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B03272 An elegy upon the death of that renowned Prince Rupert. Who departed this life on Wednesday, Novemb. 29. 1682. 1682 (1682) Wing E470; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.3[127] 1,155 1

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AN ELEGY Upon the Death of that Renowned PRINCE RUPERT Who Departed this Life on Wednesday Novemb. 29. 1682. 30. Nov. 1682 AH Cruel Death what hast thou lately done Rob'd Vs of Him who all Mens Hearts had won That Bud of Honour and Our King's Delight Who for God's Cause by Sea and Land did Fight To Vind●cate a Prince too much abus'd Exil'd from His Due Right and strangely us'd By Rebel-Subjects but at last was He Restor'd again by Heavens Great Deity And now He 's safely settled in His Throne 'T was Thy Desire He should Injoy His Own Whom Loyal Subjects Honour and Obey Thy Soul Great RVPERT Posted is away I fear thy Counsel may be wanted here Who to this Nation was a Loyal Peer That Heaven from Forreign parts did hither send To be Religious and Great Charles his Friend Thy actions for Our King were still untainted For things less noble Rome some Men have Sainted But if thy Wisdome here we chance to miss This Comforts us thy Soul Lives now in Bliss Triumphant Death by uncontroul'd Arrest Did snatch thee hence to make thee ever Blest Then why should we at Deaths surprize repine What is our Loss Advantage is of thine At thy blest Birth kind aspects did appear By Kings and Peasants both beloved here But now grim Death has seiz'd thee as a Prey Instead of Downe thou now must lye in Clay Thou must accept what Mortals all must have Thine Honour yet will blossom in the Grave When many Years thou hast been dead and gone The World will say thou wert a Princely one Scarce Equalized and out vy'd by none What Hero ever yet adventured more Than thou for Charles his right on Strand Shore Or who more freely could have lost his breath For Englands good than he whose murmuring breath Hath left his Vitals while his Soul is fled To Heaven above through Earth his fame is spread Who now is gone his Carrols for to sing Before Jehvoah our Eternal King Then since a Flood of tears cannot prevail Him to Retrieve whom Death doth once assail Nor add one Minutes time to his last breath That now is Conquered by all-conquering Death 'T is but in vain to Mourn a sin to grieve None can live longer than God gives him leave The old the young the strong the weak must go When Death doth call to the dark Cell below Thrice blest is he who at the Judgement-day Possess those Joys that never shall decay And since thy loyalty made thee Renown'd In Heaven I hope thy actions will be Crown'd Whose active mind in these our latter days Recorded is and hath intail'd thy praise When thy poor Bones are turned into dust How wilt thou flourish then amongst the Just And when thou shalt appear at Judgement-bar Where Saints and Sinners all adjudged are Gods Everlasting Peace remain with thee And thus I end my Mournful Elegy The Epitaph HEre lies a Prince never to be forgot Yet could not scape what every Mortal's Lot Whose Actions well might Crowned be with Bays But Death hath put a period to his Days And though his Body must return to Dust I hope his Soul doth dwell amongst the Just FINIS Printed for J. Deacon at the Rainbow near St. Andrews Church in Holbourn 1682.