To the three scurvy Fellowes of the upstart Family of the Snufflers, Rufflers and Shufflers; the thrice Treble-troublesome Scufflers in the Church and State, the onely lay Ecclesi-Ass, I call GENERALLISSIMO'S. Being like Jobs 3. Comforters, or the Churches 3. Anti-Disciples, the Clergies 3. Persecuters, the States 3. Hors-leeches, the Divels 3. Chaplaines; namely the Anabaptist, the Li bertine, and the Brownist. Written by Thomas Nash his Ghost, with Pap with a Hatchet, a little revised since the 30. Yeare of the late Qu. Elizabeths Reigne when Martin Mar-Prelate was as mad as any of his Tub-men are now. I am a Ghost, and Ghosts do fear no laws; I had a yerking, firking, jerking vein; In those days, we had desperate madmen here Who did the Queen, State, Church and Kingdom jeer, And now a crew are up as wise as those Who do all Rule and Government oppose. In those days I did bring those men in frame; I cut through th' air, and in the earth can ferrit, And hear their knaveries and spy unspied. But if my labour prove to be in vain My Ghost shall (whence it came) return again. TOM NASH HIS GHOST. APPEARING To the Anabaptist, the Libertine, and the T were a troublesome and tedious business for general counsel (with the help of all the universities) to give these whom I write to, correspondent epithets, names, titles, and tittle-tattles that may be suitable to their education and continual practice, for as when monopolies and projects did oppress and molest this kingdom like swarms of caterpillars; in which unjust designs too many crafty |