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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
<PB REF="1" MS="y">
<P>MER LINUS ANGLICUS: OR, ENGLAND'S MERLIN.</P>
<P>Prophetically fore-telling, The Admirable Events, and Wonderful Effects, that &s;hall befall the King of Scots, the States of Holland, and the Parliament of England, in all their Con&s;ultations, Warlike Actions, and Naval De&s;ignes, both by Sea and Land, for the Year of our Lord, 1653.</P>
<P>WITH The mo&s;t exact Predictions, and Monthly Ob&s;er|vations, touching the great Ri&s;ing of the European Na|tions again&s;t England; and the &s;ucce&s;s that will attend them in all their Motions, Enterpri&s;es, and Attempts; As al&s;o, the Cau&s;es of the&s;e &s;trange Revolutions, Mutations, Inclinations, and Ever&s;ions of Em|pires, Kingdoms, and Common-wealths.</P>
<P>LIKEWISE, The A&s;tromical Calculations of the Eclip&s;es, Lu|nations, and conjunctions; portending a great Change of Government, Religion, and Law, in England, Scotland, and Ireland; together with the taking off all Taxes, A&s;&s;e&s;ments, Burdens, and Oppre&s;&s;ions; and cal|ling to a &s;evere Account all Committees and Trea&s;urers; with the executing of many great Ones. <ADD>Octob. 26.</ADD></P>
<P>COllected out of the mo&s;t elaborate Works of Captain <HI>George Wharton,</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>Mr. William Lillie, Mr. John Booker, Mr. Vincent Wing,</HI> and <HI>Mr. Nicholas Culpeper,</HI> Students in A&s;trology and phy&s;ick.</P>
<P>London, Printed by R. WOOD, 1653.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="to the reader">
<PB REF="2">
<PB REF="2">
<HEAD>To the Reader.</HEAD>
<P>ONce more I again appear in publique (notwith&s;tanding the late publi&s;hing of an irre|ular and counterfeit Pamphlet, called, <HI>The Dutch bloudy Almanack</HI>) pre&s;enting you with the great Revolutions, Po&s;itions, Pa&s;&s;ions, and Prediction, with every Moneths Ob&s;ervations, for the year of our Lord, 1653. to ether with &s;undry Judgments A&s;trologi|ca: Calculated from the influence of the fir&s;t Oppo&s;ition upon Saturn and Jupiter, 27 Feb. 52, <HI>and</HI> 53, 7 <HI>h.</HI> 16. <HI>P. M.</HI> as al&s;o from the &s;uperlative Actions &s;ignified by the last two years Lunar Eclip&s;es, and by the Solar Eclip&s;e of the 29. March, 1652. But before I enter on this years Judgment, I conceive it mo&s;t requi&s;ite and pertinent, to r<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">ollect and commend to the Ingenious contemplation, the Cau&s;es of the <HI>Mutations, Inclinations, and Ever&s;i|ous of Empires, Kingdoms, and Commonwealths;</HI> and the rather, becau&s;e (as I &s;up|po&s;e) <HI>Time</HI> never produced an Age &s;o full of Prodigies, nor a Generation of Men &s;o enclin'd to Novelty, as now the pre&s;ent; wherein every day pre&s;ents a New Enquiry, every Month a fre&s;h vici&s;&s;itude. The Cau&s;es are thus distingui&s;hed: The fir&s;t Cau&s;e is God, the Creator &amp; Governor of all things, who hath &s;et certain Intervals, and periods of Times, to <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">|rors, &amp;c. among&s;t which periods, the 500 and 700<HI>^t^h</HI> year are accounted mo&s;t fatal A<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> the Natural Rea&s;on hereof, is, for that in this &s;pace of time, there elap&s;eth the 6 Genera<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">n of Men; which abateth of, and more and more declineth from, the &s;implicity, &s;trength and f<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r|titude of tho&s;e Men, who at first obtained and pre&s;erved Empires, by &s;uch Veriues: Fo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> the as the Bodies of men become weak and feeble in the 4<HI>^t^h and</HI> 5<HI>^t^h</HI> Generation, even &s;o al&s;o decrea&s;eth the &s;trength and fortitude, whereby Kingdoms are acquired pre&s;erved and pro|pagated. Secondly, The &s;uperior Natural Cau&s;e, is, the motion and influence of the planets and stars; touching which, learned <HI>Keckerman</HI> gives this <HI>Canon:</HI> Heaven <HI>(&s;aith he)</HI> most effectually operates upon a humane Body, be&s;t agreeable to it &s;elf, and &s;o al&s;o on the Body both of the Prince him&s;elf and his &s;ubjects: to wit, as that it changeth the Temperaments of mens bodies, and with tho&s;e Temperaments their manner<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> or conditions; and the manner or conditions of princes and &s;ubjects being changed, a Mutation of the Commonwealth fol|loweth. And with him agrees that excellent A&s;trologer, <HI>Origanus,</HI> who &s;aith, We ob&s;erve not onely fundry changes and tran&s;lations of Kingdoms, while&s;t the&s;e planets raign, and bear Rule with others; but al&s;o that upon the whole &s;urface of the Earth, there is nothing perpetuall. Thus not doubting, but that thou wilt vouch&s;a&s;e thy friendly acceptance, to the&s;e my weak Indeavors, I humbly devote my &s;elf,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yours, G. H.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="historical and astrological observations">
<PB N="4" REF="3">
<HEAD>Merlinus Anglicus, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<DIV2 N="January" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>Januaries Ob&s;ervations.</HEAD>
<P>THe year &s;eems to begin plea&s;antly; our States promi&s;e fairly; and long-look't for comes at la&s;t; for the heavy burden of the people is removing; the honours of many great Ones are eclip&s;ing; and the &s;ouldiery begin to be highly elevated, while&s;t the poor Countrey Farmer (who&s;e condition I pity) complains and &s;ads his heart, in regard his Cattle are like in many places to peri&s;h for want of fodder and meat. A great change threatens the Lawyer: Sad|ne&s;s &s;eems to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e the &s;pirits of many great Ones. The year initiates fair, but &s;ea&s;onably cold and fro&s;ty; and &s;o continues for the mo&s;t part, until the 15 day, from whence (e&s;pecially about the 18, 19, 20, &amp; 21 dayes) look for abundance of &s;now or rain, and dark unwhole&s;ome weather.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="February" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>Ob&s;ervations on Feb.</HEAD>
<P>GReat are the De&s;igns now in Con&s;ults, and &s;uch as may (by Gods ble&s;&s;ing) make us happy for &s;ome &s;ucceeding years; Angels of Gold plea&s;e the &s;aints on earth, el&s;e why are &s;ome zealous &s;pirits now calmed? Remi&s;s cold fair wea|ther for the mo&s;t part till the 10 day; from whence expect cold winds, Rain or &s;now, until the 14. The 15 and 16 days fair and &s;ea&s;onable. About the 17, 18, &amp; 19 dayes look for more rain and &s;now. The latter end of this month (e&s;pecially the 26 day) will produce impetuous &s;torms of Rain and Hail. Full moon the 2^d day. New moon the 17 day.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="March" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>Ob&s;ervations on March.</HEAD>
<P>THe Hollander is as bu&s;ie as a fly in the hony-pot, and great preparations are making again&s;t us; but alas! I could wi&s;h Noah's Dove might appear with glad tydings of peace, after the&s;e late, long, and terrible wars, which are &s;til like to be for &s;ome years univer&s;al. Some &s;mall &s;now the fir&s;t three days. Much Rain or &s;now about the full Moon, and &s;o for the mo&s;t part till after the 6 day; and thence the Air will be more &s;erene (though very cold and fro&s;ty-mornings] un|till the 15 day. The re&s;t of the month will be fair but windy. The 4 day full Moon, but &s;he's totally eclip&s;ed all England over. The 19 day full Moon.</P>
<P>A word in &s;ea&s;on to the Lawyer: Gentlemen, to deal ingeniou&s;ly, the divine A&s;pects of heaven promi&s;eth fair; ballance your Wi&s;dom in the Skales of Equi|ty, and do ju&s;tice to all men; for there are a people that will &s;well with invec|tives again&s;t Thee neer the&s;e Times.
<Q><L>The Term commences with the Lawyer's grief</L>
<L>[Curt Fees, and they de&s;erve as Curt relief:]</L>
<L>Lawyers prefer the &s;harpe&s;t Lawes, as best</L>
<L>To keep a Common-wealth in peace and rest:</L>
<L>If &s;o; why &s;hould the Gown-men frown and puff</L>
<L>To &s;ee the Courts of Ju&s;tice lyn'd with Buff?</L>
<L>No Plea e're moved as a Sword can do;</L>
<L>For that ore-ruleth Judge and Jury too.</L></Q></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="April" TYPE="month">
<PB N="5" REF="3">
<HEAD>Ob&s;ervations on April.</HEAD>
<P>FOur times &s;hall the Inhabitants of the earth behold the Luminaries eclip&s;ed this yeer, twice the Sun, and as oft the Moon; but we in England, as al&s;o Ire|land, France, Spain, and Scotland, &s;hall not &s;ee any of them, except one, &amp; that total of the Moon, which will happen on the 4. of March; it will begin at one of the clock, 48 min. pa&s;t, in the morning; the beginning will be at one min. before 3 of the clock, the greate&s;t ob&s;curity at 53 min. pa&s;t 3 a clock; the end of it at 17 min. pa&s;t 4, and at 57 min. pa&s;t 5 the Moon will have &s;ully recovered her bor|rowed light: the whole duration will be 4 ho: 9 min. the colour of the Eclip&s;e at the greate&s;t darkne&s;s will be black, with a greeni&s;h a&s;h-colour. The effects wil operate about the 26 of Octob. about which time, up goes &s;ome great Ones in Authority Rain, Thunder, and Lightning, mo&s;t part of the month. Full Moon the 2^d day. New Moon the 16 day.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="May" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>Ob&s;ervations on May.</HEAD>
<P>O Save all, &s;ave all, &s;ave all; never more need; for the month &s;eems to begin with bloud; and &s;ome eminent Gentlemen are expos'd to the mercy of the mercile&s;s. Heavens defend the City and Country from Oppre&s;&s;ion and Tyranny; for violent &s;eavers, the &s;mall pox, and a great &s;ickne&s;s or pe&s;tilence threatens the people. Violent and bloudy &s;ea-fights all along our Coa&s;ts, and great prepara|tions in Scotland to invade us. The month b<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">gins with &s;torms, but ends fairly, with a full Moon the 2^d day, and a new Moon the 16. day.
<Q><L>Whither an Army now? well! I could &s;ay</L>
<L>Who 'tis will get, or who &s;hall lo&s;e the day,</L>
<L>Thra&s;illus like inform you, who &s;hall prove</L>
<L>Victsrioas in's Ambition, who in's Love:</L>
<L>But I am &s;ilent, nay, I must be dumb,</L>
<L>'Tis Trea&s;on, now, to pray, <HI>Thy Kingdom come.</HI></L></Q></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="June" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>Ob&s;ervations on June.</HEAD>
<P>SAd news from &s;everal parts; &amp; our Grandees begin to be &s;omwhat amu&s;ed, oy rea&s;on of the vehemency of an extreme p<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tilence that threatens to remove them from their Judicature at We&s;tmin&s;ter: Gods will be done; but my ardent de&s;ire is, That Divine providence may divert this &s;ore and heavy judgment; and that hunger and &s;ickne&s;s may not afflict the poor: Few Kings and Princes in Europe but &s;hall ta&s;te of the &s;ury of the Eclip&s;e before cited; and tho&s;e that do|mineer like little Lords ought to look about them: but mum! I dare &s;ay no more.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="July" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>July's Ob&s;ervations.</HEAD>
<P>A Sad time! All Europe are up in arms, and the people &s;tretch their wits, even till they break them, to &s;ight again&s;t the Decrees of Heaven. The Common|wealth in general is fore&s;een to be in a good condition, and the States receive good news from their &s;ervants at &s;ea; Which produceth an attonement from the poor <HI>Hogens</HI> of Holland, but without a miracle no peace proceeds; &s;o that they &s;warm like Locu&s;ts in our &s;eas, yet return home hand&s;omly beaten. Here is much &s;narling and tugging again about the Laws and Tythes by di&s;contented &s;ouls, whil&s;t our &s;uperiors are al&s;o among&s;t them&s;elves divided in their con&s;ul|tations, how to appea&s;e the demands of Thou&s;ands, whom nothing will &s;erve or &s;atisfie but a new Election. Oh Heavens! the elaborate Works of many are &s;lighted, and their great policy is not now worth three leaps of a Lou&s;e; Some great Ones are called to an account by man; others by death; and &s;o the Month ends pitifully with the Clergy-mans cry, <HI>Good people, ye are all gone a&s;tray.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="August" TYPE="month">
<PB N="6" REF="4">
<HEAD>Augu&s;t's Ob&s;ervations.</HEAD>
<P>THe Lord defend this Nation from pe&s;tilential Ayrs, ill Weather, Thunder, Lightnings, likely to happen about the beginning of this Month; but it ends with &s;undry cro&s;s &s;ea-fights, much bloud, and great tribulation in many parts, occa&s;ioned by violent Feavers and Abortions. Spain, Rome, and Italy, are much afflicted; and &s;o are &s;ome great ones in England; which make the Farmer &s;mile, to &s;ee &s;ome Oppre&s;&s;ors li<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ted higher then ever their fore-fathers were; but I dare not declare what I think; whet your wits about it: onely thus much by the way, &s;ome will prove headle&s;s. Very hot weather begins the month. Store of Rain about the 4^t^h day; after which the air will be very calm and &s;ea&s;onable: The 13 day New moon. The 16 day Thunder and Lightning. The 23 day wind and rain. The 28 Full Moon. Some Thunder about the 29 day.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="September" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>September's Ob&s;ervations.</HEAD>
<P>WHat! more Knaves yet? beware M^r Trea&s;urer; the &s;ouldier now begins to whet his &s;word, and having found out your Foxes holes, re&s;olves to leave you not worth a groat. Ah brave &s;ouldier! act fairly, down with Oppre&s;|&s;ion, and according to thy promi&s;e re&s;tore us to freedom: Oh that I could but &s;ee that time when Taxes might be taken off, and the Poor might not complain for want of bread! Be of good comfort, fellow-Commoner, it will come, and that quickly too. In the mean time, our Naval Affairs are not plea&s;ing; the &s;ea|man wants money (and &s;o do I) he threatens a return with the Navy, but at the la&s;t returneth again to his duty. The fir&s;t 3 days fair and &s;ea&s;onable. From the 6 to the 14 cold rain and hail. New moon the 11^t^h day. From the 18 to the end of the month much rain, and variety of winds. Full moon the 26 day.
<Q><L>Rare Mi&s;&s;ives n<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">w arriv<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">: Our hearts grow strong,</L>
<L>Wee'll do no right, nor yet will &s;uffer wrong:</L>
<L>Our &s;hips are &s;hatter'd, and their Tackling tore,</L>
<L>The Sea men grumble, and de&s;ire the &s;hore,</L>
<L>But what of that? Large prize, and London pay,</L>
<L>And two Nights Wiveing, make them h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">y&s;t away.</L></Q></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="October" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>Octobers Ob&s;ervations.</HEAD>
<P>THe fir&s;t week of this mouth fills our hearts with joy; Oppre&s;&s;ion growes odious, and afterwards in&s;upportable, <HI>A fair riddance.</HI> Divers of our Merch|ants &s;hips with &s;afety return from the we&s;tern parts, from the Straights, and Le|vant &s;eas. Great preparation throughout the European Nations, for <HI>C. Stuart,</HI> and that young valiant &s;on of Mars his brother <HI>James</HI> &s;eemes ready for action, France and Holland combines again&s;t us, and many other Princes promi&s;e a&s;&s;i&s;t|ance. Fair weather from the 3^d to the 6. From the 6. till the 10 cold &s;howers and bitter bla&s;ts. New moon the 11 day. More winds and rain about the 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, &amp; 22 days, after which the weather will be better untill after the full moon; and thence you &s;hall have very turbulent winds to conclude the Month.
<Q><L>The Ocean &s;welleth with inveterate hate,</L>
<L>Nor France nor Holland brook our Infant State:</L>
<L>But &s;he is daring, and lets bullets flye,</L>
<L>(Th' Accents of her &s;upreme Authority:)</L>
<L>Hard hearts have they, and mo&s;t la&s;civious thoughts,</L>
<L>That would deflour her in her &s;wadling clouts.</L></Q></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="November" TYPE="month">
<PB N="7" REF="4">
<HEAD>Novembers Ob&s;ervations.</HEAD>
<P>A Merry Age, but a mad World: No peace among&s;t the Pulpit-men, or unity at the &s;tern of Affairs. I fear an univer&s;al rage of the people will ere long cut down Cedars, and levell Mountains; A pitiful time, &s;elf-ends undoes all, by which means the poor Countrey-man is &s;till &s;queez'd out of his e&s;tate. But alas! if we thus rancounter each other farewel Englands Commonwealth. The month begins with wind, bringing Rain about the 4. day. Snow or Rain about the 8, 9, &amp; 10 days; but from thence till the 17 day the Ayr will be more &s;erene, but cold and fro&s;ty, afterwards you &s;hall be troubled with great and dangerous winds.
<Q><L>The Nation mournes becau&s;e of mon&s;trous Oathes,</L>
<L>Her &s;carlet &s;ins cau&s;e want of bread and cloathes:</L>
<L>Di&s;ea&s;es rage and &s;trongly multiply;</L>
<L>Our new Republique's &s;icke, and like to dye:</L>
<L>London bewailes, be&s;hrews her lewd pretence</L>
<L>Of begging for <HI>A po&s;ture of Defence.</HI></L></Q></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="December" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>Ob&s;ervations on December.</HEAD>
<P>GReat is the increa&s;e of onr enemies abroad; and divi&s;ions heighten our di&s;|contents at home: New Lords, new Laws; yet the year ends with di&s;con|tent, and the people &s;tand fully re&s;olved to proceed a &s;tep higher unto a &s;uture Election. Cold and fro&s;ty for the two fir&s;t dayes, violent &s;howers of Rain about the 6 days. Snow about the 8 days. Fro&s;t and cold nipping weat<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> from the 12 to the 16. Fair and &s;ea&s;onable from the 16 day till the 23. after which you &s;hall have more &s;now or rain for the mo&s;t part of the re&s;t of the dayes; but fre&s;t con|cludes the year.
<Q><L>Before the year concludes fre&s;h ills ari&s;e,</L>
<L>Few Di&s;contents, but old Idolatries:</L>
<L>Our &s;trength impaires, our enemies increa&s;e,</L>
<L>And all contribute to ob&s;truct our peace:</L>
<L>W'are yet divided, and po&s;&s;e&s;t with feares:</L>
<L>We must have better hearts, e're better years.</L></Q></P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="astrological prognostications">
<HEAD>Astrological Judgments for the year, 1653.</HEAD>
<P>THe Lord of the A&s;cendent in this Annual Revolution is divolved now by motion into the Cu&s;p of the 8^t^h hou&s;e, which &s;ignifies Exile or &s;laughter of &s;ome famous King or Prince, great Di&s;contents and In&s;urrections, an univer&s;all hatred and malice betwixt the people and their Governors; cruel and bloudy wars both by &s;ea and land; the &s;acking of Cities and Towns, Hou&s;e-burnings, Roberies, Rapes. Depopulations, violent and unexpected deaths, pe&s;tilent Sediti|ons, long and grievous infirmities, the plague, and a general M<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rrain among&s;t Cattel: Abortive births, acute feavers, Coughs and Pluri&s;ies, with other di&s;ea&s;es proceeding of bloud; vehement Cold, a dearth of corn and fruity, abundance of Rain and Worms: New Religions, new Governments, new Laws, new Cu&s;toms. In a word, a general madne&s;s and confu&s;ion to all &s;uch Kingdoms, Common|wealths, Cities, and Towns, as are under the divi&s;ion of Arles, Cancer, &amp;c. that is
<PB N="8" REF="5">to &s;ay, England, Scotland, France, Germany, Zealand, Spain, Portugal, &amp;c. The pre&s;ent King of Spain hath the Sun in the 18 deg. of <HI>Aries,</HI> with the Dragons Tayl, and the Moon in the 28 of Sagittary, in conjunction with Saturn, the Sun in the 5^t^h, and the Moon in the 2^d hou&s;e of the Radix; and therefore let him expect &s;ome harm or lo&s;s to befall him either in his body, children, or revenew, if not all. Another King I know (and truly honour) which Horo&s;cope is within 3 deg. of the point eclip&s;ed, Mar. 3. 1653. which bodes him &s;ome infirmity of bo|dy, what, I &s;ay not: becau&s;e I &s;uppo&s;e the progre&s;&s;ion of the Horo&s;cope to the Terms of Jupiter, may fru&s;trate the evil thereby &s;ignified.</P>
<P>But I wi&s;h we may find it otherwi&s;e then is here premoni&s;hed; I de&s;ire peace and not war; but I fear it much, though I hope the contrary; for I &s;ee mens hearts more obdurate thin ever, every man in the&s;e iron days looking after his own by ends, and not at the common good; but what need I mention this? Doth not every man that hath eyes &s;ee how mi&s;erably this Nation hath already been wrackt and poled by a company of beggerly cheats? Sub. Trea&s;urers and Seque&s;trators look about you, &amp; all you, that have unju&s;tly converted the Trea|&s;ure of the Commonwealth to your own u&s;es; of what place and condition &s;o|ever you are of, you are fore threatned, the time will come, and is meer approch|ing, when you mu&s;t render an account of your actions; your riches may prove your ruine, if you make not a timely account to the Common-weal. I pray God make the Parliament wi&s;e, the Body of this Fabrick &s;tanding upon a very totte|ring foundation: for if this Authority under which we mou<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n, after this Op|po&s;ition of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Jupiter,</HI> &s;hall inforce us to &s;ome new and illegal a&s;&s;e&s;ment, or by way of rai&s;ing money upon any pretence what&s;oever (except again&s;t the Dutch) I am confident, we of the Commonalty joyning with the &s;ouldier, &s;hall a&s;&s;ume &s;o much lib<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rty to our &s;elves, as to choo&s;e and elect &s;uch Members as hereafter &s;hall be more tender of our pur&s;er, and more liberal of their own; and we &s;hall indeavor &s;o &s;trictly to call unto account each member of this Parl. who hath fingured our Trea&s;ure, that we &s;hall leave many of them as naked as when they came out of their mothers wombs, or when fir&s;t to be members of Parlia|ment
<Q><L>Thus Changes come, thus Changes will en&s;ue</L>
<L>(Till the&s;e corrupted Bodies change for new</L>
<L>And put on Incorruption) Men and Things,</L>
<L>Whole Countreyes, Cities, Beggers, Princes, Kings;</L>
<L>He who but lately wore a Crown of Gold,</L>
<L>Crown's now with thorns, exil'd, or ba&s;ely &s;old:</L>
<L>He clad in Rags and fed with &s;craps before,</L>
<L>Now throan'd in's &s;tead and &s;ur&s;eting with &s;tore:</L>
<L>A glorious Church and Kingdom, but to day,</L>
<L>To morrow both the Wolfe and Foxes prey:</L>
<L>All, all to change, and Di&s;&s;olution tend,</L>
<L>Poor Almanacks, ev'n they! must have</L></Q></P>
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