Sir Thomas Ouerburie his wife with new elegies vpon his (now knowne) vntimely death : whereunto are annexed, new newes and characters / written by himselfe and other learned gentlemen.

A Roaring Boy

HIs life is a meere counterfet Pa∣tent: which neuerthelesse, makes many a Countrey Iustice trem∣ble. Don Quixotes water Milles are still Scotch Bagpipes to him. Hee sendes Challenges by word of mouth: for hee protests (as hee is a Gentleman and a brother of the Sword) hee can neither write nor read. He hath runne throgh diuers parcels of Land and great hou∣ses, beside both the Counters. If anie priuate Quarrell happen among our great Conrtiers, he proclaimes the bu∣sinesse, thats the word, the businesse; as if all the vnited forces of the Romish-Ca∣tholickes

were making vp for Germany. Hee cheats young Guls that are newly come to Towne; and when the Keeper of the Ordinarie blames him for it, hee answers him in his own Professiō, that a Woodcocke must bee pluckt ere he be drest. Hee is a Superuisor to Brothels, & in them is a more vnlawfull reformer of vice, then Prentises on Shroue-tues∣day. He loues his Friend, as a Coun∣seller at Law loues the veluet Breeches he was first made Barrester in, hee'll be sure to weare him thread-bare ere hee forsake him. He sleepes with a Tobac∣co-pipe in's mouth; and his first prayer i'th' morning is, hee may remember whom he fell our with ouer night. Sol∣dier hee is none for hee cannot distin∣guish 'tweene Onion seede and Gunpow∣dir: if hee haue worne it in his hollow tooth for the Tooth-ach, and so come to the knowledge of it, that's all. The Tenure by which he holds his meanes, is an estate at Will; and that's borrow∣ing Land-lords haue but but foure

Quarter-dayes; but he three hundred and odde. Hee keepes very good Com∣pany; yet is a man of no reckaning: and when he goes not drunke to bed, hee is very sick next morning, He common∣ly dies like Anacreon, with a Grape in's throat; or Hercules, with fire in's mar∣row. And I haue heard of some (that haue scap't hanging) begg'd for Ana∣tomies, onely to deterre men from ta∣king Tobacco.