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A20080	A rod for run-awayes Gods tokens, of his feareful iudgements, sundry wayes pronounced vpon this city, and on seuerall persons, both flying from it, and staying in it. Expressed in many dreadfull examples of sudden death ... By Tho. D.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.	1625 (1625)	STC 6520; ESTC S105262	17,724	34

A Rod for Run-awayes Gods Tokens Of his feareful Iudgements sundry wayes pronounced vpon this City and on seuerall persons both flying from it and staying in it Expressed in many dreadfull Examples of sudden Death falne vpon both young and old within this City and the Suburbes in the Fields and open Streets to the terrour of all those who liue and to the warning of those who are to dye to be ready when God Almighty shall bee pleased to call them By THO. D. Lord haue mercy on London 〈…〉 London for Iohn Trundle and are to be sold 〈…〉 TO THE NOBLE Gentleman Mr. Thomas Gilham CHIRVRGIAN SIR IN this Vniuersall sicknesse giue mee leaue in a few Leaues to salute your Health and I am glad I can do so To whom in an Epidemiall confusion of Wounds should a man flye but to Physicke and Chirurgery In both which you haue skill In the last the World crownes your Fame as beeing a great Master Many of your excellent Pieces haue beene and are to bee seene in this City No Painter can shew the like no Limner come neere such curious Workemanship What you set out is truely to the life their 's but counterfeit I honour your Name your Art your Practice your profound Experience And to testifie I doe so let this poore Monument of my loue bee looked vpon and you shall finde it The Sender beeing sorry it is not worth your acceptation But if you thinke otherwise he shall be glad And euer rest at your seruice THO. Dekker To the Reader REader how farre soeuer thou art thou maist here see as through a Perspectiue-Glasse the miserable estate of London in this heauy time of contagion It is a picture not drawne to the life but to the death of aboue twelue thousand in lesse then six weekes If thou art in the Countrey cast thine eye towards vs here at home and behold what wee indure If as thou canst not choose thou art glad thou art out of this Tempest haue a care to man thy Ship well and doe not ouer-lade it with bad merchandize foule Sins when thou art bound for this place for all the danger will be at thy putting in The Rockes of insection lye hid in our deepe Seas and therefore it behoues thy soule to take heed what sayles she hoyses and thy body what Pylote it carries aboord Wee doe not thinke but numbers of you wish your selues here againe for your entertainement a far off cannot be courteous when euen not two miles from vs there is nothing but churlishnesse But it is to be feared some of you will get such falls in the Corne-Fields of the Country that you will hardly bee able without halting to walke vp and downe London But take good hearts and keepe good legges vnder you and be sure you haue hung strong Pad-lo●…es vpo●… your doores for in many Streetes there are none to guard your goods but the Houses themselues If one Shop be open sixteene in a row stand shut vp together and those that are open were as good to be shut for they take no Money None thriue but Apothecaries Butchers Cookes and Coffin-makers Coach-men ride a cock-horse and are so full of Iadish trickes that you cannot be iolted sixe miles from London vnder thirty or forty shillings Neuer was Hackney-flesh so deare Few woollen Drapers sel any Cloth but euery Church-yard is euery day full of linnen Drapers and the Earth is the great Warehouse which is piled vp with winding-sheetes To see a Rapier or Feather worne in London now is as strange as to meet a Low-countrey Souldier with Money in his Purse The walkes in Pauls are empty the walkes in London too wide here 's no lustling but the best is Cheape-side is a com fortable Garden where all Phisicke-Herbes grow Wee wish that you the Run-awayes would suffer the Market-Folkes to come to vs or that they had hearts to come for the Statute of fore-stalling is sued vpon you Wee haue lost your companies and not content with that you robbe vs of our victuals but when you come backe keepe open house to let in ayre and set good cheere on your Tables that we may bid you welcome Yours T. D. Gods Tokens Of His fearefull Iudgements WEE are now in a set Battaile the Field is Great Britaine the Vantguard which first stands the brunt of the Fight is London the Shires Counties and Countries round about are in danger to be prest to come vp in the Reare the King of Heauen and Earth is the Generall of the Army reuenging Angels his Officers his Indignation the Trumpet summoning and sounding the Alarum our innumerable sinnes his enemies and our Nation the Legions which he threatens to smite with Correction Sinne then being the quarrell and ground of this warre there is no standing against so inuincible a Monarch as God is no defending a matter so foule as our sinnes are Would you know how many Nations for sinne haue beene rooted vp and swept from the face of the earth that no memory of them is left but their name no glories of their Kings or great Cities remaining but only this Here they liued Here they stood Reade the Scriptures and euery Booke is full of such Histories euery Prophet sings songs of such lamentable desolations For Iehouah when he is angry holds three Whips in his hand and neuer drawes bloud with them but when our Faults are heauy our Crimes hainous and those three Whips are the Sword Pestilence and Famine What Country for sinne hath not smarted vnder these Ierusalem felt them all Let vs not trauell so farre as Ierusalem but come home looke vpon Christendome and behold Hungaria made desolate by sword and fire Poland beaten downe by battailes Russia by bloudy inuasions the Turke and Tartar haue here their insolent triumphs Looke vpon Denmarke Sweden and those Easterne Countries How often hath the voice of the Drumme called them vp Euen now at this houre the Marches are there beating How hath the Sword mowed downe the goodly Fields of Italy What Massacres hath in our memory beene in France Oh Germany what foundations of bloud haue thy Cities beene drowned in what horrors what terrors what hellish inuentions haue not warre found out to destroy thy buildings demollish thy Free States and vtterly to confound thy 17. Prouinces Gods three whips haue printed deepe markes on thy shoulders the Sword for many yeeres together hath cut thy people in pieces Famine hath beene wearied with eating vp thy children and is not yet satisfied the Pestitence hath in many of thy Townes in many of thy Sieges and Leagers plaid the terrible Tyrant In all these thy miseries the Spaniard hath had his triumphs his Fire-brands haue been flung about to kindle and feede all thy burnings his furies haue for almost foure score yeeres stood and still stand beating at the Anuils and forging Thunder-bolts to batter thee and all thy neighbouring Kingdomes in pieces

Preacher they were threatned by the worshipfull wisdome of the Parish to bee set in the Stockes if they put but a foot within the Church-doores Hath not God therefore iust cause to be angry with this distrust this infidelity of our Nation How can wee expect mercy from him when wee expresse such cruelty one towards another When the Brother defies the Brother what hope is there for a Londoner to to receiue comfort from Strangers Who then would flye from his owne Nest which hee may command to be lodged amongst Crowes and Rauens that are ready to picke out our Eyes if we offer to come amongst them The braue Parlors stately dining-Roomes and rich Chambers to lye in which many of our Citizens had here in London are now turned to Hay-lofts Apple-lofts Hen-roosts and Back-houses no better then to keepe Hogges in I doe not say in all places but a number that are gone downe and were lodged daintily heere wish themselues at home as complayning Letters testifie but that the heat of Contagion frights them from returning and it were a shame they thinke to come so soone backe to that City from whence with such greedy desire they were on the wings of feare hurryed hence Flocke not therefore to those who make more account of Dogges then of Christians The smelling to your Iuory Boxes does not so much comfort your Nosthrils as the Sent of your perfumed brauery stinkes in the Noses now of Countrey-people It may bee perceyued by the comming backe of many Carts laden with goods which in scorne are returned to London and cannot for any Gold or Siluer be receyued What talke I of Cart-loades of Stuffe If some more tender-hearted amongst the rest giue welcome to his brother kinseman or friend a Beare is not so woorried by Mastiffes as hee shall bee by vncharitable Neighbours when the Stranger is departed They loue your Money but not your persons yet loue not your money so well but that if a Carrier brings it to them from London they will not touch a penny of it till it be twice or thrice washed in a Pale or two of water But leauing these Creatures to be tormented by their owne folly and ignorance yet praying that God would open their eyes and inlighten their soules with a true vnderstanding of his diuine Iudgements I will now shut vp my Discourse with that which is first promised in the Title-page of the Booke and those are Gods Tokens c. Gods Tokens ANd now O you Citizens of LONDON abroad or at home be you rich bee you poore tremble at the repetition of these horrors which here I set downe and of which ten thousand are eare-witnesses great numbers of you that are in the City hauing likewise beheld some of these or their like with your eyes Neither are these warnings to you of London onely but to you who-euer you bee dwelling in the farthest parts of the Kingdome Shall I tell you how many thousands haue been borne on mens shoulders within the compasse of fiue or six weekes Bills sent vp and downe both Towne and Countrie haue giuen you already too fearefull informations Shall I tell you that the Bels call out night and day for more Burials and haue them yet are not satisfied Euery street in London is too much frighted with these terrors Shall I tell you that Church-yards haue letten their ground to so many poore Tenants that there is scarce roome left for any more to dwell there they are so pestred The Statute against Inmates cannot sue these for hauing taken once possession no Law can remoue them Or shall I tell you that in many Church-yards for want of roome they are compelled to dig Graues like little Cellers piling vp forty or fifty in a Pit And that in one place of buriall the Mattocke and Shouell haue ventured so farre that the very Common-shore breakes into these ghastly and gloomy Ware-houses washing the bodies all ouer with foule water because when they lay downe to rest not one eye was so tender to wet the ground with a teare No I will not tell you of these things but of These which are true as the other and fuller of horror A woman with a Child in her armes passing thorow Fleet-street was strucke sicke vpon a sudden the Childe leaning to her cheeke immediatly departed the Mother perceiuing no such matter but finding her owne heart wounded to the death she sate downe neere to a shop where hot Waters were sold the charitable woman of that shop perceiuing by the poore wretches countenance how ill she was ranne in all haste to fetch her some comfort but before she could come the Woman was quite dead and so her childe and she went louingly together to one Graue A Gentleman knowne to many in this Towne hauing spent his time in the Warres and comming but lately ouer in health and lusty state of body going along the streets fell suddenly downe and dyed neuer vttering more words then these Lord haue mercy vpon me Another dropped downe dead by All gate at the Bell-Tauerne doore A Flax-man in Turnebull street being about to send his Wife to market on a sudden felt a pricking in his arme neere the place where once he had a sore and vpon this plucking vp his sleeue he called to his Wife to stay there was no neede to fetch any thing for him from Market for see quoth he I am marked and so shewing Gods Tokens dyed in a few minutes after A man was in his Coffin to be put into a Graue in Cripple-gate Church-yard and the Bearers offring to take him out he opened his eyes and breathed but they running to fetch Aqua vita for him before it came he was full dead A lusty country fellow that came to towne to get Haruest-worke hauing sixteene or eighteene shillings in his Purse fell sicke in some lodging he had in Old-street was in the night time thrust out of doores and none else receiuing him he lay vpon Straw vnder Suttons Hospitall wall neere the high way and there miserably dyed A woman going along Barbican in the moneth of Iuly on a Wednesday the first of the Dog-daies went not farre but suddenly fell sicke and sate downe the gaping multitude perceiuing it stood round about her afarre off she making signes for a little drinke money was giuen by a stander by to fetch her some but the vncharitable Woman of the Ale-house denyed to lend her Pot to any infected companion the poore soule dyed suddenly and yet albeit all fled from her when she liued yet being dead some like Rauens seized vpon her body hauing good clothes about her stripped her and buried her none knowing what she was or from whence she came Let vs remoue out of Barbican into one of the Churches in Thames-street where a Gentleman passing by who on a sudden felt himselfe exceeding ill and