Tryall brings truth to light: OR,
The proofe of a pudding is all in the eating.
A dainty new ditty of many things treating,
To the tune of the Begger-boy.
THe world hath allurements and flattering showes,
to purchase her Louers good estimation,
Her tricks and deuices hée's wise that well knowes,
the learn'd in this science are taught by probation:
this truth when I finde,
it puts me in minde,
Among many matters which I am conceiting,
of one homely adage,
that's vs'd in this mad age,
The proofe of a pudding is all in the eating.
Although this my subiect séeme homely and meane,
yet you that with iudgement wil confirme the matter,
Some eares of good documents from it may gleane,
Which I from this sheafe of inuention will scatter:
now cunning and fraud
winnes greatest applaude,
And vnder wits cloake many shelter their cheating,
but try and then trust,
for the world is vniust,
And the proofe of a pudding is all in the eating.
The knaw and the honest man both are compleat,
in gesture, in words, and in company kéeping,
Nay commonly they who doe meane most deceit,
more easily into mens bosomes are creeping:
with counterfeit tales,
which too much preuailes,
And proffers of courtesie often repeating,
but speake as you finde,
and still beare in minde,
That the proofe of a pudding is all in the eating.
Mens promises may be compared to snow,
or ice at the best, by cold weather congealed,
They're hard in the morning, at noone nothing so,
though with protestations their minds are reuealed:
yet when the hot beames,
of disasterous streames,
Doth melt their intentions▪ then they'l be fléeting▪
their words differ cleane,
from what they doe meane,
But the proofe of a pudding is all in the eating.
There be of both sexes that haue faire outsides,
like Iayes with the feathers of Peacocks adorned,
A faire fute of Scarlet, or Plush, often hides
a carkasse infirme with diseases deformed:
and now in these times,
men couer their crimes,
With shadowes of vertue, their braines still beating,
which way to doe naught,
and yet hide their fault,
But the proofe of a pudding is all in the eating.
There's many thrasonicall pratling Jacks,
that vpon their Ale-bench will tell braue discourses,
Were
Ajax aliue they would not turne their backs,
their tongues shall supply the defect of their purses:
[...]ut take them at their words,
they'l scant draw their swords,
Instead of brauadoes they fall to intreating:
but giue me that blade,
that does more than he said.
For the proofe of a pudding is all in the eating
The second part
To the same tune.
WHen I doe want nothing I haue store of friends,
I mean friends in shadow but nothing substantiall:
If I will beleeue euery one that pretends,
I shal haue more courtesie than any man shall:
But when I haue néed
to vse them indéed,
Like cowardly souldiers they fall to retreating,
but he is my friend,
that helps me i'th end,
For the proofe of a pudding is all in the eating.
There's many in company boast of their skill,
in wonderfull misteries secret and hidden,
You may giue beleefe to their words if you will,
vpon winged
Pegasus oft they haue ridden:
if any in place
will vnto their face
Oppose them with boldnesse, their proiects defeating,
their courage will quaile,
and they I tel a new tale
For the proofe of a pudding, &c.
I haue séene a Gallant attyr'd like a Lord,
yet often through want hée's inforct to be spareing:
Hée's daily a guest at Duke
Humphryes bord,
and sometimes he filleth his belly with swearing:
I haue séne likewise,
a plaine man in frize,
Or good mutton-veluet that glisters with sweating,
hée cals and he payes,
and he meanes as he sayes,
Thus the proofe of a pudding is all in the eating.
Theres many that when they affliction doe féele,
as pouerty, sicknesse, and other disasters,
Then vnto their friends they will humbly knéele.
and say, vnder heauen they are their best masters:
but when through those frends
their misery ends,
Ingratefully all former kindnesse forgetting,
they them doe disdaine,
who did them maintaine,
Thus the proofe of a pudding, &c.
There are many men when they first come a wooing
to Widowes or Maidens with great protestations,
Such wonderfull courtesies they'l then be showing,
and they silly creatures beléeue their relations:
their loue's very hot,
vntil they haue got
The thing that they wish by their subtile intreating,
then they proue vnkinde,
and poore women doe finde
That the proofe of a pudding is all in the eating.
Thus briefely and plainely I haue here expressed,
my mind and conceit of this prouerbe so homely,
Wherein at the truth very n
[...]re I haue guessed,
and deckt it in ornaments decent and comely:
I hope it will sell
abroad very well,
With those who loue truth, and abhor all cheating,
till tryall be made,
no more can be said,
For the proofe of a pudding is all in the eating.
M. P.
FINIS.
Printed at London for Thomas Lambert.