Page:Poems of Anne Countess of Winchilsea 1903.djvu/169

 To some unwealthy shed resolues to fly And there obscure and unmolested lye But see how eithers project quickly fails The Clown his new tormentor with him trayles Through miry ways rough Woods and furrow'd Lands Ne're cutts the Shooe nor propp'd on Crutches stands With Phœbus rising stays with Cynthia out Allows no respitt to the harrass'd Gout.
 * Whilst with extended Broom th' unpittying Maid

Does the transparent Laberynth invade Back stroke and fore the battering Engin went Broke euery Cord and quite unhing'd the Tent No truce the tall Virago e're admitts Contracted and abash'd Arachne' sitts Then in conuenient Time the Work renews The battering Ram again the work persues. What's to be done ? The Gout and Spider meet, Exchange, the Cottage this; That takes the feet Of the rich Abbott who that Pallace kept And 'till that time in Velvet Curtains slept Now Colwort leaues and Cataplasms (thô vain) Are hourly order'd by that griping traine. Who blush not to Prescribe t'exhaust our Gold For aches which incurable they hold Whil'st stroak'd and fixt the pamper'd Gout remains And in an easy Chair euer the Preist detains.
 * In a thatched Roof secure the Spider thrives,

Both mending by due place their hated liues. From whose succeeding may this moral grow That each his propper Station learn to know.


 * For You my Dear whom late that pain did seize,

Not rich enough to sooth the bad disease By large expences to engage his stay