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<P>MEMENTO MORI</P>
</FIGURE>AN ELEGY <HI>Or, final farewel to</HI> Sir JOHN FENWICK, Baronet, Who, for High-Trea&s;on, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> was Beheaded on <HI>Tower-Hill, Thur&s;day</HI> the 28. of this 
In&s;tant <HI>January,</HI> 1697.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Written by a late Converted</HI> Jacobite, <HI>and Recommended to all Male-content and Di&s;affected</HI> Per&s;ons <HI>of the&s;e Kingdoms.</HI></P>
<LG>
<L>BEhold, you <HI>Grandees,</HI> of this <HI>Earthly Globe,</HI></L>
<L>How &s;ickle <HI>Fortune</HI> HEROES dos di&s;robe,</L>
<L>Di&s;robe, degrade, and utterly ca&s;t down;</L>
<L>No <HI>States</HI> are free, no not a very <HI>Crown.</HI></L>
<L>Have not late Years <HI>Exce&s;&s;ive</HI> Changes wrought?</L>
<L>Yea, have not KINGS <HI>Experience</HI> dearly bought?</L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>Kings,</HI> I mean, who, by <HI>De&s;potick Power,</HI></L>
<L>Have &s;ought both <HI>Laws,</HI> and <HI>Charters</HI> to devour</L>
<L>The late King <HI>James</HI> (by &s;ome firnam'd the <HI>Ju&s;t</HI>)</L>
<L>Is not his <HI>Grandeur</HI> levell'd with the <HI>Du&s;t?</HI></L>
<L>Whil&s;t his <HI>Machines, Incendaries</HI> of Hell,</L>
<L>Profu&s;ely even their own <HI>Bloods</HI> do &s;pill:</L>
<L>CROVVNS, tho' uncertain, and a <HI>Mortal</HI> GEM,</L>
<L>Are firmly fix'd upon a <HI>Sacred</HI> STEM,</L>
<L>Not to be <HI>mov'd,</HI> but by a <HI>Power Sublime,</HI></L>
<L>A <HI>Scepter</HI> &s;urely is a <HI>Staff Divine.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Achitophels</HI> a while may <HI>Favour</HI> Gain,</L>
<L>Yet at the la&s;t their <HI>Labours</HI> are but vain</L>
<L>Their <HI>Plots, Intriegues,</HI> their <HI>Trea&s;ons</HI> di&s;anull'd</L>
<L>Their <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> Captives, and their <HI>Sen&s;es</HI> lull'd</L>
<L>In <HI>Frantick Dreams,</HI> which &s;o exa&s;perate</L>
<L><HI>Mi&s;taken Courage,</HI> that before too late,</L>
<L>They &s;eldom &s;ee the <HI>Error</HI> of their <HI>Way,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Mi&s;plac'd Zeal</HI> dos in a Trice decay</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, Oh &s;tupendious! <HI>Folly</HI> dos &s;o Reign</L>
<L>That &s;ad Examples cannot Men refrain,</L>
<L>From <HI>Towering Pride:</HI> AMBITION <HI>Satan</HI>'s Bait</L>
<L>Draws <HI>Thoughtle&s;s Men</HI> into a di&s;mal &s;tate:</L>
<L>The <HI>&s;oaring Mortal</HI> that to SOL would <HI>flye,</HI></L>
<L>His <HI>Wings</HI> dropt off, and from the <HI>lofty Skie,</HI></L>
<L>He fell a <HI>Victim</HI> to the <HI>Raging Sea;</HI></L>
<L>So <HI>Haughty</HI> FENVVICK <HI>threw</HI> him&s;elf <HI>away.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ungrateful Sir! How could&s;t thou &s;trive to tare</L>
<L>Thy <HI>Mothers Bowels, Queen</HI> EUROPA <HI>fair</HI></L>
<L>Her <HI>choice&s;t Food</HI> did &s;he not to thee give,</L>
<L>And did&s;t not thou ith' mid&s;t of <HI>Go&s;hen</HI> live</L>
<L>Thy <HI>Stores</HI> increas'd, thy <HI>Ble&s;&s;ings</HI> did abound</L>
<L>And nought but <HI>Plea&s;ures</HI> did thy TENT &s;urround</L>
<L>Thy VINE thus planted in a <HI>Fruitful Place,</HI></L>
<L>With Joy thou might have run thy <HI>Human Race,</HI></L>
<L>And, <HI>full of Days</HI> laid down thy <HI>Life</HI> in PEACE,</L>
<L>But woe! alas, in&s;tead of <HI>grateful</HI> PRAISE,</L>
<L>Again&s;t thy DONOR thou did&s;t <HI>Trea&s;on</HI> rai&s;e,</L>
<L>De&s;pi&s;e <HI>His</HI> POVVERS: His <HI>Wi&s;e</HI> DECREES reject</L>
<L>KINGS, next JEHOVAH claim <HI>profound Re&s;pect,</HI></L>
<L>And now thy CEDAR's levell'd to the <HI>Ground</HI></L>
<L>Thy <HI>Own Device</HI> thy &s;elf did quite confound;</L>
<L>For <HI>Plea&s;ures, Sorrow; Chains</HI> for <HI>Liberty;</HI></L>
<L>For <HI>Fragrant Odours, Noy&s;om Scents</HI> annoy;</L>
<L>Thy <HI>plea&s;ant Wines,</HI> thy mo&s;t <HI>Delicious Fare,</HI></L>
<L>Like <HI>I&s;rael</HI>'s Quails, a loath&s;omne&s;s do bear,</L>
<L>Thy LIFE a Pain, each DAY a heavy <HI>Yoke,</HI></L>
<L>Till at the length the <HI>Ax's</HI> fatal Stroke</L>
<L>Thy Head lopps off; they ju&s;tly loo&s;e their <HI>own,</HI></L>
<L>Who dare their <HI>King,</HI> their Countries <HI>Head</HI> di&s;own.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>FENVVICK to <HI>Folly</HI> thou a <HI>Martyr</HI> dies;</L>
<L>Thy feeble MARTLETS mu&s;t not think to ri&s;e</L>
<L>And &s;oar in <HI>Grandeur</HI> with the EAGLE <HI>High,</HI></L>
<L>Who&s;e <HI>Fleeting Pinions</HI> mount unto the SKIE:</L>
<L>Ambitious <HI>Phaetons</HI> may pretend to <HI>Steer</HI></L>
<L><HI>Sol's</HI> Mighty CHARIOT in a <HI>full Career,</HI></L>
<L>But in a Moment they will &s;urely find</L>
<L>Their <HI>Feet</HI> too weak for their <HI>Ambitious</HI> MIND:</L>
<L>The <HI>Martlet</HI>'s FEET, are for her <HI>Whiffling</HI> BRAIN</L>
<L>Too <HI>&s;hort</HI> and <HI>&s;lender,</HI> therefore &s;he in vain</L>
<L>Her Projects frames, when &s;eated on the Ground;</L>
<L>For Trea&s;on Here no Ri&s;ing Steps are found.</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L><HI>IF a</HI> Traytor <HI>may &s;uch Favour have,</HI></L>
<L><HI>As to be lodg'd within the Grave.</HI></L>
<L><HI>&V;pon his Tomb, In&s;cribe this Ver&s;e,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Which plainly dos his</HI> Fame <HI>expre&s;s:</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Here <HI>Fenwick</HI> lies, who&s;e re&s;tle&s;s <HI>Brain</HI></L>
<L>No Bounds of <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> could contain;</L>
<L>Who Courted Death, per&s;u'd his <HI>Fate,</HI></L>
<L>And &s;ought to ruin Church and State:</L>
<L>De&s;troy'd his Cau&s;e, Orethrew his Friend,</L>
<L>And brought him&s;elf to a fatal End.</L>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed and Sold by <HI>J. Bradford,</HI> in <HI>New-&s;treet,</HI> with|out <HI>Bi&s;hop&s;gate,</HI> near <HI>Hand-Alley,</HI> 1697.</P>
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