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<P>MEMENTO MORI</P>
<FIGDESC>skull and crossbones, hourglasses</FIGDESC>
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<HEAD>On the Lamentable Death of the LADY LEE, Younger: Who departed this Life, <DATE><HI>February</HI> 28. 1686.</DATE></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">A Funeral Elegie.</HEAD>
<L>WHat is this World? but endle&s;s Toil and Strife</L>
<L>Tumults,&amp; Toys, that wa&s;tes our wretched Life:</L>
<L>Di&s;tempered Mutinies, Uproars, and Factions,</L>
<L>At be&s;t, the Pomps and Triumphs of vile Actions.</L>
<L>In which we have to'r Burial, from our Birth,</L>
<L>A Moneths Mourning, for a Moments Mirth.</L>
<L>That which pre&s;ents Delight in fulle&s;t mea&s;ure,</L>
<L>Tickling the Fancy, with deluding Plea&s;ure,</L>
<L>It is as tran&s;itory, as a Flower</L>
<L>That blooms and bla&s;ted is, both in an Hour.</L>
<L>Lo here an in&s;tance, in a &s;prightly Maid,</L>
<L>In Courtly <HI>France,</HI> and <HI>Gen'rous England</HI> bred.</L>
<L>Who could &s;et forth both Nations in their dre&s;s;</L>
<L>Their Ceremony, or their State expre&s;s.</L>
<L>Ble&s;t with the Honour of a glorious Birth,</L>
<L>The greate&s;t Happine&s;s, we have on Earth.</L>
<L>Her Ance&s;tors enjoyed all Earthly Plea&s;ures,</L>
<L>Being Men of <HI>Myriads,</HI> and ma&s;&s;y Trea&s;ures.</L>
<L>Who&s;e Valour, and &s;age Prudence, did advance</L>
<L>Some of them to an Emba&s;&s;y for <HI>France.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Fortunes, and Honours Minions;</HI> who by far</L>
<L>Out&s;tript Competitors in Peace and War;</L>
<L>To a De&s;cent &s;o high, and honoured,</L>
<L>She did obtain, an equal Nuptial Bed;</L>
<L>Match't with the <HI>LOCKHARTS,</HI> who in Deed &amp; Word,</L>
<L>Second to none are, for the <HI>Gown,</HI> or <HI>Sword.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Scotland</HI> (for both) in an Immortal Fame,</L>
<L>Beyond their worth, &s;hall never &s;ound a Name.</L>
<L>Being matched &s;o; di&s;daining to be coy,</L>
<L>She lo&s;ed her <HI>Self</HI> in labyrinths of joy.</L>
<L>And liv'd as merry, as the Youths of <HI>Greece,</HI></L>
<L>When they from <HI>Colchos</HI> brought the Golden Fleece,</L>
<L>No <HI>Eri&s;ycthous</HI> Mi&s;er, Beggar rich,</L>
<L>Who have, and have not; cur&s;t with <HI>Midas</HI> itch.</L>
<L>Her Heart was &s;atisfied with her Store;</L>
<L>And did not wretchedly gape, and pine for more.</L>
<L>A Prince&s;s Tongue, and Hand, and Heart had &s;he,</L>
<L>Harmonious, large, and liberal, and free.</L>
<L>No Rumor vext her, &s;he was nere &s;o low,</L>
<L>Nor did &s;he care, what Storms of State could blow.</L>
<L>Court was her Crime, if any &s;uch there be,</L>
<L>Not being po&s;&s;e&s;t with barbarous Cha&s;titie;</L>
<L>Like that coy, peevi&s;h Plant <HI>Pude&s;etan,</HI></L>
<L>That &s;hrinks at the approach of every Man.</L>
<L>No, no, no time that Godde&s;s doth record</L>
<L>That burn'd the Temple where &s;he was ador'd.</L>
<L>Yet all the&s;e &s;ugred Plea&s;ures period have</L>
<L>In this &s;ad &s;ei&s;ure of the loath&s;ome Grave.</L>
<L>Their Plenty pa&s;&s;ed reach of Pen, or Tongue,</L>
<L>And were too great, to have continued long.</L>
<L>All which upon review, give us to know,</L>
<L><HI>All Plea&s;ures here have but a painted &s;how.</HI></L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>N. PATERSON.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<Q><L><HI>Immodicis brevis e&s;t aetas, &amp; rara &s;enectus.</HI></L>
<BIBL>Mart:</BIBL></Q>
<Q><L><HI>&V;&s;que adeo nulla e&s;t &s;incera voluptas</HI></L>
<L><HI>Solicitumque aliquid laetis intervenit.</HI></L>
<BIBL>Ovid.</BIBL></Q>
<Q><L><HI>&mdash;Medio de fonte leporum</HI></L>
<L><HI>Surgit amari aliquid.</HI></L>
<BIBL>Lucret.</BIBL></Q>
<Q><L><HI>Laetus in prae&s;ens animus, quod ultra e&s;t</HI></L>
<L><HI>Oderit curare: &amp; amara laeto</HI></L>
<L><HI>Temperet ri&s;u, nihil e&s;t ab omni</HI></L>
<L><HI>parte beatum.</HI></L>
<BIBL>Horat.</BIBL></Q>
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<P>MEMENTO MORI</P>
<FIGDESC>skull and crossbones, hourglasses</FIGDESC>
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