Lord have Mercy upon Vs. The VVorld A Sea A Pest-house The one full of Stormes and dangers the other full of Soares and Diseases The observance from These though especially accomodated to the times of this heavy Contagion fitted for all times For all Men and all Times are sicke of the Cause of this Sicknese LORD haue mercy vpon vs. Imprinted at London for Henry Gosson 1636. To the Reader PVnishment is the Companion of Sinne and although like a man and his mate they doe not goe cheeke by joule like a man and his shadow they doe for like that shadow it is still the associate of Sinne and dogges his most private retyrements though as seldome thought on as wee thinke of our worthlesse shadow That it is thus we see though not till we see it to repent it so bedazeled we are with the beauty lustre and splendor that is spread by the World over sinne and high-handed offences While on the other side it dimmes and obfusâ—â—tes that that were it visible Vertue in his selfe hath beauty enough to attract as the Adamant the Iron all hearts to admire and desire it That we may see this and that that is Vertue and Vice as we should doe let us in this Picture of the World presented as a Sea and a Pest-house endeavour so to see as to know them and knowing them from thence learne to love and loath as we should doe This Lesson made perfect among us we shall not so misplace our affections so follow the World the corrupt estate and condition that followed the fall of our first Parents Adam and Eve Nor doâ—te on heâ— painted visor for shee drinkeâ— her most bitter potion to them that make her their portiâ—n Buâ— lest I too long keepe the sight of her vanities from you desiring GOD to purge our Soules from her plâ—gues and our Bodies from the stroak of this Angel I conclude Thâ— Brevv LORD have Mercy upon us The World A Sea A Pest-house Compared to the Sea in these many Reasons Respects and Resemblances following 1. By reason of the Motion and Instability of it 2. By reason of Ejection or Casting out 3. By reason of the Creatures that are in it and that in their hourly devouring 4. By reason of it's Tearme or bounds 5. By reason of the Multiplicity or Multitude of Eminent and Imminent dangers 6. By reason of the many and Monstrous Shapes that are in it 7. By reason of the Non-abiding or presâ—nt and speedy passage 8. By reason of the uncertainty of it 9. By the reason of the Sapor Tast or Relish of it 10. By reason of the Voracity and Insatiability of it Of the First The Motion and Instability of it THe Sea is euer flowing and ebbing now Eleuated now Deprest Continually swelling and falling So the world it is neuer still â—rat quâ—et now lâ—tting vp another while casting downe Nay many times working these conâ—raries that is of Eâ—altation and Depresâ—â—on vpon one and the same in an instant I haue seene the vngodly exalted and Flourish as a greene Bay Tree yet he passed away loe â—e was gone I sought him and her could not bee found Psalme 37. 35 36. Man shooteth forth as a Flower and is cut downe Hee vanisheth as a shadow and continueth not Iob. 14. 2. Our delights are like Ioâ—â—'s Gouâ—d Now spread now dead While they are they reioyce vs as that Goâ—â—d did that good old Prophet But gone like that which suddenly was and was not the priâ—ation as much torments us â—ona 4. 6 7. Mâ—â—danc prosperity is a staffe of a Cane 〈◊〉 Reed it may seeme to be solid and firme but hee that shall rest vpon it or put any trust vnto it shall find what it is when it breakes when it hurts wâ—â—râ— it seemed to helpe and pierceth through that part it supported Isa 36 6. Among the waues of this Sea thus doe wee Rise thus fall vpon this Billow we Swimme vnder the next we â—â—nke Now Flourish now perish as a game that the world delights in Lord have Mercy upon us The Second Resemblance Eiection or casting out THe Sea casts out her dead to the Shore so the world those that are dead to the world that is those that delight not in her sinfull delights and pleasures That know her delights to be lightnesse and her pleasures a path to anguish Attend to that of Saint Paâ—l Wee are evill spoken of we are made as the filth of the World the off-â—â—owâ—ing of all things even unto this time 1. Co. 4 13 Thus to the world and worldings are those that neglect the world Reâ—roach'd Reuil'd and Slaunder'd her Language the language of Hell and with such doe such Hellâ—â—ounds pursue them If you were of the world the world would love you but because you are not of the world the world hates you Ioh. 15. 19. How unhappy are men so Beloved How happy are men so Reproved Moreouer spirituall men are not onely cast out of the World from her Titles preferments and Glories but suffer withall many grieuous and great persecutions The Seruant is not better than his Master they haue persecuted CHRIST and the Christian must endure persecution Lord have Mercy upon us The Third Resemblance As from the Sea so from the Creatures within it and that in their hourely Devouring IN the Sea among Fishes the greater devour the lesser In the World among men the Richer deâ—â—ur the poorer They entertaine not the poore into their houses but the houses of thepoore entertaine to their owne possessions They Cloath not the poore but vncloath them they feede not the poore but vpon them God hath giuen them that they might giue and doe good but with that they should doe good they doe euill Not knowing that in Saint Luke 16. 22. The Rich man dyed and was buried but the Poore man dyed and was carried Whither into Abrahams Bosome By whom By Angels Oh Happy and thrice happy Beggers Oh wretched and thrice wretched oppressors Lord have Mercy upon us Wherefore doest thou looke upon the transgressor and hold thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more Righteous than he and makest them as the Fishes of the Sea Habba 1. 14. Yet in this vast Sea the Righteous man shall not perish but liue though the wicked devour him Even as Ionas who though swallowed yet lived in the belly into which he was greedily swallowed As dying behold wee live as chastned and yet not killed 2 Cor. 6. 9. Lord have Mercy upon us The Fourth Resemblance And that from the Terme or Bounds of the Sea are the Sands which we know to be Barren and weighty SO the Terme or Bounds of this world the end of our mortall being is unfruitfull and weighty in the burthen of our sinnes and offences What Fruit had yee of those things of which yee â—â—e now ashamed Rom. 6. 21. What hath man of all the Labour and Toyle that he suffereth under the Sunne Eccl. 1.
3. Man findes nothing in death but his workes and those he must carry with him Reu. 14. 13. The whole World lies in wickednesse Ioh. 1. 19. As vnapt to the doing or bringing forth any good worke as the Thorne to bring forth Figgs or the Thistle to bring forth Grapes In the confines of Life which is death the wicked man finds nothing but the weight of his sinnes committed and his hopes and desires preuented An Example of this our Blessed Sauiour giues us in the Glutton attired in Purple who in the mid'st of the vnutterable Tortures he had to torment him could not purchase a Droppe one droppe of cold water to ease him Lord have Mercy upon us The fift Resemblance In the multiplicity or Multitude of Eminent and Imminent dangers IN the Sea we all know there be maruellous and manifold dangers by Winds by Rockes by Shelues by Pyrates and the like They that sayle ouer the Sea tell of the perills thereof and when we heare of it with our eares we maruaile thereat Eccle. 23. 24. And so for the world which how full of strange Perills and Dangers the Apostle Saint Paul informes us In Iorneying I was often in perills of Water in perills of Robbers in perills of the Sea in perills among false Brethren 2 Cor 11. Periculum probat Transeuntium raritas â—t pereuntium multitude Bâ—rn The Rarâ—â—y of those that passe safe and the multitude of those that perish proues the perill of this dangerous passage The number of the first very small the number of the last very great Loue the world and it shall swallow thee her louers shee knowes better how to devour then secure for him with whom the â—aâ—es the betrayes Where bee the Giants where bee the Potentates the Eminent and Famous men of all the precedent Ages Gone All gone through this World through a world of Perils and Dangers Lord have Mercy upon us The Sixth Resemblance In the Multitude of Monstrous shapes that are in it IN the Sea there are many Monsters many Fishes of strange of Admirable shapes and proportions So in the world there be men in their nature condition and actions so strange so preposterous and monstrous they are monsters rather than men There haue bin found in the Sea Fishes that in all points are proportioned to a Souldier armed on Horsebacke And like vnto those on the Land are our Roarers ouâ— swearing and swaggering Companions alwaies arm'd to doe Murders and mischieâ—e Others you shall find which haue the face in the place of their feet and their feet in the place of the head And like those are our coueâ—ouâ—â—oorders our greedy 〈…〉 ritious gripers and grinders of the face of the needy who haue alwaies this earth in their eye and Heauen at their heele seeing to kicke at Heauen and the Heauenly counsell of our Holy Aâ—â—stle saying Seeke those things that are above c. minding onely these things below For his God and his Heauen are his Gold and his Coffers and to these hee lookes and no farther Lord have Mercy upon us Others you shall find that haue â— Tongues And like those are many of our Advocates of our Fawners and flattering companions who have one thing in their words and another in their wills those Divels Choristers that sing sweetly but their Notes are honey and poyson The words of the double tongued man may appeare â—e be plaine and simple but they are not so They pierce through even unto the bowels Pr. 18. 8. Lord have mercy upon us Others you shall finde that have swords in their mouthes or the likenesse and resemblance of swords and so many men that have tongues in their mouths like swords with which they are still wounding the same and good name of their Neighbours Behold they brag in their talke and swords are in their lips Psal 59. 7. Lord have mercy upon us Another kind of Fish you shall finde that hath many â—eads And such are such men as are subiect to many â—â—â—es for so many vices so many heads nay so many Lords and Commanders Covetousnesse is the Lord of the covetous Luxury the Lord of the luxurious Pride the Lord of the proud and Eâ—vie the Lord â—â—tâ—â— eâ—vious The evill and ungodly man serves so many Lords as vices Lord have mercy upon us The seventh Resemblance In the non-abiding or present and speedy passage THe Sea is no place of abiding no place to inhabite ordwell in but the path of a speedy passaâ—e of a swift and violent travell So this World we have here no place of abiding the Apostle to the Hebrews 13. 14 saying We have here no continuing City but wee seeke for one to come We doe or we should doe for that place to come is our Countrey We are here but lodgers and strangers and like to such we should not forget our Countrey and delight to inhabite strange places but delight in the path to that and kéeps it till we come to our City What this world is or the time of this present life Saint Augustine tells us Nihil nisi cursus ad moâ—tem Nothing but a race to Death In which no man can make any stand neither is it permitted to any one to goe either swifter or â—â—â—wer than another The Race may be shorter or longer but the pace is to all men equall Lord have mercy upon us The Eighth Resemblance In uncertainty IT is not in the power of any man that enters himselfe on the Sea to kéepe in the course hee proposes and arrive at the place he wishes but many times by crosse and contrary winds hee is carryed to that place to which hée would not bée carryed neither in that â—â—eane or manner can he came to the Port that hée would doe So in this World it is not in the will of man but in the will and pleasure of the ever blessed Spirit directing to arrive at the â—ort of Salvation or saile to the Haven Heaven It is not in him that willeth neither in him that runneth but in GOD that sheweth mercy Rom. 9. 16. And therefore we ought to pray continually that God would be pleas'd to guide us in the way that may lead us to him It is the counsell of holy Tobit 4. 9. Blesse the Lord alwayes and desire him to direct thy wayes Lord have mercy upon us The Ninth Resemblance In the Sapor Taste or rellish of it VAlde amarum est Mare The Sea is exceeding bitter and yet to the Fish that are in it that there have their increase and nourishment that bitternesse is not bitter but exceeding swéet and delightfull So the World in the direct and very plaine truth of it is exceeding bitter and distastfull yet to the worldling the taste is delightfull and pleasant Nay in such a plenitude such a measure and height delightfull that he can have no sence no touch or conceit of the contrary That bitternesse is onely swéet and in the things of this world flow all the
delights that may be Mistast or mistake in the taste proceeds and arises from the corruption and default of the palat The men of this World have corrupt and mistaking palats like thâ—se that are sicke of a Fever to whom such things as in themselves are sweete séeme bitter and things that are bitter sweet To the sound and well disposed pallat that bread is sweete that to the unsound and indisposed palate is unsâ—voury Woe be to those that call evill good and Aug. that which is good evill putting bitter for sweete and sweete for bitter Isai 5. 20. Lord have mercy upon us The tenth and last resemblance In the voracity and insatiability of it THe Sea swallowes all the floods yet exceeds not her bounds nor is satisfied with aboundance of water All the floods goe into the Sea yet the Sea is not full So the world entertaines receives and consumes all the good things of the earth yet never saies it is enough All that is in the World is the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye or the â—ride of Life Joh. 2. 16. But the lust of the flesh is not satisfied with delight the lust of the eye with riches nor the pride of life with honours Ergo mundus non satiatur The world is never satisfied The worldling never contented Whatsoever the worldling hath he hath as if he had it not still gaping still swallowing still wishing first desiring He levels first at such a thing and obtaines it at a thing beyond that at a thing beyond that and obtaines it yet the possession of every new thing that he wisheth for is but the matter of another wish building wish upon wish and degree upon degree as if to climbe to the hight of his wish which such a one never can reach to were to climbe to heaven but so to goe upward we may feare is but so to go downeward Lord have mercy upon us The World A Pest-house AS you have looked upon the world compared to the sea in these proper apt resemblances and seene it full of trouble vexation and sinfull abâ—ses I would have you now looke upon it as a Pest-house and in these fifteene Roomes into which wée divide this Pest-hoâ—se see every mis-deede a disease and every grosse sinne a sicknesse In the first Roome see the disease of Pride Ambition Vaine-glory and an inextinguishable thirst of great and unmerited â—â—tles In the second Room see the disease of Luxury a Disease that perturbes the minde dâ—ls the understanding enervates and infeebâ—es the Memory â—â—ngs in error oblivion and ignorance and makeâ— a man like a beast Holy Job cals it A Fire Another the Divels Forge in which the poore sinner made hot is wrought to what fashion the Forger of all mischiefe would have him In this third Roome see the disease of Envv an evill that as Nazianzen saies is the most just and unjust of any Unjust as injurious tâ— the good But as it first and most vehemently excruciates the wicked possessor an equall and most just tormentor In this fourth Roome see the disease of a dull and sottish insensibilitie of that circle of danger within which we are daily incompast A disease in which we think we have eyes as quicke and cleare as the eye of the Lyuâ— or Lynceus when indeede they are dull and dimme as the eye of those birds that not able to see the Sunne flie onely in the darke or at most by tâ—e glimmering twyâ—light In this fift Roome see the common but incurable disease of oppression in which the diseased laughs at the poore to which groanes sighes and laments are musick and the teares nay the blood of the Widow the Orphan and such other as lye under the weighty pressure a drinke that spiced with the proâ—â—t wrench'd wrung and extorted from them goes downe with a great deale of pleasure In the next Roome see a company sicke of so extreamly strange a disease that like mad-men they take the way for their journeys end and their Iâ—â—e for their owne inheritance Lord have mercy upon us IN this seaventh Roome sâ—e the Disease of that wealthy poverty Covetousnesse A Disease in which a man has the stocke of the wealthy but the soule of the poore and needy O Dives haredibus tibi verò pauper Hee is onely rich to his heires to himselfe as poore as â—rus A Disease that makes him so silly as to thinke hee can serve two Masters God and Mammon Though that God and Man Christ â—esus directly tels him he cannot Hee in whom this disease is rooted has the roote of all manner of evill In this eighth Roome see a cluster or heape of diseases together Gameing swearing swaggering stabbing the disease of miâ—e-â—akes in pleading or taking amisse for pleading With these see that disease in which the diseased will not speake a word or syllable not steeped in Oyle or honey without kissing his fingers ends nor for his fingers ends without new fashiond legges and faces that Disease in which the diseased will licke o're a vice to the specious appearence of vertue and strike where he seems to stroake with many other Soares and Diseases In this ninth Roome see that Disease in which a man thinks that whatsoever he will doe â—e can and whatsoever he fancies is as easie to performe as purpose Like those fooles â—am 4. 13 14 15. To day or to morrow wet will goe to such a City we will continue there a yeere we will buy and we will sell and we will gaine Here is nothing but we will and we will though no man to day can tell what shall be to morrow for what is our life but a vapour Their Lesson and ours is this If the Lord will wee will without which all our will can be nothing In this Tenth Roome see a Disease than which no evill is swiâ—ter nothing more easily flies out and of any thing no thing dilates and spreads it selfe farther The heart of the Glutton is in his Kiâ—chin of the Lustfull man in a Brothell of the Covetous man in his Coffer But the heart of Detraction pursuing the good name of his neighbour which if he finde but a little defect or failing hee greedily takes in his teeth blasts with his venemous breath wounds with his Serpentine tongue and with it for so it must follow the heart of the man so detracted In this Eleventh Roome see a Disease that for the cure of it the reasonable Creature is sent unto the unreasonable Creature Vade ad formicam c. Prov. 6. Goe to the Ant saith Salomon consider her wayes and weighing them learne to be wise Shee that hath no guide shall guide thee shee that hath no teacher shall teach thee shee that hath no Lord of a servant to this sinne this drowsie sluggish slavish and of all a disease the most despicable shall make thee a Lord and Commander Shee prepares her meate in Summer and gathereth her food in
glory of this City that nothing was seene but blacke no more of her brightnes no more of her splendor beauty than of the beauty of the heavens when the darke robe of night over-spreads it Lord have mercy upon us To particularize the calamities of that yeare were needelesse so few yeares have past since we felt it that in husband wife child parents kinsman friend trading or in oâ—â—e sad thing or another many thousads yet living féele it And to make us the more to feele it God again has begun to strike us But like an â—noulgent father he yet hath bin pleased to strike us telling his stroaks by leasure and in that telling us he had rather affright than hurt us As I live saith the Lord I desire not the death of the wicked but that the wicked may turne from his waies and live Ezek 14. 11. For his way is the way to death but the way of the Lord to life and both eternall Lord have mercy upon us Heere God Almighty has strooke one there another there another and a great way off another this wéeke so many another so many one Bill rising another falling the increase bidding flye from sinne the decrease not to flie from the City a command to depart and aswâ—et invitation to tarry Let every one that calleth on the name of Christ depart from iniquity 2. Tim. 2. 19. Lord have mercy upon us The best flight we can make is to flye from that as fast as we can the farther the neerer to God Every punishment is an Arrow from the quâ—ver of God Almighties anger and those aimed onely at sin from which if we carefully flye we remoove the marke and with it evade the danger Lord have mercy upon us My wish to the flight of those that flye is that flying they may thus flye and withall Gods will ever placed in the fore front of all our wishes that they may not as sometimes it happens at a shooting intending to runne from the arrow they see not runne under it and sinke where they seeke their safety Too many so have runne too many beene so over-taken Lâ—t our prayers be one for another that staying or flying living or dying wee may all live and dye in the feare love and favour of Goâ— our Almighty Creator Lord have mercy upon us It is written of two of the Schollers of I socrates Euphorus and Theopompus that for their difference in the swiftnesse and slacknesse in Learning The one had neede of a Bridle the other neede pâ—aspuâ—re But wee had neede of them both every one both of Spurre and Bridle A Bridle to â—urâ—e us from running so fast in those courses for which God Almighty plaâ—ues us and a Spâ—rre to pricke us forward to those things that may mâ—ve him to spare us Lord have mercy upon us And enlighten our understanding make us see what we ought to see and know what we ought to know Which that wee may assuredly doe teach us O Lord to know thée and to know that to bâ—e able to speake as it is said of Solomon from the Ceâ—er in Lebanon to the Hysop that 〈◊〉 â—o it of the Va 〈…〉 â—o know all the Creatures and not to know theâ— their Creator is in knowing of all things to know nothâ—ng and seeming so wise to bee foolish Lord have Mercy upon us St. Austen tels us That he that knowes thee though these things he doe not know is a happy and a blessed man Hee that knowes thee and these for these is never a whit the more blessed but hee that knowes thee for thee for thy selfe the Fountaine of all our happinesse is happy and blessed for ever Lord have mercy upon us Teach us O Lord to know thee to know thee angry and give us grace to endeavour to please thee Following the counsell of thy holy servant Hoâ—ea in turning to thee O Lord that so having smitten us thou maist â—eale us having wounded us thou maist make us whole and in thy good time translate us from this Sea full of stormes and dangers this Pest-house full of Sores and Diseases to that Haven and that Habitation where there is no storme or tempest and where Death or Disease never entred Lord have mercy upon us FINIS
Harvest Shee labours and feeds while the Grashopper playes and fasts The slothfull man sleeps and does nothing or evill which is worse than nothing While his field and his vineyard is cover'd with Thornes and Nettles This is the field of the foole which Salomons wise man seeing makes a stand looks on it considers and from it receives instruction Prov. 24. 30 31 32. Poverty comes upon the slothfull man unawares and Necessity like an armed man for in this disease a man is thus dull thus stupid Before the enjoyment of any thing sweete we must sweat for the gods sell all for Labour In this Twelfth Roome see a Disease to which a meale a delicate dish or a Dinner is a bit like that morsell or mouthfull fâ—ll that we use to cast to a Dogge which as soone as he hath he swallows and presently gapes for another So this man he gapes swallows and gapes This man whose God is his Belly whose Temple is his Kiâ—chin whose Altar is his Table whose Ministers are his Cookes whose Offering is a Banquet and the smoake of that Banquet his Incense In the 13. Roome after such a gluttonous feeding see the Disease of Drinking In which you see a man without eyes without â—â—ete without heart without hand without hearing or if he have the Organ he hath them not as he ought in thâ—â—r vigor and uses And therefore to see a man thus that is with them and yet without them is not to see a man but in the place of a man a Moâ—ster A moderate Raine does good makes the earth faire fresh and fruitfull but immoderate shewers deprive her of all these blessings And thus that earth Man with moderate and immoderate drinking fresh faire and fruitfull or neither fresh faire nor fruitfull in any of those things that become him Take heed lest at any time your hearts be over-burthened with surfeiting and drunkennesse Luke 21. 34. In this 14. Roome see the strange disease of strange and new fangled fashions let them be what they will adorne or deforme the fashion is the fashion and a man must be in the fashion The present fashion is a Doublet two inches too short and the Breech ten inches too long scarse halfe a legge to bee seene the wast so embraced with points and the knee with the young or spawne otherwise call'd sprigs or jinglers that old Buckle and Thong the Girdler is a thing that is seldome thought on and Timothy Tagge the principall man in the Parish I could from the Hat with the band as light as a Feather observe to the sole of the shooe and in divers places betweene them shew you other spots of the fashion but so I might stay too long and the fashion goe out before me For as if every new fashion made mâ— Gallant a very new man hee must weare out ten fashions before he can weare out one suite or he is not a man in fashion In this 15. Roome see that grievous Disease of Neglecting and leaving what our best Phâ—sitian prescribes us and affecting and embracing what this Mountebanke World shall prepare for us Lord have mercy upon us This infection these Diseases and a multitude hard to bee thought on are still to be found in this Past house St Bernard saying Peccatum morbus est animâ— Sinne is a disease of the foule And that the principall caâ—se of all the Diseases of the body are those of the Soule which is Sinne take these holy places to witnesse 1. By one man sinne entred into the world and Death by sin and so Death went over all men forasmuch as all men have sinned Rom. 5. 12. 2. Behold all Soules are mine both the soule of the father and also the soule of the son The soule that sinneth shall dye Ezek. 18. 14. 3. Thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquities because thy sins were increased I have done these things unto thee Ierem 30. 15. 4. Siâ— no more leâ—t a worse thing happen unto thée John 5. 14. 5. Thus saith the Lord of Hasts This City must bee visited Oâ—presâ—on is in the midst of it As the fountaine casteâ—â—â—ut her water so she casteth out her malice truelty and spoile is continually found within her â—er 6. 6 7. 6. For sin hath Famiâ—â— meaâ—erly stalk'd among us Bia 〈…〉 s Mildews Catterpâ—â—lers and the gréedily devouring Pe 〈…〉 1 Kings 8. 37. Lord have mercy upon us These and many other places doe most perspicuously demoâ—strate unto us the cause of these heavy Uisitations Sinne the disease yâ— Adam dyed of and so all the sonnes of Adam It cannot he time ill sâ—ent here to make a stand and a little to 〈◊〉 â—â—cke to that heavy commination or threat 〈…〉 at this 〈…〉 re 5. And the better to fixe it upon our Hearts to observe it in these foure circumstances Who how what and for what Who threatens The Lord God of Hosts How As a man compell'd constrain'd and uecessitated by the multitude of Sinnes Transgressions intimated in this word Must This City must What Be punished afflicted For what Sinne Oppression is in the midst of it Oppression which was in the midst of that City is in yâ— midst of this even in the Centre of it and so in the Centre of this Kingdome diffusing shedding and spreading it selfe into every part of her faire and large circumference As the Fountaine casteth out her water so shee casteth out her malice c. Lord have mercy upon us For these and their spotted companions did the Pestilence that Tyrant in the yeare of that never to be forgotten number 1625. Arrest and Imprison in that Goale in which they must rot that enter so many many thousands of people sparing neither the silver head of the old man nor the golden hopes of the young man the strength of the Male nor the beauty of the Female Lord have mercy upon us For these did this Tyrant that neither feares the rich nor pitties the poore take the rich from his wealth and the poore from his want and make them in the grave companions Lord have mercy upon us For these did this Tyrant snatch the wife from the husband and the husband from the wife the parent from the childe and the childe from the parent the first be wayling the losse of halfe themselves and their beautifull Olive-branches and these branches their children the losse of that roote from which they received their being Lord have mercy upon us For these did this Tyrant make the Citizen flye the City to méete what hée fled in the mercilesse entertaine of the Countrie that undutifull hand-maid that insteed of taking to heart the heart-sicke estate of her Lady to the numberlesse number of her teares her groanes her sighes and unutterable measure of anguish added the matter of them all in the hardnesse of her heart to her miserable sonnes and daughters Lord have mercy upon us For thse did that Tyrant cast so great an Eclipse o're the