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A06167	A fig for Momus containing pleasant varietie, included in satyres, eclogues, and epistles, by T.L. of Lincolnes Inne Gent.	Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625.	1595 (1595)	STC 16658; ESTC S109568	23,955	72

other happie men possesse But takes no tast of that himselfe partakes And sooner life then miserie forsakes And what in most aboundance he retaines In seeming little doth augment his paines His trauailes are suspitions backt by feare His thoughts distraught incessant troubles leare He doubts the raine for feare it raise a floud And beare away his houses and his good He dreads his neighbours cattle as they passe For feare they stay and feed vpon his grasse He hides his treasures vnder locke and kay Lest theeues breake in and beare his bags away Onely vnto himselfe for whom he spares He gathers nothing but continuall cares His eie disdaines his hungrie bellie meate Himselfe repines at that himselfe doth eate Though rents increase he lets his body lacke And neither spares his bellie nor his backe What on him selfe he laies he houlds it lost What on his wife he deemes vnthriftie cost What on his heires his miserie and misse What on his seruants ryotting it is Thus from himselfe his couetous desire Doth draw himselfe and on his hart doth tire So liues he to the wretched world alone Lothsome to all that long to see him gone If such he be as such he is indeede And far more worse if wealth more worse may breed For shame from such a sinne thy life exempt That makes thee rich in nothing but contempt They say the many packs before thy doore Are but the pawnes and wages of the poore They say the buildings which thou dost begin Are rich without but yeeld no rest within They say thy deerest friends are sure to pay Great forfeitures and if they misse their day They say the interest of tenne a yeere Is held too little to maintaine thy cheere And yet thy selfe thy wife thy maid thy knaue Scarce butter'd turneps vpon daies haue They say at New-yeares-tide men giue thee cakes And thou the next day sels them for their sakes They say thou sel'st the chipping of thy bred For feare thy seruants should be ouer fed They say one horse may beare thy houshould stuffe Where for thy coyne three carts are not enough They say thy welted gowne and ruffes of lawne When thou wert warden last was but a pawne They say thy plate is forfeited and lost For halfe the money that at first it cost They say thy wiues cast kertle is become A paire of breeches to enskonce thy bum Briefly they say that for the world thou art Too wretched and for God too false in hart All these reports thou knowest as well as I Spring frō some grounds things sould by common cr● Are quickly sould men hardly stop the noice Of slanders published by common voice If these be true reforme them if vntrue Take them for warnings what thou shouldst eschue What ere they be now thinke vpon thy graue And leaue thy worldly drudging to thy knaue And let him carrie fier vnto thy stils And tend thy brewhouse watch ward thy mils Looke to thine apples lest they rotte away Set vp thy hop-powles and thy champions lay And thou thy selfe safe wrapt in cloth and furre Fall to thy prayers desire no more to sturre Giue to the poore what thou hast got by wrōg For be assur'd thy daies cannot be long Follow this frendly counsell which I giue Or els in shame and hatred thou shalt liue Or dead those passengers that spie thy graue Shall say here lies a broking bribing knaue Satyre 5. IN euery land from Gades to Ganges flood Too few they be that thinke vpon their good Too few that by discretion can discerne What profite rightly doth themselues concerne Behould ambitions true begotten sonne Spent in desire before his hope be wonne Striuing for kingdomes which are sooner lost Then kept desir'd then had with mightie cost Ending like him that senceles in his harmes Doth striue to stem a sea with two weake armes Behould a mind pressing beyond his might Catching at stars censur'd by ouersight Like him tha eger scales a mountaine steepe And headlong fals into the valley deepe There liues no man so setled in content That hath not daily whereof to repent Nor can reformed wit so iustly deeme But that it leaues true goods for such as seeme Briefly the greatest gifts whereof we boast Are those which doe attempt and tire vs most Peace brings in pleasure pleasure breeds excesse Excesse procureth want want works distresse Distresse contempt contempt is not repair'd Till timeles death determine hope dispair'd Warre egges the victor to desire debate The conquer'd to submit and serue with hate Leaues nothing sure though he presume to choose But what he keeps with hate and dread to loose How oft hath watching policie deuis'd A cunning clause which hath himselfe surpris'd How often hath lewd fraud been set afloate Of purpose that his goods might cut his throate Who builds on strength by policie is stript Who trusts his wit by wit is soonest tript Example be thou Hepar who profest A home-borne infant of our English west Hast in that shamefull schene of treasons play Betray'd thy selfe to death who would'st betray Uolcatius that subborn'd deuis'd and wrought To worke out Themis from the place he sought Was laught in court and though he were not seene Yet wept his follies to a woodden skreene Was neuer since this wretched world began To entertaine receiue and nourish man A iudgment by itselfe that neuer err'd Or wit vnwrong'd by that he most prefer'd Trauel the world trauerse euery clime And win one houre in euery yeare of time Compasse what ere the sea receiueth round And seeke to South-ward men of vnder-ground What hast thou got if following Candies fate That keepst no certaine compasse in thy state O nought of ours our wealth our wit enioy'd If not as ours for vs it be employ'd Thy fame declining Tellus not thy farme Thy zeale presumptuous Dacus not thine arme Thy bountie Varis not thy many bribes Thy silence Shanus not thy many Iibes These are those goods whereto you ought to cleaue The rest are good in semblance and deceaue What then in right for good may we elect Such things as chalenge not by lewd respect Seeke not in age with Crassus such a place As both thy life and fortune may deface Nor fill the sea with sailes the earth with men In shamefull sort to be repulst agen Nor leaue the northren lands and fruitfull Gaul In royall Rome thine empire to enstall For seldome can presumption be enthrown'd To liue esteem'd or die to be bemown'd An humble cote entapissed with mosse A lowlie life that feares no sodaine losse A mind that dreads no fal nor craues no crowne But makes his true-content his best renowne These are the choice contēts the goods the gaine Which rightly can be ours the rest are vaine If thou then see a troupe of garded knaues Waite at Argastos heels like seruile slaues Be not aghast admire not at his state For now the world is bent to serue and hate Tis true

A fig for Momus Containing Pleasant varietie included in Satyres Eclogues and Epistles by T. L. of Lincolnes Inne Gent. Che pecora si fa il lupo selo mangia AT LONDON Printed for Clement Knight and are to bee solde at his shop at the little North-doore of Paules Church 1595. To the Right Honorable and thrice renowmed Lord William Earle of Darbie T. L. his most humble and deuoted seruant wisheth all health and happines MY honoured good Lord hauing resolued with my selfe to publish certaine my poems and knowing them subiect to much preiudice except they were graced with some noble and worthie patron I haue followed the example of Metabo king of the Uolschi who desirous to deliuer his onelie daughter from all perill and danger consecrated and dedicated hir to the sister of the sunne So I no lesse carefull of my labors then the king of his Camilla with deliberate and aduised iudgement wholy deuote and offer vp my poems to your fauour and protection who being the true Maecenas of the Muses and iudiciall in their exercises are of power to relieue my weaknes by your worthines and to priuiledge me from enuie though she were prest to deuoure me If midst your generall fauour to all desert your honour vouchsafe this particular benefite to my industrie no day or time as Tully counsaileth shall define the memorie of your benefits but as your noble father in mine infancie with his owne hands incorporated me into your house so in this my retired age and studie my labour lines and whole life shall be imployed to doe you honour and seruice Your Lordships most bounden in all humilitie Thomas Lodge To the Gentlemen Readers whatsoeuer GEntlemen I know you wonder that hauing so long time kept silence I salute the world with so peremptorie a title But if thou consider the reasons before you enter into mislike you shall be satisfied and I excused I entitle my booke A fig for Momus not in contempt of the learned for I honor them not in disdaine of the wel mindded because they cherish science but in despight of the detractor who hauing no learning to iudge wanteth no libertie to reproue VVho worthily deseruing the name of Momus shall rather at my hands haue a figge to choake him then hee and his lewd tongue shall haue a frumpe to check me Sheepe are soonest wooried by curdogs because they are mild but hee that nips him soundly that bites him cowardly purchaseth his owne peace escapes much perill Heraclitus intituling one of his bookes with Ponou Encomion the praise of labour King Ptolemey causing all the copies to be bought commanded the first letter of Ponou to be put out and called the booke Onou Encomion the praise of the asse But had Heraclitus begun with Ptolemey and toucht him with cowardly flight from Demetrius with effeminate vanity in apparell with exceeding gluttonie and drunkennes with his letcherie with Agathoclea and bawdry with Oenante the King would rather haue giuen a talent to stop his mouth then deuised by taking away of a letter to abuse his title UUhere detraction is giuen to chalenge it is good striking first for whelpes that are whipt for brauling are quicklie quiet This cause gentlemen hath drawne me to vse this title and vnder this title I haue thought good to include Satyres Eclogues and Epistles first by reason that I studie to delight with varietie next because I would write in that forme wherin no man might chalenge me with seruile imitation wherewith heretofore I haue beene vniustlie taxed My Satyres to speake truth are by pleasures rather placed here to prepare and trie the eare then to feede it because if they passe well the whole Centon of them alreadie in my hands shall sodainly bee published In them vnder the names of certaine Romaines where I reprehend vice I purposely wrong no man but obserue the lawes of that kind of poeme If any repine thereat I am sure he is guiltie because he bewrayeth himselfe For my Eclogues I commend them to men of approued iudgement whose margents though I fill not with quotations yet their matter and handling will show my diligence For my Epistles they are in that kind wherein no Englishman of our time hath publiquely written which if they please may draw on more if displease haue their priuiledge by authoritie Briefly I haue so written as I haue read so read as I can iudge In which respect if any man doubt let him aske and I will resolue him if any man reproue let him looke to it I will nip him for as I am readie to satisfie the reasonable so I haue a gird in store for a Railer Finally gentlemen as Prometheus after he had formed his image of earth presented it to the sunne and Ops when she had brought forth Iupiter for feare lest he should be deuoured by time figured in Saturne gaue him in keeping to the Cureti So I present this fraile image of my art to take life and light from the sunne of your approued iudgements desirous to commend this infant of my wit to immortalitie and defend it from the assaults of time and enuie commit and submit it to your protection the true Cureti of all cunning who accepting these fragments in good worth shall shortly receaue from me matters both worthy regard and reading Vale 6. Maij. 1595. Yours as you vse him T. L. Gentle Reader faultes escapte correct thus Satyre 1. page 2. line 17. reproou'd reade reprooued page 4. line 5. will reade ill line 8. dele Epost 1. ad Momum p. 2. lin 22. maners reade moouers pa. 3. l. 19. humors r. humor Eclog 2. p. 1. l. 14. were r. now pag. 2. l. 25. awe r. policie p. 3. l. 28. thrift r. thirst Eclog. 3. p. 2. l. 10. nor r. or Ecl. 4. l. 8. vertues r. vertue Epist. 2. lin 15. contaging r. containing p. 3. l. 13. of r. if p. 5. l. 1. mortall r. morall p. ead l. 15. tongue r. longes p. 6. l 1. cheere r. cheer'd Sat. 4. pag. 2. li. 20. leare r. teare p. 3. l. 23. rest r. rost p. 4. l. 13. is r. was Sat. 5. p. 2. l. 19. dread r. dreades Epist. 3. p. 2. l. 16. are r. doe p. 3. l. 6. harkt in mine r. lay lip to pag. 6. lin 2. Gredoes r. Predoes ead lin 9. sure r. since Epist. 4. p. 1. l. 6. no r. may p. 2. l 8. peace r. pence ead lin 25. retaine r. reclaime Epist. 5. p 4. lin 5. Pierias r. Pierius Epist. 6. p. 1. l. 7. worth r. North. p. 2. lin 1. accurst r. incenst ead pa. lin 19. distraundged r. distourning To Master E. Dig. Satyre 1. DIgbie whence comes it that the world begins To winke at follies and to sooth vp sinnes Can other reason be alleadgd then this The world sooths sinne because it sinfull is The man that liues by bribes and vsurie Winkes like a foxe at lothsome letcherie Craft giues ambition leaue to lay his