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Hang all the streets with sable sad and call

DMI number:
43179
First Line:
Hang all the streets with sable sad and call
Last Line:
Though undeserving yet attend his hearse
Poem Genre / Form:
Couplet, Panegyric, and Elegy
Themes:
Death, Grief / sadness / melancholy, Loyalty, Politics, and The monarchy (heads of state)[Charles II; James II.]
Related People
Author:
Patrick Ker
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Poem published anonymously as a broadside with the following epitaph (poem ID 43180) in 1685 (ESTC R204280). S. M. Dunnigan accepts the attribution to Ker in ODNB.
Content/Publication
Title:
A collection of 86 loyal poems, all of them written upon the two late plots [ESTC R19822]
Page No(s):
pp.347-349
Poem Title:
An Elegy on the Deplorable, and never enough to be Lamented Death of the Illustrious, and Serene Charles the Second. King of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, &c. Who departed this Life February the 6th. 1685.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed