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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B081116.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>&para; A godly Ballad declaring by the Scrip+tures the plagues that haue in&s;ued whordome.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>_REfrain of youth thy. vain de&s;ire.</L>
<L>&s;ubdue thy lu&s;ts inordinate:</L>
<L>Suppre&s;&s;e y^e &s;parks le&s;t if the fire,</L>
<L>to quenche them it wilbe to late.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thou know&s;te not what a poi&s;o~ &s;trong</L>
<L>thou lette&s;t breed within thy bre&s;t,</L>
<L>Whiche if thou keep within thee long,</L>
<L>wil cau&s;e thee care and muche vnre&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Though it &s;eem &s;weet in thy conceit,</L>
<L>beware thou neuer nuri&s;h it:</L>
<L>The Fi&s;h is by a ple&s;ant bait,</L>
<L>con&s;trained to the deadly bit.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Like as the woorm in Affrick bred.</L>
<L>who&s;e &s;ting de&s;troith with venem colde:</L>
<L>Is not &s;o noi&s;ome to be fled,</L>
<L>as lu&s;t that reigneth vncontrolde.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If rea&s;on caunot rule thy wil.</L>
<L>but vice will reign through appetite:</L>
<L>Then let thy harmes that happen &s;til,</L>
<L>(through lu&s;ts) refrain thy fond delight.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Remember eke that in Noes dayes,</L>
<L>when vice through lu&s;t was rifly growne:</L>
<L>The whole world by &s;uche wicked waies,</L>
<L>by rage of Rain was ouerthrowne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The King of Egipt Pharao,</L>
<L>was be not plagued of God mo&s;te iu&s;t:</L>
<L>Bothe he and all his hou&s;e al&s;o,</L>
<L>onely for he gaue place to lu&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>So read we of Abimelech,</L>
<L>the mighty King of Gerera:</L>
<L>That God gaue him a grenous check,</L>
<L>for lu&s;ting after Saraa.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Lu&s;t did de&s;troy the Sodomites,</L>
<L>as is in Scripture manife&s;t:</L>
<L>For lu&s;t were &s;lain the Sichamites,</L>
<L>when Sichem Dina had oppre&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Lu&s;t did the wits &s;omuche inchaunt.</L>
<L>of Putipher the gipcians wife:</L>
<L>That Io&s;eph for be would not graunt,</L>
<L>her &s;ute &s;he brought nigh from his life.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Beth&s;aba naked in bath,</L>
<L>bewitched &s;o King Dauids brain:</L>
<L>That giltles he procured hath,</L>
<L>her hu&s;band Vry to be &s;lain.</L>
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<LG>
<L>The cheef among the I&s;raelites,</L>
<L>for noughty lu&s;t and eke offence:</L>
<L>Wrought by the meanes of Moabites,</L>
<L>were hanged vp by Gods &s;entence.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For lu&s;t Zimry the I&s;raelite,</L>
<L>as witne&s;&s;eth Gods holy woord:</L>
<L>And Co&s;by eke the Madianite,</L>
<L>peri&s;hed bothe through Zimphas &s;woord,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The I&s;raelites through fle&s;hly lu&s;t.</L>
<L>towards their enmies doughters were:</L>
<L>Alluerd by them fal&s;e Gods to tru&s;t,</L>
<L>whiche all their thraldomes cau&s;ed clere.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Samp&s;on the &s;onne of Monoa,</L>
<L>that mighty Iudge in I&s;rael:</L>
<L>For lu&s;t he had to Dalila,</L>
<L>him &s;elf to kil greef did compel.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Lo, him that none coulde foil in fight,</L>
<L>who&s;e pui&s;&s;ant arme the Lion &s;hew:</L>
<L>Who&s;e &s;trength put thou&s;ands vnto flight,</L>
<L>by lu&s;t one woman ouerthrew.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Lu&s;t in the tribe of Beniamin,</L>
<L>ca&s;t twenty thou&s;and down and fiue:</L>
<L>So that in all for that one &s;in,</L>
<L>were but &s;ix hundred left on liue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If Ammons lu&s;t had not defilde,</L>
<L>his &s;i&s;ter Thamar with ince&s;t:</L>
<L>He had not of his life been &s;poild,</L>
<L>at Ab&s;olon his brothers fea&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If lu&s;t had not impaird the name,</L>
<L>of Salomon that witty King:</L>
<L>He had not lo&s;t his roiall fame,</L>
<L>nor fallen to Idolls wor&s;hiping.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If Herod in his &s;inful life,</L>
<L>had not by lu&s;t been &s;ore mi&s;led:</L>
<L>He had not kept his brothers wife.</L>
<L>nor &s;tricken of Iohn Bapti&s;ts head.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>&para; Now what be the&s;e but tokens &s;ure,</L>
<L>That God will plage all tho&s;e that v&s;e:</L>
<L>To lead their liues in lu&s;t vnpure,</L>
<L>and with out fear them &s;elues abu&s;e&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But &s;ome doo think God dooth not &s;ee,</L>
<L>to eche mannes dooing in all things,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e &s;ome &s;eem ful &s;afe to be,</L>
<L>and pro&s;per &s;til in il liuings.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But if &s;uche wil geue ear vnto,</L>
<L>Gods woord which dooth the truth vs tel:</L>
<L>Shal &s;oon perceiue tho&s;e that liue &s;o,</L>
<L>&s;hall &s;udenly go down to hel.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Therfore to God now let vs pray&punc;</L>
<L>that he wil gide our harts a right:</L>
<L>To flee from filthy lu&s;ts alway,</L>
<L>and him to plea&s;e with all out might.</L>
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<LG>
<L>And al&s;o for our gracious Queene,</L>
<L>that God long pro&s;per her and then:</L>
<L>Good dayes among vs may be &s;eene,</L>
<L>whiche vnto vs he graunt, Amen.</L>
</LG>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>A. I.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>Finis.</TRAILER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at London at the long Shop adioining vnto Sainct Mildreds Churche in the Poultrie by Iohn Allde.</P>
<P>Anno Domini <HI>1566.</HI> Nouembris, <HI>25.</HI></P>
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