IDENTILIN$$ F002O20|Dowden MS, Eng. poet. e.99|ff. 2v-4v (pp.121ff)\MTH\x\9-27-94|P:TJS|o|7-25-95|C:MJJ 3-27-96; JSC 10-14-98
002.O20.HE1 %XSatyre.
002.O20.001 Sr. Though (I thancke God for yt) I doe hate
002.O20.002 Perfectly all thys Towne, yett there is One state
002.O20.003 In all ill thinges, so excellently best
002.O20.004 That hate towards them, breedes Pitty toward the Rest, [f.3]
002.O20.005 Though Poetrye indeed be such a Sinne,
002.O20.006 As I thincke that brings Dearth, and Spaniards In.
002.O20.007 Though like the Pestilence, or olde fashion'd loue,
002.O20.008 It riddlingly catch men, and doth remoue
002.O20.009 Neuer tyll yt be steru'd out; yett theyr State
002.O20.010 Is Poore, disarmd, like Papists, not worth hate;
002.O20.011 Or like a wretch, w%5ch%6 at Barr iudg'd as dead,
002.O20.012 Yett promptts him w%5ch%6 stands next, and cold not read,
002.O20.013 And saues hys lyfe; g->>G<ives Ideott Actors meanes
002.O20.014 (Steruing himselfe) to liue by hys labor'd Sceanes.
002.O20.015 As in some Organs Puppetts dance aboue,
002.O20.016 And bellowes pant belowe, w%5ch%6 them doe moue,
002.O20.017 One wold moue loue by rhimes; but witchcraft charmes
002.O20.018 Bring not now theyre old feares, nor theyre old harmes;
002.O20.019 Ramms and Slinges now are seelye Batteree
002.O20.020 Pistoletts are the best Artilleryee.
002.O20.021 And they that write to Lords, rewards to gett
002.O20.022 Are they not like Boyes, singing at dores for meate?
002.O20.023 And they who write, because all write, haue still
002.O20.024 That Scuse for writing, and for writing ill.
002.O20.025 But he is worst, who beggarly doth chawe
002.O20.026 Others witts fruites, and in hys rauenous mawe
002.O20.027 Rawly disgected, doth these thinges outspue
002.O20.028 As hys owne thinges, and they are hys owne; tis true.
002.O20.029 For if one r->>e<ate my Meate, though it be knowne,
002.O20.030 The Meate was mine, the Excrement 's hys owne.
002.O20.031 But they doe mee no harme, nor they w%5ch%6 vse
002.O20.032 To outswiue Dildoes; and outvsure Iewes;
002.O20.033 To outdrincke the Sea; outsweare the Letanee,
002.O20.034 Who w%5th%6 Sinns all kindes, as familiar bee
002.O20.035 As Confessors: And for whose sinfull sake
002.O20.036 Schoolemen new Tenements in Hell must make, [f.3v]
002.O20.037 Whose strange Sinns Cannonists cold hardly tell
002.O20.038 In w%5ch%6 Commandments large receipt they dwell,
002.O20.039 But these punish themselues. Th' Insolence
002.O20.040 Of Coscus, onely breedes my greate Offence,
002.O20.041 Whom Time w%5ch%6 rotts all, and makes Botches Pox,
002.O20.042 And plodding on, must make a Calfe, an Oxe,
002.O20.043 Hath made a Lawyer: w%5ch%6 was alas of Late
002.O20.044 But scarce a Poett: Iollyer of this State
002.O20.045 Then are new benificd Ministers; he throwes
002.020.046om
002.020.047 Hys Title of Barrister on euery Wench,
002.O20.048 And woes in Language of the Pleas & Bench.
002.O20.049 A Motion Lady (Speake Coscus) I haue beene
002.O20.050 In Loue euer since Tricesimo of the Queene.
002.O20.051 Continuall Claymes haue I made: Iniunctions gott
002.O20.052 To stay my Rivalls sute, that he shold not
002.O20.053 Proceede; Spare mee; In Hillarye Terme I went,
002.O20.054 You sayd, if I retornd thys Size in Lent,
002.O20.055 I shold be in Remitter of your Grace,
002.O20.056 In the Interim my letters shold take Place
002.O20.057 Of affedauits; wordes, wordes, w%5ch%6 wold teare
002.O20.058 The tender Laborinth of a soft maydes Eare,
002.O20.059 More, more then ten Sclauonians scolding, more
002.O20.060 Then when windes in our ruind Abbeyes rore.
002.O20.061 When sicke w%5th%6 Poetrye, and possest w%5th%6 Muse
002.O20.062 Thou wast, and Madd, I hop'd; but men w%5ch%6 chuse
002.O20.063 Law Practise for meere gayne, Bold Soule, repute
002.O20.064 Worse then Imbrotheld Strumpets prostitute.
002.O20.065 Now like an Owelike Watchma%M he must walke
002.O20.066 His hand still at a Bill: Now he must talke [f.4]
002.O20.067 Idly, like Prisonners, w%5ch%6 whole months will sweare
002.O20.068 That only Suertiship hath brought them there.
002.O20.069 And to Euery Sutor lye in euery thinge,
002.O20.070 Like a Kings fauorite, yea like a King;
002.O20.071 Like a Wedge in a blocke wrunge to the Barr
002.O20.072 Bearing like Asses, and more shamelesse farr
002.O20.073 Then Carted whores lye to the Graue Iudge: for
002.O20.074 Bastardy abounds not in Kings Titles, nor
002.O20.075 Simon>i%>y<e, nor Sodomye in Church mens liues,
002.O20.076 As these thinges doe in him, by these he thriues.
002.O20.077 Shortly (as the Sea) he will compas all our land,
002.O20.078 From Scots to Wight, from Mount to Douerstrand,[sic]
002.O20.079 And spying heyres melting w%5th%6 Gluttonye,
002.O20.080 Satan will not ioye at theyre Sinns, as Hee.
002.O20.081 For as a thrifty Wench scrapes kitchen stuffe,
002.O20.082 And barrelling the droppings, and the Snuffe
002.O20.083 Of wasting Candle, w%5ch%6 in thirty yeare,
002.O20.084 Relique lyke kept, perchance buyes wedding geare,
002.O20.085 Peicemeale he getts land; and spends as much Time
002.O20.086 Wringing Each Acre, as men pulling Prime.
002.O20.087 In Parchments as large as hys fields, he drawes
002.O20.088 Assurances>:%>;< bigge as glos'd Civill Lawes.
002.O20.089 So huge that men in our Times forwardnes
002.O20.090 Are fathers of the Church for writing lesse;
002.O20.091 These he writes not; Nor for these written payes,
002.O20.092 Therfore spares no lenght. As in these first dayes
002.O20.093 When Luther was profest, he did desyre
002.O20.094 Short Pat:%5r%6 Nost%5rs%6, saying as a Fryer
002.O20.095 Each day hys Beades, but hauing left hys Lawes [f.4v]
002.O20.096 Addes to Christs Prayer, the Power and Glory clause,
002.O20.097 But when he sells, or changes land, he impayres
002.O20.098 Hys writings, and vnwatch'd, leaues out hys heyres,
002.O20.099 As slily as any Commentor goes by
002.O20.100 Hard wordes, or Sense: Or in Deuinitee
002.O20.101 As Controuerters in vouch'd texts leaue out
002.O20.102 Such wordes as might against them cleare the doubt.
002.O20.103 Where are these spyed wo>o%>r<ds, w%5ch%6 cloth'd heretofore
002.O20.104 These bought Lands, not built, nor burnt, w%5th%6in dore?
002.O20.105 Where the old Landlords troopes, and Almes? in greate halls
002.O20.106 Carthusian fasts, and fullsome Bacchanalls 
002.O20.107 Equally I hate: Meanes blesse; In rich mens %Ybathes%Z>%Vhomes<
002.O20.108 I bid kill some beasts, but not Hecatomes.
002.O20.109 None Sterve, none surfett so: But oh wee allowe
002.O20.110 Goode workes as good, but out of fashion nowe
002.O20.111 Like olde rich wardrops. But my wordes none drawes
002.O20.112 W%5th%6in the vast reach of the huge Statute Lawes.|
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