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OE to London! Woe to Westminster! Woe to Southwark! and, Woe to the inhabitants thereof.

I am loth to say, Woe to the old and new churches, those that are built, and those that are not built!

But woe to the gates, the streets, and the houses! Woe to the men, the women, and the children! for the Mohocks and Hawkubites are already come, the time draweth near and the end approacheth!

Not to mention the near resemblance between the names of Mohocks and Gog and Magog, Hawkubites and Gog and Magog (though I think there is a great deal even in that) I shall go on to proceed in my more solid argu-