All the vvorkes of Iohn Taylor the water-poet Beeing sixty and three in number. Collected into one volume by the author: vvith sundry new additions corrected, reuised, and newly imprinted, 1630.

The Good fellow-SHIP with her Regiment.

THis Ship is very old, and much out of re∣parations: She hath beene of such vse and imployment, that shee hath sayled into all

Countries of the inhabitable world; she one∣ly is the greatest traueller, for there is not a Hauen or harbour vnder the Sunne, but shee hath cast Anker in it. Wine Marchants, Vint∣ners, Brewers, and Victuallers, haue thrust themselues into the whole Lordships, by the often returnes, lading and vnlading of this ship; yet now she is so weather-beaten, with the stormes of time, and so wind-shaken with too much vse, that through want shee is not able to beare halfe the sayle which she former∣ly hath done.

In the golden age, when Saturne raigned, (long before the two wrangling words Thine and Atine, had set the world together by the eares) then was the Good fellowship in such re∣quest, that all Estates & cōditions failed in her, then her voyages and quicke returnes (her la∣ding being for the most part hearty loue, and true affection) did maintaine and keepe such vnity, that whosoeuer was not a Mariner or Sayler in her, was ••csteemed as a branded stig∣matiz'd infamous person.

But at last her Nauigators began to steere another course, for some of them had learned the art of couetousnesse, and with a deuillish kind of bawdry, cald vsury and extortion, made gold and siluer engender and beger yeerely so much, and so much the hundred, when Taylors, like so many wicked spirits, flew from one Country to another, bringing home more fashions, then would kill a hun∣dred thousand horses; when for the maintai∣nance of those fashions, the earth was equally shared and deuided amongst the people (some all, and some not a foot) with hedges, dit∣ches, bounds, mownds, walls, and markes, when my La•••••••••••• Rusty began to take such a thrifty order, that all the meare in the kitchin should be cheaper, then the washing and pain∣ting of her Visage, (if you allow the poudring of her bought or borrowed Periwig into the bargaine) when the world came to this passe, then this Good Ship, this Good-fellowship being forsaken of her Pilots, Masters, and Mariners, all her Saylers in little time declined to bee no better then Swabbers, so that through want of skilfull managing and reparation, and with extreme age, shee is nothing so seruiceable z•• she hath beene, yet as she is, shee sets forward with her best ability in this Voyage. The Cay•••••• taines name was Hercules Dumplin, a Norsol•••• Gentleman, the Master Gtles Gammon, 〈…〉〈…〉 borne at Rumforde, the rest of the Mariners •••• were needles to name them.

The other Ships and vessels that were •••• the same Regiment with the Goodfellowship•••• were these.

• 1 The Drunken Sisse, a great ship, it•••• thought shee was built at Middleborough; b•••••• howsoeuer, she hath made many voyages in to England: she is so beloued, that she nee•••••• not presse any man to serue in her: for all so•••• of people doe daily come aboord of her, and freely, and voluntarily offer her their best se••••∣uice, so that it is a wonder to see how brauety she is man'd: and (many times) women d•••• take their turnes at helme, and steere the•••• courses as well as men. She is a ship contrary to all other ships, for she rowles, reeles, and tumbles, most of all when she is in a calme h••••∣bour; and the more lading she takes in, the more vnsteady she is; for if the sea be as calm as a milke-pan, yet is she euer tossing, which makes her Mariners sea-sicke, and subiect •••••• much casting. Her Ordnance are Gallow•• Pottles, Quarts, Pints, and the mizers G••••∣lon: with three hoop'd Pots, Kannes, God∣dards: in the which Artillery, almost euery one hath the skill to charge and discharge maintaining the fight as long as they can ei∣ther stand or vnderstand. The Master of her is an ••msterdam'd man, his name is Cornetis van Broaken-guleh; the Master Gunner was end D••nis whirlpoele, a man of Deepe, with Gulph the Purser, Snallow the Boat-swaine, and Swili the Steward.
• 2 The second ship in the Regiment with the Good-fellow-ship, was the sow of Flushing she was a vessell vnseemely to the eye, but yet seruiceable.
• 3 The Carowse, a ship of hot seruice, and as the Spider suckes the sweetnesse of the fai∣rest flowers, conuerting their juice into poison so the saylers in this ship, haue taken a vseto

• drinke other mens healths, to the amplifying •••• their owne diseases.
• 4 The Quaffe, a quicke smart ship, much of ••••ebulke and carriage of the Carowse.
• 5 The Bissle of Breda, a small ship, yet in ••••ntinuall seruice, her worst fault is, she is so ••••we built, that her Mariners can hardly keepe themselues dry.
• 6 The Sleeper of Roterdam, a great ship, of ex∣ceding necessary vse, and much imployment, ••••e is to the whole Regiment, in nature of an Hospitall or Spittle, for-when any of them are ••••ounded, Pot-shot, Iug-bitten, or Cup sha∣••••n, so that they haue lost all reasonable facul∣••••es of the minde, and in a manner are so mad, ••••at they dare speake felony, whistle treason, ••••d call any Magnifico a mungrell; in such des∣••erate cases as this, the distracted parties are ••••ought aboord the Sleeper, where Time like a ••••ood Cloth worker, with setting a good nap ••••on their threed-bare eyes, their wits that ••••ere spent, and like Northern Cloth shrunke •••• the wetting, are speedily recouered.

  So likewise for the limbs and members of ••••e body she is the onely AEsculapian Taber∣••••acle; and to speake the truth, St. Winifrides Well, the Bath, or the Spaw, are not to bee ••••mpared to this ship, for speedy ease and ••••re: for I haue seene many that were so dim∣••••ghted, that they could not see their way at ••••oone-day, and others haue beene so defe∣••••iue in their speech, that they could not speak ••••ne wife word; others so lame of their legges, ••••at they could neither goe or stand, and with •••• few houres lying aboord of this easie ship, ••••eir fights, speech, and legges, haue beene ••ll recouered.

• 7 The Whiffe, a small Pinnace of Varina.
• 8 The Puffe, a Barke of Virginia.
• 9 The Vapour, a Frigot of Trinidado.
• 10 The Snusse, a Caruell of Barmoudoes.
• 11 The Bark-beggerly, before mentioned, man'd with old cashiered Souldiers, Mariners, and Seruingmen, negligent tradesmen, with ••ome few Courtiers, whose dyet is onely Starue-Ling.