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A11714 An elegie vpon the most deplorable death of Prince Henry, eldest sonne to the king of Bohemia who vpon the 9th of Ianuary last passing to Harlem, most unfortunately perished / [by] R. Abbey. Abbey, R. 1629 (1629) STC 22.7; ESTC S3174 2,348 1

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AN ELEGIE Vpon the most deplorable death of Prince Henry Eldest sonne to the King of Bohemia Who vpon the 9 th of Ianuary last passing to Harlem most vnfortunately perished ETernall Teares Griefes that shall never end With murmures utter'd in lamenting verse Sad accents and such lines that forth may send Sounds such as Widdowes houle about the hearse Of their dead Husbands words whose force may bend Relentlesse hearts and flinty bowels pearce Come to my plaints bring Characters of woe That endlesse griefe unvalued losse may show Me thinkes my hand as with a Fever shakes Which when I to the trembling leafe apply More ghastly white then earst for griefe it quakes And seemes with us to have a Sympathie But willingly this mournfull dye it takes Badge of our passions sorrowes liverie Which as it drops from my unstedfast penne Seemes to lament the generall losse of men In this young Prince most likely to revive The glorious Triumphs of his an●●strie This floure of youth in whom did Nature strive With Education for the victorie Each seeming Conqueresse so they both did thrive And grew so soone to such an excellencie Whom angry Fortune scarcely taught to feare Nor hopes vaine breath aloft could ever beare Drench't in the Sea lest the enamourd Earth Love-burnt might chance to prove Trinacrias losse And from her burning Entrals send a breath Like that which comes from Aetnas sulph'ry fosse Or lest a floure should from his Vrne have birth That might have power the power of Fate to crosse And like th' immortall Nectar of the skye Enfranchize men to immortalitie Batavia rather should thy shores downe fall And the fierce waues their ancient Lordship fill Rather should time backe summon and recall The bloody Actors in thy former ill Rather in former seates should Fate install Proud Austria D'Alva Parma Longeville In this revenge backe to reduce a flood And make where once was Sea a Sea of blood What profits it though Nereus did resigne Some of his Kingdome to the Continent When he his generall forces did combine And froth-immantled all in rage he went Against that straight which Albion did confine Which with his boystrous fury downe he rent And broke that Isthmus that did joyne before Our chalkie cliffes vnto the Belgicke shore If like a cruell Lord he doth demand Such chiefe such duties for the unnaturall soile And doth exact a due for barren sand Of greater worth then was the richest spoile His waues could ever gaine or the bright strand Of the faire East sought with so dangerous toyle Did ever vie against the Sun or gold Pactolus streames or Tagus sands enfold Rather should brav'd Iberia keepe the Ore Brought from the ransackt Indias wealthy ground Better our ioyes were disanull'd before Report did ever such a prize resound Rather should Holland backe againe restore The riches in that conquerd fleet she found Then that it more should hurt when it was gain'd Then had it in our enemies hand remain'd Thus by our gaine we lost our joy 's our woe So th' angry heavens our hopes still countermand Our Conquest proves our fatall overthrow The Nerves of warre bring weaknesse to our Land Thus while we most do rise most downe we goe Ever residing on the tottering sand Of expectation which each blast doth crosse And every gale can turne to greater losse High Providence could humane wit but sound The deepe abyssus of thy mysteries How soon should we on Heav'n our Comfort ground Not on conjectures possibilities Which then most vaine when trusted most are found But broken reedes are all our policies The Heauen 's will have our hearts and take away Those things the soonst that cause them most to stray Thus both our Henries soone away did goe Showne to the earth not suffered to remaine Now in the Heaven more bright then ere did show Proud Cyllarus riders o're the liquid plaine Of the vast Oceans Empire Fa●es bestow On them by turnes to shine upon the maine Ours both together glister joyntly live To Heaven and Earth their light at once they give Did Silver footed Thetis cause thee dye In thee the Pelian stemme to contemplate Or Pallas wearie of Virginitie T' enjoy thy love compact with envious Fate To bring thee up above the golden skie She worth thy love thou worthy such a mate And leade thee up sith all the world denide A match for her like thee thee such a bride Or did those Heroes that in Paradice Enjoy those sweets th'inamel'd plaines doe yeeld Or masking in their Robes of greatest prize In gentle rankes passe o're the flowry field Where every Vale each mount each fall each rise With thousand kinds of rarities is fild Where noiselesse floods doe branch the youthfull mead Birds sweetly dumbe aeternall silence lead As hence secure of Fate they cast their eyes Their eyes all seeing passing all they see In this sweete Prince they view those qualities That brought their soules to such felicitie When envying us they with the Fates devise To bring him worthy of their company Which as they found him took him straight away Their strong desires admitting no delay Arion thou hadst power to charme with string A fish to beare thee safe vnto the shore Could not thy plaints sweet Prince have power to bring Something amidst the waues to passe thee o're Whose voyce was better Musicke Did what bore So sweet a burden feare abandoning And with the traytrous winds and ayre agree To keepe thee still to deale so cruelly Enjoy sweet Spirit thine aeternall rest Our losse not thine is cause of this our woe Above the golden spheares live ever blest Possesse the Crowne the Heavens on thee bestow In stead of earthly diadem possest By glorious Saints so maist thou euer show Thy light not set a fained Starre in skie But plac't a Saint in greater dignitie This most hopeful young Prince passing with his Father and some few Attendants to Harlem to viewe the Plate-fleete lately surprised by the Hollander being in a small Passage-boat was ouer-set with a ship of greater burden from Amsterdam His Father with two or three Followers were saued by entring ropes cast out of the greater ship which ta kt instantly about for their reliefe The Prince himselfe labouring to saue his life attained some height vpon the mast of the small vessel that was sunke where calling for succour none comming to his aide he was for some space heard crying from which part of the ship the next morning they took him starued and frozen to death whose corpes his Father brought to the Court the day following being for the circumstance of his death as well as for his hopefull parts infinitely lamented FINIS R. ABBEY LONDON Printed for Richard Roystore 1629.