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O giue him many thankes, hee's Courteous [118] |
That, in suspecting, kindly warneth vs, |
Wee must not, as wee vs'd, floute openly |
In scoffing riddles his deformity, |
Nor at his board together beeing sate |
With words, or touch, scarse lookes, adulterate. |
Nor, when hee, swolne and pamperd with high fare, |
Sitts downe and snorts, cag'd in his basket chayre, |
Must wee vsurpe his owne bedd any more, |
Nor kisse and play in his house as before: |
Now I see many dangers, for that is |
His Realme, his Castle, and his Diocesse. |
But if (as envious men that would revile |
Theyr prince, or coyne his gold, them selues exile |
Into another country, and doe it there) |
Wee into some third place retyred were |
There will wee scorne his houshold pollicyes |
His silly plotts, and pentionary spyes |
As the Inhabitants of Thames right side |
Do Londons Mayor, or Germans the Popes, Pride. |
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Oh let mee not serue so as those men serue |
Whome hono.rs smokes at once fatten* and sterue
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[CW: Poorely] |