Satyre: When I but think, the daies we

When I but think, the daies we wander in,
How most part of the world do liue by sinne:
How finely Sathan shewed his cunning skill,
That one man gets his goods, from others ill.
Doth not the Lawiers liue like mighty Lords,
On braules, on iarres, contentions and discords,
When if men (as they should) would but agree,
A Tearme would scarcely yeeld a Lawyers fee?
Let vsurers bragge of conscience what they can,
They liue like deuils, vpon the bane of man:
The racking land-lord gets his ill got store,
By rayling rents, which make his tennants poore:
Clap shoulder serieants get the deuill and all
By begg'ring and by bringing men in thrall.
Like gentlemen, the Iaylors spend their liues
By keeping men in fetters, bonds and gyues:
The vintner and the vict'lar get most gaines
From dayly drunkards, and distemperd braines:
From whence do Iustice Clerks get most they haue,
But from the whore, the theife, the bawd, the knaue?
In what consists the hangmans greatest hope
But hope of great imployment for the rope?
The very blew-coate beadles get their trash,
By whips and rods, and the fine firking lash.
But leauing these, note but how Corporations
From others vices, get their reputations:
The vpstart veluet silken fatten gull,
His owne purse empts to fill the Mercers full:
When for his birth, or wit more fit agrees,
A breech of leather, and a coate of freese.
The Taylor is a gentleman transform'd
For his inuenting fashions new deform'd,
And those that make the Verdingales and bodies,
Get most the haue from idle witlesse nodies.
The Tires, the Periwigs, and the Rebatoes,
Are made t'adorne Ilshap'd Inamoratoes.
Yea all the world is falne to such a madnesse,
That each man gets his goods from others badnesse.
The Chirurgian and Phisitian get their stockes,
From Goutes, from Feauers, Botches, Piles, and Pockes:
With others paine, they most of all are pleas'd,
And best are eas'd: when others are diseas'd.
As Sextons liue by deade, and not by quicke,
So they liue with the sound, but by the sicke.
Thus each man liues by other mens amisse,
And one mans meat, anothers poison is.