THE PEOPLE IN THE PIT.

Supprest, deprest, involved in woes,

Great Charles, thy people be

Basely deceived with specious shows

By those that murther’d thee.

We are enslaved to tyrants’ hests,

Who have our freedom won:

Our fainting hope now only rests

On thy succeeding son.

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