A pindarique ode on the murder of King Charles the First, January the 30th 1648 This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B43389 of text R233792 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 3 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B43655 690988612 ocn 690988612 Wing P2254

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 eng Charles -- I, -- King of England, 1600-1649 -- Death and burial -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649 -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo A pindarique ode on the murder of King Charles the First, January the 30th 1648. n/a 1660 3 584 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. 2014-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-08 Sampled and proofread 2014-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A PINDARIQUE ODE . ON THE MURDER OF King Charles the First , January the 30th 1648. I. MY Muse , joyn mournful Voice to mournful Strings , And play as mournfully as now you sing The last sad Tragick Scene of our great martyr'd KING . All dark and gloomy was th' unhappy Day , and the unwilling Sun Refus'd his daily Race to run , Nor the least Beam of Brightness would display ; Black as the Tyrants Heart that did the Nation sway . We fear'd ( and very justly too ) That Heaven would pour all its Vials down , And send worse Plagues than ever Aegypt knew , the wretched Island to undoe . the wretched Isle deserv'd to be dig'd up , and cast into the Sea For the dire Sin of its own Progeny . II . We 've heard of the Calamities God sent down Upon Jerusalem , his own lov'd Town , What Plagues , what Ruines , did ensue , What Blood , what Desolations , did pursue When they had crucifi'd the Eternal King ; Though that was richer Gore , Yet was the Guilt almost the same , Never any Sin Since that , of deeper Dye has been , Nor ever was before . When the Eternal Son of God did dye , The Temple's Veil was rent , And fearful Signs and Wonders fill'd the Firmament ; So when the horrid Blow was given , It frighted Earth , and startl'd Heav'n . In vain Astrologers their skill did try : all must in Chaos lye , When Rebels rule , and God-like Kings must dye . III . Ah , curst effects of Civil Wars ! And lawless Lust , and impious Rage Of a rebellious , Factious Age . Thus did the Hands and Feet rebell , And 'gainst their Sovereign Head to Civil Discords fell , Reason depos'd and gone , Lust strait usurp'd the injur'd Throne , and swore 't would reign and rule alone : And what but Ruine could be e're the Fate Of such a rude , ungovern'd , head-strong State ? Let , gracious Heaven , never more this Land Fall under the dire Vengeance of thy Hand ; No more let Albion be the sport and shout Of all her Neighbours round about . Ah! wretched Albion , then they cry'd ; Ah! wretched Albion , then the Gods and Men reply'd . IV . If it be true That from the Martyrs Blood the Churches Greatness grew , That for one slain Out of his Dust many should rise again ; We see the mighty Sentence prov'd divine , What God-like Heroes sprang from Charles his Line , What God-like Phoenixes did re-aspire From out their Royal Father's Funeral Pyre ? Just like the Sun after a storm , Such was the happy Entry of our KING , His Royal bounty smil'd on every thing : ( Out doing Heaven ) Pardons he gave to every base rebellious Slave ; Forgave his Father's Death and his own Sufferings . Kind Heaven has Albion happy made under the God-like Charles his shade , His Noon-tide Glories all shall rise , and mount before him to the Skies , Too high for any Polish , Traiterous Policies : And Men shall envy us , and call The great Defender of our Faith , Defender of us all . FINIS .