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death_n	die_v	king_n	time_n	6,570	5	3.4647	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02929	Elegie on the universally lamented death, of Duncan Ronald: Director depute of the Chancelary, and writer to His Majesties signet. Who died at Edinburgh, August 1700.	Dempster, George.	1700 (1700)	Wing D983A; ESTC R175931	1,311	1

ELEGIE On the Universally Lamented Death of DUNCAN RONALD Director Depute of the Chancelary and Writer to his Majesties Signet Who died at EDINBURGH August 1700. D This year at Rome the Jubilie doth stand But whether Death or Pope doth most Command My Querie pray tell me Travler now Where Death inhabites Reigns and pays his vow If you can tell me where this King do Lodge I 'le be thy vassal and thy sorley Drudge U Death Death our Kings our Queens our Nobles all Our Knights our Barrons Lairds by thee they fall Our Dives Lazrus Senecas and Lords Can never scape thy deadly fatal Cords Why is it so By hear us alone decree Men must be living also men must die N But ah Death now thou carries high thine hand Thou soars aloft we cannot thee Command Thou shoots like Cupid Arrows from the Skyes Thou sends thy da●ts 〈…〉 the mortal Dies Ah me why so can nothing 〈…〉 〈…〉 Dimonds never 〈…〉 C No no say'th Death for why my time is come My Scepter Crown are old and Reign nigh run I'm but a vassal of the pow'rs above I must display the Banner of my love For Death 's my name a Lyon I must be Untill my day's be turn'd to Eternity A Now Judgements nigh the World is near an end My Sword is sharpest when I must Defend My cause and my Commission I display When dust I send to Dust their Natives clay So Queries are but idle vain to thee Read Birth Death Judgement and Eternitie N For if I could have spar'd a Lov'ly Face Helen of Troy might damped me with Grace If Riches Cresus might have brib'd me then If Grace or beauty or the sons of men Then might I have had Thousands at my hand Of Absoloms and Solomons to stand If Learning Cicero Seneca these Wits Wou'd play'd me Musick when I took my Fits Alse well as DAVID But no Harmonie Can Wound Me Magick cannot Blind mine Eye Nay Kings and Emperours are my Trophies still Who then can Bribe me who has all at Will R Thy DUNCAN RONNALD Depute of the Rolls The Keeper of Thy Chartors Seasines Scrolls Might been Preserv'd if Grace or Parts might do But who 's the Man I spare of Candour now Yes weep ye may ye Scribes and Writers throng But ye that Weep must meet Me Ere 't be long O Kindness of Nature Sympathie Indites Our Mourning over RONNALD and Invites He was a Man of Geni●usness and Arts Divine and Moral Lov'd by Men of Parts What 's more He had the Popular Applause Of Commons Learning's Enemies and Foes N He carri'd Civil in his Post and Chaire Of Honour's District void of Anxious Fear Content with Fortune Providence's Decree And vain Ambition Emptiness did 〈…〉 For fear of With'ring here among his Foes A Well spoke O Death Crown Me with Mortal Rayes Come stay no longer quickly cut My Dayes Since We must Pass to Heav'n through Baca's Vale Hoise Anchor Death set M●zons on thy Sail For Dye We must before we come to be With DUNCAN RONNALD in Prosperitie L For We must walk by Faith as RONNALD did And get Our Chartor-Party to be ●id In Our Recesses Pray'r must be the Key Love and Assureance twofold Charitie Then JESUS Merits Jacobs Ladder can Make Scarlet Sins made whiter than a Swan D Death Death deny us Fate of Sudden Calls Seize but Gradatim e're you break Our Walls Then Sound Thy Trumpet as a Jona Shrill Our Bodies Yield decay to Dust they will For Moulder Dwindle and consume to Dust Men Dust they are Return to it they must Hoec raptim cursum Composuit Mr. GEORGE DEMPSTER