Pride, neatness, Swine-like, drunkenness,
And beastly Gluttony, good fellowship;
Deceit, Trades mystery, Voluptuousness,
Christian Refreshment; Ruining suertiship,
A friendly Office; murderous Duelling,
True Valour; Justice, right determining.
Lust, and Lasciviousness, his Factors name;
Love-Courting Amorousness, Affection;
Hell's Patches, Beauties spots; Painting, no stain;
But a good Art, to help Complection▪
Legends of Lies, a pious fraud, base Guile,
Good Language, and a Complemental Stile.
As moral Crimes, so often poenal, ill
Dangers, and mischiefs, (like the Crocodile)
Lie cover'd under sensual Pleasures still,
As under Water; till they Vs beg••ile,
And ceize upon; Thus Tomaris rich Tent,
Was Cyrus Sepulchre, and Monument.
And Jael's Lordly Dish of cooling Drink,
Lull'd Sisera into a deadly sleep;
Thus Ammon, Haman, when they least did think
Of danger; Death, did their own Funerals keep,
And the Whores Vassailes, drink her filthy Wine,
Out of her Golden Cup of Jus Divine.
Sweet Lord, thus also, in the lawful Tast
Of thy good Creature, in a silver Cup,
I, and my dearest, might have drunk our last,
Had'st thou not seasoned our poisonous••Sup;
Elisha-like, cast out by thy Command,
Its Venome, as the Viper from Paul's hand.
In both, fulfilling what thou promised,
At thy Ascention, as of Faith, a sigue,
That such of thine should not be poisoned,
Nor hurt by Serpents, or by deadly Wine;
Blest be thy Name, who by one act of Love,
Both strengthened Faith, and thus preserv'd thy Dove.
Sin, Lord, of all things here's most venomous,
As swell'd and badg'd with deadly poisonous Lusts.