In Severum

The Puritan Severus oft doth read
This text, that doth pronounce vain speech a sin,--
"That thing defiles a man, that doth proceed,
From out the mouth, not that which enters in."
Hence it is, that we seldome heare him sweare:
And thereof as a Pharisie he vaunts;
But he devours more capons in one yeare,
Then would suffice an hundred Protestants.
And sooth, those sectaries are gluttons all,
As well the thred-bare cobler, as the knight;
For those poore slaues which haue not wherewithall,
Feed on the rich, till they devour them quite;
And so, as Pharoe's kine, they eate up clean,
Those that be fat, yet still themselues be lean.