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The text of the poem is surrounded by an illustrated border, at the top of which are images of a man holding a scythe and an hourglass, and of a skeleton holding an arrow and an hourglass.
Mainly concerned with James I's death; portrays James as a fiercely anti-Catholic monarch.
Charles I is celebrated towards the end of the poem, where he is described as 'The living Picture of dead Soloman'. |