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Jeremias Redivivus: OR, AN ELEGIACALL LAMENTATION ON The Death of our ENGLISH JOSIAS, CHARLES the FIRST, King of Great Britaine, &c.

Publiquely Murdered by His Calvino-Judaicall SUBJECTS.

⟨said to by written by Walther Mountacute⟩

— Quis talia fando
Myrmidonum Dolopumve aut duri miles Ʋlyſsis
Temperet à lachrymis? —

⟨may. 30⟩ Printed in the Yeare, 1649.

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AN ELEGIE Ʋpon KING CHARLES the Firſt, Murthered publickly by His Subjects.

WEre not my Faith boy'd up by ſacred bloud,
It might be drown'd in this prodigious floud;
VVhich reaſons higheſt ground doth ſo exceed,
It leaves my Soul no Anch'rage, but my Creed;
VVhere my Faith reſting on th' Originall,
Supports it felf in this the Copies fall;
So while my faith floats on that Bloudy wood,
My reaſons caſt away in this Red floud,
Which ne'r o'reflowes us all: Thoſe ſhowers paſt
Made but Land-flouds, which did ſome vallies waſt;
This ſtroke hath cut the only neck of land,
VVhich beetween us, and this Red Sea did ſtand,
That covers now our world, which curſed lies
At once with two of Aegypts prodigies;
2 O're caſt with darkneſſe, and with bloud o'rerun,
And juſtly, ſince our hearts have theirs out-done;
Th' inchanter led 'them to a leſſe known ill,
To act his ſin, then 'twas their King to kill:
Which crime hath widdowed our whole Nation,
Voided all Formes, left but privation
In Church and State; inverting ev'ry right;
Brought in Hels State, of fire without light:
No wonder then, if all good eyes look red,
VVaſhing their Loyall hearts frō bloud ſo ſhed;
The which deſerves, each pore ſhould turn an eye,
To weep out, even a bloudy Agony.
Let nought then paſſe for Muſick, but ſad cries;
For Beauty, blood-les cheeks, & bloud-ſhot eyes.
All colours ſoile, but black; all odours have
Ill ſent, but Myrrh, incens'd upon this Grave:
It notes a Jew, not to believe us much
The cleaner made, by a Religious touch
Of this Dead Body; whom to judge to die
Seemes the Iudaicall impiety.
To kill the King, the Spirit Legion paints
His rage with Law, the Temple and the Saints:
3 But the truth is, He fear'd, and did repine,
To be caſt out, and back into the Swine;
And the caſe holds, in that the Spirit bends
His malice in this Act, againſt his ends:
For it is like, the ſooner hee'l be ſent
Out of that body, He would ſtill torment:
Let Chriſtians then uſe otherwiſe this blood,
Deteſt the Act, yet turne it to their good;
Thinking how like a King of death He dies;
VVe eas'ly may the world and death deſpiſe:
Death had no ſting for Him, and its ſharp arme,
Onely of all the troop, meant Him no harme.
And ſo He look'd upon the Axe, as one
VVeapon yet left, to guard Him to His Throne;
In His great Name, then may His Subjects cry,
Death thou art ſwallowed up in Victory;
If this our loſſe a comfort can admit,
Tis that his narrowed Crowne was grown unfit
For his enlarged Head, ſince his diſtreſſe
Had greatned this, as it made that the leſſe;
His Crown was falne unto too low a thing
For Him, who was become ſo great a King;
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4So the ſame hands enthron'd him in that Crowne
They had exalted from him, not pull'd downe.
And thus Gods Truth by thē hath rendred more,
Then ere mens falſhood promis'd to reſtore;
VVhich, ſince by death alone, he could attaine,
VVas yet exempt frō weakneſſe, & from paine;
Death was enjoyn'd by God, to touch a part,
Might make His paſſage quick, ne're move His heart
VVhich ev'n expiring, was ſo far frōdeath,
It ſeem'd but to command away His breath.
And thus His Soul, of this her triumph proud,
Broke, like a flaſh of lightning, through the cloud
Of fleſh and bloud; and from the higheſt line
Of humane virtue, paſs'd to be Divine:
Nor is't much leſſe His virtues to relate,
Then the high glories of His preſent ſtate;
Since both then paſſe all Acts, but of belief;
Silence may praiſe the one, the other grief.
And ſince, upon the Diamond, no leſſe
Then Diamonds, will ſerve us to impreſſe:
I'le only wiſh, that for His Elegie,
This our Joſias, had a Jeremie.
FINIS.

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TextJeremias redivivus: or, An elegiacall lamentation on the death of our English Josias, Charles the First, King of Great Britaine, &c. publiquely murdered by his Calvino-Judaicall subjects.
AuthorMontagu, Walter, 1603?-1677..
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Edition1649
SeriesEarly English books online.
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Bibliographic informationJeremias redivivus: or, An elegiacall lamentation on the death of our English Josias, Charles the First, King of Great Britaine, &c. publiquely murdered by his Calvino-Judaicall subjects. Montagu, Walter, 1603?-1677.. [2], 4, [2] p. s.n.],[London? :Printed in the yeare, 1649.. (Attributed to Walter Montagu.) (In verse.) (Place of publication conjectured by Wing.) (The last leaf is blank.) (Annotation on Thomason copy: "said to by [sic] written by Walter Moutacute"; "May. 30".) (Reproduction of the original in the British Library.)
Languageeng
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  • Charles -- I, -- King of England, 1600-1649 -- Death and burial -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800.

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