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id: A31966
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1681.0
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title:
  Majesty in misery, or, An imploration to the King of kings written by His late Majesty King Charles the First in his durance at Carisbrook Castle, 1648.

summary:
  Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A31966) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 43356)


id: A66787
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1644.0
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title:
  The two incomparable generalissimo's of the world, with their armies briefly described and embattailed, visibly and invisibly opposing each other

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A66787 of text R39741 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing W3204C). 87 D The rate of 87 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words.


id: A96782
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1644.0
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title:
  The two incomparable generalissimo's of the world, with their armies briefly described and embattailed, visibly and invisibly opposing each other.

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A96782 of text R210287 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.10[5]). 11 C The rate of 11 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words.


id: A12603
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1633.0
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words: 1753
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flesch: 75
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title:
  An excellent sonnet: or, The swaines complaint whose cruell doome, it was to love hee knew not whom. To the tune of, Bodkins Galiard.

summary:
  YOu gentle Nimphs that on the Meddowes play , and oft relate the Loves of Shepheards young , Come sit you downe , if that you please to stay , now may you heare an uncouth passion Song : A Lad there is , and I am that poore groome , That 's fal'n in love , and cannot tell with whom . Ah , where is tender pitty now become ? I am in love , and cannot tell with whom .


id: A66786
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1652.0
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title:
  A timelie cavtion comprehended in thirty seven double trimeters occasioned by a late rumour of an intention, suddenly to adjourn this Parliament, and superscribed to those whome it most concernes, September 10, 1652 / by G.W. ...

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A66786 of text R12399 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing W3199). 41 D The rate of 41 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words.


id: A66789
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
title: The tired petitioner to his noble friends who are members of the honourable House of Commons
date: 1648.0
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summary:
  For , when we most are griev'd , So little of our suffrings is believ'd , As if men had nor heart nor power to think , That ought we ayl'e , till we be dead and stink . This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A66789 of text R26390 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing W3200).


id: A66790
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1646.0
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title:
  To the most honourable the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, the humble declaration and petition of Major Geo. Wither

summary:
  Your said Petitioner , having long and patiently waited when the Publike-Affaires , would afford leasure to redresse his private-grievances ; and , then , perceiving his many sufferings , to be almost past remedy ; his family nigh destroyed ; his life declining to the grave , and his just expectations every day further off then before ; he began to consider , that , charity to himselfe , being the rule of regulating his love to others , ought not to be infringed ; that workes of justice and mercy , should at no time be neglected , or seem impertinent ; that , a generall-well-being is not possible where particulars and Individuals , ( whereof a Generality consisteth ) are needlesly exposed to destruction ; and , that , no man is bound , silently , to suffer in , or for , that Common-wealth , which is so unequall in her Distributions , as not to administer , equally , deserved rewards and punishments , to her own Members ; much lesse , when she will find Times to heare ; Bread to feed ; and Bowells to compassionate her malitious Destroyers ; and , yet , hath neither Leisure , nor Food , nor Pitie for them , who thought nothing too precious , to be hazzarded for her Preservation : And , your said Petitioner thereupon intended to expresse his Grievances , publikely , at large , and in such manner , as an unsufferable Oppression , joyned with Desperation of reliefe , might seem to require . That , your said Petitioner , with humble thankfulnesse , and with due respect to the honour of the Parliament , endeavoured to execute the said Order ; But , so discountenanced was he therein , Delinquents , so impudently befriended , and the said Order so sleighted ; that , he could not , thereby , recover halfe so much as the Interest of his principall damages , ( as by Accompts upon Oath , and by Inventories of the particulars apprized , by sworne Apprizers ; it doth , and may appeare ) and , that , instead of the Repaire intended by the said Order , he is ingaged into so many troubles and suits , by seeking to execute the same ; that , he who had never before one Suit in Law , hath now five suits , unjustly occasioned , meerly , by the said Order , to his intolerable charge and vexation .


id: A66794
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1662.0
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title:
  Verses intended to the King's Majesty by George Wither, whilst he was a prisoner in Nevvgate, which being found written with his own hand, among his loose papers, since his commitment close prisoner to the Tower, are now published, as pertinent both to His Majesty, and to him.

summary:
  Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com).


id: A66755
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1688.0
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title:
  The grateful acknowledgment of a late trimming regulator humbly presented to that honest and worthy country gentleman who is come lately to town, and stiles himself by the name of Multum in parvo : with a most strange and wonderful prophecy, taken out of Britains genious / written in the time of the late wars, by ... Captain George Withers.

summary:
  Rebels and Traytors , Men of Forty One , The Tories Curse , and the Tantivies Tone ; Men so sunk down beyond Old Adam's Fall , Nothing would please them , but a Rope for All : What Men were those that made so much Ado , Juries to Pack , our Children to Vndo ; VVe must them Note , or else we are Vndone If once they get again a Riseing Son.


id: A66763
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1683.0
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title:
  Mr. Geo. Withers revived, or, His prophesie of our present calamity, and (except we repent) future misery written by him in the year 1628.

summary:
  Now grant us peace , O Lord ! for perilous The times are grown , and no man fights for us But thou , O God! Nor do we seek or crave , That any other Champion we have . For what are most of those whom we commend Such actions to ; and whom we forth do send To fight those Battles which the Lords we call , But such as neither fight for him at all ? Whom dost thou make thy Captains , and dispose Such offices unto , but unto those ( Some few excepted ) who procure by friends Command , and pay to serve their private ends , These by their unrepented sins , betray Thy Cause ; by these , the honour , and the day Is lost : and when thou hopest that thy trouble Shall have an end , thy danger waxeth double .


id: A15635
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
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title:
  Epithalamia: or Nuptiall poems vpon the most blessed and happie mariage betweene the high and mightie Prince Frederick the fifth, Count Palatine of the Rhein, Duke of Bauier, &c. and the most vertuous, gracious and thrice excellent Princesse, Elizabeth, sole daughter to our dread Soueraigne, Iames by the grace of God King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. Celebrated at White-hall the fourteenth of Februarie, 1612. Written by George Wither.

summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. Two famous Riuers , equall both to Nile ▪ The one , the pride of Europes greatest Ile .


id: A66761
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1643.0
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title:
  Mercurius rusticus, or, A countrey messenger informing divers things worthy to be taken notice of, for the furtherance of those proceedings which concerne the publique peace and safety.

summary:
  Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. Thence we heare likewise that Denington Castle neere Newburie , and not far from Basing , is now fortifying to be a strengthning thereunto ; That Andover is possessed by the Kings Forces to inlarge their Contributions ; That a Taxe of ninescore pounds the week is imposed upon every Hundred neere those places , to the inriching of the Parliament Adversaries , to the disadvantage of our chiefe City , and to the impoverishing of those parts of Hamp-shire , Bark-shire , and Wilt-shire , who now begin to cry out by reason of their oppressions , and to curse the Malignancie and Neutrality of those who allured them to take such serpents into their bosomes : yea some among them protest with teares ( where they dare complaine ) that if now the Parliament would send to deliver them , they should find many hands to help forward the work ; which their neighbours also would be glad to further before they come under the same lash : and it is much wondred that a place so neere London upon a passage thither so convenient , and so easie to have been cleered , should have been left so long obstructed to the Parliaments great disadvantage , unlesse it had been unheeded and neglected for the nonce .


id: A66783
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1651.0
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title:
  Three grains of spirituall frankincense infused into three hymnes of praise, and humbly offered toward the publike thanksgiving, commanded by authority of Parliament to be celebrated throughout the Commonwealth of England, the 30 of this present January, 1650.

summary:
  Oh! whilst you may In God rejoyce , and hear his Voice VVhile 't is to day . This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A66783 of text R11665 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing W3196).


id: A66792
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1664.0
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title:
  Tuba-pacifica seasonable precautions, whereby is sounded forth a retreat from the war intended between England and the united-provinces of lower Germany / by Geo. Wither.

summary:
  If she by this Division , break your power She thinks that she shall easily devour The scatter'd Churches , which in hazard lie Within the limits of her Sov'raignty ; Then , those that stronger are ( though more remote ) Assoon as opportunities are got To practice on them , by the force of Arms Or , by the power of her besotting Charms ▪ And if they take effects , her work is done , Untill GODS Counter-work shall be begun , Who , though mans working with him he expects , Shall no advantage lose by their defects VVho give Advantages unto his Foes , By trifling that away which he bestows , To do him service . Means of Trade Is in a thousand places to be had , Which to imploy you will sufficient be , When you like Christian Brethren shall agree , Or , but like moral men ; nay , if but so As many Infidels , and some Beasts do ; And , GOD and Natures Laws , would you direct Aright , if , them , you did not wilfully neglect , Make your own Will a Law , and were inclin'd To that , which hath corrupted all Mankinde ▪ Rendring , what for mans real weal was given The greatest outward Plague on this side heaven .


id: A15652
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
title: A satyre dedicated to His most excellent Maiestie. By George VVither, Gentleman.
date: 1614.0
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summary:
  For though I seeme opprest , and you suppos● I must be faine to crouch to Vertues foes ; Yet know , your fauours I doe now slight more In this distress● , then er'e I did befor● . I doe presume that you will fauour shew me , Now that a Messenger from him you know me : For many thousands that his face nere knew Blame his Accusers , and his Fortune rue : And by the helpe which your good word may d●● .


id: A66795
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1668.0
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title:
  Vox & lacrimæ anglorum, or, The true English-men's complaints to their representatives in Parliament humbly tendred to their serious consideration at their next sitting, February the 6th, 1667/8.

summary:
  We pray repeal that Law unnatural , That men in question for their Conscience call : 'T is cruelty , for you to force men to The thing , that they had rather die than do , This is mans All , 't is Christ's Prerogative , Therefore against it 't is in vain to strive . Now is the time to quit your selves like men , Now stand up for our Liberties , and then , The Lawrel Wreath and never-fading Bayes , Shall crown your heads , and we shall sing your praise .


id: A66757
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1661.0
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title:
  Joco-serio. Strange news, of a discourse between two dead giants expressed in an epigram, to one inquisitive for news, and was composed by occasion of a scurrilous pamphlet, entituled, A dialogue between Colbrant and Brandamore, the two giants in Guild-hall London. Which pamphlet was not only intended to abuse this author, and some particular persons by name, but the said city also, in the late election of their Parliamentary Members. Thereto is added an antidote against all ill news whatsoever, which proving effectual to many lately reputed phanaticks, may possibly be vertual to some other. Jeers will be self-condemned, and stingless if contemned. G. W.

summary:
  Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A66757) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 37951)


id: A66784
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1665.0
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title:
  Three private meditations which being, for the most part, of publick concernment, are therefore published, by their author / George Wither.

summary:
  Loud the thundring Guns did roar , Sails , and Masts , and Keels were tore ; Ships , were either split , or fir'd ; Men , by thousands , there expir'd , This man sinks , and that man swims , Some escapd , with loss of limbs , But , to whether best befell , Moreover , it becomes not him , who sings A Song of praise unto the King of Kings , The Attributes of men to intermingle With his ( as to those works he worketh single ) That , were to follow their absurd example Who worship GOD and Baal within one Temple , Or Chroni●cle the Deeds by HERO's done , With Tales of Robin Hood , and Little John : For these respects , I know men Sober-witted Will me excuse for what may seem omitted ; And , as for those men , who so prudent are not , Whether , they me excuse , or no , I care not .


id: A15642
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
title: Fidelia. Newly corrected and augmented, by George Withers of Lincolnes Inne Gentleman
date: 1619.0
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summary:
  Then , if I so with Loues fell passion vext For thy departure onely was perplext , When I had left to strengthen me some trust , And hope , that thou would'st ne're haue prou'd vniust : What was my torture then and hard endurance , When of thy falshood I receiu'd assurance . er'e thou cast them off .


id: A35613
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1689.0
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title:
  An exact collection of many wonderful prophecies relating to the government of England &c. since the first year of the reign of King James I to this present time all which have been truly fulfilled and accomplished : also ... foretelling what government is to succeed to make this kingdom happy : with the certain time of the downfal of Antichrist throughout the world / written and published ... by P.C.

summary:
  EEBO-TCP aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). I will write again , In hope that what , by Reason and by Rhime , Was not effected , may be done in time ; And that although my Pains be lost to some , It may not fruitless unto all become .


id: A15651
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1612.0
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title:
  Prince Henries obsequies or Mournefull elegies vpon his death vvith a supposed inter-locution betweene the ghost of Prince Henrie and Great Brittaine. By George Wyther.

summary:
  I saw , how happie thou wert but of late In thy sweet Henries hopes , yea I saw too , How thou didst glory in thy blessed state : Which thou indeed hadst cause enough to doe . Nature saw this and tooke him quite away , And now dost thou to be a Phoenix trye ; Well , so thou maist ( no doubt ) another day , But then thy father ( Charles ) or thou must die .


id: A66767
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1689.0
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title:
  Predictions of the overthrow of popery, and the landing of the Prince of Orange in the west written by George Wither Esquire, in the year 1660 ; and some proposals for perpetual Parliament written by the same author in 1652.

summary:
  Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com).


id: A66750
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1648.0
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title:
  Carmen-ternarium semi-c ynicum [sic], A dos of rime and reason presented by Major Geo. Wither to some of his noble friends, members of the most honourable House of Commons.

summary:
  11. To twenty other places , I of late Was nam'd , wherein , I might have serv'd the State , If , I , like other men , had Friends or Fate : To none I grudg your mercy : yet , withall I wish , that you to mind would likewise call , How , to your friends , worse things then Death befall : For , Penitents condemned , can but die : Which , were it in my power , disdain would I , To ask , what any mortall could deny . 19. To see our selves , with many mischiefs hemn'd , Pursu'd by Foes , and of our Friends contemn'd , Is worse , then guiltlesly to be condemn'd .


id: A15659
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1621.0
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title:
  The songs of the Old Testament translated into English measures, preseruing the naturall phrase and genuine sense of the holy text: and with as little circumlocution as in most prose translations. To euery song is added a new and easie tune, and a short prologue also, deliuering the effect and vse thereof, for this profit of vnlearned readers. By George Wither. Cum priuilegio permissu superiorum.

summary:
  For , as for vs , we sore haue disobey'd The Lord our God his voyce , and would not heare To keepe his lawes , which he before vs laid , By those his seruants , which his Prophet● were ▪ Yea , all that of the race of Isra'l be ; Against thy law extreamely haue misdone : And that they might not ●isten vnto thee , They from thy voice , oh LORD are backward gone ; Which makes both Curse and Oth on them descend , That in the Law of Moses written was ; The seruant of that God whom we offend , And now his speeches he hath brought to passe . That to the glory of God they may be sung either in publike , or in priuate , as your RR ces shall see cause ; I haue endeauoured to procure from some of our b●st M●sitians , such Notes as ( being easie , and proper to the matter ) might the more accommodate them , for the praise of God , according to the laudable custome of singing now in vse .


id: A66777
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1666.0
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title:
  Sigh for the pitchers breathed out in a personal contribution to the national humiliation the last of May, 1666, in the cities of London and Westminster, upon the near approaching engagement then expected between the English and Dutch navies : wherewith are complicated such musings as were occasioned by a report of their actual engagement, and by observing the publike rejoycing whilst this was preparing by the author / George Wither.

summary:
  And though , like Jeremiahs Lamentation , Or Davids humblings , this Humiliation Is not besprinkled with corporeal tears , Or , worded with Hyberbolies like theirs ; Nor strowd with Ashes , nor in Haircloth drest ; Or , with such formal-complements exprest , ( As may be , and ofttimes assumed are As well by Hypocrites , as Men sincere Or , though it may want what affects the Sense , I hope , that , which affects th' Intelligence It shall not want , nor ought , which to that end Is needfull , whereto , I , the same intend ; And , t is exhibited in such a mode , I hope too , as will pleasing be to GOD. To the English Nation , and to every Individual Person within these Brittish Isles , Geo. Wither , wishes that Grace , Peace , and Love in CHRIST JESUS , which by an unfeigned Humiliation , may reconcile us all to GOD ; Vnite us by an indissolvable Band of Charity , to each other ; and in a Christian Amity , withall Nations through the world .


id: A66772
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1662.0
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title:
  A proclamation in the name of the King of kings, to all inhabitants of the isles of Great Brittain and especially to those who have hypocritically pretended to justice, mercy, honesty, and religion (as also to them who have lived in open prophaness and impiety) summoning them to repentance, by denouncing God's judgements, and declaring his mercy, offered in the everlasting gospel / warrantably proclaimed and preached by Geo. Wither ... ; whereto are added, some fragments of the same authors, omitted in the first imprinting of the book, intituled Scraps and crums, and a few which were collected since that impression, and during his imprisonment.

summary:
  Thus also , saith the LORD of hosts , the GOD of Israel ; ( make your selves merry with your carnal delights , and Superstitious vanities : ) Put your burnt-offerings to your Sacrifices , and eat Flesh ; Add more of your formal Thanksgivings , to your formal Humiliations ; Revive the late interrupted Traditions of men ; Please your selves in them , and Gormundize upon the Profits you raise out of them , untill you are fat ; yet know , GOD delights not in them . There is no better means for us who are Subjects , to live safely in Holiness and Righteousness without fear , than to adhere constantly to GOD's Commands without dread of men , and to obey our Superiours in obedience to the LORD : Nor any surer way for Kings to possess the Thrones of their Kingdoms upon Earth , in honour and safety , without jealousies , than to provide , as much as in then lieth , that GOD may possess his Throne in the Hearts and Consciences of Men without Rivals ; and to endeavour to be just , as he is just ; and to be merciful , as he is merciful , acording to their measure :


id: A66775
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1689.0
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title:
  Withers redivivus, in a small New-Years-gift, pro rege & grege, and to His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange wherein is a most strange and wonderful plot, lately found out and discovered, and recommended to all the imposing members of the Church of England, to be by them acted, as part of their last Lent confession : viz. to all Roman Catholick priests and jesuits of persecuting principles and profession : with the arraignment and tryal of Innocent the XIth, present Pope of Rome, refused last Lent to be licensed by reason of the matter therein contained / by T.P.

summary:
  Church of England -- Doctrines. 2005-06 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2005-07 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2005-08 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2005-08 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-10 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion Withers Redevivus : Not Hurdles nor Deal Boards , though plainly such Thousands have had , for not coming to Church , But Beds of Doun , whereon we all shall Lye , VVhen as Great Truth shall found the Victory :


id: A66760
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1665.0
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title:
  A memorandum to London occasioned by the pestilence there begun this present year MDCLXV, and humbly offered to the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and commonality of the said city / by George Wither ; thereto is by him added, a warning-piece to London, discharged out of a loophole in the tower, upon meditating the deplorable fier, which consumed the house of an eminent citizen, with all the persons and goods therein, at the beginning of most joyful festival in December 1662 ; also, a single sacrifice offered to almighty God, by the same author in his lonely confinement, for prevention of the dearth-feared, and probably portended, by immoderate raines in June and July, 1663, morever, in regard may have reported and believed this author to be dead, we have annexed his epitaph, made by himself upon that occasion.

summary:
  Your City , I have lov'd and honored , And , no less now , then heretofore I did , For , GOD hath made it , the most honour'd place That is within these Isles , or ever was ; He hath inrolled , and renown'd her Name Among the Cities of the greatest Fame , That either are , or were below the Sun Since men to dwell in Cities first begun . But , when that Hipocrites , by lying hid As Annanias and Saphira did , ( Till GOD discover'd them ) may possibly Obscure the grouth of Infant Piety ; When they , who Truths foundations overthrow , When , her malitious persecutors , grow So mighty , that the Saints unable are To calm them , or their furious rage to bear ; Or , when Prophaness and Abhominations Like Sodoms , wholly hath corrupted Nations Or Cities , till there shall appear in men Nor will nor power , them to reclaim agen ; GOD , in such cases , to himself alone Assumes the punnishing of what 's misdone And very frequently doth punish too , In such a mode as mortals cannot do :


id: A66771
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1661.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 16870
sentence: 255
flesch: 25
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title:
  The prisoners plea, humbly offered in a remonstrance with a petition annexed, to the commons of England in Parliament assembled / by George Wither ; falsely charged to have composed a lybel against the said commons, and therefore now prisoner in Nemgate ; it combineth also many interjections not to be defined, as

summary:
  I shall soon be out of every mans Power : God hath been pleased here to prove me , as well by Sickness , as by Poverty and Imprisonment ; in so much , that one Twelve hours more of such Corporal tortures as I have sustained for some few dayes , would totally end all my sufferings ; and I am perswaded God ( whose mind I desire in all things to search out so far forth as lawfully I may ) hath lately given that sharp touch in my Flesh , to make me consider how much more dreadful it would be to fall into his hands , then into the hands of Men , who cannot possibly inflict a greater Torment ; and , that , if bodily pains may be so extream , how insufferable it would be if I should fall into the distempers of a wounded and despairing Conscience , by a wilful neglect of my Duty . Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.


id: A66744
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1651.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 18868
sentence: 572
flesch: 66
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title:
  The British appeals, with Gods mercifull replies, on the behalfe of the Commonwealth of England Contained in a brief commemorative poem, composed for a memorial of some of those many signall mercies, lately vouchsafed to this rebublike; especially, for those deliverances upon the appeales of the Parliaments, and royall forces at Naseby; of the English and Sccottish armies neer Dunbar in Scotland, and for the late surrender of Edenburgh-Castle, &c. By Geo. Wither, Esquire.

summary:
  No , not those high-priz'd Attributes , with which The Pope his Royall-Vassalls did enrich : For , this Power , they enjoyed , long before Popes were ; so shall , when they must be no m●●●● And , of their Holinesse , had thus much odd● That , ere they could 〈…〉 Such as they were ; and heretofore great Kings Ambitious were , of their Canonizings . But these , are but a Preface to my gift , Which , I present , out of a nobler drift , Than by these Circumstances can appear ; For they meer Harbengers , or Ushers are Unto that Trophie wherewith I assay To imp , the Publick-duties of this day : And help to magn●fie his glorious Name , To whom , your Piety devotes the same .


id: A15662
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
title: Wither's motto nec habeo, nec careo, nec curo.
date: 1621.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 20978
sentence: 870
flesch: 81
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summary:
  And if they had aswell obserued the conditions of men , as I haue done : they would perceiue that the greatest number ( like Children which are allured to Schoole with points and Aples ) must be drawne on with some friuolous expressions , or else will neuer listen to the graue precepts of Virtue ; which , when they once heare , doe many times beget a delight in them , before they be aware . And if men causelesly their power contemne , Will more then mortall vengeance fling on them ? With thine owne trembling spirit , thou didst view These free-borne lines ; that doubtst what may ensue : For if thou feltst the temper of my soule And knewst my heart , thou wouldst not feare controul .


id: A66751
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1688.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 22126
sentence: 710
flesch: 69
cache: cache/A66751.xml
txt: txt/A66751.txt
title:
  Divine poems (by way of paraphrase) on the Ten commandments illustrated with twelve copper plates, shewing how personal punishments has been inflicted on the transgressors of these Commandments, as is recorded in the Holy Scriptures : also a metrical paraphrase upon the Creed and Lords prayer / written by George Wither.

summary:
  These Evils to prevent ; This Law divine The wandring humane Fancy doth confine All men in Sacred worshipings restraining As well , from Intellectual Objects faining , As from Corporeal forms : And him God threats Who due performance of this Law forgets . 5. Would God my ways were so directed that I might keep thy Statutes .


id: A41777
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1691.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 5883
sentence: 192
flesch: 63
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txt: txt/A41777.txt
title:
  The forerunner to a further answer (if need be) to two books lately published against Tho. Grantham of Norwich wherein the spirit and temper of the Calvinists is discovered, particularly Mr. Calvin, Mr. Finch, and his little præcursor : to which is prefixed, the solid testimony of Mr. George Wither, against Calvinism, the worst of doctrines / by Tho. Grantham ...

summary:
  Grantham of Norwich wherein the spirit and temper of the Calvinists is discovered, particularly Mr. Calvin, Mr. Finch, and his little præcursor : to which is prefixed, the solid testimony of Mr. George Wither, against Calvinism, the worst of doctrines / by Tho. Grantham of Norwich wherein the spirit and temper of the Calvinists is discovered, particularly Mr. Calvin, Mr. Finch, and his little præcursor : to which is prefixed, the solid testimony of Mr. George Wither, against Calvinism, the worst of doctrines / by Tho.


id: A17043
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
title: The shepheards pipe
date: 1614.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 21933
sentence: 1022
flesch: 87
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summary:
  WILLY , why lig'st thou ( man ) so w●…-be-gon ? Be●… thou then aduis'd in this Which both iust and ●…itting is , Finish what thou hast begunne Or at least still forward runne , Haile and Thunder ill he 'le beare That a blast of wind do●…h feare : And if words will thus afray thee ? Prethee how will deeds dismay thee Do not thinke so rathe a song Can passe through the vulgar throng And escape without a touch , Or that they can hurt it much : Frosts wee see do nip that thing Which is forwardst in the Spring :


id: A66746
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1643.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 21465
sentence: 762
flesch: 73
cache: cache/A66746.xml
txt: txt/A66746.txt
title:
  Campo-musæ, or The field-musings of Captain George VVither touching his military ingagement for the King ann [sic] Parliament, the justnesse of the same, and the present distractions of these islands.

summary:
  The King can doe no wrong , as he is King : For , GOD ordained , and man did intend , Him , not to hurt , or plagues on them to bring , But , for their good , and good men to defend . Nor King nor Parliament doe I affect For private ends : nor did they e're bestow On me , the least appearance of respect More then what they to all men use to show : Nor can I hope that what I doe or write ( Till men grow better ) an effect shall bring Sufficient to defend me from despight Though favour'd , both by Parliament and King : How then , or by what bait have I beene caught That I for Balams wages have been said To contradict the * Messages I brought ?


id: A96784
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1649.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13081
sentence: 548
flesch: 68
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title:
  Vaticinium votivum or, Palæmon's prophetick prayer. Lately presented privately to His now Majestie in a Latin poëm; and here published in English. To which is annexed a paraphrase on Paulus Grebnerus's prophecie. With several elegies on Charls the First. The Lord Capel. The Lord Francis Villiers.

summary:
  Had Hee been Fraught with Thee , hee ne'r had thought Of that vain Voiage , and so dearly bought A lock of Wool , and better-tutor'd Greece , Would brag no longer of her Phrygian Fleece : Those Pageant-pot-gun-Triumphs ( if their storie Were true ) were but meer Atoms to Thy Glorie , Wch flame 's like Heaven's bright blazing lamp through th' whole World , from th' Artick to th' Antartick Pole . 6. Goe then blest Mirror of Great Britain ! go , Implore Heaven's Aid above , whiles here below Thy Subjects linger , readie with th' Expense Of their dear Blood , to fall in Thy Defence : Fresh Trophies Court Thee ; richer then that old Fleece , fetch 't from Phrygia , though each lock were gold : Thy Caus awake's th' whole world , and clamor 's high For Vengeance , from a Supreme Deïtie .


id: A66766
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1697.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 21792
sentence: 705
flesch: 69
cache: cache/A66766.xml
txt: txt/A66766.txt
title:
  A paraphrase on the ten commandments in divine poems illustrated with twelve copper plates, shewing how personal punishments has been inflicted on the transgressors of these commandment, as is recorded in the Holy Scripture, never before printed : also, a metrical paraphrase upon the creed and Lord's Prayer / written by George Wither ...

summary:
  ●nd that prime Attribute have overthrown , ●y which , he chiefly to be God is known ? ●or , none are bound to serve him ( by this Law ) These Evils to prevent ; This Law divine The wandring humane Fancy doth confine All men in Sacred worshipings restraining As well , from Intellectual Objects faining , As from Corporeal forms : And him God threats Who due performance of this Law forgets .


id: A66753
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1660.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
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sentence: 594
flesch: 43
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title:
  Fides-Anglicana, or, A plea for the publick-faith of these nations lately pawned, forfeited and violated by some of their former trustees to the rendering it as infamous as fides-punica was heretofore : it is humbly offered to consideration in a petitionary remonstrance to all in authority on the behalf of many thousands to whom securities were given upon the said public-faith and was prepared to have been put forth during the sitting of the last Parliament ... / by the author George Wither.

summary:
  For , the Ecclesiasticks , by being repossessed of about an hundred forty and two thousand pounds per annum , ( as this Remonstraant is credibly informed ) by Impropriations , now well near all out of Lease , besides Parsonages and Vicaridges , with other vast Revenues lately so much improved , that their Annual worth is greatly enlarged , have already raised so many hundred thousands of pounds by Fines and Rents , that it hath exhausted the Treasure of this Kingdom out of the Peoples purses , into their secret Hoords ; even so much , that there is not sufficient for men to follow their Trades and Callings , pay Taxes , and sustain their Families , without great penury : And the said Ecclesiasticks , ( as it is famed also ) are so suspitious of the Securities of these Times , and ( perhaps , justly so fearful lest the King and his Council , or the King and the next Parliament , may take their Uselesness , Avarice and Ambition , into such serious consideration ) that , to provide for what may possibly succeed , they will either hide their money in the earth , where much of it may be quite lost ; or else keep it so close , that little of it will be employed , for Advance of Traffick & Negotiations betwixt man and man , & Trade thereby obstructed , much more then at present ; especially , by that time they have fleeced every sheep within their Jurisdictions . In true Reason , ( which distinguisheth Men from Beasts , as Justice and Mercy differences them from Devils ) this Remonstrant conceives , that the whole matter in Fact and Judgement , concerning the said Sales and Securities , must unavoidably be brought to this Dilemma ; ( to wit ) either the Long Parliament had Power to make such Sales , and grant such Securities as aforesaid , or else they had not : If they had such a Power , then their Sales and Securities must be allowed and confirmed ; or , at least , ( if in Law or Equity , restitution of what was by them sold , ought to be made to the former possessors ) then recompence must be given another way ; else injustice is commited , GOD , and the Nation are dishonoured , and many thousand Families and innocent persons will be unmercifully exposed to ruine ; and that severity and want of compassion , for which they were visited in wrath , who last abused their Power , will be more then doubled .


id: A66774
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1641.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 22869
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flesch: 74
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title:
  A prophesie written long since for this yeare, 1641 wherein prelate-policie is proved to be folly : as also, many notable passages concerning the fall of some great church-men / written by a modern poet.

summary:
  I Doe not wonder , as I erst have done , That when the Prophet Ionas should have gone To Niniveh , Gods word he disobey'd ▪ And would himselfe to Tharsus have convey'd : The stile of Prophet , in this land I carry ; And such a Calling , here , is ordinary But , in a forraigne State , what warranty Have I , to publish such a Prophesie ? How may the King and people take the same , If I shall in the open streets defame So great ae City ? and , condemne for sin , A place wherin I never yet have bin ▪ If I shall say , the Lord commanded me ▪ Then , they phehaps , will answer : What is he ?


id: A15636
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1620.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 29064
sentence: 1274
flesch: 75
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title:
  Exercises vpon the first Psalme Both in prose and verse. By Geo: Wither, of the Societie of Lincolnes Inne.

summary:
  More he cannot do ; seeing , it must be euerie mans particular endeauor , that shall purchase him this treasure , being the most invaluable that can be . Nor in the times of heathen ignorance onely , were men deceiued in their aymes ; but euen amongst vs also , at this day , the greatest part run wide , proposing vnto themselues , a happinesse in the enioying of those vaine things , wherby , they are often hurried quite beside it .


id: A66756
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1661.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 29110
sentence: 978
flesch: 71
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title:
  An improvement of imprisonment, disgrace, poverty, into real freedom, honest reputation, perdurable riches evidenced in a few crums & scraps lately found in a prisoners-basket at Newgate, and saved together, by a visitant of oppressed prisoners, for the refreshing of himself and those who are either in a worse prison or (who loathing the dainties of the flesh) hunger and thrist after righteousness / by George Wither.

summary:
  Fire quencheth Fire ; The oil of Scorpions , heals , The Scorpions sting ; and , if , of all things else You would be fearless , you must fear GOD , so As man ought ; Do , as to be done unto You would expect , and to that Fear , add Love ; I nothing Want , that 's truly needful , save , Due thankfulness to GOD , for what I have , Who hitherto , in an unusual wise , Without my care , vouchsafeth me supplies ; Which hereby , I acknowledge , to this end , That , others may in straits , on him depend .


id: A15656
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1615.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 15544
sentence: 604
flesch: 82
cache: cache/A15656.xml
txt: txt/A15656.txt
title:
  The shepherds hunting being, certaine eglogs written during the time of the authors imprisonment in the Marshalsey. By George VVither, gentleman.

summary:
  Frosts we see d●…e 〈◊〉 that thing Which is for●…ard's in the Spring : Yet at last for all such lets Somewhat of the rest 〈◊〉 gets : And I 'me sure that so ●…aist thou , Therefore my kinde Willy now , S●…nce thy folding time 〈◊〉 on And I see thou mu●…t be gon , T●…ee I earnestly b●…seech To rememb●…r this m●… s●…ech , And some little couns●…ll 〈◊〉 , For thy poore friend Rogets sake : And I more of this will 〈◊〉 , If th●…u come next Holy-day . ●…hings , Parishes , and Burrowes .


id: A66762
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
title: The modern states-man. By G.W. Esq
date: 1653.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 31074
sentence: 687
flesch: 48
cache: cache/A66762.xml
txt: txt/A66762.txt
summary:
  The actings of Providence are so fairly printed , and the letters of it so visible , and capital , that we may read them , though some perverse beings , unworthy the name of men , slight all its workings , upon this account , that they are rolling , and fluctuating ; who with the old Scepticks by a kind of strange hypocrisie , and in an unusual way of affectation , pretend to more ignorance than they have , nay than they are capable of , or with Socrates cry , Hoc tantum scire , se nihil scire ; He only knows this , that he knoweth nothing ; and with the Academicks {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} . VVE hear the Philosopher thus reasoning , Do not the imperfect serve the more perfect , as the Elements mixt bodies , mixt bodies plants , plants living creatures , living creatures and all the rest man , nay hath not the soul a master like rule over the body , and the understanding an empire over the appetite , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , and now when by nature it is thought convenient for the inferiour to serve the superiour , ought not man to judge it best for him to serve the most wise and good God ?


id: A35217
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1684.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 21830
sentence: 1056
flesch: 79
cache: cache/A35217.xml
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title:
  Delights for the ingenious, in above fifty select and choice emblems, divine and moral, ancient and modern curiously ingraven upon copper plates : with fifty delightful poems and lots for the more lively illustration of each emblem, whereby instruction and good counsel may be promoted and furthered by an honest and pleasant recreation : to which is prefixed an incomparable poem, entituled Majesty in misery, or, An imploration to the King of Kings, written by His late Majesty K. Charles the First, with his own hand, during his captivity in Carisbrook Castle, in the Isle or Wight, 1648 : with an emblem / collected by R.B., author of the History of the wars of England, Remarks of London, and Admirable curiosities, &c.

summary:
  But this I know a Foe thou art ; To what thine Emblem , hath in part , Expressed by a Mimick Shape ; Or thou they self art such an ape . But by thine Emblem thou maist see , That when restrain'd thy Power shall be , Offenders will thereof be glad , And Scoff the Power which thou hast had ; Observe it , & be so upright , That thou maist laugh at their despight .


id: A15655
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1624.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 36299
sentence: 819
flesch: 49
cache: cache/A15655.xml
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title:
  The schollers purgatory discouered in the Stationers common-wealth, and discribed in a discourse apologeticall, asvvell for the publike aduantage of the Church, the state & vvhole common-vvealth of England, as for the remedy of priuate iniuryes. By Geo: VVither.

summary:
  My Poem●… last deuulged was sayd to haue been written in myne own prayse ▪ & the Hymnes for my priuate profit ; I wonder to what purpose , y● next booke I write shal be cōposed . Sure , this were not that tendernesse which might be expected in the Fathers of the Church ; nor do I beleue that any of your LL●…s : would vse that seuerity towards me : for then , if I had no●… better comfortes then such critescisme affords , those who w●… their tyme altogether in idlenesse , and abuse their facultyes to vainest purposes , are in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…n I. Now , that they haue abused my Lo : Grace of 〈◊〉 , by 〈◊〉 his dislike of my booke , ( to the disparagement thereof ) I shal make yt very apparent .


id: A15639
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
title: Faire-virtue, the mistresse of Phil'arete. Written by George Wither
date: 1622.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 36154
sentence: 1899
flesch: 87
cache: cache/A15639.xml
txt: txt/A15639.txt
summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. I know , you walked hither , but to prooue , What silly Shepheards doe conceiue of loue : Or to make triall how our simplenesse Can passions force , or Beauties power expresse :


id: A66791
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1661.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 21594
sentence: 565
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A66791.xml
txt: txt/A66791.txt
title:
  A triple paradox affixed to a counter-mure raised against the furious batteries of restraint, slander and poverty, the three grand engines of the world, the flesh, and the devil / by major George Wither ...

summary:
  I have seen Heads and Feet exchange their places , Wealth make men poor , and honour bring disgraces ; Beauties , which ravished beholders eyes Wax more deformed than Anatomies , Or , no more lovely to be lookt upon , Than Rawridge , Mumble-crust , or Bloody-bone , But , truth to say , they who most lovely be , Now , no more pleasureful appear to me Than Pictures , nor so much as ugly faces Whose hearts are beautifi'd with inward graces , Although to Beauty very few were more A Servant , than I have been heretofore , And if that please not , which I once lik'd best , What pleasure is there to behold the rest ? I know , as well as they who did behold That costly Show , what Silver , Silk and Gold , Pearls , Diamonds , and precious Rubies , can Contribute to adorn a horse or man.


id: A66765
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1662.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 40700
sentence: 630
flesch: 24
cache: cache/A66765.xml
txt: txt/A66765.txt
title:
  Paralellogrammation an epistle to the three nations of England, Scotland, and Ireland, whereby their sins being parallel'd with those of Judah and Israel, they are forewarned, and exhorted to a timely repentance, lest they incur the like condempation : to render it the more effectual, some considerable notions are therein expressed touching ceremonies, and things indifferent, the Lords supper, the civil government, the taking of oaths, the mark of the beast, the library of conscience, the great Sabbath, and the two witnesses, with other particulars of concernment interwoven / written by Geo. Wither.

summary:
  Therefore , being a Freeman in the Spirit , though in corporeal Bands for discharging my Conscience , and obeying GOD rather than Men ; ( and left at large in respect of other obligations ) I conceive my self bound to bestow the little remainder of my life in some National Services , whereby GOD may be glorified , my Brethren edified , and my Country preserved from Destruction . During five or six eminent Publick Changes for about sixty years together , I have had place , means and opportunity ( otherwhile as a private , and sometimes as a publick person ) to be an occular or an ear-witness of many of the most signal transactions in these three Nations , relating to their general well or ill being ; and was also a diligent Observer ( somewhat sooner than most other men of my years ) of the Peoples Manners in private , aswell concerning GOD as Men , even in persons of all Degrees and Professions from the highest to the lowest inclusively ; as may partly appear , by those Observations , Oriations , and Reproofs , which I have heretofore published from time to time ; and for which I began to suffer , as I now do , nigh fifty years past .


id: A68914
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1622.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 39236
sentence: 1598
flesch: 82
cache: cache/A68914.xml
txt: txt/A68914.txt
title:
  Iuuenilia. A collection of those poemes which were heretofore imprinted, and written by George wither

summary:
  Though they as a trifle leaue thee Whose dull thoughts cannot conceiue thee , Though thou be to them a scorne , That to nought but earth are borne : Let my life no longer be Then I am in loue with thee . When I was free from loue , and thy beguilings . Or to what purpose else didst thou bestow Thy time , and study to delude me so ? Hast thou good parts ? and dost thou bend them all To bring those that ne're hated thee in thrall ? Prethee take heed , although thou yet inioy'st them They 'l be tooke from thee , if thou so imploy'st them .


id: A87472
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1676.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 29722
sentence: 734
flesch: 55
cache: cache/A87472.xml
txt: txt/A87472.txt
title:
  The touchstone, or, Trial of tobacco whether it be good for all constitutions : with a word of advice against immoderate drinking and smoaking : likewise examples of some that have drunk their lives away, and died suddenly : with King Jame's [sic] opinion of tobacco, and how it came first into England : also the first original of coffee : to which is added, witty poems about tobacco and coffe [sic] : something about tobacco, written by George Withers, the late famous poet ...

summary:
  Gentle Readers , HEre is presented to you a Brief , Learned , and a very seasonable Treatise for the Age we live in : It was many years since Penned by King James of happy and blessed Memory , Entituled , A Counterblast to Tobacco ; It it here verbatim , faithfully transcribed out of the large and learned Volume of His other Works in Folio , which are rare and scarce to be had for money , and of too great a price for the common sort of Tobacco-smokers to purchase : It is granted , the thing may be good , and Physical , and healthful , being moderately and but seldom taken ; but for men to take ten or twenty Pipes in a day in all Companies , Morning , Noon and Night , before and presently after Meals ; this is a strange way of taking Physick . No , it is become in place of a Cure , a point of good Fellowship ; and he that will refuse to take a Pipe of Tobacco among his Fellows ( though by his own election he would rather smell the savor of a sink ) is accompted peevish , and no good company ; even as they do with tipling in the cold Eastern-Countries , yea the Mistriss cannot in a more mannerly kind entertain her Servant , then by giving him out of her fair hand a pipe of Tobacco ; but herein is not only a great vanity , but a great contempt of God's good Gifts , that the sweetness of mans breath being a good gift of God , should be wilfully corrupted by this stinking smoke , wherein I must confess it hath too strong of vertue , and so that which is an Ornament of Nature , and can neither by any artifice be at the first acquired , nor once lost be recovered again , shall be filthily corrupted with an incurable stink , which vile quality is as directly contrary to that wrong Opinion which is holden of the wholesomeness thereof , as the venome of putrifaction is contrary to the vertue preservative .


id: A66752
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1666.0
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flesch: 62
cache: cache/A66752.xml
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title:
  Ecchoes from the sixth trumpet. The first part reverberated by a review of neglected remembrances, abreviating [sic] precautions and predictions heretofore published at several times, upon sundry occasions, to forewarn what the future effects of divine justice would be, as soon as our sinnes were full ripe,if not prevented by timely repentance : most part of the predictions have been already seen or heard verified, both by the author yet living, and by many others, who observed at what times, in what manner, upon what persons, and in what places they were literally or mystically fulfilled : collected out of the said authors printed books, who conscienciously [sic] observed on what divine prophesies the said predictions were grounded, as also God's late frequent intermixture of judgments and mercies, to reclaim this generation.

summary:
  An ear , an eye sometimes too have ye Upon the Army and the Navy ; An eye severely to behold , An ear to hear what hath been told Of some who much entrusted were , With Stores , Arms , and Provisions there ; Or had Commissions to Array , To furnish , fortifie and pay Ships , Forts or Men ; and those in chief , Employ'd for Ireland's first relief , And your first Armies ; ( ev'n when all Did lye at stake , and seem to call For faithful , stout and honest men ) Observe how they discharged then The Trust repos'd ; how some were made Commanders , Pay and Titles had , But scarce a Man : How others now Defraud the Publike ; and if you ( As Fame reports ) among them find Deceit in this accursed kind , Excuse not them ; yea , though at last , Acts of Oblivion should be past For open Foes , no Grace provide For men untrue to their own side ; Lest , as your Peace they have defer'd , They marr it likewise afterward : For , where employed such are found When Peace is made , 't will not be sound . He was Thirteen years old when Queen Elizabeth reigned ; and even at that time begun to observe both the Works of GOD , and the Actions ef Men ; so continuing to do , from time to time , whereby ( with GOD's gracious assistance ) he was preserved from grosly falling into , and persevering in those sins whereto he was naturally prone ; and came into the world at a time which gave him such an Experimental knowledg both of GOD and Men , as he could not have had in many preceding Generations ; for he hath lived to see Eleven Signal Changes , in which , not a few Signal Transactions Providentially occurred ; to wit , under the Government of Queen Elizabeth , King James , Charles the First , the King and Parliament together , the Parliament alone , the Army , Oliver Cromwel , Richard Cromwel , a Council of State , the Parliament again , and now King Charles the Second ; during all which times , he lived in those Places , and in such midling Stations , between persons of the highest and lowest degree ; exercised in Employments , which gave him opportunity to heed what was done , both by those who were above and below him .


id: A66781
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1660.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 43102
sentence: 1230
flesch: 66
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txt: txt/A66781.txt
title:
  Speculum speculativum, or, A considering-glasse being an inspection into the present and late sad condition of these nations : with some cautional expressions made thereupon / by George Wither, immediately after His Majesties restauration, to preserve in himself and others a Christian obedience to God's various dispensations ; hereby also are some glimmerings discovered of what will probably ensue hereafter.

summary:
  Ev'n they who did no more , are made to share VVith those , who wilfully transgressors were , And Murtherers , and Traytors be reputed ; As if the Kingdom , which was constituted Before these Changes had continued on , And all which hath by GOD and men been done , VVere but a Dream , of which , now they awake , Men may at will , Interpretations make : Or , as if Actings , in a time of War , VVere bounded , as in times of Peace they are : VVhereas 't is known , that , VVar doth silence all Laws , either Civil or Municipal : But if to those things , which do now begin In ev'ry place already , to flow in , He puts not stop , ere further they proceed , His power , perhaps , it shortly will exceeded ; And , we shall here behold ( with new additions ) Prophanenesse , and exploded Superstitions , Not only countenanced without aw Of GOD , and Men , but setled by a Law :


id: A66758
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1665.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 63152
sentence: 1096
flesch: 34
cache: cache/A66758.xml
txt: txt/A66758.txt
title:
  Meditations upon the Lords prayer with a preparatory preamble to the right understanding, and true use of this pattern : contemplated by the author during the time wherein his house was visited by the pestilence 1665 and is dedicated to them, by whose charity God preserved him and his family, from perishing in their late troubles / ... by ... Geo. Withers.

summary:
  A Kingdom it is , both Powerful and Glorious ; The Kingdom and King thereof are Eternal : It hath no pretenders laying claim thereto , occasioning such quarrels as happen in Elective Kingdoms , or such mischiefs as are frequent , where it being Hereditary , the next Heir , is a Fool or a Tyrant , or both ( neither regardful of his Duty to God or man ) Meditations upon the Lords prayer with a preparatory preamble to the right understanding, and true use of this pattern : contemplated by the author during the time wherein his house was visited by the pestilence 1665 and is dedicated to them, by whose charity God preserved him and his family, from perishing in their late troubles / ...


id: A15647
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1623.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 47870
sentence: 2151
flesch: 79
cache: cache/A15647.xml
txt: txt/A15647.txt
title:
  The hymnes and songs of the Church diuided into two parts. The first part comprehends the canonicall hymnes, and such parcels of Holy Scripture as may properly be sung, with some other ancient songs and creeds. The second part consists of spirituall songs, appropriated to the seuerall times and occasions obserueable in the Church of England. Translated and composed, by G.W.

summary:
  PLainely false is their Supposition , who conc●iue that the Hymnes , Songs and Elegies of the Old Testament are impert●ment to these later Ages of the Church . That therefore these parcels of Holy-Scripture ( which are for the most part Me●ter in their Original tongue ) may be the better remembred , to the glory of God ; and the oftner repeated , to those ends for which they were written .


id: A08062
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1636.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 69114
sentence: 2085
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A08062.xml
txt: txt/A08062.txt
title:
  The nature of man A learned and usefull tract written in Greek by Nemesius, surnamed the philosopher; sometime Bishop of a city in Phœnicia, and one of the most ancient Fathers of the Church. Englished, and divided into sections, with briefs of their principall contents: by Geo: Wither.

summary:
  Things done by inconstancy , by intemperancy , or anger , are not to be reputed things done against our will. Aristotle conjectures that a certain potentiall understanding was made together with MAN , which might become actuall in time ; and that the understanding which commeth to us from without , ( and whereby we acquire an actuall knowledge ) pertains not to the naturall Essence of the Soul ; but , assisteth in the knowledge and speculation of things :


id: A15623
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
title: Abuses stript, and whipt. Or Satirical essayes. By George Wyther. Diuided into two bookes
date: 1613.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 75859
sentence: 1839
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A15623.xml
txt: txt/A15623.txt
summary:
  Shall in mans heart retaine the second place ; Because it shrouds her vile deformed face Vnder Loues vizard , and assumes that name , Hiding her owne fault with the others blame : T is a base passion , from the which doth flow Many base humours ; t is the ouerthrow Of all in whom it enters ; 't is an euill , Worse then to be possessed with a diuell : This 't is that oft hath caused publike strife , And priuate discord ; this makes man and wife Grow each to other cold in their affection , And to the very marrow sends infection ; And as Phisicians say , it makes the face Looke wan , pale , yellow , and doth much deface The beauty of it ; and as for the fight It either dums it or bereaues it quight ; It dries the body , and from thence doth sprout Griefes of the stomack , leprosie and gout , With other such ; beside it doth decay Not life alone , but also takes away , Both memory and vnderstanding toe ; Reade it , weekely , daily , yea and howerly toe : what though it bee thine owne ? thou knowest mans nature to bee so vncertaine , and prone to forgetfulnesse , euen in the best things , that thou canst not haue too many Memorandums .


