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001.VA2.HE1 %XSatyre 1.
001.VA2.001 A way thou changelinge motelye humoriste
001.VA2.002 Leaue me, and in this standinge wooden cheste
001.VA2.003 Consorted w%5th%6 these few bookes let me lye
001.VA2.004 In prison, and here be coffind' when I dye.
001.VA2.005 Here are gods conduites, graue diuines, and here
001.VA2.006 Natures Secretarye the Phylosopher.
001.VA2.007 And iolly statesmen that teach how to tye
001.VA2.008 The sinewes of a Cittyes mistique bodye.
001.VA2.009 Here gatheringe Croniclers; and by them stand
001.VA2.010 Giddie Phantastique Poets of each land.
001.VA2.011 Shall I leaue all this constant companye
001.VA2.012 And follow headlonge wild, vncertayne thee?
001.VA2.013 First sweare to me by thy best loue in earnest
001.VA2.014 (If thou which louest all canst loue any best)
001.VA2.015 Thou wilt not leaue in the midle streete
001.VA2.016 Though some more spruce companion thou do meete,
001.VA2.017 Not though a Captaine doe come in thy way
001.VA2.018 Bright-parcell guilt w%5th%6 forty dead-mens pay.
001.VA2.019 Not though a briske perfumd' perte Courtier
001.VA2.020 Daigne w%5th%6 a nodd thy courtesies to answere.
001.VA2.021 Nor though a veluett Iustice, w%5th%6 a longe
001.VA2.022 Greate trayne of blew-coates 12 or 14 stronge.
001.VA2.023 Shalt thou grinn or fawne on him; or prepare
001.VA2.024 A speech to court his beutious sonne and heire.
001.VA2.025 For better and for worse take me or leaue me
001.VA2.026 To take and leaue me is adulterye.
001.VA2.027 O monster! supestitious[sic] Puritane
001.VA2.028 Of refind' manners yet ceremoniall man!
001.VA2.029 That when thou meetst one; w%5th%6 inquiringe eyes
001.VA2.030 Dost search and like a needy Broker prize
001.VA2.031 The silke and goold he weares, and to that rate
001.VA2.032 So high or lowe dost vaile thy formall hatte.
001.VA2.033 That wilt consorte none vntill thou haue knowne
001.VA2.034 What lands he hath in hope or of his owne.
001.VA2.035 As if all thy compannions should make thee
001.VA2.036 Ioyntures and marry thy deare companye.
001.VA2.037 Why shouldst thou (that dost not only approue
001.VA2.038 But in rancke itchie lust desire %Yloue%Z and loue
001.VA2.039 The nakednesse and barenesse to enioye
001.VA2.040 Of thy plumpe muddy whoore, or prostitute Boy)
001.VA2.041 Hate vertue though she naked be and bare? [CW:om]
001.VA2.042 "At birth and death our bodies naked are [f.5v]
001.VA2.043 "And till our soules be vnapparraled
001.VA2.044 "Of bodies, they from blisse are banished.
001.VA2.045 "Mans first best state was naked, when by sinne
001.VA2.046 "He lost that, yet he was cloathd but in beasts skinnes.
001.VA2.047 And in this course attire which now I weare
001.VA2.048 With god and with the Muses I confere.
001.VA2.049 But since thou like a contrite penitente
001.VA2.050 Charitably warnd'e of thy sinnes dost repent
001.VA2.051 These vanityes and giddinesses. Loe
001.VA2.052 I shutt my chamber doore, and come letts goe.
001.VA2.053 But sooner may a cheape whoore y%5t%6 hath bin
001.VA2.054 Worne by as many seuerall men in sin,
001.VA2.055 As are blacke feathers, or Muske-coulered hose
001.VA2.056 Name hir %Yright%Zchild right trew father, mongst all those
001.VA2.057 Sooner may one guesse who shall beare a way
001.VA2.058 Th' Infante of London, heire to India:
001.VA2.059 And sooner may a gullinge wether-spie
001.VA2.060 By drawinge forth heauens scheame tell certainly
001.VA2.061 What fashiond' hatts, or ruffes, or suites next yeare
001.VA2.062 Our supple witted antique youthes will weare:
001.VA2.063 Then thou when thou departest hence canst showe
001.VA2.064 Whither, why, where, or w%5th%6 whome thou wouldst goe.
001.VA2.065 But how shall I be pardond' my offence
001.VA2.066 That thus haue sinnd against my conscience.
001.VA2.067 Now we are i'th streete. He first of all
001.VA2.068 Improuidently proud creepes to the wall,
001.VA2.069 And soe imprisond, and hemd' in by me,
001.VA2.070 Sells for a little state his libertie.
001.VA2.071 Yet though he cannot skip forth now to greete
001.VA2.072 Euery fine painted silken foole we meete,
001.VA2.073 He them to him w%5th%6 amarouse smiles allures
001.VA2.074 And grinns, smacks, shrugs, and such an itch indures
001.VA2.075 As prentices or shoole-boyes which doe knowe
001.VA2.076 Of some gay sporte abrode but dare not goe.
001.VA2.077 And as fidlers stop lowest at highest sound
001.VA2.078 So to the most braue stoopes, he nighest the ground,
001.VA2.079 But to a graue %V>man< he doth moue noe more
001.VA2.080 Then the wise politique horse would here-tofore.
001.VA2.081 Or thou, O Elephant or Ape wilt doe
001.VA2.082 When any names the kinge of Spaine to you.
001.VA2.083 Now leapes he vpright, iogges me, and cryes (do yo%5u%6 see
001.VA2.084 Yonder welfauord youth? which? yea tis he
001.VA2.085 That dances so diuinely.).[sic] Oh sayd I
001.VA2.086 Stand still; must you dance heere for company?
001.VA2.087 He droopt; we went on; till one who did excell
001.VA2.088 Th' Indians.[sic] in drinkinge his Tobacco well
001.VA2.089 Mett vs, they talkt: I whisperd let vs goe.
001.VA2.090 May be you smell him, not; truly I doe
001.VA2.091 He heares not me. But on the other side
001.VA2.092 A many coulourd' Peacocke hauinge spied
001.VA2.093 Leaues him and me: I for my lost sheepe stay
001.VA2.094 He followes, ouertakes, goes in the way
001.VA2.095 Sayinge: Him whom I last left, all repute
001.VA2.096 For his deuice in hansomeinge a suite
001.VA2.097 To iudge of lace, pinke, paynes, cutt print or plaite
001.VA2.098 Of all the Court to haue the best conceipt.
001.VA2.099 Our dull Comoe%Ldians want him. Let him goe
001.VA2.100 But O god strengthen thee why stoopst thou soe
001.VA2.101 Why he hath trauaild; Longe? Noe: but to me
001.VA2.102 Which vnderstand none, he doth seeme to bee
001.VA2.103 Perfect French and Italian; I replyde
001.VA2.104 So is the pox. He answerd not but spied
001.VA2.105 More men of sorte, of partes, of qualities.
001.VA2.106 At last his loue he in a windowe spies
001.VA2.107 And like light dew exhald' he flinges from me
001.VA2.108 Violently rauisht to his Lecherye.
001.VA2.109 Many were there he could commande no more
001.VA2.110 He quarreld, fought, bled, and turnd out of doore
001.VA2.111 Directly came to me, hanginge his head
001.VA2.112 And constantly a while must keepe his bedd.
001.VA2.0SS Finis primae%L Satyrae%L /I Donne.
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