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003.C02.HE1 %XSatyre .3%5d%6.
003.C02.001 Kind Pittye choakes my Spleene; Brave scorne forbids
003.C02.002 Those teares to Issue which swell my Eyelids,
003.C02.003 I must not laugh, nor weepe Sins, and be wise
003.C02.004 Can raylinge then Cure these worne Maladyes?
003.C02.005 Is not our Mistris Fayre Religion
003.C02.006 As worthy of all our soules Devotion
003.C02.007 As vertue was in the first blinded Age;
003.C02.008 Are not Heavens Ioyes as valiant to asswage 
003.C02.009 Lusts, as Eac->>Earths< honour was to them? Alas
003.C02.010 As we doe them in meanes, shall they surpas
003.C02.011 Vs in the end, and shall thy Fathers Spiritt
003.C02.012 Meete blind Philosophers in Heaven, whose Merritt
003.C02.013 Of strict lyfe, may be imputed Fayth, and heare
003.C02.014 Thee, whome he taught soe easye wayes, and neare
003.C02.015 To followe, Damn'd? O yf thou darst, feare thys.
003.C02.016 This Feare greate courage and high valour is;
003.C02.017 Dar'st thou ayde Mutinous Dutch, and darst thou lay
003.C02.018 Thee in Ships, woodden Sepulchers, a Pray
003.C02.019 To leaders rage, to stormes, to shott, to Dearth?
003.C02.020 Dar'st thou dive Seas, and Dungeons of the Earth?
003.C02.021 Hast thou Couragious Fire to thawe the Ice
003.C02.022 Of Frosen North discoveryes? and Thrice
003.C02.023 Colder then Salamanders, lyke Devine
003.C02.024 Children in th' Oven, Fyres of Spayne, and the lyne
003.C02.025 Whose Countryes Lymbecks to our Bodyes bee?
003.C02.026 Canst thou for gayne beare? And must every Hee
003.C02.027 W%5ch%6 cryes not Goddesse to thy Mistris drawe,
003.C02.028 Or eate thy poysonous words, Courage of strawe.
003.C02.029 O desperate Coward, wilt thou seeme Bolld, and
003.C02.030 To thy Foes and his (who made the to stand
003.C02.031 Sentinell in his Worlds Garrisson) thus yeild 
003.C02.032 And for forbidden Warrs, leave th' appoynted Feilld [CW:(Know thy,]
003.C02.033 Know thy Foe, the foule Devill h'is, whome thou [f.18v]
003.C02.034 Strivest to Please, for hate, not love, would allowe
003.C02.035 Thee fayne his whole Realme, to be quitt; and as
003.C02.036 The worlds all parts wither away and passe
003.C02.037 So the worlds Filfe, thy other loved Foe, is
003.C02.038 In her decrepitt wayne, and thou loveinge this
003.C02.039 Dost->>>Do'st<< loue a wethered and worne Strumpett, last
003.C02.040 Flesh (yt selfes Death) and Ioyes w%5ch%6 Flesh can tast,
003.C02.041 Thou louest, and thy Fayre goodlye Soule, w%5ch%6 doth
003.C02.042 Giue this Flesh power to tast Ioy, thou do'st loth;
003.C02.043 Seeke true Religion.  O where, Myrreus
003.C02.044 Thinkinge her vnhow'sd here, and fled from vs
003.C02.045 Seekes her at Roome, there because he doth knowe
003.C02.046 That she was there a Thousand yeares agoe,
003.C02.047 He loves the Raggs, so as we here obey
003.C02.048 The Statecloth, where the Prince satt yesterday.
003.C02.049 Crants to such brave loves will not be inthrall'd
003.C02.050 But loves her onelye, who at Geneva is call'd,
003.C02.051 Religion, playne, simple, sullen, yonge,
003.C02.052 Contemptuous, yett vnhansome. As amonge
003.C02.053 Leacherous humors, there is one y%5t%6 Iudges
003.C02.054 No wenches wholesome but course Country Drudges:
003.C02.055 Graius stayes still at home here, And because
003.C02.056 Some Preachers, vile ambitious Bauds, and lawes
003.C02.057 Still new like Fashions, bids him thinke y%5t%6 shee
003.C02.058 W%5ch%6 dwells w%5th%6 vs, is onely perfect, Hee
003.C02.059 Imbraceth her, whome his Godfathers will
003.C02.060 Tender to him, beinge tender, as Wards still
003.C02.061 Take such wives as theyre Guardians offer, or
003.C02.062 Pay valewes. Careles Phrigius doth abhor
003.C02.063 All, Because all cannot be good, As one
003.C02.064 Knoweinge some woemens whores dares Marry None.
003.C02.065 Gracchus loues all as one, and thinks that soe
003.C02.066 As woemen doe in divers Countryes goe
003.C02.067 In divers habitts, yett are still One kinde
003.C02.068 Soe doth, so is Religion; And this Blind=
003.C02.069 Nes to much light Breedes; But vnmoov'd Thou
003.C02.070 Of Force must one, and forc'd but one alowe;
003.C02.071 And the right, Aske thy Father w%5ch%6 is Shee,
003.C02.072 Lett him aske his; Though Truth, and Falsehoode bee
003.C02.073 Neare Twinns, yet Truth a little elder is;
003.C02.074 Be Busie to seeke her, Beleeve me this,
003.C02.075 He is not of none, nor worst y%5t%6 seekes y%5e%6 Best.
003.C02.076 To Adore, or scorne an Image, or Protest, [CW:(May#all.|]
003.C02.077 May all be Bad; doubt wiselye, in strange way [f.19]
003.C02.078 To stand inquireinge right, is not to straye,
003.C02.079 To sleepe or run wronge, is; on a huge hill
003.C02.080 Cragg'd, and steepe Truth stands, and he that will
003.C02.081 Reach her, about must, and about goe.
003.C02.082 And what the hills suddaynes resists, winne soe;
003.C02.083 Yett strive soe y%5t%6 before Age, Deaths Twilight
003.C02.084 Thy Soule rest, for none can worke in that Night,
003.C02.085 To will, implyes delay, Therefore now doe,
003.C02.086 Hard deedes, the Bodyes paines; hard knowledge to
003.C02.087 The minds indeavers reach, and Misteryes
003.C02.088 Are lyke the Sunne, dazelinge, yett plaine to all Eyes;
003.C02.089 Keepe y%5e%6 truth w%5ch%6 thou hast found; Men do not stand
003.C02.090 In soe ill Case, y%5t%6 God hath with his hand
003.C02.091 Signed Kings blanke charters to kill whome they hate,
003.C02.092 Nor are they Viccars, but hangmen to Fate.
003.C02.093 Foole and wretch, wilt thou Lett thy Soule be tyed
003.C02.094 To mans lawes, by w%5ch%6 shee shall not be tryed,
003.C02.095 At the last day? Will yt then boote thee
003.C02.096 To say a Phillip, or a Gregorye,
003.C02.097 A Harry or a Martyn taught thee this?
003.C02.098 Is not this excuse for meere contraryes
003.C02.099 Equally stronge cannot both sydes say soe?
003.C02.100 That thou mayest rightlye obey Power, her bounds Knowe
003.C02.101 Those Past, her Nature, and name is chang'd to bee,
003.C02.102 Then humble to her is Idolatrye;
003.C02.103 As Streames are, Power is, those best flowers y%5t%6 dwell
003.C02.104 At the rough streames calme head, thrive, & do well,
003.C02.105 But haueing Left theyre rootes, & themselues giuen
003.C02.106 To y%5e%6 streames Tyrannous rage, Alas are driven
003.C02.107 Through Mills, and Rockes, & woods, & at last, allmost
003.C02.108 Consum'd in goeinge in the Sea, are lost.
003.C02.109 So perrish Soules, w%5ch%6 more chuse mens vniust
003.C02.110 Power from God claym'd then god himselfe to trust.|
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