In commemoration of Mr. Christopher Love who was beheaded on Tower-hill the 22 of August, 1651

In commemoration of Mr. Christopher Love who was beheaded on Tower-hill the 22 of August, 1651

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In Commemoration of Mr. Christopher Love, who was beheaded on Tower-hill the 22. of August. 1651.

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In Commemoration of Mr. Christopher Love, who was beheaded on Tower-hill the 22. of August. 1651.

1.

VVHy should I call the sacred Muses, and

Implore the aid of their assisting hand?

Why should I ask a rapid Eagles quill,

Since with my tears I could whole volumes fill?

Which like a flowing Spring-tide freely rise

From the exuberous Fountains of mine Eyes.

2.

What do I dream, or are my Sences fled,

Or i'st a reall truth, that LOVE is dead?

(Oh) too too true, alas, how could it be

LOVE should survive, when men want Charitie?

Sion laments, our Joy, our Peace in fled,

All things at variance fall, and LOVE is dead.

3.

What slay a Prophet? that's a Fact indeed,

A Land destroying Sin, London take heed:

For such Prepostrous Courses will undo

The thy Associates, and this Kingdom too;

If once Gods Messengers are abused, we

To stay destruction, have no remedie.

4.

It is no wonder Tigers should persue

Such harmles Preys, as he who never knew

What Treason ment: Some at the Action smil'd,

Herod and Pilate then were reconcil'd;

They all adjudged him Jointly yet each Cry,

Who is it that condemn'd him? 'tis not I.

5.

Are these the Men whose fair pretences made

The better Sort rejoice, the worse afraid;

Who hold the equall Beam of Justice Scale,

And say [...]hey seek nought but the Common-Weal?

Me thinks tis strange, that Lambs should Lions prove,

And Saints be at such emnity with LOVE.

6.

Did he not rather chuse to Sacrifise

His Life, then wound his Conscience: and despise

A Death for Jesus sake, while he supposes,

Himself cal'd to Mount Nebo, as was Moses:

How little need was there of Armed Troops

To inviron him, whose God was all his hopes.

7.

How willingly he took his Saviours Yoak,

How Boldly and Couragiously he Spoak;

With what unmoved constancy he laid,

His Neck upon the Block, no whit dismaid?

Spectators were asham'd that they should be

Far more opprest with sorrow, then was he.

8.

Passion prevails, I cannot speak the rest,

With such a weight of Grief my heart's opprest:

However surely 'twas a fatall blow,

And may procure a sudden overthrow

To the cheif Actors: Sampsons last fall flew more

Philistians then all his Life before.

9.

Why did not Heaven and E [...]rth at this agree,

To let us know some strange Catastrophe?

Why did the Sun move, or the Sphears not cease

Their furious Motion, at this Saints Decease?

Since Thunder claps, and fable mourning Skies

Did celebrate his Funerall Obsequies.

10.

(Oh) stupid men, Petitions would not save

His Life from Foes, nor yet him from the Grave:

Nor was his Age, or spotles innocence,

Enough to guard him from the violence

Of those whose Will's a Law, and dye he must;

To satisfie some Mens ambitious Lust.

11.

Was not his Accusation high and Large,

Witnesses disagreed about his Charge;

Was there not some suborned hir'd to swear

Against him falsly, whom for ought I can hear

May hang like Judas, since they could dispence

To sell him though for more then thirty pence.

12.

His Life was made a Prey, to some whose guise

Of Justice would not serve to blind the wife,

Who well perceiv'd the Cause: but tis no News,

Pilate did thus to gratisie the Jews;

Wherefore judge ye, if proud Mars hath not driven

With his keen Sword, Astrea unto Heaven.

13.

Come hither Stoick, here is that will make

Thy tears prove passion, for this Martyrs sake;

For such indeed's our losse, that we might borrow

The Copy of an everlasting Sorrow:

Since he is cut off, whose very Name of right

Should not be nam'd without an Epethite.

14.

But stay O Muse, and do not thou disturb

His Sacred Ashes while they sleep, but curb

Passion by reason:Let faith make thee know,

He joyes above, while we lament below;

That fair though fatall blow, his Soul hath sent

A silent Victim to the Firmament.

15.

Thus one of Sions pillers was betraid

To Dust and Ashes: thereby happy made;

Was by some envious Critticks taken from

Those hideous troubles which are like to come

Upon the Earth: And now in Heaven he Sings

Melodious Anthems, to the King of Kings.

Exurgat Deus & discipientur inimici. FINIS.

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In commemoration of Mr. Christopher Love who was beheaded on Tower-hill the 22 of August, 1651

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1651

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— In commemoration of Mr. Christopher Love who was beheaded on Tower-hill the 22 of August, 1651,

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s.n.,. [London :: 1651?]. (Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library.)

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