,,the ,,storm4 ,,an ,,essay4 #agjd title3 ,an ,elegy on the ,author of the ,true-,born-,english-,man4 ,with an essay on the late storm4 ,by the author of the ,hymn to the ,pillory4 ,,the ,,storm4 ,,an ,,essay4 ,i'm told1 for we have ,news among the ,dead1 ,heaven lately spoke1 but few knew what it said2 ,the ,voice1 in loudest ,tempests spoke1 ,and ,storms1 which ,nature's strong ,foundation shook4 ,i felt it hither1 and ,i'd have you know ,i heard the ,voice1 and knew the ,language too4 ,think it not strange ,i heard it here1 ,no ,place is so remote1 but when he speaks1 they hear4 ,besides1 tho' ,i am dead in ,fame1 ,i never told you where ,i am4 #aj ,tho' ,i have lost ,poetick ,breath1 ,i'm not in perfect ,state of ,death3 ,from whence this ,popish ,consequence ,i draw1 ,i'm in the ,limbus of the ,law4 ,let me be where ,i will ,i heard the ,storm1 ,from every ,blast it eccho'd thus1 ,,reform2 ,i felt the mighty ,shock1 and saw the ,night1 ,when ,guilt look'd pale1 and own'd the ,fright2 ,and every ,time the raging ,element ,shook ,london's lofty ,towers1 at every ,rent #bj ,the falling ,timbers gave1 they cry'd1 ,,repent4 ,i saw1 when all the stormy ,crew1 ,newly commission'd from on high1 ,newly instructed what to do1 ,in ,lowring1 ,cloudy1 ,troops drew nigh3 ,they hover'd o'er the guilty ,land1 ,as if they had been backward to obey2 ,as if they wondred at the sad ,command1 ,and pity'd those they shou'd destroy4 ,but ,heaven1 that long had gentler ,methods tried1 #cj ,and saw those gentler ,methods all defied1 ,had now resolv'd to be obey'd4 ,the ,queen1 an ,emblem of the soft1 still1 ,voice1 ,had told the ,nation how to make their ,choice2 ,told them the only ,way to ,happiness ,was by the ,blessed ,door of ,peace4 ,but the unhappy ,genius of the ,land1 ,deaf to the ,blessing1 as to the ,command1 ,scorn the high ,caution1 and contemn the ,news1 ,and all the blessed ,thoughts of ,peace refuse4 #dj ,since ,storms are then the ,nation's ,choice1 ,be ,storms their ,portion1 said the ,heavenly ,voice3 ,he said1 and ,i could hear no more1 ,so soon th' obedient ,troops began to roar3 ,so soon the blackning ,clouds drew near1 ,and fill'd with loudest ,storms the trembling ,air3 ,i thought ,i felt the ,world's ,foundation shake1 ,and lookt when all the wondrous ,frame would break4 ,i trembl'd as the ,winds grew high1 ,and so did many a braver ,man than ,i3 #ej ,for he whose ,valour scorns his ,sence1 ,has chang'd his ,courage into ,impudence4 ,man may to ,man his ,valour show1 ,and 'tis his ,vertue to do so4 ,but if he's of his ,maker not afraid1 ,he's not courageous then1 but mad4 ,soon as ,i heard the horrid ,blast1 ,and understood how long 'twould last1 ,view'd all the ,fury of the ,element1 ,consider'd well by whom 'twas sent1 #fj ,and unto whom for ,punishment3 ,it brought my ,hero to my ,mind1 ,william1 the ,glorious1 ,great1 and ,good1 and ,kind4 ,short ,epithets to his ,just ,memory2 ,the first he was to all the ,world1 the last to me4 ,the mighty ,genius to my ,thought appear'd1 ,just in the same ,concern he us'd to show1 ,when private ,tempests us'd to blow1 ,storms which the ,monarch more than ,death or ,battel fear'd4 ,when ,party ,fury shook his ,throne1 #gj ,and made their mighty ,malice known1 ,i've heard the sighing ,monarch say1 ,the ,publick ,peace so near him lay1 ,it took the ,pleasure of his ,crown away4 ,it fill'd with ,cares his ,royal ,breast2 ,often he has those ,cares ,prophetickly exprest1 ,that when he should the ,reins let go1 ,heaven would some ,token of its ,anger show1 ,to let the thankless ,nation see ,how they despis'd their own ,felicity4 #hj ,this robb'd the ,hero of his ,rest1 ,disturb'd the ,calm of his serener ,breast4 ,when to the ,queen the ,scepter he resign'd1 ,with a resolv'd and steady ,mind1 ,tho' he rejoic'd to lay the ,trifle down1 ,he pity'd ,her to whom he left the ,crown3 ,foreseeing long and vig'rous ,wars1 ,foreseeing endless1 private1 ,party ,jarrs1 ,would always interrupt ,her ,rest1 ,and fill with ,anxious ,cares ,her ,royal ,breast4 #ij ,for ,storms of ,court ,ambition rage as high ,almost as ,tempests in the ,sky4 ,could ,i my hasty ,doom retrieve1 ,and once more in the ,land of ,poets live1 ,i'd now the ,men of ,flags and ,fortune greet1 ,and write an ,elegy upon the ,fleet4 ,first1 those that on the ,shore were idly found1 ,whom other ,fate protects1 while better ,men were drown'd1 ,they may thank ,god for being ,knaves on ,shore1 ,but sure the ,q---- will never trust them more4 #ajj ,they who rid out the ,storm1 and liv'd1 ,but saw not whence it was deriv'd1 ,sensless of ,danger1 or the mighty ,hand1 ,that could to cease1 as well as blow1 command1 ,let such unthinking ,creatures have a ,care1 ,for some worse ,end prepare4 ,let them look out for some such ,day1 ,when what the ,sea would not1 the ,gallows may4 ,those that in former ,dangers shunn'd the ,fight1 ,but met their ,ends in this ,disast'rous ,night1 #aaj ,have left this ,caution1 tho' too late1 ,that all ,events are known to ,fate4 ,cowards avoid no ,danger when they run1 ,and ,courage scapes the ,death it would not shun2 ',tis ,nonsence from our ,fate to fly1 ,all ,men must once have ,heart enough to die4 ,those ,sons of ,plunder are below my ,pen1 ,because they are below the ,names of ,men2 ,who from the ,shores presenting to their ,eyes ,the ,fatal ,goodwin1 where the ,wreck of ,navies ,lyes1 #abj ,a thousand dying ,saylors talking to the ,skies4 ,from the sad ,shores they saw the ,wretches walk1 ,by ,signals of ,distress they talk2 ,there with one ,tide of ,life they're vext1 ,for all were sure to die the next4 ,the ,barbarous ,shores with ,men and ,boats abound1 ,the ,men more ,barbarous than the ,shores are found2 ,off to the shatter'd ,ships they go1 ,and for the ,floating ,purchase ,row4 ,they spare no ,hazard1 or no ,pain1 #acj ,but 'tis to save the ,goods1 and not the ,men4 ,within the sinking ,supplaints ,reach appear1 ,as if they'd mock their dying ,fear4 ,then for some ,trifle all their ,hopes supplant1 ,with ,cruelty would make a ,turk relent4 ,if ,i had any ,satyr left to write1 ,cou'd ,i with suited ,spleen ,indite1 ,my ,verse should blast that ,fatal ,town1 ,and ,drowned ,saylors ,widows pull it down2 ,no ,footsteps of it should appear1 #adj ,and ,ships no more ,cast ,anchor there4 ,the ,barbarous ,hated ,name of ,deal shou'd die1 ,or be a ,term of ,infamy2 ,and till that's done1 the ,town will stand ,a just ,reproach to all the ,land4 ,the ,ships come next to be my ,theme1 ,the ,men's the ,loss1 ,i'm not concern'd for them2 ,for had they perish'd e'er they went1 ,where to no ,purpose they were sent1 ,the ,ships might ha' been built again1 #aej ,and we had sav'd the ,money and the ,men4 ,there the ,mighty ,wrecks appear1 ,hic ,jacent1 ,useless ,things of ,war4 ,graves of ,men1 and ,tools of ,state1 ,there you lye too soon1 there you lye too late4 ,but ,o ye ,mighty ,ships of ,war6 ,what in ,winter did you there8 ,wild ,november should our ,ships restore ,to ,chatham1 ,portsmouth1 and the ,nore1 ,so it was always heretofore1 #afj ,for ,heaven it self is not unkind1 ,if ,winter ,storms he'll sometimes send1 ,since 'tis suppos'd the ,men of ,war ,are all laid up1 and left secure4 ,nor did our ,navy feell alone1 ,the dreadful ,desolation2 ,it shook the ,walls of ,flesh as well as ,stone1 ,and ruffl'd all the ,nation4 ,the ,universal ,fright ,made ,guilty ,h---- expect his ,fatal ,night2 #agj ,his harden'd ,soul began to doubt1 ,and ,storms grew high within1 as they grew high without4 ,flaming ,meteors fill'd the ,air1 ,but ,asgil miss'd his ,fiery ,chariot there2 ,recall'd his black blaspheming ,breath1 ,and trembling paid his ,homage unto ,death4 ,terror appear'd in every ,face1 ,even ,vile ,blackbourn felt some shocks of ,grace2 ,began to feel the ,hated ,truth appear1 ,began to fear1 #ahj ,after he had ,burlesqu'd a ,god so long1 ,he should at last be in the wrong4 ,some ,power he plainly saw1 7,and seeing1 felt a strange unusual ,awe27 ,some secret ,hand he plainly found1 ,was bringing some strange thing to pass1 ,and he that neither ,god nor ,devil own'd1 ,must needs be at a loss to guess4 ,fain he would not ha' guest the worst1 ,but ,guilt will always be with ,terror ,curst4 #aij ,hell shook1 for ,devils ,dread ,almighty ,power1 ,at every ,shock they fear'd the ,fatal ,hour1 ,the ,adamantine ,pillars mov'd1 ,and ,satan's ,pandemonium trembl'd too2 ,the tottering ,seraphs wildly rov'd1 ,doubtful what the ,almighty meant to do2 ,for in the darkest of the black ,abode1 ,there's not a ,devil but believes a ,god4 ,old ,lucifer has sometimes try'd ,to have himself be ,deify'd2 #bjj ,but ,devils nor ,men the ,being of ,god deny'd1 ,till ,men of late found out ,new ,ways to sin1 ,and turn'd the ,devil out to let the ,atheist in4 ,but when the mighty ,element began1 ,and ,storms the weighty ,truth explain1 ,almighty ,power upon the ,whirlwind ,rode1 ,and every ,blast proclaim'd aloud ,there is1 there is1 there is1 a ,god4 ,plague1 ,famine1 ,pestilence1 and ,war1 ,are in their ,causes seen1 #baj ,the true ,originals appear ,before the ,effects begin3 ,but ,storms and ,tempests are above our ,rules1 ,here our ,philosophers are ,fools4 ,the ,stagyrite himself could never show1 ,from whence1 nor how they blow4 ,tis all ,sublime1 'tis all a ,mystery1 ,they see no ,manner how1 nor ,reason why2 ,all ,sovereign ,being is the amazing ,theme1 ',tis all resolv'd to ,power ,supreme2 #bbj ,from this ,first ,cause our ,tempest came1 ,and let the ,atheists spight of ,sense ,blaspheme1 ,they can no room for ,banter find1 ,till they produce another ,father for the ,wind4 ,satyr1 thy ,sense of ,sovereign ,being ,declare1 ,he made the ,mighty ,prince o'th' ,air1 ,and ,devils recognize him by their ,fear4 ,ancient as ,time1 and ,elder than the ,light1 ,ere the ,first ,day1 or ,antecedent ,night1 ,ere ,matter into settl'd ,form became1 #bcj ,and long before ,existence had a ,name2 ,before th' ,expance of indigested ,space1 ,while the vast ,no-where fill'd the ,room of ,place4 ,liv'd the ,first ,cause ,the ,first ,great ,where and ,why1 ,existing to and from ,eternity1 ,of ,his ,great ,self1 and of ,necessity4 ,this ,i call ,god1 that ,one great ,word of ,fear1 ,at whose great sound1 ,when from his ,mighty ,breath 'tis eccho'd round1 ,nature pays ,homage with a trembling bow1 #bdj ,and ,conscious ,men would faintly disallow2 ,the ,secret ,trepidation racks the ,soul1 ,and while he says1 no ,god1 replies1 thou ,fool4 ,but call it what we will1 ,first ,being it had1 does ,space and ,substance fill4 ,eternal ,self-existing ,power enjoy'd1 ,and whatsoe'er is so1 ,that same is ,god4 ,if then it should fall out1 as who can tell1 ,but that there is a ,heaven and ,hell1 ,mankind had best consider well for fear #bej ',t should be too late when their ,mistakes appear2 ,such may in vain ,reform1 ,unless they do't before another ,storm4 ,they tell us ,scotland scap'd the ,blast2 ,no ,nation else have been without a ,taste3 ,all ,europe sure have felt the ,mighty ,shock1 ',t has been a ,universal ,stroke4 ,but ,heaven has other ,ways to plague the ,scots1 ,as ,poverty and ,plots4 ,her ,majesty ,confirms it1 what ,she said1 #bfj ,i plainly heard it1 tho' ,i'm dead4 ,the dangerous ,sound has rais'd me from my ,sleep1 ,i can no longer ,silence keep1 ,here ,satyr's thy ,deliverance1 ,a ,plot in ,scotland1 ,hatch'd in ,france1 ,and ,liberty the ,old ,pretence4 ,prelatick ,power with ,popish join1 ,the ,queens ,just ,government to undermine2 ,this is enough to wake the ,dead1 ,the ,call's too loud1 it never shall be said #bgj ,the lazy ,satyr slept too long1 ,when all the ,nations ,danger ,claim'd his ,song4 ,rise ,satyr from thy sleep of legal ,death1 ,and reassume ,satyrick ,breath2 ,what tho' to ,seven ,years sleep thou art confin'd1 ,thou well may'st wake with such a ,wind4 ,such ,blasts as these can seldom blow1 ,but they're both form'd above and heard below4 ,then wake and warn us now the ,storms are past1 ,lest ,heaven return with a severer ,blast4 #bhj ,wake and inform ,mankind ,of ,storms that still remain behind4 ,if from this ,grave thou lift thy ,head1 ,they'll surely mind one risen from the ,dead4 ,tho' ,moses and the ,prophets can't prevail1 ,a ,speaking ,satyr cannot fail4 ,tell 'em while secret ,discontents appear1 ,there'll ne'er be ,peace and ,union here4 ,they that for ,trifles so contend1 #bij ,have something farther in their ,end2 ,but let those hasty ,people know1 ,the ,storms above reprove the ,storms below1 ,and 'tis too often known1 ,the ,storms below do ,storms above ,forerun2 ,they say this was a ,high-,church ,storm1 ,sent out the ,nation to ,reform2 ,but th' ,emblem left the ,moral in the ,lurch1 ,for't blew the ,steeple down upon the ,church4 ,from whence we now inform the ,people1 ,the danger of the ,church is from the ,steeple4 #cjj ,and we've had many a bitter stroke1 ,from ,pinacle and ,weather-,cock2 ,from whence the ,learned do relate1 ,that to secure the ,church and ,state1 ,the ,time will come when all the ,town ,to save the ,church1 will pull the ,steeple down4 ,two ,tempests are blown over1 now prepare ,for ,storms of ,treason and ,intestine ,war4 ,the ,high-,church ,fury to the ,north extends1 ,in haste to ruin all their ,friends4 #caj ,occasional ,conforming led the ,way1 ,and now ,occasional ,rebellion comes in ,play1 ,to let the ,wond'ring ,nation know1 ,that ,high-,church ,honesty's an ,empty ,show1 ,a ,phantasm of ,delusive ,air1 ,that as ,occasion serves can disappear1 ,and ,loyalty's a sensless ,phrase1 ,an ,empty ,nothing which our interest sways1 ,and as that suffers this decays4 ,who dare the ,dangerous ,secret tell1 #cbj ,that ,church-men can ,rebel4 ,faction we thought was by the ,whigs ,engross'd1 ,and ,forty ,one was banter'd till the ,jest was lost4 ,bothwel and ,pentland-,hills were fam'd1 ,and ,gilly ,cranky hardly nam'd4 ,if ,living ,poets ,dare not speak1 ,we that are ,dead must ,silence break2 ,and boldly let them know the ,time's at ,hand4 ,when ,ecclesiastick ,tempests shake the ,land4 ,prelatick ,treason from the ,crown divides1 #ccj ,and now ,rebellion changes sides4 ,their ,volumes with their ,loyalty may swell1 ,but in their ,turns too they ,rebel2 ,can ,plot1 ,contrive1 ,assassinate1 ,and spight of ,passive ,laws disturb the ,state4 ,let fair ,pretences fill the ,mouths of ,men1 ,no fair ,pretence shall blind my ,pen2 ,they that in such a ,reign as this ,rebel ,must needs be in ,confederacy with ,hell4 ,oppressions1 ,tyranny and ,pride1 ,may give some ,reason to ,divide2 #cdj ,but where the ,laws with open ,justice ,rule1 ,he that ,rebels ,must be both ,knave and ,fool4 ,may ,heaven the growing ,mischief soon prevent1 ,and ,traytors meet ,reward in ,punishment4 ,,finis4