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R220461 STate give me leave, and vexe my thoughts no more, / I have too much within me to deplore Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 1 THE EARLE OF / STRAFFORD HIS / ELLEGIACK POEM, AS IT / Was pen'd by his owne hand a little before / his Death. THE EARLE OF STRAFFORD HIS ELLEGIACK POEM, AS IT Was pen’d by his owne hand a little before his Death. THE EARL OF STRAFFORD HIS ELEGIAC POEM, AS IT Was penned by his own hand a little before his Death. 1641-1641

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STate give me leave, and vexe my thoughts no more, I have too much within me to deplore Myselfe, and it, who both opress'd doe lye Subjected to a growing Anarchy. I have plough'd through my soule, & articled Against myselfe within me, I have read All my life over, to find out what sin Mov'd Englands, Irelands, & what Scotlands spleen, And dare convince their blinded rage who can Find in me errors more then speake me Man. 'Tis dangerous to be great, Treason doth lye To be too gracious in a Princes eye: Use your rage sharpest wit, for all your Art Though you my head, my King shall have my hart. Be wise, Vice-gerents, whose succeeding fate, Shall reare you up unto the height of State, The ladder shakes you climbe on, every Round Is pav'd with icy fate, smiles on the ground From whence you rise, and, unadvis'd, you shall Find, if not sudden, yet a certaine fall. My sinne was too much loyalty, and when That times to come, as sure there will be Men, (Although this scanted Age vents none, but those Who of old Titles and new fashion'd cloaths Can boast, whose honest judgments doe agree To love the King and feare his subsidie.)
They, in disdaine of their fore-fathers hate, Shall speake my vertues, and lament my Fate. You, you, then (happier Nephewes) what I tell So late, so true, accept as Oracle, Where ever Justice calls you, for my sake Be all your Demonstrations faire, nor make A bad distinction, by mistaken zeale T'your Prince, 'twixt him, and 'twixt his Common-weale. Come neerer Death, and let's imbrace! but you That with such care and jealousies pursue My spited Soule, although my blood's no price To your wish'd peace, too weake a Sacrifice To expiate three Kingdomes; yet from me Take this my last and perfect'st Legacie For all the service I have done the State, My early risings, and my sleeping late, For all those cares kept sad my charge, my long Zeale to my Prince, which you misconster'd wrong, For all my labours, and in that pursuit My slaughtered honours, and my life to boote, Doe this, and you shall by my counsaile prove Happy on earth as I in Heaven above And though (for this shall your most comfort bring) You lov'd not me, yet love my Lord your King.
FINIS. Printed in the Yeare, 1641.