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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12936	Funerall elegies, vpon the most vntimely death of the honourable and most hopefull, Mr. Iohn Stanhope, sonne and heire to the Right Honourable Philip Lord Stanhope, Baron of Shelford vvho deceased in Christ-church at Oxford, the 18. of Iuly, 1623.		1624 (1624)	STC 23225; ESTC S117785	22,141	76

FVNERALL ELEGIES VPON THE MOST VNTIMELY DEATH OF the Honourable and most hopefull Mr. IOHN STANHOPE Sonne and Heire to the Right Honourable PHILIP Lord STANHOPE Baron of Shelford VVHO DECEASED IN Christ-church at OXFORD the 18. of Iuly 1623. London printed for Ralph Mab. MDCXXIV Ad Lectorem OFficiosus Amor lachrimas effudit ab vrna Quam raptìm ingestas Musa latere velit Melpomenen moerore suo ne crede superbam Fastum ô quid nescit si modo luctus habet Tu solum expendas quanta est huic causa dolori Cum sapiat quasi nunc prompta Querela vetus IN AMICISSIMVM MEVM GEmma domus nostrae Musarum dulers ocelle Flos Parnasstaci deliciaeque chori Defunctum sequor obsequijs complector vinbram Heu quot corporibus dignior vmbra tua est Non est fictus amor non est vmbratilis ardor Vmbra places videar corporis vmbra tui Henricus Percy Comitis Northumbriae Filius ANd hast thou left vs then Deare Soule must wee Comfort our eyes no more beholding thee ●●uldst thou bee so much a proficient here 〈…〉 dye so soone in thy first yeere 〈◊〉 ●●ill thou be thus a Graduate to shine 〈…〉 already and there turne Diuine 〈◊〉 ●●gree whose luster quite defaces 〈◊〉 ●●●e Hoods and Academicke graces 〈◊〉 ●●●h mistooke thee measuring thee a man By thy Soules Elle not by thy bodies Span. Hadst thou beene duller thou perchance mightst haue Gone but a slow and foot-pace to thy graue Th●●●ch of Fate had not bin stir'd the Skies Would not so greedy snatch so meane a prize Thy quicknes kild thee ripenes was thy death Running to goodnes thou ranst out of breath How didst thou pitch beyond thy yeeres how sage How wise how staid how elder than thy age W●●t manly grauity was knowne to house 〈◊〉 in thy smooth then others wrinckled browes 〈◊〉 different from the common Nobler sort 〈◊〉 here for fashion onely come and sport 〈◊〉 weare a gawdy Gowne and then with ease 〈◊〉 the Streets and learne the Colledges ●ape some few ends of Iests wherewith hereafter To branch discourse and entertaine a laughter That nere reach further than the mysticall Science of Tennis and their Spheare the Ball Or else to weild some Fencers woodden toole Or sweat a Night-cap in the Dancing-schoole To cracke a Lute-string and such worthy Arts In others Complements in great men parts Thy Studies were more serious as thy lookes While others Bandyed thou wast tossing Bookes Busied in Paper and collecting there Gemmes to sticke in thy mind not in thine eare Me thinks I see thee yet close by thy selfe Reaching some choyce Booke from thy furnisht shelfe Loose the silke strings and with a willing paine To read and thinke and write and read againe Thus didst thou spend thy lifes short day till night Deaths night oretooke thee and put out thy light This sable Curtaine was too soone orespred Thy day-taske done to bring thee to thy bed Yet happy soule whose first night did begin In Death vndarkned with the night of sinne E. R. VT nova subsiliunt acciso germinae trunco Et reficit pennae damna cadentis olor Sic vbi Matris honor cecidit Stanhopia proles Sarcina mox orbam non sinit esse nova Primitias vteri quae coelo debita sors est Soluisti Mater quid potes inde queri At Calum excambit foetum similemque reponit Num potes hoc damnum dicere munus erat Qui sic interijt non interijsse videtur Natalem fato sed reparasse suo Ier. Thorp Art Mag. ex Aede Christi A Funerall Elegie AS for a teadious famine or a siege Threatning vs al our coūtry our Liege So do we grieue for thee each neighbour Weeps to the indangering of an eye As if the losse were his or he had sold by His Patrimony and had spent the gold Spanish Currantoes Brunswicke and the fate And Massacres of the Palatinate In this spring tide and flood of griefe are lost As raine drops in a streame that in the vast Ocean this hath so fill'd our hearts eyes eares That we want sence of other cares then these If in a drowth this accident had beene Thou hadst not Fate committed such a sinne he peoples tribute had repair'd the losse Of the mad dog-starres fury and this crosse For with their teares the parched earth had beene As after plent'ous raine fruitfull and greene By should heauens drops now longer mixe with ours But these vnited conduits doubled showres Trent would vnruly grow and his proud waues Would make our habitations then our graues As the sunne snow so griefe melts vs and you Wherese're we goe may tract vs by our dew The State-men of this losse such notice take They 'le not doe businesse 'till they 'ue wept for 's sake With these Inferiors ioyne from th' Collyers eye You may take inke to write an Elegie And in their fields of hay the Countrey-men Doe weepe as if they 'd haue it grow againe Our sinne hath bred this crosse so Adams vice Did disinherite him of Paradise His death of ours nay vnborne Babes will misse And feele his absence who had brought a blisse To them to all of them For as we see A goodly spreading large and well-limbd tree Doth guard the vnderwood and doth immure The houses neere which by it are secure So from all tempest from all rage of winde He would haue fenc'd his neighbours and haue shin'd Like Lights in Watch-towres which are set to saue Passengers from Rockes and fury of the Waue This may coniectur'd bee from what we saw His youth did beare and promise For if by The foote of Hercules with Geometrie His true proportion was collected may Not we on the same grounds proceed and say On sight of the foundation this had beene As faire an edifice as e're was seene If 't had gone on it is prophane to say The Builder wanted skill and stuffe to lay A perfect roofe on what he had began And could not end this Master-piece of Man And therefore dasht it out Wee all doe know We were vnworthy of so great a flow And streame of goodnesse that his innocence Long since deseru'd to bee remooued hence Wherefore true Iustice plac'd Him neere the Throne In heauen of one in three of three in one His life was spotlesse as his sicknesse grew So did his zeale and calmenesse all is true In him which Poets by hyperboly Giue their choyce friends to make their memory Immortall Like a thankefull streame he ran To pay his debt vnto the Ocean His Monuments of Learning were bestow'd Where he had his He paid what ere he ow'd Obedience to his Parents Loue to all Repentance death for 's sinnes in generall Vere lugentis Pietas QVae Fata quondam cecinit Henricì tibi Modò Musa magne luuenis exequias parat Documenta mors maiora nunquam virium Dedit suarum simile non potest malum Ruina similis Carolo superstite Saluoque