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son_n	brother_n	husband_n	mother_n	13,557	5	9.8394	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Whilst these dreadfull Earth-quakes haue shaken all Countries round about vs we haue felt nothing England hath stood and giuen aime when Arrowes were shot into all our bosomes But alas hath this Happinesse falne vpon her because of her goodnesse Is shee better then others because of her purity and innocence Is shee not as vgly as others Yes yes the Sword is how whetting Dearth and Famine threaten our Corne-fields and the rauing Pestilence in euery part of our Kingdome is digging vp Graues The three Rods of Vengeance are now held ouer vs. And shall I tell you why these Feares are come amongst vs Looke vpon the Weapon which hath struck other Nations and the same Arme that wounded them smites now at vs and for the same quarrell Sinne. The Gospell and Gods Heralds Preachers haue a long time cryed out against our iniquities but we are deafe sleepy and sluggish and now there is a Thunder speakes from Heauen to wake vs. We flatter our selues that the Pestilence serues but as a Broome to sweep Kingdomes of people when they grow ranke and too full when the Trees of Cities are ouer-laden then onely the Plague is sent to shake the Boughs and for no cause else As in Turky and Barbary where when a mortality happens they fall sometimes ten thousand in a day by the Pestilence But we that are Christians and deale in the merchandise of our soules haue other bookes of account to turne ouer then to reckon that we dye in great numbers onely because we are so populous that we are ready as the Fishes of the Sea to eat vp one another Our eyes haue beene witnesses that for two whole Reignes together of two most excellent Princes now at the beginning of a third as excellent as they we haue liued in all fulnesse yet at the end of Queene Elizabeths foure and forty yeeres when she dyed she went not alone but had in a traine which followed her in a dead march of a twelue-moneth long onely within London and the Liberties the numbers of 38244. those who then dyed of the Plague being 35578. the greatest totall in one weeke being 3385. of all diseases and of the Plague 3035. Thus shee went attended from her earthly Kingdome to a more glorious one in Heauen it being held fit in the vpper-House of the Celestiall Parliament that so great a Princesse should haue an Army of her subiects with her agreeing to such a Maiesty But what numbers God will muster vp to follow our Peace-maker King Iames of blessed memory none knowes by the beginning of this Prest which Death makes amongst the people it is to bee feared they shall be a greater multitude To Queene Elizabeth and to King Iames wee were an vnthankfull and murmuring Nation and therefore God tooke them from vs they were too good for vs we too bad for them and were therefore then at the decease of the one and now of the other are deseruedly punished our sinnes increasing with our yeeres and like the Bells neuer lying still We are punished with a Sicknesse which is dreadfull three manner of wayes In the generall spreading in the quicknesse of the stroke and in the terror which waites vpon it It is generall for the spotted wings of it couer all the face of the Kingdome It is quicke for it kills suddenly it is full of terror for the Father dares not come neere the infected Son nor the Son come to take a blessing from the Father lest hee bee poysoned by it the Mother abhors to kisse her owne Children or to touch the sides of her owne Husband no friend in this battell will relieue his wounded friend no Brother shake his brother by the hand at a farewell This is something yet this is nothing many Physicians of our soules flye the City and their sicke Patients want those heauenly medicines which they ear tyed to giue them those that stay by it stand aloofe The rich man when hee is dead is followed by a troupe of Neighbours a troupe of Neighbours not a troupe of Mourners But the poore man is hurried to his Graue by nasty and slouenly Bearers in the night without followers without friends without rites of buriall due to our Church due to our Religion to our Nation to the Maiesty of our Kingdome nay to the decency of a Christian. O lamentable more honour is giuen to a poore Souldier dying in the field more regard to many a Fellon after hee is cut downe from the Gallowes I need not write this to you my fellow Sufferers in London for you know this to be too true you behold this you bewaile this But I send this newes to you the great Masters of Riches who haue for saken your Habitations left your disconsolate Mother the City in the midst of her sorrowes in the height of her distresse in the heauinesse of her lamentations To you that are merry in your Country houses and fit safe as you thinke from the Gun-shot of this Contagion in your Orchards and pleasant Gardens into your hands doe I deliuer this sad Discourse to put you in minde of our miseries whom you haue left behind you To you that are fled and to you to whom they flye let me tell thus much That there were neuer so many burials yet neuer such little weeping A teare is scarce to be taken of from the cheeke of a whole Family nay of a whole Parish for they that should shead them are so accustomed and so hardned to dismall accidents that weeping is almost growne out of fashion Why saies a Mother doe I showre teares downe for my Husband or Childe when I before to morrow morning shall goe to them and neuer haue occasion to weepe any more Whilst I am setting these things downe word is brought me that this weeke haue departed 3000. soules within 200. and that the Plague is much increased O dismall tidings O discomfortable Relation Three thousand men would doe good seruice in desending a City but when in euery weeke so many thousands and more shall drop downe of our great Armies what poore handfuls will be left To see three thousand men together in Armour in a field is a goodly sight but if wee should behold three thousand Coffins piled in heapes one vpon another or three thousand Coarses in winding sheetes laid in some open place one on the top of each other what a sight were this Whose heart would not throb with horror at such a frightfull obiect What soule but would wish to be out of her body rather then to dwell one day in such a Charnell house O London thou Mother of my life Nurse of my being a hard-hearted sonne might I be counted if here I should not dissolue all into teares to heare thee powring forth thy passionate condolements Thy Rampiers and warlike prouision might haply keepe out an Enemy but no Gares none of thy Percullises no nor all