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A88366	Lithgow, William, 1582-1645?	A true experimentall and exact relation upon that famous and renovvned siege of Nevvcastle, the diverse conflicts and occurrances fell out there during the time of ten weeks and odde dayes: and of that mightie and marveilous storming therof, with power, policie, and prudent plots of warre. Together with a succinct commentarie upon the battell of Bowdon Hill, and that victorious battell of York or Marston Moore, never to be forgotten. / By him who was an eye witnesse to the siege of Nevvcastle, William Lithgovv.	1645		.xml	application/xml	9817	255	53	For what seek I ? in what these times afford , But of my Countries praise , a just record , Which God allows ; and what can contraires bring , But man for men , the light of truth may sing , Else after ages would be borne as blinde , As though our time , had come their time behinde : That me thought ( when now seriously pondered ) their reverberating ecchoes piercing the clouds ; that terrible noyse of fyrie incensed Martialists , and that loathsome inspection upon the brazen faces of desperation ; had conjured ( I say ) the Heavens to confound and dissolve the earth ; the earth to overwhelme the infernall Pit , the Carkases of men to lye like dead dogges upon the groaning streets : and man against man to become the object of homicidious and barbarous cruelty ; O!	cache/A88366.xml	txt/A88366.txt
