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002.B13.HE1  %XSatire 3%5d%6.|
002.B13.001  S.%5r%6 (though I thank God for it) I doe hate
002.B13.002  Perfectly, all this towne; yet there is one state
002.B13.003  In all thinges soe excellently best
002.B13.004  that hate towardes that, breedes pittie in the rest.
002.B13.005  Though Poetrye indeede bee such   a synn
002.B13.006  As I thinke that bringes darthes & Spaniards in,
002.B13.007  Though like the pestilence, or ould fashiond Loue,
002.B13.008  It Ridli>%Y*%Z<ngly catch men, & doth remoue
002.B13.009  Never till it bee staru'd out. Yet their estate
002.B13.010  Is poore, disarm'd, like papists; not worth hate.
002.B13.011  One like a Wretch (w%5ch%6 at Barre iudg'd is dead,
002.B13.012  yet prompts him w%5ch%6 stands next, & cauld[sic] not read,
002.B13.013  and saues his life) Gyves Idiot Actors meanes
002.B13.014  (starvinge himselfe) to liue by his labourd sceanes.
002.B13.015  As in some Organs puppets daunce aboue,
002.B13.016  And bellowes pant belowe, w%5ch%6 doe them mooue.
002.B13.017  One would moue Loue by rimes; But witchcraft charmes
002.B13.018  Bringe not now their olde feares, nor their olde harmes.
002.B13.019  Rammes, & slinges now are silly battery,
002.B13.020  Pistoll>%V%5ts%6< are the best Artillery,|
002.B13.021  And >%Vthey< whoe write to Lords rewards to gett,
002.B13.022  Are they not like singers, at men%Ms dores for meat?
002.B13.023  And they whoe writ, because all write, haue still
002.B13.024  that scuse for wrytinge, & for wrytinge ill.
002.B13.025  And hee >%Yis%Z<is worst, whoe beggerly doth Chawe
002.B13.026  others witts fruites, & in his ravenous Mawe
002.B13.027  Rankly digested, doth those thinges out spew
002.B13.028  As his owne thinges, and they are his owne, tis true,
002.B13.029  For yf one eat my meate, though it bee >%Ymine%Z< knowne
002.B13.030  the meat was mine, the excrement's his owne. 
002.B13.031  But those doe mee noe harme; nor they w%5ch%6 vse
002.B13.032  To out doe Dilldoes, or out usure Iewes
002.B13.033  To out drinke the sea, out sweare the Letany
002.B13.034  whoe w%5th%6 sin%Ms all kinds as familier bee [CW:as#Confessors~~~][miscatch]
002.B13.035  As Confessors; And for whose sinfull sake [f.52]
002.B13.036  Schoolemen, new tenem%5ts%6 in hell must make
002.B13.037  Whose stronge Sin%Ts Canonists could hardly tell
002.B13.038  In w%5ch%6 Com%Tandm%5ts%6 larg receipt they dwell
002.B13.039  But these ponishe themselves.| The insolence
002.B13.040  of Co>t%>c<cus onely breeds my great offence
002.B13.041  Whom tyme w%5ch%6 rotts all, & makes botches pox,
002.B13.042  And ploddinge on must make a Calfe, an oxe
002.B13.043  hath made a lawyer, w%5ch%6 was alas of late
002.B13.044  But a scarse Poet; Ioylier of that State
002.B13.045  then are new benificd' Ministers, hee throwes
002.B13.046  Like netts, or limetwiggs, where ere hee goes
002.B13.047  his title of Barester, on every wench,
002.B13.048  And woes in language of the pleas, & bench
002.B13.049  A Motion Ladye. Speake Cos>t%>c<us. I haue beene
002.B13.050  In Loue since, since 30:%5mo%6 of the Queene.
002.B13.051  Continuall claimes I haue made; Iniunctions gott
002.B13.052  To stay  my Rivalls suite, that hee should not
002.B13.053  Proceede; Spare mee. In Hillary Terme I went,
002.B13.054  You said yf I return'd this Sise in Lent
002.B13.055  I should bee in Remitter of your grace
002.B13.056  In the Interim my L%Tres should take place
002.B13.057  of Affidavits wordes, wordes that would teare
002.B13.058  the tender Laborinth of a soft Mayds eare
002.B13.059  More, more, then tenn Slavonians scouldinges, more
002.B13.060  then when windes in our ruin'de Abbeys rore.
002.B13.061  When sick w%5th%6 poetry, & possest w%5th%6 Muse
002.B13.062  thou wast; and madd I hop'd. But men w%5ch%6 chuse
002.B13.063  Lawe practise for meere gaine; hould[sic] soule repute
002.B13.064  worse then Embrotheld Strumpetts prostitute
002.B13.065  Now like an Owlelight watchman hee must walke
002.B13.066  his hande still at a bill: now hee must talke
002.B13.067  Idely like prisoners, w%5ch%6 whole monthes will sweare
002.B13.068  that onely suertie shipp hath brought them there,
002.B13.069  And to euery suitor ly in every thinge,
002.B13.070  Ly like a kinges favorite; yea like a kinge.
002.B13.071  Like a wedg in a block wringe to the Barr
002.B13.072  bearinge like Asses, & more shameles farr
002.B13.073  then carted Whores, Ly to the Iudges for
002.B13.074  Bastardy abounds not in kinges titles, nor
002.B13.075  Symonie, & Sodomie in Church mens liues
002.B13.076  as these thinges doe in him, by these he thriues.
002.B13.077  Shortly (as the sea) hee will compasse all our Land
002.B13.078  from Scotts, to Wight; from Mount to Dover Strand
002.B13.079  And spyinge heires meltinge w%5th%6 Luxury
002.B13.080  Sathan would >%Vnot< Ioye at their sin%Ts, as hee,
002.B13.081  for as a thriftie wench scrapes kitchen stuffe
002.B13.082om
002.B13.083  of wastinge Candles, w%5ch%6 in thirtie yeare
002.B13.084  Relique like kept, perchance buies weddinge geere.
002.B13.085  Peece meale he getts Lands, & spends as much tyme
002.B13.086  wringinge each acre; as men pullinge for Prime.| [CW:In~\~(stacked#tildes)]
002.B13.087  In parchments the>r%>n<, large, as his feilds he drawes [52v] 
002.B13.088  Assurances as bigg as glossy Civill Lawes,
002.B13.089  Soe huge, that men in our tymes forwardnes
002.B13.090  are fathers of the Churche for wrytinge less.
002.B13.091  These hee writes not, nor for these wrytten payes,
002.B13.092  therefore spares noe length: as in those first dayes
002.B13.093  when Luthar was profest, hee did desire
002.B13.094  shorte Pater Nosters sayinge (as a ffryar)
002.B13.095  each daye his beades: but havinge left these Lawes
002.B13.096  Adds to Christes prayer; the powre, & Glorie claws.
002.B13.097  But when hee sells, or changes Lands hee empa>n%>ir<es
002.B13.098  his wrytinges, & vnwatch't, leaues out (ses heires)
002.B13.099  As slyly as anie Coment:%5r%6 goes by
002.B13.100  harde wordes, or sence, or in Divinitie
002.B13.101  As Contrau%5er%6te%5rs%6, in voucht texts leaue out
002.B13.102  Shrewd wordes, w%5ch%6 might againste them cleare the doubt.
002.B13.103  Where are those spread woods, w%5ch%6 cloth'd heretofore
002.B13.104  those bought lands not built, nor burnt w%5th%6in dore.
002.B13.105  Where the old Landlords troops, & Almes? In greate halls
002.B13.106  Carthusian feasts, & fullsome Bachinalls
002.B13.107  equally I hate, meanes blesse: In riche men%Ms homes
002.B13.108  I bid kill some beasts; but not Hecatombs
002.B13.109  None starue, none surfitt, soe. But o wee allowe
002.B13.110  good works, as good; but not of fashon nowe
002.B13.111  Like olde ritch wardropps. But my wordes non drawes
002.B13.112  W%5th%6in the vast reach, of the huge Statute Lawes.|
002.B13.0SS  I.D.|
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