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<HEAD>The Worlds Wonder.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<P>Or, A &s;trange and miraculous work of Gods pro|vidence, &s;hewed to a poor di&s;tre&s;&s;ed widdow and her &s;even &s;mall father|l<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter"> children, who lived by a burnt &s;ix penny-loaf of bread, and a little water, for above &s;even weeks, in the wilde of Kent.</P>
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<OPENER>To the Tune of, Chevy Cha&s;e.</OPENER>
<P><FIGURE>
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<LG>
<L>TAke comfort Chri&s;tians all,</L>
<L>for never &s;hall you &s;&eacute;e,</L>
<L>The faithful &s;ort for&s;aken quite,</L>
<L>and left in mi&s;ery,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who lives and loves to hear,</L>
<L>the truth in each degr&eacute;e,</L>
<L>The &s;tory of a Widdows plaint,</L>
<L>let them give ear to m&eacute;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who by this widdow here</L>
<L>&s;ufficient have b&eacute;en try'd,</L>
<L>The which was left both poor and bare</L>
<L>when as her Husband dy'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And &s;even young Children &s;mall,</L>
<L>upon her hands likewi&s;e,</L>
<L>And knew not how to buy them bread,</L>
<L>their hunger to &s;uffice.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>She labours night and day,</L>
<L>&s;he &s;pins and takes great pain.</L>
<L>And many a thing to buy them bread,</L>
<L>God knows &s;he layes to pawn,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But when this help did fail,</L>
<L>as time con&s;umeth all,</L>
<L>Oh! then &s;he knew not how to k&eacute;ep,</L>
<L>her hungry Children &s;mall.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Mo&s;t Mighty God &s;he &s;aid,</L>
<L>ca&s;t down a tender eye,</L>
<L>And &s;uffer not thy &s;ervants here,</L>
<L>in hunger for to dye.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thou that the Ravens did &s;end,</L>
<L><HI>Elias</HI> for to f&eacute;ed,</L>
<L>When that he was in Wilderne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>in extream want and n&eacute;ed.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And rained bread from Heaven,</L>
<L>old <HI>I&s;rael</HI> to pre&s;erve,</L>
<L>And would&s;t not in the Lyons den,</L>
<L>let <HI>Daniel</HI> pine nor &s;tarve.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I know my Lord &s;he &s;aid,</L>
<L>thou did&s;t five thou&s;and f&eacute;ed,</L>
<L>With five &s;mall loaves of barly bread,</L>
<L>as we in Scripture read.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And each one had enough,</L>
<L>their hunger to &s;u&s;tain,</L>
<L>And afterwards twelve baske&s;ts full,</L>
<L>of &s;craps did &s;till remain,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I know my Lord &s;he &s;aid,</L>
<L>thou art &s;o mighty &s;till,</L>
<L>And therefore every thing be done,</L>
<L>according to thy will.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Her prayer ended thus,</L>
<L>Her children cryed &s;traight way,</L>
<L>O mother dear give us &s;ome bread,</L>
<L>we have eat none to day.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Give m&eacute;e &s;ome bread &s;aid one,</L>
<L>give mee &s;ome bread &s;aid another,</L>
<L>And thus the &s;illy Infants flock,</L>
<L>about their carefull mother.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The good &s;oul hearing this,</L>
<L>per&s;wades them to be &s;till,</L>
<L>O &s;oon at night my Lambs quoth &s;hee,</L>
<L>you &s;hall have bread your fill.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I will to market go,</L>
<L>though corn be wondrous dear,</L>
<L>And &s;ell my Gown to buy a peck,</L>
<L>If you will be quiet here.</L>
</LG>
<P><FIGURE>
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<LG>
<L>THe Children &s;mil'd at this,</L>
<L>content they did remain,</L>
<L>Good Mother every one could &s;ay,</L>
<L>come quickly home again.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Three miles this woman went,</L>
<L>unto the Market-town,</L>
<L>And for five &s;hillings at the la&s;t,</L>
<L>&s;he &s;old her ru&s;&s;et Gown.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who being glad in heart,</L>
<L>to Market &s;treight &s;he hies,</L>
<L>But there ala&s;s her pur&s;e was cut,</L>
<L>ere any corn &s;he buyes,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>She cryeth out God wot,</L>
<L>&s;he weeps and makes great moan</L>
<L>To every one that pa&s;&s;eth by,</L>
<L>her grief &s;he makes it known.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But yet behold and &s;ee</L>
<L>here in her woeful ca&s;e</L>
<L>Her husbands brother he was one</L>
<L>that &s;old corn in that place.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This woeful Woman then,</L>
<L>did him de&s;ire and pray.</L>
<L>To tru&s;t her with one peck of corn,</L>
<L>till the next market day.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But he denyes her flat,</L>
<L>And thus he tells her plain</L>
<L>I &s;hall not have to &s;erve my turne,</L>
<L>till corne doth come again.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>More heed you might have took,</L>
<L>unto your pur&s;e quoth he,</L>
<L>And not to lo&s;e your money here,</L>
<L>&s;o fond and fooli&s;hly.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The&s;e dogged an&s;wers cut</L>
<L>this good &s;oul to the heart,</L>
<L>E&s;pecially when &s;he did think,</L>
<L>upon her infants &s;mart.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who &s;its and &s;trives at home,</L>
<L>poor &s;ouls but all in va<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">e,</L>
<L>Which of them &s;hould the high&s;t p&eacute;ece,</L>
<L>of bread and butter gain.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But farre ala&s;s were they.</L>
<L>from butter bread or ch&eacute;e&s;e,</L>
<L>Or any thing to comfort them</L>
<L>that their poor Mother &s;ee's.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But now behold Gods work,</L>
<L>as homeward &s;he return'd</L>
<L>A baker's boy gave her a loaf</L>
<L>which was in baking burn'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>She gave God thanks for that,</L>
<L>and joyfull in her hand</L>
<L>She bears the bread home to her babes</L>
<L>which waiting for her &s;tand.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>She ki&s;&s;es them each one,</L>
<L>and with a chearful look</L>
<L>And &s;aid we will to &s;upper go</L>
<L>when you have &s;aid your book.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Mean time &s;he makes a fire</L>
<L>and apples therein throw,</L>
<L>The widdow and her &s;even Children,</L>
<L>to &s;upper &s;w&eacute;etly go.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The apples ro&s;ted well,</L>
<L>and &s;he doth cut them bread,</L>
<L>On every peece mo&s;t lovingly</L>
<L>&s;he doth the Apple &s;pread.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In&s;tead of drink they had,</L>
<L>a cup of water clear,</L>
<L>And every Childe rejoyced much</L>
<L>and &s;aid, here is good chear.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Behold when they had &s;up't,</L>
<L>for God their food did ble&s;&s;e</L>
<L>When they had &s;up't and were &s;uffic'd,</L>
<L>the loaf was never the le&s;&s;e,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For &s;even weeks &s;pa<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e together</L>
<L>as &s;torys plainly &s;pread,</L>
<L>The Widdow and her &s;even children</L>
<L>by this one loaf was fed.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Cut-pur&s;e-man I &s;ay,</L>
<L>he broke his neck in <HI>Kent,</HI></L>
<L>E're he of this poor Widdows Coyn,</L>
<L>one &s;ingle penny had &s;pent,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And yet behold and &s;ee,</L>
<L>her husband's churli&s;h brother,</L>
<L>Which would not lend a peck of corn,</L>
<L>to &s;uccor one or other,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Had &s;treight way after this,</L>
<L>his corn clean wa&s;h't away,</L>
<L>All by a mighty flood that ro&s;e,</L>
<L>before the break of day.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Gentle men and &s;uch</L>
<L>which did this wonder &s;ee.</L>
<L>Vnto the Widdow gave &s;uch gifts,</L>
<L>that never more wanted &s;he,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Take comfort Chri&s;tians all,</L>
<L>for never &s;hall you &s;ee,</L>
<L>The faithful &s;ort for&s;aken quite,</L>
<L>and left in mi&s;ery.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P><HI>London Printed for Grove on Snow-hill.</HI></P>
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