Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	book_n	pay_v	rate_n	983	5	9.9083	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03221	A elegy on the death of the right honourable Heneage Lord Finch, Baron of Daventry, High Chancellour of England, Earl of Nottingham; and one of the lords of the most honourable privy-council; who departed this life, Decemb. 18. 1682.		1682 (1682)	Wing E403; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.3[49]	1,134	1

AN ELEGY On the Death of the Right Honourable HENEAGE LORD FINCH Baron of Daventry High Chancellour of England Earl of Nottingham And One of the Lords of the most Honourable Privy-Council Who Departed this Life Decemb. 18. 1682. 20. Dec. 1682. GReat FINCH is Dead Oh! tell it not aloud Lest cruel Death insult and grow too proud Fraught with so rich a Spoil whose Worth alone Was more than Thousand common Victims own And by our Loss alas too dearly known Let Sorrow stalk in silence and become The greatness of our Grief by being Dumb Let all our Eyes release their flowing springs While some sad Bird his Mournful Ditty sings Justice her self in sables will appear As for a Son the Darling of her Care She Weeps and Mourns and sighing sorely stands Unmov'd dejected and with folded Hands Where shall be found a Man so good so great So Noble and so every way compleat When young untainted with the vice of Youth A Soul made up of Innocence and Truth Vice he abhorr'd but Virtue was his Life By which he evermore maintain'd the strife With wickedness and sin nor would submit To be ungodly to be thought a Wit But sollid Wisdom was his only Rule All else is but pretence to guild a Fool Sage Care and prudence in his Face were seen Sweet though Majestick was his port and meen His Tongue drop'd Manna sweetly did he speak Nor was his Copious Fancy long to seek Judgement and Eloquence together joyn And with a perfect Harmony combine To make his sense and Language both Divine As in some great and Regular Design But never must we hope to reach thy praise He that dares highest will deserve the Bays Nothing thy Merit ever can express We hope but pardon since we do confess Our Faults acknowledgement will make them less Thou liv'st above the power of Time and Death Which though it has depriv'd thee of thy Breath Thy Lasting Name to ages shall endure Than Rocks of Adamant more firm and sure Thy Universal Goodness shall be told Throughout the World thy Glories be enroll'd In the great Book of Fame where thou shalt stand An Instance high of Vertues large command To God thy Duty thou didst early pay Presenting him the first Fruits of the Day And over all thy great Concerns didst pray The Pillar of the Church as well as State Thou bought'st thy Honours at no easie Rate But still wast caring for the Nations Peace That Arts might grow and Piety encrease Thy Countries Glory was thy latest wish Most Loyal to thy Pr●nce whom thou d●dst know Was plac'd as Gods Vicegerent here below And therefore didst oppose all lawless Rage That threat'ned so to over flow the Age But thou the Chancellour with prudent Law Didst keep the Factious Multitude in awe Thou every part of Life didst act with skill And each Relation prudently fullfil And when thy Work was finish'd quite and done The all-wise God thought fit to call thee Home The Epitaph HEre lies the sacred Dust Of FINCH as Great as Just The Glory of His age Who having left the Stage Of Mortal Life by Death Has gain'd a better Breath FINIS Printed for J. Deacon at the Rainbow near St. Andrews-Church in Holbourn 1682.