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National Library of Scotland - Crawford
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Tears, Tears, Tears:
OR,
ROME in ASHES.
BEING
The Extempore Lamentation of a PARISIAN FRYAR, upon no-
tice of the Death of Captain Bedlow.

GREAT Saint, believe it, though I come
A Later Elegy than some,
Whose Numbers have adornd thy Tomb:
An equal Zeal inspires my Verse,
To say thus to thy Loyal Herse.
O happy Herse! that didst contain
One whose Ingenious Active Brain
Unriddld all the Plots of State,
Without a Pro or Con Debate.
One, who the Nation came to save,
But was prevented by the Grave.
Some inauspicious Star did dart
His Influences at his Heart,
And snatchd away his better Part.
Now since our Captain quits the Field,
And does to th Greater Hero yield;
What will befal Church Militant,
When such a Soldier it doth want?
What will the Learned Levis Tribe
Think, But that Death sure took a Bribe,
And by some Seminary Priest
In a Physicians Habit drest,
Has sent him to Eternal Rest?
And say, Ah! little did we think
A Pillar of the Church should sink,
Now when the Antichristian Fox
May worry us and all our Flocks;
That Babylonish, Scarlet Whore,
Who makes her busness to devour.
Next to the Reverend Church, the State
Condoles its most unhappy Fate,
Mourning that surreptitious Death
Should take away that precious Breath,
Which, if it had survivd the Time
Of Wishd-for Parliament, this Rhyme
Had silent been, and He alone
Had blown a Trumpet of his own.
Great Patriot! tho obscure by Name,
Thy Deeds have filld the Mouth of Fame,
Thy Works shall live, and ever be
A Lasting Monument of thee:

And Future Ages shall in Story
Record thy never-dying Glory.
But since the Grave has made thee mute,
And Robd of thy great Attribute,
Pardon, if from a dutious sence
Of thy too early flitting hence,
I leave on thy Religious Dust
This Epitaph ------ --- ---
------ --------- Here lies the Just,
The Valiant Captain Bedlow lies,
Whom treacherous Death took by Surprize.
Here lies Great Britains Quondam Hope,
Scourge to the French, Fear to the Pope:
The State-Physitian, one who could
Make Jesuits-Powder of their Blood,
For the Sick Nations Common Good.
His Art was exquisite and new,
Like that of Virtuosos, knew
No Stop, but furiously spurd on,
Till Envious Death did throw him down.
If any would the reason know
Why the Old Madam usd him so;
It was because she was afraid
He should her Privilege invade,
And consequently spoil her Trade.
Wondring to see whole Shoals appear,
And no one Mortal slain by her;
She thought, when once hed got the Skill
At such an easie Rate to Kill,
His Tongue would take away a Life
Sooner and better than her Knife.
This Apprehension did so grieve her,
She smote her Rival with a Fever;
And with great difficulty she
Obtaind the doubtful Victory:
Ordring his Body here to be
Interrd with his Discovery,
Which, like himself, from Nothing sprang,
(An Emblem of the State of Man)
To Nothing does return again.


FINIS.
LONDON,
Printed for the Edification of Sturdy Roman Catholicks, Defiers of Proclamations, and
Abhorrers of Parliaments, November the 5th. 1680.

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