A search for money. Or The lamentable complaint for the losse of the wandring knight, Mounsieur l'Argent Or come along with me, I know thou louest money. Dedicated to all those that lack money. By William Rovvley.

To all those that lack money.

GEntlemen, for so much you may be that want money, and more they cannot bee that haue it, (bee that your comfort,) Yee are indeed the onelie Maecenas∣ses and Patrons of Poesie, for to your weake purses there are alwaies ioy∣ned willing hearts, and (if not deedes) at the least, good wordes, (Similis simili gaudet) I ioye (most respected benefactors) in your fellowshippe, for from me yee are like to receiue nothing but good words, will yee now vndertake an equall trauell with me (I know not yet whither) and let the destinies (if they will) re∣ward our paines. I knowe the walkes in Paules are stale to yee, yee could tell extemporally I am sure howe many paces t'were betweene the quire and the West dore, or (like a Suffolke man) answere at the second question, dead sure: there hath beene (many of yee) seene measur∣ing the Longitude and Latitude of More-fields any time this two yeares and vpwards (all but in the hard season of the great frost) and then yee slid away the time vpon the Thames, yee haue beene either eare-or-eye-witnesses or both to many madde voiages

made of late yeares, both by sea and land, as the trauell to Rome with the returne in certaine daies, the wild mo••∣rise to Norrige, the fellowes going back-ward to Bar∣wick, another hopping from Yorke to London, and the transforming of the top of Paules into a stable, to these and many more, ad one more, what oddes with him now that will bring yee to the place where your lost and long wisht friend Mounsier Money is within two houres? me thinkes yee smile now? but you would laugh if it were so indeede, you thinke it not possible now, You hauing searcht so diligentlie and are yet without him, but pluck vp a good hart, hire but this hackney and (vita pro vita) hee will bring yee to the place for the prise of a peck of oates, tis no great charge, along with him but pace him not too fast for feare of stumbling, if yee dislike this voi∣age, returne to my stable againe, if I horse yee not for better profit, turne from a Gentile to a Iew & spit at me, there has beene time and labor (a lit∣tle of both) to bring him to this small groweth.

Vale. frustra nihil.

Your ioynt friend in estate. VVILLIAM ROVVLEY.