Newes from the Dead

by Richard Watkins

Newes from the Dead.
OR
A TRUE AND EXACT
Narration of the miraculous
deliverance of
ANNE GREENE,

 

Who being Executed at Oxford
Decemb. 14. 1650. afterwards revived; and
by the care of certain hysitians there,
is now perfectly recovered.

 

Together with the manner of her Suffering, and the
particular meanes used for her Recovery.

Written by a Scholler in Oxford for the
Satisfaction of a friend, who desired to be
informed concerning the truth
of the businesse.

Whereunto are added certain Poems, casually
written upon that Subject.

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The Second Impression with Additions.

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OXFORD,
Printed by LEONARD LICHFIELD, for
Tho. Robinson. ⁠ D. 1651.

Chapters (not listed in original)

• Newes from the Dead
• On Shee which was hang'd and afterwards Recover'd
• In Puellam à Diutino Patibuli Cruciatu Redivivam
• On the Shee that was Hang'd, but not Executed
• On one dead by Law, but reviv'd by Physick
• In Fœminam post Patibuli cruciatus reviviscentem
• Ad Medicos, dissecandum corpus vitæ restituentes
• A ceux de la Messe
• The Womans Case put to the Lawyers
• Nondum cessàrunt Miracula
• Thou shalt not Swing againe
• To the Physitians
• Ad Puellam Redivivam
• In Puellam suspensam
• Admire not, 'tis no newes
• In puellam ὑϛερόποτμον à patibulo reviviscentem
• On the Death and Life of Anne Greene
• So sportive, Atropos?
• Proh Metamorphosis naturæ dissona!
• Hippolytus was dead
• That Life's a Vapour I'le no more complaine
• Ternas sicne Deas
• For certaine, she was dead!
• Are Fates growne kind?
• To the Hangman
• Eurydicen sileat jam fama à morte reductam
• Wonder of highest Art!
• Hang up the Gallow-Tree
• To the happy Instruments of the Executed Maids Recovery
• Thou Pill too strong for fate!
• The Maids Game
• Had I been tongue-ti'd
• Dum sacer Eurydicen
• Quam penè abstulerat
• Search for a pleasant now delight
• Here lies—'t must not be so
• Iugglers we have seene
• Thou Sophister of Fate
• What hath the Law its power lost
• Iustice would cut, but Fate unedg'd the knife
• She liv'd, and in the cord made Fate despair
• Death's Metamorphos'd
• I'le stretch my Muse
• On Anne Greene her execution
• Are fates dread engines