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You now see the punishment. Happy are we, that cannot judge the terrors of war, but by report and hear-say: That never saw our Townes and Cities burning; our houses rifled, our Temples spoiled, our wives ravished, our children bleeding dead on the pavements, or sprawling on the merciless pikes. We never heard the groans of our own dying, and the clamours of our enemies insulting, confusedly sounding in our distracted ears: the wife breathing out her life in the arms of her husband; the children snatched from the breasts of their mothers; as by the terror of their slaughters to aggravate their own ensuing torments. We have been strangers to this misery in passion, let us not be so in compassion. Let us think we have seen these calamities with our neighbours eyes, and felt them through their sides.

You now see the punishment. Happie are wee, that cannot iudge the terrors of warre, but by report and heare-say: That neuer saw our Townes and Cities burning; our houses rifled, our Temples spoyled, our wiues rauished, our children bleeding dead on the pauements, or sprawling on the mercilesse pikes. We neuer heard the grones of our owne dying, and the clamours of our enemies insulting, confusedly sounding in our distracted eares: the wife breathing out her life in the armes of her husband; the children snatched from the breasts of thier mothers; as by the terror of their slaughters to aggrauate their owne ensuing torments. Wee haue been strangers to this miserie in passion, let vs not be so in compassion. Let vs thinke wee haue seene these calamities with our neighbours eyes, and felt them through their sides.

When Aeneas Syluius reports the fall of Constantinople; the murdering of children before the parents eyes, the Nobles slaughtered like beasts, the Priests to••• in pieces, the holy Virgins incestuously abuse• he cries out, O miseram urbis faciem; Oh wre••hed face of a City. Many of our neighbours have been whirled about in these bloody tumults: they have heard the dismal cries of cruel adversaries, Kill, Kill; the shrikes of women and infants; the thunders of those murdering pieces in their ears; their Cities and Temples flaming before their eyes;