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Honor
How many Sinners Dissolute, and Common,
By Cuntry Squires made Honest Gentlewomen?
And won, and wedded out of Puddle-Dock
To Eldest Sons and Heirs of Antient Stock.
When Having in the Quality of Neeces
Servd out the best of all their time, for Misses.
By uncles, or Imaginary Cusses
Have been put off to worshipfullest Houses.
B' Adopted Uncles, have been past for Spouses
To Worshipfull, or Honorable Houses.
By Cuntry Squires made Honest Gentlewomen?
And won, and wedded out of Puddle-Dock
To Eldest Sons and Heirs of Antient Stock.
When Having in the Quality of Neeces
Servd out the best of all their time, for Misses.
By uncles, or Imaginary Cusses
Have been put off to worshipfullest Houses.
B' Adopted Uncles, have been past for Spouses
To Worshipfull, or Honorable Houses.
That's puft up with his own conceipt, and swels
With vanity, and Pride, and nothing else,
Like empty Bladders, i' th' Pneumatique Engine,
Blown up with nothing; but their own extension;
Whose Titles, like French Noble Mens Degres
Are but distinguisht by their Gallowses,
Where those that on Most Numerous Pillers stand
Take Place of Monsiers of the Greatst Command,
And he['s] the Richest Person, that is full
Of most work for his stallion-Horse or Bull.
When he that by the Crop, lets out t' his Tenants,
His Land, and ovens, has the greatst convenience.
With vanity, and Pride, and nothing else,
Like empty Bladders, i' th' Pneumatique Engine,
Blown up with nothing; but their own extension;
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Are but distinguisht by their Gallowses,
Where those that on Most Numerous Pillers stand
Take Place of Monsiers of the Greatst Command,
And he['s] the Richest Person, that is full
Of most work for his stallion-Horse or Bull.
When he that by the Crop, lets out t' his Tenants,
His Land, and ovens, has the greatst convenience.
As one Descended of the Empereres
Of th' East; In Rome, sold lately all Th' Arriers
And Tittles in Remainder, of the Honors
The Turk usurp's still, from the Legall owners.
Of th' East; In Rome, sold lately all Th' Arriers
And Tittles in Remainder, of the Honors
The Turk usurp's still, from the Legall owners.
For t' hang ones self is counted No Disgrace,
But to be hangd, by others, vile, and Base.
But to be hangd, by others, vile, and Base.
And when the Sottish Ignorant extold him,
Found Human Nature was too weak to hold him.
For Puft-up Greatness has a Speciall Care
Before its Haughty Selfe, of standing Bare:
Is his own Betters, and not Proudly sufferd
Among Inferior Persons to bee Coverd,
But like an Usher, is obligd to stand
Before himself with awful hat in Hand
And by his own Respect, t' himself, invite
His lesser Visitants to do him Right.
Least others freely should Presume to do,
The same things, in his Pers'nal Presence too.
But by his own Example take occasion,
To Imitate his ways of Application.
For Haughty Greatnes must not stoop so low
As those that only serve to make it so:
Must turn it's careless Back to all Inferiors
And proudly look before upon Superiors.
Found Human Nature was too weak to hold him.
For Puft-up Greatness has a Speciall Care
Before its Haughty Selfe, of standing Bare:
Is his own Betters, and not Proudly sufferd
Among Inferior Persons to bee Coverd,
But like an Usher, is obligd to stand
Before himself with awful hat in Hand
And by his own Respect, t' himself, invite
His lesser Visitants to do him Right.
Least others freely should Presume to do,
The same things, in his Pers'nal Presence too.
But by his own Example take occasion,
To Imitate his ways of Application.
For Haughty Greatnes must not stoop so low
As those that only serve to make it so:
Must turn it's careless Back to all Inferiors
And proudly look before upon Superiors.
Approchd with Distant aw and Reverence
As terrible as Plague, or Pestilence,
But no man Introducd without a fine
Untill h' has wayted out his Quarentine.
For Saints noe other votaries Receive
Untill th' have watchd and wayted out their Eave.
And Lay for't most Religiously, before
They can be freely Admitted to Adore;
And when they are, An Insolent vouchsafe
Is all the Favour they can hope to have.
As terrible as Plague, or Pestilence,
But no man Introducd without a fine
Untill h' has wayted out his Quarentine.
For Saints noe other votaries Receive
Untill th' have watchd and wayted out their Eave.
And Lay for't most Religiously, before
They can be freely Admitted to Adore;
And when they are, An Insolent vouchsafe
Is all the Favour they can hope to have.
So the Great Cham proclame to the Grand Signor
When he has din'd free leave to go to Dinner.
When he has din'd free leave to go to Dinner.
Put of[f] His Hat, and Bowd, and made Addresses,
And Boun Professes, to his Footmans Sneezes.
And Boun Professes, to his Footmans Sneezes.
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Grew Proud, tho of the wretchedst Priviledge,
To Ride to execution on a sledge,
To shew his Rank, while those of less Deserts,
Are only alowd to be conveyd in Carts:
Tho he Disparagd, and Contemnd them for't,
As born t' an æquall Penance through the Durt,
While He was Drawn more Easily, and Cleane,
To shew the Diffrence of the great, and meane.
To Ride to execution on a sledge,
To shew his Rank, while those of less Deserts,
Are only alowd to be conveyd in Carts:
Tho he Disparagd, and Contemnd them for't,
As born t' an æquall Penance through the Durt,
While He was Drawn more Easily, and Cleane,
To shew the Diffrence of the great, and meane.
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