.A Fettft for Worms. · Other's cry'd, No: May rather death befai To one ( that hat.h deferv'd to die) than all : • Save him•( fays one) Oh fave the man tint thus His dearefi blood hath proffer'd.to fave us: No, ( fays a.nother) Vengeance muft have blood, · ~ And Ycngeance £hikes mofi hard, when moft with!l:ood. In 6ne (fay all ) Then let the Pfophet die, .· And we fhalllive ; For Prophets cannot lie. Lath to be guilry of their own, yet loth _ 1 To hafte poor Jonah"s dc~rh, with_ hope, that both Th'approachingevi,ls might be at once prevented, With prayers; and pains re-utterr•cf, re- attended i They cri'd newways defpairing of the old, Love quickens courage, makes the fpirits bold : · They !trove, in va.in, by toyl to win the iliore, · ~nd wrought a1ore hard dun e'r rhey did before: ·· . But now, both hands and hearts o:!gin to ~uail, •( For bodies waming refi, muft faint and fail ; J The Seas are angry, and the waves ·arife, . ..., Appeas'd ,with nothing but a Sacrifice ; . God:s vengeance ftormeth like.the ragin~ Seas, ~ Wh1ch nougl'lt but Jonah ( dymg) ·can appeafe : ••.. .. Fond is that labor, which attempts to free What heaven hathbound by a div,iBe decree : ,,•.,.. Jonab muft die, He_aven hathdecreed it fo; .J ana~ muft die, or elfe they all die too ; '_ Jonah muft die, that from his Lord did Aie ; The Lot derermi11cs, Jon:Jb then muft die;· ~ Hisguilty word confirms th-:: r~crcd LGt ; Jot~ah muft die then, if they perifl1 not. . ' . ,. " . . ... ..... ;' If .Iuflice tben appoint ( fin~t be mu't" die ! : ~- ;, ·, 1" · 'S aed they j su A{iors iJf. hls Ttagedy, ' ;.. :'·';::' \ · · cc ( We beg n r1t ( Lorti) a warrOAt tti 'offelfJ ) . '{ ,1 , ,~ I t ~~ 0pard6l'J h!~al-Jhed, th~t ·-w.1 ~Jl. j ztt:l'ld;; · ' ·, · · , · C 3 !~ rhouglJ ' ...
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