IDENTILIN$$ F00200A|Sat2|1633|pp. 329-32\EWS\fs(L)\5-7-85\P&C:JAH\cd(TxAM1)\Mar05\+M,MH,OJn,DF0 fr mf. in Spring06
002.00A.0HE %X%1Satyre%2 II.
002.00A.001 S%+Ir; though (I thanke God for it) I do hate
002.00A.002 Perfectly all this towne, yet there's one state
002.00A.003 In all ill things so excellently best,
002.00A.004 That hate, toward them, breeds pitty towards the \(rest;
002.00A.005 Though Poe%Utry indeed be such a sinne
002.00A.006 As I thinke that brings dearth, and Spaniards in,
002.00A.007 Though like the Pestilence and old fashion'd love,
002.00A.008 Ridlingly it catch men; and doth remove
002.00A.009 Never, till it be sterv'd out; yet their state
002.00A.010 Is poore, disarm'd, like Papists, not worth hate:
002.00A.011 One, (like a wretch, which at Barre judg'd as dead,
002.00A.012 Yet prompts him which stands next, and cannot reade,
002.00A.013 And saves his life) gives ideot actors meanes
002.00A.014 (Starving himselfe) to live by his labor'd sceanes.
002.00A.015 As in some Organ, Puppits dance above
002.00A.016 And bellows pant below, which the%M do move.
002.00A.017 One would move Love by rithmes; but witchchrafts \(charms
002.00A.018 Bring not now their old feares, nor their old harmes.
002.00A.019 Rammes, and slings now are seely battery,
002.00A.020 Pistolets are the best Artillerie.
002.00A.021 And they who write to Lords, rewards to get,
002.00A.022 Are they not like singers at doores for meat?
002.00A.023 And they who write, because all write, have still
002.00A.024 That excuse for writing, and for writing ill;
002.00A.025 But hee is worst, who (beggarly) doth chaw
002.00A.026 Others wits fruits, and in his ravenous maw [CW: Rankly]
002.00A.027 Rankly digested, doth those things out-spue,[p.330]
002.00A.028 As his owne things; and they are his owne,'tis true,
002.00A.029 For if one eate my meate, though it be knowne
002.00A.030 The meate was mine, th'excrement is his owne:
002.00A.031 But these do mee no harme, nor they which use
002.00A.032 To out-doe _______; and out-usure Jewes;
002.00A.033 To out-drinke the sea, to out-sweare the _______
002.00A.034 Who with sinnes of all kindes as familiar bee
002.00A.035 As Confessors; and for whose sinfull sake
002.00A.036 Schoolemen, new tenements in hell must make:
002.00A.037 Whose strange sinnes, Canonists could hardly tell
002.00A.038 In which Commandements large receit they dwell.
002.00A.039 But these punish themselves; the insolence
002.00A.040 Of Coscus onely breeds my just offence,
002.00A.041 Whom time (which rots all, and makes botches poxe,
002.00A.042 And plodding on, must make a calfe an oxe)
002.00A.043 Hath made a Lawyer; which was alas of late
002.00A.044 But scarce a Poe%Ut, jollier of this state,
002.00A.045 Then are new benefic'd ministers, he throwes
002.00A.046 Like nets, or lime-twigs, wheresoever he goes,
002.00A.047 His title of Barrister, on every wench,
002.00A.048 And wooes in language of the Pleas, and Bench:
002.00A.049 A motion, Lady, Speake Coscus; I have beene
002.00A.050 In love, ever since %1tricesimo%2 of the Queene,
002.00A.051 Continuall claimes I have made, injunctions got
002.00A.052 To stay my rivals suit, that hee should not
002.00A.053 Proceed, spare mee; In Hillary terme I went,
002.00A.054 You said, If I Returne next size in Lent,
002.00A.055 I should be in remitter of your grace;
002.00A.056 In th'interim my letters should take place [CW: Of]
002.00A.057 Of affidavits: words, words, which would teare [p.331]
002.00A.058 The tender labyrinth of a soft maids eare.
002.00A.059 More, more, then ten Sclavonians scolding, more
002.00A.060 Then when winds in our ruin'd Abbeyes rore;
002.00A.061 When sicke with Poetrie, and possest with muse
002.00A.062 Thou wast, and mad, I hop'd; but men which chuse
002.00A.063 Law practise for meere gaine; bold soule repute
002.00A.064 Worse then imbrothel'd strumpets prostitute.
002.00A.065 Now like an owlelike watchman, hee must walke
002.00A.066 His hand still at a bill, now he must talke
002.00A.067 Idly, like prisoners, which whole months will sweare
002.00A.068 That onely suretiship hath brought them there,
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002.00A.071 Like a wedge in a blocke, wring to the barre,
002.00A.072 Bearing like Asses, and more shamelesse farre
002.00A.073 Then carted whores, lye, to the grave Judge; for
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002.00A.076 As these things do in him; by these he thrives.
002.00A.077 Shortly (as the sea) hee will compasse all the land;
002.00A.078 From Scots, to Wight; from Mount, to Dover strand.
002.00A.079 And spying heires melting with luxurie,
002.00A.080 Satan will not joy at their sinnes, as hee.
002.00A.081 For as a thrifty wench scrapes kitching-stuffe,
002.00A.082 And barrelling the droppings, and the snuffe,
002.00A.083 Of wasting candles, which in thirty yeare
002.00A.084 (Reliquely kept) perchance buyes wedding geare;
002.00A.085 Peecemeale he gets lands, and spends as much time
002.00A.086 Wringing each Acre, as men pulling prime. [CW: In]
002.00A.087 In parchment then, large as his fields, hee drawes [p.332]
002.00A.088 Assurances, bigge, as gloss'd civill lawes,
002.00A.089 So huge, that men (in our times forwardnesse)
002.00A.090 Are Fathers of the Church for writing lesse.
002.00A.091 These hee writes not; nor for these written payes,
002.00A.092 Therefore spares no length; as in those first dayes
002.00A.093 When Luther was profest, He did desire
002.00A.094 Short %1Pater%2 %1nosters%2, saying as a Fryer
002.00A.095 Each day his beads, but having left those lawes,
002.00A.096 Addes to Christs prayer, the Power and glory clause.
002.00A.097 But when he sells or changes land, he'impaires
002.00A.098 His writings, and (unwatch'd) leaves out, %1ses%2 %1heires%2
002.00A.099 As slily as any Commenter goes by,
002.00A.100 Hard words, or sense; or in Divinity
002.00A.101 As controverters, in vouch'd Texts, leave out
002.00A.102 Shrewd words, which might against them cleare the \(doubt:
002.00A.103 Where are those spred woods which cloth'd hertofore
002.00A.104 Those bought lands? not built, nor burnt within dore.
002.00A.105 Where's th'old landlords troops, & almes, great hals?
002.00A.106 Carthusian fasts, and fulsome Bachanalls
002.00A.107 Equally I hate, meanes blesse; in rich mens homes
002.00A.108 I bid kill some beasts, but no Hecatombs,
002.00A.109 None starve, none surfet so; But (Oh) we allow,
002.00A.110 Good workes as good, but out of fashion now,
002.00A.111 Like old rich wardrops; but my words none drawes
002.00A.112 Within the vast reach of th'huge statute lawes. [CW: %1Satyre%2]
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