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A39911	Hēsychia Christianou, or, A Christian's acquiescence in all the products of divine providence opened in a sermon, preached at Cottesbrook in Northampton-Shire, April the 16, 1644, at the interment of the Right Honourable, and eminently pious lady, the Lady Elizabeth Langham, wife to Sir James Langham Kt. / by Simon Ford ...	Ford, Simon, 1619?-1699.	1665 (1665)	Wing F1485; ESTC R10829	91,335	258

's fled unto her Crown Here was not Earth enough to weigh her down But that there is none perfect here I know I should go nigh to say that she was so Sir shall I write or must I here forbear Least every line I write cost You a Tear I have of Her great Deeds collected some The Margent of whose Life would fill a Tome Edward Pierce AN ELEGY On that Right Honourable And Right Pious LADY The Let Herauldry display her Progeny Aggrandiz'd both with Age and Majesty Death Royal Lions conquers Lillies blasts Yonder 's that glorious Piety that last's Ev'n when time 's teeth shall have disgrac'd the world Laying all level and it self be hurl'd Into the gulf of vast Eternity She had a mind most humble yet as high A spiring Saint who Earth a foot-stool made But Prayer's mount the vantage ground whose aid Enabl'd her to step into the Throne That her ambition was and That alone How sparing of her words more of her time Leaving this matchless praise behind no Crime A blemish left on any word or deed No not for many years Such exact heed Govern'd both tongue and feet O glorious hight Her bended knees made her walk so upright As for her Honour 't was supported by Most orient vertues which her memory Now do embalm In sickness patience Obtain'd the garland with preeminence Whilst in that fornace try'd She Jesus spy'd Her Joy loosing the bonds which burnt she dy'd At our black midnight dawn'd her brightest day Presently wip't from her's all tears away Pouring them into our lamenting eies Ye clouds dissolve gush forth ye springs Arise But here that Painter's Rhetorick a Vail Signifies most when tears and pencils fail Silence grief's Oratour and wonder 's tongue Uttereth best those sighs and thoughts that throng Sticking astonish't within sorrw's womb God's word her worth our grief bid make us dumb To the RIGHT WORSHIPFUL Sir JAMES LANGHAM Upon the Exaltation of his second Lady c. Honoured Sir WHen first you encircl'd in your happy Arms That Center of perfections and charms My Muse rejoyc'd that though your * 10 Stars were born by his former Lady in her paternal Coat Stars were set Mufling you in a two years darkness yet A Sun was ris'n whose most illustrious raies Mingling with yours at once would shew praise Kind vertues Darlings and withal advance Joy the ascendant in your countenance As if that former splendent Piety Improv'd and gilded with Divinity Into your lap once more were stowred down From Heav'n whence marriages have birth crown But oh so dark it was when she went hence That groping we our faith and patience Could hardly find and stumbling at her Urn Had almost fall'n a murmuring to turn Loss into sin But Sir thus take the plot God join'd your hearts in that true Lovers knot That when his Angels that blest Soul away Should carry home to bliss you might obey The doubl'd force of this attractive cord Start up and say my Wives my God and Lord Stand above beckning on that heav'nly mount Whilst the slow minutes with my sighs I count I 'l speak no lowder least your griefs awake But wipe your eies look run and overtake And shine in triumphs having rais'd a name As great as hers who came pray'd overcame Sam May. In obitum Honoratissimae Dominae Dominae ELISABETHAE LANGHAM Illustrissimorum Ferdinandi Luciae Comitum Huntingdoniae Filiae natu maximae Et insignissimi viri Domini Jacobi Langham Equitis aurati Conjugis semper desideratissimae Heroniae incomparabilis immortalitate dignae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 defunciae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sive Epicedium SIste parum Lector monitum te convenit illis Ne fidens oculis decipiare tuis Quicquid enim cernis non est quod cernis illud Cernere quod poter as cernere posse negas Effusis nimium lachrymis vitiantur ocelli Intempestivis fletibus ora cadunt Expect as scio sat tumulum gelidumque Sepulchrum Ossa urnam cineres anticipare soles Sed minus attentè si quaeris talia cedo Non sunt haec isto conspicienda loco Quem spectas non est tumulus sed lectus urna Quam credis non est urna sed arca Dei Non pulvis sed pulvinar non ossa sed ata Scilicet è saxis concumulata sacris Equibus haec si fortè roges Virtutibus istis Praesto est hinc animum figere velle tuum Quae tantam Dominam solitae sunt cingere vivam Nec modo de functam deperiisse sinunt Quos ego si cuperem Lapides distinguere junctos Perque suas gemmas enumerare vices Ne possim cumulo vereor succumbere toto Ignarusque mali mole perinde premi Attamen experiar quid enim non audet amoris Impetus votis haud satianda sitis Quid negat officii ratio aut reverentia mentis Quae nescit stimulos dissimulare suos O Sanctam in Coelis Animam Coelestibus auctam Te quibus Auspiciis amplificare queam Nolo quidem stirpem tot Regum stemmate claram Ant Genus aut Proavos commemorare tuos Quanquam si vellem digito te pingere possem Summis Principibus Nobilitate parem Te Pietas te sancta Fides te propria Virtus Contemptus mundi ac Relligionis amor Tran smittent seclo nunquam moritura futuro Pignora aeterni Marmoris instar erunt Conjugis Affectus retinebat viscera Prolis Deliciae Matris Deliciaeque Viri Accedunt Fratris lachrymae gemitusque Sororum Affines sociae congemuere piae Rara animi Comitas blandique placentia vultus Sed majestatis non aliena modis Felici Ingenio juncta est Prudentia nexu Divitis ac animi Lingua diserta comes Anglica Romanam suscepit Gallica Graecam Nec minus Italicos est imitata sonos Sedula Divini praeibat lectio Verbi Audita est grata Concio sacra mora Mox pia Colloquiis cessit meditatio crebris Singula praemissa sanctificata prece Chara Homini dilecta Deo sed mortua mundo Perpetuas meriti tot Monumenta tui Tho. Horton S. T. D. To the Eminently Learned and Religious Sir JAMES LANGHAM Knight In pious memory of his Most Excellent CONSORT The Lady ELISABETH LANGHAM Daughter of the Right Honourable FERDINANDO Earl of HVNTINGDON Most honoured Sir PReaching hath spoil'd my Poetry and I Instead of writing Elegies Learn to die But if I should Ambitious be to use A Fairer Nobler and Diviner Muse Than all the Nine That Phoenix of high prize Could only from your Ladies Ashes rise Able with Life wit's Carcase to inspire And warm the coldest Brain with Heav'nly fire Yet then no sooner would that Flame appear But your sad Loss would quench it with a tear For never was all Good in One so met Like Diamonds and Pearls in pure Gold set Her High-born Bloud flow'd from the Royal spring To which great Birth Grace did a Greater bring So that in Her

do After this life may make us happy too R. Tuke To the RIGHT WORSHIPFUL Sir JAMES LANGHAM IN MEMORY Of his most VERTUOUS LADY The RIGHT HONOURABLE The Lady ELISABETH AS is my Subject such my Verse should be Grave sober modest full of Piety Noble yet humble ev'ry way compleat Would this my mirrour were but half so neat Had I but wit and words great as her name All had commanded been to serve the same I want a golden pen from Angels wing To write their heav'nly notes to sing Her praise In whom vertue and greatness strove To make her merit reverence and Love Streams of most Royal Bloud did fill her veins Yet she did boasting check with golden reins Of humble prudence To the King of of Kings Ally'd by grace That lasting honour brings England's Elisabeth and Suffolks Jane Each Phoenix of her sex and age those twain Whose vertues learning crown'd their glor'ous Names Were match't by her whose worth all others shames But death both Saints and Princes doth controwl And at the Cistern breaks the silver bowl Could not thy dearest friends prevent their fears With all their potency of pray'rs and tears Must all fall under deaths imperial stroke Alas alas the word by deed is spoke Were it not heresie my heart could wis ' A pythagorean metempsychosis But such a metamorphosis would rob Her of glory and bring her back to sob With us who in this vail most mournfully Ly humbl'd under sin and misery Rest then in bliss and let us quiet rest With what 's now done for what God doth is best We wish our souls with her's and is it love To wish her soul below and ours above She was so soon so wonderfully grown Above her self and all that here is known That soon she was prefer'd and fixt on high Above our sphere to look like Majesty This earthly mould was not of comprehension Th' impress desir'd deserved more extension This straitned tent could not contain her soul Her heart to Heaven flew up and then did toll Her after it to take desir'd possession Of that blest mansion here she had in vision Most Worthy Sir my Web's homespun indeed A levidense with a gouty thread A garb too coarse to cloath your Ladies name Therefore I fear I shall derive your blame I wish 't were better for I do impart By this same symbole symptoms of my heart Such as it 's I it present it take Not for the Author 's own but Objects sake Who dy'd once yea twice to die no more Rose once to rise to live an endless score Of lives by myriads to Eternity To samplar us that we so live so die Rich. Hook P. M. S. Honoratissimae Heroidis ELISABETHAE Langham c. FLete oculi largos lacrymarum effundite rivos Cordaque non fictus contrahat agra dolor Ora tegat pallor torpescat lingua manusqne Dediscat cythara ludere dulce melos Sed discat moestum moestissima tundere pectus Edens occulti vulneris indicia Sit procul à nobis cultus laetaminis index Hoc se ornent quos nil publica damna movent Ferte citi vestes queis circum vestiar atras Pullatum pectus dedecet alba toga Heu etenim patriae sexus aevique domusq Erepta est nobis Elisabetha decus Sponsi delitiae desideriumque suorum Solamen miseris praesidiumque bonis Illa inquam cujus nuper connubia laeta Perfudere nova pectora laetitia Occidit heu terrasque bominesque repente reliquit Parvum interstitium est inter utramque facem Quam brevia excipunt quam longi gaudia luctus Vt nox longa brevi proxima solstitio est Quantula votorum contingit portio nobis Quanta mali moles nos inopina premit Quam mera sunt adversa insinceraeque secundae Res quam nostra hominum est lubrica prosperitas Mundus hic immundus ingloria gloria nostra Illepidusque lepos noster amaror amor Scilicet hic nostris infixus mentibus error Quod nimium nobis exteriora placent Atque aliquid quasi tentantes abradere rebus Ardentem unde queant corda levare sitim Acrius ardemus nimirum nostra cupido Fraenanda immodica est retinenda magis Tandem igitur discamus to convertere mentes Quo nos supremi vox vocat alta dei Et cujus merito deflemus funus acerbum Illius vitam factaque sancta sequi Contendamus Ego vero quo carmine soler Cor aegrum moerens Inclyte sponse tuum Decreto aeterno patris parere necesse Cujus amorem in Te virga paterna docet Hunc precor ut Te constanti amplectatur amore Ictuque absque gravi pectus ut Erudiat Sponsam olim Tibi percaram signaverat antè Ipse sibi donis pignoribusque datis Abstulit Ergo suum tibi nulla injuria facta est Vsus Jure suo est Arbiter Omnipotens Cui laus obsequium cui debita gloria soli Cujus ad arbitrium hic nascitur ille perit Hoc nobis sit opus semel ista ut luce renatae Dilectae nunquam bis percant Animae Mortua Foelix alloquitur Amicos Veneranda Mater sponseque suavissime Frater sorores cari amici quid tument Lacrymis ocelli quidve singultus sonos Querulos frequentes ore pallido intersecant Fugit renidenti ore cur risus genis Rubedo omne gaudium vultu exulat Carent lepore verba cultui atque ahest Solitus honos muta lyra est ingratum melos Respondent Heu luget amissam parens tua filiam Dulcisque conjux eonjugem Te singulae Cum fratre dilecto sorores in gemunt Moerent amici si peris qui gaudeant Respondet iterum O caeca corda fragilium mortalium Men ' vos perisse dicitis vivo procul A foece purgata omnium terrestrium Melior superstes pars erit semper mei Quam dente nigro mors ferox nunquam petet Quam non senectus carpet aut aetas teret Egressa terris altiorem intro locum Faelix quiesco functa cunctis casibus Mutate mando luctum acerbum gaudio Multis procellis libera multis malis Portum attigi puris fruor tandem bonis Non est amici rebus invidere aequi Florentibus suorum iniqui Judices Morbum saluti bella si pacis bonis Praeponitis vel si lahorem ducitis Durum quiete dulci amabilem magis Poenam voluptate atque inopia copia Securitate antiquius periculum Si dedecus praeponderare gloriae Miseria si bonitate dulcior Ergo alma mater sponseque suavissime Frater sorores cari amici discite Colere alacres perennem nostri memoriam Metam malorum à morte speretis modo Christo marito nupta sit foelix anima Tho. Dominel ON THE DEATH OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE The LADY ELIZABETH LANGHAM THough the just Prayses of her House would be Things nobler than the handsom'st Flattery Ascribes to Others since no Soul from Hence E're rose but