€400 - €600
IMPOSTOR OLIVER CROMWELL
Who died September the 3. 1658. So let him die? So to his Grave be sent? And as his life, his death prov'd turbulent: In such loud Tempe?ts let him end his days, As Witches their accurs'd Familiars raise. The Divel in a dreadfull Hericane Approches thus the trembling Indian Those happy storms, how highly ?hould we prize Had they but sooner sung his Exequies, E're he had perfected that black Design, Which to this day brands the first Cataline, And stops those lowder cries of bloud that call For Curses, to attend his Funeral. The tracing of those sanguine paths he trod Made Atila be style’s, The Scourge of God. Well made this Scarlet Hypocrite his boast, Not in the Prince of Peace, but His usual expression Lord of Hoasts Though to rejoice in numbers ofDunbar and Worcester. Men slain Suits not with terms so by his owne gang. David, but with Tamberlain. Yet well were we if his immortal hate Had ended in the ruine of the State: But who the Churches Miseries shall scan, Will finde him Englands Diocletian. 'Twas not enough himself t'have guilty bin? But Jeroboam must make Israel sin: All must obedient be to his behests, Making the meanest of the People Priests; And Golden Calves must now be Gods to them, Bethel's preferr'd before Jerusalem: There must they Sacrifice and Incense burn, For fear the Crown to David's House return Who since that Heav'n would not him sooner dead, Yet that his Hand had earlier withered.
Printed for J. Williams at the Crown in S. Pauls Church-yard. 1661. 32 x 20 cm. BOOKS
Fees apply to the hammer price:
Free Registration
28.69% inc VAT*
Flat Fee Registration
25.00% inc VAT*
