IDENTILIN$$  F005O20|ms. Eng. poet. e.99|ff. 10v-12|TWH\cf\3-8-95|P:TJS|o|7-25-95|C:MJJ\3-27-96; JSC\10-23-98. c:digital drd 6/2/08
005.O20.HE1  %XSatyre.
005.O20.001  Thou shalt not laughe in thys leafe Muse, nor they
005.O20.002  Whom any Pittye warnes; Hee w%5ch%6 did lay
005.O20.003  Rules to make Courtyers, (he beeing vnderstood
005.O20.004  May make good Courtyers, but who Courtyers good)
005.O20.005  Frees from the stinges of Iests all, whoe in extreame
005.O20.006  Are wretched or wicked: of these two a Theame
005.O20.007  Charitye, and Libertye giue Mee; What is Hee
005.O20.008  Who Officers rage, and Suitors Miserye
005.O20.009  Can write and Iest; If all thinges bee in All,
005.O20.010  As I thincke, since All, w%5ch%6 weare, are, & shall=
005.O20.011  Bee, be made of the same Elements,
005.O20.012  Each thinge, Each thinge employes, or represents
005.O20.013  Then Man is a world; in w%5ch%6 Officers  [f.11]
005.O20.014  Are the vast rauising Seas, and Suters
005.O20.015  Springs, now full, now shallowe, now drye; w%5ch%6 to
005.O20.016  That, w%5ch%6 drownes them runne, These selfe reasons doe
005.O20.017  Proue the world a Man; in w%5ch%6 Officers
005.O20.018  Are the deuouring stomache, and Suiters
005.O20.019  The Excrements, w%5ch%6 they voyde; All men are Dust;
005.O20.020  How much worse are Suiters, whoe to Mens Lust
005.O20.021  Are made Prayes, O%C worse then Dust, or wormes meate,
005.O20.022  For they doe eate you, whose Selues wormes shall eate;
005.O20.023  They are the Mills w%5ch%6 grinde you, yett you are
005.O20.024  The Wind w%5ch%6 driues them, and a wastfull warr
005.O20.025  Is fought agaynst you, and you fight yt, they
005.O20.026  Adulterate Lawe, and you prepare theyre way
005.O20.027  Like Wittolls, then Issue your owne ruine ys
005.O20.028  Greatest, and fayrest Empresse; know you thys?
005.O20.029  Alas no more then Thames Calme head doth know
005.O20.030  Whose medowes her Armes drowne, or whose Corne oreflowe,
005.O20.031  You S%5r%6, whose righteousnes she loues, whom I
005.O20.032  By hauing leaue to serue, am most ritchly
005.O20.033  For service payd, authorized now begin
005.O20.034  To know, and weed out thys enormous Sinne.
005.O20.035  O Age of rustye Iron, some better witt
005.O20.036  Call it some worse Name, if ought equall yt;
005.O20.037  The Iron Age that was, when Iustice was sould, now
005.O20.038  Iniustice is sold dearer farr; How
005.O20.039  All demands fees, and dutyes gamesters, anon
005.O20.040  The money w%5ch%6 you sweate, and sweare for is gon
005.O20.041  Into other hands, soe controuerted landes
005.O20.042  Scape like Angelica, the Striuers handes.
005.O20.043  If Law bee in the Iudges hart, and hee  [f.11v]
005.O20.044  Haue no hart to resist letter, of%>>or< fee,
005.O20.045  Where wilt thou appeale; Power of the Courts belowe
005.O20.046  Flowe from the first mayne head; and these can throwe
005.O20.047  Thee, if they sucke Thee in, to Miserye,
005.O20.048  To fetters, halters; but if the Iniurye
005.O20.049  Steele Thee to dare complayne, Alas, thou goest
005.O20.050  Against the Streame, when vpwards, when thou art most
005.O20.051  Heauy, and most faynte, and in these Labors they
005.O20.052  Gainst whom, thou sholdst complayne, will in the way
005.O20.053  Become greate Seas, ore w%5ch%6, when thou shalt bee
005.O20.054  Forc't to make Golden bridges, thou shalt see
005.O20.055  That all thy Gold was drownd in them before;
005.O20.056  All thinges follow theyre like, only who haue, may haue more;
005.O20.057  Iudges are Gods; he who made, and sayd them soe,
005.O20.058  Ment not that Men sholde be forc't to them, to goe
005.O20.059  By meanes of Angells; When Supplications
005.O20.060  Wee send to God, to Dominations,
005.O20.061  Powers, Cherubines, and all heauens court, if wee
005.O20.062  Shold paye fees as here, Daily bred wold be %Yscarce%Z
005.O20.063  Scarce to Kings; So tis; Wold it not anger
005.O20.064  A Stoicke, a Coward, yea a Martyre
005.O20.065  To see a Purseuant come in, and cale
005.O20.066  All hys Clothes, Copes, Bookes Primmers, and all
005.O20.067  Hys Plate Challices, and mistake them away
005.O20.068  And aske a Fee for Comming; Oh %V>neare< may
005.O20.069  Fayre lawes whyte reuerend name be strumpetted
005.O20.070  To warrant thefts, She is established
005.O20.071  Recorder to Destinye on Earth, and She
005.O20.072  Speakes fates wordes, and tells who must bee
005.O20.073  Riche, who Poore, who in Chaynes, who in Iayles.  [f.12]
005.O20.074  She is all fayre, but yett hath foule long Nayles,
005.O20.075  W%5th%6 w%5ch%6 she scratcheth Sutors; In bodyes
005.O20.076  Of men, So in Lawe Nayles are the Extremityes.
005.O20.077  So Officers stretche to more then Lawe can doe
005.O20.078  As our Nayles reach what no else Part comes to.
005.O20.079  Why barest thou to yon Officer; Foole? hath hee
005.O20.080  Gott those Goods, for w%5ch%6 men bared to Thee?
005.O20.081  Foole twice, thrice, thou hast bought wrong, & now hungerly
005.O20.082  Buyest right; but that dole comes not till these Dye,
005.O20.083  Thou hadst much, and Lawes Vrim & Thummin trye
005.O20.084  Thou woldst for non%>>more<, and for all hast paper
005.O20.085  Enough to cloth all the greate Carricks Pepper,
005.O20.086  Sell that, and by that thou much more shalt leese,
005.O20.087  Then Haman, when he sould hys Antiquityes
005.O20.088  O wretche that thy fortunes shold moralize
005.O20.089  Esops fables, and make Tales, Prophesyes.
005.O20.090  Thou art the Swimming Dogge, when shadowes coosened,
005.O20.091  And diu'dst neare drowning, for what vanished.|
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