The Puritan Severus oft doth read This text, that doth pronounce vain speech a sin,-- "That thing defiles a man, that doth proceed, From out the mouth, not that which enters in." Hence it is,[36] that we seldome heare him sweare: And thereof as a Pharisie he vaunts; But he devours more capons in one[37] yeare, Then would suffice an hundred[38] Protestants. And sooth, those sectaries are gluttons all, As well the thred-bare cobler, as the knight; For those poore slaues which haue not wherewithall, Feed on the rich, till they devour them quite; And so, as[39] Pharoe's kine, they eate up clean, Those that be fat, yet still themselues be lean. [Footnote 36: Isham 'Hence is it.' G.] [Footnote 37: Isham 'a.' G.] [Footnote 38: Isham 'a hundreth.' G.] [Footnote 39: Isham 'like.' G.] IN LEUCAM. 14. Leuca, in Presence once, a fart did let; Some laught a little; she refus'd[40] the place; And mad with shame, did then[41] her gloue forget, Which she return'd to fetch with bashfull grace; And when she would haue said, "I've lost my gloue,"[42] My fart (qd. she:) which did more laughter moue. [Footnote 40: Isham 'forsook.' G.] [Footnote 41: Isham 'eke.' G.] [Footnote 42: Mr. Dyce says here "something has dropt out," the line being a foot short, I have supplied 'I've lost.' G.] IN MACRUM. 15. Thou canst not speake yet, Macer, for to speake, Is to distinguish sounds significant: Thou with harsh noise the ayre dost rudely breake; But what thou utterest common sence doth want,-- Halfe English words, with fustian termes among Much like the burthen of a Northerne song. IN FASTUM.[43] 16. "That youth," saith Faustus, "hath a lyon seene, Who from a dicing-house comes money-lesse": But when he lost his haire, where had he beene? I doubt me he had seene a Lyonesse? [Footnote 43: _Sic_, but should be Faustum (1st line) and is so given by Mr. Dyce and Isham. G.] IN COSMUM. 17. Cosmus hath more discoursing in his head Then Ioue, when Pallas issued from his braine; And still he strives to be deliveréd Of all his thoughts at once, but all in vaine; For, as we see at all the play-house doores, When ended is the play, the dance, and song, A thousand townesmen, gentlemen, and whores, Porters and serving-men, together throng,-- So thoughts of drinking, thriuing, wenching, warre, And borrowing money, raging,[44] in his mind; To issue all at once so forward are, As none at all can perfect passage find. [Footnote 44: MS. "ranging." G.] IN FLACCUM. 18. The false knave Flaccus once a bribe I gaue: The more foole I to bribe so false a knaue: But he gaue back my bribe; the more foole he, That for my folly did not cousen me. IN CINEAM. 19.