, because it is no less given him by his
_name_ to spoil elmes, than it is allowed him by the secret
judgment of God to mar the Church. A man of _Cooper's_ age and
occupation, so wel seene in that trade, might easily knowe
that tubs made of green timber must needs leak out; and yet I
do not so greatly marvel; for he that makes no conscience to
be a deceiver in the building of the churche, will not stick
for his game to be a _deceitfull workeman in making of
tubbs_."--p. 19. The author of the books against Bishop Cooper
is said to have been Job Throckmorton, a learned man,
affecting raillery and humour to court the mob.

Such was the strain of ribaldry and malice which Martin
Mar-Prelate indulged, and by which he obtained full possession
of the minds of the people for a considerable time. His libels
were translated, and have been often quoted by the Roman
Catholics abroad and at home for their particular purposes,
just as the revolutionary publications in this country have
been concluded abroad to be the general sentiments of the
people of England; and thus our factions always will serve the
interests of our enemies. Martin seems to have written little
verse; but there is one epigram worth preserving for its
bitterness.

Martin Senior, in his "Reproofe of Martin Junior," complains
that "his younger brother has not taken a little paines in
ryming with _Mar-Martin_ (one of their poetical antagonists),
that the Cater-Caps may know how the meanest of my father's
sonnes is able to answeare them both at blunt and sharpe." He
then gives his younger brother a specimen of what he is
hereafter to do. He attributes the satire of _Mar-Martin_ to
Dr. Bridges, Dean of Sarum, and John Whitgift, Archbishop of
Canterbury.

"The first Rising, Generation, and Original of _Mar-Martin_.

"From Sarum came a goos's egg,
With specks and spots bepatched;
A priest of Lambeth coucht thereon,
Thus was _Mar-Martin_ hatched.

Whence hath _Mar-Martin_ all his wit,
But from that egge of Sarum?
The rest comes all from great Sir John,
Who rings us all this 'larum.

What can the cockatrice hatch up