IDENTILIN$$ F004O03|Ashmole ms.38|pp. 40-43\JSC\mf\9-26-96\P:EWS\o\6-18-97\C:JSC\7-8-97 004.O03.HE1 %XA Satire against y%5e%6 Court /%Xwrighten by Docter Donne, In /%XQueene Elizabeths Raigne 004.O03.001 Well I may now receyue and dye; my sinn 004.O03.002 Indeed is great, but yet I haue bine In 004.O03.003 A Purgatorie; such as feard Hell is 004.O03.004 A recreation, or scant mapp of bliss[sic] 004.O03.005 My minde not w%5th%6 prides Itche, nor yett hath bine 004.O03.006 Poysoned w%5th%6 loue, to see or to bee seene 004.O03.007 I had noe Suitt there, nor new suitte to shew 004.O03.008 yett went to Courte, but as Clare[sic] w%5ch%6 did goe 004.O03.009 To A Masse In Iest, [sic]Catch was fayne to disburse 004.O03.010 The hundred Markes; w%5ch%6 w%5th%6[sic] the statutes Curse 004.O03.011 before he scapte so't pleased my destinye 004.O03.012 (guyltye of my sinn of goinge) to thincke me 004.O03.013 As prone to all Ill and of good as forgett= 004.O03.014 =full, as proude lustfull and as much In debte 004.O03.015 As vayne as wittles, and as false as they 004.O03.016 w%5ch%6 dwell att Courte, for once going that way 004.O03.017 Therfore I sufferd this, towardes me did runn 004.O03.018 A thinge more strange, then on Nilus Slyme the Sunn 004.O03.019 hath breed; all all w%5ch%6 vnto Noah's Arke Came 004.O03.020 A thinge w%5ch%6 would haue pozed Adam to name 004.O03.021 stranger then seuen Antiquaries studdies 004.O03.022 Then Affrickes Monsters, or Guyanas Rarityes 004.O03.023 Stranger then Strangers, one who for a Dane 004.O03.024 At the Danes Massacer had sure bine slayne 004.O03.025 Yf hee had then liued; and w%5th%6out helpe dyes 004.O03.026 when next the prentises gaynst strangers Rise 004.O03.027 On whome the watch att noone scarse letts goe by 004.O03.028 To whome the Examinge[sic] Iustice sure would Crie 004.O03.029 S%5r%6, by you%5r%6 preisthood tell me who you are 004.O03.030 his Cloathes weare strange, tho Course and black thoe bare 004.O03.031 Sleueles his Ierking[sic] was, and ytt had bine 004.O03.032 Veluett; but t'was now, (soe much ground was seen) 004.O03.033 become Tuftaffite, and our Children shall 004.O03.034 See ytt playne Rash a while, then naught att all 004.O03.035 This thinge hath trauild, and sayeth speakes all tonges 004.O03.036 And onlye knowes what to all States belonges [CW:om] 004.O03.037 Made of the accentes, and best phrase of thes, [p.41] 004.O03.038 Hee speakes a language; yf strange meales[sic] displease 004.O03.039 Arte Can deceyue, or hunger force a tast; 004.O03.040 but pedantes motlye >%Ytounge%Z< tongue, Souldiers Bumbast 004.O03.041 Montebankes drugge tongue, nor the tearmes of Law 004.O03.042 Are strange[sic] Inoughe preparyatiues[sic] to draw 004.O03.043 mee to leaue[sic?] this, yet I must be Contente 004.O03.044 W%5th%6 hys tongue, (In his tongue) cald Complement 004.O03.045 W%5th%6 w%5ch%6 hee Can winn widdowes and pay Scores 004.O03.046 Make men speake Treason, Cossen Subtliest whores 004.O03.047 Out flatter Fauorites and out lye Eyther 004.O03.048 Iouius or Surius or both together 004.O03.049 Hee names me and Comes to mee I whispered: God 004.O03.050 how haue I Sinned y%5t%6 thy wrathes furious Rod 004.O03.051 (This Fellow) Crosseth me He sayeth S%5*r%6 004.O03.052 I loue you%5r%6 Iudgment whom doe you prefer 004.O03.053 for the best Linguist, and I Sillillye 004.O03.054 Said that I thought Callapins Dictionary 004.O03.055 nay but of men (most sweet sir) Beza then 004.O03.056 Some Iesuittes and two reuerente[sic] men 004.O03.057 of our two accademes[sp:sic] I namd ther 004.O03.058 He stopte me, and said you%5r%6 Appostles were 004.O03.059 good prettye Linguistes soe Panurge was 004.O03.060 yet a pore Gentleman all thes may passe 004.O03.061 By trauill; then as yf hee would haue sould 004.O03.062 his tongue, he praysed ytt and such wonders tould 004.O03.063 That I was faine to say yff you had liued sir 004.O03.064 Tyme enough t'haue bene an Interpreter 004.O03.065 to bables bricklaiers sure the Tower had stood 004.O03.066 hee adds; yf of Court life you knewe the good 004.O03.067 You would leaue Loanes and you%5r%6 Natiue nation [line:sic] 004.O03.068 But I replied that sure the Spartane fashion [line:sic] 004.O03.069 to Teach by paynting drunkards doth not last 004.O03.070 And Aretyns pictures haue made few chast 004.O03.071 Noe more Can Princes Courtes (though ther be few 004.O03.072 Better pictures of Vice) to teach men vertue 004.O03.073 Hee like a [om] strechd lute string squeakt Oh sir 004.O03.074 Tis sweet to talk#talke of kinges at westminster 004.O03.075 (said I) the man that keepes the Abbye Tombes 004.O03.076 and for his price doth to all whoeuer comes 004.O03.077 of all our Harries and of Edwardes Talke 004.O03.078 From kinge to kinge and all their kinne ore[sic] walke 004.O03.079 Your eares shall here nought but kings and you%5r%6 eyes meett 004.O03.080 Kinge[sic] onlye, the way to ytt is Kinge street 004.O03.081 Hee smackes, and Cried hees base, mechannicke Course 004.O03.082 Soe are all your Englishmen, In their discourse 004.O03.083 Are not you%5r%6 frenchmen neate, Myne as you see 004.O03.084 (I haue but one frenchman) he followes mee 004.O03.085 Certes the're Neatly Cloathed, I of this mynd am 004.O03.086 You%5r%6 onlye wearing is this Grogoran 004.O03.087 (not soe S%5r%6) I haue more; vnder#vnder[sic] this pitch 004.O03.088 he would not flye; I chaffe hyme, but as Itch 004.O03.089 Scratch Into smarte, or as blunt Iron ground 004.O03.090 Into an edge hurts worse, so I (foole) found 004.O03.091 Crossing hurt mee; to fitt my sullennes 004.O03.092 hee to a nother key, his stile doth dresse 004.O03.093 Hee ask't what newes; I tell him of new playes 004.O03.094 he takes my Hand, and as a styll w%5ch%6 stayes 004.O03.095 A Semeibreife twixt each droppe; he Negardlye 004.O03.096 As loath to Inrich me tells me manye a lye [CW:more,] 004.O03.097 More then ten Hollinsheads and Halls and Stowes [p.42] 004.O03.098 of triuiall houshould trash hee knowes he knowes 004.O03.099 When the Queene smilt or frownt and hee knowes what 004.O03.100 A subtile Statesman may gather by that 004.O03.101 hee knowes whoe loues [om] and who by poyson 004.O03.102 hastes to an Offices reuersion 004.O03.103 hee knowes who sould his land, and now doth begg 004.O03.104 A licence ould Iron, shoes, bootes or egge= 004.O03.105 shells to transport; shortly boyes shall not play 004.O03.106 Att blow poynte or spancounter but thay pay 004.O03.107 Tole to some Courtier, and wiser then >%Ysome%Z<#all vs 004.O03.108 >[LM]he knowes< W%5ch%6 Ladye is not paynted; thus 004.O03.109 he w%5th%6 home meates tries mee, I belch, spew, spitt 004.O03.110 Looke pale and sickly like a patient, yett 004.O03.111 he Thrustes more, as yf he had vndertooke 004.O03.112 to say Gallo=belgicus without booke 004.O03.113 Speakes of all states & deedes w%5ch%6 haue bene since 004.O03.114 the Spaniardes Came to the losse of [sic]Amines; 004.O03.115 Like a bigg-wife att sight of loathed meate 004.O03.116 readye to trauill; soe I sighe and sweate 004.O03.117 To Heare this Maccaron talke in vayne for yett 004.O03.118 eyther my humore or his owne to fitt 004.O03.119 he like a [sic]preuiledge spie, whome nothing can 004.O03.120 discredditt, libells, now gainst each great man 004.O03.121 he names a price for euery office payd 004.O03.122 he sayes our warrs thriue Ill because delayd 004.O03.123 that offices are delayd because ther are 004.O03.124 perpetuities of them lasting as far 004.O03.125 as the last day, and the great officers 004.O03.126 doe w%5th%6 the Pirattes share and Dunkerkers 004.O03.127 Who wastes in meate, In cloathes in horse he notes 004.O03.128 Who loues whores, who boyes, and who goates 004.O03.129 I more Amazed then Circes prisoners when 004.O03.130 they felt them selues turn'd beastes felt my selfe then 004.O03.131 becomming Traytor, and me thought I saw 004.O03.132 One of our giant statues Ope her Iaw 004.O03.133 to sucke me In for hearing hym, I found 004.O03.134 That as burnd %Yvenomde%Z>venomdt< lettchers do grow sound 004.O03.135 by giueing others their sores, I might growe 004.O03.136 guyltye and he free, therfore I did showe 004.O03.137 The signes of loathing but since I am In 004.O03.138 I must pay myne and my forefathers sinne 004.O03.139 to the la*t farthing therfore to my power 004.O03.140 Throughly and stubbornly, I beare this crosse, but th'hower 004.O03.141 of mercye now was come he tries to bringe 004.O03.142 me to [om] a fine to scape his torturing 004.O03.143 And sayes S%5r%6 Can you spare me, I sayd willingly, 004.O03.144 Nay S%5r%6 can you spare me a Crowne; I thankfully 004.O03.145 gaue ytt as ransome, But as fidlers still 004.O03.146 Thoughe thay are [om] to goe, yett, neede will 004.O03.147 Thrust on Iigg more vppon you soe did hee 004.O03.148 W%5th%6 his long Complementall thankes vexe me 004.O03.149 But he is gone, thankes to his needy want 004.O03.150 And the prerogatiue of my crowne scant 004.O03.151 his thankes were ended; when I whiche did see 004.O03.152 All the Courte filled w%5th%6 more strange things then he 004.O03.153 Rann from thence w%5th%6 such or more hast then on 004.O03.154 Who feares moe[sic] Actions doth make from prison 004.O03.155 Att home In holsome sollitarines 004.O03.156 My peteous[sic] [om] begane the wrettchednes 004.O03.157 of Sutores att the court to mourne, and a traunce 004.O03.158 Like his w%5ch%6 dreampt he saw hell, did aduance 004.O03.159 Ytt selfe ore me, and such as he saw there 004.O03.160 I saw att Court & worse, and more, loe feare 004.O03.161 becomes the guyltye, not the accussor then 004.O03.162 shall I (nones slaue) of hye borne or raysd men 004.O03.163 feare frownes, & my m%5rs%6 truth betraye mee 004.O03.164 to the Huffing Braggard pufft nobillitye 004.O03.165 no no, thou which since yesterday hast binn 004.O03.166 Allmost about the whole world, hast thou seen [CW:O#sun] 004.O03.167 O sunn In all thy Iourney Vanitye [p.43] 004.O03.168 such as d%>>s