IDENTILIN$$  F158B29|Harley ms.3998|ff. 154-67|JSC\cf\5-20-97\P:EWS\o\6-24,25-97\C:JSC\7-8-97
158.B29.HE1  %X16 October 1725.
158.B29.HE2  Infinitati Sacrum. and 
158.B29.HE3  she***
158.B29.HE4  [Ll. HE4-5 reported below at HE5 because both appear on f. 155]
158.B29.HE5  Poema Satiricum /%XMetempsycosis   
158.B29.001  I%+ sing the progres of a deathles Sowle,
158.B29.002  Whome Fate w%5ch%6 God made, but doth not controul
158.B29.003  Plac't in most shapes: All tymes before y%5e%6 law
158.B29.004  Yoak't was, & when, & since in this I singe.
158.B29.005  And the great World, in his aged Eueninge
158.B29.006  From infant Morne, through manly Noone I draw:
158.B29.007  What y%5e%6 gold %1Chaldee%2 or Siluer %1Persian%2 saw,
158.B29.008  Greeke brasse, or Roman iron, is in this one,
158.B29.009  A work t'outlast %1Seths Pillers, Brick, & Stone%2
158.B29.010  And holly writts excepted made to yeld to none.
158.B29.011  Thee, Eye of Heauen, this Sowle enuies not;
158.B29.012  By thy male force is all we haue begott;
158.B29.013  In the first East, thow now begin'st to shine;
158.B29.014  Suck'st early Balme, and Iland spices there
158.B29.015  And wilt anon in thy loose rain'd Carr[%1missing%2] 
158.B29.016  At %1Tagus, Po, Sene, Thames%2, and %1Dano[%1missing%2]%2
158.B29.017  And see at Night thy Westerne Land of Myne: [f.155v]
158.B29.018  Yet hast thow not more Nations seene then shee,
158.B29.019  That before thee one day began to bee,
158.B29.020  And thy fraile light beeing quench't shall long long outliue thee.
158.B29.021  Nor wholy[sic] %1Ianus%2 in whose soueraige[sic] bote,
158.B29.022  The Church, and all the Monarchies did flote,
158.B29.023  That Swim%Ming Colledge, and free Hospitall,
158.B29.024  Of all Man kind: That Cage, and Viuarye
158.B29.025  Of fowles, and Beastes; in whose wombe Desteny
158.B29.026  Vs, and our latest Nepheus did install
158.B29.027  (For thence ar all deriu'd, that fill this all.)
158.B29.028  Didest thow in that great Stuerdship embark
158.B29.029  So diuers shapes, into that floating Bark,
158.B29.030  As haue beene moou'd & enform'd by this heauenly Spark?
158.B29.031  Great Desteny the Com%Missary of God,
158.B29.032  That hast mark't out a Path and Period
158.B29.033  For euery thing; who where we ofsprig[sic] tooke,
158.B29.034  [%1missing%2] wayes, & endes, seest at one instant, Thow
158.B29.035  [%1missing%2]t of all Causes: Thow whos chaungles brow,
158.B29.036  [%1missing%2] smiles, nor frownes, o%C vouch thow safe to looke,
158.B29.037  And shew my Story in thy Eternall booke; [f.156]
158.B29.038  That (if my paper fitt) I may vnderstand
158.B29.039  So much my selfe as to know with what hand,
158.B29.040  How skant, or liberall this my liues race is span'd.
158.B29.041  To my Six Lusters, allmost now outwore,
158.B29.042  Except thy booke owe mee so many more,
158.B29.043  Except my Legend be free from the lettes
158.B29.044  Of Sleepe, Ambition, sleepy Pouertye,
158.B29.045  Spirit=quenching Sicknes, dull Captiuity,
158.B29.046  Distracting busines, And from Beauties netts
158.B29.047  And all that calls from this, and to other whets,
158.B29.048  O let me not launch out, but let me saue
158.B29.049  Th'expence of Braine, and Spirit, y%5t%6 my graue
158.B29.050  His right, and due, a whole vnwasted Man%M may haue.
158.B29.051  But if my Dayes bee longe and good enough
158.B29.052  In vaine this Sea shall enlarge, or enrough
158.B29.053  [l.c.]it selfe; for I will through the waue and fome;
158.B29.054  And shall in sadd, lone wayes, a liuely Spri[%1missing%2] 
158.B29.055  Make my dark heauy Poem Light, & Li[%1missing%2] 
158.B29.056  For though through many Sands & straig[%1missing%2] 
158.B29.057  I lawnch at Paradise, and sayle toward home; [f.156v]
158.B29.058  The course I there begin%Me, shall here bee stay'd
158.B29.059  Sayles hoisted there, strook heere, & Ankers lay'd
158.B29.060  In %1Thames%2, w%5ch%6 were at %1Tigris, & Euphrates%2 wayd.
158.B29.061  For this great Sowle which here emong vs now,
158.B29.062  Doth dwell and mooues, y%5t%6 hand, and tong, and brow,
158.B29.063  W%5ch%6 as the Moone, the Sea, moues vs: To heare
158.B29.064  Whose Story w%5t%6 long patience y%5w%6 shall longe,
158.B29.065  (For t'is the crowne & last Chaine of my Songe)
158.B29.066  This Sowle to whome %1Luther%2, & %1Mahomet%2 were,
158.B29.067  Prisons: This Sowle which oft did teare,
158.B29.068  And mend y%5e%6 wracks of th'Empier, & Late %1Roome%2.
158.B29.069  And liu'd where euery great Chaung did com%Me,
158.B29.070  Had first a %1Paradise%2, a low but fatall roome.
158.B29.071  Yet no low roome, nor then the greatest lesse,
158.B29.072  If (as deuought and sharp me%M fitly ghesse)
158.B29.073  That Crosse our Ioy, and Greefe wher nailes did tye
158.B29.074  [%1missing%2]at all, w%5ch%6 allwaies was all euery where,
158.B29.075  [%1missing%2] could not Sin%Me & yet all sinnes did beare,
158.B29.076  [%1missing%2] *uld not Dye, yet could not choose but dye,
158.B29.077  Stock't in the selfe same roome in %1Caluary%2, [f.157]
158.B29.078  Where first grew y%5e%6 forbidden learned Tree:
158.B29.079  For on that Tree hong in securetye,
158.B29.080  This Sowle made by the makers will from pulling free.
158.B29.081  Prince of the Orchard, faire as dauning Morne,
158.B29.082  Fenc't w%5t%6 the Law, and ripe as soone as borne,
158.B29.083  That Apple grew w%5ch%6 this Sowle did enliue,
158.B29.084  Till the then climing Serpent, that now creepes
158.B29.085  For y%5t%6 offence, for w%5ch%6 all Mankind weepes
158.B29.086  Tooke it, and her, whome y%5e%6 first Man did Wiue,
158.B29.087  Whome, & whose race onely forbiddings driue,
158.B29.088  Hee gaue it; She to her Husband; both did eate
158.B29.089  So perish't the eater, and the Meate
158.B29.090  And wee (for Treason taints y%5e%6 bloud) thence dye \(& sweate,
158.B29.091  Man all at once, was there by Woman slaine
158.B29.092  And one by one, we ar here slaine ore againe,
158.B29.093  By them; The Mother poisned the well head,
158.B29.094  The Daughters here corrupt y%5e%6 Riuulets
158.B29.095  No smalnes scapes, No greatnes breaks their[%1missing%2] 
158.B29.096  Shee thrust vs out, and by them wee are [%1missing%2] 
158.B29.097  Astray, from turning from whence we are fled. [f.157v]
158.B29.098  Were Prisoners Iudges, t'would seeme rigorous;
158.B29.099  She Sinn'd, Wee beare; part of our paines is, Thus
158.B29.100  Loue the%M, whose falt to this painfull Loue yoak't vs.
158.B29.101  So fast in vs doth this Corruption growe,
158.B29.102  That now wee dare aske, why we should bee so.
158.B29.103  Would God (disputs y%5e%6 curious Rebbell) make
158.B29.104  A law, and would not haue it kep't? or can
158.B29.105  His Creaturs will crosse his? of euery Man%Me,
158.B29.106  For one, shall God (and be Iust) vengaunce take?
158.B29.107  Who sinn'd? T'was not forbidde%M to y%5e%6 Snake,
158.B29.108  Nor her who was not then made: nor is't writt
158.B29.109  That %1Adam%2 crop't or knew y%5e%6 Apple, yett
158.B29.110  The Worme, and She & hee, & wee endure for itt.
158.B29.111  But snatch me heauenly Spirit from this vaine,
158.B29.112  Rekning their vanities; lesse is the gaine,
158.B29.113  Then hazard still to medditate on ill,
158.B29.114  [%1missing%2]ough w%5t%6 good mind; Their reasons (like the toyes)
158.B29.115  [%1missing%2] *lassy bubbles which y%5e%6 gamesom boyes
158.B29.116  Strech to so nice a thinnes through a quill [f.158]
158.B29.117  That they them selues break) do them selues spill: 
158.B29.118  Arguing is Hereticks gaine, & exercise,
158.B29.119  As wrastlers, proffitts them: Not liberties,
158.B29.120  Of speech, but Silence, hands not tonge%Ms[sic] end Heresies
158.B29.121  Iust in that instant when the Serpents gripe
158.B29.122  Broke the slight vaines, and tender Conduit pipe,
158.B29.123  Through w%5ch%6 this Sowle from the trees roote did draw
158.B29.124  Life & growth to this Apple, fled awaye
158.B29.125  This loose Sowle, old one and an other daye;
158.B29.126  As lightning which one dare scarce say he saw
158.B29.127  T'is so soone gon%Me (and better proofe the Law
158.B29.128  Of %1Sense%2 then %1Faith%2 requires) swiftly she flew
158.B29.129  To a dark and foggy Pitt; Her, her fate threw
158.B29.130  There through y%5e%6 Earths pores, & in a Plant hows'd her anew
158.B29.131  This Plant thus abled to it selfe did force
158.B29.132  A place, where no place was by Naturs cours;
158.B29.133  As ayre from Water, Water flotes away
158.B29.134  From thicker bodies, by this roote throng'd so
158.B29.135  His spungy confines gaue him place to grow
158.B29.136  As in our streets, when as the people stay
158.B29.137  To see the Prince so filled is the waye; [f.158v]
158.B29.138  That Wesels scarce could passe when she comes \(neere
158.B29.139  They throng, and cleaue vp, and a passage cleere,
158.B29.140  As if for y%5t%6 time their rownd bodies flatned were.
158.B29.141  His right arme he thrusts out towerds y%5e%6 East,
158.B29.142  Westward his left; T'h'endes[sic] did them selues digest
158.B29.143  Into tenne lesser stringes; these fingers were:
158.B29.144  And as a Slu%Mberer stretching on his bedd,
158.B29.145  This way he this, and that way scatterd
158.B29.146  His other legge, W%5ch%6 feete w%5t%6 toes vpbeare;
158.B29.147  Grew on his middell parts y%5e%6 first day haire,
158.B29.148  To shew y%5t%6 in loues busines he should still
158.B29.149  A dealer bee, And bee vs'd well, or ill;
158.B29.150  His apples kindle, his leaues force of Conception kill.
158.B29.151  A mouth but dumbe he hath, blid[sic] eyes, deaf eares,
158.B29.152  And to his showlders dangle subtill haires:
158.B29.153  A yong Collossus ther he stands vpright,
158.B29.154  And as y%5t%6 grownd by him were conquered,
158.B29.155  A leauy garland weares he on his hed
158.B29.156  [%1missing%2]chas't w%5t%6 littell fruicts so redd and bright
158.B29.157  That for them y%5w%6 would cale y%5r%6 loues lippes whight, [f.159]
158.B29.158  So of a loane vnhaunted place posses't
158.B29.159  Did this Sowles second Inne, built by y%5e%6 guest,
158.B29.160  This liuing buried Ma%M, this quiet %1Mandrak%2 rest
158.B29.161  No lustfull woman came this Plant to greeue,
158.B29.162  But t'was becaus their was none yet but Eue;
158.B29.163  And she (w%5t%6 other purpos) kill'd it quite:
158.B29.164  Her sinnes had now brought in infermeties
158.B29.165  And so her cradled child, her moist redd eyse
158.B29.166  Had neuer shut, nor slept since it saw light;
158.B29.167  %1Poppy%2 she knew, she knew the %1Mandraks%2 might
158.B29.168  And tore vp both and so cool'd her Chil'ds[sic] blood;
158.B29.169  Vnuertuous weedes might long vnuex't haue stood
158.B29.170  But he's short liu'd that w%5t%6 his Death can doe most good.
158.B29.171  To an vnfetter'd Sowles quick nimble haste,
158.B29.172  Ar falling Starres, & harts thoughts but slow pac'te:
158.B29.173  Thinner then burnt Aire flies this Sowle; & shee
158.B29.174  Whome fower new com%Ming and fower parting Sunnes
158.B29.175  Had fownd and left the %1Mandraks Ten%Mant%2, runnes[%1missing%2]
158.B29.176  Thoughtles of chaunge when her firme Desteny
158.B29.177  Confin'd, and exhal'd her, that seem'd so free
158.B29.178  Into a small blew shell, the which a poore [f.159v]
158.B29.179  Warme Bird orespread, and satt still euermore
158.B29.180  Till her enclos'd Child kik't and pok't it selfe a dore
158.B29.181  Out crept a Sparow, this Sowles moouing Inne
158.B29.182  On whose raw armes stiffe feathers now beginne
158.B29.183  As childrens teeth; throug[sic] gom%Mes to break w%5t%6 paine
158.B29.184  His flesh is ielly yet and his bones threds,
158.B29.185  All a new Downy matell[sic] ouerspreds.
158.B29.186  A mouth he opes w%5ch%6 would as mutch conteyne
158.B29.187  As his late howse, and the first hower speaks plaine
158.B29.188  And chirps alowd for meat; Meat fitt for menne
158.B29.189  His father steales him[sic] for him, and so feeds then
158.B29.190  One yt[sic] within a Moneth will beat him from his Henne.
158.B29.191  In this Worlds youth wise Nature did make hast,
158.B29.192  Things ripen'd sooner and did longer last:
158.B29.193  Already this whott[sic] Cock, in bush and Tree
158.B29.194  In feeld, and tent ore flutters his next Henne;
158.B29.195  He ask's[sic] her not who did so last, nor when;
158.B29.196  Nor if his Sister or his Neece she bee,
158.B29.197  Nor doth she pule for his inconstancy
158.B29.198  If in her sight he chaung; nor doth refuse
158.B29.199  The next that cales; both liberty doe vse
158.B29.200  When store is of both kinds, both kinds may freely choose [f.160]
158.B29.201  [LM:21]Menne while they tooke lawes which made freedom lesse,
158.B29.202  Their Daughters and their Sisters did ingresse;
158.B29.203  Till now vnlawfull; therfore ill t'was not.
158.B29.204  So iolly that it can moue this Sowle is,
158.B29.205  The body so free of his kindneses,
158.B29.206  That selfe preseruing it hath now forgott,
158.B29.207  And slakens so the [l.c.]sowles and bodies knott
158.B29.208  W%5ch%6 Temperance straightens; freely on his she freend[sic]
158.B29.209  He blood and Spirit, Pith, and Marrow spends;
158.B29.210  Ill steward of him selfe him selfe in three yeares ends.
158.B29.211  Else might he long haue liu'd: Man did not know
158.B29.212  Of gummy blood w%5ch%6 doth in Holly growe
158.B29.213  How to make bird=lime; nor how to deceiue
158.B29.214  W%5t%6 fain'd cales, hidd netts, or enwrapping snare,
158.B29.215  The free inhabitants of the pliaunt Aire.
158.B29.216  Manne to begett, and Woman to conceiue,
158.B29.217  Ask't not of rootes nor of cock=sparows leaue.
158.B29.218  Yet chooseth he though none of these he feares
158.B29.219  [%1blank%2] [%1space%2] then streitned twenty yeares;
158.B29.220  To liue and to encrease his race him selfe out weares
158.B29.221  This Coale w%5t%6 ouerblowinge quench't and dead, [f.160v]
158.B29.222  The Sowle from her too actiue Organes fled
158.B29.223  To a Brooke; A Female fishes sandy Roe
158.B29.224  With the Males ielly newly leuened was
158.B29.225  For they had entertouch't as they did passe
158.B29.226  And one of those small bodies fitted soe
158.B29.227  This Sowle inform'd and abled it to rowe
158.B29.228  It selfe w%5t%6 finny Ores, which she did fitt;
158.B29.229  Her Scales seem'd yet of parchment, and as yet
158.B29.230  Perchance a Fish, but by no name cowld y%5w%6 call it
158.B29.231  When goodly like a Ship in her full trim%Me
158.B29.232  A Swan%Me so whight as y%5w%6 may vnto him
158.B29.233  Compare all whightnes, but himselfe to none
158.B29.234  Glided alonge; And as he glided watch't
158.B29.235  And w%5t%6 his arched neck this poore fish catch't;
158.B29.236  It moou'd w%5t%6 state, as if to looke vpon
158.B29.237  Low thinges it Scorn'd; and yet before that one
158.B29.238  Could think he sought it, he had swallow'd cleere
158.B29.239  This and much such, and vnblam'd deuour'd there
158.B29.240  All but who too swift, too great, and well arm'd were
158.B29.241  Now swom%Me a Prison in a Prison putt [f.161]
158.B29.242  And now this Sowle in double wales was shutt
158.B29.243  Till melted w%5t%6 the Swannes digestiue fire
158.B29.244  She left her howse, the Fish; and vapor'd forth:
158.B29.245  Fate not affording boddies of more worth
158.B29.246  For her as yet, bids her againe retire
158.B29.247  To an other Fish, to any new desier
158.B29.248  Made a newe praye: for hee that can to none
158.B29.249  Resistance make nor complaint sure is gone,
158.B29.250  Weaknes inuites, but silence feasts oppressione
158.B29.251  Pace w%5t%6 her natiue streame this fish doth keepe
158.B29.252  And j[yes]ourneis w%5t%6 her towerd the glassy deepe 
158.B29.253  But oft regarded: once w%5t%6 a hidden nett
158.B29.254  Though w%5t%6 great windowes, (for whe%M need first taught
158.B29.255  These triks to catch foode, then they were not wrought
158.B29.256  As now, With curious greedines to lett
158.B29.257  None scape, but feaw and fitt for vse to gett)
158.B29.258  As in this Trappe a rauenouse Pike was tane
158.B29.259  Who though him selfe distres'd would faine haue slaine
158.B29.260  This wretch so hardly ar ill haunts[sic] left againe
158.B29.261  Here by her smalnes she two Deaths orepast [f.161v]
158.B29.262  Once Innocence scap't, and left th Oppressor fast
158.B29.263  The Nett throug[sic] swom%Me, she keepes y%5e%6 liqud[sic] path
158.B29.264  And whether she leape vp sumtimes to breathe
158.B29.265  And suck in Aire: or finds it vnderneath
158.B29.266  Or working partes like Mills or limbeks hath
158.B29.267  To make the Water thinne and aire=like, faith
158.B29.268  Cares not; but safe the place she's com%Me vnto
158.B29.269  Where fresh w%5t%6 salt waues meete, and which to doe
158.B29.270  She knowes not, but betweene both, makes a boord or two
158.B29.271  So farr from hidinge her guestes Water is
158.B29.272  That she shewes them in bigger quanteties
158.B29.273  Then they are; Thus doubtfull of her waye
158.B29.274  For game and not for hunger a Sea Pye
158.B29.275  Spi'd througe[sic] this traitrous Spectacle from high
158.B29.276  The Silly fish where it disputing laye
158.B29.277  And to end her doubts, and her beares her awaye:
158.B29.278  Exalted she is, but to th'exalters good
158.B29.279  As are by great ones men%Me w%5ch%6 lowly stood 
158.B29.280  Rais'd to bee the raisers instruments, and foode.
158.B29.281  Is any kind subj[yes]ect to Rape like Fish [f.162]
158.B29.282  Ill vnto Man they neither doe nor wish
158.B29.283  Fishers they kill not, nor w%5t%6 noise awake,
158.B29.284  They doe not hunt, nor striue to make a praye
158.B29.285  Of Beastes, nor their yonge Sonn%Mes[sic] to beare awaye.
158.B29.286  Fowles they pursue not, nor doe vndertake
158.B29.287  To spoile the neasts, industrious birds doe make
158.B29.288  Yet them all these vnkind kindes feed vpon
158.B29.289  To kill them is an Occupation
158.B29.290  And lawes make fastes, and Lentes for their destrution[sic].
158.B29.291  A Soddaine stiffe land=wind in y%5t%6 same howre
158.B29.292  To Sea=ward forc'd this bird that did deuowre
158.B29.293  The Fish; hee cares not, for w%5t%6 ease he flyes
158.B29.294  Fatt Gluttonies best Orator; At last
158.B29.295  So longe he hath flowne and hath flowne so fast
158.B29.296  That many leagues at Sea now tir'd he lyes
158.B29.297  And w%5t%6 his Pray that till then languish't, Dies,
158.B29.298  The Sowles no longer Foes, two waies did erre
158.B29.299  The Fish I follow, and keepe no Callender
158.B29.300  Of th'other, he liues yet in som%Me great Officer.
158.B29.301  Into an Embrion fish this Sowle is throwne [f.162v]
158.B29.302  And in due time throwne out againe, and growne
158.B29.303  To such vastnes, as if vnmanicled
158.B29.304  From Greece Morea were and that by som%Me
158.B29.305  Earthquake vnrooted, loose %1Morea%2 swom%Me
158.B29.306  Or Seaes from Affricks body had seuered
158.B29.307  And torne the hopefull Promontories head
158.B29.308  The fish would seeme these; & when all hopes faile
158.B29.309  A great Ship ouersett, or without sayle
158.B29.310  Hullinge might (when this was a whelpe) bee like this Whale
158.B29.311  At euery stroke his brasen finnes doe take
158.B29.312  More Circles in the broken Sea they make
158.B29.313  Then Cannons voices, when the aire they teare.
158.B29.314  His ribbes ar Pillars, and his high arch't roofe
158.B29.315  Of Barke, yt[sic] blunts best steele, is thunder proofe.
158.B29.316  Swim%Me in him swallow'd Dolphins w%5t%6out feare,
158.B29.317  And feele no sides as if his vast wombe were
158.B29.318  Som%Me Inland Sea; and euer as hee went
158.B29.319  He spowted Riuers vp as if hee ment,
158.B29.320  To ioyne our Seas, w%5t%6 Seas aboue the Firmament.
158.B29.321  Hee hunts not fish, But as a fauorite [f.163]
158.B29.322  Lies still at Court, and is him selfe a nett
158.B29.323  Where Sutors of all sorts themselus enthrall;
158.B29.324  So on his back lyes this whale wantonning
158.B29.325  And in his gulf=like throat sucks euery thinge
158.B29.326  That passeth neere; Fish chaceth fish and all
158.B29.327  Flier and follower, in this whirlpoole fall.
158.B29.328  O might not States of more equalletye
158.B29.329  Concist; And is it of necessetye 
158.B29.330  That thousands guiltles small to make one great must dye?
158.B29.331  Now drink's[sic] hee vp Seas, & hee eats vp flocks
158.B29.332  Hee iustles Ilands, and he shaks firme Rocks
158.B29.333  Now in a roomfull howse this Sowle doth float                    
158.B29.334  And like a Prince she sends her faculties
158.B29.335  To all her lim%Mes, distant as Prouinces:
158.B29.336  The Sun%Me hath twenty tymes both Crab, & Goat,
158.B29.337  Parch't, since first launch't forth this liuing boat:
158.B29.338  T'is greatest now and to distruction
158.B29.339  Nearest; there is no pause at Perfection
158.B29.340  Greatnes a Period hath, but hath no Station
158.B29.341  Two littell fishes whome hee neuer harm'd [f.163v]
158.B29.342  Nor fed on their kind; two not throughly arm'd
158.B29.343  W%5t%6 hope that they could kill him, nor could doe
158.B29.344  Good to them selues, by his death, (they do not eate)[sic]
158.B29.345  [l.c.]his flesh, nor suck those oyles w%5ch%6 thence out sweat)
158.B29.346  Conspir'd against him: And it might vndoe
158.B29.347  The plott of all, that the plotters were two
158.B29.348  But that they fishes were, and could not speake
158.B29.349  How shall a Tirant wise stronge p*ojects breake
158.B29.350  If wretches can on them the com%Mon anger wreake.
158.B29.351  The flatt fin'd Thresher, and steelback't Sword fish
158.B29.352  Onely attempt to doe what all doe wish
158.B29.353  The Thresher backs him, and to beat beginns
158.B29.354  The Sluggard Whale, yelds to oppeession[sic]
158.B29.355  And to hide him selfe from shame & daunder[sic], downe
158.B29.356  Begins to sinke; The Sword fish vpward spinn's[sic]
158.B29.357  And gores him w%5t%6 his beake; His staf-like finnes
158.B29.358  So weareth one, his sword y%5e%6 other plies
158.B29.359  That now a Scoffe and pray this Tirant lyes
158.B29.360  And (his owne dole) feeds w%5t%6 him selfe all Companies.
158.B29.361  Who will reuenge his Death or who will call [f.164]
158.B29.362  Those to account, yt thought, and wrought his fall
158.B29.363  The heires of slaine kinges, we see ar often so
158.B29.364  Transported w%5t%6 the joye[sic:j] of what they gett
158.B29.365  That they reuenge, and Obsequies forgett
158.B29.366  Nor will against such men%M the people goe
158.B29.367  Becaus he's now dead to whome they should show
158.B29.368  Loue in that Act; And ki%Mges by vice ar growne
158.B29.369  So needy of Subj[yes]ects loue, y%5t%6 of their owne
158.B29.370  They think they loose if loue be to y%5e%6 dead prince Showne
158.B29.371  This Sowle now free, from prison and passion--[em-dash]
158.B29.372  Hath yet a littell Indignation
158.B29.373  That so small ham%Mers should so soone downe beat
158.B29.374  So great a Castell; and hauing for her howse
158.B29.375  Gott the streight Cloister of a wretched Mouse
158.B29.376  (As basest men%M that haue not what to eate
158.B29.377  Nor enj[yes]oye ought, doe farr more hate y%5e%6 great
158.B29.378  Then they whome repos'd estates possesse)
158.B29.379  This Sowle late taught that great things might by lesse
158.B29.380  Bee slaine, to gallant mischeefe doth her selfe addresse
158.B29.381  Natures great master peece an Elephant [f.164v]
158.B29.382  The onely harmles great thinge; The Giant
158.B29.383  Of Beasts, who had beene king but y%5t%6 too wise
158.B29.384  Hee was, just, thankfull, loth t'offend
158.B29.385  (For Nature hath giuen him no knees to bend)
158.B29.386  Him selfe hee vp proppes, on him selfe relies
158.B29.387  And foe to none, suspects no Ennemies
158.B29.388  Still sleeping stood, vext not his phantasies
158.B29.389  Black dreams; like an vnbent bowe carelesly
158.B29.390  His sinnewy Proboscis did remisly lye
158.B29.391  In which as in a Gallery this Mouse
158.B29.392  Walkt and suruaid the roomes of this vast howse
158.B29.393  And to the braine, the Sowles bedchamber went
158.B29.394  And gnaw'd the life cordes there; like a whole Towne
158.B29.395  Cleane vndermin'd y%5e%6 slaine beast tumbled downe;
158.B29.396  With him the Murtherer whome Enuye sent
158.B29.397  To kill, not saue; for onely hee that ment
158.B29.398  To die did euer kill a Man%Me of better roome
158.B29.399  And thus hee made him for his praye, and Toombe,
158.B29.400  Who cares not to torne back, may any whether com%Me
158.B29.401  Next hows'd this Sowle a Wolfes yet vnborne whelpe [f.165]
158.B29.402  Till the best Midwife Nature gaue it helpe
158.B29.403  To issue, it could kill as soone as goe.
158.B29.404  Abell as whight, and mild as his sheepe were
158.B29.405  (Who in the trade of Church and kigdoms[sic] there
158.B29.406  Was y%5e%6 first Tipe), was still infested soe
158.B29.407  With this woolfe, y%5t%6 hee bred his losse and woe.
158.B29.408  And yet his bitch, his Sentinell attends
158.B29.409  The Flock so neere, so well warnes and defends
158.B29.410  That y%5e%6 Woolfe (hopeles else) to corrupt her intends.
158.B29.411  Hee tooke a way which since succesfullye
158.B29.412  Great Men haue often taken, to espye
158.B29.413  The Councells, or to break the plotts of foes,
158.B29.414  To Abels Tent he stealeth, in y%5e%6 darke
158.B29.415  On whose skirt the Bitch slept; Ere she could brak[sic!]
158.B29.416  Attach her w%5t%6 stright gripes, yet he *%>cal'd those
158.B29.417  Embracements of Loue; to loues worke he goes,
158.B29.418  Where deeds mooue more then woordes; nor doth shee show
158.B29.419  Now much resist; nor needs hee streighten so
158.B29.420  His Praye; for were shee loose shee would not bark, nor goe.
158.B29.421  Hee hath engag'd her; his she wholy bides; [f.165v]
158.B29.422  Who not her owne, no others secrets hides:
158.B29.423  If to the Flock he come and Abell there
158.B29.424  She faines horse barkings but she biteth not
158.B29.425  Her faith is quite, but not her Loue forgot;
158.B29.426  At last a Trap, of w%5ch%6 sum euery where
158.B29.427  Abell had plac't ended his losse and feare
158.B29.428  By the wolues death; And now iust tyme it was,
158.B29.429  That a quick sowle should giue life to that masse
158.B29.430  Of blood in Abels bitch, and thither this did passe
158.B29.431  Some haue their wiues, their Sisters sum begott
158.B29.432  But in the life of Princes y%5w%6 shall nott
158.B29.433  Read of a lust the which may equall this;
158.B29.434  This Wolfe begatte him selfe and finished
158.B29.435  What hee begunne aliue; when he was dead
158.B29.436  Sonne to him selfe, and Father too hee %Jwas%K is
158.B29.437  A ridling Lust for w%5ch%6 Scoolmen would misse
158.B29.438  A Name: The Whelpe of both these lay
158.B29.439  In Abels Tent, and w%5t%6 soft %1Moaba%2
158.B29.440  His Sister beeing yonge it vs'd to sport and play
158.B29.441  Hee soone for her too harsh, and churlish grew
158.B29.442  And Abel (the Dam%Me dead) would vse this new
158.B29.443  For the feild: beeing of two kinds made
158.B29.444  Hee as his Dam%Me from sheepe droue Wolfes awaye [f.166]
158.B29.445  And as his Sire hee made them his owne praye
158.B29.446  Fiue yeares he liu'd and cousin'd w%5t%6 his Trade
158.B29.447  Then hopeles that his falts were hid, betraid
158.B29.448  Him selfe by flight, and by all followed
158.B29.449  From Doggs a Wolfe from Wolues a Dogge he fled
158.B29.450  And like a Spye to both sides fals, hee perished.
158.B29.451  It quickned next a toyfull Ape and so
158.B29.452  Gamsom it was, yt it might freely goe
158.B29.453  From tent to tent, and w%5t%6 the Children play
158.B29.454  His Organs now so like theirs he doth find
158.B29.455  That why hee can%Mot laugh and speak his mind
158.B29.456  Hee wonders, much; W%5t%6 all most hee doth stay
158.B29.457  W%5t%6 Adams fifth Daughter Syphatecia;
158.B29.458  Doth gaze on her, and where she passeth passe
158.B29.459  Gathers her frute, and tumbles on the grasse
158.B29.460  And wisest in that kind the first trew louer was;
158.B29.461  Hee was the first that more desir'd to haue
158.B29.462  One then an other; first y%5t%6 ere did craue
158.B29.463  Loue by mute signes, and had no power to speak;
158.B29.464  First y%5t%6 could make Loue faces, or could doe
158.B29.465  The Valters Sumersalts, or vs'd to woe[sic]
158.B29.466  W%5t%6 hoisting gambolls, his owne howse to break
158.B29.467  To make his Mistris merry or to wreak
158.B29.468  Her angers on him selfe; Sinns against kind
158.B29.469  They easly doe, that can let feed their Mind
158.B29.470  W%5t%6 outward Beauty, Beauty they in boyes and beasts do find
158.B29.471  By this misled, too low things Men haue proou'd [f.166v]
158.B29.472  And too high: Beasts, and Angells haue beene lou'd
158.B29.473  This Ape, though else through-vaine in this was wyse
158.B29.474  Hee reach't at things too high but open way
158.B29.475  There was, And hee knew not she could say nay:
158.B29.476  His Toyes preuaile not liklier means hee tryes
158.B29.477  Hee gazeth on her face w%5t%6 tear=shot eyse
158.B29.478  And vplifts softly with his russett pawe                                                        
158.B29.479  Her kid skin Apron, without feare or awe                
158.B29.480  Of Nature; Nature hath no Iayle though she haue lawe    
158.B29.481  First she was silly and knew not what he ment           
158.B29.482  That Vertu by his touches chaf't and spent              
158.B29.483  Succeeds an itchy Warmth, y%5t%6 melts her quite        
158.B29.484  Shee knew not first, nor cares not what he doth         
158.B29.485  And willing halfe and more, more then halfe loth        
158.B29.486  She neither pulls, nor pushes, but outright              
158.B29.487  Now cries, and now repents, when %1Tethlemite%2         
158.B29.488  Her brother enters, and a great stone threw             
158.B29.489  After y%5e%6 Ape, who thus preuented flew;              
158.B29.490  This howse, thus batterd downe, the Sowle possest a new.
158.B29.491  And whether by this Chaung she lose or win              
158.B29.492  She com%Ms out next where y%5e%6 Ape would haue gone in 
158.B29.493  Adam and Eue had mingled bloods, and now                
158.B29.494  Like Chimicks equall fires her temprat wombe            
158.B29.495  Had stued, and form'd it And part did becom%Me          
158.B29.496  A spungy Liuer that did richly allow                    
158.B29.497  Like a free Conduit on a high hills brow                
158.B29.498  Life-keeping-moisture vnto euery part                   
158.B29.499  Part hardned it selfe to a thicker Hart                 
158.B29.500  Whose busy furnaces Life sprights doe impart            
158.B29.501  An other part became the well of Sense [f.167]          
158.B29.502  The tender well arm'd feeling Braine: from whense        
158.B29.503  Those sinewy strings w%5ch%6 doe our bodies tye         
158.B29.504  Are rauel'd out, and fast there by one end               
158.B29.505  Did this Sowle, Lim%Ms; these Lim%Ms a Sowle attend     
158.B29.506  And now they ioyne keeping som quality                  
158.B29.507  Of euery past Shape: she knew Trechery                  
158.B29.508  Rapine Deceit, and Lust and ills enowe                  
158.B29.509  To bee a Woman; %1Temech%2 shee is now                  
158.B29.510  Sister and wife to Cain yt first did plow               
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158.B29.0$$  %1EPISTLE: l.1 hanging ind; numbered ll. follow JTS, virgules showing ms. line breaks; omission in 
ll.5-6 is probably an eye-skip from "other" to "other"; scribe apparently never finished copying the epistle, but 
seems to have left space for it--bottom of f.154 & all of 154v are blank; POEM: wr. in 10-line sts. separated by 
space (sometimes also by horiz. ll. across p.) but not numbered (except 21, in LM), the 1st ll. of the 1st few sts 
hanging-ind into LM--usually not thereafter; final st. om, but scribe[?] has signed%2 Edward Smith %1under st 51 [looks 
like same ink--EWS] (name also wr. to right of heading); scribe often places terminal punct at FRONT of NEXT sentence or 
centered between sentences, but I've recorded it normally for the sake of collation; ends or beginnings of some ll. missing 
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