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Sat: 4a. |
Well; I may now receaue and dy; My Sin [f. 6v] |
Indeede is greate, but I haue beene in |
A Purgatory, such as feard hell is |
A recreation, and scant Mapp of this. |
My mind nor wt prides itche, nor yet hath beene |
Poysoned wt loue to see, or to bee seene; |
I had no Suite there, nor new Sute to show, |
Yet went to Court; But as Glare wch did go |
To'a Masse in ieast, catch'd, was fayne to disburse |
The hundred Marks wch is the Statuts curse |
Before he scap'd, so it pleasd my destinee |
(Guilty of my Sin of going) to thinke mee |
As prone to all ill, & of good as forgett= |
full, as proud, lustfull, & as much in debt, |
As vayne, as wittlesse, & as false as they |
Which dwell at Court, for once going that way. |
Therfore Isufferd this. Towards me did run |
A thing more Strange, then on Niles slime, ye Sun |
Ere bredd; Or all wch into Noahs Arke came; |
A thing wch would haue pos'd Adam to name; |
Stranger then seauen Antiquaries Studyes, |
Then Africks Monsters, Guyanas rarityes; |
Stranger then Strangers; One who for a Dane |
In ye Danes massacre had sure beene slayne, |
If he had liud then; And wthout helpe dyes |
When next ye Prentises gainst Strangers rise. |
One whom the watch at noone letts scarse go by; |
One to'whom th'examining Iustice sure would cry |
Sr, by your Priesthood tell me what you are. |
His clothes weare strange, though course; & black though \ bare. |
Sleeuelesse his Ierkin was, and it had beene |
Veluett; but t'was now (so much ground was seene) |
Become tufftaffeta; And or Chilldren shall |
See it playne rash awhile, then nought at all. |