An elegie upon the never satisfactorily deplored death of that rare column of Parnassus, Mr. Iohn Cleeveland.

An elegie upon the never satisfactorily deplored death of that rare column of Parnassus, Mr. Iohn Cleeveland.

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AN ELEGIE Upon the Never Satisfactorily deplored Death of that Rare Column of PARNASSƲS, MR. IOHN CLEEVELAND.

EPITAPHIUM.

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AN ELEGIE Upon the Never Satisfactorily deplored Death of that Rare Column of PARNASSƲS, MR. IOHN CLEEVELAND.

IS CLEEVELAND Dead? and not one weeping Pen

Vote him in Text The Miracle of Men?

Can the great Monarch of the Two-topt Hill

Visit the Shades? whose Star-encountring Quill

Had He but darted at insulting Death,

That pale-fac'd Tyrant had resign'd his Breath,

Tribute to Lycambes Collar. Resist

His lightest Lash, Take him as Satyrist

No Mortal can. Snaky Medusa's Head

With one prick of his Neb he could strike dead;

His sublimated Style most justly mocks

A Muse that can't let-Blood the craggy Rocks.

And can his Laurel wither? Alas! He

As his owne Demesn hath Eternitie.

Great CLEEVELAND scorns the Grave, and cannot Die,

Before an Exhalation to the skie

Gives fire with's flaming Beard, and shall presage

Some viperous Curse to cauterize this Age:

How then presumes this abhorr'd Scrietch-Owle Fame

To intrude Θ into CLEEVELAND's Name?

He to whom Poets must in Homage fall,

And beg from [...]s Verse their Senses Festivall.

But ah! Fame's tipp'd with Truth, his soaring Soule,

That was both Arctick and Antarctick Pole

To Poesie; has filed off Her Clay,

And Eagle-wing'd dissects the Milky way;

And with undazled Eyes ascends as far

As the Eight Sphere, where She the Sixteenth Star

Makes of the first Magnitude. And conjoynt

With her Associates, lends this Terrene Point

A Loving Glance: whilest we with drowned Eyes

Deplore our Earth, Envy the now blest skyes.

Stupid Astronomers! whose senseless Brain

The Middle Region is of Snow, Hail, Rain;

Did ye not by consent avow, This Yere,

No Black Eclipse should Mask our Hemisphere?

And yet with Despair see how Greys-Inne Sun

Twelve Digits is Eclips'd, Muffled, O'rerun.

Resume your Jacobs-Staffs, and with them take

The Altitude of Truth, your gross mistake

Cancel, with a Prediction far more True

Than Priam's chastest Daughter ever knew.

Till the vast Fabrick of the World shall Burn

Without Repair, and become its owne Urn,

Boldly assert, Men wisely may despair,

To see a Muse Merit the Curule Chair

So much as CLEEVELAND's. How? Nay, for to see

One that might make an Halting Simile.

Foretel the VVorld that there shall shortly be

Of Elements but a Triplicitie.

The Muses swear by Styx, Their showring Eyes

Shall offer up the Earth a Sacrifice

To Neptune's Trident. This not spurs our Fears,

VVho are all ready pickled up in Tears.

Apollo turns Close-Mourner, Burns his Bayes;

And nothing fly, but Melancholy Brayes

From Pegasus Horse Throat. Fount Caballine

For Sand hath Salt, the VVater being Brine.

The Phoenix robs the VVardrobe of the East

(VVhen extreme Age indigitates Her Nest,)

Of the most fragrant Spices: And dares Dy,

VVithout a Cheer-up from a Stander by.

The Sun's Executor; and lets Her have,

As 'tis Her VVill, a Cradle, and a Grave.

Her Daughter crawles out first: Then learns to flye,

Probatum est: the Way to live's, to Dye.

Could a much flatter'd Hope, create Belief,

Albions rare Phoenix should Revive; our Grief

Should end in Paeans: And thy Altars round

A Thousand Hecatombs with Garlands crown'd,

(Great Jove) should Low, whilst Wits in greatfull Crowds,

With Acclamations shall unrip the Clouds.

Alas! we cannot Beg His Life, of Fate,

Were sweet Cyllenius our Advocate:

Not though in Thunder, Jove commands Reprieve,

To see the Light will Minos give Him leave;

And yet although 'tis frivolous to crave

An Habeas Corpus from the Hated Grave;

Yet shall the Pallas of Thy Laureat Head,

Of Carian Mausolaeum stand in stead.

Thy Brain has had Immortall Issue, which,

Till Earths Grand Calcination, shall Enrich

Thy Name with Radiant Glory. We no Muse

Will invocate but Thine. Thee we will chuse

Our Patron, Our Apollo. He who Climbs,

Reason t' Embroyder with high Vaulting Rhymes,

That scorns His Nurses Words; And counts it cheap

To o're-top Saturn at one fiery Leap;

Whose Pleasure makes Vulcans tri'd Anvile yield;

Can force Archilochus to run the Field;

Whom Cato cals, the Glory of His Age;

And hath Mens Admiration as his Page:

Such, Such a Soule, may Vaunt Himselfe to be

A Dim Resemblance of Thy Muse and Thee.

Adieu Dear Sir! We Mortals will prove Just,

Alwaies adoring Your most sacred Dust.

The Earth on You lay light: VVhilest heavy Hearts

In Sighs and Throbs shall act our Tragick Parts.

Ever sit Thou Enthron'd ith' Peoples Vogue,

Thy Feaver being Nam'd Wits Epilogue.

EPITAPHIUM.

IActare fas est, dives, O dives Marmor!

AErarium Magni cineris es CLEEVELANDI.

Sub te Sepultus, qui potis mori Non est.

Virgilius Hic est Anglicus: Tullius Hic est.

Ad alta semper cum sua tetendit Musa,

Altissimam ambit nunc Poesin: In Coelo,

Indesinenter cantitans Hallelujah.

Dum Naenias celebramus atras stillante

Oculo, Viator! sis Tui memor Busti:

Elugeas Catastrophen Hanc Parnassi.

T. P. Gen. Norfolciensis.

‘VIATOR ILICET.’

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London, Printed by W. Godbid, for Henry Marsh at the Princes Arms at the Lower end of Chancery Lane, near the Inner Temple Gate in Fleetstreet, 1658.

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An elegie upon the never satisfactorily deplored death of that rare column of Parnassus, Mr. Iohn Cleeveland.

Pecke, Thomas, b. 1637.

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1658

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