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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81357	A description of the funeral solemnities, performed in the church of Nostre-Dame, at Paris: to honour the memory of his excellency the Lord Henry de la Tour D'Avergne Vicount Turenne Colonel General of the light horse, and Marshall General of the Field and armies of Lewis the XIV of France. Wherein are represented the most remarkable passages of his life. Done into English out of French, by a gentleman that sometimes had the honour to serve under his command.	Menestrier, Claude-Franc¿ois, 1631-1705.	1675 (1675)	Wing D1160; ESTC R226978	9,356	32

of his footsteps that it might not appear where he passed with this of Horace Et sapiens fortis Both valiant and wise He knew very well how to hide his designs from the Enemy and alwaies appeared to them to the best advantage though he often was weaker than they in number of men XIX For his vigor in matter of war even in his old age An old streight tree loaden with fruit Non Anni domuere His years have not abated of his strength For the Justness of his soul in his conduct and great actions XX. A Chesrook upon a Chessbord Nunquam à recto deflectit It goes alway by direct ways For being disinteressed never looking after self ends XXI A loadstone drawing Iron to it without touching upon pieces of Gold that lye about it Non tangitur Auro Gold has no power over him At his Death he had but five hundred Crowns in money and very few days before he had borrowed a considerable sum of money to cloath part of the Army he could never be perswaded to touch great sums which he might have commanded in those Campaignes he passed in Germany XXII For his conversion to the Catholick Religion A ship tossed in a storm a pharus or light house upon the Sea coast which at once shews him the shelves and the haven Erranti dant clara incendia lucem By the help of this light he finds his way XXIII For the love the Souldiers bore him being the effect of the great esteem they had for his merit The master Bee leading a swarm Pro stimulo exemplum est His example was a sting The King of Bees has no sting like the rest but enforces obedience by still going before them and keeping in their company every where XXIV The morning star going before the Sun Ducem hunc nec habere recusat He willingly follows such a guide The King did Marshal Turenne the honor to be his Scholler and to learn of him the Art and Mystery of War XXV A blood hound following a herd of Dear through Woods over Mountains and Rivers Per Juga per Fluvios Sylvas He followed the Enemy through Woods Mountains and Rivers Upon his Death XXVI A Palm-tree thunder-struck whose branches are shatter'd and broken Quot fata huic invidere triumphos Of how many triumphs do the fates rob him When Marshal Turenne was kil'd he was upon the point of performing one of the greatest Actions of his Life being ready to involve the Enemies Army in a total ruine XXVII A Cannon shot overthrowing a Tower which in the fall crushes a great number of the Enemy Et dum Cadit opprimit hostem Even in his fall he destroys the foe The Enemy were defeated a few days after his Death by the directions he gave before he died XXVIII A Poppy without leaves the head or crown only remaining Non omnis moriar I shall not all dye Though Marshal Turenne be dead the memory of his Herock Actions can never dye which will crown him after his death XXIX A vast Collossus overthrown and broken in pieces with these words of the 7th of Pharsalia Quis fuerit scire licet Now may be seen what he was XXX We might make use of these words of Plinius speaking of the Collossus Rhodius when it was thrown down Et Jacens miraculo est The worth of this great Hero never appeared more advantagiously than since his death XXXI Eight Stars and the Sun set Vnius occasu The setting of this Planet makes many rise meaning the eight Marshals of France created by the King immediately after Marshal Turennes death XXXII An Iris or Rainbow dissolving in dew and rain Desinit in Lacrimas The splendor the merit and the vertues of this great man is the cause of our tears This great and pompous representation ends in a great Inscription which is as it were a dismissing of the assisting spectators after the antient custom of the Romans where a Herald was appointed to dismiss the Mourners with these words Illicet or Irelicet th●t is you may withdraw This was a large night piece wherein was represented a Marble Tomb carried by Griphons leaning upon Globes which are the Emblems of Immortality upon this Tomb Marshal Turenne was painted lying in his Armor and leaning upon his right arm with a leading staff in his left hand On both sides of the Tomb stood Christian Vertue and Military vertue weeping the one over his Helmet the other over a Crown of Lawrel two great Squeletons draw a curtain to shew behind the Tomb a Pyramid a l'antique upon the top of which was an Vrn upon the Pyramid was graven this Inscription Abi viator Et post Impensas TURENNII Triumphalibus manibus LACRIMAS LUDOVICI MAGNI Munificentiam demirare In hoc sacro Regni sui Capitolio Parentat Duci Optimo Inter hostium Manubias Vbi Victori Trophoeum statuere Maluisset Augusto Principi Vitam impende Quisquis Gloriam Amas Qui vivos donis auget Regiis Sic mortuos Luget In English thus Passenger depart and having shed some tears over Turennes Tomb admire the magnificence of Lewis the Great who commands this last honour to be paid to the memory of this Great Captain in the midst of Trophies and spoils taken from the Enemies where he had been more willing to have erected triumphal Arches for him than a Funeral pile You that love honour lay down your lives for so great a Prince who so plentifully rewards those that serve him and causes such honour to be given to the memory of those that dye for him FINIS