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The fifth muse
"Drown'd in their lusts, and swimming in their pleasures
"Whose God their belly, whose chief joy their treasures;
"Who caused have our death, shall hunded be
"Forth of these dens, some present heere shall see
"The same ere it be long, then shall yee say,
"Its for Gods truth that we have dyed this day.
"And all these sumptuous buildings shall be cast
"Down to the earth, made desolat, and wast:
"This to performe Gods zeale shall eat men up,
"To fill the double potion in their cup:
"The apples then of pleasure, which they loved
"And lusted after, shall be all removed.
"Yea scarcely shall they finde a hole to hide
"Their heads (thus by the Sprite they testified.)
"And in that day true Pastours shall the Lord
"Raise up to feed his flock, with his pure word,
"And make Christs people by peculiar choice
"Dignosce the sheepheards from the hyrelings voice.
Which as they did foretell did come to passe
Some sixteene yeeres or thereby, more or lesse,
Thus with cleare signes, by Gods own Sprit exprest,
In full assurance of heavens blesse they rest.
Meane while Saint Catharins Chaplan standing by,
Wringing his eyes and hands, did often cry,[1]
Alace, alace, for this unhappie turn,
I feare for it one day we shall all mourn,
And that by all it shall be plainlie said,
That we blind guides the blinded long have led;
Some Churchmen there, bad pack him heretick,
Else certainelie they should cause burne him quicke,
"Whose God their belly, whose chief joy their treasures;
"Who caused have our death, shall hunded be
"Forth of these dens, some present heere shall see
"The same ere it be long, then shall yee say,
"Its for Gods truth that we have dyed this day.
"And all these sumptuous buildings shall be cast
"Down to the earth, made desolat, and wast:
"This to performe Gods zeale shall eat men up,
"To fill the double potion in their cup:
"The apples then of pleasure, which they loved
"And lusted after, shall be all removed.
"Yea scarcely shall they finde a hole to hide
"Their heads (thus by the Sprite they testified.)
"And in that day true Pastours shall the Lord
"Raise up to feed his flock, with his pure word,
"And make Christs people by peculiar choice
"Dignosce the sheepheards from the hyrelings voice.
Which as they did foretell did come to passe
Some sixteene yeeres or thereby, more or lesse,
Thus with cleare signes, by Gods own Sprit exprest,
In full assurance of heavens blesse they rest.
Meane while Saint Catharins Chaplan standing by,
Wringing his eyes and hands, did often cry,[1]
Alace, alace, for this unhappie turn,
I feare for it one day we shall all mourn,
And that by all it shall be plainlie said,
That we blind guides the blinded long have led;
Some Churchmen there, bad pack him heretick,
Else certainelie they should cause burne him quicke,
This
- ↑ S. Catharins chaplan.