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The Life Of Mrs. Anne Ayscough, Or Askew.
I now rejoice in heart , And Hope bjds me do so ; . For Christ will take my part , - And ease me of my woe . Thou sayst , Lord , whoso knock To them wilt thoujittend ; Undo , therefore , the lock , down send
And thy strong pow ' r . More enemies I have Than hairs to crown my head ; Let them not me deprave , But fight thou in my stead . On thee my care I cast , For all their cruel spight ;
I set not by their haste , For thou art my delight . I am not she that list My anchor to let fall For ev ' ry drizzling mist ; - My ship ' s substantial .
Nor oft use I to write , In prose , nor yet in rhyme , Yet will I shew one sight Which I saw in my time . I saw a royal throne Where Justice should have sit , But in her stead was one
Of moody cruel wit . Absorb'd was righteousness , As by a raging flood ; Satan in fierce excess Suck'd up the guiltless blood . Then thought I—Jesu , Lord , When thou shalt judus all .
ge . Hard is it to ' record On these men what will fill . Yet , Lord , I thee desire , For what they do to me Let them not taste the hire Of their iniquitie .
Such is the portrait which our chronicles have exhibited of this truly Christian heroine . Hitherto I have not perceived any thing like biographical justice done to her memory . I have endeavoured , therefore , to make up for the defect , but am still conscious that the memoir I have given is no more than a sketch . It would have afforded me exquisite p leasure to have been enabled to throw more li ght upon the picture , in nicer and
to have delineated the features a more discriminating manner ; but no materials that fell in my way , gave me the power of gratifying this desire : neither do I believe lias any likeness of her person ever appeared . But , even in the profile which general historians have g iven , and the minuter drawing which biographers have imperfectly exhibited , shall she stand forward as a splendid evidence , that the female character is not inferior to the masculine either in genius or fortitude . T- WATtUNS , 3 G ? , -
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Life Of Mrs. Anne Ayscough, Or Askew.
I now rejoice in heart , And Hope bjds me do so ; . For Christ will take my part , - And ease me of my woe . Thou sayst , Lord , whoso knock To them wilt thoujittend ; Undo , therefore , the lock , down send
And thy strong pow ' r . More enemies I have Than hairs to crown my head ; Let them not me deprave , But fight thou in my stead . On thee my care I cast , For all their cruel spight ;
I set not by their haste , For thou art my delight . I am not she that list My anchor to let fall For ev ' ry drizzling mist ; - My ship ' s substantial .
Nor oft use I to write , In prose , nor yet in rhyme , Yet will I shew one sight Which I saw in my time . I saw a royal throne Where Justice should have sit , But in her stead was one
Of moody cruel wit . Absorb'd was righteousness , As by a raging flood ; Satan in fierce excess Suck'd up the guiltless blood . Then thought I—Jesu , Lord , When thou shalt judus all .
ge . Hard is it to ' record On these men what will fill . Yet , Lord , I thee desire , For what they do to me Let them not taste the hire Of their iniquitie .
Such is the portrait which our chronicles have exhibited of this truly Christian heroine . Hitherto I have not perceived any thing like biographical justice done to her memory . I have endeavoured , therefore , to make up for the defect , but am still conscious that the memoir I have given is no more than a sketch . It would have afforded me exquisite p leasure to have been enabled to throw more li ght upon the picture , in nicer and
to have delineated the features a more discriminating manner ; but no materials that fell in my way , gave me the power of gratifying this desire : neither do I believe lias any likeness of her person ever appeared . But , even in the profile which general historians have g iven , and the minuter drawing which biographers have imperfectly exhibited , shall she stand forward as a splendid evidence , that the female character is not inferior to the masculine either in genius or fortitude . T- WATtUNS , 3 G ? , -