A warning to Englan●, let London begin: To repent their iniquity, & fly from their sin.  ¶ isaiah. 1. 
¶ The Ore knoweth his owner, and the Ass his master's crib, but Israel hath not known: my people hath not understand. Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity: a seed of the wicked, corrupt children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the holy one of Israel to anger: they are turned backward.  

OH Endland be vigilant, and repent thee with speed,  
And mark well the myrours of thy visitation:  
Prepare thee to prayer, for it was never more need,  
And long wish for thy lewd life, with great lamentation.   

¶ When God drowned the world in the days of Noye,  
for that sin only (I say) which we daily do frequent:  
He sent Noye to preach to them, or he did them destroy,  
And gave them six score years, a space for to repent.   

¶ Zodome and Gomorra also, were sunk in fire full hot,  
Burning all in Brimstone, until they were destroyed:  
And yet they were forewarned long▪ by the prophet Lot,  
With Repentance unto them, continually he cried.   

❧ But that happy city Niniveh, among all the rest,  
They heard jonas his preaching when he came thither:  
Repenting strait ways, and of GOD they were blessed,  
A goodly mirror to LONDON, if they would consider.   

¶ O London, London, jerusalem I may thee call,  
for why▪ thy conversation agreeth thereto now:  
They would take no warning before the plague did fall,  
And at this present day O LONDON, no more dost thou.   

¶ What tokens have been of late, of God's fearful ire?  
The like before was never seen, in no time (I trow)  
Thy chief and beautiful Temple was defaced with tire,  
A goodly admonition sure (if thou couldst it know)   

¶ Neither could the Pestilence provoke us to repent,  
Nor cruel wars warn us that the end is at hand:  
No, we mock at God's threatnigs like beasts impudent,  
No doubt, God's justice must needs plague the land.   

¶ For we will not repent, nor our wicked lives amend,  
But continue still in wickedness, procuring God's curse:  
What earnest preachers doth the Lord us daily send?  
It is but pearls before swine, for we at worse & worse.   

¶ If a man rebuke drunkenness, swearing or blasphemy,  
〈◊〉 shall in this wise be mocked of one iabell or an other:  
〈◊〉 is good godly man, 〈◊〉 toe holy for our company,  
〈◊〉 are a precisian I 〈…〉 some unspotted brother.   

¶ Alas, is this your repentance after so long preaching?  
I pray you read the xii. chap. of S. Mathe was gospel:  
Christ saith, of every idle word we shall give a reckoning,  
Then sweaters and blasphemers, shall be punished in hell.   

Dear christians, consider our state this present year,  
Both with war and other plagues, we are round enclosed:  
Let us turn to the Lord our God with trembling & fear,  
With hearty thanks giving for his great mercies offered.   

¶ Remember the ten Lepers, in the xvii of Luke certain,  
When the Lord had cleansed them of their sore infirmity:  
One poor Samaritane come to jesus Christ again,  
To give him hearty thanks for his great benignity.   

¶ So let us give thanks to God in heart both all & some,  
A●d repent our former lives, without any longer delay:  
sword ●●●eare lest a grievous plague among us hastily come,  
〈◊〉 ●●ithout speedy repentance, look for it we may.   

Bring forth the fruits of the gospel, I mean a godly life,  
Leave your filty hypocrisy which stinketh in God's sight  
Leave your abominable pride, amend both man & wife,  
Leave your horrible blasphemy wherein you so delight.   

Pray England pray, and London leave thy wicked trade,  
Especially Covetousness, gluttony, and all filthy lust:  
And remember our merciful God who hath us all made,  
A body that is moral, and shall turn to dust.   

¶ For our noble queen Elizabeth, let us all harte●●●●  
And for her honourable counsel, that God give th●  
To maintain his glorious Gospel both night 〈◊〉  
To the advancement of Virtue, all wickedness to 〈◊〉   
ꝙ William Birch  
¶ FINIS.   

¶ Imprinted at London, in little Britain: by Alexander Lacie.