IDENTILIN$$  F002HH1 Bridgewater ms., EL6893\ff. 61-63\JPK\mf\1-16-93\P:TLP\o\6-7-93\C:JSC\7-27-98
002.HH1.HE1  Satire
002.HH1.001  S%5r%6 though (I thanke God for it) I doe hate
002.HH1.002  perfectlie all this towne, yet ther is one state,
002.HH1.003  in all ille things so excellentlie blest,
002.HH1.004  that hate towards them, breeds pitty towrds y%5e%6 %^\rest,
002.HH1.005  Though Poetry endeed be such a synne,
002.HH1.006  as I think, that brings dearth & Spanyards in:
002.HH1.007  though like the Pestilence, & ould fashiond love,
002.HH1.008  it ridlinglie catch men, & doth remove
002.HH1.009  Never till it be starv'd out; yet their state
002.HH1.010  is poor, disarmd like Papists, not worth hate.
002.HH1.011  (One like a wretch w%5ch%6 at Barre iudg'd as dead
002.HH1.012  yet promps him y%5t%6 stand next, & could not reade,
002.HH1.013  & saues his life) giues Idiott actors meanes;
002.HH1.014  starving himself, to lyue by his labord sceanes
002.HH1.015  As in some Organs, Puppetts dance aboue,
002.HH1.016  & Bellowes Pante belowe, W%5ch%6 them doe move,
002.HH1.017  One would moue love by rymes; but witchcrafts cha%^\rmes
002.HH1.018  bring not now their owld feares, nor their ould= /harmes [CW:om]
002.HH1.019  Rams, & Slings now are silly battery: [f.61v]
002.HH1.020  Pistoletts are the best Artillery.
002.HH1.021  And they who write to lords reward%5s%6 to gett,
002.HH1.022  are they not like boyes singing at doores for meat
002.HH1.023  & they who write because all write, haue still
002.HH1.024  that scuse for writing, &, for writing ill.
002.HH1.025  But hee is worst who beggarly doth chawe
002.HH1.026  Others witts fruits, & in his ravenous maw
002.HH1.027  ranklie digested, doth those things outspue,
002.HH1.028  as his own things; & they are his owne tis true.;[sic]
002.HH1.029  for if one eate my meat, though it be knowne,
002.HH1.030  the meat was myne, th xcrem%5t%6 is his owne.
002.HH1.031  But theise do mee no harme, nor they w%5ch%6 vse,
002.HH1.032  to owt doe Dildoes, & out vsury Jewes:
002.HH1.033  To out drink the Sea, out sweare y%5e%6 Letany;
002.HH1.034  Who w%5th%6 Sinnes, all kinds as famylier bee
002.HH1.035  as Confessors; & for whose sinfull sake
002.HH1.036  Schoolemen, new tenements in hell must make.
002.HH1.037  Whose straying synnes, Cano%Mnists could hardly tell
002.HH1.038  in w%5ch%6 com%Mandments large receit they dwell:
002.HH1.039  But theise ponish them selues; the insolence
002.HH1.040  of Coscus onlie breeds my great offence:
002.HH1.041  Whome tyme W%5ch%6 rotts all & makes botches pox
002.HH1.042  & plodding on, must make a Calfe an Oxe,
002.HH1.043  hath made a lawyer, W%5ch%6 was (alass) of late
002.HH1.044  but a scarce Poet, iollyer of this state,
002.HH1.045  then are new Benific'>d%>t< ministers, hee throwes
002.HH1.046  like netts or lymetwigs, whers'ever he goes, [CW:om]
002.HH1.047  his title of Barrister, on euery Wench, [f.62r]
002.HH1.048  & wooes in language of the plees & Bench.
002.HH1.049  A motion ladie, Speak Coscus, I haue bene
002.HH1.050  in loue ere since 3%5imo%6 of the Quene.
002.HH1.051  Continuall claymes, haue made Iniunctions gott
002.HH1.052  to stay my Ryvalls sute, y%5t%6 hee should not
002.HH1.053  proceed, Spare mee; i%>>I<n Hillary terme I went;
002.HH1.054  you saide, if I returnd this Syse in lente,
002.HH1.055  I should be in remitter of your grace,
002.HH1.056  in the interim my letters should take place.
002.HH1.057  Of affae%Ldavites words; Words W%5ch%6 would teare
002.HH1.058  the tender labirinthe of a soft maids eare.
002.HH1.059  more, more then ten, sclavonians scolding; more
002.HH1.060  then When Winds in our ruin'd Abbeys roare.
002.HH1.061  when sick of poetry & possest with muse,
002.HH1.062  thou Wast, & madd, I hop't; but men W%5ch%6 chuse
002.HH1.063  lawe practice for mere gayn bould so%^%5le%6 repute.
002.HH1.064  Worse then imbrotheld strumpetts prostitute.
002.HH1.065  Now (like an Owle-like watchman) hee must walk
002.HH1.066  his hands still at a Bill; now hee must talk
002.HH1.067  idely lyke Prisoners, W%5ch%6 whole months will sweare,
002.HH1.068  that only suretiship hath brought them there.
002.HH1.069  & to every Sutor lye in euery thing,
002.HH1.070  Like a kings favorite, yea like a king.
002.HH1.071  Like a Wedge in a block, Wring to the barre,
002.HH1.072  bearing like Asses, & more shameless farre. [CW:om]
002.HH1.073  then carted %Yhowres%Z>>%5x%6[LM:x%5whores%6]<< lye to the grave iudge; for [f.62v]
002.HH1.074  Bastardie abounds not in kings titles, nor
002.HH1.075  >%Ynor%Z<#Symonie & Sodomy in Churchmens lyues
002.HH1.076  as these things do in him by theise hee thrives
002.HH1.077  Shortelie as the Sea hee Will compas all ou%5r%6 lande,
002.HH1.078  from Scotts to Wight, fro%M Mount to Dover %Ystand%Z/>strand<
002.HH1.079  & spying heires, melting W%5th%6 gluttony,
002.HH1.080  Satan will not ioye at their synnes as hee;
002.HH1.081  For >%^%5(as%6< a thriftie wench scrapes kitchen stuff,
002.HH1.082  & barrelling the droppings & the snuffe
002.HH1.083  of wasting Candles; W%5ch%6 in thirty yeare,
002.HH1.084  Reliqueli>*%>ke< kept, p%Pchan%Mce buyes Wedding geare)
002.HH1.085  peecemeale hee getts lands, & spends as much tyme
002.HH1.086  Wringing each acre, as men pulling prime.
002.HH1.087  In parchments then large as his feilds hee drawes
002.HH1.088  Assurances as bigg as gloss't Ciuell lawes:
002.HH1.089  So huge that men in our tymes forwardnes,
002.HH1.090  are fathers of the Church for Writing less.
002.HH1.091  Theise hee Writes not, nor for theis writings payes.
002.HH1.092  therfore spares no lengthe: as in those first dayes
002.HH1.093  When Luther was profest, he did desire
002.HH1.094  short Pater nosters saying, As a Fryar
002.HH1.095  each day his beads; But having left those lawes
002.HH1.096  adds to Christs prayer, y%5e%6 power & glory clause
002.HH1.097  But when he sells or channges lands, hee ympares
002.HH1.098  his Writings, & vnwached[sic] leaves out ses heires,
002.HH1.099  As slyly as any commenter goes by
002.HH1.100  hard Words or sence, Or in Diuinitie [CW:om]
002.HH1.101  As controverters in voucht Texts leave out [f.63r]
002.HH1.102  shrewd words w%5ch%6 might against them cleer y%5e%6 doute,
002.HH1.103  Where are those spredd woods W%5ch%6 clothed heretofore
002.HH1.104  these bought lands? not built, nor burnt within doore.
002.HH1.105  Where the owld landlords troops, & almes? in great halls,
002.HH1.106  Carthusians fasts, & fulsome Bacchanalls,
002.HH1.107  Equally I hate, meaness blesse, in rich mens homes
002.HH1.108  I bid kille some Beasts, but not Hecatombes,
002.HH1.109  None sterue, non surfett so: But oh wee alowe
002.HH1.110  good works as good; but out of fashion nowe,
002.HH1.111  like ould, rich wardropps: But my Words non drawes
002.HH1.112  Within the vast reach, of the huge Statute lawes.
002.HH1.0SS  [om (and no flourish)]
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