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THE VIZAGE, COMPLEXION, fface or Preface of the Booke.
  
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THE VIZAGE, COMPLEXION, fface or Preface of the Booke.

Preface.

Doth time retort, or Fortune play the Iade,
Or doth the course of fate run retrograde?
Is hap turn'd haples, or is chance chance Medly,
Or what strainge wonders strickes our foes so deadly?
Hath Rome with Ceasar and most mightie Spaine
Soe long held Fortune pris'ner in a chaine,
Whereby warr with a bloody invndation
O'rewhelm'd and halfe extirp'd the German nation;
And is she now broake loose and chaung'd hir grownd,
With fauour smileing where she long hath frown'd?
These shifteing trickes doth to the world present
That fortunes fauoures are not permanent:

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Then fortune, fate and chance and lucke are fictions,
Dreames and Phantasmaes full of contradictions,
And nothing constant in the world wee see
But HE that Was, and IS, and still shalbe.
HE made all thinges, and all thinges that are made
Are mutable, and doe increase or fade;
HE calls himselfe I AM, the present tense,
Who's euer present in omnipotence;
He's still the same almightie, iust and pure,
And no iniquitie he cann indure;
HE sees our sinnes with his all seeing Eye;
Which doe for vengeance to his iustice crye,
For which he long hath suff'red his deere vine
To be opprest, and rooted vp by swine,
For 'tis a Maxim that hath alwaies bin,
That punishment doth euer follow sinn.
Now, in his owne good time, he heares the cryes
Of his aflicted churches Miseries,
He's graciously pleas'd his hands to staye
And turne his furious wrath another way,
Seeinge his people hath so long bene try'de
And with aflictions purg'd and purifi'd,
Their patience and their sufferings being soe
Which made some feare a finall ouerthrowe.

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But he that doth his chosen Israell keepe,
Who neither slumbers nor did euer sleepe,
Himselfe now takes his owne great cause in hand,
And doth his vauntinge Enemies with stand;
Which makes our foes complot, consult, and plod
How and by what meanes they may warr with God;
As in these followinge lines I doe explaine,
Twixt Rome, the Empire, and most mightie Spaine.
Tis plainely writt, and harsh and rudely pen'd,
And hopes it shall noe honest man offend.