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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02478	Of golds kingdome, and this vnhelping age Described in sundry poems intermixedly placed after certaine other poems of more speciall respect: and before the same is an oration or speech intended to haue bene deliuered by the author hereof vnto the Kings Maiesty.	Hake, Edward, fl. 1560-1604.	1604 (1604)	STC 12607; ESTC S106139	24,599	66

worthy waite at doore While claw-backe Iackes as brag as body-lowse Are entertaind in euery roome ath'house T' is to be read what was in Athens wrought By Phillippe king of Macedon who thee Imployde to bring that gallant state to nought By bribing those that were of best degree Within the same The like who might not see In Englands State of yeares not many past As also what became of them at last It were too long to reckon vp the whole How Golde corrupts by manifolde degrees And how for it full many pill and pole And Lawyers some do take excessiue fees Thou Golde canst make men flie about like Bees But more then that would God that were the wurst Thou mak'st men swell with pride as they would burst And yet hereby I touch not Lawyers State Nor haue intent to quippe the learned sorte That were an Office for a scurrile mate For there are Lawyers of most worthy Porte Who still holde out as doth a fensed Forte Well getting Golde and not enclinde to Pride For which good sort due Honors do abide And for the Iudges of our Common lawe I speake it from my heart and so I holde That there are none can say they euer sawe One Iudge that 's now aliue corrupt with golde God graunt that they in like sort may be bolde To keepe the Ballance tyte twixt small and great Least else the small should be the great ones meate I will conclude Not eu'ry State of men But some almost in eu'ry State there are Who may be wrought the good with bad to blen If golde thou golde canst growe vnto their share And though that some of them perhaps haue care To do no wrong yet wrong they will permit As when they should giue helpe they silent sit But for as much as many men are led By many waies to start aside for Golde And that the mischiefes which are daily bred By Moneys sway are great and manifold So great I feare as hardly can be tolde Therefore I ende my endlesse plaint with this That God must mend what gold hath made amis Quid non mortalia pectora cogis Auri sacrafames To what thing is 't that Goldene can Constraine the thirsting heart of man The heart of man as hard as stone VVhich yeeldeth not to any moue But as ●he same with golde is bound So is affection in it found To bring about what may be had Let be the matter good or bad Omnia venalia Nummo Seeke gold seeke gold good friend seeke gold For golde can all things bye Both vertue vice and else what not To sale for golde do lie Omnia nummatis loculis sopita quiescunt Cum volet ipse Deus fiet amaena Dies To him that hath the golden bagges all things in quiet rest But God can giue a golden day when he shall thinke it best Omnia Diues habet nam praestat omnia Nummus The rich hath all that heart can craue For he with golde all things can haue VVhen vices all waxe olde in man His loue of golde growes youthly than To the Right VVorshipfull and of high deseruing Sir Iulius Caesar Knight one of the Maisters of the Requests to the Kings Maiestie THough griefes arise in men of troubled harts Yet when the same by skill of penne are plaste Petition-like in writing with the parts Good God how then such Suters griefes do waste As though that then their helpe would come in haste But if their Sutes do happen on delay Faint growes the hope whereon their hearts did stay If toylesome paine procure dispatch of Sutes What plowman taketh greater paines then yea An open Truth a slaunderous lye confutes So what I write apparently is true And yet good sir this sequele may ensue Vnlesse the Suter do his Sute obta●ne Ill words may come for recompence of paine For why it happens oft that he who sues Because his minde runnes wholly on successe If that he happe to ●●are contrary newes Then weying no mans trauel more or lesse Away he goes with great vnthankfulnesse So thanklesse thoughts and peeches that ●epraue Oft Mediators vnto Prin●es haue Alphensus king of Naples was wont to say of Mediators of Requests vnto kings and p●inces that they are like vnto those who hauing their dwell●ngs in the middle roomes of a house are besprinckled with ●rine by those that are aboue them and annoyed with filth by those that are belowe them Sic plerunque Mediatores vtrinque leduntur sicut vespertili● Laceratur a mur●bus autbus The Author ANd here my Booke shall haue his end with my complaint of Gold God graunt that high and holy thing in sound estate may hold And as the seate of Iustice is At this day firme and pure So passages vnto the same may be both plaine and sure Not clogd with shifts and falsitie by such as haue to deale Inferiourly with Iustice in our English common-weale That Sut●rs may be 〈…〉 before they be opprest With bribes and charges in their sute● and so for all the rest That Gold may neuer beare the sway But that true vertue flourish may FINIS This booke herein mentioned the Author hath deliuered to th● Kings Maiesty but not by way of dedication Io. Manlius de Magistrat● pag. 593. 10. Manlius de Magistratu pag. 592. Re●erments of cau●●s dangerous I haue heard of such a case in que●●ion at this day and that it is of no lesse importance to the subiect the defendant then is here mentioned Referment of a cause to a Foxe is a dangerous re●●●ment A corrupt Iudge I haue heard of some honorable who vpon their advancement haue bin most careful in the choise of their seru●nts for feare of bribery God 〈…〉 Grandibus exigu● sunt pisees piscibus ese●