Obsequies offer'd up to the dear and never-dying memorie of the honorable Sr Paul Pindar Kt.

Obsequies offer'd up to the dear and never-dying memorie of the honorable Sr Paul Pindar Kt.

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OBSEQUIES OFFER'D UP To the Dear and never-dying Memorie of the Honorable SR PAUL PINDAR KT.

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OBSEQUIES OFFER'D UP To the Dear and never-dying Memorie of the Honorable SR PAUL PINDAR KT.

HEnce all unhallowed Orgies; let no tongue

Presume to chant the Epicedium

Of our renowned PINDAR, less hee bee

The Grecian PINDAR, or as great as Hee.

Nought but the Sock or Buskin can becom

Such Tragick Rites; or Personate thy Tomb

Admired PINDAR! whose Heroîck Hers

Admit's no Paralel with a slow-pac't vers.

The Quire is too too narrow, and th'whole Nine

Too few, to warble Anthems at this Shrine,

Though they could out-weep NIOBE, and sing

Sorrows as fluent as their Thespian Spring.

But why do I thus, to inhance Thy prais,

Mingle my Cypress with thy spreading Baies?

Since Thy Encomium needeth here no more

Then Gold in Peru, or a Map on Shore.

Let those that track the Mysteries, and the Truth

Of PRINCEly-Embassies, define His Youth,

Spurr'd on with heat of Honor through the whole

Circle, from th' Artick to th' Antartick Pole;

Whose Travel this advantage had to bring

Riches to's Countrie, Honor to his KING.

Nor could the Heresie of that CLIME Impair

His Pious Soul; the influence of that Aër,

Whose venom hath kill'd thousands, hurt him not,

I'th midst of Sodom who remain'd a LOT.

Let those who 're grounded in the Grand debates

Of Kingdom's Rights, and Interests of States

Revolv his Counsels; so maturely wise,

They alwaies Conquer'd where They did Advize.

Solid, but not Severe; who could unite

Candor with Prudence, Prudence with delight-

Most Rich, yet Humble in the richest sens;

His Minde was moderate, though his Means Immens.

Liberal, but not Profuse; Hee could express

The difference 'twixt true Bountie and Excess.

Courteous, without exception, or self-ends:

Kinde to the Stranger, Ample to his Friends:

Pious to admiration, and Free

Beyond all President, to each degree

That Crav'd his Alms; who was the Poor's Supplie,

Crutch to the Cripple, and the Blinde-man's Eie.

But who can write his Storie? 'twas so Ample,

It might serv both our mirrour and example.

So Heavenly was each Action, and so Just

Poiz'd in the Scale of TRUTH, that scarce one dust

Or atome did fall scantie, or surmount

In the Examen of his life's account.

No wordly cares could discompose, or cross

His thoughts with sens of lucre or of loss.

No shocks of Fate or Fortune could controul

Or storm the Bulwark of his fase-built Soul.

No threats could fright his Loial Temper; Hee

when half the Land Apostatiz'd, stood free

In his Resolvs; abhorring to divide

Himself, or shift his Tenets with the Tide.

Hee sought not in those troubled streams to swim

Nor courted Honor, which so courted Him.

PEACE was his Aim, and End; who liv'd, and di'd

Lull'd in a Calm, when all the Earth beside

Reel'd with those storms of WAR, whose Shocks have hurl'd

Realms from their Center, and unhing'd the world.

But why do I Epitomize a Theme

In this small Schedule, which deserv's a Ream?

'Way then with Elegies; which can't add more

Life to His Honors, then they had before.

Nor need wee ransack the Corinthian Mine,

Or rob the Parian Quarries, to enshrine

His Memorie, since thy Structure great St PAUL

(Indebted to great PINDAR'S Bountie) shall

Perpetuate His Name, and in her Womb

And sacred Entrails Rear Him such a Tomb

As shall out vie proud Memphis, and surpass

Those Mausolean Obelisks of Brass.

Great TIME shall tell the rest; and quote His glorie

From her own Register; the wel-pen'd Storie

And Legend of whose Actions shall strike Dumb

The Present, and amuse the Age to Com.

P. F.

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Obsequies offer'd up to the dear and never-dying memorie of the honorable Sr Paul Pindar Kt.

P. F.

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1650

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2008-09 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1).

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A85142

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Wing F49

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Thomason 669.f.15[58]

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ESTC R212036

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99870691

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99870691

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163132

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— Obsequies offer'd up to the dear and never-dying memorie of the honorable Sr Paul Pindar Kt., P. F..

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s.n.,. [London :: 1650]. (Signed at end: P.F.) (Imprint from Wing.) (Verse - "Hence all unhallowed orgies; let no tongue".) (Annotation on Thomason copy: [barely legible] "7tbr [i.e. September] 1650".) (Reproduction of the original in the British Library.)

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