Majesty in misery, or, An imploration to the King of kings written by His late Majesty King Charles the First in his durance at Carisbrook Castle, 1648. 1681 Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2005-12 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A31966 Wing C2422 ESTC R26592 09506307 ocm 09506307 43356 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A31966) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 43356) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1327:7) Majesty in misery, or, An imploration to the King of kings written by His late Majesty King Charles the First in his durance at Carisbrook Castle, 1648. Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. Wither, George, 1588-1667. 1 sheet. [s.n.], London : 1681. In verse. Not actually written by Charles I, and often wrongly attributed to George Wither--NUC pre-l956 imprints. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Charles -- I, -- King of England, 1600-1649 -- Poetry. 2005-06 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2005-07 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2005-08 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2005-08 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-10 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion Majesty in Misery , Or an Imploration to the KING OF KINGS ; Written by His late Majesty King Charles the First , in his durance at Carisbrook Castle , 1648. GReat Monarch of the World , from whose arm springs The Potency and Power of Kings , Record the Royal Woe , my Sufferings . And teach my tongue , that ever did confine Its faculties in truth's Seraphick line , To track the treasons of thy foes and mine . Nature and Law by thy Divine Decree , The only work of righteous Loyalty , With this dim Diadem invested me . With it the sacred Scepter , purple Robe , Thy holy Unction , and the Royal Globe , Yet I am levell'd with the life of Job . The fiercest furies that do daily tread , Upon my grief , my gray discrowned head , Are those that owe my bounty for their Bread. They raise a War , and christen it the cause , Whilst Sacrilegious persons have applause , Plunder and Murther are the Kingdom 's Laws . Tyranny bears the Title of Taxation , Revenge and Robbery are Reformation , Oppression gains the name of Sequestration . My Loyal Subject who in this bad season Attended me , ( by the Law of God and Reason ) They dare impeach and punish for High-Treason . Next at the Clergy do their furies frown , Pious Episcopacy must go down , They will destroy the Crozier and Crown . Church-men are chain'd , and Schismaticks are free'd , Mechanicks preach , and holy Fathers bleed , The Crown is crucified with the Creed . The Church of England does all Faction foster , The Pulpit is usurpt by each Imposter ▪ Extempore excludes the Pater Noster . The Presbyter and Independent's Seed , Springs from broad blades to make Religion bleed , Herod and Pontius Pilate are agreed . The corner Stones misplac'd by every Pavier ▪ With such a bloody Method and Behaviour , Their Ancestors did crucifie our Saviour . My Royal Consort from whose fruitful Womb , So many Princes legally have come ▪ Is forc'd in Pilgrimage to seek a Tomb. Great Britain's Heir is forced into France , Whilst on his Father's Head his Foes advance , Poor Child ! he weeps out his Inheritance . With my own Power my Majesty they wound , In the King's name the King himself 's uncrown'd , So doth the dust destroy the Diamond . With Propositions daily they inchant , My Peoples Ears , such as due Reason daunt , And the Almighty will not let me grant . They promise to erect my Royal Stem , To make me great , t' advance my Diadem , If I will first fall down and worship them . But for Refusal they devour my Thrones , Distress my Children , and destroy my Bones , I fear they 'll force me to make Bread of Stones . My Life they prize at such a slender rate , That in my absence they draw Bills of Hate , To prove the King a Traitor to the State. Felons attain more Priviledge than I , They are allow'd to answer e'er they die ; 'T is death to me to ask the reason why . But sacred Saviour with thy words I woo Thee to forgive , and not be bitter to Such as thou know'st do not know what they do For since they from the Lord are so disjoynted , As to contemn the Edict he appointed , How can they prize the Power of his Anointed ? Augment my Patience , nullifie my Hate , Preserve my Issue , and inspire my Mate , Yet though we perish , bless this Church and State ▪ Vota dabant quae bella negarunt . London , Printed Anno Domini 1681.