For her Highness the most Illustrious incompara­bly virtuous and r [...]ligious Lady ELIZABETH Princess DOWAGER. Given by a Loyall true old friend, and most affectionately devoted ser­vant.

A Funerall Oration; or in a Truth, a most just plain wrought Panegyrick of the most mighty Lord Oliver Cromwell PROTECTOR of England, &c From the love of the most Illustrious Lord Thomas de la More, Knight of the Banner, and Garter Royall. And of Great Brittany, France, and Ireland, &c. the most unconquered and thrice adorned Standard Bearer.

A Most sad also, Elegiack Posie, upon the not mortall, never to bee forgot­ten, not to be repaired, Agast Death: Or upon the Funerall universally dropping Tears, not unlike to the last gaspe Ejulations of that unfortunate Edward the second, a Prince how so­ever conversant in Warrs, when hee was a dying. By the Counsels, and Tyrannicall Tarquinate­ship, of that diabolically elated spouse of his, Queen Isabella; And of that innocent white fox, Adam of Or [...]on, Bishop of Hereford; And of that very wicked knave Gorney; And of that most opprobioufly notorious Traytor, the ignoble fel­low Maltravers; when hee was with a burning hot Iron [Page 2] thrust through the Fundament; and unregally murdered, at Barkley Castle in Glocestershire (but true is that▪ whosoever is slain overcome his tormentor) very like also to that hor­rid and Ca [...]u [...] Caligula's perterrefying Thunder and Light­ning. And most like unto those bitter tears, and loud cryes with sobbings of Hadradrimmon in the Valley of Hynnom. This our English, Scotish, Irish, is no ill tuned Epicede, of a most just, most unconquered, most holy▪ thrice most Noble, equally well learned; And of all the Arts, Languages, and of the faculty, and profession, and the Kingly Theology, thrice most of all expert, and of a most August Monarch; and most illustrously Heroick Caesar. A Prince magnani­mous in virtues, and in the imbroydered goods of the mind most richly set in gold of a most dread PROTECTOR, And most lovingly loving with the most beloved of great Brit­tany, Ireland, Flanders. And Emperor of the Isle of Wight, Jarnsey, Gransey, Lunday, Man, &c. As also of Jamaica, the most potent Lord and King, OLIVER CROMWELL, whose divine spirit the third day of September 1658. At his Royall Pallace White Hall in Westminster City of the English Nation: Departing this life without spot and blameless, most gloriously innocent, and purely chast, he returned to eternal salvation, his God Almighty, our heavenly Father; who with Jesus Christ our Lord, the only begotten Son of God the Father, and with the Holy Ghost is blessed for ever. Amen

Brute, Priame, Alexander;
Turnus King Evander:
Arthur Prince Aeneas;
Stout Hector Achilles:
Constantine; Boar, Crookback
Richard that kill-King hack:
Charles, Caesar, Augustus
Great Gustave Adolphus:
King William Bastard
Conqueror no dastard
Windsor Edward longshank,
Valiant Woodstock the Frank,
Black Prince, bold Harry fift;
The eight (six Queens did shift:
Coin'd new wifes). Are all dead
Cromwell to heaven's fled.
Warlike, renowned Hero;
Great divine Apollo.
Holy, well learned chast;
Above the Starrs is plac'd,
Shines brighter than those Lamps
More safe than in his Camp,
Oliver man of God,
And great Brittany's rod:
[Page 3]Staffe, comfort, yesterday:
Prince Richard now our Joy
Of men the pure off-spring,
First Olivarian King,
Great Cromwell's dearest son
Englands hope and freedom,
Times O manners! and then
The love of Englishmen,
No faith i'th world: piety
Virtue praise what unity?
Thou art alone our Lord:
Protect us with thy Sword:
Thou art to me thrice dear,
Fourth Richard do not fear.
Rule branch of Oliver,
Lay the Robe to th Quiver,
Joyn Arms Gown together:
Live great King for ever.

So be it, Amen.

Written upon Munday September 20, 1658. about Twelve at noon. At our Country Museole; or Stu­dy by the Groves; being in times past a Mansion place, of Pagan de Moubray a noble man in the Raign of Henry the third, King of England, in Oxenfordshire of the Forrest of Whichwode: At this day de la More's incurious provinciall Court,
Farewell.
In August mostly these days of Mourning, a disconsolate consanguine sad true friend unto his late Highness heretofore the hope, the Protector of the English good men; O thrice, and four times blessed most Religious Lord Oliver the great to be buried: And thrice piously devoted subject, most of all Thomas of More chief Standard Bearer of great Brittany, &c.
Faithfully Translated after the Original Latine Copies by the diligence and leisure of the Author himself, subscribing to the same, Thomas More.
At my Study in Drury Lane, Novemb. the 22, 1658.

Elegiak perselect Poems: or Funerall Trophies upon his late Highness Oliver Lord PROTECTOR, of England, Scot­land, and Ireland, &c. Translated the third of September, 1658. from an Earthly Scepter to a Kingdom immortall; and a Crown of Glory for ever in heaven, Selah.

OLIVER deservs a Princely Poets Thunder;
Greater than Caesar, Charlemaigne, the worlds wonder.
Kinton, Burleigh house, Gaynsborough, Lincoln City,
Winsby; and Prince Ruperts Irish Ladies pretty.
Taken in pursuit to Leicester, from Nasby field
By Parlament souldiers stripp'd stark naked and kill'd
[Page 4]Newbery, Langport, Bridgwater, the club battell,
Nonny de la More, Bath, Barkley, Shirborn Castle:
Bristoll, Cornwell, Fxeter, Borstall, Oxenford,
Basing house, Wallengford, Levellers at Burford:
Preston, Uttoxeter, tryumphant Marston Moor,
Ragland, Ireland, Scotland, and Muscleborough Shore.
Dunbar, Worcester, Jamaica, Van Trump, Mardike,
Dunkirk, Graveline, Don, John, and th'Army Catholick.
These martiall Chevaliers; And Nations all did quake,
And tottered like the Pillars, which great Sampson shake.
At the renowned name of CROMWELL they expir'd,
As if he had been sacred from heaven inspir'd.
September third, he layd down's arms, put on a Crown:
Sixteen hundred fifty one he took Worcester Town.
That day twelve months before, he nobly won Dunbar,
I'th year forty eight, Duke Hamiltons Army mar.
England, France, Netherlands pay Tribute to his herse,
The holy good Protector's dead, Oh weep a verse.
The pious, learn'd, wise great Heroick man of war:
Is with his Captain Jesus, the bright morning Star.
At Grayes Inn of Court November 16. 1658.
Sr. Thomas de la More Knight of the Banner, and Garter Rayall, Standard bearer of England and Wales, Prince of Mercia de la More and Port pool, Lord Marquess Eschallers, Baron north­more Moreton de la Thames, de Ponts Haddon, Waddon, Pagans Mubray, Le Feoks, Holborn S. Gyles, &c.
FINIS.

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