publique places to be heard and seene And so you shall for trust me you shall be Reer'd on a publique place the Pillorie Now my sweete Ape how brisk my Courtier goes A if for want of feete he went on 's toes You or I much mistake me make a sport To buy and sell our Offices in Court Our Imposts too you farme for such a sum And glory in your tricks when you have don For which neat Sir you shall by th' heeles be laid Till restitution to the State be made For you rich City-Ape who can devour Poore Widows houses cheat your Creditor And by Protections bearing such a date Wipe others of their owne inhance your State These I suppresse and if it shall appeare Your Sonne was not estated a whole yeare Before you broke your Creditors shall share Meane time of Pious Works you must take care For you penurious drudge who pores one earth And joyes in nought but in your Countrey dearth Twentie poore Soules you weekely shall maintaine During which time you shall not sell a graine For th s's the ayme which I doe levell at The leane Kine are to feed upon the fat For if the fat yeeld not the leane supplie The fat may ryot but the leane will die For you Law list for Laws are in your fist Ruling our Courts of justice as you list You shall be spar'd for climing up our stayres Betake you now unto your private prayers Meane time this Labell shall be writ and hung Upon your Gowne to manifest our wrong For love of bribes and for contempt of right My Master is become Anacorite For you Church-gnat who can observe the time And make your Coat a cover for your crime Who Church Revenues with your tricks inhance And pride you in your blockish ignorance Who to oppression and extortion sold Dishonour God idolotrize your gold Since gold my Prelate is to you so deere To India go you shall be Bishop there For you Sir Politick you are so wise I know not well what Project to divise To keepe your Brains a worke but for a space My Pleasure is that you doe leave this Place And not returne untill you understand What causeth dearth of money in our Land What way our best commodities doe go And whether they bring back as good or no. For you my Chimick Ape I muse you would Pore in a glasse and lose your hope of gold But let this passe I heare you have no skill And that in curing one you twentie kill Which to redresse I have by Act decre'd Your Vrinal be broken on your head And that you be indited of maâ—slaughter If ere you practise rules of Physick after Now for my Critick Ape that Demophon Who sweats i' th shadow shudders in the Sun Who never saw that man in all his dayes He could finde in his heart to love or praise He with his Gypsies is so fitly mated He will be taken hold on by the Statute Mean time let him by Foists and Bungs be friended It is not long till he must be suspended Be gon my Censure shall not be disputed This is decree'd and must be executed Affrighted with the Censure of each Ape Fearing my selfe were one I did awake But finding it a dreame I thought it fit Only for pastime-sake to publish it Similis mihi Simia nulla est Vpon the Censure of his Vision SOme Familist or punctuall Precisian Will sleight this worke because it is a Vision Saying That Visions are deceitfull things And to distraction our affection brings That this Luciferan Spirit takes the shape To gull th' imagination of an Ape Whence he inferres to prove these Visions evil That this same Ape is an incarnate devil All which I grant but likest of all other When he resembles such a Zealous Brother Truth is for sinns survey who would descry it Must closly doe 't or soone be censur'd by it Whereas 't were ' gainst all reason that to Prison One should be sent for seeing of a Vision But whether I be censured or no This will I say and you shall finde it so Viewing these grosse abuses of your minde This for a grounded maxim you shall finde Of all the Tyrants which the world affords Your owne affections are the fiercest Lords Ista Poemata non sine lepidula Genii facetia primùm Conscripta fuere An. Dom. 1625. The life of POLYMORPHUS SIMIANUS Author of this Poem POlymorphus Simianus a Florentine born a younger brother but well descended and during his minority in all generous free-born Studies trained He was naturally affected to Poesie from the delight whereof his Father being of eminent esteeme in Florence laboured to waine him by diverting his course that way and importuning him to the study of the Law Whereto having for some yeares applyed his minde he grew in short time indifferently furnished Neither was his practise lesse usefull then his knowledge fruitfull Albeit inwardly he could never relish nor palat that profession being as he termed it a practise whose materiall were extracted from extortion yet to give all possible content to his father he ever extended his best endeavour seemingly to further what he could not favour Being now growne a pretty good proficient in a profession contrary to his element you shall heare upon what occasion he became degraded from the benefit of his practise excluded and by a judicial though incompatible censure silenced Pleading one day with great vehemencie for his friend Farnesio a Citizen of approved honesty and whose cause deserved no lesse successe being in the judgement of the whole Court grounded on equity and uprightnesse He perceived the Judge of the Court to be more indulgent to the Advers part so as the more he pressed it the more did the Judge sl ight and disvalue it Wherefore being without expectance of reliefe for his much injured friend as one eyther transported with passion to see corruption seated on the throne of Judgement or transpierced with affection to see his honest friend so highâ—y wronged with a spirit no lesse resolved then enraged he thus accosted the Judge My Lord quoth he my comfort is though this gentleman my clyent be by your Lordship injuriously censured the date of your commission for sitting on Judgement is almost expired so as our hope is by your Successour we shall be redressed Expired said the Judge how doe you meane I meane replied Simianus you are at the point of death Your reason quoth the Judge for I feele no such matter in my selfe The more dangerous is your malady answered Simianus for diseases insensible are ever held most incurable but to resolve your doubt with an infallible reason your Lordship knowes it is an ancient sacred ceremony here in Florence as in all other Catholique Countries for the sick immediatly before the approching instant of their dissolution to receive from a religious man thereto ordained and consecrated extreme unction The Judge perceiving whereto his meaning tended covertly implying corruption by
in his life appeares To have his hatefull skin pul'd ore his eares Yet has this got a Pardon and much more By an imposed fine beg'd long before For this same worldly wise oppressing Hammon Hath made him friends by his unrighteous MaÌ„mon Fore-seeing well he stood on such false ground His naughty cause would force him to compound Whence there appears great wrong for it is sed Such have his Fine as nere were injured The poore-ones suffer and their wrong express But all their cries can get them no redress Which if our Prince so gracious is he knew Hee 'd cause him make what restitution's due And feed none such in their unbounded riot Who with their surfeits doe the State disquiet But see by talking of these corrupt Benches I 'de like to have forgot three of my Senses Nor were 't a wonder Some by being crost In course of Justice all their Senses lost Well might I then forget my Senses too Having with unjust men so much to doe But I have heard more than I meane to tell My Eare is clos'd now must I to my Smell THis Sense in mee doth such delight begit As Mines of Treasures shall not purchase it In every secret corner of my Grate I can Smell some abuses in the State Here one both great and of as strong a savor By going brisk and neate creepes into favor Another holds concurrence with the time And hee will fall before he will not clime Here a brave spritely Youth who as they say Was but a Ladies page the other day And such was femal bounty liv'd upon her Refines my Smell with his perfumed honor There one who hath more worship farr then wit And more estate than pate to mannage it Here one a lovely Lady in her time Paints to repaire those Lillies that decline Who old in yeeres but youthfull in desire Cold in the pulse but hot in fancies fire And her I Smell for though her face be dyed With purest colours she is Mortified No Saint yet earthly sented for her breath Proves she is mortall and must cope with death But who coms here I smel one neer approaching What Madam would doe all the day long Coaching I know her well shee doth a Husband want And 's held the only choice Court-visitant For feminine discourse though now and then She talks so broad she 'd shame a thousand men How far this Dame is out of knowledg growne Some ten yeeres since shee came but to the town With a french fidler and sung northern jigs And after sold false Tyres and Periwigs The very first inventresse of Goats haire Ceruse from Venice and adultrate ware Besides shee purchas'd of a Jew of late A fucus for the face at such a rate As had Some Ladies nere desir'd to try it And paid well for 't shee had been loser by it Yet howsoere this Maquerella trade She 's tane in Court and City for a maid Though I suspect for I have heard it said Shee stood in neede once of Lucina's ayd But shee is now grown great what matter then If Lais like shee cope with twenty men For there is none held now in all our Nation So fâ—râ—â—â— give young Ladies education So gâ—aâ—efull in her carriage and discourse Though vertue say shee never heard a worse For shee whom vertue guides will never seeke With shop bought beauty to adorn the cheeke But ' zlid who 's this smels in my nose so rank Pandora that same Lady Mountebank Who keeps a Catalogue of all diseases And choice receits to cure them as shee pleases Besideâ— Provocatives shee has such plenty Hâ—r well-frequented Shop is never empty If an affection to a wench should move you Shee has a powder too will cause her love you Are you by night time troubled with the Mare About your great toe shee will ty a haire Or subject unto dreaming shee 'll assure you She has a soveraign oyle will throughly cure you Or pain'd with aches shee has in her pack A Balm that cur'd one tortur'd on the Rack Or hyde-bound she has by her such a Stone As it hath pow'r to raise the skin from bone Shee has a water that in little space Will take away all wrinkles from the face Reube the blood refresh a wasted brain And like Medaeas charme bring youth again And if you would beleeve what she 'll relate Shee 'll tell you of a cure shee wrought of late Upon a great and noble person too Who struck in age yet had a mind to woo A fresh young girle but he thought the sight Of his white-haires would dash his motion quite Which to prevent hee to this Artist came Who by receits as quickly cur'd the same Within four daies all his white-haires were reft him Which I beleeve for not a hayre was left him Briefly for all cures shee so far surpasses Galen and Paracelsus were but Asses Compar'd to her sith there be greater store Of Maladies then have been heretofore When nationall diseases that did show Their dire effects to some one place or two Are now grown universall for since than French Dutch Italian Neopolitan Have sought unto our Coast their Sores to carry Where they are grown in time hereditary But who is this I sent A sack of dust And mouldred ashes yet as full of lust As if her stirring blood begun to melt With thought of youth and nere had winter felt Has she no Husband me thinks she should stir him Shee has a Husband but she cares not for him Those that are chaste affect no choice but shee Would surfeit had shee not varietie So strong 's her appetite that in her plenty She glories more then if shee were but twenty Such sweetness brings sins custom as once in Delight in Sin removes all sense of Sin More do I smell for I am not invited But with my Smelling only am delighted A solemn bride-pie which upon my life Is for that fox-furd Burgomasters wife Now gone to marry and has hope to breed Yet has not one found tooth in all her head So as this youth struts by his old Trots side For all the world like Battus with his Bride But stand for see his Crest displaid in paste One who nere lov'd the church to church doth haste To spouse his youthfull Bride whom as 't is said Hee in her Husbands life time formalled Whose corpse scarce cold no nor the poorest worm Entred his coffin nor his shroud-sheet torn His Obits done or funeral-torch burn't out But shee 's so hot shee needs must go unto 't Where arm in arm and cheeke to cheeke they meete Leaving her dead Lord to his winding-sheete Whence I conclude as Sexton once did cry With a loud voice to such as passed by How short 's a womans grief within three daies Rosemary sprigs are turn'd to gilded Bayes Thus may you see when I no Flow'rs may take Of Weeds for need I can a posie make And smell them too although they give no Sent
by the former Laws and Provisions ordained the Commissioners appointed have limited power to examine the Bankrupt himselfe c. But â—â—me doubt hath beene made whether their power d d exâ—end to examine the wives of the Bankrupts coâ— hâ—â—g the same by reason whereof the Bankrupts 〈◊〉 doe daily conceale and convey away and â—ause to bee conveyed much part of their husbands monies wa es c. by meanes whereof much of the B nkrupts estate is concealed and deteined fâ—â—m 〈◊〉 Creditors For cleering the said doubt 〈◊〉 it Declared and Enacted by the Authority aâ—â—â—esaid that after such time as any person shallby 〈…〉 Commissioners executing the said Commission or â—he greater part of them bee lawfully 〈◊〉 or declared to be a Bankrupt the said â—â—mmissioners executing such Commission shall 〈◊〉 power and authority to examine upon Oath 〈…〉 â—â—fe and wives of all and every such Bankrupt for the finding out * 〈…〉 â—e this 〈…〉 and discovery of the estate and estates goods and chattels of such Bankrupt or Bankrupts â—â—ncealed secretly kept or disposed of by such 〈◊〉 or wives in their own persons or by their â—wne act or meanes or by any other person or perâ—â—â—s And that shee and they the said wife and w ves shall incur such danger and penalty for not c ming before the said Commissioners or for refusing to bee sworne and examined or for not disclosing the truth upon her or their examination or eâ—â—minations as in and by the said former Lawes or eyther of them is already made and provided against any other Person or Persons in like Cases And if any Bankrupt shall upon his or her exâ—mination taken before the said Comm ssioners be found fraudulently or deceitfully to have conveyed away his or her goods chattels c. to the value of twenty pounds or above purposely to hinder the execution of this Statute shall not upon his or her examination discover unto the said Commissioâ—ers and if it lie in their power deliver to the said Commissioners all that estate goods and chattels so fraudulently and deceitfully conveyed away shall or may bee indicted for such fraud or abuse at the Assizes or generall Sessions c. and if upon such Indictment or Indictments the Bankrupt bee thereof convicted hee or shee so convicted shall bee set upon the Pillory * Mark this my sorowfull Sisters woâ—ull wives to the br k n rater 〈◊〉 be not careâ—â—ssâ— o◠〈…〉 lâ—st ye become a 〈◊〉 spectacle oâ— the publick Pillory in some publick place for the space of two houres have one of his or her ears nailed to the Pillory and cut off And for that some doubt is conceived whether the CoÌ„missioners in case of resistance have power by the former Lawes to breake opâ—n or cause to bee broken open the House or Houses of such Bankrupts c. Bee it therefore Enacted That in execution of the said Commission it shall bee lawfull to and for the said Commissioners or any other Person or Persons by them or the greater part of them deputed by their warrant or warrants under their hands and seales to breake open the House or Houses chambers shops warehouses c. where the said Bankrupt or any of his or her goods or estate shall be or reputed to be and to seizâ— them and order the Body Goods and Chattels ready money and other estate of such Bankrupt as by the said former Lawes are limited and appointed And for the better division and distribution of the Lands Tenements Hereditaments c. amongst his or her Creditors Bee it Enacted that the Commissioners or the greatest part of them shall and may examin upon Oâ—th or by any other waies or meanes as to them shall seeme meete any Person or Persons for the finding out and discovery of the truth and certaintie of the severall debts due and owing to all such Creditor and Creditors as shall seeke reliefe by such course of Commission to bee sued forth as aforesaid And that all and every Creditor and Creditors having security for his or their severall Debts by Judgment Statute Recognizance c. or having made Attachment in London or any other place by virtue of any custome there used of the goods and chattels of any such Bankrupt whereof there is no Execution or Extent served and executed upon any the Lands Tenements H reditaments Goods Chattels and other estate of such Bankrupt before such time as hee or shee shall or doe become Bankrupt shâ—ll not bee relieved upon any such Judgement Statute Recognizance Specialty Attachment or other security for more then a rateable part of their just and due debts And bee it further Enacted That if any the Lands Tenements Goods Chattels Debts or other estate of any Bankrupt bee extended after such time as hee or shee is become a Bankrupt by any person or persons under colour of pretence of his or their being an accountant or any way indebted unto our Soveraigne his Heirs or Successors that then it shall bee lawfull to and for the said Commissioners to examine upon Oath whether the said Debt were due to such Debtor or Accomptant And if such contract was originally made it shall and may bee lawfull to and for the said Commissioners to order determine and dispose of all such Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods Chattels and Debts so extended as aforesaid to and for the use of the Creditors which shall seeke reliefe by the said Commission And for that it often falls out that many persons before they become Bankrupt doe convey their goods to other men upon good consideration yet still doe keepe the same and are reputed the owners thereof and dispose the same as their owne Bee it Enacted That if at any time hereafter any person or persons shall become Bankâ—upt and at such time as they shall become Bankrupt shall by the consent and permission of the true owner and proprietarie have in their possession order and disposition any goods or chattels whereof they shall bee reputed owners and take upon them the sale alteration or disposition as owners that in every such case the said Commissioners or the greater part of them shall have power to sell and dispose the same to and for the benefit of the Creditors which shall seeke reliefe by the said Commission as fully as any other part of the estate of the Bankrupt And for the better payment of debts and discouraging men to become Bankrupts Bee it further Enacted that the said Commissioners on whom this Authority is expresly conferred or the greater number of them shall have power by virtue of this Act by Deede indented and inrolled within six moneths after the making thereof in some of his Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster to grant bargain sell and convey any Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments whereof any Bankrupt is 〈◊〉 shall be in any waies seized of any estate in tayle in possession reversion or remainder and whereof no reversion or remainder is
brood and Sathans bride Pitied least when most distrest Hated most when envied lest So as question may be made Whether that her Corps now laid And inter'd in Natures brest Will endure in Earth to rest Or her ashes after death Will not with infectious breath Staine that holy plot of ground Where her lustfull Corps are found But howere her body be Sure I am that infamie Will ne'r leave her but will have Still her foote upon her Grave Graving this upon her Tombe As a Theame in time to come Here lies young Messalina whose foul lust Pios'd with revenge proves thus much God is just For heate of lust immixt with height of blood Had never deeper dye in Womanhood PHIL. PORTERS Elegie In answer to a Libelling Ballader seeking by his mercenary Pen to traduce his honour CEase Ballader in censuring PHIL PORTER Thou dost but bray thy Brain-pan in a Morter Hee was a Man of men and women too And could doe more then Others Hectors doe For th' Style of Honour hee stood stiffe upon 't And would far sooner give then take affront Besides he shew'd compassion all his life In taking a doom'd * A Capâ—ive in Newgate shortly after executed at Tiâ—urne Pris'ner to his wife Saying She should bee cheer'd before shee dy Wedding and hanging goe by destiny In one word none to Fortune lesse beholden Who was in Fare more choice nor Pocket golden His death divin'd a rare Prophetick fate By his prevention of an Act of State Where Hectors are a strict account to give How and by what wayes their ranting humors live For arm'd with resolution hee thought fit To passe from hence before hee answer'd it Should Death thus seize on all our ruffling Fry That Act might cease because the Actors dy His farewell to Poetry Carmina secessum scribentis otia quaerunt BOOKES fare yee well your Author now is hurl'd Like a transformed thing into the World Now am I grown as like as like may be To earth-turn'd Chremes in the Comedie Now must I take more care then doth become me For many Items which have quite undone me Item for sope and candles are but small Compar'd with those that I 've to deale withall My cares be many though my coyne be more Which add affliction to my carefull store Those Tales which I on winter nights have told When I was casten in a merry mold And those same Songs whereof I had such choice Not only I 've forgot but lost my voice I who of late so cheerfully did looke And with a wench could drinke a Sillibooke Am of that ashie hue scarce one 'mong ten Can know me now that knew my visage then Yea I 'm so muddy growne as now of late I can scarce laugh at any good conceite Yea one may talke to mee a summer day And I nere heare one word that he doth say So clotted am I growne with worldly pelfe As I much feare I shall forget my selfe If I but misse the key of such a chest Till I have found it I can take no rest For I am jealous still and full of care Lest some base knave should in my fortunes share Besides when rest should my lul'd senses keepe Strange visions startle mee and break my sleepe Sometime I see a sharke which makes mee shake The keyes of all my treasure sliely take Under my pillow and awak't with feare Me thinks I catch the Rogue fast by the eare But comming to my selfe I finde right soone My hand upon no Rogues eare but mine owne Straight in a broken slumber doe I heare Fire fire me thinks resounding ev'ry where Which feare of fire begets in mee desire To pisse my bed that I may quench the fire Much better was my State and far more free When I remaind i' th Vniversitie Where as I had nought so I car'd for nought But for the pitch of knowledg which I sought Having both cheerfull sleep and healthfull ayre And Stomach too hows'ere my commons were What chioce delights were then afforded us In reading Plutarch Livie Tacitus Or the Stagyrians rare Philosophie Whereto the Indi may not compared be With all their precious oare For I did finde No Mine on earth could so enrich the minde But see how I am chang'd from what I was For now I prize more Isis goldan Asse Who has more means then brains then such an one Whose parts are many though his meanes be none Besides no Authors can I brooke to read But such as in mee hope of profit breed I have no time to think of Conscience For timely thrift and Ant-like providence I weigh no Protestant nor Catholick Give mee a Georgick or a Bucolick To teach mee what a Grazer doth befit And for my tillage how to husband it Yea lest I err in rules of husbandrie An Erra-pater keeps mee companie To tell mee which are good-dayes which are ill And this I keepe closse in my bosom still With Pallingenius too I oft converse Whose sense I relish better then his verse Where I collect by th' influence of each Star What yeere is mark'd for famine what for war And if I finde a deere yeere like to be My store shall make that yeere my Jubile Nor have I only bid my Books a dieu But yee that are good-fellows unto you For what should I doe sitting of a shot Who set more by my penny then my pot 'T is strange to see how with a little state I 'm wholy metamorphosed of late Before I could not brooke to have a moate So briske and spruce I was upon my coate Now earths affections are to mee so moving As I am grown a very arrant sloving Besides I feele a misery in store For I am far more sparing then before My care of thriving makes mee one of those Who ride their Gelding barefoote to save shoes Nor can I be disswaded from the same Till under mee I feele my Palfrey lame The smallest trifle makes mee discontent And with my houshold so impatient As all the day I chafe I fume I fret And for no cause at all my servants beat If any Neighbours doe lesse then become them I presently commence a suite upon them And for a Goose-gate that I more may spite them Of trespass at next Sessions I 'le indite them So as of late by trifling Suits I 'm growne The Commonst-Barretter in all our towne And for as much as I doe know the fashion Is now a dayes bartring Impropriation And Presentations too it is my thrift To seeme to give yet profit by my gift Free from which crime of beneficed men It 's very rare to finde one among ten For Symonie is such a common sin More Prelats by the window doe get in Then by the Door so as my manner 's now To wipe my mouth and doe as others doe For I doe hold that rich Drones doctrine best Who though he cannot preach can cram my chest For my Donation then who will come by it Be
private Parlor where I sup Where any one by drawing up the latch Might judge how much I did approve the match But see what chanc't Last day a busie knave This Spanish Picture hapned to perceive Which hee observing told me he did muse Why I would hang such Pictures in my house As gave distaste unto the publick State And made their proffers projects of deceite Where I reply'd it little me behov'd To hate that Picture which my Prince once lov'd Yet lest it should give scandall or offence I caus'd it streight to be removed thence Nor is my eye delighted only there But with selectedst melody mine eare With choycest cates my liqu'rish appetite With od'rous perfumes I my smell delight And with embraces amorous as may be Touch I my Lordships wife but not a Ladie Thus ev'ry Sense enjoys his earthly blisse As if my heav'n were where my Palace is For nought on earth doth in me griefe begit But only one and I will tell you it It is intended having cure of Soules That upon summons I should preach at Paules Which though it come scarce once in twenty yeere I 'm sick when I should make my Sermon there So as enforc't by my infirmitie Or want of brains I hire a Deputie Which done I make returne from whence I came And thank my wits for shielding me from shame Some other usefull projects I intend Now when I feele I 'm drawing neere my end For doubtlesse some would think I foulely er'd If I should leave my children unprefer'd So as grown weak my wife and children doubt me And like Jobs comforters they cling about me Advising me as they poor Orphans are Not for my Soul for that 's their least of care But that I would take course to settle on them Some meanes that they may live as doth becom theÌ„ Likewise my wife puts finger in the eye And says her joynture dies when I doe die This makes me plot how these â—hings may be don When other matters should be thought upon First how my ofspring may preferment have Before the mete-wand measure out my grave Secondly how their Mother may be sped Of some young Ruffin when her Bishop's dead Which to effect there 's nought so fully pleases As the renewall of concurrent Leases Admit thâ—y doe defeat him that succeeds me This gainfull guilefull contract much besteeds me For by this meanes revenues I bestow Both on my wife and on my children too This makes me send my Briefes from day to day If any one will Leases take they may And at more easie rate then ere they had Which makes my Leasers run as they were mad Thus live or die seven yeers apprentiship Has taught me how to geld a Bishoprick Which to good use converted I see not But it may thrive though indirectly got For if no ill-got-goods thrive in this Nation Some would seeme base who now are men of fashion The Judiciall Ape BRave Apes briske Bungs yet they must leave the field And to an ancient Bencher learne to yeeld Fox-fur'd 's my Gowne and smooth my close-cut chin But far more Foxly-smooth am I within Gravely can I for lucre-sake protest And clap mine unctuous fist upon my brest Ev'n when my heart 's as neer unto my mouth As East is to the West or North to South Musaeus came the other day to me A curious wit for straines of Poesie And he besought me in a Cause as good As truth could make it if well understood To be his friend and I did promise him But breach of promise is with us no sin He mee accoutred with his words of Art And I admit'd him too for his good part Ripe was his judgement and his wit as quick Garnish'd with copious flowers of Rhetorick But these are tongue ty'd Orators with me Who would have me his friend must bring his feâ— Yet for all this I will not stick to chide If any come to tempt me with a Bribe For I would have these wittalls understand Fees must passe by my servants to my hand I take no Fees my selfe they may fee Ned They need not feare their cause if he be sped For we have Tarriers Agents Instruments To ope the Cabinet of our intents And plot our purposes give them their due And these we use as men should use a scrue These be our Harping-irons that will draw Like Ferrets these minc'd-Maggots of the Law Who when their cause must to a hearing come Next night before unto my chamber run And currie favour all the waies they can To get admittance to me by my Man Which got they finde me in Majestick sort Starching my beard or reading a Report While each of these more scurvy Court'sies makes Then upon Whitby-Strand are shapes of Snakes Which country Congies were they ten times worse Shew State enough because they cram my purse Suppose then how these Russetings appeare Wholly divided betwixt hope and feare At whose approach I lay aside my booke Teaching my face a Radamanâ—hâ—an looke Sirrahs What make you here who sent you hither Your man scarce mutter they walk knaves together Thus fret I like gumm'd grogran which once past I deigne to take a superficiall taste Of their ill-open'd cause and give them hearing Whâ—ch I â—â—tend next morning to appeare in Yet so as if it nought concerned me Bâ—â— out of meere respect to equitie Though I doe prize thâ— justice of his Cause As much as old Sysambris did his Lawes Buâ— being heard I doe dâ—meane me so I get â—oth coyne and good opinion too Thus doe my plots work for a thriving end I â—oll the poor yet I 'm the poor-mans friend Nâ—â— am I alwaies held the same I seeme For in my time I have a Nigler been So as in privacy I sometimes must With my seer'd bones quench the desire of lust A faire poor Client fall she in my dish I le tickle her for forma-pauperis Downe goe my trunck-hose with their gravity To cope for once with acts of levity Her Case I le put like to a man of Law B e'â— right or wrong I doe not care a straw My Bon-a-Roba shee the day shall win Nor â—pend a graine but what she spent in sin I weigh not what the world doth Judge of me My saplesse-age pleads my Apologie Appius has silent tongue but speaking eyes Yet who saith Appius loves Virginia lyes Yet they can tell you that do better know me How none sometimes can have admittance to me Fit were it then ye were advis'd when time is For now and then I drinke a cup of nimis So as to sleep so soundly I betake me A thousand Cannons scarcely could awake me Yet see my boldnesse while my thirst I drench In profuse cups I sometimes mount the Bench And gives my cup-shot-judgement out of hand Ere I the Case or Preadings understand And who dare well control me sith these shelves Which wrack my wits my fellows feel themselves Besides if any in my friends Case do
those spels But they that know him think 't is something elss And will not stick vnder the Rose to speak That this same Docter is indeed his Tweak But what have they or I to doe with him If it be so 't is but a Lordly Sin Many have beene and so no doubt will be Bewitcht with Objectâ— meaner farre then she Yâ—t I 'me resolv'd they judge not farre amisse Who say that he 's Bewitcht for so he is For who unlesse drawne in by some impostor Would such a Blouse to his dishonour fostâ—r Now were it fit likâ— Glow-wormes to discover Mâ—ting and meetings of so great a Lover Admiâ— you know extortion in the Land In officers corâ—uptiâ—n under hand Symony Bâ—ocage Rapine Sacriledge Mâ—y you not see the Age grant priviledge Tâ— such State-epidemicall disâ—ases What profit gets it generally pleases Why Sir I see as much as you can see For my whole life is Albions scrutinie In City Court and Couâ—try I doe want For no inteâ—ligence for I doe hant Wâ—th ciâ—cumspection every nooke and angle And how our State-impostors doe intangle Ouâ— unexperienc'd New comes I observe it And how they ' r honour'd most that least deserve it All which I could display and draw the lines Of all their actions to succeeding times To make men wonder at but pray thee say Would this reclaime these State moaths any way Or dart a blush in any of their faces Or â—ake them wearie of their purchas'd places Or strike a terrour in their conscience Or einsâ—all lost justice to her Bench Wâ—uld it mâ—ke one man good that now is evil Or weane one sâ—ule from serving of the devill Lasse no Sir Though from God you have your warrant And faiâ—hfully perfoâ—m his sacred arrant When so small benâ—fit is wâ—ought by th' Pulpit Dâ—e you by Satyrizing hope to help it Is all the Tribe of Levi so farre short Or shallow to improve reprove exhort As thâ—y must silenc'd be while you begin To taxe theâ— Coat because â—hey taxe not sin You are too bold Sir in youâ— fluent straine And tenders that which none will entertaine For doe you thinke we live in such an Age A Clergie man will loose a Parsonage Before he scourge not sinne it cannot be For how should he relieve his familie His hopefull O â—ve branches with his Spouse With all the hâ—ly Meynie of his house If he should not dispence with his Creatour And smooth the sinne of his Impropriatour Or that an Officer in any Court Will rectifie himselfe by your report Or purchase to his soul least hope of blesse By taking of a poore man one fee lesse For though Extortion be I gâ—◠〈◊〉 a sin This course would goe well neere to begger him A place that at so deaâ—e a â—aâ—e is bought Most be imploy'd for gaine not soâ—d for nought Or that a Lawyer should his practise make Lessâ— for himselfe thâ—â— for his Clyents sake Or use that glibberie mâ—mber of hiâ— Tongue To further right and not to bolster wrong For so he shâ—ulâ— gâ—â—w out of practise quite And wrong himselfe by doing others right For right and wrong though they contraries be Yet wrong does right if it bring in a fee Or a Physitian whose Empyrick Hâ—nd Must kill downe right before he understand Should apprehend remorse when as by doses He weighs his Physick out but not the losses Oâ— his abused Patients who with gâ—ones Must loose their lives and substance both at once These hauing novght to give must be forsaken And if they die the care is quickly taken Or a Civilian thâ—ugh Conscience be Thâ— Oâ—j ct of his Law will loose his fee Or not protract a Cause and make a sturre By plodding some impertinent demurre For he such store of Presidents can show That then examples tell him what to doe And will secure him onely leâ— pretences Guilded with sanctity disguise offences Or that a Rorer wâ—ll his Oathes forbeare Or shudder when he does Gods judgements heare Or leave his Brothellâ— or his midnight revells Oâ— leave consorting with his fâ—mal Devels For so he should abandon all his joy And loose thâ— Title of a roring Bâ—y No Sâ—â— these taskes surpasse â— Critick straine And make him wash the Blackamoore in vaine Yet I pâ—â—sâ—ade me you exprest your zeale In youâ— dimensions to the Commonwâ—ale And that your meaning was to waine the State From some of that which all good people hate But where sinne 's grow to ripenessâ— you must know Good meanings and intentions will not doe So delicate aâ—e these corrupted times As none must taxe or taint heir swelling crimes But tell me in good sadnâ—sse what 's the cause To think your Lives more powerful â—hen our Lawes If an Oppressor hatefull Contractâ— make Our Laws can bring hâ—m hâ—â—â— a Bâ—â—re to th' stake The Cunningst Church thiefe be he neere so great When on e detectâ—d for a Counterfeatâ— Must not uncensnâ—'d passe nor any one Who in a civill State shall throw a Bone So as in my Opiâ—ion from the State Such Stigmaticks doe highly derogate Who judge their Muse mongst men t' have more command Then all the Lawes and Statutes of our Land But to remove this Error I thinke fit If any one have mind to shew his wit That in obscurer manner he disclose it Least too much plainenesse make the Satyre lose it This moved some as in their workes we find In Hieroglyphicks to expresse their mind Or like choyce Heralds to finde out a Crest Fitting the forme and nature of the Beast As some of our spruce-silken Curtaine Lords Who shew their worth in their imperious words Have beene displaid and shadow'd to their shame Yet know not who nor where they wounded them But most of these their Dingity have lost And can of nought but painted Scutchions boast This Course was held at first and ever since The freest from distaste and from offence For when we darkely write thanks be to Heav'n So small a portion of conceit is given To our Magnifico's as when they read us They understand us not or never heed us Which happy ignorance secures our pen And makes them laugh at us that nettle them In these darke colours have I drawne the shapes Of vicious Silke wormes in this Age of Apes Which shâ—dow'd with a Vision may doe good To purge if not to purifie the blood Nor would I have this to be held in me Weaknâ—sse of courage or timiditie For in a Cause where I intend to doe Service to God I ne're did terror know Nor doe I see ought in this vale of teares Which should beget in me such fruitlesse feares The Substance I enjoy I nere did gather But as a Birth-right left me by my Father For had my fortunes hung upon my care My part had com'â— unto an easie share But what I now possesse be it more or lesse I never wâ—sh God may it longer blesse Then I shall willingly forgoâ— the same To honour God and magnifie his name