THE
BLACKE
AND
WHITE
ROD.
THis
World
is
a
Royall
Exchange
,
where
all
sorts
of
Men
are
Merchants
:
Kings
hold
Commerce
with
Kings
,
and
their
Voyages
are
vpon
high
Negotiations
:
As
,
the
deare
buying
of
anothers
Country
,
with
their
owne
Subiects
Bloud
:
The
Purchasing
of
new
Crownes
,
and
new
Scepters
,
not
satisfied
with
the
old
.
And
,
as
Kings
,
so
Princes
,
Dukes
,
Earles
,
Lords
,
Clergy-men
,
Iudges
,
Souldiers
,
haue
their
Trading
in
particular
Marchandizes
,
and
walke
euery
day
for
that
purpose
vpon
this
Old
Royall
Exchange
.
They
talke
in
seuerall
Languages
,
And
(
like
the
murmuring
fall
of
Waters
)
in
the
Hum
of
seuerall
businesses
:
insomuch
that
the
place
seemes
Babell
,
(
a
Confusion
of
tongues
.
)
The
best
,
(
yet
most
incertaine
)
Commodity
,
which
all
these
Merchants
striue
for
,
is
Life
:
if
Health
begot
into
the
bargaine
,
He
is
a
Made
man
,
into
whose
hands
it
comes
.
Yet
when
these
two
inestimable
Treasures
are
shipped
in
one
Bottome
,
together
;
There
are
Winds
,
and
Waues
,
and
Woes
,
which
still
fill
the
Sayles
,
and
hang
vpon
the
Tacklings
.
What
's
the
end
of
this
Voyage
.
Currit
Mercator
ad
Indos
.
To
heape
vp
Gold
.
The
Merchants
Name
i'
th
Indies
,
is
inroll'd
.
Nay
,
though
he
casts
a
Girdle
about
the
World
,
yet
,
Anchor
he
must
in
one
Harbour
or
another
,
to
come
to
shore
,
and
Proclaime
his
Lading
on
this
Ryalta
,
this
Burse
,
or
this
Royall
Exchange
,
And
when
the
Exchange-Bell
rings
.
(
his
passing-Bell
tolles
)
That
's
the
warning-Peece
to
tell
him
hee
must
goe
off
,
he
must
for
that
time
talke
there
no
more
of
his
Transitorie
Commodities
,
the
Exchange
of
this
world
with
him
is
then
done
,
and
Home
does
he
hasten
to
dine
with
Wormes
.
This
Earthly
spacious
Building
,
in
which
we
Dwell
,
(
as
Tenants
onely
for
life
)
is
likewise
a
glorious
Theater
,
full
of
admirable
Conueyances
and
Curiosities
;
The
Frame
or
Module
of
it
is
round
,
with
a
Siluer
mouing
Roofe
(
call'd
the
Heauens
)
to
couer
it
by
day
,
and
a
Golden
Canopy
of
Starres
to
Curtaine
about
it
by
Night
.
In
stead
of
Arras
and
Tapestrie
,
(
which
commonly
doe
now
,
and
euer
haue
adorned
,
the
old
Amphitheaters
,
this
is
richly
hung
round
about
with
the
Element
of
Ayre
.
The
beauties
of
the
Earth
are
the
Stage
:
Furnished
bounteously
,
and
set
forth
in
all
Brauery
,
with
Woods
,
full
of
Trees
,
Gardens
full
of
Flowers
,
Orchards
full
of
Fruit
,
Fields
full
of
standing
Corne
,
(
like
so
many
Speares
ready
for
a
Battaile
)
Mountaines
high
in
Pride
,
Valleys
sweet
in
Pleasure
.
Our
Mothers
Wombe
is
the
Tyring-house
,
where
we
make
vs
ready
;
And
our
Cradle
,
the
Musicke-Roome
,
for
there
we
are
sweetly
strung
with
Innocence
.
Nothing
(
then
)
puts
vs
out
of
tune
,
but
a
peale
of
crying
,
And
what
s
that
?
Onely
a
little
Note
,
a
little
too
high
;
which
being
mended
,
the
Melodie
is
Heauenly
;
for
,
there
is
no
Concord
without
Discord
.
Vpon
this
goodly
Stage
,
all
sorts
of
People
(
Men
,
Women
,
and
Children
)
are
Actors
;
Some
play
Emperours
,
some
,
Kings
,
some
Beggars
,
some
Wise-men
,
some
Fooles
.
The
hardest
part
to
play
is
a
good
Man
:
and
't
is
rare
to
see
a
long
part
giuen
him
to
study
.
On
this
stage
are
presented
Tragedies
,
and
Comedies
;
The
terriblest
Tragedie
is
that
,
of
the
Soule
,
fighting
to
get
off
(
well
,
)
from
the
Body
.
The
best
and
most
pleasing
Comedie
,
is
that
of
a
white
Conscience
,
and
the
Peace
of
Mind
.
Some
haue
Plaudits
,
Showts
and
Acclamations
,
and
those
are
such
who
haue
play'd
good
parts
,
and
play'd
them
Brauely-well
.
Some
goe
hissed
off
the
Stage
.
And
that
is
for
want
of
being
perfect
in
those
good
parts
,
which
are
put
into
them
.
Some
,
play
very
long
Parts
,
(
and
they
are
old
Men
)
some
,
haue
done
in
the
midst
of
the
Play
,
(
And
they
are
young
Men
)
some
,
being
but
in
a
Scaene
,
before
they
speake
,
are
out
,
and
lost
,
(
And
they
are
Children
.
)
Euery
Actor
hath
his
Entrance
,
euery
one
his
Exit
:
As
one
comes
out
,
another
goes
off
,
and
sometimes
meeting
on
the
Stage
together
,
they
leaue
the
Stage
together
.
But
in
the
Conclusion
,
He
that
can
get
Angels
to
sit
,
in
the
Galleries
of
Heauen
,
and
clap
his
action
with
theyr
Immortall
hands
,
he
is
the
onely
Roscius
of
the
time
,
and
one
of
the
best
Actors
that
euer
stept
on
stage
.
The
sum
,
vpshot
,
and
cloze
of
all
,
is
this
▪
That
,
as
many
Men
as
that
walke
on
that
Royall
Exchange
,
and
seeme
rich
,
doe
often
breake
and
are
lay'd
in
Prison
:
So
in
this
World
;
when
we
appeare
neuer
so
strong
in
Body
,
neuer
so
stirring
in
minde
;
yet
,
if
health
turnes
Banquerupt
once
,
and
that
the
Sergeant
with
the
Blacke
Rod
,
(
Sicknesse
)
Arrests
vs
;
if
eyther
Casualties
,
by
Sea
or
Land
,
if
losses
,
vexations
,
misfortunes
or
miseries
,
breake
our
hearts
,
whether
then
are
we
carried
!
To
our
euerlasting
Prison
the
Graue
.
And
so
,
when
in
this
Magnificent
Theater
,
we
haue
Ietted
long
on
the
Stage
,
And
borne
our
Heads
high
;
yet
,
our
Parts
being
done
,
we
are
inforced
to
put
off
,
our
gay
borrowed
garments
,
and
wrapping
our selues
in
poore
winding-Sheets
,
Hasten
to
our
owne
homes
,
and
(
still
)
that
's
the
Graue
.
The
Graue
then
,
is
the
Rendez-vouz
where
we
all
meet
;
The
Market-place
where
the
Drum
of
Death
beates
,
to
haue
vs
come
together
:
The
Towne-Hall
,
where
all
our
brablings
are
ended
:
The
Castle
,
to
appeare
at
,
which
at
the
Assizes
,
the
Body
is
bound
ouer
,
and
there
it
is
Cast
:
In
the
Feild
of
dead
mens
Sculs
,
and
fleshlesse
bones
,
must
the
great
Army
of
all
Mankind
muster
,
on
Mount
Caluary
,
CHRIST
lost
his
life
,
And
in
Dust
and
Ashes
must
we
leaue
Ours
.
We
need
not
read
any
Bookes
to
proue
this
:
Euery
man
holds
a
Pen
in
his
hand
,
to
write
a
story
of
it
.
To
passe
ouer
the
Volumes
of
the
Graue
,
(
filled
by
Adam
and
his
Children
,
)
in
the
first
World
;
And
clasping-vp
,
those
likewise
which
haue
beene
euer
since
,
after
the
Deluge
,
in
this
second
World
:
Let
vs
cast
our
Eyes
onely
at
that
Blacke
Rod
,
and
that
white
Rod
,
which
from
time
to
time
,
haue
first
smitten
,
and
then
spared
,
This
Kingdome
of
Great
Britaine
.
In
the
Raignes
of
William
the
Conquerour
,
Rufus
,
and
Hen:
1.
(
his
Brother
,
)
Death
walked
vp
and
downe
this
Land
in
strange
shapes
:
Men
,
Women
,
and
Children
,
fell
by
the
Pestilence
:
So
great
were
the
numbers
of
those
who
dyed
,
that
the
numbers
of
the
liuing
could
harldy
bury
them
.
Cattell
were
stricken
in
the
Feild
,
Birds
drop'd
from
the
Ayre
,
Fishes
,
perish'd
in
the
Waters
,
Famine
followed
,
Tillage
went
to
Ruine
,
so
that
the
Earth
,
which
wont
to
feed
others
,
had
in
the
end
no
meate
for
her selfe
.
Then
,
for
foure
Kings
together
,
little
mention
is
made
of
any
deuouring
mortality
of
people
by
the
Pestilence
;
yet
were
there
blazing
Starres
,
Earthquakes
,
Stormes
of
Hayle
,
which
kill'd
Cattell
,
and
beat
downe
Corne
:
with
the
Apparition
of
Spirits
in
the
Ayre
,
in
the
likenesse
of
strange
,
vgly
Fowle
,
flying
with
fire
in
theyr
Beakes
,
and
doing
much
mischiefe
to
Houses
.
But
presently
after
in
the
Raigne
of
Hen:
3.
the
Kingdome
in
generall
was
torne
in
pieces
,
by
two
Dragons
,
(
Dearth
,
or
want
of
victuals
,
and
an
exceeding
great
sweeping
Plague
.
)
So
,
Edward
the
second
,
saw
the
fall
of
his
people
,
and
the
famishing
of
his
Countrey
by
the
two
fore-named
Tyrants
.
So
,
Edw.
3.
in
his
long
Raigne
of
fiftie
yeeres
,
lamented
the
losse
of
his
then
warlike
Nation
,
so
struck
downe
by
a
Pestilent
Contagion
,
that
many
who
had
he●l●h
in
the
morning
,
lay
in
their
Graues
at
night
:
Forty
Bodies
at
one
time
,
crowding
in
those
cold
Beds
together
,
for
want
of
more
and
better
roome
.
Thirteene
yeares
after
,
Death
spread
his
Cullors
againe
,
and
then
in
that
dismall
Battell
Henry
Duke
of
Lancaster
,
his
Dutchesse
,
and
the
Earle
of
Warwicke
,
fell
vnder
the
cruell
Conquerours
hands
.
Besides
in
one
yeare
,
in
a
plot
of
ground
,
being
at
that
time
in
Compasse
,
thirteene
Acres
,
(
then
called
Spittle-Croft
,
or
the
Charter-house
,
founded
by
Gualter
Manny
Knight
of
the
Garter
,
who
there
lyes
Intoomb'd
,
)
were
buried
50000.
Persons
,
besides
those
who
tooke
vp
their
euerlasting
lodgings
in
other
places
.
In
this
yeare
,
the
Blacke
Rod
smarted
deeply
:
The
Sword
of
Diuine
Iustice
had
a
sharpe
terrible
edge
,
and
where
it
hit
,
it
strucke
home
.
Few
of
the
then
following
Kings
,
but
had
their
Subjects
snatched
from
them
by
these
hot
and
speeding
calamities
.
We
will
now
,
(
omitting
all
the
rest
)
looke
onely
,
at
these
two
great
Plagues
indeed
,
(
fresh
,
too
fresh
in
our
memories
)
the
first
,
beginning
when
Q.
Elizabeth
left
vs
,
and
that
K.
Iames
,
tooke
vs
to
be
his
people
:
The
second
,
when
K.
Iames
tooke
his
way
to
Heauen
,
and
left
both
all
his
Kingdomes
,
and
their
mighty
Nations
,
to
his
Royall
Sonne
,
our
most
gracious
Soueraigne
King
Charles
,
whose
yeares
the
great
Arithmetician
of
Heauen
,
multiply
,
and
blesse
the
numbers
,
till
they
bee
all
golden
ones
.
But
,
let
vs
now
draw
our
Arrowes
,
to
the
Marke
we
ayme
at
;
Those
two
last
Visitations
,
this
Hydra-Sicknesse
with
so
many
Heads
,
The
Plague
!
Why
carryes
it
the
Name
of
Plague
?
Plaga
signifies
a
stripe
,
and
this
Sicknesse
,
comes
with
a
blow
,
or
stripe
,
giuen
by
the
hand
of
Gods
Angell
,
when
(
as
he
did
to
Dauid
)
he
sends
him
to
strike
a
people
for
their
sins
.
Our
sinnes
therefore
,
were
and
are
the
Whirlewinds
,
breaking
open
Iehouahs
Armory
,
and
forcing
him
(
the
better
to
keepe
vs
from
further
Rebellion
)
to
shoot
his
fiery
and
consuming
indignation
against
vs
.
He
hath
seuerall
sorts
of
weapons
;
seuerall
Punishments
,
for
seuerall
Offences
.
When
Q.
Elizabeth
departed
,
and
went
on
her
Progresse
to
Heauen
;
what
a
Traine
followed
her
!
How
many
thousands
of
Coffins
,
wayted
on
her
Herse
!
'T
is
fit
,
at
the
Deaths
of
great
Princes
,
that
there
should
be
a
great
number
of
Mourners
.
And
so
,
at
the
comming
in
of
new
Kings
,
there
is
a
kind
of
State
to
be
obserued
,
that
multitudes
of
the
old
Subiects
,
who
haue
done
seruice
to
their
Country
before
,
should
giue
way
to
others
,
to
step
into
their
places
.
At
the
Arriuall
therefore
of
King
Iames
,
vpon
this
,
his
Crowne-Land
,
God
beate
a
Path
(
narrow
at
first
,
though
it
stretched
wider
)
to
lead
vs
by
the
hand
as
it
were
,
to
this
Funerall
Ceremony
of
dying
Subiects
.
We
were
at
the
Coronation
of
our
new
King
,
(
King
Iames
)
not
a
new
Nation
,
but
the
selfe-same
stiffe-necked
people
we
were
before
.
As
mighty
in
our
sinnes
,
as
in
our
Multitudes
.
Roome
therefore
must
be
made
;
for
our
sins
were
so
Ru●●ianly
,
and
such
roaring
Boyes
,
they
did
nothing
but
iustle
one
another
for
the
wall
,
to
try
,
which
sinne
should
haue
the
vpper
hand
.
The
Thunderer
looking
downe
vpon
this
,
was
loath
,
to
shoot
his
Arrowes
feathered
with
Lightning
,
and
headed
with
Vengeance
,
vtterly
to
confound
the
Mis-dooer
.
No
;
Pitty
stood
in
his
eyes
,
and
Compassion
lean'd
vpon
his
Bosome
.
So
that
spying
two
Rods
lying
before
him
,
A
White
one
,
and
a
Blacke
,
the
Blacke
he
threw
by
,
till
he
should
haue
time
(
by
compulsion
)
to
vse
it
;
And
then
,
taking
vp
the
white
Rod
,
he
lay'd
it
gently
,
vpon
the
head
onely
of
one
,
who
forthwith
dyed
of
the
Plague
:
And
this
was
on
the
thirteenth
of
Ianuary
,
in
the
yeare
1602.
Now
almost
twenty
eight
yeares
agoe
.
There
dyed
then
but
one
of
the
Plague
!
O
sparing
Mercy
!
From
such
a
huge
Tree
(
as
London
is
,
)
so
laden
with
all
sorts
of
Fruit
,
but
one
Apple
to
drop
to
the
ground
!
No
more
to
be
shaken
downe
!
But
one
windfall
!
A
Mountainous
Quarry
of
stony
hearts
,
to
haue
but
one
poore
pibble
,
digg'd
away
!
In
the
next
weeke
(
that
yeere
)
soft
Mercy
forgot
the
white
Rod
too
and
strucke
None
,
None
at
all
;
Not
One
!
In
the
Weeke
after
,
foure
felt
the
smart
:
Then
1.
againe
.
Then
none
againe
:
then
3.
then
none
:
then
3.
then
2.
then
3.
then
2.
then
6.
then
4.
then
4.
and
then
8.
So
that
in
15.
Weekes
,
which
by
this
time
reached
to
the
end
of
Aprill
,
there
dyed
of
the
Plague
but
39.
This
was
the
Rod
of
Mercy
,
the
white
Rod
,
the
Fatherly
Correction
!
It
goes
on
a
little
quicker
;
for
then
the
Number
swelling
vp
,
and
increasing
by
Tens
,
amounted
in
Iune
(
23.
day
)
to
72.
(
the
highest
;
)
So
there
dyed
in
these
other
9.
weekes
,
the
full
number
of
297.
It
increased
then
to
hundreds
weekely
,
so
that
in
Iuly
there
dyed
917.
in
one
weeke
here
.
The
white
Rod
,
(
no
amendment
in
our
liues
being
seene
)
was
for
a
time
layd
by
,
and
the
blacke
officer
of
Death
,
comming
abroad
,
thousands
were
stricken
downe
euery
weeke
:
So
that
from
Iuly
28.
to
October
13.
being
12.
weekes
,
were
buried
,
twenty
fiue
thousand
,
sixe
hundred
and
sixe
.
Here
,
the
Diuine
Iustice
,
sate
in
her
full
Throne
,
roab'd
in
Scarlet
,
with
a
face
threatning
Terrors
.
But
Mercy
then
step'd
in
,
and
held
hands
with
Iustice
,
so
that
a
Retreat
was
sounded
;
The
terrible
Execution
,
was
not
so
hotly
pursued
;
The
Pestilentiall
Enemy
,
retyr'd
a
little
,
and
fell
backe
,
yet
so
;
that
from
October
the
20.
to
Decemb.
the
1.
being
seauen
weekes
,
there
dyed
600.
and
odde
,
500.
and
odde
,
400.200.100
.
and
odde
still
euery
weeke
.
And
then
abated
againe
to
tens
,
(
as
at
first
it
did
rise
by
tens
,
)
the
greatest
number
of
the
Dead
,
in
December
22.
being
onely
74.
So
that
in
all
these
maine
Battels
,
Seidges
,
Sallyes
,
Batteries
,
and
skyrmishes
;
(
Continuing
for
a
whole
yeare
together
,
[
*
](A20051-e800-b)
*
From
December
.
23.
Anno
1602.
to
December
21.
Anno
1603.
in
and
about
London
,
(
then
the
most
desolate
of
Cities
,
)
there
dyed
,
of
all
Diseases
,
38244.
Out
of
which
number
the
Plague
challenged
,
30578.
for
her
share
:
yet
the
yeare
immediately
following
,
(
Giue
thankes
(
ô
noble
Troynouant
)
giue
thankes
)
thou
then
didst
freely
walke
vp
,
and
downe
in
health
,
when
all
thy
Neighbours
and
Friends
(
when
all
the
Shires
in
England
)
were
mortally
beleaguer'd
by
the
same
furious
Enemy
.
Now
,
as
when
Q.
Elizabeth
resigned
her
Crowne
and
Scepter
to
King
Iames
,
and
that
he
fate
in
the
Throne
,
all
these
changes
were
visibly
seene
:
So
,
when
the
Royall
Father
went
to
rest
,
and
that
his
most
Princely
Sonne
(
CHARLES
,
our
Royall
succeeding
King
,
and
now
gracious
Soueraigne
)
was
the
Top-branch
,
of
the
Tree
,
(
Nay
,
the
Caedar
it selfe
,
)
A
second
Angell
was
sent
downe
,
to
turne
ouer
the
Audit-Bookes
of
our
Transgressions
.
And
finding
London
(
for
her
part
)
to
be
run
out
,
in
deepe
Arrerages
,
she
was
not
too
suddainly
nor
too
Rigorously
call'd
vpon
,
but
the
Steward
of
Gods
Court
,
(
Mercy
)
pointing
with
her
white
wand
,
onely
at
One
,
set
a
fine
of
Death
vpon
his
head
,
and
that
party
was
taken
from
thence
on
the
sixth
of
Ianuary
,
Anno
1624.
And
this
was
the
first
Weekes
worke
of
the
Plague
for
that
yeare
.
It
began
at
One.
Death
then
had
little
to
doe
within
the
Walles
or
without
,
for
his
Infections
,
by
the
space
of
12.
weekes
following
;
In
which
time
there
dyed
no
more
but
26.
of
the
Sicknesse
.
And
then
for
11.
weekes
following
the
former
,
it
amounted
to
480.
The
other
foure
weeks
succeeding
them
,
(
wherein
they
fell
by
hundreds
,
)
could
shew
in
their
Bils
,
of
all
Diseases
,
3314
,
out
of
which
the
Plague
tooke
1387.
And
all
these
three
Reckonings
,
grew
to
this
last
heighth
,
from
the
sixth
of
Ianuary
,
Anno
1624.
to
the
7.
of
Iuly
,
Anno
1625.
being
fully
seauen
and
twenty
weekes
.
But
then
on
the
14.
of
Iuly
,
(
being
the
same
Moneth
)
the
dead
Marches
began
to
come
in
by
thousands
in
a
company
.
Obserue
therefore
in
what
dreadfull
Equipage
,
the
two
Armies
of
both
our
Kings
,
(
I
meane
King
IAMES
,
and
King
CHARLES
,
)
went
along
to
those
fearefull
Encounters
.
King
IAMES
.
1603.
|
28.
Iuly
.
|
1728
|
1496
|
|
4.
August
.
|
2256
|
1922
|
|
11.
August
.
|
2077
|
1745
|
|
18.
Aug.
|
3054
|
2713
|
|
25.
Aug.
|
2853
|
2539
|
|
1.
Septemb.
|
3385
|
3035
|
|
8.
Septemb.
|
3078
|
2724
|
|
15.
Sept.
|
3129
|
2818
|
|
22.
Sept.
|
2456
|
2195
|
|
29.
Sept.
|
1961
|
1732
|
|
6.
October
.
|
1831
|
1641
|
|
13.
October
.
|
1312
|
1146
|
|
|
In
all
.
|
Plague
|
|
|
29120
|
25606
|
King
CHRLES
.
1625.
|
14.
Iuly
.
|
1741
|
1004
|
|
21.
Iuly
.
|
2850
|
1819
|
|
28.
Iuly
.
|
3583
|
2471
|
|
4.
August
.
|
4517
|
3659
|
|
11.
Aug.
|
4855
|
4115
|
|
18.
Aug.
|
3205
|
4463
|
|
25.
Aug.
|
4841
|
4218
|
|
1.
Septemb.
|
3897
|
3344
|
|
8.
Septemb.
|
3157
|
2550
|
|
14.
Sept.
|
2148
|
1672
|
|
22.
Sept.
|
1994
|
1561
|
|
|
In
all
.
|
Plague
.
|
|
|
38788
|
30876
|
So
,
by
this
Accompt
,
there
fell
in
that
great
ouerthrow
giuen
to
King
Iames
his
Subjects
,
for
12.
Weeks
together
,
(
when
they
drop'd
downe
by
thousands
)
the
full
number
of
twenty
nine
thousand
,
one
hundred
and
twenty
:
The
terror
and
cruelty
of
the
Plague
sweeping
from
that
number
,
twenty
fiue
thousand
,
sixe
hundred
and
sixe
.
But
in
that
lamentable
defeature
of
Bodies
,
which
fell
vpon
vs
in
the
raigne
of
K.
Charles
,
Anno
1624.
to
the
end
of
that
yeere
in
1625.
There
dyed
in
all
,
(
within
the
Compasse
of
eleuen
Weeks
,
thirty
eight
thousand
,
seauen
hundred
fourescore
and
eight
:
of
which
the
blacke
Rod
of
Pestilence
smote
,
thirty
thousand
,
eight
hundred
seauenty
and
sixe
.
The
difference
of
the
numbers
in
those
twelue
Weekes
in
King
Iames
his
Raigne
,
and
those
eleuen
in
that
yeere
of
King
Charles
,
being
:
14.
thousand
,
nine
hundred
,
thirty
and
eight
:
The
latter
exceeding
the
former
(
in
a
few
weekes
)
by
so
much
.
The
number
of
all
the
dead
for
those
two
yeares
of
the
two
Kings
,
Amounting
to
one
hundred
fifty
,
eight
thousand
,
fiue
hundred
and
foure
.
Now
,
if
within
so
small
a
Compasse
,
as
a
Citty
,
and
the
adiacent
places
,
so
many
went
out
of
the
world
,
how
many
millions
,
did
the
whole
Kingdome
loose
!
But
note
the
exceeding
,
Incomprehensible
loue
of
a
Father
to
vs
his
Children
;
The
mildnesse
and
Mercy
,
of
our
Iudge
!
On
the
22.
of
December
,
which
ended
that
yeere
of
1604.
(
going
on
to
1605.
)
there
was
strucke
but
one
:
It
began
with
one
,
and
ended
with
one
.
O
iust
and
euen
Ballance
,
of
the
Heauenly
Compassion
!
How
much
are
we
in
Thankes
indebted
(
for
more
we
are
not
able
to
pay
)
for
this
wonderfull
sparing
vs
,
Now
,
in
this
third
Visitation
!
In
that
former
yeares
Iuly
,
about
this
time
,
there
dyed
2471.
of
the
Sicknesse
;
Now
(
praised
be
Heauen
)
the
greatest
number
is
but
sixty
seauen
.
Here
was
a
Fall
!
There
is
a
Fauour
.
In
the
end
,
this
fall
from
such
a
great
number
to
one
,
came
to
nothing
,
-
(
A
Cypher
.
)
And
so
continued
a
long
time
.
Heauen
held
out
a
Flagge
of
Truce
,
and
all
was
quiet
;
The
Bils
proclaimed
no
such
mortall
wars
;
The
Sexton
opened
some
few
Graues
for
common
Diseases
,
to
lye
in
,
and
for
fiue
yeares
together
,
the
burning
Pestilence
,
had
not
kindled
her
fires
amongst
vs
Yet
in
that
interim
of
yeares
,
other
calamities
afflicted
vs
;
Warres
eate
vp
many
of
our
Gallants
,
the
Sea
swallowed
others
;
Quarrels
tooke
away
some
,
by
the
fatall
stabbe
or
desperate
fighting
in
the
Feild
.
We
haue
but
one
doore
,
at
which
we
come
into
the
World
,
but
a
thousand
Gates
(
set
wide
open
)
to
send
vs
out
of
it
.
For
such
ill
bargaines
doe
we
make
with
life
,
that
the
Body
and
the
Soule
,
being
deere
Partners
,
and
setting
vp
together
,
doe
euery
day
,
by
many
deuises
,
plots
,
and
conspiracies
vndoe
one
another
.
What
one
sinne
,
Vice
or
ill
custome
,
since
the
Departure
of
the
last
great
Sicknesse
is
gone
out
of
the
Kingdome
,
or
hath
forsaken
the
City
?
Fasting
and
Prayer
,
(
whilst
Gods
Artillery
shot
off
,
and
battered
downe
the
Wals
of
our
flesh
,
making
breaches
into
the
liues
and
estates
of
thousands
)
Ran
euery
weeke
to
the
holy
Temples
.
Much
Condoling
,
there
was
,
much
crying
for
Mercy
,
and
mercy
came
downe
.
But
where
is
fasting
now
,
vnlesse
with
those
that
are
almost
staru'd
with
hunger
?
At
how
few
mens
dores
sits
Charity
?
Yet
are
there
great
numbers
of
Religious
,
Godly
,
and
Faithfull
Relieuers
of
the
Poore
:
But
take
all
this
City
in
a
lumpe
together
,
and
how
little
true
Charity
,
true
Loue
,
true
Christianity
,
true
Friendship
is
there
one
to
another
?
What
cruelty
dwels
in
our
hearts
,
if
we
catch
a
man
(
by
Law
)
at
aduantage
?
How
doe
we
grinde
his
Bones
,
and
gnaw
his
heart
in
peeces
?
How
doe
Tradesmen
enuy
one
another
?
How
doe
Gentlemen
vndoe
themselues
and
their
Posterities
by
Ryots
?
How
doe
an
infinite
number
of
Schollers
complaine
of
want
?
How
doe
Souldiers
gape
after
spoyle
!
What
Couetous
Farmer
,
but
is
glad
of
a
deere
yeare
?
A
dearth
of
Corne
makes
such
Cormorants
Fat
?
Is
not
Pride
,
(
which
fiue
yeares
agoe
shew'd
not
her
face
in
the
Citty
,
being
afraid
of
the
Plague
)
now
to
bee
seene
jetting
vp
and
downe
in
euery
street
!
Does
not
the
Drunkard
that
was
then
,
haunt
still
the
same
Tauernes
!
The
Body
is
both
the
Caroach
,
in
which
,
the
Soule
(
being
the
Queene
of
life
)
rides
,
and
the
Coachman
too
,
that
driues
her
from
one
place
to
another
,
from
one
wickednesse
to
a
worse
;
And
the
Horses
,
that
draw
vs
,
are
our
wilde
passions
,
or
our
intemperate
desires
.
Our
sinnes
with
a
Dyals
motion
,
leade
vs
to
destruction
,
in
a
soft
pace
,
but
insensible
:
Our
Ruines
steale
vpon
vs
with
woolly
feet
,
all
the
time
it
comes
after
vs
,
but
being
ouertaken
,
It
smites
home
:
for
,
sinne
is
such
a
Boone
companion
,
it
goes
to
Bed
with
vs
,
and
all
night
sits
waking
,
on
those
very
Pillowes
,
on
which
we
lay
our
heads
:
when
we
rise
,
It
makes
vs
ready
,
waytes
when
we
goe
forth
,
followes
vs
all
day
,
and
is
more
seruile
,
more
fawning
,
more
flattering
then
a
slaue
;
And
neuer
goes
in
mourning
,
till
he
sees
vs
going
to
our
Graues
.
The
Soule
is
the
Mistresse
,
the
Body
the
Chamber-maid
,
that
rules
that
Mistresse
;
if
the
Soule
sayes
,
I
will
rise
,
and
doe
good
to
day
:
O
sayes
the
Chambermaid
you
are
young
enough
,
lye
longer
,
take
your
ease
,
be
merry
,
and
care
for
nothing
;
Twenty
yeeres
hence
you
may
doe
these
pious
deeds
,
and
by
this
wicked
Councell
of
the
Mayd
,
the
Mistresse
pulls
backe
her
hand
.
Thus
from
time
to
time
,
we
deferre
doing
well
,
and
thus
from
houre
to
houre
,
we
headlong
run
vpon
our
owne
miseries
.
This
being
perceiued
by
him
,
whose
eye
measures
all
mens
Actions
.
Now
againe
,
(
this
yeare
)
hath
he
opened
his
Quiuer
,
and
is
still
shooting
the
blacke
and
dismall
Arrowes
of
the
Pestilence
,
both
at
Country
,
and
City
:
In
many
places
of
the
Country
,
these
darts
of
Contagion
sticke
vp
to
the
very
feathers
;
some
harts
haue
beene
strucke
quite
through
here
in
the
City
,
yet
nothing
to
that
Army
which
fell
in
the
last
Plague
.
This
began
in
March
last
,
and
then
,
from
the
eleuenth
day
of
March
,
to
the
eighteenth
,
it
rise
to
foure
.
The
totall
of
all
that
dyed
that
weeke
,
being
153.
And
of
the
Christenings
187.
So
that
34.
came
into
the
World
more
then
went
out
of
it
.
Then
,
the
Sicknesse
fell
,
and
at
the
beginning
of
Aprill
was
but
one
againe
.
Another
Weeke
dyed
2.
then
7.
then
3.
the
highest
it
hath
since
mounted
to
,
in
any
one
Weeke
(
and
that
was
now
in
August
)
being
75.
So
that
in
8.
of
the
greatest
Weekes
of
sicknesse
this
Summer
,
(
omitting
the
rest
)
there
haue
dyed
of
all
Diseases
,
within
London
(
being
97.
Parishes
within
the
Walles
,
)
and
the
nine
out-Parishes
,
and
the
Pest-house
1593.
Of
the
Plague
in
those
8.
Weekes
,
165.
to
which
adde
54.
of
the
sicknesse
last
Weeke
,
and
67.
this
Bartholmew
weeke
,
it
maketh
286.
Of
Children
in
that
short
time
,
402.
of
Consumptions
some
300.
And
to
repaire
these
losses
and
ruines
amongst
vs
,
obserue
the
numbers
of
Children
christened
,
which
in
those
few
weeks
amount
to
1434.
out
of
which
deduct
402.
buried
,
there
remaines
1032.
aliue
.
Then
take
that
Number
from
the
former
1594.
of
all
diseases
,
there
haue
for
these
8.
Weekes
but
561.
departed
out
of
the
World
more
than
are
come
into
it
:
Westminster
being
not
reckoned
in
this
Accompt
,
The
Burials
there
being
very
few
,
Neither
is
the
greatest
number
of
dead
Bodies
formerly
set
downe
,
so
terrible
as
so
to
hurt
,
spartle
,
and
afflict
so
mighty
and
populous
a
City
,
as
we
see
it
does
,
but
that
Country
Townes
round
about
,
are
infected
,
and
for
that
cause
onely
are
Faires
and
Concurses
of
People
forbidden
,
for
feare
the
Contagion
by
Throngs
meeting
together
,
(
mingled
with
some
infected
Persons
)
should
increase
.
In
the
former
passages
of
this
yeares
sicknesse
,
Note
the
great
Mercy
of
God
extended
to
Infants
,
in
calling
such
a
number
of
them
to
Heauen
,
because
he
would
haue
that
place
glorified
with
some
white
pure
,
and
vnspotted
Soules
,
snatched
from
the
Societie
of
the
wicked
.
Oh
happy
Fathers
and
Mothers
,
that
are
sure
you
haue
so
many
Saints
entertained
aboue
,
before
they
could
haue
time
to
offend
their
Maker
.
You
weepe
for
them
when
you
follow
them
to
their
Graues
,
but
you
should
rather
call
it
a
Tryumph
,
for
they
then
are
going
to
a
Coelestiall
Coronation
.
If
you
but
looke
vpon
your
Childrens
cloathes
,
you
call
them
to
mind
,
and
then
,
beat
your
breasts
,
and
teare
your
hayre
,
but
remember
,
they
are
cloathed
in
the
roabes
of
immortality
.
When
you
but
talke
of
your
little
darlings
,
you
tell
how
beautifull
they
were
,
how
well-fauoured
,
how
forward
:
but
now
,
where
they
are
,
all
the
beauty
of
the
world
is
vglinesse
to
that
sweetnesse
which
they
possesse
:
They
haue
faces
and
formes
Angelicall
,
and
are
Play-fellowes
and
Companions
with
none
but
blessed
Creatures
.
Be
glad
therefore
,
that
they
are
ridde
from
the
miseries
of
the
World
;
that
Time
neuer
layd
foule
hands
on
them
;
they
are
free
from
want
,
hunger
,
thirst
,
diseases
,
cold
,
heat
,
weeping
and
wayling
,
and
all
other
Calamities
,
which
euen
rocke
vs
in
our
Cradles
;
they
are
well
and
happy
,
we
left
behind
them
,
miserable
.
As
therefore
here
you
are
counselled
,
to
beare
the
absence
of
your
little-ones
with
patience
,
so
comfort
you
others
,
with
this
,
that
both
their
Children
and
yours
,
are
gone
to
that
high
Starre-Chamber
Office
,
where
their
names
are
entred
into
the
Booke
of
Life
.
Now
albeit
in
so
many
set
Battailes
of
the
Pestilence
in
yeares
before
,
and
in
the
light
skyrmislies
of
this
Summer
,
so
many
haue
falne
:
Yet
(
blessed
be
Heauen
)
wee
are
a
populous
Nation
still
;
we
haue
Peace
and
Plenty
,
and
all
Blessings
that
Heauen
and
Earth
can
bestow
vpon
a
people
:
sing
therefore
Hymnes
vnto
the
Almighty
IEHOVAH
;
send
vp
Sacrifices
of
Feare
,
Loue
and
Obedience
to
him
:
Cry
to
him
,
as
DAVID
did
,
when
he
numbred
his
people
,
and
euery
one
say
,
I
haue
sinned
exceedingly
,
in
that
I
haue
done
:
therefore
now
LORD
I
beseech
thee
,
take
away
the
Trespasse
of
thy
Seruant
,
for
I
haue
done
very
foolishly
,
And
then
,
though
there
dye
of
the
people
from
Dan
euen
to
Beer-sheba
,
seauenty
thousand
men
,
in
three
dayes
:
yet
when
the
Angell
,
is
stretching
out
his
hand
vpon
Ierusalem
to
Destroy
it
,
The
LORD
will
repent
him
of
the
Euill
,
and
say
to
the
Angell
that
destroyeth
the
people
;
It
is
sufficient
,
Hold
now
thine
hand
.
And
then
the
blacke
Warder
shall
be
throwne
downe
to
part
Death
and
our
Kingdome
from
falling
into
so
terrible
a
Combat
.
But
art
thou
in
feare
of
an
Arrest
,
now
that
Writs
are
gone
out
(
from
the
Kings-Bench
Office
of
Heauen
,
)
to
Attach
seuerall
Mens
Bodies
!
Art
thou
in
doubt
to
be
laid
vp
!
In
danger
to
be
imprisoned
in
thy
Graue
!
Hath
sicknesse
knock'd
at
thy
doore
!
Does
she
sit
on
thy
Beds
side
!
Hath
Infection
blowne
vpon
thee
with
her
Contagious
,
noysome
and
stinking
breath
!
Hath
the
Pestilence
,
(
Now
in
this
present
drooping
,
and
sick-wing'd
season
)
Printed
her
nayles
within
thy
Flesh
,
and
hast
thou
tokens
sent
thee
to
come
away
!
Fall
on
thy
knees
,
Call
for
Mercy
,
to
helpe
thee
,
Cry
out
vpon
thy
sinnes
,
send
for
thy
Heauenly
Physitian
,
to
minister
good
things
to
thy
Soule
,
settle
thy
minde
in
peace
,
shake
off
the
world
,
looke
vp
at
Heauen
,
Thither
is
thy
Iourney
,
prepare
for
no
voyage
else
?
Art
thou
all-spotted
ouer
!
They
are
GODS
rich
Ermines
;
to
Inroabe
thee
like
a
King
,
and
to
set
a
Crowne
of
Glory
on
thy
Head
.
Art
thou
mark'd
with
Tokens
,
and
hast
thou
thy
Memory
!
Make
vse
of
that
Memory
,
and
seeing
those
Markes
are
so
set
vp
,
That
thine
eye
may
shoote
at
them
and
hit
them
,
now
draw
the
last
Arrow
home
,
and
winne
the
game
of
thy
euerlasting
Saluation
.
Remember
why
those
Tokens
are
sent
:
To
make
all
the
hast
thou
canst
to
set
forward
,
for
away
thou
must
:
Hug
them
therefore
,
as
thy
Louer
;
Kisse
,
and
bid
them
welcome
,
th●nke
that
sweet
Token-sender
for
his
guift
,
and
hauing
nothing
(
which
thou
canst
call
thine
)
to
send
backe
to
him
,
leaue
thy
Body
with
some
Friend
in
Trust
,
and
bid
thy
Soule
goe
cheerfully
on
her
journey
.
Cheerfully
indeed
,
and
with
all
Alacrity
,
for
now
thou
art
trauailing
into
a
farre
Country
,
where
all
thy
Friends
are
.
There
,
thou
shalt
meet
with
thy
old
Parents
,
(
thy
old
Father
and
Mother
)
ADAM
and
EVE
.
There
shalt
thou
see
that
great
Nauigator
of
the
World
(
NOAH
)
who
in
one
ship
,
carried
all
the
people
in
the
world
then
liuing
.
There
wilt
thou
find
ABRAHAM
and
his
Sonne
ISAAC
;
Old
IACOB
,
and
his
twelue
Sonnes
the
Patriarches
.
MOSES
and
AARON
will
there
receiue
thee
into
GODS
Sanctum
Sanctorum
;
In
that
glorious
Pallace
,
shalt
thou
behold
,
all
the
Kings
of
ISRAEL
,
all
the
Tribes
of
IVDA
,
all
the
ancient
Prophets
,
all
the
Apostles
,
all
the
Saints
and
glorious
Army
of
Martyrs
,
with
branches
of
Palme-trees
in
their
Hands
,
and
golden
Starres
sticking
on
their
fore-heads
.
Nay
,
there
thou
shalt
see
thy
Redeemer
sitting
at
the
right
hand
of
this
Father
;
There
(
face
to
face
)
shalt
thou
see
GOD
himselfe
,
attended
on
by
Angels
Archangels
,
Principalities
,
and
Powers
,
Cherubins
,
and
Seraphins
;
And
who
would
not
reioyce
,
to
be
setting
forward
on
this
blessed
Iourney
,
to
the
end
he
may
at
length
come
to
be
a
fellow-Citizen
,
in
the
Heauenly
HIERVSALEM
.
All
the
Kingdomes
on
the
Earth
,
are
not
worth
the
Seeling
of
that
glorious
Chamber
of
Presence
,
which
is
in
this
Court
:
This
is
a
Kingdome
,
where
there
are
no
changes
of
Kings
;
No
alterations
of
State
:
No
losse
of
Peeres
:
No
Warres
:
No
Reuenges
:
No
Citizens
flying
for
feare
of
Infection
:
None
dying
of
Them
,
that
stay
,
No
Women-keepers
to
rob
you
of
your
Goods
,
nor
to
hasten
you
to
your
End
:
In
this
Coelestiall
Kingdome
,
there
is
true
Majestie
,
True
Glory
,
True
Honour
,
True
Beauty
,
True
Peace
,
True
Liberty
,
True
Health
:
There
is
all
Life
,
All
Happinesse
,
All
Immortality
.
To
this-Kingdome
,
the
King
of
Heauen
and
Earth
,
call
vs
when
it
is
his
Pleasure
.
FINIS
.