IDENTILIN$$ F003H05|Dobell ms., Eng 966.4|pp. 259-62; ff. 128-129v\E:mth\x\6-10-94\P:TJS\o\3-15-96\C:JSC\9-16-98
003.H05.HE1 %XSatyra Sexta.
003.H05.001 Kind pitty chokes my spleane, braue scorne forbids
003.H05.002 these teares to yssue, w%5ch%6 swell my ey-lids.
003.H05.003 I must not laugh, nor weepe sinnes, and be wise,
003.H05.004 May railing then cure these worne Maladies?
003.H05.005 Is not our Mistres faire Relligion
003.H05.006 as worthy of all our soules Devotion
003.H05.007 as vertue was in the soules first age?
003.H05.008 Are not heav'ns ioyes as valiant to asswage
003.H05.009 Lusts, as Earths honour was to them? alas
003.H05.010 as we do them in meanes, shall they surpasse
003.H05.011 Vs in the end? and shall thy ffathers spiritt
003.H05.012 meete blinde philosophers in heav'n whose meritt
003.H05.013 of straight life may be imputed fayth? and heare
003.H05.014 thee whome he taught wayes easy and neere
003.H05.015 to followe, damnd'? O yf thou dare, feare this
003.H05.016 this feare great courage, and high valour is.
003.H05.017 Dar'st thou ayde mutinous Dutch, dar'st thou lay
003.H05.018 thee in ships woodden Sepulchers, a pray
003.H05.019 to leaders rage, to stormes to shott, to Dea>%V%5r%6
%Jdoth%K<] marry none.
003.H05.065 Gracchus loues all as one, and thinks that Soe
003.H05.066 as women do in diuers Countreyes goe
003.H05.067 In diuers habits, yet are still one kinde,
003.H05.068 Soe doth he. Soe his Relligion, and this blind-
003.H05.069 nes too much Light breedes. But thou
003.H05.070 of force must one, and forc'st,[sic] but one allowe
003.H05.071 and the right. Aske thy ffather w%5ch%6 is shee,
003.H05.072 Let him aske his. Though Truth and Falshood be
003.H05.073 neere Twinnes, yet Truth a litle elder is.
003.H05.074 Be busy to seeke her; beleiue me this
003.H05.075 Hee's not of none, nor worst, w%5ch%6 seekes the best.
003.H05.076 To adore, or scorne an Image, or Protest
003.H05.077 may well be bad: doubt wisely: In strange way
003.H05.078 to stand enquiringe right, is not to stray,
003.H05.079 To sleepe or runne wrong, is. on a high hill,
003.H05.080 ragged and steepe, Truth dwelles, and he that will
003.H05.081 reach it, must about and about goe,
003.H05.082 and what the Hills suddennes resists, winne Soe;
003.H05.083 yet striue Soe that before Age, Deaths twilight
003.H05.084 Thy mind rest; for none can worke in that night.
003.H05.085 To will, implyes delay, therefore nowe doe:
003.H05.086 Hard deeds the bodies paines, hard knowledge too
003.H05.087 the mindes endeavours reach; and Mysteries
003.H05.088 Are as the Sunne, dazlinge, yet plaine to all eyes.
003.H05.089 Keepe the Truth w%5ch%6 thou hast found, men do not stand
003.H05.090 In soe ill case heere, that God hath with his hand
003.H05.091 Sign'd Kings blanke-Charters to kill all they hate,
003.H05.092 Nor are they vicars, but Hangmen to ffate.
003.H05.093 ffoole and wretch; wilt thou let thy soule be tied
003.H05.094 to mens Lawes, by w%5ch%6 it shall not be tried
003.H05.095 at the last day? oh, will it then serue thee
003.H05.096 to say, a Phillip, or a Gregory,
003.H05.097 a Harry, or a Martyn taught me, this?
003.H05.098 Is not this excuse for meere Contraries
003.H05.099 Equally strong? Cannot both sides say soe?
003.H05.100 That thou may'st rightly obay Power, her boundes knowe.
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003.H05.103 As streames are, power is: those blest flowers w%5ch%6 dwell
003.H05.104 at the rough streames calme head, thriue and proue well:
003.H05.105 But hauing lost theire rootes, and themselues giuen
003.H05.106 to the streames tyrannous rage, alas are driuen
003.H05.107 through Milles, and Rockes, and Woodes, and at last almost
003.H05.108 consum'de in goinge, are in the Sea lost;
003.H05.109 So perish soules, w%5ch%6 more chuse mens vniust
003.H05.110 Power (from God claymd') then God himselfe to trust.|
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