The Court of Conscience or Dick Whippers Sessions With the order of his arraigning and punishing of many notorious, dissembling, wicked, and vitious liuers in this age. By Richard West |
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Backbiter. |
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Backbiter.
You Mai. Silke-strings, baudy embleme maker,
Rimer and Ridler Come into the court:
Maker of songs by euery channell raker,
You are indited here what all a-mort,
Hold vp your hand heare your inditment read,
Twill cost, y' a whipping ells Ile loose my head.
Rimer and Ridler Come into the court:
Maker of songs by euery channell raker,
You are indited here what all a-mort,
Hold vp your hand heare your inditment read,
Twill cost, y' a whipping ells Ile loose my head.
And wherefore ist? because you spend your time,
All the whole day among your baudy queanes:
In ribauld talke and loathsome silthy rymes,
Stperfluously it floweth out in streames.
Backbiting all men in a hidden sort,
Come, come, vntrusse, O here is gallaunt sport.
All the whole day among your baudy queanes:
In ribauld talke and loathsome silthy rymes,
Stperfluously it floweth out in streames.
Backbiting all men in a hidden sort,
Come, come, vntrusse, O here is gallaunt sport.
And more then that for still you doe inuent,
Sedicious like gainst all men to exclame:
In baudie ballads being wholly bent,
In sort vndecent men vnknowne to blame.
Thinking to excuse your selfe by giuing quipps,
Gainst those that neuer deserued your railing nips,
Sedicious like gainst all men to exclame:
In baudie ballads being wholly bent,
In sort vndecent men vnknowne to blame.
Thinking to excuse your selfe by giuing quipps,
Gainst those that neuer deserued your railing nips,
What should I stand to tell you all your tricks?
I should backbite men then as well as you,
Nor yet your rabbles altogether mixe,
It were an endles worke I tell you trew.
A Iayle deliuyry further I must make,
Of other knaues with you that share a stake.
I should backbite men then as well as you,
Nor yet your rabbles altogether mixe,
It were an endles worke I tell you trew.
A Iayle deliuyry further I must make,
Of other knaues with you that share a stake.
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