Eugenia's tears for Great Britons distractions, or, Some slender observations reflecting on those sad…Evgenia's teares for Great Brittaynes distractions, or, Some slender observations reflecting on those sad…

Alas how art thou left to the favour of frowning fortune! thy stately Paradise once comparable to those blessed bowers appointed for Sacred Souls, by destiny departed, is even almost scorched with the displayed Beams of angry Phoebus; thy charming ^*melody is (with the dying Swan) tuning it's sad farewell, and despair (which usually drives off all hope) is only left to be thy comfort: Look on the groaning earth, and see what it hath done against heaven through variety of sins: cast thy eyes up to heaven, and behold what it hath lately done upon earth, through unusual moisture: So that the ground begins to Rebel, and from a Mother becomes a Step dame, yea the Heavens weep and are grown Cataracts; send Noah's Turtle and it will return thee, that the deluge is not yet past, and that there is no place left for virtues tracts▪ that Sun which so long hath shined without those black clouds of ignorance and error begins now to be Eclipsed; mutability and disrespect attend the Courts of Princes, the great Ones of the Land are divided, and the poor man rejoiceth not in his green and ⟨p. 6⟩flourishing Meadows, thus the State of the whole body (through ill humours) is likely to produce but an ill issue: some fall out with nature for casting them in so gross a mould, and never leave aspiring till they have attained beyond their worth: So that now bring me on of a far famed family, whose Ancestors have spent their blood to reach unto virtues Diadem, leaving triumphant Trophies of their greatness to posterity and this Pyrocles shall meet with a Dametas, who hath lately extracted his Gentility from a dirty soil; show me those lofty Cedars whose solid growth and large experience, might justly seem to claim priority, which are not affronted by every shrub, and endeavoured to be vain gloriously over topped by every silly sprig of a few years flourishing: nay bring me those of that holy calling, which deduce sound conclusions from the Sacred truth, justifying the sober assertions from the undeniable Scriptures, who shall not m•ete with such as dare set their stamp of Divine Authority upon their Counterfeit Metal, and with an unreverent and uncivil liberty censure the Magistrate: and hear they of their Prince such strange things are Law and Justice) as that he is but a Shepherd to them;