The Scots Apostasie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFGBBHHIJKKLL MMNOPPOOQQRRSSMTTOOU UOOVWXXYZA2B2C2C2D2E 2F2F2FFOSG2G2GGC2C2| Is't come to this What shall the cheeks of fame | A |
| Stretch'd with the breath of learned Loudon's name | A |
| Be flogg'd again And that great piece of sense | B |
| As rich in loyalty and eloquence | C |
| Brought to the test be found a trick of state | D |
| Like chemist's tinctures proved adulterate | D |
| The devil sure such language did achieve | E |
| To cheat our unforewarned grand dam Eve | E |
| As this imposture found out to be sot | F |
| The experienced English to believe a Scot | G |
| Who reconciled the Covenant's doubtful sense | B |
| The Commons argument or the City's pence | B |
| Or did you doubt persistence in one good | H |
| Would spoil the fabric of your brotherhood | H |
| Projected first in such a forge of sin | I |
| Was fit for the grand devil's hammering | J |
| Or was't ambition that this damned fact | K |
| Should tell the world you know the sins you act | K |
| The infamy this super treason brings | L |
| Blasts more than murders of your sixty kings | L |
| A crime so black as being advisedly done | M |
| Those hold with these no competition | M |
| Kings only suffered then in this doth lie | N |
| The assassination of monarchy | O |
| Beyond this sin no one step can be trod | P |
| If not to attempt deposing of your God | P |
| O were you so engaged that we might see | O |
| Heav'ns angry lightning 'bout your ears to flee | O |
| Till you were shrivell'd to dust and your cold land | Q |
| Parch't to a drought beyond the Libyan sand | Q |
| But 'tis reserv'd till Heaven plague you worse | R |
| The objects of an epidemic curse | R |
| First may your brethren to whose viler ends | S |
| Your power hath bawded cease to be your friends | S |
| And prompted by the dictate of their reason | M |
| And may their jealousies increase and breed | T |
| Till they confine your steps beyond the Tweed | T |
| In foreign nations may your loathed name be | O |
| A stigmatizing brand of infamy | O |
| Till forced by general hate you cease to roam | U |
| The world and for a plague live at home | U |
| Till you resume your poverty and be | O |
| Reduced to beg where none can be so free | O |
| To grant and may your scabby land be all | V |
| Translated to a generall hospital | W |
| Let not the sun afford one gentle ray | X |
| To give you comfort of a summer's day | X |
| But as a guerdon for your traitorous war | Y |
| Love cherished only by the northern star | Z |
| No stranger deign to visit your rude coast | A2 |
| And be to all but banisht men as lost | B2 |
| And such in heightening of the indiction due | C2 |
| Let provok'd princes send them all to you | C2 |
| Your State a chaos be where not the law | D2 |
| But power your lives and liberties may give | E2 |
| No subject 'mongst you keep a quiet breast | F2 |
| But each man strive through blood to be the best | F2 |
| Till for those miseries on us you've brought | F |
| By your own sword our just revenge be wrought | F |
| To sum up all let your religion be | O |
| As your allegiance maskt hypocrisie | S |
| Until when Charles shall be composed in dust | G2 |
| Perfum'd with epithets of good and just | G2 |
| He saved incensed Heaven may have forgot | G |
| To afford one act of mercy to a Scot | G |
| Unless that Scot deny himself and do | C2 |
| What's easier far Renounce his nation too | C2 |
John Cleveland
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