Flamma sine Fumo or, poems without fictions. Hereunto are annexed the Causes, Symptoms, or Signes of several Diseases with their Cures, and also the diversity of Urines, with their Causes in Poetical measure. By R. W. [i.e. Rowland Watkyns] |
Upon the mournful death of our late Soveraign Lord Charles the first, King of England, &c.
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Upon the mournful death of our late Soveraign Lord Charles the first, King of England, &c.
I read of a Confessor, and a King,A King, and Martyr is a stranger thing.
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A holy Martyr, and sweet sacrifice:
Thieves did consent to kill the just; but why?
When that the Wolf is Judge, the Lamb must dye?
He went to Canaan for three Kingdoms good,
Through the red-Sea of his own sacred blood:
Thus John the Baptist dy'd, that holy one,
Whilst Herod did usurp King Davids throne,
By his beheading it may well be sed.
Three Kingdoms by injustice lost their head;
If ere I shall the ayde of Saints implore,
Thy Shrine alone (good Charles) I will adore;
Lord, let my soul unto thy Kingdom come,
To see King Charls crown'd for his Martyrdom.
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