Epigram 5: When as our Sauiour to the Temple

When as our Sauiour to the Temple went,
To tell the message that his father sent:
And finding there a rude vnruly tout,
That bought and sold: he angry, beat them out,
And ouerthrew their tressels and their tables,
And made them packe away with all their bables:
And further sayd (what all true hearts beleeues)
This house was made for prayer, no den for theeues.
Those marchants thus whipt from their market place,
Practisd reuenge gainst Christ for this disgrace.
And more, to strength their power, ioynd with the Pop.
Who by his lawles lawes hath giuen them scope,
That in the Church they still should buy and sell
Both God and deuill, Heauen, Purgatory, Hell.
Now heeres the ods, Christ out the Pediars thrust,
And stayd himselfe there, preaching what was iust.
And for reuenge the hawty Romane Priest,
Hath tane the Pedlars in, and thrust out Christ.