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A39141 An Elegy on the glorious death of Col. John Okey who suffered at Tyburn, the 19th of April, 1662. 1662 (1662) Wing E417A; ESTC R36135 1,115 1

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AN ELEGY ON THE GLORIOUS DEATH OF Col. John Okey Who Suffered at TYBURN the 19th of April 1662. T Is best seen at Sun-set whose the Day was Though sev'ral Acts of thy Life John might pass Musters for good and brave yet who could tell That thou wouldst carry 't thorow half so well Thou were retreated and forc'd to rally Didst out-do all thy former Chivalry Thy Friends then have more cause to sing than groan For sure as when thou wert wont to go on GOD was with thee so art thou now with Him In being thus brought off though Limb by Limb. But why are not thy Quarters perch'd like theirs Who prov'd i'th'close thy Fellow-Souldiers The Cabbs would seem kind but were wise and did Know they were safest when OKEY was hid Nor did thy Lay-Chaplain bewray poor Delf For the discov'ry of thee but himself To be Squire Duns small factor the High And Mighty Lords o' th Low Lands to be nigh The honour of making their Countrey free By giving't up like ours to Monarchie Next how came thy last Harangue to disown The Horridness though not the Action The sence of that Guilt which once made thee fly Did ill to leave thee when thou wert to dye Methinks I see thee busling up to say In spight of both the Sh'riffes where by the way VVhen any Malefactor comes to bleed For Theft or what else is a Crime indeed Shall we reade of an Executioner Capitulating with the Thief for fear He should perswade the People that he dy'd For that which Reason would have justify'd If to have fled be a Confession Of Guilt the Regicide that now is grown The only right heretofore many a time To Fields Brooks Walls and Woods confest a crime Methinks I hear thee again say If to be Condemn'd make a man guilty What was he Whom we condemn'd Or if be unjustly Did suffer though condemn'd why might not I He had I 'm sure fairer play for 's Life then Any of us three being heard and heard agen While all that I was try'd upon amounted To this Whether the twelve pickt men accounted Me the same Okey which was of that Gang Such an Act meant without hearing to hang. Well let 'um hang John such as are fast ty'd And mangle such as are first mortify'd Let 'um persume the Roads with Garbage broil'd And feast the Fowls with Flesh they never foyl'd Shewing by their moderated Greatness How nobly they obtain'd what they possess Bless'd mean-while be those early Buds that met By thousands to attend thy Body yet Were fain to be mockt lest i' th' very Grave Thy Mock-attainder should true Honour have England shall want Trees for Gibbets before Those Trees shall want the Fruit they lately bore Or that Fruit Kernels or those Kernels Earth Wherein to roar and whence to take new birth Till our Posterity arrive to th' Fame Of be'ng born in an Orchyard of the same From such Beginnings GOD was pleas'd to bring That Gospel which now through the World doth ring In Sanguine Semen LONDON Printed in the Year 1662. 45. * Sir Georg Downing † The Hangman