Of Golds Kingdome, and This Vnhelping Age Described in sundry Poems intermixedly placed after certaine other Poems of more speciall respect: And before the same is an Oration or speech intended to haue bene deliuered by the Author hereof unto the Kings Maiesty [by Edward Hake] |
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The Golden Swaggerer.
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The Golden Swaggerer.
Crownes
, Crownes, cries Swaggerer: Then healthes are had
Of soundest liquor that those Crownes can finde,
It bootes not then to tell him he is mad.
His heads chiefe care is how himselfe to blinde,
Great suppers then so soone as he hath dinde:
And late at night new banquets are preparde,
So rundell-wise his Crownes he doth discarde,
Of soundest liquor that those Crownes can finde,
It bootes not then to tell him he is mad.
His heads chiefe care is how himselfe to blinde,
Great suppers then so soone as he hath dinde:
And late at night new banquets are preparde,
So rundell-wise his Crownes he doth discarde,
Not to aduance his state perdy: But how
To glut himselfe with pleasures long desirde.
He sowes no seede, though deepe he sets his Plow,
But downe he sinkes vntill his feete be mirde,
And fast he stickes when he should be retirde:
Then Gold, what goodnesse hast thou done hereby
To make him now crie Crux, who Crownes did crye?
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He sowes no seede, though deepe he sets his Plow,
But downe he sinkes vntill his feete be mirde,
And fast he stickes when he should be retirde:
Then Gold, what goodnesse hast thou done hereby
To make him now crie Crux, who Crownes did crye?
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