Regale Lectum Miseriae: or, a Kingly bed of Miserie In which is contained, a dreame: with An Elegie upon the Martyrdome of Charls, late King of England, of blessed Memory: and Another upon the Right Honourable The Lord Capel. With A curse against the Enemies of Peace, and the Authors Farewell to England. By John Quarles |
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THE AVTHORS FAREWELL To England. |
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THE AVTHORS FAREWELL To England.
England , farewell; th'affections that I beareTo thee, I cannot name without a teare;
I must be gon, my troubled Conscience loathes
To staine it's welfare with thy new-made oathes,
Heav'n knowes my heart, I truely hate disorders,
And pitty them that live within thy boarders
As for my self; I cannot stoop so low,
To be subordinate to them, I know
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Converted Monarchy into a State;
Though heav'n conceales his anger for a time,
Giving them leave to doate upon a crime;
A day will come to plague their souls, and then
They'le prove but devills, in the shapes of men.
And so farewell, poor England, quite farewell,
Where Furyes reigne, there needs must be a Hell.
Anglia, jam quantum, quantum mutata vetustas,
Nunc caput es sceleris, qui caput orbis eras.
Nunc caput es sceleris, qui caput orbis eras.
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