Cromwell's Panegyrick is a printed English broadside ballad composed in 1647.
For instance, though it describes in part Cromwell's role in the Second English Civil War, which broke out officially in 1648,[3] it also mentions how large and bulbous Cromwell's nose was: "Well may his Nose, that is dominicall, / Take pepper int."
As stated above, this ballad is a mock-panegyric and takes themes of praise and turns them into insults.
While the ballad's first line teases a glorification of Cromwell, "Shall Presbyterian bells ring Cromwels praise", we can see that the ballad ends with Cromwell not only dead, but buried with no headstone, which in early modern England indicated that the person in question either lacked the funds to afford a headstone or was of such ill-repute that he was deemed unworthy of such a posthumous marker: "And on his Grave since there must be no Stone, / Shall stand this Epitaph; That he has none."
The ballad consists of two long stanzas of rhyming couplets, and is in primarily iambic pentameter.