An Elegie upon Dr. Tho. Fuller that most incomparable writer, who deceased August the 15th M.DC.LXI. / sic mœret James Heath.

An Elegie upon Dr. Tho. Fuller that most incomparable writer, who deceased August the 15th M.DC.LXI. / sic mœret James Heath.

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AN ELEGIE UPON DR THO. FULLER That most Incomparable Writer, Who Deceased August the 15th. M. DC. LXI.

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AN ELEGIE UPON DR THO. FULLER That most Incomparable Writer, Who Deceased August the 15th. M. DC. LXI.

ROom for a Saint, set open Heavens Gate,

Here comes the AUTHOR of the Holy State.

See with what Train and Troops he now ascends

Of Blest acquaintance, and Coelestial Friends!

Blest Ones, he comes to make your number more,

His Life did much, his Death improves your store;

Such modest merit crowds not for a seat,

Bliss covets to be FƲLLER and compleat.

A Cherubs wing hath soar'd him to this Hight,

And Heaven is now in stead of Pisgah Sight:

His Holy War but now is finished,

When the reward of Glory crowns his Head.

Each Tract (like Jacob's Ladder) still did rise,

Directed Souls, and fixt them in the Skies:

There are his Books transcribed and compriz'd

Within the Book of Life Epitomiz'd:

And if th' Herculean Labours found a place

Assign'd in Heaven by the Gods, then Grace

So well employ'd and exercised here

Will shine far brighter in its Glories sphere.

The kinder Parcae yet forbore the Thred

Of that Invincible; till Vice was dead,

And he had quell'd the Monsters, and supprest

All growing Ills, and set the World at rest:

But this our Hercules was snatcht from hence

I th' middle of his

An excellent Piece in folio now in the Press.

Work, while in defence

Of squalid Vertue through Injurious Age

Gainst monstrous Antiques he a War did wage;

Broke off its Adamantine bonds of Sleep,

The Dusty Marbles could their guests not keep:

Had rouz'd our World again, and Truth appears

Like Stoln Goods, by jarring of the years.

Prodigious Luxury of Cruel Death

To stifle Thousands through His loss of Breath!

Who shal redeem our

The Worthies general of England is the Title of the said Book.

WORTHIES from the grave

When he is gone who them alone could save?

Oft have we strain'd Caligula's wish, to make

Death odious for some great and good mans sake

But here how truly sad it fits our Turn

Where Fate is multiply'd in FƲLLER's Urn.

Take then the Triumphs of his Noble Pen

To tell the World the Learned'st are but Men;

And that the rescue of their worth from Time

Death in his Fate hath made acap'tal crime.

But know Illustrious Soul that we do see

Those higher Reasons which transported thee

From the black Art of Dark Antiquity

To th' Speculation of Eternity:

Let the Beatitudes there fill thy Mind

While we'r content with what thou leav'st behind;

And if forgetful be, or sparing Fame,

Thy ART of MEMORY shall preserve thy Name.

Sic moeret JAMES HEATH.

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LONDON, Printed M.DC.LXI.

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An Elegie upon Dr. Tho. Fuller that most incomparable writer, who deceased August the 15th M.DC.LXI. / sic mœret James Heath.

Heath, James, 1629-1664.

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1661

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A39175

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Wing E452

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ESTC R41956

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19731091

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ocm 19731091

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109392

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— An Elegie upon Dr. Tho. Fuller that most incomparable writer, who deceased August the 15th M.DC.LXI. / sic mœret James Heath., Heath, James, 1629-1664..

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