One and Thyrtye Epigrammes wherein are briefly touched so many Abuses, that maye and ought to be put away. Compiled and Imprinted by Robert Crowley |
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Of Commotionars. |
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Of Commotionars.
through humors corrupted
To restore it to helth
those humours muste be purged
For if they remayne
they wyll styll encrease:
Euery daye more and more
and augment the disease.
So that in short tyme
the body muste decaye,
Excepte God geue health
by some other waye.
Euen so doth it fare
by the weale publyke,
Whych chaunceth to be often
Diseased and sycke,
Through the mischeuouse malice
of such men as be,
Desyrouse to breake
the publyke Unitie.
Eche publyke bodye
muste be purged therfore,
Of these rotten humours
as is sayed before.
as do the bodyes naturall,
When rotten humours haue
infected them ouer all.
But if the publyke bodye
can not be purged well,
By force of purgation
as Phisickes rules do tell:
When bodyes be weake
and so lowe brought,
That by purgation
no health can be wroght:
Then must there be sought
some easyar waye,
To kyl ye strēgth of those humors.
thus doth Phisicke saye.
When the Swerde wyl not helpe
in the common wealth,
To purge it of Commotionars
and bryng it to health:
Then must discrete counsell
fynde wayes to kyll,
The powr of those rebelles
and let them of theyr wyll.
the humours naturall,
And by quickenyng agayne
of the spirites vitall,
Whych in the commune wealth
are the subiectes trew.
That do alwaye study
sedition to eschew
When these mē, through cherishing
do growe and be strong:
Then can no Commotionars
continew long.
For as when the strength
of ill humours is kylled,
In a naturall bodye,
they be sone consumed,
Or made of iuell good,
as it is playne to se:
So wyll it bytyde
of such men as be,
In the Commune wealth
geuen vnto Sedition,
When they se they can not
finyshe theyr Intention.
but the people ignoraunte
Whom thei do abuse
by their counselles malignaunt?
When the hertes of the people
be wonne to their prince,
Than can no commotioners
do hurte in hys prouince,
If this wyll not help
than God wyll take cure,
And destroy these Commosioners
we may be right sure,
Excepte the tyme be come
that the bodye muste dye,
For than there canne be found
no maner remedy,
God graunte that our synne
haue not broughte vs so lowe
That we be paste cure
god onelye doeth thys knowe,
And I truste to se healthe agayne
if the final ende,
Be not nowe nere at hande
whyche the Lorde shortelye sende
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