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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.
Be flesh of Saints? Your mornings-draught, their blood
Felonious Strumpet! Must you be so bold,
Fellonious Strumpet! Must you be so bold,
To steal by night into your Neighbours Fold?
Seize on my Lambs? Thy Theft and Cruelty,
Seiz on my Lambs? Thy Theft and Cruelty,
As well as Murder, shall revenged be.
But since He's gone, and Justice does pursue