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Satyres: and satyricall epigrams with certaine obseruations at Black-Fryers? By H:F: of Lincolnes-Inne gent
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Fitzgeffrey, Henry.
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1617
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STC 10945; ESTC S113885
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SATYRES AND SATYRICALL EPIGRAM'S With Certaine Obseruations at Black-Fryers By H F Of LINCOLNES-INNE Gent Horat Serm Lib. 1. Nil mî officit vnquam Ditior hic aut est quia Doctior est Locus vnicuique suus It neuer vexeth me a whit That this man hath more welth or wit Euery one hath where he may sit LONDON Printed by Edw All-de for Miles Patrich and are to be sold at his shop neare St. dnnstons-Dnnstons-Church in Fleet-street 1617. The Author in praise of his owne BOOKE COmmend my Selfe No! But my Booke I may And boldly blamelesse 't is Praise-worthy fay How so The sencelesse Substance well may plead My Selfe I was not when the Booke I made Of his deare Friend the Author H. F. OF what is heere thou 'lt not haue any write Prayses that willing would and iustly might Permit me then For I le Praise what I see Deficient heere thy name FITZ-IEOFFERY Where English FITZ aright and I ha' done So rightly art thou called IEOFFERYES-Sonne Then adde time Age but to thy industry In thee againe will liue Old-IEOFFERY NATH GVRLYN The Author's Answer OF what is Heere I forbid any Write Praises Why Nothing Heere can merite it Yet I le Permit thee Thou l't but Praise my Name And that 's Deficient Then Praise not for shame Where do FITZ right Write place it to â— minde Stil rightly must FITZ IEOFFERYES come behind wrought French must turne English first strange wonders Olde be a new Borne The Sonne brought to nought HORAT De Arte Poeti NVnc satis est dixisse Ego mira poemata pango Occupet extremum scabies Anglicè sic NOw 't is inough to speake I wondrous Poemes make Then Diuell the hindmost take Satyra prima LIB 1. VVHo'd not at venture Write So many waies A man may proue a Poet now a daies Does Nature witt afford to breake a Iest This is a Poet and his friends protest He is to blame he Writes not when indeed Th' Illiterate Gull can neither write nor read Let Nature faile Takes he but so much Paine To write obscurely adding so much Braine As end his crabbed sencelesse verse in Rime This might a Poet beene in Perseus time And more Though Horace in his book reherses Nature and Arte are both requir'd in Verses There are those of their Poetry will vaunt Which do God wote both Wit Learning want I know them Such as they at Table sit Each Iest you speake will to a Metre fit And thus your Witt 's sell for their priuate gaine And bee accouted Poets for their paine Others there are that Others workes suruay And must from all thinges some thing filtch away Who if to weaker Braines they can vnfolde A Learned Author nick a Phrase that 's olde Or change but one word in a line or two Straight all 's their owne they write who doubts it so When I wood scarce beleeu 't though they in fine To euery Verse subscribe By Ioue 't is mine Nor is 't inough they this in priuate show But these are Poets all the world must know 'T is strange to see what stretching is of Witâ— What spare of speech this plentious Presse begets Some if you keepe them company you 'l finde As choise to breake a Iest as to bteake winde And what 's the reason thinke ye Onely this All they can speak's too little for the Presse Where 't is not losse of Friend Life Libertie Shall cause them keepe a Iest in secrecy Others haue helpes when their Inuention faile Straight they begin abusiuely to raile Then out comes Whelps of the olde Dog for sport Shall barke at Great ones bite the meanet sort When the On-setters after all their paine For feare woo'd gladly call them in againe And these will Poets bee accounted too Because they Dare doe more then others doe Though they their Verses write a man may say As Clown's get Bastards and straight runne away Montanus needes will bee a Poet why Because the Muses on a Mountaine hy Inhabited Peto for that his Name Denotes him Poet in the Anagrame And Quaint Castilio since his Father dy'd Who many Volumes publish't and beside Diuers neglected Left vnto his Son Which dubbes him Poet by praescription True And Castilio will approued bee Or he will Print his Fathers Legacy And marke Crisippo but what shifts he 'l finde Ere he 'l bee counted once to come behinde In euery Booke he will bespeake afore The comming out roome for halfe a score Or a dozen Verses which he 'l hugely puffe With commendations of the Authors stuffe And in Hyperbolyes his Name extoll Yond Homer Virgill Ouide Iuuenall Vouching no better Volume ere was Writ And that himselfe hath had a Hand in it Oh this vaine Praise-Affecting Poetry Is a bewitching-itching Leoprosie That makes men Rub scrub rouz and touz their Braine Pump their Pates dry for Iests and all to gaine So much Report might serue to make them vaunt They are Applauded though of Ignorant They 'l snatch and scratch and scrape though nere so ill And rather smart then holde their fingers still Be there a Citty show or sight at Court Of Acts Heroicke or of Princely sport â—which right to write of or in Type to tell Might taxe a Daniels or a Spencers quill Marke how these hungerbit Inuentions scud To eye to spy All for no other good Then onely this poore this But to obtaine â—ome fodder for their needy greedy straine See then how Enuy gin's her eyes to â—at On dainties plenty and repines thereat How muttering Momus that knowes not to bite Grumbles and mumbles mouthfuls out of spite How currish Critticks most seuerely harke Ready at each sound of applause to barke How all together and how each a part Stretch retch faine strain Inuention Iudgement Art Raile Lybell what not Rather then labour loose Iest on your Gesture or be-lye your cloathes A subiect fitter for a Beadles fist Then the tart lines of a smart Satyrist Let Natures causes which are too profound For euery blockish sottish Pate to sound Produce some monster some rare spectacle Some seauen yeares Wonder Ages miracle Bee it a worke of nere so sleight a waight It is recorded vp in Metre straight And counted purchase of no small renowne To heare the Praise sung in a Market-towne How many Volumes lye neglected thrust In euery Bench-hole euery heape of dust Which from some Gowries practise Powder plot Or Tiburne Lectur's all their substance got Yet toâ—se our Time-stalles you ll admire the rout Of carelesse fearelesse Pamphlets flye about Bookes made of Ballades Workes of Playes Sightes to be Read of my Lo Maiors day 's Post's lately set forth Bearing their Backe at Letters of all sorts An intollerable Packet Villains discouery by Lanthorn and Candle-light strange if the author should not see it to haÌ„dle right A Quest of Inquirie Iacke a Douer's The Iests of Scoggin and diuers others which no man Better the Stationer knowes Wonderfull Writers Poets in