Du Bartas His Divine Weekes And Workes with A Compleate Collectio[n] of all the other most delight-full Workes: Translated and written by yt famous Philomusus: Iosvah Sylvester |
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Du Bartas | ||
How-many
Gentles, not of Meanest Sort
(Whose Fathers liv'd in honourable Port,
For Table, Stable, and Attendance fit;
Loving their Country, and belov'd of it).
Leaving their Neighbours, flee from their Approach;
And, for the most, keep House in a Caroach
(Hell's new-found Cradles! where are rockt asleep
Mischiefs that make our Common-weal to weep.)
Or in som Play-house, or som Ordinary,
Or in som Piece of som Vn-Sanctuary;
Where, through their Pipe-puft Nose more Smoak they wave,
Than all the Chimnies their great Houses have;
Consuming more, in their Obscure Obscænity,
On Smoak and Smock, with their appendent Vanity,
Than their brave Elders did, when they maintain'd
Honour at home, and forrain Glory gain'd.
(Whose Fathers liv'd in honourable Port,
For Table, Stable, and Attendance fit;
Loving their Country, and belov'd of it).
Leaving their Neighbours, flee from their Approach;
And, for the most, keep House in a Caroach
(Hell's new-found Cradles! where are rockt asleep
Mischiefs that make our Common-weal to weep.)
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Or in som Piece of som Vn-Sanctuary;
Where, through their Pipe-puft Nose more Smoak they wave,
Than all the Chimnies their great Houses have;
Consuming more, in their Obscure Obscænity,
On Smoak and Smock, with their appendent Vanity,
Than their brave Elders did, when they maintain'd
Honour at home, and forrain Glory gain'd.
How doo they rack, and wrack, and grate, and grinde,
Shuffle and cut, wrangle, and turn, and winde,
Borrow and beg (vnder a Courtly Cloak)
And all too-little for This liquorish Smoak!
Shuffle and cut, wrangle, and turn, and winde,
Borrow and beg (vnder a Courtly Cloak)
And all too-little for This liquorish Smoak!
Alas the while! that men Thus needs will bee
Begger'd, vndon (of no Necessity)
In Body, Minde, and Means; vnapt, vnable
For any Good, through this so needless Bable.
Begger'd, vndon (of no Necessity)
In Body, Minde, and Means; vnapt, vnable
For any Good, through this so needless Bable.
For, What a Folly, through the Nose to puff
Th'whole Bodie's Portion in this idle stuff!
Or, what need any with TOBACCO, more
Now meddle, than his Ancestors before?
Who knew it not, but had, without it, Health,
Liv'd long and lusty, in abundant Wealth.
Or, what is any, when hee all hath spent,
The better for This dear Experiment?
Which now-adaies a number daily finde
Like Alchymie (though in another Kinde)
To circulate, and calcinate (at length)
Insensibly (Tobacco hath such strength)
Manours, Demains, Goods, Cattell, Elm and Oak,
Gold, Silver, All; to Ashes and to Smoak,
While all, too-busie blowing at the Coal,
Deject their Body, and neglect their Soule.
For, O! What place is left to Christianity,
'Mongst such a Crew (nay, almost to Humanity)
Where Oaths, Puf-snuffing, Spauling-Excrement,
Are reall Parts of Gentles Complement?
Th'whole Bodie's Portion in this idle stuff!
Or, what need any with TOBACCO, more
Now meddle, than his Ancestors before?
Who knew it not, but had, without it, Health,
Liv'd long and lusty, in abundant Wealth.
Or, what is any, when hee all hath spent,
The better for This dear Experiment?
Which now-adaies a number daily finde
Like Alchymie (though in another Kinde)
To circulate, and calcinate (at length)
Insensibly (Tobacco hath such strength)
Manours, Demains, Goods, Cattell, Elm and Oak,
Gold, Silver, All; to Ashes and to Smoak,
While all, too-busie blowing at the Coal,
Deject their Body, and neglect their Soule.
For, O! What place is left to Christianity,
'Mongst such a Crew (nay, almost to Humanity)
Where Oaths, Puf-snuffing, Spauling-Excrement,
Are reall Parts of Gentles Complement?
And, for our Vulgar, by whose bold Abuse
Tobacconing hath got so generall Vse;
How mightily have They since multipli'd
Taverns, Tap-houses! where, on every side,
Most sinfully hath Mault been sunken heer
In nappy Ale, and double-double-Beer;
Invincible in a Threefold Excess;
Strong Drink, strong Drinking, and strange Drunkenness:
Which on the Land hath brought, so visibly,
So great a Mischief, so past Remedy,
That Thousands daily into Beggery sink
Through Idlenesse; in wilfull Debt for Drink.
Nor can the Lawe's seuerest Curb keep-in
This coltish, common, priuiledged Sin.
Tobacconing hath got so generall Vse;
How mightily have They since multipli'd
Taverns, Tap-houses! where, on every side,
Most sinfully hath Mault been sunken heer
In nappy Ale, and double-double-Beer;
Invincible in a Threefold Excess;
Strong Drink, strong Drinking, and strange Drunkenness:
Which on the Land hath brought, so visibly,
So great a Mischief, so past Remedy,
That Thousands daily into Beggery sink
Through Idlenesse; in wilfull Debt for Drink.
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This coltish, common, priuiledged Sin.
Then (shallow Reptile, superficiall Gnat)
Why doe I humme? why doe I hisse there-at?
Why doe I humme? why doe I hisse there-at?
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