And die in ditches like to Dogges, for me!
An Old-wives-medicine, Parseley, Time and Sage,
Will serve such Buzzards in this scurvey age:
Goose grease and Fennell, with a few Dog-dates,
Is excellent for such base lowzey mates:
Farewell, some Hempton[87] halter be the Charme,
To stretch your neckes as long as is mine arme.
[86] A "façon de parler;" a stater really was a tetradrachm in silver, and was worth about half a crown.
[87] Hempen.
The following is a Satire on card-playing, which, doubtless, was carried to excess by the Cavaliers in Charles I.'s time.