her absenâ— in England which she said would be for some time the States glaâ—â— to be so highly entrusted and wiâ—â— such a treasure promised the utmoâ—â— of their care and endeavour in thâ— said young Princes behalfe whoâ— they then owned as their Prince aâ— promised to him all fidelity aâ—â— as a testimony of their present affection to her their Princes motheâ— they bestowed on her several greâ—â— and Princely gifts together wiâ—â— an honourable splendid entertainment waiting upon her also to tâ—â— Sea side where in a solemne aâ— respectful manner they took the farwel of her while she imbarkâ— on shipboard and with a prosperoâ— gale of wind arrived at the Engliâ—â— shore where being landed on tâ— three and twentith day of September she was met and received by thâ— King of great Brittain and the Duke of Yorke and with a Royal traine aâ— tended to the Court at Whitehâ— where afterwards she remained being entertained with Royal feastings and pleasures according to the laudable custom of antient dayes and contrary to the Pâ—anatick humour of these times Where we may see some that do avoid pleasure out of a pretence of danger and dare not but abandon lawful delights for fear forsooth of sin these seeme like jgnorant metallists which cast away the pretious Ore because they cannot separate the gold from the dross or some simple Jew that condemes the pure streames of Iordan because they fall into the dead Sea why do not these men refuse to eat because meat hath made many gluttons how dare they cover themselves with clothes that know there is pride in raggs These hard tutors if not tyrants to themselves while they pretend a mortified strictness are injurious not only to their own liberty but to the liberty of their maker wherefore hath he given the Commodityes of the earth if not for use or why placed he man in Paradice not in a desert How can we more displease a liberall friend then to depart from his delicate feast wilfully hungry they are deceived that call this holiness It is the disease of a minde sullen distrustful and impotent There is nothing but evill which is not from heaven and he is none of Gods freind that rejects his gifts for his own abuse if God have mixed us a sweet cup let us drink it cheerfully commend the tast and be thankful rejoycing in it as his In this manner and no other were the festivous celebrations given to this Illustrious Princess the same still continuing until the Queen Mother was coming out of France as to receive the benefit of the long deteined Dowry so to give a visit to her son now settled for whose hoped restauration she had sent so many dayly Orasons to heaven whereof the King having notice on the twenty seventh of October went to meet â—her at her landing at Dover and from thence with a Princely equipage and royal attendance conducted her to whitehall after ninetten yeares absence thence with whome came the Illustrious Princess Heniretta her daughter and Prince Edward brother to the Prince Elector Palatine on the second day of November 1660. Long had not this contexture of happiness lasted before a sad sullen cloud began to cast a dimnes over all these joyes by the sudain falling sick of the Princess Royal of Orange into a like distemper with that which had so immaturely robbed us of her incomparable brother the Duke of Glocester whereof she had not lain sick many dayes but by the same hand using the same meanes of blood-letting she was translated into another world exchanging this life for a more certain and the transitory pleasures of earth for the never fading joyes of a more glorious Kingdome Her death was a new cause of sorrow to all faithful and Loyal hearâ—s which made them express their various sadness in several sorts according to the magnitude and excess of their greif among whom give me leave since the poore widowes mitâ— bringing what she could and all thaâ— she had was acceptable to add on teare to the general deluge of sorrow which covers the face of our English world in this ensuing Elegy An Elegy on the ever to be lamented death of the most Illustrious Princess Mary Princess of Orange and Sister to the King of great Brittain WHen Glocester dy'd such was my inward grief As made me speechless knowing that his life Was so profound a loss that weeping were A too too common tendant on his Beere That sorrow 's weak that deluges the eye 'T is grief indeed that turns to extasy But custome bates the greatness by degrees None counts that strange which every day he sees Though then my grief 's renew'd yet fashion will Break through and on this Herse lament its fill The Princess dead What dismal sound is that Which to my Soul such sadness doth relate Surely the fatal Sisters are agreed Alwaies to cut never to spin a thread Or if they will prolong they then devise To make Physitians as that spirit of lies Made Ahabs Prophets erring and deceived Whereby their words are not to be believed 〈◊〉 Christâ—as Or if they may yet every one may see Who walks thereby lives but in jeopardy Hence thence pretenders from whose outside shew We have receiv'd a second dealy blow Fatal as that of Treason is the ayr As the late times infected thus to dare Only at Royal Branches or is this Of latter plots the Metempsuchosis What will the Belgicke Lyon think when now He hears of this with corrugated browth Inwardly curse the more then luckeless time He spar'd his darling to our wretched clime Tell me ye fates did ye intend it thus To bring a Gem and only shew it us Why have you else so soon our blesses crost To let us know by seeing what we lost Bring her again I 'le search the dismal deep For her lost shade nothing shall hold or keep My zealous spirit from an hourly quest Until I find the place where she doth rest Then on my knees I 'le pray that she will tell The cause and meanes how she so early fell But ah it is to late shee 's gon and I May melt my self to teares disolve and dye See how Great Charles himself doth sadly shroude His Kingly splendor in a mourning cloud And how darke sable the whole Court benights Which else had gloried in festivous rites And all is but too little when we minde Our loss for which such sorrow 's left behinde Hence forward I to Heaven will daily bow That it will daigne with a serener brow To smile upon the Rest that years may blesse Their heads when hoary with fresh happiness Now though condoling greatens but our loss And sence thereof but addeth to the cross â—vid Act. lib. Yet we must greive and make each sarfetch't groan Niobe like turne us almost to stone Or with Ciane let our discontent Admit no comfort while we do lament Our Princess rape that every one that heares Our sorrow
A SHORT VIEW OF The Lives Of those Illustrious Princes HENRY DUKE OF GLOVCESTER AND Mary Princess of Orange DECEASED Late Brother and Sister to his Majesty the KING of Great Brittain Collected by T. M. Esq To whome the same will serve a Rule Pattern Ad exemplum totus componitur orbis Plus valent exempla quam praecepta LONDON Printed for a Society of Stationer 1661. TO THE Right Worshipfull SIR Robert Bolles Baronet AS Also to his most vertuous and worthy LADY BOokes have their fate as well as Cities and Kingdoms and want their Patrons as Rome did her Tutelar Gods And if he was such an one as Joseph was to Egypt they will be eternized if not for their owne merit yet by the continued freshnesse of his memory This hath been the motive which induced me to this attempt upon your goodnesse not any supposition in my selfe of knowing or being known to you and such I believe is your Candor that you will account the Authors being unacquainted rather his own than his Bookes unhappinesse and therefore hope you will own it though not for it selfe yet for the subjects sake on which it treateth which yeilds matter both of joy and sorrow to the whole Kingdome wherein there were many overjoyed hearts for such hopefull living Princes and more weeping eyes for their sudden and too immature death I shall say no more but recommend the work to your perusall wherein as I hope you shall receive satisfaction so in behalfe thereof I pray acceptance both to it and Yours to serve you T. M. Feb. 4. 1660. A short view of the lives of those illustrious Princes Henry Duke of Glocester and MARY Princesse of Orange IT hath been a rule commended unto us by antient and foregoing times Non tutum est in illos scribere qui possunt proscribere and the reason may be supposed for that the great ones of the World were for the most part so vitious that it made the old Poet cry out Difficile est satyram non scribere but such and so different is our present condition that we may venture to write since neither our greatest eulogyes can be stiled hyperbolicall nor our highest applauses flattery especially where the subject of the discourse are of the most noble strain as here issuing from the most royal Families of Europe to the greatnesse of which blood they have added a new and extraordinary luster by the most eminent virtues wherewith they were adorned for it may truly be said of our late deceased Princes as Vlisses boasted of himselfe Deus est in utroque Parente there is scarce any Family of the World so highly and nobly allyed for by birth they were the Son and Daughter of Charles the first and Henrietta Maria he by his Father sprang from the antient stock of Scottish Kings and by his Mother allyed to the Danish blood But she of the royal blood of France Daughter of Henry the fourth surnamed great and from him claiming a consanguinious relation both with the Germane Italian and Spanish Scepters From this royal stock I say issued the late illustrious Princesse Mary Princesse of Orange being born into this World on the fourth day of November in the year 1631. The sixth of her Fathers reign Lady Mary born and not long after with much state and solemnity baptized being committed to the ruition of a most honourable and religious Lady who was to take care of the tender infancy of the Princely babe In this unknown retirednesse must we let her passe her childhood although as then it was especially in charge to every hand about her that nothing tending to the disadvantage of the Protestant religion should approach her eares aâ— well knowing the certainty of that rule Quo semel est imbuta recens seruabit odorem Testa diu and so indeed it proved for the so early even with her milk imbibed the same reformed religion that neither the subtilty of temptation nor the power of malice could ever divert her or make her to deviate therefrom Nay so firmly was she fixed and grounded therein that when the Saternall love of her Father began now to cast his eye abroad to find a fitting match for this his Peerlesse Daughter she though the small number of her yeares did exact from her a submission to his will yet in a kind of womanly resolve did in a manner declare her dislike to a contrary religion humbly desired that her religion affection might not countercharge each other Hereupon after many ediligent guests at length the Prince of Orange is propounded and that for severall reasons first as being of the same religion secondly the next adjoyning neighbour by whose conjoyned supply of snipping the English would be the most formidable Masters of the Sea and thirdly because by that meanes both the Spanish and French were would be in their designes countermined hereupon and for divers other unknown reasons of state Suorum corda Britannum Cum socijs Belgis vindo propiore Liganda Treaty of marriage with Orange Firmandumque Vetus potiori pignore soedus A treaty is had about the same and it was concluded that William the onely Son and Heir of the most noble Prince of Orange should entermarry with the Lady Mary eldest Daughter to the King of Great Brittain according to which agreement the young Prince the 20th of February Prince of Orange came to London 1641. arrived at London waited on by a magnificent train of the chiefest Nobles of his own Countrey During this Intervall of time and while these affaires were thus in managing was born the Kings youngest Son entituled the Duke of Gloucester at Oatlands in the month of July 1640. and in September following was baptized and called Henry Duke of Glâ—cester born a Prince who from his birth bore the expresse Image of his Father and not onely as at first in his person but as after appeared in his vertues and for the more orderly proceeding towards his future education he was committed to the care of an honourable Lady Heâ—ven having showr'd down his blessings on the Kings hopefull and numerous Issue from whome nothing might be expected but the future happinesse of our now long continued peace behold on a sudden the Scots in a hot spur'd zeale or rather in a fanatick fury envying so much prosperity to the King and State begin to harbour dangerous thoughts yea and proceed to rebellious actions treacherously possessing themselves of Edenhorough Castle which was delivered to the Generall of the Covenanters without any shot or resistance made by the treacherous Governor What Bulworks SCOTS troubles Fortresses or other defensive fortifications can retain or keep the possession of a Kings right when eminent Trustees for hope fear or reward betray their charge and forfeit their fidelity Dunoritton Fort once reported invincible fell next into their hands being in the custody of a person of worth well fortified and weaponed but through
on good ground he would be divorced from them his temperance was great his diet sparing sleep moderate not to pamper nature but keep it in repair pleasures he rather did but tast or sip then greedily drink off and that sometimes more to content others then please himself Of a quicker apprehension Eloquent tongue and what was worthy of most repute he was very religious well skilled in several Languages and extraordinarily seen in divine Sciences To conclude his soul was enriched with many Vertues but the most Orient of all was his humility which took all mens love and affections without resistance and made his death the more lamented by which means we doubt not his Everlasting blisse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now rais'd to Heaven he from his body free A Death-lesse Saint no more shall mortall be I shall only give you a few of his observations which while he lived he was known to have made whereby his wisdome may be the better discerned for if ex pede Herculem as by the bigness of Hercules foot we may guesse at the vast dimensions of the other parts of his body so the judgement of mens abilities are to be learned by their sayings as a touch whereof I shall in the way of a Corollory add only these few of this most pious Prince as hereafter they sufficiently follow 1. It was an observation noted by him That Good Great men may secure themselves from guilt but not from Envy for the greatest in trust of publick Affairs are still shot at by the aspiring of those that think themselves lesse in imployment then they are in merit 2. That oftentimes it is seen that mens Consciences convincing them of another mans desert and merit they suspect opposition in them whereby their greatnesse may be Eclipsed and therefore strive by all means to put disgrace on his person and parts thereby to hinder his rising for whilst a man is out of imployment and finding that he cannot so publickly expresse his worth they still labour to keep him in obscurity to the end that themselves may appear more glorious 3. It was the practise of Constantine the Emperor when his Enemy Licimus began his Warrs with Exorcismes and Charmes he undertook all with prayer and holy Meditations and therefore the Lord of Heaven made him Lord of the Field and he found such comfort by prayer that he stamped upon his coin the image of himselfe praying to God The Duke inferred from thence this Conclusion How necessary this duty of prayer is for setling our affairs my soul I am sure is experimentally sensible if we settle our Affairs right with God he will settle our business with man is it not his own promise Ask and it shall be given to you 4. This also was a similitude used by him As a pot full of Water in the heat of Summer is troubled and polluted with many flies but if it be boyled upon the fire they neither would nor durst come neer it so saith he while our soules in prayer are cold and livelesse we are still perplexed and have no reliefe from our troubles whereas if our minds were inflamed with zeal all Vanities would be abandoned and our prayers so rectifyed that we should not offer the Sacrifice of Fools 5. That there is no better mark of a true generous spirit then to attempt things which are hard to be atchieved 'T is in vulgar and adulterate spirits that the soul of motion is wholy derived from the livelyhood of action Noble spirits court dangers Avida est periculi virtus Nec juvat ex facili lecta Corona jugo 6. He tooke great delight in that saying of Aristippus the Philosopher who was wont to affirm that it was better to be a Beggar then unlearned because the Beggars penury was onely want of Money but he that was unlearn'd was destitute of humanity 7. He was wont to Note that the Ladder of Jacob mentioned in Genesis is but a Figure of Christ which by his humane Nature touched Earth and by his Divinity Heaven therefore if we or our prayers passe by this Ladder we have the Father at the top of the Ladder ready to receive us and our prayers 8. He used to say That it is familiar with fortune to do more harm in one day then she doth good in many years using in delight to raise up vain Men for her glory and on a sudden suffering them to fall with the weight of their proper vanity and want of Government 9. When he had read the Story of Archelaus King of Macedonia who being requested by a Minion of his Court to give him a certain cup of Gold delivered it to his Page commanding him to beare and give it to one Euripides who was there present and then said to the other As for thee thou art worthy to aske and to be denied also but Euripides is worthy of gifts though he ask nothing Surely said the Duke this was an excellent reward for an insinuating Parasite and a rare pattern for other Princes who thereby may learn that a deserving Subject ought to be rewarded though his owne modesty withhold him from asking 10. He alwayes argued that Faith and Obedience are to be perswaded not wrought by compulsion our minds like unto generous and Noble horses being best ruled with an easie bit howbeit it is necessary not altogether to relye on words for two things do Establish a Kingdome viz. Force and Vertue which between them produce that sinew of Warre Money according to that saying of Themistocles going in Embassy to the Isle of Andros for Money he told them that he came accompanyed with two Goddesses viz. Perswasion and Force 11. He constantly affirmed that they are much mistaken in their ayme who think to make a man infamous by Death for there is no Life so odious that ending in publick with constancy and modesty changeth not hatred into pity pity into favor and leaveth not some favourable opinion of innocence behind it 12. Another observation was That a man should not derogate from himself there being two many ready enough for that office at least to believe him as one that best knows what he most wants and certainly he that doth censure himselfe hath no colour for an appeal nor person to appeale to unlesse it be from his Words to his Deeds which then must be very remarkable Howsoever he must acknowledge it to be great folly to have denyed that ability in himselfe which he desires to be much known for thereby he is become a distroyer of his own fame 13. And other times he noted That there is nothing more unjust then to Condemne those things which our selves do not or see not especially when whole Nations agree in it for when only time makes them please us it is apparent that in that they first displeased us it was not their fault but our ignorance And it is to be thought that all Countries have both
Manners and Habits agreeing to their Clime which the Genius of the Countrey will infuse into you if you stay long enough in it Terram alienam perigrinus exigit sunm interdum alienum facit 14. He said That the truest and securest precepts of policy are those which either are drawn from the prudent resolutions or unadvised errors of great Princes in the deliberations of their most important Affairs or from the study of policy all consisting in a severe and judicious censure of the Actions of the Great and the studious in Histories which have the gift to know how to examine them will draw out of them excellent Rules for the well governing of many people 15. He averred it to be an Observation as well knowne as true That in the Infancy of the Church men thought nothing too dear for God or too good to be imparted unto the Church but now said he we are arrived to such times wherein all are generally Church-robbers but the Sacrilegious person and the Simonist never yet did nor ever shall prosper to the third Generation they are the two profaners of holy things But God hath and will confound them in Jacob and scatter them in Israell Thus have I given you a short view of the life of this most Excellent Prince together with a short character both of his person and vertues and a demonstrative appearance of a most eminent wisdome all which notwithstanding we must conclude all we can say is too short So that we must say of him as Parrharius did when painting the Hoplitides he could neither make him that ran to sweat nor the other that put off his Armour to breath added No further then colours so when we searched the depth of Invenction and strained Rhetorick to her highest pitch of Eloquence to adapt words to set forth his Eulogies we must at last submit and confesse they all fall short of the reality that was in him and with Alexander at the Tomb of Achilles burst into tears and cry Haeccine Trophaea sunt Are there all the Trophies the world could erect to the memory of thy virtues mean thus it is confessed yet such as shall eternize his Fame as long as there shall be a Tongue to speak or an Ear to hear I must not in this place forget the late deceased Princesse of Orange whose Character I promised you and here snall briefly insert it Her Birth Breeding Education and Marriage you have before at large related Her person was of a curious make her Visage faire whereto was added a graceful bashfulnesse which gave a lustre to her beauty her every part being decked with some particular Ornament her mind richly Embellifyed with the rarest qualities and full of wit her speech pretious because not frequent her modesty without parallel and her behaviour serious without either pride or affectation in short she was such as we may rather admire then prayse according to desert and whose losse we may rather bewayle and lament then recover She was so well setled in the Principles of Religion that she remained as a Rock immoveable and as eminent for her courage therein as those who in former Ages did offer themselves to most grievous torments and to death it self for the love of the Truth immitating therein her late Royal Father of Glorious and ever Blessed Memory who parted with his Life rather then he would his Religion And indeed seldome shall we see such a Father without such Children or such Children without such a Father for the plant is known by the fruit and as is the Egge so is the Bird that hatcht it And as it is thus in vertue so likewise it is in vitious off-springs by which means in pollicy we may learne by the villanous and bloody carriage of such mens actions how to manage a just and lawful cause to bring Execution upon Rebels and Traytors that is to do nothing to the halfes but when the Sword of Justice is drawn to throw the Scabbard into the fire Tolle omnes saith Seneca nam profecto parentes libinque eorum qui interfecti Sen. De Cle. propinqui amici in locum singulorum succedunt his paenam si tuto poteris donabis sic minus Temperabis Her devotions were Frequent and Exemplary not so much out of custome performed as zeale and that not with a cold carelessnesse but reverentiall Humility approaching to her God as a dutifull Child to a tender Father whose bowels yern to give a sutable answer to the humble addresse of his bowing supplyant being not only to her selfe an inciter but to all about her a pious example In the choice of her friends she was very curious choosing the best and most Vertuous though not Allyed to her with them conversing and exercising vertue as the Philosopher speaks mdash 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And to the advise of such she yielded consent as being in her selfe sensible of those things that did concerne her honour or any way conduce to her advantage It is but a part of duty in case one know better then another to impart it for the common good and for others mildly to obey such things as shall be wisely represented Her patience was Admirable bearing the many crosses of her Life as the Murder of her Father and Exile of her Mother and all her neerest Relations with a true Christian and more then Womanly Courage These indeed and the like saith a Wise Man are very harsh and insupportable to life Hierocl but yet not really evil So long as they occasion us not to layse into wickednesse for if we can bear our Misfortunes moderately and with resolution as reflecting upon the Causes and Occasions of them remedying as much as in us lyes those accidents seeme hurtfull but making profitable use of them but especially to aim by a perfection of vertue to become worthy to participate of the Divine Happiness In short Such and so Eminent were her many Vertues that we my justly say of Her as Solomon of his Vertuous Woman Favor is Deceitfull and Beauty is Vaine but a Woman that Feareth the Lord she shall be praysed And many Daughters have done Vertuously but thou excellest them all In a word to summe up all As in things we have so in those we do each hath his proper tryal to prove the Excellency thereof in his kind Gold by the Test The Diamond by his hardnesse Pearle by his water so the best discoverers of the Minds of men are their Actions which in the Lives and Characters of these two Famous Dead Princes hath been endeavoured with as much Candor as can on any hands be expected Lastly It shall be my prayer to God to send Health and Peace into the Habitations of our Royall Soveraigne and that Heaven will be pleased to spare Him and His in Mercy to this Kingdome and Crown them with length of Dayes and Happinesse Seneca De Tranquilitate Non is solus reipublicae prodest qui tuetur
nos de pace belloque censet sed qui juventutem exhortatur qui in tanta bonorum praeceptorum inopia virtute instruit animos etsi nihil aliud certe in privato dublicum negotium agit FINIS AN ELEGIE On the Death of the most Illustrious PRINCE HENRY DVKE of GLOVCESTER SOme Princes lives such cold affections bred That we do scarce repent their being dead And such indifferent griefes attend their rights As they were not their Funerals but our sights Herse Scutchins darkness the pale tapers blaze All that invites our first or after gaze The Nobles Heraulds Mourners sable-clad These make a solemne pompe but not a sad But to your Obsequies deer Prince we come As they that would beg tenements in your tomb And by your genuine sorrows seek to prove Those Indians wise that die with those they love And no less penance can these Nations shrive Which make thee dead so long while yet alive And by as cruel method as unjust Bury thee first in Exile then in Dust Thy sufferings Inventary rose so high There scarce was other left thee but to die And this was that in all his rage and storme Though Cromwel wisht he trembled to perform When pawzing here after thy slaughter'd Sire He seem'd to fear this was to murder High'r And bathing his black soul i th' sacred flood He durst gorge Royal but not tender blood Where then shall innocence in safety sit When a disease it selfe doth Cromwell it If a distemper our complaints may bear And we may fix a reverent quarrel there Nere to be reconcil'd pursue we still Thy fate that did with more then slaughter kill The sharp disquiets of an aking brain A heart in sunder torne yet whole to pain Eyes darting forth dimme fires instead of sight At once made see and injur'd by the light Faint pulse and tongue to thirsty cinders dry'd When the relief of thirst must be denyd the bowels parcht limbs in tormenting throws To coole their heat while heat from cooling Slumbers which wandring phansies keep awake And sense not lead by objects but mistake Most feavers Limbecks though with these they burn â—hey leave the featur'd carcass to the urn But thine was born of that offensive race Arm'd to destroy she first strove to deface And then to close her cruel tragick part She slew against the augury of Art No adversary could worse spight display Since it is lesse to Kill then to betray 'T was savage beyond fate for others lie Dead of disease you of revovery All shipwracks horrid are but yet none more Then that which for its witness takes the shore Affronts plots scandals false friends cold Allys Exiles wants tempests battails rebels spies Restraints temptations strange aires in all these Was there no Feaver no malignine disease The Royal line England this brand must wear Suffer abroad but perish only here So to the Sun the Phoenix doth repaire Through each distemper'd Region of the Aire Through swarms of Deaths she there victorious flies But in her cruel Nest she burns and dies Had you resign'd your late afflicted breath When life it self lesse lovely was then death When the kind graves did but receive our care And the survivers only wretched were Our greedy interests might tempted be To cal thy vertues back but hardly thee But now when Vines drop Wine from every trunk To chear their owners not make rapine drunk Our goods find out our unfrequented hands And crimes make persons guilty and not lands When Widdowes houses are no more a meale And Churches spoiles are sacriledge not zeal When our beloved yet dread Soveraigne Head Is Crown and Guard to all but to the Dead What Niobe can waile our mournful fate Snatcht from the best of Kings happiest state The publick peace and your own large content In your just Brothers equal Government Had rais'd so rich an odour to your sense That growing time had tane you sated hence But to depart under four Months return To land in England to prevent your Urne Seems their disaster who a bliss might shape But loose their deer enjoyments by a Rape And now most wretched we who state our woe By thy afflictions and thy vertues too Thy Infancy our cruelty forbore Made thee an early Captive and no more Kisses that had from Princely parents fell From servile lips seem'd then supply'd as well Nor could thy suffrings then excite thy moane Since sufferings are no sufferings when unknown Thy childhood that their nobler cares protect Who strive to show but are forbid respect While rude ones seek by a misbred resort To rase out all thy lines of birth or Court. That tutor'd out of Prince you might be sent Into a common-people banishment But thrift reclames that project eyes the heap Of thy expence and bids thee perish cheap Posts thee ere least debasement could appear A Gemme to Forreign states a burden here So the rude wayes fraught with a costly piece Of rich but Sea neglected amber-greece Do rowling drive that fragant billow thence A perfume to the ravisht finders sence Abroad the wide improvement of thy parts Drew in so fast the dewes of tongues and arts That both in thy accomplishments were spent Arts were thy fortress Tongues thy ornament Learn'd latine graceful speech high of Spain The courtly French the clean Italian vain The uncouth Dutch these langages were known Indenizon'd as Natives with thy own Those arts where least advantages are found Ev'n those you did descry but would not sound Historians who record the life of Fame And register each good or vicious Name You from their sacred annals did resume Great past examples for your life to come Wise Navigators that disclose each creek And in the more known world the unknown seek In their discoveries you imbark your Oares Because the seas do most concern these shores By your severer choice selecting thus What was most useful not most Curious Amid'st your bright Imbellishments beside If truth or education were your guide Became a sifting Quaere a dispute That will Afflict the world but ne're confute Some to their climes beliefe their faith do owe Which is to be perswaded but not know You at fifteen this evidence did advance Religion was your Judgment not your chance Ere eighteen to Compagnes your courage view And Dunkirks fight so fam'd for York and you 'Bout one and twenty we arrived see Others at Age You at Eternity FINIS AN ELEGIE On the Death of the PRINCESSE of AURANGE SAd Heav'n of late has pail'd its smiling brow Wept much foreseeing this loss which hapen'd now The clouds so big with tears bewept the fate To come as well as that we suffer'd late Strong were heav'ns swelling sighs and forraign shores Heard it 's Tempestuous groans as well as ours When Nature suffers thus the wandring Age With expectation big waites the praesage And here it falls within this fatall Isle Adding fresh tears to those we shed e're while Hither great Aurange came great dangers past To see her Royal brother Crown'd at last To give him joy and in his joyes to share To lighten with her presence Crowned care But here she finds great Henry fled the stage Of sinfull Earth the wonder of our Age She stayes to see her Kingly brother fast To see Heav'n all new plots and dangers blast And fully now of Heav'ns care satisfy'd Took leave of him to see great Henry dy'd Such is her kindnesse such her constant love She goes to give him joy of 's Crown above VVhat raging Seas of dangers and what storms VVhat foaming billows of Tempestuous harmes The Royal issue has escap'd then ar ' The Fates more cruel in their Peace than War Come they but here to pay a debt to Fate Their lives in peace and rest to terminate Not to triumph for all their travels past And crown their paines with Olive boughs at last This late receiv'd as if content they yeild A willing conquest gain a greater field Content and all her wishes answer'd now This Princess hasts to Heav'n to pay her Vow FINIS