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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD><FIGURE>
<P>MEMENTO MORI</P>
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<HEAD>AN ELEGY On the DEATH of William Lord RUSSEL, Who was Beheaded for High-Trea&s;on, in <HI>Lincolns-Inn-Fields,</HI> <DATE><HI>July</HI> the <HI>21&s;t.</HI> 1683.</DATE></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><ADD>A scandalous Coppy on him.</ADD></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><ADD>21. July. 1683.</ADD></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<LG>
<L>TO &s;igh when Rebels fall, or &s;hed a Tear,</L>
<L>Mu&s;t, doubtle&s;s, make Me Criminal appear;</L>
<L>Not that I love thy <HI>Trea&s;on,</HI> but thy <HI>Name,</HI></L>
<L>Which all ador'd, and in the Book of Fame</L>
<L>Gave thee a place befitting thy De&s;erts;</L>
<L>But now thou wound'&s;t all loyal hone&s;t Hearts</L>
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<LG>
<L>Who &s;hall we tru&s;t, if &s;uch as You Rebel?</L>
<L>So the great <HI>Lucifer</HI> from Heaven fell.</L>
<L>RUSSEEL with Hell and Furies too combine!</L>
<L>To kill the <HI>KING</HI> and all the <HI>Royal Line!</HI></L>
<L>Ah me! it is too true! His now lo&s;t Head</L>
<L>Confirms whatever has on him been &s;aid.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O that I live to hear the fatal &s;ound,</L>
<L>Who&s;e very accent does my Heart-&s;trings wound!</L>
<L>Is this your Loyalty; Is this your Zeal,</L>
<L>To damn your Soul for a curs'd <HI>Commonweal?</HI></L>
<L>Though once I lov'd Thee, now I hate thy Name,</L>
<L>And thus I'll rend it from the Book of Fame,</L>
<L>That future Ages, when they read thy &s;hame,</L>
<L>May prai&s;e Heav'ns Ju&s;tice, and abhor thy Name.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Who, but a Mon&s;ter, could Rebellions prove</L>
<L>To &s;uch <HI>Indulgence, Clemency</HI> and <HI>Love,</HI></L>
<LG>
<L>As our Dread Sov'reign evermore be&s;tows</L>
<L>Upon his Friends, nay on his very Foes,</L>
<L>Which &s;lew his Father, and would Him Depo&s;e?</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O that our <HI>I&s;land</HI> &s;hould &s;uch Mon&s;ters breed,</L>
<L>Which, <HI>Nero</HI>-like, delight to &s;ee her bleed!</L>
<LG>
<L>Look down <HI>ju&s;t Heav'n,</HI> with <HI>Vengeance</HI> upon <HI>tho&s;e</HI></L>
<L>That are our Sov'reigns and our Churches Foes,</L>
<L>And as thou ha&s;t, &s;till all their <HI>Plots</HI> di&s;clo&s;e:</L>
</LG>
<L>O let 'em not, although with Hell they joyn,</L>
<L>E'r be &s;ucce&s;sful in their damn'd De&s;ign,</L>
<LG>
<L>Who&s;e only aim was to find out a way</L>
<L>To turn our <HI>Sion</HI> to <HI>Acaldema,</HI></L>
<L>And make all Loyal hone&s;t men their Prey.</L>
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</LG>
<LG>
<L>Is't thus you would defend the <HI>King &amp; Laws?</HI></L>
<L>Confu&s;ion &s;eize you, and your <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>And &s;ave our <HI>Sov'reign</HI> from your Bloody Paws.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Unpity'd, therefore, let each Traytor die,</L>
<L>While all that Loyal are, <HI>Amen</HI> do cry.</L>
</LG>
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<HEAD>EPITAPH.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>HEre under lies a Rebel, who&s;e De&s;ign</L>
<L>Was to have murder'd all the Royal Line,</L>
<L>But was prevented by the Power-Divine:</L>
<L>The great Oppo&s;er of our Sov'reign's <HI>Laws,</HI></L>
<L>Who dy'd a <HI>Martyr</HI> for the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e.</HI></L>
<L>May Heaven &s;till defend the <HI>King</HI> and <HI>Throne,</HI></L>
<L>And may &s;uch cur&s;ed <HI>Rebels</HI> e'ry one</L>
<L>Meet the &s;ame Fate; then would our I&s;le be ble&s;t</L>
<L>With Peace and Plenty, and a <HI>Halcyon</HI>-re&s;t.</L>
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<P>Printed by <HI>Na<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">h. Thomp&s;on</HI> at the entrance into the <HI>Old Spring Garden</HI> near <HI>Charing-Cro&s;s,</HI> 1683.</P>
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