h is not much now, they being all
poor people, and having suffered so much in one expense or other
since they began. For Poverty is their greatest burthen; and if
anything do break them from the Work, it will be that."

After this confession of their weakness, and of the probable end of
their work, Winstanley again bursts out into verse as follows:

"You Lordly Foes, you will rejoice
this news to hear and see.
Do so, go on; but we'll rejoice
much more the Truth to see.
For by our hands Truth is declared,
and nothing is kept back;
Our faithfulness much joy doth bring,
though victuals we may lack,
This trial may our God see good,
to try, not us, but you;
That your profession of the Truth
may prove either false or true."

And after another and much worse specimen of his poetry, which we will
spare our readers, he concludes as follows:

"And here I end, having put my Arm as far as my strength will go
to advance Righteousness. I have writ; I have acted; I have Peace.
And now I must wait to see the Spirit do His own work in the hearts
of others; and whether England shall be the first Land, or some
other, wherein Truth shall sit down in triumph.

"But, O England, England, would God thou didst know the things that
belong to thy peace before they be hid from thine eyes. The Spirit
of Righteousness hath striven with thee, and doth yet strive with
thee, and yet there is hope. Come in thou England, submit to
righteousness before the voice go out, my Spirit shall strive no
longer with flesh, and let not Covetousness make thee oppress the
poor....

"Gentlemen of the Army, we have spoken to you; we have appealed to
the Parliament; we have declared our Cause with all humility to you
all; and we are Englishmen, your friends that stuck to you in your
miseries, when those Lords of Manors that oppose us were wavering
on both sides. Yet you have heard them, and answered their request
to beat us off; and yet you would not afford us an answer.

"Yet Love and Patience shall lie down and suffer; let Pride and
Covetousness stretch themselves upon their beds of ease, and forget
the afflictions of Joseph, and persecute us for Righteousness'
sake, yet we will wait to see the issue. The Power of Righteousness
is our God; the Globe runs rou