Poems on Affairs of State

[Volume I.] From the time of Oliver Cromwell to the Abdication of K. James the Second.

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Vol. II. From The Reign of K. James the First, To this Present Year 1703.

III.

VOL. III. From the Year 1640. to the Year 1704.

IV.

VOL. IV. From 1620. to this present Year 1707.

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On Sir John Fenwick.

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The attribution of this poem is questionable.

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Here lie the Relicks of a martyr'd Knight,
Whose Loyalty unspotted as the Light,
Seal'd with his Blood his injur'd So---gn's Right.

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The State his Head did from his Body sever,
Because when living 'twas his chief Endeavour
To set the Nation and its Head together.

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He boldly fell, girt round with weeping Soldiers,
Imploring Heaven for the good o' the Beholders,
So to cut H---d's Head from England's Shoulders.

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On Sir John Fenwick.

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