Wit and mirth chargeably collected out of tauernes, ordinaries, innes, bowling greenes, and allyes, alehouses, tobacco shops, highwaies, and water-passages : made vp, and fashioned into clinches, bulls, quirkes, yerkes, quips, and ierkes : apothegmatically bundled vp and garbled at the request of old Iohn Garrets ghost
Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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I My selfe gaue a booke to King Iames once in the great Chamber at Whitehall as his Maiesty came from the Chappell, the Duke of Richmond said merrily vnto me, Taylor where did you learne the man∣ners to giue the King a book and not knéel? My Lord, said I, if it please your Grace, I doe giue now, but when I beg any thing then I will kneele.
Be it to all men by these presents knowne,
Men need not kneel to giue away there own
Ile stand vpon my feet when as I giue,
And kneele when as I beg more meanes to liue,
But some by this may vnderstand.
That Courtiers 〈◊〉 kneele then stand.
