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Epigrams theological, philosophical, and romantick

Six books, also the Socratic Session, or the Arraignment and Conviction, of Julius Scaliger, with other Select Poems. By S. Sheppard

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Epig. 28. On the death of Mary Queen of Scots.

The doome of Judges fore appointed,
Racking the Law beyond all reason
To death condemn'd a Queen anointed,
Without allegiance finding Treason:

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The Axe to do the execution
Shun'd to cut off a head once crown'd,
The Hangman lost his Resolution,
To kill a Queen so much renound:
Remorse in hangmen, and in steele,
Yet Judges no remorse to feele?
O henceforth may there ne're be seen
By English eyes, a headlesse Queen.