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<HEAD>To the Memorie of the much Honoured, And much Lamented THOMAS ROBERTSON BAILIE and BUILDER of <HI>EDINB&V;RGH;</HI> Who Departed this Life; <DATE><HI>September</HI> 22. 1686.</DATE></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">A Funeral ELEGIE.</HEAD>
<L>THis World's a boiling Gulf of Griefs and Fears,</L>
<L>Where We have &s;till occa&s;ion of new Tears;</L>
<L>Still &s;omething that mole&s;ts us, whence we know</L>
<L>Heaven cannot be po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed here below.</L>
<L>What Heart? but that of Adamant, can hear,</L>
<L>Not making Eyes, pay Tribute to his Ear;</L>
<L>That THOMAS ROBERTSON is dead! a Fate,</L>
<L>Which &s;ounds ju&s;t like the downfall of a State;</L>
<L>Or &s;ome great Monarch, who with awful Hand</L>
<L>Did &s;way a Scepter, both o're Sea and Land.</L>
<L>Who was a Father unto all in need,</L>
<L>On whom Ten Thou&s;and did depend for Bread.</L>
<L>Another <HI>Abraham</HI> who&s;e Vertues vie,</L>
<L>With all the Lights that twinckles in the Skie;</L>
<L>So that our Fancie is oppre&s;t with Glorie,</L>
<L>That fill'd our Eyes with Wonder, Tongues with Storie.</L>
<L>He did attain to <HI>Fortunatus</HI> Pur&s;e,</L>
<L>And <HI>Amaltheas</HI> Horn, without a cur&s;e.</L>
<L>Yea when his Pro&s;perous Spring-tides did prevail,</L>
<L>His Barge was never burdened with &s;ail:</L>
<L>Such unambitious Looks he did advance,</L>
<L>As could have put Pride out of countenance.</L>
<L>And with the Product of his Heavenly Stock,</L>
<L>He &s;uccour'd all on wheel of Fortune broke.</L>
<L>And did imploy in Building Thou&s;and Hands,</L>
<L>Such Monuments, as to Amazment &s;tands;</L>
<L>Where Beauty mixt with Strength, doth &s;o comply</L>
<L>To &s;erve at once the Viewers U&s;e, and Eye:</L>
<L>Like wi&s;e <HI>Seths</HI> Pillars, which have &s;olid &s;tood</L>
<L>From Age to Age, &s;pite of a threatning Flood.</L>
<L>That to the Worlds la&s;t end there &s;hall be known</L>
<L>No Builder like to THOMAS ROBERTSON;</L>
<L>Who&s;e glorious Character for ever is;</L>
<L>He turned Dung-hills into Palaces.</L>
<L>With all that Co&s;t and Cunning Beautified,</L>
<L>That adds to State, and nothing wants but Pride.</L>
<L>All which within the Skies their heads do &s;hroud,</L>
<L>As they would ea&s;e great <HI>Atlas</HI> of his load.</L>
<L>But this was not our <HI>Hero's</HI> chief Renown;</L>
<L>That he Inrich'd and Beautified the Town.</L>
<L>Nay more within his Glorious building falls,</L>
<L>For he erected Men, as well as Walls;</L>
<L>And like a <HI>Solon</HI> when a Magi&s;trate,</L>
<L>By Law and Building both pre&s;erv'd our State.</L>
<L>And with a Sumptuous, Free Magnificence,</L>
<L>Made Donatives both to the State and Prince.</L>
<L>So that &s;ome Learned <HI>Bard</HI> to come &s;hall &s;ing,</L>
<L>He was a Subject could oblidge a King.</L>
<L>Nay he oblidg'd the Age, who left behind</L>
<L>Live Characters of his Heroick Mind,</L>
<L>Six Generous Models of him&s;elf who&s;e Name</L>
<L>Are both the Wonder and Di&s;cour&s;e of F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters"></L>
<L>He with his Lovelie Mate from the fir&s;t Start</L>
<L>Of <HI>Hymens</HI> bond, ran Heart &s;till yoak'd in Heart.</L>
<L>Inflam'd alike with that Soul-Melting Fire,</L>
<L>That their two Souls joined &s;till in one De&s;ire;</L>
<L>Their hou&s;e a Temple was where Prayer and Prai&s;e,</L>
<L>Did Ble&s;&s;e their nights, and &s;anctifie their Dayes</L>
<L>Which Prayers, and Alms unto Eternitie</L>
<L>With GOD, and Man embalms his Memorie;</L>
<L>Since like old <HI>Enoch,</HI> he to Ble&s;&s;e is gone,</L>
<L>I'ts not his Death, but his Tran&s;lation.</L>
<L>Why then &s;hould we accompt his Gain our Lo&s;&s;e?</L>
<L>Heavens hath the Gold, the Earth contains his Dro&s;&s;e.</L>
<Q>Non domus &s;ed ho&s;pitium corpus e&s;t, brevem omnino moram &s;i cum <HI>AEternitate</HI> comparetur trahimus. Quod &s;i dome&s;ticae ca|lamitatis vulnere afflicti, imis &s;en&s;ibus reponant, dolorem leniet.</Q>
<BIBL>Crucius.</BIBL>
<Q>Intervallis di&s;tinguimur, exitu aequamur.</Q>
<BIBL>Seneca.</BIBL>
<Q><L>Vitae &s;umma brevis &s;pem nos vetat</L>
<L>inchoare longam.</L>
<L>Hora fugit, rapido volvuntur tempora lap&s;u;</L>
<L>Singulus accelerat Fata &s;uprema dies:</L>
<L>Vitae damna brevis, decus immortale rependit;</L>
<L>Effugit ardentes po&s;thuma fama Rogos.</L></Q>
<BIBL>N: Pater&s;on.</BIBL>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by <HI>J: Reid.</HI></P>
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