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<DATE>2008-11-04</DATE>
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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>A Few Words TO THE RULERS of this NATIO<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 letter"></HEAD>
<BYLINE><ADD>By Judith Boulby</ADD></BYLINE>
<P>O <HI>England!</HI> Is it a Time to &s;olace thy &s;elf in Mu&s;ick and <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="3 letters">+cing? Is not the Time exceeding Precious? and wilt <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;pend thy Pretious Time in Plea&s;ure and Vanity? O <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 word"> many wicked Societies that are gathered together in thee, O Na<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="4+ letters"> &s;ome to Carding and Dicing, others to Drinking and Fea&s;ting, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 word"> upon the Stages, many to the May-Games, Hor&s;e-Matches, F<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 span"> Matches, Ringing o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Bells, Mu&s;ick going up and down thy Stre<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="3+ letters"> When alas, O Nation, for ought thou knowe&s;t, the Vials of <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 word"> Wrath may even be ready to be poured out without Mixture; <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 word"> Wo! Wo from the Lord God to all Magi&s;trates and Rulers, tha<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="2 letters">+fer &s;uch Ungodline&s;s as this to abound.</P>
<P>Oh <HI>England!</HI> Thou ha&s;t far exceeded <HI>Sodom</HI> in thy Prophane<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="2 letters"> How hath Wickedne&s;s &s;pread it &s;elf over the Land? How <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 word"> Oaths and Drunkenne&s;s abound in the Nation? How <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 word"> gro&s;s Darkne&s;s cover the Hearts of the People, as though they <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 word"> made a League with Death, and an Agreement with Hell? <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 word"> your League with Death mu&s;t be di&s;annulled, and your Agreem<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="3 letters"> with Hell it mu&s;t not &s;tand: For the Lord God he is ari&s;en; an<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 letter"> hath rai&s;ed a Seed, that can never bow to Man; and he hath <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 span"> up a Poor People in whom he will place his Power, which Po<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="3 letters"> mu&s;t confound the Wi&s;dom of the Wi&s;e.</P>
<P>Oh thou Land of my Nativity! for whom my Soul breathes <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 word"> travels, Lay a&s;ide thy great Exce&s;s and Wantonne&s;s in Appa<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 span"> and put on Sack-Cloth, and Cry mightyly unto the Lord, if <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 span"> adventure he may Repent him of the Evil, and &s;pare thee.</P>
<P>And Friends, you who are put in Power to be Governours of <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 word"> Nation, O exerci&s;e your Power for God, and put a &s;peedy S<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 span"> to this Prophanene&s;s, le&s;t that your Power be <UNCLEAR>given</UNCLEAR> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 span"></P>
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