The Irish footman's poetry, or, George the rvnner against Henry the walker, in defence of Iohn the Swimmer being a sur-rejoinder to the rejoinder of the rusty ironmonger who endeavored to defile the cleare streames of the water-poet's Helicon / the author George Richardson ...

The Irish footman's poetry, or, George the rvnner against Henry the walker, in defence of Iohn the Swimmer being a sur-rejoinder to the rejoinder of the rusty ironmonger who endeavored to defile the cleare streames of the water-poet's Helicon / the author George Richardson ...

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TO GEORGE RICHARDSON HIS CVRRANT FRIEND IN any part of the Kings Dominions.

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POSTSCRIPT.

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THE IRISH FOOTMAN'S POETRY. OR GEORGE THE RVNNER, AGAINST HENRY THE WALKER, In defence of Iohn the Swimmer.

Being A Sur-rejoinder to the Rejoinder of the rusty Ironmonger, who endeavoured to defile the cleare streames of the Water-Poet's Helicon.

The Author GEORGE RICHARDSON, an Hibernian Pedestrian.

Printed in the yeare 1641.

TO GEORGE RICHARDSON HIS CVRRANT FRIEND IN any part of the Kings Dominions.

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NO more (friend George) shall wee see

Thee marching in the Infantr'ie,

Now, thou hast gotten greater force,

And mounted on the winged Horse,

After no charriot thou shalt runne

Henceforth, but that of Phaeton.

H. F.

To GEORGE RICHARDSON the Pedestrian Poet.

WHen first thy lines I read, I did admire

Them like the learning of Promethean fire;

[Page]For he, who knowes thee have so little Art

Could thinke that nature should so much impart

To raise thee to the height to vindicate

Th'Aquatique Poet, from the furious hate

Of weavers, tinkers, (through the nose that whistle)

Ironmongers, and Brethren of the bristle?

Now trust me George, this work deserves such praise,

That not to us but unto after dayes

'T will say thou wer`t a Poet of a maw,

As great, as thy great namesake of the Law.

W. B.

To my ingenuous Countryman the Authour.

'TIs stranger you would goe swift pac'd steps forsak

And rest a strangers taske to undertake

Doubtles you meane to ride hence forth; this matter,

Deserves a horse, if not to ride by water.

T. LL.

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GEORGE RICHARDSON the Authour to the most ingenious aquatique Poet Mr: JOHN TAYLOR.

SIr though a stranger to your selfe, your worth

Is knowne to me, by what you have set forth;

And though I cannot judge, yet I admire

The lively flames of your Phaebean fire;

Which wise-men doe approve, none doe deprave,

[Page]But such as know not fancy, as this slave;

Rusty, as his old iron, dull, as stone,

Or th'anvill, that his ware is wrought upon.

Who stupid slave (by what hee never writ

But bought for's money) your undoubted wit,

Would call in question, Sir, my infant muse

(Seing this slave persist in his abuse;

And knowing, 'twould a great dishonour bee

For you to match your ingenuity

With his notorious folly,) speedily

Did undertake to make a swift reply.

Which (soone as my employment did allow

Mee time) in two houres space, I did run through.

Upon the title of Walkers Booke.

BEhold the Master peice of Walker's wit,

Fancying his friend the Divell here at shit.

Who first with malice did inspire his breast,

And then his first Bookes matter did suggest.

But t'is some silly fiend (as sure as day)

The same perhaps was made an Asse i'th play

Long since, but I'me deceiv'd, there's much brave wit

I'th play, but Walkers bookes have none of it.

What are they fit for then, that onely raile?

Naught, but to wipe his shitten Divels taile.

1. His view of the transformed Divell.

VVHat wondrous raptures this our Author here

Doth dreame of wine, who hardly ere dranke beere,

[Page]Or any thing so mighty Horace's Lire

Tels us what drinke doth most, what least inspire?

2. His Pedegree.

A Monstrous Birth! sprong from the sheaves of wheat,

Tresh'd out he should have said, for sure the great

Father of this brave Sparke some tough blade was,

That cudgelled the corne, and slash'd the grasse;

For such his base demeanour speakes him, I

Doe not detract from the old family

Of Bredsall all this while, nor doe I know

Whether he bee extracted thence, or no.

Oft 'tis of worthy families the fate,

To send some Children forth degenerate.

But by his manners hee should rather bee

Of that Ape Carriers affinity

Hight Richard Walker, but call'd Cherry-lickam,

Whom with his well taught-beast I saw at Wickam

Doing rare trickes, with many a lofty straine

For Englands King, but clapt his Arse at Spaine.

Told money, which his Master cannot doe;

Yet hee a Walker is, and Wanderer too.

But lets admit our Libeller to bee

Sprong from the wheaten Bredsall family,

And that the Golden-sheaves that doe belong

Vnto that family, this Ironmong-

Er may justly challenge for his owne, yet hee

Hath armes, which better fit his quality.

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The Armes of his owne atcheivement.

A Gridiron passant, on which lies

A Libeller doth simbolize

A Cart, that doth up Holborne passe,

A sable trivet next, wee place

In cheif, which you may easily

Conceive, doth Tiburne signifie,

To seeke a Rope weel'e not take paines,

For worst delinquents hang in Chaines,

Then for supporters, there shall stand

Two men as true as steele, in hand

They rusty Iron forkes shall weild,

Thus you may blazonize his sheild.

2. His Disposition.

IS it not vaine? to tax his muse, that writ

Of a bad Subject to discover it

Vnto the heedles World; that when they see,

The thing attir'd in it's deformity,

They then may loath it, that before appear'd

Pleasing to them, before the mist was clear'd.

Taylor his whore, if rightly understood

Deserves much honour, 'twas his Countrie's good

That set his muse on worke, the rogue set forth

In Spanish, is a Booke of matchlesse worth.

Which honest men approve, hee that doth looke

Awry on it, is Subject of the Booke.

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4. The Encounter.

I Know 'tis not your custome, to abuse

The peoples eares, with fancies of your muse;

For where there's no invention, straines of wit

Can have no birth, were you endu'd with it

What monsters you'd beget alreadi's knowne

By fathering of these are not your owne.

But what you publish here, if wee admit

To bee your owne, Taylor those workes hath writ,

That a just Catalogue of them will fill,

More leaves, then you have stained with your quill,

Leave then your ostentation, time ne're saw,

An Eagle dar'd to combate by a Daw.

5. His Religion.6. His Hypocrisie.

I'Ve made a scrutinie, but cannot find

One word in Taylors Booke shews him inclin'd

To Popery, 'tis true hee cann't approve

Of Brownists, nor the Familists of love,

Of Anabaptists, nor of Adamites,

Nor those instruct their audience, when the lights

Are out, and by their owne example too

As well as precept, teach them what to doe;

Though Ir'nmongers or Feltmakers they bee,

Or Coblers, or what els fraternity.

This being all, 'tis straing hee not invites

Your spleene, that hath describ'd the Adamites,

The Brownists conventicle too that writ,

[Page]But 'tis your envy to brave Taylors wit,

Hee onely is accus'd, although they bee

Guilty of as much Popery as hee.

Your faith I doe not question, nor will make

Much matter of argument, what side you take.

But Taylor's guilty of Hipocrisie,

Because hee did comply with miserie.

A powerfull reason! shame to vent such stuffe

Snuffers are sweeter ware, with unquencht snuffe.

7. The Church persecuted by water.

A Title (which doth promise at the least,

A copious treatise) like that pregnant beast,

That travell'd with a mountaine, yet brought forth

A litle molehill, see the lesser worth!

Of this poore fellow, who can scarce discerne

A difference, 'twixt him, did guide the sterne

Of the great Barke oth'Church, and him that neere

A bigger vessell then an oare did steere.

8. His weakenesse in judgement

NOw I doe pitty thee, that dares to tax

Anothers judgemen? when more time 'twill aske

Then was to teach the Asse to speake, assign'd,

To render thy dull wits halfe so refin'd,

As the well-tuter'd Ape, that's Pupill to

Thy name-sake Walker; yet with much adoe

Tha'st made an Anagram of thine owne name,

And an AEnigma to thou think'st, what fame?

[Page]Will not be due to thee? well thou maist scoren

The Dung-hill Pamphlets thou set'st forth t'adorne

With th'honoured subscription of the name,

That's grac'd, with such an heavenly Anagram.

9. His horrible lies.

ONe Distichon is all the verse ha's writ

There's just as many faults, as lines in it.

10. My sincerity to England.

IF you affirme this with sincerity,

Im'e confident in it wee doe agree.

11. His humble Petition.

VVHat forward impudence is this? to dare

Before those noble Senators to appeare

Clad in such ragges? if ought 'gainst Church or State,

Hee hath offended, with an equall hate

I shall pursue him, or transgress'd the lawes,

And made unto himselfe a guilty cause,

Or that it shall appeare, in the least word,

Hee hath [...]aduc'd, that lov'd, and honour'd Lord;

But if o'th contrary it shall appeare,

His conscience and his judgement, were more clear,

And that hee did nor Church, nor State traduce,

Nor that most noble Lord; with least abuse;

Then Caesar-like, when Horace did acquite

Himselfe, before him; then, when 'gainst all right,

A base officious Tribune did accuse

[Page]The harmeles recreation of his muse;

As, that in mistique Hieroglyphickes, hee

Had plotted 'gainst the State, some teachery;

Great Caesar gave the Poet, higher place

In's favour, and the Tribune, the disgrace

To weare a paire of Asses eares; so now,

When these great Senators, on Taylor's brow

Read innocence, his merrit they shall raise,

By giving thee the whip, and him the bayes.

12. The Conclusion.

ANd now friend Walker this, but to prepare

My muse to encounter, if you dare,

With a foote-Poet, enter in the sand,

You, as you have lost by water may by land.

POSTSCRIPT.

ALthough in Ireland I was born and bred

In Englands Church I nourisht am and fed

Therefore let no dull Brownists apprehend

That in defence of Popery I contend;

I doe esteeme both Sects as most a curst

But of the twayn I thinke the Brownist worst.

FINIS.

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The Irish footman's poetry, or, George the rvnner against Henry the walker, in defence of Iohn the Swimmer being a sur-rejoinder to the rejoinder of the rusty ironmonger who endeavored to defile the cleare streames of the water-poet's Helicon / the author George Richardson ...

Richardson, George, fl. 1641.

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1641

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A67888

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Wing R1383

ID [STC]

Wing T471

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ESTC R2346

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11950177

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ocm 11950177

ID [VID]

51368

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— The Irish footman's poetry, or, George the rvnner against Henry the walker, in defence of Iohn the Swimmer being a sur-rejoinder to the rejoinder of the rusty ironmonger who endeavored to defile the cleare streames of the water-poet's Helicon / the author George Richardson ..., Richardson, George, fl. 1641., Taylor, John, 1580-1653..

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s.n.],. [London :: 1641.. (Attributed to George Richardson by Hazlitt.) (Attributed to John Taylor by Wing.) (In verse.) (Item at reel 546:8 identified as Wing R1383 (number cancelled).) (Reproduction of original in Huntington Library and Cambridge University Library.)

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