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<P>MEMENTO MORI</P>
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<HEAD>AN ELEGY On the much Lamented Death of his Pious and Learned Parent the Reverend Doctor EZERELL TONGE An Eminent and Indefatigable In&s;trument, in promoting the Di&s;covery of <HI>The Horrid Popi&s;h Plot.</HI></HEAD>
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<L>THo t'were Pre&s;umption to imagine I,</L>
<L>Can ought produce within this Elegy,</L>
<L>Honour to add; my pen&s;ive Mu&s;e can rai&s;e,</L>
<L>To's Parents A&s;hes, Monuments of Prai&s;e.</L>
<L>None can do this, and yet my cour&s;e &s;pun Ver&s;e,</L>
<L>Gladly would be a Mourner at his Hear&s;e,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t Floods of Tears with Ink do trickling fall,</L>
<L>As &s;able Attendants at his Funeral.</L>
<L>Ver&s;e cannot &s;peak his Prai&s;e, his Worth, his Name,</L>
<L>Shall be recorded with the Sons of Fame,</L>
<L>To after Ages chronicled &s;hall be,</L>
<L>For his great Pains, unheard of Indu&s;try,</L>
<L>By his endeavouring for to Countermine,</L>
<L>The Je&s;uits horrid Plot, and cur&s;t De&s;ign.</L>
<L>'Tis in his learned Works you be&s;t may fee,</L>
<L>His excellent Parts; the be&s;t Effigie,</L>
<L>He could bequeath unto Po&s;terity.</L>
<L>Learning and Piety, were in one mind,</L>
<L>Harmoniou&s;ly con&s;picuous; &s;weetly joyn'd,</L>
<L>To admiration; for his Countries good,</L>
<L>Ready to Sacrifice his deare&s;t Blood.</L>
<L>Ble&s;t Soul! Thou wa&s;t too good with us to &s;tay,</L>
<L>Within the&s;e brittle Cottages of Clay.</L>
<L>Therefore whil&s;t living, alwaies did a&s;pire,</L>
<L>With wings of Faith to be a&s;cending Higher,</L>
<L>To tho&s;e Cele&s;tial Orbs where Saints do move,</L>
<L>And know no Le&s;&s;on but Seraphick Love.</L>
<L>There ble&s;&s;ed Angels his A&s;&s;ociates be,</L>
<L>Where from all earthly Cares exempt and free</L>
<L>All &s;ees within that glorious Gla&s;s the Trinity</L>
<L>In Halelujahs, now he'l aways rai&s;e,</L>
<L>Immortal <HI>Carrots,</HI> to his Saviours Prai&s;e.</L>
<L>Let then no envious Hand, mole&s;t that Du&s;t,</L>
<L>Which waits the Re&s;urrection of the Ju&s;t.</L>
<L>Who&s;e Vertues and Perfections did pre&s;ent</L>
<L>To all, its be&s;t and la&s;ting Monument.</L>
<L>When hard Corinthian Bra&s;s, and Marble may,</L>
<L>Be both de&s;troy'd, his Name &s;hall ne'er decay;</L>
<L>Such noble Actions, have no date, they be,</L>
<L>As long, and la&s;ting as Eternity.</L>
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<HEAD>EPITAPH.</HEAD>
<L>REader who ere thou art, draw near,</L>
<L>On this cold Urn di&s;till a Tear.</L>
<L>Here cloi&s;t'red lyes, under this Stone,</L>
<L>No common Du&s;t, 'tis &s;uch a one;</L>
<L>Who&s;e Vertue, Learning, Piety,</L>
<L>And who&s;e tran&s;cendent Sanctity,</L>
<L>Render'd him amiable in his Station,</L>
<L>And Famous in his Generation.</L>
<L>Whom Fames immortal Trumpet &s;hall,</L>
<L>Render celebrious unto all.</L>
<L>By Providence &s;eem'd to Inherit,</L>
<L>A &s;trange admir'd Prophetick Spirit;</L>
<L>An eminent In&s;trument to di&s;play,</L>
<L>That Popi&s;h Plot was to betray,</L>
<L>As Victims unto Cruelty,</L>
<L>Our Lives to horrid Butchery.</L>
<L>His Soul from Earth, is mounted higher,</L>
<L>Unto the &s;pangled Clorious Quire.</L>
<L>Her dear Campanion here hath left,</L>
<L>Of Sence and Motion, both bereft,</L>
<L>Until the Re&s;urrection Day,</L>
<L>Shall animate the lumpi&s;h Clay,</L>
<L>It's &s;cattered Atomes reunite,</L>
<L>By the Almighty Power, and Might</L>
<L>Of its Redeemer, rai&s;e the Soul,</L>
<L>And Body to the Starry Pole.</L>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>C. W.</HI> 1681. 131</P>
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