Lent

Lent

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LENT.

LENT.

You that love flesh, or to the flesh are given

By Lent; unto your shifts you shall be driven

In warlike manner hee's to Combat come

And unto (many) welkome like Iack. Drum

HEre Lent and Shrovetyde, claime their proper right,

Are both resolved, and prepar'd to fight.

Lent arm'd at all points, from the foot to head

A fishing Nett hath for his Banner spread.

An Angling rod, he in his hand doth beare

To shew that Lakes and Ponds and Rivers cleare

Are at his great command, Eele, Carpe, Pike, Tench,

Or Lobster which the brinish Sea doth drench.

Are his by hook or crooke, his power will get

And make all fish that comes into his Nett:

A boyling Kettle is his helmet fit

(For Lent hath small use for a roasting Spit)

Thus mounted on a horse that ne're eat hay

Lent meets with Shrovetyde and begins to say:

I now am come to mundifie and cleare

The base abuses of this last past yeare:

Thou puff paunch'd Monster (Shrovetyde) thou art he

That wer't ordain'd the latter end to be

Of forty five weekes gluttony, now past

Which I in seaven weekes come to cleanse at last:

Your feasting I will turn to fasting dyet

Your Cookes shall have some leasure to be quiet,

Your Masques, Pomps, Playes, and all your vaine expence

I'le change to sorrow, and to penitence,

I will reforme you, and I hither came

To keep flesh from you, your proud flesh to tame:

Let Butchers cleare their cleavers and their knives

Hang up their Axes, let their men or wives

Make pricks for future uses, if they please

I come to give them all a writ of ease:

To Calves, Lambs, Piggs, Hens, Capons, all I give

Free leave to multiply, increase and live,

There shall no Ven'son be (with swearing) slaine

And fishermen shall search the Ocean maine:

And sirha (Shrovetyde) I doe further meane

Before I goe to make your fat chapps leane:

For though like Rebells madd, you roave and stray

And feast each friday, and each fasting day,

Though you regard no Ember Weeke, nor Law

Nor rule or order keeps you under awe,

Yet be assur'd that whosoe're wrongs Lent

Shall not escape deserved punishment.

FINIS.

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LONDON: Printed by M. S. for Thomas Jenner, and are to be sold at his Shop at the South Entrance of the Royall Exchange 166 [...]

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Title statement

Lent

Edition statement

1661

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Text Creation Partnership,

Place of publication

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Date

2008-09 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1).

ID [DLPS]

A87845

ID [STC]

Wing L1056

ID [STC]

Thomason 669.f.26[65]

ID [STC]

ESTC R210938

ID [EEBO-CITATION]

99869686

ID [PROQUEST]

99869686

ID [VID]

163947

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— Lent,

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1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill.

Printed by M.S. for Thomas Jenner, and are to be sold at his shop at the South Entrance of the Royal Exchange,. London :: 1660. [i.e. 1661]. (An allegorical engraving, with explanatory verses.) (Verse - "Here Lent and Shrovetyde, claime their proper right,".) (Actual publication date from Wing.) (Reproduction of the original in the British Library.)

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