Poems on Affairs of State

[Volume I.] From the time of Oliver Cromwell to the Abdication of K. James the Second.

II.

Vol. II. From The Reign of K. James the First, To this Present Year 1703.

III.

VOL. III. From the Year 1640. to the Year 1704.

IV.

VOL. IV. From 1620. to this present Year 1707.

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An Allusion.

When Israel first provok'd the living Lord,
He scourg'd their Sin with Famine, Plague, and Sword:
Still they rebell'd; then God in's Wrath did fling
No Thunderbolt among them, but a King.
A James-like King was Heav'ns severest Rod,
The utmost Vengeance of an angry God.
God in his Wrath sent Saul to punish Jewry,
And James to England in a greater Fury:
For Saul in Sin was no more like our James,
Than little Jordan can compare to Thames.

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An Allusion.