An elegie offer'd up to the memory of His Excellencie Robert Earle of Essex and Ewe Viscount Hereford, Lord Ferrers of Chartley, Bourchier and Lovaine, late generall of the Parliaments forces. / Thomas Philipot.

An elegie offer'd up to the memory of His Excellencie Robert Earle of Essex and Ewe Viscount Hereford, Lord Ferrers of Chartley, Bourchier and Lovaine, late generall of the Parliaments forces. / Thomas Philipot.

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AN ELEGIE OFFER'D UP TO THE Memory of his Excellencie ROBERT Earle of Essex and Ewe, Viscount Hereford, Lord Ferrers of Chartley, Bourchier and Lovaine, late GENERALL of the PARLIAMENTS Forces.

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AN ELEGIE OFFER'D UP TO THE Memory of his Excellencie ROBERT Earle of Essex and Ewe, Viscount Hereford, Lord Ferrers of Chartley, Bourchier and Lovaine, late GENERALL of the PARLIAMENTS Forces.

THE MOST NOBLE ROBERT EARLE OF ESSEX AND LO: GEN: OF THE FORCES FOR K: & PARL.

AS some tall Oake 'gainst whom the envious Wind

Oft in impetuous Hurricans combin'd

Does stand unmov'd, although assaild by all

The angry Gales, yet of it selfe does fall

When there's scarce Breath enough i'th sullen Aire

To ravell or disturb a Virgins Haire:

So this brave Lord who like a swelling Rock

At Keynton, Newbury, had stood the Shock

Of death, unmov'd, where he himselfe had flung

Amidst his Troops with all his Terrors Hung

This death at last did like a drousie sleepe

O're his becalm'd unguarded Sences creepe.

What Springs of Teares shall we disburse? what Terse

Curld Metaphors now stick upon his Hearse?

Tears are but dull and, common rights they are

The stipend of each vulgar Sepulcher

Here Seas themselvs should be lav'd out, and streams

Be lick'd up by the Sun's refulgent Beams

That in the day's great Eye there might appear

For this great Ruine too, a Funerall Tear

Whole Cataracts should bee exhald, and then

Distill'd in liquid Obsequies agen,

Such shoures are most proportion'd to his Fate

And to his losse such Teares Commensurate,

What Shrine or Trophies shall our lavish Art

As Tribute to his Ashes now impart?

What Dole of Obelisqu's shall wee entrust

To stand as Alphabets unto his Dust?

Alas (Great Lord) what Urne is fit for thee?

Who to thy selfe art Urne and Elegie

And for Supporters wee our selves become

Congeal'd with Sighs Supporters to his Tombe.

What Gummes or Spices shall wee now prepare

T'enshrine his Dust? since they but fluid are

And obvious to Decay so soone, they'l bee

Transform'd themselves into more Dust then Hee,

No, Hee has left his Name, which shall embalme

His Earth, and all Corruption so becalme

This when, his Sear-cloath is Dissolv'd and Spent,

Shall to it selfe bee its own Monument;

What Tapers now shall wee afford his Shrine?

About the Chaos of his Dust to shine

[...] his Honor'd Breast

And is lock'd up now in his Marble Chest

Shall fill their Roome, and from the gloomy Night

Of his dark Vault, Dart a perpetuall Light.

What Heaps of Palme and Laurell shall wee lay

As Chaplets drop'd upon his livelesse Clay?

No let us rather Sprigs of Olives strow

Upon his Monument, which there will grow,

And by our Teares manur'd shall so increase

It shall bee stil'd by all the Arke of Peace.

How Crippled now Nature does seeme, her Frame

Is disproportion'd and her Junctures lame

Since from her Bulke this mighty Limb is lop'd;

And as when Flowers by early Fate are crop'd

From off their Stalke the mourning Stem appeares

As if it wept their losse bath'd ore with Teares:

So now when Hee that seem'd even to Cement

Nature's vast Fabrick, from her Building's rent

By Death's unthrifty Hand, the whole Compact

By this one Blow is so resolv'd and slack'd

'Tis fear'd 'twill languish into Dust, and all

The heap of Men entomb too in its fall,

For at that Breach thy Soul flew out at, wee

Our selves (Great Lord) must bleed to Death with Thee

Since then (Fair Soul) thou by thy Fate doest gaine

Triumphs and Palmes, and wee alone sustaine

The Losse, and Death attempting to benight

With his blind Clouds the Glory of thy Light

With which so long amidst our Orbe you shone

Has fix'd thee now a Constellation

In Heaven above, look from thy brighter Sphere

On us, who like dull Ants lye groveling here

Maim'd by thy Death, and if leane Envie dare

To rake or paddle in thy Sepulcher

May shee grope out her way to that, and find

Thou with thy Spotlesse Beams didst strike her Blind;

Enjoy thy Crowne of Glory then, and bee

As from all Guilt, so from all Envie free,

And if in after ages, any Stone

Shall bee by bold Detractors at thee throwne

T'will turne a precious one, and so combine

To make this Crowne of Glory brighter shine.

Thomas Philipot.

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An elegie offer'd up to the memory of His Excellencie Robert Earle of Essex and Ewe Viscount Hereford, Lord Ferrers of Chartley, Bourchier and Lovaine, late generall of the Parliaments forces. / Thomas Philipot.

Philipot, Thomas, d. 1682.

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1646

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A90651

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Wing P1995

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Thomason 669.f.10[82]

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ESTC R40096

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99872566

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99872566

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162616

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— An elegie offer'd up to the memory of His Excellencie Robert Earle of Essex and Ewe Viscount Hereford, Lord Ferrers of Chartley, Bourchier and Lovaine, late generall of the Parliaments forces. / Thomas Philipot., Philipot, Thomas, d. 1682..

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Printed for William Ley at his shop in Pauls Chaine,. London :: [1646]. (With engraved portrait of the Earl of Essex.) (In verse: "As some tall Oake 'gainst whom the envious Wind" ...) (Date of publication suggested by Wing.) (Annotation on Thomason copy: [illegible, cropped]th 1646.) (Reproductions of the originals in the Harvard University Library (Early English books) and the British Library (Thomason Tracts).)

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