An elegy on the death of the plot This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A39128 of text R25575 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E400). 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. 3 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 A39128 Wing E400 ESTC R25575 09016136 ocm 09016136 42251 2248500003

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A39128) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 42251) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1282:18) An elegy on the death of the plot 1 sheet. E.P., London : 1681. In verse. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library. eng Popish Plot, 1678. Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685. eebo An elegy on the death of the Plot· [no entry] 1681 2 531 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. 2012-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2012-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2012-08 Sampled and proofread 2012-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2013-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF THE PLOT . ALas ! what thing can hope Death's Hand to 'scape , When Mother-Plot her self is brought to Crape ? The teeming Matron at the last is dead ; But of a numerous Spawn first brought to Bed : The little Shamms , Abortives , without Legs , ( She laid , and hatch'd , as fast as Hens do Eggs. ) But they no sooner peep'd into the Light , Than they kick'd up , and bid the World good night . The Bantlings died always in their Cradle , And th' Eggs , tho' kept in Meal-Tubs , still prov'd addle . She liv'd to see her Issue go before her ; And some made Tyburn-Saints who did adore her . But what is strange , and not to be forgot , The Plotters liv'd to see the Death of Plot : And O — if now he will his Credit save , Must raise thee up like Lazarus from the Grave . Men , who their Sences have , do more than think Thee dead , when it is plain thou now do'st stink . Well fare thee Dead ; for living thou mad'st work , For Heathen , Jew , for Christian , and for Turk , For Honest Men , and Knaves , for Wise and Fool , And eke for many a witless , scribling Tool ; Who now sit mute , pick Teeth , and scratch the Head , Now th' Idol-Mother-Plot of Plots is dead . But loath these are to believe News so sad , And swear they think that all the World are mad : But blame them not for being so much vext , To lose the Uses of a gainful Text. These swear she 's in an Epileptick Fit , And P — will bring her out of it . Let them think on , and their dear selves deceive , When I shall see her rise , I will believe , And not before : In the mean time from me , Accept , for her , this slender Elegy . I do confess she does deserve the Rhimes Of all the ready Writers of the Times : But with wet Eyes they do in silence mourn , As if they 'd drown the Ashes in her Urn. But here she lies whom none alive could paint , Old Mother Plot , the Devil and the Saint . A Popish-Protestant , Hermophradite , An hidden piece that none could bring to Light . A Mother , and a Monster rare , who had A numerous Issue , and without a Dad ; A very strange , and an unnatural Elf , Who hatch'd , brought forth , and then eat up her self ; Who 's dead , and stinks , yet whole , and will not rot , Was , is not now , yet ne'r shall be forgot . An uncouth Mystery of a Medley Fame , A Plot , a Mother-Plot without a Name .

LONDON , Printed for E. P. in the Year , 1681.