Emblemes and Epigrames Psal: Quum defecerit virtus mea, ne derelinquas me, Domine. [A.D. 1600, by Francis Thynne ... ]: Edited by F. J. Furnivall |
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| 18. | (18) Cause of a deere yeare. |
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(18) Cause of a deere yeare.
Thow fondlie askest me, as though I were a god,what causeth this continued dearth, and plague of Iove his rod.
yf I the truth maie tell, although it purchase blame,
I will not spare to speake my thought, but yet to thy defame:
Th'inseasonable yeare, this dearth doth not procure,
nor the discurtesie of heaven, which thus wee doe Indure,
nor Saturns cursed starr, nor barraynesse of land,
nor want of heedie carefullnes of things wee haue in hand,
nor Ioue his iust anger powr'd out on mortall wightes
for these our manie heaped sinns, and for the fleshe delights;
but thow dost plague vs all, and force vs for to die,
through murdring death, and famins rage, by thy extremitie;
for since the greedie mawes of thee, thy sonns and kinne,
cann never well be satisfied with that they dailie winn,
but that they horde, they scrape and gripe all that they maie,
to sett them selves in highe estate by everie manns decaye,
devouring all the paynes which others doe imploye,
howe maie it chuse, but derth and want, all others must destroye?
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