IDENTILIN$$ F002O21|Phillipps MS, Eng. poet. f.9|pp. 143-147\MTH\10-10-94|P:TJS|o|7-25-95|C:MJJ\3-27-96; JSC\10-15-98
002.O21.HE1 %XLaw Satyre
002.O21.001 S%5r%6; though (I thanke god for't) I doe not hate
002.O21.002 p%Pfectly all this towne; yet there's one state
002.O21.003 in all ill thinges so excellently best
002.O21.004 y%5t%6 hate towardes them; breedes pitty towardes the rest
002.O21.005 though poetry indeed, besuch a sinne
002.O21.006 as I thinke %Yhim%Z#it brings dearth and Spaniardes in
002.O21.007 Though like the Pestilence; & olde fashion'd loue
002.O21.008 it riddlingly catch't men; & doth remoue
002.O21.009 neu%5r%6 till it bee staru'd outt, yet their state
002.O21.010 is poore; disdain'd; like papistes not worth hate.
002.O21.011 one like a wretch w%5c%6 att barre iudg'd is dead
002.O21.012 yet p%Pmtes him w%5c%6 standes next and cannot read
002.O21.013 (and saues his life) giues ideot Actors means
002.O21.014 while himselfe starues, to liue by his labor'd scenes
002.O21.015 as in some Organs Puppetes dance aboue
002.O21.016 and bellowes pant below w%5ch%6 doth not moue
002.O21.017 one would winne Loue by rimes butt witchcraft charmes
002.O21.018 bring not now there old feares nor their old harmes
002.O21.019 Rimes and songes; now, are silly battery
002.O21.020 Pistolls are the best artillery
002.O21.021 & they who write to Lordes rewardes to gett
002.O21.022 Are they nott like boyes singing at dore for meate [p.144]
002.O21.023 and they who write because all write haue still
002.O21.024 y%5t%6 same for writing and for writing ill;
002.O21.025 But he is worst who beggerly doth chaw
002.O21.026 other wittes fruites, and in his rauenous maw
002.O21.027 rankly digested doth these thinges out spew
002.O21.028 as his owne thinges, & they are his owne trew
002.O21.029 for if one eat my meat, though it bee knowne
002.O21.030 the meate was mine the Excrem%5tes%6 his owne
002.O21.031 but these doe mee no harme, nor those w%5c%6 vse 
002.O21.032 to out doe Dilldoes; and out vsure Iewes
002.O21.033 to out drinke the sea out sweare the Letany
002.O21.034 who w%5th%6 sinns of all kindes familiar bee
002.O21.035 as Confessors; and for whose sinfull sake
002.O21.036 Schoolemen new tenem%5tes%6 in hell must make
002.O21.037 whose strang sinns Canonistes can scarcely tell.
002.O21.038 In w%5c%6 Commaundem:%5tes%6 large receipt they dwell
002.O21.039 But these punish themselues, the Insolence
002.O21.040 of Coscus onely breedes my great offence
002.O21.041 whome time w%5ch%6 rottes all and makes botches pox
002.O21.042 and plodding on must make a Calfe an Ox
002.O21.043 hath made a Lawyer w%5c%6 was alas of late
002.O21.044 but scarce a poet iollier of that State
002.O21.045 Then are new beneficed ministeres; he throwes
002.O21.046 like nettes of limetwiges whersoere he goes
002.O21.047 his title of Barrister on euery wench
002.O21.048 and woes in Language of the pleas at bench
002.O21.049 A motion Lady, speake Coscus, I haue beene
002.O21.050 in Loue since tricessimo of the queene.
002.O21.051 Continuall Claime I haue made; iniunctions gott, [p.145]
002.O21.052 to stay my riualls suit; y%5t%6 he shall nott
002.O21.053 p%Pceed; spare me; in Hillary terme I went
002.O21.054 y%5u%6 sayd if I return'd this sise in Lent
002.O21.055 I should bee in remitter of y%5r%6 grace
002.O21.056 in the Interim my letteres should take place
002.O21.057 of Affedauites; wordes, that would teare
002.O21.058 the tender Laborinths of a soft maydens eare
002.O21.059 more; more then ten Sclauonian scoldinges more
002.O21.060 then when windes in o%5r%6 ruin'd Abbeyes rore.
002.O21.061 when sick w%5th%6 poetry and possest w%5t%6 muse
002.O21.062 thou wert and madd I hope. But men w%5c%6 chuse 
002.O21.063 Law practice for meere gaine; bolde soule repute
002.O21.064 worse then embrothel'd strumpetes p%Pstitute
002.O21.065 now like an Owle-eyd watchma%M hee must walke
002.O21.066 his hand still at abill;[sic] now he must talke
002.O21.067 Idely like prisoneres; w%5c%6 whole moneth will sweare
002.O21.068 y%5t%6 onely suerteship, hath brought them there
002.O21.069 and to euery Suitor lye in euery thing
002.O21.070 ly like a kinges fauorite yea like a king
002.O21.071 and like a wedge in a Blocke wring to the barr
002.O21.072 bearing like Asses and more shamelesse farr
002.O21.073 Then carted whores; lye to the graue Iudge; for
002.O21.074 bastardy aboundes not in kings titles, nor
002.O21.075 Simony nor Sodomy in Churchmens liues,
002.O21.076 as these thinges doe in him by these he thriues
002.O21.077 shortly as the sea he will compasse all o%5r%6 land
002.O21.078 from Scottse, to Wight; ffrom Mount to Douer sand
002.O21.079 and spying heires melting w%5t%6 Luxury
002.O21.080 Satan would nott ioy at there sins as Hee [p.146]
002.O21.081 ffor as thrifty wench scrapes kitching stuff
002.O21.082 & barrelling the Droppinges and the Snuffe
002.O21.083 of wasting Candles w%5c%6 thirty yeare
002.O21.084 reliquely kept perchance buyes wedding geare 
002.O21.085 peecemeale he gettes land and spendes as much time
002.O21.086 wringing each Acre as men pulling prime
002.O21.087 In parchm:%5t%6 then large as his field he drawes
002.O21.088 assurem:%5tes%6 as big as glossy Ciuill Lawes
002.O21.089 So huge that men in o%5r%6 times forwardnes
002.O21.090 are fatheres of the Church; for writting lesse
002.O21.091 Those he writes not nor for those written payes
002.O21.092 therefore spares no length as in those first dayes
002.O21.093 when Luther was p%Pfest; he did desire
002.O21.094 short Pater noster saying as a frier
002.O21.095 each day his Beades, but hauing left his Lawes
002.O21.096 addes to %Yw%ZChristes prayer y%5e%6 power & glory, clause
002.O21.097 But when he sels; or engages Land he empaires
002.O21.098 his writing, and unwatch't leaues out (his heyres)
002.O21.099 As slyly as a Com%Mentor goes by
002.O21.100 hard wordes; or %Yfear%Z sence, or in Diuinity
002.O21.101 As Controuerteres in voucht textes leaue out
002.O21.102 Shrew'd wordes w%5ch%6 might against y%M cleare y%5e%6 doubt
002.O21.103 where are those spread wordes w%5c%6 cloathed heertofore
002.O21.104 those bought landes: not built nor burnt w%5t%6 in dore
002.O21.105 where the old Landlordes troopes; & almes in great halls
002.O21.106 Carthusian ffactes and fulsome Bacchinalls
002.O21.107 Equally I hate meanes blisse, in richmens homes [p.147]
002.O21.108 I bid kille some beastes nott whole Hecatombes
002.O21.109 none starue none surfett soe, but oh wee alow
002.O21.110 good works as good butt not as fashion now
002.O21.111 Like old rich wardrops, but my wordes none Drawes
002.O21.112 w%5t%6in the vast reach of the huge Statute Lawes.|
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