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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76407	England in its condition, briefly and most lively characterized, by way of essay VVhereunto are annexed some acrosticke verses, vpon the names of severall members of the honourable House of Commons, and others, (viz.) Sir Tho. Fairfax. ...Iohn Wastell, Esquire. By Iohn Benson, Gent.	Benson, John, gent.	1648 (1648)	Wing B1904A; ESTC R232486	9,110	30

on earth a spotlesse name Apious zealous and religious fame Courage most godly Sir in your just waies Reward from heaven shall crowne your age with praise Each Souldiers prayers sure shall you have So long untill death calls you to your grave On Sir John Trevers Knight a Member of the honourable House of Commons Jndued with a most pure godly mind Oft in Gods sacred book you look to find How you should lead your life in these sad times Now when this worlds best things are full of crimes True refotmation is your only aime Regarding that more then all worldly gaine Endeavouring in your most pious soule Vertue to cherish all evill to controule Erecting trophies of deserved fame Remembrancers to be of your good name On Sir Robert Pye Knight a Member of the honourable House of Commons Right freely have you spent a many daies On businesse concernes the publique raise Be sure you faint not in so just renown Ere long such actions heavens will crown Religious acts the purest treasure is To bring your soule unto eternall blisse Prosperitie is but times fickle wheele You see whereon great men doe often reele Every good act 's more durable then steele Though you have lost much for the publick cause By such as neither feared God nor lawes Yet have you gain'd a name shall last for aye So long as Moon shines or Sun lights the day On Sir Roger North Knight a Member of the honourable House of Commons Rightly upright you have bin in your life Of all that knowes you you are free from strife Giving rare examples to all those that will Encline their hearts to good as you do still Refraining wayes that may incline to ill Nor have you spar'd to spend your best of paines On others not seeking your own private gaines Reward that 's just shall keep you from disdains Trusty have you continued to the State Heaven for that will prosper your estate On Sir Francis Pile Knight a Member of the Honourable House of Commons Faithfull unto your country have you alwayes been Rebuking those who wallow'd in their sin All good men love you and admire your worth Nor can the ablest men your praise set forth Contentment to do good the stream in which you swim Inspir d with goodnesse which your sins controul Shall make you happy when your bell doth toll Piety adornes your most godly mind In your just wayes you will true comfort find Leave not to prosecute such pious wayes Eternall blisse shall crown your head with praise On my Honoured Collonell Henry Martin a Member Of the Honourable House of Commons Heroick spirit of Heroick blood Ever spending your self for countries good Never but striving with all force and might Religions purity to bring to light Your fame for such good deeds will shine more bright May you live happy in a pious life And may your soul be ever free from strife Resting assured your good God shall send Truth to wait on you to your latter end In spight of envy you shall have a story Not writ by mortall pen but crown'd with glory Ad eundem Help noble Collonel for want I faint Encline your eares unto my sad complaint Nor let me perish now for want of food Retarded pity is but seldome good Your favours heretofore hath that withstood May you be pleased out of pious love Arrears so due to us the House to move Remembring them how many poore starv'd soule To hunger destin'd is without controll Except some monies speedily we have Nor can we live much longer from a grave No man so happy doth enjoy that fate But gaines from one or other perfect hate I dare be bold to write without controll If such there be they are not made of mold Go on and prosper in your pious wayes Regard not ill men good men give you praise On my honoured friend Captain Thomas Wogan a member of the Honorable House of Commons Times nee'r produced a more valiant man Heroick acts that own you witnesse can Oft in the field your valour hath been shown Mongst thickest of your enemies well known As witnesse Edge-hill where with force and might Stoutly you kept your standard in that fight When you left warres then did your noble fate Ordain a place for you in publick State Goodnesse with vertue in you is combin'd Agallant spirit and a pious mind Nor are you any wayes to vice inclin'd On Sir VValter Earl a Member of the Honourable House of Commons When as in armes this Kingdome first did rise Assuredly you highly then did prise Liberties freedome and with force withstood T' oppose the hurters of your countries good Ev'n with the hazard of your dearest blood Re●dring to the world that you were truly good Expect that when you have spun out your dayes A Trophy shall be rear'd of your just praise Religious zeal flames in your pious breast Love to your maker hath your heart possest Eternall blisse shall bring your soul to rest On Thomas Earl Esquire a Member of the Honourable House of Commons True happy son unto a pious father How little wealth esteeming chusing rather Of all men to be loved then to gain Much worldly treasure counting that but vain Amongst the godly shall be writ your storie SStanding forever to your endlesse glory Eternall merit shall wait on your soul And pious statues raise without controull Restoring memory to your good name Lending more smoother verses mine 's but lame Eternall blisse shall crown your worth with fame On Collonell William Purefoy a Member of the Honourable House of Commons When as this Kingdome first asunder rent In men whose hearts were fil'd with discontent Little regarding God or his just Lawes Loving their self ends more then publick cause In that same hint of time did you begin Amongst the first for to extirpate Sinne. Much good hereafter will you find therein Perplexed thoughts possessed many hearts Vntill we were divided into parts Religion then was made a laughing stock Even to the good became a stumbling block Faithfull to Church and State did you remain Oft venturing your life for both the same You have by that gain'd a ne'r dying fame Purefoy Pure faith You have a faithfull piller firmly stood In acting doing for the countries good On which we will a pious altar raise To burn the incense of your purer praise On Master Michael Oldsworth Esquire a member of the Honourable House of Commons May you live happy in a harmlesse fate In hating those that do oppose the State Carefull and trustie in the publick cause Have you not striven to maintain our Lawes Admired vertue springs within your breast Eternall blisse shall bring you to your rest Let envy speak its worst in spire of fead Live shall your famous acts when you are dead Oh you have gain'd a never dying name Loving Religion more then mundane gain Drawing your actions in so just a line Surely few have outvi'd you in your time When fatall death shall

they cannot digest Another sort amongst us now doth dwell VVho nothing preach but Christ and can you tell The truth of Gospell how to lead your life Yet in their hearts is nothing else but strife Follow their doctrine let their works alone For they will bring you to destruction These are the wolves which in Lambs clothing come VVhose doctrine's purely good their vices shun And such as these though they seem men of worth Must out of Church and state be spued forth The Canaanites amongst us yet do dwell As bad as Locusts sprung from deepest hell Most cruell swearers such as do profane And take the glorious name of God in vain To you that sit at helm it doth belong To punish such who do Gods name thus wrong And have a care you do it out of hand Lest God do cast you out of Canaans land And pride in cloathes is grown to great excesse In them who chiefly should it most suppresse The poore and needy not regarded are Nor for to ask their own they hardly dare You rich men have a care think on the grief Of those which are in want send them relief When as your table 's full you little know That like to want there is no greater wo All these are punishments which God hath sent Amongst us and yet we hardly can repent And let me tell you which you may believe If we do still Gods sacred spirit grieve And do persist in these our sinfull wayes More heavy judgements shall come in our dayes That sword of warre which God hath in his hand Hath it not been unsheathed in our land How many souls have felt witnesse that blood In severall battells flowing like a flood If we by these cannot amend our ill God in his quiver hath more arrows still His bow is bent and if he once more shoot Famine shall destroy both the branch and root Though God comes slowly with his leaden heele His iron hands shall make the stoutest reel The Authours most humble Petition to the Honourable House of Commons Most worthy Senatours LEt me beseech you pity my sad fate And let your goodnesse help my poore estate I alwayes faithfull to the State have stood Adventuring many times my dearest bloud In your most just defence nor did I seek Mine own advantage but did fight to keep Your Noble persons for to sit in Peace That truth by your grave wisdomes might increase Commiserate my wants think on my grief And let your Honours quickly grant relief And I as bound in duty ever shall For your prosperity to heavens call POEMS VPON THE SEVERALL Members of the honourable House of Commons and others On his Excellencie Sir THOMAS FAIRFAX Capt. Generall of the Parliaments Forces True nobly valiant and of courage stout Have you not put the Kingdomes foes to rout Of you it may be said without controule Man ne're injoyed a more purer soule And for your valour who can paralell Sure many may surmise but few can tell Fidelitie with true religion plac't Are of such worth they cannot be disgrac't In these 't is known your honour hath them both Religion linckt with vertue is your troth For sure I am that after ages will Admire your Feats in Militarie skill Xerxes in wisdome had not halfe your fill On Oliver Cromwell Esquire Lieutenant Generall and a Member of the honourable House of Commons Oft hath your valour in the field bin shown Loud hath the Trump of fame your merits blown In Winchby field and vpon Marston More Vndauntedly you fought and kill'd goodstore Eternall blisses shall for you statues raise Remembrancers to be of your just praise Courage and valour have you in every par● Religions purities plac'd in your heart Only true love unto Gods sacred word Made you unsheath your keen well tempred sword What have you left undone for Countries right Enforc't you have their enemies to flight Leaving a name shall live so long as light On Major Generall Skippon Philip of Macedon was not more stout How many Battells have you fiercely fought In Cornwall was your valour bravely shown Leaving true trophies to the world well known Let Newb'ries witnesse besides Kenton field In which the stoutest you did make to yeild Proudly your brandish'd sword you there did weild Stand firme and sure as you have begun Keeping truth fast untill your glasse be run Invalid merits tends upon all those Prefers true vertue hates the publique foes Oft have you ventur'd life for Countries cause Nor have you swerv'd from justnesse of the lawes On William Lenthall Esquire Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons Wisdome with vertue joyn'd dwells in your brest Inflam'd with zeale to seek your Countries rest Learned you are in Lawes concernes this State Lending your aide to punish all that hate In their most cruell mindes the publique good Attesting against those which have withstood Maliciously to ruine all our good Loud let the trump of fame sound out your praise Erecting statues and true trophies raise Never to fade that your deserved worth To after ages clearly may shine forth Have you not spent your time enacting Lawes All in defence of Parliamentall cause Live shall your pious name while England is Leaving a fame shall crown your end with blisse On Sir Benjamin Rudyard Knight a worthy Member of the honourable House of Commons Blest are you in your just and pious wayes Envie it selfe cannot detract your praise Nor can the worst of hate blame your true worth Jn spight of ill your vertues shines more forth All godly men are happy in your good More vigour hath it then the greatest flood In your religious and pure harmlesse life None can outvie with all their greatest strife Remain a Pillar fixt on Englands Land Vnblemisht shall your name for ever stand Deeds of your goodnesse and in smoother verse You shall have writ upon your sable hearse And af●er ages shall admire your fame Rightly deserved and your spotlesse name Doth speak the goodnesse of your pious flame On Sir John Francklin Knight a Member of tbe Honourable House of Commons Jnspir'd with vertue inricht with noble brest Of learning wisdome goodnesse full possest Have you not spent much time in taking pain Not for your own by-ends but Countries gain Faithfull and trusty to the State you are Religious in performing arts most rare All Souldiers prayers is that you may bee Not happy here but to Eternitie Courage most noble sir in your brave waies Knowing your merits do deserve great praise Let envie speak its worst sure you shall have Immortall fame to bring you to your grave Nor shall the evillest tongue your merits wave On Sir Tho. Dacres Knight a Member of the honourable House of Commons Trusty and faithfull are you to the State Have you not spent your time to extirpate Open known vices and for to expell Many grosse errors which amongst us dwell Arming your heart with power and might Sins to demolish that stop Gospells light Deserving here