| With w.ch shee scratcheth Suiters. As in bodyes [80] |
| Of men, so in Lawe, nayles ar th'extremityes |
| So officers stretch to more then Law can doe |
| As our nayles reach what no else part comes to. |
| Why bar'st thou to yond officer, ffoole? Hath hee |
| Got those goods for w.ch earst men bar'd to thee? |
| ffoole twice thrice, th'hast bought wrong, now hungerly |
| Beggst right, but that dole comes not till these dye. |
| Thou hadst much, and Lawes Vrim and Thum̄im trye |
| Thou wouldst for more, and, for all, hast paper |
| Enough to clothe all the greate Carricks pepper. |
| Sell that, and by that thou shalt much more leese |
| Then Ham̄ond if hee sold his Antiquities. |
| Ô wretch, that thy fortunes should moralize |
| Esops fables, and make Tales prophesyes. |
| Thou art that swim̄ing dogg whome shaddowes fedd |
| Which diu'd neere drowning for what vanished. |
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| [Transcriptions are not provided for noncanonical poems, elegies on Donne by other authors, or prose compositions.] |