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A80682 The countrey-mans complaint, and advice to the King 1681 (1681) Wing C6549; ESTC R231335 839 4

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THE Countrey-mans Complaint AND Advice to the KING WE only can admire those happy times Of Innocence unskill'd in Laws and Crimes When Gods were known by Blessings own'd by Prayer And 't was no part of Worship for to swear Clearer than Fountains and more free than those Impartial Truth they all to each disclose To hear and to believe were strictly joyn'd And Speech thus answer'd what it first design'd But Oh unhappy state of Humane kind Nought dreadful now our Awe or Faith can bind Vows and Religions are but bare pretence Oaths are found out to shackle Innocence And Laws must serve a perjur'd Impudence Tumults address for Blood Witness for Hire deceives And Judge is forc'd to Sentence what he ne're believes All Truth and Justice blushingly withdraw Leaving us nothing but the Form of Law Whereby Rogues profligate and hardned in their Vice Proscribe all Loyal men as factions raise their price Poor Land whose Folly to swift Ruine tends Despis'd by Foes unaided by its Friends In vain does Heaven her Fiery Comets light We stifle th' Evidence and still grope in night Baffled by Fools betray'd by perjur'd Knaves Rather than Subjects we 'll be branded Slaves And by a vain pursuit of airy Bliss Forefeit Substantial real Happiness Change Monarchy from all oppression free Religion and its Native Purity True Freedom without Lawless Liberty For thousand Masters worst of Tyranny For frantick Zeal formal Hypocrisie For Licence to rude Rabbles Hell and Slavery And all this wrought by old known Cheats and Rooks Gods to be twice Cajol'd by Cants and Looks Sots worse than Brutes to run into that Net We see and know for our destruction set TO THE KING ARise O thou once Mighty CHARLES arise Dispel those mists that Cloud thy piercing Eyes Read o're thy Martyr'd Fathers Tragick Story Learn by his Murder different ways to glory How fatal 't is by him is understood To yield to Subjects when they thirst for Blood And cloak their black designs with Publick Good As thou art God-like by thy Pity show That thou art God-like by thy Justice too Lest we should count thy greatest Vertue Vice And call thy Mercy servile Cowardise Of Old when daring Giants skal'd the Skie The King of Gods ne're laid his Thunder by To hear Addresses for their Property But quell'd His Rebels by a stroke Divine And left example how to deal with Thine Re-Printed in the Year 1681.