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<HEAD>AN ELEGIE UPON Edward Fitz-Harris, Executed at <HI>Tyburn</HI> for <HI>High-Trea&s;on</HI> upon <HI>Friday, July</HI> 1. 1681.</HEAD>
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<L><HI>UNhappy Man! the Nations</HI> &s;corn and hate,</L>
<L>How &s;hall I do thy <HI>Death</HI> to deplorate?</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Tears are due to &s;uch a <HI>Tragedy,</HI></L>
<L>Who liv'd <HI>unlov'd,</HI> mu&s;t needs <HI>unpitied dye;</HI></L>
<L>Upon that <HI>Soyl</HI> where nought but Thorns will grow,</L>
<L>In vain the <HI>Heavens</HI> their baulmy Dews be&s;tow,</L>
<L>Had thy Crimes been of a le&s;s bloody hue,</L>
<L><HI>Humanity</HI> would have made &s;omething due,</L>
<L>A thing that's <HI>&s;oft</HI> in all but &s;uch as you;</L>
<L>But where the Widdows and the Orphans Tears,</L>
<L>Three <HI>Kingdoms</HI> Mi&s;ery for many years</L>
<L>Intail'd upon them and the <HI>Sacred Blood</HI></L>
<L>Of a <HI>Great Prince,</HI> &s;o merciful and good,</L>
<L>Could no <HI>Relentings</HI> find, <HI>Humanity</HI></L>
<L>It &s;elf is forfeit, <HI>You de&s;erv'd to dye:</HI></L>
<L>Such Blood we can <HI>compa&s;sionate</HI> no more</L>
<L>The lo&s;s of, than our own <HI>di&s;ea&s;ed</HI> Store,</L>
<L>When in the <HI>Cri&s;is</HI> of a Pluri&s;ie</L>
<L><HI>Blood</HI> mu&s;t be <HI>&s;pilt,</HI> or <HI>we our &s;elves</HI> mu&s;t dye;</L>
<L>How many Mi&s;chiefs ran in every Vein,</L>
<L>That did that hateful Blood of thine contain:</L>
<L>Who&s;e <HI>Circulations</HI> &s;till did ebb and flow</L>
<L>With <HI>Plots</HI> and <HI>Stratagems,</HI> to overthrow</L>
<L>Thy <HI>Country</HI>'s Peace; who&s;e Pul&s;e did nothing beat</L>
<L>But <HI>Plots</HI> and <HI>Trea&s;ons,</HI> and who&s;e Native heat</L>
<L>Inflamed by a <HI>Popi&s;h</HI> Devili&s;h Zeal,</L>
<L>Rag'd with a <HI>Calenture</HI> as hot as <HI>Hell.</HI></L>
<L>Thou that ha&s;t been the <HI>Tennis-Ball</HI> of <HI>State,</HI></L>
<L>Bandy'd betwixt the <HI>Powers</HI> and thy <HI>Fate,</HI></L>
<L>So for a time &s;u&s;pended, <HI>Vengeance</HI> now</L>
<L>(Impatient grown) has giv'n the fatal Blow,</L>
<L>That to the curs'd <HI>De&s;igns</HI> thou did&s;t intend</L>
<L>Again&s;t the&s;e <HI>Kingdoms</HI> puts a final End:</L>
<L>Now 'tis too late to blind us any more</L>
<L>With feign'd Di&s;cov'ries, as thou did&s;t before;</L>
<L>To flatter <HI>Mercy</HI> with a <HI>Tale,</HI> and then</L>
<L><HI>True Papi&s;t</HI>-like, un&s;ay the &s;ame again.</L>
<L>What e're it was, thou <HI>ought'&s;t</HI> to let us know</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 words"> by an Eternal <HI>Silence</HI> now;</L>
<L>Yet Heav'n knows all, and will in time reveal</L>
<L>The&s;e Depths of Treachery, which to conceal,</L>
<L><HI>Rome</HI> by her Damned <HI>Oaths,</HI> and Idle <HI>Frights,</HI></L>
<L>Obliges her Deluded <HI>Pro&s;elites.</HI></L>
<L><HI>But &s;tay,</HI> Is there no Room for <HI>Charity</HI></L>
<L>In &s;uch a <HI>Ca&s;e</HI> as this? Papi&s;ts deny</L>
<L>It us, and by uncharitable Votes</L>
<L>Next damn our Souls, when they have cut our throats.</L>
<L>The <HI>Laws</HI> of our <HI>Religion</HI> us inclines</L>
<L>T' a&s;&s;ume more &s;oft and <HI>charitable</HI> minds;</L>
<L>And when that <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> once has had its due,</L>
<L>We can both hope their good, and pity too.</L>
<L>Poor Dying <HI>Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">factors;</HI> we can pray</L>
<L>For them while there is life; and hope all may</L>
<L>Be well after their Death, e&s;pecially</L>
<L>Where any Sorrow for their Guilt w'e&s;py;</L>
<L>Where any &s;hews of true <HI>Repentance</HI> are,</L>
<L>Our <HI>Church</HI> has charitably taken care</L>
<L>To purge each Souls by Ab&s;olution,</L>
<L>Before their Merited Execution:</L>
<L>Our <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> (not invenomed with <HI>Spite</HI></L>
<L>Or <HI>Malice</HI>) grants a <HI>charitable-right</HI></L>
<L>To &s;uch Offenders, that their <HI>Souls</HI> may have</L>
<L>A place in <HI>Heav'n,</HI> who&s;e <HI>Bodies</HI> want a Grave,</L>
<L>Altho we make no <HI>Traytors Martyrs,</HI> we</L>
<L>Allow them <HI>Happine&s;s</HI> in Charity,</L>
<L>Where they are truly Penitent, <HI>Confe&s;sion</HI></L>
<L>Serves &s;ometimes <HI>here</HI> to blot out a Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion,</L>
<L>And to obtain a Pardon, but when <HI>here</HI></L>
<L>It is deny'd, it may be gotten <HI>there</HI></L>
<L>Where <HI>Pity</HI> &s;prings, where <HI>boundle&s;s Mercies</HI> flow,</L>
<L>We wi&s;h, and hope it may be his <HI>Ca&s;e</HI> now.</L>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Thomas Snowden, An.</HI> 1681.</P>
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