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R177780 THe World grows old, and Nature doth begin / To faint, and be defatigate in Sin. Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 348 AN / ELEGY / ON / Sir GEORGE JEFFEREYS, / Late Lord Chancellor of England; who died Prisoner in the Tower of London, / April the 18th. 1689. AN ELEGY ON Sir GEORGE JEFFEREYS, Late Lord Chancellor of England; who died Prisoner in the Tower of London, April the 18th. 1689. AN ELEGY ON Sir GEORGE JEFFREYS, Late Lord Chancellor of England; who died Prisoner in the Tower of London, April the 18th. 1689. 1689-1689

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THe World grows old, and Nature doth begin To faint, and be defatigate in Sin. She bringeth forth (as wearied of Mankind) Men to the Eye, but Monsters in the mind; Whose hearts do sacrifice for vain delight, Their Souls, and Conscience to their Appetite: Sin-servers, as they never were to die, Not minding endless long Eternity. This wicked Wretch, the Church of England's stain, The Nations Ruin, and the Kingdoms bane, Great Brittain's Blush, and Bloody Butcher too, By Demonstration, proves this to be true: Whose Heart was brutish, more than Face or Eyes, In whom the shape of Man was in disguise: A Judge whose Parallel you seldom saw, Which murder'd Justice, and out-liv'd the Law. The reeking Steem of his fresh Villanies, Would spot the Stars, and tann the very Skies; But that the Good Jehova doth begin To hide our faults, and dissipate our Sin. He from his Birth Ambitious was, and proud; Without respect to Justice, bad, or good: Aspiring still Promotion's Tower (from whence) Ambition breaks the Neck of Conscience.) And when his Pride had sprung unto its height, (Like Jonahs Gourd) it wither'd in a Night. Within a Sconce of Loyalty perverted, He Government to Anarchy Converted. Both Church and State, he boldly did presume, To Holocaust unto the Rage of Rome. And in one Word, he England Butcher'd up; To fill the Whore's Abominable Cup, The West of England is a Page too small, For his great Crimes, to write them one and all: It will not bear their blackness, till there be A Penetration of Impiety. And yet Historians cry them out aloud, And write them down, in Characters of Bloud: That, like a Beacon, they may blaze, and be A Caveat, to our Posterity; And Weather-Cocks, with Mountibanks of State, May know their doom, and read their Future Fate.
Sum all the Vices of this wicked Age, Which have been acted on this World's Stage; To his they're Cyphers; and I am struck dumb, When I think on his Epicedium. Poor Widdows Tears, and begging Orphans Cries, Sound forth his Life, and sing his Obsequies. Then neither Praise, nor Stigmatize his Name; His Life's Indented on the Wings of Fame: That Fame which will his cruel deeds recal, And make them fresh to Generations all. But since Deaths Issues do belong to God, (Who makes such Judges oft, a Nations Rod.) Judge not his Soul; for God (and only he) In Christ, can set the greatest Sinner free. EPITAPH. HEre Englands Great Lord Chancellor is laid, Who King, and Kingdom, Church and State, be-tray'd. His Life was Bloody, byass'd, and did tend To open Crimes, and Villanies, in end, Had not an Orange choak'd the Lyons rage, He'd Butcher'd Britain on a Babel-Stage. He Murder'd Justice, in Pretence of Law Cheated the Hang-man, and Tyburnia. But may his Crimes and Blood-shed silent lie, And ne'er against the English Nation cry.
By N.H. At the Request of the Widows of the West, whose Husbands were Hang'd without Tryal, by this Lord Chancellor.
FINIS. LONDON, Printed in the Year, 1689.