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2.172r R234357 1 My Life and my Death My Life and my Death My Life And My Death ATtend and give Ear, good Christians to me,/ Whilst I do relate Rome's black Cruelty; date from content: Murder of Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex; hinged broadsheet with verso:" The Chimney-man's Lamentation, OR, GOld ill got, never prospers." original text faces left and in facsimile the text faces right. Pepys 2.172r Rollins (1) III:90-94; Wing O300[a]A Pepys Library The Pepys ballads : facsimile volume Editor W.G. Day D.S. Brewer Cambridge [England] 1987 Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 172 On the Barbarous, Execrable, and Bloody/ Murder of the Earl of Essex. On the Barbarous, Execrable, and Bloody Murder of the Earl of Essex. On the Barbarous, Execrable, and Bloody Murder of the Earl of Essex. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, hinged, 196 x 300 cropped left edge, torn top edge, uneven inking, verso shows through horizontal rule and cast fleurons Printer J. Wallis 1689 Printed and Sold by J. Wallis in White-Friars. J. Wallis Weinstein: content

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ATtend and give Ear, good Christians to me, Whilst I do relate Rome's black Cruelty; Of a horrid great murder (which now is review'd) On the brave Earl of Essex, whom Papists pursu'd: But God will not suffer this Murder to die, His Blood still for Vengance from Heaven doth cry. The Chief Actor in it is brought to the Light, Who, by Money, was tempted to act this great Spight; His Conscience, and Actions now fly in his Face, And says, He deserves to die with Disgrace: His Soul he did venture for luker of Gains; In Showres of Gold he was paid for his Pains.
But the great Villain Bomene, he is not yet found, Who provided the Razor that gave the great Wound: His Lord and his Master, this Judas betray'd, And to see his Blood Split was no ways afraid: But this Valet de Chambre I hope to see hang'd, And Popery banish'd quite out of the Land. True Justice, I doubt not, will now act its Part, And pay off each Ruffian to his Just Desert; Tho' the Devil a while, may seem their good Friend, He'll bring 'em to Shame and Disgrace in the End. For there's a just God, that will judge Equity, And sees all their Actions wherever they fly.
[Now when these great] Villains had his Life took away, Himself he did Murder, they with Impudence say: But all that assisted his Life to deprive, Must never expect in this World to thrive: The Powers above will bring all things about, Tho' ever so Secret, at length 'twill come out. My Heart it grieves sore, who ne're did him see, That such a brave Peer should so murder'd be; 'Twill ne'r be forgot, with great nor with Small, That He by the Hands of the Papists did fall: Tho' some, who are absent, the Murder did please, And Jesuits thought themselves then at full Ease. He ne'r wanted Courage, nor of Death was afraid, By greatest of Dangers could not be dismy'd: Then why should we think him so poor a Slave, As to murder himself for fear of the Grave: But impudent Villains, charge him with th' Guilt, Of shedding that Blood which by Papists was spilt. They by Stealth did him kill with a secret Stroke, And silenc'd that Voice which charm'd when it spoke, The Blood from his Throat did o'erflow the Ground, And like to a River did run from his Wound: Thus the Pious Essex, a Victim do's fall, But his Soul, near the Altar, for Vengeance doth call. For no question in Heaven 'tis mounted most high, Out of the Danger of Rome's Treachery: Attended by Angels and Spiritual Charms, In Glory and Splendor, free from all Harms: 'Tis far better Joys than this sinful Globe brings, To sing Hallelujahs to th' greatest of Kings. But whilst we are mortal, the stoutest of Heart, Tho' loth, must submit to Death's cruel Dart; Whose Cup is so bitter we'd willingly pass by, Yet when it doth come, who can it deny? Then let us be Watchful, and always prepare, Left Death unawares, catch us in a Snare.
Printed and Sold by J. Wallis in White-Friars.