An Address to the Lyon in the tower This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A26402 of text R29561 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing A566). 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. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A26402 Wing A566 ESTC R29561 11169177 ocm 11169177 46515 2240865010

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AN ADDRES TO THE Lyon in the Tower. THINE only Friend on Earth ( the Hangman ) stays With Halter ( ready Nooz'd ) to end thy Days ; And give some Respite ( to thy Guilty Breast ) ( From Ghosts ) that Haunt Thee since thou wert i' th' WEST . Those Shades that ( stabb thee ) and disturb thy sleep , When from thy guilty Sheets thou dar'st not peep , Nor open Claring Eyes , lest thou should'st See Some of Those Thousand Western GHOSTS ; by Thee With Bloody Mouth doom'd to Vntimely End. GUINEAS ( that sometimes would make thee a Friend To those thou Hatedst ; ) would not ( then ) suffice , Thy Cruelty out-bids thy Avarice , ( That Avarice ) by which thou us'd to Steer , When on thy Sullen Bench at WESTMINSTER . STRANGE ! Thou should'st derogate from all thy Tribe ! Oh , Ho! The Broad-Seal was the Greatest Bribe ! Suetonius says , that NERO ( thus ) would come In 's Shirt ( New-sled from Bed ) to the next Room ; Where his Guards watch'd , frighted ( as well as he ) A Thing in WHITE , with Ghastly Looks , to see ; Hairs bolt Vpright ; a Ghost , they thought it ; for ( Thus Guiz'd ) they could not know their Emperour , His Visage was so chang'd : Oh Ghastly Sight ! The Stoutest YEOMEN of his Guards to Fright ! They fled from It , thinking it was some DEVIL , ( Or Hellish Ghost that Walk'd ; 't was one as EVIL ; As bloody and as bad all-out as HE , As bloody and as bad ( almost ) as THEE , Or the Third Richard , th' best of all you Three . Richard and Nero too , ( Vile Men ! ) Did Slay Their nearest Kindred ; This , — brave Seneca ; The other , Worse ; but HE ordain'd good LAWS , Which thou hast from the Groundsell raz'd ; because The Tempting BENCHES brib'd thy Soul ; for rather Than not come there , thou would'st have Sold thy Father : Nay , ( like POPE Sylvester , thou wast so evil ) Both SOVL and BODY freely to the Devil . Methinks I see thee March ( with Guards ) to th' WEST , ( With Bawling Roaring Lyon's Mouth thou' rt blest , ) Gaping and Foaming , Eager to be there , To Gorge with Blood thy Guilty MAW ; for Here Thou ne'er could'st Glutted be ; but KETCH may give Thee Blood enough , when thou shalt Cease to live . Let True Repontance Chear thee when thou Hangs ; Oh that thy Hell on Earth may end thy PANGS !

LONDON : Printed by G. L. at the Two Swans without Bishopsgate . 1689.