AN ELEGY Upon that Renowned Hero and Cavalier, THE Lord CAPEL, Who (for his Loyalty) was Barbarously Murdered in the Palace-Yard at Westminster, on the _____ day of _____ 16  
Preserved by a Loyal Person; And never before Printed.  
SO have I seen a frolic Bridegroom come,  
And gild with smiles the gaudy Wedding-room,  
Joy dancing on his Face, whilst in his Eye  
The young Bride's Blushes kept true Harmony:  
Just with that look the Romans Victors all  
In Triumph rid unto the Capital;  
But not the Deecijs to their Death, their Eyes  
Beheld but Fame, Thine blessed Eternity;  
Most like the Fire-prooft Martyr, that proclaims  
His Conquest crowned in Pyramids of Flames,  
In ravishment of Soul; and leaves the Toy  
Of Life, not with excess of Pain, but Joy.  
ay, so brave CAPEL fell; the Scaffold bore  
No look of life, but he Dying wore,  
Death looked like Death, and all the standers by,  
As if that he had come, to see them die;  
Envy herself Great CAPEL's Triumph sung;  
Earth groaned his Exit; whilst all Heaven rung  
With a loud Plaudit, ecstasied to see  
This last Great Act, of his red Tragedy.  
Treason combined, called Law established;  
Immediate Death by Tyrants menaced,  
Could not his Rock-built Constancy abate;  
But his Just Soul stood still Resolved like Fate.  
And had the Machine of the whole World broke,  
The Ruins still had him undaunted took:  
To view his Life, would but redrowned the Eye  
Of his and Virtue's Friends; Truth's History  
Shall write it to the Age unborn, and they  
Peruse it with that Zeal good Vestals pray;  
And that sad Page which tells his Death, appears  
The Winding-sheet of many Sighs and Tears;  
His Life, Why? 'tis a Theme for Angels meet;  
But this I'll say, Of all the Heav'n-bound Fleet,  
Of Crimson Martyrs, through the red Sea gone,  
Of England's Treason and Rebellion,  
Except their matchless Royal Admiral,  
CAPEL came richest home in the Ark Loyal;  
Where all the Stars shot Volleys, and was given  
Eternal Welcome to his Haven, Heaven.   

London: Printed by H. Hills, Jun. for W. Davis, 1683.