Continuall claimes I have made, injunctions got To stay my rivals suit, that hee should not Proceed; spare mee; In Hillary terme I went, You said, If I return'd next size in Lent, I should be in remitter of your grace; 55 In th'interim my letters should take place Of affidavits: words, words, which would teare The tender labyrinth of a soft maids eare, More, more, then ten Sclavonians scolding, more Then when winds in our ruin'd Abbeyes rore. 60 When sicke with Poëtrie, and possest with muse Thou wast, and mad, I hop'd; but men which chuse Law practise for meere gaine, bold soule, repute Worse then imbrothel'd strumpets prostitute. Now like an owlelike watchman, hee must walke 65 His hand still at a bill, now he must talke Idly, like prisoners, which whole months will sweare That onely suretiship hath brought them there, And to every suitor lye in every thing, Like a Kings favourite, yea like a King; 70 Like a wedge in a blocke, wring to the barre, Bearing-like Asses; and more shamelesse farre Then carted whores, lye, to the grave Judge; for Bastardy abounds not in Kings titles, nor Symonie and Sodomy in Churchmens lives, 75 As these things do in him; by these he thrives. Shortly (as the sea) hee will compasse all our land; From Scots, to Wight; from Mount, to Dover strand. And spying heires melting with luxurie, Satan will not joy at their sinnes, as hee. 80 For as a thrifty wench scrapes kitching-stuffe, And barrelling the droppings, and the snuffe, Of wasting candles, which in thirty yeare (Relique-like kept) perchance buyes wedding geare; Peecemeale he gets lands, and spends as much time 85 Wringing each Acre, as men pulling prime. In parchments then, large as his fields, hee drawes Assurances, bigge, as gloss'd civill lawes, So huge, that men (in our times forwardnesse) Are Fathers of the Church for writing lesse. 90 These hee writes not; nor for these written payes, Therefore spares no length; as in those first dayes When Luther was profest, He did desire Short _Pater nosters_, saying as a Fryer Each day his beads, but having left those lawes, 95 Addes to Christs prayer, the Power and glory clause. But when he sells or changes land, he'impaires His writings, and (unwatch'd) leaves out, _ses heires_, As slily as any Commenter goes by Hard words, or sense; or in Divinity 100 As controverters, in vouch'd Texts, leave out Shrewd words, which might against them cleare the doubt. Where are those spred woods which cloth'd hertofore Those bought lands? not built, nor burnt within dore. Where's th'old landlords troops, and almes? In great hals 106 Carthusian fasts, and fulsome Bachanalls