%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Death Triumphant. / The Mighty Prince and Peasant too / To Conquering Death must bow; / Great Hanniball and Scipio too, / Alas what are they now. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1681-1684 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 05/19/2008 21662

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2.3 R234232 1 Come here is a carrousing Health, &c. Come Here Is a Carrousing Health, etc. I Lay one night upon my bed, / opprest with grief and pain, original text faces left and in the facsimile the text faces right. Pepys 2.3 Wing D502[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: 3 Death Triumphant. / The Mighty Prince and Peasant too / To Conquering Death must bow; / Great Hanniball and Scipio too, / Alas what are they now. Death Triumphant. The Mighty Prince and Peasant too To Conquering Death must bow; Great Hanniball and Scipio too, Alas what are they now. Death Triumphant. The Mighty Prince and Peasant, Too, to Conquering Death Must Bow; Great Hannibal and Scipio, Too, Alas What Are They Now. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 190 x 278 cropped top, bottom and right edges, holed surface, uneven inking, set-off from opposite page visible vertical rule 1681-1684 Printed for J. Wright, J. Clark, W. Thackery, and T. Passinger. J. Wright, J. Clark, W. Thackery, T. Passinger Blagden

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I Lay one night upon my bed, opprest with grief and pain, and careful thoughts came in my head how I should my self maintain; And in a fret my Brains I beat, studying to care times along, At last thought I, I'le cast all by, and instead i'le make a song. Then mighty Jove assist me now, and Mercury draw near, But Cupid thou throw down thy Bow, for thou hast no business here: For cruel Mars he will divorse shortly betwixt my friends and I; Then like a Swan if that I can I will sing before I dye.
For why should I be thus cast down and fret at Poverty? The greatest King that weares a Crown was once as poor as I; Dukes, Lords, & Earls, & beautious girls, and Ladies that are now so gay, Were naked born, poor and forlorn, then I was as rich as they. Though now they are advanced high, and are in great estate, And I opprest with Poverty, and am cast down by fate; Yet a few years will end my cares, and so it will their wealths also; For they must die as well as I whether they will or no.
This by experience I have seen, and know it to be true, For never was there King or Queen Pope, Pagan , Turk , or Jew , That could withstand Deaths heavy hand but it on them did fal; Death cares no more for Rich than Poor, for he doth smite down all. The high the low, the young, the old, the fair, the foul, and all, Must quickly turn unto the Mould when once grim death doth call: Kings must obey as well as they that are needy and poor, For none's ne'r mist, nor can resist this potent Conquerer. Samson the strong could not resist nor Solomon the wise; Death Alexanders neck did arrest, and it pull'd out Pompy 's eyes; And it has slain brave Tamberlain , and Scanderbag also; And valiant Guy at last did dye by this same potent foe. Great Hercules fought with his Club, and none could him outbrave; Diogenes lived in a Tub, but both are now in Grave: And Hanibal was not of small account in Italy , For why? the Alpes doth shew his walks yet he at last did die, Bold Hector was a Noble Prince, and so was Titus too, And so was Julius Caesar since, but see what Death can do: They in the Field made many yield, but now their Arms doth rust; For death their Crown has tumbled down and laid them in the Dust.
Aeneus was a man of fame, he courage did not lack, He carry'd his father through the flan when foes Troy Town did sack: Yet he by Death was took from earth, for all his courage brave; And there's no man living that can resist Death and the Grave. For 'tis appointed all must dye, saith the Apostle Paul , And after that the Judgments nigh, where every mortal shall An account give how he did live, and how his time he spent, And there's no man living that can his being there prevent. Then Lyers that doth cog and cheat, and Usurers that grind, And all that seeks for to defeat, and are to sin inclin'd, Must thither come, both all and some, and their accounts up give, Of all their waies and all their days whilst they on earth did live. Then happy those that hath done well for they to Heaven shall go; And wicked ones be turn'd to Hell, where nothing is but woe: And this will be as sure as we are living on the Earth; O happy then will be those men that doth provide for Death. And now my soul since it is so, that all things are so vain, Do not torment thy self with woe, although I live in pain, But learn to mend and God will send a maintenance on Earth; And after this eternal bliss when I do meet with Death.
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