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Rapsōdiōn eutaxia, or, Select poems being a compendious and methodical remonstrance of such passages in England, as have been most remarkable, as well before as since His Glorious Majesties most happy and joyfull restauration / by J.P. Cantabr.
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J. P., Cantabr.
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1661
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Wing P66; ESTC R5323
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assist and help to rouz My drowsy faculties and randivouz My frozen fancy and disbanded spirits Because he 's dead whose vast unfathom'd merits Invite thy help to shew them to the world That they may be recorded and enrold In everlasting registers for he Did nere deserve a blot of Infamy Wo mixt vvith tears vvould move an Adamant Burden our souls vvhich as in travail pant My mind 's blockt up vvith grief I can't restrain My soul from sorrovv nor my heart from pain For vve vvere guided by that sparkling Starre As Cynosures direct each Mariner But ridged fate depriv'd us of those rayes But yet we still can whisper out his praise He vvas a model'd patern so divine That all might square their actions to his line His heart bedeckt vvith flourishes of Grace And beauties picture limned in his face Nurst vvith the milk of sacred Eloquence In 's brain lay treasur'd vvit the quintessence Of heav'nly gifts vvas center'd in that Gem Whose vertues claim'd a costly Diadem My tongue must needs interpret all my fears Mine eyes are limbicks to extract my tears Since pale fac'd Death surpriz'd and snatch away A Jewell deckt with wise Apollo's ray Judgements Grand Atlas and support but sure That famous structure cannot long endure Whose chiefest Pillar 's fall'n how soon are we Almost astonisht and amaz'd to see The hungry Earth swallow up the best of Men All things that smil'd begin to mourn agen The busy'd fovvls began to build their nests But now they shrovvd their heads within their breasts Each lesser bird recalls her pleasing note And bids it harbour in her silent throat Under each branch they rest and there they grieve Lament and seem to wish they could relieve Englands necessity and want of him Whose death brought sorrow and made each eye dim Drowned in tears what soul would it not pierce To view a ruin'd Land a Universe Clouded with folly Reason being dead Our blest estate is metamorphosed Youogest die first Nature and reason jarre Hysteron proteron seems irregular Nay all things chang their wonted course the woods Cast of their florid vestures and the floods Do sometimes rage and then stand still to view How Phoebus is eclips'd the earth would shew It self unwilling t' interr him whose breath Was stopt i'th'morning of his age by death How pale the Mountains look how fierce and grim The craggy rocks appear me thinks they seem To burst into a sweat Had I my will I 'de dye with grief like Niobe and fill Thy tombe with tears or had I Argus eyes Each one should help to weep thine obsequies Thus men shall say and give thee but thy due Here lyes great Caesar and Mecenas too Though Nature strives to make me cast an oare Into my boat and lanch out from the shoar Into a Sea of tears yet Reason sayes Th' unruly waves shall cease the fates shall raise No more shipwracking stormes but shall conspire To make that brinish raging Sea retyre Wee 'll not be still in Sorrow's bounds confin'd Though some were martyr'd some the earth inshrin'd Yet most choice souls still uphold the name Renown'd and Crown'd with sempeternal fame Britains bright splendor shall not melt away After a shower comes a clearer day Retreats sometimes Death-like a trumpet sounds And is most tragical with blood and wounds But he whom we lament did live in peace And so he dy'd whose bliss may never cease For he that sent him will to him apply A Crown of Glory to Eternity Shall we say Stay vvhen Heaven bids him come Or shall we murmur if Heav'n calls him home Oh no! forbear for he 's not dead but gone T' inhabit life and true perfection Here upon earth each ecchoing Bell doth toul And sounds a farevvell to his pious soul In heav'n Cherubims vvith svveet Anthems cry Welcome Choice soul wee 'll sing thy Lullaby Shall vve be griev'd or sorrovvfull at this Because he 's crovvn'd vvith everlasting bliss And freed from this perverse vvorlds slavish fears From anguish sorrovv and distracting cares Shall vve dispaire can't Providence afford Blessings more choice by speaking half a word No fears shall therefore my firm hope destroy Neither anticipate my future joy Blame me not Reader if I rather chuse To close this Poem with a chearful Muse AN EPITAPH Upon the most Illustrious Prince HENRY Duke of GLOCESTER WIthin this Monumental fabrick lies A pearl whose rayes did dazle each mans eyes Whose vigorous Lustre did extract and draw The subtill Vapours from our heads and thaw Each Frozen brain whose Icie drops did turn To tears to fill each Vacuum of this Urne In him was Virtues microcosme heapt In him Austrea Courts of Justice kept ' Cause his unparallel'd endowments were Perfum'd with Heav'nly odours and too rare Too great too good to beautifie this Nation Therefore did he remove from 's Earthly Station To dwell ' mongst Cherubims that Glorious Train For he that sent him call'd him back again Palma repressa resurgit AN ELEGY Upon the Death of that most Renowned and Virtuous Lady MARY Princesse of AURANGE OUR flashy sparks of joy are quencht with tears My soul embarkt with grief like Atlas bears A Firmament of sorrow wee 'll no more Anchor our leaking Vessels near the shore But rush into the gulf and there shall lye The Muses flames of Ingenuity Striving with boyst'rous waves yet if Heav'n please To fuel them with Faith which may appease All wrath and make us unto bliss arrive Then shall triumphant joy once more revive But since my tears are broacht I can't refrain From sighs 't is hard to bridle and restrain The course of Nature Is the Phoenix gone From our Arabia leaving us alone Like Pelicans in deserts she 's inshrin'd But leaves her fragrant spices still behind There was in her a pearly Cabinet A costly Treasury in order set With pure refined sweets enricht with gems And garnisht with enamel'd Diadems I mean her sacred gifts transcendent merits Who now eternal joy and bliss inherits Wee 'll keep the records of her memory And own all virtue as her Progeny Me thinks I hear the thundring Heavens groan The whisp'ring air doth breath sighs and bemone The worlds lamented losse methinks I hear Each groan with ecchoes doubled in mine ear A Cloudy darknesse over shades our Globe The skie divested of each Starry Robe Each spangled dazling Lamp in black appears Heav'n seems to mourn and showres down its tears The more I weep those tears which I effuse Water the Garden of my dolefull Muse And all my dry'd up faculties do nourish 'T is known all water'd Plants will spread and flourish Therefore I Journey further and my Quill Though weary makes a further progresse still I can't detract my thoughts I must retain A true Idea of her in my brain Whose dust shall be dissected into pure Nay golden Atomes who ' mongst men can cure Great Britains wounds or bring a remedy To a diseased Widdow'd Monarchy VVhose feeble head