A47095:15
Zion in distress, or, The sad and lamentable complaint of Zion and her children…
Zion in distress, or, The sad and lamentable complaint of Zion and her children wherein are demonstrated the causes of her miserable calamities, and her faith in God ... : also showing the dreadful controversy God hath with the beast of Rome ...Zion in distress, or, The sad and lamentable complaint of Zion and her children wherein are demonstrated the causes of her miserable calamities, and her faith in God ... : also shewing the dreadful controversie God hath with the beast of Rome ...
London : Printed in the fatal year, 1666
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
That leads thy Genius to so high a strain?
Must thy aspiring thoughts needs now rehearse
Thy Mothers Groans in such a kind of dress?
What, Poet-like, thy self deliver now?
Is Prose too mean, to let the World know how
She is oppressed by Rome's black hellish Crew,
She is opprest by Rome's black hellish Crew,