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friend_n	army_n	enemy_n	king_n	932	5	3.5183	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81260	A case for Nol Cromwells nose, and the cure of Tom Fairfax's gout. Both which rebells are dead, and their deaths kept close, by the policy of our new states.		1648 (1648)	Wing C866; Thomason E448_9; ESTC R204974	3,885	8

inhum'd HIS EPITAPH STumble not here lest that his Ghost arise That here lies wrapt in lead and do surprize Your senses with amazement here lies one Whom Fame doth stile PRINCE OF REBELLION Heaven forbid he should unmentioned die Without an Epitaph or obsequie His guift must not anticipate his doome While I have pen and ink and paper roome This man as the Ephesian Priest Erostratus At one act graspt at being gloriuos Which was for ever to extirpate Kings As uselesse not to be regarded things From out his native Clime and to create Some hundred Kings most falsly term'd a State Upon his back continually did ride As on the Cittie Asse Treason and pride This son of Anak would perswade his Nation That curst Rebellion was blest Reformation He di'd a Rebell and a Rebell fell So great we want one him to parallell Farwell Olliver Cromwell a name that hath been ever omminous to the Church for in Henry the eights daies you may remember that a Cromwell was the hammer that beat downe the monasteries and religious Houses and in the raigne of our most pious Soveraigne Lord unfortunate King CHARLES this Cromwell hath been chiefly active in defacing demollishing and levelling Churches in persecuting robbing and imprisoning all learned and knowing men but enough of him whose infamie will ever last Fairfax a perjurd Rebell who obliged himselfe to his Majesty at Newmarket and afterwards took his oath in the presence of God and his King that he would use his utmost indeavours to reinthrone him and for that purpose would put his Army into a condition of warre in case those at Westminister should gainsay yet afterwards by faire promises and at the instigation of the Kings knowne enemies broke his oath and permitted his Soveraigne to be carried close Prisoner to the I le of Wight and hath since in person fought against his friends both in Kent and other parts of the Kingdome but by the just judgement of God he was lately shot in the groine of which he is since dead so may they all perish that hate their King which accident happy without doubt to the Kingdome hath given me occasion to write this his Elegie and to annex his Epitaph An Elegie on the Arch-traytor Thomas Fairfax IS Fairfax dead he whose ambitious soule Still prompted him his Soveraign to controule And in the face of heaven dirt to sting To be the Rebells Generall ' gainst his King Was Fate so courteous to dismisse him hence Before his head paid for his insolence Was he growne great in ills ripe for his doome And must he go in peace unto his Tombe This shewes the Almighty sometimes doth permit Traytors till death for to persist in it Most noble villaine Essex shed his horns And then he di'd thy Father cut his corns And crept into his Tomb a boy shot thee Thus by weak meanes you went to hell all three England behold with Rogue thou need'st not vie Hold hold thy hands they of themselves will die His Epitaph HEre lies Fairfax Marble show it 'T is fit that all the world should know it Arch-Traytor ' gainst his Soveraigne Lord By him as by his God abhorr'd Prince and head of all the rout Who honour'd Cromwell and his Snout Famous for plunders and for rapes For Battells but more for escapes The peoples plague this Nations curse The head of all their woes the sowrse Of all their mischiefs let him lie And stink unto eternity Barkestead the thimble-maker also is dead his whole company were cut almost all off at the late fight in Kent by the just judgement of God for their murthering and pillaging those innocent men that came out of Surrey only to petition for a redresse of grievances let us but wait a while I mean we that are aged and not fit to oppose the Rebells and we shall see them all drop into the grave one after another we have Gods own Word yea his Oath that he will confound them We see then God hath tane our cause in hand If he say no the Rebells cannot stand FINIS