Sir Thomas Overbury, or, The poysoned knights complaint Rowlands, Samuel, 1570?-1630? This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A11138 of text S4058 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 21406). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A11138 STC 21406 ESTC S4058 34382897 ocm 34382897 29117 2240914598

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A11138) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 29117) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1904:2) Sir Thomas Overbury, or, The poysoned knights complaint Rowlands, Samuel, 1570?-1630? 1 sheet ([1] p.). : ill. For Iohn VVhite, Jmprinted at London : [1614?] Date of publication from STC (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in: Society of Antiquaries. eng Overbury, Thomas, -- Sir, 1581-1613 -- Poetry. Broadsides -- London (England) -- 17th century. eebo Sir Thomas Ouerbury, or The poysoned knights complaint. Rowlands, Samuel, 1614 2 705 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2005-08 Assigned for keying and markup 2005-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2005-10 Sampled and proofread 2005-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-01 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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 World was borne , With 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 . When Ioab sent for Abner ( as a friend ) Hee came to Hebron , for a peacefull end , Where , 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 White .