All claim'd fees and duties. Gamesters anon.
How did the iron age allow fees and duties? The text of 1669 reverts to that of 1633 (keeping the 'claim'd fees' of 1635-54), but does not improve the punctuation by changing the semicolon after 'farre' to a comma.
Mr. Allen (Rise of Formal Satire, &c.) points out that the allusion to the age of 'rusty iron', which deserves some worse name, is obviously derived from Juvenal XIII. 28 ff.:
Nunc aetas agitur, peioraque saecula ferri
Temporibus: quorum sceleri non invenit ipsa
Nomen, et a nullo posuit natura metallo.
With Donne's
so controverted lands
Scape, like Angelica, the strivers hands
compare Chaucer's