Maligne

He was a kyng, full worthy and condigne / That let not, for his eaſe nor his laboure / To ſearche and ſee defautes, that were maligne / And theim correcte, he was a gouernoure / God ſet neuer kyng, to be a ryotoure / To trippe on tapettes, and lyue in ydelneſſe / But for to rule, with all kyndes of buſyneſſe

As who ſhuld ſay for ſuch maner of perſõs as do maligne ⁊ diſquiet honeſt ⁊ quiet mẽ which wold faine liue in reſt ⁊ cannot.

Quoth th'other, haue thy ſtarres maligne been ſuch, / That their predominations ſvvay ſo much / Ouer the reſt, that vvith a milde aſpect / The Liues and loues of Shepherds doe affect?

For if that I ſpake it, in ſome audience, / Some men wolde maligne, and take it for offence.

But if the heauens did his dayes enuie, / And my ſhort blis maligne, yet mote they well / Thus much afford me, ere that he did die / That the dim eies of my deare Marinell / I mote haue cloſed, and him bed farewell, / Sith other offices for mother meet / They would not graunt.

Now Indignation is a fire, ſaith the Prophet, it will vexe the partie whom it malignes, as fire vexeth the rawe fleſh in the roſting or boyling. Si aut fiſcellam iunco texerem, aut palmarũ folia complicarem, aut ſudore vultus panem comederem; were I a Basket-maker, or a garland winder, or of any baſe trade that ſhould make mee ſweat for the bread I eate, ſaith S. Hierom, Nemo me morderet, nemo inuideret, No man would maligne me, no man would traduce me; but now, that I giue my ſelfe to the ſtudie and interpretation of the Scriptures, I am a Diuine, a Writer, a Preacher, Me obeleſcis notant, I am ſcortcht coleblack with their obliſques, & obloquies.