...which, besides its intrinsic merit, is interesting in connection with the statue : — That the first Charles does here in triumph ride, See his son reign where he a martyr d/d ; And people pay that revYence as they pass, (Which then he wanted) to the sacred brass, Is not...

...was erected in the year 1674. Wai pole tells its history, and Waller its moral : — " Thai the first Charles does here in triumph ride, See his son reign where he a martyr died ; And people pay ihut reverence is they |tasa (Which tlien he wauled!) to tlie sacred biah.i ;...

...the Statue of King Charles I. at Charing Cross, in the year 1674," is well known : — That the First Charles does here in triumph ride, See his son reign where he a Martyr died ; And people pay that reverence as they pass, (Which then he wanted) to the sacred brass, etc....

...Waller, the poet, produced the following lines, in reference to the circumstance : " That the First Charles does here in triumph ride : See his son reign, where he a martyr died ; And people pay that reverence as they pass (Which then he wanted !) to the sacred brass ; Is...

...present site. Waller, ' four kings beloved,' wrote the following lines the occasion : ' That the First Charles does here in triumph ride See his son reign, where he a martyr died ; And people pay that reverence, as they pass (Which then he wanted!), to the sacred brass ; Is...

...her Crown. Sir Walter Scott. On the Statue of King Charles I at Charing Cross (1674) |HAT the First Charles does here in triumph ride, See his son reign where he a martyr died, And people pay that reverence as they pass, (Which then he wanted!) to the sacred brass, Is not...

...Edmund Waller, Milton's longtime rival, wrote a poem in praise of this equestrian image: That the First Charles does here in triumph ride, See his son reign where he a martyr died, And people pay that reverence as they pass (Which then he wanted!) to the sacred brass Is not...