DENTILIN$$ F002B47|Stowe MS II|ff. 95-97|MTH\x\9-30-94\P:GAS\o\6-29-95\C:JSC\10-6&7-98\C:TEM\pdf\2-27-08 002.B47.HE1 [LM]Satyre 1: %XAgaynst Poets and Lawyers. >>I:D:<< 002.B47.001 Sir, though (I thanke god for it) I doe hate 002.B47.002 perfectly all this towne, yet there's on state 002.B47.003 In all ill thinges soe excellently best 002.B47.004 y%5t%6 hate towards them breeds pittie to the rest 002.B47.005 though poetry indeed be such a sinn 002.B47.006 as, I thinke, might bringe dearthe & Spanniards in 002.B47.007 though like the pestilence or old fashion'd loue 002.B47.008 It riddingly doth catch men, and death remoue 002.B47.009 neuer, till it be stau'd[sic] out, yet theire state 002.B47.010 is poore, disarm'd, like papists, not worth hate 002.B47.011 one (like a wretch w%5ch%6 at barr iudg'd as dead 002.B47.012 yet prompts him y%5t%6 stands next, & could not read 002.B47.013 and saues his life) giues Ideots Actors meanes 002.B47.014 staruinge himselfe to liue by's labour'd Sceanes 002.B47.015 As in some organ puppets dance aboue 002.B47.016 and bellowes pant below w%5ch%6 them doe moue 002.B47.017 on would moue loue by rimes, but witch crost charmes 002.B47.018 bringe not now there old feares nor theire old harmes[CW:om] 002.B47.019 Ram%Ms and slings now are sillie batterie[95v] 002.B47.020 Pistolets are the best Artillerie 002.B47.021 and they who write to lords, reward to gett 002.B47.022 are they not like singers at dore for meate? 002.B47.023 and who write because all write, haue still 002.B47.024 y%5t%6 scuse for writinge & for writinge ill 002.B47.025 but he is worst who beggerly doth chaw 002.B47.026 others wittes fruites, & in his rauenous maw 002.B47.027 rankly disgested doth those thinges out spew 002.B47.028 as his owne thinges, & th'are his owne, tis true 002.B47.029 for if on eate my meate though it be knowne 002.B47.030 the meate is mine the excrement his owne 002.B47.031 but these doe me noe harme nor they w%5ch%6 vse 002.B47.032 to out swiue Dildoes, & out vsure Iewes 002.B47.033 t'out drinke the sea, t'out sweare y%5e%6 Lettanie 002.B47.034 who w%5th%6 sinnes all kindes as familier be 002.B47.035 as confessors: and for whose sinfull sake 002.B47.036 scoolemen new tormentes now in hell must make 002.B47.037 whose straynge sinnes Cannonistes can hardly tell 002.B47.038 in w%5ch%6 Com%Mandeme%Mtes large receite they dwell 002.B47.039 for these punnishe themselues, the insolence 002.B47.040 of Coscus only breedes my greate offence 002.B47.041 whom time (w%5ch%6 rottes all, and makes bottes y%5e%6 pox 002.B47.042 and ploddinge on must make a Calfe an ox) 002.B47.043 hath made a Lawier, w%5ch%6 alas, of late 002.B47.044 but scarce a poet, Iollier of his[sic] state 002.B47.045 then are new-benificed ministers, he throwes 002.B47.046 like nets or lime twiggs where soere he goes 002.B47.047 his title of Barrester on euery wench 002.B47.048 and wooes in language of y%5e%6 Pleas or Bench[CW:om] 002.B47.049 A motion Lady, speake Coscus I haue beene[f.96] 002.B47.050 in loue ere since tricescimo of the Queene 002.B47.051 Continuall Claymes I haue made Iniunctions gott 002.B47.052 to stay my riualls sute, y%5t%6 he should not 002.B47.053 proceede: spare me in Hillarie terme, I went 002.B47.054 you sayd, if I return'd this Sise in Lent 002.B47.055 I should be in Remitter of yo%5r%6 grace 002.B47.056 in the interim my letters should take place 002.B47.057 of Affidavites. words, words w%5ch%6 would teare 002.B47.058 the tender Laberynth of a soft maydes eare 002.B47.059 more more then tenn Slauonians scoldinge more 002.B47.060 then when windes in o%5r%6 ruind Abbies roare 002.B47.061 when sicke w%5th%6 poetrie & possest w%5th%6 muse 002.B47.062 thou wast, and madd, I hop'd, but men w%5ch%6 vse 002.B47.063 Law=practise for meere gayne, bold soule repute 002.B47.064 worse then embreatheld strumpetes prostitute 002.B47.065 now like an owle-like watchman he must walke 002.B47.066 his hand still at a bill; now he must talke 002.B47.067 Idly, like prisoners w%5ch%6 whole monthes will sweare 002.B47.068 that only suertishipp hath brought them there 002.B47.069 and to euery sutor ly in euery thinge 002.B47.070 like a kinges favorite or like a kinge 002.B47.071 like a wedg in a blocke wringe to the barr 002.B47.072 bearinge like asses & more shamelesse farr 002.B47.073 then Carted whores, lie to the graue iudge, for 002.B47.074 bastardie aboundes not in kinges titles, nor 002.B47.075 Symony and Sodamy in church mens liues 002.B47.076 as these thinges doe in him, by those he thriues 002.B47.077 shortly, as the sea, heel compasse all o%5r%6 land 002.B47.078 from Scotes to Wight, from Mount to Douer strand[CW:om] 002.B47.079 And spijnge[sic] heirs meltinge w%5th%6 gluttonie[96v] 002.B47.080 Satan will not ioy at their sinnes, as he 002.B47.081 for as a thriftie wench scraps kitchin stuffe 002.B47.082 and barralinge the droppinges & the snuffe 002.B47.083 of wastinge Candels, w%5th%6[sic] in thirtie yeares 002.B47.084 relique like kept, p%Pchance gets wedding geares 002.B47.085 peecemeal he getts landes, & spends as much time 002.B47.086 wringinge each acre, as men doe pullinge prime 002.B47.087 In parchme%Mt then, large as his feild he drawes 002.B47.088 assurances, bigg as glossd Ciuill lawes 002.B47.089 soe huge as men in o%5r%6 times forwardnesse 002.B47.090 are fathers of the Church for writinge lesse 002.B47.091 those he writes not, nor for those written payes 002.B47.092 therefore spares noe lengthe, as in those first dayes 002.B47.093 when Luther was profest, he did desier 002.B47.094 short pater nosters, sayinge as a frier 002.B47.095 each day his beads, but haueinge left those lawes 002.B47.096 addes to Cristes prayer, y%5e%6 power & glory clause 002.B47.097 but when he sells or chaynges land, he impayers 002.B47.098 his writinge and (unwatch'd) leaues out ses heires 002.B47.099 as slily as any Comenter goe by 002.B47.100 hard wordes or sense, or in diuinitie 002.B47.101 as controuersers[sp:sic] in voucht text leaues out 002.B47.102 shrewed words w%5ch%6 might agaynst them cleere y%5e%6 doubt 002.B47.103 where are those spred woodes w%5ch%6 clothed heretofore 002.B47.104 those bought landes: not built >%Ynor%Z