SATYR.
63
Make that, which Heav'n meant to bless
120 Th'ungrateful World with, gentle Peace
With Luxury and Excess, as fast
As War and Desolation, waste;
Promote Mortality, and kill,
As fast as Arms, by sitting still;
125 Like Earthquakes slay without a Blow,
And only moving overthrow;
Make Law and Equity as dear,
As Plunder and Free-quarter were,
And fierce Encountres at the Bar
130 Undo as fast, as those in War;
Enrich Bawds, Whores, and Usurers,
Pimps, Scriv'ners, silenc't Ministers,
That get Estates by being undone
For tender Conscience, and have none;
135 Like those, that with their Credit drive
A Trade without a Stock, and thrive;
120 Th'ungrateful World with, gentle Peace
With Luxury and Excess, as fast
As War and Desolation, waste;
Promote Mortality, and kill,
As fast as Arms, by sitting still;
125 Like Earthquakes slay without a Blow,
And only moving overthrow;
Make Law and Equity as dear,
As Plunder and Free-quarter were,
And fierce Encountres at the Bar
130 Undo as fast, as those in War;
Enrich Bawds, Whores, and Usurers,
Pimps, Scriv'ners, silenc't Ministers,
That get Estates by being undone
For tender Conscience, and have none;
135 Like those, that with their Credit drive
A Trade without a Stock, and thrive;
As long as Confessors are sure
Of double Pay for all th' endure,
And what they earn in Persecution,
Are paid t' a Groat in Contribution.
Whence some Tub-Holders-forth have made
In Powd'ring-Tubs their richest Trade:
And while they kept their Shops in Prison,
Have found their Prices strangely risen.
Hudib. P. III. C, 2. ver. 969.
Of double Pay for all th' endure,
And what they earn in Persecution,
Are paid t' a Groat in Contribution.
Whence some Tub-Holders-forth have made
In Powd'ring-Tubs their richest Trade:
And while they kept their Shops in Prison,
Have found their Prices strangely risen.
Hudib. P. III. C, 2. ver. 969.
139.
