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And of mine old acquaintances spide many a countrie Jone,Whose fathers drove the dung-cart, though the daughters now will none.I knew when prelates, and the peeres had faire attendance on,By gentlemen and yeomandrie, but that faire world is gone:For most, like Jehu, hurrie with pedanties two or three,Yet all go downe the winde, save those that hospitalious bee.$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$Great'st ladies with their women, on their palfries mounted faireRode through the streets, well waited on, their artless faces bare,Which now in coches scorne to be salued of the aire.I knew when men-judicial rode on sober mules, wherebyThey might of suters, these, and they, aske, answere, and replie.$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$I knew when more was thriv'd abroad by war than now by peace,And English feard where they be frompt, since hostile tearmies did cease:But by occasion, all things are produced, be, decrease.