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An Elegie on the death of the Most Serene Majesty of Henrietta-Maria, Queen-Mother of Great Britain &c.
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1669
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Wing E398A; ESTC R34868
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AN ELEGIE On the Death of the Most Serene MAJESTY of HENRIETTA-MARIA THE Queen-Mother of Great Britain c. Licensed and Entred according to Order AS on the Martial-Plain We slightly view The Fate of common Souls but if a few Commanders or the Chieftain of the Field Be to the Fatal Stroak compell'd to yield Then what a Grief 's dispers'd through all the Camp The Army 's smitten with a general Damp. So What a Sable Cloud hangs o're the Day That tells Us Our Great QVEEN is snatcht away How Subjects are concern'd t' have understood Death dares attempt to touch at Royal Blood But what great Poet 's Genius can devise Upon Her Tombe a decent Sacrifice Whose Glories doe exceed a Mortal Pen As much as Gods do momentany Men. Let then Melpomene nay All the Nine Conceive so rare a Fancy so Divine As may compose a sad heroick-Heroick-Verse Worthy to wait upon Her Sacred Herse While the Coelestial Nymphs and Graces will A Tear upon Her holy Dust distill And great Apollo with his Heavenly Quire Her Threnodie will tune unto his Lyre That flattering Art which Poets use to save Declining Reputations in the Grave Is needless here Since no Hyperbole Can figure out how great Her Merits be And busie Chronicles can say no more Than what Her Fame hath told the World before When those poor Rebell-wretches Sinners who Are right like Those that know not what they do Proclaim'd her Traytor How did they proclaim In that Her Loyal and Her matchless Name Who for Her Soveraign-Husband did Her Life Expose as loyal Subject and as Wife Crossing the dangerous Seas that She might bring Treasure t' accommodate Her Lord the KING And when rude Cannons by a ruder Hand Pursu'd Her Majesty arriv'd at Land Then Her Spectators clearly understood Th' undaunted Courage of Her Mighty Blood So Penthisilea th' Amazonian Dame Before the Trojans won Immortal Fame No Hipsecratea or the Turtle Dove More Constant was in Hymenaean-love But on each Virtue to dilate is meet For Volumns not a Page or single Sheet Let it suffice Her CONSORT now and SHEE Are Crown'd together to Eternity LONDON Printed by and for Thomas Ratcliffe and Thomas Daniel and are to be sold at their House in New-street betwixt Shooe-lane and Fetter-lane 1669.