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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50352	The VVhite-Powder Plot discovered, or, A prophetical poeme wherein is most elegantly revealed the secret combination of Hell and Rome, against the interest of true religion, and more particularly against the late King of blessed memory, and kingdom of England. Written before the late unhappy wars broke forth, and too sadly verified in them, which yet the author scarce lived to see. Also a prophetical rapture concerning the future extent of this British Empire into Italy. By George May, gent.	May, George, gent.	1662 (1662)	Wing M1388A; ESTC R217747	25,879	52

prove Anger GReat Alexander who in 's angry mood Kill'd Clitus his old Counsellor and good And Dionysius who orecom'd with rage Stab'd to the heart his most indulgent Page Periander who with furious anger led His most dear Wife unkindly murdered To prove Drunkenness THe Tyrant Dionysius whose delight In too much drinking caus'd him lose his sight Aruntius who in beastly drunken fit With his own Daughter incest did commit And Ptolomy who with excess opprest Slew both his Parents and di'd like a beast To prove Disdain GReat Anthony who caused Tullies head Be set to scorn when Cicero was dead Xenophon Demosthenes and Plato wise Who each to other did strange scoffs devise And Geta and Antonius brethren born Who each kill'd other through their private scorn To prove vain Delight SArdanapalus pleasures true sworn guest Who from a man was changed to a beast Xerxes who unto none would give his Treasure But t' such as could invent new kinds of pleasure Demetrius who to pleasure was so given That from his Countrey he was forc'd and driven To prove Lust QUeen Cleopatra whom her brother us'd And both her husband and her self abus'd Thalestris who did twenty five dayes ride To ly one night by Alexanders side Claudius who of his sister made no spare Semiramis who us'd her Son and Heir To prove Blasphemy PHer●cides who did great God despise Then eat with Lice most miserably dies Lucian the Atheist likewise God deni'd Who torn by Dogs in pieces justly di'd Justinian who did sleightly God regard Became a fool and di'd with that reward To prove Idolatry THey brought so many for to prove this same That I admir'd and therefore cease to name All these said Judas ready are to prove The English Nation do imbrace and love All these forenamed sins and Millions more As well as we who damned are therefore The old World of Gods Justice yet can tell Ninivie and Babylon can witness well Thus Sodom and Gomorrha tokens bear That by his Justice they consumed were Nay his beloved people can declare How that Jerusalem he did not spare And Judahs Lion yet can testifie Gods Justice spar'd not him but he did die And is it just that this so sinfull Land Should find more favour flourish still and stand If that his Justice he hath quite forgot Then let him favour us we feel it not Or if his Mercie hath o'r-drown'd it quite Then let him turn our Tortures to delight Or else impartial alwayes let him prove And not for sin some punish and some love I wish some of that Land were in this place That we might plead our causes face to face Then spake my Guide I here have brought a man The Poets plea for his Native Countrey To answer for his Countrey what he can With that prostrated on the ground I fell Said I These vvitnesses are all of Hell Therefore according to our English Laws I might except against them and their cause But great Celestial Saints I dare not move it For they have nothing said but they may prove it There is no sin these Hellish Fiends do name But in our Land abundantly the same Doth over-run it yet God doth not will For any sin a Sinner strait to kill He in his Mercy alwayes shakes the Wand Before in Justice he consume a Land Thus with the old World it is understood He sweetly dealt before he brought the Flood With Babylon Ninivie Jerusalem Sodom Gomorrah And as so with them Even so to us he hath fair warning given That by that Means we might from sin be driven For often our distressed Sin-sick Land Is scortched by the Taper of his hand And if these warnings cause us not t' renew Plague Our lives we may fear Judgements will ensue But as a Woman which at Barr doth stand Simile And is commanded to hold up her hand Then being asked what she can reply To stay her sentence that she should not die She falling down doth openly confess That as the Jury found her so no less She hath deserved death and Guilty stands Ready to suffer when the Judge commands But yet his Lordships favour she doth crave He would be pleased for to let her have The benefit of her increasing Womb Before the execution of her Doom It is not fit the Judge doth then reply For Mothers fault the guiltless Child should die Because hereafter if God send it health It may do service to the Commonwealth And therefore grants the Woman a Reprieve That till she be delivered she may live Even so I here in my poor Nations name Plead guilty and confess that for the same It stands condemn'd to th' fire and know not why It should not execution have and die But that within it is some unknown birth Of holy fruit as yet not blossom'd forth Which may hereafter if God bless 't with health Prove to Gods glory and to th' Commonwealth A special Member therefore we desire Till it be born to spare us from the fire Which being done let execution come And all the World receive the fiery doom Untill which time we trust the Lord will prove As he hath promised the God of Love And keep his Justice in his powerfull hand But pour his Mercy on us and our Land That we thereby may once again be driven To leave our sins and set our minds on Heaven The Devils Justice cry I Mercy crave And either party hope their sute to have But sure I shall obtain they shall mistake For I beg Mercy for Christ Jesus sake Whereat the Devils trembled but that face Which never yet had any spark of grace Hells Speaker Judas he began to cry God wanteth Justice if they do not die And bawling Lawyer like made such a do I think he would have bawled untill now But that St. Michael caus'd him cease his prate Teaching him Manners with a broken pate Then stood up good St. Paul who thus Disputes St. Pauls Plea Of all Jehovahs mighty Attributes He loveth Mercie though he Justice show Unto some sinfull peoples overthrow Yet is that unto some forsaken place Which is past hope and barren of all grace What though this Land in many sins abound Yet in this place they near the Gospels sound Which of it self sufficient is to gain A sinfull Soul although't be dy'd in grain And therefore blessed Saints if you consent For this time we 'l adjourn this Parliament And send these bawling faries into Hell Me thinks this English-man hath pleaded well For since it was jehovahs sacred mind To send them plagues we hope we shall them find Hereafter penitent and grace obtain Or otherwise they but prolong their pain With that the Saints did yield their full consent The Parliament is adjourned For that time to adjourn the Parliament But promist Pluto that if Mercy fail To work redress then Justice shall prevail With that the Devils were compell'd again Unto their place of everlasting pain And