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All vengeance doth to GOD alone belong:
But, few remember this, when they have wrong.
An English temper doth that life disdain
VVhich is depriv'd of what should Life maintain:
And whatso'er is menaced or follows,
Some, in despight of Hang-man, Rope and Gallows,
VVill any thing attempt, to vindicate
Themselves from scorn when rob'd of their Estate:
And they have little prudence, who conceive
Bees will be quiet, when both from their Hive
And Honey they are forc'd: or, that small things
(VVhen they are many, and have many stings)
Are safely slighted; for, there hath succeeded
Much mischief where this Caution was unheeded:
And probable it seems, that if the King
Defers what's hop'd for, now, but till next Spring,
Destroying many thousand Families
By vacating their just Securities,
(For what was bought or lent, to save these Lands
From desolation, when into their hands
The Supreme pow'r did slip by GOD's permission,
VVho then had cast him out of his possessions)
It will not be the next way to that peace
VVhich many yet are hopeful to possess;
Or have a consequent, to answer that
Great Mercy, which GOD hath vouchsaf'd of late.
But, few remember this, when they have wrong.
An English temper doth that life disdain
VVhich is depriv'd of what should Life maintain:
And whatso'er is menaced or follows,
Some, in despight of Hang-man, Rope and Gallows,
VVill any thing attempt, to vindicate
Themselves from scorn when rob'd of their Estate:
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Bees will be quiet, when both from their Hive
And Honey they are forc'd: or, that small things
(VVhen they are many, and have many stings)
Are safely slighted; for, there hath succeeded
Much mischief where this Caution was unheeded:
And probable it seems, that if the King
Defers what's hop'd for, now, but till next Spring,
Destroying many thousand Families
By vacating their just Securities,
(For what was bought or lent, to save these Lands
From desolation, when into their hands
The Supreme pow'r did slip by GOD's permission,
VVho then had cast him out of his possessions)
It will not be the next way to that peace
VVhich many yet are hopeful to possess;
Or have a consequent, to answer that
Great Mercy, which GOD hath vouchsaf'd of late.
| Miscellaneous works of George Wither | |