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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02516	An elegy upon the Marquess of Dorchester and Earl of Kingston, &c.	Crouch, John, fl. 1660-1681.	1680 (1680)	Wing C7296; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.2[295]; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.3[36]; ESTC R34846	1,062	1

AN ELEGY Upon the MARQUESS of DORCHESTER And EARL of KINGSTON c. 6. May. 1681 IF to some Silent Tomb we laid our Ear Fancy might such Oraculous Whispers hear Must Souls with Bodies dye must Virtue rust And Honour perish in a bed of dust If of Nine Muses Eight were faln asleep One might stand Centry and the Capitol keep 'T is I that One weep o're a Learned Herse Some will my Duty praise tho' not my Verse Farewel Great DORCHESTER born to Inherit Thy Father's large Estate but larger Spirit Who fatally by his Own Party slain Was by Your Loyalty reviv'd again 'T was You maintain'd his dying Cause and Breath Eluding all the Fallacies of Death Doubly possest his Merit and Estate By right of Primogeniture and Fate But now the Kingdom with strange Whirlwinds tost And fatal Naseby after Triumph lost The King Saint-like into Temptation led From profest Foes to Friends less Faithful fled Oxford is close begirt Stout hearts grow tender And Loyal Pulses beat for a Surrender Then did our Marquess to his High Renown Bravely advise still to defend the Town If Heaven pleas'd for His Majesties Future good Worthy the Ransom of more Lives and Blood You were its greatest Ornament and Grace Lov'd best because best understood the Place You comprehended in Epitomy The Learning of that great Academy Alstedian thoughts are narrow and confin'd Compar'd to the Vast Circle of your mind Which like that First Intelligence above Did all Inferiour Orbs contain and move Philosophy here both Moral and Divine Did with the Lustre of all Graces shine Here Law did in its Inner-Temple dwell With Mathematicks to a Miracle Here Opticks shin'd here Jacob's powerful Wand Did all the Armies of the Stars Command Survey'd both Globes and wisely took from thence Just Measures for his High Magnificence Whereas some clog'd with Earth and Ignorance Can ill adjust their own Inheritance T' improve the barren Theory of these In steps great Galen and Hippocrates You judg'd tho' Envy might its Poison dart There cou'd be no disparagement in Art Your Charitable Dodonean door Sent Echoes to the Prayers of the Poor Your well-spread Table still for Guests did call Was Charities great Burse and Hospital Those Guests amidst Philosophy and meat More Ear than Appetite forgot to eat But these Perfections Glorious in their Sphere May make us Famous not Immortal here Both Small and Great Learn'd and Unlearned must Submit their Talents to be weigh'd in dust Now DORCHESTER Great DORCHESTER is dead And all his Parts laid Level with his Head But though his Years summ'd up the Age of man Largely extended to a Giant 's Span It might some Circumstances interpose Like latter Frosts and kill a drooping Rose This Turtle miss'd his dearest KATHARINE As Good as Great and only not the QVEEN Divorc'd by Death from his most Saint-like Wife His Palsy'd Soul allow'd but half a Life Then you that wonder at his Matchless Parts Acknowledge Love above the Power of Arts. By JO. CROVCH once his Domestick Servant LONDON Printed and are to be Sold by Walter Davis