that dare to be
seene there, and stepping behind a piller to fill his
table-bookes with those notes, will presently send you into the
world an accomplisht man: by which meanes you shall weare your
clothes in print with the first edition. But if Fortune favour
you so much as to make you no more than a meere gentleman, or
but some three degrees removd from him (for which I should be
very sorie, because your London experience wil cost you deere
before you shall have ye wit to know what you are) then take
this lesson along with you: The first time that you venture
into Powles, passe through the Body of the Church like a
Porter, yet presume not to fetch so much as one whole turn in
the middle Ile, no nor to cast an eye to _Si quis doore_ (pasted
and plaistered up with Servingmens _supplications_) before you
have paid tribute to the top of Powles _steeple_ with a single
penny: And when you are mounted there, take heede how you looke
downe into the yard; for the railes are as rotten as your
great-Grand father; and thereupon it will not be amisse if you
enquire how _Kit Woodroffe_ durst vault over, and what reason
he had for it, to put his neck in hazard of reparations.

* * * * *

"The great dyal is your last monument: there bestow some half
of the threescore minutes.... Besides, you may heere have fit
occasion to discover your watch, by taking it forth and setting
the wheeles to the time of Powles, which, I assure you, goes
truer by five notes than _S. Sepulchres_ Chimes. The benefit
that wil arise from hence is this yt you publish your charge in
maintaining a gilded clocke; and withall the world shall know
that you are a time-pleaser."

PAUL'S CROSS

This interesting open-air pulpit stood on a site near the north-eastern
angle of the choir of the cathedral church. It was used not only for the
instruction of mankind, by the doctrine of the preacher, but for every
purpose political or ecclesiastical--for giving force to oaths; for
promulgating laws, or rather royal pleasure; for the emission of papal
bulls; for anathematising sinners; for benedictions; for exposing
penitents under censure of the Church; for recantations; for the private
ends of the ambitious; and for the defaming of those who had incurred
the displeasure of crowned heads.

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