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Miscellaneous works of George Wither

Wither, George (1588-1667)

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Carmen Eucharisticon:

A Suddain Flash

A Triple Paradox:

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A Proclamation In the Name of the King of Kings, To all the Inhabitants of the Isles of Great Brittain:

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I. To those Friends, unto whom this Author hath been scandalously mis-represented in private, by some false Brethren and others.

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II. A causual Meditation on Faith, Hope, Fear and Love.

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III. To those who enquire, why this Author is now imprisoned in Newgate?

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IV. A Hymn of Thanksgiving, for deliverance from a dangerous and sharp Sickness, during his Imprisonment.

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V. To them who say, or suppose, that a vain desire of Fame, was this Authors principal motive, to the Composure of what he hath written and published.

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VI. A Meditation, occasioned by considering the manifold Temptations to distrust in GOD, whereby his best Servants are otherwhile proved and exercised.

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VII. Another Scrap, to them, who carp at this Author's frequent writing.

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VIII. An Eccho from the Thunders, in the celestial Temple, reverberating, in part, the effect of what was uttered by their Voices.

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IX. A brief Reproof of them, who take pleasure in Scandalous Invectives, whereby others are personally defamed.

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X. A Disclaim, by way of Advertisement, of a Paper, falsly imputed to this Author.

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XI. To them who object it as a fault, that this Author hath written several Poems, since he resolved to write no more.

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XII. Of Governours and Governments; and how we ought to demean our selves toward them.

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XIII. A Scrap added to the former, since the sending of the Authors Remonstrance to the house of Commons.

Verses written by Mr. George Wither upon three Trenchers with Oker, during his close-Imprisonment, and carried to the Lieutenant of the Tower by the said Prisoners Keeper.

Hearing it reported, that the Diurnal women cryed the news of his Impeachment for Treason, he composed this Epigram.

Ingenii Largitor Venter.

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These were my words:

A homebred Lyon, of a Hair unknown
In Affrica, by being over-grown,
And dreadful to his Keepers, shall thereby
Increase the rage of smother'd Jealousie,
And loose his Tail, except betwixt his paws
He couch his head, and hides his teeth and claws,
Or else grows Rampant: what will follow then?
Ask those you credit, they are cunning men;
Of me you ask in vain, for tis my fate
Never to be believ'd, till 'tis too late.