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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>LONDONS
OUT-CRY
TO HER
Si&s;ter-Cities of England.</HEAD>
<L>REmarke (deare <HI>Si&s;ters</HI> of this noble I&s;le)</L>
<L>My di&s;mall <HI>Tragaedie:</HI> perhaps awhile</L>
<L>You &s;afe may be, &s;o long as my &s;upply</L>
<L>Can be extorted by the Soldiery;</L>
<L>Whil&s;t that their wolvi&s;h hands, like <HI>Lycanthrops,</HI></L>
<L>Our hou&s;es plundred have, and robb'd our &s;hopps,</L>
<L>De&s;poyl'd our Churches, and defil'd our Wives,</L>
<L>Murder'd our Servants, and enthrall'd our lives;</L>
<L>But when they ruin'd have us and undone,</L>
<L>Expect your dreadfull Vi&s;itation.</L>
<L>What <HI>Safety</HI> can we looke for from &s;uch, where</L>
<L>The Lyon, Tygre, Panther, Wolfe, and Beare,</L>
<L>(With &s;uch like bea&s;ts of prey) &s;it in <HI>Committee,</HI></L>
<L>Who&s;e Salvage Natures have no &s;en&s;e of pitty?</L>
<L>When fierce <HI>Lycaon</HI> is Dictator; when</L>
<L>Blood-&s;ucking <HI>Nero, Commodus,</HI> or then</L>
<L>When damn'd Apo&s;tatizing <HI>Julian</HI> reign,</L>
<L>When Hell's broke loo&s;e, and all the Devils &s;treyn</L>
<L>For the Supremacy, and who &s;hould be</L>
<L>The White&s;t Devil by Hypocri&s;y.</L>
<L>When all our Lawfull <HI>Princes</HI> bani&s;h'd are,</L>
<L>When a blind Cobler (for a bulke) the Chayr</L>
<L>Of State u&s;urp's; when Grooms and Porters take</L>
<L>The Regal Sword, and Plead for Con&s;cience &s;ake;</L>
<L>When nothing but Rebellion can be &s;aid,</L>
<L>Or beggary the Tutors of their trade.</L>
<L>When <HI>Church</HI> and <HI>State</HI> in &s;ad Confu&s;ion lie,</L>
<L>When nothing perk's up but cropp't <HI>Anarchie.</HI></L>
<L>There is no Safety by the <HI>Hills</HI> or <HI>Field,</HI></L>
<L>Our fruitfull <HI>Meads</HI> nothing but danger yeild,</L>
<L>Our Pa&s;tures, Gardins, Walkes, Streets, Lanes, High-wayes</L>
<L>With Theives and Robbers Plagu'd are, like tho&s;e dayes,</L>
<L>When <HI>Jeremie</HI> his <HI>Lamentations</HI> wrote,</L>
<L>And <HI>Sions</HI> Mu&s;ick tun'd a mournfull Note.</L>
<L>Our <HI>Senatours</HI> no more than <HI>Stators</HI> are,</L>
<L>Rendred mo&s;t vile and ba&s;e: the <HI>Speakers</HI> Chayr,</L>
<L>Which for five <HI>Centuries</HI> hath had renown,</L>
<L>Is made the Scorn of every <HI>Red-coat</HI> Clown.</L>
<L>The Glory of our head is fallen, and</L>
<L>Our headle&s;s members like dumb Statues &s;tand.</L>
<L>The Ba&s;ilick (of all the veins the chief)</L>
<L>Being Contu&s;'d, ob&s;tructed, &s;topps in brief</L>
<L>The Faculty and Energy o'th' parts,</L>
<L>Contracts a Lethargie or wor&s;e on hearts,</L>
<L>So that the Bodies &s;tupified, do lie</L>
<L>Sen&s;ele&s;s, halfe-dead, or at the point to die.</L>
<L>As 'tis in Naturalls &s;o is our ca&s;e,</L>
<L>The lawfull Magi&s;trate, '&s;hould &s;tand in place,</L>
<L>As the &s;ole Vital of the State, by force</L>
<L>Is now &s;uppre&s;t, and thereby all the cour&s;e</L>
<L>And Rules of Policy and Law &s;ubverted,</L>
<L>Ju&s;tice exil'd, and Rapes of right a&s;&s;erted,</L>
<L>Murder and Theft, and what is mo&s;t condemn'd,</L>
<L>By th' Law of God, (which more and more's Bla&s;phem'd)</L>
<L>Is by our Vult'rous Crew, and Vip'rous Brood</L>
<L>Maintain'd to be the principle of good:</L>
<L>As if the &s;eeds of Empire be&s;t are &s;own</L>
<L>In blood, and that when no man knowes his own,</L>
<L>And all things in the mo&s;t di&s;traction are,</L>
<L>Then &s;hould the onely Cure be for de&s;paire,</L>
<L>And order neare&s;t to return againe:</L>
<L>As when Chyrurgeons launcing of a veine,</L>
<L>Repell the virulence of Fevers, and</L>
<L>When Contraries bring be&s;t Effects to hand.</L>
<L>But may &s;uch &s;onns of blood like <HI>Cyrus,</HI> be</L>
<L>Drench'd ore in blood, and never live to &s;ee</L>
<L>The Ble&s;&s;ing of a &s;econd part of dayes,</L>
<L>And may their memory no greater prai&s;e</L>
<L>Have, than what <HI>Cataline</HI>'s Con&s;piracy</L>
<L>Obtein'd hath in the Roman Hi&s;tory.</L>
<L>May &s;uch Subvertors of all right and rea&s;on</L>
<L>Receive the due rewards of Hell-bred trea&s;on.</L>
<L>May (like their Crimes) their names dete&s;ted be,</L>
<L>And wither like good <HI>Jonah</HI>'s &s;hort-liv'd tree:</L>
<L>May &s;uch as will runn through &s;tich, as they &s;ay,</L>
<L>In Mi&s;chief have at <HI>la&s;t</HI> in full their pay.</L>
<L>He that would have my Famous Seat con&s;um'd</L>
<L>In flames, and his Bituminous &s;cent perfum'd,</L>
<L>With the Oblation of my Childrens Bones,</L>
<L>And all my Glory made an heap of Stones,</L>
<L>May he tormented be with greater &s;kill</L>
<L>Alive, and then in Hell receive his fill,</L>
<L>By all Artifices the Devils can</L>
<L>Invent to torture &s;uch a <HI>Julian.</HI></L>
<L>Let Horror and De&s;paire (like <HI>Nero,</HI>) &s;eaze</L>
<L>Such, and their own Swords give um a relea&s;e,</L>
<L>By their own hands, that Gods revenge may be</L>
<L>More Glorified in their iniquity;</L>
<L>And may his Gratious providence defend</L>
<L>Me and my Children, from Old <HI>Rome</HI>'s &s;ad End.</L>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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