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 ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 The volume now presented to the public, comprises 
 the poetical remains of one of the wisest and most 
 venerable prelates that ever adorned the episcopal 
 bench in England. A copy, complete in the text and 
 annotations, having been presented to the Editor of 
 the Works of Bishop Hall, with a request that he 
 would supply whatever he might consider necessary 
 to complete the volume for publication ; he, accord- 
 ing to his time and ability, has merely annexed a 
 verbal Glossary, and compiled the few particulars 
 which ensue, relative to the first publication and 
 subsequent reception of the Satires. 
 
 At the age of twenty-three, and while yet a student 
 at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, the author com- 
 menced the publication of his Virgidemiarum* The 
 three first books were published, without the name of 
 the author, in 1597; and the three last in 1598. The 
 whole were reprinted in 1599, concluding with " Cer- 
 tain worthy Manuscript Poems, of great antiquity, 
 
 * " By Virgidemia, an uncouth and uncommon word," says 
 Warton, " we are to understand a Gathering or Harvest of Rods, — 
 in reference to the nature of the subject." 
 
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 reserved long since in the study of a Norfolk Gentle- 
 man, and now first published by J. S." and dedicated 
 " to the worthiest poet, Master Ed. Spenser." This 
 edition is sometimes found with the surreptitious date 
 of 1602, prefixed to the first part, or Toothless Satires ; 
 while the correct date of 1599 still remains to the 
 second part, or Biting Satires. Warton describes the 
 edition of 1599, as the "last and best" of those pub- 
 lished by the author. 
 
 The Satires had two evils of an opposite description 
 to encounter, — hostility at first, and neglect after- 
 wards. No sooner was the first edition issued from 
 the press, than it was condemned by the High Com- 
 mission Court to the flames, through the instigation 
 of Archbishop Whitgift and Bishop Bancroft : # while 
 the character of the author, as well as that of the 
 book, was attacked nearly half a century afterwards 
 with relentless severity by no less an antagonist than 
 John Milton.f For two whole centuries they were 
 then almost forgotten. An edition indeed appeared 
 at Oxford, in 1753, under the superintendence of the 
 Rev. W. Thompson, formerly Fellow of Queen's 
 College ; and Pope % and Gray were both of them 
 
 * See note to Book I. Satire viii. line ult. (page 20.) 
 t In his Apology for Smectymnus, published in 1642. 
 X In the catalogue of Mr. West's library, sold in 1773, occurs the 
 following article : — " No. 1047. Hall's (Bp.) Virgidemiarum, G books, 
 impr. by Harrison, 1599-1602; rare edit. Mr. Pope's copy, who 
 
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 alive, and endeavoured to enliven others, to an appre- 
 ciation of their merits. But it was not till the mas- 
 terly analysis by Warton, which appeared in the 
 fourth volume of the History of English Poetry, that 
 the Virgidemiarum Libri Sex of Bishop Hall took their 
 place among the classical poetry of the land. The 
 praises bestowed by Warton were repeated by Camp- 
 bell in his Specimens of the British Poets, and copies 
 of the Satires began to multiply. In the tenth vo- 
 lume of Mr. Pratt's edition of the works, a variety of 
 illustrations had been given already from the pen of 
 Mr. Henry Ellis, of the British Museum. A fac- 
 simile of the first edition was now printed by Mr. 
 Constable, of Edinburgh : in 1824, another edition, 
 under the care of Mr. S. W. Singer, with the illustra- 
 trations of Warton, and additional notes interspersed : 
 and another, in 1825, limited to one hundred copies, 
 but elaborately revised and elucidated. 
 
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 presented it to Mr. West, telling him that he esteemed them the 
 best Poetry and truest Satire in the English language ; and that he 
 had an intention of modernizing them, as he had done some of 
 Donne's Satires." Mr. Thompson, the editor of the Oxford reprint, 
 mentions, that " Mr. Pope saw these Satires, but so late in life, that 
 he could only bestow this commendation on them, which they truly 
 deserve, to wish that he had seen them sooner." Bp. Warburton 
 told Mr. Warton, that, in a copy of Hall's Satires, in the library of 
 Mr. Pope, the whole of the First Satire of the Sixth Book was either 
 corrected in the margin, or interlined ; and that Pope had written 
 at the top, Optima Satira. 
 
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" The Satires," says Mr. Warton, " are marked 
 with a classical precision, to which English poetry 
 had yet rarely attained. They are replete with 
 animation of style and sentiment. The indignation 
 of the satirist is always the result of good sense. Nor 
 are the thorns of severe invective unmixed with the 
 flowers of pure poetry. The characters are delineated 
 in strong and lively colouring ; and their discrimina- 
 tions are touched with the masterly traces of genuine 
 humour. The versification is equally energetic and 
 elegant, and the fabric of the couplets approaches to 
 the modern standard. It is no inconsiderable proof 
 of a genius predominating over the general taste of 
 an age, when every preacher was a punster, to have 
 written verses, where laughter was to be raised, and 
 the reader to be entertained with sallies of pleasantry, 
 without quibbles and conceits. His chief fault is 
 obscurity ; arising from a remote phraseology, con- 
 strained combinations, unfamiliar allusions, elliptical 
 apostrophes, and abruptness of expression. Perhaps 
 some will think, that his manner betrays too much of 
 the laborious exactness and pedantic anxiety of the 
 scholar and the student. Ariosto in Italian, and 
 Regnier in French, were now almost the only modern ; 
 writers of satire ; and I believe there had been an 
 English translation of Ariosto's Satires. But Hall's | 
 acknowledged patterns are Juvenal and Persius, noti 
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 His parodies of these poets, or rather his adaptations 
 of ancient to modern manners, — a mode of imitation 
 not unhappily practised by Oldham, Rochester, and 
 Pope, — discover great facility and dexterity of inven- 
 tion. The moral gravity, and the censorial declama- 
 tion, of Juvenal, he frequently enlivens with a train 
 of more refined reflection, or adorns with a novelty 
 and variety of images." 
 
 " They are full of spirit and poetry," observes 
 Mr. Gray, in a letter to Dr. Warton ; " as much of the 
 .first as Dr. Donne, and far more of the latter." 
 
 Mr. Campbell adds:— "In the point, volubility, 
 and vigour of Hall's numbers, we might frequently 
 imagine ourselves perusing Dryden." — " They are' 
 neither cramped by personal hostility, nor spun out 
 to vague declamation on vice ; but give us the form 
 and pressure of the times, exhibited in the faults of 
 coeval literature, and in the foppery or sordid traits 
 of prevailing manners." — "Human nature, in all its 
 varieties, is their subject ; and although not free from 
 the obscurity of occasional allusions, they betray great 
 knowledge of mankind, and contain much that will 
 be found interesting and intelligible in every age." 
 
 It was a strange remark of Warton's, nevertheless, 
 that, in the writings of Bishop Hall, « the poet is 
 better known to posterity, than the prelate or the 
 polemic;" and that "his Satires have outlived his 
 Sermons." The truth is, that almost the whole of 
 
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 his devotional and practical pieces have retained their 
 popularity. The Contemplations, more especially, 
 are continually appearing in all the varieties of new 
 and cheap publication ; and without a set of the works 
 of Bishop Hall no theological student would consider 
 his library complete. With the Satires, the case is 
 different. Having, for nearly two centuries, almost 
 perished out of remembrance, they have met, of late 
 years, with a revival. Whether the claim asserted 
 by the author be allowed him, as the earliest of 
 English Satirists, will depend on the value attached 
 by readers to the previous efforts of Lodge, Skelton, 
 and Sir Thomas Wyatt : but to the judgment in- 
 scribed by Lord Hailes, a cold and sagacious critic, 
 on a copy formerly in his possession, few will be found 
 to demur : " Hall's Satires have merit, and will be 
 remembered." 
 
 Of the Miscellaneous Poems which close the vo- 
 lume, it only remains to be observed, that the Psalms 
 and Anthems were published by the Bishop while 
 presiding over the see of Exeter ; and that the rest 
 are taken from the publications, into which, according 
 to the custom of the times, they were respectively 
 introduced. 
 
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 September 3, 1838. 
 
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 TOOTHLESS SATIRES. 
 
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DEFIANCE TO ENVY. 
 
 Nay ; let the prouder pines of Ida feare 
 The sudden fires of heaven, and decline 
 Their yielding tops that dar'd the skies whilere : 
 And shake your sturdy trunks ye prouder pines, 
 Whose swelling grains are like begall'd alone, 
 With the deep furrows of the thunder-stone. 
 
 Stand ye secure, ye safer shrubs below, 
 
 In humble dales, whom heav'ns do not despight ; 
 
 Nor angry clouds conspire your overthrow 7 , 
 
 Envying at your too disdainful height. 
 
 Let high attempts dread envy and ill tongues, 
 And cow'rdly shrinke for feare of causelesse wrongs. 
 
 So wont big oaks feare winding ivy weed : 
 
 So soaring eagles fear the neighbour sunne : 
 
 So golden # Mazor wont suspicion breed, 
 
 Of deadly hemlock's poisoned potion : 
 
 So adders shroud themselves in fairest leaves : 
 So fouler fate the fairer thing bereaves. 
 
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 Nor the low bush feares climbing ivy twine : 
 Nor lowly bustard dreads the distant rays : 
 Nor earthen pot wont secret death to shrine : 
 Nor subtle snake doth lurk in pathed ways. 
 
 Nor baser deed dreads envy and ill tongues, 
 Nor shrinks so soon for fear of causelesse wrongs 
 
 Needs me then hope, or doth me need mis-dread : 
 
 Hope for that honour, dread that wrongful spite : 
 
 Spite of the party, honour of the deed, 
 
 Which wont alone on lofty objects light. 
 
 That envy should accost my muse and me, 
 For this so rude and recklesse poesy. 
 
 Would she but shade her tender browes with bay, 
 That now lye bare in carelesse wilful rage, 
 And trancte herself in that sweet extacy, 
 That rouzeth drooping thoughts of bashful age. 
 
 (Tho' now those bays and that aspired thought, 
 In carelesse rage she sets at worse than nought.) 
 
 Or would we loose her plumy pineon, 
 Manicled long with bonds of modest feare, 
 Soone might she have those kestrels* proud outgone, 
 Whose flighty wings are dew'd with wetter aire, 
 And hopen now to shoulder from above 
 The eagle from the stairs of friendly Jove. 
 
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 Or list she rather in late triumph reare 
 
 Eternal trophies to some conquerour, 
 
 Whose dead deserts slept in his sepulcher, 
 
 And never saw, nor life, nor light before : 
 
 To lead sad Pluto captive with my song, 
 To grace the triumphs he obscur'd so long. 
 
 Or scoure the rusted swords of elvish knights, 
 Bathed in pagan blood, or sheath them new 
 In misty moral types ; or tell their fights, 
 Who mighty giants, or who monsters slew : 
 
 And by some strange inchanted speare and shield, 
 Vanquished their foe, and won the doubtful field. 
 
 May-be she might in stately stanzas frame 
 
 Stories of ladies, and advenfrous knights, 
 
 To raise her silent and inglorious name 
 
 Unto a reachlesse pitch of praises hight, 
 
 And somewhat say, as more unworthy done, 
 Worthy of brasse, and hoary marble stone. 
 
 Then might vain envy waste her duller wing, 
 
 To trace the airy steps she spiteing sees, 
 
 And vainly faint in hopelesse following 
 
 The clouded paths her native drosse denies. 
 But now such lowly satires here I sing, 
 Not worth our Muse, not worth her envying. 
 
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 Too good (if ill) to be expos'd to blame : 
 
 Too good, if worse, to shadow shamelesse vice. 
 
 Ill, if too good, not answering their name : 
 
 So good and ill in fickle censure lies. 
 
 Since in our satire lies both good and ill, 
 And they and it in varying readers will. 
 
 Witnesse ye Muses how I wilful sung 
 
 These heady rhimes, withouten second care ; 
 
 And wish'd them worse, my guilty thoughts among ; 
 
 The ruder satire should go ragg'd and bare, 
 And shew his rougher and his hairy hide, 
 Tho' mine be smooth, and deck'd in carelesse pride. 
 
 Would we but breathe within a wax-bound quill, 
 
 Pan's seven-fold pipe, some plaintive pastoral ; 
 
 To teach each hollow grove, and shrubby hill, 
 
 Each murmuring brook, each solitary vale 
 
 To sound our love, and to our song accord, 
 Wearying Echo with one changelesse word. 
 
 Or list us make two striving shepherds sing, 
 With costly wagers for the victory, 
 Under Menalcas judge ; while one doth bring 
 A carven bowl well wrought of beechen tree, 
 Praising it by the story, or the frame, 
 Or want of use, or skilful maker's name. 
 
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 Another layeth a well-marked lamb, 
 Or spotted kid, or some more forward steere, 
 And from the paile doth praise their fertile dam ; 
 So do they strive in doubt, in hope, in feare, 
 Awaiting for their trusty umpire's doome, 
 Faulted as false by him that's overcome. 
 
 Whether so me list my lovely thought to sing, 
 Come dance ye nimble Dryads by my side, 
 Ye gentle wood-nymphs come ; and with you bring 
 The willing fawns that mought your musick guide. 
 
 Come nymphs and fawns, thathaunt those shady groves, 
 While I report my fortunes or my loves. 
 
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 Or whether list me sing so personate, 
 My striving selfe to conquer with my verse, 
 Speake ye attentive swains that heard me late, 
 Needs me give grasse unto the conquerors. 
 
 At Colin's # feet I throw my yielding reed, 
 But let the rest win homage by their deed. 
 
 But now (ye Muses) sith your sacred hests 
 Profaned are by each presuming tongue ; 
 In scornful rage I vow this silent rest, 
 That never field nor grove shall heare my song. 
 Only these refuse rhimes I here mis-spend 
 To chide the world, that did my thoughts offend. 
 
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 I first adventure, with fool-hardy might, 
 To tread the steps of perilous despite. 
 I first adventure, follow me who list, 
 And be the second English satirist. 
 Envy waits on my back, Truth on my side ; 
 Envy will be my page, and Truth my guide. 
 Envy the margent holds, and Truth the line : 
 Truth doth approve, but Envy doth repine. 
 For in this smoothing age who durst indite 
 Hath made his pen an hired parasite, 
 To claw the back of him that beastly lives, 
 And pranck base men in proud superlatives. 
 Whence damned Vice is shrouded quite from shame, 
 And crown'd with Virtue's meed, immortal name ! 
 Infamy dispossess'd of native due, 
 Ordain'd of old on looser life to sue : 
 The world's eye-bleared with those shameless lyes, 
 Mask'd in the show of meal-mouth' d poesies. 
 Go, daring Muse, on with thy thank lesse task, 
 And do the ugly face of Vice unmask : 
 And if thou canst not thine high flight remit, 
 So as it mought a lowly satire fit, 
 Let lowly satires rise aloft to thee : 
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 Nor ladie's wanton love, nor wandring knight, 
 
 Legend I out in rhimes all richly dight. 
 
 ]Sor fright the reader with the pagan vaunt 
 
 Of mightie Mahound, and great Tennagaunt*. 
 
 Nor list I sonnet of my mistress' face, 
 
 To paint some Blowesse with a borrowed grace ; 
 
 Nor can I bide to pen some hungrie scene 
 
 For thick-skin ears, and undiscerning eyne. 
 
 Nor ever could my scornful Muse abide 
 
 With tragic shoes her ankles for to hide. 
 
 Nor can I crouch, and writhe my fawning tayle 
 
 To some great patron, for my best avayle. 
 
 Such hunger-starven trencher-poetrie, 
 
 Or let it never live, or timely die : 
 
 Nor under every bank and every tree, 
 
 Speak rhymes unto my oaten minstralsie : 
 
 Nor carol out so pleasing lively laies, 
 
 As mought the Graces move my mirth to praise. 
 
 Trumpet, and reeds, and socks, and buskins fine, 
 
 I themf bequeath: whose statues wandring twine 
 
 Of ivy mix'd with bays, circling around 
 
 Their living temples likewise laurel-bound J. 
 
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 Rather had I, albe in careless rhymes, 
 
 Check the mis-order'd world, and lawless times. 
 
 Nor need I crave the Muse's midwifry, 
 
 To bring to light so worthless poetry : 
 
 Or if we list, what baser Muse can bide, 
 
 To sit and sing by Granta's naked side ? 
 
 They haunt the tided Thames and salt Medway, 
 
 E'er since the fame of their late bridal day*. 
 
 Nought have we here but willow-shaded shore, 
 
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 Whilom the sisters nine were vestal maides, 
 
 And held their temple in the secret shades 
 
 Of fair Parnassus, that two-headed hill, 
 
 Whose auncient fame the southern world did fill ; 
 
 And in the stead of their eternal fame, 
 
 Was the cool stream that took his endless name, 
 
 From out the fertile hoof of winged steed : 
 
 There did they sit and do their holy deed, 
 
 That pleas'd both Heav'n and Earth — till that of late 
 
 Whom should I fault ? or the most righteous fate, 
 
 Or Heav'n, or men, or feinds, or ought beside, 
 
 That ever made that foul mischance betide ? 
 
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 Some of the sisters in securer shades 
 
 Defloured were 
 
 And ever since, disdaining sacred shame, 
 
 Done ought that might their heav'nly stock defame. 
 
 Now is Parnassus turned to a stewes, 
 
 And on bay stocks the wanton myrtle grewes ; 
 
 Cytheron hill 's become a brothrel-bed, 
 
 And Pyrene sweet turn'd to a poison'd head 
 
 Of coal-black puddle, whose infectious stain 
 
 Corrupteth all the lowly fruitful plain. 
 
 Their modest stole, to garish looser weed, 
 
 Deck'd with love-favours, their late whoredoms meed : 
 
 And where they wont sip of the simple flood, 
 
 Now toss they bowls of Bacchus' boiling blood. 
 
 I marvelPd much, with doubtful jealousie, 
 
 Whence came such litters of new poetrie : 
 
 Methought I fear'd, lest the horse-hoofed well 
 
 His native banks did proudly over-swell 
 
 In some late discontent, thence to ensue 
 
 Such wondrous rabblements of rhymesters new: 
 
 But since I saw it painted on Fame's wings, 
 
 The Muses to be zvoxen zvantonings. 
 
 Each bush, each bank, and each base apple-squire* 
 
 Can serve to sate their beastly lewd desire. 
 
 Ye bastard poets, see your pedigree, 
 
 From common trulls and loathsome brothelry ! 
 
 * See Nabbe'g Microcosinus. 
 
With some pot-fury, ravish'd from their wit, 
 They sit and muse on some no-vulgar writ : 
 As frozen dung-hills in a winter's morn, 
 That void of vapour seemed all beforn, 
 Soon as the Sun sends out his piercing beams 
 Exhale out filthy smoak and stinking steams. 
 So doth the base ah4 the fore-barren brain, 
 Soon as the raging wine begins to reign. 
 One higher pitch'd doth set his soaring thought 
 On crowned kings, that Fortune hath low brought: 
 Or some upreared, high-aspiring swaine, 
 As it might be the Turkish Tamberlaine*: 
 Then weeneth he his base drink-drowned spright, 
 Rapt to the threefold loft of Heaven hight, 
 When he conceives upon his faigned stage 
 The stalking steps of his great personage, 
 Graced with huff-cap terms and thundring threats, 
 That his poor hearers' hair quite upright sets. 
 Such soon as some brave-minded hungry youth 
 Sees fitly frame to his wide-strained mouth, 
 He vaunts his voyce upon an hired stage, 
 With high-set steps, and princely carriage ; 
 Now soouping in side robes of royalty, 
 That erst did skrub in lowsy brokery, 
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 There if he can with terms Italianate* 
 
 Big-sounding sentences, and words of state, 
 
 Fair patch me up his pure iambic verse, 
 
 He ravishes the gazing scaffolders : 
 
 Then certes was the famous Cordubani*, 
 
 Never but half so high tragedian. 
 
 Now, lest such frightful shows of Fortune's fall, 
 
 And bloody tyrant's rage, should chance apall 
 
 The dead-struck audience, 'midst the silent rout, 
 
 Comes leaping in a self-misformed lout, 
 
 And laughs, and grins, and frames his mimic face, 
 
 Andjustles straight into the prince's place; 
 
 Then doth the theatre echo all aloud, 
 
 With gladsome noise of that applauding crowd. 
 
 A goodly hotch-potch ! when vile russetings 
 
 Are match'd with monarchs, and with mighty kings. 
 
 A goodly grace to sober tragic Muse, 
 
 When each base clown his clumbsy fist doth bruise, 
 
 And show his teeth in double rotten row, 
 
 For laughter at his self-resembled show. 
 
 Meanwhile our poets in high parliament 
 
 Sit watching every word and gesturement, 
 
 Like curious censors of some doughty gear, 
 
 Whispering their verdict in their fellow's ear. 
 
 Woe to the word whose margent in their scrole 
 
 Is noted with a black condemning coal. 
 
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 Ho ! bring the ivy boughs, and bands of bays. 
 
 Now when they part and leave the naked stage, 
 Gins the bare hearer, in a guilty rage, 
 To curse and ban, and blame his likerous eye, 
 That thus hath lavish'd his late half-penny. 
 Shame that the Muses should be bought and sold, 
 For every peasant's brass, on each scaffold. 
 
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 Too popular is tragic poesie, 
 
 Straining his tip-toes for a farthing fee, 
 
 And doth beside on rhymeless numbers tread, 
 
 Unbid iambics flow from careless head. 
 
 Some braver brain in high heroic rhymes 
 
 Compileth worm eat stories of old times ; 
 
 And he like some imperious Maronist, 
 
 Conjures the Muses that they him assist, 
 
 Then strives he to bombast his feeble lines 
 
 With far-fetch'd phrase ; 
 
 And maketh up his hard-betaken tale 
 
 With strange enchantments, fetch'd from darksom vale, 
 
 Of some Melissa*, that by magic doom 
 
 To Tuscans soil transporteth Merlin's tomb. 
 
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 Painters and poets hold your auncient right : 
 
 Write what you will, and write not what you might : 
 
 Their limits be their list, their reason will. 
 
 But if some painter, in presuming skill, 
 
 Should paint the stars in center of the Earth, 
 
 Could ye forbear some smiles, and taunting mirth ? 
 
 But let no rebel satyr dare traduce 
 
 Th' eternal legends of thy faerie Muse, 
 
 Renowned Spenser : whom no earthly wight 
 
 Dares once to emulate, much less dares despight. 
 
 Salust # of France, and Tuscan Ariost, 
 
 Yield up the lawrel garland ye have lost : 
 
 And let all others willow wear with me, 
 
 Or let their undeserving temples bared be. 
 
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 Another, whose more heavy hearted saint 
 Delights in nought but notes of rueful plaint, 
 Urgeth his melting Muse with solemn tears 
 Rhyme of some dreary fates of luckless peers. 
 Then brings he up some branded whining ghost, 
 To tell how old misfortunes had him toss'd. 
 Then must he ban the guiltless fates above, 
 Or fortune frail, or unrewarded love. 
 
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 And when he hath parbreak'd # his grieved mind, 
 He sends him down where erst he did him find, 
 Without one penny to pay Charon's hire, 
 That waiteth for the wand'ring ghosts retire f. 
 
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 Another scorns the home-spun thread of rhymes J, 
 
 Match'd with the lofty feet of elder times : 
 
 Give me the numbred verse that Virgil sung, 
 
 And Virgil's self shall speak the English tongue : 
 
 " Manhood and garboiles" shall he chaunt with chaunged 
 
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 And head-strong dactyls making music meet. 
 The nimble dactyl striving to out-go, 
 The drawling spondees pacing it below. 
 The lingring spondees, labouring to delay, 
 The breathless dactyls with a sudden stay. 
 Whoever saw a colt wanton and wild, 
 Yok'd with a slow-foot ox on fallow field, 
 
 Bible Edition, 1569.— Spenser, b. 1. c. 1. p. 8.— 4to. Edit. 1590. 
 
 f See the Mirrour of Magistrates, 1557. 
 
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 If Jove speak English in a thundring cloud, 
 "Thwick thwack/' and " riffraff," roars he out aloud. 
 Fie on the forged mint that did create 
 New coin of words never articulate. , 
 
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 G re AT is the folly of a feeble brain, 
 
 O'er-rul'd with love, and tyrannous disdain. 
 
 For love, however in the basest breast, 
 
 It breeds high thoughts that feed the fancy best : 
 
 Yet is he blind, and leads poor fools awry, 
 
 While they hang gazing on their mistress' eye. 
 
 The love-sick poet, whose importune prayer 
 
 Repulsed is with resolute despair, 
 
 Flopeth to conquer his disdainful dame, 
 
 With public plaints of his conceived flame. 
 
 Then pours he forth in patched sonettings, 
 
 His love, his lust, and loathsome flatterings : 
 
 As though the staring world hang'd on his sleeve, 
 
 When once he smiles, to laugh : and when he sighs, to 
 
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 Careth the world, thou love, thou live, or die I 
 Careth the world how fair thy fair-one be ? 
 
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 Then can he term his dirty ili-fac'd bride 
 
 Lady and Queen, and virgin deify'd : 
 
 Be she all sooty black, or berry brown, 
 
 She's white as morrow's milk, or flakes new blown : 
 
 And though she be some dunghill drudge at home, 
 
 Yet can he her resign some refuse room 
 
 Amidst the well known stars ; or if not there, 
 
 Sure will he saint her in his Kalendere. 
 
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 Hence f , ye profane ! inell not with holy things, 
 That Sion's Muse from Palestina brings. 
 Parnassus is transform'd to Sion Hill, 
 And Jury-palms J her steep ascents done fill. 
 Now good St. Peter ^ weeps pure Helicon, 
 And both the Maries make a music || moan : 
 Yea, and the prophet of the heav'nly lyre, 
 Great Solomon, sings in the English Quire ; 
 
 * See Ford, in the Merry Wives of Windsor ; also post, Book 4, 
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 f See Markham's Sion Muse. — Also History of English Poetry, 
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 % See Pratt's Hall, 10 vol. p. 292. 
 
 § Robert Southwell's St. Peter's Complaint. 
 
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 And is become a new-found sonnetist, 
 Singing his love, the Holy Spouse of Christ : 
 Like as she were some light-skirts of the rest, 
 In mightiest inkhornisms he can thither wrest. 
 Ye Sion Muses shall by my dear will, 
 For this your zeal and far-admired skill, 
 Be straight transported from Jerusalem, 
 Unto the holy house of Bethlehem *. 
 
 *See Andrew's Continuation of Dr. Henry's England, I vol. 
 530. b. 7, c. 2, from which the following extract is made. — '' As 
 the High Commission Court had an unlimited power over all 
 publications, it exerted that power most severely in 1599, by 
 sweeping away from Stationers' Hall, Marston's Pygmalion, 
 Marlowe's Ovid, the Satires of Hall and Marslon, with the 
 Callha Poelarum ! These, by the direction of the Prelates 
 Whitgift and Bancroft, were ordered (together with ' The 
 Shadow of Truth,' ' Snarling Satires,' l The Booke agaynt 
 Women,' and ' The XV Joyes of Marriage,') to be instantly 
 burnt. The Books of Nash and Gabriel Harvey were at the 
 same time anathematized ; and Satires and Epigrams were for- 
 bidden to be printed any more. That Hall and Marston should 
 both be included in the same prohibition seems a sentence 
 grounded in rigour rather than justice, since a3 they darted the 
 stings of their Satires at parties precisely opposite, they could 
 not easily be both in the wrong." 
 
 " The enthusiastic attachment of the puritans to the Song of 
 Solomon, and one particular version among many, styled ' the 
 Poem of Poems, or Sion's Muse, contayning the divine Song of 
 King Solomon, divided into Eight Eclogues,' dedicated to 'the 
 Sacred Virgin, divine Mistress Elizabeth Sydney, sole daughter 
 of the ever- admired Sir Philip Sydney,' were intolerable to the 
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 Envy, ye Muses, at your thriving mate # , 
 Cupid hath crowned a new laureat : 
 
 after having mentioned another poem, probably of the same 
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 ' Yea, and the prophet of the heavenly lyre, 
 Great Solomon, singes in the English quire, 
 And is become a new found sonnetist, 
 Singing his love, the holie spouse of Christ ; 
 Like as she were some ' light skirtes' of the rest, 
 In mightiest Inkhornisms he can thither wrest. 
 Ye ' Sion's Muses' shall, by my dear will, 
 For this your zeel, and self- admired skill, 
 Be straight transported from Jerusalem 
 Unto the holie house of Bethlehem.' 
 
 " But John Marston, a sober bard, of whom little is known, 
 but of whom Langbaine speaks with great respect and con- 
 sideration, answered the caustic bard in no contemptible verse ; 
 
 * Come daunce, ye stumbling satyres, by his syde, 
 If he list once the Sion muse deride, 
 Ye, Granta's white nymphs, come, and with you bring 
 Some syllabub, whilst he doth swetely singe 
 'Gainst Peter's tears, and Marie's moving moan ; 
 And, like a fierce enraged bore, doth foame 
 At sacred sonnets. — O dire hardiment ! 
 At Barta's sweet remains, rail impudent ! 
 At Hopkins, Sternhold, at the Scottish King, 
 At all translators that do strive to bring 
 That stranger language to our vulgar tongue,' 5cc. &c. 
 * Robert Greene. 
 
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 I saw his statue gayly 'tyr'd in green, 
 As if he had some second Phoebus been. 
 His statue trimm'd with the venerean tree, 
 And shrined fair within your sanctuary. 
 What, he, that erst to gain the rhyming goal, 
 The worn Recital-post of Capitol, 
 Rhymed in rules of stewish ribaldry, 
 Teaching experimental bawdcry ? 
 Whiles In* itching vulgar, tickled with the song, 
 Hanged on their unready poet's tongue. 
 Take this, ye patient Muses ; and foul shame 
 Shall wait upon your once profaned name. 
 Take this, ye Muses, this so high despite, 
 And let all hateful luckless birds of night ; 
 Let screeching owls nest in your razed roofs, 
 And let your floor with horned satyres' hoofs 
 Be dinted, and defiled every morn ; 
 And let your walls be an eternal scorn. 
 What if some Shoreditch fury should incite 
 Some lust-stung lecher, must he needs indite 
 The beastly rites of hired venery, 
 The whole world's universal bawd to be? 
 Did never yet no damned libertine, 
 Nor elder heathen, nor new Florentine*, 
 Though they were famous for lewd liberty, 
 Venture upon so shameful villany. 
 
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 Were wont be blam'd for too licentiate. 
 Chaste men ! they did but glance at Lesbia's 
 And handsomely leave off with cleanly speed. 
 But arts of whoring, stories of the stews, 
 Ye Muses will ye bear, and may refuse ? 
 Nay, let the Devil and St. Valentine 
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 O r been the manes of that Cynic spright, 
 
 Cloath'ti with some stubborn clay and led to light ? 
 
 Or do the relique ashes of his grave 
 
 Revive and rise from their forsaken cave ; 
 
 That so, with gall-wet words and speeches rude 
 
 Controuls the manners of the multitude ? 
 
 Envy belike incites his pining heart, 
 
 And bids it sate itself with others' smart. 
 
 Nay, no despight : but angry Nemesis, 
 
 Whose scourge doth follow all that done amiss : 
 
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 For shame! write better Labeo, or write none: 
 
 Or better write ; or Labeo, write alone. 
 
 Nay, call the Cynic but a wittie foole, 
 
 Thence to abjure his handsome drinking bowl ; 
 
 Because the thirstie swaine, with hollow hand, 
 
 Convey 'd the streame to weet his drie weasand. 
 
 Write they that can, tho' they, that cannot, doe : 
 
 But uho knowes that; but they that do not hnozo? 
 
 Lo ! what it is that makes white rags so deare, 
 
 That men must give a teston f for a queare. 
 
 Lo ! what it is that makes goose-wings so scant, 
 
 That the distressed sempster did them want : 
 
 So lavish ope-tyde causeth fasting-lents, 
 
 And starveling famine comes of large expence. 
 
 Might not (so they were pleas'd that beene above) 
 
 Long paper-abstinence our death remove ? 
 
 Then manie a Lollerd would in forfaitment, 
 
 Beare paper-faggots o'er the pavement. 
 
 But now men wager who shall blot the most, 
 
 And each man writes. There's so much labour lost, 
 
 That's good, that's great : nay much is seldome well: 
 
 Ofzvhat is bad, a little's a greate deale. 
 
 Better is more : but best is nought at all. 
 
 Lesse is the next, and lesser criminall. 
 
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 Little and good, is greatest good save one : 
 77/l-;/, Labeo, or write little, or write none. 
 Tush, in small paines can be but little art, 
 Or lode full drie-fats fro the forren mart, 
 With folio, volumes, two to an oxe hide ; 
 Or else, ye pamphleteer, go stand aside ; 
 Reade in each schoole, in everie margent quoted, 
 In everie catalogue for an authour noted. 
 There's happiness well given and well got, 
 Lesse gifts, and lesser gaines, I weigh them not. 
 So may the giant roam and write on high, . 
 Be he a dwarfe that writes not there as I. 
 But well fare Strabo, which as stories tell, 
 Contriv'd all Troy within one walnut shell. 
 His curious ghost now lately hither came ; 
 Arriving neere the mouth of luckie Tame, 
 I saw a pismire struggling with the load, 
 Dragging all Troy home towards her abode. 
 Now dare we hither, if we durst appearc, 
 The subtile stithy-man that livM while ere : 
 Such one was once, or once I was mistaught, 
 A smith at Vulcan's owne forge up brought, 
 That made an iron chariot so light, 
 The coach-horse was a flea in trappings dight. 
 The tamelesse steed could well his waggon wield, 
 Through downes and dales of the uneven field. 
 Strive they, laugh we : meane while the black storie 
 Passes new Strabo, and new Strabo's Troy. 
 
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 For shame! or better write ; or Labeo, write none. 
 But who conjur'd this bawdie Poggie's ghost, 
 From out the stewes of his lewde home-bred coast: 
 Or wicked Rablais' dronken re veilings, 
 To grace the mis-rule of our tavernings ? 
 Or who put Bayes into blind Cupid's fist, 
 That he should crowne what laureats him list ? 
 Whose words are those, to remedie the deed, 
 That cause men stop their noses when they read ? 
 Both good things ill, and ill things well ; all one ? 
 For shame ! write cleanly Labeo, or write none. 
 
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 To what end did our lavish aimcestours 
 
 Erect of old these stately piles of ours ; 
 
 For thread-bare clerks, and for the ragged muse, 
 
 Whom better fit some cotes of sad secluse? 
 
 Blush niggard Age, and be asham'd to see, 
 
 These monuments of wiser ancestrie. 
 
 And ye faire heapes, the Muses' sacred shrines, 
 
 (In spight of time and envious repines) 
 
 Stand still, and flourish till the world's last day, 
 
 Upbraiding it with former love's decay. 
 
 Here may you Muses, our deare soveraignes, 
 
 Scorne each base Lordling ever you disdaines ; 
 
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 And every peasant churle ; whose smokie roofe 
 
 Denied harbour for your deare behoofe. 
 
 Scorne ye the world before it do complaine, 
 
 And scorne the world, that scorneth you againe; 
 
 And scorne contempt itselfe, that doth incite 
 
 Eack single-sold 'squire to set you at so light. 
 
 What needes me care for anie bookish skill, 
 
 To blot white papers with my restlesse quill; 
 
 Or pore on painted leaves, or beat my braine 
 
 With far-fetch thought ; or to consume in vaine 
 
 In latter even, or midst of winter nights, 
 
 111 smelling oyles, or some still-watching lights. 
 
 Let them, that meane by bookish businesse 
 
 To earne their bread, or hopen to professe 
 
 Their hard got skill, let them alone, for me, 
 
 Busic their brains with deeper brokcrie. 
 
 Great gaines shall bide you sure, when ye have spent 
 
 A thousand lamps, and thousand reames have rent 
 
 Of needless papers ; and a thousand nights 
 
 Have burned out with costly candle lights. 
 
 Ye palish ghosts of Athens, when at last 
 
 Your patrimonie spent in witlesse wast, 
 
 Your friends all wearie, and your spirits spent, 
 
 Ye may your fortunes seeke, and be forwent 
 
 Of your kind cousins, and your churlish sires, 
 
 Left there alone, midst the fast-folding briers. 
 
 Have not I lands of faire inheritance, 
 
 Derived by right of long continuance, 
 
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 To first-borne males, so list the law to grace, 
 
 Nature's first fruits in an eternal * race ? 
 
 Let second brothers, and poore nestlings, 
 
 Whom more injurious nature later brings 
 
 Into the naked world ; let them assaine 
 
 To get hard penny-worths with so bootlesse paine. 
 
 Tush ! what care I to be Arcesilas f, 
 
 Or some sad Solon, whose deed-furrowed face, 
 
 And sullen head, and yellow-clouded sight, 
 
 Still on the stedfast earth are musing pight J ; 
 
 Mutt'ring what censures their distracted minde, 
 
 Of brain-sick paradoxes deeply hath definde : 
 
 Or of Parmenides, or of darke Heraclite, 
 
 Whether all be one, or ought be infinite ? 
 
 Long would it be ere thou hast purchase bought, 
 
 Or welthier wexen by such idle thought. 
 
 Fond fool ! six feet shall serve for all thy store ; 
 
 And he that cares for most shall find no more. 
 
 We scorne that wealth should be the finall end, 
 
 Whereto the heavenly Muse her course doth bend; 
 
 And rather had be pale with learned cares, 
 
 Than paunched with thy choyce of changed fares. 
 
 Or doth thy glorie stand in outward glee I 
 
 A lave-ear'd asse with gold may trapped be. 
 
 Or if in pleasure ? live we as we may, 
 
 Let swinish Grill delight in dunghill clay. 
 
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 SATIRE III. 
 
 Who doubts ? the laws fell down from heaven's height, 
 
 Like to some gliding starre in winters night ? 
 
 Themis, the Scribe of God, did long agone 
 
 Engrave them deepe in during marble stone, 
 
 And cast them downe on this unruly clay, 
 
 That men might know to rule and to obey. 
 
 But now their characters depraved bin, 
 
 By them that would make gain of others' sin. 
 
 And now hath wrong so maistered the right, 
 
 That they live best, that on wrong's offal light. 
 
 So loathly flye, that lives on galled wound, 
 
 And scabby festers inwardly unsound, 
 
 Feeds fatter with that poys'nous carrion, 
 
 Than they, that haunt the healthy limbs alone. 
 
 Wo to the Weale, where many lawyers be; 
 
 For there is, sure, much store of maladie ! 
 
 'Twas truely said, and truely was foreseene, 
 
 The fat kine are devoured of the leane. 
 
 Genus and Species* long since barefoote went, 
 
 Upon their ten-toes in wilde wanderment : 
 
 Whiles father Bartoll on his footcloth rode, 
 
 Upon high pavement gayly silver-strow'd. 
 
 Each home-bred science percheth in the chaire, 
 
 While sacred artes grovell on the groundsell bare. 
 
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 Nor classic ke tongues, nor learning found no rest. 
 The crowching client, with low-bended knee, 
 And manie Worships, and faire rlatterie, 
 Tells on his tale as smoothly as him list, 
 But still the lawyer's eye squints on his fist ; 
 If that seem lined with a larger fee, 
 Doubt not tlie suite, the law is plaine for thee. 
 Tho' must he buy his vainer hope with price, 
 Disclout his crownes, and thank e him for advice. 
 So have I seene in a tempestuous stowre, 
 Some bryer-bush shewing shelter from the showre 
 Unto the hopefull sheepe, that faine would hide 
 His rleecie coate from that same angry tide : 
 The ruthlesse breere, regardlesse of his plight, 
 Laies holde upon the fleece he should acquite, 
 And takes advantage of the carelesse prey, 
 That thought she in securer shelter lay. 
 The day is faire, the sheepe would far to feede, 
 The tyrant brier holdes fast his shelter's meed, 
 And claimes it for the fee of his defence : 
 So robs the sheepe, in favour's faire pretence. 
 
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 Wouthie were Galen to be weighed in gold, 
 Whose help doth sweetest life and health uphold : 
 
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 Yet, by Saint Esculape he sollemne swore, 
 
 That for diseases they were never more, 
 
 Fees never lesse, never so little gaine ; 
 
 Men give a groate, and aske the rest againe. 
 
 Groats-worth of health can anie leech allot? 
 
 Yet should he have no more, that gives a groate. 
 
 Should I on each sicke pillow leane my brest, 
 
 And grope the pulse of everie mangie wrest, 
 
 And spie out marvels in each urinall, 
 
 And tumble up the filths that from them fall, 
 
 And give a dosse for everie disease 
 
 In prescripts long and tedious recipes, 
 
 All for so leane reward of art and me ? 
 
 No horse-leach but will looke for larger fee. 
 
 Meane while, if chaunce some desp'rate patient die, 
 
 Com'n to the period of his destinie : 
 
 (As who can crosse the fatall resolution, 
 
 In the decreed day of dissolution ?) 
 
 Whether ill tendment, or recurelesse paine, 
 
 Procure his death ; the neighbours straight complaine, 
 
 Th' unskilfull leech murd'red his patient, 
 
 By poyson of some foule ingredient. 
 
 Here-on the vulgar may as soone be brought 
 
 To Socrates his poysoned hemlock-drought, 
 
 As to the wholsome julap, whose receat 
 
 Might his disease's lingring-force defeat. 
 
 If nor a dramme of triacle soveraigne, 
 
 Or acqua vitae, or sugar candian, 
 
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 Certes his time is come, needs mought he die. 
 Were I a leech, (as who knowes what may be ?) 
 The liberal man should live, and carle should die : 
 The sickly ladie, and the goutie peere 
 
 | Still would I haunt, that love their life so dear. 
 Where life is deare, who cares for coyned dross ?- 
 That spent is counted gaine ; and spared, losse : 
 |m* | Or would conjure the chymick mercuric, 
 
 ! Rise from his horsedung bed, and upwards flie ; 
 
 j And with glasse stills, and sticks of juniper, 
 
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 Out of sublimed spirits mineral!. 
 
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 Saw'st thou ever si-quis patch'd* on Paul's church dore, 
 
 To seeke some vacant vicarage before ? 
 
 Who wants a churchman, that can service say, 
 
 Read fast and faire his monthly homiley ? 
 
 And wed and bury, and make christen-soules ? 
 
 Come to the left-side alley of Saint Poules, 
 
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 Thou servile foole, why could'st thou not repaire 
 
 To buy a benefice at steeple-faire ? 
 
 There moughtest thou, for but a slender price, 
 
 Advowson thee with some fat benefice : 
 
 Or if thee list not waite for dead men's shoon, 
 
 Nor pray each morn th' incumbent's daies were done ; 
 
 A thousand patrons thither ready bring, 
 
 Their new-falne churches to the chaffering ; 
 
 Stake three yeares stipend ; no man asketh more : 
 
 Go, take possession of the church-porch-doore, 
 
 And ring thy bells ; lucke stroken in thy fist : 
 
 The parsonage is thine, or ere thou wist. 
 
 Saint Fooles of Gotam mought thy parish be, 
 
 For this thy base and servile symonie 1 
 
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 A gentle squire would gladly entertaine 
 Into his house some trencher-chaplaine ; 
 Some willing man that might instruct his sons, 
 And that would stand to good conditions. 
 First, that he lie upon the truckle-bed, 
 Whiles his young maister lieth o'er his head. 
 Second, that he do, on no default, 
 Ever presume to sit above the salt*. 
 
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 Fourth, that he use all common courtesies ; 
 
 Sit bare at meals, and one halfe rise and wait. 
 
 Last, that he never his yong maister beat, 
 
 But he must aske his mother to define, 
 
 How manie jerkes she would his breech should line. 
 
 All these observ'd, he could contented bee, 
 
 To give five markes and winter liverie. 
 
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 In th' heaven's universal alphabet 
 
 All earthly thinges so surely are foreset, 
 
 That, who can read those figures, may foreshew 
 
 Whatever thing shall afterwards ensue : 
 
 Faine would I know (might it our artist please) 
 
 Why can his tell-troth Ephemerides 
 
 Teach him the weather's state so long beforne, 
 
 And not foretell him, nor his fatall home, 
 
 Nor his death's-day, nor no such sad event ^ 
 
 Which he mought wisely labour to prevent ? 
 
 Thou damned mock-art, and thou brainsick tale 
 
 Of old astrology, where did'st thou vaile 
 
 Thy cursed head thus long, that so it mist 
 
 The black bronds of some sharper satyrist ? 
 
 Some doting gossip 'mongst the Chaldee wives, 
 
 Did to the credulous world thee first derive ; 
 
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 And Superstition nurs'd thee ever sence, 
 
 And publisht in profounder art's pretence*: 
 
 That now, who pares his nailes, or libs his swine, 
 
 But he must first take counsel of the signe. 
 
 So that the vulgars count, for faire or foule, 
 
 For living or for dead, for sick or whole. 
 
 His feare or hope, for plenty or for lack, 
 
 Hangs all upon his new-year's Almanack. 
 
 If chance once in the spring his head should ake, 
 
 It was foretold : thus says mine Almanack. 
 
 In th' heaven's high-street are but dozen roomes, 
 
 In which dwells all the world, past and to come. 
 
 Twelve goodly innes they are, with twelve fayre signes, 
 
 Ever well tended by our star-divines. 
 
 Everie man's head innes at the horned Ramme ; 
 
 The whiles the necke the Black-bull's guest became : 
 
 Th' arms, by good hap, meet at the wrastling twins : 
 
 Th' heart, in the way, at the Blue-lion innes : 
 
 The leggs their lodging in Aquarius got; 
 
 That is the Bridge-streete of the heaven, I wot : 
 
 The feet took up the Fish, with teeth of gold ; 
 
 But who with Scorpio lodg'd, may not be told. 
 
 What office then doth the star-gazer beare ? 
 
 Or let him be the heaven's ostelere ; 
 
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 Or tapsters, some ; or some be chamberlaines, 
 To waite upon the guests they entertaine. 
 H ence can they reade, by virtue of their trade, 
 When any thing is mist, where it was laide. 
 H ence they divine, and hence they can devise, 
 If their aim faile, the stars to moralize. 
 Demon, my friend, once liver-sicke of love, 
 Thus Iearn'd I by the signes his griefe remove : 
 In the blind Archer first I saw the signe, 
 When thou receiv'dst that wilful wound of thine ; 
 And now in Virgo is that cruel mayde, 
 Which hath not yet with love thy love repaide : 
 But marke when once it comes to Gemini, 
 Straightway fish-whole shall thy sicke-liver be. 
 But now (as th' angrie heavens seeme to threat 
 Manie hard fortunes, and disastres great) 
 if chance it come to wanton Capricorne, 
 And so into the Ram's disgraceful home, 
 Then learne thou of the ugly Scorpion, 
 To hate her for her fowle abusion : 
 I hy refuge then the balance be of right, 
 Which shall thee from thy broken bond acquite : 
 So, with the Crab, go back whence thou began, 
 From thy first match, and live a single man. 
 
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 Some say my satyres over loosely flow, 
 
 Nor hide their gall enough from open show : 
 
 Not, riddle like, obscuring their intent ; 
 
 But, packe-staffe plaine, uttring what thing they ment : 
 
 Contrarie to the Roman ancients, 
 
 Whose words were short, and darksome was their sense. 
 
 Who reades one line of their harsh poesies, 
 
 Thrice must he take his winde, and breath him thrice : 
 
 My Muse would follow them that have foregone, 
 
 But cannot with an English pineon : 
 
 For looke how farre the ancient comedie 
 
 Past former satyres in her libertie ; 
 
 So farre must mine yield unto them of old ; 
 
 'Tis better be too bad, than be too bold. 
 
Time* was, and that was term'd the time of gold, 
 When world and time were young, that now are old : 
 (When quiet Saturne sway'd the mace of lead; 
 And pride was yet unborne, and yet unbred.) 
 Time was, that whiles the autumne fall did last, 
 Our hungrie sires gap'd for the falling mast 
 
 Of the Dodonian oakes. 
 Could no unhusked akorne leave the tree, 
 But there was challenge made whose it might be. 
 And, if some nice and liquorous appetite 
 Desir'd more daintie dish of rare delite, 
 They scal'd the stored crab with clasped knee, 
 Till they had sated their delicious eye : 
 Or search'd the hopefull thicks of hedgy-rowes, 
 For brierie berries, or hawes, or sourer sloes : 
 Or when they meant to fare the fm'st of all, 
 They lick'd oake-leaves besprint with hony fall. 
 As for the thrise three-angled beech nut-shell, 
 Or chesnut's armed huske, and hid kernell, 
 No Squire durst touch, the law would not afford, 
 Kept for the Court, and for the King's owne board. 
 Their royall plate was clay, or wood, or stone ; 
 The vulgar, save his hand, else he had none. 
 
 
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 Their onely cellar was the neighbour brooke : 
 
 None did for better care, for better looke. 
 
 Was then no plaining of the brewer's scape, 
 
 Nor greedie vintner mixt the strained grape. 
 
 The king's pavilion was the grassy green, 
 
 Under safe shelter of the shadie treen. 
 
 Under each banke men layd their limbs along, 
 
 Not wishing anie ease, not fearing wrong : 
 
 Clad with their owne, as they were made of old, 
 
 Not fearing shame, not feeling anie cold. 
 
 But when by Ceres' huswifrie and paine, 
 
 Men learn'd to burie the reviving graine ; 
 
 And father Janus taught the new-found vine, 
 
 Rise on the elme, with many a friendly twine ; 
 
 And base desire bade men to delven low, 
 
 For needlesse mettals ; then gan mischief grow. 
 
 Then farewell, fayrest age, the world's best dayes ; 
 
 Thriving in ill as it in age decaies. 
 
 Then crept in pride, and peevish covetise ; 
 
 And men grew greedie, discordous and nice. 
 
 Now man, that erst haile-fellow was with beast, 
 
 Woxe on to weene * himselfe a God at least. 
 
 No aerie fowl can take so high a flight, 
 
 Tho' she her daring wings in clouds have dight ; 
 
 Nor fish can dive so deep in yielding sea, 
 
 Tho' Thetis selfe should sweare her safetie ; 
 
 Nor fearfull beast can dig his cave so lowe, 
 
 As could he further than earth's center go ; 
 
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 As that the ayre, the earth, or ocean, 
 
 Should shield them from the gorge of greedie man. 
 
 Hath utmost Inde ought better than his owne ? 
 
 Then utmost Inde is neare, and rife to gone. 
 
 O nature ! was the world ordain'd for nought 
 
 But fill man's maw, and feede man's idle thought ? 
 
 Thy grandsires words savour'd of thriftie leekes, 
 
 Or manly garlicke ; but thy furnace reekes 
 
 Hot steams of wine ; and can a-loofe descrie 
 
 The drunken draughts of sweete autumnitie. 
 
 They naked went ; or clad in ruder hide, 
 
 Or home-spun russet, void of forraine pride : 
 
 But thou canst maske in garish gauderie, 
 
 To suite a foole's far-fetched liverie. 
 
 A French head joyn'd to necke Italian : 
 
 Thy thighs from Germanie, and brest from Spain: 
 
 An Englishman in none, a foole in all : 
 
 Many in one, and one in severall. 
 
 Then men were men ; but now the greater part 
 
 Beasts are in life, and women are in heart. 
 
 Good Saturne selfe, that homely emperour, 
 
 In proudest pompe was not so clad of yore, 
 
 As is the under- groome of the ostlerie, 
 
 Husbanding it in work-day yeomanrie. 
 
 Lo ! the long date of those expired dayes, 
 
 Which the inspired Merlin's word fore-sayes ; 
 
 When dung-hill peasants shall be dight as kings, 
 
 Then one confusion another brings : 
 
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 Great Osmond knowes not how he shall be known, 
 
 When once great Osmond shall be dead and gone : 
 
 Unlesse he reare up some rich monument, 
 
 Ten furlongs nearer to the firmament. 
 
 Some stately tombe he builds, Egyptian wise, 
 
 Rex Regiim written on the pyramis. 
 
 Whereas great Arthur lies in ruder oak, 
 
 That never felt none but the feller's stroke. 
 
 Small honour can be got with gaudie grave ; 
 
 Nor it thy rotting name from death can save. 
 
 The fairer tombe, the fouler is thy name ; 
 
 The greater pompe procuring greater shame. 
 
 Thy monument make thou thy living deeds ; 
 
 No other tomb than that true virtue needs. 
 
 What ! had he nought whereby he might be knowne 
 
 But costly pilements of some curious stone ? 
 
 The matter nature's, and the workman's frame ; 
 
 His purse's cost : where then is Osmond's name ? 
 
 Deserv'dst thou ill ? well were thy name and thee, 
 
 Wert thou inditched in great secrecie ; 
 
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 Where as no passenger might curse thy dust, 
 Nor dogs sepulchrall sate their gnawing lust. 
 Thine ill deserts cannot be grav'd with thee, 
 So long as on thy grave they engraved be. 
 
 SATIRE III. 
 
 The courteous citizen bade me to his feast, 
 
 With hollow words, and overly request : 
 
 " Come, will ye dine with me this holyday ?" 
 
 I yeelded, tho' he hop'd I would say nay : 
 
 For had I mayden'd it, as many use ; 
 
 Loath for to grant, but loather to refuse. 
 
 " Alacke sir, I were loath ; another day, — 
 
 " I should but trouble you ; — pardon me, if you may." 
 
 No pardon should I need ; for, to depart 
 
 He gives me leave, and thanks too, in his heart. 
 
 Two words for monie, Darbishirian * wise ; 
 
 (That's one too manie) is a naughtie guise* 
 
 Who looks for double biddings to a feast, 
 
 May dine at home for an importune guest. 
 
 I went : then saw, and found the greate expence ; 
 
 The fare and fashions of our citizens. 
 
 Oh, Cleopatrical 1 what wanteth there 
 
 For curious cost, and wondrous choice of cheere ? 
 
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 Porke for the fat Boeotian ; or the hare, 
 
 For Martial ; fish for the Venetian ; 
 
 Goose-liver, for the likorous Romane ; 
 
 TV Athenian's goate ; quaile, Iolan's cheere ; 
 
 The hen, for Esculape, and the Parthian deere ; 
 
 Grapes, for Arcesilas, tigs, for Plato's mouth, 
 
 And chesnuts faire, for Amarillis' tooth*. 
 
 Hadst thou such cheere ? wert thou ever there before ? 
 
 Never. — I thought so : nor come there no more. 
 
 Come there no more ; for so meant all that cost : 
 
 Never hence take me for thy second host. 
 
 For whom he meanes to make an often guest. 
 
 One dish shall serve ; and welcome make the rest. 
 
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 That so his threshold is all freshly steept 
 
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 Some sorry morkin f that unbidden dies ; 
 
 Or meager heifer, or some rotten ewe, 
 
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 With flowers and with ribbands garnished ? 
 
 Now shall the passenger deeme the man devout. 
 
 What boots it be so, but the world must know't? 
 
 O the fond boasting of vain-glorious men ! 
 
 Does he the best, that may the best be seene ? 
 
 Who ever gives a paire of velvet shooes 
 
 To th' Holy Rood, or liberally allowes 
 
 But a new rope to ring the curfew bell, 
 
 But he desires that his great deed may dwell, 
 
 Or graven in the chancel-window-glasse, 
 
 Or in his lasting tombe of plated brasse ? 
 
 For he that doth so few deserving deeds, 
 
 ' Twere sure his best sue for such larger meeds. 
 
 Who would inglorious live, inglorious die, 
 
 And might eternize his name's memorie ? 
 
 And he, that cannot brag of greater store, 
 
 Must make his somewhat much, and little more. 
 
 Nor can good Myson weare on his left hond, 
 
 A signet ring of Bristol-diamond, 
 
 But he must cut his glove to shew his pride, 
 
 That his trim jewel might be better spy'd : 
 
 And that men mought some burgesse him repute, 
 
 With sattin sleeves hath grac'd his sacke-cloth suit. 
 
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 Fie on all courtesie, and unruly windes, 
 
 Two onely foes that faire disguisement findes. 
 
 Strange curse! but fit for such a fickle age, 
 
 When Scalpes are subject to such vassalage. 
 
 Late travailing along in London way, 
 
 Mee met, as seem'd by his disguis'd array, 
 
 A lustie courtier; whose curled head 
 
 With abron locks was fairely furnished. 
 
 I him saluted in our lavish wise : 
 
 He answeres my untimely courtesies. 
 
 His bonnet vail'd*, ere ever he could thinke, 
 
 Th' unruly winde blowes off his perivvinke -f*. 
 
 He lights and runs, and quickly hath him sped, 
 
 To overtake his over-runing head. 
 
 The sportfull winde, to mocke the headlesse man, 
 
 Tosses apace his pitch'd Rogerian : 
 
 And straight it to a deeper ditch hath blowne ; 
 
 There must my yonker fetch his waxen crowne %. 
 
 I lookt, and laught, whiles, in his raging minde, 
 
 He curst all courtesie, and unruly winde. 
 
 I lookt and laught ; and much I mervailed, 
 
 To see so large a caus-way in his head. 
 
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 'Twas some shroad autumne # that so bar'd the bone. 
 
 Is't not sweete pride, when men their crowns must shade, 
 
 With that which jerks the hams of every jade, 
 
 Or floor-strow'd locks from off the barber's sheares ? 
 
 But waxen crowns well gree with borrow 'd haires. 
 
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 When Gullion dy'd (who knowes not Gullion?) 
 
 And his drie soule arriv'd at Acheron, 
 
 He faire besought the feryman of hell, 
 
 That he might drinke to dead Pantagruel. 
 
 Charon was afraid lest thirstie Gullion 
 
 Would have drunke drie the river Acheron. 
 
 Yet last consented for a little hyre, 
 
 And down he dips his chops deep in the my re, 
 
 And drinkes, and drinkes, and swallows in the streeme, 
 
 Untill the shallow shores all naked seeme. 
 
 Yet still he drinkes, nor can the Boatman's cries, 
 
 Nor crabbed oares, nor prayers make him rise. 
 
 So long he drinkes, till the blacke caravell, 
 
 Stands still fast gravell'd on the mud of hell. 
 
 There stand they still, nor can go, nor retyre, 
 
 Tho' greedie ghosts quick e passage did require. 
 
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 Yet stand they still, as tho' they lay at rode, 
 
 Till Gullion his bladder would unlode. 
 
 They stand, and wait, and pray for that good houre ; 
 
 Which, when it came, they sailed to the shore. 
 
 But never since dareth the ferryman, 
 
 Once entertaine the ghost of Gullian. 
 
 Drinke on drie soule, and pledge sir Gullion : 
 
 Drinke to all healths, but drinke not to thine owne. 
 
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 Vaunting himselfe upon his rising toes ; 
 And pranks* his hand upon his dagger's side; 
 And picks his glutted teeth since late noon-tide ? 
 'Tis Ruffio. Trow'st thou where he din'd to day ? 
 In sooth I saw him sit with Duke Humfrayf. 
 Many good welcomes, and much gratis cheere, 
 Keepes he for everie straggling cavaliere. 
 An open house, haunted with greate resort ; 
 Long service mixt with musicall disport. 
 
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 Chooses much rather be his shot-free guest, 
 To fare so freely with so little cost, 
 Than stake his tzvelve-pence to a meaner host. 
 Hadst thou not told me, I should surely say 
 He toucht no meat of all this live-long day. 
 For sure me thought, yet that was but a guesse, 
 His eyes seeme sunke for verie hollownesse, 
 But could he have (as I did it mistake) 
 So little in his purse, so much upon his backe ? 
 So nothing in his maw ? yet seemeth by his belt, 
 That his gaunt gut no too much stuffing felt. 
 Seest thou how side it hangs beneath his hip ? 
 Hunger and heavy iron makes girdles slip. 
 Yet for all that, how stifly struts he by, 
 All trapped in the new-found braverie. 
 The nuns of new-woon Cales his bonnet lent, 
 In lieu of their so kind a conquerment. 
 What needed he fetch that from farthest Spaine, 
 His grandame could have lent with lesser paine ? 
 Tho' he perhaps ne'er pass'd the English shore, 
 Yet faine would counted be a conquerour. 
 His hair, French like, stares on his frighted head, 
 One lock Amazon-like disheveled, 
 As if he meant to weare a native cord, 
 If chaunce his Fates should him that bane afford. 
 All British bare upon the bristled skin, 
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 So slender waist with such an abbot's loyne, 
 
 Did never sober nature sure conjoyne. 
 
 Lik'st a strawne scare-crow in the new-sowne field, 
 
 Rear'd on some sticke, the tender corne to shield. 
 
 Or if that semblance suit not everie deale, 
 
 Like a broad shak-forke with a slender Steele. 
 
 Despised nature suit them once aright, 
 
 Their bodie to their coate, both now mis-dight. 
 
 Their bodie to their clothes might shapen be, 
 
 That nill their clothes shape to their bodie. 
 
 Meane while I wonder at so proud a backe, 
 
 Whiles th' empty guts lowd rumblen for long lacke : 
 
 The belly envieth the back's bright glee, 
 
 And murmurs at such inequality. 
 
 The backe appears unto the partial eine, 
 
 The plaintive belly pleads they bribed been; 
 
 And he, for want of better advocate, 
 
 Doth to the ear his injury relate. 
 
 The back, insulting o'er the belly's need, 
 
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 The maw, the guts, all inward parts complaine 
 
 The back's great pride, and their own secret paine. 
 
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 That sets such discord 'twixt agreeing parts, 
 Which never can be set at onement more, 
 Until the maw's wide mouth be stopt with store. 
 
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 Thus have I writ, in smoother cedar tree, 
 
 So gentle Satires, penn'd so easily. 
 
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 Hold out, ye guilty and ye galled hides, 
 
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 Begot long since of truth and holy rage, 
 Lye here in wombe of silence and still night, 
 Until the broils of next, unquiet age : 
 
 That, which is others' grave, shall be your wombe ; 
 
 And that, which bears you, your eternal tombe. 
 
 Cease, ere you gin ; and, ere ye live, be dead ; 
 
 And dye and live, ere ever ye be borne : 
 
 And be not bore, ere ye be buried ; 
 
 Then after live, sith you have dy'd beforne. 
 When I am dead and rotten in the dust, 
 Then gin to live, and leave when others lust. 
 
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 And lie deep smother'd with my marble stone ; 
 
 Which, while I live, cannot be done to dye; 
 
 Nor, if your life gin ere my life be done, 
 
 Will hardly yield t'await my mourning hearse, 
 But for my dead corps change my living verse. 
 
 What shall the ashes of my senselesse urne 
 
 Need to regard the raving world above ? 
 
 Sith afterwards I never can returne, 
 
 To feel the force of hatred or of love ? 
 
 Oh! if my soul could see their post-hume spight, 
 Should it not joy and triumph in the sight ? 
 
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 After the date of my deare exequies, 
 Ah ! pity thou my plaining orphan's dole, 
 That faine would see the sunne before it dies. 
 It dy'd before : now let it live againe : 
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 Who dares upbraid these open rhymes of mine 
 
 With blindfold Aquines, or darke Venusine * ? 
 
 Or rough-hewn Teretisius, writ in th' antique vain 
 
 Like an old satire, and new Flaccian ? 
 
 Which who reads thrice, and rubs his rugged brow, 
 
 And deep indenteth every doubtful row, 
 
 Scoring the margent with his blazing stars, 
 
 And hundreth crooked interlinears, 
 
 (Like to a merchant's debt-roll new defac'd, 
 
 When some crack'd Manour cross'd his book at last) 
 
 Should all in rage the curse-beat page out-rive, 
 
 And in each dust-heap bury me alive, 
 
 Stamping like Bucephall, whose slackned raines 
 
 And bloody fet-locks fry with seven men's braines : 
 
 More cruel than the cravon Satire's ghost, 
 
 That bound dead-bones unto a burning post ; 
 
 Or some more strait lac'd juror of the rest, 
 
 Tmpannel'd of an Holy-Fax inquest: 
 
 Yet well bethought, stoops down and reads anew. 
 
 " The best lies low, and loathes the shallow view," 
 
 Quoth old Eudemon, when his gout-swolne fist , 
 
 Gropes for his double ducates in his chist : 
 
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 Then buckle close his carelesse 1yds once more, 
 
 To pose the poore-blind snake of Epidaore*. 
 
 That Lyncius may be match'd with Gaulard's sight, 
 
 That sees not Paris for the houses' height ; 
 
 Or wily Cyppus, that can winke and snort 
 
 While his wife dallies on Maecenas' skort : 
 
 Yet when he hath my crabbed pamphlet red 
 
 As oftentimes as pHit.li t hath been dead, 
 
 Bid all the Furies haunt each peevish line 
 
 That thus have rack'd their friendly reader's eyne ; 
 
 Worse than the Logogryphes J of later times, 
 
 Or Hundreth Riddles shak'd to sleeve-lesse rhymes. 
 
 Should I endure these curses and despight, 
 
 While no man's eare should glow at what I write ? 
 
 Labeo is whipt, and laughs me in the face : 
 
 Why ? for I smite and hide the galled-plaee. 
 
 Gird but the Cynick's helmet on his head, 
 
 Cares he for Talus §, or his flayle of lead ? 
 
 Long as the crafty Cuttle lieth sure 
 
 In the blacke Cloud of his thicke vomiture, 
 
 Who list complame of wronged faith or fame, 
 
 When he may shift it to another's name ? 
 
 Calvus can scratch his elbow and can smile, 
 
 That thrift-lesse Fontice bites his lip the while. 
 
 Yet 1 intended in that selfe deyise 
 
 To checke the Churle for his knowne covetise. 
 
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 Each points his straight fore-finger to his friend, 
 
 Like the blind dial on the belfry end. 
 
 Who turns it homeward, to say, This is I , 
 
 As bolder Socrates in the comedy ? 
 
 But single out, and say once plat and plaine 
 
 That c<>y Matrona is a courtezan ; 
 
 Or thou false Cryspus choak'dst thy wealthy guest, 
 
 Whiles he lay snoring at his midnight rest, 
 
 And in thy dung-cart didst the carkasse shrine 
 
 And deepe intombe it in Port-Esqueline*. 
 
 Proud Trebius lives, for all his princely gait, 
 
 On third-hand suits, and scrapings of the plate. 
 
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 Like to a Comet's tayle in th 5 angry skies : 
 
 His pouting cheeks puff up above his brow, 
 
 Like a swolne toad touch'd with the spider's blow : 
 
 His mouth shrinks side-ward like a scornful Playse, 
 
 To take his tired ear's ingrateful place: 
 
 His ears hang laving like a new lugg'd swine, 
 
 To take some counsel of his grieved eyne. 
 
 Now laugh I loud, and breake my splene to see 
 
 This pleasing pastime of my poesie ; 
 
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 Much better than a Paris-Garden beare*; 
 Or prating puppet on a theatre ; 
 Or Mimoe'sf whistling to his tabouret, 
 Selling a laughter for a cold meal's meat. 
 Go to then, ye my sacred Sernones ;£, 
 And please me more the more ye do displease. 
 Care we for all those bugs of idle feare ? 
 For I igels grinning on the theatre? 
 Or scar-babe threatnings of the rascal crew ; 
 Or wind-spent verdicts of each ale-knight's view ? 
 Whatever breast doth freeze for such false dread, 
 Beshrew his base white liver for his meed. 
 Fond were that pity, and that feare were sin, 
 To spare wast leaves that so deserved bin 
 Those tooth-lesse Toys that dropt out by mis-hap, 
 Be but as lightning to a thunder-clap. 
 M Shall then that foul infamous Cyned's hide 
 } Laugh at the purple wales of others' side ? 
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 The stewes had wont be to uY tennis court. 
 He, that, while thousands envy at his bed, 
 Neighs after bridals, and fresh-maidenhead : 
 While slavish Juno dares not look awry, 
 To frowne at such imperious rivalry ; 
 
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 Not tho' she sees her wedding jewels drest, 
 To make new bracelets for a strumpet's wrest ; 
 Or, like some strange disguised Messaline, 
 Hires a night's lodging of his concubine; 
 Whether his twilight-torch of love do call 
 To revels of uncleanly musicall, 
 Or midnight plays, or taverns of new wine, 
 Hye, ye white aprons, to your landlord's signe ; 
 When all, save toothlesse age or infancy, 
 Are summon'd to the Court of Venery. 
 Who list excuse ? when chaster dames can hire 
 Some snout fair stripling to their apple squire*, 
 Whom, staked up like to some stallion-steed, 
 They keep with eggs and oysters for the breed. 
 O Lucine ! barren Caia hath an heir, 
 After her husband's dozen years' despair. 
 And now the bribed mid- wife swears apace, 
 The bastard babe doth bear his father's face. 
 But hath not Lelia pass'd her virgine years ? 
 For modest shame (God wot!) or penal fears ? 
 He tells a merchant tidings of a prize, 
 That tells Cynedo of such novelties ; 
 Worth little less than landing of a whale, 
 Or Gades' spoils, or a churl's funerale. 
 Go bid the banes and point the bridal-day, 
 His broking bawd hath got a noble prey : 
 
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 Can lit his pander for her paramoure; 
 
 That he, base wretch, may clog his wit-old head, 
 
 And give him hansel of his Hymen-bed. 
 
 H o ! all ye females that would live unshent, 
 
 Fly from the reach of Cyned's regiment. 
 
 If Trent be drawn to dregs and Low refuse, 
 
 r I ence, ye hot lecher, to the steaming stewes. 
 
 Tyber, the famous sink of Christendome, 
 
 Turn thou to Thames, and Thames run towards Rome. 
 
 Whatever damned streame but thine were meet, 
 
 To quench his lusting liver's boiling heat? 
 
 Thy double draught may quench his dog-days rage 
 
 With some stale Bacchis, or obsequious page, 
 
 When writhen Lena makes her sale-set shews 
 
 Of wooden Venus with fair-limned brows ; 
 
 Or like him more some vailed Matron's face, 
 
 Or trained prentice trading in the place. 
 
 The close adultresse, where her name is red, 
 
 Comes crawling from her husband's lukewarm bed, 
 
 Her carrion skin bedaub'd with odours sweet, 
 
 Groping the postern with her bared feet. 
 
 N ow play the Satire whoso list for me, 
 
 Valentine self, or some as chaste as he. 
 
 i n vaine she wisheth long Alchmsena's night, 
 
 Cursing the hasty dawning of the light ; 
 
 And with her cruel Lady-star uprose 
 
 She seeks her third roust on her silent toes; 
 
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 Besmeared all with loathsome smoake of lust, 
 Like Acheron's stemes, or smoldring sulphur dust: 
 Yet all day sits she simpering in her mew*, 
 Like some chaste dame, or shrined saint in shew; 
 Whiles he lies wallowing with a westy-hed 
 And palish carcasse, on his brothel-bed, 
 Till his salt bowels boile with poisonous fire ; 
 Right Hercules with his second Deianire. 
 O Esculape! how rife is physick made, 
 When each brasse-basen can professe the trade 
 Of ridding pocky wretches from their paine, 
 And do the beastly cure for ten groats' gaine ? 
 All these and more deserve some blood-drawn lines, 
 But my six cords beene of too loose a twine : 
 Stay till my beard shall sweep mine aged breast, 
 Then shall I seem an awful Satyristf: 
 While now my rhymes relish of the ferule still, 
 Some nose-wise Pedant saith ; whose deep-seen skill 
 Hath three times construed either Flaccus o'er, 
 And. thrice rehears' d them in his Trivial floore. 
 So let them tax me for my hot blood's rage, 
 Rather than say I doated in my age. 
 
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 Old driveling Lolio drudges all he can 
 
 To make his eldest sonne a gentleman. 
 
 Who can despaire that sees another thrive, 
 
 By loan* of twelve-pence to an oyster-wive ? 
 
 When a craz'd scaffold, and a rotten stage, 
 
 Was all rich Naevius his heritage. 
 
 Nought spendeth he for feare, nor spares for cost; 
 
 And all he spends and spares besides is lost. 
 
 Himself goes patched like some bare Cottyer, 
 
 Lest he might ought the future stocke appeyre. 
 
 Let giddy Cosmius change his choice array, 
 
 Like as the Turk his tents, thrice in a day, 
 
 And all to sun and air his suits untold 
 
 From spightful moths, and frets, and hoary mold ; 
 
 Bearing his pawn-laid lands upon his backe, 
 
 As snailes their shells, or pedlers do their packe. 
 
 Who cannot shine in tissues and pure gold, 
 
 That hath his lands and patrimony sold ? 
 
 1 .olio's side-coat is rough Pampilian, 
 
 Gilded with drops that downe the bosome ran; 
 
 White carsey hose, patched on either knee, 
 
 The very embleme of good husbandry ; 
 
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 And a knit night-cap made of coursest twine, 
 
 With two long labels button'd to his chin : 
 
 So rides he mounted on the market-day, 
 
 Upon a straw-stu'fft pannel all the way, 
 
 With a maund charg'd with houshold merchandize, 
 
 With eggs, or white-meate, from both dayries ; 
 
 And with that buys he rost for Sunday noone, 
 
 Proud how r he made that week's provision. 
 
 Else is he stall-fed on the workey-day, 
 
 With browne-bread crusts soften'd in sodden whey, 
 
 Or water-gruell ; or those paups of meale, 
 
 That Maro makes his Simule # and Cybeale : 
 
 Or once a weeke, perhaps, for novelty, 
 
 Reez'd bacon soords shall feast his family ; 
 
 And weens this more than one egg cleft in twaine, 
 
 To feast some patrone aud his chappelaine ; 
 
 Or more than is some hungry gallant's dole, 
 
 That in a dearth runs sneaking to an hole, 
 
 And leaves his man and dog to keepe his hall 
 
 Least the wild roome should run forth of the wall, 
 
 Good man ! him list not spend his idle meales 
 
 In quinsing plovers, or in winning quail es ; 
 
 Nor toot in Cheap-side baskets earne and late f 
 
 To set the first tooth in some novell-cate. 
 
 Let sweet-mouth'd Mercia bid what crowns she please 
 
 For half-red cherries, or greene garden-pease, 
 
 * See Pratt's Hall, 10 vol. p. 333. 
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 To make so lavish cost for little cheare : 
 
 When Lolio feasteth in his revelling fit, 
 
 Some starved pullen scoures the rusted spit. 
 
 For else how should his sonne maitained be 
 
 At Inns of Ctfurt or of the Chancery : 
 
 There to learn law, and courtly carriage, 
 
 To make amends for his mean parentage ; 
 
 Where he, unknowne, and ruffling as he can*. 
 
 Goes currant ech-where for a gentleman ? 
 
 While yet he rousteth at some uncouth signe,. 
 
 Nor never red his tenure's second line. 
 
 What broker's lousy wardrobe cannot reach 
 
 With tissued panes to prancke each peasant's breech? 
 
 Couldst thou but give the wall, the cap, the knee, 
 
 To proud Sartorio that goes straddling by : 
 
 Wer't not the needle, pricked on his sleeve, 
 
 Doth by good hap the secret watch-word give ? 
 
 But hear'st thou Lolio's sonne ? gin not thy gaite 
 
 Until the evening owl or bloody bat : 
 
 Never until the lamps of Paul's been light, 
 
 And niggard lanterns shade the moon-shine night 
 
 Then, when the guilty bankrupt, in bold dreade, 
 
 From his close cabbin thrusts his shrinking heade, 
 
 That hath been long in shady shelter pent 
 
 Imprisoned for feare of prisonment; 
 
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 Shall call thee cousin, friend, or countryman. 
 
 And for thy hoped list crossing the streete 
 
 Shall in his father's name his sod-son greete. 
 
 Could never man work thee a worser shame, 
 
 Than once to minge thy father's odious name : 
 
 Whose mention were alike to thee" as leve 
 
 As a catch-poll's fist* unto a bankrupt's sleeve; 
 
 Or an Hos ego from old Petrarch's spright 
 
 Unto a plagiary sonnet-wright. 
 
 There, soon as he can kiss his hand in greef , 
 
 And with good grace bow it below the knee, 
 
 Or make a Spanish face with fauning cheere, 
 
 With th' iland-conge like a cavalier, 
 
 And shake his head, and cringe his neck and side, 
 
 Home hies he J in his father's farm to bide. 
 
 The tenants wonder at their land-lord's sonne, 
 
 And blesse them at so sudden comming on, 
 
 More than who vies his pence to view some trick 
 
 Of stranges Moroccoe's^ dumb arithmetick, 
 
 * See Phillips's Splendid Shilling, 1. 57. 
 
 f For " prendi in grado," see Todd's Spenser, 2 vol. 158. 
 
 % See the late Mr. Dibdin's " Selected Songs," 2 vol. p. 84.— 
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 Or the young elephant, or two-tayl'd steere, 
 
 Or the rigg'd camell, or the riddling frere. 
 
 Nay then his Hodge shall leave the plough and waine, 
 
 And buy a booke, and go to Schole againe. 
 
 Why mought not he as well as others done, 
 
 Rise from his fescue * to his Littleton ? 
 
 Fools ! they may feed with words and live by ayre, 
 
 That climb to honour by the pulpit's stayre : 
 
 Sit seven years pining in an Anchore's cheyre, 
 
 To win some patched shreds of Miniveref; 
 
 And seven more plod at a patron's tayle 
 
 To get a gelded J chapel's cheaper sayle. 
 
 Old Lolio sees, and laugheth in his sleeve 
 
 At the great hope they and his state do give. 
 
 But that, which glads and makes him proud'st of all, 
 
 Is when the brabling neighbours on him call 
 
 For counsel in some crabbed case of law, 
 
 Or some indentments, or some bond to draw : 
 
 His neighbour's goose hath grazed on his lea, 
 
 What action mought be enter'd in the plea? 
 
 So new-fall'n lands have made him in request, 
 
 That now he looks as lofty as the best. 
 
 And well done Lolio, like a thrifty syre, 
 
 'Twcre pity but thy sonne should prove a squire. 
 
 " floor. The horse stands on his hind legs with a stiek in his 
 " mouth to point with." See also Pratt's Hall, 10 vol. p. 335. 
 
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 When Lolio's caytive name is quite defa'st, 
 
 Thine heir, thine heir's heir, and his heir again 
 
 From out the loynes of careful Lolian, 
 
 Shall climb up to the chancell pewes on high, 
 
 And rule and raigne in their rich tenancy j 
 
 When, perch'd aloft to perfect their estate, 
 
 They rack their rents unto a treble rate ; 
 
 And hedge in all the neighbour common lands *, 
 
 And clodge their slavish tenants with commands ; 
 
 Whiles they, poor souls, with feeling sigh complaine, 
 
 And wish old Lolio were alive againe, 
 
 And praise his gentle soule and wish it well, 
 
 And of his friendly facts full often tell. 
 
 His father dead ! tush, no it was not he, 
 
 He finds records of his great pedigree ; 
 
 And tells how first his famous ancestor 
 
 Did come in long since with the Conquerour. 
 
 Nor hath some bribed herald first assign'd 
 
 His quartered arms and crest of gentle kind ; 
 
 The Scottish Barnacle, if I might choose, 
 
 That, of a worme, doth waxe a winged goose. 
 
 Nathlesse some hungry squire, for hope of good, 
 
 Matches the churl's sonne into gentle blood; 
 
 Whose sonne more justly of his gentry boasts, 
 
 Than who were borne at two pide- painted posts, 
 
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 And had some traunting chapman to his syre, 
 That trafick'd both by water and by fyre. 
 O times! since ever Rome did kings create, 
 Brasse gentlemen, and Caesars Laureate ! 
 
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 Fuimus Props, vel, vix ea nostra. 
 
 What boots it, Pontice*, tho' thou could'st discourse 
 
 Of a long golden line of ancestours ? 
 
 Or shew their painted faces gayly drest, 
 
 From ever since before the last conquest ? 
 
 Or tedious bead-rolls of descended blood, 
 
 From father Japhet since Ducalion's flood? 
 
 Or call some old church-windows to record 
 
 The age of thy fair armes ; 
 
 Or find some figures halfe obliterate 
 
 In rain-beat marble near to the church-gate 
 
 Upon a crosse-legg'd tombe f ? what boots it thee 
 
 To shew the rusted buckle that did tie 
 
 The garter of thy greatest grand-sires knee ? 
 
 What to reserve their relicks many yeares, 
 
 Their silver-spurs, or spils of broken speares ? 
 
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 Or cite old Ocland's verse, how they did weild* 
 The wars in Turwin, or in Turney field ? 
 And, if thon canst in picking strawes engage 
 In one half day thy father's heritage ; 
 Or hide whatever treasures he thee got, 
 In some deep cock-pit ; or, in desp'rate lot 
 Upon a six-square piece of ivory, 
 Throw both thy self and thy posterity ; 
 Or if (O shame !) in hired harlot's bed 
 Thy wealthy heir-dome thou have buried : 
 Then Pontice, little boots thee to discourse 
 Of a long golden line of ancestors. 
 Ventrous Fortunio his farm hath sold, 
 And gads to Guiane land to fish for gold ; 
 Meeting perhaps, if Orenoque deny, 
 Some straggling pinnace of Polonian Rye. 
 Then comes home floating with a silken saile, 
 That Severne shaketh with his cannon-peale ; 
 Wiser Raymundus, in his closet pent, 
 Laughs at such danger and adventurement ; 
 When half his lands are spent in golden smoke, 
 And now his second hopeful glasse is broke ; 
 But yet, if haply his third fornace hold, 
 Devoteth all his pots and pans to gold : 
 So spend thou, Pontice, if thou canst not spare, 
 Like some stout seaman, or philosopher. 
 
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 No thank to thee, by whom their name decays : 
 
 By virtue got they it, and valourous deed ; 
 
 Do thou so, Pontice, and be honoured. 
 
 But els, look how their virtue was their owne, 
 
 Not capable of propagation, 
 
 Right so their titles been, nor can be thine, 
 
 Whose ill deserts might blancke their golden line f. 
 
 Tell me, thou gentle Trojan, doth thou prize 
 
 Thy brute beasts' worth by their dams' qualities •? 
 
 Say'st thou, this colt shall prove a swift-pac'd steed, 
 
 Only because a Jennet did him breed ? 
 
 Or say'st thou, this same horse shall winn the prize, 
 
 Because his dam was swiftest Trunchefixc, 
 
 Or Runcevall his sire? himself a Gall away? 
 
 Whiles, like a tireling jade, he lags half-way ; 
 
 Or whiles thou seest some of thy Stallion-Race, 
 
 Their eyes boar'd out, masking the miller's maze, 
 
 Like to a Scythian slave sworne to the payle, 
 
 Or dragging froathy barrels at his tayle ? 
 
 A I be wise Nature, in her providence, 
 
 Wont, in the want of reason and of sense, 
 
 Traduce the native virtue with the kind, 
 
 Making all brute and senselesse things inclin'd 
 
 Unto their cause, or place where they were sowne ; 
 
 That one is like to all, and all like one : 
 
 
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 Was never fox, but wily cubs begets : 
 The bear his fiercenesse to his brood besets : 
 Nor fearful hare falls out of lyon's seed, 
 Nor eagle wont the tender dove # to breed : 
 Creet ever wont the cypress sad to bear, 
 Acheron banks the palish popelare : 
 The palm doth rifely rise in Jury field, 
 And Alpheus' waters nought but olives wild : 
 Asopus breeds big bull-rushes alone, 
 Meander, heath ; peaches by Nilus growne : 
 An English wolfe, an Irish toad to see, 
 Were as a chast-man nurs'd in Italy. 
 And now, when nature gives another guide 
 To human-kind, that in his bosome bides, 
 Above instinct, his reason and discourse, 
 His being better, is his life the worse ! 
 
 * See Horace, Lib. rv. Ode iv. L. 30. — Also Brome's Horace, 
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 Their father's praise, in prowesse and great deed ! 
 Yet, certes, if the syre be ill inclin'd, 
 His faults befal his sonnes by course of kind. 
 Scaurus was covetous, his sonne not so; 
 But not his pared nayle will he forego. 
 Florian, the syre, did women love alife, 
 And so his sonne doth too ; all, but his wife. 
 Brag of thy father's faults : they are thine own. 
 Brag of his lands, if those bee not foregone. 
 Brag of thine own good deeds ; for they are thine : 
 More than his life, or lands, or golden line. 
 
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 Or lucklesse Collingborn's * feeding of the crowes, 
 
 Or hundreth scalps which Thames still underflowes, 
 
 But straight Sigalion nods and knits his browes, 
 
 And winkes and waftes his warning hand for feare, 
 
 And lisps some silent letters in my eare ? 
 
 Have I not vow'd for shunning such debate 
 
 (Pardon, ye Satires,) to degenerate? 
 
 And, wading low in the plebeian lake, 
 
 That no salt wave shall froth upon my backe. 
 
 Let Labeo, or who else list for me, 
 
 Go loose his ears and fall to alchymie. 
 
 Only let Gallio give me leave a while 
 
 To schoole him once, or ere I change my style. 
 
 O lawlesse paunch ! the cause of much despight, 
 
 Through raunging of a currish appetite, 
 
 When spleenish morsels cram the gaping maw, 
 
 Withouten diet's care or trencher-law ; 
 
 Tho' never have I Salerne rhymes profest, 
 
 To be some lady's trencher-critick guest 
 
 Whiles each bit cooleth for the oracle, 
 
 Whose sentence charms it with a rhyming spell : 
 
 Touch not this coler, that melancholy : 
 
 This bit were dry and hot, that cold and dry. 
 
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 A pestle of a lark, or plover's wing ; 
 
 And warn him not to cast his wanton eyne 
 
 On grosser bacon, or salt haberdine *, 
 
 Or dried flitches of some smoked beeve, 
 
 Hang'd on a writhen with since Martin's eve, 
 
 Or burnt larke's heeles, or rashers raw and grene, 
 
 Or melancholick liver of an hen, 
 
 Which stout Voravo brags to make his feast, 
 
 And claps his hand on his brave ostridge-breast, 
 
 Then falls to praise the hardy Janizar 
 
 That sucks his horse side, thirsting in the war : 
 
 Lastly, to seal up all that he hath spoke, 
 
 Quaffes a whole tunnell of tobacco smoke. 
 
 If Martius in boystrous buffs be dress'd, 
 
 Branded with iron plates upon the breast, 
 
 And pointed on the shoulders for the nonce f, 
 
 As new-come from the Belgian Garrisons, 
 
 What should thou need to envy ought at that, 
 
 When as thou smellest like a civet-cat ? 
 
 When as thine oyled locks smooth platted fall, 
 
 Shining like varnish'd pictures on a wall? 
 
 When a plum'd fanne may shade thy chalked face, 
 
 And lawny strips thy naked bosom grace. 
 
 If brabbling Make-Fray, at each fair and size, 
 
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 Straight pressed, for an hungry Swizzer's pay, 
 
 To thrust his fist to each part of the fray ; 
 
 And, piping hot, puffs toward the pointed plaine, 
 
 With a broad Scot, or proking spit of Spaine -, 
 
 Or hoyseth sayle up to a forraine shore, 
 
 That he may live a lawlesse conquerour : 
 
 If some such desp'rate Hackster shall devise 
 
 To rouse thine hare's-heart from her cowardice, 
 
 As idle children striving to excell 
 
 In blowing bubbles from an empty shell ; 
 
 Oh Hercules ! how like to prove a man, 
 
 That all so rath thy warlike life began ? 
 
 Thy mother could thee for thy cradle set 
 
 Her husband's rusty iron corselet ; 
 
 Whose jargling sound might rock her babe to rest, 
 
 That never plain'd of his uneasy nest : 
 
 There did he dreame of dreary wars at hand, 
 
 And woke, and fought, and won, ere he could stand. 
 
 But who hath seene the lambs of Tarentine # , 
 
 May guesse what Gallio his manners beene : 
 
 All soft as is the falling thistle-downe, 
 
 Soft as the fumy ball, or Morrian's crownef . 
 
 Now Gallio, gins thy youthly heat to raigne 
 
 In every vigorous limb and swelling vaine. 
 
 Time bids thee raise thy headstrong thoughts on high, 
 
 To valour and adventrous chivalry : 
 
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 Nor make thy Quintaine others armed head 
 T'enrich the waiting herald with thy shame*, 
 And make thy losse the scornful scaffold's game. 
 Wars, God forefend ! nay God defend from war ! 
 Soone are sonnes spent, that not soon reared are. 
 Gallio may pull me roses ere they fall, 
 Or in his net entrap the tennis-ball, 
 Or tend his spar-hawke mantling in her mew, 
 Or yelping beagles' busy heeles pursue, 
 
 Or watch a sinking corke upon the shore, 
 
 Or halter finches through a privy doore, 
 
 Or list he spend the time in sportful game, 
 
 In daily courting of his lovely dame, 
 
 Hang on her lips, melt in her wanton eye, 
 
 Dance in her hand, joy in her jollity ; 
 
 Here's little perill, and much lesser paine. 
 
 So timely Hymen do the rest restraine. 
 
 Hye, wanton Gallio, and wed betime, 
 
 Why should'st thou leese the pleasures of thy prime ? 
 
 Seest thou the rose-leaves fall ungathered ? 
 
 Then hye thee, wanton Gallio, to wed. 
 
 Let ring and ferule meet upon thine hand, 
 
 And Lucine's girdle with her swathing-band. 
 
 Hye thee, and give the world yet one dwarfe more, 
 
 Such as it got when thou thy selfe wast bore. 
 
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 Can ever happinesse too soone begin ? 
 Virginius vow'd to keep his maiden-head, 
 And eats chast lettice, and drinks poppy-seed, 
 And smells on camphire fasting ; and, that done, 
 Long hath he liv'd, chaste as a vailed nunne ; 
 Free as a new-absolved damosell, 
 That Frere Cornelius shrived* in his cell : 
 Till, now he wax'd a toothlesse bachelour, 
 He thaws like Chaucer's frosty Janivere ; 
 And sets a month's mind upon smiling May, 
 And dyes his beard that did his age bewray ; 
 Biting on annys-seede and rose-marine, 
 Which might the fume of his rot lungs refine : 
 Now he in Charon's barge a bride doth seeke, 
 The maidens mocke, and call him withered leeke, 
 That with a greene tayle hath an hoary head ; 
 And now he would, and now he cannot wed. 
 
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 Who else would scorne his silence to have sold, 
 
 And have his tongue tyed with strings of gold ? 
 
 Curius is dead, and buried long since, 
 
 And all that loved golden Abstinence. 
 
 Might he not well repine at his old fee, 
 
 Would he but spare to speake of usury \ 
 
 Hirelings enow beside can be so base, 
 
 Tho' we should scorne each bribing varlet's brasse : 
 
 Yet he and I could shun each jealous head, 
 
 Sticking our thumbs close to our girdle-stead : 
 
 Tho' were they manicled behind our backe, 
 
 Another's fist can serve our fees to take. 
 
 Yet pursy Euclio, cheerly smiling, pray'd 
 
 That my sharp words might curtal their side trade : 
 
 For thousands beene in every governall 
 
 That live by losse, and rise by others' fall. 
 
 Whatever sickly sheepe so secret dies, 
 
 .But some foule raven hath bespoke his eyes ? 
 
 What else makes N , when his lands are spent, 
 
 Go shaking like a threadbare malecontent; 
 
 Whose band-lesse bonnet vailes his o'er-grown chin, 
 
 And sullen rags bewray his morphew'd skin ? 
 
 So ships he to the wolfish western isle, 
 
 Among the savage kernes in sad exile * ; 
 
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 To rub his life out till the latest day. 
 
 Another shifting gallant to forecast 
 
 To gull his hostess for a month's repast, 
 
 With some galPd trunk, ballast with straw and stone, 
 
 Left for the pawn of his provision. 
 
 Had F 's shop layn fallow but from hence, 
 
 His doores close seal'd as in some pestilence, 
 
 Whiles his light heeles their fearful flight can take, 
 
 To get some badgelesse blue upon his back ? 
 
 Tocullio was a wealthy usurer, 
 
 Such store of incomes had he every year, 
 
 By bushels was he wont to mete his coine, 
 
 As did the olde wife of Trimalcion. 
 
 Could he do more, that finds an idle roome 
 
 For many hundreth thousands on a toombe ? 
 
 Or who rears up four free-schooles in his age, 
 
 Of his old pillage, and damn'd surplusage ? 
 
 Yet now he swore, by that sweete crosse he kiss'd 
 
 (That silver crosse, where he had sacrific'd 
 
 His coveting soule, by his desire's owne doome, 
 
 Daily to die the devil's martyrdome) 
 
 His angels were all flowne up to their sky, 
 
 And had forsooke his naked treasury. 
 
 Farewell Astrea and her weights of gold, 
 
 Untill his lingring calends once be told ; 
 
 Nought left behind but wax and parchment scroles, 
 
 Like Lucian's dreame that silver turn'd to coals. 
 
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 Should'st thou him credit, that nould credit thee ? 
 Yes, and may'st sweare he swore the verity. 
 The ding-thrift heir his shift-got summe mispent, 
 Comes drooping like a pennylesse penitnt, 
 And beats his faint fist on Tocullio's doore, 
 It lost the last, and now must call for more. 
 Now hath the spider caught a wand'ring fly, 
 And draws her captive at her cruel thigh : 
 Soon is his errand read in his pale face, 
 Which bears dumb characters of every case. 
 So Cyned's dusky cheeke and fiery eye, 
 And hairlesse brow, tells where he last did lye. 
 So Matho doth bewray his guilty thought, 
 While his pale face doth say his cause is nought. 
 Sees! thou the wary angler trayle along 
 His feeble line, soone as some pike too strong 
 Hath swallowed the bate that scornes the shore, 
 Yet now near-hand cannot resist no more. 
 So lieth he aloofe in smooth pretence, 
 To hide his rough intended violence : 
 As he, that, under name of Christmas cheere 
 Can starve his tennants all th' ensuing yeare. 
 Paper and wax, (God wot!) a weake repay 
 For such deepe debts and downstakt sums as they. 
 Write, seale, deliver, take, go spend and speede, 
 And yet full hardly could his present need 
 Part with such sum ; for but as yester-late 
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 For small disbursment : he the bankes hath broke, 
 
 And needs mote now some further playne o'erlook ; 
 
 Yet, ere he go, faine would he be releast, 
 
 Hye you, ye ravens, hye you to the feast. 
 
 Provided that thy lands are left entire, 
 
 To be redeemed or ere thy day expire ; 
 
 Then shalt thou teare those idle paper bonds 
 
 That thus had fettered thy pawned lands. 
 
 Ah foole ! for sooner shalt thou sell the rest 
 
 Than stake ought for thy former interest ; 
 
 When it shall grind thy grating gall for shame, 
 
 To see the lands that bear thy grandsire's name 
 
 Become a dunghill peasant's summer-hall, 
 
 Or lonely hermit's cage inhospitall ; 
 
 A pining gourmand, an imperious slave, 
 
 An horse-leech, barren wombe and gaping grave # ; 
 
 A legal thiefe, a bloodlesse murtherer, 
 
 A fiend incarnate, a false usurer : 
 
 Albe such mayne extort scorns to be pent 
 
 In the clay walls of thatched tenement : 
 
 For, certes, no man of a low degree 
 
 May bid two guests, or gout, or usury : 
 
 Unlesse some base hedge-creeping Collybistf 
 
 Scatters his refuse scraps ort whom he list, 
 
 For Easter gloves, or for a shrove-tide hen, 
 
 Which, bought to give, he takes to sell again. 
 
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 I do not meane some glozing merchant's feate, 
 
 That laugheth at the cozened world's deceit, 
 
 When as an hundred stocks lie in his fist, 
 
 He leaks and sinks, and breaketh when he list. 
 
 But Nummius eas'd the needy gallant's care 
 
 With a base bargain of his blowen ware 
 
 Of f usted hops, now lost for lack of sale, 
 
 Or mould brown paper that could nought availe ; 
 
 Or what he cannot utter otherwise, 
 
 May pleasure Fridoline for treble price : 
 
 Whiles his false broker lieth in the wind, 
 
 And for a present chapman is assigned, 
 
 The cut-throat wretch for their compacted gaine 
 
 Buys all but for one quarter of the mayne ; 
 
 Whiles, if he chance to breake his deare-bought day, 
 
 And forfeit, for default of due repay, 
 
 His late intangled lands ; then, Fridoline, 
 
 Buy thee a wallet, and go beg or pine. 
 
 If Mammon's selfe should ever live with men, 
 
 Mammon himself shall be a citizen. 
 
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 Not one but holds his native state forlone. 
 
 When comely striplings wish it were their chance, 
 
 For Camis' distaffe to exchange their lance, 
 
 And weare curPd perriwigs, and chalk their face, 
 
 And still are poring on their pocket-glasse. 
 
 Tyr'd with pinn'd ruffs and fans, and partlet strips*, 
 
 And busks and verdingales f about their hips ; 
 
 And tread on corked stilts a prisoner's pace, 
 
 And make their napkin for their spitting place, 
 
 And gripe their waist within a narrow span : 
 
 Fond Caenis that would'st wish to be a man ! 
 
 Whose manish huswives like their refuse state, 
 
 And make a drudge of their uxorious mate ; 
 
 Who, like a cot-queene, freezeth at the rock, 
 
 Whiles his breech't dame doth man the forrein stock. 
 
 Is't not a shame to see each homely groome 
 
 Sit perched in an idle chariot roomef, 
 
 That were not meete some pannel to bestride, 
 
 Surcingled to a galled hackney's hide? 
 
 Each muck-worme will be rich with lawlesse gaine, 
 
 Altho' he smother up mowes of seven years' graine, 
 
 And hang'd himself when corne grows cheap again ; 
 
 Altho' he buy whole harvests in the spring, 
 
 And foyst in false strikes to the measuring : 
 
 * See Hanraer. — Also Johnson. 
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 Altho' his shop be muffled from the light, 
 
 Like a day dungeon, or Cimmerian night : 
 
 Nor full nor fasting can the carle take rest, 
 
 While his George-Nobles rusten in his chest : 
 
 He sleeps but once, and dreames of burglarie, 
 
 And wakes and casts about his frighted eye, 
 
 And gropes for theeves in every darker shade ; 
 
 And, if a mouse but stirre, he calls for ayde. 
 
 The sturdy plogh-man doth the soldier see 
 
 All scarfed with pied colours to the knee, 
 
 Whom Indian pillage hath made fortunate; 
 
 And now he gins to loathe his former state : 
 
 Now doth he inly scorne his Kendall-Greene *, 
 
 And his patch'd cockers now despised beene. 
 
 Noi list he now go whistling to the carre, 
 
 But sells his teeme and fetleth to the wane. 
 
 O warre ! to them that never try'd thee, sweete ! 
 
 When his dead mate falls groveling at his feete, 
 
 And angry bullets whistlen at his eare, 
 
 And his dim eyes see nought but death and drere. 
 
 Oh happy ploughman^! were thy weale well knowne 
 
 Oh happy all estates except his owne ! 
 
 Some drunken rhymer thinks his time well spent, 
 
 If he can live to see his name in print ; 
 
 Who when he is once fleshed to the presse, 
 
 And sees his handsell have such faire successe, 
 
 * See Stat, of 12 Rich. 2. 
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 Sung to the wheele, and sung unto the payle, 
 
 He* sends forth thraves of ballads to the sale. 
 
 Nor then can rest, but volumes up bodg'd rhymes, 
 
 To have his name talk'd of in future times. 
 
 The brain-sick youth, that feeds his tickled ear 
 
 With sweet-sauc'd lies of some false traveller, 
 
 Which hath the Spanish f Decades read awhile, 
 
 Or whet-stone leasings of old Maundeville J ; 
 
 Now with discourses breakes his mid-night sleepe, 
 
 Of his adventures through the Indian deepe, 
 
 Of all their massy heapes of golden mine, 
 
 Or of the antique toombes of Palestine ; 
 
 Or of Damascus' magick wall of glasse, 
 
 Of Solomon his sweating piles of brasse, 
 
 Of the bird Rue § that bears an elephant, 
 
 Of mermaids that the southerne seas do haunt, 
 
 Of headless men||, of savage cannibals, 
 
 The fashions of their lives and governals : 
 
 What monstrous cities there erected be, 
 
 Cayro, or the city of the Trinity. 
 
 Now are they dung-hill cocks, that have not seene 
 
 The bordering Alpes, or else the neighbour Rhene : 
 
 * Elderton the drunken ballad singer is supposed to be alluded 
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 And now he plies the newes-full grashopper, 
 Of voyages and ventures to enquire. 
 His land mortgag'd, he sea-beat in the way, 
 Wishes for home a thousand sithes a day. 
 And now he deems his home-bred fare as leefe, 
 As his parent bisket, or his barrel' d beefe. 
 Mong'st all these stirs of discontented strife, 
 Oh let me lead an academick # life ; 
 To know much, and to think we nothing know ; 
 Nothing to have, yet think we have enow ; 
 In skill to want, and wanting seek for more ; 
 In weale, nor want, nor wish for greater store. 
 Envy, ye monarchs, with your proud excesse, 
 At our low saylef, and our high happiness. 
 
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 Who says these Romish pageants been too high J 
 To be the scorne of sportful poesy ? 
 Certes not all the world such matter wist 
 As are the Seven Hills, for a Satyrist. 
 
 * See Bishop Hall's Specialties. 
 
 f See the Return from Parnassus, i Act. 5 sc. 
 
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 An hundreth gamesters' shifts, or landlords' wrongs, 
 
 Or Labeo's poems, or base Lolio's pride, 
 
 Or ever what I thought or wrote beside ; 
 
 When once I thinke if carping Aquine's* spright 
 
 To see now Rome, were licenc'd to the light, 
 
 How his enraged ghost would stamp and stare, 
 
 That Caesar's throne is turn'd to Peter's chayre. 
 
 To see an old shorne Lozell-f- perched high, 
 
 Crossing beneath a golden canopy ; 
 
 The whiles a thousand hairlesse crownes crouch low, 
 
 To kisse the precious case of his proud toe : 
 
 And for the lordly Fasces borne of old, 
 
 To see two quiet crossed keyes of gold ; 
 
 Or Cybele's shrine, the famous Pantheon's frame, 
 
 Turn'd to the honour of our Lady's name. 
 
 But that he most would gaze and wonder at, 
 
 Is th' horned mitre, and the bloody hat, 
 
 The crooked staffe, their coule's strange form and store, 
 
 Save that he saw the same in hell before : 
 
 To see the broken nuns, with new-shorne heads, 
 
 In a blind cloyster tosse their idle beades, 
 
 Or louzy coules come smoking from the stewes, 
 
 To raise the lewd rent to their lord accrewes, 
 
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 Yet backward must absolve a female's sin; 
 
 Like to a false dissembling Theatinef , 
 
 Who, when his skin is red with shirts of male 
 
 And rugged hair-cloth, scoures his greasy nayle ; 
 
 Or wedding garment tames his stubborne backe, 
 
 Which his hempe girdle dies all blew and blacke : 
 
 Or, of his almes-boule three dayes supp'd and din'd, 
 
 Trudges to open stewes of either kinde : 
 
 Or takes some Cardinal's stable in the way, 
 
 And with some pamper'd mule doth weare the day, 
 
 Kept for his lord's own saddle when him list. 
 
 Come, Valentine, and play the satyrist, 
 
 To see poor sucklings welcom'd to the light 
 
 With searing irons of some sour Jacobite, 
 
 Or golden offers of an aged foole, 
 
 To make his coffin some Franciscan's coule J; 
 
 To see the Pope's blacke knight, a cloaked Frere, 
 
 Sweating in the channel like a scavengere ; 
 
 Whom earst thy bowed hamme did lowly greete, 
 
 When at the corner-crosse thou didst him meete, 
 
 Tumbling his Rosaries hanging at his belt, 
 
 Or his Barretta || , or his towred felt : 
 
 *See Pratt's Hall, vol. 10, p. 201. 
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 To see a lazy dumbe Acholithite *, 
 
 Armed against a devout flye's despight, 
 
 Which at th' hy altar doth the Chalice vaile 
 
 With a broad flie-flappe of a peacocke's tayle ; 
 
 The whiles the likerous priest spits every trycef 
 
 With longing for his morning sacrifice, 
 
 Which he reares up quite perpendiculare, 
 
 That the mid church doth spighte the chancel's fare, 
 
 Beating their empty mawes that would be fed 
 
 With the scant morsels of the sacrists bread : 
 
 Would he not laugh to death when he should heare 
 
 The shameless legends of St. Christopher, 
 
 St. George, the Sleepers, or St. Peter's well, 
 
 Or of his daughter good St. Petronell J ? 
 
 But had he heard the Female Father's groane, 
 
 Yeaning in mids of her procession § ; 
 
 Or now should see the needlesse tryal-chayre, 
 
 (When each is proved by his bastard heyre) 
 
 Or saw the churches, and new calendere 
 
 Pestred with mungrel saints and reliques dere, 
 
 Should he cry out on Codro's|| tedious tomes, 
 
 When his new rage would ask no narrower roomesr 
 
 * See Bishop Carleton's Remembrance.— Also Mason's Supple- 
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 f See Pratt's Hall, vol. 10, p. 353, for a very rational remark 
 on Warton's observations on this passage. 
 
 J Ibid. p. 354. Mr. Ellis observes, that these legends are 
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 Pardon, ye glowing eares: needs will it out, 
 
 Tho' brazen walls compas'd my tongue about, 
 
 As thick as welthy Scrobioe's quick-set rowes 
 
 In the wide common that he did inclose. 
 
 Pull out mine eyes, if I shall see no vice, 
 
 Or let me see it with detesting eyes. 
 
 Renowned Aquine*, now I follow thee, 
 
 Far as I may for fear of jeopardy; 
 
 And to thy hand yield up the ivy-mace, 
 
 From crabbed Persius, and more smooth Horace; 
 
 Or from that shrew, the Roman Poetesse, 
 
 That taugh her gossips learned bitternesse ; 
 
 Or Lucile's muse, whom thou didst imitate, 
 
 Or M enip's old, or Pasquiller's of late. 
 
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 Tho' they deserve a keener style than mine ; 
 Nor meane to ransack up the quiet grave ; 
 Nor burn dead bones, as he example gave. 
 I taxe the living : let the dead ashes rest, 
 Whose faults are dead, and nailed in their chest. 
 Who can refrain that's guiltlesse of their crime, 
 Whiles yet he lives in such a cruel time ? 
 When Titio's grounds, that in his grandsire's daies 
 But one pound fine, one penny rent did raise, 
 A summer snow-ball, or a winter rose, 
 Is growne to thousands as the world now goes. 
 So thrift, and time, sets other things on flote, 
 That now his sonne sooups in a silken cote, 
 Whose grandsire happily, a poore hungry swaine, 
 Beg'd some cast abbey in the church's wayne : 
 And, but for that, whatever he may vaunt, 
 Who now's a monk had been a mendicant. 
 While freezing Matho, that for one lean fee 
 Wont term each term the term of Hilarie 
 May now, instead of those his simple fees, 
 Get the fee-simples of faire manneryes*. 
 What, did he coynterfait his prince's hand, 
 For some strave lordship of concealed land ? 
 Or, on each Michael and Lady-Day, 
 Took he deepe forfeits for an hour's delay ; 
 
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 And gain'd no lesse by such injurious braule, 
 
 Then Gamius by his sixt wife's burial ? 
 
 Or hath he wonne some wider interest, 
 
 By hoary charters from his grandsire's chest, 
 
 Which late some bribed scribe for slender wage, 
 
 Writ in the characters of' another age, 
 
 That Ploydon * selfe might stammer to rehearse, 
 
 Whose date overlooks three centuries of years ? 
 
 Who ever yet the tracks of weale so tride 
 
 But there hath been one beaten way beside I 
 
 He, when he lets a lease for life, or yeares, 
 
 (As never he doth until the date expeares ; 
 
 For when the full state in his fist doth lie, 
 
 He may take vantage of the vacancy) 
 
 His fine affords so many treble pounds 
 
 As he agreeth yeares to lease his grounds : 
 
 His rent in fair respondence must arise 
 
 To double trebles of his one yeare's price. 
 
 Of one baye's f breadth, God wot ! a silly coate, 
 
 Whose thatched sparres are furr'd with sluttish soote 
 
 A whole inch thick, shining like black-moor's brows, 
 
 Through smook that down the headlesse barrel blows: 
 
 At his bed's feet feeden his stalled teeme ; 
 
 His swine beneath, his pullen o'er the beame. 
 
 A starved tenement, such as I guesse 
 
 Stands straggling in the wastes of Holdernesse ; 
 
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 Or such as shiver on a Peake-hill side, 
 
 When March's lungs beate on their turf-clad hide • 
 
 Such as nice Lipsius would grudge to see 
 
 Above his lodging in wild Westphalye*; 
 
 Or as the Saxon king his court might make, 
 
 When his sides playned of the neat-heard's cake. 
 
 Yet must he haunt his greedy landlord's hall, 
 
 With often presents at each festivall; 
 
 With crammed capons every New-yeare's morne, 
 
 Or with green cheeses when his sheep are shorne; 
 
 Or many maunds-full of his mellow fruite, 
 
 To make some way to win his weighty suite. 
 
 Whom cannot gifts at last cause to relent, 
 
 Or to win favour, or flee punishment : 
 
 When griple patrons turn their sturdy Steele 
 
 To waxe, when they the golden flame do feele ; 
 
 When grand Maecenas casts a glavering eye 
 
 On the cold present of a poesie ; 
 
 i\nd, least he might more frankly take than give, 
 
 Gropes for a French crowne in his empty sleeve ? 
 
 Thence Clodius hopes to set his shoulders free 
 
 From the light burden of his Naperief . 
 
 The smiling landlord shews a sun-shine face, 
 
 Feigning that he will grant him further grace, 
 
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 And leers like iEsop's foxe upon the crane 
 
 Whose neck he craves for his chirurgian : 
 
 So lingers off the lease until the last, 
 
 What recks he then of paines or promise past . ? 
 
 Was ever feather, or fond woman's mind, 
 
 More light than words ; the blasts of idle wind ? 
 
 What's sib or sire, to take the gentle slip, 
 
 And in tiY exchequer rot for surety-ship ? 
 
 Or thence thy starved brother live and die, 
 
 Within the cold Cole-harbour* sanctuary? 
 
 Will one from Scots'-bank bid but one groate more, 
 
 My old tenant may be turned out of dore ; 
 
 Tho' much he spent in th' rotten roof's repair, 
 
 In hope to have it left unto his heir : 
 
 Tho' many a load of marie and manure led, 
 
 Reviv'd his barren leas, that earst lay dead. 
 
 Were he as Furius, he would defy 
 
 Such pilfering slips of petty landlordry : 
 
 And might dislodge whole colonies of poore, 
 
 And lay their roofe quite level with their floore ; 
 
 Whiles yet he gives, as to a yielding fence, 
 
 Their bagge and baggage to his citizens, 
 
 And ships them to the new-nam'd Virgin londf, 
 
 Or wilder Wales where never wight yet wond. 
 
 W r ould it not vex thee, where thy syres did keep, 
 
 To see the dunged folds of dag-tayl'd sheep ? 
 
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 And ruin'd house, where holy things were said, 
 Whose free-stone walls the thatched roofe upbraid, 
 Whose shrill saint's-bell hangs on his loverie, 
 While the rest are damned to the plumbery? 
 Yet pure devotion lets the steeple stand, 
 And idle battlements on either hand : 
 Least that, perhaps, were all those reliques gone, 
 Furious his sacriledge could not be knowne. 
 
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 HEIC QUjERITE trojam. 
 
 Hous-keping's dead, Saturio : wot'st thou where ? 
 
 Forsooth, they say far hence, in Brek-neck shire. 
 
 And, ever since, they say, that feel and tast, 
 
 That men may break their neck soon as their fast. 
 
 Certes, if Pity dy'd at Chaucer's date # , 
 
 He liv'd a widower long behind his mate : 
 
 Save that I see some rotten bed-rid syre, 
 
 Which, to out-strip the nonage of his heire, 
 
 Is cram'd with golden broaths, and drugs of price, 
 
 And each day dying lives, and living dies ; 
 
 Till, once surviv'd his wardship's latest eve, 
 
 His eyes are clos'd, with choise to die or live. 
 
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 When the sad sky did shed so many a teare. 
 And now, who list not of his labour fayle, 
 Mark, with Saturio, my friendly tale. 
 Along thy way thou canst not but descry 
 Fair glittering halls to tempt the hopeful eye : 
 Thy right eye 'gins to leape for vaine delight, 
 And surbeate* toes to tickle at the sight: 
 
 As greedy T when in the sounding mould, 
 
 He finds a shining pot-shard tip't with gold ; 
 
 For never Syren tempts the pleased eares, 
 
 As these the eye of fainting passengers. 
 
 All is not so that seems : for, surely, than 
 
 Matrona should not be a courtezan : 
 
 Smooth Chrysalus should not be rich with fraud ; 
 
 Nor honest R— be his own wife's bawd. 
 
 Look not asquint, nor stride across the way 
 
 Like some demurring Alcide to delay ; 
 
 But walk on cherely, till thou have espide 
 
 Saint Peter's finger at the church-yard side. 
 
 But wilt thou needs, when thou art warn'd so well, 
 
 Go see who in so garish walls doth dwell? 
 
 There findest thou some stately Dorick frame, 
 
 Or neat lonick worke ; 
 
 Like the vain bubble of Iberian f pride, 
 That over-croweth all the world beside: 
 
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 Which, rear'd to raise the crazy monarch's fame, 
 
 Strives for a court and for a college name ; 
 
 Yet nought within but lousy couls doth hold, 
 
 Like a scab'd cuckow in a cage of gold : 
 
 So pride above doth shade the shame below ; 
 
 A golden periwig on a black-moor's brow. 
 
 When Maevio's* first page of his poesy y 
 
 Nay I'd to an hundredth postes for noveltie, 
 
 AVith his big title an Italian mott, 
 
 Layes siege unto the backward buyer's grote, 
 
 Which all within is drafty sluttish geere, 
 
 Fit for the oven, or the kitchen fire : 
 
 So this gay gate adds fuel to thy thought, 
 
 That such proud piles were never rais'd for nought. 
 
 Beate the broad gates : a goodly hollow sound 
 
 With doubled echoes doth again rebound ; 
 
 But not a dog doth bark to welcome thee, 
 
 Nor churlish porter canst thou chafing see : 
 
 All dumb and silent, like the dead of night, 
 
 Or dwelling of some sleepy Sybarite : 
 
 The marble pavement hid with desart weed, 
 
 With house-leek, thistle, dock, and hemlock-seed. 
 
 But, if thou chance cast up thy wond'ring eyes, 
 
 Thou shalt discern upon the frontispiece 
 
 OTAEIS EIEITX2 graven up on high, 
 
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 The meaning is " Sir foole, ye may be gone : 
 " Go back by leave; for way here lieth none." 
 Look to the towred chimnies which should be 
 The wind-pipes of good hospitality; 
 Through which it breatheth to the open ayre, 
 Betokening life, and liberal welfare : 
 Lo ! there th' unthankful swallow takes her rest, 
 And fills the tonnell with her circled nest; 
 Nor half that smoke from all his chimnies goes, 
 Which one tobacco-pipe drives thro' his nose. 
 So raw-bone hunger scorns the mudded walls, 
 And 'gins to revel it in lordly halls. 
 So the Black Prince is broken loose againe, 
 That saw no sunne save once (as stories saine) : 
 That once was, when, in Trinacry I weene, 
 Ue stole the daughter of the harvest queene ; 
 And grip't the mawes of barren Sicily 
 With long constraint of pineful penury ; 
 And they, that should resist his second rage, 
 Have pen'd themselves up in the private cage 
 Of some blind lane, and there they lurk unknowne 
 Till th' hungry tempest once be over-blowne : 
 Then, like the coward after his neighbour's fray, 
 They creep forth boldly, and ask, Where are they ? 
 Mean-while the hunger-starv'd appurtenance 
 Must bide the brunt, whatever ill mischance : 
 Grim Famine sits in their fore-pined face, 
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 Like to the plaine of many-sided squares, 
 That wont be drawne out by geometars ; 
 So sharp and meager, that who should them see 
 Would swear they lately come from Hungary. 
 When their brasse pans and winter coverlid 
 Have wip'd the maunger of the horses-bread, 
 Oh me ! what odds there seemeth 'twixt their chere 
 And the swolne bezzell at an alehouse fyre, 
 That tonnes in gallons to his bursten panch, 
 Whose slimy droughts his draught can never stanch ! 
 For shame, ye gallants !. grow more hospitall, 
 And turn your needless wardrope to your hall. 
 As lavish Virro, that keeps open doores, 
 
 Like Janus in the warres, 
 
 Except the twelve days, or the wake-day feast, 
 What time he needs must be his cousin's guest. 
 Philene hath bid him, can he choose but come ? 
 Who should pull Virro's sleeve to stay at home ? 
 All yeare besides who meal-time can attend : 
 Come, Trebius, welcome to the table's end. 
 What tho' he chires on purer manchet's # crowne, 
 While his kind client grinds on blacke and browne, 
 A jolly rounding of a whole foot broad, 
 From of the mong-cornef heap shall Trebius load. 
 What tho' he quaffe pure amber in his bowle 
 Of March-brew'd wheat, yet sleeks thy thirsting soule 
 
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 With palish oat, frothing in Boston-clay, 
 
 Or in a shallow cruise : nor must that stay 
 
 Within thy reach, for feare of thy craz'd braine ; 
 
 But call and crave, and have thy cruise againe : 
 
 Else how should even tale be registred, 
 
 Or all thy draughts, on the chalk'd barrel's head ? 
 
 And if he list revive his heartless graine 
 
 With some French grape, or pure Canariane, 
 
 When pleasing Bourdeaux falls unto his lot, 
 
 Some sow'rish Rochelle cuts thy thirsting throte. 
 
 What tho' himselfe carveth his welcome friend 
 
 With a cool'd pittance from his trencher's end, 
 
 Must Trebies' lip hang toward his trencher side ? 
 
 Nor kisse his fist to take what doth betide ? 
 
 What tho' to spare thy teeth he employs thy tongue 
 
 In busy questions all the dinner long ? 
 
 What tho' the scornful waiter lookes askile, 
 
 And pouts and frowns, and curseth thee the while ; 
 
 And takes his farewell with a jealous eye, 
 
 At every morsell he his last shall see ? 
 
 And, if but one exceed the common size, 
 
 Or make an hillock in thy cheeke arise, 
 
 Or if perchance thou shouldest, ere thou wist, 
 
 Hold thy knife uprights in thy griped fist, 
 
 Or sittest double on thy backward seat, 
 
 Or with thine elbow shad'st thy shared meat, 
 
 He laughs thee, in his fellow's eare, to scorne, 
 
 And asks aloud, where Trebies was borne? 
 
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 Tho' the third sewer # takes thee quite away 
 Without a staffe, when thou would'st longer stay, 
 What of all this ? Is't not enough to say, 
 I din'd at Virro his owne board to day? 
 
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 The Satire should be like the porcupine f, 
 That shoots sharp quils out in each angry line, 
 And wounds the blushing cheeke and fiery eye, 
 Of him that hears, and readeth guiltily. 
 Ye antique Satires, how I blesse your daies, 
 That brook'd your bolder stile, their own dispraise ; 
 And wel-neare wish, yet joy my wish is vaine, 
 I had been then, or they were now againe ! 
 For now our eares been of more brittle mold, 
 Than those dull earthen eares that were of old : 
 Sitli theirs, like anvils, bore the hammer's head, 
 Our glasse can never touch unshivered. 
 But, from the ashes of my quiet stile 
 Henceforth may rise some raging rough Lucile, 
 
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 That may with Eschylus both find and leese 
 
 The snaky tresses of th' Eumenides : 
 
 Meanwhile, sufficeth me, the world may say 
 
 That I these vices loath'd another day : 
 
 Which I hane done with as devout a cheere 
 
 As he that rounds Poul's pillars in the eare, 
 
 Or bends his ham downe in the naked queare. 
 
 'Twas ever said, Frontine, and ever seene, 
 
 That golden clerkes but wooden lawyers bene. 
 
 Could ever wise man wish, in good estate, 
 
 The use of all things indiscriminate ? 
 
 Who wots not yet how well this did beseeme 
 
 The learned master of the Academe ? 
 
 Plato is dead, and dead is his devise, 
 
 Which some thought witty, none thought ever wise, 
 
 Yet, certes, Maecha is a Platonist 
 
 To all, they say, save whoso do not list ; 
 
 Because her husband, a far-trafiqu'd man, 
 
 Is a profess'd Peripatecian. 
 
 And so our grand sires were in ages past, 
 
 That let their lands lye all so widely wast, 
 
 That nothing was in pale or hedge ypent 
 
 Within some province, or whole shire's extent. 
 
 As Nature made the Earth, so did it lye, 
 
 Save for the furrowes of their husbandry; 
 
 When as the neighbour-lands so couched layne, 
 
 That all bore shew of one fare chain pian : 
 
 Some head-lesse crosse they digged on their lea, 
 
 Or roPd some marked meare-stone in the way. 
 
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 That my field might not fill my neighbour's payle ; 
 
 More than a pilled stick can stand in stead, 
 
 To bar Cynedo from his neighbour's bed; 
 
 More than the thread-bare client's poverty 
 
 Debars th' attorney of his wonted fee ? 
 
 If they were thriftlesse, mote not we amend, 
 
 And with more care our dangered fields defend ? 
 
 Each man can guard what thing he deemeth deare, 
 
 As fearful merchants do their female heir : 
 
 Which, were it not for promise of their wealth, 
 
 Need not be stalled up for fear of stealth ; 
 
 Would rather stick upon the bell-man's cries, 
 
 Tho' profer'd for a branded Indian's price. 
 
 Then raise we muddy bulwarks on our banks, 
 
 Beset around with treble quick-set ranks ; 
 
 Or, if those walls be over weak a ward, 
 
 The squared bricke may be a better guard. 
 
 Go to, my thrifty yeoman, and upreare 
 
 A brazen wall to shend thy land from feare. 
 
 Do so ; and I shall praise thee all the while, 
 
 So be thou stake not up the common style ; 
 
 So be thou hedge in nought but what's thine owne ; 
 
 So be thou pay what tithes thy neighbours done ; 
 
 So be thou let not lie in fallow'd plaine 
 
 That, which was wont yield usury of graine. 
 
 But, when I see thy pitched stakes do stand 
 
 On thy incroached piece of common land, 
 
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Whiles thou discommonest thy neighbour's kyne, 
 
 And warn'st that none feed on thy field save thine ; 
 
 Brag no more, Scrobius, of thy mudded bankes, 
 
 Nor thy deep ditches, nor three quickset rankes. 
 
 O happy dayes of old Deucalion, 
 
 When one was landlord of the world alone ! 
 
 But, now, whose choler would not rise to yield 
 
 A pesant halfe-stakes of his new-mown field, 
 
 Whiles yet he may not for the treble price 
 
 Buy out the remnant of his royalties ? 
 
 Go on and thrive, my petty tyrant's pride : 
 
 Scorne thou to live, if others live beside ; 
 
 And trace proud Castile that aspires to be 
 
 In his old age a young fift monarchic : 
 
 Or the red hat, that tries the lucklesse mayne, 
 
 For wealthy Thames to change his lowly Rhene. 
 
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 POB8UNT, QOIA POSSE VIDKNTUR. 
 
 Villi us, the wealthy farmer, left his heire 
 Twice twenty sterling pounds to spend by yeare. 
 The neighbours praisen Villio's hide-bound sonne, 
 And say it was a goodly portion : 
 Not knowing how some merchants dow'r can rise 
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 Worth all that Matho bought, or Pontice sold. 
 But whiles ten pound goes to his wife's new gowne, 
 Nor little lesse can serve to sute his owne ; 
 Whiles one piece pays her idle waiting-man, 
 Or buys a hoode, or silver-handled fanne *, 
 
 * See Reed's Shakespeare, vol. 5, p. 79, in which is the follow- 
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 " lost the handle of her fan." It should be remembered that 
 
 fans, in our author's time, were more costly than they are at pre- 
 sent, as well as of a different construction. They consisted of 
 ostrich feathers (or others of equal length and flexibility), which 
 were stuck into handles. The richer sort of these were composed 
 of gold, silver, or ivory, of curious workmanship. One of them is 
 
 mentioned in the Heire, Com. 1610: " she hath a fan with a 
 
 short silver handle, about the length of a barber's syringe." Again, 
 in Love and Honour, by Sir Wm. D'Avenant, 1649: "All your 
 plate, Vasco, is the silver handle of your old prisoner's/cm." Again, 
 in Marston's III. Satyre, edit. 1598: 
 
 " How can he keepe a lazie waiting man, 
 
 And buy a hoode, and silver-handled fan 
 
 With fortie pound ?" — 
 In the frontispiece to a play called " Englishmen for my money, or 
 A pleasant Comedy of a Woman will have her uill, 1616," is a portrait 
 of a lady with one of these fans, which, after all, may prove the 
 best commentary on the passage. The three other specimens are 
 taken from the Habiti Antiehi et Modernidi tutto il Mondo, published 
 at Venice, 1598, from the drawings of Titian, and Cesare Vecelli, 
 his brother. This fashion was perhaps imported from Italy, to- 
 gether with many others, in the reign of King Henry VTII. if not 
 in that of King Richard II. 
 
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 Or hires a Friezeland trotter, halfe yard deepe, 
 
 To drag his tumbrell through the staring Cheape ; 
 
 Or whiles he rideth with two liveries, 
 
 And's treble rated at the subsidies ; 
 
 One end a kennel keeps of thriftlesse hounds ; 
 
 What think ye rests of all my younker's pounds 
 
 To diet him, or deal out as his doore, 
 
 To coffer up, or stocke his wasting store ? 
 
 If then I reckon'd right, it should appeare 
 
 That forty pounds serve not the farmer's heire. 
 
 And in other places. And Bishop Hall, in his Satires, published 
 1597, Lib. v. Sat. 4. 
 
 " Whiles one piece pays her idle waiting manne, 
 
 Or buys a hoode, or silver-handled fanne." 
 
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 SEMEL INSANIVIMUS. 
 
 Labeo reserves a long naile for the nonce, 
 
 To wound my margent thro' ten leaves at once ; 
 
 Much worse than Aristarchusf his blacke pile, 
 
 That pierc'd old Homer's side : 
 
 And makes such faces that me seems I see 
 
 Some foul Megaera in the tragedy, 
 
 Threatening her twined snakes at Tantale's ghost ; 
 
 Or the grim visage of some frowning post, 
 
 The crab-tree porter of the Guild-Hail gates, 
 
 While he his frightful beetle elevates, 
 
 His angry eyne look all so glaring bright, 
 
 Like th' hunted badger in a moonlesse night, 
 
 Or like a painted staring Saracen : 
 
 His cheeks change hue like th' air-fed vermin's skin, 
 
 * This book is evidently a humorous and ironical recantation 
 of the former satires. On which refer to Mr. Ellis's admirable 
 notes in Pratt's Hall, vol. 10, p. 378, et seq. 
 
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 Now red, now pale; and swol'n above his eyes, 
 
 Like to the old Colossian imageries. 
 
 But, when he doth of my recanting heare, 
 
 Away, ye angry fires, and frosts of feare : 
 
 Give place unto his hopeful temper'd thought, 
 
 That yields to peace, ere ever peace be sought. 
 
 Then let me now repent me of my rage, 
 
 For writing Satires, in so righteous age : 
 
 Whereas I should have stroak'd her tow'rdly head, 
 
 And cry'd Evjee in my Satires stead, 
 
 Sith now not one of thousand does amisse. 
 
 Was never age I weene so pure as this. 
 
 As pure as old Labulla from the baynes, 
 
 As pure as through-fare channels when it raines ; 
 
 As pure as is a black-moor's face by night, 
 
 As dung-clad skin of dying Heraclite. 
 
 Seeke over all the world, and tell me where 
 
 Thou find'st a proud man, or a flatterer; 
 
 A theif, a drunkard, or a paricide, 
 
 A lecher, liar, or what vice beside? 
 
 Merchants are no whit covetous of late, 
 
 Nor make no mart of time, gain of deceit. 
 
 Patrons are honest now, ore they of old : 
 
 Can now no benefice be bought or sold ? 
 
 Give him a gelding, or some two yeares' tithe, 
 
 For he all bribes and simony defy'the. 
 
 Is not one pick-thank stirring in the court, 
 
 That seld was free till now, by all report. 
 
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 Pick'd mothes from his master's cloake in sight ; 
 
 Whiles he could pick out both his eyes for need, 
 
 Mought they but stand him in some better stead. 
 
 Nor now no more smell-feast Vitellio 
 
 Smiles on his master for a meal or two ; 
 
 And loves him in his maw, loaths in his heart, 
 
 Yet soothes, and yeas and nays on either part. 
 
 Tattelius, the new-come traveller # , 
 
 With his disguised coate and ringed eare, 
 
 Trampling the bourse's f marble twice a day, 
 
 Tells nothing but stark truths, I dare well say ; 
 
 Nor would he have them known for any thing, 
 
 Tho' all the vault of his loud murmur ring. 
 
 Not one man tells a lye of all the yeare, 
 
 Except the Almanack or the Chronicler. 
 
 But not a man of all the damned crew, 
 
 For hills of gold would sweare the thing untrue. 
 
 Pansophus now, though all in a cold sweat, 
 
 Dares venture through the feared castle-gate, 
 
 Albe the faithful oracles have foresayne 
 
 The wisest Senator shall there be slaine : 
 
 That made him long keepe home, as well it might ; 
 
 Till now he hopeth of some wiser wight. 
 
 The vale of Stand-gate, or the S liter's hill, 
 
 Or westerne J plaine, are free from feared ill. 
 
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 But he, that hath ought, hye him, and God speed ! 
 
 Nor drunken Dennis doth, by breake of day, 
 
 Stumble into blind taverns by the way, 
 
 And reel me homeward at the ev'ning starre, 
 
 Or ride more eas'ly in his neighbour's chayre. 
 
 Well might these checks have fitted former times, 
 
 And shoulder'd angry Skelton's * breathlesse rhymes: 
 
 Ere Chrysalus had barr'd the common boxe, 
 
 Which earst he pick'd to store his private stocks ; 
 
 But now hath all with vantage paid againe, 
 
 And locks and plates what doth behind remaine ; 
 
 When earst our dry-soul'd Sires so lavish were, 
 
 To charge whole boot's-full to their friend's welfare ; 
 
 Now shalt thou never see the salt beset 
 
 With a big-bellied gallon flagonet. 
 
 Of an ebbe cruce f must thirsty Silen sip, 
 
 That's all forestalled by his upper lip. 
 
 Somewhat it was that made his paunch so peare : 
 
 His girdle fell ten inches in a yeare. 
 
 Or when old gouty bed-rid Euclio 
 
 To his officious factor fair could shew 
 
 His name in margent of some old cast bill, 
 
 And say, Lo ! whom I named in my will ; 
 
 parish, a sired in which is still called Stand Gate Street; Shuter's 
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 Whiles he believes, and, looking for the share, 
 
 Tendeth his cumbrous charge with busy care 
 
 For but a while; for now he sure will die, 
 
 By this strange qualme of liberalise. 
 
 Great thanks he gives — but, God him shield and save 
 
 From ever gaining by his master's grave : 
 
 Onely live long and he is well repaid, 
 
 And weats his forced cheeks w 7 hiles thus he said ; 
 
 Some strong-smelPd onion shall stir his eyes 
 
 Rather than no salt teares shall then arise. 
 
 So looks he like a marble toward raine, 
 
 And wrings, and suites # , and weeps, and wipes again 
 
 Then turns his back and smiles, and looks askance, 
 
 Seas'ning again his sowred countenance ; 
 
 Whiles yet he wearies heav'n with daily cries, 
 
 And backward death with devout sacrifice, 
 
 That they would now his tedious ghost bereav'n, 
 
 And wishes well, that wish'd no worse than heav'n. 
 
 When Zoylus was sicke, he knew not where, 
 
 Save his wrought night-cap, and lawn pillow-bere : 
 
 Kind fooles ! they made him sick, that made him fine ; 
 
 Take those away, and there's his medicine. 
 
 Or Gellia wore a velvet mastick-patch 
 
 Upon her temples when no tooth did ache ; 
 
 When beauty was her reume f I soon espy'd, 
 
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 These vices were ; but now they ceas'd of long : 
 
 Then why did I a righteous age that wrong ? 
 
 I would repent me, were it not too late, 
 
 Were not the angry world prejudicate. 
 
 If all the sevens penitential 
 
 Or thousand white-wands might me ought availe, 
 
 If Trent or Thames could scoure my foule offence 
 
 And set me in my former innocence, 
 
 I would at last repent me of my rage : 
 
 Now, bear my wrong, L thine, O righteous age. 
 
 As for fine wits, an hundreth thousand fold 
 
 Passeth our age, whatever times of old. 
 
 For, in that Puisne world, our Sires of long 
 
 Could hardly wag their too unweildy tongue 
 
 As pined crowes and parrots can do now, 
 
 When hoary age did bend their wrinkled brow : 
 
 And now, of late, did many a learned man 
 
 Serve thirty yeares' prentiship with Priscian ; 
 
 But now can every novice speake with ease 
 
 The far-fetch'd language of Th' Antipodes. 
 
 Would'st thou the tongues, that earst were learned hight, 
 
 Tho' our wise age hath wip'd them of their right ; 
 
 Would'st thou the courtly three in most request, 
 
 Or the two barbarous neighbours of the West ? 
 
 Bibinus selfe can have ten tongues in one, 
 
 Tho' in all ten not one good tongue alone. 
 
 And can deep skill lie smothering within, 
 
 Whiles neither smoke nor flame discerned bin ? 
 
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 Shall it not be a wild-fig in a wall, 
 
 Or fired brimstone in a minerall ? 
 
 Do thou disdain, O over-learned age ! 
 
 The tongue-ty'd silence of that Samian sage : 
 
 Forth, ye fine wits, and rush into the presse, 
 
 And for the cloyed world your works addresse. 
 
 Is not a gnat, nor fly, nor seely ant, 
 
 But a fine wit can make an elephant. 
 
 Should BandePs throstle die without a song ? 
 
 Or Adamantius, my dog, be laid along, 
 
 Downe in some ditch without his exequies, 
 
 Or epitaphs, or mournful elegies ? 
 
 Folly itself, and baldnesse, may be prais'd*; 
 
 And sweet conceits from filthy objects rais'd. 
 
 What do not fine wits dare to undertake ? 
 
 What dare not fine wits do for honour's sake ? 
 
 But why doth Balbus his dead-doing quill 
 
 Parch in his rusty scabbard all the while ; 
 
 His golden fleece o'ergrowne with mouldy hore, 
 
 As tho' he had his witty works forswore ? 
 
 Belike, of late, now Balbus hath no need ; 
 
 Nor now belike his shrinking shoulders dread 
 
 The catch-pole's fist — The presse may still remaine 
 
 And breathe, till Balbus be in debt againe. 
 
 Soon may that be ! so I had silent beene, 
 
 And not thus rak'd up quiet crimes unseen. 
 
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 Satire 
 
 BOOK VI. 
 
 Silence is safe, when saying stirreth sore 
 
 And makes the stirred puddle stink the more. 
 
 Shall the controller of proud Nemesis 
 
 In lawlesse rage upbraid each other's vice, 
 
 While no man seeketh to reflect the wrong, 
 
 And curb the raunge of his mis-ruly tongue ? 
 
 By the two crownes of Parnasse ever-green, 
 
 And by the cloven head of Hippocrene, 
 
 As I true poet am, I here avow 
 
 (So solemnly kiss'd he his laurell bow) 
 
 If that bold Satire unrevenged be 
 
 For this so saucy and foule injurie. 
 
 So Labeo weens it my eternal shame 
 
 To prove I never earn'd a poet's name. 
 
 But would I be a poet if I might # , 
 
 To rub my brow three days, and wake three nights, 
 
 And bite my nails, and scratch my dullard head, 
 
 And curse the backward Muses on my bed 
 
 About one peevish syllable ; which, out-sought, 
 
 I take up Thales' joy, save for fore-thought 
 
 How it shall please each ale-knight's censuring eye -f-, 
 
 And hang'd my head for fear they deem awry : 
 
 While thread-bare Martiall turns his merry note, 
 
 To beg of Rufus a cast winter-coate X ; 
 
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 While hungry Marot • leapeth at a beane, 
 
 And dieth like a starved Cappucien ; 
 
 Go, Ariost, and gape for what may fall 
 
 From trencher of a flattering cardinall f ; 
 
 And if thou gettest but a pedant's fee, 
 
 Thy bed, thy board, and coarser livery, 
 
 O honour, far beyond a brazen shrine, 
 
 To sit with Tarleton J on an ale post's signe ! 
 
 Who had but lived in Augustus' dayes, 
 
 'Tbad been some honour to be crown'd with bayes : 
 
 When Lucan stretched on his marble bed 
 
 To think of Caesar, and great Pompey's deed § : 
 
 Or when Achelaus shav'd his mourning head, 
 
 Soon as he heard Stesichorus was dead. 
 
 At least, would some good body of the rest 
 
 Set a gold-pen on their bay e-w readied crest; 
 
 Or would their face in stamped coin expresse, 
 
 As did the Mytelens their poetesse. 
 
 Now, as it is, beshrew him if he might, 
 
 That would his browes with Caesar's laurell dight. 
 
 Tho' what ail'd me, I might not well as they 
 
 Rake up some forworne tales, that smother'd lay 
 
 * Clement Marot, a French poet. 
 
 f Hippolito, Cardinal of Este. 
 
 | There is still a sign in the Borough of South-nark of Tarle- 
 ton's portrait, with a pipe and tabor. See the authorities noticed 
 in Pratt's Hall, vol. 10, p. 380. 
 
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 Satire 
 
 BOOK VI 
 
 In chimney corners, smoak'd with winter-fires, 
 
 To read and rock asleep our drowsy Sires ? 
 
 No man his threshold better knowes, than I 
 
 Brute's first arrival, and first victory *; 
 
 St. George's sorrel], or his crosse of blood ; 
 
 Arthur's round board, or Caledonian wood; 
 
 Or holy battles of bold Charlemaine f, 
 
 What were his knights did Salem's siege maintaine; 
 
 How the mad rival of faire Angelice 
 
 Was physick'd from the new-found paradise. 
 
 High stories they, which with their swelling straine, 
 
 Have riven Frontoe's broad rehearsal plaine. 
 
 But, so to fill up books, both backe and side, 
 
 What needs it? Are there not enow beside? 
 
 O age well thriven and well fortunate, 
 
 When each man hath a muse apropriate ; 
 
 And she, like to some servile eare-boar'd slave, 
 
 Must play and sing when and what he'd have ! 
 
 Would that were all! small fault in number lies, 
 
 Were not the feare from whence it should arise. 
 But can it be ought but a spurious seed, 
 That growes so rife in such unlikely speed f 
 Sith Pontian left his barren wife at home, 
 And spent two years at Venice and at Rome, 
 
 * Juv. Sat. 1, 1. 7. 
 
 f The preceding lines refer to the popular pieces of the author's 
 time. See Warton on the Fairy Queen. Pratt's Hall, vol. 10, 
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 Or marching wade in blood up to the knees, 
 
 Her Arma Virum goes by two degrees. 
 
 The sheepe-cote first hath beene her nursery, 
 
 Where she hath worne her idle infancy ; 
 
 And, in high startups, walk'd the pastur'd plaines, 
 
 To tend her tasked herd that there remaines ; 
 
 And winded still a pipe of oate or brere, 
 
 Striving for wages who the praise shall beare ; 
 
 As did whilere the homely * Carmelite, 
 
 Following Virgil, and he Theocrite ; 
 
 Or else hath beene in Venus' chamber train'd 
 
 To play with Cupid, till she had attain'd 
 
 To comment well upon a beauteous face, 
 
 Then was she fit for an heroick place. 
 
 As witty Pontan f, in great earnest, said, 
 
 His mistress' breasts were like two weights of lead. 
 
 Another thinks her teeth might liken'd be 
 
 To two faire rankes of pales of ivory, 
 
 To fence in, sure, the wild beast of her tongue, 
 
 From either going far, or going wrong : 
 
 Her grinders like two chalk-stones in a mill, 
 
 Which shall with time and wearing waxe as ill 
 
 As old Catillae's, which wont every night 
 
 Lay up her holy pegs till next day-light, 
 
 And with them grinds soft-simpring all the day, 
 
 When, least her laughter should her gums bewray, 
 
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 Her hands must hide her mouth if she but smile ; 
 
 Faine would she seem all frixe and frolicke still. 
 
 Her forehead faire is like a brazen hill, 
 
 Whose wrinkled furrows, which her age doth breed, 
 
 Are dawbed full of Venice chalke for need. 
 
 Her eyes like silver saucers, faire beset 
 
 With shining amber, and with shady jet : 
 
 Her lids like Cupid's bow-case, where he hides 
 
 The weapons that doth wound the wanton-eyde : 
 
 Her chin like Pindus, or Parnassus hill, 
 
 Where down descends th' oreflowing streams doth fill 
 
 The well of her fayre mouth. — Ech hath his praise. 
 
 Who would not but wed poets now T a daies ! 
 
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 It is not for every one to relish a true and natural 
 satire : being, of itself, besides the nature and inbred 
 bitterness and tartness of particulars, both hard of con- 
 ceit and harsh of style ; and, therefore, cannot but be 
 unpleasing both to the unskilful and over musical ear : 
 the one being affected with only a shallow and easy 
 matter; the other, with a smooth and current dispo- 
 sition. So that I well foresee, in the timely publication 
 of these my concealed satires, I am set upon the rack of 
 many mercilesse and peremptory censures ; which, since 
 the calmest and most plausible writer is almost fatally 
 subject unto, in the curiosity of these nicer times, how 
 may I hope to be exempted upon the occasion of so 
 busy and stirring a subject ? One thinks it mis-beseem- 
 ing the author ; because a poem : another, unlawful in 
 itself; because a satire: a third, harmful to others for 
 the sharpness : and a fourth, unsatire-like ; for the mild- 
 ness : the learned, too perspicuous ; being named with 
 Juvenal, Peisius, and the other ancient satires: the un- 
 learned, savourless ; because too obscure, and obscure 
 because not under their reach. What a monster must 
 he be that would please all ! 
 
 
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 almanack should be verified : much-what like poems 
 if every fancy should be suited. It is not for this kind 
 to desire or hope to please, which naturally should only 
 find pleasure in displeasing : notwithstanding, if the 
 fault finding with the vices of the time may honestly 
 accord with the good will of the parties, I had as lieve 
 ease my self with a slender apology, as wilfully bear 
 the brunt of causeless anger in my silence. For poetry 
 itself, after the so effectual and absolute endeavours of 
 her honoured patrons, either she needed no new de- 
 fence, or else might well scorn the offer of so impotent 
 and poor a client. Only, for my own part, though were 
 she a more unworthy mistress, I think she might be 
 inoffensively served with the broken messes of our 
 twelve o'clock hours, which homely service she only 
 claimed and found of me, for that short while of my 
 attendance ; yet, having thus soon taken my solemn 
 farewell of her, and shaked hands with all her retinue, 
 why should it be an eye-sore unto any, since it can be 
 no loss to myself? 
 
 For my Satires themselves, I see two obvious cavils 
 to be answered. One concerning the matter : than 
 which, I confess, none can be more open to danger, to 
 envy; since faults loath nothing more than the light, 
 and men love nothing more than their faults : and, 
 therefore, what through the nature of the faults and fault 
 of the persons, it is impossible so violent an appeach- 
 ment should be quietly brooked. But why should vices 
 
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 be unblamed, for fear of blame ? And if thou may'st 
 spit upon a toad unvenomed, why may'st thou not 
 speak of vice without danger ? Especially so warily as 
 I have endeavoured : who, in the impartial mention of 
 so many vices, may safely profess to be altogether guilt- 
 less in myself to the intention of any guilty person who 
 might be blemished by the likelihood of my conceived 
 application ; thereupon choosing rather to mar mine 
 own verse than another's name : which notwithstandin 
 if the injurious reader shall wrest to his own spite, and 
 disparaging of others, it is a short answer, Art thou 
 guilty '? Complain not : thou art not wronged. Art thou 
 guiltless? Complain not: thou art not touched. The 
 other, concerning the manner: wherein, perhaps, too 
 much stooping to the low reach of the vulgar, I shall 
 be thought not to have any whit kindly raught my an- 
 cient Roman predecessors, whom, in the want of more 
 late and familiar precedents, I am constrained thus far 
 off to imitate : which thing I can be so willing to grant, 
 that I am further ready to warrant my action therein to 
 any indifferent censure. First, therefore, I dare boldly 
 avouch, that the English is not altogether so natural to 
 a satire as the Latin : which I do not impute to the 
 nature of the language itself, being so far from disabling 
 it any way, that methinks I durst equal it to the proudest 
 in every respect; but to that which is common to it 
 with all the other common languages, Italian, French, 
 German, &.c. In their poesies the fettering together 
 the series of the verses, with the bonds of like cadence 
 
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 or desinence of rhyme, which if it be usually abrupt, 
 and not dependent in sense upon so near affinity of 
 words, I know not what a loathsome kind of harshness 
 arid discordance it breedeth to any judicial ear : which 
 if any more confident adversary shall gainsay, I wish no 
 better trial than the translation of one of Persius's satires 
 into English ; the difficulty and dissonance whereof shall 
 make good my assertion. Besides, the plain experience 
 thereof in the satires of Ariosto, (save which, and one 
 base French satire, I could never attain the view of any 
 for my direction, and that also might for need serve for 
 an excuse at least) whose chain -verse, to which he fet- 
 tereth himself, as it may well afford a pleasing harmony 
 to the ear, so can it yield nothing but a flashy and loose 
 conceit to the judgment. Whereas, the Roman num- 
 bers, tying but one foot to another, offereth a greater 
 freedom of variety, with much more delight to the 
 reader. Let my second ground be, the well-known 
 daintiness of the time : such, that men rather chuse care- 
 lesly to lose the sweet of the kernell, than to urge their 
 teeth with breaking the shell wherein it was wrapped : 
 and, therefore, since that which is unseen is almost un- 
 done, and that is almost unseen which is unconceived, 
 either I would say nothing to be untalked of, or speak 
 with my mouth open that I may be understood. Thirdly, 
 the end of this pains was a satire ; but the end of my sa- 
 tire a further good ; which whether I attain or no, I know 
 not; but let me be plain with the hope of profit, rather 
 than purposely obscure only for a bare name's sake. 
 
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 JJostgcrtpt* 
 
 Notwithstanding, in the expectation of this quarrel, I 
 think my first satire* doth somewhat resemble the sour 
 and crabbed face of Juvenal's : which I, endeavouring 
 in that, did determinately omit in the rest, for these 
 forenamed causes, that so I might have somewhat to 
 stop the mouth of every accuser. The rest to each man's 
 censure : which let be as favourable as so thankless a 
 work can deserve or desire. 
 
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 postscript having been published with the three last books of biting 
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 OF THE SABBATH. 
 
 While Greenham writeth on the Sabbath's rest, 
 His soul enjoys not, what his pen exprest : 
 His work enjoys not what itself doth say, 
 For it shall never find one resting day. 
 A thousand hands shall toss each page and line, 
 Which shall be scanned by a thousand eine ; 
 That Sabbath's rest, or this Sabbath's unrest, 
 Hard is to say whether' s the happiest. 
 
 ELEGY 
 
 OX DR. WHITAKER*. 
 
 Bind ye my browes with mourning cyparisse, 
 And palish twigs of deadlie poplar tree, 
 
 Or if some sadder shades ye can devise, 
 
 Those sadder shades vaile my light-loathing eie : 
 
 I loath the laurel-bandes I loved best, 
 
 And all that maketh mirth and pleasant rest. 
 
 * King's Professor, and Master of St. John's College, Cam- 
 bridge; he died in 1585. This elegy was annexed to the Carmen 
 Funebre Caroli Horni, 1596. N. 
 
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 If ever breath dissolv'd the world to teares, 
 
 Or hollow cries made Heaven's vault resound : 
 
 If ever shrikes were sounded out so cleare, 
 
 That all the world's waste might heare around : 
 
 Be mine the breath, the teares, the shrikes, the cries, 
 
 Yet still my griefe unseene, unsounded lies. 
 
 Thou flattering Sun, that ledst this loathed light, 
 Why didst thou in thy saffron-robes arise ? 
 
 Or foldst not up the day in drierie night ? 
 
 And wakst the westerne worldes amazed eies ? 
 
 And never more rise from the ocean, 
 
 To wake the morn, or chase night shades again. 
 
 Heare we no bird of day, or dawning morne, 
 To greet the Sun, or glad the waking eare : 
 
 Sing out, ye scrich-owles, lowder than aforne, 
 And ravens blacke of night ; of death of driere : 
 
 And all ye barking foules yet never seene, 
 
 That fill the moonlesse night with hideous din. 
 
 Now shall the wanton Devils daunce in rings 
 In everie mede, and everie heath hore : 
 
 The Elvish Faeries, and the Gobelins: 
 The hoofed Satyres silent heretofore : 
 
 Religion, Vertue, Muses, holie mirth 
 
 Have now forsworne the late forsaken Earth. 
 
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 The Prince of Darknesse gins to tyrannize, 
 And reare up cruel trophies of his rage, 
 
 Faint Earth through her despairing cowardice 
 Yeelds up herselfe to endlesse vassalage : 
 
 What champion now shal tame the power of Hell, 
 
 And the unrulie spirits overquell ? 
 
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 The world's praise, the Pride of Nature's proofe, 
 Amaze of times, hope of our faded age : 
 
 Religion's hold, Earth's choice, and Heaven's love, 
 Patterne of vertue, patron of Muses sage : 
 
 All these and more were Whitaker's alone, 
 
 Now they in him, and he and all are gone. 
 
 Heaven, Earth, Nature, Death, and every Fate 
 Thus spoil'd the careless world of woonted joy : 
 
 Whiles each repin'd at others' pleasing state, 
 And all agreed to work the world's annoy : 
 
 Heaven strove with Earth, Destiny gave the Doome, 
 
 That Death should Earth and Nature overcome. 
 
 Earth takes one part, when forced Nature sendes 
 The Soule, to flit into the yeelding skie : 
 
 Sorted by Death into their fatal ends, 
 Foreseene, foresett from all eternitie : 
 
 Destinie by Death spoyl'd feeble Nature's frame, 
 
 Earth was despoyl'd when Heaven overcame. 
 
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 Ah, coward Nature, and more cruell Death, 
 Envying Heaven, and unworthy mold, 
 
 Unweildy carkasse and unconstant breath, 
 That did so lightly leave your living hold : 
 
 How have ye all conspir'd our hopelesse spight, 
 
 And wrapt us up in Greife's eternall night. 
 
 Base Nature yeeldes, imperious Death commandes, 
 Heaven desires, durst lowly dust denie ? 
 
 The Fates decreed, no mortal might withstand, 
 The spirit leaves his load, and lets it lie. 
 
 The fencelesse corpes corrupts in sweeter clay, 
 
 And waytes for worms to waste it quite away. 
 
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 inne your triumphs, Death and Destinies, 
 And let the trembling world witnesse your wast: 
 Now let blacke Orphney raise his gastly neighes, 
 
 And trample high, and hellish forme outcast: 
 Shake he the Earth, and teare the hollow skies, 
 That all may feele and feere your victories. 
 
 And after your triumphant chariot, 
 
 Drag the pale corpes that thus you did to die, 
 To show what goodly conquests ye have got, 
 
 To fright the world, and nil the wondering eie : 
 Millions of lives, of deathes no conquest were, 
 Compared with one onely WhiTAKERE. 
 
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 But thou, O soule, shall laugh at their despite, 
 Sitting beyond the mortall man's extent, 
 
 All in the bosome of that blessed spright : 
 
 Which the great God for thy safe conduct sent, 
 
 He through die circling spheres taketh his flight, 
 
 And cuts the solid skie with spirituall might. 
 
 Open, ye golden gates of Paradise, 
 Open ye wide unto a welcome ghost : 
 
 Enter, O soule, into thy boure of blisse, 
 Through all the throng of Heaven's hoast : 
 
 Which shall with triumph gard thee as thou go'st 
 
 With psalmes of conquest and with crownes of cost. 
 
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 Seldome had ever soule such entertaines, 
 
 With such sweet hymnes, and such a glorious crowne. 
 Nor with such joy amids the heavenly traines, 
 
 Was ever led to his Creator's throne : 
 There now he lives, and sees his Saviour's face, 
 And ever sings sweet songs unto His grace. 
 
 Meanwhile, the memorie of His mighty name 
 Shall live as long as aged Earth shal last : 
 
 Enrolled on berill walles of fame, 
 
 Ay ming'd, ay mourn'd : and wished oft in wast. 
 
 Is this to die, to live for evermore. 
 
 A double life : that neither liv'd afore ? 
 
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 TO MY LOVING AND LEARNED COUSIN, 
 
 MR. SAMUEL BURTON, 
 
 &tci)D*ac<m of (frloucegter. 
 
 Indeed, my Poetry was long since out of date, and 
 yielded her place to graver studies : but whose vein 
 would it not revive, to look into those Heavenly Songs ? 
 I were not worthy to be a Divine, if it should repent 
 me to be a Poet with David, after I shall have aged in 
 the Pulpit. 
 
 This work is holy and strict, and abides not any 
 youthful or heathenish liberty ; but requires hands free 
 from profaneness, looseness, affection. It is a service 
 to God and the Church, by so much more carefully to 
 be regarded, as it is more common. For, who is there, 
 that will not challenge a part in this labour? and that 
 shall not find himself much more affected with holy 
 measure rightly composed ? 
 
 Wherefore, I have oft wondered, how it could be 
 offensive to our adversaries, that these divine ditties, 
 which the Spirit of God wrote in verse, should be sung 
 in verse; and that a Hebrew Poem should be made 
 English. For, if this kind of composition had been 
 
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 unfit, God would never have made choice of numbers, 
 wherein to express himself. 
 
 Yea, who knows not, that some other Scriptures, 
 which the Spirit hath indited in prose, have vet been 
 happily and with good allowance put into strict num- 
 bers ? If histories tell us of a wanton poet of old, which 
 lost his eyes while he went about to turn Moses into 
 verse ; yet every student knows, with what good success 
 and commendation, Nonnus hath turned John's Gospel 
 into Greek Heroics. And Appollinarius, that learned 
 Syrian, matched with Basil and Gregory (who lived in 
 his time) in the terms of this equality, that Basil's speech 
 was rabepwrspos, but Appollinarius's a$porepo$ f wrote, as 
 Suidas reports, all the Hebrew Scripture in Heroics ; 
 as Sozomen, somewhat more restrainedly, all the Arch- 
 aiology of the Jews, till Saul's government, in twenty- 
 four parts ; or, as Socrates, yet more particularly, all 
 Moses in Heroics, and all the other histories in divers 
 metres : but, however his other labours lie hid, his Me- 
 taphrase of the Psalms is still in our hands, with the 
 applause of all the learned : besides the labours of their 
 own Flaminius and Arias Montanus, to seek for no 
 more, which have worthily bestowed themselves in this 
 subject. 
 
 Neither do I see how it can be offensive to our 
 friends, that we should desire our English Metaphrase 
 bettered. I. say nothing to the disgrace of that we have: 
 I know how glad our adversaries are of all such advan- 
 tages ; which they are ready enough to find out without 
 
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 me, ever reproachfully upbraiding us with these defects. 
 But, since our whole translation is now universally re- 
 vised, what inconvenience or shew of innovation can it 
 bear, that the verse should accompany the prose? es- 
 pecially since it is well known, how rude and homely 
 our English Poesy was in those times, compared with 
 the present ; wherein, if ever, it seeth her full perfection. 
 
 I have been solicited by some reverend friends to un- 
 dertake this task ; as that, which seemed well to accord 
 with the former exercises of my youth, and my present 
 profession. The difficulties I found many; the work, 
 long and great ; yet not more painful than beneficial to 
 God's Church : whereto as I dare not profess any suf- 
 ficiency; so I will not deny my readiness and utmost 
 endeavour, if I shall be employed by Authority. 
 
 Wherefore, in this part, I do humbly submit myself 
 to the grave censures of them, whose wisdom manageth 
 these common affairs of the Church ; and am ready 
 either to stand still or proceed, as I shall see their Cloud 
 or Fire go before or behind me. Only, howsoever, I 
 shall, for my true affection to the Church, wish it done 
 by better workmen : wherein, as you approve, so further 
 my bold, but not unprofitable motion, and commend it 
 unto greater ears ; as I do you to the Greatest. 
 Your loving Kinsman, 
 
 JOSEPH HALL. 
 
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 IN THE TUNE OF THE CXLVIIltll PSALM, 
 
 " Give laud unto the Lord." 
 
 Who hath not walkt astray, 
 In wicked men's advice, 
 Nor stood in sinners' way ; 
 Nor in their companies 
 
 That scorhers are 
 
 As their fit mate, 
 
 In scoffing chaire, 
 
 Hath ever sate : 
 
 2 But in thy lawes divine, 
 O Lord, sets his delight, 
 And in those lawes of thine 
 Studies all day and night : 
 
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 He shall be like the tree 
 Set by the water-springs, 
 Which, when his seasons be, 
 Most pleasant fruit forth brings, 
 
 Whose boughs so greene 
 
 Shall never fade 
 
 But covered beene 
 
 With comely shade. 
 
 So, to this happy wight, 
 All his designes shall thrive : 
 4 Whereas the man unright, 
 
 As chaffe, which windes doe drive, 
 
 With every blast 
 
 Is tost on hie, 
 
 Nor can at last 
 
 In safety lie. 
 
 5 Wherefore, in that sad doome, 
 They dare not rise from dust : 
 Nor shall no sinner come, 
 To glory of the just. 
 
 For, God will grace 
 
 The just man's way ; 
 
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 PSALM II. 
 
 IN THE TUNE OF THE CXXVth PSALM, 
 
 " Those, that do put their confidence." 
 
 k Why do the Gentiles tumults make, 
 And nations all conspire in vaine, 
 
 2 And earthly princes counsell take 
 Against their God ; against the raigne 
 Of his deare Christ ? let us, they saine, 
 
 3 Breake all their bonds : and from us shake 
 Their thraldome, yoke, and servile chaine. 
 
 4 Whiles thus, alas ! they fondly spake, 
 
 He, that aloft rides on the skies, 
 Laughs all their lewd device to scorne ; 
 
 5 And, when his wrath full rage shall rise, 
 With plagues shall make them all forlorne ; 
 And, in his fury, thus replies : 
 
 6 But I, my King with sacred home 
 Anointing, shall, in princely guise, 
 His head with royall crowne adorne. 
 
 Upon my Sion's holy mount 
 His empire's glorious seat shall be. 
 And I, thus rais'd, shall farre recount 
 The tenour of his true decree. 
 
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 Begat this day, by due account : 
 Thy sceptre, doe but ask of me, 
 
 All earthly kingdomes shall surmount. 
 
 8 All nations to thy rightful sway, 
 I will subject from furthest end 
 
 9 Of all the world ; and thou shalt bray 
 Those stubborne foes, that will not bend, 
 With iron mace, like potter's clay, 
 
 1 In peeces small : ye kings attend ; 
 And yee, whom others wont obey, 
 Learne wisdome, and at last amend. 
 
 1 1 See ye serve God, with greater dread 
 Than others you : and, in your feare, 
 Rejoyce the while ; and, lowly spread, 
 
 1 2 Doe homage to his Sonne so deare : 
 Lest he be wroth, and doe you dead 
 
 1 3 Amids your way, If kindled 
 
 His wrath shall be : O blessed those, 
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 PSALM III. 
 
 AS THE CXIIlth PSALM, 
 
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 Ah, Lord ! how many be my foes ! 
 How many are against me rose, 
 
 2 That to my grieved soule have sed, 
 Tush, God shall him no succour yeeld ; 
 
 3 Whiles thou, Lord, art my praise, my shield, 
 And dost advance my carefull head ! 
 
 4 Loud with my voice to God I cry'd : 
 His grace unto my sute reply 'd, 
 From out his holy hill. 
 
 5 I laid me downe, slept, rose againe : 
 For thou, O Lord, dost me sustaine, 
 And sav'st my soule from feared ill. 
 
 6 Not if ten thousand armed foes 
 
 My naked side should round enclose, 
 Would 1 be thereof ought a-dread. 
 Up, Lord, and shield me from disgrace : 
 
 7 For thou hast broke my foe-men's face, 
 And all the wicked's teeth hast shed. 
 
 8 From thee, O God, is safe defence ; 
 Do thou thy free beneficence 
 Upon thy people largely spread. 
 
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 " Attend my people." 
 
 Thou witnesse of my truth sincere, 
 My God, unto my poore request 
 Vouchsafe to lend thy gracious eare : 
 Thou hast my soule from thrall releast. 
 
 2 Favour me still, and daigne to heare 
 Mine humble sute. O wretched wights, 
 
 3 How long will ye mine honour deare 
 Turne into shame through your despights ? 
 
 Still will ye love what thing is vaine, 
 
 4 And seek false hopes ? know then at last, 
 That God hath chose, and will maintaine 
 His favourite, whom ye disgrac't. 
 
 God will regard my instant mone. 
 
 5 Oh ! tremble then, and cease offending ; 
 And, on your silent bed alone, 
 Talke with your hearts, your wayes amending. 
 
 6 Offer the truest sacrifice 
 Of broken hearts ; on God besetting 
 
 7 Your only trust. The most devise 
 The wayes of worldly treasure getting : 
 
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 The light of that sweet looke of thine ; 
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 And on my bed take quiet sleepe ; 
 Whiles thou, O Lord, shalt me alone 
 From dangers all securely keepe. 
 
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 IN THE TUNE OF THE CXXIVtll PSALM, 
 
 " Noio Israel may say, fyc." 
 
 Bow downe thine eare, 
 
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 And well regard 
 
 The secret plaints I make. 
 2 My King, my God, 
 
 To thee I doe betake 
 My sad estate : 
 
 Oli, doe thine eare incline 
 To these loud cries, 
 
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 Thou shalt my voice attend : 
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 I will myselfe addresse 
 Thee to implore, 
 
 And wait for due redresse. 
 
 4 Thou dost not, Lord, 
 Delight in wickednesse ; 
 
 Nor to bad men 
 
 Wilt thy protection lend. 
 
 5 The boasters proud 
 Cannot before thee stay : 
 
 Thou hat'st all those, 
 That are to sin devoted : 
 
 6 The lying lips, 
 
 And who with blood are spotted, 
 Thou doest abhorre, 
 And wilt for ever slay : 
 
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 Thy house shall take the way : 
 
 And, through thy grace 
 
 Abundant, shall adore, 
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 No truth is ever found : 
 
 Pure mischiefe is 
 
 Their heart : a gaping tombe 
 
 10 Is their wide throat; 
 And yet their tongues still sound, 
 
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 O Lord, give them their doome, 
 And let them fall 
 
 In those their plots profound. 
 In their excesse 
 
 Of mischiefe, them destroy, 
 
 12 That rebels are ; 
 
 So those, that to thee flye, 
 Shall all rejoyce 
 And sing eternally : 
 
 13 And whom thou dost 
 Protect, and who love thee 
 
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 5 Then, let my foe in eager chase, 
 O'ertake my soule, and proudly tread 
 My life below, and with disgrace 
 
 In dust lay downe mine honour dead. 
 
 6 Rise up in rage, O Lord, eft soone 
 Advance thine arm against my fo'ne ; 
 
 And wake for me, till thou fulfill 
 
 7 My promis'd right : so shall glad throngs 
 Of people flocke unto thy hill. 
 
 For their sakes then revenge my wrongs, 
 
 8 And rouse thyselfe. Thy judgements be 
 O'er all the world : Lord, judge thou me. 
 
 As truth and honest innocence 
 
 Thou find'st in me, Lord, judge thou me : 
 
 9 Settle the just with sure defence : 
 Let me the wicked's malice see 
 
 10 Brought to an end. For thy just eye 
 Doth heart and inward reines descry : 
 
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 The sound in heart : whose doome, each day, 
 
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 His murdering bow is ready bended. 
 
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 And arrovves keene to pierce my foe, 
 
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 But, when he doth on travell goe, 
 
 16 Brings forth a lye ; deep pits doth delve, 
 And fall into his pits himselve. 
 
 17 Back to his owne head shall rebound 
 His plotted mischiefe ; and his wrongs 
 
 18 His crowne shall craze: But I shall sound 
 Jehovah's praise with thankfull songs, 
 And will I lis glorious name expresse, 
 And tell of all his righteousnesse. 
 
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 AS THE CXIIlth PSALM, 
 
 " Ye children which, fyc." 
 
 How noble is thy mighty Name, 
 O Lord, o'er all the world's wide frame, 
 Whose glory is advanc'd on high 
 Above the rowling heavens' rack! 
 2 How for the gracelesse scorner's sake, 
 To still tli* avenging enemy, 
 
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 The praise of thy great name made strong, 
 
 While they hang sucking on the brest! 
 
 3 But, when I see the heavens bright, 
 The moone and glittering stars of night, 
 By thine almighty hand addrest, 
 
 4 Oh ! what is man, poore silly man, 
 That thou so mind'st him, and dost daine 
 To looke at his unworthy seed ! 
 
 5 Thou hast him set not much beneath 
 Thine angels bright ; and, with a wreath 
 Of glory, hast adoi n'd his head. 
 
 6 Thou hast him made high soveraione 
 
 7 Of all thy workes, and stretch'd his raigne 
 Unto the heards and beasts untame, 
 
 8 To fowles, and to the scaly traine, 
 That glideth through the watry maine. 
 
 9 How noble each-where is thy Name. 
 
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 TO THE TUNE OF THAT KNOWN SONG BEGINNING, 
 
 " Preserve us, Lord" 
 
 Thee, and thy wondrous deeds, O God> 
 With all my soule I sound abroad ; 
 2 My joy, my triumph is in thee. 
 
 Of thy dread Name my song shall be, 
 
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 3 O highest God : since put to flight, 
 And fal'ne and vanish't at thy sight 
 
 4? Are all my foes ; for thou hast past 
 Just sentence on my cause at last ; 
 
 And, sitting on thy throne above, 
 
 A rightful Judge thyselfe dost prove : 
 
 5 The tronps profane thy checks have stroid ; 
 And made their name for ever void. 
 
 6 Where's now, my foes, your threat'ned wrack ? 
 So well you did our cities sack, 
 
 And bring to dust ; while that ye say, 
 Their name shall dye as well as they ! 
 
 7 Loe, in the eternall state God sits, 
 And his high throne to justice fits: 
 
 8 Whose righteous hand the world shal weeld, 
 And to all folke just doome shall yeeld. 
 
 9 The poore from high find his releefe ; 
 The poore in needfull times of griefe : 
 10 Who knows thee, Lord, to thee shall cleave, 
 That never dost thy clients leave. 
 
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 He minds their cause, nor can passe o'er 
 Sad clamours of the wronged poore. 
 
 13 Oh! mercy, Lord: thou, that do'st save 
 My soule from gates of death and grave : 
 
 Oh ! see the wrong my foes have done : 
 
 14 That I thy praise, to all that gone 
 Through daughter Sion's beauteous gate, 
 With thankfull songs may loud relate ; 
 
 And may rejoyce in thy safe aid. 
 
 1 5 Behold, the Gentiles while they made 
 A deadly pit my soule to drowne, 
 Into their pit are sunken downe : 
 
 In that close snare they hid for me, 
 Loe, their owne feet entangled be. 
 
 16 By this just doome the Lord is knovvne, 
 That th' ill are punish't with their owne. 
 
 17 Downe shall the wicked backward fall 
 To deepest hell, and nations all 
 
 1 8 That God forget ; nor shall the poore 
 Forgotten be for evermore. 
 
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 O Lord. Let not men base and rude 
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 Into those brests, that stubborne were : 
 And let the Gentiles feele and rind,. 
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 Why stand'st thou, Lord, aloofe so long, 
 And hid'st thee in due times of need^ 
 
 2 While lewd men proudly offer wrong 
 Unto the poore ? In their ovvne deed 
 And their device, let them be caught. 
 
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 In his vile and outragions thought ; 
 And blesseth him, that ravines most. 
 
 4 On God he dares insult : his pride 
 Scornes to enquire of powers above ; 
 But his stout thoughts have still deni'd 
 
 5 There is a God. His wayes yet prove 
 Aye prosperous: thy judgements hye 
 Doe farre surmount his dimmer sight. 
 
 6 Therefore doth he all foes defie : 
 His heart saith, 1 shall stand in spight, 
 
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 And with close fraud : his tongue doth hide 
 
 8 Mischiefe and ill: he seekes the soule 
 Of harmelesse men, in secret wait; 
 And, in the corners of the street, 
 Doth shed their blood : with scorne and hate, 
 His eyes upon the poore are set. 
 
 9 As some fell lion in his den, 
 He closely lurks, the poore to spoylei 
 He spoiles the poore and helplesse men, 
 When once he snares them in his toyle. 
 
 10 He crowcheth low in cunning wile, 
 And bowes his brest ; whereon whole throngs 
 Of poore, whom his faire shewes beguile, 
 Full to be subject to his wrongs. 
 
 1 1 God hath forgot, in soule he sayes : 
 He hides his face to never see. 
 
 12 Lord God, arise, thy hand up-raise : 
 Let not thy poore forgotten be. 
 
 13 Shall these insulting wretches scorne 
 Their God ; tmd say, thou wilt not care ? 
 
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 Thou see'st what all their mischiefes are 
 
 That to thy hand of vengeance just 
 
 Thou maist them take the poore distressed 
 
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 The helpe of orphans and oppressed. 
 
 15 Oh! breake the wickeds' arme of might, 
 And search out all their cursed traines, 
 And let them vanish out of sight. 
 
 16 The Lord, as King, for ever reignes. 
 
 From forth his coasts, the heathen sect 
 
 17 Are rooted quite: thou, Lord, attend'st 
 To poore men's suits ; thou do'st direct 
 Their hearts: to them thine eare thou bend'st; 
 
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 The wofull fatherlesse and poore : 
 That so, the vaine and earthen wight 
 On us may tyrannize no more. 
 
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 Lord, what am I ? A worm, dust, vapour, nothing ! 
 What is my life ? A dream, a daily dying ! 
 What is my flesh ? My soul's uneasie clothing ! 
 What is my time ? A minute ever flying : 
 
 My time, my flesh, my life, and I ; 
 
 What are we, Lord, but vanity ? 
 
 Where am I, Lord ? Downe in a vale of death : 
 What is my trade ? Sin, my dear God offending ; 
 My sport sin too, my stay a puffe of breath : 
 What end of sin ? Hell's horrour, never ending : 
 My way, my trade, sport, stay, and place 
 Help to make up my dolefull case. 
 
 Lord, what art thou ? Pure life, power, beauty, bliss 
 
 Where dwell'st thou ? Up above, in perfect light : 
 
 What is thy time ? Eternity it is : 
 
 What state ? Attendance of each glorious sp'rit : 
 Thyself, thy place, thy dayes, thy state 
 Pass all the thoughts of powers create. 
 
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 How shall I reach thee, Lord ? Oh, soar above, 
 Ambitious soul : But which way should 1 flie ? 
 Thou, Lord, art way and end : What wings have I? 
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 Present me to thy blissfull throne. 
 
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 Immortall babe, who this dear day 
 Didst change thy heaven for our clay, 
 And didst with flesh thy Godhead vail, 
 Eternal Son of God, all hail ! 
 
 Shine, happy Star, ye Angels sing 
 
 Glory on high to Heaven's King : 
 
 Run, Shepherds, leave your nightly watch, 
 
 See heaven come down to Bethleem's cratch 
 
 Worship, ye Sages of the East, 
 
 The King of Gods in meanness drest. 
 
 () Blessed Maid, smile and adore 
 
 The God, thy womb and armes have bore. 
 
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 Thou Virgin, glory of all ages ; 
 Restored frame of heaven and earth ; 
 Joy in your Dear Redeemer's birth. 
 
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 Leave, O my soul, this baser world below, 
 
 Oh, leave this dolefull dungeon of woe; 
 
 And soare aloft to that supernal rest, 
 
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 Lo there the Godhead's radiant throne, 
 Like to ten thousand suns in one ! 
 
 Lo there thy Saviour dear in glory dight 
 Ador'd of all the powers of heavens bright : 
 Lo where that head, that bled with thorny wound, 
 Shines ever with celestial honour crownd : 
 That hand, that held the scornfull reed, 
 Makes all the fiends infer nail dread : 
 
 That back and side, that ran with bloody streams, 
 Daunt angels' eyes with their majestick beames ; 
 Those feet, once fastened to the cursed tree, 
 Trample on death and hell, in glorious glee. 
 
 Those lips, once drench't with gall, do make 
 With their dread doom the world to quake. 
 
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 Behold those joyes thou never canst behold ; 
 Those precious gates of pearl, those streets of gold, 
 Those streams of life, those trees of paradise, 
 That never can be seen by mortal eyes : 
 
 And, when thou seest this state divine, 
 
 Think that it is or shall be thine. 
 
 See there the happy troups of purest sprights, 
 That live above in endless true delights ; 
 And see where once thyself shalt ranged be, 
 And look and long for immortalitie : 
 
 And now 7 , beforehand, help to sing 
 
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 Abron — auburn . 
 Abusion — corruption, reproach. 
 Acquite, or acquit — to discharge. 
 Albe, or albee — albeit, although. 
 Ale-knight — a pot-companion. 
 Alife — as dear as life. 
 All — although. 
 
 Anchore — an anchoret, a hermit. 
 Appeyre — to impair, to diminish. 
 Apple-squire — a cuckold, a pimp. 
 Aread — to guess, to declare. 
 Askile — askew, aslant. 
 Assaine— to attempt. 
 Autumnity — the time of harvest. 
 
 Bain — a bath. 
 
 Bezel, or bezzle — a drunkard. 
 
 Blowen,' or blown — stale, worthless. 
 
 Blowesse, or blouze — a courtezan. 
 
 Bookery — the study of books. 
 
 Boot — to profit. 
 
 Broke — to transact business for another. 
 
 Bronds — brands, reproaches. 
 
 Buffs — regimentals. 
 
 Busk — whalebone for stays. 
 
 Caitive — servile, base. 
 
 Car a veil — a galley. 
 
 Carle — a churl, a clown. 
 
 Carsey, or kersey — woollen stuff. 
 
 Certes — certainly. 
 
 Chire, or cheer— to feast ; to chew. 
 
 Client — a dependant. 
 
 Clodge — to clog. 
 
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 Cockers — hedger's boots. 
 
 Collybist — a banker, an usurer. 
 
 Cote, or cot — a cottage. 
 
 Coted — quoted. 
 
 Cotquean — an effeminate fellow ; 
 
 Cottyer — a cottager. 
 
 Couched — levelled. 
 
 Covetise — covetousness. 
 
 Curtal — to curtail. 
 
 Cybeale — coarse meal, porridge. 
 
 Dag-tailed— dirtied. 
 
 Deal — a degree, a portion. 
 
 Delicious — delicate. 
 
 Dight — dressed, adorned. 
 
 Ding-thrift — a spendthrift. 
 
 Disclout— to disburse, to unwrap, to empty out. 
 
 Dispight — defiance, malignity. 
 
 Dole — a gift, a portion ; misery. 
 
 Done, or doon — to do. 
 
 Doughty — important. 
 
 Drafty, or drafFy — worthless. 
 
 Ebb-cruise — a vessel half-empty. 
 Erst — first, formerly. 
 Eyne — eyes. 
 
 Fault — to blame. 
 
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 Fettle — to go to work in earnest. 
 Forlore — forlorn, forsaken. 
 Forwent — abandoned, neglected. 
 Frere — a friar. 
 Frixe — frisk. 
 Fumy-ball — a puff-ball, or fungus. 
 
 Gald — galled, fretted, worn away. 
 
 Galloway — a hack, or hackney ; a pony. 
 
 Gapt — gaped. 
 
 Garboil — an uproar. 
 
 Gear — a matter, a subject. 
 
 Gin, gan — begin, began. 
 
 Girdlestead — the waist. 
 
 Glaver — to flatter, to leer, to wheedle. 
 
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 Governall — government, a kingdom. 
 
 Grave — to dig, to bury. 
 
 Gree — kindness, satisfaction. 
 
 Greeves — grows. 
 
 Griple, or gripple — avaricious. 
 
 Hackster — an ordinary sort of man. 
 Hansel — the first use of any thing. 
 Hest — behest, command. 
 
 Holy-rood — the cross, mounted on the choir-screen, or rood- 
 loft, of a church. 
 Huf-cap — saucy, arrogant. 
 Hundreth — hundred. 
 
 Importune — importunate, troublesome. 
 
 Inhospitall — inhospitable. 
 
 Inkhornisms — affected phrases and expressions. 
 
 Iun — to lodge. 
 
 Intend — to regard attentively. 
 
 Jargling — jarring. 
 
 Jennet — a Barbary horse. 
 
 Jerk — a lash, a stroke. 
 
 Joy — to rejoice. 
 
 Jury-field — the land of Judea. 
 
 Kernes, or kerns — Irish boors and soldiers. 
 
 Lave-eared — having long, or lapping ears. 
 
 Leef, or lieve — agreeable. 
 
 Leese — to lose. 
 
 Lib — to geld. 
 
 Lovery, or loover — a turret, or tunnel for smoke, in the 
 
 great hall. 
 Lust, or list — to desire, to choose. 
 
 Mantling — spreading and flapping the wings. 
 
 Mask — to go blindfold. 
 
 Maund — a basket. 
 
 Mell — to meddle. 
 
 Mere-stone — a boundary-stone. 
 
 Mew— a cage, a closet, a retreat. 
 
 Minge — to remember, to mention. 
 
 Miniver -the fur of the squirrel, or weasel. 
 
 Month's-mind — a fancy, a desire. 
 
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 Morrian's-erown — a negro's head of hair ; a fool's eap. 
 
 Morphewed — covered with scurf or leprosy. 
 
 Mot — a motto. 
 
 Mought, or mote — might. 
 
 Mould — mouldy. 
 
 Muck-worm — a miser. 
 
 Napery — linen. 
 
 Nil — will not. 
 
 Nonce — a purpose, an occasion. 
 
 Nould — would not. 
 
 Of-long — of old. 
 
 Onement — the state of unity. 
 
 Ope-tide — the season of spring 
 
 Ostlery — a stable. 
 
 Outrive — to tear out. 
 
 Overly — slight, superficial. 
 
 perhaps Shrovetide. 
 
 Pack-staff — the stick on which a pedlar hangs his bundle. 
 Panes — slips of cloth or silk, of various colours, let into a 
 
 garment. 
 Pannel — a pack-saddle. 
 Parbrake — to vomit. 
 
 Partlet-strip — a loose collar, or neckerchief. 
 Paunched — crammed, stuffed. 
 Peare — spare, thin. 
 Pestle — a leg, a leg-bone. 
 Pickthank — a flatterer. 
 Pight — pitched, fixed. 
 Pill — to peel, to rob. 
 Playne — to complain, 
 
 Playse — one who has a wry mouth, a mimic. 
 Plumbery — a bell-foundry. 
 Privy-door — a pit- fall, or trap. 
 Pranck — to decorate. 
 
 Proking-spit — a Spanish rapier, or Toledo. 
 Pointed — adorned with knots and tags. 
 Pullen— poultry. 
 Purchase — profit, recompense. 
 
 Queare — a quire of paper, a book. 
 
 Quinse — to mince, to cut small. 
 
 Quintain — a mark for tilters, in the practice of tournaments. 
 
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 Rath — early, prematurely. 
 
 Raught — reached. 
 
 Reezed — grown rusty. 
 
 Resign — to appoint. 
 
 Rife — common, easy. 
 
 Rifely — frequently, abundantly. 
 
 Rock — a distaif. 
 
 Rogerian — a wig, a scalp. 
 
 Rose-marine — rosemary. 
 
 Round, or rown — to whisper. 
 
 Ruffling — turbulent, boisterous. 
 
 Russeting — a low fellow, dressed in russet. 
 
 ScafFolders — people who frequent the upper gallery in a 
 
 theatre. 
 Scape — a trick, a cheat. 
 Scroll — a copy. 
 Sealy— silly, harmless. 
 Self — same. 
 
 Semones — satyrs ; thence, satires. 
 Sewer — one who provides water for the guests to wash their 
 
 hands at table. 
 Shak-fork — a pitch-fork. 
 Shend — to defend, to protect. 
 Shoon — shoes. 
 
 Shot — an account, a reckoning. 
 Shroad, or shrewd — forward, painful. 
 Sib — a cousin, a kinsman. 
 Side — indirect, disreputable. 
 Side-robes — long, loose robes. 
 Single soled, orsouled — half-witted. 
 Si-quis — an ecclesiastical proclamation, beginning " If any 
 
 one/' &c. 
 Sise — assize. 
 Sith — since. 
 Sithes — times. 
 Skort — skirt. 
 Snite — to blow the nose. 
 Soord — a sward, skins, rinds. 
 Spanish-face — the face of a courtier. 
 Spils — splinters, fragments. 
 Startups — high rustic shoes. 
 Steale — a handle. 
 Stole — a long garment. 
 Store — a large number. 
 
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 Stowr — confusion, distress. 
 
 Strawn — made of straw. 
 
 Streatned — stretched. 
 
 Streave — stray. 
 
 Strike — the act of laying out corn for measurement. 
 
 Surbeat — battered, galled, tired of walking. 
 
 Sursingled — fastened by an upper girth. 
 
 Swoop — to sweep along majestically. 
 
 Tavernings — the fashion of frequenting taverns. 
 
 Teretismes — lewd and uncouth verses. 
 
 Thicks — thickets. 
 
 Tho— then, still. 
 
 Thrave — a bundle ; properly, of twenty-four. 
 
 Toot — to pry, to peep. 
 
 Trace — to follow. 
 
 Traunt — to traffic as an itinerant. 
 
 Treen — trees. 
 
 Truckle-bed — a smaller bed, made to run under a larger. 
 
 Tumbrell — a dung-cart. 
 
 Unshent — unhurt. 
 
 Vail — to yield, to lower. 
 Venerean tree — the myrtle. 
 Vie — to wager. 
 
 Waft — to wave the hand, to beckon. 
 
 Weal — prosperity, state, commonwealth. 
 
 Weasand — the throat. 
 
 Weat — to wet. 
 
 Weed — a garment; not necessarily black. 
 
 Weeter — wetter. 
 
 Westy — giddy. 
 
 Whetstone-leasings — narratives that have gained the prize for 
 
 falsehood. 
 Wist — art aware. 
 
 Wit-wal, wittal, or wittoil — a cuckold. 
 Wormed, or wond — dwelt. 
 Writhen — distorted, deformed, wrinkled. 
 Writhen-withe — a band of withy, or willow-twigs. 
 
 Yean — to labour in child-birth. 
 Ypent — enclosed. 
 
 ERRATUM. 
 
 Page 30 ; note. Read, " Cogitur ire pedes." 
 
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 The Satires, in Six Books :- 
 
 A Defiance to Envy 
 
 De Suis Satyris 
 
 Book I. 
 
 Book II. 
 
 Book III. 
 
 Book IV. 
 
 Book V. 
 
 Book VI. 
 
 A Postscript to the Reader 
 
 On Mr. Greenham's Book on the Sabbath 
 Elegy on Dr. Whitaker 
 Some Few of David's Psalms metaphrased 
 Anthems for the Cathedral of Exeter 
 
 Glossary of Hard Words 
 
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