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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09523	The countrie ague. Or, London her vvelcome home to her retired children Together, with a true relation of the warlike funerall of Captaine Richard Robyns, one of the twentie captaines of the trayned bands of the citie of London, which was performed the 24. day of September last, 1625. in armes, in the time of this visitation which the rumour in the countrey went currant, that London had not people enough left aliue to bury her dead. By Henry Petovve, Marshall of the Artillerie Garden, London.	Petowe, Henry.	1625 (1625)	STC 19803; ESTC S119194	12,607	34

open to giue you all entertainment I will not examine you or shut my Gates against you for feare of your pestilent Feuer No I craue your pardon it is but an Ague But as the plaine Country-woman said I cannot tell whether it bee but an Ague wee and the Londoners both are visited within the Countrie but I am sure after they are dead they haue the Spots vpon them But howeuer my honest Country-men let vs in the name of our blessed Sauiour ioyntly entirely and hartily pray to the Lord for mercy that our Plague and Pestilence and the Countrie Ague if you call it so may at once and together cease with a full period Our Visitation here and their affliction there in the Countrie that my poore Remainder which at home haue endured the Front and heate of my Fathers pestilent Battell may not bee shaken in the Reare with their pestiferous Ague which I am very confident he will grant vpon our harty prayers and sincere repentance LONDON her Chabitable reprehension of her ignorant Suburbians for clamoring against her retired Children HOw comes it to passe my litle tender Iuvenals in whom there is nothing but ignorance imbesilitie and weaknesse that a Coach no sooner presents it selfe with it full lading or Horsemen mounted their backes towards the Countrey and they facing the Citie but you openly mouth it with Exclamations and horrible Showtings Welcome home Run-awayes many times ouer not respecting on whom you cast this aspersion taxing aswell those that from my bosome in the Morning tooke their leaue to solace themselues few miles forth of the Citie and returning at night yet your Clamours were all one one and the selfe same still Run-awayes Run-awayes Welcome home Run-awayes Oh let it bee so no more If you see a Caroch with foure Horses come lagging home full fraighted as if they were tyred with trauell your Imaginations may strengthen your opinions so farre that they haue come a long journey and that the fraight or heauy load thereof are some of my retyred Children you may kindly and courteously bid them and giue them a faire Welcome home And why Because of the miserie they haue endured in the Countrey pittie it were but they should haue better entertainment heere I know they haue vndergone so many Affronts endured so much Dis 〈…〉 and suffered miserie vpon miserie without president Tom Tell-troth hath Ballatized many of their miseries and bad vsage in the Countrey you vnderstanding his plaine language may rest your selues satisfied and leaue the Censure of my great offenders to those of more riper and mature Iudgements And so I leaue you praying you to leaue that Clamour and Exclamation London I haue almost tyred my selfe with demaunding of many of my Come-agen Children whether Report table or no but can receiue no satisfaction Therefore my longing desire shall accommodate my will to sollicite that neuer failing Eccho to reuerberate truely answers to my Intergotories And thus I begin LONDON OH my endeered Eccho tell mee My poore distressed Children blush and their Eares glow to heare how bigge I am with desire till Resolution deliuer mee I haue beene wronged Eccho haue I not by those whom I most respected Is it not so ECCHO So. LONDON And why because in my distresse and when the Violl of my Fathers anger burst forth and the blew blacke drops thereof sprinkled on the bodies of my selected Children whom God hath singled forth to beare the publike miserie the great ones fled from me ECCHO From thee LONDON Why should they flye from her who euer loued them bred them and brought them vp to maturitie was it because I was toucht with Calamitie with Plague and Pestilence was it therefore or how sweet Eccho tell me wherefore ECCHO Therefore LONDON Thought they distrustfull Children to flie from the Iudgements of the All-seeing and euery where being God by running from me ECCHO From thee LONDON Why then I am sorry for them they had but little faith ECCHO Litle Faith LONDON But my Omnipotent Father found them out ECCHO Out LONDON And did he not scourge them ECCHO scourgd thē LONDON I prethee good Eccho tell mee in what nature was it with the Pestilence or no ECCHO No. LONDON They say so ECCHO Say so LONDON But with as bad or worse ECCHO Worse LONDON As how was it not the terrible Ague ECCHO Ague LONDON That would shake them ECCHO Shakt them LONDON Very fearefully euen to the death ECCHO to'th' death LONDON What are those brought home in the midst of day one horse in the Front an other in the Reare and the body in the midst Nor Carted nor Coacht but Lytterd was it to keepe the body from shaking ECCHO Aking LONDON It could not from shaking then for the Ague fits them ECCHO Fits them LONDON Is it an Ague Quarterne Tertian or Quotidian ECCHO Quotidian LONDON That Quotidian Ague forced them to continuall Prayer ECCHO Prayer LONDON And that made them ready for God ECCHO For God LONDON Then many of them dyed ECCHO Dyed LONDON I prethee tell me would the Countrie afford them buriall or no ECCHO No. LONDON That was the reason so many dead bodies were Coacht to London ECCHO To London LONDON That their Foster-Mother might giue them Christian Buriall ECCHO Buriall Eccho I heare too much I will trouble thee no farther my hart is almost burst with sorrow See my poore Children you were ashamed to tell the truth But had those rustique irrationall Beasts as I may rightly tearme them either reason humanitie or faith in my Sauiour Iesus Christ they would shame and feare euer to enter my Gates to looke me in the face their base abuse to my distressed Children was so insufferable and intollerable But what entertainment should they expect from those that neuer had or knew good breeding or education Many of you in the Countrie style your selues Countrie Gentlemen Few or none of you haue showne any gentle cariage or respect to many of my Children that might euery way equall the best of you that haue offered them such base affronts and begger-like barbarous vsage Nay I can averre it for truth and it cannot be denied that one of your Gubernators I style him so because the vulgar should take no notice whom or what hee was did not shame conuersing at a Meeting himselfe with others his like Associats and some of my Children which were faine to dissemble their dwellings and change their habits before they could gaine entertainement concerning Gods visitation vpon my people in London did not shame as I said before to say for truth that the dryed Salt-fish which hee bought of a Fish-monger of London at Sturbridge Fayre was Twelue-moneth this time of affliction had the Tokens on it his reason why was for that he heard that his Fishmonger of whom he bought it was now dead of the Plague Whereupon one of my Cittizens which was then present made him this answer Sir said he when I am at home in the Towne where I