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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>AN
EPITAPH
On the late decea&s;ed, that truely-Noble and Renowned Lady
ELIZABETH CROMWEL,
(Mother to His Highne&s;s the Lo. Protector of Great Britain and Ireland, &amp;c.)
who lived to the age of 89. and died Nov. 16. 1654. and lieth buried in We&s;tmin&s;ter-Abbey.</HEAD>
<L>REnowned mother of our Lord</L>
<L>Great <HI>OLIVER</HI> Protector,</L>
<L>Thou noble Root that did&s;t afford</L>
<L><HI>Great Britain</HI>'s Weal's Affector!</L>
<L>Like <HI>Helen,</HI> &s;ometime honoured</L>
<L>For Great <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI>'s Mother;</L>
<L>So Thou for Us ha&s;t born and bred</L>
<L>One truely &s;uch another</L>
<L>In Wi&s;dom, Valour, and Goodne&s;s,</L>
<L>That hath us freed from Chains</L>
<L>Of Tyrants great, that did di&s;tre&s;s</L>
<L>Good men with cruel Pains.</L>
<L>And as Great <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> did free</L>
<L>Chri&s;t's Church from Per&s;ecution;</L>
<L>So hath thy Son gain'd Libertie</L>
<L>For real Truth's promotion.</L>
<L>May he go on to conquer &s;till</L>
<L>All potent Enemies</L>
<L>That wi&s;h our We&s;tern <HI>Zion</HI> ill,</L>
<L>And would our Rights &s;urpri&s;e.</L>
<L>And may he give the fatal blowe</L>
<L>To Per&s;ecution's pride,</L>
<L>In any Forms, both high or lowe,</L>
<L>Where-ever he doth hide.</L>
<L>May he go on, Terrour to be</L>
<L>To <HI>Rome</HI>'s u&s;urping power;</L>
<L>May he give Chri&s;tians Libertie</L>
<L>(Out from that <HI>Babel</HI>-Tower)</L>
<L>And ea&s;e poor Prote&s;tants from Bands,</L>
<L>And th' cruel Inqui&s;ition,</L>
<L>And free us from proud Clergies hands,</L>
<L>Is that which we petition.</L>
<L>Madam, you lived to great age,</L>
<L>And &s;aw mo&s;t great Mutation</L>
<L>Acted upon the common Stage</L>
<L>Of this our terrene Station.</L>
<L>Your Life it was mo&s;t full of Love</L>
<L>To creatures in di&s;tre&s;s:</L>
<L>That is the God-like life above,</L>
<L>And is true Happine&s;s.</L>
<L>May You and Yours it &s;till po&s;&s;e&s;s.</L>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>Nov. 17.
1654.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>J. L&punc;</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>LONDON,
<HI>Printed by</HI> James Cottrel.
1655.</P>
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