IDENTILIN$$  F003H06|O'Flahertie ms., Eng 966.5|pp. 65-68\E:mth\mf\6-10-94\P:TJS\o\3-14-96\C:JSC\9-16-98
003.H06.HE1  %XSatyre 3.
003.H06.001  Kind pitty chokes my Spleene, braue scorne forbids
003.H06.002  Those teares to issue w.%5ch%6 swell my eylidds
003.H06.003  I must nor laugh nor weepe sinnes and bee wise
003.H06.004  May rayling, then, cure these worne maladyes.
003.H06.005  Is not our Mistresse fayre Religion
003.H06.006  As worthy of all our soules deuotion
003.H06.007  As vertue was to the first blinded age?
003.H06.008  Ar not heauens ioyes as valiant to asswage
003.H06.009  Lusts, as earths honour was to them? Alas
003.H06.010  As wee doe them in meanes, shall they surpasse
003.H06.011  Vs in the end? And shall thy fathers Spirit
003.H06.012  Meete blind philosophers in heauen, whose merit
003.H06.013  Of strict life may bee imputed fayth, And heare
003.H06.014  Thee whome hee taught wayes >%V%5so%6< easy and neere
003.H06.015  To follow, damnd? Oh if thou dar'st feare this
003.H06.016  This feare greate Courage and high valour is.
003.H06.017  Dar'st thou ayde mutinous Dutch? dars't thou lay
003.H06.018  Thee in shipps, wooden Sepulchers, a pray
003.H06.019  To leaders rage, to stormes, to shott, to dea>r<th?
003.H06.020  Darst thou diue Seas and dungeons of the earth?
003.H06.021  Hast thou couragious fire to thawe the ice
003.H06.022  Of frozen North discoueryes? and, thrice
003.H06.023  Colder then Salamanders, like diuine
003.H06.024  Children in the ouen, fires of Spayne and the Line
003.H06.025  Whose countryes Limbecks to our bodyes bee
003.H06.026  Canst thou for gayne beare? And must every Hee
003.H06.027  Which cryes not Goddesse to thy Mistris, draw
003.H06.028  Or eate thy poysonous words? Courage of straw! [CW:Oh---][miscatch]
003.H06.029  O desperate Cowards! Wilt thou seeme bold, and [p.66]
003.H06.030  To thy foes, and his who made thee to stand
003.H06.031  Souldier in this worlds garrison thus yeeld
003.H06.032  And for forbidd warrs leaue th'appointed field?
003.H06.033  Knowe thy foes; The fowle Diuell, hee whome thou
003.H06.034  Striu'st to please, for hate, not loue, would allow
003.H06.035  Thee fayne his whole Realme to bee ridd, and %Ythen%Z>as<
003.H06.036  The worlds all parts wither away and passe 
003.H06.037  So the worlds selfe (thy other loud foe) is 
003.H06.038  In her decrepit wane, and thou louing this
003.H06.039  Dost loue a witherd and worne strumpet. Last
003.H06.040  Flesh, it selfes death, and ioyes w.%5ch%6 flesh can tast
003.H06.041  Thou lou'st, And thy fayre goodly soule, w.%5ch%6 doth
003.H06.042  Giue this flesh power to tast ioye thou dost lothe.
003.H06.043  Seeke true Religion; Oh where? Mirius
003.H06.044  Thinking her vnhousd heere, and fledd from vs
003.H06.045  Seekes her at Rome, there, because hee doth knowe
003.H06.046  That shee was there a thousand yeeres agoe,
003.H06.047  And loues her raggs so as wee heere obay
003.H06.048  The State-cloth where the Prince sate yesterday.
003.H06.049  Grants to such braue loues will not bee enthralld
003.H06.050  But loues her only who at Geneua's calld
003.H06.051  Religion, playne, simple, solemne, young
003.H06.052  Contemptuous, yet vnhandsome, As among
003.H06.053  Lecherous humours there is one w.%5ch%6 iudges
003.H06.054  No wenches wholsome but course country drudges.
003.H06.055  Grayus stayes still at home heere, and because
003.H06.056  Some preachers, vile ambitious bawds, and lawes
003.H06.057  Still new, like fashions, bidd him thinke that shee
003.H06.058  W.%5ch%6 dwells with vs is onely perfect, hee
003.H06.059  Embraceth her whome his Godfathers will
003.H06.060  Tender to him, beeing tender, as wards still [CW:Take---]
003.H06.061  Take such wiues as theyr Guardians offer, or [p.67]
003.H06.062  Paye valews. Carelesse Phrigius doth abhorre
003.H06.063  All, because all cannot bee good, As one
003.H06.064  Knowing some woemen whores, dares marry none.
003.H06.065  Gracchus loues all as one, and thinkes that so
003.H06.066  As woemen doe in diuers countryes goe
003.H06.067  In diuers habits, yet ar still one kind,
003.H06.068  So doth, so is Religion, and this blind-
003.H06.069  Nesse too much light breeds. But vnmooued thou
003.H06.070  Of force must one, and forc'd, but one allow,
003.H06.071  And the right. Aske thy father w.%5ch%6 is shee,
003.H06.072  Let him aske his. Though truth and falshood bee
003.H06.073  Neere twins: yet Truth a little elder is.
003.H06.074  Bee busy to seeke her. Beleeue mee this
003.H06.075  Hee's not of none, or worst, that seekes the best. 
003.H06.076  To adore, or scorne an Image, or protest;
003.H06.077  May all bee badd. Doubt wisely. In strange wayes%>>way<
003.H06.078  To stand enquiring right is not to stray,
003.H06.079  To sleepe, or runne wrong, is. On a high hill
003.H06.080  Ragged and steepe Truth dwells, And hee that will
003.H06.081  Reache her, about must, and about, >%5must%6< goe,
003.H06.082  And what th'hills suddaynesse resists, winn so.
003.H06.083  Yet striue so, as before Age, deaths Twylight
003.H06.084  Thy mind rest, for none can worke in the night.
003.H06.085  To will implyes delay, Therefore, now, doe
003.H06.086  Hard deedes the bodyes payne, hard knowledge to
003.H06.087  The minds endeuours reach, and misteryes
003.H06.088  Ar as the Sunne, dazeling, yet playne, to all eyes [CW:Keepe--]
003.H06.089  Keepe the#the Truth w.%5ch%6 th'hast found. Men do not stand [p.68]
003.H06.090  In so ill case heere that God hath with's hand
003.H06.091  Sign'd kings blank Charters to kill whome they hate,
003.H06.092  Nor ar they vicars, but Hangmen to fate.
003.H06.093  ffoole, and wretch, wilt thou let thy selfe bee t>%Yr%Z<y'd
003.H06.094  To mans Lawes, by w.%5ch%6 hee shall not bee try'd
003.H06.095  At the last day? Or will it then serue thee
003.H06.096  To say a Philip, or a Gregory,
003.H06.097  A Harry, or a Martin taught thee this?
003.H06.098  Is not this Ex***%>Ex>cuse< for meere contraryes
003.H06.099  Equally strong? Cannot both sides say so?
003.H06.100  That thou mayst rightly obey power, her bounds knowe
003.H06.101  Those past, her Nature and name's changd, To bee                                                           
003.H06.102  Then humble to her, is Idolatry.                                                           
003.H06.103  As streames are, power is. Those blest %Jstreames%K[Mvar:>>[trimmed]wers<<] that \(dwell
003.H06.104  At the rough streames calme head, thriue, and p%Pue well
003.H06.105  But hauing left theyr rootes, and themselues giuen 
003.H06.106  To the streames tyranous rage, alas, are driuen            
003.H06.107  Through Mills, woods, rocks, and at the last, almost    
003.H06.108  Consum'd in going, in the Sea ar lost
003.H06.109  So perish soules, w.%5ch%6 more chuse mans vniust           
003.H06.110  Power, from God claymd, then God himselfe, to trust.
003.H06.0SS  [hatched line across page] [CW:Sat 4. /Well___
003.H06.0$$  %1Final couplet ind; >>P.<< left of HE; two short, horiz. ll. separate HE from text; 
             in l.56, u in "ambitious" could be n; Mvar in l.103 in LEFT M%2