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.]