Classic Poem

Against Sosbius the Impudent Leacher, Defending His Sinne and Glorying in the Same

Against Sosbius the impudent Leacher, defending his sinne and glorying in the same

S AMOCRATE , Naso and Nigidius
Wrate of the remedy of lust or loue;
Which remedy oft cures the lecherous,
As the most loose that way this way do proue:
These to good purpose writt: but Sosbius
Hath written so to cure that ytching sore,
That he makes vertue most venerious:
And common nature makes a common whore:
For when Dame Nature workes, it is (saith he)
To honest endes, hir meanes, then honest bee:
 But Sosbius, if that truth bee in thy lore,
 Thy mother to bee honest, was a whoreEnglish