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The day of doom
The day of doom; or A description of the great and last judgment With a short discourse about eternity
London: printed by J.G. for P.C., 1666
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.
XI. Mean men lament, great men do r•nt their robes and tear their hair: They do not spare their flesh to tear through horrible despair. All kindreds wail, their hearts do fail: horror the world doth fill Wi•• weeping eyes, and loud out-cries, yet knows not how to kill.
XI. Mean men lament, great men do r•nt their robes and tear their hair: They do not spare their flesh to tear through horrible despair. All kindreds wail, their hearts do fail: horrour the world doth fill Wi•• weeping eyes, and loud out-cries, yet knows not how to kill.
XII. Some hide themselves in Caves and Delves, and places under ground: Some rashly leap into the deep, to, scape by being drowned: Some to the Rocks, (O senseless blocks) and woody Mountains run, T•a• there they might this fearful •ight and dreaded Presence shun.
XII. Some hide themselves in Caves and Delves, and pl•ces under ground: Some rashly leap into the deep, to, scape by being drown'd: Some to the Rocks, (O sensless blocks) and woody Mountains run, T•a• there they might this fearful •ight and dreaded Presence shun.