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B03159 An elegy on that great example of heroick valour the right honourable, Edvvard Earl of Sandvvich. 1672 (1672) Wing E363; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.3[139]; ESTC R36175 1,066 1

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MEMENTO MORI AN ELEGY ON That Great Example of Heroick Valour The Right Honourable Edvvard Earl of Sandvvich SHall Mercenary Pens Prostitute Verse To Guild with Flatteries each Trivial Hearse And strive in vain t' Imbalme some Silken Sot Whose Name deserves soon as his Corps to Rot Shall useless men whom Age or Surfeits Slay Or just deserv'd Diseases sweep away Have Gaudy Tombs and Epitaphs that rise In strange Impert'nent Plaudit's to the skies And Noble SANDWICH thus submit to Fate Without a Muse his FAME to Celebrate Condoling in such Passionate Strains till we In our own Tears be drown'd as well as HE. He that in Honours Field his Countries Cause Did more than Fancy can reach when it draws The Acts of Hero's and will henceforth shame The brightest Glories of the Roman Name Who stood the Shock of all the Mogan Fleet And almost Single durst their numbers meet ' Gainst whom he long maintain'd a doubtful fight Dispatching Hundreds to Eternal Night Whose base Lives yet no Recompence afford Their blood 's so thick it Blots a Noble Sword Some Sunk to Rights not able to abide The fierce salutes He gave them each Broad-side Others stood off their Hulks and Tackle tore And Decks o'reflow'd with Brandy with Gore But Fate that sometimes makes Vertue its slave And takes delight for to oppress the Brave Seeming at length with the Foe to Conspire Spight of Resistance set his Ship on Fire Though he with Noble Resolution chose Either to bring her Off or his Life lose VVhen thick as Attoms Cannon Bullets flew And all his men were kill'd or else withdrew When stoutest rocks that Tempests did out-brave Trembled for fear and duckt under a Wave When certain ruine on all sides drew near And Death in several Vizards did appear The cruel Elements seeming at strife VVhich of them first should rob him of his Life Had you but seen how Vnconcern'd he stood Flames over's Head his Feet dabling in Blood In what a fearless and compos'd Estate He brav'd the approach of the severest Fate And did at last from Death to Death Retire Courting the Water to avoid the Fire You would confess such Courage ne'r can be Enough bewail'd in griefs Hydrography And would you Cruel Seas destroy Him there Whom rageing Fire Cannon-shot did spare By this Black deed henceforward you 'l become More odious for than Mare Mortuum Kind Dolphines should methinks in Shoals appea● And on their Backs him above VVater bear Or some new Island in his Rescue peep Rather than he should Perish in the Deep Could not the Winds to Countermand his death with their whole Card of lungs redeem his breath No! 't is decre'd his Soul must leave her Clay And took at parting a contrary way I' th Flames Elias-like that up ascends And to it every blessed Center tends VVhilst Sea-Nimphs ne'r Enamour'd so before Doat on the Corps and wast it to the Shore Knowing it ought a Nobler Tomb to have Than the Imposthum'd Bubble of a VVave FINIS MEMENTO MORI London Printed for Philip Brooksby