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1Let none sigh more
for Lucas or for Lisle2
,2Seeing now the very soul of this
sad isle3
3
(At which trembling invades my soul)4
is dead,4And with our sacred sovereign spirit’s fled
5To Heaven, where, smiling, he looks down
6And sees
these monsters5
struggling for his crown,7Whils’t his illustrious brows, adorned with glory,
8Expects the
finis6
of their tragic story.9How could they do it? Sure they were afraid,
10And therefore called in
Jews7
into their aid,11Who
their redeemer and their king8
betrayed.12O, horrid villains! Could they do this deed?
13To wound that heart for whom all should bleed?
14And noble
Capel9
, let it be thy glory,15Though dead, to live in
his10
unparall’d11
story.16Take it not ill that we could scarce
deplore12
17This kingdom’s loss in thee,
when full before13
.18Thy loss, heroic kinsman, wounded deep,
19Had we had power left to sigh or weep;
20Senseless we were of private desolation,
21Just like a flood after an
inundation14
.22Thus
Nile doth proudly swell to lose her name15
23And be
involved16
in the ocean’s fame;24Thus stately
Volga’s in the Caspian17
tossed,25And
Nature’s great design in thee is lost18
.26
So Mercury surrounds the purest gold,19
27
And Phoebus’s beams doth Hermes’s light enfold,20
28Hiding his radiant
fulgor21
from our sight;29So is thy
splendency22
outshined by light.30Thy pardon,
greatest soul23
, grant; I presume31
Not to add odors to thy choice perfume.24
32I only do it to illustrate forth,
33By
his25
great virtue, thy26
transcendent worth.34Heroic prince, now raised above their hate,
35Thou tramplest over death and adverse fate,
36And, as one fate
your bodies27
did dissolve,37So immortality shall both
involve28
.38Just
as29
our martyred king his spirit fled,39The
spouse of Christ30
hung down her virgin head,40And, sighing, said: “
My faith’s defender’s31
dead.”41Then trickling tears down on her trembling breast,
42She said, “Ay me! When shall I safely rest?”
43At which
a voice from Heaven32
said: “Weep no more;44Nor my heroic
champion’s33
death deplore34
.45A second Charles shall all thy joys restore.”