Harry Care's last will and testament. Care, Henry, 1646-1688. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A80138 of text R170788 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C526). 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 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A80138 Wing C526 ESTC R170788 45097603 ocm 45097603 171212 2240895917

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 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A80138) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 171212) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2568:2) Harry Care's last will and testament. Care, Henry, 1646-1688. 1 sheet (2 p.). s.n., [S.l. : 1688] Date of publication suggested by Wing. In verse. Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library. eng Care, Henry, 1646-1688 -- Will. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo Harry Care's last will and testament. [no entry] 1688 2 592 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. 2013-04 Assigned for keying and markup 2013-04 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2013-05 Sampled and proofread 2013-05 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2014-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
HARRY CARE's Last Will and Testament . NOT Hell it self , nor gloomy Fate , can save The Lewdest Sinner from his destin'd Grave : But all the Sooty Surges once must try , Old Charon's Boat 's a certain Destiny . This Harry found , whose moldring Corps did call For Physick props t' uphold the humane Wall ; Thinking himself to Ne plus ultra come , He thought of Winding Sheets , and of his Tomb : Summon'd his glorious Kindred to appear , To see his last , and his last Will to hear ; The Weeping Croud the mournful Chamber fill , While he in dying accents makes his Will . Imprimis , for my Soul ( if such I have ) I wish it buried with me in my Grave : For if what great Divines do Preach and tell , Be real Verities , of Heaven and Hell , Down to the gloomy Shores I surely go , The same I serv'd above must serve below . And next , for my dear Wife , who Weeps my fall , And is chief Mourner at my Funeral , My sole Executrix I do her make , And let her all my Goods and Chattels take : Besides , my Province too let her command , That undiscover'd lyes in Fairy-Land . To her my unsold Pamphlets I bequeath , To buy her Brandy and Tobacco with : And if she do a Male or Stalion take , I hope he 'll use her kindly for my sake ; With equal strength the Marriage Yoke she 'll draw , If he but drench her well with Vsquebah . My Daughter next , the Off-spring of my Bed , I pour a double Blessing on her Head , The only Legacy I can bestow , And more than Heaven gave me here below ; May she the Irish Witness Wed , and raise A Race of Evidences for our Cause . And for those kinder Folks that propt my Pains , I freely leave them both my Pen and Brains : May they my little Artifices use , To raise up Factions , and the Crowd amuse , 'Till being doubly dipt in Infamy , Like me unpityed , and unenvy'd dye . Now to the Numerous Crowd that does survive , I only can my dying Council give : The Western Emissaries I approve , And even dying do declare my love : I charge them to stand firm to their trust , Accounting what 's their Interest , to be Just . The Females I commend to Brother Cox , Who if he cannot cure , can give the Pox ; And may he still the Vigorous warmth retain , T' impart to stroaling she in Street or Lane. I 've nothing more to give to all the rest , But leave Ten Thousand curses on the Test ; And who do its Abolishing withstand , I leave upon them an Eternal Brand. And for the Penal Laws , they like so well , I 'le write for their Repeal when I 'm in Hell ; And if Damn'd Pluto's Laws are like to these , I 'll quickly sue him out a Writ of Ease . I there will my Occurrence truly state , Whilst some Infernal L—kin Prints the Cheat ; I Hells black Tyrant will both sooth and praise , And even in Sulphrous Styx Sedition raise . FINIS .