IDENTILIN$$ F002H04|Norton ms., Eng 966.3|ff. 11-12v\mth\mf\6-10-94\P:DF\o\6-17-97\C:JSC\6-30-97 002.H04.HE1 %XSatyre: 002.H04.001 S%5r%6 though (I thanke god for it) I doe hate 002.H04.002 perfectly all this towne, yet ther's one State 002.H04.003 in all ill thinges soe excellently best, 002.H04.004 that hate towardes them breedes pittie towardes the rest: 002.H04.005 Though Poetrye indeed be such a sinne 002.H04.006 As I thinke, that bringes dearths, and Spaniardes in, 002.H04.007 Though like the pestilence, and old fashiond loue 002.H04.008 ridlinglye it catch men, and doth remoue 002.H04.009 neuer, till it be staru'd out, yet their state 002.H04.010 is poore, disarmd, like papists, nor worth hate 002.H04.011 One like a wretch w%5c%6h at barre iudged as dead 002.H04.012 yet prompts him w%5c%6h stands next, and cannot read, 002.H04.013 (and saue his life) giues Idiott acto%5rs%6 meanes 002.H04.014 (Starving himselfe) to liue by his labourd sceanes 002.H04.015 As in some Organ puppetts dance aboue 002.H04.016 And bellowes pant belowe, w%5ch%6 them doe moue 002.H04.017 One would moue loue by rimes: but witchcrafts, charmes 002.H04.018 Bring not nowe their old feares, nor their old harmes; [CW:om] 002.H04.019 Ram%Mes and slinges nowe are sillie batterye [f.11v] 002.H04.020 pistoletts are the best Artillerie 002.H04.021 And they who write to Lordes, rewardes to gett, 002.H04.022 Are they not like singers at doares for meate? 002.H04.023 And they whoe write because all write, haue still 002.H04.024 that excuse for writing, and for writing ill, 002.H04.025 But he is worst, who beggarly doth chawe 002.H04.026 others witts fruites, and in his rauenous mawe 002.H04.027 ranklie digested doth those thinges out-spewe 002.H04.028 as his owne thinges, and they are his own tis true; 002.H04.029 For if one eate my meate though yt be knowne 002.H04.030 the meate was myne the excrement is his owne, 002.H04.031 But theis doe me noe harme, nor they w%5ch%6 use 002.H04.032 to outdoe di%Yd%Z>%Vl>%JCoscus%K<<] onely breedes my iust offence 002.H04.041 Whom tyme (w%5ch%6 rotts all & makes botches poxe 002.H04.042 and plodding on must make a calfe an Oxe; 002.H04.043 hath made a lawyer w%5ch%6 was alas of late 002.H04.044 but a scarce poett, Iollier of this state 002.H04.045 then are newe benefic'd Ministers, he throwes 002.H04.046 like netts, or lymetwigges, wheresoe're he goes 002.H04.047 his title of %1Barrister%2 on euerye wench 002.H04.048 and woes in language of the pleas, and Bench 002.H04.049 A motion Lady; speak Coscus I haue beene 002.H04.050 in loue euer since tricesimo of the Queene [CW:Continuall] 002.H04.051 Continuall claymes I haue made, Iniunctions gott, [f.12] 002.H04.052 To staie my riualls sute, that he should not 002.H04.053 proceede, spare me; In Hillary terme I went 002.H04.054 yo%5u%6 said, if I returne next size in Lent 002.H04.055 I should be in Remitter of you%5r%6 grace 002.H04.056 In th' interim my letters should take place 002.H04.057 of Affidauits, wordes, %Jwordes%K[%1Mvar%2:>>%Jwor[%1trimmed%2]<<] w%5ch%6 would teare 002.H04.058 the tender labyrinth of a soft maides eare, 002.H04.059 more, more then ten Sclavonians scolding, more 002.H04.060 then when windes in our ruin'd Abbeys roare 002.H04.061 when sicke w%5th%6 poetry, and possest w%5th%6 Muse 002.H04.062 Thou wast, and madd I hop'd, but men w%5ch%6 choose 002.H04.063 Lawe practise for meere gaine, hould Soule repute 002.H04.064 worse then embrothelld Strumpetts prostitute 002.H04.065 nowe, like an Owlelike watchman he must walk 002.H04.066 His hand still at a Bill, nowe he must talke 002.H04.067 Idlye like prisoners w%5ch%6 whole moneths will sweare 002.H04.068 That onely suretiship hath brought them there 002.H04.069 and t'euerie suitor lie in euerie thinge 002.H04.070 like a kinges ffauourite yea like a kinge 002.H04.071 like a wedge in a block, wring to the Barre 002.H04.072 bearing like Asses, and more shamelesse farre 002.H04.073 like carted whores, lye to the graue Iudge; ffor 002.H04.074 bastardy aboundes not in kinges titles; nor 002.H04.075 Symonye, and Sodomye in Church mens lives 002.H04.076 as theis thinges doe in him; by theis he thriues 002.H04.077 Shortly (as the sea) he will compasse all our land 002.H04.078 from Scotts to Wight, from mount to Douer strand 002.H04.079 And spying heires melting w%5th%6 luxurie 002.H04.080 Satan will not ioye at their sinnes, as he 002.H04.081 For as a thriftie wench scrapes kitchin stuffe 002.H04.082 And barrelling the droppinges, and the snuffe 002.H04.083 of wasting candles w%5ch%6 in 30 yeare [f.12v] 002.H04.084 Reliquelike kept perchance buyes wedding geare 002.H04.085 piecemeale he getts landes, and spends as much tyme 002.H04.086 Wringing each acre,as men pulling pryme 002.H04.087 In parchment then large as his ffeildes he drawes 002.H04.088 assurances >%Yas%Z%Yof%Z>ID:<< in LM at l.1; scribal mark resembling a macron precedes colon in l.17%2