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<HEAD><FIGURE>
<P>MEMENTO MORI</P>
<FIGDESC>depictions of skeleton, hourglass, and other emblems of Death</FIGDESC>
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<HEAD>AN ELEGIE UPON Mr. Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, LATELY DECEASED.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>IS he then dead at la&s;t, whom vain report</L>
<L>So often had feign'd Mortal in meer &s;port?</L>
<L>Whom we on Earth &s;o long alive might &s;ee,</L>
<L>We thought he here had Immortality.</L>
<L>As he, like what he wrote, could not expire,</L>
<L>Whom all that did not love, did yet admire.</L>
<L>For who his Writings &s;till accus'd in vain,</L>
<L>Were taught by him, of whom they did complain.</L>
<L>Some Authors vented have more Truth's; but &s;o,</L>
<L>If Truths they be, 'tis more than we can know.</L>
<L>He with &s;uch Art deceiv'd, that none can &s;ay,</L>
<L>If his be Errours, where his Errour lay.</L>
<L>If he mi&s;takes, 'tis &s;till with &s;o much Wit,</L>
<L>He erres more plea&s;ingly than others hit.</L>
<L>For there are Counterfeits of Truth, which are</L>
<L>In &s;hew more Truths than Truths them&s;elves appear.</L>
<L>As Nature in meer &s;port hath fram'd &s;ome Apes</L>
<L>Neerer to Men, than &s;ome in humane &s;hapes;</L>
<L>All were by him &s;o plau&s;ibly mi&s;led,</L>
<L>They cho&s;e to lo&s;e the Way with &s;uch a Guide,</L>
<L>And wander plea&s;antly, rather than be</L>
<L>In the right Way with duller Companie.</L>
<L>With ill &s;ucce&s;s, &s;ome fond Di&s;puters &s;trove,</L>
<L>What Doctrines he had planted, to remove;</L>
<L>And ju&s;tly are they blam'd: for that Di&s;ea&s;e</L>
<L>Is ill remov'd, which more than Health does plea&s;e.</L>
<L>And who delightful Frenzies entertain,</L>
<L>When undeceiv'd, do of their Cure complain.</L>
<L>With &s;uch &s;weet Force he does our Thoughts in|vade,</L>
<L>That where he cannot Teach, he does Per&s;wade.</L>
<L>And we that read his Writings wi&s;h them true,</L>
<L>If we do not believe them to be &s;o.</L>
<L>If he be in the Wrong, we hold it &s;till,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e the Right appears not half &s;o well.</L>
<L>Who &s;o would mend his Faults mu&s;t make a Blot</L>
<L>May be more Truth, but mo&s;t will like it not.</L>
<L>For though fair Vertue <HI>Plato</HI> wi&s;ht to &s;ee,</L>
<L>Yet Vice as fair will plea&s;e no le&s;s than &s;he.</L>
<L>Why are Temptations names for what is ill?</L>
<L>But that her Charms are mo&s;t prevailing &s;till.</L>
<L>Or Vice call'd Plea&s;ures? But to &s;hew alone,</L>
<L>That Vice and Plea&s;ure in effect are one.</L>
<L>Hence came our Wit to think there was no Devil;</L>
<L>Or if he Tempter was, he was not evil:</L>
<L>And finding him dre&s;t in a different fa&s;hion,</L>
<L>According to the humour of each Nation,</L>
<L>And that the <HI>Indians</HI> were in this &s;o civil,</L>
<L>To Whiten him we Blackned for the Devil.</L>
<L>He thought that he was Black or White, and Saint or</L>
<L>Devil, according as it plea&s;ed the Painter.</L>
<L>And Vice and Vertue both were our Opinion,</L>
<L>And vari'd with the Laws of each Dominion.</L>
<L>To which who did conform was under&s;tood,</L>
<L>As their Modes differ'd to be bad or good.</L>
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<DIV1 TYPE="epitaph">
<HEAD>EPITAPH.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>IS <HI>Athei&s;t-Hobbes</HI> then dead! <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span">y;</L>
<L>For, whil&s;t he liv'd, he thought <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">t dy,</L>
<L>Or was at least most filthy <HI>loath</HI> to <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span">.</L>
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<LG>
<L><HI>Leviathan</HI> the Great is faln! But <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>The &s;mall <HI>Behemoths</HI> of his Progenie, </L>
<L>Survive to duel all <HI>Divinitie.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>Whither he's gone, becomes not us to &s;ay,</L>
<L>The <HI>Narrow</HI> upper, or the <HI>Broad</HI> low way:</L>
<L>For who own'd <HI>neither</HI> well, may hap to &s;tray.</L>
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<L>Mo&s;t think <HI>old Tom,</HI> with a Recanting Ver&s;e,</L>
<L>Mu&s;t his <HI>odde Notions</HI> dolefully rehear&s;e</L>
<L>To <HI>new Di&s;ciples</HI> in the <HI>Devils-Ar&mdash;</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>In <HI>fine,</HI> after a thou&s;and <HI>Shams</HI> and <HI>Fobbs,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Ninety</HI> years <HI>Eating,</HI> and immortal <HI>Jobbs,</HI></L>
<L>Here <HI>MATTER</HI> lies,&mdash;and there's an End of <HI>Hobbes.</HI></L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<HEAD>Aliud.</HEAD>
<L>Here lies <HI>Tom Hobbes,</HI> the Bug-bear of the Nation.</L>
<L>Who&s;e <HI>Death</HI> hath frighted <HI>Athei&s;m</HI> out of <HI>Fa&s;hion.</HI></L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P>Printed in the Year 1679.</P>
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