Obsequies on that unexemplar champion of chivalrie and perfect pattern of true prowesse, Arthur, Lord Capell.

Obsequies on that unexemplar champion of chivalrie and perfect pattern of true prowesse, Arthur, Lord Capell.

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OBSEQUIES: ON That Ʋnexemplar Champion of Chivalrie and perfect Patern of true Prowesse, ARTHUR, Lord Capell.

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OBSEQUIES: ON That Ʋnexemplar Champion of Chivalrie and perfect Patern of true Prowesse, ARTHUR, Lord Capell.

—In Trepidus mea Fata [...]quor

louell fecit

TIS false Astronomy: wee are not yet

In utter-darknesse, though the Sun be set;

Since thy star-beaming-influence proves all

Those Rules Excentrique, and Apocryphall.

Thou 'rt heighthn'd by thy Fall; and dost now shine

With doubled lustre, since thy last Decline.

Bright mirrour of our Spheare! who wer't no lesse

Then Valours wonder: Vertues Master-peece;

Filling whole Volumes with thy Fame; to tell

The World Thy Worth was Hir owne Chronicle.

To tell the World, those Prayses in the Wars

Thou'ast purchas'd, might be numbred with the Stars;

And had thy well-proportion'd-Dayes beene Spunne

Out by thy Deeds, thou had'st out-liv'd the Sunne;

Forcing the Worlds great Luminary t' have

His Chaos climacterick with thy Grave.

Thus thy renowned Meeds like Incense hurl'd

On flaming Altars have Perfum'd the World,

With such rich Odours, that scarce envie knew

Whether thou wert to King, or Realme most true;

Let State-Chronographers admire, and plead

Those Rites they owe to Honour; when they read

Thy rare Atchievements; studying to refine

The truth of Moderne Historie by Thine.

Carthage bee dumb! our Colchester stands now

Corrivall with thee, and dares more then Thou;

And all those Punick warres thy walls could boast,

Have o're and o're beene travers'd on Hir coast.

Romes three Horatij are Pos'd; our Isle

Hath bred a Capell, Lucas, and a Lisle:

Whose matchlesse Deeds have Dubd them with that late

And glorious title of Triumvirate;

Whiles their transcendent merit struts, and strives

To stand on tip-toe in Superlatives.

And still there's somthing more; for, what was mixt

Promiscuously in these, in Thee was fixt.

In Thee that Pythagorean Maxime's true;

And what was State Philosophie, proves new

Divinitie, since th' Soules of all those Nine

Renowned Ones Transmigrated to Thine.

But why doe wee Adore thee, made immense

And farre sublim'd above our Spheare of sense?

Scorning bright Obelisques of Brasse, or Stone

Should raise thy Monument, who ar't thine owne.

Yet should'st thou expect a shrine on Earth, wee must

Make Colchester th' Exchequer of thy dust.

Nor is it more then Reason, since 'twere pity

To give thee a lesse Church-yard then that City

T' Interre thee in hir Breaches, and o'returne

Hir stately Bulwarks, and support thine Urne;

Whil'st the throng'd streets would justle to make room

And spread their Towres, as Trophies, o're thy Tombe.

But this grand taske I recommend to those

Who can limme Fancies in more lively Prose;

Whose Rhetorique may richly guild this Pile

And raise Invention to a lofty stile;

Such as may Conjure Horrour, and obliege

Beliefe (from our nice Zelots) of that Siege,

That fatall Siege, whose tre [...]ches were o'respread

With mangled truncks, and Bodies of the Dead,

Till the discolour'd Earth, thus dy'd in Graine,

Blush't to behold such Shambles of the Slaine:

And the pale Furies stood, like heartlesse Elves,

Trembling; to see Men doe more then Themselves.

The Center-shaking-Brasse grew hot, and spoke

In Flames of Lightning, and in clouds of smoke;

And Charon fainted, Ferrying Soules to Hell,

When Hecatombs of the Besiegers fell.

Amidst these Tragick triumphs didst thou reare

Thy brave Top-gallant 'bove the reach of Feare,

Undauntedly exposing thy bold Head

To shock of Thunder, and thick showres of Lead.

Those Bullets were then Tame; and wee may taxe

The partiall Sword that spar'd thee for the Axe.

The Field (th' Asylum of great Spirits) clean

Is now transferr'd; the City is the Scaene;

The Cannon shewd faire-play; But thou wert packt

Away, not by an Ordnance but an Act.

The Scaffold turn'd a Stage: Where, 'tis confest,

The last Act (though most Bloody) prov'd Thy Best:

It prov'd Thy solemn Coronation, since

The Yard's thy Pallace; and a glorious Prince

Thy President: Who after Him art hurl'd

To meet thy Soveraigne in another World.

Where Thou art Fix'd a glorious Starre, to gaine

Neerer accesse, and waite on CHARLES his Wayne.

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Obsequies on that unexemplar champion of chivalrie and perfect pattern of true prowesse, Arthur, Lord Capell.

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1649

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— Obsequies on that unexemplar champion of chivalrie and perfect pattern of true prowesse, Arthur, Lord Capell.,

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s.n.,. [London :: 1649]. (Imprint from Wing.) (Verse - "Tis false Astronomy: wee are not yet".) (Annotation on Thomason copy: "march. 24. 1648".) (Reproduction of the original in the British Library.)

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