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 Friday the 6th. 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 B06019 of text R184801 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S6204). 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 B06019 Wing S6204 ESTC R184801 52529012 ocm 52529012 179126 2240866282

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06019) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179126) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2777:19) 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 Friday the 6th. February, 168⁴/₅. In the 37th year of His reign, and 55th of his age. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Re-printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson, printer to his most sacred Majesty, Edinburgh : 1685. In verse. Caption title. Imprint from colophon. Text in double columns within heavy black mourning border Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland. eng Charles -- II, -- King of England, 1630-1685 -- Death and burial -- Poetry. eebo 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 ea [no entry] 1685 1 646 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. 2008-01 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
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 Friday the 6th . February , 1684/5. In the 37th year of his Reign , and 55th of his Age. CAn Great , Illustrious Britains Monarchy , Dye , Without a 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 Muse forbear , 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 thy Kings Remove ? The KING of Kings , would have him mount above 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 Represent 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 , or Elegies , can do . Dull stupid Pen , away ! give place to Sighs , The Fittest Mourners for such Obsequies . Presume nor then to draw his Character , His Royal Name is Blazon'd ev'ry where ; The Sun in its Orbicular surround Scarce sees a Place , but where his Fame does sound . Ah! but I will ! And tell the World that he Was Great , and Good , and full of Clemency , A Prince of so 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 In stead 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 Idolatry in the , Right Application of Apostrophe ! Then Great , ( now then before more Glorious ) Prince Since our Supreamest King has call'd thee hence , May Heav'ns o're-ruling , Bright , Illustrious Rays , Give thy surving Subjects Halcyon Days . May this August Celebrious Kingdom see , No Inter-Regnum of that Clemency , Which sav'd three Kingdom a from a Fatal Yoke , The Dire results of an Intended Stroke ! Dismiss thy fear , His Royal Brother ; who Succeeds him in his Throne , and Virtues too , Has so Majestick , so Sublime a Soul , That what he promis'd , none shall dare Controul . Away Suspicion ! here 's the Royal Word ; What greater 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 .

Edinburgh , Re-printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson , Printer to His most Sacred Majesty , 1685.