IDENTILIN$$ F004B47|Stowe 962 ff. 100v-104v\TWH\cf\3-1-95\GAS\o\6-29-95\C:JSC 004.B47.HE1 Satyre 4.[LM] %XOf the Courte. 004.B47.001 Well I may now rec%Aeiue & die, my sinn 004.B47.002 in deed is greate, but I haue beene in [CW:a#purgatorie,] 004.B47.003 A Purgatorie, such as feard hell is >%Y***%Z< [f.101] 004.B47.004 a recreatione, and scant, mapp of this 004.B47.005 my minde not w%5th%6 prides itch, nor yet hath beene 004.B47.006 poyson'd w%5th%6 loue to see or to be seene 004.B47.007 I had noe sute there nor new sute to shew 004.B47.008 yet went to Court, but as Glare w%5ch%6 did goe 004.B47.009 to a masse in %Y*est%Z%>%5iest%6, catch't, was fayne to disburse 004.B47.010 the hundred marks (w%5ch%6 is the statutes Curse) 004.B47.011 before he scap't: soe it pleasd my destenie 004.B47.012 (guiltie of my sinn in goinge) to thinke me 004.B47.013 as prone to ill, & of all good as forgett= 004.B47.014 full, as proud, lustfull, and as much in debt. 004.B47.015 as vayne, as witles, & as false as they 004.B47.016 w%5ch%6 dwell at Courte, for once goinge that way 004.B47.017 therefore I sufferd this. towards me did runn 004.B47.018 a thinge more straynge then on Niles slime y%5e%6 sunn 004.B47.019 ere bred, or all w%5ch%6 into Noahs Arke cam 004.B47.020 a thinge w%5ch%6 would haue posd Adam to name 004.B47.021 straynger then seuen Antiquaries studdies 004.B47.022 then Africks monsters, Guyana's rarities, 004.B47.023 straynger then strayngers, one who for a Dane 004.B47.024 in the Danes massacre, had sure beene slayne 004.B47.025 If he liu'd then, & w%5th%6out healpe, dies 004.B47.026 when next the prentisces 'gaynst strayngers rise 004.B47.027 one, whom the watch at noone lets scarse goe by 004.B47.028 one, whom the examininge iustice sure would crie 004.B47.029 S.%5r%6 by yo%5r%6 pristhoode tell me what you are 004.B47.030 his cloathes were straynge though course & blacke & bare 004.B47.031 sleeueles his ierkine was, & it had beene 004.B47.032 veluet, but twas now (soe much grounde was seene) [CW:om] 004.B47.033 Tufftaffata become, & o%5r%6 Childrenn shall [f.101v] 004.B47.034 seet playne rash awhile, then nought at all 004.B47.035 the thinge hath trauayld & sayth speakes all tounges 004.B47.036 and only knowes to all state what belonges 004.B47.037 made of the accents, & best phrase of all these 004.B47.038 he speakes on language, if straynge meat>%Ys%Z< %Ydeceiue%Z>%5displease%6< 004.B47.039 Art can deceiue, or hunger force my tast 004.B47.040 but pedants motly tounges, souldiers bumbast 004.B47.041 mountebackes drugg=tounge, no=the termes of Law 004.B47.042 are stronge p%5re%6paratiues enough to drawe 004.B47.043 >me[LM]< to beare this, yet I must be content 004.B47.044 w%5th%6 his tounge, in his tounge calld Complement 004.B47.045 in w%5ch%6 he can winn widdowes & pay scores 004.B47.046 make men speake treason, cozen subtlest whores 004.B47.047 out feather favorites, & out ly either 004.B47.048om 004.B47.049 he names me & comes to me, I whisp%Pd, god 004.B47.050 how haue I sinn'd y%5t%6 thy wrathes furious rodd 004.B47.051 this fellow, chooseth me, he sayth, sir, 004.B47.052 I loue yo%5r%6 iudgment, whom doe yo p%5re%6ferr 004.B47.053 for the best linguist? & I seelyly 004.B47.054 sayd, y%5t%6 I thought Calepines dictionarie, 004.B47.055 nay, but of men? most sweete? sir Beza, then 004.B47.056 some Iesuits, & two reuerend men 004.B47.057 of o%5r%6 two Academies I namd, there 004.B47.058 he stopt me, & sayd, nay yo%5r%6 Appostels were 004.B47.059 prettie good linguists, & soe Panurgus was 004.B47.060 yet a poore gentleman, all these may passe 004.B47.061 by travayle. then as if he would haue sold 004.B47.062 his tounge, he praysd it, & such wonders told [CW:om] 004.B47.063 That I was fayne to say if you had liued S:%r%6 [f.102] 004.B47.064 time enough to haue bene an interp%5re%6ter 004.B47.065 to Babels bricklayers sure the Tower had stood 004.B47.066 he adds, if of Court life you knew the good 004.B47.067 you would leaue lonenesse. I sayd, not alone 004.B47.068 my lonenes is: but Spartans fashion 004.B47.069 to teach by payntinge drunckerds, doth not last 004.B47.070 now Aratines pictures haue made few Chast 004.B47.071 no more can princes Courts (though there be few 004.B47.072 but pictures of vice) teach me vertue. 004.B47.073 He, like a high- stretched- lute- stringe squeaks O S:%5r%6 [see#notes] 004.B47.074 tis sweete to talke of kings in Westminster 004.B47.075 sayd I, the man that keeps the Abbie tombes 004.B47.076 and for his price, doth w%5th%6 who euer comes 004.B47.077 of all o%5r%6 Harries & o%5r%6 Edwards talke 004.B47.078 from kinge to kinge, & all theire kinn can walke 004.B47.079 Yo%5r%6 eares shall heare nought but kings, yo%5r%6 eyes meete 004.B47.080 kings only, the way to it [sic]kings streete 004.B47.081 he sma%5c%6kt & cride, hee's base, macanicke course 004.B47.082 soe are yo%5r%6 Englishmen in theire discourse 004.B47.083 Are not yo%5r%6 ffrenchmen neate? mine as you see 004.B47.084 I haue but on ffrenchman looke he followes me 004.B47.085 Certes they are neatly clothed, I of this minde am 004.B47.086 Yo%5r%6 only wearinge is this Grogara%M 004.B47.087 not soe S:%5r%6 I haue more vnder this pitch 004.B47.088 he would not fly, I chast him, but as itch 004.B47.089 scratchd into smart, & as blunt Iron grounde 004.B47.090 into an edge, hurts worse, soe I foole founde 004.B47.091 Crossinge hurt me, to fitt my sullennesse 004.B47.092 he to another key his stile doth dresse [CW:om] 004.B47.093 And asks what newes? I tellinge of new playes [f.102v] 004.B47.094 he takes my hand, and as a still w%5ch%6 stayes 004.B47.095 a sembreife twixt each dropp, he nigardly 004.B47.096 as loth to enrich me soe, tels many a lye 004.B47.097 more then tenn Hollinsheds, & Halls & Stowes 004.B47.098 of triuiall houshold %Ystuffe%Ztrash: he knowes, he knowes 004.B47.099 when the Queene smild or frown'd, & he knowes what 004.B47.100 a subtle statesman may gather of that 004.B47.101 he knowes who loues who & who by poyson 004.B47.102 hastes to an offices Reuersione 004.B47.103 he knowes who sold his land, & now doth begg 004.B47.104 a licence, old Iron, shoes, boots, or egg= 004.B47.105 shells to transport, shortly boyes shall not play 004.B47.106 at blow=poynt or %Yat%Z span Counter. but they pay 004.B47.107 tole to some Courtier. And wiser then all vs 004.B47.108 he knowes w%5ch%6 Lady is not paynted, thus 004.B47.109 he w%5th%6 home meates cloyes me. I belch, spue, spett 004.B47.110 looke pale & sickly like a patient, yet 004.B47.111 He thrusts [sic]more, & as he had vndertooke 004.B47.112 to say Gallobelgicus w%5th%6 out booke 004.B47.113 speaks of all states & deeds w%5ch%6 haue bene since 004.B47.114 the Spanierds cam to the losse of Amiens 004.B47.115 like a bigg wife at sight of lothed meate 004.B47.116 ready to travayle, soe I sigh & sweate 004.B47.117 to heare his makaroone talke in vayne, for yet 004.B47.118 either my humor or his owne to fitt 004.B47.119 he like a priuiledgd spie, whom nothinge cann 004.B47.120 discredite, libels now agaynst each greate man 004.B47.121 he names a price for euery office payd 004.B47.122 he sayes o%5r%6 warrs thriue ill, because delayd [CW:om] 004.B47.123 That offices are entayld, & that there are [f.103] 004.B47.124 Perpetuities of them, lastinge >%Vas< farr 004.B47.125 as the last day, & that great officers 004.B47.126 doe w%5th%6 the Pyrates share & w%5th%6 the Dunkerkers 004.B47.127 who wastes in cloathes in meate, in horse he notes 004.B47.128 who loues whores, who boyes, who goats 004.B47.129 I more amazd then Circes poysoners when 004.B47.130 they felt themselues turnd beast, felt my selfe then 004.B47.131 becomeinge traytor, & me thought I saw 004.B47.132 one of o%5r%6 giant statutes ope his iaw 004.B47.133 to sucke me in, for hearinge him. I founde 004.B47.134 that, as bur%Mt venom leachers do grow sounde 004.B47.135 by giueinge others there sores, I might grow 004.B47.136 guiltie & he free, therefore I did shew 004.B47.137 all signe of loathing>%Ys%Z<, but since I am in 004.B47.138 I must pay mine, & mine%>>my< forefathers sinn 004.B47.139 to the last farthinge, therefore to my power 004.B47.140 toughly & stubbornely, I beare this Crosse, but y%5e%6 hower 004.B47.141 of redemption now was come, he tries to bringe 004.B47.142 me to pay a sinn to escape his torturinge 004.B47.143 and sayes, S:%5r%6 can you spare me [om] [om] [om] 004.B47.144 [om] [om] [om] [om] [om] [om] a Crowne thankfully I 004.B47.145 gaue it as a ransome: but as fidlers still 004.B47.146 though they be payd to be gonn, yet need will 004.B47.147 thrust on more jigg vppon you: soe he 004.B47.148 w%5th%6 his longe Compleme%Mtall thanks doth vex me 004.B47.149 but he is gon thanks to his needy want 004.B47.150 and the priuieledge of my Crowne, scant 004.B47.151 his thanks were ended, when I. (w%5ch%6 did see 004.B47.152 all the Co>%Vu%Vgay< paynted things, w%5ch%6 sapp, nor 004.B47.173 tast haue in them, o.%5rs%6 are, %Ytheire#fruite#bastards#all%Z>and naturall< 004.B47.174 some of the stocks are, theire fruite bastards all 004.B47.175 Tis ten aclocke, & past, all whom the mewes 004.B47.176 Baloone, tennis, diet, or els the stewes 004.B47.177 had all the morninge held (now the second %Ytime%Z 004.B47.178 time made readie%Y)%Z that day) in flocks are found 004.B47.179 In the p%5re%6sence, and I (god p%Pdon me) 004.B47.180 as fresh & sweete theire apparells be, as be 004.B47.181 the feilds they sold to buy them, for a kinge 004.B47.182 those hose are cries the flatterers, & brings [CW:om] 004.B47.183 them next weeke to the Theater to sell [f.104] 004.B47.184 wants reach all states. me thinks they doe as well 004.B47.185 at stage, as Court. All are players who ere looke 004.B47.186 (for them selues dare not goe) in Cheap side booke 004.B47.187 shall finde there wardrobes inuentory, now 004.B47.188 the Ladyes come as Pyrats, w%5ch%6 did know 004.B47.189 that there cam weake shipps fraught w%5th%6 Cutchinell 004.B47.190 the men board them, & prayse (as they thinke) well 004.B47.191 theire beauties, they the mens witts, both ore bought 004.B47.192 why good witts neare weare scarlets gownes I thought 004.B47.193 this cause. those men, mens witts for speaches buy 004.B47.194 and weomen buy all redds w%5th%6 scarlet die 004.B47.195 he calls her beautie limetwiggs, her hayre nett 004.B47.196 she feares her druggs ill layd her hayre loose sett 004.B47.197 would not Heraclitus laugh to see Macrine 004.B47.198 from hat to shoe himselfe at dore refine 004.B47.199 as the p%5re%6sence were at Meschite, & shift 004.B47.200 his skirts & hose, and all his Clothes to shrift 004.B47.201 makinge them Confesse, not only mortall 004.B47.202 great staynes & holes in them, but veniall 004.B47.203 feathers & dust, w%th%6 w%5ch%6 they fornicate 004.B47.204 And then by Dureus[sp:sic] rules survayes y%5e%6 state 004.B47.205 of his each limbe, & w%5th%6 strings, threads, tries 004.B47.206 of his necke to his legg, & wast to thyghes 004.B47.207 soe imaculate clothes, and Sym%Metrie 004.B47.208 perfect, as circles w%5th%6 such nicity 004.B47.209 as a young preacher, at the first time goes 004.B47.210 to preach) hee enters, and a lady (w%5ch%6 owes %Yhim%Z 004.B47.211 him not soe much as good will) he arrests 004.B47.212 and vnto her protests, protests, protests. 004.B47.213 soe much as Roome would serue to haue throwne 004.B47.214 ten Cardinalls into the Inquisition [CW:om] 004.B47.215 And whispers, by Iesu, soe often, that a%C [f.104] 004.B47.216 pursevant would haue ravish'd him quite away 004.B47.217 for sayinge o%5r%6 Ladies psalter, & 'tis fitt 004.B47.218 that they each other plauge, they merritt it 004.B47.219 but here comes Glorius y%5t%6 will plauge them both 004.B47.220 who in the other extreame only doth 004.B47.221 call a rough carelessnesse, good fashion 004.B47.222 whose cloake his spurres tare, whom he spitts on 004.B47.223 he cares not. his ill words doe no harme 004.B47.224 to him, he rusheth in, as if arme, arme 004.B47.225 cam to crie, and though his face be as ill 004.B47.226 as theires w%5ch%6 in old hangings whipp Christ, still 004.B47.227 he striues to looke worse. he keepe all in awe 004.B47.228 rests like a licen'd[sic] fooles,[sic] com%Mands like Law 004.B47.229 tyred now I leaue this place, and (but pleesd soe 004.B47.230 as men w%5ch%6 fro%M geole to execution goe) 004.B47.231 goe through the greate Chamber, why tis hunge 004.B47.232 w%5th%6 the seuen deadly sinnes, beinge amonge 004.B47.233 those Ascapares /// men big enough to throwe 004.B47.234 Charinge=Crosse for a barr men w%5ch%6 doe know 004.B47.235 no token of worth, but Queens man & fine 004.B47.236 liueinge barrells of beefe, & flagons of wine 004.B47.237 I shooke like a spydespy=preachers[sic] which are 004.B47.238 seas of witt & arte you can, then dare 004.B47.239 drowne the sinnes of this place for, for me 004.B47.240 who am a scant brooke it enough shall be 004.B47.241 to wash there staynes away although I yet 004.B47.242 (w%5th%6 Maccabees modestie) the merritt 004.B47.243 of my worke lessen, yet some wise man shall 004.B47.244 (I hope) afferme my witts[sic] Canonicall.| 004.B47.0SSom 004.B47.0$$ %1No ind; 3 centered horiz. slashes separate HE from poem; ll. 143, 144 conflated; spaces after hyphens in l.73 ADDED for collation only%2