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Select and choice poems collected out of the labours of Captain George Wharton.
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Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681.
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River brought from Amwel-spring Years 42 Since we Bermudas first inhabited Years 42 Since Learned Rawleigh's noble Blood was shed Years 38 Since last a Comet in the Scorpion seen Years 38 Since that brought death to Ann our James's Queen Years 37 Since Charles with cares as well as gold was crown'd Years 31 Since his fair Queen first trod on English ground Years 31 Since Londons last great Plague from Heaven sent Years 31 Since then at Oxford sate the Parliament Years 31 Since Buckinghams great Duke so basely slain Years 28 Since England did conclude a Peace with Spain Years 27 Since living Charles first breath'd this loathsome air Years 26 Since Rev'rend LAVD began St. Pauls repair Years 22 Since the Late King advanc'd against the SCOT Years 17 Since Peace concluded but intended not Years 17 Since Wolves and Foxes first were idoliz'd Years 16 Since Learned Straffords Blood was sacrific'd Years 15 Since Sects and Tumults set the Land on fire Years 15 Since the dead King was forced to retire Years 15 Since Hotham shut Hull-gates against the King Years 14 Since ruined for thoughts to let him in Years 12 Since we with Essex vow'd to live and die Years 14 Since we cashier'd him of his Excellency Years 12 Since Charles his Royal Standard streaming stood Years 14 Since Keinton-field deep dy'd with English blood Years 14 Since Cheapside-Cross for Conscience sake did fall Years 13 Since Moses Tables forc'd to give the wall Years 13 Since the Scotch Army marched to our aid Years 13 Since they return'd from Hereford well paid Years 13 Since Vxbridge Overture's initiation Years 12 Since Love belcht firebrands that consum'd the nation Years 12 Since first we felt the vertue of a Tax Years 12 Since glorious Laud triumphed o'er the Ax Years 12 Since Common-Prayers ceas'd abjured rather Years 12 Since the wise Synod voted God the Father Years 12 Since Naseby-field first own'd that fatal blow Years 11 Since even poor women felt the overthrow Years 11 Since pensive Charles left Oxford in disguise Years 10 Since he to treacherous Scots became a prize Years 10 Since Henderson receiv'd his Mortal Wounds Years 10 Since Scotch-men sold their Prince for English pounds Years 10 Since Holmby-house restrain'd his further flight Years 10 Since Joyce surpriz'd him in the dead of night Years 9 Since he had terms propos'd and promis'd right Years 9 Since fairly juggl'd into th' Isle of Wight Years 9 Since there the sinful Treaty did commence Years 8 Since broken off he forthwith hurry'd thence Years 8 Since the old Commons took a purging dose Years 8 Since CHARLES made truly great and glorious Years 8 Since they the House of Lords did useless doom Years 8 Since Kingship dangerous and burthensome Years 8 Since the Supremacy was Eastward bound Years 8 Since our Allegiance bury'd under ground Years 8 Since CHARLES's Crown exposed to a rate Years 8 Since England hight the Title of Free-State Years 7 Since Scotland tasted of Heav'ns ireful Cup Years 5 Since English Hogs ate our dear Brethren up Years 5 Since Mars unroosted those had twelve years rul'd Years 3 Since Madmen on their Ruines 'gan to build Years 3 Since that illiterate Conclave's Dissolution Years 3 Since this blest Governments first Institution Years 3 This is added out of his Ephemer 1655. Since Time was pregnant of a Lord Protector Years 2 Since she brought forth a more then Trojan Hector Years 2 Since London feasted him at Grocers Hall Years 2 Since Viner the first Knight amongst us all Years 2 Since peace concluded with the High-born Dutch Years 2 Since the shrill Trumpet nois'd it to be such Years 2 Since Knights and Burgesses their free Election Years 2 Since winnowed and made of one complexion Years 2 Since they conven'd and sate with blest intent Years 2 Since they presum'd to tune the Instrument Years 2 Since found flat-guilty of that High-Ambition Years 2 Since taught the meaning of a Recognition Years 2 Since some like Rats forsook the falling House Years 2 Since others big with Mountains dropt a Mouse Years 2 Since the Protector set their sins before them Years 2 Since he dissolved never to restore them Year 1 Since Noble James the Duke of Lenox dy'd Year 1 Since perjur'd Falc'ner wisely stept aside Year 1 Since Wiltshire's Insurrection broach'd new fears Year 1 Since the grand seisure of the Cavaliers Year 1 For the continuing this Ingenuous Chronologie to any time you need but adde the elapsed years between your proposed year and the year 1656. and 't is done Examples are needless 2. Over the Festivals Why raile we not at superstitious days Pull Crosses down and burn the harmless Bays Why do we not inhibit Common-Pray'rs And threaten Bridewel to the Cock-pit Players How can our tender Consciences digest Organs and Altars stand they East or West Plum-broth and Pies made of Malignant-Paste Which erst the Godly would not dare to taste And plead Allegiance now that Fatal Stroke Hath cut the Chain and cleft in two the Yoke The change is great and may be well defended But 't is enough to say The work is ended 2. Over the Table of Kings Yet yet the Regal Table courts the Nation Kings are not out of date though out of fashion 3. Under the Table of Kings Two Williams twice four Henries Stephens but one Three Richards twice three Edwards and a John One Mary one Elizabeth a James And Charles five times five Soveraigns with ten names Who numbers more transgresses out of Reason God save my Cow and that I hope 's no Treason 4. Over the Table of Terms The Chancery's reform'd and so are we All things enjoy their pristine Purity Under the Table of Terms Lawyers 't is true like new-set Milstones grinde Their Rough-shod-Clients yet are they the wind That drive the sayles Who 's most blame-worthy then The Gâ—inding Lawyers or Litigious Men Sate I as Judge the Lawyers should go free Such Clowns on Calthrops till they could agree 5. In January Where our third Edward that Puissant King VVas born to conquer France I rudely sing VVhere Kings have Captives been that stately wall Confines my Muse for sin Original Help you that can or have my verse excus'd That Shepherd poorly Pipes whose Reed is bruis'd 6. In March Chronus the Virgin Mars the Bull ascends And by their Trine assure us they are friends VVhen boist'rous Knaves meet and salute each other Their common phrase is How Devil dost thou Brother The Graver sort abhor that hellish note Yet in the fear of God they 'll cut your throat 7. In July 'T is false to say Dog-days but now begin Since thrice five years have nought but Dog-days bin Or that in England Sirius biteth not Whilst we have such deep wounds and days so hot But Sirius quickly sets elsewhere to burn Then shall our Dog-days into HALCYON turn 8. In September Two haughty Rebels yet of heav'nly race Invade the Virgins Confines
Wise Nature humane Judgments to direct Plac't th' Index of our Minds in the aspect As here appeares For this Physiognomie Speaks Valour Witt and perfect Gallantrie Learning and loue of Arts So who this Looke Contemplates well will Read and like the Booke Select and choice POEMS Collected out of the LABOURS OF CAPTAIN George Wharton LONDON Printed for Joseph Blaiklock at the signe of the Turks Head in Ivy-Lane 1661. The continued Loyalty of that eminent Sufferer for the Good Old Cause of his Majesty Captain GEORGE WHARTON FRom the year 1642 untill the surrender of Oxford this Loyal-minded Person was actually in the Service of his late Royal Majesty of glorious Memory being sometimes Comptroller of his Majesties Train of Artillery and Captain of a Troop of Horse which he raised at his own costs and charges And then there being nothing more to be done the unhappy Wars now brought to a period he came to London upon the benefit of the Oxford-Articles where long he had not been but he was necessitated to drink deep of the Cup of sorrow providence had provided for the Royal Party being as himself in Hemer 1651. saith constantly at the pleasure of the then power subject to be turn'd out of Town to graze upon the Common clap't up in Prisons to study the generation of Nits and Lice or necessitated to such a Hellish kind of living as nothing but Bats and Owls and Cavaliers could possibly endure And he as having more enemies and those more mischievons then many other Persons of that Party was more narrowly searcht after and at the last viz. in 1648. by ill fortune discovered and when once in hold the famous Jayls of Newgate the Gatehouse and Windsour-Castle began to be as commonly known to him as if a Prison had been all the Portion he in this world could probably expect However once it was his good hap to escape and being at liberty he writ his Bellum Hibernicale Merlini Anglici Errata c. wherein he roundly and fearlesly corrected the errors of some that were the Parliaments hirelings to abuse the King and his Party under pretence of Astrology But Liberty being a thing too precious for him long to enjoy in those cloudy and Tyrannical times he was at length retaken and for ten or twelve yeers together was seldom half a year from being under restraint until this time of the happy Restoration of his glorious Majesty King CHARLS the Second unto his three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland But notwithstanding his constant sufferings and their frequent imprisoning of his body his more noble part was always free and as he had opportunity he did signifie to the world his Loyal affections to His Sacred Majesty and his Cause in several Books of his which that the world may see there have been some men like sturdy Oaks that could never be shaken or brib'd to perjury I shall with other curious pieces of his wit present unto the Reader That the lively Copy of a truly Loyal subject may not be buryed in Oblivion but be brought to light afresh for the encouragement of others to persevere according to Allegiance in Loyalty Duty and Obedience IN his Loyal Almanack for 1650. being the next opportunity of the Press he had after the Bloody Murther of His sacred Majesty of blessed memory Charles the First he hath these several signal sparks of Loyalty following 1. He begins with Liber Lectori Touch me not Traytor For I have a Sting For all but such as love and serve the King I am no Temporist Nor can I brooke The Pocket of a Bradshaw Steel or Cooke Or any Regicide that liveth I Disdain all Harbours of Disloyalty VRANIA is Divine and to be clear I serve no Mortal but the CAVALIER If then thou be'st not one pray let me lie Until thou canst affect as well as buy 2. Vnder the Table of Kings c. having placed therein K. Charles the Second he writes Let such as Booker cringe unto a State And leave a Blank where I have rank'd a King 'T is far below my Quill to calculate The spurious birth of that prodigious thing For maugre all its Acts and damned Art Still Charles the Second's Monarch of my Heart 3. Vnder the Table of Terms c. Thus should the Terms begin and end if we Were not controll'd by Traytors Tyranny But since they may adjourn or vote them down My Rule 's not certain whilst they rule the Town 4. In January having put the Decollation of His Royal Majesty and the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury in Red Letters that the Cruelty of those Actions might more eminently appear he writes Behold those Crimson Veins England lament Nay curse the Authors of thy Dismal Fate But doat no longer on a Parliament Nor be ambitious to be hight a State Since in this Month those Tyrants hewed down In Laud the Mitre in blest Charles the Crown 5. In February Lo here again two Martyrs on a tree Burleigh and Beaumont basely put to death That for attemping's Soveraign to free This that he would not Saintlike break his faith Look to it Wild and Lambert there 's a season Heav'n will revenge this blood reward your treason 6. In March Yet yet the thirsty Saints howle out for blood Brave Capel Cambridge Holland all must die The first 'cause he for 's King and Country stood They 'cause they would and yet would not comply They found thy mercy and fair-quarter Flat cruelty But Capel is the Martyr 7. In April The lofty Saints their prowess now to show And make their fame float with the spreading main Vouchsafe this month to let great London know They durst encounter boyes as well as men For lyon-like th'apprentices they slay But what cannot resist is Asses prey 8. In May. Now wise and noble Strafford Yeomans Bowcher And Kemish in cold blood resign to fate The Surrey suppliants too they basely Butcher As trivial objects of their rage and hate Their blood cries still aloud may it do so Till Hea'vn avenge it on his barb'rous fo 9. In June The Loyal Kentishmen are Murdred next They would petition for and have a KING What disobedient things were they that vext And so distuâ—b'd the States new-modelling Petitioning's the birth-right of the Saints They must be heard but will hear no complaints 10. In July So Tompkins Challoner and that brave soul Francis Lord Villiers in this month expir'd The cause the Kings A crime most deadly foul 'Gainst those pure creatures wâ—ich the Crown aspir'd Nor do those Saints distinguish cruelty 'T is Justice right or wrong how e'er we dy 11. In August Who loves true worth and grutcheth it to pay A tear for valiant Lucas and stout Lisle Or why behoves it not that pray Their blood may not submerge this sinful Isle His Mercy 's murder honour breach of trust Good God reward him as he 's base thou Just 12. In