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For, Ile Stabbe ye. By S. R. [i.e. Samuel Rowlands]

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Couetous Lawyers.

Lawyers that wrest the Law to your affection,
To fauour, or disfauour, as you please:
And keepe your Clyants purses in subiection,
Till some doe get Peirce pennylesse disease:
Not caring how their cause do stand or fall,
So you your selues get golde to rise withall.
That whyle you deale with Angels, serue the Deuill,
Because you banish Conscience out of towne,
Couetousnesse, you knowe's a damned euill;
And yet you wrap it with you in your Gowne.
You that with if's with and's, demurrs, delayes,
Bring Causes in consumptions and decayes.
Ile Stabbe yee.