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A38641	An essay upon satyr, or, A poem on the times under the names of the golden age, the silver age, the brazen age, and the iron age : to which is added, A satyr against Separatists.	Buckingham, John Sheffield, Duke of, 1648-1720 or 21.; Dryden, John, 1631-1700.	1680 (1680)	Wing E3299; ESTC R13552	32,624	92

Or guilty Conscience made extravagant Flockt in to make up this new Colonie Where hainous Crimes had got a Jubilee And as in this so 't is in every State Men of low Fortunes envy still and hate The good extol the bad they dis●pprove All ancient Laws and novelties do love Disdain their own Estates and envy those Whose Wealth above their ruin'd Fortune goes These are secure from Troubles for they 're poor And come what can they can't be made much more Nor was 't a small incentive to behold How the poor Skowndrels wallowed in Gold How Kingly in their Diet and Array And how they do their betters daunt and sway To whom they had been Vassals heretofore And been perhaps relieved from their Door This made the Peasant who did work for'shire Or Beg or Steal leave Ploughing and aspire To imitate the rest as well's he can First steals a Horse and then 's a Gentleman A young Physitian well may guess th' events Of Medicines made of such ingredients For how unlikely is't things should go right When th'Devils Souldiers for God's Cause do fight 'Mongst these they stole the Hearts of some that be True-meaning-men of Zeal and Piety Though ignorantly zealous still possest By their strange Doctrine that none could be blest That were not Actors who did Neuters stand God would spue out Opposers out of hand Should be cut off No Mercie they decreed To th' Enemie though Christ should intercede No pardon but their Goods Moneys and all As guerdon of their facts to them should fall Wealth Pleasure Honour that were wont to be The general spurs to all Activitie Were largely promis'd unto every one Just as they found his inclination It was esteem'd an ordinary grace For broken Citz to get a Captains place The Wealthy Citizens whose glut'nous eye Gaz'd on the publick Faith that Lotterie Though they for fear or shame were loth to do it They 'd cut down Boughs and cry Hosanna to it They brought their Plate and Money to this Bank Hoping for Prizes but draw forth a Blank Themselves reserve the Prizes and this stands Still gaping like the Bottomless Quick-sands You might track Plate like Beasts to th'Lion's Den How much went in but none come out agen Here was our Primum mobile of woe This was the Mother and the Nurse on 't too Thus many were drawn in But those that were Not mov'd by love were driven on by fear CHAP. VI. THe adverse part perceiving their intents Prepar'd them powers for their own defence The Gentry for the baseness they did do Were quite discountenanc'd and justly too They grew degenerate and Gentilitie Was but a Nick-name or a Liverie Which every wealthie Clown might have and wear And be stil'd Worshipful They took no care To keep their blood untainted from the stain Of Vulgar sordidness and so maintain The glorie of their Ancestors that be Deriv'd to them from vast Eternitie But mixt the blood that had inrich'd their Veins With each ignoble Slave or Trull for gains Learning Wit Vertue Birth Report that be Essential bases of Gentilitie Vail'd all to Wealth and that 's the Cause we finde So many rich in Purse so few in Minde How many Justices did Wealth advance That had nothing to show but Ignorance They liv'd like Cedars and their drops from high Made th' Poor like under-woods to starve and die That in what place we saw so many Poor Some great man liv'd not far we might be sure Now these that so imperiously did awe When they perceiv'd men did not care a straw For their Commands but that the Shrub began To be as stately as the Gentleman Then they though not for Conscience-sake oppose Them that t' infringe the Kinglie pow'r arose The truly Noble Heroes for there be Two contrarieties in each degree Are by the blindfold people made to bear In suffering though not in sin a share For when the Vulgar to be Judges come Then all must suffer for the fault of some They quickly saw when the bold Subject dares Usurp Kings Rights 't is time to look to theirs The Vulgar knowing little but b'ing led By th'Priests or Gentry joyn to make a head Each as his phansie leads him Some ambidextrous villains took one part And yet held with the other in their heart Such men desire our Wars may still encrease And fear of nothing but a needy Peace Mean while the Neuters Jacks of both sides stand Poysing themselves on both yet neither hand Like Goddesses of Victory attend To take the Conquerers part i' th' latter end Those that are wisest were they Argos-ey'd And Bithyan-like had every eye suppli'd With double sight yet they could hardly see Which side to take and save their Bacon free So betwixt both these civil Wars ore-whelm Th' whole superficies of this wretched Realm This Land that was a Canaan while 't was good Is now the sad Aceldama of Blood CHAP. VII ANd now the great State-gamesters plainly finde All either stir'd in body or in minde The Instruments prepar'd to work they fall Ambiguous Oaths Treasons Original They now invent impose first men are made To swear amiss and then they do perswade Those Oaths binde them to do what these intend Stretching poor souls to bring about their end Now Jealousies and Fears which first arose From the polluted Consciences of those That were the first contrivers these divide The Limbs from th' Head nay from themselves beside One won't confide in t'other this although It rose from nothing to a world did grow Nor did it lose by th'way● like Balls of snow It bigger still as it did go did grow Both separate themselves and each intends Distance a great advantage to their ends Those that had active been on either side Are mutually accus'd sent for deny'd This makes both stick to what they had begun And each his course more eagerly did run First they fall to 't by Pen which did incense Both parties with a greater vehemence From hence Names of disgrace at first arose And each to other made more odious And the amazed people did invite To lay aside their tedious Peace and fight They plainly saw the War before they could Discern the Cause on 't and they might behold Th' effects though not the Quarrel they well knew That they must feel the War and end it too War like a Serpent at the first appear'd Without a Sting that it might not be fear'd But having got in 's head begins to be The sole Monopolist of Monarchie Thus by degrees we ran from Peace to go Downward was easie but b'ing once below To re-ascend that glorious Hill where bliss Sits thron'd with Peace oh what a labour ' t is Our floating eyes in Seas of Tears may see The Heav'n we 're faln from but our miserie Does more encrease to Tantalize to th'brink In happiness when yet we cannot drink Now we must fight for Peace whose worth by most Was not discern'd till utterly 't was lost

AN ESSAY UPON SATYR OR A POEM On the TIMES Under the NAMES of The Golden Age The Silver Age The Brazen Age and the Iron Age To which is Added A SATYR against Separatists The Laws themselves grew lawlesse and the Tribes O' th' Gown entail'd their Consciences for Bribes Like Cobwebs Laws the lesser Flies entrap But Great Ones might break thorow and escape Brazen Age Cap. 8. P. 19. LONDON Printed for Tho. Dring at Chancery-Lane End in Fleetstreet 1680. The GOLDEN AGE CHAP. I. GOne are those Golden Halcyon-days wherein Men uncompell'd for love of good fled sin When men hug'd right truth whose souls being clear Baffled the threats of punishment or fear No Laws no Penalties but there did rest A Court of Equity in each mans brest No trembling Pris'ner to the Bar did come From his severer Judge t' expect his Doom No need of Judge or Executioners To keep by Law that which by Right was theirs The Pine not then his Mother-Mountains leaves To dance Lavalto's on th' unconstant waves Walls cloath'd not Towns nor did mens safety stand In moving Forts by Sea or fixt by Land They understood not Guns nor Spears nor Swords Nor Cause nor Plunder and such Martial words No Armed Souldier stood for their defence Their chiefest Armour was their Innocence Mans quiet Nature did not feel that fire Which since inflames the World too great desire Kings did not load their heads with Crowns nor try By force or fraud t' invade the Liberty Of their Obedient Subjects nor did they Strive with Anointed Soveraigns for Sway But Prince and People mutually agree In an Indissoluble Sympathy Religion flourish'd and the Laws increase Both twin'd in one the Gemini of Peace An Universal Concord tuned then Th' unjarring thoughts of many-minded men In an unblemisht harmony Then Right Spurn'd the proud thoughts of domineering Might And Lawrell'd Equity in Triumph sate Upheld by Vertue which stood Candidate And curb'd the Power and Craft of Vice maintain'd By the instinct which in mens Nature raign'd Th' unspotted soul could not attained be With Treason 'gainst the Highest Majesty Vice was a stranger to 't nor could it ' bide To club with Av'rice or converse with Pride Nor was it plung'd i' th' whirl-pool of those crimes That have inthrall'd now these degenerate times Th' imprison'd Will then durst not whisper Treason But cring'd to th' Dictates of its Rectress Reason Friend was the soul of Friend and ev'ry man Fed like a Stream the whole its Ocean CHAP. II. THe pregnant Earth untill'd did yield encrease And men enjoy'd what they possess'd in peace The Winter plunder'd not the leaves from Trees Nor skurf'd the ground with hoary Leprosies No scorching Summer with Canicular heat Parboil'd their Bodies in immoderate sweat Whatever Autumn pluck'd the Spring did bring An endless Harvest wed an endless Spring The quarter'd Year mixt in a bunch did come And clung it self t'an individuum Then flouds of Milk then flouds of Nectar flow'd And on the fertile Earth all plenty grow'd Th'enamell'd Fields with Tapestry were crown'd And floating Honey surfeited the ground Of purest Blessings men enjoy'd their fill And had all good 'cause they did nothing ill The Silver Age. CHAP. I. MAns nature not content with this did range To further things Fancy is prone to change Then domineering Will began to stir And scorn'd that Reason should rule over her Active Ambition would not be content To keep its self within its Continent But being unsatiable doth aspire Like Oyl enjoyment makes the flame blaze higher And Appetite the servant to each Sence Would not obey but have preheminence CHAP. II. ARts were invented studi'd men began T' instruct the ground to plough the Ocean The year 's quadrangled people did begin T' erect them houses to inhabite in Coffin'd their limbs in cloaths cloaths first were meant But for necessity not Ornament But pride the Childe of plenty made them grow From warmth to comely thence t' a gawdy show Then such magnificence in them begun That glittering vestures seem'd to stain the Sun Houses to Babels swell'd and were baptiz'd With their own Founders Names and men devis'd All ways to write their Names that they might be Read in the Rolls of vast Eternitie Turrets on tiptoe stood to kiss the Skies And Marble-Pillars to the Spheres did rise Towers did periwig their Heads in Clouds As if those were their bases these their shrouds Men deckt their Walls and drest their spacious Rooms With costly excrements of Persian Looms And guiltless Aras was condemn'd to be Hang'd for no crime but its Imagerie CHAP. III. SHips crost the angry Seas with Billows hurl'd And in their race begirt the spacious World Rifling it of its Treasures to delight With rarities the craving Appetite The ransack'd Indies brought in weekly rates To feast their curious taste with delicates The burden'd fields brought in centuple crops Dischannelling themselves into their laps Yet having stript the Earth of what she wore They not content with this dive still for more And the embowell'd Earth is brought to bed Of treasures which within her Nature hid Musick the soul of pleasure still prepares To breath delicious Accents in their Ears Arabia contributed her Gums And wanton Zephire from all Gardens comes With odorifrous smells which did so vary The Phoenix soil did seem ubiquitary And in all these the touch and sight did meet For what was bliss to touch 't was bliss to see 't CHAP. IV. THen with what pomp they feasted with what state Each several course wallowed in antick Plate Dish follow'd Dish and course succeeded course Still Chimneys took Tobacco by the force Of a continu'd fire which was heapt on For a new meal ere t'other scarce was done All outward blessings were in one conjoyn'd That might delight or satisfie the minde Each place was Plenties Magazine to fill Their hearts yet they had a plus ultra still Men bath'd in plenty and in pleasure rol'd Then they found out that strife-begetting Gold Now men stretch their estates wide that they might Like their desires be boundless infinite Wide as the Horizon the careering Sun Scarce in a day their limits could out-run Big-belli'd chests uncatechised lay Waiting a general accounting day Un-Eunuch't purses precious stones did wear Nor did they then the gelding Troopers fear Yet having all these riches they were poor 'Cause having much they still desired more Dropsi'd desire did teach men to be vile From hence did flow the seven-headed Nile Of deadly sin This gave sinister birth To Injury but Justice on the Earth Had yet some being Laws enacted were Men must do right though not for love for fear Just equity fetter'd the hands of might With both hands arm'd and yet both hands were right Then vicious mindes were bridled by the Law And Judgements kept disorder'd men in awe Times trod on th' heels of times but as they grew The old were still out-stript in Vice by new The Brazen Age. CHAP.

Land The State 's now quite unhing'd the Engineers That have been ham'ring it these many years Now ply it home striking while th'Iron's hot And make our Jars th' ingredients of their Plot. When bing contriv'd by some whom Schism and Pride Had long ago inflam'd now when they spl'd The peoples mindes inclining to their Will Set on their work and more and more instill Sedition by themselves and Instruments To fill the peoples mindes with discontents But privately at first until at length They had encreas'd their number pow'r and strength CHAP. II. THen first a Meteor with a Sword breaks forth Into this Island from the boist'rous North Darting ill influences on our State And though we knew not what they aimed at They went to make us Denizons o'th'Tombs While they Religiously possess our rooms These from the entrails of a barren soil On an imagin'd wrong invade our Isle Upon pretence of Liberty to bring Slav'ry to us and Ruine to our King Whose yelling Throats b'ing choakt at last with that Which cures all Gold they aimed at A private Project to engage the Rout Of English-Scots to bring their ends about And spoil the Crown so what they could not do By force by fraud they slily work us to They came to help us that themselves might get And are dear Brethren but we pay for it Hence hence our Tears hence all our sorrow springs The curse of Kingdoms and the bane of Kings CHAP. III. THen they in publick meet and 'cause they knew All their success upon the people grew They feel their Pulses and their Cures applie Be 't good or bad still to their Phantasie What ere they love to praise and what they hate In every act to give a jerk at that What ere they would have done must not b'impos'd By Humane Law but with Religion gloz'd And when Laws penal are too weak to do it Then their Lay-Levites press the Conscience to it Who are maintain'd to preach and pray and pray As if they had Commissions of Array From Heav'n to make men fight they crie Arms Arms What e're 's the Text the Uses are Alarms Though they seem pale like Envy to our view Their very Pray'rs are of a sanguine hue And though they 've Jacob's Voice yet we do finde T hey've Esau's Hands nay more they 've Esau's mind Their empty Heads are Drums their Noses are In sound and fashion Trumpets to the War These dangerous Fire-brands of curst sedition Are Emissaries to increase division These make God's Word their Pander to attain The fond devices of their factious Brain Like Beacons being set themselves on fire In peoples mindes they Uproars straight inspire Or like the Devil who since from Heav'n he fell Labours to pull Mankinde with him to Hell In this beyond the Devil himself they go He sow'd by night they in the day-time sow He while the Servants slept did sow his Tares They boldly in God's Pastors sight sow theirs They 've tongue-ti'd Truth Scripture they 've made a Glass Where each new Heresie may see his Face CHAP. IV. THey make long Speeches and large promises And giving hopes of plenty and encrease Cherish all discontented men at hand To help all grievances they crouch and stand Congying to all and granting every Suit Approve all Causes Factions and impute All Scandals to the Court that they 're unjust And negligent giv'n to delight and Lust And what 's done there to give the more offence They still interpret in the worser sense In all they make great shows of what they 'll do They 'll hear the Poor and help the Needy too For in all civil Discords those that are Disturbers always counterfeit the care Of publick good pretending they will be Protectors of the peoples Libertie The priviledge o'th'State the good o'th'King The true Religion yet all 's but to bring Their own designes about they 'll ruine all That they may rise though the whole Kingdom fall By these delusions us'd with dext'rous Art They drew all Factious Spirits to their part The childish people gazing at what 's gay Flock to these Shows as to a Puppet-play Like Drunken men they this way that way reel And turn their Mindes as Fortune does her Wheel They long for noveltie are pleas'd with shows And few Truth from truth-seeming Errour knows Their Love like French-mens courage does begin Like Powder and goes out as soon's 't is in The thing or person whom they dearly love Within a moment hate and disapprove They measure every Action by th' event And if they 're crost by some ill accident Whoever serves them nere shall recompence With all his vertuous deeds one slight offence So wretohed is that Prince that Church that State That rests upon their love or on their hate They 'll all be Kings and Priests to teach and sway Their Brethren but they can't indure t' obey Nor rule themselves and that 's the onely cause Why they 've pluck'd down Religion and the Laws And yet will settle neither that they might Have fair pretences to make people fight For by this cunning every factious minde Hopes to finde that to which he 's most inclin'd They like Miscellionists of all mindes be Yet in no one opinion can agree Their Planet-heads they in Conjunction draw As emptie Skulls meet in a Golgotha Each Head his several sense though sensless all And though their humours by the ears do fall In this they jump To disobey and hate Whatere's injoyn'd them by the Church or State And all strive to be Reformation-men Yet putting out one evil bring in ten CHAP. V. GRreat men that would be little Kings did come Some led by discontent b'ambition some Others of ruin'd Fortunes but a minde To Pomp to Sloth and Luxurie inclin'd Who long'd for Civil Wars that they might be Instal'd in Wealth or we in Miserie These bobtail'd-Bears would fain like Lions raign And Clowns would drive or ride in Charles his Wain These by their greatness were the heads of Faction The Commons must be Hands and Feet of Action That must by force defend if they had need Their grand designe thus on their plots succeed All humours stir'd none cur'd jar yet conspire To be all Fuel to begin the fire Some go in wantonness to see and some Must go because they cannot stay at home Villains that from just death could not be free But by the Realms publick calamitie They 're like the Milt which never can encrease But by the Bodies ruine or disease That with our Money must recruit their Chests And onely in our trouble have their rests Such as in Luxurie in Lust in Play Have prodigally thrown their ' states away Convicted persons Bankrupt-Citizens That spend their own and long for other mens Servants which from their Masters hither flee And change their bondage for this libertie Men of high thoughts and of a desp'rate minde Wilde Gallants whose vast thoughts were not confin'd To'th'Circle of the Laws and all whom Want

None know the good of Peace but such as are Broil'd in the Furnace of Intestine War CHAP. VIII NOw having us'd the Effeminate war of words Which did enlarge the jars at length the Swords Apparelling themselves in robes of Blood Sate Doctors of the Chair which never stood To hear the Cause but quickly does decide All that comes near and without skill divide All individuums 'T is a fearful Case When undiscerning Swords have Umpires place That have two-edg'd to wound but have no eye To sever Justice from Iniquity When Rage and Ignorance shall moderate That understand no Syllogisms but straight Turning all method into curst confusion Majors to Minors bring both to Conclusion And now the great Reformists only care Is how to help those miseries which were Of their own rearing Faction like a Snake Stings those from whom it did a quick'ning take First all the Kingdom to a need they draw Then make that need they 've brought their only Law This Mint of Laws stands not on observation Of Statutes fixt the Birth-right of our Nation It 's turn'd a Warlike Council and no more A legal Senate as it was before Now Salus Populi begins to be The general Warrant to all Villanie Of which themselves are Judges Lawless Need The conqu'ring Rebel to all Laws does plead A priviledge what e're they say or do New need still makes them act contrary to When any injur'd Subjects did complain These two Laws paramount could all maintain Religion too and Fundamental Laws Are both o're-ruled by a Law call'd Cause CHAP. IX OUr Quarrel is a working jealousie Fixt in a sever'd Kingdom both sides be So diffident of each they 'll rather die Than trust each other such Antipathie Springs from this ground Subjects dare spill the Blood Of their Anointed Soveraign for his good Th' ungrateful Son forgetting Nature's Laws Dares kill his Father for the good of 's Cause Fathers their Sons and Brothers Kinsmen Friends Do seek their Brothers Friends and Kinsmens ends Arms that long useless lay for want of War Are now call'd forth more summoned from far English to English are become a terrour One wicked action is a second 's mirrour Each strives in mischief to transcend another And every Christian is a Turk to 's Brother Blows seldom fall upon a barren ground But bear Centuple crops they still rebound Rage begets Rage men do in Vice climbe higher And all bring fuel to encrease the fire Conscience rejected men their forces bend Which shall the rest in hight of sin transcend Now Faith and Loyalty grow out of date And Treason is the Gole that 's aimed at The sacred League 'twixt Body and the Soul Which Laws preserv'd inviolate and whole Is daily broke and that sweet Bridegroom forc'd From his beloved Spouse to be divorc'd Each man is drunk with Gallus and grows mad Nor can there Hellebore enough be had To re-instate our Reason in its Throne Nor have we sense enough to feel we 've none Th'Age was so vile the Iron Age of old Compar'd with ours may be an Age of Gold We in the times of Peace like th' Ocean were Impenetrable till Divisions tare Us from our selves and did divide us quite As the Red Sea was by the Israelite And we like Walls facing each other stand To guard our selves while they devour our Land We are like those that vainly go to Law And spend their Corn while they defend the Straw We sue for Titles Castles in the Air Egg'd on on both sides by the Martial Lawyer Who saies the Cause is good but what 's the fruit We spend the substance to maintain the Suit At last we purchase at so dear a rate A larger Title of an empty State But oh the general Law-case of our Nation Doth know no Term nor yet our woes Vacation CHAP. X. NAy we can't soon enough our selves undo But we call others in to help us too They bring their pocky Whores and do desire To drive us from our Land by Sword and Fire These serve as Umpires not to work our Peace But that their Wealth may with our Wars encrease For Forrain aids and Contributions are Not to conclude but to prolong the War All for their own advantage not t' expire But fewel-like t' encrease the fatal fire We like the Steel and Flint do fall by the ears And each by mutual blows his fellow wears Mean while the Souldier like a wily Fox Purses the golden sparkles which our knocks Strike forth so we must all expect no less Than certain Ruine or a sudden Peace These Journey-Souldiers will expect a pay Nor can fair promises their stomacks stay Plunder but blows the flame they will so far Ingage themselves in our unnat'ral War That when they end it it shall be so well They 'll take the Fish and give both sides a Shell They Phoenix-like will from our ashes rise And 't is our ruine only satisfies Their bloody mindes and we may justly fear They will have all not be content to share CHAP. XI HOw direful are th' effects of Civil War No Countries Cities Corporations are Nor Families but their division 's so That their own selves will their own selves undo One's for the King and t'other for the States And the poor Souldiers like the Andabates Fight blindfold shoot are shot are wounded die Only because they do not knowing why Yet those whom Rage had hurri'd on to slay Each other in the Exodus o'th'day Breathe with their souls their anger out and lie Kissing or hug each other when they die And though in life they had such enmitie Meet in one death and there they both agree Two Armies now against themselves do fight For th'publick good so equal both in might That between both the Kingdom 's like to fail And both to fall but neither to prevail Yet both in disagreeing do consent To be the Realms continual punishment While some like Camels take delight to swill Their souls i'th'troubled waters of our ill That are on foot i'th'Kingdom and do rise When that does fall and on our miseries Do float like Arks the more the Waves aspire The more they dance and are exalted higher That Leech-like live by Blood but let such know Though they live merry at the Kingdoms woe 'T is a sad Obit when their Obsequies Are tun'd with Widows and with Orphans cries Wo be to those that did so far engage This wretched Kingdom in this deadly rage That both sides being Twins of Church and State Should slay each other in their fatal hate This Mountain-sin will clog their guilty souls Whose pois'nous breath hath kindled all these coals And when their Souls do from their Bodies flie If they have burial which they so defie And 't is more fit their Carkas meat should be To beasts whom they transcend in crueltie Posterity upon their Tombs shall write Better these men had never seen the light 'T is just that all Achitophels of State That have his policie should