An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History and Literature (4 of 8)

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APRIL      10    When WILLIAM TIMMES, AMBROSE, and DRAKE,
             10  SPURGE, SPURGE, and CAVELL duly died,
                 Confessing that, for CHRISTes sake,
                 They were content thus to be tried:
             10  When[2]LONDON LITTLE-GRACE put them to death,
                   We wished for our ELIZABETH.

  APRIL      28    When lowly LISTER, NICOLL, and MASE,
             28  JOHN HAMMON, SPENCER, and YREN also,
                 At Colchester, in the Postern Place,
                 Joyfully to their death did go;
              5  When two, at Gloucester, were put to death:
                   We wished for our ELIZABETH.

  MAY              When MARGARET ELIOT, being a maid,
             13  After condemning, in prison died;
             15  When lame LAVAROCKE, the fire assayed,
             15  And blind APRICE with him was tried:
                 When these two impotents were put to death,
                   We wished for our ELIZABETH.

  MAY        16    When KATHERINE HUT did spend her blood
             16  With two maids, ELIZABETH and JOAN;
                 When they embraced both reed and wood,
                 Trusting in CHRIST His death alone:
                 When men unnatural drew these to death,
                   We wished for our ELIZABETH.

  MAY        21    When two men and a sister dear,
                 At Beccles were consumed to dust;
             31  When WILLIAM SLECHE, constant and clear,
                 In prison died, with hope and trust;
                 When these, our brethren, were put to death,
                   We wished for our ELIZABETH.

  JUNE        6    When JOHN OSWOLD, and THOMAS REEDE,
              6  HARLAND, MILWRIGHT, and EVINGTON;
                 With blazing brands their blood did bleed
                 As their brethren before had done.
                 When tyranny drave these to death,
                   We wished for our ELIZABETH.

  JUNE       20    When WHOD the Pastor, with THOMAS MILLES
                 At Lewes, lost this mortal gain;
                 Compassed with spears, and bloody bills,
                 Unto the stake for to be slain:
             23  When WILLIAM ADHERAL did die the death,
                   We wished for our ELIZABETH.

  JUNE       27    When JA[C]KSON, HOLYWEL, and WYE,
             27  BOWIER, LAWRENCE, and ADDLINGTON;
             27  When ROTH, SEARLES, LION, and HURST did die;
             27  With whom, two women to death were done:
                 When DORIFALL, with them, was put to death,
                   We wished for our ELIZABETH.

  JUNE       27    When THOMAS PARRET, prisoner,
             30  And MARTIN HUNTE died in the King's Bench;
                 When the young man at Leicester,
                 And CLEMENT died, with filthy stench;
             25  When CARELESS, so took his death:
                   We wished for our ELIZABETH.
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An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History and Literature (4 of 8)

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