Sir Thomas Ouerburie his wife with new elegies vpon his (now knowne) vntimely death : whereunto are annexed, new newes and characters / written by himselfe and other learned gentlemen.

A Diuellish Usurer

IS sowed as Cummin or Hemp-seede, with curses; and he thinks he thriues the better. Hee is better read in the Penall Statutes, then the Bible; and his euill Angell perswades him, hee shall

sooner be saued by them. He can be no mans friend; for all men hee hath most interest in, hee vndo's: and a dou∣ble dealer hee is certainely; for by his good will he euer takes the forfeit. He puts his money to the vnnaturall Act of generation; and his Scriuener is the superuisor Bawd to't. Good Deeds he loues none, but Seal'd and Deliuered; nor doth he wish any thing to thriue in the Countrey, but Bee-hiues; for they make him waxe rich. He hates all but Law-Latine; yet thinks hee might be drawne to loue a Scholler, could he re∣duce the yeere to a shorter compasse, that his vse-money might come in the faster: he seems to be the son of a Iailor, for all his estate is most heauic & cruell bonds. He doth not giue, but fell daies of Payment; and those at the rate of a mans vndoing: he doth only feare, the day of Iudgment should fall sooner, then the payment of some great sum of money due to him: hee remoues his lodging when a Subsidie comes; and if

he be found out, and pay it, hee grum∣bles Treason; but tis in such a deformed silence, as VVitches raise their Spirits in. Grauitie hee pretends in all things, but in his priuate Whore; for hee will not in a hundreth pound take one light sixe-pence; and it seemes hee was at Tilburie Campe, for you must not tell him of a Spaniard. He is a man of no conscience; for (like the lakes-farmer that swounded with going into Buck∣lersburie) hee falls into a cold sweat, if hee but looke into the Chauncerie: thinks in his Religion, wee are in the right for euery thing, if that were abo∣lisht: hee hides his money, as if hee thought to finde it againe at last day, and then begin's old trade with it. His clothes plead prescription; and whe∣ther they or his bodie are more rotten, is a question: yet should hee liue to be hangd in them, this good they would doe him, The very Hangman would pittie his case. The Table hee keeps is able to starue twentie tall men; his ser∣vants

haue not their liuing, but their dying from him, and that's of Hunger. A spare Dyet he commends in all men, but himselfe: he comes to Cathedralls onely for loue of the singing Boyes, be∣cause they looke hungry. He likes our Religion best, because tis best cheape; yet would faine allow of Purgatorie, 'cause 'twas of his Trade, and brought in so much money: his heart goes with the same snaphance his purse doth, tis seldome open to any man: friendship hee accounts but a word without any signification; nay, he loues all the world so little, that, and it were possible, hee would make himselfe his owne Execu∣tor: for certaine, hee is made Admini∣strator to his own good name, while he is in perfect memorie, for that dyes long afore him; but he is so farre from being at the charge of a Funerall for it, that hee lets it stinke aboue ground. In conclusion, for Neighbourhood, you were better dwell by a contentious Lawyer. And for his death, tis rather

Surfet, the Pox, or Despaire; for seldom such as hee dye of Gods making, as ho∣nest men should doe.