Festum Uoluptatis, Or the Banquet of Pleasure Fvrnished with Mvch Variety of Speculations, Wittie, Pleasant, and Delightfull. Containing divers choyce Love-Posies, Songs, Sonnets, Odes, Madrigals, Satyrs, Epigrams, Epitaphs and Elegies. For varietie and pleasure the like never before published. By S. P. [i.e. Samuel Pick] |
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3. Satyre, of gracelesse Grace.
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3. Satyre, of gracelesse Grace.
Now in the name of Fate what Saint is shee,That keeps a shop of publicke brothelrie?
Harbors the sharking Lawyer for his pence,
And Martyr-like consumes his evidence:
Nusles my damned Atheist, makes him curse
Nature and fortune, that his thin-lin'd purse,
Should be depriv'd of crowns: doe you aske what, &c.
This Saint was sent from th' firie Regiment.
A Sodome Apple, a lascivious staine,
To vertuous habite, or a whore in graine.
A suck-blood Hyene, faining Crocodile,
Worse then the monster bred on th' banks of Nyle,
A purple strumpet, gangrene to the State,
Earths curse, hells-blisse, soules-soyle & Angels hate.
Pitty-fac'd Devill of a ginger pace,
Gracelesse in all save that her name is Grace:
Soule running ulcer that infects the heart,
With painting, purfling and a face of Art:
Creature of her owne making, hollow Truncke,
A Christian Paganis'd with name of Puncke.
A cell, a hell, where she'l no others have,
The common Palliard-pandor, Baud, or slave,
A cage of uncleane birds, which is possest,
Of none save such as will defile their nest.
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Forlorne (heaven knowes) and wholly desperate,
Turne valiant Boults, Pimps Haxtars, roaring-boyes,
Till flesht in blood, counting but murthers toyes,
Are forc't in th' end a dolefull Psalme to sing,
Going to heaven by Derick in a string.
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