Oh Lawson oh Blood sucker oh Esau
who would slay the Righteous, and slayeth
them in thy hart who swallowes vpp y^e
earth lord Esau who would slay Jacob, &
persecute him, but hee is preserued out of
thy hands oh thou cunning ffox who seeks
to destroy deuoure y^e lambs of Jesus
Christ, oh Herod hard hart who would see Jesus
but to destroy him; but god will throwe the downe
thou oppresso^r: of y^e Just, oh thou serpent
who art painted outwardly w^th the saints words
but a Murtherer, and killer of y^e Just, oh thou
viper who art in the viperous gen^eracon full
of venome, spueing it forth, ag^t the Righteous
seed, harken to y^t in thy Conscience, w^ch should
exercise it, it will lett y^e see howe thou hast
spent thy tyme, for to y^t doe I speake w^ch

                    when y^e booke of conscience is op^ned

shall eternally, witnes mee ʌ and Condemne
y^e when it doeth aryse: Therefore Cumber
not y^e ground, Cumber not y^e ground

doe not call this rayleing
language for if thou knowest
the letter, it speaks the same

This I am Moued to write y^t thou mayst
see thy selfe, y^t while thou hast tyme thou
may repent

[Margin] Nether count this hard language ʌnor reuile at it its the loue of y^e
lord god to thee.

London: Library of the Society of Friends, MS Vol 376 (Spence MS) fol. 81r
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