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<DATE>2007-08-03</DATE>
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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>THE MONVMENT OF CHARLES THE FIRST, KING OF ENGLAND.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">VVho was beheaded before <HI>Whit-Hall</HI> <DATE><HI>January</HI> 30^t^h 1648.</DATE><LB>
In the 24^t^h yeare of his Reigne.</HEAD>
<Q>Mors mihi Lucrum.</Q>
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<HEAD>C R Aetatis Suae 48</HEAD>
<FIGDESC>funeral monument of Charles I</FIGDESC>
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<Q>&V;irtus po&s;t Funera vivit.</Q>
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<L>HEre lyes great CHARLES, fir&s;t King of that &s;ame name,</L>
<L><HI>Englands</HI> great glory, <HI>Englands</HI> la&s;ting fame;</L>
<L>A Butcher'd Martyr King, who&s;e patient mildne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Crowneth him&s;elfe with Fame, his foes with vildne&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>A per&s;ecuted Saint, for &s;even yeares &s;pace</L>
<L>Pre&s;t downe with &s;orrowes, yet held up by Grace;</L>
<L>In whom tho&s;e Vertues con&s;tantly did live,</L>
<L>Which to the Worthies la&s;ting fame did give:</L>
<L>Patient as <HI>Job,</HI> and like to <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> milde,</L>
<L><HI>Salomons</HI> wi&s;edome makes him Wi&s;edomes childe;</L>
<L>Valiant as <HI>David,</HI> and the chiefe&s;t part</L>
<L>Like to <HI>Jo&s;iah,</HI> zeale po&s;&s;e&s;t his heart:</L>
<L>Faithfull in Vowes, yet there began the &s;trife,</L>
<L>That reav'd him of his <HI>Queene,</HI> his <HI>Crowne,</HI> his <HI>Life:</HI></L>
<L>Who&s;e true Effigies drawne by ju&s;t de&s;ert,</L>
<L>Cau&s;eth him live in each true Subjects heart:</L>
<L>Living he dy'd, and dying life he gain'd,</L>
<L>Death conquer'd him, his foes with &s;hame he &s;tain'd.</L>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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