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<HEAD>AN
ELEGIACALL EPITAPH
UPON
The deplored Death of that Religious and Valiant Gentleman, Colonell Iohn Hampden E&s;quire,
A worthy Member of the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons in PARLIAMENT; who
received his Deaths wound in a Battell neere Chinnar in Oxford&s;hire, and decea&s;ed
At Thame. <DATE>JUNE, the 27. MDCXLIII.</DATE></HEAD>
<L>SInce God him&s;elfe did &s;toop &s;o low, to lay</L>
<L>His Picture on a piece of that &s;ame Clay</L>
<L>Whereof we are compo&s;ed, 'tis but ju&s;t,</L>
<L>To wayle his lo&s;&s;e, and to adorne his Du&s;t:</L>
<L>In doing which, both head and hand may mi&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>For who can pourtray Vertue as it is?</L>
<L>Or make a true de&s;cription of that fire,</L>
<L>That &s;o inflam'd him with a brave de&s;ire?</L>
<L>But if a <HI>Jem,</HI> which God both made and bought,</L>
<L>Of manly &s;hape, yet of more manly thought,</L>
<L>If Piety, and to the truth true Zeale,</L>
<L>If love and care of Church and common weale,</L>
<L>If Cha&s;tity (rare in a Souldiers bre&s;t)</L>
<L>And Temperance, (which Cavaliers dete&s;t,)</L>
<L>If wi&s;dome, courage, and an humble minde,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;t dealing unto which he was inclin'de;</L>
<L>If love of Peace, of Armes, and heavenly Arts,</L>
<L>And bounty unto men of good de&s;erts,</L>
<L>May make a man unto his Country deare,</L>
<L>Brave <HI>Hampden</HI> ju&s;tly may exact a teare</L>
<L>From pre&s;ent and &s;ucceding <HI>Ages;</HI> then</L>
<L>Come <HI>Albion Mu&s;es</HI> all, come Maids and Men,</L>
<L>Come &s;ilver Swannes leave &s;inging on the banks,</L>
<L>Of <HI>Isis</HI> floods, and in you painted Rankes</L>
<L>Yee merry Birds goe &s;olitary &s;itt,</L>
<L>Silence and &s;orrow, does us be&s;t befitt:</L>
<L>For though we live, yet are we deadly &s;hot,</L>
<L>(Like &s;tricken Deere at gaze) and feele it not.</L>
<L>Then let our Teares upon our &s;elves de&s;cend,</L>
<L>For our Heav'n-daring Crimes, which do portend</L>
<L>More heavy Judgements comming on apace,</L>
<L>To Court and Country, retrograde to Grace.</L>
<L>In vaine (deare <HI>Hampden)</HI> we &s;ollicit Thee,</L>
<L>Who&s;e pa&s;&s;ive part hath made thee now &s;hot-free</L>
<L>From <HI>Syrens</HI> violence, Sin, Feare and Death,</L>
<L>Wherewith we Mortalls &s;truggle heere beneath.</L>
<L>Then let us &s;trew thy Her&s;e with bud and bloome,</L>
<L>As <HI>Thetis</HI> did her lov'd <HI>Achilles</HI> Tombe,</L>
<L>Or rather hang (with <HI>Athens)</HI> Lawrell by,</L>
<L>In token of Thy happy <HI>VICTORY,</HI></L>
<L>Triumphing over all fore-named Foes,</L>
<L>And what&s;oever did Thee heere oppo&s;e.</L>
<L>Farewell then honour'd <HI>Hampden</HI> (heav'nly Jem)</L>
<L>Adoring now the new <HI>IERVSALEM.</HI></L>
<L>Farewell belov'd in <HI>Parliament</HI> and <HI>Field,</HI></L>
<L>Farewell thy Soldiers faithfull broken Shield:</L>
<L>Farewell thy friends and native Counties &s;tay,</L>
<L>To them it is an over-clouded Day;</L>
<L>And di&s;mall unto all it may be &s;poke,</L>
<L>Save &s;uch as love to beare the <HI>Romi&s;h</HI> Yoake.</L>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>IULY, 27.
1643.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Per</HI> JO: LEICESTER.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI>
Printed by <HI>BERNARD</HI> ALSOP. 1641.</P>
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