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come sooner, as they must have heard me groan; but they said they did not, till just before they opened the door, though they came at nine o'clock as they were ordered, for they were forbid coming before.

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Now, Joanna, thee I'll answer.

As the Fable doth appear;

Now I tell thee, like thy Father,
'Twas the Owls that frighten'd there:

And Owls they be, they all shall see,

And out they all shall fly;

And so the fruit they shall let fall,
I'll burst the light to thee.

The clouds I'll break, for now I speak

A GOD IN POWER DIVINE:

And thou shalt see what frighten'd thee,
And know it at that time

When thou'st come home, before my throng,

Then every thing thou'lt know;

The way the shadows did deceive,

And thou wert frighten'd so.

But know no harm did thee alarm,
And none to thee shall come
Could satan be such ignorant fool
To think I'd e'er let him

Approach thee here? in person appear,
When all I have for bad?

No men, nor devils, to appear

Before thee to proceed;

SQ,

But well I know his rage is
Such coward he would come;
If i his chain should e'er let go,
Then hell should be his doom
Never to free from misery,
If he that way could break;

But he shall find there's power in ME,-
Thy Father now do speak-

And do not blame, nor will I shame

Thy weakness at that time

When thou dost fear; I tell thee here

His footspeps close belied.

Then fear no more, for now the doors „Are open'd wide for all;

And now the Clouds I'll surely burst,

And down the Fruit shall fall;

That in his mouth he now have got,
The doors are open'd wide

And every Gate I will unlock,

To shew the faithful Bride.

Now I'll go on from every man,

And Noah they must see:

How he reject'd thy every hand,

When so provok'd by thee

Then there the man-the Name doth stand

To make my Bible clear;

And let the Learned all command,

And tell how't happen'd hère;

That this should come to make it strong,

So perfect like my word

And from bible I'll go on,

my

And prove a Noah's flood.

Will be in man; their fears will come

Like Noah's heart, and thine-

And then their Tears to Joy shall turn,

I say to Joys Divine.—

As 'tis with thee the end will be,
Where Love do make thee smart,
There's neither one in misery ;-
For know, a Noah's heart

Inflam'd again; his heart did come,

As it was at the First ;

Thou heard'st him say he lov'd her name,

And so the end shall burst,

To every one that now do come

In perfect love to ME:

They'll find My Name to be the same,

A Noah's love they'll see,

Is not confin'd in heart and mind

He never could love more;

As he at first seem'd then inclined;—
And here's another door

I shall unlock, and mark the stroke,
The words were spok'n by thee;
When thou his heart had surely got,,
His Anne thou then did'st see;
And told him then, His wife was come,
The woman he should have.

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Bnt mark how he did her despise,
And said he'd never give

His hand to she, 'twas known to thee,

But yet it so did turn;

That afterwards his love was there,
The same for her did burn
So now to all, it so will fall,
Like Noah's love and thine;
That do believe this every call,
Is from your GOD DIVINE.-
But if too late the door be shut,
Like Rigsby to appear;

She's

gone, she's gone, now I am come, And cannot enter here;

Because my ways she did despise
It was well known to me:

The woman he had slain before,

The truth they all MUST see.

For thou'st kept back the fatal stroke,

That made thee hate the Man.

The poison he had bought before,
And gave it to her hand-

And so she did die, was then their cry,
By his cur'st hand betray'd;

Therefore no devil thou didst say,

Should ever be thy head.

Wedded to sin, the man had been,

A child of hell become

And now the TRUTH thou must declare,

And tell the Woman's doom—

How she with child, by him beguil'd,

And then the shame to Miss;

He bought the poison then for her,
But I shall answer this-

Savine you know is an herb doth grow

And there the poison laid;

He said the Child's life it would take

And there she was betray'd;

Because her own, he told her then,

Her life 't could never hurt;

'Twas but the Child that would be slain,

Her honor to support.

So here's the man like satan came,

the Woman to betray;

And afterwards thy Lover came

Satan hath act'd that way;

For close to thee he oft does flee
By every art appear

And in thy writings all may see
Profess'd thy lover there;

Till rage in thee, the same to be,

As from the former place

Now mark the man how he does stand,

An artful foe to burst;

First to betray, and then to say,

Her honor he'd secure;

He laid his pois'nous darts that way,

And made her murder sure.

And now to thee the same he'd flee,

If he thy hand could gain,

The Children all dead born must be,
The Mother must be slain;

If I'd not one in love too strong,
That hat'th My rival foe ;

And soon he'll see the woman's gone,
Where he can never gb-

Then he'll appear, I am foil'd here,
I never shall her see;

By any arts for to ensnare,

She's gone, She's gone from me.
And for my love he now may prove

She hath disgraced the whole;

My honor now is

gone

that

way,

Oh! Rigsby's passions fall!

If he did see the the lines from thee,
How him thou hast disgrac'd;

He'd curse the cay he came to thee,

Thy hand for to embrace:
Conceal'd before did all appear,
And vengeance I did miss;
But now my guilt doth all appear;
What woman brought round this
Is it from one where I did come
In love and passions burn;
And was the malice in her heart,
To think of what I'd done?

Could she not bear, my guilt was there,
Her Sex for to betray?

I knew her hatred did appear;

But did not know that way,

She so did hate, in rage so great

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My face she would not see;
But as a man can I now stand
To turn my rage on she?

No! conscience here must now appear,
Tis Heaven has me betray'd;

My conscious guilt I cannot bear,
For now 'tis o'er my head.

Conceal'd so long by what I'd done,
I thought it all would die;
But now the vengeance it is come,

Will be the Sinner's cry.

-Then now let hell the same to swell,

And cry he's guilty here;

My murder was concealed so long,
The way I did appear,

In arts at first I so did burst,
The Mother and the Child ;-

I both did kill by arts from hell ;-
And then thought to beguile

The bride the same to her I came

By arts and passions strong;

And every way I then did try,

To hold her by the hand;

But't would not do, I well do know,

For all my arts did miss―

I'll bring the person to my view,

For so I'll bring round this.

The Child at first, by arts that burst,

He surely was struck dead

And now the same, behold the name,

The Woman so is led;.

For dead to all, now in this Call

He hath the Woman slain,

And then he thought to conquer all,

And gain the heart of thine.
But there in vain he surely came,
His deeds do now appear;

In words from hell, how he did swell,

AsRigsby's arts did there!

So now the two before their view,

In print their deeds are seen;

Thy Fathers Words bring to thy view,

And blot them out again:

Because that there, they must appear,
As men unlik'd by thee;

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As neither one thy heart can share

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