The water-cormorant his complaint against a brood of land-cormorants. Diuided into fourteene satyres. By Iohn Taylor.
Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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The water-cormorant his complaint against a brood of land-cormorants. Diuided into fourteene satyres. By Iohn Taylor.
Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
[46] p.
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1622.
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THE
WATER-CORMORANT
HIS
COMPLAINT
:
Against
a
Brood
of
Land-Cormorants
.
Diuided
into
fourteene
Satyres
.
By
IOHN
TAYLOR
.
1
A
Iesuite
.
2
A
Separatist
.
A
Trust-breaker
.
A
Drunkard
.
A
prodigall
Gallant
.
An
Extortioner
&
broker
A
Basket-Iustice
.
A
Cutpurse
.
A
good
&
bad
Constable
A
Serieant
&
Iailor
.
A
Patron
&
his
Clark.
A
Country-Yeoman
.
A
Figure-flinger
.
A
Lawyer
,
&
Vndershriefe
My
Cormorant
against
these
doth
inuey
,
And
proues
himself
much
better
far
then
they
LONDON
,
Printed
by
GEORGE
ELD
.
1622.
To
Gentlemen
,
and
those
that
are
gentle
.
SVbiects
may
seeme
scarce
,
or
Printers
lacke
worke
,
when
a
Cormorant
flies
into
the
Presse
,
yet
Cormorants
oppresse
and
therefore
worthy
to
be
prest
;
but
my
Cormorant
hath
neither
dipt
his
tongue
in
oile
to
smooth
the
faults
of
the
vicious
,
nor
stop'd
his
mouth
to
conceale
the
merits
of
the
vertuous
:
I
haue
thought
good
to
sympathize
a
subiect
fit
for
the
time
,
and
I
haue
done
my
best
to
handle
it
in
a
sutable
straine
.
The
Cormorant
is
not
easily
induced
to
affability
,
nor
I
to
flattery
.
His
best
seruice
is
harsh
and
vnsociable
,
so
is
my
style
.
His
biting
is
sharpe
and
piercing
,
so
is
my
phrase
.
His
throat
is
wide
and
spacious
,
my
subiect
is
spacious
.
His
colour
is
blacke
,
I
discouer
deeds
of
darknesse
.
He
grubs
and
spuddles
for
his
prey
in
muddy
holes
and
obscure
cauerns
,
my
Muse
ferrits
base
debaushed
wretches
in
their
swinish
dens
.
He
like
the
Crocodile
moues
the
vpper
chap
,
this
Treatise
condemnes
that
beasts
dissimulation
.
He
swallows
downe
his
meate
without
taste
,
this
booke
distastes
such
as
sinne
without
touch
of
conscience
.
The
ods
is
,
my
Cormorants
appetite
is
limited
,
but
most
of
theirs
is
vnsatiable
.
I
ayme
not
at
such
mens
slips
as
may
fall
by
infirmity
,
for
that
were
like
Esops
crab
,
to
offer
to
teach
others
to
goe
right
,
going
crooked
my selfe
.
Detraction
is
a
priuate
wounding
of
a
mans
name
,
and
flattery
a
deuourer
of
men
aliue
.
If
I
can
sayle
betwixt
these
two
,
and
not
be
split
,
I
shall
ariue
at
my
desired
port
.
In
my
passage
I
shall
haue
Polipheme
casting
Rockes
to
sincke
me
,
Criticks
misconstruing
my
words
,
like
spiders
sucking
poyson
out
of
wholesome
flowers
.
But
from
these
Antipodes
to
goodnesse
,
by
their
Antithesis
to
nature
,
I
appeale
to
my
conscience
which
is
a
witnesse
to
me
that
can
neither
accuse
or
condemne
me
.
I
ayme
at
none
but
such
as
deuoure
others
,
and
yet
make
shift
to
keepe
themselues
out
of
the
reach
of
law
,
I
name
none
personally
,
and
therefore
wish
the
faulty
to
amend
with
silence
rather
then
by
rubbing
of
a
spot
to
make
a
hole
in
the
whole
cloath
,
for
I
leaue
gleanings
enough
to
make
a
second
part
if
need
require
.
Such
stomacks
as
cannot
digest
this
dish
,
let
me
rather
be
to
them
a
choake
peare
then
a
Gudgeon
.
There
is
no
degree
of
man
or
woman
,
whatsoeuer
,
from
the
Court
to
the
Cottage
,
or
from
the
Pallace
to
the
Plough
,
but
may
make
good
vse
of
this
Poem
,
either
for
merry
recreation
,
or
vices
defamation
:
and
in
a
word
,
if
it
please
the
iudicious
,
or
be
any
way
profitable
to
the
confirming
of
the
good
,
or
reforming
the
bad
,
I
have
then
my
full
recompence
,
with
the
effect
of
my
intentions
and
wishes
.
Iohn
Taylor
.
A
brood
of
CORMORANTS
.
A
Jesuite
.
THE
ARGVMENT
.
King-killing
monsters
,
out
of
Heauens
mouth
flow'd
.
Ca●ers
,
and
Butchers
vnto
Rome
and
Hell
:
The
bane
of
youth
and
age
,
in
bloud
imbrow'd
:
Perditions
gulfe
,
where
all
foule
Treasons
dwell
.
〈◊〉
,
liues
,
and
soules
vnder
the
sauing
stile
Of
Iesus
,
they
deuour
,
confound
,
beguile
.
IN
setting
downe
this
sect
of
blood
compact
,
Me
thinkes
I
see
a
tragicke
Sceane
in
act
:
The
Stage
all
hang'd
with
the
sad
death
of
Kings
,
From
whose
bewailing
story
sorrow
springs
;
The
Actors
dipt
in
cruelty
and
blood
,
Yet
make
bad
deeds
passe
in
the
name
of
good
.
And
kindling
new
commotions
,
they
conspire
With
their
hot
Zeale
to
see
whole
Realmes
on
fire
;
As
t
was
apparent
when
they
did
combine
,
Against
vs
,
in
their
fatall
powder
Mine
.
All
hell
for
that
blacke
treason
was
plow'd
vp
,
And
mischiefe
dranke
deepe
of
damnations
cup
:
The
whole
vast
Ocean
sea
,
no
harbour
grants
To
such
deuouring
greedy
Cormorants
,
In
the
wide
gulfe
of
their
abhor'd
designes
Are
thoughts
that
find
no
roome
in
honest
minds
.
And
now
I
speake
of
Rome
euen
in
her
sea
,
The
Iesuits
the
dang'rous
whirlepooles
be
,
Religions
are
made
waues
,
that
rise
and
fall
Before
the
wind
or
breath
Pontificall
.
The
Pope
sends
stormes
forth
,
feuers
or
combines
,
According
to
his
mood
it
raines
or
shines
,
And
who
is
ready
to
put
all
his
will
In
execution
,
but
the
Iesuit
still
.
Nor
hath
this
Cormorant
long
tane
degree
,
For
Esacus
more
ancient
is
then
he
:
Yeares
thousands
since
Troyes
sonne
he
was
created
,
And
from
a
man
but
to
bird
translated
,
VVhereas
the
Iesuit
deriues
descent
But
from
Ignatius
Loyola
,
that
went
For
a
maim'd
Spanish
souldier
,
but
herein
The
difference
rises
,
which
hath
euer
bin
:
From
man
to
bird
,
one
's
changed
shape
began
,
The
other
to
a
diuell
from
a
man.
Yet
herein
these
wide
maw'd
Esacians
,
May
well
agree
with
these
Ignatians
,
First
black
's
the
coulour
of
the
greedy
Fowle
,
And
black
's
the
Iesuits
habite
like
his
soule
,
The
bird
is
leane
though
oft
he
be
full
craw'd
,
The
Iesuit's
hatchet
fac'd
,
and
wattle
iaw'd
,
The
Cormorant
(
as
nature
best
befits
)
Still
without
chewing
doth
deuoure
whole
bits
,
So
Iesuits
swallow
many
a
lordly
liuing
,
All
at
a
gulp
without
grace
or
thanksgiuing
.
The
birds
throat
(
gaping
)
without
intermission
,
Resembles
their
most
cruell
inquisition
,
From
neither
is
,
non
est
redemptio
,
For
what
into
the
Corm'rants
throat
doth
goe
,
Or
Iesuits
Barrathrum
doth
once
retaine
,
It
ne're
returnes
fit
for
good
vse
againe
.
Eighty
yeares
since
he
stole
the
Epethite
From
Iesus
,
to
be
cal'd
a
Iesuite
,
But
I
could
find
him
out
a
style
more
right
,
From
Iudas
to
be
nam'd
Iscariotite
.
Though
Paul
the
third
their
title
did
approue
,
Yet
he
confin'd
their
number
,
that
aboue
Threescore
they
should
not
be
,
and
yet
we
see
How
much
encreased
now
the
Vipers
be
,
That
many
a
thousand
Christian
lies
and
grones
Vnder
the
slau'ry
of
these
diuellish
drones
.
And
he
that
knowes
but
truly
what
they
are
,
Will
iudge
a
Cormorant's
their
better
farre
.
A
Separatist
.
THE
ARGVMENT
.
Here
earth
and
hell
haue
made
a
false
commixion
.
Of
painted
zeale
,
and
holinesse
,
and
loue
:
Of
Faith
,
of
Hope
,
of
Charitie
(
in
fiction
)
In
smoake
and
shadowes
,
as
the
fruits
doe
proue
.
Hypocrisie
,
which
long
pray'rs
doth
repeate
,
Deuoureth
Widowes
,
and
poore
Orphans
cheate
.
NOw
enters
next
,
to
play
his
Oylie
part
A
Saint
in
tongue
,
but
a
rough
diuell
in
heart
:
One
that
so
smoothly
swallowes
his
prey
downe
,
Without
wrath
shewne
,
or
any
seeming
frowne
.
You
'd
thinke
him
when
he
does
it
,
in
a
Psalme
,
Or
at
his
prayers
,
hee
's
so
milde
and
calme
:
No
noyse
,
no
trouble
to
his
conscience
cries
,
For
he
deuours
his
prey
with
heau'd
vp
eyes
.
Stands
most
demurely
swallowing
downe
his
bit
,
And
lickes
his
lips
,
with
long
grace
after
it
.
This
Bell-wether
(
sir
reu'rence
)
leades
the
flocke
,
After
his
sense
grafted
in
errours
stocke
.
This
reu'rend
Barrabas
,
a
Button-maker
,
Himselfe
with
trusty
Demas
his
partaker
,
Meetes
with
their
brethren
,
Chore
,
Abiram
,
Dathan
,
And
tearme
our
Church
the
Synagogue
of
Sathan
.
Wise
Balaam
,
Nabal
,
Esau
,
Ismael
,
Tertullus
,
Theudas
,
and
Achitophel
,
Phiigellus
,
Himeneus
,
and
Philetus
,
(
A
crew
of
turne-coates
that
desire
to
cheat
vs
)
These
fellowes
with
their
Ample
folio
graces
,
With
mumping
chappes
,
and
counterfeited
faces
,
Though
they
like
shotten
Herrings
are
to
see
,
Yet
such
tall
souldiers
of
their
teeth
they
be
,
That
two
of
them
like
greedy
Cormorants
,
Deuoures
more
then
six
honest
Protestants
.
VVhen
priuately
a
sister
and
a
brother
Doe
meet
,
ther
's
dainty
doings
with
each
other
:
Ther
's
no
delay
,
they
ne're
stand
shall
I
shall
I
,
Hermogenes
with
Dallila
doth
dally
:
And
Simei
with
Saphira
will
dispute
,
That
nine
monthes
after
she
doth
beare
the
fruite
.
VVhen
Zimri
kissing
Iesabel
doth
greet
,
And
Cozby
with
her
brother
Cham
,
oh
sweet
,
'T
is
fit
to
trye
(
their
humors
to
refresh
)
A
Combate
twixt
the
spirit
and
the
flesh
:
Prouided
that
they
doe
it
secretly
,
So
that
the
wicked
not
the
same
espye
:
These
youths
deride
the
Surples
,
Crosse
and
Ring
,
The
knee
at
Sacrament
or
any
thing
The
Church
holds
Reuerend
,
and
to
testifie
Their
bastardy
,
the
Fathers
they
deny
.
And
of
themselues
they
frame
Religions
new
,
VVich
Christ
and
his
Aposiles
neuer
knew
;
And
with
vntemperd
morter
of
their
owne
,
They
build
a
Church
,
to
all
good
men
vnknowne
,
Railes
at
the
Harmonious
Organs
,
and
the
Coape
,
Yet
in
each
Church
of
theirs
,
they
raise
a
Pope
.
Calls
it
the
b●gde
of
Antichristian
drosse
,
VVhen
they
see
butter
printed
with
a
Crosse
:
And
yet
for
Coyne
thei
'le
any
man
beguile
,
For
when
they
tell
it
,
they
turne
vp
the
pile
.
Vpon
the
Sabbath
they
'le
no
phisicke
take
,
Lest
it
should
worke
,
and
so
the
Sabbath
breake
.
They
hate
to
see
a
Church-man
ride
,
(
why
so
)
Because
that
Christ
bade
his
Apostles
goe
.
Against
our
Churches
all
,
they
haue
exclaim'd
,
Because
by
Saints
names
most
of
them
are
nam'd
:
If
these
new
Saints
will
no
old
Saints
abide
,
From
Christendome
they
must
,
or
run
,
or
ride
.
Saint
George
from
England
chases
them
away
,
Saint
Andrew
doth
in
Scotland
beare
like
sway
:
From
Ireland
good
Saint
Patrick
them
will
banish
,
Saint
Dennis
out
of
France
will
make
them
vanish
:
Saint
Iames
will
force
them
out
of
Spaine
to
flie
,
So
will
Saint
Anthony
from
Italy
,
And
last
of
all
(
whom
I
had
halfe
forgot
)
Saint
Dany
out
of
VVales
will
make
them
trot
.
And
what
vngodly
place
,
can
harbour
then
,
These
fugitiue
vnnat'rall
Englishmen
:
Except
that
with
the
Turke
or
Infidell
,
Or
on
,
or
in
the
Sea
,
they
meane
to
dwell
,
That
is
in
lesser
roome
they
may
be
cram'd
,
And
liue
and
die
at
Amster
and
be
dam'd
.
And
sure
I
hold
some
Romane
Catholikes
Much
better
then
these
selfe-wild
Scismatickes
.
For
Papists
haue
good
affability
,
And
some
haue
learning
,
most
haue
Charity
,
Except
a
Iesuit
,
whom
I
thinke
a
man
,
May
terme
a
tight
Papistick
Puritan
,
And
for
the
Sep'ratist
I
iustly
call
,
A
Scismaticke
Impuritanicall
.
But
yet
the
Iesuit's
constant
in
his
mind
,
The
Scismatick
is
waueringly
inclin'd
.
Besides
,
he
thinkes
whilst
he
on
earth
doth
liue
,
T
is
charitie
to
take
,
and
not
to
giue
.
There
are
a
sort
of
men
which
conscience
make
Of
what
they
say
,
or
doe
,
or
vndertake
:
Who
neyther
will
dissemble
,
sweare
,
or
lye
,
Who
to
good
ends
their
actions
all
apply
,
Who
keepe
the
Sabbath
,
and
releeue
the
poore
,
According
to
their
portions
and
their
store
:
And
these
good
people
some
men
doe
backbite
And
call
them
Puritanes
,
in
scorne
and
spight
,
But
let
all
know
that
do
abuse
them
so
,
That
for
them
is
reseru'd
a
fearefull
wo
;
I
loue
and
reuerence
onely
beare
to
such
,
And
those
that
heere
Inuectiuely
I
touch
Are
Birds
whose
Consciences
are
more
vncleane
Then
any
Cormorant
wase're
knowne
or
seene
:
I
le
stand
to'th
censure
of
all
honest
men
,
If
they
disproue
me
,
I
le
ne're
write
agen
.
A
Trust-breaker
.
THE
ARGVMENT
.
A
Foe
to
Iustice
,
a
corrupted
Friend
,
An
outward
Angell
and
an
inward
Fiend
;
A
hidden
Serpent
,
a
most
subtle
Fox
A
Sugred
poyson
,
in
a
painted
Box
:
A
Syrens
song
,
alluring
to
mishap
,
A
Snare
to
Honesty
,
and
Vertues
trap
.
THe
Rich
Trust
breaker
,
vpon
whom
hell
waites
Doth
thrust
into
the
Riuer
of
Estates
,
His
foule
deuouring
Beake
,
and
at
one
prey
Will
swallow
fourteene
Tradesmen
in
a
day
:
As
many
of
the
Countrey
Lordships
slippes
Flapdragon
like
,
by
his
Insatiate
lippes
.
The
Father
sometimes
hath
beene
quite
vndone
,
Through
too
much
trusting
his
vnnat'rall
Sonne
,
And
a
Trust-breaker
hath
a
trick
in
's
pate
To
bring
a
rich
Ward
to
a
Beggers
state
.
For
some
corrupted
men
haue
got
tuition
Of
rich
mens
Heires
,
and
changed
their
condition
With
false
inducements
to
Recusancy
,
Or
suffring
them
through
prodigality
To
runne
so
farre
in
debt
,
that
all
their
Lands
Are
lost
,
before
they
come
into
their
hands
.
Faire
Schooles
of
learning
haue
bin
built
frō
ground
For
Boyes
whose
Fathers
were
not
worth
fiue
pound
:
But
false
Trust-breakers
hold
it
for
no
sinne
,
To
keepe
out
poore
mens
sonnes
,
take
rich
mens
in
.
This
Breach
of
Trust
is
multiplide
,
in
time
'T
a
Catholike
,
and
vniuersall
crime
,
That
man
to
man
is
growne
so
much
vniust
,
That
hee
's
a
wise
man
that
knowes
who
to
trust
.
But
(
if
there
be
such
)
they
doe
want
much
care
Who
trust
not
in
the
world
nor
trusted
are
.
Collectorships
,
the
common
wealth
may
lurch
,
For
Burnings
,
Highwaies
,
Bridges
,
or
the
Church
,
For
losse
at
Sea
,
for
Hospitalls
and
Schooles
,
One
hundred
knaues
,
may
make
ten
thousand
fooles
.
Yet
these
things
are
so
needfull
,
as
I
wot
,
Hee
's
a
base
villaine
that
contributes
not
:
But
hee
's
a
hell-hound
that
their
Trust
deceiues
,
And
the
right
due
from
those
that
want
bereaues
:
Why
,
this
Trust
breaking
hath
the
ex'lent
skill
To
make
a
VVife
to
burne
hir
Husbands
VVill
,
Because
his
first
VViues
Children
should
not
haue
The
Portions
that
within
that
VVill
hee
gaue
.
And
oftentimes
a
gasping
man
for
breath
,
Distracted
with
the
griping
pangs
of
death
,
Hath
to
a
forged
VVill
subscrib'd
his
hand
,
And
dispossest
his
owne
sonne
of
his
land
.
Trust-breakers
may
a
senselesse
hand
so
frame
,
(
Though
being
six
houres
dead
)
to
write
a
Name
,
A
rich-mans
wealth
that
's
dead's
like
vntold
gold
,
And
that
's
because
t'
is
neuer
truely
told
:
For
like
to
pitch
it
hath
polluting
tricks
,
And
some
vnto
the
fing'rers
fingers
sticks
:
But
of
all
Rascalls
since
the
world
began
,
The
Banckrupt
Politick's
the
onely
man
,
In
courteous
fashion
many
hee
'll
vndo
,
And
be
much
pittied
and
rewarded
too
:
For
hauing
got
mens
wealth
into
his
clawes
,
He
holds
it
faster
then
a
Cormorants
lawes
Can
hold
a
silly
fish
,
and
at
the
last
,
Himselfe
,
himselfe
will
into
prison
cast
.
And
hauing
broke
for
thousands
,
there
the
hound
Compounds
,
perhaps
for
ten
groats
in
the
pound
,
Se●s
richly
vp
againe
,
'till
time
hee
sees
,
To
breake
,
to
prison
againe
,
againe
agrees
:
And
thus
a
cunning
knaue
,
can
with
a
trice
,
Breake
,
and
be
whole
againe
,
once
,
twice
or
thrice
.
These
Cormorants
are
worse
then
theeues
therefore
,
And
beeing
worse
,
deserue
a
hanging
more
.
A
Theife
speakes
what
he
meanes
,
&
takes
your
purse
,
A
Banckrupt
flattring
robs
you
ten
times
worse
.
The
one
doth
sildome
rob
ye
of
all
your
pelfe
,
The
other
leaues
you
nough●
to
helpe
your selfe
:
And
yet
the
one
for
little
theeuing
may
,
At
Tiburne
make
a
hanging
holliday
;
VVhilest
the
great
The●e
may
wi●h
a
golden
prop
,
To
faire
Reuennues
turne
a
Peddlers
shop
.
In
this
voracity
Father
stands
not
free
From
his
owne
Sonne
,
nor
fr●m
his
Vncle
,
he
Being
made
Executor
to'th
States
of
men
,
My
Corm'rant
is
a
piddler
to
him
then
.
He
wil
by
cunning
and
vexation
draw
,
Heire
,
wealth
and
All
,
into
his
rauenous
maw
,
And
when
his
gorge
is
full
vp
to
the
brim
,
Into
some
lothsome
prison
vomits
him
.
There
leaues
the
honor
of
a
ho●se
and
name
,
To
be
exchang'd
for
misery
and
shame
:
Now
tell
me
they
that
loue
faire
truth
indeed
,
If
such
mawes
doe
not
Corm'rants
guts
exceed
.
And
to
what
place
soeuer
such
resort
,
They
are
the
Fowle
Birds
both
in
Towne
aud
Court.
A
Drunkard
.
THE
ARGVMENT
.
A
madnesse
dearely
bought
,
with
losse
of
fame
,
Of
credit
and
of
manly
reputation
:
A
cursed
purchase
of
disease
and
shame
,
Of
death
,
and
a
great
hazard
of
Damnation
:
In
all
that
's
bad
,
the
diuells
onely
Ape
,
Worse
then
a
beast
,
in
the
best
manly
shape
.
THis
fellow
with
the
dropsie
growne
as
bigge
,
And
much
more
beastly
then
a
Sowe
with
pigge
:
His
cheekes
like
Boreas
swolne
,
he
●low'd
and
puft
,
His
paunch
like
to
a
woolpack
cram'd
and
stuft
:
And
by
the
meanes
of
what
he
swil'd
and
gul'd
,
Hee
look'd
like
one
that
was
three
quarters
mul'd
.
His
breath
compounded
of
strong
English
Beere
,
And
th'
Indian
drug
would
suffer
none
come
neere
.
From
side
to
side
he
staggerd
as
he
went
,
As
if
he
reeling
did
the
way
indent
.
One
skirt
of
's
cloake
scarce
reacht
vnto
his
waste
,
The
other
dragging
in
the
dirt
he
trac'd
.
His
very
braines
within
his
head
were
stew'd
,
And
look'd
so
crimson
colour'd
scarlet
hew'd
,
As
't
were
an
ignis
fatuus
,
or
a
comet
.
His
garments
stunke
most
sweetly
of
his
vomit
,
Fac'd
with
the
tap-lash
of
strong
Ale
and
Wine
,
Which
from
his
slau'ring
chaps
doth
oft
decline
.
In
truth
he
look'd
as
red
as
any
coale
,
And
bellied
like
vnto
a
Mare
with
foale
:
With
hollow
eyes
,
and
with
the
palsie
shaking
,
And
gouty
legs
with
too
much
liquor
taking
.
This
valiant
pot-leach
that
vpon
his
knees
Has
drunke
a
thousand
pottles
vp
se
freese
,
Such
pickled
phrases
he
had
got
in
store
,
As
were
vnknowne
vnto
the
times
of
yore
,
As
when
he
drinkes
out
all
the
totall
summe
,
Gaue
it
the
stile
of
superna●ul●um
,
And
when
he
quaffing
doth
his
entrailes
wash
,
T
is
cal'd
a
hunch
,
a
thrust
,
a
whiffe
,
a
slash
:
And
when
carousing
makes
his
wits
to
faile
,
They
say
he
hath
a
rattle
at
his
taile
,
And
when
his
wits
are
in
the
wetting
shrunke
,
You
may
not
say
hee
's
drunke
,
though
he
be
drunke
,
For
though
hee
be
as
drunke
as
any
Rat
,
He
hath
but
catcht
a
foxe
,
or
whipt
the
Cat.
Or
some
say
,
hee
's
bewitcht
,
or
scratcht
,
or
blinde
,
(
VVhich
are
the
fittest
termes
that
I
can
finde
.
Or
seene
the
Lyons
,
or
his
nose
is
dirty
,
Or
hee
's
pot-shaken
,
or
out
,
two
and
thirty
And
then
strange
languages
comes
in
his
head
,
VVhen
he
wants
English
how
to
goe
to
bed
:
And
though
t'
were
fit
the
swine
should
in
his
stye
bee
,
Hee
spewes
out
latine
with
pro
bibi
tibi
:
Which
is
,
prouide
for
Tiburne
(
as
I
take
it
)
Or
if
it
be
not
,
hee
may
chance
to
make
it
.
Then
Irish
Shachatwhorum
from
him
flees
,
And
halfe
a
dozen
welch
me
Vatawhees
:
Vntill
hee
falls
asleepe
hee
skinks
and
drinkes
,
And
then
,
like
to
a
Bore
he
winkes
,
and
stinkes
.
This
Cormorant
in
one
day
swallowes
more
,
Then
my
poore
Esacus
doth
in
a
score
.
For
mine
but
once
a
day
doth
take
his
fill
,
The
drunkard
,
night
and
day
doth
quaffe
and
swill
,
Drinke
was
ordain'd
to
length
mans
fainting
breath
,
And
from
that
liquor
Drunkards
draw
their
death
:
Displeasing
God
,
the
diuell
he
onely
pleases
,
And
drinkes
with
others
healths
,
his
owne
diseases
.
And
in
the
end
contempt
and
shame
's
his
share
,
The
whil'st
a
Tapster
is
his
onely
Heire
.
Thus
drinke's
a
wrastler
that
giues
many
a
fall
,
To
death
,
to
beggery
and
slauish
thrall
.
And
drunkennesse
a
wilfull
madnesse
is
,
That
throwes
men
to
hells
bottomles
abisse
.
For
why
,
where
drunkennes
is
mistris
,
there
Sobriety
can
hardly
maistry
beare
:
And
ti
's
no
question
but
the
land
hath
drown'd
,
More
men
with
drinke
,
then
Seas
did
e're
confound
.
Wine
is
Earth's
blood
,
which
from
her
breast
doth
spring
,
And
(
well
vs'd
)
is
a
comfortable
thing
.
But
if
abused
from
it
then
beginnes
,
Most
horrible
notorious
crying
sinnes
.
As
Murther
,
Lechery
,
Ebriety
,
Gods
wrath
,
damnation
in
variety
:
For
he
that
is
a
drunkard
is
the
summe
,
And
abstract
of
all
mischiefes
that
can
come
.
It
wasts
him
soule
and
body
,
life
and
limb
,
My
Cormorant's
a
sober
beast
to
him
.
He
that
perswades
a
man
to
steale
or
lye
,
To
sweare
,
or
to
commit
adultery
,
To
stab
or
murder
any
man
that
liues
,
Can
it
be
said
that
he
good
counsell
giues
?
And
he
that
tempts
and
forces
men
to
drinke
,
Perswades
a
man
to
damne
himselfe
,
I
thinke
,
For
drunken
men
haue
into
dangers
run
,
Which
(
being
sober
)
they
would
ne're
haue
done
.
I
take
them
for
no
friends
,
that
giue
me
wine
,
To
turne
me
from
a
man
vnto
a
swine
,
To
make
me
void
of
manners
,
sense
,
or
reason
,
To
abuse
God
,
blaspheming
odious
treason
,
To
hurt
my
soule
and
body
,
fame
and
purse
,
To
get
the
diuell
,
and
gaine
Gods
heavy
curse
,
Though
many
take
such
for
their
friends
to
be
,
I
wish
them
hang'd
that
are
such
friends
to
me
:
For
greater
enemies
there
cannot
dwell
In
the
whole
world
,
nor
in
the
bounds
of
hell
.
Good
friendly
drinking
I
account
not
euill
,
But
much
carousing
,
which
makes
man
a
diuell
,
VVanting
the
priuiledge
that
hath
a
horse
,
And
to
be
vrg'd
and
forc'd
to
drinke
perforce
.
For
why
a
horse
this
gouernment
hath
still
,
Drinkes
what
he
will
,
and
not
against
his
will.
And
he
that
that
good
rule
doth
ouerpasse
,
Hath
lesse
discretion
then
a
horse
or
Asse
:
And
any
man
that
doth
this
temp'rance
want
,
Is
a
worse
glutton
then
my
Cormorant
.
A
prodigall
Country
Gallant
,
and
his
new
made
Maddam
.
THE
ARGVMENT
.
Taylors
fooles
,
Times
bables
,
and
prides
Apes
,
That
as
a
Squirrell
skips
from
tree
to
tree
:
So
they
like
Porteus
leape
from
shapes
to
shapes
.
Like
foule
swords
in
gilt
scabberds
,
he
and
she
Their
carkasse
pampers
,
gorgeously
bedeckt
,
Whilst
their
poore
starued
soules
they
both
neglect
.
NOw
step●
my
young
gull
gallant
into
play
,
Who
(
borne
to
land
)
i'
th
country
scornes
to
stay
,
To
liue
by
wit
(
thanks
Sire
)
he
hath
no
need
,
And
if
he
should
be
hang'd
can
scarcely
reade
.
Drabs
,
dice
,
and
drinke
are
all
his
onely
ioyes
,
His
pockets
,
and
his
spurs
,
his
gingling
boyes
,
A
Squirrels
tayle
hangs
dangling
at
his
eare
,
A
badge
which
many
a
gull
is
knowne
to
weare
.
His
eyes
red
blood-shot
,
arguing
a
sod
brainc
,
His
dam-him
voice
set
to
the
roaring
straine
:
His
nose
well
inlaid
with
rich
iemmes
about
,
As
from
a
watch
-
Towre
,
their
h●ads
peeping
out
,
Attended
fitly
,
(
fitting
for
the
age
)
VVith
two
shag'd
Russians
,
and
a
pyde
coat
Page
,
Who
beares
his
boxe
,
and
his
Tobacco
fils
,
VVith
stopper
,
tongs
,
and
other
vtensils
.
This
Fop
,
late
buried
,
e're
he
came
vp
hither
,
His
thrift
and
's
father
in
one
graue
together
,
His
country
stocke
he
sold
,
for
that
's
the
fashion
,
And
to
a
farmer
gaue
it
new
translation
:
His
Fathers
seruants
hee
thrust
out
of
dore
,
Allowes
his
mother
but
a
pension
poore
:
Salutes
you
with
an
oath
at
euery
word
,
Sirha
or
slaue
he
lib'rall
doth
afford
.
His
Father
(
a
good
house-keeper
)
being
dead
,
He
scornes
his
honest
block
should
fit
his
head
:
And
though
hee
be
not
skil'd
in
Magick
Art
,
Yet
to
a
Coach
hee
turn'd
his
Fathers
Cart.
Foure
Teames
of
Horses
,
to
foure
Flanders
Mares
With
which
to
London
hee
in
pomp
repaires
,
Woo's
a
She
Gallant
,
and
to
Wife
he
takes
her
:
Then
buyes
a
knighthood
,
and
a
maddam
makes
her
.
And
yearely
they
vpon
their
backs
ore
weare
,
That
which
oft
fed
fiue
hundred
with
good
cheere
.
Whil'st
in
the
Countrey
all
good
bounty
's
spilt
His
house
,
as
if
a
Iugler
it
had
built
,
For
all
the
Chimneies
,
where
great
fires
were
made
,
The
smoake
at
one
hole
onely
is
conuay'd
:
No
times
obseru'd
nor
Charitable
Lawes
,
The
poore
receiue
their
answer
from
the
Dawes
,
Who
in
their
caaing
language
call
it
plaine
Mockbegger
Manour
,
for
they
came
in
vaine
.
They
that
deuoure
what
Charity
should
giue
Areboth
at
London
,
there
the
Cormorants
liue
,
But
so
transform'd
of
late
,
doe
what
you
can
,
You
'le
hardly
know
the
woman
from
the
man
:
There
sir
Tim
Twirlepipe
and
his
Lady
Gay
,
Doe
prodigally
spend
the
time
away
:
Beeing
both
exceeding
proud
,
and
scornefull
too
,
And
any
thing
(
but
what
is
good
)
thei
'le
do
.
For
Incubus
,
and
Succubus
haue
got
A
crew
of
fiends
,
which
the
old
world
knew
not
:
That
if
our
Grand-fathers
and
Grand-dams
should
Rise
from
the
dead
,
and
these
mad
times
behold
.
Amazed
they
(
halfe
madly
)
would
admire
,
At
our
fantasticke
gestures
and
attire
:
And
they
would
thinke
that
England
in
conclusion
,
Were
a
meere
bable
Babell
of
confusion
.
That
Muld-sack
for
his
most
vnfashiond
fashions
,
Is
the
fit
patterne
of
their
transformations
:
And
Mary
Frith
doth
teach
them
modesty
,
For
shee
doth
keepe
one
fashion
constantly
,
And
therefore
she
deserues
a
matrons
praise
,
In
these
inconstant
moone-like
changing
dayes
.
A
witlesse
Asse
(
to
please
his
wiues
desire
)
Payes
for
the
fewell
,
for
her
pride
's
hot
fire
:
And
he
and
she
will
wast
,
consume
,
and
spoyle
,
To
feed
the
stinking
lamp
of
pride
with
oyle
:
When
with
a
sword
,
he
gat
a
knightly
name
,
With
the
same
blow
,
his
Lady
was
struck
lame
.
For
if
you
marke
it
,
she
no
ground
doth
tread
,
(
Since
the
blow
fell
)
except
that
she
be
lead
:
And
Charity
is
since
that
time
(
some
say
)
In
a
Carts
yonger
brother
borne
away
.
These
are
the
Cormorants
,
that
haue
the
power
To
swallow
a
Realme
,
and
last
themselues
deuour
:
And
let
their
gaudy
friends
,
thinke
what
they
will
,
My
Cormorant
shall
be
their
better
still
.
An
Extortioner
and
a
Broaker
.
THE
ARGVMENT
.
Friends
to
but
few
,
and
to
their
owne
soules
worst
,
With
Aspish
poyson
poysning
men
at
first
,
Who
laughing
languish
,
neuer
thinke
on
death
,
Vntill
these
Wolues
(
with
biting
)
stop
their
breath
;
The
diuell
and
they
at
no
time
can
be
sunder'd
,
And
all
their
trade
is
forty
in
the
hundred
.
ROome
for
two
hounds
,
well
coupl'd
,
and
t'
is
pitty
To
part
them
,
they
doe
keepe
such
ranck
i'
th
City
,
Th'
Extortioner
is
such
a
fiend
,
that
he
Doth
make
the
Vsurer
a
Saint
to
be
.
One
for
a
hundreds
vse
doth
take
but
ten
,
T'other
for
ten
a
hundred
takes
agen
:
The
one
mongst
Christians
is
well
tolerated
,
Tother's
of
heauen
and
earth
abhor'd
and
hated
,
The
one
doth
often
helpe
a
man
distrest
,
The
other
addes
oppression
to'th
opprest
.
By
paying
vse
a
man
may
thriue
and
get
,
But
by
extortion
neuer
none
could
yet
.
Though
vsury
be
bad
,
(
t
is
vnderstood
,
Compared
with
extortion
)
it
seemes
good
.
One
by
●e●aile
,
and
th'
other
by
the
great
,
Ingrose
the
profits
of
the
whole
worlds
sweat
,
That
man
is
happy
that
hath
meate
and
cloath
,
And
stands
in
need
of
neither
of
them
both
,
Extortioners
are
Monsters
in
all
nations
,
All
their
Conditions
turne
to
Obligations
,
VVaxe
is
their
shot
,
and
writing
pens
their
Guns
,
Their
powder
is
the
inke
that
from
them
runs
.
And
this
dank
powder
hath
blowne
vp
more
men
In
one
yeare
,
then
gunpowder
hath
in
ten
.
Bils
are
their
weapons
,
parchments
are
their
shields
,
VVith
which
they
win
whole
lordships
,
towns
&
fields
And
,
for
they
know
in
heauen
they
ne're
shall
dwell
,
They
ingrose
the
earth
before
they
come
to
hell
.
Yet
all
their
liues
here
they
with
cares
are
vext
,
Slaues
in
this
world
,
and
hell
hounds
in
the
next
.
And
what
they
o're
the
diuels
backe
did
win
,
Their
heyres
beneath
his
belly
waste
in
sinne
.
The
Broaker
is
the
better
senting
hound
,
He
hunts
and
scouts
till
he
his
prey
hath
found
,
The
gallant
which
I
mention'd
late
before
,
Turning
old
hospitality
out
of
doore
,
And
hauing
swallowed
tenants
and
their
crops
,
Comming
to
towne
,
he
crams
Extortions
chops
:
Craft
there
,
may
here
againe
be
set
to
schoole
,
A
Country
knaue
oft
proues
a
City
foole
.
He
that
a
dogs
part
plaies
when
he
is
there
,
A
wolfe
deuoures
him
when
he
comes
vp
here
:
The
silly
swaine
the
racking
Landlord
worries
,
But
Swaine
and
Landlord
both
extortion
curries
.
First
thing
is
done
,
the
Broaker
smels
him
forth
,
Hunts
all
his
haunts
,
enquires
into
his
worth
:
Sents
out
his
present
wants
,
and
then
applies
Rank
poyson
to
his
wounds
for
remedies
.
In
stead
of
licking
,
he
's
a
biting
whelpe
,
And
ranckles
most
,
when
he
most
seemes
to
helpe
,
And
he
hunts
dry
foot
;
neuer
spends
his
throat
Till
a
has
caught
his
game
,
and
then
his
note
Luls
him
asleepe
,
fast
in
Extortions
bands
There
leaues
him
,
takes
his
fee
o'
th
goods
and
lands
.
And
as
he
is
the
Commonwealths
deceiuer
,
So
(
for
the
most
part
)
hee
's
the
theeues
receiuer
.
Hangs
vp
the
hangmans
wardrop
at
his
doore
,
Which
by
the
hangman
hath
beene
hang'd
before
.
A
fishwife
,
with
a
pawne
,
doth
money
seeke
,
Hee
two
pence
takes
for
twelue
pence
euery
weeke
:
Which
makes
me
aske
my selfe
a
question
plaine
,
And
to
my selfe
I
answere
make
againe
:
Was
Houndsditch
Houndsditch
calld
can
any
tell
,
Before
the
Broakers
in
that
street
did
dwell
?
No
sure
it
was
not
,
it
hath
got
that
name
From
them
,
and
since
the
Time
they
thither
came
:
And
well
it
now
may
called
be
Houndsditch
,
For
there
are
Hounds
will
giue
a
vengeance
twitch
:
These
are
the
Gulphes
,
that
swallow
all
by
lending
,
Like
my
old
shoes
,
quite
past
all
hope
of
mending
:
I
'de
throw
my
Cormorants
dead
into
the
pooles
.
If
they
cram'd
fish
so
fast
as
these
eate
fooles
.
A
Basket
Iustice.
THE
ARGVMENT
.
The
best
of
men
,
when
truely
exercis'd
,
The
Actor
may
a
Saint
be
canoniz'd
:
Not
Policy
but
practise
,
Iustice
frames
,
Those
whom
bribes
blinde
,
haue
onely
thred-bare
names
Of
what
they
should
be
,
thus
the
Land
is
blest
,
When
iudgments
iust
flow
from
the
Iudges
breast
.
BEfore
the
noyse
of
these
two
Hounds
did
cease
,
A
Iustice
(
comming
by
)
commanded
peace
:
Peace
Curres
(
quoth
he
)
and
learne
to
take
your
pray
,
And
not
a
word
,
so
wise
folkes
,
goe
away
:
This
is
a
youth
that
sued
his
place
to
haue
,
Bought
his
authority
to
play
the
knaue
.
And
as
for
Coyne
he
did
his
place
obtaine
,
So
hee
'le
sell
Iustice
to
mak
't
vp
againe
,
For
the
old
prouerb
fits
his
humor
well
,
That
he
that
dearely
buyes
,
must
dearely
sell.
The
sword
of
Iustice
draw
he
stoutly
can
,
To
guard
a
knaue
,
and
grieue
an
honest
man
,
His
Clarke's
the
Bee
that
fils
his
comb
with
honey
,
He
hath
the
wit
,
his
master
hath
the
money
.
Such
Iusticer
as
this
(
if
men
doe
marke
)
Is
altogether
guided
by
his
Clarke
,
He
's
the
vice
Iustice
,
he
workes
all
by
's
wits
,
The
whilst
his
master
pickes
his
teeth
,
or
spits
,
Walkes
,
hums
,
and
nods
,
cals
knaue
at
euery
turne
,
(
As
if
he
in
a
dawes
nest
had
beene
borne
:
)
No
other
language
from
his
worship
flees
,
But
prisons
,
warrants
,
Mittimus
,
and
fees
:
Commit
,
before
he
search
out
the
offence
,
And
heare
the
matter
after
two
dayes
hence
,
Talkes
of
Recognizances
,
and
hath
scope
To
bind
and
loose
,
as
if
he
were
the
Pope
.
Be
the
case
ne're
so
good
,
yet
build
vpon
't
,
Fees
must
be
payd
,
for
that
's
the
humor
on
't
.
And
thus
with
onely
cursed
wealth
and
beard
,
He
makes
a
world
of
witlesse
fooles
afeard
,
And
when
he
giues
them
but
a
smile
or
nod
,
They
thinke
this
doughty
elfe
,
a
demy-god
.
When
fortune
fals
,
he
knowes
to
vse
the
same
,
His
Clarke
and
he
,
as
quiet
as
a
lambe
,
Make
not
two
words
,
but
share
,
and
goe
through
stich
,
Here
's
mine
,
there
's
thine
,
for
they
know
which
is
which
There
hath
beene
,
are
,
and
will
be
still
agen
,
In
all
professions
,
some
corrupted
men
:
Before
this
branch
of
false
Gehez●es
Tribe
,
T
is
sacriledge
to
call
a
bribe
a
bribe
,
Giue
him
a
Bucke
,
a
Pig
,
a
Goose
,
or
Phesant
,
(
For
manners
sake
)
it
must
be
cal'd
a
present
,
And
when
he
's
blind
in
Iustice
,
t
is
a
doubt
,
But
Turkies
tallons
scratch'd
his
eyes
halfe
out
:
Or
Capons
clawes
,
but
t
is
a
heauy
case
That
fowles
should
flye
so
in
a
Iustice
face
.
Sometimes
his
eyes
are
goard
with
an
Oxe
horne
,
Or
suddaine
dasht
out
with
a
sacke
of
corne
,
Or
the
whiske
brushing
of
a
Coachmares
taile
To
fit
the
Coach
,
but
all
these
thoughts
may
faile
,
Some
thinke
they
are
but
clouded
,
and
will
shine
,
Eclips'd
a
little
with
a
Teirce
of
Wine
,
Or
onely
falne
into
some
hoodwink'd
nap
,
As
some
men
may
vpon
the
Bench
,
by
hap
.
But
Iustice
seemes
deafe
when
some
tales
are
told
,
Perhaps
his
charity
hath
tane
some
cold
,
And
that
may
be
the
cause
,
or
rattling
Coaching
,
Or
neighing
horses
to
her
gate
approaching
,
From
thence
into
the
stable
,
as
her
owne
:
The
certaine
truth
thereof
is
not
yet
knowne
.
But
sure
she
is
so
deafe
,
that
she
can
heare
,
Nothing
but
what
her
Clarke
blowes
in
her
eare
,
Which
Clarke
,
good
men
must
croach
to
,
&
stand
bare
Or
else
finall
Iustice
mongst
them
they
shall
share
,
His
Master
like
a
weather-cocke
inclinde
,
As
he
doth
please
he
makes
him
turne
and
winde
.
This
Iustice
of
all
senses
is
bereft
,
Except
his
feeling
,
onely
feeling's
left
:
With
which
he
swallowes
with
insatiate
power
,
More
bribes
then
doth
my
Corm'rant
fish
deuoure
.
A
Cutpurse
.
THE
ARGVMENT
.
This
is
a
mad
knaue
,
liues
by
trickes
and
sleights
.
He
diues
by
land
,
and
dies
within
the
ayre
:
He
serues
no
man
,
yet
courteously
he
waites
On
whom
he
list
,
in
Church
,
towne
,
throng
,
or
faire
.
He
will
not
worke
,
yet
is
well
cloath'd
and
fed
,
And
for
his
farewell
seldome
dies
in
's
bed
.
THis
spirit
,
or
this
Ferrit
,
next
that
enters
(
Although
he
be
no
Merchant
)
much
he
ventures
,
And
though
he
be
a
noted
coward
,
yet
Most
valiantly
he
doth
his
liuing
get
.
He
hath
no
weapon
but
a
curtoll
knife
,
Wherewith
for
what
he
hath
he
hazards
life
.
East
Indian
Merchants
crosse
the
raging
Floods
,
And
in
their
ventring
,
venter
but
their
goods
:
When
as
themselues
at
Hope
securely
sleepe
,
And
neuer
plow
the
dangerous
ocean
deepe
,
If
they
doe
lose
by
Pirates
,
tempests
,
rocks
,
T
is
but
a
Flea
bite
to
their
wealthy
stocks
:
VVhilst
the
poore
Cutpurse
day
and
night
doth
toile
,
VVatches
and
wardes
,
and
doth
himslefe
turmoile
:
Oft
cuts
a
purse
before
the
Sessions
barre
,
VVhilst
others
for
their
liues
apleading
are
,
To
Sturbridge
Faire
,
or
vnto
Bristoll
ambles
In
ieopardy
he
for
his
liuing
rambles
,
And
what
he
gets
he
doth
not
beg
or
borrow
,
Ventures
his
necke
,
and
there
's
an
end
,
hang
sorrow
VVhilst
midst
his
perils
he
doth
drinke
and
sing
And
hath
more
pursebearers
then
any
King
Liues
like
a
Gentleman
,
by
sleight
of
hand
;
Can
play
the
Foist
,
the
Nip
,
the
Stale
,
the
Stand
,
The
Snap
,
the
Curb
,
the
Crosbite
,
Warp
,
and
List
,
Decoy
,
prig
,
Cheat
,
(
all
for
a
hanging
shift
.
)
Still
valiant
where
he
comes
,
and
free
from
care
,
And
dares
the
stocks
,
the
whip
,
the
Iaile
outdare
.
Speakes
the
braue
canting
tongue
,
lyes
with
his
dell
,
Or
pad
,
or
doxi
,
or
his
bonny
Nell
,
And
liues
as
merry
as
the
day
is
long
,
In
scorne
of
Tyburne
,
or
the
ropes
ding-dong
.
But
now
a
ieast
or
two
to
minde
I
call
,
Which
to
this
function
lately
did
befall
:
A
Cutpurse
standing
in
a
market-towne
,
As
for
his
prey
his
eyes
scowld
vp
and
downe
,
At
last
he
shoulders
neare
a
country
Lasse
,
And
cut
her
purse
,
as
by
her
he
did
passe
.
Shee
spide
and
caught
him
,
and
began
to
raue
,
Cald
him
rogue
,
rascall
,
villeyne
,
thiefe
and
slaue
.
Gep
with
a
pox
,
the
Cutpurse
then
replide
,
Are
you
so
fine
you
can
no
icasting
bide
,
I
'ue
ieasted
more
with
forty
honest
men
,
So
with
a
moraine
,
take
your
purse
agen
.
Another
sattin
Cutpurse
,
dawbd
with
lace
,
A
country
Gentleman
for
's
purse
did
chase
,
On
whom
a
blew-coat
Seruingman
did
waite
,
And
passing
through
a
narrow
obscure
strait
,
The
thieuing
knaue
the
purse
he
nimbly
nims
And
like
a
land
sharke
,
thence
by
land
he
swims
.
The
Scruingman
perceiu'd
the
Cutpurse
tricke
,
Said
nought
,
but
dogges
him
through
thinne
&
thick
,
Vntill
the
thiefe
suppos'd
the
coast
was
cleare
,
As
he
was
pissing
Blew-coat
cut
off's
eare
.
The
Cutpurse
madly
gins
to
sweare
and
curse
,
The
other
said
,
Giue
me
my
masters
purse
,
VVhich
you
stole
lately
from
his
pocket
,
then
There
's
no
wrong
done
,
but
here
's
your
eare
agen
.
Thus
though
a
Cutpurse
trade
be
counted
ill
,
I
say
he
is
a
man
of
action
still
:
Waites
on
Ambassadors
that
comes
and
goes
,
Attends
at
Tiltings
and
triumphant
showes
At
Westminster
,
he
still
attendance
giues
On
the
Lord
Mayor
,
his
brethren
,
and
the
Shrieues
,
Although
vnbidden
,
yet
hee
'll
be
a
guest
,
And
haue
his
hand
in
sometimes
with
the
best
.
And
whilst
he
liues
,
note
how
he
takes
degree
,
Newgate's
his
hall
,
at
Tyburne
hee
's
made
free
:
Where
commonly
it
so
fals
out
with
him
,
He
dyes
in
perfect
health
,
sound
winde
and
limbe
,
He
in
a
Coaches
elder
brother
rides
,
And
when
his
soule
and
corps
,
from
each
diuides
,
He
foules
no
sheetes
,
nor
any
Physicke
takes
,
But
like
a
bird
in'th
ayre
an
end
he
makes
:
And
such
an
end
I
wish
they
all
may
haue
,
And
all
that
loue
a
shifting
Cutpurse
knaue
.
For
they
are
Cormorants
wheresoere
they
haunt
,
Vntill
the
Gallowes
proues
their
Cormorant
.
A
good
and
a
bad
Constable
.
THE
ARGVMENT
.
This
man
is
to
the
Magistrate
an
eye
,
Reuealing
things
which
Iustice
could
not
finde
.
Blacke
deeds
of
darknesse
,
he
doth
oft
descry
,
And
is
(
if
he
be
honestly
inclinde
)
So
fit
the
Common-wealth
in
peace
to
keepe
,
By
watching
carefully
whilst
thousands
sleepe
.
VVhen
Titan
steepes
his
bright
resplendant
beames
,
And
hides
his
burning
Car
i'
th
westerne
streames
;
VVhen
to
the
vnder
world
day
takes
his
flight
,
And
leaues
th'
Horizon
all
in
darknesse
dight
,
VVhen
Philomel
doth
gainst
a
thorne
proclaime
In
dulcet
notes
,
the
lustfull
Tereus
shame
,
VVhen
Maddam
Midnight
shewes
her
Ebon
face
,
And
darknesse
doth
the
Hemispheare
embrace
,
Then
(
to
keepe
all
things
peaceable
and
well
)
The
watchfull
Constable
keepes
Centinell
.
Then
if
a
man
(
with
drinke
)
his
wit
hath
left
,
Or
hath
committed
leachery
,
or
theft
,
Or
murder
,
then
the
Constable
thinkes
fit
That
such
committers
straitly
he
commit
Hee
's
Lord
high
Regent
of
the
tedious
night
,
Man
of
the
Moone
he
may
be
called
right
:
Great
generall
of
Glowormes
,
Owles
and
Bats
,
Comptroler
ouer
such
as
whip
the
Cats
.
Dianaes
forrester
that
with
regard
,
Doth
guard
the
Heard
that
liues
within
his
ward
,
His
vigilancy
is
most
manifest
,
For
through
his
hornes
he
lightens
all
the
rest
.
Like
Minos
.
or
iust
iudging
Rhadamant
,
He
walkes
the
darksome
streets
of
Troynouant
,
Attended
with
his
Goblins
clad
in
Rugs
,
Like
Russian
Beares
,
or
Phlegetonian
bugs
,
Vntill
Aurora
shewes
her
blushing
brow
,
And
Lucifer
doth
shine
,
and
Cocks
do
crow
,
Madge
Howlet
whooting
,
hides
her
fearefull
head
,
Then
goes
the
Constable
and
's
watch
to
bed
.
This
officer
in
the
first
place
I
put
,
He
that
comes
next
is
of
another
cut
.
Yet
he
's
a
member
of
the
peace
comes
next
,
And
writ
most
commonly
an
asse
in
Text
:
Image
of
office
he
is
held
to
be
And
has
his
staffe
tip'd
with
authority
,
He
has
his
bill-men
,
which
can
seldome
keepe
The
name
of
watchmen
,
for
they
're
still
asleepe
.
His
word
is
Who
goes
there
?
Where
doe
you
dwell
?
Stand
still
,
and
come
before
the
Constable
.
Is
this
an
houre
:
carry
him
to
the
Compter
goe
.
Sayes
a
man's
drunke
,
when
his
owne
case
is
so
.
But
let
a
quar'ling
slaue
indeed
goe
by
,
Leading
by
'th
arme
his
rampant
venery
,
A
thing
of
filthy
surfet
,
like
a
swine
,
That
scarce
can
goe
laden
with
poxe
and
wine
,
They
for
their
sixpence
shall
passe
by
in
state
,
The
porter
with
a
leg
will
ope
the
gate
,
VVorship'd
,
and
guarded
to
their
lodging
safe
,
Not
with
bils
onely
,
but
th'officious
staffe
.
VVhilst
the
good
sober
man
,
that
nothing
gaue
,
Is
straight
committed
for
a
dangerous
knaue
,
Traytor
to'th
State
,
and
in
the
Iayle
must
lye
,
VVhilst
th'
other's
lighted
to
his
lechery
.
This
Constable
may
haue
a
tricke
in
store
,
His
house
may
be
safe
harbour
for
a
whore
,
Because
no
man
will
offer
to
search
there
.
She
there
may
rest
,
and
roost
secure
from
feare
.
There
she
may
lodge
,
and
trade
too
if
shee
will
,
As
sure
and
safe
,
as
theeues
are
in
a
Mill
,
Or
Suburbs
for
the
birth
of
Bastards
are
,
For
all
desire
to
lay
their
bellies
there
.
Nay
as
a
Compter
for
a
fellon's
home
,
Or
Ladies
chamber
for
a
Priest
from
Rome
.
But
yet
I
say
,
t
is
not
a
matter
hard
,
To
finde
an
honest
Constable
in
's
ward
.
Trust
forbid
else
,
and
waking
watchmen
to
,
VVhose
bils
were
neuer
stolne
,
and
much
adoe
To
be
corrupted
with
a
villaines
shilling
,
To
wrong
the
good
,
and
bad
mens
mindes
fulfilling
.
Such
men
as
those
I
thinke
some
few
there
be
,
And
for
the
rest
,
would
they
were
hangd
for
me
.
He
when
my
Corm'rant
is
at
rest
,
and
thinkes
Poore
fish
no
harme
,
nor
ought
that
water
drinkes
,
That
's
a
night
Corm'rant
,
and
at
midnight
swils
,
Whole
cans
and
pots
with
cheaters
and
their
Iils
,
He
makes
all
fish
that
comes
into
his
net
,
Drinkes
drunke
,
and
sleepes
,
and
then
the
watch
is
set
.
A
London
Serieant
and
Iaylor
.
THE
ARGVMENT
.
A
brace
of
Hell-hounds
that
on
earth
doe
dwell
,
That
tyrannize
on
poore
mens
bodies
more
,
(
If
more
they
could
)
then
diuels
ore
soules
in
hell
:
Whose
musicke
is
the
groanings
of
the
poore
.
These
,
when
they
buy
their
office
,
sell
their
soules
,
No
Cormorants
are
such
deuouring
fowles
.
THe
Serieant
I
before
the
Iaylor
name
,
Because
he
is
the
dog
that
hunts
the
game
:
He
worries
it
,
and
brings
it
to
the
toyle
,
And
then
the
Iaylor
liues
vpon
the
spoile
.
I
'ue
knowne
a
Serieant
that
foure
houres
hath
sate
,
Peeping
and
leering
through
a
Tauerne
grate
,
His
Yeoman
on
the
other
side
the
way
,
Keeping
the
like
watch
both
for
one
poore
prey
:
Whom
when
they
spide
,
like
mastiues
they
come
neere
him
,
And
by
the
throat
like
cruell
curs
they
teare
him
;
If
he
hath
money
,
to
the
Tauerne
straight
,
These
sucking
purse-leaches
will
on
him
wait
:
But
if
his
stocke
below
,
and
's
pockets
drye
,
To'th
Iayle
with
him
,
there
let
him
starue
and
dye
.
Yet
for
all
this
a
Serieant
is
deuout
,
For
he
doth
watch
and
prey
much
out
of
doubt
.
He
sels
no
spice
,
and
yet
in
euery
place
He
's
halfe
a
Grocer
,
for
he
liues
by
's
mace
:
He
's
part
a
Gentleman
,
for
vp
and
downc
,
Their
steps
he
followes
round
about
the
towne
.
And
yet
he
seemes
a
Iugler
too
by
this
,
He
oft
from
shape
to
shape
so
changed
is
:
As
sometimes
like
an
Amsterdammian
brother
,
Sometimes
a
Porters
shape
,
sometimes
another
,
Sometimes
t'a
Counsellor
at
Law
,
and
then
T'a
lame
,
or
blinded
begger
,
and
agen
T'a
Country
Seruingman
that
brings
a
Deere
,
And
with
these
trickes
his
prey
he
doth
come
deere
.
Wherein
he
imitates
the
diuell
aright
,
Who
can
put
on
an
Angels
shape
of
light
,
That
so
his
craft
may
on
mens
soules
preuaile
.
So
Serieants
snare
mens
bodies
for
the
Iayle
,
Time
was
he
wore
a
proper
kind
of
coate
,
And
in
his
hand
a
white
rod
,
as
a
note
Whereby
a
man
far
off
a
knaue
might
spie
,
And
shun
him
if
he
were
in
ieopardy
.
But
now
to
no
such
habit
he
is
bound
,
Because
his
place
(
neere
)
cost
him
eight
score
pound
,
To
get
the
which
againe
,
he
must
disguise
And
vse
a
thousand
shifts
and
villanies
.
Oh
that
a
man
so
little
grace
should
haue
To
giue
so
much
,
to
be
esteem'd
a
knaue
.
To
be
shau'd
,
duck'd
,
and
vnpittied
dye
,
Curst
and
contemn'd
within
his
graue
to
lie
.
To
hazard
soule
and
body
,
ne're
to
thriue
,
But
by
mens
harmes
,
deuouring
them
aliue
.
To
be
the
hang-mans
guard
,
and
wait
vpon
The
Gallowes
at
an
Execution
,
But
yet
the
office
is
most
fit
we
see
,
And
fit
that
honest
men
should
haue
it
free
.
Now
for
the
other
sucking
diuell
,
the
Iaylor
His
worke
's
brought
to
him
,
as
he
were
a
Taylor
.
As
if
he
were
a
Fencer
hee
'll
beginne
,
And
aske
a
man
what
ward
hee
will
be
in
:
(
But
first
the
prisoner
drawes
without
delay
,
A
sop
for
Cerberus
that
turnes
the
key
.
)
Then
the
old
prisoners
garnish
doe
demand
,
Which
straight
must
be
discharged
out
of
hand
.
But
if
he
cannot
pay
,
or
doth
denye
,
He
thrusts
him
in
the
hole
,
there
lets
him
lye
.
If
a
good
prisoner
hath
a
well-linde
purse
,
The
Iaylor
then
esteemes
him
as
his
nurse
,
Suckes
like
a
Bulcalfe
,
and
doth
neuer
cease
Till
with
much
griefe
he
heares
of
a
release
.
An
Vnder-keeper
,
(
though
without
desert
)
Is
a
continuall
knaue
in
spight
on
's
hart
:
If
to
the
prisoners
he
be
sharpe
and
cruell
,
He
proues
their
knaue
,
and
his
good
masters
Iewell
:
If
vnto
them
himselfe
he
well
behaue
,
He
is
their
Iewell
and
his
Masters
knaue
.
So
let
him
turne
himselfe
which
way
he
can
,
Hee
seldome
shall
be
held
an
honest
man.
Perhaps
the
Iaylor
in
one
stinking
rome
Hath
sixe
beds
,
for
the
Gallant
and
the
Grome
,
)
In
lowsie
linnen
,
ragged
couerlets
:
Twelue
men
to
lodge
in
those
sixe
beds
hee
sets
:
For
which
each
man
doth
pay
a
groat
a
night
,
VVhich
weeklie's
eight
and
twenty
shillings
right
:
Thus
one
foule
dirty
roome
from
men
vnwilling
,
Drawes
yearly
seauenty
three
pound
sixteene
shilling
.
Besides
a
Iaylor
(
to
keepe
men
in
feare
)
Will
like
a
demi-deuill
dominere
:
Roare
like
a
Bearward
,
grumble
,
snarle
,
and
growle
,
Like
a
Towre
Cat-a-Mountaine
stare
and
scowle
.
He
and
the
Serieant
may
be
coupled
too
,
As
bane
of
mankind
,
for
they
both
vndoe
:
Th'Extortioner
and
Broaker
nam'd
before
,
Hauing
both
bit
and
grip'd
a
mans
state
sore
:
In
comes
the
Serieant
for
his
breakfast
then
,
Drags
him
to'th
Iayle
to
be
new
squeezd
agen
:
And
thence
he
gets
not
,
there
he
shall
not
start
,
Till
the
last
drop
of
blood's
wrong
from
his
heart
.
Yet
I
haue
heard
some
Serieants
haue
beene
mild
,
And
vs'd
their
prisoner
like
a
Christians
child
:
Nip'd
him
in
priuate
,
neuer
trig'd
his
way
,
As
Bandogs
carrion
,
but
went
faire
away
,
Follow'd
aloofe
,
shewd
himselfe
kind
and
meeke
,
And
lodg'd
him
in
his
owne
house
for
a
weeke
.
You
'd
wonder
at
such
kindnesse
in
a
man
,
So
many
Regions
from
a
Christian.
But
what
's
the
cause
,
I
le
lead
you
out
o'
th
maze
,
T
is
twenty
shillings
euery
day
he
stayes
,
Besides
the
Serieants
wife
must
haue
a
stroake
,
At
the
poore
teate
,
some
outside
she
must
soake
,
Although
she
tridge
for
't
,
whilst
good
fortunes
fall
,
He
shall
command
house
,
Serieant
,
and
all
.
Thus
may
it
come
by
'th
side
o'
th
breeding
woman
,
The
Serieants
son
's
a
Gentleman
,
no
yeoman
:
And
whilst
they
fish
from
mens
decayes
and
wants
,
Their
wiues
may
proue
foule
fleshly
Cormorants
.
Thus
a
bad
Serieant
and
a
Iaylor
both
,
Are
Cormorants
which
all
good
people
loathe
,
And
yet
amongst
them
some
good
men
there
are
,
Like
snow
at
Midsommer
,
exceeding
rare
.
A
Symonicall
Patron
,
and
his
penny
Clarke
.
THE
ARGVMENT
.
Here
Magus
seeketh
holy
things
to
buy
,
With
cursed
bribes
and
base
corrupting
gold
:
Lets
soules
for
want
of
preaching
starue
and
die
,
Fleeces
and
flayes
his
flockes
,
bare
pilde
and
pold
:
That
to
speake
truth
,
in
spight
of
who
controls
,
Such
Clarkes
and
Patrone
murder
many
soules
.
THis
is
the
bane
both
of
the
age
and
men
,
A
Patron
with
his
benefices
ten
;
That
wallowes
in
fat
liuings
a
Church
leach
,
And
cannot
keepe
out
of
my
Corm'rants
reach
,
One
of
these
Patrons
doth
deuoure
his
Clarks
,
As
they
doe
perish
soules
,
after
foure
Markes
,
And
euery
yeare
a
paire
of
new
high
shooes
,
For
which
betwixt
two
Churches
he
doth
vse
Each
Sabbath
day
with
diligence
to
trot
,
But
to
what
purpose
,
few
or
none
know
not
.
Except
it
be'cause
he
would
eate
and
feed
,
He
'le
starue
two
Cures
,
for
he
can
hardly
reade
.
This
sir
Iohn
Lacklatine
,
true
course
doth
keepe
,
To
preach
the
Vestry
men
all
fast
asleepe
,
And
box
and
cuffe
a
Pulpit
mightily
,
Speaking
non-sense
with
nose-wise
grauity
,
These
youths
,
in
Art
,
purse
,
and
attire
most
bare
Giue
their
attendance
,
at
each
steeple
faire
:
Being
once
hir'd
he
'le
not
displease
his
Lord
,
His
surly
Patron
,
nor
dares
preach
a
word
,
But
where
he
giues
the
text
,
and
that
must
be
Some
place
of
Scripture
bites
no
vsury
,
Extortion
,
or
the
like
,
but
some
calme
law
,
That
will
not
fret
his
sore
,
be
't
nere
so
raw
.
As
calmly
preach'd
,
as
lamely
to
exptesse't
.
With
clamarous
yell
that
likes
the
parish
best
.
This
Clarke
shall
be
a
drudge
too
,
all
his
time
,
Weedes
in
the
garden
,
beares
out
dung
and
slime
:
Then
vpon
Sabbath
dayes
the
scroyle
beginnes
With
most
vnhallowed
hands
,
to
weed
vp
sinnes
:
And
from
cup
filling
all
his
weeke
dayes
spent
,
Comes
then
to
giue
the
Cup
at
Sacrament
.
And
from
his
trencher
waiting
goes
to
serue
Spirituall
food
to
those
that
almost
starue
;
And
what
's
this
Clarke
that
's
of
such
seruile
mind
,
Some
smatring
Pedant
or
mechanicke
hinde
,
Who
taking
an
intelligencers
place
Against
poore
tenants
,
first
crept
into
grace
,
And
drudges
for
eight
pounds
ayeare
perhaps
,
VVith
his
great
vailes
of
Sundayes
trencher
scraps
.
This
makes
the
sacred
Tribe
of
Leui
sad
,
That
many
of
them
proue
the
Tribe
of
Gad
,
This
makes
good
Scholers
iustly
to
complaine
,
VVhen
Patrones
take
they
care
not
who
for
gaine
,
VVhen
as
a
Carter
shall
more
wages
haue
,
Then
a
good
Preacher
that
helpes
soules
to
saue
,
These
Cormorants
Gods
part
doth
eate
and
cram
,
And
so
they
fare
well
,
care
not
who
they
damne
,
The
people
scarce
knowes
what
a
Sermon
meanes
,
For
a
good
Preacher
there
can
haue
no
meanes
,
To
keepe
himselfe
with
cloathes
,
and
books
,
and
bread
Nor
scarce
a
pillow
t'vnderlay
his
head
.
The
whilst
the
Patrons
wife
(
my
Lady
Gay
)
Fares
,
and
is
deckt
most
dainty
euery
day
:
Shee
'le
see
that
preaching
trouble
not
the
towne
,
And
weares
a
hundred
Sermons
in
a
Gowne
.
Shee
hath
a
preachers
liuing
on
her
backe
,
For
which
the
soules
of
many
goes
to
wrack
,
And
hires
a
mungrell
cheaply
by
the
yeare
,
To
famish
those
Christs
blood
hath
bought
so
deare
;
What
greater
cruelty
can
this
exceed
,
Then
to
pine
those
whom
Iesus
bids
them
feed
,
These
are
hels
vultures
,
Tophets
greedy
fowles
,
That
proue
(
like
diuels
)
Cormorants
of
soules
.
A
Country
Yeoman
.
THE
ARGVMENT
.
Here
Dauy
dicker
comes
,
God
speed
the
plough
,
Whose
Sonne
's
a
Gentleman
,
and
hunts
and
haukes
:
His
Farme
good
cloathes
and
feeding
will
allow
,
And
whatsoere
of
him
the
Country
talkes
,
His
sonne
's
in
silkes
,
with
feather
in
his
head
,
Untill
a
begger
bring
a
foole
to
bed
.
THe
Romane
Histories
doe
true
relate
How
Dioclesian
chang'd
his
Emp'rors
state
,
To
liue
in
quiet
in
a
Country
Farme
,
Out
of
the
reach
of
treasons
dangerous
arme
.
Then
was
a
Farmer
,
like
a
labring
Ant
,
And
not
a
land
deuouring
Cormorant
.
For
if
a
Gentleman
hath
land
to
let
,
He
'le
haue
it
,
at
what
price
soe're
t
is
set
,
And
bids
,
and
ouer-bids
,
and
will
giue
more
,
Then
any
man
could
make
of
it
before
:
Offers
the
Landlord
more
then
he
would
craue
,
And
buyes
it
,
though
he
neither
get
nor
saue
.
And
whereas
Gentlemen
their
land
would
let
,
At
rates
that
tenants
might
both
saue
and
get
,
This
Cormorant
will
giue
his
landlord
more
,
Then
he
would
aske
,
in
hope
that
from
the
poore
He
may
extort
it
double
,
by
the
rate
,
Which
he
will
sell
his
corne
and
cattle
at
.
At
pining
famine
he
will
ne're
repine
,
T
is
plenty
makes
this
Cormorant
to
whine
,
To
hoard
vp
corne
with
many
a
bitter
ban
,
From
widowes
,
orphanes
,
and
the
lab'ring
man
:
He
prayes
for
raine
in
haruest
,
night
and
day
,
To
rot
and
to
consume
the
graine
and
hay
:
That
so
his
mowes
and
reekes
,
and
stacks
that
mould
,
At
his
owne
price
he
may
translate
to
gold
.
But
if
a
plenty
come
,
this
rauening
thiefe
Torments
(
and
sometimes
hangs
)
himselfe
with
griefe
.
And
all
this
raking
toyle
,
and
carke
and
care
,
Is
for
his
clownish
first
borne
sonne
and
heire
,
Who
must
be
gentled
by
his
ill
got
pelfe
,
Though
he
(
to
get
it
)
got
the
diuell
himselfe
.
And
whilst
the
fathers
bones
a
rotting
lie
,
His
sonne
his
cursed
wealth
,
accurst
lets
flie
,
In
whores
,
drinke
,
gaming
,
and
in
reuell
coyle
,
The
whilst
his
fathers
soule
in
flames
doth
broile
.
And
when
the
father
on
the
earth
did
liue
,
To
his
sonnes
fancy
he
such
way
did
giue
,
For
at
no
season
he
the
plough
must
hold
,
The
Summer
was
too
hot
,
the
Winter
cold
,
He
robs
his
mother
of
her
butter
pence
,
Within
the
Alehouse
serues
him
for
expence
.
And
so
(
like
Coles
dog
)
the
vntutor'd
mome
,
Must
neither
goe
to
Church
,
nor
bide
at
home
.
For
he
his
life
another
way
must
frame
,
To
hauke
,
to
hunt
,
abusing
the
Kings
game
,
Some
Nobleman
or
Gentleman
that
's
neere
,
At
a
cheape
rate
to
steale
what
they
call
deere
.
VVhen
if
a
poore
man
(
his
great
want
to
serue
)
Whose
wife
and
children
ready
are
to
starue
,
If
he
but
steale
a
sheepe
from
out
the
fold
,
The
chuffe
would
hang
him
for
it
if
he
could
.
For
almes
,
he
neuer
read
the
word
releeue
,
He
knowes
to
get
,
but
neuer
knowes
to
giue
,
And
whatsoere
he
be
that
doth
liue
thus
,
Is
a
worse
Cormorant
then
my
Aesacus
,
A
Figure
flinger
,
or
a
couzning
cunning
man.
THE
ARGVMENT
.
Amongst
a
foolish
,
faithlesse
,
gracelesse
crew
,
This
man
hath
better
credit
then
Gods
word
:
For
losse
that
's
past
,
or
profit
to
ensue
,
Like
to
a
Terme
,
with
Customers
hee
's
stor'd
.
Hee
's
a
Sooth-sayer
,
but
saith
seldome
sooth
,
And
hath
the
Diuels
great
seale
for
what
he
doth
.
HEre
now
I
draw
a
curtaine
and
discouer
Amongst
all
knaues
the
deuils
speciall
louer
:
One
that
doth
court
him
still
,
and
daily
wooe
,
And
faine
would
see
the
deuill
,
but
knowes
not
how
.
He
has
him
in
his
workes
,
that
's
his
sure
place
,
But
has
not
Art
to
bring
him
to
his
face
.
VVhen
he
could
wish
him
to
his
outward
sense
,
The
diuell
sits
laughing
in
his
conscience
:
Yet
you
shall
haue
this
figure-flinger
prate
,
To
his
gull
client
(
small
wit
shallow
pate
,
)
As
if
he
were
Lord
warden
of
hell
fire
,
And
Lucifer
and
he
had
both
one
sire
,
The
Fiends
his
couzen
Germanes
(
once
remou'd
)
From
earth
to
hell
,
where
he
is
best
belou'd
.
More
fustian
language
from
his
tongue
doth
drop
,
Then
would
set
forth
an
honest
tradesmans
shop
:
As
if
that
all
Magitians
that
ere
were
,
Vnworthy
were
his
learned
bookes
to
beare
,
Not
Zoroastres
,
King
o'
th
Bactrians
,
Nor
the
sage
Magi
of
the
Persians
,
Nor
any
coniuring
sonne
of
Cham
or
Chus
,
Nor
Faustus
with
his
Mephostophilus
,
Cornelius
Agrippa
,
Simon
Magus
,
Nor
any
twixt
the
riuer
Thames
or
Tagus
,
Nor
Britanes
Bladud
,
Cambriaes
Merlin
,
Bacon
,
Companions
for
this
man
would
ne're
be
taken
.
For
he
is
rare
,
and
deeply
read
indeed
,
In
the
admir'd
right
reuerend
old
wiues
Creed
,
Takes
of
the
Iewish
Thalmud
,
and
Cabals
,
Solstitiums
and
Equinoctials
,
Of
auguries
,
of
prophecies
,
predictions
,
Prognostications
,
reuelation
,
fictions
,
And
as
he
could
the
Elements
command
,
He
seemes
as
he
their
minds
doth
v●derstand
.
By
Fire
he
hath
the
skill
of
Pyromanty
,
By
Ayre
he
hath
the
art
of
Heromanty
,
By
Water
he
knowes
much
in
Hidromanty
,
And
by
the
Earth
he
's
skil'd
in
Geomanty
:
Palme
Chiromanty
,
couzuing
Necromancy
,
To
gull
the
world
,
to
fulfill
fooles
fancy
.
Hags
,
ghosts
,
and
goblins
,
furies
,
fairies
,
clues
,
He
knowes
the
secrets
of
the
diuells
themselues
,
There
's
not
a
Nimph
,
a
fawne
,
or
goatefoot
Satyre
,
That
liues
by
fire
,
by
ayre
,
by
earth
,
or
water
,
Nor
Driades
or
Hamadriades
,
Betwixt
Septentrio
and
Meridies
,
But
he
commands
them
to
doe
what
they
list
,
If
he
but
bend
the
brow
,
or
clutch
the
fist
.
Hee
'le
tell
a
mans
hearts
secrets
what
he
thinkes
,
Like
Oedipus
vnfolds
th'ambiguous
Sphinx
,
With
skill
surpassing
great
Albumazers
,
He
with
intelligencing
Fiends
confers
,
And
by
his
wondrous
Attacoosticon
,
Knowes
the
Turkes
counsell
,
and
what
Prester
Iohn
Determines
,
or
what
businesse
now
befals
Amidst
the
conclaue
of
Romes
Cardinals
.
He
can
release
,
or
else
encrease
all
harmes
,
About
the
necke
or
wrests
by
tying
charmes
.
He
hath
a
tricke
to
kill
the
Agues
force
,
And
make
the
patient
better
,
or
much
worse
,
To
the
great
toe
three
letters
he
can
tye
,
Shall
make
the
gowt
to
tarry
or
else
flye
.
With
two
words
and
three
leaues
of
foure
leau'd
grasse
He
makes
the
tooth-ach
,
stay
,
repasse
,
or
passe
:
If
lost
goods
you
againe
would
faine
haue
got
,
Goe
but
to
him
,
and
you
shall
speed
,
or
not
.
But
he
will
gaine
whether
you
get
or
lose
,
He
'le
haue
his
fee
,
for
so
the
bargaine
goes
:
He
'le
tell
you
wonders
when
you
are
alone
,
Of
the
Philosophers
admired
stone
:
And
that
it
from
Vtopia
first
did
come
.
Brought
to
him
by
a
spirit
,
he
sent
to
Rome
,
Whereby
(
t'
inrich
the
world
he
dares
be
bold
)
To
turne
pans
,
pots
,
and
dripping
pans
to
gold
.
And
in
the
Goldsmiths
burnisht
glistring
row
,
Place
Ironmongers
with
a
fairer
show
,
Turne
Spits
and
Andir'ns
to
bright
mettle
shining
,
that
whē
coin's
scarce
you
straight
may
put
to
coining
These
and
a
thousand
more
,
as
idlely
vaine
Fooles
swallow
,
and
he
swallowes
them
againe
,
And
though
the
marke
of
truth
he
neuer
hits
,
Yet
still
this
Cormorant
doth
liue
by
's
wits
,
And
ne're
will
want
a
false
deuouring
tricke
,
Till
hels
Archcormorant
deuoure
him
quicke
.
A
Corrupted
Lawyer
,
and
a
knauish
Vndershriefe
.
THE
ARGVMENT
.
The
soule
of
Commonwealths
is
in
good
lawes
,
Their
execution
makes
a
happy
State
,
But
where
corruption
opes
his
hungry
Iawes
,
Where
Lawyers
doe
encrease
,
not
cease
debate
,
Such
Law
wormes
are
the
diuels
dearest
brood
,
Who
make
the
common
harme
their
priuate
good
.
A
Hall
,
a
hall
,
the
tramplers
are
at
hand
,
A
shifting
master
,
and
as
sweetly
mand
:
His
Buckrum
bearer
,
one
that
knowes
his
ku
,
Can
write
with
one
hand
,
and
receiue
with
two
.
The
trampler
is
in
haste
,
O
cleere
the
way
,
Takes
fees
with
both
hands
cause
he
cannot
stay
,
No
matter
where
the
cause
be
right
or
wrong
,
So
he
be
payd
for
letting
out
his
tongue
.
Me
thinkes
that
posie
which
the
Painters
score
Vpon
Inne
posts
,
would
fir
this
fellowes
doore
,
Because
he
lets
his
conscience
out
for
fee
,
That
here
's
a
tongue
that
's
let
at
liuery
.
This
pettifogger
,
like
a
Lapland
witch
,
Sels
his
winde
deare
,
and
so
growes
diuellish
rich
:
Breath
is
his
life
and
deare
he
'le
sell
his
breath
,
The
more
he
wastes
,
the
nearer
is
his
death
.
To
begger
any
man
he
will
not
straine
His
voice
,
except
they
pay
him
for
his
paine
.
He
best
doth
fare
where
C●ients
fare
the
worse
,
And
euery
meale
hath
first
and
second
course
,
The
dish●s
that
come
first
vp
to
the
messe
,
Are
bra●les
and
quarrels
,
strife
,
vnquietnesse
,
Contentio●s
,
emulations
,
and
debate
,
These
furnish
forth
his
table
in
great
state
.
And
then
for
picking
meat
,
or
dainty
bits
,
The
second
course
is
actions
,
cases
,
writs
:
Long
suits
from
terme
to
terme
,
and
fines
and
fees
At
the
last
cast
comes
in
for
fruit
and
cheese
.
The
man
of
all
men
,
most
in
art
excel'd
,
That
in
Great
Britaine
would
cont●●●ion
geld
,
And
by
that
meanes
could
make
a
good
preuention
,
Contention
would
beg●t
no
more
con●ention
.
This
Lawyers
riches
euer
springs
and
bloomes
,
From
sheeps
coat
,
calues
skin
,
russet
hobnaild
grooms
,
Perswading
them
that
all
things
shal
goe
well
,
Sucks
out
the
egge
,
leaues
them
the
empty
shell
.
He
hath
a
sleight
in
s●inning
out
a
cause
,
Till
all
the
money
out
of
purse
it
drawes
,
His
clients
with
full
budgets
come
to
towne
,
But
he
takes
order
for
then
going
downe
,
The
full
is
now
the
Lawyers
,
theirs
the
wane
,
Like
buckets
turn'd
to
come
vp
full
againe
:
With
papers
laden
thinke
themselues
most
firme
,
C●●e
them
downe
,
to
bring
them
vp
next
terme
.
Horse
,
plow
,
and
cattle
goe
to
wracke
,
split
all
,
T
is
fit
the
stable
wait●
vpon
●he
stall
.
Their
sheepe
the
parchment
beares
their
geese
the
quils
,
Which
turnes
their
state
as
this
bad
Lawyer
wils
.
Their
sh●rts
the
paper
makes
,
their
Bees
the
wax
,
T'
vndoe
themselues
that
good
discretion
lacks
,
These
men
like
geese
against
themsel●es
doe
things
,
In
plucking
quils
from
their
owne
foolish
wings
,
This
Lawyer
makes
his
dang'rous
shafts
withall
,
And
shootes
them
at
the
fowles
from
whence
they
fall
.
The
Commonwealths
impostu●
he
doth
cut
,
And
the
corruption
in
his
purse
doth
put
.
One
giues
him
for
a
bribe
,
a
brawne
or
swine
,
And
that
's
drown'd
with
anothers
But
of
wine
,
One
giues
a
Coach
all
deckt
and
painted
gay
,
Anothers
horses
drawes
it
quite
away
One
giues
a
Iarre
of
Oyle
to
scape
the
foile
,
An
O●e
or'eturnes
the
Iarre
,
and
spils
the
Oyle
.
And
thus
like
Pharaohs
Kine
,
he
hath
the
power
,
To
make
the
fattest
bribes
the
leane
deuoure
.
His
motions
moue
commotions
,
and
his
suites
Foure
times
a
yeare
doe
termely
yield
him
fruits
.
Foure
sundry
wayes
a
kingdomes
Lawes
are
vs'd
,
By
two
maintained
,
and
by
two
abus'd
:
Good
Lawyers
liue
by
Law
,
and
t
is
most
fit
,
Good
men
obey
the
Law
,
liue
vnder
it
.
Bad
Lawyers
(
for
their
gaine
)
doe
wrest
the
Law
,
Bad
men
of
God
or
mans
Law
haue
no
awe
.
But
whether
these
men
vse
Law
well
or
i●l
,
Th'inten●ion
of
the
Law
is
honest
still
.
For
as
the
text
is
rent
,
and
torne
,
and
varied
,
And
by
opinions
from
the
sense
is
carried
By
ignorant
and
wilfull
Hereticks
,
Or
impure
separating
Scismaticks
,
Though
from
the
truth
of
text
all
men
should
seuer
,
The
text
is
permanent
and
sacred
euer
.
Euen
so
the
Law
is
in
it selfe
vpright
,
Correcting
and
protecting
,
wrong
and
right
:
T
is
no
iust
Lawyers
,
〈◊〉
the
lawes
defame
,
Although
some
hounds
of
hell
abuse
the
same
.
This
Cormorant
I
meane
,
gulps
whom
he
list
,
And
hauing
swallow'd
fees
into
his
fist
,
Defers
the
motion
till
the
Court
withdrawes
,
Then
to
the
cushions
pleads
the
poore
mans
cause
,
As
formally
as
if
the
Iudges
sate
,
No
matter
for
the
man
,
the
money
's
gat
.
My
Cormorant
was
neuer
match'd
till
now
,
If
I
sayd
o're
match'd
,
I
le
resolue
you
how
,
And
you
that
reade
it
shall
confesse
it
true
,
Perhaps
it
is
a
thing
well
knowne
to
you
,
Where
Corm'rants
haunts
,
numbers
of
fish
grow
lesse
,
But
where
bad
Lawyers
come
,
there
brawles
encrease
.
Now
master
Vndershriefe
I
vnderstand
,
You
bring
my
Lawyers
worke
vnto
his
hand
,
You
bring
him
stuffe
,
he
like
a
Taylor
cuts
it
.
And
into
any
shape
he
pleaseth
puts
it
.
Though
to
the
Client
it
appeare
slight
stuffe
,
It
shall
out
last
him
any
sute
of
Buffe
:
For
though
from
tearme
to
tearme
it
be
worne
long
,
T
is
drest
still
with
the
teazle
of
the
tongue
,
That
(
though
it
be
old
)
at
euery
day
of
hearing
,
It
lookes
fresh
,
as
't
had
neuer
come
to
wearing
.
And
though
it
seeme
as
th'
owner
neuer
wore
it
,
A
broaker
will
not
giue
him
three
pence
for
it
.
Sweet
master
Shrieue
,
let
it
not
grieue
your
minde
,
You
being
the
last
o'
th
broode
,
come
last
behinde
,
No
doubt
you
might
be
first
in
a
bad
case
,
But
being
call'd
vnder
,
I
make
this
your
place
;
I
know
where
ere
you
stand
,
you
are
so
good
,
You
'll
scorne
to
be
vnlike
one
of
the
brood
,
And
take
't
in
dudgeon
(
as
you
might
no
doubt
)
If'mongst
this
ranke
of
Corm'rants
you
were
out
.
I
haue
a
warrant
here
for
what
I
doe
,
Plaine
truth
it selfe
,
and
that
haue
seldome
you
.
Some
of
your
tribe
a
man
may
honest
call
,
But
those
my
Corm'rant
meddles
not
withall
.
You
that
dare
fright
men
of
a
shallow
wit
,
Who
cannot
reade
when
there
is
nothing
writ
:
And
can
returne
(
when
you
are
pleas'd
to
saue
)
A
Non
inuentus
for
a
bribing
knaue
.
For
one
that
stands
indebted
to
the
King
A
Nihil
habet
,
if
his
purse
can
ring
.
When
a
poore
man
shall
haue
his
Bullockes
ceaz'd
,
And
priz'd
at
little
,
to
make
you
appeaz'd
You
haue
the
art
and
skill
to
raze
words
out
Of
Writs
and
Warrants
,
to
bring
gaine
about
.
I
will
not
serue
you
so
,
for
if
you
looke
,
Your
name
stands
fairely
printed
in
my
booke
,
For
euery
one
to
reade
,
how
you
can
straine
On
widowes
goods
,
and
restore
none
againe
.
Picke
Iuries
for
your
purpose
,
which
is
worse
Then
if
you
pick'd
the
wronged
plaintiffes
purse
:
Returne
your
Writs
to
your
aduantage
best
,
Bring
in
some
money
,
and
drab
ou●
the
rest
.
Leauing
(
oft
times
)
the
high
Shrieue
in
the
lurch
,
VVho
stops
the
bounty
should
repayre
the
Church
,
Or
buy
some
bels
to
sound
forth
his
deuotion
.
If
eyther
ayre
,
or
earth
,
or
the
wide
ocean
Can
shew
worse
Cormorants
,
or
any
brooke
,
I
'le
neuer
aske
a
penny
for
my
Booke
.
EPILOGVE
.
NOw
Reader
,
tell
me
(
if
thou
well
canst
iudge
)
If
any
honest
man
haue
cause
to
grudge
At
these
my
Satyres
,
being
plaine
and
true
,
Giuing
the
world
and
the
diuell
their
due
.
I
haue
but
bluntly
call'd
a
spade
a
spade
,
And
he
that
winceth
shewes
himselfe
a
iade
.
Be
quiet
,
see
thy
faults
,
and
learne
t'
amend
,
Thou
shew'st
thy
guiltinesse
if
thou
contend
.
FINIS
.