Doctour doubble ale

Doctour doubble ale

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❧Doctour doubble ale.

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ALthough I lacke intelligence

and can not skyll of eloquence

Yet wyll I do my diligence

To say sumthing or I go hence

wherin I may demonstrate

the figure gesture and estate

Of one that is a curate

that harde is and endurate

and ernest in the cause

Of piuish popish lawes

that are not worth two strawes

Except it be with dawes

that knoweth not good from euels

Nor Gods worde from the Deuels

Nor wyll in no wise heare

the worde of god so cleare

but popishnes vpreare

and make the pope Gods peare

and so them selues they lade

wyth bables that he made

and styll wyll holde his trade

No man can them perswade

and yet I dare say

ther is no day

but that they may

Heare sincerily

and right truly

Gods worde to be taught

If they wolde haue sought

but they set at nought

[Page]Christes true doctrine

and them selues de [...]line

to mens ordinaunce

which they enhaunce

and take in estimation.

aboue Christes passion

and so this folish nation

Esteme their owne racion

and all dum ceremonies

before the sanctimonies

O [...] Christes holy writ

and thinke their owne wī

so be far aboue it

that the scripture to them teachis

Or honest men preachis

¶they folowe perlowes lechis

and doctours dulpatis

that falsely to them pratis

and bring them to the gates

Of hell and vtter derkenes

and all by stubborne starkenes

Putting their full trust

In thinges that rot and rust

and papisticall prouisions

which are the deuels dirisions

Now let vs go about

to tell the tale out

Of this good felow stout

that for no man wyll dout

but kepe his olde condicions

[Page]For all the newe comyssyons

And vse his supersticions

And also mens tradicyons

And syng for dead folkes soules

And reade hys beade rolles

And all such thinges wyll vse

As honest men refuse

But take hym for a cruse

And ye wyll tell me newes.

For if he ons begyn

He leaueth nought therin

He careth not a pyn

How much ther be wythin

So he the pot may wyn

He wyll it make full thyn

And wher the drinke doth please

Ther wyll he take his ease

And drinke ther of his fyll

Tyll ruddy be his byll

And fyll both cup and can

Who is so glad a man

As is our curate than / ?

I wolde ye knewe it a curate

Not far without newgate

Of a parysh large

The man hath mikle charge

And none within this border

That kepeth such order

Nor one a this syde Nauerne

Louyth better the ale tauerne

[Page]¶But if the drinke be small

He may not well withall

Tush cast it on the wall

It fretteth out his gall

Then seke an other house

This is not worth a louse

As dronken as a mouse

Mon syre gybet a vous

And ther wyll byb and bouse

Tyll heuy be his brouse

Good ale he doth so haunt

And drynke a due taunt

That ale wiues make ther vaunt

Of many a peny rounde

That sum of them hath founde

And sometyme mikle strife is

Amonge the ale wyfes

And sure I blame them not

For wrong it is God wot

when this good dronken sot

Helpeth not to empty the pot

For sumtime he wyll go

To one and to no mo

¶Then wyll the hole rout

Upon that one cry out

and say she doth them wronge

To kepe him all day longe

From commyng them amonge

wherfore I g [...]ue councell

to them that good drinke sell

[Page]To take in of the best

Or els they lese their gest

For he is redy and prest

Where good ale is to rest

And drinke tyll he be drest

When he his boke shulde study

He sitteth there full ruddy

Tyll halfe the day be gone

Crying fyll the pot Ione

And wyll not be alone

But call sum other one

at wyndowe or at fen [...]stre

that is an idell ministre

as he him selfe is

Ye know full well this

the kinde of carion crowes

ye may be sure growes

the more for carion stinking

and so do these in drinking

this man to sum mens thinking

Doth stay hym muche vpon the kyng

as in the due demaunding

Or that he calleth an head peny

and of the paskall halpeny.

for the cloth of corpus Christy

four pens he clay mith swiftely

for which the sexton and he truly

Did tog by the eares earnestly

Sa [...]ing he can not the king well paye

If all such driblars be take away

[Page]Is not this a gentill tale

Of our doctour doubble ale

Whose countenaunce is neuer pale

So wel good drinke he can vphale

¶A man of learning great

For if his brayne he wolde beat

He coulde within dayes fourtene

make such a sermō as neuer was sene

I wot not whether he spake in drinke

Or drinke in him how do ye thinke?

I neuer herde him preach God wot

But it were in the good ale pot

Also he sayth that fayne he wolde

Come before the councell if he coulde

For to declare his learning

And other thinges concerning

Goodly councels that he coulde geue

beyond all measure ye may me beleue

His learning is exceding

ye may know by his reading

yet could a cobblers boy him tell

That he red a wrong gospell,

wherfore in dede he serued him well

He turned himselfe as round as a bell

And with loud voyce began to call

Is there no constable among you all,

to take this knaue yt doth me troble?

with that all was on a hubble shubble

There was drawing and dragging

There was lugging and lagging

[Page]and snitching and snatching

and ketching and catching

and so the pore ladde

To the Counter they had

Some wolde he shuld be hanged

Or els he shulde be wranged

Some sayd it were a good turne

Such an heretyke to burne

Some sayde this and some sayd that

and som dyd prate they wist not what

some did curse and some did ban

For chafing of oure curate than

He was worthy no lesse

for vexing with his pertnesse

a gemman going to Messe,

Did it become a cobblers boy

To shew a gemman such a toy?

¶but if it were wel wayde

ye shuld fynde I am afrayde

that the boy were worthy

for his reading and sobrietie

and iudgement in the veritie

among honest folke to be

A curate rather then he.

for this is knowen for certentie

the boy doth loue no papistry

and our Curate is called no doubte

a papist london thoroughout.

and truth is it they do not lye,

It may be sene wyth halfe an eye.

[Page]for if there come a preacher,

Or any godly teacher

to speake agaynst his trūpery

to the alehouse goth he by & by▪

and there he wyl so much drinke

tyll of ale he doth so stinke,

that whether he go before or behynde /

Ye shall him smell without the winde

for when he goeth to it he is no hafter

He drīketh drōke for two dayes after

Wi [...]h fyll the cuppe Ione,

for all this is gone

Here is ale alone

I say for my drinking

tush, let the pot be clinking

and let vs mery make,

No thought wyll I take /

for though these fellowes crake

I trust to se them slake

and some of them to bake

In smithfelde at a stake

and in my Parysh be some /

that if the tyme come

I feare not wyll remember

(be it august or september

October or Nouember

Or moneth of December)

to fynde both wood and timber

to burne them euery member

and goth to borde and bed

[Page]At the signe of the kinges head.

¶And let these heretikes preach

And teach what they can teach

My parish I know well

Agaynst them wyll rebell

If I but once them tell

Or g [...]ue them any warning

That they were of the new learning.

For with a worde or twayne

I can them call agayne

And yet by the Messe

forgetfull I was

Or els in a slumber

there is a shrewde nomber

that curstly do comber

And my pacience proue

And dayly me moue

¶for some of them styll

Continew wyll

In this new way

whatsoeuer I saye

¶It is not long ago

Syns it chaunsed so

that a buriall here was

Without dirige or Masse

but at the buriall

they song a christmas carall

by the Masse they wyll mar all

If they continew shall /

Some sayd it was a godly hearing

[...]

[Page]Some of them fell on weping

In my church I make no leasing

They harde neuer the lyke thing

Do ye thinke that I wyll consent

to these heretikes entent

to haue any sacrament

Ministred in English?

by them I set not a rysh

So long as my name is hary George

I wyll not do it spight of theyr gorge.

Oh Dankester Dancastre

None betwene this ād Lancaster.

Knoweth so much my minde.

As thou my speciall frynde

It wolde do the much good

To wash thy handes in the bloude

Of them that hate the messe▪

thou couetest no lesse

So much they vs oppresse

Pore priestes doubtlesse

And yet what than

there is not a man

that soner can,

Perswade his parishons

From such condicions

then I perse I

for by and by

I can them conuert

to take my parte

Except a fewe

[Page]that hacke and hew /

and agaynst me shew

What they may do

To put me to

Some hynderaunce

And ye [...] may chaunce

The bisshops visitour,

Wyll shewe me fauour

and therfore I

Care not a fly,

for ofte haue they /

Sought by some way

To bring me to blame

and open shame /

but I wyll beare them out

In spight of their snout

and wyll not ceasse

To drinke a pot the lesse

Of ale that is bygge

Nor passe not a fygge

for all their malice

away the mare qd walis /

I set not a w [...]ge

by all their writing,

for yet I deny nat

The Masses priuat

Nor yet forsake

that I of a cake

My maker may make

¶but harke a lytle harke /

[Page]and a few wordes marke,

Howe this caluish clarke /

for his purpose coulde warke

there is an honest man:

that kepte an olde woman

Of almes in hyr bed

Liyng dayly beddered

which man coulde not I say

wyth popishnes a way

but fayne this woman olde

wolde haue Messe if she coulde

the which this priest was tolde

He hearing this anone

as the goodman was gone

abrode aboute his busines

before the woman he sayd Messe

and shewed his prety popishnes

agaynst the goodmans wyll

wherfore it is my skyll

that he shulde him endight

for doing such dispight

as by his popish wyle

His house wyth Masse defyle

¶Thus may ye beholde

this man is very bolde /

and in his learning olde

Intendeth for to syt

I blame him not a whyt

for it wolde vexe his wyt

and cleane agaynst his earning

[Page]to folow such learning

as now a dayes is taught

It wolde sone bring to naught

His olde popish brayne

for then he must agayne

apply him to the schole

and come away a fole:

for nothing shulde he get

His brayne hath bene to het

and with good ale so wet

Wherfore he may now set

In feldes and in medes

and pray vpon his beades

for yet he hath a payre

O [...] beades that be right fayre

Of corall [...]gete, or ambre

at home within his chambre

tor in matins or Masse,

Primar and portas

and pottes and beades

His lyfe he leades

¶But this I wota

that if ye nota

How this idiota

Doth folow the pota

I holde you a grota

Ye wyll rede by rota

that he may were a [...]ota

In cocke lose [...]s bota

¶thus the durty doctour

[Page]the popes owne proctour

wyll bragge and boost

wyth ale and a toost

and lyke a rutter

Hys latin wyll vtter

and turne and tosse him

wyth tu non possum

Loquere latinum

this alum finum

Is bonus then vinum

Ego volo quare

Cum tu drinkare

Pro tuum caput,

quia apud

te propiciacio

tu non potes facio

tot quam ego

quam librum tu lego,

Caue de me

apponere te

Iuro per deum

Hoc est lifum meum

quia drinkum stalum

Non sacere malum

☞thus our dominus dodkin

wyth ita vera bodkin

Doth leade his lyfe

which to the alewife

is very profitable

it is pytie he is not able

[Page]To mayntayne a table

For beggers and tinkers

And all lusty drinkers

Or captayne or beddle

wyth dronkardes to meddle

ye cannot I am sure /

for keping of a cure

fynde such a one well

If ye shulde rake hell

¶and therfore nowe

No more to you /

Sed perlegas ista,

Si velis Papista,

fare well and a dewe

with a whirlary whewe

and a tirlary typpe

Beware of the whyppe.

Finis.

Take this tyll more come.

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Doctour doubble ale

Shepherd, Luke, fl. 1548.

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1548

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— Doctour doubble ale, Shepherd, Luke, fl. 1548..

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[18] p. : ill.

A. Scoloker?,. [London :: 1548?]. (By Luke Shepherd.) (Printer's name and date of publication conjectured by STC.) (An anti-Catholic poem.) (Woodcut illustration on [B]1r.) (Signatures: A [B]¹.) (Some leaves cropped, with loss of print.) (Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.)

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