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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36056	Directions to fame, about an elegy on the late deceased Thomas Thynn, Esq. and an eulogy on other most famous English worthies / by an unknown author.	Unknown author.	1682 (1682)	Wing D1538; ESTC R11506	8,528	36

DIRECTIONS TO FAME ABOUT AN ELEGY On the Late Deceased Thomas Thynn Esq AND AN EULOGY On other most Famous English Worthies By an Vnknown Author It Fama per Orbem LONDON Printed by J. S. and are to be Sold by Richard Baldwin in the Old-Baily 1682. TO THE Lady OGLE The Supposed RELICT OF THE LATE DECEASED Thomas Thynn Esquire Madam To You these Verses I Address Addresses are the Mode if they express Abhorrence of a late Association How should I then exceed that part o' th' Nation Vnless I do abhor their curst designe Who the Great Thynn to Murder did combine I may the same Addressors Copy own The Reason why I trouble you unknown If they to shew their Loyalty and Love By late Addressing to the Pow'rs above Did not themselves too too officious prove Why should I think your goodness would refuse At least to pardon this my humble Muse For her Attempt the Great Thynn's Memory To Consecrate unto Eternity To whom could She with greater Right apply Her self then unto You who may be thought The Accidental Cause that Fam'd Thynn brought To his untimely Death Whom for your Friend She hopes you 'l own were it but for his end How Ill Enjoyment thus to be deny'd To have the shadow only of a Bride Hard Fate of Man That being a Slave to 's Word And scorning to be false to his accord Occasion thence should rise that to his Life The period puts The Angry Sisters Knife Could nought withhold from cutting of the thread Hard-hearted Destinys to Write Thynn dead Yet so it is Such the event may prove When they whose Age hath quasht all thoughts of Love Attempt by needless promises to bind Lovers from that to which they 're most enclind As if Engagements alter could the mind And Youthful Heats be by such Bonds confin'd We know that Love doth to it's Center tend Fruition is the longing Lovers end Would Old Age then this as Youth's Error mend Tho' you refus'd the Great Thynn in his Life For your Espous'd to own your self his Wife Yet now he 's dead you need no scruple make Were it but for the promis'd Joyntures sake Your Pardon Madam I again Implore To you I have one small Petition more Petitions to a Lady I do hope Will not by Tory be abhorr'd nor Pope When some great Hero shall you next time Wed Let joyful Hymen lead you both to Bed I doubt not but you 'l take this in good part Well follow'd it may please you to the heart Wives pleas'd by Night are likely so by Day And then no fear that they will run away Besides that danger is bred by delay Youth's Blooming hopes with Patience cannot stay Your hopes therefore too long do not defer So humbly Prays your poor Petitioner DIRECTIONS TO FAME c. THou Daughter of the Sphear thou Voice of Air See that to me thou hither strait repair Some few Directions I have Thee to give That English Worthies Names may ever live First Put thy Trumpet to thy Mouth and sound A shrill a loud a long Note all around From Heav'ns high Arch to Places under Ground That all the Nations of the World may hear Thy Trumpet 's Voice See that thy Sound be clear Now take a little Breath Well! So begin And loudly found the Name of the Great Thynn Prince Thynn Tom of Ten Thousands whose great Mind Not in one Town Hundred or Shire confin'd Sought his whole Country's Good both far and near A Patriot fam'd See that thou blow this clear Then breath a while Well! Now begin agen And sound forth Baseness of ungrateful Men How some him hated how some angry were Some him oppos'd nor could his Merit bear How his just Praises some abhorr'd to hear Because a Patriot true he did appear Take breath again Then blow how others just Were to his Worth and in him plac'd their Trust And lov'd admir'd ador'd this Patriot true Sound therefore forth his Praises 't is his due For thy next Task Great Monmouth's Glory take Which more than ten or twelve great Blasts may make Take therefore Breath then loudly trumpet forth This Martial Hero Monmouth's matchless Worth For Valour fam'd Abroad well known at Home Of Protestants belov'd and fear'd of Rome Sound forth his Glory gain'd in Forreign Wars A Souldier's Wounds are honourable Scars How he at Maestrich-Seige got great Renown And how he twice for Lewis won the Town Let the fam'd Battle of Mons his Valour sound Where Orange by his Aid of France got Ground Tell how the Name of Monmouth ran before To us being eccho'd from the Belgick-Shore Which at 's Arrival made us strait adore And ev'ry day admire him more and more So that for all the late Court-Reformation He still doth live the Darling of the Nation Then next resound his Progress in the West Where the Great Thynn for him kept constant Feast How Multitudes Hundreds and Thousands strong Men Women Children numberless did throng To see Great Monmouth as he pass'd along How Gentry Yeomen flock at his Renown To welcom him into each Country Town How Men admire the Women him approve And each Sex strive who should him shew most love From Avon's Bank to Middl'ton's River sound And let it back to Exeter rebound His Oxford-Journey eccho'd loud from Isis Along the curling Waves of proud Thamisis Relate and what great Joy did fill the Town Whil'st all spoke of our Monmouth's high Renown Monmouth Thynn those two great Names of Worth Together joyn'd a lovely Pair sound forth Next Shaftsbury may make more than a Blast Or two or ten his Wisdom Judgment vast His politick Head his thinking Mind his Care For King and Country all Theams noble are Which would require to shew thy Art most rare Canst thou desire a larger Field for Art Mine to Direct to Perfect is thy Part. Come Trumpetter shew us thy greatest Skill Breath and thy blubby Cheeks with fresh Air fill What 's Great mix not with mean I would have none To him a Pillar raise of Common Stone Birth Riches Honours Parts and Worldly State Are gifts to many Men dispens'd by Fate Give me the man Vsurpers fear and dread That him must court and use yet wish him dead Now now thy Skill thou Daughter of the Sphear Here 's one great Stone his Pillar for to rear From Towns 't is not uncommon to be sent Or Shires so many are to Parliament But Is the Man of Three Names also chose For Noll to ask What eminence this shows Noll was too wise to dread mean common Foes When late Vsurping Pow'rs were tumbling down How many then return'd to help the Crown Great Charles restore that he might all Command The common Act of almost the whole Land But where 's the few who own'd him in Exile When Cromwel's Iron Rod rul'd all the Isle Yet some there were and Thousands too perchance That Lov'd him tho' Exil'd he liv'd in France This many boast But where