{ A whyp is a whysker, that wyll wrest out blood,
[lf 30, bk] Of backe and of body, beaten right well.
Of all the other it doth the most good,
Experience techeth, and they can well tell.
¶ O dolefull daye! nowe death draweth nere,
Hys bytter styng doth pearce me to the harte.
I take my leaue of all that be here,
Nowe piteously playing this tragicall parte.
HARMAN. THE COUNTERFET CRANKE. Neither stripes nor teachinges in tyme could conuert,
wherefore an ensample let me to you be,
And all that be present, nowe praye you for me.
[177]¶ This counterfet Cranke, nowe vew and beholde,
Placed in pyllory, as all maye well se:
This was he, as you haue hard the tale tolde,
before recorded with great suttylte,
Ibused manye with his inpiete,
his lothsome attyre, in most vgly manner,
was through London caried with dysplayd banner.[178]
HARMAN. CONCLUSION.
☞ Thus I conclude my bolde Beggars booke,
That all estates most playnely maye see,
As in a glasse well pollyshed to looke,
Their double demeaner in eche degree.
Their lyues, their language, their names as they be,
That with this warning their myndes may be warmed,
To amend their mysdeedes, and so lyue vnharmed.
FINIS.