The Scourge of Folly Consisting of satyricall Epigrams, And others in honour of many noble Persons and worthy friends, together, with a pleasant (though discordant) Descant upon most English Proverbs and others [by John Davies] |
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Epig. 192. Against Prusus the Simoniacke.
Prusus , the Parson, vaunts that with cleane handsHe came vnto his cure: and so thinke I:
His hands were cleane from money, goods, or Bands;
For, money not to see's not Simony.
But yet he seeing, that by Coyne the Cure
Must be attaind; he made another giue
Two hundred Angells (vvhich vvere passing pure)
That being Curde, vvith ease he so might liue.
This is a vertue pure, and breeds good blood:
Hovv then there vvith should his hands be defilde?
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No, no, his hands were cleane and they beguild,
That sought to make him Curelesse and impure,
For vsing those cleane Creatures for his Cure.
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