The Conuercyon of swerers / (The Conversion of Swearers)

by Stephen Hawes

For at the request of good mercy and peace

I haue forborne you longe and many a daye

Þet more and more your synnes do encrease

Wherfore my Iustyce wyll no more delaye

But take vengeaunce for all your proude araye

I warne you ofte ye are nothynge the better

But ye amende my vengenaunce shall be gretter

¶ Contra iuratores chr^isti in celo crucifigentes. per bernardũ dicit dominus. Nonne satis pro te vulneratus sum? nonne satis pro te afflictus sum? desine amplius peccare. q^uia magis aggrauat vulnus peccati q^uam vulnus lateris mei.

Am not I wounded for the suffycyent

Haue I not for the ynoughe afflyccyon