Elizabethan & Jacobean Pamphlets

AFTER the sound of pottle-pots is out of your eares, and that the spirit of Wine and Tobacco walkes in your braine, the Tauerne door being shut vppon your backe, cast about to p...

FIRST, hauing diligently enquired out an Ordinary of the largest reckoning, whither most of your Courtly Gallants do resort, let it be your vse to repaire thither some halfe hou...

THE theater is your Poets Royal Exchange, vpon which their Muses (that are now turnd to Merchants) meeting, barter away that light commodity of words for a lighter ware then wor...

BEING weary with sayling vp and downe alongst these shores of _Barbaria_, heere let vs cast our anchors, and nimbly leape to land in our coasts, whose fresh aire shall be so muc...

But if (as it often happens vnlesse the yeare catch the sweating sicknesse) the morning, like charity waxing cold, thrust his frosty fingers into thy bosome, pinching thee black...

How a young Gallant shall not onely keepe his clothes (which many of them can hardly doe for Brokers) but also saue the charges of taking physicke; with other rules for the morn...

WHOSOEUER desires to bee a man of good reckoning in the Cittie, and (like your French Lord) to haue as many tables furnisht as Lackies (who, when they keepe least, keepe none),...

Good cloathes are the embrodred trappings of pride, and good cheere the very _eringo-roote_ of gluttony: so that fine backes, and fat bellyes are Coach-horses to two of the seue...