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cause_n	king_n	kingdom_n	parliament_n	3,192	5	6.6091	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83971	Englands losse and lamentation, occasioned by the death of that Right Honourable, Robert Lord Brooke, Baron of Beauchamp-court, who was slaine at Lichfield the second day of March. 1642. Amplified, by some mournfull funerall expressions, from the authors feeling sense of so unvaluable a losse; complaining of the kingdomes stupidity, to awake a people slumbering in security, insensible of their insuing misery. Concluding with some consolations to his friends, and terror to his enemies popishly affected, and all malignants. By a loyall subject to the King, and a lover of the late Lord Brookes, and all his wel-wishers.	Loyal subject to the King and a lover of the late Lord Brookes and all his wel-wishers.; Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644, attributed name.	1643 (1643)	Wing E2992; Thomason E92_18; ESTC R5991	5,823	8

ENGLANDS LOSSE AND LAMENTATION Occasioned by the death of that Right Honourable Robert Lord Brooke Baron of Beauchamp-Court who was slaine at Lichfield the second day of March 1642. Amplified by some mournfull funerall expressions from the Authors feeling sense of so unvaluable a Losse complaining of the Kingdomes stupidity to awake a people slumbering in security insensible of their insuing Misery Concluding with some consolations to his friends and terror to his enemies Popishly affected and all Malignants BY A loyall Subject to the KING and a lover of the late Lord Brookes and all his wel-wishers 2 Sam. 3. 31. And David said unto Joab and to all the people that were with him rent your Clothes and gird you with sackcloth and mourne for Abner and King David himselfe followed the Biere Verse 29. And the King said unto his servants Know ye not that there is a Prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel LONDON Printed for L. Chapman Anno Dom. 1642. Englands losse and Lamentation ENGLAND may justly at this day lament with the Prophet Ieremy and say How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger and cast downe from Heaven to the Earth the beauty of Israel As if the Lord had purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion He hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying he made the Rampart and the wall to lament He hath destroyed and broken her barres Her King and Princes are among the Gentiles The Law is no more Her Prophets find no vision The Elders sit upon the ground and keep silence they have cast up dust upon their heads and girded themselves with sackcloth And for my selfe mine eyes doe faile with teares my soule is troubled because of Englands miseries Her own sword hath destroyed her Prophets like a destroying Lion her young men are slaine her Virgins are defloured famine is entering in upon her When children and sucklings wil say to their mothers where it bread Where is drink when they swoone as the wounded in the streets and powre their soules into their mothers bosome O England where is thy glory Thy Freedome Liberty Lawers and Religion shall thy freedome be lost and thy hereditary liberties be taken from thee thy just Lawes corrupted and thy Religion adulterated by Idolatry and yet will you not see it Shall thy profits be destroyed and thy honorable men slaine by the sword and thou not avenge it Where is thy zeale to God where is thy care thy love thy Justice to posterity art not thou guilty of depriving thy children of the blessing which God hath by thy Fathers given thee wilt thou not maintaine thine owne inheritance and the rights of thy children or wilt thou suffer those worthyest to be destroyed that lose their lives in thy defence and not avenge their bloud Is there not a Prince and a great man fallen in Israel fallen by upholding thee and not onely a Prince and a great man but a holy just and righteous great man a Pillar of the Church a supporter of the State That right Honorable Robert Lord Brooke rightly to be honoured to lasting posterities He was honest and just to all men righteous in all his wayes and religious in his whole life learned in all arts And able in all Sciences Loyall to his King faithfull to his Country And valiant in his undertakings for the defence of both to his end pittifull to his enemies in his end happy to himselfe And by his end terror to his enemies whose bloud will hasten vengeance upon the actors and causes of such cruelties Who can but commend his parts and honour his vertues Morall and Divine What man can staine his life blemish his practise tax his fidelity or gainsay his stoutnesse courage and valour in him as much manifested in so little a time as ever in any man At his first meeting with his great Antagonist E. N. betweene Banbury and Edge-hill Heroick Brooke offered to deside the contraries quarrell by a Lordly combat as is knowne to those whom it then concerned and for his undaunted courage against the face of an Enemy in battell Let Keinton and Branford make report Stratford cannot deny it and Lichfield must confesse the same Whose basenesse had no resistance against his valour but cowardly treachery And thereby have robb'd the Kingdome of a pretious Jewell and weakened the Church and state of a principal pillar O England consider What hast thou lost But why doe I aske thee thou knowest not thine owne losse Thou art in thy stupidity or in a slumber of carnall security a foolish and undiscerning Nation Thou rejectest thy friends and imbracest thine enemies Thou lovest pelfe and slightest pearles art at peace with thy destroyers and makest War with thy preservers That hast lost a Noble refreshing Brooke an unvaluable friend a pearle of great price a Hector better then ever Troy injoyed an Achilles more valiant then ever Greece possessed A Brook yea a Brook better then the famous river Nilus Nilus could onely refresh the herbes and plants of Egypt This Brook the lives and spirits of men Who ever knew him and grieves not who can say he loves God religion the King the State or good men and yet mournes not for such a losse a pillar of the Kingdome a staffe of the War a peere of the Parliament a Patriarch of his Country a sincere servant of God and a loyall Subject to the King and State He this pillar this staffe this Peere this Patriarch Gode servant the Kings Subject He is slaine slaine in the Kings and his Kingdomes cause slaine treacherously basey and cowardly by an Enemy and Traytor to both If David a King lamented over Abner though he had beene his Enemy how much more should we lament over this our Abner a friend alwayes and to the death as faithfull as Ionathan to David But how died this Noble Brooke died he as a foole dieth no died he by the hands of his equall no died he in a battel by any valour of any Enemy no But how died he As a man that falleth before wicked men to fell our Noble Brooke and all his friends weep and lament for him Weepe thou his vertuous Lady cry yee pretty children his owne pictures weepe al yee his Souldiers mourne yee his servants bewaile your losse all you his Friends Tenants Neighbours and Acquaintance And you poore people weekly relieved by his bounty weepe and houle yea lament whole England because he is not Thou wilt know thy losse by the want of him though thou prizedst not thy gaine whilest thou hadst him but thou canst not recover thy losse I cannot but take up my lamentation for thee as once the Prophet did for Ierusalem by way of quaere What shall I witnesse of thee what shall I equall to thee that I may comfort thee for thy breach is great like the Sea who can heale it Thou hast beene deluded by thy