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The Prisoners Plea:
Humbly Offered in a Remonstrance; With a Petition Annexed, To the Commons of England in Parliament Assembled; By GEORGE WITHER: Falsely charged to have composed a Lybel against the said Commons, and therefore now Prisoner in Newgate.
It containeth also, many Interjections not to be despised; As also a Colateral Corolary, of publick Concernment; and in particular touching The Blood-shed, Whereinto God is now making Inquisition.
My strength is made perfect in weakness; for when I am weak, I am strong. Therefore I take pleasure
in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in Persecutions, and
in distresses for the sake of Christ, and a good Conscience.
2 Cor. 12. 9, 10.
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Jamq; Opus Exegi.
My Life, and work (for ought, that yet I know)Is either quite, or almost ended now;
And my Quietus est, within a Grave
Is, that, which best would please me, now to have:
For, by their struggling, many years together,
My Flesh and Spirit, have nigh tir'd each other.
Lord, let the short-snuff, of my Life unspent
Burn out, with clear flames, and a pleasing scent.
Newgate, January the 27th. 1661.
Geo. Wither.
THE END.
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