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        A waining. JS: 28 by a deprivation 

        of parents, most lamenta

Vers: 3. Wee are becom Orphans and fatherless
and our mothers are as widdowes.

       A Doore, all that they have they 

       pay for, and mony is the doore

       by which it cometh. 

Vers: 4. Wee drink our waters by mony, and
our wood comes in by price.

       Behold wee never hold up the 

       head. 

Vers: 5. Wee are followed upon the neck, wee
labour and have no rest.

       A Pinn or Meanes, the conjunct-

       tive caus, they must live by their

       handes when their meanes is gon

       which they have bestowed upon

       thos Nations for help. Jer: 37. 

Vers: 6. Wee gave Egypt and Asser our
meanes for our fill of bread.

      A perceiving wee perceive, the error

      of our fathers lives, which wee now

      smart for Exo: 20. 

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Vers: 7. Our father have sinned and are gone
and wee bear the burden of their
inquityes.

       Prostrate and underfoot, they

       are brought to extreem sub-

       jection. 

Vers: 8. Slaves become Lordes over us, and
ther is no man to free us out of
their handes.

       Clay, they becom clay, becaus the

       seeking of their victualls doe cost

       them their lives their houses of 

        Clay be destroyed, and the sword

        makes all a wilderness. [illegible]

Vers: 9. By our lives wee get our bread, becaus of
the sword of desolation.

        A hand or stroke by transfnomina-

        tion also, as famine is a cruell

         plague and sore affliction it is

        termed in the highest degree; 

        by Hyperbole, a storm, Ch 4 [symbol]. 

Vers: 10. Our skinnes be burnt as black as an oven
by tempestuous famine.