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A39124 An Elegy on the death of the Lord Chief Justice Hales who died December 26, 1676. 1677 (1677) Wing E396A; ESTC R36107 732 2

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AN ELEGY On the DEATH of The Lord Chief Justice HALES Who died December 26. 1676. BRing your Oblations Poet-laureat Wits Here is a Subject your best Art befits From me a meaner Offering must suffice Who have no Brain for such a Sacrifice But what needs an Encomium Silly Verse Does but debase this honourable Herse Is the blest Saint ascended up to rest His holy Life and his Love-labours ceast Good devout Simeon Such was his Decease Clasps his Redeemer and departs in peace What Heart droops not at his departing hence 'T is as the Sun set his set influence Like that great Light rejoycing in his Sphere He ran his Circuit profiting every where With an impartial hand turn'd Justice Scale The poor mans Patron helpt where fees did fail A ruling great Example of the Gown True to himself his Countrey and the Crown In all times fixt so well he kept his ground He seem'd the Ax on w ch the wheel went round High above Praise his own works well exprest And better prove He knew most and did best Hence petty grief Death here wounds a whole nation It calls for more than common lamentation Church and State put on black Mourn Friends mourn all The Loss is vast and Epidemical This worthy Pillar being faln to ground Where is another Atlas to be found Where such a Healer where so right an Eye Sage to discern and faithful to apply You of the long Robe in each Inns-a-Court To Coke's great name add Hales his good report May it prove sem'nal of your Excellence In propagating Law and Conscience A thousand Phoenix if it may be rise Out of his Ashes good like him and wise To build up Justice Wrongs and Vice asswage And reinforce the beggar'd bankrupt Age In whom surviving it may yet be said The Oracle of Law still lives though dead The EPITAPH INgenious Reader stay and drop a tear Englands great Darling and Defence lies here Weep widow'd Nation weep till streams do fall Like a kind Bride His Love was Conjugal Licensed Jan. 5. 1677. Ro. L'Estrange Printed for the AUTHOR MDCLXXVII