 
 Echo respondebat, AbL 
 
 Veni Stamford J, ubi bene 
 Omnis generis crumenae 
 Sunt venales, sed in summo 
 Sunt crumenae sine nummo ; 
 Plures non in me reptantes, 
 Quam sunt ibi mendicantes. 
 
 Licet curae premant charae, 
 Veni im Foramen Sarce % ; 
 
 * —-Hederseque tropbeea camini. 
 
 f Custos domus Echo relictoe. 
 
 + duo schola ? quo prseses? comites ? academica sedcs 
 In loculos literas transposuere suas. 
 § Sileni antrum, eo enim nonaine egreg^ie notum. 
 
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 Hoary chimneys * without smoke too, 
 Hungry kitchens without cook too. 
 Hallooing aloud, O empty wonder ! 
 Echof straight resounded, Hunger. 
 Who inhabits this vast brick-house ? 
 Echo made reply, The titmouse : 
 Ominous cell ! No drudge at home, sir ? 
 Echo answer made. Be gone, sir. 
 
 Thence to ancient Stamford% came I, 
 Where are penceless purses many ; 
 Neatly wrought as doth become them. 
 Less gold in them than is on them: 
 Clawbacks more do not assail me 
 Than are beggars swarming daily. 
 
 Tho' my cares were great and many, 
 To the Hole of Sarah% came I, 
 
 * Ivy the chimney's trophy. 
 f EcJio^s the keeper of a forlorn house. 
 X Where be thy masters? fellows? scholars? bursers? 
 O Stamford! to thy shame, they're all turn'd pursers. 
 § The drunkard's cave, for so it must be call'd, 
 Where many malt-worms have been soundly maul'd. 
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100 BARNABiE ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Proca semel succi plena, 
 Lauta, laeta, et serena, 
 At venusta fit vetusta, 
 Mundo gravis et onusta. 
 Sarce antrum ut intrassem, 
 Et ampuUas gurgitassem '*^, 
 In amore Sara certo. 
 Ore basia dat aperto ; 
 Saepe sedet, quando surgit 
 Cyathum propinare urget. 
 
 Veni Witham, audiens illam 
 Propter lubricam anguillam 
 Vere claram nixus ramo 
 Caepi expiscari hamo ; 
 Et ingentem capians unani, 
 Praeceps trahor in lacunam f* 
 
 Veni Grantham% mihi gratam, 
 Inclyt^ pyramidatam, 
 
 * Exiccassem. 
 f Littora Mseaiidri sunt anxia limina Lethi, 
 Fluctus ubi curse, ripa memento mori. 
 \ Hinc canimus mirum ! non protulit insula spiram, 
 Talcm nee notam vidimus orbe cotem. 
 
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 Once a bona'roba, trust me, 
 
 Tho' now buttock-shrank and rusty ; 
 
 But tho' nervy- oil, and fat-a. 
 
 Her I caught by you know what-a, 
 
 Having boldly thus adventur'd, 
 
 And my Sara's socket enter'd, 
 
 Her I sued, suited, sorted, 
 
 Bussed, bouzed, sneezed, snorted : 
 
 Often sate she, when she got up, 
 
 All her phrase was, " Drink the pot up." 
 
 Thence to Witham, having read there, 
 That the fattest eel was bred there; 
 Purposing some to entangle. 
 Forth I went and took an angle ; 
 Where an huge one having hooked, 
 By her headlong was I dooked*. 
 
 Thence to Grantham + 1 retiring, 
 Fanjous for a spire aspiring, 
 
 * Maander^s shores to Lethe^s shadows tend, 
 
 Where waves, sound cares, and banks imply our 
 
 end. 
 f I may compare this town, and be no liar, 
 With any sbire, for whetstones and a spire. 
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102 BARNABiE ITINERAEIUM. 
 
 Ibi pastor cum uxore 
 Coeundi utens more, 
 De cubiculo descendit, 
 Quia papa ibi pendet. 
 Oppidani timent clari 
 Paulo spiram asportari^ 
 Scissitantes (valde mirum) 
 Ubi praeparent papyrum. 
 Qua maturius''*' implicetur, 
 Ne portando laedereturt. 
 
 Veni 'Newark%y ubi vivos 
 Sperans mersos esse rivis, 
 Irrui cellam subamsenam, 
 Generosis vinis plenam. 
 Donee liclor intrans cellam, 
 Me conduxit ad flagellum. 
 
 * Structura. t Penetretur. 
 
 J Ulraus arenosis pulcherrima nascitur oris, 
 
 Arces efFusis vestit amoena comis. 
 Hie canipi virides, quos Trentia flumina rivis 
 Faecundare solent, ubera veris habent. 
 Hie porrecliore traetu distenditur Bevaria yallis. 
 Valles trinse et opimse 
 Dapes insula divinte. 
 
barnaby's journal, 103 
 
 There a pastor with his sweeting 
 In a chamber closely meeting, 
 In great fury out he flung there, 
 'Cause a Popish picture hung there : 
 Here the townsmen are amated, 
 That their spire should be translated 
 Unto PauVs / and great's their labour. 
 How to purchase so niuch paper 
 To enwrap it, as is fitting, 
 To secure their spire from splitting. 
 
 Thence to Newark '^, flood-surrounded. 
 Where I hoping most were drowned ; 
 Hand to hand I straitways shored 
 To a cellar richly stored : 
 Till suspected for a pick-lock, 
 Th' beadle led me to the whip- stock. 
 
 * A sandy plat a shady elm receives, 
 
 Which cloaths those turrets with her shaken leaves, 
 Here all- along lies Bever^s spacious vale, 
 Near which the streams of fruitful Trent do fall. 
 Valleys there so fruitful be 
 They're the wealth o^Britainy, 
 
104 BARNABJE ITINBHABIUM. 
 
 Veni Tuxworth fitam luto, 
 Ubi viatores (puto) 
 Viam viscum esse credunt, 
 Sedes Syrtes ubi sedent ; 
 Thyrsus pendet, diu pendit, 
 Bonum vinum raro vendit. 
 
 Veni Retford, pisces edi, 
 Et adagio locum dedi, 
 Coepi statiin propinare, 
 Ut pisciculi natare 
 Discant meo corpore vivo, 
 Sicuti nataruut rivo. 
 
 Veni Scrubie, Deus bone ! 
 Cum pastore et latrone 
 Egi diem, fregi noctem, 
 Latro me fecisset doctum : 
 Ei nollem assidere, 
 Ne propinquior esses perae. 
 
 Veni BautreCj angiportam, 
 In dumetis vidi scortam, 
 
barnaby's journal. 105 
 
 Thence to Tuxworth, in the clay there, 
 Where poor travellers find such way there, 
 Ways like bird-lime seem to shew them, 
 Seats are Syrts to such as know them ; 
 The ivy hangs there, long has't hung there, 
 Wine it never vended strong there. 
 
 Thence to Retford, fish I fed on. 
 And to th' adage I had read on ; 
 With carouses I did trim me. 
 That my fish might swim within me. 
 As they had done being living. 
 And i'th' river nimbly diving. 
 
 Thence to Scrubie, O my Maker ! 
 With a pastor and a taker 
 Day I spent, I night divided, 
 Thief did make me well provided : 
 My poor scrip caus'd me to fear him, 
 All night long I came not near him. 
 
 Thence to Bautree, as I came there. 
 From the bushes near the lane, there 
 
106 BARNABJE ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Gestu levem, lumine vivam, 
 Vultu laetam, et lascivam ; 
 Sed inflixi carni paenam, 
 Timens misere crumenam. 
 
 Veni Doncaster^ sed Levitam 
 Audiens finiisse vitam, 
 Sprevi Venerem, sprevi vinum, 
 Perdite quae dilexi primum : 
 Nam cum Venus insenescit. 
 In me carnis vim compescit. 
 Nescit sitis artem modi, 
 Puteum Roherti Hoodi 
 Veni, et liquente vena 
 Vincto catino t catena. 
 
 * Major causidico quo gratior esset amico, 
 In comitem lento tramite jungit equo : 
 Causidicus renuit, renuente, patibula, dixit, 
 Commonstrabo tibi ; Caus. Tuque moreris ibi. 
 
 f Viventes rense, spinae, catinusque catenae, 
 Sunt Rohin Hoodi nota trophtea fui. 
 
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 Rush'd a tweak in gesture flanting, 
 With a leering eye, and wanton : 
 But my flesh I did subdue it, 
 Fearing lest my purse should rue it. 
 
 Thence to Doncaster*, where reported 
 Lively Levite was departed : 
 Love I loath'd and spritely wine too, 
 Which I dearly lovM some time too ; 
 For when youthful Venus rageth. 
 She my fleshly force assuageth. 
 Thirst knows neither mean nor measure, 
 Robin Hood's well was my treasure ; 
 In a common dish f enchained^ 
 I my furious thirst restrained : 
 
 * That courtesie might a courtesie enforce, 
 The may'r would bring the lawyer to his horse: 
 You shall noty quoth the lawyer. — M. Now I swear 
 Vll to the gallows go,'— Ij, Pll leave you there. 
 Might not this may'r (for wit a second Pale As) 
 Have nam'd the town^end full as well as gallows /* 
 
 f A well, thorn, dish, hung in an iron chain 
 For monuments of Robin Hood remain. 
 
108 BARNAB^E ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Tollens sitim, parcuni odi, 
 Solvens obolum custodi. 
 
 Veni Wentbridge *, ubi plagae 
 Teirae, maris, vivunt sagae, 
 Vultu torto & anili, 
 Et conditione vili : 
 His infeniae manent sedes, 
 Quas cum inferis ineunt foedus. 
 
 Veni Ferryhrigy vietus, 
 Pede lassus, mente Isetus, 
 Ut gustassem uvam vini, 
 Fructum salubrem acini : 
 Saevior factus sum quam aper, 
 Licet vini lenis sapor. 
 
 Veni Pomjretff ubi miram 
 Arcem, Anglis% regibus diram; 
 
 * Rupee cavedia struxit inedia, 
 
 Queis oscitanter latuit accedia. 
 f Hie repetunt ortum tristissiina funera regum, 
 
 Qu8e lachrymas oculis excutiere meis. 
 { Regibus Anglorum dedit arx tua dira ruinam. 
 
 Hoc titulo fatum cerne S. : : : ; . tuum. 
 
barnaby's journal. 109 
 
 And because 1 drank the deeper, 
 I paid two farthings to the keeper. 
 
 Thence to Wenibridge^ , where vile wretches, 
 Hideous hags and odious witches, 
 Writhen count'nance, and mis-shapen, 
 Are by some foul bugbear taken : 
 These infernal seats inherit, 
 Who contract with such a spirit. 
 
 Thence to Ferrybrig, sore wearied, 
 Surfoot, but in spirit cheered: 
 I no sooner the grape tasted 
 But my melancholy wasted: 
 Never was wild boar more fellish, 
 Tho' the wine did smally relish. 
 
 Thence to Pomfretf, as long since is, 
 Fatal to our English^ princes ; 
 
 * In a rock Want built her booth, 
 
 Where no creature dwells but Sloth. 
 f The tragic state of English kings stood here, 
 Which to their urns pays tribute with a tear. 
 J Here stood that fatal theatre of kings, 
 Which for revenge mounts up with airy wings. 
 K 
 
110 BARHABJE ITINERARIUM- 
 
 Laseris * ortu celebrandam, 
 Variis gestis memoranda m : 
 Nee in Pomfret repens certior, 
 Quam pauperculus inertiori 
 
 Veni Sherburn ad amandum, 
 Et aciculis spectandum ; 
 Pastor decinias cerasorum 
 Quserit plus quam animorum : 
 Certe nescio utrum mores^ 
 An'fortunae meliores. 
 
 Veni Bramham, eo ventus, 
 Vidi pedites currentes ; 
 Quidam auribus susurrat, 
 " Crede Faustuie, hie prcecurret, 
 " Nam probantur:" qui narratur 
 Pejor, melior auspicatur. 
 
 Veni Tadcaster, ubi pontem 
 Sine flumine, praeluceutem, 
 
 * Latlus in rupem laser est sita dulcis arentem, 
 Veste nova veris floribus aucta novis. 
 
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 For the choicest liquorice * crowned, 
 And for sundry acts renowned : 
 A louse in Pomfret is not surer 
 Than the poor thro' sloth securer. 
 
 Thence to S^erfewrw, dearly loved, 
 And for pinners well approved: 
 Cherry-tenths the pastor aimeth. 
 More than th' souls which he reclaimeth : 
 I» an equipage consorting, 
 Are their manners and their fortune. 
 
 Thence to Bramkam, thither coming, 
 I saw two footmen stript for running : 
 One said, " the match was made to cheat 'em ; 
 ^*' Trust me, Faustulus, this will beat 'em ; 
 *' For we've try'd 'em ;" but that courser 
 He priz'd better, prov'd the worser. 
 
 Thence to Tadcaster, where stood reared 
 A fair bridge ; no flood appeared : 
 
 * Here liquorice grows upon their mellow'd banks, 
 
 Decking the spring with her delicious plants. 
 
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11£ BARNABJ2 ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Plateas fractas, et astanles 
 Omni loco mendicantes 
 Spectans, illinc divagarer, 
 Ne cum ill is iiumerarer. 
 
 Veni Eboracum, flore 
 Jiiventutis cum textore 
 Fruens, conjux stalim venit, 
 Lupum vero auribus tenet ; 
 Ille clamat aperire, 
 llle negat exaudire. 
 
 Sic ingressus mihi datur, 
 Cum textori denegatur ; 
 Qui dum voce importun^ 
 Strepit, matulam urinae 
 Sentit ; sapienter tacet, 
 Dum Betricia mecum jacet. 
 
 Ibi tibicen apprehensus, 
 Judicatus et suspensus^ 
 Plaustro coaptato furi, 
 Ubi tibia^ clamant pueri f 
 
barnaby's journal. lis 
 
 Broken pavements, beggars waiting, 
 Nothing more than labour hating ; 
 But with speed 1 hastened from them, 
 Lest I should be thought one of them. 
 
 Thence to York, fresh youth enjoying, 
 With a wanton weaver toying : 
 Husband suddenly appears too, 
 Catching the wolf by th' ears too: 
 He cries, Open^ something fears him: 
 But th' deaf arfc?er never hears him. 
 
 Thus my entrance was descried, 
 While the weaver was denied ; 
 Who as he fumed, fret, and frowned, 
 With a chamber-pot was crowned : 
 Wisely silent, he ne'er grudged 
 That his Betti/ with me lodged, 
 
 A piper being here committed. 
 Guilty found, condemn'd, and titted, 
 As lie was io JS^navesmyre going, 
 This dat/ y^woih boys, will spoil thj/ blowing; 
 k3 
 
114 BARNAB^ ITINERARIUM, 
 
 Nunquam ludes amplius Billie ; 
 At nescitis, inquit ille. 
 Quod contigerit memet teste, 
 Nam abscissa jugulo reste, 
 Ut in fossam furcifer vexit, 
 Semi-mortuus resurrexit : 
 Arce reducem occludit, 
 Ubi valet, vivit, ludit. 
 
 Veni Towlertan, stadiodromi 
 Eetinentes spem coronae, 
 Ducunt equos ea die 
 Juxta tramitem notae viae; 
 Sequens auteni solitam venam^ 
 Sprevi primum et postremum. 
 
 Veni Helperhy desolatum, 
 Igne nuper concrematum, 
 Ne taberna fit intacta, 
 Non in cineres redacta v 
 Quo discessi ocyor euro, 
 Restinguendi sitim cur^. 
 
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 From thy pipe tK art now departing; 
 Wags, quoih th' piper, you're not certain. 
 All which happened to our wonder, 
 For the halter cut asunder, 
 As one of all life deprived, 
 Being bury'd, he revived : 
 And there lives, and plays his measure, 
 Holding hanging but a pleasure. 
 
 Thence to Towlerton, where those stagers. 
 Or horse-coursers run for wagers : 
 Near to the highway the course is, 
 Where they ride and run their horses ; 
 But still on our journey went we, 
 First or lasi did 'like content me. 
 
 Thence to Helperby I turned. 
 Desolate and lately burned : 
 Not a taphouse there but mourned. 
 Being all to ashes turned ; 
 Whence I swiftly did remove me. 
 For thirst'^sake, as di4 behove me. 
 
116 BARNABiE ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Veni Topcliff*^ musicam vocans, 
 Et decoro ordine locans, 
 Ut expectant hi mercedem, 
 Tacite subtraxi pedem ; 
 Parum habui quod expendam, 
 Linquens eos ad solvendum. 
 
 Veni Thj/rske +, Thyrsis hortum, 
 Ubi Phyllis floribus sportam 
 Instruit, at nihil horum 
 Nee pastoiem, neque florem 
 Ego euro, Bacchum spec to 
 Horto, campo, foro, tecto. 
 
 * Labentes rivi resonant sub vertice clivi, 
 Quse titulum villse primo dedere tuoe. 
 
 Alias^ 
 Infra situm rivi saliunt sub acumine clivi, 
 Quo sed^s civi splendida, nulla nivi. 
 
 f Thyrsis oves pascens per apricee pascua vallis, 
 Prima dedit Thyrsco nomina nota suo. 
 Sycamori gelidis Tityrus unibris 
 X)iscumbens, Phyllidi serta paravit, 
 Jit niveas greges gramine pavit. 
 
barnaby's journal. 117 
 
 Thence to Topcliff*, music call'd I, 
 III no comely posture faiPd [ ; 
 But when these expected wages. 
 To themselves I left my pages ; 
 Small being th' court'sy 1 could shew them, 
 Th* reck'ning I commended to them. 
 
 Thence to Thi/rskef, rich Thyrsis* casket, 
 Where fair Phyllis fills her basket 
 With choice flowers, but these be vain things, 
 I esteem no flowers, nor swainlings ; 
 In Bacchus* yard, field, booth, or cottage, 
 I love nought like his cold pottage. 
 
 * Topcliff from tops of cliffs first took her name, 
 And her cliff-mounted seat confirms the same: 
 Where streams with curled windings overflown, 
 Bestow a native beauty on the town. 
 
 ■\ Here Thyrsis fed his lambkins on the plain ; 
 80 Thyrske from lliyrsis took her ancient name. 
 Here Tityrus and Phyllis made them bowers, 
 Of tender osiers, sweet-^breathM sycamours. 
 
118 BARNABJE ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Veni Alerton, ubi oves, 
 Tauri, vaccae, vituli, boves, 
 Aliaque campi pecora 
 Oppidana erant decora : 
 Forum fuit jumentorum, 
 Milii autem cella forum. 
 
 Veni Smeton, perexosuni 
 Collem quem pediculosum 
 Vulgo vocant, tamen mir^ 
 Moecliae solent lascivire, 
 Ad alendum debilem statum, 
 Aut tegendam audita tern. 
 
 Veni Nesham^ , Dei dorium, 
 In coenobiarchsB domum ; 
 Uberem vallem, salubrem venam, 
 Cursu fluminis amoenam, 
 Laetam sylvis et frondosam, 
 Hercd vultu speciosam. 
 
 * Littora lentiscis, gemmarunt germlna gertimisj 
 MurenuKs conchae, muricibusque comoe. 
 
barnaby's journal. 119 
 
 Thence to Jkrton, rank'd in batteJ, 
 Sheep, kine, oxen, other cattel, 
 As I fortuned to pass by there, 
 Were the town's best beautifier : 
 Fair for beasts at that time fell there, 
 But I made my fare the cellar. 
 
 Thence to Smeton I assailed, 
 Lousy Hill^ for so they call it ; 
 Where were dainty ducks, and jant ones, 
 Wenches that could play the wantons ; 
 Which they practise, truth TU tell ye, 
 For relief of back and belly. 
 
 Thence to Nesham *, now translated, 
 Once a nunnery dedicated : 
 Valleys smiling, bottoms pleasing, 
 Streaming rivers never ceasing ; 
 Deck'd with tufly w^oods and shady, 
 Graced by a lovely lady. X 
 
 * Where shores yield lentisks, branches pearled 
 gems, 
 There lamprel's shells, their rocks soft mossy 
 stems. 
 
 u^yj y \ f.^ /P^.y^. ^ ^J.^A^"^ 
 
120 BARNABiB ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Veni Darlington, prope vicum 
 Conjugem duxi peramicam ; 
 Nuptiis celebrantur festa, 
 Nulla admittuntur moesta ; 
 Pocula noctis dant progressum, 
 Ac si nondum nuptus essem. 
 
 Veni Richmond*, sed amicos 
 Generosos et antiques, 
 Nobiles socios, sortis mira?, 
 Cum nequissem invenire, 
 Sepelire curas ibi, 
 Tota nocte mecum bibi. 
 
 Poena sequi solet culpani, 
 Veni Redmeere ad subulcum^ 
 Ilia mensae fert porcina, 
 Prisca nimis intestina, 
 Quae ni caliees abluissent, 
 Adhuc gurgite inhaesissent. 
 
 * Nomen habes mundi, nee erit sine jure, secundi, 
 Namque situs titulum comprobat ipse tuum. 
 
barnaby's journal. 121 
 
 Thence to Darlington, where I boused 
 Till at last I was espoused: 
 Marriage feast and all prepared. 
 Not a fig for th' world I cared ; 
 All night long by th' pot I tarry 'd, 
 As if I had ne'er been marry 'd. 
 
 Thence to Richmond*, heavy sentence ! 
 There were none of my acquaintance : 
 All my noble comrades gone were, 
 Of them all I found not one there ; 
 But lest care should make me sicker, 
 I did bury care in liquor. 
 
 Penance chac'd that crime of mine hard, 
 Thence to Redmeere, to a swine-herd 
 Came I, where they nothing plac'd me 
 But a swine's gut that was nasty ; 
 Had I not then wash'd my liver, 
 In my guts't had stuck for ever. 
 
 * From a Rich Mound thy appellation came, 
 And thy rich seat proves it a proper name. 
 
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122 BARNAB^ ITINEltARItJM. 
 
 Veni Carperbie peravarum, 
 Coetu frequens, victu carum; 
 Septem solidorutn coena 
 Reddit levior crumena : 
 Numnio citius haurieris, 
 Quaixi liquore ebrieris. 
 
 Veni Wenchly, valle situm, 
 Prisca vetustate tritum^ 
 Amat tamen propinare 
 Pastor cum agnellis char^^ 
 Quo effascinati more, 
 Dormiunt agni cum pastore. 
 
 Veni Middlam, ubi arcem 
 Vidi, et bibentes sparsim 
 Bonos socios, quibus junxi, 
 lit liquorem libere sumpsi; 
 Mneis licet tincti nasis, 
 Fuimus custodes pacis. 
 
 Veni Ayscarth *, vertice montis, 
 Valles, et amcenos fontes, 
 
 * Gurgite preecipiti sub vfertice moatis aciiti 
 Specus erat spinis obsitus, intus aquis. 
 
babnaby's journal. 123 
 
 Thence to Carperhy^ very greedy, 
 Consorts frequent, victuals needy : 
 After supper they so toss'd me. 
 As seven shillings there it cost me : 
 Soon may one of coin be soaked, 
 Yet for want of liquor choaked. 
 
 Thence to Wenchlj/, valley-seated, /j'^i^^^^ 
 For antiquity repeated : 
 Sheep and shepherd, as one brother, 
 Kindly drink to one another ; 
 Till pot-hardy, light as feather. 
 Sheep and shepherd sleep together. 
 
 Thence to Middlam, where I viewed 
 Th' castle, which so stately shewed ; 
 Down the stairs, 'tis truth I tell ye, 
 To a knot of brave boys fell 1 : 
 All red noses, no dye deeper. 
 Yet none but a peace-keeper. 
 
 Thence to Ayscarth *, from a mountain, 
 Fruitful valleys, pleasant fountain, 
 
 * Here breaths an arched cave of antique stature, 
 Closed above with thorns, below with water. 
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124 BAUNABiE ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Niveas greges, scopulos rudes, 
 Campos, scirpos, et paludes 
 Vidi, locum vocant Templum^ 
 Speculantibiis exemplum. 
 
 Veni Worton, sericis cincta, 
 Sponsa ducis, ore liiicta, 
 Me ad ccenam blaiide movet, 
 Licet me non unquam novit ; 
 Veni, vidi, visi, lusi, 
 Cornu-copiam optans duci. 
 
 Veni Bainbrig, lihi palam 
 Flumen doserit canalem, 
 Spectans, uti properarem 
 Ad Joannem Ancillarem, 
 Hospitem habui (ver^ mirum) 
 Neque foeminam, neque virum. 
 
 Veni Jskrig *, notum forum, 
 Valde tamen indecorum, 
 
 * Clauditur amniculus saliens forniclbus arctis, 
 Alluit et villae moeniajuncta suap« 
 
barnaby's journal. 125 
 
 Woolly flocks, cliffs steep and snowy, 
 Fields, fenns, sedgy rushes saw I ; 
 Which high mount is called the Temple^ 
 For all prospects an example. 
 
 Thence to Worton : being lighted, 
 I was solemnly invited 
 By a captain's wife most yewly. 
 Though, I think, she never knew me : 
 I came, call'd, cull'd, toy'd, trifled, kissed, 
 Captain cornu-cap'd I wished. 
 
 Thence to Bainbrig^ where the river 
 From its channel seems to sever : 
 To Maidenly John 1 forthwith hasted, 
 And his best provision tasted : 
 Th' host 1 had (a thing not common) 
 Seemed neither man nor woman. 
 
 Thence to Ask%rig *, market noted, iT 
 
 But no handsomeness about it ; 
 
 * A channel strait confines a crystal spring*, 
 Washing the walls o* th' village neighbouring. 
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126 BARNABiE ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Nullum habet magistratum^ 
 Oppidanum ferre statum : 
 Hie paupenlmi textores, 
 Peragrestes tenent mores. 
 
 Veni Hardraw *, ubi fames, 
 Cautes frugis perinanes ; 
 Nunquam vixit hie Adonis^ 
 Ni sub thalamo Carbonis : 
 Diversoria sunt obscoena, 
 Fimo foeda, fumo plena. 
 
 Veni Gastile, ubi cellam^ 
 Cellam sitam ad saceilum 
 Intrans, bibi stingo fortem, 
 Hubens laniuni in censor tern, 
 Et pastoreni t parvae gregis, 
 Rudem moris, artis, legis, 
 
 * Labitur alveolis resonantibus.amnisamcenus, 
 dui tremula mulcet voc^, sopors fuvet. 
 
 f duota est hora, refert \ Solem speculaQcLo rcspon- 
 dit, 
 Ec<je sacerdotes ^uos tua terra parit ! 
 
barnaby's journal. 1^7 
 
 Neither magistrate nor mayor 
 Ever were elected there : 
 Here poor people live Uy knitting, 
 To their trading, breeding fitting. 
 
 Thence to Hardraw * where', hard hunges^ 
 Barren cliffs and dints of wonder ; 
 Never here Adonis lived, 
 Unless in Cole^s harbour hived : 
 Inns are nasty, dusty, fusty. 
 With both smoke and rubbish musty. 
 
 Thence to Gastile, I was drawn in 
 To an alehouse near adjoining 
 To a cluipel ; I drank stingo 
 With a butcher and Domingo 
 Th' curate +, who to my discerning, 
 Was not guilty of much learning. 
 
 * A shallow rill, whose streams their current keep, 
 With muriiiTiiig voice and pace procure sweet 
 sleep. 
 
 f I askM him, what's aclock? he looked at th* sun, 
 But want of learning made him aDsw«r*-*Mum. 
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128 BARNAB^ ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Veni Sedbergh ♦, sedetn quondam 
 Lautam, lactam, et jucundam, 
 Sed mutatur mundus totus, 
 Vix in anno unus potus : 
 Ibi propriae prope lari 
 Non audebam vulpinari. 
 
 Veni Killington +, editiim collem, 
 Fronde laetiore mollem^ 
 Ibi tamen parum haerens, 
 Semper altiora sperans, 
 Hisce dixi longum vale, 
 Solum repetens natale. 
 
 Veni Kendall, ubi status 
 Praestans, prudens % magistratus, 
 
 * Prospicies thyrsum sinuosius arte rotundum, 
 Organa quo cerebri mersa fuere mei. 
 
 f Arboribus gelidam texens coriarius umbram, 
 ^statem atque hyemem fronde repelle gravem., 
 
 J Nunc Saturnius appulit annus, 
 Major fiet aldermannus. 
 
baknaby's journal. 129 
 
 Thence to Sedbergh "^j sometimes j6y-all, 
 Gamesome, gladsome, richly royal ; 
 But those jolly boys are sunken. 
 Now scarce once a year one drunken : 
 There 1 durst not well be merry, 
 Far from home old foxes werry. 
 
 Thence to Killmgtonf I passed. 
 Where an hill is freely grassed ; 
 There I staid not, tho' half-tired, 
 Higher still my thoughts aspired : 
 Taking leave of mountains many, 
 To my native country came I. 
 
 Thence to Kendall^ pure her state is. 
 Prudent too her magistrate J is ; 
 
 * Here grows a bush in artful mazes round, 
 Wfiere the active organs of my brain were drowned. 
 
 f Here the retired tanner builds him bowers, 
 
 Shrouds him from summer's beat, and winter's 
 showers. 
 
 { Now Satuni^s year has drench'd down care, 
 And made an alderman a may'r. 
 
130 BARNAB^ ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Publicis festis purpuratus, 
 Ab Elizahetha dalus ; 
 Hie me juvat habitare, 
 Pi-opinare et aniare. 
 
 Inter Barnaba errores, 
 Hi mutarunt preli mores, 
 *' Delirans iste sapiens Gottam 
 " Reddit ccetum propter coiemr 
 
 Wdc Grantham. 
 
 FINIS PARTIS TERU^, 
 
BARNABY S JOURNAL. 131 
 
 I n whose charter to them granted, 
 Nothing but a mayor wanted : 
 Here it likes me to be dwelling, 
 Bousing, loving ; stories telling. 
 
 Amongst other faults in print, 
 You shall find this error in't : 
 " Did not the sage of Gottam strangely fail, 
 " Who for a whetstone render'd him a whaled'* 
 
 See Grantham, 
 
 THK END OF THE THIRD PART. 
 
BARNAB^ ITINERARIUM. 
 
 PARS IV. 
 
 MirtiL O Faustule! die quo jure 
 
 Spreta urbe, vivis rure ? 
 
 Quo tot lepidos consortes, 
 
 Genio faustos gurgite fortes, 
 
 Reliquisti, socios vitaj, 
 
 Gravi laborantes siti ? 
 
 Vale dices tot aniicis, 
 
 Tot LyaBi vini vicis, 
 
 Tot Falerni roscidi cellis, 
 
 Tot pelliculis, tot puellis ? 
 
 Quid te movet, die sodali, 
 
 Urbi longum dicere vale ? 
 
BARNABY^S JOURNAL. 
 
 PART IV, 
 
 Mirtil. O Faustulus! take'st no pity 
 For the field to leave the city ? 
 Nor thy consorts, lively skinkers, 
 Witty wags, and lusty drinkers ; 
 Lads of life, who wash their liver, 
 And are dry and thirsty ever ? 
 Wilt thou here no longer tarry 
 With these boys that love Canary ? 
 Wilt thou leave these nectar trenches, 
 Dainty doxies, merry wenches ? 
 Say, what makes thee change thy ditty, 
 Thus to take farewell o'th' city ? 
 M 
 
134 BARNABiE ITINERARIUM. 
 
 FaustuL Quid me motet ! Nonne cernis 
 Me tamdiu in tabernis 
 Propinasse, donee mille 
 Clamant, Ecce Faustulus ille, 
 Qui per orbem ducens iter, 
 Titido Ebrii insignitur t 
 Qui natali bihit more 
 Ortu rosece ah Aurorce 
 Usque vesperam, et pudorem 
 Vultus^ quesus et odorem 
 Sprevit ! audi culpae poenam, 
 Scenam Faustuli extremam. 
 
barnaby's journal. 1S5 
 
 FaustuL What isH makes me ! dost' not 
 note it, 
 How I have i'th' tavern floated, 
 Till a thousand seek to shame me, 
 There goes Faustulusy so they name mc, 
 Who thro' all the world has traced, 
 And with stile of Maltworm graced ! 
 Who carouseth to his breeding, 
 From Aurora's beamlins spreading 
 To th' evening, and despiseth 
 Favour'thrifty which each man prizeth! 
 Now hear Faustulus^s melancholy, 
 Th' closing scene of all his folly. 
 
1^6 BAKNAB/E ITINERABIUM. 
 
 Vale Banbury, vale Bracklet/, 
 Vale JlolloW'Well, vale Hockley ^ 
 Vale Daintry, vale Leister, 
 Vale Chichester, vale Chester, 
 Vale Nottingham, vale Mansfield^ 
 Vale Wetherby^ vale Tatifield, 
 
 V^le Aberfordy vale Bradford, 
 Vale Toceter, vale Stratford, 
 Vale Preston, vale Euxston, 
 Vale Wigan^ vale Newton, 
 Vale Warrington, vale Budwortk^ 
 Vale Kighley^ vale Cudworth, 
 
 Vale Hoddesden, vale Totnam, 
 Vale Giggleswicky vale Gottam, 
 Vale Harrington^ vale Stilton, 
 Vale Huntington, vale Milton, 
 Vale Royston, vale Puckeridge, 
 Vale Caxston^ vale Cambridge. 
 
barnaby's journal. 137 
 
 Farewel Banbury f farewel Brackle^y 
 Farewel Hollow-well, farewel Hockley ^ 
 Farewel Daintri/, farewel Leister, 
 Farewel Chichester , farewel Chester^ 
 Farewel Nottinghanij farewel Mansfield, 
 Farewel Wetherbi/y farewel Tanfield. 
 
 Farewel Aberford, farewel Bradford, 
 Farewel Toceter, farew^el Stratford^ 
 Farewel Preston, farewel Euxston, 
 Farewel Wigan^ farewel Newton, 
 Farewel Warrington, farewel Budworth, 
 Farewel Kighley^ farewel Cudzvorth. 
 
 Farewel Hoddesden, farewel Totnam, 
 Farewel Giggleswick, farewel Gottam^ 
 Farewel Harrington^ farewel Stilton^ 
 Farewel Huntington, farewel Milton^ 
 Farewel Royston^ farewel Puckeridge^ 
 Farewel Caxston, farewel Cambridge. 
 M 3 
 
138 BARNABJE ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Vale Ware, vale Wademill, 
 Vale Highgate, vale Gadskill, 
 Vale Stamfordy vale Sautri/, 
 Vale Scruhie^ vale Bautri/, 
 Vale Castrum Subterlinum, 
 Ubi iJflfe^, Venus J viuum. 
 
 Vale Tauk'hilly quem conj&pexi, 
 Lemnia Lydia, quaoi dilexi, 
 Arduee viae quas transivi, 
 Et amiculae quels coivi, 
 Faber, taber, sociae laetae, 
 Et convivae vos valete. 
 
 Nunc longinquQs locos odi, 
 Vale fons Roberti Hoodi, 
 Vale Masington, vale Retford, 
 Et antiqua sedes Bedford; 
 Vale Dunchurch, Dunstable, Brickhill^ 
 Alban, Barnet, Pimlico, TickhilL 
 
 Vale Walt ham, et Oswaldi, 
 Sedes, situs Theobaldi, 
 
barnaby's journal. 139 
 
 Farewel Ware^ farewel fVademill, 
 Farewel Highgate, farewel Gadshill, 
 Farewel Stamford, farewel Sautry, 
 Farewel Scrubie, farewel Bautry, 
 Farewel Castle Underline too, 
 Where are poets, wenches, wine too. 
 
 Farewel Tauk-hill, where I viewed 
 Lemnian Lydiay whom I sued ; 
 Steepy ways by which I waded, 
 And those truggs with which I traded ; 
 Faber, taber, pensive never, 
 Farewel, merry mates, fur ever. 
 
 Now I hate all foreign places, 
 Robin Hood's well, and his chases : 
 Farewell Rosin gton, farewel Retford, 
 And thou antient seat of Bedford; 
 Farewel Dunchurch, Dunstable, Brickhilly 
 Alban, Barnet, Pimlico, Tickhill. 
 
 Farewel Waltham, seat of Oswald, 
 That bright princely star of The'bald: 
 
140 BARNABJE ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Vale Godmanchester^ ubi 
 
 Mens elusa fuit nube; 
 
 Vale Kingsland, Islington, London ^, 
 
 Quam amavi perdite quondam. 
 
 Vale Buntingford, ubi suaves 
 Vepres, vites, flores, aves, 
 Hospes grata et benigna, 
 Et amoris praebens signa ; 
 Alio juvat spatiari, 
 Pasci, pati, recreari. 
 
 Vale Stoncy et Sacellum, 
 Quod splendentem habet Stellam : 
 
 * — Ista novae mea moenia Troja. 
 
 Nunc novse longum valedico Trojee, 
 Lseta quae flori, gravis est senectse, 
 Vina, picturse, Veneris facetae, 
 Cuncta valete. 
 
 Sin vero conjux, famuli, sorores, 
 Liberi, suaves laribus lepores 
 Confluant, mulcent varios labores : 
 Cuncta venite. 
 3 
 
barnaby's journal. 141 
 
 Farewel Godmanchester, where 1 
 
 Was deluded by a fairy: 
 
 Farewel Kingsland^ Islington^ London^, 
 
 Which I lov'd, and by it undone. 
 
 Farewel Bunting fordy where are thrushes, 
 Sweet briers, shred vines, private bushes ; 
 Hostess cheerful, mildly moving, 
 Giving tokens of her loving ; 
 I must in another nation 
 Take my iiil of recreation. 
 
 Farewel precious Stone and Chapet, 
 Where Stella shines more fresh than th' apple : 
 
 * These be my New Troy^s dyiqg elegies. 
 
 Now to that New Troy bid adieu for ever, 
 Wine, Venus, pictures, can allure me never, 
 These are youth's darlings, age's hoary ^riever, 
 Fare ye well ev«r. 
 
 Farewel for ever, see you will I never, 
 Yet if wife, children, money huiTy thither. 
 Where we may plant and solace us together. 
 Welcome for ever, 
 
142 BARNABJE ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Vale Haywoody Bruerton, Ridglaj/j 
 Litchfield^ Coventry y Coleshill^ Edglay, 
 Meredin, TVakeJield, et amceni 
 Campi, chori Georgii Greenu 
 
 Vale Ciowne, Doncaster, Rothramy 
 Clapham, Ingleion, Waldoriy Clothram^ 
 Witham, Grantham, New-warky Tuxzoorthy 
 UxbridgBj Beconsfieldy et Oxforth, 
 Geniis et ingeniis bonis 
 Satur, opibus Platonis. 
 
 Sprevi nunc Textoris acum^ 
 Vale, vale Eboracunij 
 Alio nunc victurus more, 
 M utans mores cum colore ^ ; 
 
 * Incessit hyems niveis capillis, 
 Incessit hyems gelidis lacertis, 
 Nee mea curat carmina Phyllis, 
 Urhe relecta rustica vertes. 
 
 Conspicui vates repetendo Cupidinis cestus, 
 Spreta canunt lepidis, ut fenuere, procis. 
 
ba-Rnaby's journal, 143 
 
 Farewel Haywood, Bruerton, RidglaTt/, 
 Litchfieldy Coventri/y Coleshilly Edglay, 
 Meredin, Wakefield^ farewel clean-a 
 Medes and mares of George a Green-z. 
 
 Farewel Clowne, Doncaster, Hothram, 
 Clapham, Ingleton, Waldron, Clothram, 
 Witkam, Grantham, New-wark, Tuxworth, 
 Uxbridge, Beconsfield, and Oxforth, 
 Richly stor'd (I am no Gnatho) 
 With wit, wealth, worth, well of Plato. 
 
 Farewel York, I must forsake thee, 
 Weaver^ s shuttle shall not take me : 
 Hoary hairs * are come upon me. 
 Youthful pranks will not become me ; 
 
 * Winter has now behoar'd my hairs, 
 Benumb'd my joints and sinews too ; 
 Phyllis for verses little cares, 
 
 Leave city then, to th' country g^o. 
 
 Poets, when they have writ of Love their fill, 
 Grown old, are scornM, tho' Fancy crown their quill. 
 
144 BARNAB^ ITINERARIUM. 
 
 Horreo, proprium colens nidum, 
 Sacram violare fidem. 
 
 Vale Wenibrig^ Towlerton, Sherburn, 
 Ferri/brigy Tadcastery Helperbyy Merburn . 
 Vale Bainbrig, Askrig^ Wortoriy 
 HardraWy TVenchle?/, Smeton, Burton : 
 Vale A^scarthy Carperbyy Redmecre^ 
 Gastiky KiUington, et Sedbergk. 
 
 Armentarius jam sum factus, 
 Rure manens incoactus^ 
 Suavis odor lucri tenet, 
 Parum euro unde venit, 
 Campo, choro, tecto, thoro, 
 Caula, cella, sylva, foro. 
 
 EQUESTRIA FORA. 
 
 Veni Maltoriy artem laudo^ 
 Vendens equum sine. Cauda, 
 
barnaby's journal.^ 145 
 
 Th' bed to iwhichFm reconciled 
 Shall be by me ne'er defiled. 
 
 Farewel Wentbrigj Totelerton, Sherhurn^ 
 Ferrt/brig, Tadcaster, Helperhi/y Merhurn ; 
 Farewel Bainbrig, Askrigj Wortorij 
 HardraWf Wenchlei/, Smeton, Burton; 
 Farewel Ayscarth, Carperbi/y Redmeer, 
 Gastile, Killingtoriy and Sedbergh, 
 
 I am now become a drover, 
 Country liver, country lover ; 
 Smell of gain my sense benumbeth. 
 Little care I whence it cometh; 
 Be'tfrom camp, choir, cottage, carpet, 
 Field, fold, cellar, forest, market. 
 
 HORSE FAIRS. 
 
 To Malton come I, praising th' sale, Sir, 
 Of an horse without a tail, Sir ; 
 
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146 BARNAB^ ITlNERARlUM. 
 
 Morbidum, mancum, claudum, cecum^ 
 Forte si maneret mecum, 
 Probo, vendo, pretium datur, 
 Quid si statim moriatur. 
 
 Ad forensem Rippon^ tendo> 
 Equi si sint cari, vendo, 
 Si minore pretio dempti, 
 Equi k me erunt empti, 
 *^ Ut alacrior fiat ille, 
 " Ilia mordicant anguillae." 
 
 SEPTENTRIONALIA FORA. 
 
 Veni Pomfret, uberem venam, 
 Virgis '^ laserpitiis plenam* 
 
 * Virg^lta laseris florent amoenula. 
 In hac angelica latius insula. 
 
 Vide lib. 3, stanzl. 48. 
 
barnaby's journal. 147 
 
 Be he maim'd, lam'd, blind, diseased, 
 If I sell him, I'm well pleased ; 
 Should this kephal die next morrow, 
 I partake not in the sorrow. 
 
 Then to Rippon, I appear there 
 To sell horses, if they're dear there ; 
 If they're cheap, I use to buy them. 
 And i' th* country profit by them ; 
 '* Where to quicken 'em, I'll tell ye, 
 '^ I put quick eels into their belly." 
 
 NORTHERN FAIRS. 
 
 Thence to Pomfret^ freshly flowered, 
 And with rods * of liquorice stored. 
 
 * Rods of liquorice sweetly smile 
 In that rich angelic isle. 
 
 See book 3, stanza 48. 
 
 N S 
 
148 barnab:® itinerarium. 
 
 Veni Topclif cum sodali, 
 Non ad vinum sed venale. 
 
 Veni Thyrsk ubi boves 
 Sunt venales pinguiores. 
 
 Veni Alerton loetam, latam, 
 Mercatori perquam gratam^ 
 In utiliorem actum^ 
 Eligo locum pecori aptum. 
 
 Veni Darlington^ servans leges 
 In custodiendo greges. 
 
 Inde Middlam cursum flecto, 
 Spe lucrandi tramite recto, 
 Nullum renuo laborem, 
 Quasstus saipiens odorem ; 
 *^ Nulla via modo vera, 
 " Est ad bonos itiores sera.'* 
 
barnaby's journal. 149 
 
 Thence to Topclvff with my fellow, 
 Not to bouse wine, but to sell low. 
 
 Thence to Thyrskj where bullocks grazed 
 Are for sale i'th' market placed. 
 
 Thence to Alerton, cheerful, fruitful. 
 To the seller very grateful ; 
 There to chuse a place, I'm chariest. 
 Where my beasts may shew the fairest. 
 
 Thence to Darlington, never swerving 
 From our drove, laws worth observing. 
 
 Thence to Middlam am I aiming 
 In a direct course of gaining; 
 I refuse no kind of labour, 
 Where I smell some gainful savour: 
 *' No way, be it ne'er the homeliest, 
 " Is rejected, being honest." 
 
 N 3 
 
150 BARNAUL ITINfiRARIUM. 
 
 TRA-MONTANA FORA. 
 
 Hisce foris nullum bonum 
 Capieus; Septentrionem 
 Ocyore peto pede, 
 Ditiore frui sede : 
 Asperae cautes, ardui colles, 
 Lucri gratia mihi molles, 
 
 Veni Applebi/, ubi natus, 
 Primam sedem comitatus. 
 
 lUinc Penrith speciosam, 
 Omni merce copiosam. 
 
 lUinc RoslaT/y ubi tota 
 Grex d gente venit Scota. 
 
 Hinc per limitem obliquam 
 Veni Ravinglass antiquam ; 
 
bArnaby's journal. 151 
 
 TRA-MONTANE FAIRS. 
 
 In these fairs^ if I find nothing 
 Worth the staying, I'm no slow thing ; 
 To the North franie I my passage^ 
 Wing'd with hope of more advantage : 
 Ragged rocks, and steepy hillows, 
 Are by gain more soft than pillows. 
 
 Thence to native Appleby mount I, 
 Th' ancient seat of all that county. 
 
 Thence to peerless Penrith went I, 
 Which of merchandise hath plenty. 
 
 Thence to lioslai/, where our lot is 
 To commerce wtlh people Scottish. 
 
 By a passage crookedly tendings 
 Thence to liavinglass I'm bending : 
 
152 BARNABiE ITINERARIUM. 
 
 lUinc Dalton peramoenum; 
 Hinc Oustonum fruge plenum : 
 Donee Hauxide specto sensim ; 
 mine sedem Lancastrensem, 
 
 Veni Garstang, ubi nata 
 Sunt armenta fronte lat^. 
 
 Hinc ad Ingleforth ut descend!, 
 Pulchri vituli sunt emendi. 
 
 mine Burton limina peto, 
 Grege lauta, fronde laeta. 
 
 Veni Horneby, sedem claram, 
 " Spes lucrandi fert avarum ;" 
 Coeca-sacra fames auri 
 Me consortem fecit tauri : 
 Sprevi Veneris amorem 
 " Lucrum summum dat odoiem.'* 
 
 Veni Lonesdale, venientem 
 Laticem socii praepotentem 
 
barnaby's journal. 153 
 
 Thence to Dalton^ most delightful; 
 Thence to oaten Ouston fruitful ; 
 Thence to Hauxide^s marish pasture; 
 Thence to th' seat of old Lancaster. 
 
 Thence to Garstangy where are feeding 
 Herds with large fronts^ freely breeding. 
 
 Thence to Ingleforth I descended, 
 Where choice buU-calfs will be vended. 
 
 Thence to Burton's bounders pass I, 
 Fair in flocks, in pastures grassy. 
 
 Thence to Hornebtfy seat renowned, 
 " Thus with gain are worldlings drowned ;" 
 Secret-sacred thirst of treasure 
 Makes my bullocks my best pleasure r 
 Should love woo me, I'd not have her, 
 " It is gain yields sweetest savour.'* 
 
 Thence to Lonesdale, where were at it 
 Boys that scorn'd quart-ale by statute. 
 
}54 BARNABJE ITINERABIUM. 
 
 Haurientes, haesitantes, 
 Fluctuantes, titubantes^ 
 AUicerent, (narro verum) 
 Sed non sum qui semel eram. 
 Me ad limen tiahunt orci, 
 Uti lutum petunt porci, 
 Aut ad vomituin fertur canis, 
 Sed intentio fit inanis: 
 Oculis clausis hos consortes 
 Praeterire didici mortis. 
 
 Mirtil. Miror (Faustuh) miror ver^^ 
 Bacchi te clientem heri, 
 Spreto genio jucundo, 
 Mentem immersisse mundo : 
 Die quid agis, ubi vivis, 
 Semper eris mundo civis ? 
 
barnaby's journal. 155 
 
 Till they stagger'd, stammer'd, stumbled, 
 Railed, reeled, rouled, tumbled ; 
 Musing I should be so 'stranged, 
 I resolv'd them I was changed. 
 To the sink of sin they drew me> 
 Where like hogs in mire they threw me, 
 Or like dogs unto their vomit, 
 But their purpose I o'ercomed ; 
 With shut eyes I flung in anger 
 From those mates of death and danger^ 
 
 MirtiL Surely (Faustulus) 1 do wonddr 
 How thou, who so long liv'd under 
 Bacchus, where choice wits resounded, 
 Should'st be thus i' th' world drowned. 
 What do'st ? where liv'st? in brief deliver* 
 Wilt thou be a worldling ever ? 
 
156 BARNABiE ITINERARIUM. 
 
 FausiuL Err&s (Mirtille) si me credas 
 Kunquam Bacchi petere sedes; 
 Thyrsus vinctus erit collo, 
 " Semel in anno ridet Apollo /' 
 Pellens animi dolores, 
 Muteni crines, nunquam mores* 
 Socios habeo ver^ gratos, 
 Oppidanus prop^ natos, 
 Intra^ extra, circa muros, 
 Qui mordaces tollunt curas : 
 Hisce juvat sociari, 
 Et apricis^ spatiari. 
 
 Nunc ad Richmond, primo flore, 
 Nunc ad Nesham cum uxore, 
 Laeto cursu properamus, 
 Et amamur et amamus : 
 Pollent floribus ambulacra, 
 Vera Vcris simulachra. 
 
 * Si per apricos spatiari locos 
 Gaudeat, mentem reUvare meam 
 Anxiam curis, studiisque gravemi 
 
barnaby's journal. 167 
 
 Faustul, Thou err'st (Mirtillus) so do mo 
 too, 
 If thou think'st I never go to 
 Bacchus^ temple, which I follow ; 
 " Once a year laughs wise Apollo/^ 
 Where I drench grief's slight physicians, 
 Hair I change, but no conditions. 
 Cheerful comrades have I by me. 
 Townsmen that do neighbour nigh me ; 
 Within, without, where'er I rest me, 
 Carking cares do ne'er molest me : 
 With these I please to consort me, 
 And in open''*' fields to sport me. 
 
 Now to Richmond, when spring's come on. 
 Now to Nesham with my woman ; 
 With free course we both approve it, 
 Where we love, and are beloved ; 
 Here fields flower with freshest creatures, 
 Representing Florals features. 
 
 * Thus thro' the fair fields, when I have best v 
 
 leisure, f 
 
 DiaperM richl}'', do I take my pleasure, ( 
 
 To cheer my studies with a pleasing measure. ^ 
 
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158 BARNAB^ ITINERARIUM, 
 
 Nunc ad Ashton invitato 
 Ab amico et cognato^ 
 Daiit hospitium abditae cellas, 
 Radiantes orbis stellar. 
 Meiisa^ mera^ omnia plena^ 
 Grata fronte et serena. 
 
 Nunc ad Cowbrow, ubi laetus, 
 Una mente confluit coetus^ 
 Nescit locus lachrymare, 
 Nascit hospes osculari^ 
 Facit in amoris testem 
 Anser vel gallina festum. 
 
 Nunc ad Natland, ubi Jlorefn 
 Convivalem et pastorem 
 Specto, spiro ora rosea, 
 A quels Nectar et Ambrosia : 
 Castilatis autem curae 
 Me intactum servant rure. 
 
 Nunc ad Kirklandy et de eo, 
 " Prope Templo, procul DeOy' 
 
barnaby's journal. 159 
 
 Now to Jshtoriy I'm invited 
 By my friend and kinsman cited ; 
 Secret cellars entertain me, 
 Beauteous-beaming stars inflame me ; 
 Meat, mirth, music, wines, are there full, 
 With a count'nance blithe and cheerful. 
 
 Now to Cowhrow, quickly thither 
 Jovial boys do flock together ; 
 In which place all sorrow lost is, 
 Guests know how to kiss their hostefs ; 
 Nought but love doth border near it, 
 Goose and hen will witness bear it. 
 
 Now to Natlandy where choice beauty 
 And a shepherd do salute me ; 
 Lips I relish richly roseack, 
 Purely nectar and ambrosiac ; 
 But I'm chaste, as doth become me, 
 For the country's eyes are on me. 
 
 Now to Kirkland, truly by it 
 May that say' be verified, 
 o % 
 
l60 BARNAB^ ITINERAHIUM. 
 
 Dici potest, spectent Templuci, 
 Sacerdotis et exemplum, 
 Audiant tamen citius sonuni 
 Tibiae tamen concionem. 
 
 Nunc ad Kendal, propter pannum *, 
 Coetum, situm, Aklevmannum t, 
 Virgines pulchras, pias matres, 
 Et viginti quatuor fratres, 
 Ver^ claruni et beatum, 
 Mihi nactum, notum, natum. 
 Ubi dicam (pace vestra) 
 Tectum mittitur k fenestra, 
 Cur a lucri, cura fori, 
 Saltant cum Johanne Dori: 
 Sancti fratres cum poeta, 
 Laeta canunt et faceta. 
 
 * Lanificii gloria, et industri ha prsecelleiis, ut eo 
 nomine sit celeberrimum. Camd, Brit. 
 
 Pannus mihi panis. Mot. 
 
 f Nomine Major eas, nee sis minor omine sedis, 
 Competat ut titulo civica vita novo. 
 
barnaby's journal. 161 
 
 '* Far from GOD, but near the Temple^''' 
 Tho' their pastor gave example : 
 They are such a kind of vermin, 
 Pipe they'd rather hear than sermon. 
 
 Now to Kendal, for cloth-making *, 
 Sight, site, Alderman 'f' awaking ; 
 Beauteous damsels, modest mothers, 
 And her four and twenty brothers ; 
 Ever in her honour spreading, 
 Where I had my native breeding. 
 Where, (I'll tell you, while none mind us) 
 We threw the house quite out at windows ; 
 Nought maketh them or me ought sorry, 
 They dance lively with John Dory : 
 Holy brethren with their poet 
 Sing, nor care they much who know it, 
 
 * A town so highly renowned for her commodious 
 clothing, and industrious trading, as her name is be- 
 come famous in that kind. Camb, Brit. 
 Cloth is my bread. Motto. 
 
 + Now hast thou changM thy title unto MayV, 
 Let life, state, style, improve thy charter there. 
 O 3 
 
l62 BARNAB^ ITINERARIUM, 
 
 Nunc ad Staveleyy ubiaves 
 Melos^ modos cantant suaves^ 
 Sub arbustis et virgultis 
 Molliore masco fultis : 
 Cellis, sylvis, et tabernis, 
 An foeliciorem cernis ? 
 
 MirtiL Esto Faustuk ! recumbe, 
 Rure tuo carmina funde ; 
 Vive, vale, profice, cresce, 
 Arethusce^ alma messe ; 
 Tibi Zephyrus sub fago 
 Dulciter afHet. Faust. '\ Gratias ago. 
 
BARNABY S JOURNAL. iGS 
 
 Now to Stavelet/ strait repair I, 
 Where sweet birds do hatch, their airy 
 Arbours, oziers freshly showing. 
 With soft mossy rind o'ergrowing : 
 For woods, air, ALE, all excelling : 
 Wouldst thou have a neater dwelling ? 
 
 Mirtil. Be't so, Faustulus! there repose 
 thee, 
 Cheer thy country with thy poesy ; 
 Live, fare well, as thou deservest. 
 Rich in Arethusa's harvest : 
 Under the beach while shepherds rank thee, 
 Zephj/rus bless thee. Faust J] I do thank thee. 
 
164 BARNABiE ITINERARIUM. 
 
 AD 
 
 PHILOXENUM. 
 
 1 E viatores lepidi patronum, 
 Te tuae dicunt patriae coronam, 
 Vatis et vitis roseae coryaibum, 
 Artis alumum. 
 
 Te tuus vates lyricis salutat 
 Qui fidem nulla novitate mutat, 
 Nee nova venti levitate nutat, 
 Fidus ad aras. 
 
barnaby's journal. 16.5 
 
 TO 
 
 PHILOXENUS. 
 
 Xhee pleasing way mates titled have their 
 patron, 
 Their country's glory, which they build their 
 
 state on, 
 The poet's wine-bush, which they use to prate 
 on, 
 
 Art's merry minion. 
 
 In lyric measures doth thy bard salute thee. 
 Who with a constant resolution suits thee, 
 Nor can ought move me to remove me from 
 thee, 
 
 But my religion. 
 
166 BARNABiE ITINERAIilUM. 
 
 Efficit egregios nobilis alia viros. 
 
 Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum ? 
 
 Inflatum hesterao venas, ut semper, iaccho. 
 
 Si vitulum spectes, nihil est quod pocula 
 laudes. 
 
 FINIS, 
 
barnaby's \roURNAL. 167 
 
 The oil of malt, and juice of spritely nectar 
 Have made my muse more valiant than Hector, 
 
 O'erflowing cups, whom have they not made 
 learned ? 
 
 Full-blown my veins are, and so well they may, 
 With brimming healths of wine drunk yester- 
 day. 
 
 If thou dost love thy flock, leave off to pot. 
 
 tHB END. 
 
168 
 
 BESSIE BELL: 
 
 Cantio Latine Versa, altemis Vicibus et modeymis 
 Vocibm decantanda» 
 
 AUTHORE CORYMBiEO, 
 
 Dametas. Eliza-Bella. 
 
 I. 
 
 Dam. Bellula Bella, mi puella, 
 Tu me corde tenes, 
 O si clausa simus cella 
 Mars et Lemma Venus ! 
 Tanto mi es, quanti tua res, 
 Ne spectes Bellula mundum, 
 Non locus est cui crimen abest 
 In amoribus ad cbemidum. 
 
169 
 
 BESSY BELL: 
 
 To he sung in aUem Courses and modem Vowes. 
 
 BY CORYMBiEUS. 
 
 Damatas. EHza-Bella. 
 
 I. 
 
 Dam. My bonny Bell, I love thee so well, 
 I would thou wad scund alang hither, 
 That we might here in a cellar dwell, 
 And blend our bows together ! 
 Dear art' to me as thy geer's to thee, 
 The world will never suspect us, 
 This place it is private, 'tis folly to drive it, 
 Love's spies have no eyes to detect us. 
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170 BESSIE BELL, 
 
 II. 
 
 Bel. Crede Damcetas, notH finit aetas 
 Ferre Cupidinis ignem, 
 Vir ver^ laetus intende pecus 
 Cura et carmine dignum. 
 Non amo te, ne tu ames me, 
 Nam jugo premitur gravi, 
 Quaecunque nubit et uno cubat, 
 Nee amo, nee amor, nee amavi. 
 
 III. 
 
 Dam. Virginis vita fit inimica 
 Principi, patriae, proli. 
 In orbe sita ne sis invita 
 Sponsa nitidula coli. 
 Aspice vultum numine cultum, 
 Flore, colore jucundum. 
 Hie locus est, nam lucus abest 
 In amoribus ad coeundum. 
 
BESSY BELL. 171' 
 
 II. 
 
 Bell. Trust me, Damatas, youth will not 
 let us 
 Yet to be singed with Lovers taper, 
 Bonny blithe swainlin, intend thy lambkin, 
 To requite both thy laws and thy labour. 
 7 love not thee, why should'st thou love me ? 
 The yoke I cannot approve it, 
 Then lie still with one, I'd rather have none, 
 Nor I love, nor am lov'd, nor have loved. 
 
 V 
 
 III. 
 
 Dam. To lead apes in hell, it will not do 
 well, 
 *Tis an enemy to procreation, 
 In the world to tarry, and "never to marry, 
 Would bring it soon to desolation. 
 See my countenance merry, cheeks red as cherry, 
 This cover will never suspect us. 
 This place it is private, 'tis folly to driveit. 
 Love's spies have no eyes to detect us. 
 
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172 BESSIE BELL. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Bel. Ah pudet fari, cogor amari, 
 Volo, sed nolo fateri, 
 Expedit mari lenocinari, 
 At libet ista tacere. 
 Non amo te, quid tu amas me ? 
 Nam jugo premitur gravi 
 Quascunque nubit et uno cubat, 
 Nee amo, nee amor, nee amavi. 
 
 Dam, Candida Bella, splendida stella, 
 Languida lumina cerne, 
 Emitte mella Eliz-Bella, 
 Lentula taedia sperne. 
 Mors mihi mora, hac ips^ horS 
 Jungamus ora per undam, 
 Nam locus est cui crimen abest 
 In amoribus ad coeundum. 
 
BESSY BELL. 173 
 
 IV. 
 
 Bell, 'Las maidens must feign it, I love tho' 
 I lain it, 
 I would, but I will not confess it. 
 My years are consorting, and fain would be 
 
 sporting, 
 But bashfulness shames to express it. 
 I love not thee, why shouldst thou love me ? 
 That yoke I cannot approve it, 
 Then lie still with one, I*d rather have none. 
 Nor I love, nor am lov'd, nor have loved. 
 
 Dam. My beauteous Bell, who stars do ex- 
 cel. 
 See mine eyes never drys, but do wet me, 
 Some comfort unbuckle, my sweet honeysuckle, 
 Come away, do not stay, I entreat thee. 
 Delay would undo me, hie quickly unto me. 
 This river will never suspect us, 
 This place it is private, 'tis folly to drive it, 
 Love's spies have no eyes to detect us, 
 PS 
 
174 BESSIE BELL. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Bel. Perge Damcetas, nunc pruiiit aBtas, 
 Me nudam accipe solam, 
 Demitte pecus si Bellam petas, 
 Exue virginis stolam. 
 Sic amo te, si tu ames me, 
 Nam jugo premitur suavi, 
 Quaecunque nubit et uno cubat, 
 Et amo, et amor, et amavi. 
 
BESSY BELL. 175 
 
 VI. 
 
 BelL Come on, DamcetaSf ripe age doth fit 
 
 us, 
 Take aside thy nak'd bride, and enjoy her, 
 So thou cull thy sweeting, let flocks fall a 
 
 bleating. 
 My maid's weed on thy mede I'll bestow there. 
 Thus I love thee, so do thou love me, 
 The yoke is so sweet, I approve it, 
 To lie still with one, is better than none, 
 I do love, I am lov'd, and have lov'd it. 
 
176 
 
 LUCUS CHEVINUS. 
 
 Cant. 
 
 VivAT Rex noster nobilis, 
 Omnis in tuto sit ; 
 
 Venatus olim flebilis 
 Chevino Luco fit. 
 
 Cane foras ut abigat 
 
 Percceus abiit ; 
 Vel embrio elugeat 
 
 Quod hodie accidit. 
 
 Comes ille Northumbrice 
 Votum vovit Deo, 
 
 Ludos in sylvis Scotiae 
 Habere triduo. 
 
177 
 
 CHEVY CHASE. 
 
 Cant. 
 
 Cjod prosper long our noble King, 
 
 Our lives and safeties all : 
 A woeful hunting once there did 
 
 In Chevt/'Chase befall. 
 
 To drive the deer with hound and horn. 
 
 Earl Piercy took his way. 
 The child may rue that is unborn 
 
 The hunting of that day. 
 
 The stout Earl of l^orthumlerland 
 
 A vow to God did make, 
 His pleasure in the Scottish woods 
 
 Three summer's days to take ; 
 
178 LUCUS CHEVINUS. 
 
 E primis Cervis Chevies 
 
 Caesos abripere : 
 Duglasium hae notitise 
 
 Adibant proper^. 
 
 Qui ore tenus delegat 
 
 Se ludum perdere : 
 At PerccBUS non hesitat 
 
 Ad sylvas tendere, 
 
 Quingentis ter teliferis 
 
 Virtutis belicae 
 Qui norunt, rebus arduis, 
 
 Sagittas mittere. 
 
 Curritur ^ venatico 
 
 Damas propellare ; 
 Die Lunae diluculo 
 
 Ad rem accingunt se ; 
 
 Centumque cervi sunt caesi 
 
 Ante meridiem ; 
 Tunc redeunt, libis impleti, 
 
 Ad venationem. 
 
CHEVY CHASE. 179 
 
 The chiefest harts in Che^y -Chase 
 
 To kill and bear away. 
 The tydings to Earl Douglas came 
 
 In Scotland, where he lay ; 
 
 Who sent Earl Piercy present word, 
 
 He would prevent his sport. 
 The English Earl, not fearing this. 
 
 Did to the woods resort, 
 
 With fifteen hundred bowmen bold. 
 
 All chosen men of might, 
 Who knew full well, in time of need, 
 
 To aim their shafts aright. 
 
 The gallant greyhound swiftly run 
 
 To chase the fallow deer, 
 On Monday they began to hun. 
 
 When day-light did appear 5 
 
 And long before high noon they had 
 
 An hundred fat bucks slain; 
 Then, having din'd, the drovers went 
 
 To rouse them up again. 
 
180 LUCUS CHEVINUS. 
 
 De monte sagittarii, 
 
 Apti militiae, 
 Prodierunt armarii 
 
 Hodie a tergore. 
 
 Per sylvas celerant canes, 
 
 Ut cervos capiant ; 
 Ac siniul niontes et valles 
 
 Latratu resonant. 
 
 Fodinam comes adiit, 
 
 Ferinam visere, 
 Duglas minatus est, inquit, 
 
 Hic mecum affore. 
 
 Congressum autem desperahs, 
 
 Mora non dabitur. 
 Quo dicto, tyro elegans 
 
 Ilium alloquitur ; 
 
 En I En! Duglasius emminns, 
 
 Armis cum splendidis, 
 Bis mille cum miiitibus 
 
 Visui^bviis; 
 
CHEVY CHASE. 181 
 
 The bowmen muster'd on the hills, 
 
 Well able to endure. 
 Their backsides all with special care. 
 
 That day were guarded sure. 
 
 The hounds ran swiftly thro' the woods 
 
 The nimble deer to take, 
 And with their cries the hills and dales 
 
 An echo shrill did make. 
 
 Lord Piercy to the quarry went, 
 
 To view the tender deer, 
 Quoth he. Earl Douglas promised 
 
 This day to meet me here : 
 
 If that I thought he would not come, 
 
 No longer would I stay ; 
 Then stept a brave young gentleman, 
 
 Thus to the earl did say : 
 
 Lo ! yonder doth Earl Douglas come, 
 
 His men in armour bright ; 
 Full twenty hundred Scottish spears. 
 
 All marching in our sight ; 
 Q 
 
182 LUCUS CfiEVINUS. 
 
 Cunctis de vaHe Tiviee 
 
 Ad ripas Tucedis; 
 Ludos, ait, intermitte 
 
 Arcubus habitis : 
 
 £t vobis, nunc, O nostrates 
 
 Tollatur animus, 
 Haud praBsto fuit athletes 
 
 Gallus vel Scotius, 
 
 Mihi equestris obvius 
 
 Quin postulante re, 
 Evocat vellem comminus 
 
 Vi, hastis ludere. 
 
 Equisessor Duglasius, 
 
 Audax ille baro, 
 Praefuit aliis omnibus 
 
 Aurato clypeo. 
 
 Cujates, ak, ostendite 
 
 Hie ausi pellere 
 Ac, me invito, impete 
 
 Feras occidere. 
 
' CHfiT¥' CHASC* 183 
 
 All men of pleasant TmotdalCy 
 
 Fast by the river Tweed, 
 Then cease your sport, Earl Piercy said, 
 
 And take your bows with speed ; 
 
 And now with me, my countrymen, 
 
 Your courage forth advance ; 
 For never was there champion yet, 
 
 In Scotland or in France;, 
 
 That ever did on horseback come. 
 
 But if my hap it were, 
 I durst encounter man for man 
 
 With him to break a spear. 
 
 Earl Douglas, on a milk-white steed. 
 
 Much like a baron bold, 
 Rode foremost of his company. 
 
 Whose armour shone like gold. 
 
 Shew me, said he, whose men you be, 
 
 That hunt so boldly here ; 
 That without my consent dare chase 
 
 And kill my fallow deer. 
 
184 LUCUS CHEVINUS. 
 
 Qui primus verbum edidit 
 
 PerccBUs nomine, 
 Qui sumus (ait) non libuit 
 
 Vobis ostendere; 
 
 At sanguinem absumemus 
 
 Cervos distruere; 
 Juravit tunc Duglasim, 
 
 Dixitque temer^; 
 
 E nobis periet unus 
 
 Antequam devincar, 
 Tu comes es bene noius 
 
 Egoque tui par. 
 
 At (siqua fides) est scelus 
 
 Miserum deperdere 
 UIlos de his insontibus, 
 
 Immunes scelere. 
 
 Nosmet pugnemus cominus, 
 
 Viris absentibus. 
 Dispereat, iniquit PercceuSy 
 
 Huic adversarius. 
 
GHEVY CHASE> 1^ 
 
 The first that did the answer make 
 
 Was noble Percy he, 
 Who said, We list not to declare, 
 
 Or shew whose men we be ; 
 
 Yet we will spend our dearest blood, 
 
 The chiefest harts to slay. 
 Then Douglas swore a solemn oath, 
 
 And thus in rage did say : 
 
 Before I will out-braved be^ 
 
 One of us two shall die : 
 I know thee well, an earl thou art. 
 
 Lord P/ercy, so am I, 
 
 But trust me, Piercj/y I think it w^re 
 
 A great offence to kill 
 Any of these our harmless men, 
 
 For they have done no ill ; 
 
 Let thou and I the battle try, 
 
 And set our men aside. 
 Accurst be he. Lord jPiercy said^ 
 
 By whom this is deny'd. 
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186 LUCUS CHEVINUS. 
 
 Tunc armiger exiluit 
 Witherington nomine, 
 
 Kegem, ait, scire noluit 
 Hoc prae dedecore ; 
 
 Quod dux pugnaverat, pedes^ 
 
 Me stante obiter, 
 Vos duo estis comites^ 
 
 Ast ego armiger ; 
 
 Obnix^ omne faciam, 
 
 Dum stare dabitur, 
 Ac dum vibrare machaeram 
 
 A me pugnabitur. 
 
 Anglicani tendunt arcus, 
 
 Quam cordatissim^ ; 
 Decies sex k missilibui^ 
 
 Caeduntur Scotici. 
 
 Adversus feras sectantes 
 
 Missit Duglasius 
 Torvum ducem dimicantes, 
 
 Fractis hostilibus. 
 
CHEVY CHASE. 187 
 
 Then stept a gallant squire forth, 
 
 Witherington was his name, 
 Who said, I would not have it told 
 
 To Henry our King for shame, 
 
 That e'er my captain fought on foot, 
 
 And I stood looking on : 
 You are two earls, said Witheringtotty 
 
 And I a squire alone ; 
 
 I'll do the best, that do I may. 
 
 Whilst I have power to stand ; 
 Whilst I have power to wield my sword 
 
 1*11 fight with heart and hand. 
 
 Our English archers bent their bows. 
 Their hearts were good and true ; 
 
 At the first flight of arrows sent, 
 Full threescore Scots they slew. 
 
 To drive the deer with hound and horn 
 
 Earl Douglas had the bent. 
 The captains, mov'd with muckle pride, 
 
 Their spears to shivers sent. 
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18S LUCUS CHEVINUS. 
 
 Incincti sunt celeriter 
 
 Parum pigritiae, 
 Multusque jacet bellig$;r 
 
 Inanis animae* 
 
 Pol ! Dolor erat; visere 
 
 Ac etiam audire, 
 Viros plangentes undique 
 
 Perfusos sanguine. 
 
 Comites tandem cohibenti 
 
 Multo magnanim^ ; 
 Instar l^qn^s feribant 
 
 Truci certaniine* 
 
 Pugnarunt vel intundere 
 
 Districtis eusibus^ 
 Ac maduerunt cruore 
 
 iBqu^ ac imbribus. 
 
 Ut dedas, 2it DuglasiuSy 
 
 Te ducam subit6^ 
 Ubi eris praepositus 
 
 A rege Jacoba. 
 
CHEVY CHASE. 189 
 
 They clos'd full fast on every side, 
 
 No slackness there was found, 
 And many a gallant gentleman 
 
 Lay gasping on the ground. 
 
 Oh, Christ ! it was a grief to see. 
 
 And likewise for to hear. 
 The groans of men lying in their gore. 
 
 And scattered here and there. 
 
 At last these two great erffls did meet. 
 
 Like captains of great might, 
 Like lions wood, they laid on loads. 
 
 And made a cruel fight ; 
 
 They fought until they both did sweat, 
 
 With swords of tempered steel. 
 Until the blood, like drops of rain. 
 
 They trickling down did feel. 
 
 Yield thee. Earl Pierci/y Douglas said, 
 
 In faith I will thee bring, 
 Where thou shalt high advanced be 
 
 By James our Scottish king : 
 
190 LUCU« CHEVINUS. 
 
 Pro gratis redimaiu captum 
 
 •Et celebrabo te 
 Equitem quam magnifiGum 
 
 £t sine compare. 
 
 Cui PcrccPM5 ait, miniine. 
 
 Quod offers respuo ; 
 Nollem unquam me dedere. 
 
 Viventi Scotica: 
 
 Tunc est emissus calamusi 
 
 Ab arcu Anglico, 
 Quo fixus est DuglasiuSf 
 
 Heu, tenus cerculo. 
 
 Qui verba haec emurmurat, 
 
 Viri contendite ; 
 Quid ni mors mea propinquat 
 
 Spectante comite. 
 
 Turn Percmus exanimi, 
 
 Manum ut prenderet 
 Dicit, caus^ Duglasii 
 
 Se terras perdere. 
 
CHEVY CHASE. I^l 
 
 Thy ransom I will freely give, 
 
 And thus report of thee, 
 Thou art the most courageous knight 
 
 That ever I did see. 
 
 No, Douglas, quoth Earl Piercy then, 
 
 Thy proffer I do scorn ; 
 I will not yield to any Scot 
 
 That ever yet was bom. 
 
 With that there came an arrow keen. 
 
 Out of an English bow, 
 Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart, 
 
 A deep and deadly blow ; 
 
 Who never spoke more words than these. 
 
 Fight on, my merry men all ; 
 For why, my life is at an end, 
 
 Lord Fiercy sees my fall ! 
 
 Then, leaving life. Earl Piercy took 
 
 The dead man by the hand. 
 And said. Earl Douglas, for thy life 
 
 Would I had lost my land : 
 
19^ LUCUS CHEVINUS. 
 
 Vel cor, ait, fundit sanguinem 
 
 Prae tui gratis, 
 Nam nunquam talem equitem 
 
 Removit noxia. 
 
 Miles decernens Scoticus 
 
 Duglasium emori, 
 In PerccBum mortem ejus 
 
 Devovit ulcisci, 
 
 Hugo de Monte Gomerh 
 
 Hast^ cum splendida, 
 Movit decursu celeri 
 
 Ferox per agmina ; 
 
 Prasteriens sagittarios 
 
 Anglos impavid^ 
 JPercaios ventriculos 
 
 Foravit cuspide ; 
 
 Tantd cum violenti^ 
 
 Fodit corpuscula 
 Plus tres pedes per illia 
 
 Transivit hastul&. 
 
CHEVY CHASE. IQS 
 
 O Christ ! my very heart doth bleed 
 
 With sorrow for thy sake ; 
 For sure a more renowned knight 
 
 Mischance did never take. 
 
 A knight amongst the Scots there was, 
 
 Who saw Earl Douglas die, 
 Who straight in wrath did vow revenge 
 
 Upon the Lord Piercj/ ; 
 
 Sir Hugh Montgomery was he call'd, 
 
 Who with a spear most bright. 
 Well mounted on a gallant steed, 
 
 Rode fiercely thro' the fight. 
 
 And pass'd the English archers all, 
 
 Without all dread or fear ; 
 And through Earl Piercy's body then 
 
 He thrust his hateful spear ; 
 
 With such a vehement force and might 
 
 He did his body gore, 
 The spear went thro' the other side 
 
 A full cloth-yard and more: 
 
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J94 Ltrcus CHEviNtrs. 
 
 Sic ceciderunt comites, 
 
 Quam invictissime) 
 Quum sagittario subit res 
 
 Percaum occidi. 
 
 Arcum intentum dextei4 
 
 Factum insigniter 
 Tres pedes longa spicula 
 
 Implevitfortiter; 
 
 Hugonem Gomeri wersus 
 
 Sic teluni statuit, 
 Vel anserinus calamus 
 
 In corde maduit. 
 
 Ad vesperam ab auror^ 
 
 Duravit praelium ; 
 Octava scilicet hora 
 
 Vix est pra:5terituiD. 
 
 Cum Percaio est peremptus 
 Dominus de Egerlort, 
 
 Joannes Ratcliffe, Roberius 
 Et Jacobus baron, 
 
CHEVY CHASE. ^Q5 
 
 So thus did both these nobles die, 
 Whose courage none could stain ; 
 
 An English archer then perceiv'd 
 The noble earl was slain ; 
 
 He had a bow bent in his hand, 
 
 Made of a trusty tree ; 
 An arrow of a cloth-yard long 
 
 Unto the head drew he ; 
 
 Against Sir Hugh Montgomery 
 
 So right the shaft he set : 
 The grey goose wing that was thereon 
 
 In his heart's blood was wet. 
 
 This fight did last from break of day, 
 
 Till setting of the sun ; 
 For when they rung the evening bell, 
 
 The battle scarce was done. 
 
 With brave JEarl Pierct/ there were slain. 
 
 Sir John of Egerton, 
 Sir Robert Ratcliff and Sir John, 
 
 Sir James, that bold baron ; 
 
 R 2 
 
396 LUCUS CHEVXNVS. 
 
 Jacobus et Georgius, 
 
 Equestris ordinis, 
 Radulphus Rahy do minus 
 
 Periit magiianimis. 
 
 Pro Witherington sit gemitus 
 
 Ac si in tristibus, 
 Qui pugnavit de genibus 
 
 Truncatis cruribus. 
 
 Perierunt cum Duglasio 
 
 Hugo Gomericus, 
 Carolus Currel ^ campo 
 
 Nunquam dicessurus ; 
 
 De Ratcliffe Murrel Carolus 
 
 Nepos d sorore ; 
 David Lamb bene habitus 
 
 Exangui corpora, 
 
 Ac etiam Maxwell dominus 
 
 Deditus est neci ; 
 Vix k duobus millibus 
 
 Fugerunt sej^ d^i^ 
 
CHEVY CHASE. 197 
 
 And with Sir George and stout Sir James, 
 
 Both knights of good account, 
 Good Sir Ralph Rabbin there was slain. 
 
 Whose prowess did surmount. 
 
 For Witherington needs must I wail, 
 
 As one in doleful dumps : 
 For when his legs were smitten off, 
 
 He fought upon his stumps. 
 
 And with Earl Douglas there were slain, 
 
 Sir Hugh Montgomery^ 
 Sir Charles Currel, that from the field 
 
 One foot would never flee;^ 
 
 Sir Charles Murrel of Ratcliff too, 
 
 Hks sister's son was he ; 
 Sir Dnvid Lamb, so esteem'd, 
 
 Thi'\ saved could not be. 
 
 And tt t Lord Maxwell in likewhe 
 
 Dh with Earl Douglas die. 
 Of tv\' iity hundred Scottish spears, 
 
 Scai vt! fifty-five did fly. 
 B 3 
 
IQB LUCU8 CHEVINirs* 
 
 E ter quingenis Jnglicis 
 
 Non sex deni abiere ; 
 In Luco raesis cseteris 
 
 Sub fagi tegmiue. 
 
 A plurimis crds vicfuis 
 
 Lugetur misere ; 
 Vulnera lota lachrymis 
 
 Nee prevaluere. 
 
 Cruentata corpu^ciila 
 
 Secuni abstulere ; 
 Millies dederunt osculu 
 
 Defunctis funere, 
 
 Fertur apud Edinhurgham, 
 
 Regnante Jacobo, 
 Duglasium subit6 caesiini 
 
 Fuisse jaculo: 
 
 O lamentabile, dixit, 
 
 Scotia sit testis, 
 Hand alius dux superfuit 
 
 ^qualis ordinis. 
 
CHEVY CHASE. i99 
 
 Of fifteen hundred Englishmen 
 
 Went home but tifty-three : 
 The rest were slain in Chevy Chase, 
 
 Under the green- wood tree. 
 
 Next day did many widows come, 
 
 Their husbands to bewail : 
 They wash'd their wounds in briny tears, 
 
 Yet all would not prevail. 
 
 Their bodies, bath'd in purple gore. 
 
 With them they bore away, 
 And kiss'd them dead a thousand times. 
 
 When they were clad in clay. 
 
 This news was brought to Edinburgh, 
 Where Scotland's king did reign, 
 
 The brave Earl Douglas suddenly 
 Was with an arrow slain. 
 
 Oh, heavy news ! King James did sny, 
 
 Scotland can witness be, 
 I have not any captain more 
 
 Of such account as he. 
 
200 LUCUS CHEVINUS. 
 
 Henrico tradibat fama^ 
 
 Pari intervallo, 
 Percmum de Northumhricd 
 
 Occisum in Luco : 
 
 Quum Rex edixit, valeat; 
 
 Rebus sic stantibus, 
 Spero quod regnum abundat 
 
 Quingenis talibus. 
 
 Ast sentient me ulciscentem 
 
 Scoti et Scotia y 
 At vindictam inferentem 
 
 P€rc€Bi gratia. 
 
 Quod est a Rege praestituni 
 
 Caesis in montibus 
 Quinquies denis militum 
 
 Nee non baronibus^ 
 
 Ac de plebe perierunt 
 
 Centum perplurimi 
 Venatum sic finierunt 
 
 Perccei domini., 
 
CHEVY CHASE. fiOl 
 
 Like tidings to King Henri/ came, 
 
 Within as little space, 
 That Piercy of Northumberland 
 
 Was slain in Chety Chase. 
 
 Now God be with hini, said our King, 
 
 Sith 'twill no better be ; 
 I trust I have, within my realm, 
 
 Five hundred good as he ; 
 
 Yet shall not Scot nor Scotland say 
 
 But 1 will vengeance take, 
 I'll be revenged on them all. 
 
 For brave Earl Pierci/s sake. 
 
 This vow the King full well perform'd, 
 
 After at Humhle-Downy 
 In one day fifty knights were slain, 
 
 With lords of great renown ; 
 
 And of the rest, of small account, 
 
 Did many thousands die; 
 Thus endeth the hunting of Chevy Chase^ 
 
 Made by the Earl Piercy. 
 
€02 L.UCUS CHEV1NU8, 
 
 Sit Rex et grcx beatulus 
 
 Pace et copiSL ; 
 Ac absit d magnatibus 
 
 Malevolentia. 
 
 FIN is. 
 
CHEVY CHASE. 203 
 
 God save the King, and bless this land, 
 
 In plenty, joy, and peace; 
 And grant henceforth, that foul debate 
 
 'Twixt noblemen may cease. 
 
 THfi END. 
 
AN INDEX 
 
 OF THE 
 
 MEN, PLACES, SIGNS, &c. 
 
 PA61E 
 
 Aberford 33 
 
 A) derm an bury, at the Axe 73 
 
 Alerton 119, 149 
 
 Appleby •••• •••• •••• 151 
 
 Ashton 51, 159 
 
 Askrig .., 125 
 
 Author mames, and turns Farmer 145 
 
 Address to Fhiloxenns 165 
 
 arth 125 
 
 Bainbrig 125 
 
 Banbury • • • • « 21 
 
 Banister, a noted Innkeeper at Preston. . . . 53 
 Barnet, at the Purse, the Bears made him 
 
 bewray himself • . • 69 
 
 Bautree 105 
 
 Bessy Bell, a Song •• 169 
 
 Bradford 37 
 
 Brambam HI 
 
 Brickhill 67 
 
 Bruarton, a merry Story 59 
 
 Budworth, at the Cock 54 
 
 Buntingford • • • S7 
 
 Burleigh 97 
 
 Burton ••••••••• • 153 
 
 Brackley 23 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Cambridge • 89 
 
 Cardinal's Hat 73 
 
 Carperby , 123 
 
 Caxton , 87 
 
 Chevy Chase, a Ballad 177 
 
 Clapham •••...•. 39 
 
 Clowne 31 
 
 Coleshill, the Bidcher's Wife there 66 
 
 Coventry, for Blue , ...•• 63 
 
 Cowbrow 41, 159 
 
 Cranes (Three) 73 
 
 Daventree '. 25, 63 
 
 Dalton 153 
 
 Darlington 121, 149 
 
 Doncaster 33, 107 
 
 Dunchurch • • • • • • • 63 
 
 Dunstable 67 
 
 Dory (John) danced with ...#•. 161 
 
 Euston 53 
 
 Ferrybrig • • • • • 109 
 
 Gandy (Tom) 55 
 
 Garstang • • • • • • •••• 51, 153 
 
 Gastile . . . , 127 
 
 Giggleswick •••••••• ••••• 37 
 
 Godmanchester • 89 
 
 Godstow , • • . • 21 
 
 Gottham .•••• 25 
 
 Green (Franc.) of Stratford, and his hand- 
 some Wife 65 
 
 Griffin, in the Old Bailey 73 
 
 Grantham ..•#•• ••••i««**»«.*i. 101 
 
 s 
 
INDEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Hardraw « ....•••.. 127 
 
 Harrington 91 
 
 Harts-horns 73 
 
 Hauxide 153 
 
 Haywood 59 
 
 Helperby , 115 
 
 Highgate, the Horn there 71 
 
 Hockley-hole, •...♦.. 67 
 
 Hoddesden 83 
 
 Holbourn-bridge, at the Rose 73 
 
 Holloway 71 
 
 Holm-chapel, for Ale 57 
 
 Horneby 153 
 
 Horse Fairs ] 45 
 
 Huntington • • 91 
 
 Ingleforth 153 
 
 Ingleton 39 
 
 John (Little) 27 
 
 John a Gaunt • • • • 51 
 
 Islington, at the Lyon 73, 81 
 
 Kendal 41, 129, 161 
 
 Kighley 37 
 
 Killington 129 
 
 Kingsland • • 81 
 
 Kirkland .•. 41, 159 
 
 Knaves-acre,, wear York, whe^-e the Piper was 
 
 hanged f and played afterwards .... 1 1)8^^ 
 
 Leicester, at the Bell ^ •••••.. 25 
 
 Leave taken of all the Places he drank at, 
 
 from 137 to 145 
 
INPEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Litchfield, he borrowed Money of an old 
 
 Usurer ,•.,. • 61 
 
 London •••••• • . • • . 81 
 
 Lonesdale .««••••• • • . • 39, 1 53 
 
 Lousy-Hill 119 
 
 Maidenly John , 125 
 
 Malton ... * 145 
 
 Mansfield ". . 27 
 
 Meredin, merry with his Landlady Joan . , 61 
 
 Middlam .....123, 149 
 
 Mother. Red Cap's at Hollo way 71 
 
 Natland 41, 159 
 
 Nesham,/or fis Nunnery famous 119, 157 
 
 Newcastle-under-Line 57 
 
 Newfound College , 95 
 
 Newton in the Willows ......••....••.. 50 
 
 Newark ...... • 103 
 
 Nottingham 27 
 
 Northern Fairs 147 
 
 Overbowles 29 
 
 Ouston 153 
 
 Oxford 21 
 
 Penrith 151 
 
 Pomfret, for Liquorice 109, 147 
 
 Preston , 53 
 
 Puckeridge •....• 85 
 
 Rainesford, the Prelate there , , 93 
 
 Ravinglass 151 
 
 Redbourn , 67 
 
 Redmeer •••,•••••.•••.••#••••••<•• 121 
 
INDEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Retford 105 
 
 Richmond 121, 157 
 
 Ridgelay 59 
 
 Rippon 147 
 
 Robin Hood, 27. His Well 107 
 
 Rosamond's Bower 21 
 
 Rose, a pretty Girl, at Newton, m Lancashire 55 
 
 Roslay • • 151 
 
 Rothram, at the Bull 31 
 
 Royston 87 
 
 Sarah's Hole 99 
 
 Sautry 93 
 
 Scarlet, Robin Hood's Man 27 
 
 Scrubie 105 
 
 Sedburgh 129 
 
 Sherbum Ill 
 
 Sherwood 27, 127 
 
 Smeton 119 
 
 St. Alban's 69 
 
 Stamford 99 
 
 Staverley 43, 163 
 
 Stilton 95 
 
 Stone, at the Bell • • • 57 
 
 Stonegate-hole 91 
 
 Stratford 65 
 
 Tadcaster Ill 
 
 Tauk-a-Hill 57 
 
 Theobalds « 83 
 
 Thyrsk 117, 149 
 
 TopclifF 117, 149 
 
 Tocester, where he sate up all Night .... 65 
 
 Totnam Highcross • • • • • 93 
 
INDEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Towlerton 115 
 
 Tramontane Fairs • • • • 151 
 
 Tuxworth 105 
 
 Wademill 85 
 
 Wakefield Piwdar 36 
 
 Waltham-Abbey 83 
 
 Wansforth-brigs ••*••• 95 
 
 Ware 85 
 
 Warrington 55 
 
 Wedon, where he vomited •••••••••••• 65 
 
 Wentbridge . . 1 109 
 
 Wenchly 123 
 
 Wetherby 35 
 
 Wigan •••••••• • •••• 53 
 
 Witham 101 
 
 Woodstock 21 
 
 Worton 125 
 
 York, where he lay with the Weaver^ Wife 113 
 
 Young, the Tobacconist 75 
 
 Younger (Tom) o/Brickhill , 67 
 
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