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B03158 An elegy on that famous sea-commander Michael De Ruyter, lieutenant admiral of the United Netherlands, &c. vvho lately died of his wounds, received in the engagement between the Dutch and French fleets near Sicily. 1676 (1676) Wing E362; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.3[133]; ESTC R36174 1,334 1

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AN ELEGY On that Famous SEA-COMMANDER Michael De Ruyter Lieutenant Admiral of the United Netherlands c. VVho lately Died of his Wounds Received in the Engagement between the Dutch and French Fleets near SICILY Praise is a Tribute each true Poet owes To Worth and Valour whereso'ere it grows Mountains and Seas may bound the Rule of Kings But our Free Muse with unconfined wings Flies over both those that Allegiance yield To different States are all her Subjects stil'd And though a Soul breaths not within our Isle That can more dearly Love its Native soil Yet when I look abroad where'ere I Ken The Good and Brave they are my Countrymen And shall De Ruyter Limp into a Grave Without a Mourning Verse No Poem have T'Embalm his Fame and let next Ages know How much they to his Great Example owe 'T were Moral Sacriledge Nor can it be His generous Acts command an Elegy Say but De Ruyter's Dead The news transforms Neptunes calm Face into a thousand Storms The sighing Winds his rigid Fate deplore And murmur his Lon'd Name to every shore which soon as heard Seamen though Enemies Cannot restrain the Torrents of their Eyes Even those that never wept before strike Sail To grief and now the mighty Loss bewail His Loss whose able Parts had many a year Been the Best Card by which Sailers could Steer VVho solely by his ample Merits call Attain'd the Honour of an Admiral VVho had so often Thetis bosom lain So long been us'd to Trace the Pathless Main That Sea-nymphs welcom'd him where ere he came And every Dolphin knew him by his Name His Services were numerously Great The Second Atlas of a mighty State Prudent in Councels and yet bold in War To meet those dangers he fore saw a far A well-poiz'd Valour that would never shrink Neither beholden unto Oaths nor Drink who in the height of Fight and depth of slaughter when all the world seem'd only Fire and Water And with a horrid Prospect gaping lay As if the Deluge and the Latter day Had met and mingled Forces to devour The watry Warriours in one bloody hour Could fearless stand and calm commands dispence VVith present mind and undisturbed sense His Conduct for his courage did not cease But with the Fury of the Fight Increase VVhat pity t is those Valiant Hero's who Can do such Acts are not Immortal too To live as his Eternal Fame must do Must do whilst there shall last what men call days Or Air to mould one syllable of Praise So many fierce Engagements he had felt Reguarding Broadsides but as Pot-Gun Pelt VVe thought him woundless till death made him Reel Achilles like by nibling at his Heel But as the Sun most glorious does appear And darts the brightest raies when 's settings near So his last Scene of Life contracted all That we can great or brave and wondrous call For in his Countries Cause he nobly Fell whilst Peals of Cannon Rung his Parsing Bell And Victory attended on his Knell Thus Dy'd he as much Honour'd as he Liv'd For whom the Neitherlands are all so griev'd That they vie Lamentations without Pause In a Vast Grief next nothing but its Cause A Grief whose Sighs commanded by their love Might line with Sables all the Orbs above And People Mourn so fast That Holland fears ' A Second Inundation from their Tears The EPITAPH The Great De Ruyter bred in Neptunes Court Through many Storms has here attain'd his Port. A Grave-Stone is too small to hold his worth Posterity if Just must set it forth what his Deeds were and Conduct who not knows Our Verse Refers him to the Belgick Prose which like Fame flutters round this Tomb says They 'l diet all their Children with his Praise FINIS London Printed for William Whitwood 1676. With Allowance