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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53293	Remains of Mr. John Oldham in verse and prose	Oldham, John, 1653-1683.	1687 (1687)	Wing O241; ESTC R32250	39,596	144

Thou scorn'dst the Map should thy Affection guide Like theirs who love by dull Geography Friends but to whom by Soil they are ally'd Thine reach'd to all beside To every Member of the World 's great Family Heav'ns Kindness only claims a Name more general Which we the nobler call Because 't is common and vouchsaf'd to all X. Such thy Ambition of obliging was Thou seem'dst corrupted with the very Power to please Only to let thee gratifie At once did bribe and pay thy Courtesie Thy Kindness by Acceptance might be bought It for no other Wages sought But would its own be thought No Suiters went unsatisfy'd away But left thee more unsatisfy'd than they Brave Titus thou mightst here thy true Portraicture find And view thy Rival in a private mind Thou heretofore deserv'dst such Praise When Acts of Goodness did compute thy days Measur'd not by the Sun 's but thine own kinder Rays Thou thought'st each hour out of Life's Journal lost Which could not some fresh Favor boast And reckon'dst Bounties thy best Clepsydras XI Some Fools who the great Art of giving want Deflower their Largess with too slow a Grant Where the deluded Suitor dearly buys What hardly can defray The Expence of Importunities Or the Suspense of torturing Delay Here was no need of tedious Pray'rs to sue Or thy too backward Kindness woo It moved with no formal State Like theirs whose Pomp does for intreaty wait But met the swift'st Desires half way And Wishes did well-nigh anticipate And then as modestly withdrew Nor for its due Reward of Thanks would stay XII Yet might this Goodness to the happy most accrue Somewhat was to the miserable due Which they might justly challenge too Whate'er Mishap did a known Heart oppress The same did thine as wretched make Like yielding Wax thine did th' Impressions take And paint its Sadness in as lively Dress Thou could'st afflictions from another Breast translate And forein Grief impropriate Oft-times our Sorrows thine so much have grown They scarce were more our own Who seem'd exempt thou suffer'dst all alone XIII Our small'st Misfortunes scarce could reach thy Ear But made thee give in Alms a Tear And when our Hearts breath'd their regret in sighs As a just Tribute to their Miseries Thine with their mournful Airs did symbolize Like Throngs of Sighs did for its Fibres crowd And told thy Grief from our each Grief aloud Such is the secret Sympathy We may betwixt two neighb'ring Lutes descry If either by unskilful hand too rudely bent Its soft Complaint in pensive murmurs vent As if it did that Injury resent Untoucht the other strait returns the Moan And gives an Eccho to each Groan From its sweet Bowels a sad Note 's convey'd Like those which to condole are made As if its Bowels too a kind Compassion had XIV Nor was thy goodness bounded with so small extent Or in such narrow Limits pent Let Female Frailty in fond Tears distill Who think that Moisture which they spill Can yield Relief Or shrink the Current of anothers Grief Who hope that Breath which they in sighs convey Should blow Calamities away Thine did a manlier Form express And scorn'd to whine at an Unhappiness Thou thought'st it still the noblest Pity to redress So friendly Angels their Relief bestow On the unfortunate below For whom those purer minds no Passion know Such Nature in that generous Plant is found Whose every Breach does with a Salve abound And wounds it self to cure another's Wound In pity to Mankind it sheds its Juice Glad with expence of Blood to serve their Use First with kind Tears our Maladies bewails And after heals And makes those very Tears the remedy produce XV. Nor didst thou to thy Foes less generous appear If there were any durst that Title wear They could not offer Wrongs so fast But what were pardon'd with like haste And by thy acts of Amnesty defac't Had he who wish'd the Art how to forget Discover'd its new Worth in thee He had a double Value on it set And justly scorn'd th' ignobler Art of Memory No Wrongs could thy great Soul to Grief expose 'T was plac'd as much out of the reach of those As of material Blows No Injuries could thee provoke Thy Softness always dampt the stroke As Flints on Feather-beds are easiest broke Affronts could ne'er thy cool Complexion heat Or chafe thy temper from its setled State But still thou stoodst unshockt by all As if thou hadst unlearnt the Power to hate Or like the Dove wert born without a Gall. XVI Vain Stoicks who disclaim all Human Sense And own no Passions to resent Offence May pass it by with unconcern'd Neglect And Virtue on those Principles erect Where 't is not a Perfection but Defect Let these themselves in a dull Patience please Which their own Statues may possess And they themselves when Carcasses Thou only couldst to that high pitch arrive To court Abuses that thou mightst forgive Wrongs thus in thy Esteem seem'd Courtesie And thou the first was e'er oblig'd by Injury XVII Nor may we think these God-like Qualities Could stand in need of Votaries Which heretofore had challeng'd Sacrifice Each Assignation each Converse Gain'd thee some new Idolaters Thy sweet Obligingness could supple Hate And out of it its Contrary create It s powerful Influence made Quarrels cease And Fewds dissolv'd into a calmer Peace Envy resign'd her Force and vanquish'd Spite Became thy speedy Proselyte Malice could cherish Enmity no more And those which were thy Foes before Now wish'd they might adore Caesar may tell of Nations took And Troops by Force subjected to his Yoke We read as great a Conquerer in thee Who couldst by milder ways all Hearts subdue The nobler Conquest of the two Thus thou whole Legions mad'st thy Captives be And like him too couldst look and speak thy Victory XVIII Hence may we Calculate the Tenderness Thou didst Express To all whom thou didst with thy Friendship bless To think of Passion by new Mothers bore To the young Offspring of their Womb Or that of Lovers to what they Adore Ere Duty it become We should too mean Ideas frame Of that which thine might justly claim And injure it by a degrading Name Conceive the tender Care Of guardian Angels to their Charge assign'd Or think how dear To Heaven Expiring Martyrs are These are the Emblems of thy mind The only Types to shew how thou wast kind XIX On whomsoe'er thou didst confer this Tye 'T was lasting as Eternity And firm as the unbroken Chain of Destiny Embraces would faint shadows of your Union show Unless you could together grow That Union which is from Alliance bred Does not so fastly wed Tho it with Blood be cemented That Link wherewith the Soul and Body 's joyn'd Which twists the double Nature in Mankind Only so close can bind That holy Fire which Romans to their Vesta paid Which they immortal as the Goddess made Thy noble Flames most fitly parallel For thine were just