Satire Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Sir though I thanke God for it I do hateA
Perfectly all this towne yet there's one stateA
In all ill things so excellently bestB
That hate towards them breeds pitty towards the restB
Though Poetry indeed be such a sinneC
As I thinke that brings dearths and Spaniards inC
Though like the Pestilence and old fashion'd loveD
Ridlingly it catch men and doth removeE
Never till it be sterv'd out yet their stateA
Is poore disarm'd like Papists not worth hateA
One like a wretch which at Barre judg'd as deadF
Yet prompts him which stands next and cannot readeF
And saves his life gives ideot actors meanesG
Starving himselfe to live by'his labor'd sceanesG
As in some Organ Puppits dance aboveD
And bellows pant below which them do moveE
One would move Love by rimes but witchcrafts charmsG
Bring not now their old feares nor their old harmesG
Rammes and slings now are seely batteryH
Pistolets are the best ArtillerieH
And they who write to Lords rewards to getI
Are they not like singers at doores for meatJ
And they who write because all write have stillK
That excuse for writing and for writing illK
But hee is worst who beggarly doth chawL
Others wits fruits and in his ravenous mawL
Rankly digested doth those things out spueM
As his owne things 'and they are his owne 'tis trueH
For if one eate my meate though it be knowneC
The meate was mine th'excrement is his owneC
But these do mee no harme nor they which useG
To out doe Dildoes and out usure JewesG
To'out drinke the sea to'out sweare the LetanieC
Who with sinnes all kindes as familiar beeH
As Confessors and for whose sinfull sakeN
Schoolemen new tenements in hell must makeN
Whose strange sinnes Canonists could hardly tellO
In which Commandements large receit they dwellO
But these punish themselves the insolenceG
Of Coscus onely breeds my just offenceG
Whom time which rots all and makes botches poxeG
And plodding on must make a calfe an oxeG
Hath made a Lawyer which was alas of lateA
But a scarce Poet jollier of this stateA
Then are new benefic'd ministers he throwesG
Like nets or lime twigs wheresoere he goesG
His title'of Barrister on every wenchL
And wooes in language of the Pleas and BenchL
'A motion Lady ' 'Speake Coscus ' 'I'have beeneC
In love ever since tricesimo' of the QueeneC
Continuall claimes I'have made injunctions gotP
To stay my rivals suit that hee should notP
Proceed ' 'Spare mee ' 'In Hillary terme I wentQ
You said If I returne next size in LentQ
I should be in remitter of your graceG
In th'interim my letters should take placeG
Of affidavits ' words words which would teareH
The tender labyrinth of a soft maids eareH
More more then ten Sclavonians scolding moreH
Then when winds in our ruin'd Abbeyes roreH
When sicke with Poetrie 'and possest with museG
Thou wast and mad I hop'd but men which chuseG
Law practise for meere gaine bold soule reputeR
Worse then imbrothel'd strumpets prostituteR
Now like an owlelike watchman hee must walkeS
His hand still at a bill now he must talkeS
Idly like prisoners which whole months will sweareH
That onely suretiship hath brought them thereH
And to'every suitor lye in every thingS
Like a Kings favorite yea like a KingS
Like a wedge in a blocke wring to the barreH
Bearing like Asses and more shameless farreH
Then carted whores lye to the grave Judge forH
Bastardy'abounds not in Kings titles norH
Symonie'and Sodomy in Churchmens livesG
As these things do in him by these he thrivesG
Shortly 'as the sea hee'will compasse all our landT
From Scots to Wight from Mount to Dover strandT
And spying heires melting with luxurieH
Satan will not joy at their sinnes as heeH
For as a thrifty wench scrapes kitching stuffeE
And barrelling the droppings and the snuffeE
Of wasting candles which in thirty yeareH
Relique like kept perchance buyes wedding geareH
Peecemeale he gets lands and spends as much timeU
Wringing each Acre as men pulling primeU
In parchments then large as his fields hee drawesG
Assurances bigge as gloss'd civill lawesG
So huge that men in our times forwardnesseG
Are Fathers of the Church for writing lesseG
These hee writes not nor for these written payesG
Therefore spares no length as in those first dayesG
When Luther was profest he did desireH
Short Pater nosters saying as a FryerH
Each day his beads but having left those lawesG
Addes to Christs prayer the Power and glory clauseG
But when he sells or changes land he'impairesG
His writings and unwatch'd leaves out ses heiresG
As slily'as any Commenter goes byV
Hard words or sense or in DivinityH
As controverters in vouch'd texts leave outW
Shrewd words which might against them cleare the doubtW
Where are those spred woods which cloth'd heretoforeH
Those bought lands not built not burnt within doreH
Where's th'old landlords troops and almes In great halsG
Carthusian fasts and fulsome BachanallsG
Equally'I hate meanes blesse in rich mens homesG
I bid kill some beasts but no HecatombsG
None starve none surfet so But Oh we'allowX
Good workes as good but out of fashion nowX
Like old rich wardrops but my words none drawesG
Within the vast reach of th'huge statute lawesG

John Donne



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