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Because (saith he) these Rich Men, when of late
They breath'd on earth, did great things perpetrate,
Ravening, extorting, hauing in derision
The Poore, of whose Estates they made division:
Therefore both to the Court and Comminalty,
Who haue concluded it vnanimously,
It seemes expedient, That when such be dead,
Their Bodies be to the sad places lead,
To suffer with the Wicked equall paine,
But that their Soules shall be return'd againe
Vnto the vpper world, and each one passe
And shift into the body of an Asse;
Subiect vnto his Dulnesse, Toile, and Feares,
Full fiue and twenty times ten thousand yeares.
From Asses borne of Asses by succession,
O're whom the basest and most vile profession
Shall haue command, with heauy burthens lade them,
And as they please, with whips or staues inuade them.
That time expir'd, they shall againe returne,
That the dull Soules may with the Bodies burne.
They breath'd on earth, did great things perpetrate,
Ravening, extorting, hauing in derision
The Poore, of whose Estates they made division:
Therefore both to the Court and Comminalty,
Who haue concluded it vnanimously,
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Their Bodies be to the sad places lead,
To suffer with the Wicked equall paine,
But that their Soules shall be return'd againe
Vnto the vpper world, and each one passe
And shift into the body of an Asse;
Subiect vnto his Dulnesse, Toile, and Feares,
Full fiue and twenty times ten thousand yeares.
From Asses borne of Asses by succession,
O're whom the basest and most vile profession
Shall haue command, with heauy burthens lade them,
And as they please, with whips or staues inuade them.
That time expir'd, they shall againe returne,
That the dull Soules may with the Bodies burne.
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