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003.B47.HE1 Satyre .3.[LM] %XUppon Religion.|
003.B47.001 Kinde pitty chokes my spleene, braue scorne forbids
003.B47.002 these teares to issue w%5ch%6 swell my eye lidds
003.B47.003 I must not laugh nor weepe, sinn and be wise
003.B47.004 may raylinge then cure these worne maladies?
003.B47.005 Is not o%5r%6 mistresse fayre Religione
003.B47.006 as worthy of all o%5r%6 soules deuotion
003.B47.007 as vertue was to the first blinded age?
003.B47.008 are not heauens ioyes as valiant to asswage
003.B47.009 lust, as earthes hono%5r%6 was to them, alas
003.B47.010 as wee doe them in meanes, shall they surpasse 
003.B47.011 vs in the end? & shall thy fathers spirite
003.B47.012 meete blinde philosophers in heauen whose merritt
003.B47.013 of strickt life may be imputed fayth? & here
003.B47.014 he whom he taught two easie wayes, and nere
003.B47.015 be dam%M'ed? Oh if thou darst feare this
003.B47.016 this feare Courrage & high vallour is
003.B47.017 darst thou ayde mutinous Datoh?[sic] darst thou lay
003.B47.018 thee in shipps (wodden sepulchers) a pray
003.B47.019 to leaders rage, to stormes, to shott, to dearth?
003.B47.020 darst thou diues seas & dangers of the earth?
003.B47.021 hast thou Corragious fire to thaw the ice
003.B47.022 of frosen north discoueries? & thrice
003.B47.023 colder then Salamanders, like deuine
003.B47.024 Childrenn in the Ouen, fires Spayne & the Line
003.B47.025 (whose Countries Limbeckes to o%5r%6 boddies be)
003.B47.026 Canst thou for gayne beare, & must euery hee [CW:om]
003.B47.027 (w%5ch%6 cries not goddesse to thy mistresse) draw [99v]
003.B47.028 or eate thy poysonous words? (Courage of straw
003.B47.029 oh desperate Cowards) will thou seeme bold, and
003.B47.030 to thy foes & his that made thee to stand
003.B47.031 Souldier in this worlds garrison, thus yeald? 
003.B47.032 and for forbidden warrs leaue the appoynted feild?
003.B47.033 know thy foe the foule deuill is, whom thou
003.B47.034 striu'st to please, for hate not loue would allow
003.B47.035 thee fayne his whole Realme to be quitt. & as
003.B47.036 the worlds all parts wither away, & passe
003.B47.037 soe the worlds selfe (thy other lou'd foe) is
003.B47.038 in her decrepitt wane, & thou lovinge this
003.B47.039 dost loue a wither'd & a worne strumpett, last
003.B47.040 flesh is selfes death, & ioyes w%5ch%6 flesh can tast
003.B47.041 thou lou'st, & thy fayre goodly soule w%5ch%6 doth
003.B47.042 giue this flesh power to tastes ioy, thou do'st lothe
003.B47.043 seeke true Religion   oh where's Mireus
003.B47.044 thinkinge here, in hausd here and fled from vs
003.B47.045 seeks her at Rome, there  because he doth knowe
003.B47.046 that she was there a thousand yeares agoe
003.B47.047 and loues her raggs, so as we here obay
003.B47.048 the stat=cloath where the prince sate ysterday[sic]
003.B47.049 Grants to such braue loues will not be inthralld
003.B47.050 but loues her only who at Geneua's calld.
003.B47.051 Religion, playne simple, solem%Me, younge
003.B47.052 Contemptuous yet vnhandsome, as a monge
003.B47.053 Lecherous humors, there is on who iudges
003.B47.054 no wenches wholesome but course countrie drudges
003.B47.055 Grayius stayes still at home here, and because
003.B47.056 some preachers, vile ambititious, bawds, & lawes [CW:still#new,]
003.B47.057 still new, like fashions, bid him thinke y%5t%6 she [100]
003.B47.058 w%5ch%6 dwells w%5th%6 vs is only perfect, he
003.B47.059 imbrac>%Yh%Z<eth her, whom his godfather will
003.B47.060 tender to him beinge tender, as wards still
003.B47.061 take such wives as theire Gardians offer, or
003.B47.062 pay vallues. Careles Phrigius doth abhorr
003.B47.063 all, because all cannot be good, as one,
003.B47.064 knowinge some weomen whores, dares marrie none
003.B47.065 Gracchus loues all as one, & thinkes that soe
003.B47.066 as weomen doe in diuers Countries goe
003.B47.067 in diuers habits, yet are still on kinde
003.B47.068 so doth, so is Religion, & this blinde=
003.B47.069 nes too much light breeds. but vnmoued thou
003.B47.070 of force must one, & forc'd but on allow
003.B47.071 and the right, aske thy father w%5ch%6 is shee
003.B47.072 let him ask his. though trueth & falshoode be
003.B47.073 neere twinnes, yet trueth a little elder is
003.B47.074 be busie to seek her beleiue me this
003.B47.075 hees not of non, nor worst that seeks y%5e%6 best
003.B47.076 to adore or scorne an image, or protest,
003.B47.077 may all be badd. doubt wisely in straynge way
003.B47.078 to stand inquiringe right, is not to stray
003.B47.079 to sleepe or runn wronge, is, on a high hill
003.B47.080 ragged & steepe, truth dwells, & he that will
003.B47.081 reach her, about must & about goe
003.B47.082 and, what the hills suddayn%Mes resists, winn soe
003.B47.083 yet striues soe y%5t%6 before age, deathes twy=light 
003.B47.084 thy minde rest, for non can worke in that night
003.B47.085 to will implies delay, therefore now doe,
003.B47.086 hard deeds thy boddie payne, hard knowledg too
003.B47.087 The  minds endeauou%5r%6s reach, & misteries
003.B47.088 are as the sunn, dazelinge, yet playne to all eyes,
003.B47.089 keepe the trueth w%5ch%6 thou hast found, men do not stand
003.B47.090 in soe ill case here that god hath w%5th%6 his hand
003.B47.091 sign'd kings blacke, Charters to kill whom they hate
003.B47.092 nor are they Vicars but hangmen to fate
003.B47.093 foole & wretche wilt thou let thy soule be tied
003.B47.094 to mans lawes, by w%5ch%6 we shall not be tryed
003.B47.095 at the last day? or will it then serue thee
003.B47.096 to say a Phillipp or a Gregorie
003.B47.097 a Harrie or a Martine taught thee this?
003.B47.098 Is not this excuse for meere contraries
003.B47.099 equally stronge? cannot both sides say soe?
003.B47.100 that thou mayst rightly obay power, her bo>%Vu<nds know
003.B47.101 those past, her nature & names chayngd, to be
003.B47.102 then humble to her is Idollatry
003.B47.103 as streames her power is, those blest flowers  w%5ch%6 dwell
003.B47.104 at the rough streames Calme head, thriue & proue well
003.B47.105 but hauinge left theire roots, & themselues giuen
003.B47.106 to the streames tyrannous rage, alas are driuen
003.B47.107 through mills, rocks & woods, & at last almost
003.B47.108 consumd in goinge, in the sea are lost
003.B47.109 soe perish soules w%5ch%6 more chuse, mens vniust
003.B47.110 power, fro%T god claymd, then tried him selfe, to trust.
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