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A33949 An elegy upon the honourable (the most ingenious) Henry Gorge, son and heir to the Right Honourable the Lord Gorge who dyed of a consumption, after a former recovery. J. C. 1674 (1674) Wing C52A; ESTC R34778 1,409 1

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AN ELEGY Upon the Honourable the most Ingenious HENRY GORGE Son and Heir to the right Honourable the Lord GORGE Who dyed of a Consumption after a former Recovery O Emptines of expectations Here When kindest to our thoughts then most severe O guilty Hopes condemn'd as soon as born Short beams of comfort from the blushing Morn Our ripest Joys all Natures best recruit But fair delusive Blossoms without fruit Till death uncertain too doth all invade Wrapt up in one black undistinguisht shade In vain our fancys measure Time or Place Or any Motions of our mortall Rae Imperfect Circles always wheeling round Have no fix't Center no unerring bound In vain our thoughts postpone or antidate No fixedness in any thing but Fate Hope lately rode triumphant 'ore Despair Like the days Charriot through the cloudless Air Kind Health anatomiz'd by long decay Had gain'd a 〈◊〉 C 〈…〉 Death seems resolv'd despairing of his End To quit the Field and march away a friend Accomplisht now with Latin Greek and French Religion Prudence Wit with Innocence Our noble Youth since reason well refin'd By Conversation had prepar'd his Mind Must to the Western Aca●em● go And there his new life on the Arts bestow All judg'd Oxford's Philosophy and Air Might both his Body and his Mind repair Ind●ed 't was time our new-made Man should trye His nerves and locomotive Faculty 1 1. Theatre At first that glorious Fabrick to his view Presents Time's various Treasures old and new Great S●●el●●●s wife munificence to raise A Scene of Fame and Monument of praise 2 2. Under-ground Below the busie press which Prudence well For spreading mischiefs has condemn'd to Hell Next visit was the Muses great 3 3. Library Divan Remote from Rome but nigh the Vatican Where 4 4. Selden against Tythes Decimals summ'd up now kindly meet Great Lawd and Selden and old Bodley greet Though well advanc'd in health he did not need Shrub Root or Hearb or some more soverain weed He must the Physick Garden walk to see That Field of Art and nature's Heraldry His curious Soul did asters Wonders pant Which made him view That of the Vitall-plant Saw it in coyness or in rage retreat Impatient of defilement or defeat Nature design'd this Vegetive to be A speciall Emblem of His Ingenie The Schooles the Colledges the Chappels There Gave him kind prospects of the heav'nly Sphear Nature Him Logick and the Physicks taught By Conversation to pure Ethicks brought If any Science could malignant be 'T was 5 That abhors * Metaphysicks Materiality This by abstractive Engines might withdraw His nobler part and cancell nature's Law But O unfortunate Relapse He dyes Before our former Joys had clear'd our eyes Now his brisk Soul once circumscrib'd is free I' th Colledge of a Boundless Trinity Of that Colledge Trinity But Friends with fruitless tears lament his death Or hope to winnow back his precious breath Nor love nor wisdome can this Saint retrive As to Externals here but half alive Whose Body to so fine thread was spun His life had end before his death begun O 't was an Orient Jewell but alass Lodg'd in too fine a Cabinet of glass Where in you might mirac'lously have seen A Spirit move without corporeal screen Doubtless good Angels when thy visits make To Saints below such refind Bodys take A Christian Stoick only rich within Had mortall weakness but no mortall sin Was Man too soon for Heav'n too early sit Both mortall and immortall by his Wit A Youth in years but full of age in merit Took Heav'n and left us Worms the Earth t' inherit Heav'n's Heir can lack no Time nor can there be Pupils or Nonage in Eternity Farwel thou little Man but Giant Saint Now worthy of our triumph not complaint We 'l weep no more but save our useless tears To mourn our selves hung betwixt hopes and fears Blest Saint in kindness pitty Us That wee Heav'n knows how long must want both Heav'n Thee By J.C. Printed in the year MDCLXXIV 79.