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.

An Ingrosser of Corne.

THere is no Vermine in the Land like him; hee slanders both Hea∣uen and Earth with pretended Dearths, when there's no cause of scar∣sitie. His whording in a deare yeere, is like Erisicthons Bowels, in Ouid: Quod∣que vrbibus esse, quod{que} satis poterat po∣pulo, non sufficit vni. He prayes daily for more inclosures, and knowes no rea∣son in his Religion, why wee should call our fore-fathers daies, The time of ig∣norance, but onely because they sold VVheat for twelue pence a bushell. He wishes that Danske were at the Moloc∣cos;

and had rather be certaine of some forraine inuasion, then of the setting vp of the Stilyard. When his Barnes and Garners are ful(if it be a time of dearth) he will buy halfe a bushell i'th' Market to serue his Household: and winnowes his Corne in the night, lest, as the chaffe throwne vpon the water, shew'd plenty in AEgypt; so his (caried by the winde) should proclaime his abundance. No painting pleases him so wel, as Pharaohs dreame of the seauen leane Kine, that ate vp the fat ones; that hee has in his Parlour, which he will describe to you like a motion, and his comment ends with a smothered prayer for the like scarsitie. Hee cannot away with To∣bacco; for hee is perswaded (and not much amisse) that tis a sparer of Bread∣corne which he could finde in's heart to transport without Licence: but weighing the penaltie, hee growes mealy-mouth'd, and dares not. Sweet smells he cannot abide; wishes that the pure ayre were generally corrupted:

nay, that the Spring had lost her fra∣grancie for euer, or wee our superfluous sense of Smelling (as he tearmes it) that his corne might not bee found mustie. The Poore he accounts the Iustices in∣telligencers, and cannot abide them: he complaines of our negligence of dis∣couering new parts of the VVorld, only to rid them from our Clymate. His Sonne, by a certaine kinde of instinct, he bindes Prentise to a Taylor, who all the terme of his Indenture hath a deare yeere in's bellie, and rauins bread ex∣treamly: when he comes to be a Free∣man (if it be a Dearth) he marries him to a Bakers daughter.