Newes from the Dead/On the Shee that was Hang'd, but not Executed

by Henry Beeston

On the Shee that was Hang'd, but not Executed.

RAre Innocence! a Wench re-woman'd! see
What the small Sophs say to this Fallacy.
Up to the eares in death, and scape! no kind
Was thought more fit then to tye up her Wind.
Women in this with Cats agree, I think,
Both Live and Scratch after they have tip't the Wink.
Henceforth take heed of trusting Females. Shee
That scapes Welch Parsly, Souldiers take for mee.

Hic Iacet—Que cùm Morte non potuit obscurari, claruit,
Vindicatâ nimirum Innocentiâ,
Fato Functa nectamen Defuncta.
Converso in Asylum Patibulo
Tunc, cùm non minùs de Puellâ conclamatum esset, quàm Iustitiâ:
Iustitiâ, quam si non Cæcam, certè vix mitem dixeris;
Quæ cùm in alîus Ventrem inquireret, Ipsa non habuit Viscera.
Hæc verò revixit, vel ad Illius ludibrium,
Vel (quod melius est) exemplum.
Adiit Charontem pro formâ (puto) nec tamen Abiit,
Sed inhibuit Gradum. Uno oculo flevit, subrisit altero;
Mirum, si hoc non sit δακρυγελᾷν.
Nec Vitam solam Medicorum artibus obtinuit,
Sed Vatis etiam beneficio Immortalitatem.
Non est quòd in Fœminâ plus desideres, nisi forsan velis Constantiâ

Ἠυτοσχεδίασε H. B. Soc. N. C.