No More Learning

But thanks to the whores who made the king



For giving no more the rogues are prorogued.

WOOL-CHURCH.

That a king should endeavour to make a war

cease.
Which augments and secures his own profit and

peace.

CHARING.

And plenipotentiaries sent into France,
With an addle-headed knight, and a lord without
brains.

WOOL-CHURCH.

That the king should send for another French

whore,
When one already had made him so poor»

CHARING.

The misses take place, each advanced to be

duchess.
With pomp great as queens in their coach and

six horses ;
Their bastards made dukes, earls, viscounts, and

lords,
And all the high titles that honour affords.



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264 THE POEMS

WOOL-CHUKCH.

While these brate and their mothers do live in

such plenty,
The nation's impoverished, and the 'Chequer

quite empty ;
And though war was pretended when the money

was lent,
More on whores, than in ships or in war, hath

been spent.

CHARING.

Enough, my dear brother, although we speak

reason.
Yet truth many times being punished for treason.
We ought to be wary, and bridle our tongue,
Bold speaking hath done both men and beasts

wrong.
When the ass so boldly rebuked the pi-ophet.
Thou knowest what danger had like to come of it ;
Though the beast gave his master ne'er an ill

word.
Instead of a cudgel, Balaam wished for a sword.

WOOL-CHURCH.

Truth 's as bold as a lion, I am not afraid ;
I '11 prove every tittle of what I have said.
Our riders are absent, who is 't that can hear ?
Let's be true to ourselves, whom then need we fear?
Where is thy king gone ?



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OF MARYELL. 265

CHARING.

To sec bishop Laud.

WOOL-CHURCH.

To cuckold a scrivener, mine is in masquerade ;
For on such occasions he oft steals away,
And returns to remount me about break of day.
In very dark nights sometimes you may find him,
With a harlot got up on my crupper behind him.

CHARING.