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NYGWPB.767.036
22 Oct 1767:43 (1294)
The following lines were wrote by the excellent Marquiss of
Montrose, commander of the Royalists in Scotland; with the
point of his sword in the sand, on the martyrdom of King
Charles the First.
Great, good and just! could I but rate
My griefs, and thy most rigid fate;
I'd weep the world to such a strain,
As it should deluge once again,
But, when thy high tongu'd blood demands supplies,
More from Briareus's hand, than Argus's eyes,
I'd sing thy osequies with trumpets sound,
And write thy epitaph in blood and wounds.
Six months news-papers will be given to the ingenious
gentleman, who will . . . make Latin verse of the English
lines in general; with great propriety and exactness.
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