On the death of Sir Tho. Armstrong in ansvver to a late treasonable libel dispers'd by the factions. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A53351 of text R224205 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 4KB 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 A53351 Wing O306 ESTC R224205 99834511

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 eng Armstrong, Thomas, -- Sir, 1624?-1684 -- Early works to 1800. Rye House Plot, 1683 -- Early works to 1800. eebo On the death of Sir Tho. Armstrong; in ansvver to a late treasonable libel dispers'd by the factions. n/a 1684 2 564 3 0 0 0 0 0 53.19 D The rate of 53.19 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-06 Sampled and proofread 2014-06 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
On the DEATH of Sir Tho . Armstrong ; IN ANSWER TO A LATE Treasonous LIBEL Dispers'd by the Factious . THou Monster Armstrong , cou'd thy Soul return But a few Minutes from her Sulph'rous Urn , To see the Joys that Loyal men imploy , At thy deserv'd , tho' Fatal Destiny : It wou'd ( if possible ) thy Pain increase , And add new Tortures to Hell's Miseries : Hadst thou still Safe been in thy Trayt'rous Flight , Thou hadst not come up to this wicked height ; For th' Treasons that Thou Living did'st intend , Thou ne'r repent'st of at thy Fatal End : Just thus dy'd Peters , Harrison and Pride , Much better Catiline and Cethegus dy'd . If we shou'd tell how much he is too blame , 'T would for a Volumn , be a Copious Theme : If once ( if true ) he Loyal were , 't is all In his whole Life , that we can Virtuous call : But we have too much reason to believe , That even Then he did his King deceive ; And so did never Change , was still a Rogue , Still Courting whatsoever Power in Vogue : And now his Quarters , most deserv'dly stand As Scare-Crows to the rest o' th' Factious Band ; The Peaceful Grave to this day ne'r contain'd , A Carcas like to His with Treason stain'd . But sure his Monstrous Spirit ' gain is risen Out of the dismal hole of Hells dark ●●son , Has got a short Reprieve , and now Indicts All that this Horrid Impious Villain Writes : Nothing but Hells Dear Imp cou'd e'er devise , Such Horrid Treasons , Monstrous Blasphemies , Cou'd e'er rake up that Holy Marlyrs , Dust , Of our First Sacred Charles , the Good , the Just : Be Judge just Heaven , judge all on Earth below , Judge , and then tell me , if you er're cou'd shew One Vicious Act in the whole Blessed Reign Of that most Sacred Prince , by Traytors slain : And if into your Memory you call The true Idaea of the Original , You 'll find in 's Sons , he Copy'd is as True , As e'er in Imitation Titian drew : Our Sacred Charles is so averse to Blood , That ( if he any Fault have ) he 's too Good , Shews too much Mercy to his Harden'd Foes , That wou'd Himself and Progeny Depose : Can the most Brazen'd Face o th Factious Crew In Royal JAMES the least Injustice shew ? No , t is their Grievance that the World Proclaims , No Truer Friend , no Juster man than JAMES : What Subjects then can e'r refuse t'obey , The Just and equal Poise of Charles's Sway ? We need not ( Rebels ) on you Vengeance call , God lets the Rod of Justice on You fall ; The Heavenly Wisdom all your Actions saw Your Preach of Faith , o th Kings , and of his Law Since each of you is become Heavens Foe , Heaven ▪ s Justice does the Punishment bestow .

Prin●ed and Sold by Nath . Thompson at the Entrance into the Old-Spring-Garden near Charing-Cross , 1684.