The Quakers elegy on the death of Charles late King of England written by W.P., a sincere lover of Charles and James. Penn, William, 1644-1718. 1685 Approx. 7 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2005-12 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A54201 Wing P1349 ESTC R30095 11243966 ocm 11243966 47077 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. 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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 -- II, -- King of England, 1630-1685 -- Poetry. Society of Friends -- Poetry. 2005-07 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2005-08 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2005-09 Jonathan Blaney Sampled and proofread 2005-09 Jonathan Blaney Text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-10 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion THE QUAKERS ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF CHARLES LATE King of England . WRITTEN By W. P. a sincere Lover of CHARLES and JAMES . WHat wondrous Change in Waking do I find ! For a strange Something do's my Sense unbind ; Truth has possest my Darken'd Soul all o're With an unusual Light not known before , And doth inform me , that some Star is gone From whose kind influence we had Life alone ; No sooner has this Stranger seiz'd my Soul , But Rachel knockt , to raise me from my Bed , And with a Voice of Sorrow did condole The loss of CHARLES , whom she declar'd was Dead . CHARLES do'st thou mean , we King of England call , That Liv'd within the Mansion nam'd White-hall ? Yea — 'T is too true — confusion's in the street , Distraction in the face of all we meet ; As if the Chain of Causes now did break , And we all saw the Dreadfull Day of Doom ; No Tongue , but Faces , Eyes , and Actions speak ; They walk like Men just risen from a Tomb. With that my Garments I in haste put on , And in the Spirit utter'd many a Groan . Whilst I in this disorder'd Gesture move , Some Friends of mine , that CHARLES did always Love , With Zealous hast Approacht me , full of Tears , Vnmanly Actions caus'd from jealous Fears . The City-Wives the Book of Martyrs Read , And with those Thoughts their Easie Husbands Lead ; They talk of Christians Spitchcockt , Roasted , Broil'd , Of Martyr'd Consciences in Smithfield Fire , With newfound Deaths their Thoughts are Toyl'd , Their 's nought but Treason do's their Hearts Inspire . But we do that opinion Disallow , And for the future will to CAESAR bow . Entering dispute , precisely we run o're The Signal Graces He to us had shown , ( For we Dissented on a Different Score , Though we withdrew , we ne're oppos'd the Crown ) By oft forgiving , Woing us to be , By His Example , joyn'd in Harmony With Englands Church , and Truths Integrity : Though finding us a stiff , Misguided Crew , Yet daily still His Love he did renew , And moderates the Rigour of the Law , Which our selfwill doth hourly on us Draw ; And doth consent the Pensylvanian Shore We may possess , and tempt his Laws no more . As Saul among the Prophets , here CHARLES stood , But greater far , being exquisitly Good : Anointed both , yet CHARLES the Lawrel got , He Moses's Meekness had , Saul had it not : Saul as a scourge was to his people giv'n , CHARLES as a Guardian Angel sent from Heav'n . For us to speak thy Praise , or shew thy worth , Which is above the reach of Flattery , Is much too hard for a weak Holderforth : None but thy Brother e're could equal thee . We never knew , Whilst we the Wealth Injoy'd , The Value of our all-forgiving Prince , Untill the Tyrant Death our hopes Destroy'd , To place him on a Throne , far , far , from hence , In the Immortal Mansion of the Sun , Where he receives a never-fading Crown ; And left his Earthly to a Prince , whose Fame The World shall fear , and tremble at his Name ; The Second JAMES his Brother , and his Friend ; Though Factious Crouds did for his Right contend To hang it o're a Disobedient Head , Whom with a Crown these Tantalize a while , As Richard they , when Oliver was Dead , Proclaim the Man , but at the Bubble smile . We take not Absalom's , but David's part ; Nor no Achitophell , with his false Art , Nay , joyn'd with Zimries Poyson , ever shall Like the Disloyal Corah make us fall . Had we but Lordships in a fertile Plain , To inable us in Parliament to set , Our Native true Obedience we 'd regain , By Loyal Votes that want Example yet . In Wisdom , Valour , Conduct , High Renown , Thou all thy Ancestors that wore this Crown , Exceed'st , in ev'ry Excellence as far As Mid-day Sun out-shines a Mid-night Star ; To those we no Addition e're cou'd give , But we such heaps of Treasure would bestow , That Thou to so much Splendour should'st arrive , As Times Record , to Mortals cannot show . Accept , O Mighty JAMES , our Pray'rs the while ; May Years of Peace and Plenty on Thee smile ; May Fortune always wait Thee with Success , And Loyal Subjects numberless increase ; May many Sons Thy Royal CONSORT bear , Endow'd with Both Your Princely Virtues here , And Heirs to Glory when You change Your Sphere ; And may this Crown still flourish in Thy Name , Till Time shall cease , and all the World expire , May all Thy Foes become ignobly tame . But may'st Thou always have thy Princely hearts desire . Pardon us JAMES , who must to Thee declare , T was Loyal Zeal made us presume thus far , We ne're were Poets upon Oliver . FINIS . LONDON , Printed by J. P. for Henry Playford , near the Temple-Church : 1685.