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Occasions Off-spring

Or Poems upon Severall Occasions: By Mathew Stevenson
 

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On W. G. A great swearer but litle lyar

VVill, the swearer's dead and gon,
VVhether? you may guesse anon.
Say hee is in heaven J dare not
Jn that sacred place they sweare not.
VVhere then? not in hell, no doubt,
For heed sweare the devill out,
What must then become of him,
Does hee neither sinck nor swim;
Heavens forbid, wel'l judge the best,
And conclude his souls' at rest.
Of his oathes, hee did repent him,
And his conscience do'unt torment him
And hee shall (heavens mercy crav'd)
By Gods bloud, and wounds be sav'd