The Court of Conscience or Dick Whippers Sessions With the order of his arraigning and punishing of many notorious, dissembling, wicked, and vitious liuers in this age. By Richard West |
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Extortioner.
Thou miserable caitiffe, which with vsurie,
Extortionably without conscience dost encroch
The poore mans liuing, driuen by necessitie
To borrow money: let him not approach
Without a band, a gage, a pawne, or some amends,
Exceeding ten times that this varlet lends.
Extortionably without conscience dost encroch
The poore mans liuing, driuen by necessitie
To borrow money: let him not approach
Without a band, a gage, a pawne, or some amends,
Exceeding ten times that this varlet lends.
If hee foreslack, or breake but one poore houre,
Neglecting of the paiment of that summe
Little or much, then he is in thy power,
Thou suest his bond, poore wretch he is vndone.
His gage or pawne, thou tak'st by bill of sale,
'Tis fully thine, if nere so little he faile.
Neglecting of the paiment of that summe
Little or much, then he is in thy power,
Thou suest his bond, poore wretch he is vndone.
His gage or pawne, thou tak'st by bill of sale,
'Tis fully thine, if nere so little he faile.
Ten in the hundred, nor twise ten to that,
Cannot content thee for thy moneys lone:
If lesse he proffer then thou telst him flat,
Thou canst not lend: the money's not thine owne:
Either thou'lt gall his heart and make it bleed,
Or disapoint him in his greatest need.
Cannot content thee for thy moneys lone:
If lesse he proffer then thou telst him flat,
Thou canst not lend: the money's not thine owne:
Either thou'lt gall his heart and make it bleed,
Or disapoint him in his greatest need.
Impious and cancred Cur, if I should spare,
And suffer thee to liue in such a kind:
The diuell of hell himselfe would come and teare
Thee all to peeces: no ile whip thee blind.
For thy extortion which poore man doth nip,
Ile pay the hire, and vse for't with my whip.
And suffer thee to liue in such a kind:
The diuell of hell himselfe would come and teare
Thee all to peeces: no ile whip thee blind.
For thy extortion which poore man doth nip,
Ile pay the hire, and vse for't with my whip.
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