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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Vnconscionable and vngodly Seruants. |
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Vnconscionable and vngodly Seruants.
And you in whō bad conscience hath such root,
That you respect not, so you haue your fills
Of necessary things: it makes no boote
What worke you doe: you Iacks and sawcie Iills.
In maisters absence passe the time away,
In loytring or in sleeping all the day.
That you respect not, so you haue your fills
Of necessary things: it makes no boote
What worke you doe: you Iacks and sawcie Iills.
In maisters absence passe the time away,
In loytring or in sleeping all the day.
Your eye-lids must be open'd, you be taught
To leaue your filching, and such other vice,
Looke heere's my whip, it serueth not for naught,
Make ready quick, Ile cleach you in a trice,
A sounder set of slaues cannot be found,
Twere good to whip about, another round.
To leaue your filching, and such other vice,
Looke heere's my whip, it serueth not for naught,
Make ready quick, Ile cleach you in a trice,
A sounder set of slaues cannot be found,
Twere good to whip about, another round.
But as you like the cheere which you haue had,
Fall to your knaueries againe once more:
This gentle warning is not halfe so bad,
As next will be, if you be on my score.
If you offend, the next time I will haue,
A Tree and halter for a sawcie knaue.
Fall to your knaueries againe once more:
This gentle warning is not halfe so bad,
As next will be, if you be on my score.
If you offend, the next time I will haue,
A Tree and halter for a sawcie knaue.
But my desire is that we may bee friends,
And all the world leaue their disorder quite,
If you do so, ile make you all amends,
Ile breake my corde, and fling away my whip.
Into my Iewrie you shall all be taken,
When you haue all your knaueries off shaken.
And all the world leaue their disorder quite,
If you do so, ile make you all amends,
Ile breake my corde, and fling away my whip.
Into my Iewrie you shall all be taken,
When you haue all your knaueries off shaken.
FINIS.
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