The Life and Death of William Long beard the most famous and witty English Traitor, borne in the Citty of London. Accompanied with manye other most pleasant and prettie histories, By T. L. [i.e. Thomas Lodge] of Lincolns Inne, Gent |
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William Long beards Epitaph.
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William Long beards Epitaph.
Vntimely death and my found fruits of Treason,
My lawlesse lust, my murthers long concealed,
Haue ship wract life amids my Aprill season,
Thus couerd things at last will be reuealed.
A shamefull death my sinfull life succeedeth
And feare of heauenly iudge great terror breedeth.
My lawlesse lust, my murthers long concealed,
Haue ship wract life amids my Aprill season,
Thus couerd things at last will be reuealed.
A shamefull death my sinfull life succeedeth
And feare of heauenly iudge great terror breedeth.
My mangled members in this graue included,
Haue answered lawes extreames to my confusion,
Oh God let not my murthers be obtruded
Against my soule wrongd through my earthes illusion.
And as the graue my liuelesse limmes containeth,
So take my soule to thee where rest remaineth.
Haue answered lawes extreames to my confusion,
Oh God let not my murthers be obtruded
Against my soule wrongd through my earthes illusion.
And as the graue my liuelesse limmes containeth,
So take my soule to thee where rest remaineth.
Thou trauailer that treadest on my toombe,
Remembreth thee of my vntimely fall,
Preuent the time forethinke what may become,
See that thy wil be to thy reason thrall,
Scorne worlds delights, esteeme vaine honor small:
So maist y die with fame, where men of conscience foule
Perish with shame and hazard of their soule.
Remembreth thee of my vntimely fall,
Preuent the time forethinke what may become,
See that thy wil be to thy reason thrall,
Scorne worlds delights, esteeme vaine honor small:
So maist y die with fame, where men of conscience foule
Perish with shame and hazard of their soule.
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