IDENTILIN$$ F00500B|1635 (MH)\pp. 143-45\EWS\mf\4-5-85\P:js\fc(TxAM)\10-28-05\P&C:mvf\mf(CtY)\10-24-06 005.00B.0HE %X%1Satyre%2 V. 005.00B.001 T%+Hou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they 005.00B.002 Whom any pitty warmes. He which did lay 005.00B.003 Rules to make Courtiers, (hee being understood 005.00B.004 May make good courtiers, but who courtiers good?) 005.00B.005 Frees from the sting of jests all who in extreme 005.00B.006 Are wretched or wicked: of these two a Theame 005.00B.007 Charitie and libertie give me. What is he 005.00B.008 Who Officers rage, and Suitors misery 005.00B.009 Can write, and jest? If all things be in all, 005.00B.010 As I thinke, since all, which were, are, and shall 005.00B.011 Bee, be made of the same elements: 005.00B.012 Each thing, each thing implyes or represents. 005.00B.013 Then man is a world; in which, Officers, 005.00B.014 Are the vast ravishing seas; and Suters, 005.00B.015 Springs; now full, now shallow, now drie; which, to 005.00B.016 That which drownes them, run: These selfe reasons %/(doe 005.00B.017 Prove the world a man, in which, officers 005.00B.018 Are the devouring stomacke, and Suitors 005.00B.019 The excrements which they void; all men are dust, 005.00B.020 How much worse are Suitors, who to mens lust 005.00B.021 Are made preys. O worse than dust, or worms meat, 005.00B.022 For they do eate you now, whose selves worms shall %/(eat. 005.00B.023 They are the mils which grind you, yet you are 005.00B.024 The winde which drives them; and a wastfull warre 005.00B.025 Is fought against you, and you fight it; they 005.00B.026 Adulterate law, and you prepare the way, [CW:Like] 005.00B.027 Like wittals, th'issue your owne ruine is. [p.144] 005.00B.028 Greatest and fairest Empresse, know you this? 005.00B.029 Alas, no more than Thames calme head doth know 005.00B.030 Whose meades her armes drowne, or whose corne %/(o'rflow, 005.00B.031 You sir, whose righteousnes she loves, who%M I 005.00B.032 By having leave to serve, am most richly 005.00B.033 For service paid, authoriz'd, now begin 005.00B.034 To know and weed out this enormous sin. 005.00B.035 O Age of rusty Iron%1!%2 (Some better wit 005.00B.036 Call it some worse name, if ought equall it;) 005.00B.037 The iron Age %1that%2 was, when justice was sold (now 005.00B.038 Injustice is sold dearer) did allow 005.00B.039 All claim'd fees, and duties. Gamesters, anon 005.00B.040 The money which you sweat, and sweare for, is gone 005.00B.041 Into other hands: So controverted lands 005.00B.042 Scape, like Angelica, the strivers hands. 005.00B.043 If Law be in the Iudges heart, and hee 005.00B.044 Have no heart to resist letter, or fee, 005.00B.045 Where wilt thou appeale? powre of the Courts be %\(low 005.00B.046 Flow from the first maine head, and these can throw 005.00B.047 Thee, if they suck thee in, to miserie, 005.00B.048 To fetters, halters. But if the injury 005.00B.049 Steele thee to dare complaine, Alas, thou goest 005.00B.050 Against the stream, whe%M upwards: whe%M thou art most 005.00B.051 Heavy and most faint; and in these labours they, 005.00B.052 'Gainst whom thou should'st complaine, will in thy %\(way 005.00B.053 Become great seas, o'r which, when thou shalt be 005.00B.054 Forc'd to make golden bridges, thou shalt see 005.00B.055 That al thy gold was drown'd in them before. 005.00B.056 Al things follow their like, only who have, may have %\(more. 005.00B.057 Iudges are Gods; he who made and said them so, 005.00B.058 Meant not that men should be forc'd to them to goe, 005.00B.059 By meanes of Angels. When supplication [CW:Wee][miscatch;see#notes] 005.00B.060 We send to God, to Dominations, [p.145] 005.00B.061 Powers, Cherubins, and all heavens Courts, if we 005.00B.062 Should pay fees as here, Daily bread would bee 005.00B.063 Scarce to Kings; so 'tis; Would it not anger 005.00B.064 A Stoicke, a Coward, yea a Martyr, 005.00B.065 To see a Pursivant come in, and call 005.00B.066 All his clothes, Copes; Bookes, Primers; and all 005.00B.067 His Plate, Chalices; and mistake them away, 005.00B.068 And lack a fee for comming? Oh; ne'r may 005.00B.069 Faire lawes white reverend name be strumpeted, 005.00B.070 To warrant thefts: shee is established 005.00B.071 Recorder to Destiny, on earth, and shee 005.00B.072 Speaks Fates words, and tells who must bee 005.00B.073 Rich, who poore, who in chaires, who in jayles: 005.00B.074 Shee is all faire, but yet hath foule long nayles, 005.00B.075 With which shee scratcheth Suiters: In bodies 005.00B.076 Of men, so in law, nailes are extremities. 005.00B.077 So Officers stretch to more than Law can doe, 005.00B.078 As our nailes reach what no else part comes to. 005.00B.079 Why barest thou to yon Officer? Foole, Hath hee 005.00B.080 Got those goods, for which erst men bar'd to thee? 005.00B.081 Fool, twice, thrice, thou hast bought wro%Mg, & now hu%M- %/(gerly 005.00B.082 Beg'st right; but that dole coms not til these die. 005.00B.083 Thou had'st much, & lawes Vrim and Thummim trie 005.00B.084 Thou wouldst for more; and for all hast paper 005.00B.085 Enough to cloath all the great Carricks Pepper. 005.00B.086 Sell that, and by that thou much more shalt leese, 005.00B.087 Then Hammon, if he sold his Antiquities. 005.00B.088 O wretch that thy fortunes should moralize 005.00B.089 Esops fables, and make tales, prophesies. 005.00B.090 Thou art the swimming dog who%M shadows cozened, 005.00B.091 Which div'st, neare drowning, for what vanished. [CW:%1Satyre%2] 005.00B.0SS [om] 005.00B.0$$ No ind; 2nd e in l.59's CW over-inked, but its bleed-through on p.143 is legible