Printer’s Ornament
A straunge ſighted Traueller

AN honeſt Country foole being gentle bred,1
Was by an odde conceited humor led,
To trauell and ſome Engliſh faſhions ſee,
With ſuch ſtrange ſights as heere at London be.
Stuffing his purſe with a good golden some,
This wandring knight did to the Cittie come,
And there a ſeruingman he entertaines,
An honeſter in Newgate not remaines.
He ſhew’d his Maiſter ſights to him moſt ſtrange,
Great tall Pauls Steeple and the royall-Exchange:
And at White.Hall the monſtrous great Whales bone,
Brought him to the banck-ſide where Beares do dwell
And vnto Shor-ditch where the whores keepe hell,
Shew’d him the Lyons, Gyants2 in Guild-Hall,
King Lud at Lud-gate the Babounes and all,
At length his man, on all he had did pray,
Shew’d him a theeuiſh trick and ran away,
The Traueller turnd home exceeding ciuill,
And ſwore in London he had ſeene the Deuill.
Printer’s Ornament
D3
Three

Notes

  1. Raised as a gentleman. With pun on gentle as a quality, and connotative subtext of folly. (JJ)
  2. Reference to the statues of Gogmagog and Corineus in the Guildhall. (JJ)

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