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<HEAD>AN ELEGIE <HI>On Coronel BLOOD,</HI> Notorious fo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;tealing the Crown, &amp;c. Who Dyed the Twenty Sixth of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 1680.</HEAD>
<P><ADD>30 Aug. 1680.</ADD></P>
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<L>Thanks ye kind Fates, for your la&s;t Favour &s;hown</L>
<L>Of &s;tealing <HI>BLOOD,</HI> who lately &s;tole the Crown;</L>
<L>We'l not exclaim &s;o much again&s;t you &s;ince;</L>
<L>As well as <HI>BEDLOE,</HI> you have fetcht him hence,</L>
<L>He who hath been a Plague to all Mankind:</L>
<L>And never was to any one a Friend,</L>
<L>Nay to him&s;elf &s;uch torment was at la&s;t,</L>
<L>He wi&s;ht his Life had long ago been pa&s;t.</L>
<L>For who can bear, a di&s;contented minde.</L>
<L>Or any Peace with an ill Con&s;cience finde,</L>
<L>Thro' his whole Life, he practis'd Villany</L>
<L>And Lov'd it though he nothing got thereby;</L>
<L>At fir&s;t unea&s;y at the Kings return</L>
<L>With &s;ecret Malice his bold heart 'did burn.</L>
<L>Again&s;t his Sovereign, and on pretence</L>
<L>He had much wrong'd his Feign'd Innocence;</L>
<L>To <HI>IRELAND</HI> went, and &s;everal ways did try</L>
<L>Rather then he would unrevenged Dye,</L>
<L>To vent his Malice on His MAJESTY.</L>
<L>But finding there all his attempts prove vain,</L>
<L>To <HI>ENGLAND</HI> forthwith he returns again,</L>
<L>And after &s;ome &s;mall time, he had Liv'd here</L>
<L>The fir&s;t Great thing in which he did appear,</L>
<L>Was re&s;cuing from Ju&s;tice CAPTAIN <HI>MASON,</HI></L>
<L>Whom all the WORLD doth know, t'have been a ba&s;e one</L>
<L>The next ill thing he Boldly undertook,</L>
<L>Was Barbarou&s;ly &s;eizing of a DUKE.</L>
<L>Whom as he &s;ince confe&s;s'd, he did intend</L>
<L>To Hang for Injuries he did pretend:</L>
<L>The DUKE had alone him, though the World does know</L>
<L>His Grace was ne're to a Good Man a Foe:</L>
<L>Having through all, his many well &s;pent Days;</L>
<L>Serv'd His KING and Country, &s;everal ways</L>
<L>And Patiently his troubles underwent,</L>
<L>Finding a &s;weetne&s;s, ev'n in Bani&s;hment</L>
<L>And Death, he Patiently wou'd have endur'd,</L>
<L>The KINGS Re&s;toring cou'd he have &s;ecur'd:</L>
<L>A DUKE, who being by Providence pre&s;erv'd</L>
<L>Hath begot Sons; who Valiantly have &s;erv'd.</L>
<L>His MAJESTY, and Great Renown Obtein'd</L>
<L>In many Battles by your Valour Gain'd,</L>
<L>Great <HI>OSSERY,</HI> who by his Conduct wi&s;e,</L>
<L>Did Oft by Stratagems, his Foes &s;urprize</L>
<L>And hath as often beat them with his Sword;</L>
<L>Was the Elde&s;t Son, of this mo&s;t Noble LORD.</L>
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<L>But I my HEROE almo&s;t had forgot,</L>
<L>And th' next thing he Engag'd in was a PLOT.</L>
<L>To &s;eize the CROWN; and without doubt he who</L>
<L>So Great a Piece of Villany would do,</L>
<L>When he &s;aw Time, wou'd have attempted too;</L>
<L>His MAJESTY; but failing of the prize,</L>
<L>About the Town he undi&s;cover'd lies,</L>
<L>Harbour'd by &s;ome of's fellow Rogues, yet &s;ee</L>
<L>How few can &s;cape concernd in Villany,</L>
<L>In a &s;hort time, he apprehended was</L>
<L>And brav'd His MAJESTY, even to his Face</L>
<L>Yet when one wou'd, have thought he &s;hould have had;</L>
<L>Reward for's Villany; and have been made</L>
<L>Example to all Ages our good King,</L>
<L>Gave him his Life, (who long has &s;trove to bring</L>
<L>De&s;truction on him,) and did him Re&s;tore,</L>
<L>To liberty, thinking he ne're wou'd more</L>
<L>Do any thing unju&s;t again when loe;</L>
<L>His &s;tiring Spirit, was not contented &s;o,</L>
<L>For he Engages inth' Con&s;piracy,</L>
<L>To ruine th' Honour, Life, and Liberty,</L>
<L>Of a de&s;erving Noble Hone&s;t Peer,</L>
<L>And had him brought, unto de&s;truction near</L>
<L>But Divine providence for ever Ble&s;t:</L>
<L>Prevented this, as well as all the Re&s;t</L>
<L>By th' coming in of &s;ome, that were concern'd</L>
<L>Which all your PLOT; into confu&s;ion turn'd,</L>
<L>At la&s;t our Famous HEROE Coronel <HI>BLOOD,</HI></L>
<L>Seeing his Projects all will do no good,</L>
<L>And that Succe&s;s was to him &s;till deny'd,</L>
<L>Fell &s;ick with Grief, broke his great Heart and dy'd.</L>
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<HEAD>The EPITAPH.</HEAD>
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<L><HI>HERE Lies the Man, who boldly hath run through,</HI></L>
<L><HI>More Villanies then ever</HI> ENGLAND <HI>knew;</HI></L>
<L><HI>And nere to any Friend, he had was true,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Here let him then by all unpittied Lye,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And Let's Rejoyce his time was come to Dye.</HI></L>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>J. S.</HI> in the Year, 1680.</P>
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