Worcester Field: Or, The Cavalier. A Poem in Four Cantos. With Historical Notes |
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Worcester Field: Or, the Cavalier: a Poem in Four Cantos: with Historical Notes Agnes Strickland No preview available - 2017 |
Worcester Field: Or, the Cavalier: A Poem in Four Cantos: With Historical Notes Agnes Strickland No preview available - 2017 |
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anguish battle battle of Worcester BEVIL'S bless blood bosom brave breast breath bright brow calm CANTO Cavalier cheek church CLARA CLARA's heart Colchester cold Countess of Derby courage dare dark dear death deathless deep despair dread Dunwich Edward the Confessor Elgiva eyes fair fame fate fear fierce flow foes furious gallant gave gaze glance gloomy glory glow grace grief hand heart Heaven hero's honour hour King's LACY LACY'S Lady MOWBRAY lawless lofty look Lord Capel loyal loyalty Lucas maid maiden Marquis of Montrose Massey mournful MOWBRAY's muse noble o'er pale Parliament paused plain prayer prest pride Prince Rupert prisoners proud rage regicides rose scaffold scene scorn SEVERN's shallop shed sigh Sir Charles Lucas smile soldiers sorrow soul spoke stern stood strife strove suffered sullen sweet swell tear terrors thee thou tide town tumult Twas wave weep wild WORCESTER FIELD wounds yield
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Page 154 - Cromwell's sake, And yet was forced three days to take To quell the Dutch bravado. So, now we've seen them take to flight, This way and that, where'er they might, To windward or to leeward — Here's to King Charles, and here's to James, And here's to all the Captains' names, And here's to all the Suffolk dames, And here's to the House of Stuart.
Page 124 - The dimensions of this mercy are above my thoughts. It is, for aught I know, a crowning mercy. Surely, if it be not, such a one we shall have, if this provoke those...
Page 135 - That he might not enjoy any ease or quiet during the short remainder of his life, their ministers came presently to insult over him with all the reproaches imaginable ; pronounced his damnation ; and assured him, " that the judgment he was the next day to suffer, was but an easy prologue to that which he was to undergo afterwards.
Page 154 - Tho' some may wink, and some may talk, Right stoutly did his vessel stalk To buffet with De Ruyter. Well might you hear their guns, I guess, From Sizewell-gap to Easton Ness, The show was rare and sightly : They batter'd without let or stay Until the evening of that day 'Twas then the Dutchmen ran away, The Duke had beat them tightly. Of all the battles gain'd at sea This was the rarest victory Since Philip's grand Armado. I will not name the rebel Blake, He fought for horson Cromwell's sake, And...
Page 139 - I'll warrant you Sir, we'll hit you: He answered, smiling, Friends, I have been nearer you •when you have missed me.
Page 134 - ... tremble some few years before, and into whose hands -the magistrates of that place had, upon their knees, delivered the keys of that city. In this manner he was carried to the common gaol, where he was received and treated as a common malefactor. Within two days after, he was brought before the Parliament, where the...
Page 135 - he was prouder to have his head set upon the place it was appointed to be, than he could have been to have had his picture hang in the king's bedchamber : that he was so far from being troubled that his four limbs were to be hanged in four cities of the kingdom, that he heartily wished that he had flesh enough to be sent to every city in Christendom, as a testimony of the cause for which he suffered.
Page 154 - ... their tonnage ; But this I say, the noble host Right gallantly did take its post, And covered all the hollow coast From Walderswyck to Dunwich. The French, who should have join'd the Duke, Full far astern did lag and look, Although their hulls were lighter ; But nobly faced the Duke of York, Tho' some may wink and some may talk, Right stoutly did his vessel stalk, To buffet with De Ruyter.
Page 134 - ... that the people might have a full view of him, being bound with a cord drawn over his breast and shoulders, and fastened through holes made in the cart. When he...
Page 124 - ... your servants in this late great work. I am bold humbly to beg, that all thoughts may tend to the promoting of His honour who hath wrought so great salvation, and that the fatness of these continued mercies may not occasion pride and wantonness, as formerly the like hath done to a chosen nation...