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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

Stars between every tree were Flower de Luces Over the Tower the four Vertues upheld an Vrn after the manner of the Antients shaped like a Tomb upon which Immortality trampling upon Death carries the Image or Picture of Marshal Turenne towards Heaven By this is meant the Tower of David Adricomius interpreter of the Canticles upon these words so famous in Holy Writ built upon Mount Sion fronting four ways the Temple the Kings Palace Sicut Turris David vidi Collum tuum Cant. 4 the Arsenal or Armoric and the publick Schools and had as many Gates towards these several Buildings a thousand Shields hung at the Arches or Niches and Windows thereof this Tower was equally an ornament and safeguard to the City of Hierusalem The Mausolea of Princes have frequently been erected in form of a Tower The Tomb of Augustus and that of Adrian were made in this shape the Books of the Ecclesiastical Ceremonies call the Coenotaphe or place of Representations Castrum Doloris because they antiently were built like Towers haply because Towers are the Emblems of Princes Cum ceciderint Tueres Isa 30. and Great men in sacred Oracles The Name of Turenne and the Atchievement of his House which are a Field Azure parsemè of Fleurs de Lys Or a Tower Argent seem to make this Application of the Tower of David more happy and particular to this Subject Which likewise makes the four Gates of this Tower applicable to the four peculiar Vertues of Marshal Turenne to his Piety to his Stedfastness in the Kings Service to his Valour and to his Wisdom and therefore was written upon the four frontispieces or faces of the Urn these four words Religioni Fidei Fortitudini Sapientiae They thought fit likewise to place these Inscriptions Adricomius in Theatro terrae s●nctae Domus Fortium Turris Fortitudinis Sapienta aedi ●cavit Prov. 9. after the Antient model of the Tower of David which to the East faced the Temple to the South the House of the Mighty from whence perhaps it was called the Tower of Valour to the North the Kings Palace and to the West the House of Wisdom The four Vertues that create a Hero are these Religion makes him an honest man Fidelity a man of Honour The Author happily meant the 4 Cardinal Vertues prudence fortitude patience temperance Prudence a man of understanding and Fortitude a man of courage He that was master of these four Vertues was the vir quadratus of the Antients The four Vertues that bear up the Vrn are Religion Ex quatuor literis hujus nominis Nescio qua ratione Turrim quadratam conficiunt Joad Quir. d'Sallazar in c. 18. Prov. Turris fortissima nomen domini ad ipsam currit justus exaltabitur Fidelity Valour and Wisdom Religion hath written upon her Breast the ineffable Name of God composed of four Hebrew letters which the Rabbins disposed into the form of a Tower which made the Wise man say that the Name of the Lord was a very strong Tower where a good man should find his refuge and whence he ought to take his rise and glory This Vertue with one hand bears up the Urn and in the other carries one of those kind of filver Towers which the Primitive Church used for Lamps of which for the most part the Sockets in which the Light was set were made like Dolphins This Tower and these Dolphins shew no less the Character of Marshal Turenne's Family than his own singular Piety since that of the Tower of Avergne is the same with that of the Tower of Pin branches of the third Race of the Antient Dolphins The Emblem of Fidelity is a Tower with Keys there is nothing shows more the fidelity of Governors then their care in defending the places committed to their trust The Symbole of Fortitude is a Tower furnished with all sorts of Arms for its defence Wisdom device is a Watch-Tower to discover a great way off whatever sails upon the Sea whose use is to shew Vessels the Harbour and how safely to get to it as well as Rocks and Shelves and how prudently to avoid them Upon the Shields that hung upon the Walls were painted the Royal Ensigns Armorial of France Navarre Arragon Castile England Portugal Sweden Denmark Poland Hungary Sicily Bohemia Cyprus and Scotland The Imperial Coat Armours of Nassaw Bavaria Saxony and Austria Also the Atchievements of Soveraign Families as of Savoy the Antient Dolphins Mantua Lorrain and Hesse to which the House of Tours of Avergne is Allied and from which by matches it descends The Representations are placed betwixt the four Gates of the Tower Equester ordo suscepit urbique intulit atque in vestibulo domus collocavit Suet. in August after the manner of former Ages in which it was usual to expose the Bodies of Princes and Illustrious persons at the Gates of their Pallaces Suetonius says that the Roman Knights carried the Body of Augustus and placed it at the Gate of his Pallace There were branches of Lawrel Extructosque Thoros obtentu frondis inumbrant XI Aencid Palm and Cypress about the Representation Virgil describing the Funeral of Pallas puts branches or bows of trees about the Herse The four Trophies that hung upon the four Palm-trees about the Tower did represent Marshal Turenne's Victories in Germany Italy Flanders and Catalonia which are the four frontiers of France The three Crowns that seem to grow upon those trees Dabo tibi Coronam vitae Apoc. 2. In reliquo reposita est mihi corona justitiae 2 Tim. 4. and to Crown the Trophies are the Crowns of our Birth Life and Death of which mention is so often made in the sacred History and they are applicable to Marshal Turenne more properly than to many others since he was born in greatness which is represented by the Crown of a Prince he lived in the midst of Combats and Victories which is shewn by the Crown of Lawrel and died in the bed of Honour which is signified by the Crown of Stars giving to understand that to be a true Hero it is requisite to be high born to perform great and glorious Actions and to dye with Honour as Marshal Turenne did The Palms were intermixt with Flower de Luces environed with rays to shew that Marshal Turenne made the splendor of his Birth Life and Death serve to augment the Glory of France Under these Trees stood Honour Reputation and Glory bewailing the fall of this great Man but Reputation and Glory were writing his Name and Character upon great shields or bucklers to render his Memory eternal under their feet these Monsters lay in Chains viz. Envy Rashness Precipitation Cowardice Self-Interest Impiety c. The Antients reckoned their years by branches of Palm because that Tree puts forth every month a new branch so that twelve branches of Palm signified a Year amongst the Egyptians and Jews it was enough to represent here the four ages of

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