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A11138 Sir Thomas Overbury, or, The poysoned knights complaint Rowlands, Samuel, 1570?-1630? 1614 (1614) STC 21406; ESTC S4058 1,184 2

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SIR THOMAS OVERBVRY OR THE POYSONED KNIGHTS COMPLAINT TIME REVEALEH·TRVTH REVENGE IVSTICE·WIL·RIGHT AL·WRONGS· POYSONED Within this house of Death A dead man lies Whose blood like Abels vp for vengeance cryes Time hath reuealed what to trueth belongs And Iustice sword is drawne toright my wrongs You poysoned mindes did me with poyson Kill Let true Repentance purge you from that ill GReat powerfull God whom all are bound to loue How gracelesse bad doth Man thy Creature proue Thy Supreame Creature ouer all the rest In number numberlesse to bee exprest To whom thou gauest grace to bee his guide Reason with Vnderstanding and beside Thy Law to be direction for his wayes Which vnto Sinners view thy Iudgements layes Those fearefull plagues pronounc'd for vgly Sinne Which with the first created did beginne Who by the Law of Nature vnderstood To make a difference of bad deedes and good By which enlightening that is giuen vs No Nation Heathenish and Barbarous Farthest remote from true religions light But can distinguish betwixt wrong and right Those that to Christ did neuer yet belong Can tell they do amisse when they do wrong And that there is a Iustice to be done And shamefúll actions which they are to shun Yet neuer age since Nature first began Wherein man was not Deuill vnto man In practising most opposite to kinde Inhumane actions out of bloody minde Behold the first that in the VVorld was borne VVith his reiected Sacrifice of Corne Because his Brothers gifts more grace did yeeld Lift vp his hand against him in the field And with a cruell hart obdurate ill Did innocent pure-thoughted Abell kill VVhen Ioab sent for Abner as a friend Hee came to Hebron for a peacefull end VVhere as in armes hee lent a cheerefull smile He gaue his heart a mortall stab the while Gods holy History hath many more Humane records Innumerable store What intercepting hath there bin of liues By Pistolls Stabbing Powder Daggers Kniues Drowning and Hanging and strange murthering As second Edward sometimes Englands King Whom an incarnate Diuell did torment With red hot Spit into his fundament Some in their beds haue acted tragick Scenes As those two Princes which by Glosters meanes Their cruell Vncle Fathers vnkind Brother Villaines betweene the sheetes to death did smother Some in vnwonted manner done to death As George the Duke of Clarence lost his breath When with heeles vpwards he was strangely put To suffer drowning in a Malmesey But. Yet besides all these damned plots to kill And thousands more from Hell transported still The Diuell hath a poyson working Art In which of late I shar'd a mortall part A Rapier drawne and at thy heart aim'd iust May be put by and made a broken thrust A Dagger offer'd for anothers paine Hath bin return'd into the stabbers braine A Pistoll shot with an intent to kill Hath mist the marke and party liuing still But this life-killing poyson cureles foe The bodies hopeles helples ouerthrowe Brings with it nothing but pale deaths command Depriuing life with a remorseles hand Oh sacred Iustice euermore renound In thy vprightnes of reuenge late found Proccede with vengeance as thou didst begin To punish Caines most bloody crying sinne Let not a murtherer remaine conceal'd Nor breath aliue when being once reueal'd This is the suite wrong'd Innocents doe craue This is the Iustice that the Heauens will haue Samuel Rowlands Imprinted at London for Iohn VVhite