PLEASURE. Well, now thou art satisfied, I wish all here as well contented; And we, my lords, that praise this happy day, Fall we on knees, and humbly let us pray. POMP. First that from heaven upon our gracious queen All manner blessings may be multiplied, That as her reign most prosperous hath been, During world's length so may it still abide, And after that with saints be glorified, Lord! grant her health, heart's-ease, joy and mirth, And heaven at last, after long life on earth. POLICY. Her council wise and noble of this land Bless and preserve, O Lord! with Thy right hand. PLEASURE. On all the rest that in this land do dwell Chiefly in London, Lord! pour down Thy grace, Who living in Thy fear, and dying well, In heaven with angels they may have a place. FINIS. A KNACK TO KNOW A KNAVE. _EDITION. A most pleasant and merie new Comedie, intituled A Knacke to Knowe a Knaue. Newlie set foorth, as it hath sundrie tymes bene played by Ed: Allen and his Companie. With Kemps applauded Merrimentes of the men of Goteham, in receiuing the King into Goteham. Imprinted at London by Richard Iones, dwelling at the signe of the Rose and Crowne, nere Holborne Bridge_, 1594. 4to. Black letter. A MERRY KNACK TO KNOW A KNAVE. _Enter KING EDGAR, BISHOP DUNSTAN, and PERIN, a courtier_. KING. Dunstan, how highly are we bound to praise The Eternal God that still provides for us, And gives us leave to rule in this our land. Likewise Vespasian, Rome's rich emperor, Suppressing sin, that daily reigns in us. First, murther we reward with present death, And those that do commit felonious crimes Our laws of England do award them death: And he that doth despoil a virgin's chastity Must likewise suffer death by law's decree, And that decree is irrevocable. Then, as I am God's vicegerent here on earth, By God's appointment here to reign and rule, So must I seek to cut abuses down, that, like To Hydra's heads, daily grows up, one in another's Place, and therein makes the land infectious. Which if with good regard we look not to, We shall, like Sodom, feel that fiery doom That God in justice did inflict on them.