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The vveeping lady: or, London like Niniuie in sack-cloth Describing the mappe of her owne miserie, in this time of her heauy visitation; with her hearty prayers, admonition, and pious meditations, as the occasions of them offer themselues in her passion. Written by T.B.
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T. B. (Thomas Brewer)
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To which be pleas'd to Bow And what their prayers did then let ours doe now With this Exhortation to her Sonnes in the briefe Enumeration or Repetition of some things formerly spoken by way of Allusion Shee Concludes HEare then my Bells call to the Church and Death Reuiew my Graues There the full point of Breath Know thy proud flesh a Prison to thy Soule The Crosse a Badge did Death and Hell controuse 〈…〉 thou the Lawe of Heau'ns eternall Loue The Acts and Statutes of that Court Aboue Loue thou the sights the blessed Angels see Serue thou the God with whom All pleasures be Obey his Royall Substitute thy King Let loue among you haue an endlesse Spring Leuell your words and Actions to the will Of Him has power to pardon or to spill And I shall soone be well and you in Me And I in you All our best wishes see The Authors comfortable Conclusion and thankfull Remembrance of Gods great mercies in the happy surcease of this dangerous Contagion and preseruation of those who are yet liuing THus much for this Cloude of miserie now to that gloriouâ— Sunne of Gods mercy which most graciously rising vpon vs hath begun to dissolue dissipate and dispell it in the decrease of those that dye of this heauily bewayled Contagion Vpon which looking let vs say with Dauid What shall I returne to the Lord c. Withall make this promise and zealously striue to performe it That that God that in his Anger remembers Mercy That desires not the death of a Sinner but rather than he returne and liue may continue this mercy to vs and speedily if it be his blessed will and pleasure say as he said to that destroying Angell in the time of his Kingly Prophet It is sufficient hold now thy hand That so we heere at home and those abroad that as if they could slye from God slew from vs may againe meete he decently merry Liue louingly assist one another willingly and finally that All together to him that of â—othing hath made vs that lost hath Redeemed vs that erring reduced vs that Ignorant hath taught vs that sinning hath gently chastised vs that dispayring hath comforted vs that falling hath raised vs that standing hath held vs that going hath lead vs that Comming hath receiued vs And that from this and many other dangers hath deliuered vs. Wee may shew our selues euermore thankfull still pray still praise him that so this span of Life ended we may falling in death rise againe to that Life that shall neuer end Foure things euer to bee Remembred Thinke on thy Sinne That thou maist grieue On DEATH That thou thy sin maist leaue The Last great Iudge That thou maist feare On MERCIE that thou not dispaire FINIS Towling night and day Digression The King his returne from Spaine The Queenes arriuall The neglect of our duties remembred Her Counsell to flye to him from him we cannot All things made for man man for God Deaths Triumph A great helpe to liue is to remember we must die The Wife The Husband Parents Children The summ of their misery Yes Prayer Our Crosse dealing one with another Our sinnes the cause of our fichnesse These Crosses the Badge of Death Her incitement to Prayer and â—oly duties The necesty of them ¶ Her Termes Her Parament LONDON Westminst Oxenford Her Petition ¶ Her Pageants What they should be What they shall be What they are Her briefe Petitions Of this Massacre in generall Whole Families taken away The Flight of Citizens Her Sons â—ith her â—ender Hearts anâ—uish for it 1. Her greeâ— for them that mind not Hers. 2. Met and stayed like Felâ—ons 3. Shew their Passes like Rogues Their enâ—tainmeÌ„t Marke 〈◊〉 miseâ—â— Hardly welcome Hard â—odging â— Their miseries in their sicknesse 9. The tendance 10. Many there as with vs dye in the common way 〈◊〉 Ditche The s 〈◊〉 God a Dâ—uell Her Apostrophe in Groues sighing His Proclamation is Falling an Prayer Niniu buckler Hezekiahs Prayer His life prolonged by Prayer 〈…〉
might as it ought afford A fruitfull Haruest of good workes no doubt We had not heard these clangors flye about Thus to affright to wound vs. But 't is Iust Those sounds we would not heare these sounds we must Till Heau'n be pleas'd to still'em That He may Le ts flye to meet him Weepe and Fast and Pray The Graues still greedily gaping O See like wounds digg'd in my tender side My multitude of Graues that gaping wide Are hourely fed with Carcasses of Men Those hardly swallowed they 'le be fed agen Gorg'd with my Sonnes and Daughters as if Hee All things were made for were but made to be A prey to wormes As if the end of Birth Were 〈◊〉 to cry to labour and in Earth Haue his eternall period As if Breath Were a Childes bubble and the sport of Death For so Hee triumphs now so now He kills So empties Houses so the Graue he fills Those Tenements of his Where many lye Too many manyes not like things that dye Assur'd in their Redeemer that they shall Rise to a Beeing whence they ne're can fall But I ha' done Passion thy power is strong The rest in weeping teares are sorrowes Tongue Sleepe sleepe in peace my Children in your dust Wee see what t' is to brittle life to trust And Her still fayling Adjuncts For thus fades The Pompe of flesh And enter'd those darke shades From Court or from the Village All are one Degrees in Life there are in Death there 's none Her Houses their Masters Prison O See my Sonnes and Daughters that suruiue Their Houshold massacr'e halfe dead aliue In their owne Houses buried or as bad Enjayl'd imprison'd In that passion clad That to behold them makes Affection wring My Heart to Blood mine Eyes into a spring Maternall loues Companions See the Wife Sadly bemone the losse of halfe Her life I' th' losse of her poore Husband See her sit While sighes doe sighes and teares doe teares beget Ready to follow him from this sad vale To His eternall Mansion See the pale And gastly seate of death vpon the face Of Husbands for their Wiues Behold the Race Of griefe in Parents for the sad depart Of Sonnes and Daughters Sonnes and Daughters smart To see the stroake this strange Disease doth giue Vpon those Liues by which they Be and Liue. See them debard all meetings of delight See them debard society and sight Of Kindred and Familiars See them there Bard the best pleasure that doth Passion cheare Their Recreatiue walkes losing their share Of what all taste the sweet and wholsome Ayre A poore mans only physicke See them loose The benefits of those poore Trades they vse To summe vp all their miseries in one See them i' th' Dongeon of laments and mone Yet thus it must be by the Lawes and Loue Of me their Citie and of that Aboue For 't is by Heau'n commanded Thou great God That more delightst in Mercy then thy Rod. Ioyning them both together be to these In their need plenty in their Languor ease And in the midst of this infectious flame Let thy good Angell come and be the same To them and me their Mother that He was To those i' th' midst of burning Flames did passe Vntouch'd or vnoffended In thy Hand Is Life and Death All power in thy Command Her Multitude of Crosses O See me full of Crosses see and weepe To see the Crosse thus like a Gangrene creepe From part to part vpon me Nor i st strange Wee weare these Crosses they are Heau'ns exchange Of Crosses with 's Wee Crosses had before The Rich-mans Crosse vpon the hungry Poore In griping and ingrossing which to quit Need ha's agen with a dexterious Wit Crost them in Cheats and Theeuing Woe is me The many Crosses of a Terme to see Strange Crosses in strange Cases Then a sleight The Crosse of Measure and the Crosse of Weight The Crosse of honest-seeming to deceiue The Crosse of Swearing to make men beleeue What Truth is rackt to looke on And for these Crosses of Sinne the Crosses of Disease Sticke like a brand vpon 's vpon vs fall The First on many but the Last on All. But to the Crosse agen which doth present In all but in my Sorrowes all Content Saint George his Crosse Englands the Badge of Ioy Is heere the Badge of Him that doth destroy No Champion euer like Him For His power In thousand Places Thousands in one Hower Turnes to the Pit before Him Gainst this losse O lets petition Heau'n and that this Crosse This Viol full of Anger may bee staid Which till it be by the Almighty laid Wee patiently must beare it 'T is decreed For Hee for Vs vpon a Crosse did bleed Has told vs plainly we His Crosse must beare Or nere ascend His Dwelling Where no care No Chance no Change Time or Defection dwels But All so full of Glory it excels The Compasse of Mans thought Toth' Crosse we then Add Lord haue Mercy vpon vs All. AMEN O See my Termes cut off in them the Law That eeuen Line Iustice her selle doth draw Guiding to pious dealing Like a Mute Nor hinder wrong nor help a rightfull Suite While my Infection spreads Woes woe succeed Of all Demurres heere 's a Demurre indeed ¶ See how the City ha's disturbd the Court How my Disease ha's troubled the Import And weighty Businesses of that High Seat Where Royall Charles and his graue Synod treat The grounds of all our safety And at last Dissolu'd that Royall meeting heere and plac'd Mine and my Sisters Dignity and Grace Vpon a Handmaid to vs. Ore which Place Thou God of Mercy all thy Mercies spread And there and heere and euery where strike dead This All-deuouring Monster Let thy loue Make this an Act in thy great Court aboue ¶ O See how my Disease has seem'd to checke The loue and dutie is prepar'd to decke My streetes with stately Pageants Things should weare Much Cost much Art and in their structures beare The fulnesse of Inuention where the Eye May feast it selfe on the varity Of specious Formes and Figures and the Eare The soule of all those rich Inuentions heare Deliuer'd in Choyce language I presume That thus they shall be when they shall assume Their costly Robes preparing But alas They yet stand bare and naked and men passe By them as by my selfe for that Disease That dyms my lustre has denyed it these And all those Beauties my large Bounds embrace Repaire sweet Mercy what sad frownes deface O see how thicke these shafts of vengeance flye How thicke they fall how thicke Men fall and dye Which way so e're we turne vs If your eyes Can see for Teares see how this Tyrant plyes The cruell part Hee 's acting How He sweepes Whole Familyes before him and then keepes In dismall emptinesse Possession there Where life