In Severum. 13.
The Puritan Severus oft doth read
This text, that doth pronounce vain speech a sin,—
"That thing defiles a man, that doth proceed,
From out the mouth, not that which enters in."
Hence it is,[36] that we seldome heare him sweare:
And thereof as a Pharisie he vaunts;
But he devours more capons in one[37] yeare,
Then would suffice an hundred[38] Protestants.
And sooth, those sectaries are gluttons all,
As well the thred-bare cobler, as the knight;
For those poore slaues which haue not wherewithall,
Feed on the rich, till they devour them quite;
And so, as[39] Pharoe's kine, they eate up clean,
Those that be fat, yet still themselues be lean.
In Leucam. 14.
Leuca, in Presence once, a fart did let;
Some laught a little; she refus'd[40] the place;
And mad with shame, did then[41] her gloue forget,
Which she return'd to fetch with bashfull grace;
And when she would haue said, "I've lost my gloue,"[42]
My fart (qd. she:) which did more laughter moue.
In Macrum. 15.
Thou canst not speake yet, Macer, for to speake,
Is to distinguish sounds significant:
Thou with harsh noise the ayre dost rudely breake;
But what thou utterest common sence doth want,—
Halfe English words, with fustian termes among
Much like the burthen of a Northerne song.
In Fastum.[43] 16.
"That youth," saith Faustus, "hath a lyon seene,
Who from a dicing-house comes money-lesse":
But when he lost his haire, where had he beene?
I doubt me he had seene a Lyonesse?
In Cosmum. 17.
Cosmus hath more discoursing in his head
Then Ioue, when Pallas issued from his braine;
And still he strives to be deliveréd
Of all his thoughts at once, but all in vaine;
For, as we see at all the play-house doores,
When ended is the play, the dance, and song,
A thousand townesmen, gentlemen, and whores,
Porters and serving-men, together throng,—
So thoughts of drinking, thriuing, wenching, warre,
And borrowing money, raging,[44] in his mind;
To issue all at once so forward are,
As none at all can perfect passage find.