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world_n	darkness_n	light_n	shine_v	11,650	5	9.6082	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87482	A strange and terrible sight forseene in this kingdome, and city of London: together with the countrimans antidote for its prevention.	J. J.	1643 (1643)	Wing J21; Thomason E67_2; ESTC R2158	6,820	9

A strange and terrible Sight foreseene in this Kingdome and City of London IT were a folly for me thrice worthy Citizens to make a long Oration of the misery that both you in the City and we in the Country have already sipped and are like to drinke deepe of ere long unlesse some speedy course be taken for our reliefe for to tell you the plaine truth it hath beene told us so oft already unlesse more or rather better meanes had beene used for a redresse Alas pens are not instruments to offend Warriours or to suppresse their violence nil prodest ratio ubi vis imperat reason is of little use where force prevailes in down-right termes our pens have beene too busie and our swords too sloe if we had taken every occasion to fight as we did to write the warre in all probability had been put to an end long ere this time I will therefore forbeare to tell you what miseries you have suffered or what meanes might have beene used for your redresse least you say of me as our Contry-men use to say of our forces they come too late or least you object that against me as was against the Athenian Orator discoursing at large of Hercules valor quis ignorat who knows it not but I wil rather indevour to stir up your drooping hearts shake your drowsie spirits by shewing you the misery which is like in a seven fold manner to seize upon you unles you be active Cipio though he had nothing but the endowments of nature could prevaile with his Souldiers who were but in the same spheare having all of them the meere principle of nature onely to incite them yet he in his extremity used no other argument but this estote viri libertas agitur play now the men for your liberty lyes at stake and he prevailed did he prevaile and were his men so stout for corporall liberty what stoutnesse there should now be raised in you most noble Citizens whose principals are far above the sphear of nature Alas 't is not your corporal liberty alone that lies at stake but also that which is spirituall view but the worth of both and view the want and tell me where 's a peasant in the world that would not rather chuse to dy then loose them Your corporall liberty is that whereby you freely injoy all that is yours without controule of any this is it whereby thou injoyest thy selfe as a free-man this is it whereby thou injoyest thy goods and whatsoever is thine without controule of any or being ingaged to any and this is liberty And this same liberty your enemies fight for but how 't is as they doe protest they fight for the Protestant Religion to destroy it even so they fight for your freedome to take it from you and make you slaves if ever they should prevaile you might say to your riches and to your pleasures to your dainty dishes and to your sumptious building as a Spaniard with one eye said to his enemy having put out the other good night sayes he for I can see no longer so may you say to your gay cloathes and to your monies for if ever they prevaile you are like to see them no more you must bid your ultimam valo to all your good company you must take your leave of your soft beds nay I feare you must take your last-farewell of your wife of your pretty children and of your families Ah! what sad sights would London see in seeing them within her wals you Husbands should see your Wives ravished before your faces you that can now behold them comely and decent in aparrell should then see them disrobed their aparrell pulled from their backes and they glad to cloath themselves in those dunghill-ragges put off from those filthy uncivill wretches which follow that noisome and that ungodly cursed crew Ah Wives would it not be a sad sight for you to see your grave and honest Husbands insulted over by base unworthy fellowes to see them kicke them and beat them and dragge them up and downe the streets how would you indure it to see your decent Husbands and your now well liking Husbands all tottered in ragges quaking for want of garments and looking pale for want of food and lodging and your enemies instead of relieving them scorning at them and dispising them you would thinke it a very poore case when you must be compelled to live aliena quadra at another mans finding but how much more streight and irksome will it be to you when you shall see others glutting themselves with your provision which you your Family are ready to faint for and your enemies drunke with your drinke and you wanting it and they sleeping on your beds and you lying on the floores Ah Children what torment will it be to you to see your loving Parents thus barbarously handled it wounds my heart to thinke what will becoma of you Your homes will be the streets the bulks your beds your drinke will be meere water and to be feard your food will be what you can begge of common Souldiers O heart of flint hath he that cannot weepe to see the pretty children shivering and quaking in the streets to heare them crying out for want of food and outward comforts O dolefull sight to see the children knocking at the prison doores inquiring for their Parents and there to heare what moanes they to each other make the Parents shake their heads and wring their hands the children likewise cry to them againe they sob and sigh and pine away and none takes pitty on them O let me tell you Parents Children Servants all whatever you be that beare the name or face of modesty or honesty your day of comfort 's past when they possesse your City your night of misery is come and you must then shake hands and bid adiew to all your wonted liberty and comfort your feasting times will then be turned into fasting times your merry jesting times will now be turned into solemne mourning and bewailing times your drinking wine will then be turned into drinking water your honey will be turned into gall and to conclude your dainty walkes will be turned into dungions and your curious musicke into gingling cheyns View but this monster well and then tell me which of you but ha● rather dye valiantly then live to see and to endure 〈◊〉 horrid misery Neither is this the worst that I have told you but which is grievousest to see and heaviest to be borne you will assuredly be brought both you and yours into most hellish darknesse I meane into spirituall thraldome London hath now the beames of heavenly light shining more cleerly and more gloriously in it then any City in the World never were there more famous Ministers in it since the World stood then now at this present never more plenty of Sermons then at this day never more dayes of humiliation then now never were there more Bibles in the City then now