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The poore mans passions. And pouerties patience. VVriten by Arthur VVarren. Anno. Dom. 1605
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[Warren, Arthur].
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plant the sprowting vine Hedge in their garden Orchard Hearbory Yet neuer tast of their expected wine By Calidons bore intercepted die For Fates preuent them with their tuskish wound Before the Sweete fruits of their sweats are found Some Deianira venom'd shirts them send From worldly â—…ole to draw their loue That midst their mirth with misery they end Their harts from ioyes enioying to remooue Then Hercules from reason runs to rage And Death denies them of an elder age These Fatlings feast while as I pooreling fast They dine I pine they sweetely sleepe I wake They leaue I lacke I want they plenty wast I seeke a crum while choise of Cates they make Their fast is dearth of stomacke not of meate Mine is because I haue not what to eare These are vainglorious lewd vniust in life Desperate discontent in death they bee Sedition-sowers stirrers vp of strife VVhile Heires for Inuentories disagree These Purgatorians though forgot in graue Ora pro nobis must remembred haue Funerall pomps tombes Ceremonies Rites Epitaphes month-minds Dirges Candels Bell Rabbles of irreligion Flatring writes To intercept their passage into Hell Their Memories in Chronicles must liue VVhen Truth should them scandals sepulchre giue Yet false teares stepdame-like their parting 's haâ—… Of friends acquaintance Kindred children wife Scrikes cries sighes and sobs circumuent their graue Though death of one to twenty giueth life For many Soules are comforted with that VVherewith one Epicure fed one so fat Might I heire to some Vsurer be found VVhose gorged chests surfet with cramming gold VVhose coffers with Commodities abound So full that they no sterling more may hold Rome Rascalls then make space and grace for me VVhereas my vvorship shall in person bee I would elect Flaunt Cut and Swash for mates For choise Companions pleasure mirth delight For equalls Gentells Honourables States Aiax would not presume to prooue my might Mylo would beare his Bull and let me goe Malitious Momus durst not be my foe Dignitie seeme inferiour and too bad To be my shadowe Science would attend Inuention practize Arts to make me glad Poetry my profession would commend Dutifull Loyalty would humbly greete My Person passing the prospicuous streete But now the worst are censured too good The Miscreants the Abiects the forlorne Adiudging Basenes borne of better blood A corner of my Company doe scorne So odible an Obiect am I thought Contemn'd forsaken loth'd and set at nought Yet Miser thus disparaiged I liue Succour and meanes of maintenance to mee The heate the ayre the vvoods and vvaters giue Though Fortunatelings hate it so to bee I borrow not doubting to be denide I steale not fearing my life should be tride Come staffe and manage mine vnhappy hand Scrip guard my Shoulders burthen light to beare Three merry mates we gainst the Sun will stand Solace to see that comforts none can heare The lighter purse the lesse the cares are found Hearke while I whistle to the winds a round Arthur Warren POVERTIES Patience DEpart yee Discontents like Reprobates For Patience all Aduersities indures In rarest Disposition imitates Hearbe Panace that all diseases cures Heales interne maladies of wounded mindes And salues the sores that Phisicke saluelesse finds Credit not vaine Perswasion that deludes Fond Tractability with fallacies And such inducements forcibly intrudes Into Credulitie with Sophistries That man whom Reasons Index should direct Suggested is true iudgment to neglect Aske Contentation what 's Felicity And aske Felicity what is Content Aske life what is the death of misery And aske dumbe death what makes life permanent Peruse the Contents of contented minde Thou nought but Patience registred shalt find Tell Expectation Hap doth frustrate Hope Through frowning Fortunes fatall Accident Tell Auarice Vertue hath larger scope VVhere to erect the Mansion of Content And tell Content that Suffrance drew the plot Fit for foundation of so happy lot Tell India that gold 's but yellow earth Tell Greece that words are but a breathed sound Tell Ceres that all Plenties haue their dearth Tell stoutest Troy Hector is mortall found And tell thy selfe that wealth Art store and strength Prooues frailty want errour and neede at length Discretion censure which is better found Much to possesse and nethlesse liue in neede Or to enioy but little and abound So Competence Necessities may steede Brookes satisfie thirst with conuenient store The spacious Oceans liquid can no more Yes Seas may swallow Currents seldome drowne This vvorld includs such Gulfes of ouerthrowes For vvealths Deluge may ouerwhelme a Crowne When Desires flouds to inundations growes Sourging and sinking that waue-tossed minde VVhich sailes Impossibilities to find And therefore Resolution seale thy thought Soone to surrender thy dismembred state Because Contents Perfection is not bought Such firme Prouiso hath beene made by Fate VVhisper Chorebus in the eare that Clay Prooues loosing gamster with a knock to play For knowe Corruption will thee apprehend VVhen Sherife Death shall execute arrest And to thy sepulchre thee Captiue send To soiourne there till thy Debts be confest Till Summes be paid till thou acquittance haue Or Creditors Release thy Credit saue Sword sheath thy sharpe it 's neither edge nor point Nor target Buckler shield nor skill nor might That giues protection to thy safest ioint vvhen maistring Destinies proclaime their fight Chalenging a Quicunque vult to play About with them for Conquest of the day Gnatho Fates haue no eares to entertaine The sugred phrase of soothing Parasites And Ostentations brauings are but vaine Ther 's no regarde of proudest Thâ—…asonites For Adulation proues but idle breath Great words small wind when they sollicite death Prostrate thy person Magnanimity For Pompey doth and Potentate thou must Can Alexander lease his Chiualry No t' is expir'd and he dissolu'd to dust VVhere 's he that would Achilles armour haue Aiax in earth Vlisses lies in graue Cyrus his mouth with bowles of bloud hath fill'd vvhile Tomyris the royall Butler plaid Hell holds the Cob that bigger batnes would build vvith Soule consulting not to be denaide So their Desires some augmention ment vvhile sleeping thus they dream'd not of content But Affectation I haue past my word To Iustice Conscience worlds Court forsake vvhose Secretary Feare doth it record That in Contents Cell I must Mansion make And like a Hermit in that Residence Be weded and conuerse with Patience And from the many-headed multitude vvill sequester my presence and estate In secret scene my Comedy conclude And priuately with Meditation mate Then farewell pleasure and adew delight I le yeild to Fate that must with fortune fight Pompe Riot Ease delicious costly vaine Glory gold my Regeneration see Selfe-loue hope pleasure lust desires and gaine I haue subscrib'd with you at two to be Presumption fly with Dedalls son and fall Drown'd in the sea which men Icaâ—…ean call Intemperance doe not on Venus looke Chastity I haue vow'd to deify And register my name in Vestas booke And Cupids temples gods and Saints