Becoming America - An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution, 2018a

BECOMING AMERICA
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH COLONIAL LITERATURE
CLXXXII
Thus all mens plea’s the Judge with ease
doth answer and confute,
Until that all both great and small,
are silenced and mute.
Vain hopes are cropt, all mouths are stopt,
sinners have nought to say,
But that ‘tis just, and equal most
they should be damn’d for ay.
CLXXXIII
Now what remains, but that to pains
and everlasting smart
Christ should condemn the sons of men,
which is their just desert?
Oh ru [. . .] ul plights of sinful wights!
Oh wretches all forlorn!
That happy been they ne’r had seen
the Sun, or not been born.
CLXXXIV
Yea, now it would be good they could [. . .]
themselves annihilate,
And cease to be, themselves to free
from such a fearful state.
Oh happy Dogs, and Swine, and Frogs!
yea, Serpents generation!
Who do not fear this doom to hear,
and sentence of D [. . .] mnation!
CLXXXV
This is their state so de [. . .] perate:
their sins are fully known;
Their vani [. . .] ies and villanies
Before the world are shown.
As they are gross and impious,
so are their numbers more
Then motes i’ th’ air, or then their hair,
or sands upon the shore.
CLXXXVI
Divine Justice oended is,
a [. . .] d Satisfaction claime [. . .] h:
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