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<NAME>Simon Charles</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="ballad">
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<HEAD>A Warning for Swearers,</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">By the Example of God's Judgments &s;hewed upon a Man Born near the Town of <HI>Wolver|hampton,</HI> in <HI>Stafford-&s;hire,</HI> who had Stolen a Bible; and being Examined before a <HI>Ju&s;tice,</HI> deny'd the Fact, and fal&s;ly for&s;wore it; wi&s;hing he might Rot, if he were Guilty of the Theft; which (accor|ding to his De&s;ire) immediatly fell upon him; and is at this time, a &s;ad Spectacle to Hundreds that have beheld him:</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Al&s;o, A Relation of God's Judgments &s;hewed upon a Woman, who Lived in <HI>Worce&s;ter-&s;hire;</HI> who fal&s;ly for&s;wore her &s;elf, and L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters"> in a &s;hort time after, being immediately &s;truck Dumb.</HEAD>
<BYLINE>J. C.</BYLINE>
<OPENER>Tune, <HI>Aim not too High.</HI></OPENER>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of man lying down</FIGDESC>
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<LG>
<L>ALL you that do de&s;ire to hear and know,</L>
<L>of wonders &s;trange, the which the Lord doth &s;hew,</L>
<L>Give good attention to what I &s;hall declare,</L>
<L>the &s;trange&s;t thing that ever man did hear.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My heart doth tremble, and my hand doth &s;hake,</L>
<L>to think what I at pre&s;ent undertake,</L>
<L>For to declare what here I have begun</L>
<L>enough to melt a heart as hard as &s;tone:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To &s;&eacute;e how people take delight in Sin,</L>
<L>and for to mend their lives will not begin,</L>
<L>Vntil Gods Iudgments do them overtake,</L>
<L>they never &s;trive their Sins for to for&s;ake.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>We rather &s;eek to run in Sin the more,</L>
<L>while Satan &s;&eacute;ekes our Souls for to devour;</L>
<L>Let's &s;trive in time to break his &s;ubtil &s;nare,</L>
<L>and of our Souls and Bodies have a care.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To &s;ee how many they do &s;wear and cur&s;e,</L>
<L>&s;urely they think not of a God &s;o ju&s;t,</L>
<L>That hears or &s;ees, their actions that are done;</L>
<L>yes, at the la&s;t, be&s;ure he will &s;trike home.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>As for example now in <HI>Stafford-Shire,</HI></L>
<L>there's a &s;ad Iudgement, as it doth appear</L>
<L>On for&s;worn wretches: there a man doth ly</L>
<L>in woful &s;tate and grievous mi&s;ery.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He &s;tole a Bible as it is well known,</L>
<L>and being taxt, the &s;ame he did di&s;own:</L>
<L>He pray'd unto God his hands might Rot,</L>
<L>and &s;o a Iudgment on him&s;elf he brought.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In a &s;mall time he had his full de&s;ire,</L>
<L>and what he of the Lord did then require,</L>
<L>His hand-wri&s;ts rot away mo&s;t wofully:</L>
<L>his hands are dead and black as black may be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The joynts of's knees do rot in the &s;ame &s;ort,</L>
<L>as &s;everal hundred people can report,</L>
<L>That daily goes to &s;ee and take a view,</L>
<L>and witne&s;s can, the &s;ame for to be true.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Vpon the ground he &s;tinks, as he doth lie,</L>
<L>none can endure for to &s;tand him nigh:</L>
<L>Lord grant that each good Chri&s;tian may take care,</L>
<L>how they them&s;elves, &s;o fal&s;ly do for&s;wear.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He doth declare, and al&s;o doth confe&s;s,</L>
<L>it's Gods ju&s;t Iudgment for his wickedne&s;s,</L>
<L>For &s;tealing of this holy Bible book</L>
<L>and following Sin, and &s;o Gods law's for&s;ook.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But now alas within this world there's few,</L>
<L>they'l ask and que&s;tion if this &s;ame be true:</L>
<L>But God is witne&s;s of his mi&s;ery,</L>
<L>let us poor Sinners warning take hereby.</L>
</LG>
<PB REF="1" MS="y">
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of open bible surrounded by candle, heart, and eye within sun</FIGDESC>
<P><LABEL>The Old Testa|ment</LABEL></P>
<P><LABEL>The New Testa|ment.</LABEL></P>
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<LG>
<L>You men that hear the&s;e lines, I pray forbear,</L>
<L>take heed how wilfully you Cur&s;e and Swear,</L>
<L>Too many u&s;e it now in every place:</L>
<L>more is the pitty, 'tis for want of grace.</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>ANd now you maids and wives take notice all</L>
<L>&s;ee that you &s;erve the Lord, and on him call:</L>
<L>Take h&eacute;ed of worldly pride and vanity,</L>
<L>for often-times no good doth come thereby.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And at a certain place in Worce&s;ter-&s;hire</L>
<L>of late there liv'd a woman as I hear,</L>
<L>In prime of youth &s;he liv'd in height of pride,</L>
<L>which in this world doth now too many abide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And what of her, I here have to declare,</L>
<L>I do de&s;ire all women to give eare,</L>
<L>And not to &s;corn at what I &s;hall unfold,</L>
<L>for why? good coun&s;el's better far than gold.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>She being married, as it doth appear,</L>
<L>perhaps for want, &s;he chanc't to &s;ell her hair,</L>
<L>A friend did tax her with it pre&s;ently,</L>
<L>and &s;he the &s;ame mo&s;t &s;toutly did deny.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But fle&s;h is frail, her faith it being weak,</L>
<L>&s;he pray'd to God that &s;he might never &s;peak:</L>
<L>But in &s;o doing &s;he did not do well:</L>
<L>Then &s;ee your &s;malle&s;t hair you do not &s;ell.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The&s;e words being &s;poke, &s;he went home pre&s;ently,</L>
<L>where as 'tis &s;aid, &s;he no long time did lie,</L>
<L>But dy'd, and never after &s;pake one word:</L>
<L>Oh, the&s;e are judgments &s;ent down from the Lord!</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To let us Sinners rightly under&s;tand,</L>
<L>'tis he that with one word can us command</L>
<L>To live or peri&s;h to Eternity,</L>
<L>let all poor Chri&s;tians warning take hereby.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And now my Song, for to conclude, and end,</L>
<L>abroad into the world I do it &s;end,</L>
<L>That all poor Sinners may in time amend,</L>
<L>and have a care how they the Lord offend.</L>
</LG>
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<P><HI>London</HI> Printed for <HI>W. Thackeray, T. Pa&s;&s;enger,</HI> and <HI>W. VVhitwood.</HI></P>
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