Suspiria, or Sighs on the death of the late Most Illustrious Monarch Charles the II. King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, &c. who changed his earthly for a heavenly crown, on Fryday the 6th. of February 1684/5. in the 37th year of his reign, and 55th of his age. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06018 of text R15299 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S6203). 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 B06018 13593577 Wing S6203 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.2[175] Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.3[28] ESTC R15299 99882899 ocm99882899 182513 2264203310

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SUSPIRIA , or SIGHS On the DEATH of the Late Most Illustrious MONARCH CHARLES the II. KING OF Great Britain , France and Ireland &c. who Changed his Earthly for a Heavenly Crown , on Fryday the 6th . of February 1684. in the 36th year of his Reign , and 55th of his Age. Can Great , Illustrious Britains Monarch , Dye , Without Sacrifice of Tears ! what Eye , Forbears to Drill whole Hecatombs ! when we Have lost the Atlas of our Monarchy ! Ah! sharpest Grief put out thy Keenest Stings , Bemoan the best of Men , the best of Kings . Can an Inrag'd Distracted Museforbear , To Rail at Death , that must so rudely tear Our [ Pater Patriae ] Countries Father , hence ! Unruly Grief , Rail not at Providence . How dar'st thou Murmur at they Kings Remove ? The King of Kings , would have him mountabove An Earthly Crown , to a more Glorious one . Bright Rays of Majesty , about him Shone . When here ! -- he now in greater Glory Dwells ; A Glory that allows no Paralells ! Then spiteful Grief be still , and Envy not Thy Prince , the great Advancement he has got . Ah! Words where are ye ! Ah! what must I borrow Language from Tears to Represently my Sorrow ! Drop then ye friendly Streams , till like a Flood , [ More Elegant than Words ] be Understood , Our Universal Grief , to Mourn thus , you , Better than Groans , to Elegles , can do . Dull stupid Pen , away ! give place to Sighs , The Fittest Mourners for such Obequies . Perfume not then to draw his Character , His Royal Name is Blazon'dev'ry where , The Sun in its Orbicular surround Scarce sees a Place , but where his Fame does found . Ah! but I will ! And tell the World that he Was Great , and Good , and full of Clemency . A Prince of much Majesty , that none Could with more splendid virtues grace a Throne That lent ( not borrow'd ) Lustre to his Crown . Away , away ; thou Blunt Poetick Art ; On meaner Subjects , Act thy little Part. No Rhapsodies of Verse , no Prose can Rise To Accents fit for such great Obsequies : Oh! Great but Dismal Subject ! could my Quill Instead of Ink ; with other Drops Distill , I 'de Represent to ev'ry Readers view , Lines ( not of Sable , but ) of Crimson hiew . There 's nothing of Idolarry in the , Right Application of Apostrophe ! Then Great , ( now then before more Glorious Prince ) Since our Supremest King , has call'd thee hence , May Heav'ns o're-ruling , Bright , Illustrious Rays , Give thy surviving Subjects Hakyon Days , May this August Celebrious Kingdom see , No Inter-Regnum of that Clemency , Which sav'd three Kingdom from a Fatal Yoke , The Dire Results of an Intended Stroke ! Dismis thy fear , His Royal Brother ; who Succeeds him in his Throne , and Virtues too , Has so Majestick , so subline a Soul , That what he promis'd , none shall dare Controul . Away Suspicion ! here 's the Royal Word ; What great surety can Mankind afford ? That Publick-Sacred-Obligation binds The Royal Breast to leave things as he finds , The Constitution of our Laws to be , Just to the Subjects : just to Monarchy .

LONDON , printed for L. C. near Fleet-bridge . 1680.