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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89060	An elegie vpon the death of the right honorable, most noble, worthily-renowned, and truly valiant lord, Robert, Earle of Essex & Evve &c. His Excellency, late Lord Generall of all the forces raised by the Parliament of England in defence of the Protestant religion. Who departed the 14th. day of September, 1646. / William Mercer.	Mercer, William, 1605?-1676?	1646 (1646)	Wing M1738; Thomason 669.f.10[84]; ESTC R210635	1,590	2

AN ELEGIE Vpon the Death of the Right Honorable most Noble Worthily-Renowned and truly Valiant Lord ROBERT Earle of ESSEX EVVE c. His Excellency late Lord Generall of all the Forces raised by the Parliament of England in defence of the Protestant Religion Who departed the 14th day of September 1646. The first Elegie CEase great Surveyer of this glorious Ball To shine you twinkling Constellations all Stand in your Spheares as if you all were fixt And fram'd to make all human Mortals vext Restrain your light doe not one glimpse bestow Fot our delight sad mourners here below You were created in celestiall kinds To glad the mirthfull and solatious minds Who rapt as 't were and ravisht with your glories Might therein walk and shun disastrous stories But lo your comforts uselesse now we mourn You need not more your heavenly Tapers burn But be as we are all beclouded over With Sable Mantles and doe not discover Your Orbs a while but let us live alone Dark as the Night-Owles sadly to bemoane Our so much losse and having wept a time Give light again to let us know our crime Of gu●lt whereby we greatly did provoke Your high Creator thus to strike this stroke Against the State whose standing did consist As much in him as could in one be wisht Our admir'd ESSEX who still aimed at The height of Honour yet Immaculat But ah He 's chang'd then let us cast our eyes To doe their duties at his Obsequies Alasse what duties can our eyes perform Nothing but weep as 't were a Winter storm Of such continuance as with watry Flouds The Earth may swell and swallow up the Clouds Could those sad teares in sorrow we would weep And shed till such an inundation deep Did flow so far as till a new deluge Should threat our ruine yet we would not grudge Once to regain so great a good as this Pardon the passion of my partiall wish Whose worth the vertuous and the very bad Bemoan now lost because they living had A Patrone to their vertue and the worst Were wonne by his example thus both lost But now O! march you multitude of Mourners Seale up this Jewell wast all your waxen burners About his Tomb and take no Trophies hence This is the last and least due recompence Can be perform'd O! happy then that Ark Where lies inshrin'd such goodnesse in the dark Farewell brave Lord in vain our suits we sue Soul rest in peace To thee once more adieu The second Elegie by the same AUTHOUR REeader the reverend dutie which I owe To this great Haeros I would have thee know Moves me to write though some more learned hand Will try this task and in my room will stand To state the Case lest I Eclipse the light Of his great glory and impair that right Due to his worth yet let me adde one Verse Upon his Dolefull though adorned Hearse Whose Boundlesse vertues ornaments of Fame Befits the Gods to glosse on such a Theame Religious Patron Peerlesse Pious Peere Affections Load-stone lies inshryned here Highest in honor bounty zeale and love Whose rare Perfections in a Spheare above My rurall pen were plac't who did transcend Nature its limits in Courage had no end In all those parts and attributes of grace Could be confer'd from Heaven on Human Race Whose losse all Nations ought lament and mourn And powre out Seas of teares about his Vrn By nature Noble unblemisht and renownd Unparaleld for prudence most profound Religion Valour Fortune Faith and Wit All were combin'd Here was a patern fit A matchlesse mind magnanimous and just True Constant upright in his highest Trust Belov'd of all whole goodnesse did reflect Upon the best and had so strong effect By influence infused from above Upon the bad they could not chuse but love The gods convey'd by their supernall power All worth to him yet vanquisht in an houre He was by Fate though all the force which Mars Did make could not subdue him in the Wars His acts did adde unto his Nations honor His rare exploits did prosper so he won-her More stedfast faith more upright truth and peace As never can be canceld in no race Time shall expire and all in it shall rot But his brave Name shall never be forgot Whose so rais'd fame and excellencies shall Survive the world yea and its Worthies all In brief what Age might speak so proud a word So good a Man and yet so great a Lord William Mercer London Printed by I. C. 1646.