Londons vacation, and the countries tearme. Or, A lamentable relation of severall remarkable passages which it hath pleased the Lord to shew on severall persons both in London, and the country in this present visitation, 1636. with the number of those thay dyed at London and Newcastle, this present yeare. With new additions. By H.C.
Crouch, Humphrey, fl. 1635-1671.
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Vpon a Gentleman full of the Tokens in Woods-Close, that lay there two days, and after∣wards dyed.
A Gentleman finding himself not well,
Walk't into th'fields neer unto Clerkenwell:
Finding himself diseas'd, he him betook
Into the fields, and company forsook,
And in Woods-close he lay, with wofull heart,
Grieving for sin (which is the cause of smart.)
He there upon the straw did humbly pray,
Having the Tokens on him as some say,
Most ardently unto the King of heaven,
That he of all his sinnes might be forgiven.
He marked was for death, God shew'd him he
Within this world had not long time to be.
Lord we are not worthy that same time to know,
When death shall summon us from hence to go.
Good God inable us to dye well then,
That we may live in heaven with perfect men.
