A nevv poem on the dreadful death of the Earl of Essex who cut his own throat in the Tower. By the Embroyan-fancy of anti-Jack Presbyter. Embroyan-fancy of anti-Jack Presbyter. 1683 Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2008-09 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A90011 Wing N712 ESTC R230072 99895900 99895900 153461 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 Essex, Arthur Capel, -- Earl of, 1631-1683 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Suicide -- Early works to 1800. 2007-07 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-07 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-08 Pip Willcox Sampled and proofread 2007-08 Pip Willcox Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A NEVV POEM ON THE DREADFUL DEATH OF THE EARL of ESSEX , WHO Cut his own Throat in the TOWER . By the Embroyan-Fancy of Anti - Jack Presbyter . COme , with a nimble thrust of Rapier'd wit , ( My Muse ) now Stab all Traitors , point at , hit The Throat of a Self-murtherer , whose fall Doth manifest his Crimson Guilt to all . Led by the Halter to the Stygian Lake . Many there be , he to prevent the Stake , Or Hemp or Hatchet , took a shorter Cut , ( As if to die were but to crack a nut , ) To let his Soul fly from its Prison , Body , To stept to — ask his Chronies , How d' ye ? O pity 't is that such a Branch as he , Should thus deserve so sad an Elegy . Whose Loyal Father pawn'd his life to those , Who wee the grand Promoters of the Cause . So excellent his Father , that t' express His Excellencies , seemes to make them less . " Should I presume to tell his worth , I fear " ( My Muse ) I should subscribe a Murtherer . " To do 't by halves were fair , but 't would be sed , " 'T were only then but Drawn and Quartered . My Lord ( like Tully's Son ) Degenerates . A Worm , within his breast most sadly prates , Consc'ence ( The Kings Atturney ) stings his heart So mortally , that now he dares depart . " A wounded soul close coupled with the sence " of Sin , payes home its proper Recompence . " Could not your active hands had fairly staid " The leasure of a Psalm ? Judas has pray'd , " But later Crimes cannot admit the Pause , " They run upon effects more than the Cause . Hangman will curse your Feates , 't is most severe To be ones proper Executioner . Some do affirm , that 'twixt such Acts and Death , One may repent , even at his last breath . I fear , there is , ( after so foul a Sin , ) Too narow a gap to let Repentance in . His Death to th' Saints this Doctrine will afford , Impatient of being with the Lord He was good man : Dearly-Beloved , praise His Policy , in shortening his Days . " But if the Saints thus give 's the slip , 't is need " We look about us , to preserve the Breed . " Hence sweep the Almanack : Lilly make room , " And Blanks enough , for the New Saints to come " All in Red Letters : As their Faults have been " Scarlet ; so limb , their Anniverse of sin . Jack Presbyter , I tell the Whorson , Lyar , Encomiums that do amount much higher . 'T is height of Valour , Fortitude , to kill ( Not our strong foes , but ) a mans self at will. Brave active Roman Spirit ! Purgatory Shall be to thee , for a new Inventory . Scylla , Cbaribdis , Python , Acheron , Medea's Bull , the Tails of the Dragon , Sea-monsters , Serpents , Gorgons , Centaurs all Medusa's , Bugbear-Harpies these I call Mormos and Bugs , ( as our stout Earl did see , ) To fright poor Idiots to Morality . Cowards do dread the grim pale face of Death , Who foil'd b' it , are but squeezed out of Breath . Give me an Hector greedy of 's own blood Makes Death to tremble , bids Damnation , slud , Fears not the Gods , 't is sin , if they be good , If bad , why ' ere in aw of them men stood ? Death , Hell , Damnation and if thou not fearest , Jack Presbyter , dy thou thus if thou darest . Or else learn hence not to aspire too nigh The high Perogatives of Majesty . Vive le Roy , let Rebells meet the end , If their Repentance may not it prevent . FINIS . London , Printed for E. Cart , 1683.