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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
<PB REF="42">
<PB REF="42">
<P>VIRGIDEMIARVM The three la&s;t Bookes. Of byting Satyres. Corrected and amended with &s;ome Additions. by. <HI>I. H.</HI></P>
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<P>Imprinted at London for <HI>Robert Dexter,</HI> at the &s;igne of the Bra&s;en <HI>Serpent in Paules Church yard.</HI> 1599.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="43">
<PB REF="43">
<HEAD>The Authors charge to his <HI>Satyres.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>YE luck-le&s;&s;e Rymes, whom not vnkindly &s;pight</L>
<L>Begot long &s;ince of Trueth and holy Rage,</L>
<L>Lye heere in wombe of Silence and &s;till Night</L>
<L>Vntill the broyles of next vnquiet age:</L>
<L>That which is others graue &s;halbe your wombe,</L>
<L>And that which beares you, your eternall Toombe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Cea&s;e ere ye gin, and ere ye liue be dead,</L>
<L>And dye and liue ere euer ye be borne,</L>
<L>And be not bore, ere ye be buried,</L>
<L>Then after liue, &s;ith you haue dy'd beforne,</L>
<L>When I am dead and rotten in the du&s;t,</L>
<L>Then gin to liue, and leaue when others lu&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For when I die, &s;hall Enuie die with mee</L>
<L>And lye deepe &s;mothered with my Marble-&s;tone,</L>
<L>Which while I liue cannot be done to dye,</L>
<PB REF="44">
<L>Nor, if your life gin ere my life be done,</L>
<L>Will hardly yeeld t'await my mourning hear&s;e.</L>
<L>But for my dead corps change my liunig ver&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What &s;hall the a&s;hes of my &s;en&s;ele&s;&s;e vrne,</L>
<L>Neede to regard the rauing world aboue.</L>
<L>Sith afterwards I neuer can returne</L>
<L>To feele the force of hatred or of loue?</L>
<L>Oh if my &s;oule could &s;ee their Po&s;t-hume spight</L>
<L>Should it not ioy and triumph in the &s;ight?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What euer eye &s;halt finde this hatefull &s;crole</L>
<L>After the date of my deare <HI>Exequies,</HI></L>
<L>Ah pitty thou my playning <HI>Orphanes</HI> dole</L>
<L>That faine would &s;ee the &s;unne before it dies:</L>
<L>It dy'de before, now let it liue againe,</L>
<L>Then let it die, and bide &s;ome famous bane.</L>
</LG>
<P><Q>Satis e&s;t potui&s;&s;e videri.</Q></P>
</DIV1>
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<DIV1 N="4" TYPE="book">
<DIV2 TYPE="half title">
<PB REF="44">
<P>VIRGIDEMIARVM LIB. 4.</P>
<PB REF="45">
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="satire">
<PB N="3" REF="45">
<HEAD>SAT. 1.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Che baiar vuol, bai.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>VVHO dares vpbraid the&s;e open rimes of mine</L>
<L>With blindfold <HI>Aquines,</HI> or darke <HI>Venu&s;ine?</HI></L>
<L>Or rough-hew'ne <HI>Tereti&s;mes</HI> writ in th'antique vain</L>
<L>Like an old <HI>Satyre,</HI> and new <HI>Flaccian?</HI></L>
<L>Which who reads thri&s;e, &amp; rubs his rugged brow,</L>
<L>And deepe intendeth euery doubtfull row,</L>
<L>Scoring the margent with his blazing &s;tars</L>
<L>And hundreth crooked interlinears,</L>
<L>(Like to a Merchants debt-role new defac't</L>
<L>When &s;ome crack'd <HI>Manour</HI> cro&s;t his book at la&s;t)</L>
<L>Should all in rage the Cur&s;e-beat Page out-riue,</L>
<L>And in ech du&s;t-heape bury mee aliue</L>
<PB N="4" REF="46">
<L>Stamping like <HI>Bucephall,</HI> who&s;e &s;lackned raines,</L>
<L>And bloody fet-lockes fry with &s;euen mens braines;</L>
<L>More cruell than the crauon <HI>Satyres</HI> Gho&s;t,</L>
<L>That bound dead bones vnto a burning po&s;t,</L>
<L>Or &s;ome more &s;trait-lac'd Iuror of the re&s;t,</L>
<L>Impannel'd of an Holy-Fax inque&s;t;</L>
<L>Yet wel bethought &s;toops downe, and reads a new:</L>
<L>The be&s;t lieslow, and loathes the &s;hallow view,</L>
<L>Quoth old <HI>Eudemon,</HI> when his gout-&s;wolne fi&s;t</L>
<L>Gropes for his double Ducates in his chi&s;t:</L>
<L>Then buckle clo&s;e his carele&s;&s;e lyds once more,</L>
<L>To po&s;e the pore-blinde &s;nake of <HI>Epidaore.</HI></L>
<L>That <HI>Lyncius</HI> may be match't with <HI>Gaulards</HI> &s;ight,</L>
<L>That &s;ees not <HI>Paris</HI> for the hou&s;es height;</L>
<L>Or wilie <HI>Cyppus,</HI> that can winke and &s;nort</L>
<L>Whiles his wife dallies on <HI>Maecenas</HI> &s;kort;</L>
<L>Yet when hee hath my crabbed Pamphlet red</L>
<L>As often times as <HI>PHILLIP</HI> hath beene dead,</L>
<PB N="5" REF="46">
<L>Bids all the Furies haunt each peeui&s;h line</L>
<L>That thus haue rackt their friendly readers eyne;</L>
<L>Wor&s;e than the <HI>Logogryphes</HI> of later times,</L>
<L>Or <HI>Hundreth Riddles</HI> &s;hak't to &s;leeue-le&s;&s;e rimes;</L>
<L>Should I endure the&s;e cur&s;es and di&s;pight</L>
<L>While no mans eare &s;hould glow at what I write?</L>
<L><HI>Labeo</HI> is whip't, and laughs mee in the face:</L>
<L>Why? for I &s;mite and hide the galled place.</L>
<L>Gird but the <HI>Cynicks</HI> Helmet on his head,</L>
<L>Careshee for <HI>Talus,</HI> or his flayle of lead?</L>
<L>Long as the craftie <HI>Cuttle</HI> lieth &s;ure</L>
<L>In the blacke <HI>Cloude</HI> of his thicke vomiture;</L>
<L>Who li&s;t complaine of wronged faith or fame</L>
<L>When hee may &s;hift it to anothers name?</L>
<L><HI>Caluus</HI> can &s;cratch his elbow, and can &s;mile,</L>
<L>That thrift-le&s;&s;e <HI>Pontice</HI> bites his lip the while.</L>
<L>Yet I intended in that &s;elfe deui&s;e,</L>
<L>To checke the churle for his knowne coueti&s;e.</L>
<PB N="6" REF="47">
<L>Ech points his &s;traight fore-finger to his friend,</L>
<L>Like the blind Diall on the Belfrey end:</L>
<L>Who turnes it homeward to &s;ay, this is I,</L>
<L>As bolder <HI>Socrates</HI> in the Comedy?</L>
<L>But &s;ingle out, and &s;ay once plat and plaine</L>
<L>That coy <HI>Matrona</HI> is a Curtizan,</L>
<L>Or thou fal&s;e <HI>Cryspus</HI> chokd'&s;t thy wealthie gue&s;t</L>
<L>Whiles hee lay &s;noring at his midnight re&s;t,</L>
<L>And in thy dung-cart did'&s;t the carka&s;&s;e &s;hrine</L>
<L>And deepe intombe it in <HI>Port-e&s;quiline.</HI></L>
<L>Proud <HI>Trebius</HI> liu's for all his princely gate</L>
<L>On third-hand &s;uits, and &s;crapings of the plate.</L>
<L><HI>Titius</HI> knew not where to &s;hroude his head</L>
<L>Vntill hee did a dying widow wed</L>
<L>Whiles &s;he lay doting on her deathes bed,</L>
<L>And now hath purcha&s;'d lands with one nights paine</L>
<L>And on the morrow woes and weds againe.</L>
<L>Now &s;ee I fire-flakes &s;parkle from his eyes</L>
<PB N="7" REF="47">
<L>Like a <HI>Comets</HI> tayle in th'angry skies,</L>
<L>His pouting cheeks puffe vp aboue his brow</L>
<L>Like a &s;wolne Toad touch't with the Spyders blow;</L>
<L>His mouth &s;hrinks &s;ideward like a &s;cornefull <HI>Play&s;e</HI></L>
<L>To take his tired Eares ingratefull place.</L>
<L>His Eares hang lauing like a new-lug'd &s;wine</L>
<L>To take &s;ome coun&s;ell of his grieued eyne.</L>
<L>Now laugh I loud, and breake my &s;plene to &s;ee</L>
<L>This plea&s;ing pa&s;time of my poe&s;ie,</L>
<L>Much better than a Paris-garden Beare,</L>
<L>Or prating puppet on a Theatere,</L>
<L>Or <HI>Mimoes</HI> whi&s;tling to his tabouret</L>
<L>Selling a laughter for a cold meales meate.</L>
<L>Go to then ye my &s;acred <HI>Semones,</HI></L>
<L>And plea&s;e me more, the more ye do di&s;plea&s;e;</L>
<L>Care we for all tho&s;e bugs of ydle feare?</L>
<L>For <HI>Tigels</HI> grinning on the Theater,</L>
<L>Or &s;car-babe threatnings of the ra&s;cal crue,</L>
<PB N="8" REF="48">
<L>Or wind-&s;pent verdicts of each Ale-knights view?</L>
<L>What euer bre&s;t doth freeze for &s;uch fal&s;e dread,</L>
<L>Be&s;hrow his ba&s;e white liuer for his meede.</L>
<L>Fond were that pitie, and that feare were &s;in,</L>
<L>To &s;pare wa&s;t leaues that &s;o de&s;erued bin.</L>
<L>Tho&s;e toothle&s;&s;e <HI>Toyes</HI> that dropt out by mi&s;-hap,</L>
<L>Bee but as lightning to a thunder-clap:</L>
<L>Shall then that foule infamous <HI>Cyneds</HI> hide</L>
<L>Laugh at the purple wales of others &s;ide?</L>
<L>Not, if hee were as neere, as by report,</L>
<L>The &s;tewes had wont to be to the Tenis-court,</L>
<L>Hee that while thou&s;ands enuie at his bed,</L>
<L>Neighs after Bridals, and fre&s;h-mayden heade;</L>
<L>While &s;laui&s;h <HI>Iuno</HI> dares not looke awry</L>
<L>To frowne at &s;uch imperious riualrye,</L>
<L>Not tho &s;hee &s;ees her wedding Iewels dre&s;t</L>
<L>To make new Bracelets for a &s;trumpets wre&s;t,</L>
<L>Or like &s;ome &s;trange di&s;gui&s;ed <HI>Me&s;&s;aline,</HI></L>
<PB REF="48">
<L>Hires a nights lodging of his concubine;</L>
<L>Whether his twilight-torch of loue do call</L>
<L>To reuils of vncleanly Mu&s;icall,</L>
<L>Or midnight plaies, or Tauerns of new wine,</L>
<L>Hy ye white Aprons to your Land-Lords &s;igne;</L>
<L>When all, &s;aue tooth-le&s;&s;e age or infancie,</L>
<L>Are &s;ummon'd to the Court of Venerie.</L>
<L>Who li&s;t excu&s;e? when chai&s;ter dames can hyre,</L>
<L>Some &s;nout-faire &s;tripling to their Apple-&s;quire:</L>
<L>Whom &s;taked vp like to &s;ome &s;tallion-&s;teede</L>
<L>They keepe with Egs and Oy&s;ters for the breede.</L>
<L>O <HI>Lucine!</HI> barren <HI>Caia</HI> hath an heire</L>
<L>After her hu&s;band's dozen yeares de&s;paire.</L>
<L>And now the bribed Mid-wife &s;weares apace,</L>
<L>The ba&s;tard babe doth beare his fathers face.</L>
<L>But hath not <HI>Lelia</HI> pa&s;t hir virgine yeares?</L>
<L>For mode&s;t &s;hame (God wot) or penall feares.</L>
<L>He tels a Merchant tidings of a pri&s;e,</L>
<PB N="10" REF="49">
<L>That tels <HI>Cynedo</HI> of &s;uch nouelties,</L>
<L>Worth little le&s;&s;e than landing of a Whale,</L>
<L>Or <HI>Gades</HI> &s;poyles, or a churles funerale:</L>
<L>Go bid the baines and point the bridall day,</L>
<L>His broking Baud hath got a noble prey,</L>
<L>A vacant tenement, an hone&s;t dowre</L>
<L>Can fit his pander for her paramoure,</L>
<L>That hee, ba&s;e wretch, may clog his wit-old head</L>
<L>And giue him han&s;ell of his Hymen-bed.</L>
<L>Ho! all ye Females that would liue vn&s;hent</L>
<L>Fly from the reach of <HI>Cyneds</HI> regiment.</L>
<L>If Trent be drawne to dregs, and <HI>Low</HI> refu&s;e,</L>
<L>Hence ye hot lechour, to the &s;teaming &s;tewes.</L>
<L><HI>Tyber</HI> the famous &s;inke of Chri&s;tendome</L>
<L>Turn thou to <HI>Thames,</HI> &amp; <HI>Thames</HI> ru~n towards <HI>Rome:</HI></L>
<L>What euer damned &s;treame but thine were meete</L>
<L>To Quench his lu&s;ting liuers boyling heate?</L>
<L>Thy double draught may quench his dog-daies rage</L>
<PB REF="49">
<L>With &s;ome &s;tale <HI>Bacchis,</HI> or ob&s;equious page,</L>
<L>When writhen <HI>Lena</HI> makes her &s;ale-&s;et &s;howes</L>
<L>Of wooden <HI>Venus</HI> with faire limned browes;</L>
<L>Or like him more &s;ome vailed <HI>Matrons</HI> face,</L>
<L>Or trained prenti&s;e trading in the place:</L>
<L>The clo&s;e adultre&s;&s;e, where her name is red</L>
<L>Coms crauling from her hu&s;bands lukewarme bed,</L>
<L>Her carrion skin bedaub'd with odours &s;weete,</L>
<L>Groping the po&s;tern with her bared feet.</L>
<L>Now play the <HI>Satyre</HI> who &s;o li&s;t for mee,</L>
<L><HI>Valentine</HI> &s;elfe, or &s;ome as cha&s;t as hee.</L>
<L>In vaine &s;he wi&s;heth long <HI>Alchmanaes</HI> night,</L>
<L>Cur&s;ing the ha&s;ty dawning of the light,</L>
<L>And with her cruell Ladie-&s;tarre vpro&s;e</L>
<L>Shee &s;eekes hir third rou&s;t on her &s;ilent toes,</L>
<L>Be&s;meared all with loath&s;ome &s;moke of lu&s;t</L>
<L>Like <HI>Acherons</HI> &s;teemes, or &s;moldring &s;ulphur du&s;t:</L>
<L>Yet all day &s;its &s;hee &s;impring in her mew</L>
<PB REF="50">
<L>Like &s;ome cha&s;t dame, or &s;hrined &s;aynct in &s;hew,</L>
<L>Whiles hee lies wallowing with a we&s;tiehed</L>
<L>And pali&s;h carka&s;&s;e, on his Brothel-bed,</L>
<L>Till his &s;alt bowels boyle with poy&s;onous fire,</L>
<L>Right <HI>Hercules</HI> with his &s;econd <HI>Deianire.</HI></L>
<L>O <HI>E&s;culape!</HI> how rife is Phi&s;icke made,</L>
<L>When ech Bra&s;&s;e-ba&s;en can profe&s;&s;e the trade</L>
<L>Of ridding pockie wretches from their paine,</L>
<L>And doe the bea&s;tly cure for ten-groats gaine?</L>
<L>Al the&s;e &amp; more, de&s;erue &s;ome blood-drawne lines:</L>
<L>But my &s;ixe Cords beene of too loo&s;e a twine.</L>
<L>Stay till my beard &s;hall &s;weepe myne aged bre&s;t,</L>
<L>Then &s;hall I &s;eeme an awfull <HI>Satyri&s;t:</HI></L>
<L>While now my rimes reli&s;h of the Ferule &s;till,</L>
<L>Some no&s;e-wi&s;e <HI>Pedant</HI> &s;aith; who&s;e deepe-&s;ene skil</L>
<L>Hath three times con&s;trued either <HI>Flaccus</HI> ore,</L>
<L>And thri&s;e rehear&s;'d them in his Triuiall floare,</L>
<L>So let them taxe mee for my hote-bloodes rage,</L>
<L>Rather than &s;ay I doted in my age.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="satire">
<PB N="13" REF="50">
<HEAD>SAT. 2.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Arcades ambo.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>OLD driueling <HI>Lolio</HI> drudges all he can,</L>
<L>To make his elde&s;t &s;onne a Gentleman.</L>
<L>Who can de&s;paire that &s;ees another thriue,</L>
<L>By lone of twelue-pence to an Oy&s;ter-wiue?</L>
<L>When a craz'd &s;caffold, and a rotten &s;tage,</L>
<L>Was all rich <HI>Naenius</HI> his heritage.</L>
<L>Nought &s;pendeth he for feare, nor &s;pares for co&s;t:</L>
<L>And all he &s;pendes and &s;paires be&s;ide is lo&s;t;</L>
<L>Him&s;elfe goes patched like &s;ome bare <HI>Cottyer,</HI></L>
<L>Lea&s;t he might ought the future &s;tocke appeyre.</L>
<L>Let giddie <HI>Co&s;mius</HI> change his choyce aray,</L>
<L>Like as the <HI>Turke</HI> his Tents thir&s;e in a day.</L>
<PB N="14" REF="51">
<L>And all to &s;un and ayre his &s;uites vntold</L>
<L>From &s;pitfull mothes, and frets, and hoary mold,</L>
<L>Bearing his paune-layd lands vpon his backe</L>
<L>As Snailes their &s;hels, or Pedlers do their packe:</L>
<L>Who cannot &s;hine in ti&s;&s;ues and pure gold,</L>
<L>That hath his lands and patrimony &s;old?</L>
<L><HI>Lolioes</HI> &s;ide-cote is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ough <HI>Pampilian</HI></L>
<L>Guilded with drops that downe the bo&s;ome ran,</L>
<L>White Car&s;y ho&s;e, patched on eyther knee,</L>
<L>The very Embleme of good hu&s;bandrie,</L>
<L>And a knit night-cap made of cour&s;e&s;t twine,</L>
<L>With two long labels button'd to his chin;</L>
<L>So rides he mounted on the market-day</L>
<L>Vpon a &s;traw-&s;tuft pannel, all the way,</L>
<L>With a maund charg'd with hou&s;hold marchandi&s;e</L>
<L>With egs, or white-meate, from both Dayries:</L>
<L>And with that byes he ro&s;t for &s;unday-noone,</L>
<L>Proud how he made that weeks proui&s;ion:</L>
<PB N="15" REF="51">
<L>El&s;e is he &s;tall-fed on the worky-day</L>
<L>With browne-bread cru&s;ts &s;oftened in &s;odden whey,</L>
<L>Or water-grewell, or tho&s;e paups of meale</L>
<L>That <HI>Maro</HI> makes his <HI>Simule,</HI> and <HI>Cybeale:</HI></L>
<L>Or once a weeke perhaps for nouelty,</L>
<L>Reez'd Bacon: &s;oords &s;hall fea&s;t his familie;</L>
<L>And weens this more than one egge cleft in twaine</L>
<L>To fea&s;t &s;ome patrone and his Chappelaine;</L>
<L>Or more than is &s;ome hungry gallants dole,</L>
<L>That in a dearth runs &s;neaking to an hole,</L>
<L>And leaues his man and dog to keepe his hall</L>
<L>Lea&s;t the wilde roome &s;hould run forth of the wall.</L>
<L>Good man him li&s;t nor &s;pend his idle meales</L>
<L>In quin&s;ing Plouers, or in wining Quales;</L>
<L>Nor toot in Cheap &s;ide ba&s;kets earne and late plea&s;e</L>
<L>To &s;et the fir&s;t tooth in &s;ome nouell-cate.</L>
<L>Let &s;weete-mouth'd <HI>Mercia</HI> bid what crowns &s;he</L>
<L>For halfe-fed Cherries, or greene garden pea&s;e,</L>
<PB N="16" REF="52">
<L>Or the fir&s;t Artichoks of all the yeare,</L>
<L>To make &s;o laui&s;h co&s;t for little cheare:</L>
<L>When <HI>Lolio</HI> fea&s;teth in his reueling fit,</L>
<L>Some &s;terued Pullen &s;coures the ru&s;ted &s;pitt.</L>
<L>For el&s;e how &s;hould his &s;onne maintained bee,</L>
<L>At Ins of Court or of the Chancerie:</L>
<L>There to learne Law, and courtly carriage,</L>
<L>To make amendes for his meane parentage,</L>
<L>Where he vnknowne and ruffling as he can,</L>
<L>Goes currant each-where for a Gentleman?</L>
<L>What Brokers lou&s;y wardrop cannot reach,</L>
<L>With ti&s;&s;ued paines to pranck ech pea&s;ants breech?</L>
<L>Could&s;t thou but giue the wall, the cap, the knee,</L>
<L>To proud <HI>Sartorio</HI> that goes &s;tradling by,</L>
<L>Wer't not the needle pricked on his &s;leeue</L>
<L>Doth by good hap the &s;ecret watch-word giue?</L>
<L>But hear'&s;t thou <HI>Lolioes</HI> &s;onne, gin not thy gate,</L>
<L>Vntill the euening Oule or bloody-Batt.</L>
<PB N="17" REF="52">
<L>Neuer vntill the lamps of <HI>Paules</HI> beene light,</L>
<L>And niggard lanternes &s;hade the Moon-&s;hine night,</L>
<L>Then when the guiltie bankrupt in bolde dreade,</L>
<L>From his clo&s;e Cabin thru&s;ts his &s;hrinking heade,</L>
<L>That hath beene long in &s;hady &s;helter pent</L>
<L>Impri&s;oned for feare of pri&s;onment.</L>
<L>May be &s;ome ru&s;&s;et-cote <HI>Parochian</HI></L>
<L>Shall call thee co&s;en, friend, or countryman,</L>
<L>And for thy hoped fi&s;t cro&s;&s;ing the &s;treete,</L>
<L>Shall in thy fathers name his God-&s;on greett,</L>
<L>Could neuer man worke thee a wor&s;er &s;hame</L>
<L>Then once to minge thy fathers odious name,</L>
<L>Who&s;e mention were alike to thee as leeue,</L>
<L>As a Catch-pols fi&s;t vnto a Bankrupts &s;leeue;</L>
<L>Or an, <HI>Hos ego,</HI> from old <HI>Petrarchs</HI> &s;pright</L>
<L>Vnto a Plagiarie &s;onnet-wright.</L>
<L>There &s;oone as he can ki&s;&s;e his hand in gree,</L>
<L>And with good grace bow it below the knee,</L>
<PB N="18" REF="53">
<L>Or make a <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> face with fauning cheere,</L>
<L>With th' Iland-Conge like a Caualier,</L>
<L>And &s;hake his head, and cringe his necke and &s;ide,</L>
<L>Home hyes he in hisf athers Farme to bid.</L>
<L>The Tenants wonder at their land-Lords Sonne,</L>
<L>And ble&s;&s;e them at &s;o &s;udden comming on,</L>
<L>More then who vies his pence to view &s;ome tricke</L>
<L>Of &s;tranges <HI>Moroccoes</HI> dumbe Arithmeticke,</L>
<L>Or the young Elephant, or two-tayl'd &s;teere,</L>
<L>Or the rig'd Camell, or the Fidling Frere.</L>
<L>Nay then his <HI>Hodge</HI> &s;hallleaue the plough &amp; waine,</L>
<L>And buy a booke, and go to &s;choole againe:</L>
<L>Why mought not he a&s; well as others done,</L>
<L>Ri&s;e from his <HI>Fe&s;tuc</HI> to his <HI>Littleton?</HI></L>
<L>Fooles, they may feed with words &amp; liue by ayre,</L>
<L>That climbe to honour by the Pulpits &s;tayre:</L>
<L>Sit &s;eauen yeates pining in an Anchores cheyre,</L>
<L>To win &s;ome parched &s;hreds of <HI>Miniuere,</HI></L>
<PB N="19" REF="53">
<L>And &s;euen more plod at a Patrons tayle,</L>
<L>To get a gelded Chappels cheaper &s;ayle.</L>
<L>Old <HI>Lolio</HI> &s;ees and laugheth in his &s;leeue,</L>
<L>At the great hope they and his &s;tate doe giue.</L>
<L>But that which glads and makes him proud'&s;t of all,</L>
<L>Is when the brabling neighbours on him call,</L>
<L>For coun&s;ell in &s;ome crabbed ca&s;e of law,</L>
<L>Or &s;ome Indentments, or &s;ome bond to draw:</L>
<L>His Neighbours goo&s;e hath grazed on his Lea,</L>
<L>What action mought be entred in the plea?</L>
<L>So new falne lands haue made him in reque&s;t,</L>
<L>That now he lookes as lofty as the be&s;t.</L>
<L>And well done <HI>Lolio,</HI> like a thrifrie &s;yre,</L>
<L>T'were pitty but thy &s;onne &s;hould prooue a &s;quire.</L>
<L>How I fore &s;ee in many ages pa&s;t,</L>
<L>When <HI>Lolioes</HI> caytiue name is quite defa'&s;t,</L>
<L>Thine heire, thine heyres heyre, &amp; his heyre againe</L>
<L>From out the loynes of carefull <HI>Lolian,</HI></L>
<PB REF="54">
<L>Shall climbe vp to the Chancell pewes on hie,</L>
<L>And rule and raigne in their rich Tenancie;</L>
<L>When pearch't aloft to perfect their e&s;tate</L>
<L>They racke their rents vnto a treble rate;</L>
<L>And hedge in all the neighbour common-lands,</L>
<L>And clodge their &s;laui&s;h tenant with commaunds,</L>
<L>Whiles they, poore &s;oules, with feeling &s;ighs co~plain</L>
<L>And wi&s;h old <HI>Lolio</HI> were aliue againe,</L>
<L>And prai&s;e his gentle &s;oule and wi&s;h it well</L>
<L>And of his friendly facts full often tell.</L>
<L>His father dead, tu&s;h, no it was not hee,</L>
<L>He findes recordes of his great pedigree,</L>
<L>And tels how fir&s;t his famous Ance&s;tor</L>
<L>Did come in long &s;ince with the Conquerour.</L>
<L>Nor hath &s;ome bribed Herald fir&s;t a&s;&s;ign'd</L>
<L>His quartered Armes and cre&s;t of gentle kinde,</L>
<L>The Scotti&s;h Barnacle (if I might choo&s;e)</L>
<L>That of a worme doth waxe a winged goo&s;e;</L>
<PB N="21" REF="54">
<L>Nathele&s;&s;e &s;ome hungry &s;quire for hope of good</L>
<L>Matches the churles Sonne into gentle blood,</L>
<L>Who&s;e &s;onne more iu&s;tly of his gentry boa&s;ts</L>
<L>Than who were borne at two pide painted po&s;tes;</L>
<L>And had &s;ome traunting Merchant to his &s;yre</L>
<L>That trafiqu'd both by water and by fyre.</L>
<L>O times! &s;ince euer <HI>Rome</HI> did Kings create,</L>
<L>Bra&s;&s;e Gentlemen, and <HI>Cae&s;ars</HI> Laureate.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="satire">
<PB N="22" REF="55">
<HEAD>SAT. 3. Fuimus Tro&euml;s. VEL Vix ea nostra.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>VVHat boots it <HI>Pontice,</HI> tho thou could'&s;t di&s;|cour&s;e</L>
<L>Of a long golden line of Ance&s;tors?</L>
<L>Or &s;hew their painted faces gaylie dre&s;t,</L>
<L>From euer &s;ince before the la&s;t conque&s;t;</L>
<L>Or tedious Bead-roles of de&s;cended blood,</L>
<L>From Father <HI>Iaphet</HI> &s;ince <HI>Deucalions</HI> flood,</L>
<L>Or call &s;ome old Church-windowes to record</L>
<L>The age of thy fayre Armes,</L>
<L>Or find &s;ome figures halfe obliterate</L>
<L>In rain-beat Marble neare to the Church-gate,</L>
<PB N="23" REF="55">
<L>Vpon a Cro&s;&s;e-leg'd Toombe: what boots it thee</L>
<L>To &s;hew the ru&s;ted <HI>Buckle</HI> that did tie</L>
<L>The Garter of thy greate&s;t Grand &s;ires knee?</L>
<L>What to re&s;erue their reliques many yeares,</L>
<L>Their &s;iluer-&s;purs, or &s;pils of booken &s;peares;</L>
<L>Or cyte olde <HI>Oclands</HI> ver&s;e, how they did weild</L>
<L>The wars in <HI>Turwin,</HI> or in <HI>Turney</HI> field?</L>
<L>And if thou can&s;t in picking &s;trawes engage,</L>
<L>In one halfe day thy fathers heritage,</L>
<L>Or hide what euer trea&s;ures he the got,</L>
<L>In &s;ome deepe Cock-pit; or in de&s;perate Lot</L>
<L>Vpon a &s;ixe-&s;quare peece of Iuorie,</L>
<L>Throw both thy &s;elfe, and thy po&s;teritie?</L>
<L>Or if (O &s;hame!) in hired Harlots bed</L>
<L>Thy wealthie heyre-dome thou haue buried:</L>
<L>Then <HI>Pontice</HI> little boots thee to di&s;cour&s;e</L>
<L>Of a long golden line of Ance&s;tors.</L>
<L>Ventrous <HI>Fortunio</HI> his farme hath &s;old,</L>
<PB N="24" REF="56">
<L>And gads to <HI>Guiane</HI> land to fi&s;h for gold,</L>
<L>Meeting perhaps, if <HI>Orenoque</HI> denye,</L>
<L>Some &s;tragling pinnace of <HI>Polonian</HI> Rie.</L>
<L>Then comes home floting with a &s;ilken &s;ayle,</L>
<L>That <HI>Seuerne</HI> &s;haketh with his Canon-peale;</L>
<L>Wi&s;er <HI>Raymundus</HI> in his clo&s;et pent,</L>
<L>Laughs at &s;uch danger and aduenturement;</L>
<L>When halfe his lands are &s;pent in golden &s;moke,</L>
<L>And now his &s;econd hopefull gla&s;&s;e is broke.</L>
<L>But yet if haply his third fornace hold,</L>
<L>Devoteth all his pots and pans to gold;</L>
<L>So &s;pend thou <HI>Pontice,</HI> if thou can&s;t not &s;pare,</L>
<L>Like &s;ome &s;tout &s;a-man or <HI>Philo&s;opher;</HI></L>
<L>And were thy fathers gentle? that's their prai&s;e,</L>
<L>No thanke to thee by whom their name decays;</L>
<L>By vertue got they it, and valourous deed,</L>
<L>Do thou &s;o <HI>Pontice,</HI> and be honoured:</L>
<L>But el&s;e looke how their vertue was their owne,</L>
<PB N="25" REF="56">
<L>Not capable of propagation,</L>
<L>Right &s;o their titles beene, nor can be thine,</L>
<L>Who&s;e ill de&s;erts might blanke their golden line.</L>
<L>Tell me, thou gentle <HI>Troian;</HI> do&s;t thou pri&s;e</L>
<L>Thy brute bea&s;ts worth by their dams qualities?</L>
<L>Say'&s;t thou this Colt &s;hall prooue a &s;wift-pac'd &s;teed</L>
<L>Onely becau&s;e a <HI>Iennet</HI> did him breed?</L>
<L>Or &s;ay'&s;t thou this &s;ame Hor&s;&s;e &s;hall win the prize,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e his dame was &s;wifte&s;t <HI>Trunchefice,</HI></L>
<L>Or <HI>Runceuall</HI> his Syre; him&s;elfe a <HI>Gallaway?</HI></L>
<L>Whiles like a tireling Iade he lags half-way;</L>
<L>Or whiles thou &s;ee&s;t &s;ome of thy <HI>Stallion-race,</HI></L>
<L>Their eyes boar'd out, masking the Millers-maze,</L>
<L>Like to a <HI>Scythian</HI> &s;laue &s;worne to the payle;</L>
<L>Or dragging froathy barrels at his tayle?</L>
<L>Albee wi&s;e Nature in her prouidence,</L>
<L>Wont in the want of rea&s;on and of &s;ence,</L>
<L>Traduce the natiue vertue with the kind,</L>
<PB N="26" REF="57">
<L>Making all brute and &s;encele&s;&s;e things inclin'd,</L>
<L>Vnto their cau&s;e, or place where they were &s;owne</L>
<L>That one is like to all, and all like one.</L>
<L>Was neuer Foxe, but wylie cubs begets,</L>
<L>The Beare his feirce-ne&s;&s;e to hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> brood be&s;ets;</L>
<L>Nor f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">arefull Hare fals out of Lyo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s &s;eed,</L>
<L>Nor Eagle wont the tender Doue to breed;</L>
<L><HI>Creet</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r wont the Cypre&s;&s;e &s;ad to beare,</L>
<L><HI>Acheron</HI> banks the pal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;h Popelare;</L>
<L>The Palme doth rifely ri&s;e in Iury field,</L>
<L>And <HI>Alpheus</HI> wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ers nought but Oliues wild.</L>
<L><HI>A&s;opus</HI> br<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ed<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> big-Bul-ru&s;hes alone,</L>
<L><HI>Meander</HI> heath; Peaches by <HI>Nilus</HI> grown<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">;</L>
<L>An Engli&s;h Wolfe, an Iri&s;h Toad to &s;ee,</L>
<L>Were as a cha&s;t-man nur&s;'d in <HI>Italy.</HI></L>
<L>And now when <HI>Nature</HI> giues another guide,</L>
<L>To humane kind that in his bo&s;ome bides:</L>
<L>Ab<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ue in&s;tinct, his rea&s;on and di&s;cour&s;e,</L>
<PB N="27" REF="57">
<L>His beeing better, is his life the wor&s;e?</L>
<L>Ah me! how &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ldome &s;ee we &s;onnes &s;ucce<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d</L>
<L>Their Fathers prai&s;e in prowe&s;&s;e and great deed?</L>
<L>Yet certes if the Syre be ill inclin'd,</L>
<L>His faults befal his &s;onnes by cour&s;e of kind.</L>
<L><HI>Scaurus</HI> was couetous; his &s;onne not &s;o,</L>
<L>But not his pared nayle will hee forgoe:</L>
<L><HI>Flori<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n</HI> the &s;yre <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">id women loue ali<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</L>
<L>And &s;o his &s;onne doth too, all, but his wife:</L>
<L>Brag of thy Fathers faul<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s, they are thine owne;</L>
<L>Brag of his lands, if tho&s;e be not forgone:</L>
<L>Brag of thine owne good deeds, for they are thine,</L>
<L>More than his life, or lands, or golden line.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="satire">
<PB N="28" REF="58">
<HEAD>SAT. 4.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Plus beauque fort.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>CAn I not touch &s;ome vp&s;tart carper-&s;hield</L>
<L>Of <HI>Lolio's</HI> &s;onne, that neuer &s;aw the field<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Or taxe wild <HI>Pontice</HI> for his <HI>Luxuries,</HI></L>
<L>B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t &s;traight they tell mee of <HI>Tire&s;ias</HI> eyes?</L>
<L>Or luckle&s;&s;e <HI>Collingborns</HI> feeding of the crowes,</L>
<L>Or hundreth <HI>Sc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lps</HI> which <HI>Thames</HI> &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ill vnderflowes?</L>
<L>But &s;traight <HI>Sigalion</HI> nods and knits his browes,</L>
<L>And winkes and wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tes his warning hand for feare,</L>
<L>And li&s;ps &s;ome &s;ilent letters in my eare?</L>
<L>Haue I not vow'd for &s;hunning &s;uch d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">bate</L>
<L>(Pardon ye Satyres) to deg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nerate?</L>
<L>And wading low in this pl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">bei<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n lake</L>
<PB N="29" REF="58">
<L>That no &s;alt waue &s;hall froath vpon my backe,</L>
<L>L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t <HI>Labeo,</HI> or who el&s;e li&s;t for mee,</L>
<L>Go loo&s;e his eares and fall to <HI>Alchymie.</HI></L>
<L>Onely, let <HI>Gallio</HI> giue me leaue a while</L>
<L>To &s;choole him once, or ere I change my &s;tyle.</L>
<L>O lawle&s;&s;e paunch the cau&s;e of much de&s;pight,</L>
<L>Through raunging of a curri&s;h appetite,</L>
<L>When &s;pleni&s;h mor&s;els cr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">m the gaping Maw,</L>
<L>Withouten d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ets care, or trencher-law,</L>
<L>Tho neuer haue I <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">alerne</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">imes profe&s;t</L>
<L>To be &s;ome Ladies trencher-cri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">icke gue&s;t;</L>
<L>Whiles each bit cooleth for the Oracle</L>
<L>Who&s;e &s;entence charms it with a ryming &s;pell;</L>
<L>Touch not this Coler, that M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lancholy</L>
<L>This bit were <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rie and hote, that cold and d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y;</L>
<L>Yet can I &s;et my <HI>Gallios</HI> d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ting,</L>
<L>Ape<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tle of a Larke, or Plouers wing,</L>
<L>And warne him not to ca&s;t his wanton eyne</L>
<PB N="30" REF="59">
<L>On gro&s;&s;er Bacon, or &s;alt Haberdine,</L>
<L>Or dried Fli<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hes of &s;ome &s;moked Beeue,</L>
<L>Hang'd on a writ<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">en wythe &s;ince <HI>Martins</HI> eue,</L>
<L>Or burnt Larkes heeles, or Ra&s;hers <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">aw and greene,</L>
<L>Or Melancholike liuer of an H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n,</L>
<L>Which &s;tout <HI>Vor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">no</HI> brags to make his fea&s;t,</L>
<L>A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d claps his hand on his braue O&s;trige-brea&s;t;</L>
<L>Then fals to prai&s;e the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ardy <HI>Ianiz<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r,</HI></L>
<L>That &s;ucks his hor&s;e &s;ide thir&s;ting in the warre.</L>
<L>La&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ly to &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ale vp all that he hath &s;poke,</L>
<L>Quaffes a whole Tunnell of Tabacco &s;moke:</L>
<L>If <HI>Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tius</HI> in boy&s;trous Buffes be dre&s;t,</L>
<L>Branded with Iron plates vpon the bre&s;t,</L>
<L>And pointed on the &s;houlders, for the nonce,</L>
<L>As new-come from the <HI>Belgian</HI> garri&s;ons:</L>
<L>What &s;hall thou need to enuie ought at that,</L>
<L>When as thou &s;melle&s;t like a <HI>Ciuet Cat;</HI></L>
<L>When as thine oyled locks &s;mooth platted fall,</L>
<PB N="31" REF="59">
<L>Shining like varni&s;ht pictures on a wall.</L>
<L>When a plum'd Fanne may &s;hade thy chalked face,</L>
<L>And lawny &s;trips thy naked bo&s;ome grace.</L>
<L>If brabling <HI>Make-fray</HI> at ech Fayre and Si&s;e</L>
<L>Picks quarrel<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> for to &s;how his valianti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</L>
<L>Straight pre&s;&s;ed for an hungry <HI>Swizzers</HI> pay</L>
<L>To thru&s;t his fi&s;t to ech part of the fray,</L>
<L>And piping hote puffes toward the pointed plaine</L>
<L>With a broad <HI>Scot,</HI> or proking &s;pit of <HI>Spayne,</HI></L>
<L>O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> hoy&s;eth &s;ayle vp to a &s;orraine &s;hore,</L>
<L>That he may liue a lawle&s;&s;e Conquerer.</L>
<L>If &s;ome &s;uch de&s;perate <HI>Hak&s;ter</HI> &s;hall deui&s;e</L>
<L>To rouze thine Hares-heart from her cowardi&s;e,</L>
<L>As idle children &s;triuing to excell</L>
<L>In blowing bubles from an emptie &s;hell;</L>
<L>Oh <HI>Hercules</HI> how like to proue a man,</L>
<L>That all &s;o rath thy warlike life began?</L>
<L>Thy mother could thee for thy cradle &s;et,</L>
<PB N="32" REF="60">
<L>Her husbands ru&s;ty iron cor&s;elet;</L>
<L>Who&s;e iargling &s;ound might rocke her babe to re&s;t</L>
<L>That neuer plain'd of his vnea&s;ie ne&s;t</L>
<L>There did he dreame of drery wars at hand,</L>
<L>And woke, and fought, &amp; won, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">re he could &s;tand<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>But who hath &s;eene the Lambs of <HI>Tarenti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</HI></L>
<L>May ge&s;&s;e what <HI>G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">llio</HI> his manners beene;</L>
<L>All &s;oft as is the falling thi&s;tle-downe,</L>
<L>Soft as the fu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e ball, or <HI>Morrians</HI> crowne;</L>
<L>Now <HI>Gallio,</HI> gins thy youthly heat to raigne</L>
<L>In euery vigorous limme, and &s;welling vaine,</L>
<L>Time bids the rai&s;e thine hed&s;trong thoughts on by</L>
<L>To valour and aduenterous chiualry;</L>
<L>Pawne thou no gloue for challenge of the deede,</L>
<L>Nor make thy <HI>Quintaine</HI> others armed head</L>
<L>T'enrich the waiting Herald with thy &s;hame</L>
<L>And make thy lo&s;&s;e, the &s;cornefull &s;caffolds game<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Wars; God for<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">end; nay God defend from warre,</L>
<PB N="33" REF="60">
<L>Soone are Sonns &s;pent, that not &s;oone reared are:</L>
<L><HI>Gallio</HI> may pull me ro&s;es ere they fall,</L>
<L>Or in his net entrap the Tennis-ball:</L>
<L>Or tend his Spar-hauke mantling in her mew,</L>
<L>Or yelping Begles bu&s;y heeles per&s;ue,</L>
<L>Or watch a &s;inking corke vpon the &s;hore,</L>
<L>Or halter Finches through a priuie doore,</L>
<L>Or li&s;t he &s;pend the time in &s;portfull game,</L>
<L>In daily courting of his louely dame,</L>
<L>Hange on her lips, melt in her wanton eye,</L>
<L>Dance in her hand, ioy in her iollity,</L>
<L>Here's little perill, and much le&s;&s;er paine,</L>
<L>So timely <HI>Hymen</HI> doe the re&s;t re&s;traine:</L>
<L>Hy wanton <HI>Gallio</HI> and wed betime,</L>
<L>Why &s;hould'&s;t thou lee&s;e the plea&s;ures of thy prime?</L>
<L>See&s;t thou the Ro&s;e-leaues fall vngathered?</L>
<L>Then hye thee wanton <HI>Gallio</HI> to wed:</L>
<L>Let Ring and Ferule meet vpon thine hand,</L>
<PB N="34" REF="61">
<L>And <HI>Lucines</HI> girdle with her &s;wathing-bands,</L>
<L>Hy thee and giue the w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ld yet one dwarfe more:</L>
<L>Such as it got when thou thy &s;elfe wa&s;t bore:</L>
<L>Looke not for warning of thy bloomed chin,</L>
<L>Can neuer happines to &s;oone begin;</L>
<L><HI>Virginius</HI> vow'd to keepe his Mayden-head,</L>
<L>And eats cha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t Lettuce, and drinkes Poppy-&s;eed,</L>
<L>And &s;mels on Camphyre fa&s;ting: and that done,</L>
<L>L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ng hath he liu'd cha&s;t as a vayled Nunne,</L>
<L>Free as a new-ab&s;olued <HI>Damo&s;ell</HI></L>
<L>That Frier <HI>Cornelius</HI> &s;hriued in his Cell,</L>
<L>Till now he waxt a toothle&s;&s;e Bacheler,</L>
<L>He thaw's like <HI>Chaucers</HI> fro&s;tie <HI>Ianiuere</HI></L>
<L>And &s;ets a months minde vpon &s;miling <HI>May.</HI></L>
<L>And dyes his beard that did his age bewray;</L>
<L>Byting on Annis-<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eede, and Ro&s;e-marine,</L>
<L>Which might the Fume of his rot lungs refine:</L>
<PB N="35" REF="61">
<L>Now he in <HI>Charons</HI> barge a Bride doth &s;eeke,</L>
<L>The maydens mocke, and call him withered Leeke,</L>
<L>That with a greene tayle hath an hoary head,</L>
<L>And now he would, and now he cannot wed<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="satire">
<PB N="36" REF="62">
<HEAD>SAT. 5.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Stupet Albius aere.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>VVOuld now that <HI>Math<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> were the <HI>Satyri&s;t,</HI></L>
<L>That &s;ome fat bribe might greaze him in the fi&s;t,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> which he need not braule at any barre</L>
<L>Nor ki&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e the booke to be a periurer;</L>
<L>Who el&s;e would &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">orne his &s;ilence to haue &s;old,</L>
<L>And haue his tongue tyed with &s;trings of Gold?</L>
<L><HI>C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rius</HI> is dead, and buried long &s;ince,</L>
<L>And all that loued golden <HI>Ab&s;tinence:</HI></L>
<L>Might he not well repine at his old fee,</L>
<L>Would he but &s;pare to &s;peake of v&s;urie?</L>
<L>Hir<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lings enow be&s;ide, can be &s;o ba&s;e,</L>
<L>Tho we &s;hould &s;corne ech bribing varlets bra&s;&s;e;</L>
<PB N="37" REF="62">
<L>Yet he and I could &s;hun ech <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ealous head,</L>
<L>Sticking our thumbs clo&s;e to our girdle-&s;tead,</L>
<L>Tho were they manicled behind our backe,</L>
<L>Anothers fi&s;t can &s;erue our fees to take:</L>
<L>Yet pur&s;y <HI>Euclio</HI> c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">early &s;miling prayde,</L>
<L>That my &s;harpe words might curtal their &s;ide trade;</L>
<L>For thou&s;ands beene in euery gouernall<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>That liue by lo&s;&s;e, and ri&s;e by others fall.</L>
<L>What euer &s;ickly &s;heepe &s;o &s;ecret dies,</L>
<L>But &s;ome foule Ra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">en hath be&s;poke his eyes?</L>
<L>What el&s;e makes <HI>N.</HI> when his lands are &s;pent,</L>
<L>Go &s;haking like a threedbare malecontent.</L>
<L>Who&s;e band-le&s;&s;e Bonnet vailes his ore-grown chin</L>
<L>And &s;ullen rags be wray his Morphew'd skin;</L>
<L>So<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;hips he to the wolui&s;h we<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">terne ile,</L>
<L>Among the &s;auage Kernes in &s;ad exile;</L>
<L>Or in the <HI>Turki&s;h</HI> wars at <HI>Cae&s;ars</HI> pay</L>
<L>To rub his life out till the late&s;t day;</L>
<PB N="38" REF="63">
<L>Another &s;hifting Gallant to foreca&s;t,</L>
<L>To gull his Ho&s;te&s;&s;e for a months repa&s;t,</L>
<L>With &s;ome gal'd Trunck ballac'd with &s;traw &amp; &s;ton<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Left for the paune of his proui&s;ion;</L>
<L>Had <HI>F.</HI> &s;hop lyen fallow but from hence,</L>
<L>His doores clo&s;e &s;eal'd as in &s;ome pe&s;tilence,</L>
<L>Whiles his light <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eeles their fearfull flight can take,</L>
<L>To get &s;ome badg-le&s;&s;e Blew vpon his backe?</L>
<L><HI>Tocullio</HI> was a welthie v<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">urer,</L>
<L>Such &s;tore of incomes had he euery yeare,</L>
<L>By Bu&s;hels was he wont to met his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">oyne</L>
<L>As did the olde wife of <HI>Trim<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lcion<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></L>
<L>Could he do<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> more that finds an idle roome,</L>
<L>For many hundreth thou&s;ands on a Toombe?</L>
<L>Or who reares vp foure free-&s;chooles in his age,</L>
<L>Of his old pillage, and damn'd &s;urplu&s;age?</L>
<L>Yet now he &s;wore by that &s;weere Cro&s;&s;e he ki&s;t,</L>
<L>(That &s;iluer cro&s;&s;e, where hee had &s;acrific'd</L>
<PB N="39" REF="63">
<L>His coueting &s;oule, by his de&s;ires owne doome,</L>
<L>Daily to die the Diuels Martyrdome)</L>
<L>His Angels were all flowne vp to their sky,</L>
<L>And had for&s;ooke his naked Tre&s;urie:</L>
<L>Farewell <HI>A&s;traea</HI> and her weights of gold<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Vntill his lingring Calends once be told;</L>
<L>Nought left behind<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> but wax &amp; parchment &s;croles</L>
<L>Like <HI>Lucians</HI> dreame that &s;iluer turn'd to coles<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Should&s;t thou him credit, that nould credit thee?</L>
<L>Yes and maie&s;t &s;weare he &s;wore the verity;</L>
<L>The ding-thrift heire, his &s;hift-got &s;umme mi&s;pent,</L>
<L>Comes drouping like a pennyle&s;&s;e penitent,</L>
<L>And beats his faint fi&s;t on <HI>Tocullios</HI> doore,</L>
<L>It lo&s;t the la&s;t and now mu&s;t call for more.</L>
<L>Now hath the Spider caught a wandring Flie,</L>
<L>And drags her captiue at her cruell thie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Soone is his arrand red in his pale face,</L>
<L>Which beares dumbe <HI>Characters</HI> of euery ca&s;e,</L>
<PB N="40" REF="64">
<L>So <HI>Cyneds</HI> dusky cheeke and fiery eye,</L>
<L>And hayre-les brow, tels where he la&s;t did lye;</L>
<L>So <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tho</HI> doth bewray his guilty thought,</L>
<L>While his pale face doth &s;ay, his cau&s;e is nought<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>See&s;t thou the wary Angler trayle along</L>
<L>His feeble line, &s;oone as &s;ome Pike too &s;trong</L>
<L>Hath &s;wallowed the bate that &s;cornes the &s;hore,</L>
<L>Yet now nearehand cannot re&s;i&s;t no more:</L>
<L>So lyeth he aloofe in &s;mooth pretence,</L>
<L>To hide his rough intended violence;</L>
<L>As he that vnder name of <HI>Chri&s;tmas</HI> Cheere,</L>
<L>Can &s;tarue his Tenants all th'en&s;uing yeare:</L>
<L>Paper and wax (God wo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">) a weake repay,</L>
<L>For &s;uch deepe debts, and down<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;t &s;ums as they;</L>
<L>Write, &s;eale, deliuer, take, go, &s;pend and &s;peede,</L>
<L>And yet full heardly could his pre&s;ent need</L>
<L>Part with &s;uch &s;umme; For but as ye&s;ter-late</L>
<L>Did <HI>Furnus</HI> offer pen-worths at ea&s;ie rate,</L>
<PB N="41" REF="64">
<L>For &s;mall disbur&s;ment; He the bankes hath broke,</L>
<L>And needs mote now &s;ome further playne ore loo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">;</L>
<L>Yet ere he goe fame would he be relea&s;t:</L>
<L>Hy yo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> ye Rauens, hy you to the fea&s;t;</L>
<L>Prouided that thy lands are leften <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">yre,</L>
<L>To be red<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">em'd or ere thy day expire;</L>
<L>Then &s;halt thou teare tho&s;e idle paper-bonds,</L>
<L>That thus had fettered thy pawned lands.</L>
<L>Ah foole! For &s;ooner &s;halt thou &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ll the re&s;t,</L>
<L>Then &s;take ought for thy <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ormer Intere&s;t;</L>
<L>Wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n it &s;hall grind thy grating gall for &s;hame,</L>
<L>To &s;ee the lands that beare thy Grand<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">es name,</L>
<L>Become a dunghill pea&s;ants &s;ommer-hall,</L>
<L>Or lonely <HI>Hermits</HI> cage inho&s;pitall;</L>
<L>A pining Gourmand, an imperious &s;laue,</L>
<L>An hor&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">leech, barren womb, and gaping graue,</L>
<L>A legall thiefe, a bloud-le&s;&s;e murtherer;</L>
<L>A feind inca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nate, a fal&s;e V&s;urer,</L>
<PB N="42" REF="65">
<L>Albee &s;uch mayne extort &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">orns to be pent</L>
<L>In the clay wals of thatched Tenement,</L>
<L>For certes no man of a low degree,</L>
<L>May bid two ghe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tes; or Gout, or V&s;urie:</L>
<L>Vnle&s;&s;e &s;ome ba&s;e hedge-creeping <HI>Collybi&s;t</HI></L>
<L>Scatters his refu&s;e &s;craps on whom he li&s;t,</L>
<L>For Ea&s;ter-gloues, or for a &s;hroftide Hen,</L>
<L>Which bought to giue, he takes to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ell agen:</L>
<L>I doe not meane &s;ome glozing Merchants feate,</L>
<L>That laugheth at the cozened worlds deceipt,</L>
<L>When as an hundred &s;tocks lie in his fi&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>He leaks and &s;inkes, and breaketh when he li&s;t.</L>
<L>But, <HI>Nummius</HI> ca&s;'d the needy Gallants care,</L>
<L>With a ba&s;e ba<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">gaine of his blowen ware<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Of fu&s;ted hoppes now lo&s;t for lacke of &s;ayle,</L>
<L>Or mo'ld browne-paper that could nought auaile:</L>
<L>Or what he cannot vtter otherwi&s;e,</L>
<L>May plea&s;ure <HI>Fridoline</HI> for treble price.</L>
<PB N="43" REF="65">
<L>Whiles his fal&s;e broker lyeth in the wind,</L>
<L>And for a pre&s;ent Chapman is a&s;&s;ign'd,</L>
<L>The cut<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">throte wretch for their compacted gaine,</L>
<L>Buyes all for but one quarter of the mayne;</L>
<L>Whiles if he chance to breake his deare-bought day<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>And forfai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> for default of due repay</L>
<L>His late intangled lands: Then <HI>Fridoline,</HI></L>
<L>Buy thee a wallet, and go beg or pine<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>If <HI>Mammon</HI> &s;elfe &s;hould euer liue with men,</L>
<L><HI>Mammon</HI> him&s;elfe &s;halbe a Citizen.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="satire">
<PB N="44" REF="66">
<HEAD>SAT. 6.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Quid placet ergo?</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>I Wote not how the world's d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nerate,</L>
<L>That men or know, or like not their e&s;tate:</L>
<L>Out from the Gades vp to the Ea&s;terne morne,</L>
<L>Not one but holds his natiu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;tate forlorne.</L>
<L>When comely &s;triplings wi&s;h it were their chance,</L>
<L>For <HI>Cae<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">is</HI> di&s;ta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e to exchange their Lance;</L>
<L>And we are curl'd P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">riwigs, and chalke their face,</L>
<L>And &s;till <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">re poring on their pock<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t-gla&s;&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Tyr'd with pinn'd Ruff<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s, &amp; Fans, and partlet &s;trips,</L>
<L>And Buskes, and Verdingales about their hips;</L>
<L>And tread on corked &s;tilts <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> pri&s;on<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">s pace,</L>
<L>And make their Napkin for their &s;pitting-place,</L>
<PB N="45" REF="66">
<L>And gripe their wa&s;t within a narrow &s;pan:</L>
<L>Fond <HI>Caenis</HI> that would'd&s;t wi&s;h to be a man;</L>
<L>Who&s;e manni&s;h Hu&s;-wiues like their refu&s;e &s;tate,</L>
<L>And make a drudge of their <HI>vxorius</HI> mate,</L>
<L>Who like a Cot-qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ne freezeth at the rocke,</L>
<L>Whiles his breach't dame doth man the forren &s;tock.</L>
<L>Is't not a &s;hame to &s;ee ech homely groom<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Sit perched in an idle charriot-roome,</L>
<L>That were not meete &s;ome paunell to be&s;tride</L>
<L>Surcingled to a galledg Hackneys hide?</L>
<L>Ech Muck-worme will be rich with lawle&s;&s;e gaine,</L>
<L>Altho he &s;mother vp mowes of &s;euen yeares graine,</L>
<L>And hang'd him&s;elf when corne grows cheap again;</L>
<L>Altho he buy whole Harue&s;ts in the &s;pring</L>
<L>And foy&s;t in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">al&s;e &s;trikes to the mea&s;uring:</L>
<L>Altho his &s;hop be muff<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ed from the light</L>
<L>Like a day-dungeon, or <HI>Cimmerian</HI> night:</L>
<L>Nor full nor fa&s;ting can the Carle take re&s;t,</L>
<PB N="46" REF="67">
<L>Whiles his <HI>George-Nobles</HI> ru&s;ten in his Che&s;t,</L>
<L>He &s;leeps but once and dreames of burgla<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e,</L>
<L>And wakes and ca&s;tes about his frighted eye,</L>
<L>And gropes for theeues in euery darker &s;hade,</L>
<L>And if a Mou&s;e but &s;tirre he cals for ayde.</L>
<L>The &s;turdie Plough-man doth the &s;oldier &s;ee,</L>
<L>All &s;car<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ed with pide colours to the knee,</L>
<L>Whom <HI>Indian</HI> pillage hath made fortunate,</L>
<L>And now he gins to loath his former &s;tate:</L>
<L>Now doth he inly &s;corne his Kendall-greene,</L>
<L>And his patch't Cockers now di&s;pi&s;ed beene.</L>
<L>Nor li&s;t he now go whi&s;tling to the Carre,</L>
<L>But &s;els his Teeme and fetleth to the warre.</L>
<L>O warre to them that neuer tryde thee &s;weete!</L>
<L>When his dead mate fals groueling at his feete,</L>
<L>And angry bullets whi&s;tlen at his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">are,</L>
<L>And his dim eyes &s;ee nought but death and drere:</L>
<L>Oh happy Plough-ma~ were thy weale well known;</L>
<PB N="47" REF="67">
<L>Oh happy all e&s;tates except his owne!</L>
<L>Some dron<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">en <HI>Rimer</HI> thinks his time well &s;pent,</L>
<L>If he can liue to &s;ee his name in print:</L>
<L>Who when he is once fle&s;hed to the Pre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And &s;ees his hand&s;ell haue &s;uch fayre &s;ucce&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Sung to the wheele, and &s;ung vnto the payle,</L>
<L>He &s;ends forth thraues of Ballads to the &s;ale.</L>
<L>Nor then can re&s;t: But volumes vp bodg'd rimes,</L>
<L>To haue his name talk't of in future times:</L>
<L>The brain&s;icke youth that feeds his tickled eare</L>
<L>With &s;weet-&s;auc'd lies of &s;ome fal&s;e <HI>Tra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eiler,</HI></L>
<L>Which hath the Spani&s;h Decades red a while;</L>
<L>Or whet<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tone lea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ings of old <HI>Maundeuile,</HI></L>
<L>Now with di&s;cour&s;es breakes his mid-night &s;leepe,</L>
<L>Of his aduentures through the <HI>Indian</HI> deepe,</L>
<L>Of all their ma&s;&s;y heapes of golden mines,</L>
<L>Or of the antique Toombs of <HI>Pale&s;tine;</HI></L>
<L>Or of <HI>Dama&s;cus</HI> Magike wall of Gla&s;&s;e,</L>
<PB N="48" REF="68">
<L>Of <HI>Salomon</HI> his &s;weating piles of Bra&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Of the Bird <HI>Ru<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> that beares an Elephant:</L>
<L>Of Mer-maids that the Southerne &s;eas do haunt;</L>
<L>Of head le&s;&s;e men; of &s;auage <HI>Cannibals;</HI></L>
<L>The fa&s;hions of their liues and Gouernals:</L>
<L>What mon&s;trous Cities there erected bee,</L>
<L><HI>Cayro,</HI> or the Citie of the Trinitie:</L>
<L>Now are they dung hill-Cocks that haue not &s;eene</L>
<L>The bordering Alpes, or el&s;e the Neighbour Rhene,</L>
<L>And now he plyes the newes-full Gra&s;hopper,</L>
<L>Of voyages and ventures to enquire.</L>
<L>His land morgag'd, He &s;ea-beat in the way</L>
<L>Wi&s;hes for home a thou&s;and &s;ithes a day:</L>
<L>And now he deemes his home-bred fare aslee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e</L>
<L>As his parch't Bisket, or his barreld Beefe:</L>
<L>Mong'&s;t all the&s;e &s;turs of di&s;contented &s;trife,</L>
<L>Oh let me lead an Academicke life,</L>
<L>To know much, and to thinke we nothing know;</L>
<PB REF="68">
<L>Nothing to haue, yet thinke we haue enough,</L>
<L>In skill to want, and wanting &s;eeke for more,</L>
<L>In weale nor want, nor wi&s;h for greater &s;tore;</L>
<L>Enuye ye Monarchs with your proud exce&s;&s;e</L>
<L>At our low Sayle, and our hye Happine&s;&s;e.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>Lib. 4. Finis.</TRAILER>
<PB REF="69">
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="5" TYPE="book">
<DIV2 TYPE="half title">
<PB REF="69">
<P>VIRGIDEMIARVM LIB. 5.</P>
<PB REF="70">
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="satire">
<PB N="53" REF="70">
<HEAD>SAT. 1.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Sit paena merenti.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>PArdon ye glowing eares; Needs will it out,</L>
<L>Tho brazen wals compa&s;'d my tongue about,</L>
<L>As thicke as wealthy <HI>Scrobioes</HI> quicke-&s;et rowes</L>
<L>In the wide Common that he did inclo&s;e.</L>
<L>Pull out mine eyes, if I &s;hall &s;ee no vice,</L>
<L>Or let me &s;ee it with dete&s;ting eyes.</L>
<L>Renowmed <HI>Aquine,</HI> now I follow thee,</L>
<L>Farre as I may for feare of ieopardie;</L>
<L>And to thy hand yeeld vp the <HI>Iuye</HI>-mace,</L>
<L>From crabbed <HI>Per&s;ius,</HI> and more &s;mooth <HI>Horace;</HI></L>
<L>Or from that &s;hrew, the <HI>Roman</HI> Poete&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>That taught her go&s;&s;ips learned bitterne&s;&s;e,</L>
<PB N="54" REF="71">
<L>Or <HI>Luciles</HI> Mu&s;e whom thou did &s;timitate,</L>
<L>Or <HI>Menips</HI> olde, or <HI>Pa&s;quillers</HI> of late,</L>
<L>Yet name I not <HI>Mutius,</HI> or <HI>Tigilline;</HI></L>
<L>Tho they de&s;erue a keener &s;tile then mine;</L>
<L>Nor meane to ran&s;acke vp the quiet graue;</L>
<L>Nor burne dead bones, as h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> example gaue,</L>
<L>I taxe the liuing, let dead a&s;hes re&s;t,</L>
<L>Who&s;e faults are dead, and nayled in their che&s;t;</L>
<L>Who can refraine, that's guiltle&s;&s;e of their crime,</L>
<L>Whiles yet he liues in &s;uch a cruell time.</L>
<L>When <HI>Titios</HI> grounds, that in his Grand-&s;ires daies</L>
<L>But one pound fine, one penny rent did rai&s;e,</L>
<L>A &s;ommer-&s;now-ball, or a winter-ro&s;e,</L>
<L>Is growne to thou&s;ands as the world now goes:</L>
<L>So thrift and time &s;ets other things on flote,</L>
<L>That now his &s;onne &s;oups in a &s;ilken cote,</L>
<L>Who&s;e Grand&s;ire happily a poore hungry Swayne,</L>
<L>Beg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d &s;ome ca&s;t Abby in the Churches wayne</L>
<PB N="55" REF="71">
<L>And but for that, what euer he may vaun<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t,</L>
<L>Who knows a Monke, had beene a <HI>Mendicant;</HI></L>
<L>While freezing <HI>Matho,</HI> that for one leane &s;ee,</L>
<L>Wont terme ech Terme the Terme of <HI>Hibarie,</HI></L>
<L>May now in &s;teed of tho&s;e his &s;imple fees;</L>
<L>Get the fee-&s;imples of fayre Manneryes<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>What, did he counterfait his Princes hand,</L>
<L>For &s;ome &s;treaue Lord-&s;hip of conc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">aled land?</L>
<L>Or on ech <HI>Michaell,</HI> and <HI>Lady-day,</HI></L>
<L>Tooke he deepe forfaits for an houres delay?</L>
<L>And gain'd no le&s;&s;e by &s;uch iniurious braule,</L>
<L>Then <HI>Gamius</HI> by his &s;ixt wiues buriall?</L>
<L>Or hath he wonne &s;ome wider Intere&s;t,</L>
<L>By hoary charters from his Grand&s;ires che&s;t,</L>
<L>Which late &s;ome bribed Scribe for &s;lender wage,</L>
<L>Writ in the Characters of another age,</L>
<L>That <HI>Ploydon</HI> &s;elfe might &s;tammer to rehear&s;e,</L>
<L>Who&s;e date ore lookes three <HI>Centuries</HI> of yeares;</L>
<PB N="56" REF="72">
<L>Who euer yet the Trackes of weale &s;o tride,</L>
<L>But there hath be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ne one beaten way be&s;ide?</L>
<L>He, when he lets a Lea&s;e for life, or yeares,</L>
<L>(As neuer he doth vntill the date expeares;</L>
<L>For when the full &s;tate in his fi&s;t doth lie,</L>
<L>He may take vantage of the vacancie,)</L>
<L>His Fine affor'ds &s;o many trebled pounds,</L>
<L>As he agreethy <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ares to Lea&s;e his grounds:</L>
<L>His Rent in faire re&s;pondence mu&s;t a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;e,</L>
<L>To double trebles of his one yeares price;</L>
<L>Of one bayes breadth, God wot, a &s;illy cote,</L>
<L>Who&s;e that ched &s;pars arefurr'd with &s;lutti&s;h &s;oote</L>
<L>A whole inch thick; &s;hininig like Black-moors brows</L>
<L>Through &s;mok that down the head les barrel blows.</L>
<L>At his beds-feete feeden his &s;talled teme.</L>
<L>His &s;wine beneath, his pullen ore the beame:</L>
<L>A &s;tarued Tenement, &s;uch as I ge&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Stand &s;tragling in the wa&s;ts of <HI>Holderne&s;&s;e,</HI></L>
<PB REF="72">
<L>Or &s;uch as &s;hiuer on a Peake-hill &s;ide,</L>
<L>When <HI>Marches</HI> lungs beate on their turfe-clad hide:</L>
<L>Such as nice <HI>Lip<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ius</HI> would grudge to &s;ee,</L>
<L>Aboue his lodging in wild <HI>We&s;t-phalye:</HI></L>
<L>Or as the <HI>Saxon</HI> King his Court might make,</L>
<L>When his &s;ides playned of the Neat-heards cake.</L>
<L>Yet mu&s;t he hau<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t his greedy Land-lords hall,</L>
<L>With often pre&s;ents at ech Fe&s;tiuall;</L>
<L>With crammed Caponseuery New-ye ares morne,</L>
<L>Or with greene-chee&s;es when his &s;heep are &s;horne</L>
<L>Or many Maunds-full of his mellow fruite,</L>
<L>To make &s;ome way to win his waighty &s;uite.</L>
<L>Whom cannot gifts at la&s;t cau&s;e to relent,</L>
<L>Or to win fauour, or flee puni&s;hment?</L>
<L>When griple Patrons turne their &s;turdie &s;teele</L>
<L>To waxe, when they the golden flame do<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> fcelc;</L>
<L>When grand <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">cenas</HI> ca&s;ts a glauering eye,</L>
<L>On the cold pre&s;ent of a Poefie:</L>
<PB N="58" REF="73">
<L>And lea&s;t he might more frankly take then giue,</L>
<L>Grop<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s for a french crowne in his emptie &s;lee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Thence <HI>Clod<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">us</HI> hopes to &s;et his &s;houlders free,</L>
<L>From the light burden of his <HI>Nap<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rie.</HI></L>
<L>The &s;miling Land-lord &s;howes a &s;un&s;hine face,</L>
<L>Faining that he will grant him further grace;</L>
<L>And lear's like <HI>Ae&s;ops</HI> Foxe vpon a Crane,</L>
<L>Who&s;e necke he craues for his <HI>Chirurgian;</HI></L>
<L>So lingers off the lea&s;e vnt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ll the la&s;t,</L>
<L>What recks he then of paines or promi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e pa&s;t?</L>
<L>Was euer fether, or fond womans mind,</L>
<L>More light then words; the bla&s;ts of idle wind<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>What's &s;ib or fire, to take the gentle &s;lip;</L>
<L>And in th' Exchequer rot for &s;urety-&s;hip;</L>
<L>Or thence thy &s;tarued brother liue and di<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L>Within the cold <HI>Cole-harbour</HI> &s;anctuarie?</L>
<L>Will one from <HI>Scots-banke</HI> bid but one grote more,</L>
<L>My old Tenant may be turned out of doore,</L>
<PB N="59" REF="73">
<L>Tho much he &s;pent in th'rotten roofesrepayre,</L>
<L>In hope to haue it left vnto his heyre;</L>
<L>Tho many a loade of Marle and Manure led,</L>
<L>Reui<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">'d his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">rren leas, that ear&s;t lay dead.</L>
<L>Were he as <HI>Furius,</HI> he would defie,</L>
<L>Such pilfring &s;lips of Pety land-lordrye.</L>
<L>And might di&s;lodge whole Collonies of poore,</L>
<L>And lay their roofe quite leuell with their floore,</L>
<L>Whiles yet he giues as to a yeelding fence,</L>
<L>Their bagge and baggage to his Citizens,</L>
<L>And &s;hips them to the new-nam'd <HI>Virgin-lond,</HI></L>
<L>Or wilder wales, where neuer wight yet wond:</L>
<L>Would it not vexe thee where thy &s;yres did keepe,</L>
<L>To &s;ee the dunged foldes of dag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tayled &s;he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">pe,</L>
<L>And ruined hou&s;e where holy things were &s;aid,</L>
<L>Who&s;e free-&s;tone wals the thatched roofe vpbraid,</L>
<L>Who&s;e &s;hril Saints-bell hangs on his louerie,</L>
<L>While the re&s;t are damned to the <HI>Plumbery?</HI></L>
<PB N="60" REF="74">
<L>Yet pure deuotion lets the &s;teeple &s;tand,</L>
<L>And ydle battlements on eyther hand;</L>
<L>Lea&s;t that perhaps, were all tho&s;e reliques gone,</L>
<L><HI>Furious</HI> his Sacriledge could not be knowne.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="satire">
<PB N="61" REF="74">
<HEAD>SAT. 2.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Heic quaerite Troiam.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>HOu&s;-keping's dead, <HI>Sat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rio:</HI> wot'&s;t thou where?</L>
<L>For-&s;ooth they &s;ay far hence in <HI>Brek-neck</HI> &s;hire.</L>
<L>And euer &s;ince they &s;ay that fe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">le and ta&s;t,</L>
<L>That men may breake their neck, &s;oone as their fa&s;t.</L>
<L>Certes, if <HI>Pity</HI> died at <HI>Cha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">cers</HI> date,</L>
<L>He liu'd a widdower long behind his mate:</L>
<L>Saue that I &s;ee &s;ome rott<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n bed-rid Syre,</L>
<L>Which to out &s;trip the nonage of his heire<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L>Is cram'd with golden broaths, and drugs of price,</L>
<L>And ech day dying liu's, and liuing dies,</L>
<L>Till once &s;uruind his ward-&s;hips late&s;t eue,</L>
<L>His eies are clo&s;d with choy&s;e to die or l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ue<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<PB N="62" REF="75">
<L>Plenty, and hee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> dy'd both in that &s;ame yeare,</L>
<L>When the &s;ad skye did &s;hed &s;o many a tear<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.</L>
<L>And now, who li&s;t not of his labour faile;</L>
<L>Marke, with <HI>Saturio,</HI> my friendly tale:</L>
<L>Along thy way, thou can&s;t not but de&s;cry,</L>
<L>Faire g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ittering Hals to tempt the hopefull eye,</L>
<L>Thy right eye gins to leape for vaine delight,</L>
<L>And &s;urbeate toes to tickle at the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ight<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>As greedy <HI>T.</HI> when in the &s;ounding mold</L>
<L>Hee finds a &s;hining pot-&s;hard tip't with gold;</L>
<L>For neuer <HI>Syren</HI> tempts the plea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ed eares,</L>
<L>As the&s;e the eye of fainting pa&s;&s;engers;</L>
<L>All is not &s;o that &s;cemes; for &s;urely than</L>
<L><HI>Matrona</HI> &s;hould not bee a <HI>C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rtizan,</HI></L>
<L>Smooth <HI>Chry&s;alu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> &s;hould not bee rich with fraud,</L>
<L>Nor hone&s;t <HI>R.</HI> bee his owne <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">iues baude,</L>
<L>Looke not a &s;quint, nor &s;tride a cro&s;&s;e the way,</L>
<L>Like &s;ome demurring <HI>Alcide</HI> to delay.</L>
<PB N="63" REF="75">
<L>But walke on ch<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rely, till thou haue e&s;pide,</L>
<L>Saint <HI>Peters</HI> finger at the Church-yard &s;ide,</L>
<L>But wilt thou needs when thou art warn'd &s;o well</L>
<L>Go <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ee who in &s;o gari&s;h wals doth dwell?</L>
<L>There finde&s;t thou &s;ome &s;tately <HI>Dorick</HI> frame</L>
<L>Or neate <HI>Ionicke</HI> worke;</L>
<L>Like the vaine bubble of <HI>Iberian</HI> pride,</L>
<L>That ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r-croweth all the world be&s;ide<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Which rear<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d to rai&s;e the crazy Monarches fame,</L>
<L>Striues for a Court and for a Colledge name;</L>
<L>Yet nought within, but louzy coul's doth hold,</L>
<L>Like a &s;cab'd Cuckow in a cage of gold;</L>
<L>So pride aboue doth &s;hade the &s;hame below:</L>
<L>A golden Periwig on a Black-mores brow.</L>
<L>When <HI>Mae<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ios</HI> fir&s;t pag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> of his poe&s;ie,</L>
<L>Nayl'd to an hundreth po&s;tes for nou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ltie,</L>
<L>With his big title, an <HI>Italian</HI> mot,</L>
<L>Layes &s;iege vnto the backward buyers grote.</L>
<PB N="64" REF="76">
<L>Which all within is dra&s;tie &s;lutti&s;h geere,</L>
<L>Fit for the Ouen or the Kitching fire:</L>
<L>So this gay gate adds fuell to thy thought,</L>
<L>That &s;uch proud piles were neuer ray&s;'d for nought<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Beat the broad gates, a goodly hollow &s;ound</L>
<L>With doubled Ecchoes doth againe rebound,</L>
<L>But not a Dog doth barke to welcome thee,</L>
<L>Nor churli&s;h Porter can&s;t thou chafing &s;ee:</L>
<L>All dumbe and &s;ilent, like the dead of night,</L>
<L>Or dwelling of &s;ome &s;leepy <HI>Sybarite.</HI></L>
<L>The marble pauement hid with de&s;art weede,</L>
<L>With hou&s;e-leeke, thi&s;tle, docke, &amp; hemlock-&s;eed,</L>
<L>But if thou chance ca&s;t vp thy wondring eyes,</L>
<L>Thou &s;halt di&s;cerne vpon the Fronti&s;pice,</L>
<L>&Ogr;&Ugr;&Lgr;&Egr;&Igr;&Sgr; &Egr;&Igr;&Sgr;&Igr;&Tgr;&OHgr; grauen vp on hie,</L>
<L>A fragment of olde <HI>Platoes</HI> Poe&s;ie:</L>
<L>The meaning is, Sir foole ye may be gone,</L>
<L>Go backe by leaue, for way here lieth none.</L>
<PB N="65" REF="76">
<L>Looke to the towred chymne is which &s;hould bee</L>
<L>The wind-pipes of good ho&s;pitalitie,</L>
<L>Through which it breatheth to the open ayre,</L>
<L>Betokening life and liberall welfaire,</L>
<L>Lo, there th'vnthankfull &s;wallow takes her re&s;t,</L>
<L>And; fils the Tonue<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> with her circled ne&s;t,</L>
<L>Nor halfe that &s;moke from all his chymneies goes</L>
<L>Which one Tabacco-pipe driues through his no&s;e</L>
<L>So rawbone hunger &s;corns the mudded wals,</L>
<L>And gin's to reuell it in Lordly halls;</L>
<L>So<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">the blacke Prince is broken loo&s;e againe</L>
<L>That &s;aw no Sunne &s;aue once (as &s;tories faine)</L>
<L>That once was, when in <HI>Trinacry</HI> I weene</L>
<L>Hee &s;tole the daughter of the harue&s;t Queene,</L>
<L>And grip't the maw<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s of barren <HI>Sicily<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></L>
<L>With long con&s;traint of pinefull penurie;</L>
<L>And they that &s;hould re&s;i&s;t his &s;econd rage,</L>
<L>Haue pen'd them&s;elues vp in the priuate cage</L>
<PB N="66" REF="77">
<L>Of &s;ome blind lane; and their they lurke vnknowne</L>
<L>Till th'hungry tempe&s;t once bee ouerblowne;</L>
<L>Then like the coward, after his neighbours fray,</L>
<L>They creepe forth boldly, and aske where are they?</L>
<L>Meane while the hunger-&s;taru'd Appurtenance</L>
<L>Mu&s;t bide the brunt, what euer ill mi&s;chance;</L>
<L>Grim <HI>Famine</HI> &s;its in their forepined face</L>
<L>All full of angles of vnequall &s;pace,</L>
<L>Like to the plaine of many &s;ided &s;quares,</L>
<L>That wont bee drawne out by Geometars;</L>
<L>So &s;harpe and meager that who &s;hould them &s;ee</L>
<L>Would &s;weare they lately came from <HI>Hungary<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></L>
<L>When their bra&s;&s;e pans and winter couerled,</L>
<L>Haue wipt the maunger of the Ho&s;es<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">bread;</L>
<L>Oh mee; what ods there &s;eemeth twixt their chere,</L>
<L>And the &s;wolne Bezell at an Alehou&s;e fire,</L>
<L>That tonnes in gallons to his bur&s;ten panch,</L>
<L>Who&s;e&s;limy droughts, his draught can neuer &s;tanch?</L>
<PB N="67" REF="77">
<L>For &s;hame ye gallants grow more ho&s;pitall</L>
<L>And turne your needle&s;&s;e wardrop to your Hall:</L>
<L>As laui&s;h <HI>&V;irro</HI> that keepes open doores</L>
<L>Like <HI>Ianus</HI> in the warres,</L>
<L>Except the twelue-daies, or the wakeday-fea&s;t</L>
<L>What time hee needs mu&s;t bee his Co&s;ens gue&s;t,</L>
<L><HI>Philene</HI> hath bid him, can he choo&s;e but come?</L>
<L>Who &s;hould pull <HI>Virroes</HI> &s;leeue to &s;tay at home?</L>
<L>All yeare be&s;ides, who meal-time can attend:</L>
<L>Come <HI>Trebius</HI> welcome to the tables end:</L>
<L>What tho he chires on purer manchets crowne,</L>
<L>Whiles his kind client grindes on blacke &amp; browne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>A iolly rounding of a whole foote broad,</L>
<L>From of the Mong-corne heape &s;hall <HI>Trebius</HI> load<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>What tho hee quaffe pure Ambe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> in his bowle</L>
<L>Of March-brewd wheat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> yet &s;lecks thy thir&s;ting &s;oule</L>
<L>With pali&s;hoat, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">roathing in <HI>Bo&s;ton</HI>-clay</L>
<L>Or in a &s;hallow cru&s;e, nor mu&s;t that &s;tay</L>
<PB N="68" REF="78">
<L>Within thy reach, for feare of thy craz'd braine,</L>
<L>But call and craue, and haue thy cru&s;e againe;</L>
<L>El&s;e how &s;hould euen tale beere gi&s;tred,</L>
<L>Or all thy draughts, on the chalk'd barrels head?</L>
<L>And if he li&s;t reuiue his hartles graine</L>
<L>With &s;ome French grape, or pure <HI>Canariane</HI></L>
<L>When plea&s;ing <HI>B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rdeaux</HI> fals vnto his lott,</L>
<L>Some &s;ow<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;h <HI>Rochell</HI> cuts thy thir&s;ting throate,</L>
<L>What tho him&s;elf<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> carueth his welco<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e friend</L>
<L>With a co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ld pittance from his trenchers-end?</L>
<L>Mu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> lip hang to ward his trencher &s;ide?</L>
<L>Nor ki&s;&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">is fi&s;t to take what doth betide?</L>
<L>What tho to &s;pare thy teeth he emploies thy tongue</L>
<L>In bu&s;ie qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tions all the dinner long?</L>
<L>What tho the &s;cornefull way<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">er lookes askile,</L>
<L>And pouts and frowns, and cur&s;eth thee the while,</L>
<L>And tak<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> his f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rewell with a iealous eye,</L>
<L>At <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> mor&s;ell hee his la&s;t &s;hall &s;ee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<PB N="69" REF="78">
<L>And, if but one exceed the common &s;i&s;e</L>
<L>Or make an hillocke in thy cheeke ari&s;e,</L>
<L>Or if perchance thou &s;houlde&s;t, ere thou wi&s;t,</L>
<L>Hold thy knife vprights in thy griped <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;t,</L>
<L>Or &s;itte&s;t double on thy back-ward &s;eat,</L>
<L>Or with thine elbow &s;had'&s;t thy &s;hared meat;</L>
<L>Hee laughs thee in his fellowes eare to &s;corne,</L>
<L>And asks aloud, where <HI>Trebius</HI> was borne.</L>
<L>Tho the third Sewer takes thee quite away</L>
<L>Without a &s;taffe: when thou would'&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">enger <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tay</L>
<L>What of all this? Is't not inough to &s;ay,</L>
<L>I di<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">'d at <HI>Virro</HI> his owne boord to day?</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="satire">
<PB N="70" REF="79">
<HEAD>SAT. 3.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">&Kgr;&Ogr;&Igr;&Ngr;&Agr; &PHgr;&Igr;&Lgr;&OHgr;&Ngr;.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>THe <HI>Satyre</HI> &s;hould be like the <HI>Porcupine,</HI></L>
<L>That &s;hoots &s;harpe quils out in each angry line,</L>
<L>And wounds the blu&s;hing cheeke, and fiery eye,</L>
<L>Of him that heares, and readeth guiltily.</L>
<L>Ye Antique <HI>Satyres,</HI> how I ble&s;&s;e your daies,</L>
<L>That brook'd your bolder &s;tile, their owne di&s;prai&s;e,</L>
<L>And wel neare wi&s;h; yet ioy my wi&s;h is vaine,</L>
<L>I had beene then, or they were now againe!</L>
<L>For now our eares beene of more brittle mold,</L>
<L>Than tho&s;e dull earthen eares that were of old:</L>
<L>Sith theirs, like anuilles bore the hammers head,</L>
<L>Our gla&s;&s;e can neuer touch vn&s;hiuered.</L>
<PB N="71" REF="79">
<L>But from the a&s;hes of my quiet &s;tile</L>
<L>Hence forth may ri&s;e &s;ome raging rough <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">cile,</HI></L>
<L>That may with <HI>E&s;chylus</HI> both find and le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e</L>
<L>The &s;naky tre&s;&s;es of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">h' <HI>Eumenides:</HI></L>
<L>Meane while, &s;ufficeth mee, the world may &s;ay</L>
<L>That I the&s;e vices loath'd another day,</L>
<L>Which I ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e done with as deuout a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">heer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>As he that rounds Poules<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">pillers in the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">are,</L>
<L>Or bends his ham downe in the naked Queare.</L>
<L>T'was euer &s;aid, <HI>Frontine,</HI> a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d euer &s;een<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L>That golden Clerkes, but wooden Lawyers bene;</L>
<L>Could eu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r wi&s;e man wi&s;h in good e&s;tate</L>
<L>The v&s;e of all things indi&s;criminate?</L>
<L>Who wots not yet how well this did be&s;eeme,</L>
<L>The learned mai&s;ter of the <HI>Academe?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Plato</HI> is dead, and dead is his d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ui&s;e</L>
<L>Which &s;ome thought witty, none thought euer wi&s;e;</L>
<L>Yet certes <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ch<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> is a <HI>Platoni&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI></L>
<PB N="72" REF="80">
<L>To all, they &s;ay, &s;aue who &s;o do not li&s;t,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e her husband a farre-trafi&abque;'d man,</L>
<L>Is a profe&s;t <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eripatecian,</HI></L>
<L>And &s;o our Grand&s;ires were images pa&s;t&punc;</L>
<L>That let their lands lye all &s;o widely wa&s;t,</L>
<L>That nothing was in pale or hedge ypent</L>
<L>Within &s;ome prouince or whole &s;hires extent:</L>
<L>As Nature made the earth, &s;o did it lie,</L>
<L>Saue for the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">urrowes of the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">bandrie;</L>
<L>When as the neighbour-lands &s;o couched layne,</L>
<L>That al<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ore &s;how of one fayre Champian<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"></L>
<L>Some head-le&s;&s;e cro&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e they digged on their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word">,</L>
<L>Or rol'd &s;ome marked M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">-&s;tone in the way<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Poore &s;implemen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> For what mough<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> that auayle</L>
<L>That my fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ld might not <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> neighbours payle</L>
<L>More than a pilled &s;ticke c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tand <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;tead,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ynedo</HI> from his n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ighbours bed</L>
<L>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">re than the thr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d bare <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">li<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nts pouertie</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> th' A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">turney of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">his wo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ted fee?</L>
<PB N="73" REF="80">
<L>If they were thriftle&s;&s;e, mote not we amend,</L>
<L>And with more care our dangered fields defend?</L>
<L>Ech man can gard what thing he deemeth d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L>As fear<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">full Merchants doe their Female heyre,</L>
<L>Which were it not for promi&s;e of their welth,</L>
<L>Need not be &s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lled vp for feare of &s;tealth;</L>
<L>Would rather &s;ticke vpon the Belmans cries,</L>
<L>Tho prof<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rd for a branded <HI>Indians</HI> pric<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L>Then ray&s;e we muddi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l-wark<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s on our ba<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">kes,</L>
<L>B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;et around with treble quic-&s;et rankes,</L>
<L>Or if tho&s;e walles be ouer weak<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> a ward,</L>
<L>The &s;quar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d Bricke may be a better gard.</L>
<L>Go to my thri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tie Yeoman, and vpreare</L>
<L>A brazen wall to &s;hend thy land from feare,</L>
<L>Do &s;o; and I &s;hall prai&s;e thee all the while,</L>
<L>So be, thou &s;take not vp the commo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;til<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">;</L>
<L>So be thou hedge in nought, but what's <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">own<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L>So be thou p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">what <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ithes thy neighbo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rs done,</L>
<L>So be thou let not lye in fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lowed plaine.</L>
<PB N="74" REF="81">
<L>That which was wont yeeld V&s;urie of graine,</L>
<L>But when I &s;ee thy pitched &s;takes do &s;tand</L>
<L>On thy incroched peece of common land,</L>
<L>Whiles thou di&s;commone&s;t thy neighbours keyne,</L>
<L>And warn'&s;t that none <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eed on thy field &s;aue thine;</L>
<L>Brag no more <HI>Scrobius</HI> of thy mudded bankes,</L>
<L>Nor thy deepe ditches, nor three quick &s;et rankes:</L>
<L>Oh happy d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ies of olde <HI>Deucalion.</HI></L>
<L>When one was Land-lord of the world alone!</L>
<L>But now who&s;e choler would not ri&s;e to yeeld</L>
<L>A pe&s;ant halfe-&s;takes of his new-<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">owne field</L>
<L>Whiles yet he may not for the treble price</L>
<L>Buy out the remnant of his royalties?</L>
<L>Go on and thriue my pety Tyrants pride</L>
<L>Scorne thou to liue, if others liue be&s;ide,</L>
<L>And trace proud <HI>Ca&s;tile</HI> that a&s;pires to be</L>
<L>In his old age a yo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ng <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t Monarchie</L>
<L>Or the red Hat that cries the luckle&s;&s;e mayne,</L>
<L>For welthy <HI>Thames</HI> to change his lowly R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ene.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="satire">
<PB N="75" REF="81">
<HEAD>SAT. 4.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Po&s;&s;unt, quia po&s;&s;e videntur.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>VIllius</HI> the welthy farmer left his heire,</L>
<L>Twi&s;e twenty &s;terling pou~ds to &s;pe~d by yeare;</L>
<L>The neighbours pray&s;en <HI>Villios</HI> hide-bound &s;onne,</L>
<L>And &s;ay it was a goodly portion;</L>
<L>Not knowing <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ow &s;ome Marchants dowre can ri&s;e,</L>
<L>By &s;undaies tale to fiftie <HI>Centuries;</HI></L>
<L>Or to weigh downe a leaden Bride with Gold;</L>
<L>Worth all that <HI>Matho</HI> bought, or <HI>Pontice</HI> &s;old:</L>
<L>But whiles ten pound goes to his wiues new gown,</L>
<L>Nor little le&s;&s;e can &s;erue to &s;ute his owne,</L>
<L>Whiles one peece payes her idle wayting man,</L>
<L>Or buyes an hoode, or &s;iluer-handled Fann<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<PB N="76" REF="82">
<L>Or hires a <HI>Friezeland<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> Trotter halfe yarde deepe,</L>
<L>To d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ag his Tu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nbrell through the &s;taring Cheape</L>
<L>Or whiles he rideth with two liueries,</L>
<L>And'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> treble rated at the Sub<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ies,</L>
<L>One end a kennell keeps of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ounds,</L>
<L>What thinke yo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> re&s;t's of all my younkers pounds,</L>
<L>To diet him, or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eale out at his doore,</L>
<L>To cofer vp, or &s;tocke his wa&s;ting &s;tore?</L>
<L>If then I reckon'd right, it &s;hould appeare,</L>
<L>That &s;ourtie pounds &s;erue not the Farmers hey<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>Finis. Lib. <HI>2.</HI></TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="6" TYPE="book">
<DIV2 TYPE="half title">
<PB REF="82">
<P>VIRGIDEMIARVM LIB. 6.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="satire">
<PB N="80" REF="83">
<HEAD><HI>SAT.</HI> 1.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>Or like a painted &s;taring <HI>Saracin;</HI></L>
<L>His che<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ks chang<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> hew like th'ayre-fed vermin skin</L>
<L>Now red, now pale, and &s;wolne aboue his eyes</L>
<L>Like to the old <HI>Colo&s;&s;ian</HI> imageries:</L>
<L>But when he doth of my recanting heare;</L>
<L>Away ye angrie fires, and fro&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">es of feare,</L>
<L>Giu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> place vnto his hopefull tempered thought</L>
<L>That yeelds to peace, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">re euer peace be &s;ought:</L>
<L>Then l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t me now repentmee of my <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ge,</L>
<L>For writing <HI>Satyres</HI> in &s;o righteous age:</L>
<L>Whereas I &s;hould haue &s;trok't her towardly head,</L>
<L>And cry'd <HI>Eu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e</HI> in my <HI>Satyres</HI> &s;tead,</L>
<L>Sith now not one of thou&s;and does ami&s;&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Was neuer age I weene &s;o pure as th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s:</L>
<L>As pure as olde <HI>Labulla</HI> from the Baynes,</L>
<L>As pure as through<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">fare Channels when it raynes,</L>
<L>As pure as is a Black-moores face by night,</L>
<L>As dung<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">clad skin of dying <HI>Heraclite.</HI></L>
<PB N="81" REF="83">
<L>Seeke ouer all the world, and tell mee where</L>
<L>Thou find'&s;t a proud man, or a flatterer:</L>
<L>A thie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e, a drunkard, or a parricide,</L>
<L>A lechor, lyer, or what vice be&s;ide?</L>
<L>Merchants are no whit couetous of late,</L>
<L>Nor make no mart of Time, gaine of Deceipt.</L>
<L>Patrons are hone&s;t now, ore they of olde,</L>
<L>Can now no ben<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">fice be bought nor&s;old,</L>
<L>Giue him a gelding, or &s;ome two-yeares tythe,</L>
<L>For he all bribes and <HI>Sim<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ny</HI> defi'th.</L>
<L>Is not one Pick<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">thanke &s;tirring in the Court,</L>
<L>That &s;eld was free till now by all report,</L>
<L>But &s;ome one, like a clawbacke para&s;ite,</L>
<L>Pick't mothes from his ma&s;ters Cloake in &s;ight,</L>
<L>Whiles he could picke out both his eyes for need,</L>
<L>Mought they but &s;tand him in &s;ome better &s;teed.</L>
<L>Nor now no more &s;mell-fea&s;t <HI>Vitellio</HI></L>
<L>Smiles on his ma&s;ter for a meale or two;</L>
<PB N="82" REF="84">
<L>And loues him in his maw, loaths in his heart,</L>
<L>Yet &s;oothes, and yeas, and nayes on eyther part.</L>
<L><HI>Tattelius</HI> the new-come traueller,</L>
<L>With his di&s;gui&s;ed cote, and ringed <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">are,</L>
<L>Trampling the Bur&s;es Marble twi&s;e a day,</L>
<L>Tels nothing but &s;tarke trueths I dare well &s;ay,</L>
<L>Nor would he haue them knowne for any thing,</L>
<L>Tho all the vault of his loud murmur ring.</L>
<L>Not one man tels a lye of all the yeare</L>
<L>Except the <HI>Almanacke</HI> or the <HI>Chronicler.</HI></L>
<L>But not a man of all the damned crue</L>
<L>For hils of Gold would &s;weare the thing vntrue.</L>
<L><HI>Pan&s;ophus</HI> now though all in the cold &s;wat</L>
<L>Dares venture through the feared Ca&s;tle<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">gate,</L>
<L>Albee the faithfull Oracles haue <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">or&s;ayne,</L>
<L>The wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;t Senator &s;hall there be &s;laine:</L>
<L>That made him long keepe home as well it might,</L>
<L>Till now he hopeth of &s;ome wi&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r wight.</L>
<PB N="83" REF="84">
<L>The vale of Stand<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">gate, or the S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ters hill,</L>
<L>Or we&s;terne plaine are free from feared ill.</L>
<L>Let him that hath nought, feare nought I areed:</L>
<L>But he that hath ought; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y him; and God &s;peed;</L>
<L>Nor drunken <HI>Dennis</HI> doth by breake of day</L>
<L>Stumble into blind Tauerns by the way,</L>
<L>And reele me homeward at the Euening &s;tarre,</L>
<L>Or ride more <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;ely in his neighbours chayre.</L>
<L>Well might the&s;e checks haue fitted former times</L>
<L>And &s;houldred angry <HI>Sk<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ltons</HI> breath-le&s;&s;e rimes:</L>
<L>Ere <HI>Chry&s;alus</HI> had <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ar'd the common boxe,</L>
<L>Which ear&s;t he pick't to &s;tore his priuate &s;tocks;</L>
<L>But now <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ath all with vantage paid againe;</L>
<L>And locks and plates what doth behind remaine;</L>
<L>When ear&s;t our dry-&s;oul'd Syres &s;o laui&s;h were,</L>
<L>To charge whole boots-full to their friends wel-fare;</L>
<L>Now &s;halt thou neuer &s;ee the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">alt be&s;et</L>
<L>With a big-bellied gallon Flagonet.</L>
<PB N="84" REF="85">
<L>Of an ebbe <HI>Cruce</HI> mu&s;t thir&s;ty <HI>Silen</HI> &s;ip,</L>
<L>That's all fore&s;talled by his vpper lip;</L>
<L>Somewhat it was that made his paunch &s;o peare,</L>
<L>His girdle fell ten ynches in a yeare.</L>
<L>Or when old go<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ty bed-rid <HI>Euclio</HI></L>
<L>To his officious factor fayre could &s;how,</L>
<L>His name in margent of &s;ome olde ca&s;tbyll</L>
<L>And &s;ay; Lo whom I named i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> my will:</L>
<L>Whiles hee beleeues and looking for the &s;hare,</L>
<L>Tendeth his cumbrous charge with bu&s;y care;</L>
<L>For but a while; Fornow he &s;ure will die,</L>
<L>By his &s;trange qualme of liberalitie:</L>
<L>Great thanks he giues: but God him &s;heild &amp; &s;aue</L>
<L>From euer gayning by his ma&s;ters graue;</L>
<L>Onely liue long, and he is well repaide,</L>
<L>A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d weats his forced cheeks whiles thus he &s;aid,</L>
<L>Some <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">rong-&s;meld Onion &s;hall <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tirre his eyes</L>
<L>Rather than no &s;alt teares &s;hall then ari&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<PB N="85" REF="85">
<L>So lookes he like a Marble toward rayne,</L>
<L>And wrings and &s;nites, and weeps, &amp; wipes againe,</L>
<L>Then turnes his backe and &s;miles &amp; looke askance,</L>
<L>Sea&s;oning againe his &s;owred countenance,</L>
<L>Whiles yet he wearyes he auen with daily cryes,</L>
<L>And backward Death with deuout &s;acrifice,</L>
<L>That they would now his tedious gho&s;t bereauen,</L>
<L>And wi&s;hes well, that wi&s;h't no wor&s;e than heauen.</L>
<L>When <HI>Zoylus</HI> was &s;icke, he knew not where</L>
<L>Saue his wrought night<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">cap, and laun<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Pillow-bere:</L>
<L>Kind fooles; they made him &s;icke that made him fine</L>
<L>Take tho&s;e away, and thers his medicine:</L>
<L>Or <HI>Gellia</HI> wore a veluet Ma&s;tick-patch</L>
<L>Vpon her temples when no tooth did ach,</L>
<L>When <HI>Beauty</HI> was her Reume I &s;oone e&s;pide,</L>
<L>Nor could her plai&s;ter cure her of her pride.</L>
<L>The&s;e vices were, but now they cea&s;'d off long:</L>
<L>Then why did I a righteous age that wrong,</L>
<PB N="86" REF="86">
<L>I would repent mee were it not too late,</L>
<L>Were not the angry world preiudicate:</L>
<L>If all the &s;euens penetentiall</L>
<L>Or thou&s;and white wands might me ought auaile,</L>
<L>If <HI>Trent</HI> or <HI>Thames</HI> could &s;coure my foule offence</L>
<L>And &s;et me in my former innocence,</L>
<L>I would at la&s;t repent me of my rage:</L>
<L>Now; beare my wrong, I thine, O righteous age<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>As for fine wits an hundreth thou&s;and fold</L>
<L>Pa&s;&s;eth our age what euer times of olde.</L>
<L>For in that <HI>Pui&s;-n&egrave;</HI> world, our &s;yres of long</L>
<L>Could hardly wagge the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r too-vnweldy tongue</L>
<L>As pined Crowes and parats can doe now,</L>
<L>When hoary age did bend their wrincled brow:</L>
<L>And now of late did many a learned man</L>
<L>Serue thirtie yeares Prenti-&s;hip with <HI>Pri&s;cian,</HI></L>
<L>But now can euery Nouice &s;peake with ea&s;e</L>
<L>The far fetch'd language of th'-<HI>Antipodes.</HI></L>
<PB N="87" REF="86">
<L>Would'&s;t thou the tongues that ear&s;t were learned hight</L>
<L>Tho our wi&s;e age hath wipt them of their right;</L>
<L>Would'&s;t thou the Courtly Three in mo&s;t reque&s;t,</L>
<L>Or the two barba<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ous neighbours of the we&s;t?</L>
<L><HI>Bibinu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> &s;elfe can haue ten tongues in one,</L>
<L>Tho in all Ten not one good tongue alone.</L>
<L>And can deepe skill lye &s;mothering within</L>
<L>Whiles neither &s;moke nor flame di&s;cerned bin?</L>
<L>Shall it not be a wild-fig in a wall</L>
<L>Or fired Brim&s;tone in a Minerall?</L>
<L>Doe thou di&s;daine, O ouer-learned age,</L>
<L>The tongue-ty'de &s;ilence of that <HI>Samian</HI> &s;age;</L>
<L>Forth ye fine wits, and ru&s;h into the pre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And for the cloyed world your workes addre&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>Is not a Gnat, nor Fly, nor &s;eely Ant,</L>
<L>But a fine wit can make an Elephant;</L>
<L>Should <HI>Bandels</HI> Thro&s;tle die without a &s;ong,</L>
<L>Or <HI>Adamantius</HI> my Dog be laid along,</L>
<PB N="88" REF="87">
<L>Downe in &s;ome ditch without his Exequies,</L>
<L>Or Epitaphs<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> or mournfull Elegies?</L>
<L>Folly it&s;elfe, and baldnes may be prai&s;ed,</L>
<L>And &s;weet conceits from filthy obiects rai&s;ed;</L>
<L>What doe not fine wits dare to vndertake?</L>
<L>What dare not fine wits doe for honours &s;ake?</L>
<L>But why doth <HI>Balbus</HI> his dead-doing quill</L>
<L>Parch in his ru&s;tie &s;cabbard all the while,</L>
<L>His golden Fleece ore-growne with moldy hore</L>
<L>As tho he had his witty workes for&s;wore?</L>
<L>Belike of late now <HI>Balbus</HI> hath no need,</L>
<L>Nor now belike his &s;hrinking &s;houlders dread</L>
<L>The Catch-poles fi&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> The Pre&s;&s;e may &s;till remaine</L>
<L>And breath, till <HI>Balbus</HI> be in debt againe.</L>
<L>Soone may that bee; &s;o I had &s;ilent beene,</L>
<L>And not thus rak't vp quiet crimes vn&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ene.</L>
<L>Silence is &s;afe, when &s;aying &s;tirreth &s;ore</L>
<L>And makes the &s;tirred puddle &s;tinke the more.</L>
<PB N="89" REF="87">
<L>Shall the controller of proud <HI>Neme&s;is</HI></L>
<L>In lawle&s;&s;e rage vpbraid ech others vice,</L>
<L>While no man &s;eeketh to reflect the wrong</L>
<L>And curb the raunge of his mi&s;-ruly tongue?</L>
<L>By the two crownes of <HI>Perna&s;&s;e</HI> euer-greene,</L>
<L>And by the clouen head of <HI>Hippocrene</HI></L>
<L>As I true Poet am, I here auow</L>
<L>(So &s;olemnly ki&s;t he his Laurell bow)</L>
<L>If that bold <HI>Satyre</HI> vnreuenged be</L>
<L>For this &s;o &s;aucy and foule iniurie.</L>
<L>So <HI>Labeo</HI> weens it my eternall &s;hame</L>
<L>To proue I neuer earnd a Poets name.</L>
<L>But would I be a Poet if I might,</L>
<L>To rub my browes three daies &amp; wake three nights,</L>
<L>And bite my nayles, and &s;crat my dullard head,</L>
<L>And cur&s;e the backward Mu&s;es on my bed</L>
<L>About one peeui&s;h &s;yllable: which out-&s;ought</L>
<L>I take vp <HI>Thales</HI> ioy, &s;aue for fore-thought</L>
<PB N="90" REF="88">
<L>How it &s;hall plea&s;e ech Ale-knights cen&s;uring eye,</L>
<L>And hang'd my head for feare they deeme awry;</L>
<L>Whiles thred-bare Martiall turnes his merry note</L>
<L>To beg of <HI>Rufus</HI> a ca&s;t winter cote;</L>
<L>Whiles hungry <HI>Marot</HI> leapeth at a Beane</L>
<L>And dieth like a &s;taru'd <HI>Cappucien;</HI></L>
<L>Go <HI>Ario&s;t,</HI> and gape for what may fall</L>
<L>From Trench<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r of a flattering Cardinall,</L>
<L>And if thou gette&s;t but a Pedants fee</L>
<L>Thy bed, thy board, and cour&s;er liuerie,</L>
<L>O honour farre beyond a brazen &s;hrine</L>
<L>To <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">it with <HI>Tarleton</HI> on an Ale<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">po&s;ts &s;igne!</L>
<L>Who had but liued in <HI>Augu&s;tus</HI> daies</L>
<L>T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ad beene &s;ome honour to be crown'd with Bayes</L>
<L>When <HI>Luca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> &s;treaked on his Marble-bed</L>
<L>To thinke of <HI>C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;ar,</HI> and great <HI>Pompeys</HI> deed;</L>
<L>Or when <HI>Archelaus</HI> &s;hau'd his mourning head</L>
<L>Soone as he heard <HI>Ste<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">icho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">us</HI> was dead.</L>
<L>Atlea&s;t would &s;ome good body of the re&s;t,</L>
<PB N="91" REF="88">
<L>Set a Gold-pen on their bay-wreathed Cre&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Or would the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r face in &s;tamped coyne expre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>As did the <HI>Mytelens</HI> their Poete&s;&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Now as it is, be&s;hrew him if he might,</L>
<L>That would his browes with <HI>Cae&s;ars</HI> Laurell dight:</L>
<L>Tho what ayl'd mee, I might not well as they</L>
<L>Rake vp &s;ome forwo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ne tales that &s;mothered lay</L>
<L>In chimny corners &s;mok'd with winter-fires,</L>
<L>To read and rocke a &s;leepe our drouzy Syres<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>No man his thre&s;hold better knowes, than I</L>
<L><HI>Brutes</HI> fir&s;t ariuall, and fir&s;t victory,</L>
<L>Saint <HI>Georges</HI> Sorrell, or his cro&s;te of blood,</L>
<L><HI>Arthurs</HI> round Board, or <HI>Caledonian</HI> wood,</L>
<L>Or holy battels of bold <HI>Charlemaine,</HI></L>
<L>What were his knights did <HI>Salems</HI> &s;ieg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> maintaine;</L>
<L>How the mad Riuall of fayre <HI>Angelice</HI></L>
<L>Was Phi&s;ick't from the new-found Par<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">dice;</L>
<L>High &s;tories they; which with their &s;welling &s;traine</L>
<L>Haue riuen <HI>Frontoes</HI> broad Rehear&s;all Plaine,</L>
<PB N="92" REF="89">
<L>But &s;o to fill vp bookes both backe and &s;ide</L>
<L>What needs it? Are there not enow be&s;ide?</L>
<L>O age well thriuen and well fortunate,</L>
<L>When ech man hath a Mu&s;e appropriate,</L>
<L>And &s;he like to &s;ome &s;eruile <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">are<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">boar'd &s;laue</L>
<L>Mu&s;t play and &s;ing when and what he would h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ue!</L>
<L>Would that were all: &s;mall fault in number lies,</L>
<L>Were not the feare from whence it &s;hould ari&s;e</L>
<L>But can it be ought but a &s;purious &s;eede,</L>
<L>That growes &s;o rife in &s;uch vnlikely &s;peed?</L>
<L>Sith <HI>Pontian</HI> left his barren wife at home,</L>
<L>And &s;pent two yeares at <HI>Venice</HI> and at <HI>Rome,</HI></L>
<L>Returned, heares his ble&s;&s;ing askt of three,</L>
<L>Cries out, O <HI>Iulian</HI> law, Adulterie?</L>
<L>Tho <HI>Labeo</HI> reaches right: (who can deny?)</L>
<L>The true &s;trayne's of <HI>Heroic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e</HI> Poe&s;ie:</L>
<L>For he can tell how fury re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> his &s;en&s;e</L>
<L>And <HI>Phoebus</HI> fild him with intelligence,</L>
<PB N="93" REF="89">
<L>He can implore the heath en deites</L>
<L>To guide his bold and bu&s;ie enterpri&s;e;</L>
<L>Or filch whole Pages at a clap for need</L>
<L>From hone&s;t <HI>Petrarch,</HI> clad in Engli&s;h weed;</L>
<L>While bigge <HI>But ohs</HI> ech &s;tranzae can begin,</L>
<L>Who&s;e trunke and tayle &s;lutti&s;h and hartle&s;&s;e bin;</L>
<L>He knows the grace of that new elegance,</L>
<L>Which &s;weet <HI>Phili&s;ides</HI> fetch't of late from <HI>France,</HI></L>
<L>That well be&s;eem'd his high-&s;til'd <HI>Arcady,</HI></L>
<L>Tho others marre it with much liberty,</L>
<L>In Epithets to ioyne two wordes in one,</L>
<L>For&s;ooth for Adiectiues cannot &s;tand alone;</L>
<L>As a great Poet could of <HI>Bacchus</HI> &s;ay,</L>
<L>That he was <HI>Semele-femori-gena.</HI></L>
<L>La&s;tly he names the &s;pirit of <HI>A&s;trophel:</HI></L>
<L>Now hath not <HI>Labeo</HI> done wondrous well?</L>
<L>But ere his Mu&s;e her weapon learne to weild.</L>
<PB N="94" REF="90">
<L>Or dance a &s;ober <HI>Pirrhicke</HI> in the field,</L>
<L>Or marching wade in blood vp to the knees,</L>
<L>Her <HI>Arma Vir&ucirc;m</HI> goes by two degrees,</L>
<L>The &s;heepe-cote fir&s;t hath beene her nur&s;ery</L>
<L>Where &s;he hath worne her ydle infancy,</L>
<L>And in hy &s;tartups walk't the pa&s;tur'd plaines</L>
<L>To tend her tasked her<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> that there remaines,</L>
<L>And winded &s;till a pipe of Ote or Brere</L>
<L>Striuing for wages who the prai&s;e &s;hall beare;</L>
<L>As did whilere the homely <HI>Carmelite</HI></L>
<L>Following <HI>Virgil,</HI> and he <HI>Theocrite;</HI></L>
<L>Or el&s;e hath beene in <HI>Venus</HI> Chamber train'd</L>
<L>To play with <HI>Cupid,</HI> till &s;hee had attain'd</L>
<L>To comment well vpon a beauteous face,</L>
<L>Then was &s;he fit for an Heroicke place;</L>
<L>As wittie <HI>Pontan</HI> in great earne&s;t &s;aid</L>
<L>His Mi&s;tres bre&s;ts were like two weights of lead,</L>
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<L>Another thinks her teeth might likened bee</L>
<L>To two fayre rankes of pales of yuory,</L>
<L>To &s;ence in &s;ure the wild bea&s;t of her tongue,</L>
<L>From eyther going farre, or going wrong;</L>
<L>Her grinders like two Chalk-&s;tones in a mill,</L>
<L>Which &s;hall with time and wearing waxe as ill</L>
<L>As old <HI>Catillaes<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> which wont euery night</L>
<L>Lay vp her holly pegs till next day-light,</L>
<L>And with them grinds &s;oft-&s;impring all the day,</L>
<L>When lea&s;t her laughter &s;hould her gums be wray</L>
<L>Her hands mu&s;t hide her mouth if &s;he but &s;mile;</L>
<L>Fayne would &s;he &s;eeme all frixe and frolicke &s;till.</L>
<L>Her forehead fayre is like a brazen hill</L>
<L>Who&s;e wrincled furrows which her age doth breed</L>
<L>Are dawbed full of <HI>Venice</HI> chalke for need<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Her eyes like &s;iluer &s;auce<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s fayre be&s;et</L>
<L>With &s;hining Amber and with &s;hady Iet</L>
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<L>Her lids like <HI>Cupids</HI>-bow, ca&s;e where he hides</L>
<L>The weapons which doth wound the wanton-eyde.</L>
<L>Her chin like <HI>Pindus</HI> or <HI>Perna&s;&s;us</HI> hill</L>
<L>Where down de&s;cends th'oreflowing &s;tream doth fil</L>
<L>The well of her <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ayre mouth<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Ech hath <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">is prai&s;e.</L>
<L>Who would not but wed Poets now a daies!</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="satire">
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<HEAD>&Rgr;&Ogr;&Mgr;&EEgr; &Rgr;&Ugr;&Mgr;&EEgr;. SAT. 2.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>VVHo &s;ay's the&s;e Romi&s;h Pageants bene too hy</L>
<L>To be the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">corne of &s;portfull Poe&s;y?</L>
<L>Certes not all the world &s;uch matter wi&s;t</L>
<L>As are the &s;euen hils, for a <HI>S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tiry&s;t.</HI></L>
<L>Perdy, Iloath an hundreth <HI>Mathoes</HI> tongues,</L>
<L>An hundreth ga<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ters &s;hifts, or Land-lords wrongs,</L>
<L>Or <HI>Labeos</HI> Poems, or ba&s;e <HI>Lolios</HI> pride,</L>
<L>Or euer what I thought or wrote be&s;ide;</L>
<L>When once I thinke if carping <HI>Aquines</HI> &s;pright</L>
<L>To &s;ee now Rome, were licenc'd to the light;</L>
<L>How his enraged Gho&s;t would &s;tampe and &s;ta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>That <HI>Cae&s;ars</HI> throne is turn'd to <HI>Peters</HI> chayre.</L>
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<L>To &s;ee an old &s;horne <HI>Loze<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> perched hy</L>
<L>Cro&s;&s;ing beneath a golden <HI>Canopy,</HI></L>
<L>The whiles a thou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">and hairele&s;&s;e crownes crouch low</L>
<L>To ki&s;&s;e the precious ca&s;e of his proud Toe,</L>
<L>And for the Lordly <HI>Fa&s;ces</HI> borne of old,</L>
<L>To &s;ee two quiet cro&s;&s;ed keyes of gold,</L>
<L>Or <HI>Cyb<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">les</HI> &s;hrine, the famous <HI>Panth<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ons</HI> frame</L>
<L>Turn'd to the honour of our Ladies name.</L>
<L>But that he mo&s;t would gaze and wonder at,</L>
<L>Is th'ho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ned Miter, and the bloudy hat,</L>
<L>The crooked &s;taffe, their coules &s;trang forme and &s;tore,</L>
<L>Saue that he &s;aw the fame in hell before,</L>
<L>To &s;ee their broken Nuns with new<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;horne heads,</L>
<L>In a blind Cloy&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">er to&s;&s;e their idle Beades,</L>
<L>Or Louzy coules come &s;moking from the &s;tewes,</L>
<L>To ray&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Leud Rent to their Lord accrewes,</L>
<L>(Who with ranke <HI>Ve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ice</HI> doth his pompe aduance</L>
<L>By trading of ten thou&s;and Curtizans)</L>
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<L>Yet backward mu&s;t ab&s;olue a females &s;inne,</L>
<L>Like to a fal&s;e di&s;&s;embling <HI>Theatine,</HI></L>
<L>Who when his skinne is red with &s;hirts of male</L>
<L>And rugged haire-cloath &s;coures his greazy nayle,</L>
<L>Or wedding garment tames his &s;tubborne backe,</L>
<L>Which his h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">mpe girdle dies all blew and blacke.</L>
<L>Or of his Almes-Boule three daies &s;up'd and din'd,</L>
<L>Trudges to open &s;tewes of eyther kinde<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Or takes &s;ome Cardinals &s;table in the way,</L>
<L>And with &s;ome pampered Mule doth we are the day</L>
<L>Kept for his Lords owne &s;adle when him li&s;t.</L>
<L>Come <HI>Valentine,</HI> and play the Satyri&s;t,</L>
<L>To &s;ee poore &s;ucklings welcom'd to the light</L>
<L>With <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">earing yrons of &s;ome &s;owre <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">acobite,</HI></L>
<L>Or golden offers of an aged foole</L>
<L>To make his Coffin &s;ome <HI>Franci&s;cans</HI> coule,</L>
<L>To &s;ee the Pop<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s blacke knight, a cloked <HI>Frer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></L>
<L>Sweating in the channell like a <HI>Scauengere.</HI></L>
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<L>Whom ear&s;t thy bowed hamme did lowly greete,</L>
<L>When at the Corner-Cro&s;&s;e thou did'&s;t him meete,</L>
<L>Tumbling his <HI>Ro&s;aries</HI> hanging at his belt</L>
<L>Or his <HI>Barretta,</HI> or his towred felt,</L>
<L>To &s;ee a la&s;ie dumbe <HI>Acholit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ite</HI></L>
<L>Armed again&s;t a deuout Flyes de&s;pight,</L>
<L>Which at th'hy Altar doth the <HI>Chalice</HI> vaile</L>
<L>With a broad Flie-flappe of a <HI>Peacockes</HI> tayle,</L>
<L>The whiles the likerous Prie&s;t &s;pits euery trice</L>
<L>With longing for his morning Sacrifice,</L>
<L>Which he reres vp quite perpendiculare,</L>
<L>That the mid Church doth &s;pite the <HI>Chancels</HI> fare,</L>
<L>Beating their emptie mawes that would be fed,</L>
<L>With the &s;cant mor&s;els of the <HI>Sacri&s;ts</HI> bread.</L>
<L>Would he not laugh to death, when he &s;hould heare</L>
<L>The &s;hamele&s;&s;e Legends of <HI>S. Chri&s;topher,</HI></L>
<L><HI>S. George,</HI> the &s;leepers, or <HI>S. Peters</HI> well,</L>
<L>Or of his daughter good S. <HI>Petronell.</HI></L>
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<L>But had he heard the Female Fathers grone,</L>
<L>Yeaning in mids of her proce&s;&s;ion;</L>
<L>Or now &s;hould &s;ee the needle&s;&s;e tryall-chayre,</L>
<L>(When ech is proued by his ba&s;tard heyre)</L>
<L>Or &s;aw the Churches, and new Calendere</L>
<L>Pe&s;tred with mungrell Saints, and reliques dere,</L>
<L>Should hee cry out on <HI>Codr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">'s</HI> t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">dious Toomes,</L>
<L>Whe~ his new rage would aske no narrower rooms?</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
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<BACK>
<DIV1 TYPE="postscript">
<PB REF="94">
<HEAD>A Po&s;t-&s;cript to the Reader.</HEAD>
<P>IT is not for euery one to rell<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;h a true and naturall Satyre, being of it &s;elfe be&s;ide<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> the nat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ue and in b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ed b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rnes and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">artnes of particul<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rs, both hard of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> and har&s;h of &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">le, and therefore cannot but be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> ea&s;ing bo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n to the vn&s;kil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ull, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">uer M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;icall ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e, the one being affected with on<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ly a &s;hallow and ea&s;ie m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tte<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e other with a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">moth and currant d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;po&s;ition: &s;o that I wel<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> fore&s;ee in the timely publication of the&s;e my concealed Satyres, I am &s;et v|pon the ra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ke of many m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rcile&s;&s;e and peremptori<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> cen&s;ures. which &s;ith the cal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;t &amp; mo&s;t plau&s;ible writer is almo&s;t fatally &s;ubiect vnto in the curio&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tie of the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e nicer times, how may I hope to be exempted vpon the occa&s;ion of &s;o bu&s;y and &s;tirring a &s;ubi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ct? One thinkes it mi&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">belee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ing the Author, becau<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e a Poeme: another vnlawfull <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n it&s;elfe becau&s;e a Sa|tyre; a third harmefull to others for the &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">arpne&s;&s;e &amp; a fou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">th vn&s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y rl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ke<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> for the mildne&s;&s;e: T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e learned too per<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">picuous, being nam<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d with luuenall, P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r&s;ius, and the other ancient Sa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">yres; The <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">earned, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">auourle&s;&s;e, becau&s;e too ob<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ure, and ob<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> becau&s;e not <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">der the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> reach. What a mon&s;ter mu&s;t he be th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t would plea&s;e a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l?</P>
<P>Certa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y looke what we<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">er it would be if euery Alma|na<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ke &s;hould be ver<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">fied; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">uch what l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ke P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ms, if <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">uery fan|cie &s;hould be &s;uted. It is not for th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s kinde <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">e or hope to plea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e, which naturaily &s;hould onely fin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e plea&s;ure in di&s;|plea&s;ing; notwith&s;tanding <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">f the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ult find<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">g with the vi|ces of the time ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> hone&s;tly acc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rd with the good will of the parti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s, I had as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">al<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> my &s;el<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> a &s;lender <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">|polog<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">, a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> wilf<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lly b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">are <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">nt of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nger in my &s;ilence. For Poetrie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> after the &s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> all and a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;o|lu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e indeauour<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">f her <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">onouted Pat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ons, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">yther &s;hee nee|deth no new defence, or el&s;e might w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ll <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">rne the offer
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of &s;o impotent and poore a Client. Onely for my owne part; tho were &s;hee a more vnworthy Mi&s;tre&s;&s;e, I thinke &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e might be inoffen&s;iuely &s;erued with the broken Me&s;&s;es of our twelue-a-clocke houres, which homely &s;eruice &s;he onely cla|med &amp; found of mee, for that &s;hort while of my attendance: yet h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">uing thus &s;oone taken my &s;olemne Farewell of her, and &s;haked hande<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> with all her r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tinue, why &s;hould it be an eye-fore vnto any, &s;ith it can be no lo&s;&s;e to my &s;elfe?</P>
<P>For my Satyres them&s;elues, I &s;ee two obuious cauils to be an&s;wered. One concerning the matter; then which I con|fe&s;&s;e none can be more open to dang<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r, to enuie, &s;ith f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lts loath nothing more than the light, and men loue nothing more than their faults, and therefore what through the na|ture of the faults, and fault of the per&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ns, it is impo&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ble &s;o violent an appeachment &s;hould be quietly brooked. But why &s;hould vices be vnblamed for feare of blame? and if thou mai&s;t &s;pit vpon a Toade vnuenomed, why mai&s;t thou not &s;peake of a vice without danger? E&s;pecially &s;o wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ily as I haue indeauoured, who in the vnpartiall mention of &s;o ma|ny vices, may &s;afely profe&s;&s;e to b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> altogether guiltle&s;&s;e in my &s;elfe to the intention of any guiltie perion who might be ble|mi&s;hed by the likelyhood of my conceiued application, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">her|upon choo&s;ing rather to marre mine owne ver&s;e than ano|thers name: which notwith <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">anding if the iniurious R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">der &s;hall wre&s;t to his owne &s;pight, and d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;parraging of others, it is a &s;hort an&s;were: Art thou guiltie? complaine not, thou art not wronged: art thou guiltles? complaine not, thou art not touched. The other concerning the manner, where in perhaps too mu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">h &s;touping to the lowe rea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">h of the vul|gar, I &s;halbe <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hought not to haue any whit kindly ra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ght my ancient Roman predece&s;&s;ors, whom in the want of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> late and familiar pre&s;idents I am con&s;trained thus farre of to
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imitate: which thing I can be &s;o willing to graunt, that I am further readie to warrant my action therein to any indiffe|rent cen&s;ure. Fir&s;t therefore I dare boldly auouch that the Engli&s;h is not altogether &s;o naturall to a Satyre as the Latin, which I doe not impute to the nature of the language it &s;elfe, being &s;o farre from di&s;abling it any way, that me thinks I dur&s;t equallit to the proude&s;t in euery re|&s;pect, but to that which is common to it with all other com|mon languages Italian, French, Germaine, &amp;c. in their Poe|&s;ies, the fettering together the Series of the ver&s;es, with the bondes of like cadence or de&s;inence of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ime, which if it be vnu&s;ually abrupt, and not dependent in &s;ence vpon &s;o neere affinitie of words, I know not what a loath&s;ome kinde of har&s;hnes a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d di&s;cordance it bread<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">th to any iudiciall eare: which if any more confident aduer&s;arie &s;hall gain&s;ay, I wi&s;h no better triall than the tralation of one of <HI>Per&s;ius</HI> his Satyrs into Engli&s;h; the difficultie and di&s;&s;onance wherof, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hall make good my a&s;&s;ertion: be&s;ides the plaine experience thereof in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he Satyres of Ario&s;to, (&s;aue which, and one ba&s;e french Sa|tyre, I could neuer attaine the view of any for my direction, and that al&s;o might for neede &s;erue <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">or an excu&s;e at lea&s;t) who&s;e chaine-ver&s;e to which <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e fettereth him&s;elfe, as it maie well afford a plea&s;ing harmony to the eare, &s;o can it yeeld no|thing but a fla&s;hy and loo&s;e conceyt to the iudgement. Wher|as the Roman numbers tying but one foote to another, offereth a greater freedome of varietie, with much more delight to the reader. Let my &s;econd ground be, the well knowne daintines of the time, &s;uch, that men rather choo&s;e carele&s;ly to lea&s;e the &s;weete of the kernell, than to vrge their teeth with breaking of the &s;hell wherein it is wrap|ped: and therfore &s;ith that which is vn&s;eene is almo&s;t vn|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">one, and that is almo&s;t vn&s;eene which is vnconceiued, either
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I would &s;ay nothing to be vntalkt of, or &s;peake with my mouth open that I may be vnder&s;tood. Thirdly the end of this paines was a Satyre, but the end of my Satyre a further good, which whether I attaine or no I know not, but let me be plaine, with hope of profit, rather than purpo&s;ely ob&s;cure onely for a bare names &s;ake.</P>
<P>Notwith&s;tanding in the expectation of this quarrell, I thinke my fir&s;t Satyre doth &s;omewhat re&s;emble the &s;oure and crabbed face of Iuuenals, which I indeauouring in that, did determinately omit in the re&s;t, for the&s;e forenamed cau&s;es, that &s;o I might haue &s;omewhat to &s;toppe the mouth of euery accu&s;er. The re&s;t, to each mans cen&s;ure: which let be as fa|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ourable, as &s;o thankle&s;&s;e a work can de&s;erue or de&s;ire.</P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P>After this impre&s;&s;ion was fini&s;hed, vpon the Authors know|ledge, I had the view of a more perfect Copy, wherein wer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> the&s;e additions and corrections, which I thought good to place here, de&s;iring the reader to referre them to their pla|ces.</P>
<P><HI>Additions.</HI></P>
<P>Betweene the <HI>10.</HI> and <HI>11.</HI> line of the <HI>16.</HI> page.</P>
<L>While yet he rou&s;teth at &s;ome vncouch &s;igne</L>
<L>Nor neuerred his Tenures &s;econd line.</L>
<P>&Rgr;&ogr;&mgr;&eegr; &Rgr;&ugr;&mgr;&eegr;. <HI>SAT.</HI> 7. <HI>lib.</HI> 4.</P>
<L>Wwo &s;aies the&s;e Romi&s;h Pageants,</L>
<L>To be the &amp;c.</L>
<P>And &s;o to the end.</P>
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