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Next, lets suruey the Letchers obscœne shame,
Rouze him from 's squat, pursuing of the game,
Depriue this wel mouth'd dog of his intēt,
Tracing each footestep, by his fresh made sent,
And pinch him with a scandald soule, impure,
Note him with Theta, for ay to endure.
Wil't please you view this monster in his glasse?
It best discouers a Phantastick Asse.
See how, Narcissus like, the foole doth doate,
Viewing his picture, and his guarded coate;
And with what grace, bold actor like he speakes,
Hauing his beard precisely cut ith' peake;
How neat 's Mouchatoes do a distance stand,
Lest they disturbe his lips, or saffron band:
How expert he 's; with what attentiue care,
Doth he in method place each stragling haire.
This idle I doll, doth bestow his wit,
In being spruce; in making 's ruffe to sit:
His daies endeauours are to be compleate,
To vse his vestures nitid and facete:
For vulgar oathes, he raps forth blood and heart,
As coadiutors in the wenching art:
In 's frizled Periwig, with bended brow,
Sweares at each word: for, to confirm his vow,
He holds an oath 's the ornamentall grace
Of veniall discourse, befitting 's place;
And doth maintaine, in 's humor, To be drunk,
Is the preparatiue to loue a punke;

A pipe of To. th'indulgence of his brains,
Vsing Potatoes to preserue the Raines.
Pale horned Luna, sister to darke Night,
In Uenus sport he vseth for a light;
Thinking Earth 's sable mantle hides his shame,
Depriues the terror of swift winged Fame.
VVhen darknesse doth eclipse Don Phœbus raies,
VVhen nights vast terror hath expelld the daies,
Then doth this subiect pase it to Pickt-hatch,
Shore-ditch, or Turneball, in despite oth' Watch,
And there reposing on his Mistrisse lap,
Beg some fond fauour, be 't a golden cap:
Plaied with her plume of feathers or her Fan,
VVishing he were accepted for her man;
And then at large in ample tearmes doth showe
His Cupids dart, and much endured woe,
Desiring cure to salue his languisht care,
T' expell the willow-garland of despaire:
And that he may obtaine his lust, compares
Her eyes to starres, to Amber her pounc't hayres:
Equalls her hand to Cignets purest white,
VVhich in Mæanders streames do take delight:
Her sanguine blush, and ruby painted mold,
Vnto Aurora's red, rich Indies gold.
Hauing earth 's weaker vassaile ouercome,
He bribes a Pandar with some trifling sum;
Doth frolike with the Musick in this vaine,
Hearing the Diapason of their straine.

Perhaps hee'l cut a caper, neately prance,
And with his Curtail some odde Galliard dance;
Then glutted with his lust make quick dispatch,
Pretending hee's in danger of the Watch:
So taking Vale, till some other night,
Must be conducted by a Tapers light,
Along the streete to his polluted Cell,
Where this vile letcher doth inhabit, dwell.
He thinkes the secret quietnesse of night,
Which with phantasmes doth possesse each sprite,
Is a safe shelter to conceale his fact,
Hauing no witnesse to record his act.
O stupid foole! the Heauens al-seeing eye,
Beholds thy base frequented infamy;
And will repay thee treble, with a pox,
For the night-hanting of base Shoreditch smocks