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EPISTOLIUM-VAGUM-PROSA-METRICUM: OR, An Epistle at Randome, IN PROSE and METRE.
To be delivered, to all whom it may concern; but, was first intended only, for two or three of the Authors Friends in Authority (if he hath so many left) to medi∣ate in Parliament, the Redress of his destructive Grievan∣ces; in the expression whereof, many Particulars of Publick Concernment are interwoven.
When Justice raigns, the Land doth flourish; When, 'tis unthron'd, the People perish.
The Author, is George Wither Esq; Who, in writing this Address, being transported beyond the sense of his Personal Sufferings, discovers by a Poetical Rapture, that whereon the peace of these Nations depends; and, what IS, and what VVILL BE, their sad Condition; as also, what New-Purgatories, and Fiery-Tryals, they are likely to pass, if GOD's Mercy, pre∣vents not: which that they may endeavour to obtain, their old REMEMBRANCER gives them, once more, a Fore-warning; resolving, this shall be his Last Time, of sounding them an ALARM.
When Disrespects, to Wrongs, doth Ruine adde, He, may be wise, who seems a little mad; And, in that FIT speak things that needfull be To turn those men, that are, more mad then he.
Printed at London, in the Year 1659.