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An epitaph upon His late Majesty, King Charles the II.
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1685
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Wing E3173; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.2[174]; ESTC R11342
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AN EPITAPH Upon His Late MAJESTY King CHARLES the II. THE Statue which the Rhodians say The Sun Descends on every Day Is also here in ENGLAND set Within this Royal Cabinet To whose Eternal Hallowed-Vrn Pilgrims from Far shall come and Mourn Their Snowy-Heads shall Prostrate here And Drop a Pearly-Aged Tear TIME that does make of All his Game And over all our Hours does Reign With this Great Treasure now Possest May set Him down in Peace and Rest While We through Sorrows-Vale go on As CAESAR past Great-Rubicon Thy Actions cannot be Inrol'd Nor can upon the Brass be told Nor can be set in Amell'd-Gold Like Wonders that the Poets tell Of HERO'S that in Marble Dwell Which like to Rocks that Tempests Scorn And oft are Angry with the Storm Must Bow and yield at TIMES Great Call And into Flinty-pieces fall While thy Blest Name shall still Out-live All the Decay that Age can give More sweet then those Hydaspes Lends And the Fam'd Phoenix e're she Ends Thy Spirit did like Elijah Fall To Bless us at thy FUNERAL FINIS Printed for P. Brooksby at the Golden-Ball in Pye-Corner 1685.