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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54394	Perkin's passing-bell, or, The traytors funeral being a new poem on the rebells overthrow, on Monday, July the 6th, three miles from Bridgewater.		1685 (1685)	Wing P1576; ESTC R18454	1,308	1

Perkin's Passing-Bell OR THE TRAYTORS FUNERAL BEING A New POEM on the REBELLS Overthrow on Monday July the 6th Three Miles from BRIDGWATER This may be Printed R. L. S. A Wake my Muse great Fame Allarms my Eares Bells Trumpets Drums Affright the spatious Spheares In gentle Strains assist me to repeat A Nobles Fall would he were Good as Great Oh Perkin Perkin how could'st thou Combine Thy own Destruction in thy Ages Prime By such ignoble wayes and forcing Fate To check thy Pride Fond and Degenerate Shall Brittains Monarch's too to tender Love Bestow'd on thee thus undeserved prove How could'st thou then in such an horrid Cause Turn Traytor to divide and humane Laws How could'st thou thus then so unnatural be How could'st thou Plot ' gainst such a King as He One who had heap'd such Honours on thy Head And yet could'st thou ungrateful wish him Dead Not only wish him so but in that Strife To Act a part that was to take his Life Yet cause thy Blood from Noble Springs do Flow Would Errour and not Malice make thee so Would thou wer't over reach'd that so the Sin Might be less thine than theirs that drew thee in Fain would I think it were with thee as they An Ignis Fatuus leads out of the Way So thou o'er sway'd by ' th' Pious seeming Wits Of Hells chief Agents Jugling Parasites By specious Arguments and Pious Fraud Such as Geneva Demons do Applaud Wer 't by that Hellish Brood drawn in to be An Actor in that Dismal Tragedy That boldly aim'd at Sacred Majesty Far worse than Witchcraft sure 's Rebellious Sin The first of Woes the Devil usher'd in Unhappy England fam'd for Civil Wars PLOTS upon PLOTS and everlasting Jars Yet more Unhappy those produce its Woe Invoke the Curses that attend it now That basely strive to Undermine the Throne When Heaven decreed it for Great JAMES alone A Princely abstract of a Glorious Hue Descent of King and Priest and Prophet too Whose grand Experience of a Quondam Age Invests him as the great'st Europian Sage Not for a Graceless Wretch whose Actions Sing Sing and declare a Traytor not a King Unworthy of his Prince whose tender care For him did every Day and Hour appear Brought him in Favour from a mean Degree Advanc'd him to a State of Dignity Made him the Minion of the Court and King And when from Court at last the Bird took Wing And soar'd with Icarus in too high a Sphere Ungratefully Conspiring to Ensnare His Royal Father and his Uncle too In Curss'd Cabals with tho Fanatick Crew Yet yet his great Indulgence still 's so Great On fain'd Repentance he forgives the Cheat Presents him to his King whose tender Love Did once again his Royal Pitty Move But here Tongue can't express th' Ungratitude Of this Vile Wretch thus Barbarously Rude Unhappy State of Monarch's who do Good Even to those that strive to shed their Blood Yet more unhappy those attempt the Fact Heavens will revenge so Monstrous soul an Act Protect our Royal King Defend his Crown Bring all Fanaticks with Rebellion Down Add Luster to the Throne dispel all Fears Extirpate Faction with the Fruit it Bares Induce the Blessings of a Glorious Life That all the Nation live as Man and Wife By just Experience now the Rebels see The Effects of their Damn'd Disloyalty The Royal Army Flesh't because that 's Just Upon the Traytors with great Courage Thrust Beat off their Fury force the Whiggish Rout With doubty Blows to wheal and tack about Then happy those that with the greatest Speed Could by their Flight avoid the Martial Steed LONDON Printed by George Croom at the Sign of the Blue-Ball in Thames-street over against Baynard ' s-Castle 1685.