The
whipping
of
Runnawayes
.
EUen
then
when
Peace
&
Plenty
,
like
a
paire
of
true
borne
Twins
kissed
,
&
most
louingly
embraced
one
another
,
not
onlie
in
the
middle
center
,
but
also
in
euery
priuate
angle
and
skirt
of
this
stourishing
Iland-Euen
then
at
that
swéetest
instant
of
loue
and
amitie
,
when
the
thought
of
man
could
not
haue
comprehended
a
more
blessed
time
,
then
,
then
I
say
(
note
but
the
suddaine
alteration
of
Fortune
)
was
transformed
our
so
happy
and
prosperous
estate
.
But
alas
why
should
I
exclaime
against
Fortune
,
which
is
nothing
else
but
the
idle
fantasie
of
ignorant
men
,
when
indéede
the
repentant
returning
from
our
intollerable
sinnes
,
might
haue
continued
our
blisse
and
happines
.
What
should
I
say
?
what
should
I
write
?
but
that
our
Summum
bonum
became
our
omnimoda
miseria
,
our
good
,
our
worse
,
by
that
vnexpected
change
,
such
is
the
reward
of
sinne
.
No
sooner
was
the
Lady
of
felicity
(
the
diuine
Eliza
)
departed
from
this
Chaos
of
iniquitie
,
as
one
too
worthy
the
gouernment
of
so
wicked
a
people
,
by
reason
of
her
gentle
chasticements
,
but
in
the
selfe
same
houre
of
her
departure
,
did
our
almightie
Father
not
leaue
vs
destitute
,
but
gaue
in
place
of
our
deceased
Soueraigne
,
a
royall
King
of
an
excellent
and
princelike
substance
,
moulded
with
a
diuine
spirit
,
ordained
before
for
the
full
felicitie
of
this
languishing
Realme
,
to
the
end
that
our
disobedience
may
blush
at
the
sight
of
his
so
gratious
respecting
vs
;
such
a
Prince
I
say
that
one
wrincle
seated
in
his
browe
,
should
dart
such
terror
to
the
heart
of
sinne
,
that
not
one
of
vs
should
dare
to
offende
the
sacred
Deitie
of
the
Almightie
.
But
alas
,
such
and
so
great
was
the
root
of
wickednes
grafted
in
our
hardened
hearts
,
that
as
before
so
still
do
the
forward
branches
of
horrible
sinne
spring
vp
in
vs
,
wherwith
we
make
vs
arborss
to
shadowe
our
lasciuious
desires
,
vayling
one
sinne
vnder
another
,
without
either
respect
or
feare
.
The
King
of
Kings
,
the
Almightie
glorious
Essence
,
noting
the
stubbornes
of
so
stiffnecked
a
people
,
and
séeing
that
notwithstanding
all
his
threatnings
,
thundred
into
our
eares
,
by
his
Prophets
,
the
holy
Ministers
of
his
word
,
we
would
not
repent
,
but
still
perseuer
in
our
abhominable
wickednesse
;
euen
then
when
wee
thought
our selues
most
secure
,
and
shadowed
euen
vnder
the
wings
of
happines
:
Did
the
God
of
Iustice
,
the
high
Almighty
one
,
commaund
his
Angell
to
vnsheath
his
sword
,
which
séemed
euen
to
haue
rusted
in
the
scabberd
,
by
meanes
of
his
long
suffering
,
and
much
patience
,
and
with
that
rod
of
his
seuere
correction
,
to
lay
on
heauy
load
vpon
the
burthened
backs
of
sinners
:
Oh
how
vnwillingly
did
hee
procéede
to
this
deadly
medicine
,
like
a
carefull
Phisitian
,
trying
all
salues
for
cure
,
before
he
put
his
patient
to
extreamest
paine
:
Yea
he
hath
often
tolde
vs
so
,
by
the
tongs
of
his
Prophets
,
and
like
a
louing
Father
sull
many
times
intreated
vs
wicked
and
sinfull
people
,
euen
at
our
owne
dores
,
to
abstaine
from
the
filthy
desires
of
the
flesh
,
but
we
regarded
them
not
,
neither
was
there
any
,
no
not
one
that
feared
the
iudgments
of
the
highest
.
Wherefore
béeing
ouercome
w●th
the
intollerablenes
of
our
sins
,
at
last
as
it
were
breaking
forth
into
such
like
words
,
Since
they
so
slightly
regard
those
whom
I
haue
sent
with
the
tongs
of
fathers
,
kindely
intreating
them
to
refraine
from
sinne
,
and
they
like
disobedient
children
respect
them
not
,
neither
him
that
sent
them
,
he
gaue
this
charge
to
the
Angell
of
his
iudgment
.
Let
them
féele
in
full
measure
the
Iudgments
of
the
highest
:
Therefore
sinite
them
with
the
Plague
and
Pestilence
,
that
they
may
know
,
that
I
the
true
and
liuing
God
can
bridle
the
lofty
heads
of
the
wicked
.
And
forthwith
was
his
power
by
his
iust
iudgment
of
Plague
and
Pestilence
showen
vnto
vs
,
when
after
we
had
felt
his
scourge
heauy
vpon
vs
,
we
could
then
cry
out
and
say
,
we
haue
sinned
Lord
,
wee
haue
sinned
,
Oh
forbeare
thy
rod
&c.
You
know
(
most
kinde
respected
Readers
)
that
the
first
stroke
of
visitation
lighted
on
the
very
heart
of
this
Realme
,
London
the
mother
of
Cities
,
and
the
Nurce
of
Countries
,
euen
in
the
prime
,
and
on
the
neck
of
Englands
new
borne
happines
,
when
the
swéets
of
Flora
began
to
diaper
the
deasie
spangled
pauement
of
the
earth
,
vpon
the
high
pinacles
of
which
admired
City
,
the
messenger
of
God
(
as
I
may
say
)
sitting
ready
to
strike
at
the
commandement
of
the
Lord
,
those
,
and
in
such
places
as
his
masters
should
giue
him
in
chardge
.
At
length
(
but
yet
alas
too
soone
)
fell
the
reward
of
sinne
gently
on
the
Skirts
which
we
terme
the
Subburbs
of
the
City
.
The
reason
why
it
pleased
God
to
strike
the
exteriour
members
,
before
the
interiour
parts
:
I
meane
the
Subburbs
before
the
body
of
the
City
,
may
demonstrate
vnto
vs
,
that
the
Lord
would
yet
looke
downe
in
mercy
on
the
body
,
if
that
the
perishing
of
some
loose
members
may
cause
repentance
.
For
as
in
a
faire
and
costly
garment
,
after
it
is
framed
by
the
labor
of
the
workeman
,
and
through
his
negligence
,
or
mistaking
,
it
chance
to
bee
made
somewhat
vnfit
,
or
with
some
other
fault
,
and
therefore
dooth
displease
the
owner
,
yet
if
it
may
bee
mended
by
altering
the
skirts
,
or
extremest
parts
,
without
taking
asunder
of
the
whole
,
he
will
be
drawn
to
a
better
liking
of
it
:
So
the
Lord
,
that
euer
taketh
delight
in
sparing
and
shewing
pitty
,
and
doth
seeke
to
recall
manie
into
the
way
,
by
the
punishment
of
sewe
,
in
the
first
breaking
forth
of
his
wrath
,
began
to
punish
the
skirts
and
subburbs
of
the
City
,
that
the
City
it selfe
séeing
the
rod
so
neere
,
should
feare
betimes
.
And
indéed
the
action
of
God
so
distributing
and
dispiercing
his
iudgments
,
may
seeme
besides
this
,
to
haue
had
another
cause
,
namely
,
the
excessiue
abhomination
of
filthines
practised
in
those
places
,
more
then
the
rest
of
the
City
.
That
as
in
a
body
,
all
the
superfluity
of
extremities
,
are
by
the
power
of
a
vegetatiue
heate
,
wronght
to
the
extremetie
of
the
body
:
So
this
filthy
froth
of
sensuall
beastlinesse
,
beeing
by
the
force
of
good
gouerment
,
(
such
is
the
benefit
of
good
lawes
put
in
vse
)
expelled
from
the
inner
part
,
and
as
I
may
say
,
the
hart
of
the
City
,
did
residence
in
the
vtmost
skirts
and
appendent
members
thereunto
,
and
became
a
fit
matter
for
the
first
burning
of
Gods
reuengefull
wrath
.
Afterwards
,
partly
by
the
vicinitie
of
place
,
and
partly
by
the
vnrespectiuenes
of
the
infected
,
and
the
want
of
care
of
the
sound
,
but
especially
the
conformity
of
vnrepented
sinnes
,
kindled
the
like
flame
in
the
inmost
places
of
the
City
it selfe
.
And
so
ere
long
after
it
so
came
to
passe
,
that
not
only
the
skirts
,
but
also
the
whole
body
of
the
City
was
in
such
sort
infected
,
that
the
very
choice
,
and
speciall
members
of
the
body
deuided
themselues
.
I
make
no
question
(
iudiciall
readers
)
but
you
conceaue
me
rightly
;
for
this
I
endeuour
to
let
you
know
,
that
I
goe
not
about
to
diminish
the
power
and
might
of
God
,
but
this
only
I
infer
,
that
the
visitation
of
the
body
of
the
City
,
came
likewise
by
the
poisure
of
the
hand
of
God
,
rather
then
by
the
disorder
of
any
one
infected
member
,
for
God
is
almightie
,
al
powerful
,
and
can
sooner
visit
those
that
are
free
from
affliction
,
then
the
visited
themselues
are
able
to
infect
:
therefore
the
only
salue
to
cure
affliction
,
is
to
make
vse
of
the
Ancient
saying
of
the
wise
Phisitian
the
Euangelist
,
Luke
in
his
13.
Chapter
and
3.
verse
.
Except
you
amend
your
liues
you
shall
all
likewise
perish
.
So
that
if
we
arme
our selues
with
heartie
repentance
,
we
may
be
sure
that
no
infection
can
haue
power
to
harme
vs
.
So
likewise
saith
Dauid
in
his
Lxxxi
.
Psalme
.
7.
10.
and
11
,
verses
,
A
thousand
shall
fall
beside
thee
,
and
tenne
thousand
at
thy
right
hand
,
but
it
shall
not
come
nigh
thee
.
There
shal
no
euil
happen
vnto
thee
,
neither
shal
any
plague
come
nigh
thy
dwelling
,
for
he
shal
giue
his
Angels
charge
ouer
thee
to
keepe
thee
in
all
thy
waies
.
But
to
procéede
to
the
miserable
estate
of
the
City
,
which
God
for
his
mercy
cease
,
and
inuest
a
new
the
royalll
estate
thereof
.
Long
had
not
the
hand
of
the
Almighty
scourged
the
deserued
sinners
of
the
City
,
to
the
great
terror
of
the
residue
not
afflicted
,
but
London
,
that
deare
fostering
mother
of
many
thousand
soules
,
grew
into
such
a
general
contempt
,
that
shee
waxed
lothsome
and
vglie
,
not
onlie
in
the
sight
of
her
owne
,
borne
of
her
owne
wombe
,
but
of
Aliens
and
strangers
well
may
you
say
,
no
maruell
if
strangers
hate
her
whom
her
owne
flesh
and
blood
loued
not
.
How
many
thousand
Citizens
,
or
rather
euill
sonnes
,
as
I
may
rightly
tearme
them
,
fled
from
their
mother
London
,
which
might
better
both
haue
unployed
their
care
in
propulsing
the
infection
from
the
vntainted
parts
,
by
establishing
a
good
order
,
and
also
their
money
in
reléeiuing
the
distressed
state
of
those
whom
God
singled
out
,
to
beare
publique
misery
:
then
thus
to
haue
renounced
both
these
their
duties
:
for
though
a
worthy
Phisitian
prescribeth
this
as
a
soueraigne
medecine
against
this
contagion
.
Cito
fugere
,
longe
abesse
,
tarde
redire
.
Yet
feare
to
forsake
their
station
,
and
to
fly
from
the
performance
of
their
charitable
duties
,
shewes
a
distrustfull
flying
from
God
,
flying
from
God
do
I
say
?
Oh
whither
could
they
flie
?
into
what
countrey
?
what
towne
?
what
Citie
?
to
liue
secure
,
and
to
hide
themselues
from
him
that
is
all
almighty
.
Flyest
thou
to
the
vtmost
bownds
of
Europe
,
nay
to
any
priuate
angle
of
the
world
,
why
there
Iehouah
is
:
Dost
thou
delue
into
the
center
of
the
earth
?
why
there
is
God
also
.
And
as
the
Prophet
Dauid
saith
in
his
Cxxxix
Psalme
.
Whither
shall
I
fly
from
thy
spirit
,
or
whether
shall
I
go
from
thy
presence
,
If
I
clime
vp
into
heauen
,
thou
art
there
;
If
I
goe
down
into
hell
,
thou
art
there
also
.
If
I
take
the
winges
of
the
morning
,
and
remaine
in
the
vttermost
parts
of
the
sea
,
euen
there
also
shall
thy
hand
leade
mee
,
and
thy
right
hand
shall
hold
mee
.
Is
the
Lord
of
this
might
?
of
such
power
?
and
such
wonderfull
omnipotencie
:
and
doest
thou
thinke
thou
art
frée
from
his
anger
and
punishment
,
by
flying
twentie
miles
from
the
place
of
his
visitation
:
no
surely
,
nay
,
thou
knowest
it
thy selfe
for
truth
:
Hath
he
not
strucken
thée
?
or
in
sparing
thy selfe
,
hath
hee
not
visited
thy
wife
or
children
?
I
knowe
it
is
true
,
yea
,
to
thy
griefe
thou
hast
found
it
true
.
Héereupon
runnes
the
terrible
mouthie
rumour
through
the
Country
,
that
this
vniuersall
Plague
comes
by
the
meanes
of
thée
,
by
thy
meanes
distressed
Londoner
,
for
those
of
the
Country
not
iudging
a
right
of
the
cause
of
this
contagious
disease
,
which
is
indéede
the
sinfulnes
of
all
sorts
,
and
degrées
of
this
land
:
and
onely
looking
on
the
outward
meanes
of
encreasing
,
and
propagating
the
same
,
can
philosophize
about
this
infection
,
and
say
,
it
was
not
so
much
meruaile
that
London
(
in
which
an
infinite
nomber
of
people
are
compact
in
so
narrowe
a
roome
)
be
tainted
therewith
.
But
the
Country
being
spacious
,
and
the
aire
cleare
,
and
the
houses
seated
in
a
well
distant
vicinitie
,
might
be
kept
vntouched
,
without
the
carelesnes
of
some
amongst
them
that
trading
with
Londoners
;
some
rather
to
respect
their
priuate
gaine
,
then
the
safetie
of
many
,
and
also
the
vaine
tymiditie
of
the
Citizens
,
who
dispersing
themselues
in
the
Country
,
and
with
themselues
,
that
deadly
and
pestifferous
poyson
,
drew
many
into
the
lamentable
participation
of
their
miseries
.
Therefore
woe
worth
thée
Londoner
,
saith
the
Country
,
hadst
not
thou
béene
,
we
had
béene
frée
.
I
answere
no
:
for
assure
thy selfe
thou
Country-man
,
or
Townes
man
,
whosoeuer
thou
be
,
that
if
thou
be
visited
,
it
is
thy
sinne
that
causeth
visitation
,
for
else
thou
shouldest
accuse
God
of
iniustice
,
and
improuidence
.
Of
improuidence
,
by
thinking
that
this
thy
affliction
commeth
not
to
thée
,
by
the
determinate
purpose
of
God
,
but
onely
by
such
accidentalll
and
outward
casualties
.
Of
iniustice
,
by
not
obseruing
,
how
thy
sinnes
haue
deserued
this
scourge
,
and
that
it
is
the
iust
hand
of
God
striking
.
But
thou
looking
no
further
then
the
externall
occasion
,
frettest
against
thy
afflicted
brothers
,
callest
into
question
the
iustice
of
God
,
and
so
doest
hazard
loosing
of
that
benefit
,
might
else
redownd
vnto
thée
,
by
this
thy
visitation
.
But
that
the
iustice
of
God
,
in
punishing
thée
also
with
this
sore
affliction
,
may
better
appeare
,
doe
but
thus
reason
with
thy selfe
:
If
I
commit
an
offence
,
or
if
another
offend
,
is
an
innocent
and
guiltlesse
man
called
in
question
?
or
doth
the
Iudge
condemne
thée
for
my
offence
?
no.
And
shall
the
righteous
Iudge
of
the
world
shew
lesse
iustice
,
be
it
farre
from
our
thought
.
Certainly
as
the
Husbandman
doth
not
set
his
sickle
to
the
corne
,
but
where
it
is
ripe
:
so
God
doth
not
inflict
so
gréeuous
a
iudgement
,
but
when
our
mellow
sinnes
doe
call
downe
the
same
.
Wilt
thou
auoide
this
Pestilence
?
scare
thy
sinne
more
then
the
Citie
;
if
thou
remoue
thy
sinne
from
the
face
of
the
Lord
,
the
Cities
contagion
shal
not
hurt
thée
:
but
if
thy
sinnes
remaine
vnrepented
,
the
Countries
wholesomnes
cannot
help
thée
.
Although
I
say
not
,
that
all
those
which
escape
are
without
sinne
,
or
all
those
which
perish
,
are
most
defiled
there-with
.
Yet
this
,
I
say
,
that
thou
which
dwellest
in
the
Country
,
shouldst
not
in
this
thy
visitation
,
blame
onely
the
distressed
of
the
Citie
,
which
being
as
willing
to
saue
their
liues
as
thou
art
,
desire
to
draw
the
vntainted
aire
of
the
Country
:
and
so
forget
the
true
cause
,
which
is
sinne
:
but
thou
saist
this
it
is
hath
so
tainted
the
Country
.
Truly
I
cannot
denie
,
but
that
this
meanes
hath
béene
subordained
to
the
will
of
God
,
in
bringing
to
passe
this
iudgement
;
but
how
many
thousand
others
hath
God
preserued
to
the
ioy
and
comfort
of
their
friends
.
And
I
cannot
tell
whether
the
inhumanitie
of
such
as
thou
art
,
be
not
a
cause
of
the
wrath
of
God
towards
thée
.
But
is
this
the
onely
cause
?
nay
,
is
it
the
chiefe
cause
?
I
know
the
contrary
,
for
of
my
knowledge
many
haue
themselues
fetched
the
fire
,
by
which
their
owne
,
and
others
houses
haue
béene
inflamed
:
To
be
short
,
I
cannot
excuse
many
of
the
Londoners
vnconscionable
flight
;
yet
also
I
cannot
but
accuse
thine
vncharitable
discurtesie
.
It
is
not
long
since
one
of
the
simple
held
argument
against
me
touching
that
point
.
That
had
not
London
béene
infected
,
the
Country
had
béene
frée
,
I
am
sure
you
will
all
hold
with
me
,
that
instéede
of
prouing
this
assertion
,
he
proues
him selfe
ignorant
,
and
he
that
amongst
you
thinks
otherwise
,
I
pronounce
him
one
of
the
same
sect
and
fraternitie
.
For
approbation
whereof
,
note
this
reason
gathered
from
your selues
,
doe
any
of
you
that
are
carefull
Farmers
,
or
tyllers
of
ground
(
after
you
haue
sowen
your
graine
,
and
that
it
appeareth
faire
aboue
the
ground
)
suffer
anie
cockle
or
wéede
to
ouer-peare
it
,
for
hindering
the
growth
of
your
séede
?
No
more
wil
the
eternall
carefull
and
louing
Husband-man
,
suffer
any
vnsauorie
wéede
,
I
meane
any
sinne
to
ouer-pere
,
or
ouer-sway
his
good
séede
,
which
are
his
graces
,
offered
by
the
meanes
of
saluation
he
hath
vouchsafed
,
insomuch
that
when
he
beholds
sinne
in
his
pride
,
and
growne
euen
to
his
head
of
ripenes
,
he
will
suffer
him
no
longer
,
but
suddainly
cut
him
off
,
without
any
further
respect
.
And
thinkest
thou
,
that
by
dwelling
in
the
healthfull
aire
of
the
Country
,
thou
art
shrouded
from
the
punishments
of
God
.
Doth
hee
onely
hate
sinne
in
the
Citie
,
and
not
in
the
Country
?
or
will
he
punish
it
in
the
Citie
,
and
not
in
the
Country
?
No.
Where
it
is
,
there
God
will
punish
it
,
&
all
meanes
are
his
:
Thou
maist
(
as
thou
hast
practised
)
kéepe
out
Londoners
,
but
not
the
iudgment
of
God
.
Séeing
therefore
thine
iniquities
be
ripe
,
the
time
of
Gods
for
bearing
is
likewise
out
,
that
whether
London
had
béene
visited
or
no
,
thy
sinne
surely
had
caused
thy
destruction
.
Therefore
let
not
the
Country
thinke
,
that
Londons
sinnes
are
the
cause
of
the
Countries
punishment
,
but
that
their
owne
wickednes
is
their
owne
affliction
.
But
London
,
now
do
I
speake
to
thine
,
I
meane
thy
Inhabitants
,
thy
children
,
how
disobedient
and
vnnaturall
they
haue
béen
towards
thee
:
Shall
a
mother
bring
vp
her
children
with
much
care
,
great
respect
,
and
greater
loue
,
till
they
be
of
sufficient
ability
to
helpe
and
maintaine
themselues
,
and
in
her
distresse
shall
they
flie
from
her
,
oh
vnnaturall
children
.
Why
did
you
so
disobedient
and
vnkinde
Londoners
;
you
,
when
you
saw
your
mother
in
miserie
,
and
many
of
her
little
ones
,
your
younger
brethren
in
distresse
,
you
tooke
you
to
your
héeles
,
and
plaide
the
runnawayes
,
when
you
should
haue
succoured
them
,
and
lent
them
comfort
in
their
necessitie
.
Hast
thou
any
thing
thou
hadst
not
from
her
,
or
by
her
meanes
?
Hast
thou
not
suckt
life
from
her
teate
,
and
wealth
from
her
stocke
,
and
in
her
extremitie
didst
thou
leaue
her
?
if
thou
hadst
lent
her
but
a
little
reliefe
now
in
her
want
,
thou
hadst
then
shewed
thy
gratitude
in
that
extremitie
,
and
she
would
haue
repaid
thée
trebble
for
it
héereafter
.
Nay
(
which
is
more
)
thy
prouident
care
might
haue
contained
the
rage
of
the
infection
,
and
the
God
of
loue
séeing
thy
mercifulnes
to
the
afflicted
,
might
haue
béene
moued
to
mercy
:
but
before
thou
wouldst
lend
her
or
hers
any
comfort
,
thou
wouldst
spend
prodigally
on
the
Country
.
But
I
prethie
examine
thy selfe
,
and
tell
mee
truly
,
what
kindnes
didst
thou
finde
of
the
Country
,
hadst
thou
entertainment
?
Hardly
:
Hadst
thou
lodging
?
if
any
,
thou
payedst
well
for
a
bad
one
,
and
yet
wert
forced
to
dissemble
thy
dwelling
,
before
thou
couldest
obtaine
it
:
for
indéede
wert
thou
known
to
be
a
Londoner
,
thy
patrimonie
could
not
procure
thée
a
bed
,
and
yet
thou
wouldest
flie
from
her
that
gaue
thée
both
lodging
,
and
meate
for
nothing
.
Nay
further
,
let
vs
come
more
néerer
to
the
vncharitable
country
,
hadst
thou
a
brother
dwelling
in
the
Countrie
,
whose
habilitie
by
his
large
reuenewes
,
might
aide
thée
in
that
thy
extremitie
,
and
didst
thou
find
a
brotherlike
intertainment
at
his
hands
?
It
may
be
hee
had
more
kind
nature
in
him
,
then
thy
mother
had
at
thy
hands
,
but
my
opinion
will
not
beare
it
.
For
experience
in
mine
owne
trauell
hath
shown
the
contrary
.
I
know
where
a
man
of
thy
stature
,
proportion
,
&
comelie
personage
,
whose
exteriour
demeanour
hath
béene
admired
for
courtlike
complement
,
whose
tongue
hath
pleaded
more
like
a
learned
lawyer
,
then
an
vnskilfull
Citizen
,
to
a
man
more
simple
then
himselfe
,
yea
to
his
owne
brother
,
and
yet
hath
found
no
remorce
,
no
comfort
,
hardly
any
meate
vpon
extreame
request
,
and
for
lodging
a
wad
of
straw
,
or
a
réeke
of
haie
,
which
he
hath
béene
as
iocand
with
,
as
a
bed
of
downe
,
when
hee
hath
had
all
mortall
felicitie
to
attend
him
.
Moreouer
,
I
came
to
another
place
of
the
Countrie
,
to
a
towne
of
an
excellent
scituation
,
vppon
whose
battlements
the
wholsome
winds
whistles
melodious
notes
,
as
if
their
aire
warbling
did
not
at
al
feare
anie
infection
,
at
whose
northerne
gate
my
horse
and
I
made
entrance
,
no
sooner
had
I
gotten
part
of
the
gate
ouer
my
head
,
but
a
winter-weather-beaten
clowne
repaires
vnto
me
,
with
an
old
rustie
bill
on
his
necke
,
stand
,
saith
he
,
from
whence
came
you
?
The
absurd
fellowes
rusticke
behauiour
,
forced
me
to
spend
a
little
time
idelie
,
by
answering
rudelie
as
his
demandes
were
simple
:
Stand
,
saide
I
?
Why
art
thou
a
good
fellow
,
that
thou
bidst
me
stand
,
yea
,
that
I
am
,
saide
hee
:
why
then
thou
wouldest
haue
my
purse
,
wouldest
thou
not
?
your
purse
,
quoth
he
?
why
do
you
think
that
I
stand
here
to
kéepe
shéepe
?
why
no
,
said
I
,
but
I
thinke
rather
to
take
purses
:
Sir
,
saith
he
,
I
haue
taken
as
good
a
mans
purse
as
yours
before
now
:
by
my
saith
not
vnlike
,
said
I
:
why
then
,
saide
he
,
neuer
tickle
me
in
the
teeth
with
taking
a
purse
,
but
tell
mée
who
you
are
,
thou
séest
who
I
am
,
saide
I
,
but
I
pray
thée
tel
me
wherefore
doost
thou
stand
here
?
why
,
(
quoth
he
)
to
kéepe
out
Rogues
,
Rascols
,
and
Londoners
.
Then
by
your
leaue
sir
Rogue
,
saide
I
:
And
let
an
honest
Londoner
passe
by
.
No
sooner
had
he
heard
the
name
of
Londoner
,
but
the
simple
clowne
presentlie
giues
way
,
and
standing
a
loofe
farre
from
mée
,
waues
his
rustie
bill
to
and
fro
with
these
words
reitterated
twice
or
thrice
.
You
must
go
that
way
:
You
must
not
come
this
way
.
With
that
,
laughing
heartelie
at
the
silly
hinde
,
to
sée
into
what
a
tunerous
extacie
,
the
verie
name
of
Londoner
had
changed
him
,
I
set
spurres
to
my
horse
,
and
rode
quite
through
the
towne
,
without
farther
molestation
.
Within
the
space
of
twenty
miles
distant
from
the
towne
aforesaide
,
I
had
gotten
another
towne
ouer
my
head
,
the
scituation
I
néed
not
to
stand
vpon
,
only
the
nature
of
the
people
,
and
the
inhabitants
thereof
.
The
blacke
shadowe
of
night
hauing
canopeide
the
splendant
eie
of
day
,
and
twilight
being
past
,
making
entrance
into
the
towne
,
I
inquired
for
lodging
at
an
Inne
,
an
Inne
it
had
béen
,
and
an
Iune
it
was
,
but
that
indéed
the
bush
or
signe
was
taken
down
,
for
all
the
people
told
me
the
Iustices
of
the
Countrey
,
had
caused
them
to
be
taken
awaie
,
and
withall
that
they
should
lodge
no
strangers
,
which
commandement
indéede
was
verie
stri●…e
obserued
,
for
I
could
neither
get
lodging
,
normeate
for
any
money
,
being
driuen
to
such
extremitie
,
and
séeing
my
horse
very
wearie
,
and
that
I
was
destitute
of
any
kinde
of
prouender
,
I
knew
not
what
shift
to
make
,
till
at
length
this
refuge
I
found
:
Within
halfe
a
mile
there
was
a
very
faire
meadowe
cut
but
the
day
before
,
and
the
hay
newly
made
,
so
that
wanting
all
other
meanes
,
I
made
repaire
to
one
of
the
cockes
,
and
slipping
the
snaffle
out
of
my
horses
mouth
,
tied
the
end
of
his
bridle
to
my
legge
,
so
that
my
horse
well
refreshed
him
,
whilst
my selfe
betooke
mee
to
a
little
slumbering
repose
.
No
sooner
had
the
Harbinger
of
light
opened
the
windowes
of
the
new-borne
day
,
but
(
as
the
necessitie
of
my
busines
required
)
I
went
forward
on
my
iourney
.
I
had
not
rode
sixe
miles
further
from
those
vncharitable
people
,
but
an
honest
plaine
fearefull
Swaine
méeting
me
,
gaue
me
the
good
time
of
the
day
,
and
withall
,
saith
he
,
Sir
,
if
you
loue
your
life
,
ride
not
that
way
,
but
ride
vp
by
yonder
hedge
,
it
is
not
a
quarter
of
a
mile
out
of
your
way
,
otherwise
I
assure
you
,
you
will
ride
in
great
danger
:
I
prethie
honest
fellow
,
saide
I
,
why
doest
thou
wish
mee
to
leaue
the
way
,
are
there
any
that
want
money
,
which
make
their
stand
there
:
no
(
quoth
hee
)
but
a
worse
matter
,
for
there
lies
a
Gentleman
starke
dead
:
God-a-mercy
good
fellow
,
said
●s
but
if
that
be
the
worst
,
I
will
not
(
God
willing
)
leaue
the
way
;
whereupon
(
arming
my selfe
with
a
faithfull
resolution
)
I
made
towards
the
body
,
where
I
saw
the
most
lamentablest
spectacle
that
euer
mine
eyes
were
guilty
of
.
For
in
the
high-way
close
by
a
hedges
side
,
there
lay
a
very
proper
Gentleman
suted
all
in
blacke
,
a
faire
scarffe
about
his
neck
,
with
a
siluer
hatched
short
sword
hanging
in
it
,
a
dagger
sutable
;
and
dead
he
was
,
but
how
long
before
he
died
,
I
could
not
learne
,
nor
how
hee
died
;
but
those
that
inhebited
nearest
to
the
place
,
tolde
me
,
that
trauailers
suspected
it
was
the
Plague
hee
died
of
,
and
I
could
not
otherwise
imagine
my selfe
,
for
the
cause
that
shewed
the
likeliest
probability
,
was
this
;
that
as
the
Gentleman
lay
dead
booted
and
spurd
,
so
his
horse
(
a
most
lamentable
sight
)
went
grasing
hard
by
sadled
and
bridled
.
What
became
of
him
I
know
not
,
nor
how
they
buried
him
,
I
could
not
since
learne
,
but
no
doubt
,
after
the
ordinarie
course
of
the
Country
,
like
a
dogge
;
for
in
my
trauaile
I
saw
another
dead
in
the
like
sort
,
but
he
séemed
to
be
a
Country
Husbandman
,
with
a
sustian
doublet
,
a
round
paire
of
cloath
hose
,
and
a
pitchforke
by
him
,
he
lay
(
as
I
was
told
)
two
or
thrée
dayes
vnburied
,
vncouered
I
may
say
,
for
GOD
knowes
his
buriall
was
simple
.
If
the
birds
did
sing
him
to
the
ditch
his
graue
,
why
then
hee
had
a
knell
,
otherwise
a
dogge
had
a
more
honest
buriall
.
For
the
manner
of
his
funerall
was
this
,
euen
tumbled
into
the
ditch
,
and
couered
with
a
little
earth
,
this
was
all
his
buriall
,
and
all
his
funerall
.
Oh
where
is
Christianitie
become
?
Charitie
long
since
was
key
cold
,
but
at
this
present
,
I
thinke
Christianitie
in
the
Country
be
starke
dead
.
Yet
London
,
London
,
notwithstanding
all
thy
masse
of
deadly
sinne
which
thou
art
burthened
with
,
thou
yieldest
Christian
buriall
for
thy
sinfull
people
,
yea
,
albeit
thy
receipt
for
dead
bodies
be
but
a
spanne
,
in
comparison
of
the
spacious
Country
,
yet
thou
hast
with
honest
respect
performed
thy
last
obsequios
and
dutie
to
thy
dead
,
and
hast
interred
the
liuelesse
bodies
,
of
almost
fortie
thousand
of
thy
deceased
Inhabitants
,
yea
,
and
brought
thy
yonger
children
more
liker
to
a
bridall
bed
,
then
to
an
earthly
grane
,
decked
with
odoriserous
flowers
and
garlands
,
and
hundreds
of
people
with
mournfull
hearts
attending
on
them
.
Which
speciall
instance
of
Christianitie
,
no
doubt
but
the
Lord
will
reward
in
mercie
.
Therefore
thou
poore
remainder
of
that
famous
Citie
,
nowe
at
the
last
remember
thy
sinnes
,
and
while
thou
hast
time
call
for
grace
,
the
Lord
is
readie
euerie
minute
of
an
houre
to
heare
thée
,
he
hath
lent
thée
longer
daies
then
thy
deceased
brethren
,
to
sée
if
thou
wilt
yet
turne
vnto
him
,
and
leaue
to
sinne
.
But
without
all
question
,
if
thou
be
stubborne
,
and
wilt
still
persist
in
thy
wickednes
,
as
the
fall
of
them
hath
beene
great
,
thine
will
be
greater
.
Wherefore
while
thou
hast
time
,
now
in
thy
most
miserie
call
to
the
Lord
for
mercie
;
repent
thée
of
thy
former
sinnes
,
and
perswade
thy selfe
,
the
Lord
will
not
onely
heare
thée
,
but
relieue
thée
,
and
send
thée
comfort
in
thy
extremitie
,
for
hee
reioyceth
more
in
the
conuersion
of
one
sinfull
soule
,
then
in
all
the
glories
of
the
greatest
potentate
of
the
world
.
Experience
hath
euer
taught
vs
,
that
if
but
the
least
member
of
the
body
be
distempered
,
the
whole
body
is
out
of
quiet
,
much
more
if
the
head
(
being
the
principall
member
)
be
neuer
so
little
troubled
.
So
fares
it
with
the
body
of
this
Land
England
,
the
admired
Iland
of
the
world
,
whose
head
thou
art
London
.
distressed
London
,
whose
very
eye
thou
art
to
illuminate
,
and
lighten
the
darke
members
of
the
same
:
yea
,
whose
Sunne
thou
art
,
which
(
kéeping
thy
diurnall
course
through
Englands
element
)
doest
dart
such
comfortable
influence
from
thy
Horison
,
that
soke
vp
all
distilling
teares
of
sorrowe
.
But
now
alas
,
for
so
much
as
that
head
of
ours
aketh
,
that
eye
of
ours
winketh
,
and
that
Sunne
of
ours
setteth
,
howe
can
that
body
of
ours
choose
but
perish
?
What
resteth
then
,
but
that
each
seuerall
member
according
to
his
place
,
lament
the
heads
distemperature
,
endeuouring
and
labouring
by
all
possible
meanes
,
for
some
precious
balme
to
cure
that
same
deadly
headake
.
That
balme
must
be
the
mercie
and
compassion
of
the
highest
,
which
is
to
be
obtained
onelie
by
prayer
,
with
a
hartie
repentance
of
our
wicked
sinnes
.
Know
wee
the
meanes
,
yet
will
not
séeke
redresse
:
Know
we
a
salue
?
Yet
suffer
the
sore
to
ranckle
:
no
meruaile
then
if
the
Pace
of
death
lie
so
heauie
vpon
vs
.
Why
should
Nature
haue
so
little
féeling
in
vs
,
that
wee
the
inferiour
members
,
should
suffer
our
head
to
perish
,
when
that
a
little
,
little
harty
sorrow
,
would
salue
a
thousand
wounds
.
Wéepe
therefore
,
O
thou
Country-man
,
wéepe
not
onely
with
vs
,
but
for
vs
,
I
meane
for
wofull
London
thy
head
,
who
is
nowe
visited
for
sinne
:
Let
not
her
affliction
be
thy
securitie
,
let
not
her
plagues
flatter
thée
,
and
make
thée
thinke
that
thou
art
frée
from
sinne
,
because
thy
visitation
is
the
lesse
:
For
well
maist
thou
perceaue
,
that
the
selfe
same
scourge
(
though
not
in
such
terrible
manner
)
yet
in
some
measure
,
it
stealeth
vpon
thy
Townes
and
Uillages
.
Therfore
perswade
thy selfe
,
vnlesse
Londons
affliction
enforce
thy
speedie
reformation
,
it
is
to
be
feared
that
thou
wilt
taste
the
like
miserie
.
Wherefore
with
London
doe
thou
ioyne
in
heartie
prayers
,
that
the
Lord
in
mercie
would
looks
downe
vpon
vs
,
that
not
onely
the
remainder
of
the
Citie
,
but
also
the
body
of
the
Country
may
be
so
vnited
together
in
his
feare
and
loue
,
that
so
long
as
they
haue
any
being
héere
in
this
world
,
his
name
by
them
may
be
glorified
,
&
they
glorified
by
him
in
the
world
to
come
.
But
to
procéed
,
no
sooner
had
I
mounted
the
vsuall
walks
for
shepheards
,
the
downes
of
Buckingham
,
but
I
might
heare
a
Swayne
tuning
on
his
harsh
pipe
such
notes
ofsorrow
,
and
withall
singing
to
the
same
so
sad
an
aelegie
,
that
his
pretie
Ewes
lest
grazing
,
and
would
not
séede
for
mourning
:
the
effect
whereof
followeth
.
An
Aelegie
.
No
wonder
though
I
waile
,
my
sheepe
are
poore
,
Yet
sorrowes
naught
auaile
,
for
all
my
store
.
The
Sommers
prime
is
winter
vnto
mee
,
My
flocks
are
gaunt
,
no
wonder
though
they
be
.
My
ioy
and
comfort
dies
,
drown'd
vp
in
woe
:
Ny
Lambes
by
my
moist
eies
,
my
sorrowes
know
.
They
scorne
to
liue
,
since
they
my
liuing
feare
,
And
pyne
to
see
their
masters
pining
cheere
.
Hust
silence
,
leaue
thy
caue
,
thy
caue
obscur'd
:
And
deigne
my
woes
a
graue
,
woes
long
endur'd
.
Though
thou
leaue
me
,
yet
take
my
sorrows
to
thee
,
Or
leauing
them
,
alas
thou
doost
vndoe
mee
.
Silence
mou'd
to
pitty
,
Sy
,
wherefore
vndon
:
Shep.
Wayling
for
a
City
,
Woeful
London
.
Whil'st
London
smyl'd
,
my
stocks
did
feede
them
ful
Skipping
for
ioy
,
that
London
had
their
wull
.
Woe
is
mee
,
they
die
now
,
cause
they
feede
not
,
Shepheard
,
Swaynes
must
flie
nowe
,
cause
they
speed
not
.
Yet
when
I
pipe
and
sing
that
London
smileth
,
My
sheep
reuiue
againe
and
death
beguileth
.
Wherefore
silence
pittie
,
my
Lambes
mourning
:
Ioine
in
our
sad
dittie
,
till
woes
turning
.
(
weepe
by
you
Sy.
Mourne
Swaynes
,
mourne
sheep
,
and
silence
wil
And
as
you
weepe
for
mercie
,
Shepeheards
cry
you
.
This
passionate
dittie
was
no
sooner
ended
,
but
I
drewe
néere
the
place
,
whence
I
heard
that
vnexpected
lamentation
,
where
on
a
banck
of
mosse
I
found
a
true
loue
knot
of
Shepheards
all
woe
begun
,
euen
all
strooken
into
an
extacie
,
of
whom
I
demaunded
the
cause
of
sorrowe
,
one
of
them
more
free
of
spirit
then
the
rest
,
willing
to
satisfie
my
demaund
,
to
the
intent
I
might
mourne
with
them
,
brake
into
these
termes
of
exclamation
.
Oh
Spring
of
sorrowes
,
Sommer
of
lamentations
,
Autumne
of
woes
,
Winter
of
heauines
,
oh
times
of
miserie
,
when
will
your
contagion
haue
an
end
,
your
seuerall
aires
haue
béen
infectious
,
whereby
manie
thòusands
haue
perished
.
Neuer
since
I
knew
the
contented
life
of
a
slvaine
,
did
I
so
long
sucke
on
the
sower
dug
of
infelicitie
,
for
wee
were
wont
to
smile
howeuer
Fortune
frowned
,
but
now
alas
as
much
subiect
to
passion
as
discontent
it selfe
,
wherefore
kind
stranger
(
saide
he
)
perswade
thy selfe
,
that
it
is
some
extraordinarie
affliction
that
forceth
such
distilling
teares
from
Shepheards
sunne
dried
eies
.
Oh
London
:
and
there
made
a
colon
,
whereuppon
all
the
rest
of
the
shepheards
ioyntlie
with
him
did
beare
seuerall
parts
in
this
sad
following
Eglogue
.
The
Aeglogue
.
Burst
,
burst
poore
harts
,
you
haue
no
longer
hope
,
Captiue
our
eies
vnto
eternall
sleepe
:
Let
all
our
sences
haue
no
further
scope
,
Let
death
be
Lord
of
vs
and
all
our
sheepe
.
Or
if
we
liue
,
thus
(
liuing
)
let
vs
crie
,
(
die
,
‛
Heauens
blesse
faire
London
,
or
poore
Shepheards
Cry
,
cry
aloude
,
as
they
that
heare
our
crying
,
May
crie
with
vs
,
and
fainting
,
fall
a
dying
.
FINIS
.
To
discribe
the
particular
sorrowes
of
euery
griened
soule
,
were
as
impossible
as
to
number
Calice
sands
(
as
the
prouerb
goes
)
the
lamentation
is
so
generall
.
And
that
not
only
amongst
the
Swaines
,
but
the
whole
Countrie
,
and
especiallie
amongst
Clothiers
,
and
their
poore
seruiceable
people
,
for
since
the
memorie
of
man
,
almost
there
hath
not
béene
knowne
she
like
.
He
that
was
woont
to
emploie
manie
hundreds
in
his
worke
,
cannot
now
help
twenty
poore
,
insomuch
that
it
procures
such
emulation
and
malice
twixt
them
that
are
wrought
,
and
the
rest
wanting
worke
,
that
it
euen
brings
a
confusion
amongst
them
.
And
in
this
case
what
should
the
Clothier
doo
,
some
come
to
him
on
their
knées
,
some
with
wringing
hands
,
some
crying
with
Infants
in
their
armes
,
but
all
of
them
with
such
pittifull
lamentation
,
that
it
pitties
the
amazed
Clothier
in
such
sort
,
that
he
is
weary
of
life
.
At
length
thinking
to
giue
them
reasonable
satisfaction
,
he
pleadeth
,
that
the
want
of
sale
for
cloth
at
London
,
is
the
cause
he
hath
so
little
imployment
.
But
alas
this
woulde
not
satisfie
the
poore
multitude
,
so
great
is
their
distresse
,
and
such
an
vnanswerable
argument
is
importunate
necessitie
.
And
thus
I
may
tell
you
,
neuer
was
cloth
better
cheape
amongst
Clothiers
,
yet
seldome
hath
wooll
béene
known
more
déere
vnto
them
,
and
of
money
I
dare
say
that
most
of
them
neuer
knew
the
like
want
,
though
they
haue
money
foorth
to
great
value
,
and
the
cause
of
this
,
saie
they
,
is
only
Londons
visitation
:
If
then
the
mittigation
of
the
pestilent
affliction
laide
vppon
that
Citie
,
would
relieue
the
want
of
many
thousand
poore
soules
,
(
as
it
is
well
knowne
to
euery
one
of
vs
it
would
)
why
then
let
vs
vse
the
meanes
to
take
away
the
effect
,
that
is
,
praier
to
lessen
sinne
,
that
God
in
mercie
would
pittie
Londons
miserie
.
And
now
London
,
once
more
doe
I
speake
to
thée
,
thou
Nurse
of
people
,
so
louing
and
kind
a
mother
,
doost
thou
alwaies
shew
thy selfe
vnto
thine
owne
,
how
disobedient
so
euer
they
bée
,
that
thy
armes
are
howerly
open
to
receaue
with
ioy
thy
strangling
children
.
They
like
idle
wanderers
,
haue
plaide
the
runnawaies
from
thee
,
yet
thou
with
teares
of
comfort
art
readie
to
entertaine
them
.
And
albeit
,
they
haue
trewanted
long
in
the
country
,
yet
thou
must
be
their
refuge
,
thou
art
their
foster-mother
,
none
will
entertaine
them
but
thou
:
Why
then
did
they
flie
from
thée
?
onely
because
thou
wert
touched
with
calamitic
;
and
albeit
thou
art
not
yet
frée
,
yet
they
are
now
forced
to
séeke
shelter
vnder
thy
wings
,
and
notwithstanding
thy
aduersitie
,
like
poore
prodigals
they
returne
of
méere
necessitie
.
Thou
diddest
euer
loue
them
,
though
they
hated
thée
,
so
were
they
hated
euen
of
them
to
whom
they
fled
.
They
fled
from
London
to
haue
harbour
in
the
Country
,
but
woe
the
time
that
euer
London
knew
such
extremitie
.
Will
it
not
be
a
most
lamentable
record
to
our
posteritie
,
to
reade
this
Index
of
the
vncharitable
nature
of
the
Country
?
It
cannot
choose
:
Therefore
that
Londons
aduersitie
may
now
turne
to
prosperitie
,
that
the
rude
and
inhumane
Country
,
may
tast
the
wholsome
comfort
of
the
Citie
,
let
vs
all
pray
for
Londons
health
and
libertie
.
Which
the
God
of
all
mercie
,
power
,
and
consolation
graunt
,
for
the
loue
of
that
immaculate
Lambe
Christ
Iesus
,
our
onely
Sauiour
and
Redéemer
.
FINIS
.