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Murder will out being a relation of the late Earl of Essex's ghost appearing to my Lord Chancellor in the Tower.
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1683
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Wing M3091; ESTC R2014
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Murder will Out Being a Relation of the Late Earl of Essex Ghost Appearing to my Lord Chancellor in the TOWER Chanc. WHat means this thick ill-scented Mist What Noise is that Who 's there Ah! Lightning and at this Cold Season Confusion What 's that I see Bless me I shall learn to Pray if this continues Heavens A Man in my Chamber at this time of Night I am lost undone 't is my Executioner Speak what what want'st thou Stay sure I should know that Face pale as it is See! he approaches he beckons assist me this time Hell and Impudence I 'll stand since I am prepar'd for the worst that Fare can offer Ha! by that Razor it must be he 't is Essex See! he knows his Name he comes up Speak speak VVhat wilt thou Ghost Yes 't is I the most Unfortunate Essex VVell restless Sysiphus will thy unbounded Malice ne're have an end Thou hast bin the common troubler of Mankind all thy Life and now thou art contriving a Legacy which like Pandora's Box will leave them all in a fresh confusion at thy Death Ch. Your Ghostship takes a Liberty which your Lordship would have forbore But why Sysiphus pray Sir have I like him roul'd my Stone in vain Shall one little misfortune blast the Glory of all my former Triumphs Have my Projects been useless or my Malice ineffectual VVhy this very Minute am I upon a design shall not only re-purchase my lost Liberty and Honors but like the Gordian Knot shall puzzle the wisest of their Heads to unfold it Gh. Horror and Confusion Thou mak'st me though a Ghost tremble at thy Prodigious Impudence Are not thy Eyes then Curst wretch already satisfied with thy yet reaking Western Cruelties nor thy Ears tired with the hollow Groans of the Fatherless and VViddows Could not thy boundless swelling Thoughts of false vain Glory fix in the Enjoyment of Riches and Honors without thy Prodigious Contrivances to disturb the Peace of all the Christian World VVhat would'st thou have or whether would'st thou tend hast thou no remorse for thy poor Oppressed Country nor care for thy own future welfare VVill neither past Examples nor present Dangers warn thee of the miserable Estate of those who serve the ends of wicked Men Look here wretch shewing him his Throat and tremble at the Fate of those who have forsaken God Conscience and Reason to lay the bloody Foundation of an unstable Glory Remember Essex wretch remember Essex Cha. This Advice my Lord runs very contrary at least to all the latter Transactions of your Life Is it possible then that the Grave can have such a strong Operation upon a Mans Fancy and in so little a time alter his Opinion You Dy'd with Submission to your Lordship in the general Opinion more apprehensive of a shameful Punishment than penitent for your objected Crimes Gh. VVhat dar'st thou then mock my Misery Art thou alone of all the Kingdom Ignorant of the bloody Circumstances of my Death Tremble and think what Thou may'st yet endure Beware those means thou usest for thy Safety prove not thy utmost Danger I fondly Dreamt Confession and Discovery would melt the Sword of Justice into Mercy But ah that Charm that lull'd the wrath of my Offended Master waken'd the Fears and Malice of my more powerful Foes An Irish Russian and a dread Command soon let me know my Error Fear and Repentance are not safe to be trusted with a Prince's Secrets Nor had Coleman bin ventur'd to the place of Execution but that they found a way to send him off between Jest and Earnest Cha. I must confess under the Rose my Lord 't was generally whisper'd more Hands than your own were employ'd to sign your Pass but as the Circumstances of Time and Persons are altered I have reason to hope for better success My Crimes are indeed every way Superiour and my designs more Barbarous I have had Murders Fellons and Treasons as my Bosom Friends I have Laught and Ridiculed all fear of God and to my Ambition and Covetousness have without the least remorse Sacrificed the Laws and Liberties of my Native Country nay being not content with the present fraud and oppression I encouraged I have oh Prodigie endeavoured to entail Slavery and Popery on the Kingdom for ever 'T was I alone could swear the reaking Circumstances of our Young Perkin 't was I alone promoted and set up that Antichristian Court of Ecclesiastical Commission to Scourge the Clergy and Harass the People 't was I alone could resolve all the known Ancient fixt and Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom into the Arbitrary will of the King You may talk of Irish Russians and French Dragoons Popish Conspiracies and Private Assassins I think I have bid as fair for my Honor and Cause as any of them If that Puny Rascal that burnt a Heathenish Temple at Ephesus could hope to be fam'd to Posterity What may not I expect that have already sorely shaken and endeavour'd the final destruction of the Church of God! I have out-done Nero or Ravilliac Jacques Clement or Massianello He was running on in an extravagant Description of his Cruelties and VVickedness had not the Ghost with a frown full of Horror being as it seem'd displeas'd with his proceedings put a stop to his discourse and being about to make answer the Cock Crew at which the Ghost seem'd affrighted and without saying more than Remember Essex it vanished