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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04895	Funerall elegies; consecrated to the immortall memory, of the Right Honorable the Lady Katherine Paston, late wife to the truely noble, and heroicke, William Paston, of Oxned Esquire	Knevet, Ralph, 1600-1671.	1637 (1637)	STC 15035; ESTC S119841	9,020	27

to the earth and would not trust With such a gemme too long a world of dust But like a prudent Creditour becomes That cals for quicke repayment of those summes Which to profuser Prodigalls he lent To free himselfe from further detriment Which through forbearance of so large a debt Must needs result Had shee bin longer kept On Earth perhaps base Earth would then have vaunted Of her fruition whom the blest Heav'ns wanted The Lilly Rose and fragrant Violet Those choisest gemmes of Floras cabinet Shew lifes epitomes and then retreate To longer deaths in Vestas bosome great Where they must sleepe untill Apollo shall Come from his southerne progresse and recall With his reviving heate them to review The world and it adorne with their bright hue For as Antheus by his stronger foe Throwne to the earth recover'd vigour so So do terrestriall seedes from earth derive Their vitall strength and humour nutritive The Sunne resignes to Vesper and each starre Retires at the returne of Phoebus carre Thus by a naturall vicissitude Alternally things alterd are renewd In their corruptions ever rise and fall 'Till in a conflagration generall This World like the Arabian Bird shall burne That an immortall Phoenix from her urne May rise arrayd with those illustr'ous plumes Which neither age decayes nor time consumes But the whom we lament although she try'd No more then one short life and but once dy'd Yet her one funerall did on us light More like a publike ruine then the weight Of any private crosse yea we may call Her death a greivance epidemicall A losse which no reprisall can redresse Whose greatnesse rather silent griefes expresse Then golden lines for passions doe exceed Those measures which the modest Muses tread Nor can the sorrowes of a troubled mind By any penne or pencill be confin'd But whether strayes my wandring Muse misled Through Labyrinthes of cares by sorrowes threed As if shee were intent with dreary layes To ayme at Cypresse wreaths not crownes of bayes Let sad Electra hidden in her sphere Lament incinerated Ilium there Let Niobe in Sypileian stone Latonas hate and her owne pride bemone Let Biblis melted to a cold cleere bourne For her incest'ous fires still waile and mourne Yea let ambiguous teares those fun'ralls steepe Where riper Heires or yonger widdowes weepe Like personated Mourners at the graves Of some old crabbed and decrepit knaves Such fain'd libations we abhorre and feare To make false immolations unto her Who was so true so noble so divine In name and really a Katherine Shee had no spots like Cynthia nor was shee Mercuriall or like light Cythere But Shee Astraea was Astraea just Who fleeing hence did leave old Time intrust To keepe in wardrobe cold her robes of clay But if these shall through his neglect decay Yet shall shee find at last this vesture fraile Transmuted to a fresh immortall veyle Eleg. 3. 1. WHen Hils and Valleys wrap't in sheets of snow Did pennance for their summer luxury And Winter old unto the world did show The Sceletons of trees muffling the skye With vapours cold and strewing frequently The earth with wat'ry confects then I stood On that faire tract where Bure creeps lazily To pay his tribute to a greater flood Clept Y ar none of the meanest of blew Neptunes brood 2. There I beheld the snowy Swannes retreate Vnto the silver creekes with motion sad Each face of things exprest a ruine great But two-fac'd Ianus all in sable clad Those joyous sports and merryments forbad Which whilome he was wont to tolerate The Gods themselves it seemes a feeling had Of our disasters when Calista's fate Our sorrowes and her endlesse joyes did propagate 3. Calista faire at whose nativity All happy starres auxiliary were With kind aspects shining auspiciously For as each gentle God and Goddesse cleere Pandora did adorne with bount'ous cheere Placing on her all properties divine Which made her so unparallel'd appeare So did both fix'd and errant starres combine With pretious gifts to dignifie this Heroine 4. Though from illust'rous ancestors shee came From Lords sublim'd for chivalrous renowne Yet did her vertues overtoppe her name And all those adventitious glories crowne Which Fortune or high birth had on her throwne Her piety and worth was so immense That Heav'n it seemes sent this Panthaea downe As some great blessing but revok'd her hence For our ingratitude or some such high offence 5. Death like Vlysses while we were intent To sports and triumphes dreading no distresse And fearelesse of so dire an accident Stole our Palladium hence the Patronesse Of all our hopes and chiefest happinesse Then Feasts were turn'd to funerals no name Was heard that any solace did expresse And all our mirth like burning Troy became Consum'd to cinders blacke in griefes uncessant flame 6. As when the Vestall fires extinguish'd were Through some unhappy Virgins fraile neglect Then Romes Patricians fraught with dreary cheere In mourning habits dight were wont t' expect The dreadfull issue of some dire effect So when that lucid flame which did maintaine Calista's life by cruell death was check't Sighes did abound and sorrowes flow amaine Eyes did their bankes inundate and each cheeke distaine 7. Man 's a plant animall a tree revers't Whose root 's the braine his limmes the branches be But blood 's the sappe through every veyne dispers't Which aliment imparts with justice free Vnto each member of this mysticke tree Haire are the leaves which doe the same attire Excrescent humours are the gummes we see Flowing from thence the fruite which doth aspire Be actions good or ill the seede whereof's desire 8. But our faire plant the fairest that ere grew Such apples on her Verdant branches bare As the Hesperian Gardens never knew Nor had Alcinous any fruite so rare Shee was a tree with which none might compare This Tree by Heavn's decree transplanted is We of her happy shade deprived are While shee remov'd into eternall blisse Becomes a Tree of life in highest Paradise 9. Letter-puff'd Pedants boldly dare averre That every starre another world containes These Cities in the skyes would seeme to reare Yet build but Castles in the ayre fond swaines That strange conclusions from fanaticke braines Strive to produce when they below might see Perhaps more Worlds for Verity maintaines That Man's Microcosme each he or shee Is of a greater World the briefe epitome 10. Mans head is heav'n the brighter starres fix'd there Are Fancy Intellect and Memory The sences eke like Planets do appeare Each in his sphere the Heart which doth supply All parts with vitall heate is Phoebus high The liver is the Moone whose pregnant brests With purple juyce embalmes this Monarchy Foure Humours are the Elements and these The basement doe compose of this celestiall piece 11. But such a world was our Calista bright As was the world before it injurd was Through Womans weakenesse and a Serpents spite For as a seven-fold lustre then did grace Each glorious starre and planet