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 Satyre 5.

Ingling Pyander.

Age hath his infant youth, old trees their sprigs, Ore spreading branches their inferior twigs: Old beldam hath a daughter or a sonne True borne, or illigitimate alls one: Issue she hath: the father? aske you mee? The house wide open stands, her lodgings free: Admit my self for recreation Sometimes did enter her possession, It argues not that I haue bin the man, That first kept reuels in that mantian. No no, the hagling common place is old, The Tenement hath oft bin bought and sold: Tis rotten now, earth to earth, dust to dust, Sodoms on fire, and consume it must: And wanting second reparations, Pluto hath ceasd the poore reuertions. But that hereafter worlds may truly know, What hemlocks, & what rue there erst did grow: