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A06529
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The massacre of money
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T. A.; Achelley, Thomas.; Aylworth, Thomas.; Andrewe, Thomas.
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1602
(1602)
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STC 17.3; ESTC S100462
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eyes behold base vice to scan The top of honour with these glorious diuels Iniurious strumpet hide thy face for shame For heauen it selfe doth hate thy odious name Think'st it a glory to behold those fooles Climing by grees vnto the height of sinne Tak'st thou a pleasure to behold thy schooles With Oceans of wit drownd sots to swimme Thou horred mappe of vile inequitie Laugh'st thou to see thine owne impietie If I would boast I could arrest thine eyes With fairer obiects then thou yet didst see I could acquaint thine eares with harmonies Sweeter then Syrens-chaunting melodie But who knowes not that who so Vertue loues Vice from his eyes as odious remoues To counterchecke thy peacock-plumed pride I haue a scholler call'd Humilitie Though poore without yet inly beautifi'de With hidden treasure and faire dignitie Pride is most rich in shewe but bare in minde But him in shewe poore in soule rich I finde To counteruaile lusts great preheminence And all the crew of those lycentious fires I haue affection ruling continence Honesties mistresse Queene of chaste desires A holy vestall whose virginitie Parts not but with her soule from spotlesse body The meane betwixt mudde-raking couetousnesse And loosenesse offspring carelesse diffluence I haue this liberall sparing bounteousnesse Free giuer yet with equall conscience Vertue on both sides stands enuironed With two extreames both vices chronicled To contrary thy Enuies byting hate And all the honour of maliciousnesse I haue pure meeknes who in all estate Is still content with humble lowlinesse Hating ambitious Enuies angry sting Louing a mild and equall censuring If I would lay the glory of my schoole Open to euery vitious gazers eye I should amaze the sottish doting foole Quite ouercome with incredulitie But since the world my vertue doth not knowe They hate my walkes and follow vice their woe Whiles I alone do walke along'st the streetes Each vassaile gins to spit at me in scorne The more my honour for ere this life fleetes He shall be bandyed and of ioy forlorne Be quite reiected of his proper dame And die a death of vnrecouer'd shame This is the ende of all thy minions Most wretched fearfull and detestable What 's the precedent lifes progression When the lifes ende is found so horrible An euil act attracts an euil end And by the issue stil the worth is ken'd The ende to which each man the world doth see Is to extoll our high Creators glory Each of thy schollers doth the contrary And to the diuel are contributary Oh honourable seruice office high To vndertake Hobgoblins baylifry Who but those men whom Follyes chaunting tong Hath metamorphos'd vnto mindlesse sots Who but whom Vices witching Syrens song Hath quite transform'd to witlesse Ideots Will flye from Vertue soules restoratiue To cleaue to Vice poisons ministratiue Cassandra thou presaging Prophetesse Thrice happie if as soone beleeu'd as heard Why breathest thou tydings of happinesse Amidst a rocke of Adamants vpreard Whose brest thy siluer newes cannot yperse What credit they which Vertue doth rehearse Deformed strumpet or if vglier name May to a most detested wretch be right Blush monster blush agent to stubborne shame The vnderprop of Sathans powerfull might Seducing mischiefes teaching ruder wights That Vice doth rule by day Vertue by nights Though I haue like a pilgrim walk'd some-while Meating by steps the earths circumference With looser garments ouercasting still The modest splendour of my Eminence Trying if any brest that Vertue loued Would haue this lump of sin from 's heart remoued But since my vertue was but modestie And all my garments simple plainnesse deemd Since my companion was integritie Meekenesse my page basenesse of all esteemd I 'm so reiected that each man oh greefe Loues not himselfe if I him seeme to leefe But now nor thou presumptuous impudent Shameles vpbraidor tyrannizing dame Shalt with thy sugred tongue to pleasure bent Slurry with scandall Vertues glorious name Nor like an Angell canonized bee Wiles I am beaten with deepe miserie Nor thou dame crosse blisse recling mistris chance State alt'ring tyrant who impuritie Vp to the height of honour do'st aduance But tread'st with enuious foote on pietie No more shalt thou with mischiefs crosse my darling No more shall Vertues seruants feare thy snarling Learning shall flourish inaugre all thy power Ripe wit shall scorne thy tyrannizing front All shall disdaine thy hearts astounding tower Not one shall recke thy lookes looke nere so scont Meekenesse with smiling censure shall disdaine The fell infliction of disaster paine Nor mistris Minx that hight Pecunia Whom Vice constraines to be her feruitour Fortuna's darling the worlds Helena Auarus life liefe loue and nouriture Shall cause a liberall purse emptie to be And fill the bags of infrugalitie Now what a railing mistris Vertue keepes Quoth Vice stand'st thou vpoÌ„ thy pantostes Or do'st thou thinke that Vice and Fortune sleepes And cannot heare thy rayling menacies I le haue a biâ—â—e to taine that too free tong Or else it will insult ore me ere long Nay sure quoth Fortune she ouerthrowes vs all Who knowes not but that Vertue can pleade well For she hath hony'd Eloquence at call And Rhetoricke euen at her becke doth dwell But if her pride be ouer peremptory Our hands and not our tongues shall win the glory Vertue because thou deem'st thy power worth Beyond the estimation of compare We meane to wring thy deepest power forth And ere we leaue leaue all thy glory bare For why these insultations do spurre on Our forward force of indignation The Chalenge Vice and my selfe with all our followers Whose power we certaine are thou canst not daunt Will and commaund thee with thy seruiters Either to our iniunctions to graunt That is to yeeld thy selfe for Vices slaue Or with thy hand digge thy eternall graue If thou refuse obeysance due to yeeld Vnto these articles with speed prepare To meete vs with an army in the feeld Where both shal try their powers in the warre Arme all thy troopes for thou shalt honor vs By making our large force victorious Proud Impe quoth Vertue these audacious words Argue in thee a most presumptuous spirite Although no crab but some good iuyce affords This plot doth both thy ioy and mine inherite Wherefore ere Vertue stoope to be a slaue Shee 'le die in field and there expect a graue The fittest place for warre let me assigne The weaker combâ—tant may choose his ground I know thou deem'st the conquest euen now thine Thy hundreth souldiers to my one is found Then for pure pittie let me point the place When I am to receiue mine owne disgrace There is an Iland bordering by France By auncient yore y cleped Albion Worthy of selfe whom worthyer Peeres aduance Vnto the name of Honours mansion A royall