Seauen satyres applyed to the weeke including the worlds ridiculous follyes. True fælicity described in the phoenix. Maulgre. Whereunto is annexed the wandring satyre. By W. Rankins, Gent.

〈◊〉〈◊〉 Satyres applyed to the weeke.

SATYR. primus. Contra Lunatistam.

FRom woods, to wood and mad conceited men, That with the Moone participate their minde, I leaue my hollow vast desertfull den, To tell them the derision of their kinde. What fond affects what sodaine change I finde: How Proteus-like, they chāge their peeuish shape, Yet dare for honors constant guerdon gape.

And are they stable in their lustfull worke, And still in complet fulnes of desire: And as the Tortoys in the mud doth lurke, And will not to the labouring streames retyre,

Nor to the bankes of wholsome hearbes aspyre; Yet if she see the glimmering of the Sunne, Contents a while her ougly cell to shun.

So these selfe soothing sots that hide •…•…heir heads In idiotisme and ignoraunces shame, Their thicke skal'd fins in brightest glory spred, To get the prize when others win the game, They haue no firmer vertue than a name: But who so thinkes the signe the substance is, Erres, and his wit doth wander much amisse.

And as the weather so their worth doth turne, Sometime a red, sometime an ashye pale, Anon like yce, anon like lightenings burne, Foorthwith foreshewing stormes to euery sale, Next night forefiguring a merry gale, Disposed like the Moone, their mothers glory, The vainest Planet, and most transitory.

And as the serpent shewes her speckled brest, When as the eye of heauen is in his he ght, Aduauncing vp her greene inuenom'd crest: Increasing mallice by the midday light, And hydes her foule shape in a frosty night. Soe doe these fickle peasants prate and lye, Till aduerse darkenes vales prosperity.

I seperate the Droane from honny Bees, I carpe not at the fewer vertuous sort, I shake the Oke, as well as lower trees: If Catterpillers taynte it with resort, I am a Satyre sauage is my sport. So ending heere my immelodious song, I bid him mend that thinkes he hath the wrong.