ght;
I saw the pale-fac'd star, and seeing thought
(For we could guess, but only LILLY knew)
It did some glorious hero's fall foreshew:
A hero's fall'n, whose death, more than a war,
Or fire, deserv'd a comet: th' obsequious star
Could do no less than his sad fate unfold,
Who had their risings, and their settings told.
Some thought a plague, and some a famine near;
Some wars from France, some fires at home did fear:
Nor did they fear too much: scarce kinder fate,
But plague of plagues befell th' unhappy state
When LILLY died. Now swords may safely come
From France or Rome, fanaticks plot at home.
Now an unseen, and unexpected hand,
By guidance of ill stars, may hurt our land;
Unsafe, because secure, there's none to show
How England may avert the fatal blow.
He's dead, whose death the weeping clouds deplore,
I wish we did not owe to him that show'r
Which long expected was, and might have still
Expected been, had not our nation's ill
Drawn from the heavens a sympathetic tear:
England hath cause a second drought to fear.
We have no second LILLY, who may die,
And by his death may make the heavens cry.
Then let your annals, Coley, want this day,
Think every year leap-year; or if't must stay,
Cloath it in black; let a sad note stand by,
And stigmatize it to posterity.

_Here follows the Copy of an Indictment filed against Mr. Lilly, for
which see page 167 of his Life_.

The jurors for the Lord Protector of the commonwealth of England,
Scotland, and Ireland, &c. upon their oaths do present, that William
Lilly, late of the Parish of St. Clements Danes, in the County of
Middlesex, Gent. not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being
moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil, the 10th day of July,
in the Year of our Lord, 1654, at the Parish aforesaid, in the County
aforesaid, wickedly, unlawfully, and deceitfully, did take upon him, the
said William Lilly, by inchantment, charm, and sorcery, to tell and
declare to one Anne East, the wife of Alexander East, where ten
waistcoats, of the value of five pounds, of the goods and chattels of
the said Alexander East, then lately before lost and stolen from the
said Alexander East, should be found and become; and two shilling and
sixpence in monies numbred, of the monies of the said Alexander, from
the said Anne East, then and and there unlawfully and deceitfully, he,
the said William Lilly, did take, rec