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A06167	A fig for Momus containing pleasant varietie, included in satyres, eclogues, and epistles, by T.L. of Lincolnes Inne Gent.	Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625.	1595 (1595)	STC 16658; ESTC S109568	23,955	72

that formd the stile But his that did the sence compile Damian Since thou canst argue so for age My voice with harpe some warre shall wage And I will sing thee such a lay As erst I heard my Ringde play At Galateas wedding feast Where sea to heare his musicke ceast Cantus THere was a time or writers haue missung UUherein our partiall mothers ballance hung UUith equall poise and fish wild beastes and birds Had vse of reason and of needfull words VVherein foure-footed beasts of sauadge field UUho sought the state of winged fowles to wield Conspir'd the better to defence their states To chuse the fish to be their mutuall mates UUho vainly trusting to their fraile defence Consented quickly to the beastes pretence Supposing nature equallie had lent Like force in earth as liquid element Hereon ambition egging on the flocks Of proud foure-footed beasts the shoares and rocks UUere fild with fish and heauen with shoutes and cries And gastlie breathings almost lost his eies UUhen all the foules embatail'd in the aire Seeing their fortunes almost in despaire Besought the Gods who all iniustice hate To be assistant in this dire debate Ioue by a thunderclap a signall gaue Vpon their prayers they should good fortune haue And speedily sent out the Southerne wind To driue the waters from their bounds assind A murren on the beasts he thrilled downe UUhilst thus the reuerend iudge doth threat and frowne The fowles they stoupe and offering vrgent blowes Finde hartles beastes and each where liueles foes The fish on waueles shore disperst and left Of pride and life were all at once bereft The fowles preuaild and fed them fat with pray And after victors like did flie away And beating off the aire with open wings They tun'd this carroll to the woods and springs To beasts to fish reseru'd from brunt of warre To all that with both factions mortall are Beware ô what soeuer race you bee Too much ambitious in felicitie To striue to raise your fortunes through oppression Or count your neighbours purchase your possession For Gods reuenge each impious attempt Before the plague or punishment be drempt Be sure the square whereby you build your states Must breake and faile in dangers and debates For Nemesis hath euery houre reseru'd A plague for pride that hath from iustice sweru'd Oh you whose calme makes neighbours stormes seeme sore Trie you your tides before you trust your ore The surge may rise on sodaine ere you thinke And force you whilst you swim secure to sinke UUho trustes to choice of proud confederate And failes in choice of faithfull friends estate Let him disclaime his armes and claime foresight Lest he with beastes mannage a beastlie fight Engasto In sooth this is a wittie lay More pleasant then the verrelay The shepheard sings vnto his sheepe As soone as day begins to peepe Damian Waigh not the words but marke the worth Great flouds doe often issue forth From humble waters and deepe skill May flow from an impolisht quill Who waites for words may get him hence For shepheards onely sing for sence To happie Menalcus Eglogue 2. Philides Eglon. Philides WHat wrong or discontent old Eglon hath with-held Thine honorable age from gouerning the state Why liu'st thou thus apart whose wisdome wont to shield Our kingdome from the stormes of foes and home-bred hate Eglon. Ah Philides the tast of trouble I haue felt Mine actions misconceau'd my zeale esteem'd impure My policie deceite where faithfullie I delt These wrongs all vndeseru'd haue made meliue obscure Besides my youthfull yeares were cancel'd by mine age The verie Inne of griefes of sicknes and of cares Time bids me now prepare with death some warre to wage And thinke vpon mine end and shun these worldlie snares And time it is God wor when age hath got the start To flie from publique noyse and brawles of iudgement seate For now my wits waxe weake and scarce yeeld vse of art My limmes are stiffe and starke my pulses faintly beate And this late-purchas'd age besides all other paines Is subiect to contempts accus'd of auarice And youth with selfe conceit hath so bewitcht his braines As he esteemeth yeares wits chiefest preiudice Philides Can men so farre forget the reuerence and awe They should in iustice yeeld to siluer-suted haires Is duetie so despis'd enioyn'd by natures lawe That youth impugneth age in mannaging affaires Then worse then Ethnicks farre may Christians be esteem'd For both among the Greeks and Romanes I haue red Such honors giuen to eld that nothing happie seem'd Wherein their counsell mist and wisedome had not led In Solons happie lawes in olde Licurgus schooles In Numas sage decrees and graue Prometheus books Amercements were set downe for such misgouern'd fooles As did maligne at eld and loath their reuerent looks For where they first ordain'd the Gods should be ador'd Next that the silly poore should want no due reliefe They lastlie did command the yonger to afford All honour vnto age and still to hould them chiefe The Romane Senate wont in giuing dignities To take respect of yeares of iudgement and discretion The Lacedemon state in all their souerainties Did yeeld their publique charge to aged mens possession Taught by these flouring states by men so fortunate As reading what they did our mindes are stir'd to follow I wonder that our world should so degenerate From perfect awe and carrie harts so hollow Eglon. Ah Philides forbeare to wonder at the time There must be some contempt before a plague succeede I see great stormes at hand and sigh to see them clime Whose fall I might bewaile before it come indeede But let all reasons passe of enuie and disgrace Sufficient to with-draw a man from common weale Not these alone procure me leaue mine honored place But this because tis time with state no more to deale The houre prefixt is come the reuolution fixt Wherein I must and will giue ouer gouernement Taught by those happie men whose weale with sorrow mixt Did make them leaue the world which danger doth present Oh when I sadlie thinke of olde Lucullus wit Who hauing fortune thrall and fame attending him Thought good to leaue the world when he had conquer'd it And rather cease in time then sincke in hope to swim I cannot chuse but smile because by like aduise I flie from froward hate as olde Metellus did And leaue vngratefull men as erst did Scipio wise Deeming it happines in priuate to be hid Had Cicero forethought how sweet this course had beene When he had master'd fame and conquer'd Cateline His Tusculanum then he had more often seene And left vngratfull Rome before he did decline But hope of further fame so fondlie him besotted That wrastling with lewd chance at last he caught the fall And where he presuppos'd true fame was him allotted There lost he his desire his fortunes life and all His lessons make me wise these warnings are mine armes Wherewith I conquer chance and false Rhamnusias

eie to Grecian gouernements And euen in them the truth will be explain'd In Athens where Themistocles remain'd Though much he conquer'd by his regiments Yet Solon was more prais'd for his intents Themistocles by armes he by good lawes One conquered foes the other planted frends One got the wealth the which the other spends Both fame though not like measure nor like cause For counsell to it selfe more honour drawes Pausanias and Lysander by their swords And warlike vertues made Laocena ritch Fame followed them where they their tents did pitch But graue Licurgus by his lawes and words Did merite more then these renowmed Lords Though these attempted he prefixt the way Though they commanded and arraung'd the bands Licurgus put the fortune in their hands Though Marius could begin and make the fray Yet Scaurus policie deserues the bay Let Catulus with Pompey be compar'd Or wittie Cicero with Cateline And to preuent with policie diuine That which the other ouer rashlie dar'd Deserues such fame as may not be impar'd Say militarie vertue doth require A valiant hart great strength and constancie The selfe-like guiftes in ciuill policie Are requisite for such as doe aspire To gaine renowne by counsell for their hire In briefe for what is warre ordain'd but peace And perfect peace is end of bloudie warre And sith the ends fore-meanes is prised farre Let warre his boast of dignitie surcease And yeeld to wisdome which doth peace encrease Peace doth depend on Reason warre on force The one is humane honest and vpright The other brutish fostered by despight The one extreame concluded with remorse The other all iniustice doth deuorce Deliuorus Felicius thy reasons are approu'd If measured by the square of statemens skil Who on their bookes hang their opinions still But I who from my youth the warres haue lou'd From mine opinion may not be remou'd For by that methode which my selfe haue tried I find such word-bold warriors as you be As fit for warre as apes for minstralsie For what can you prescribe or els prouide To order those whom you could neuer guide Thinke you Vigetius serues to make you fit To giue directions to a generall No book-men no time now hath changed all Both men and meanes war craues a greater wit And courage then when Rome directed it Should we exspect as erst the Romaines did Instructions to dislodge encampe assaile Before we did endeuour to preuaile The meanes to conquer would be lost and hid Basely fights he who warres as others bid All things are chang'd the meanes the men and armes Our stratagems now differ from the old Expert in booke was neuer trulie bold Demosthenes whose tongue the souldier charmes Fled coward-like away in hot alarmes This said he ceast and would no more proceed Felicius left him setled in this thought I hearing both the reasons they had brought Resolu'd that both deserue true fame indeed And pray that wit may thriue war may speed To F. M. Satyre 3. IT is as common as vnkind a fault In youth too subiect to this worlds assault To imitate admit and daylie chuse Those errors which their lawles parents vse For what by vaine example youth conceaues The same for lawfull daily he receaues If damned dice the father doth affect The selfe-like follie doth his heire infect If lust to lust the sonne is too procliue If fraud by fraud his wanton race will thriue If surfet surfet is esteemd no sinne For youth perseuers as he doth beginne And where to natures forward to retaine Lewd obiects are annext and customes vaine The wounds grow desperate death doth end Before good counsell can the fault amend Lucillas daughter she that keepes the swan That saw her mother dallie with her man Steale priuy sports for sweet meates hazard fame Scarce twelue yeares old begins to do the same For nature ioynd with custome neuer failes But by her selfe and in her helpes preuailes And why because what children apprehend The same they like they follow and commend And where the mind is willing and addict Th'examples are more forcible and strict And though some natures by especiall grace Correct themselues and giue not follie place Yet leane the most part to example so That what they like they hardly can forgoe Then gentle friend frō damned deeds abstaine From lawles ryots and from pleasures vaine If not regarding of thine owne degree Yet in behalfe of thy posteritie For we are docible to imitate Depraued pleasures tho degenerate Be carefull therefore lest thy sonne admit By eare or eie things filthie or vnfit Exclude the bawd the parasite the whore The dicer drunkard swearer from thy dore For such contemptible consorts as these Leaue ranckest poysō where they sweetly please And as thy child resembleth thee in face In foote in feature and in outward grace So studie thou thine actions being good He may wax like in maners as in blood If thou espie within thy curious knot Some tangling twitch that doth thy flowers rot Or in the picture hanging in thy hall That represents Caesar maiesticall Thou see some spots that spoyle and doe disgrace The matchles modle of thy monarcks face Wilt thou not quickly roote away the one And wipe the other from the piece anone So in thy sonne demeane thy selfe likewise If thou perceiue a sinne that doth disguise And choake the beauties of his toward mind If in this image of thy selfe thou find Corruption choaking vertue error grace And will vsurping reasons rightfull place Disswade by fatherly admonishment Schoole and correct aduertise and preuent Make him by gouernment and perfect zeale A happie member of his common weale And not by negligence and libertie A scouge vnto thy priuate familie The eaned lambe doth loose that colour seld The which at first thingendring ewe beheld The stained cloth retaines his grayned die The Iuory his first Imagerie The bird but scarcely broken from his shell Feeds on that food which first he liked well The tunne retaineth long the tast and sent Of that pure licour which at first it hent And what impressions we in youth retaine In age our reason hardly will restraine The idle More the Turke the Saracen The Chinois and the wealthie Abissine Obserue that custome and idolatrie Which was ingrafted in their infancie Then in the presence of thy toward heire Beware to frisse currle and kembe thy haire To spend three houres in gazing in a glasse Before thy wife and daughter goe to masse Take heed thy gagtooth'd hostes in his sight Tell not how oft she tyres thee euery night Beware thy sonne doe neuer heare thee bragge That thou hast paid twelue angels for a nagge And pawn'd it to the rich and broking bawd For whores and capons little to thy lawd Take heede the toward had doe neuer heare That thou hast spent a thousand pound a yeare Take heed thou neuer sweare whilst he is by That thou by othes darst proue an open lye Lest seeing thee make light of lothsome