Upon the different Accounts of the Behaviour of the two executed Lords (Kilmarnock & Balmerino) taken out of an English News-Paper.

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Upon the different Accounts of
the Behaviour of the two exe-
cuted Lords (Kilmarnock &and
Balmerino) taken out of
an English News-Paper.

If Ford &and Foster haply disagree,

What is a trivial Circumstance to me?

But this of their two Heroes I remark,

Howe’erHowever th'the Historians leave us in the Dark,

Old Rough &and Tugged much out-man’dout-manned yethe Earl,

And, tho'though mistaken, was a steady Carl.1

The Earl's Conversion is an obvious Thing,

If not to Christ, at least to George our King!