To the brazen-head This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A62714 of text R22757 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T1389A). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A62714 Wing T1389A ESTC R22757 12364760 ocm 12364760 60379 2240975868

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A62714) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 60379) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 900:12) To the brazen-head 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1685?] Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. Appeal to "... change nothing of religion nor the laws, then no discontent shall here invade." Broadside. eng Freedom of religion -- England -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides eebo To the brazen-head. [no entry] 1688 1 341 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Sampled and proofread 2008-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
To the Brazen-Head . WHat Strepitantious Noise is it that sounds , From Raised Banks , or from the Lower Grounds ? From Hollow Caverns , Labyrinths from afar , Threatning Confusions of a Dreadful War ? What Dismal Cries of people in Despair Fill the vast Region of the Troubled Air ? The Tune of Horrour , or of what 's as strange , That strikes uneven like a World of Change , With such a Bold Surprize attacks my Sense , Beyond the Power of Counsel or Defence ? But tho' Blind Fortune rolls her turning Wheel With a perpetual Motion , who can feel This Surge of Fate , push't on with Fire and Steel ? You precious Moments of Serener Days ! When many Victories enlarg'd my Praise , And all things ran in a most easie Stream , Back unto me their Ocean and Supream . Are you all vanish'd by the sudden Fright , And left m' incompass'd with a Dismal Night ? By my own Subjects in suspicion held , Murmurings , as bad as if they had Rebell'd ? You all Controuling Powers of things above ! Whose easier Dictates guide the World by Love ! Avert th' Impendent Miseries , and show Us Earthly Gods to Govern here below ! The Answer . 'T IS well you 've thought upon the chiefest Cause Change nothing of Religion nor the Laws , And then no Discontent shall here Invade , For Thieves would enter out of a Bravade , To rectify all wrongs , when their Intent 'S themselves t' inrich , and not the Government . Let the Great Monarch this good Motto wear , Not only in his Arms but every where . Integer Vitae , is my whole Defence , Scelerisque purus , a most strong Defence ; Non eget Mauri , that no Forces need , Jaculis nec Arcu , which Contentions breed : Nec venenatis gravida Sagittis Pharetra , to make Loyal his own Cities . FINIS .