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Zion in distressSion in distress
Zion in distress, or, The groans of the Protestant Church [sic]Sion in distress, or, The groans of the Protestant Chruch [sic]
London: printed by George Larkin for Enoch Prosser, 1681
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
The Cause was thus: The Babylonish Whore,
Big with a Bastard, longed (as heretofore)
Big with a Bastard, long'd (as heretofore)
[…] Christian Blood: her Favourites made haste,
〈…〉 Christian Blood: her Favourites made haste,
•a her great need to help her to a Taste.
Of choicest Liquors this she calls the first,