The Lamentation. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A48923 of text R43349 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing L279). 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 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A48923 Wing L279 ESTC R43349 27248063 ocm 27248063 110053 2240891251

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A48923) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 110053) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1723:26) The Lamentation. 1 sheet ([1] p.). Printed for T.D., London : 1679. First line of text: Great Charles, we do lament thy Fate. Verses concerning the Popish Plot. Reproduction of original in Harvard University Library. eng Popish Plot, 1678. Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685. eebo The Lamentation. [no entry] 1679 1 358 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. 2007-12 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-03 Sampled and proofread 2008-03 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE LAMENTATION . GReat Charles , we do lament thy Fate , For thou the Object art of late Of Popish and of factious Hate . These Winds from distant Quarters come , From North and South , Scotland and Rome ; Yet both Concentre in thy Doom . They seem each other to Engage , And bluster high upon the Stage ; But against thee both bend their Rage . Both of them Aim at thy dear Life , But whether Rebellion , or a Knife Shall do 't , is now the only Strife . Each of them Plots to have the Sway , And struggle only , that it may Be brought about in their own way . 'T is neither Love nor Loyalty , That make Phanaticks talk so high 'Gainst Popish Plots and Treachery . For they 'l rejoyce at Charles's Fall , And hope , once more , to have at all ; If Common-Wealth they could Recal . The Papists hope will ne're be gone , While they can set the Factions on , And by them get their business done . The Plotters thus are left Untry'd , And weightiest Business laid aside , Till private Rage be satisfy'd . Our Princes Friends we first pursue , Whom we count False and he counts True , E're his own Foes can have their due . The Tawny Turncoat doth suggest , The Bishops too , amongst the rest , Are Plotters , though they take the Test . Yea , He assures us there are Fears , That all the old great Cavaliers Are in it , over Head and Ears . And some there are that gravely say , The King did help this Plot to lay , For taking his own life away . And thus , under pretence to Sift The Plot to the bottom ; their main drift Is at the Government to lift . Nor will the Plot serve their base Ends , Unless it to the Ruine bends Of Monarchy and all its Friends .

LONDON , Printed for T. D. 1679.