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A81084
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A crovvne, a crime or, the monarch-martyr.
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1649
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Wing C7373; Thomason 669.f.13[87]; ESTC R211239
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A CROWNE A CRIME OR THE MONARCH-MARTYR Set up your Scaffolds and your Prisoner bring Nere worser Fate befell a worthyer King This will true Bards in after ages sing STate-shaking Cethegus curst Catiline Dissect this horrid Treason of our time And tax proud Rome for holding yours a crime Un-king a King because He was too good Doome Him a Tyrant who for Justice stood Cruell whose hand was never dipt in blood Adjudg'd for living well unfit to live Deni'd for heav'ns provision a reprive Traitor for pleading his Prerogative Barr'd from Reply when he at Bar was tryde By Achans and Achitophels defyde Kept from his Childrens sight untill He dyde Informe our knowledge Heav'ns there 's some amisse Skrean'd from our Skaly Eyes occasion'd this To snatch three Crowns from Him 't is fear'd from His VVhat might this be Me thinks I see a brave Creature of His awaking from his Grave Shewing that Hand which His Dismission gave Yet to Excuse that Error there is writ The Doctrine of our Prelats under it It was an Act convenient and fit Ay me How Cheerfull dayes produce sad nights VVhen Kings give eare to Pulpit-Parasites VVhich Sceane is here presented in our sights A Prince decreed to forfeit his Command By signing Others Errors with His Hand Creating so a Democratick Land Heav'ns judgement 's * just Let Soveraigns take heed In Acts against their Conscience to proceed * Timists will prove weak Reedes in time of need But those pure-crimson Streamlings which were shed On th' Sable Stage where He resign'd His Head Seal'd with a deep remorce have witnessed His peace is made and that his Diadem Cannot be now pull'd off by hands of Men His Courts remov'd to New Hierusalem EPITAPH BEhold the Mirror of a Prince pourtraid The living Embleam of a glorious shade Whose Chair of State was late a Scaffold made One then whom never any did professe More Zeal to th' Publique and received lesse Of more desert and brought to more distresse That reall lustre to our Royall Garter That late inlarger of our Cities Charter Whose Crown the Crime that made this Monarch-Martyr Adieu Deare Prince Death like a loving friend Hath crown'd thy sufferings with a peacefull end While headlesse we our ruine must attend Nor can we lesse expect Iudgement 's at hand To scourge the follies of a sinfull Land What Brightman wrote we would not understand From th' fatall period of a Charlemaine VVaine should a Kingdom in her Charles-waine But Prayers nor tears might call him back again Lords should resigne their Patents to the Sword Lurdane should equall any English Lord O brave Platonick Levell Martiall Boord Augurium Criticum in Auspicium Civicum JAne geris frontem geminam Nova Troja fricatam Dum pateris Regem caede perire tuum Sin Carolum nescis minitantia flebilis Vrbis Funera quò siccis suspicis ista genis Conjugis aedis opis reditura est gloria flammis Militis aut manibus praeda futura feris Haec cecinit Vates Sed non credenda Superbis Cassandra ulterius non mihi Shipton eris HEroës pereunt Generosi praedia perdunt Artifices lachrymant fana profana jacent Publica Causa ruit Terras Astraea reliquit Et Caroli casu Regio tota gemit Haec Simulata fides incendia contulit Urbi Exilium Civi tristia fata plebi FINIS * Which might be imply'd by those words He spake before his Execution God forbid that I should be so ill a Christian as not to say that Gods Judgments are just upon Me Many times he does pay Justice by an unjust Sentence c. * Timists will find no Advoâ—ates to plead