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Satyres

and Satyricall Epigrams: With Certaine Observations at Black-Fryers: By H: F: [i.e. Henry Fitzgeffrey]

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Proæmium.

I taxe no Times, I beare no Furyes scourge:
I bring no powerfull Fountaine springes to purge
This vicefull Lerna, this Angean slye,
From long neglected noysome filthery.
Vaunt Varlots then: Grizely Tartarian curres:
Vice-Pack-horses: Swaines of inchanting pleasures:
Wallow in Lake of Leaudnesse: racket: yell
And all the world with thundring vproare fill,
Till angry Ioue his Chaos drench agen
And a new nature of milde molde begin.
Yet knowe (Earths Of-scums) I haue force, and woo'd
Vncase, vnlase, your Leaudnes: make ye scud:
Lash at Lines length: and instrike such a print,
Shu'd make ye startle, had ye hartes of flint,
Coo'd I finde Patrons to maintaine me in't.