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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>ON THE MUCH LAMENTED DEATH of the Valiant <HI>MAJOR</HI> WILLIAM COCKBURN, Who died at <HI>Stonie-flet,</HI> <DATE><HI>June</HI> 6. 1683.</DATE></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">A Funeral ELEGIE.</HEAD>
<L>THis world's a boyling gulph of greefs &amp; fears,</L>
<L>The Rendevouz of anxious &s;ighs and tears:</L>
<L>This worm of five foot long, this moving &s;pan,</L>
<L>Compo&s;'d of &s;in, and dirt, we call a man,</L>
<L>Is the to&s;t pa&s;&s;enger; what tho the ga'le</L>
<L>Be &s;trong, or weak, the Ship is &s;till a Sail;</L>
<L>Whither the Pa&s;&s;engers do &s;tand, or lie,</L>
<L>She keeps a &s;traight cour&s;e to eternitie.</L>
<L>And who &s;o can the longe&s;t pa&s;&s;age boa&s;t,</L>
<L>At la&s;t th'Eternal Haven &s;alute he mu&s;t.</L>
<L>A pregnant, (tho a pen&s;ive) proofe is here</L>
<L>To make this truth as with &s;un beams appear.</L>
<L>Here the undantoun'd COCKBURN full of years</L>
<L>That ne'er gave place to ignominious fears,</L>
<L>Who like the <HI>Roman Scevola</HI> hath &s;tood</L>
<L>Bashing in flamm's his hands, his feet in blood,</L>
<L>Who in the &s;torms of Warr, by day and night,</L>
<L>Could never flee from any thing but flight,</L>
<L><HI>(Till now unconquer'd)</HI> yet at la&s;t he mu&s;t</L>
<L>Lay down his valour in a bed of du&s;t:</L>
<L>But with a deathle&s;s and renowned name,</L>
<L>Happy in Fortune, Familie, and Fame.</L>
<L>He was no carking dunghill mi&s;er, yet</L>
<L>God ble&s;t him with a plentiful E&s;tate:</L>
<L>From which, as from an overflowing &s;tore,</L>
<L>He ble&s;t the backes and bellies of the poor.</L>
<L>And with an active, and &s;agacious care,</L>
<L>He knew both when to &s;pend, and when to &s;pare.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> prayer, and prai&s;e, at morning and at even</L>
<L>With pious fervencie addre&s;t to Heaven,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2 letters">s hou&s;e a Sacrid Temple did become:</L>
<L><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> Souldier in the Camp, a Prie&s;t at home.</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span">one may be (tho rare) as Scriptures note,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> once both a Centurion, and devote.</L>
<L>A Souldier and devote, with Loyalty,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span">ormi&s;t too, and each in high degree,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> in this age when its con&s;idered well</L>
<L>Appear at lea&s;t next to a miracle.</L>
<L>A Father, and an Husband pa&s;t compare,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> knew, which greate&s;t was his love, or care.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span">ly as I hear'd Friends and Strangers tell</L>
<L>Spou&s;e and Children made the parallel:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">hom he hes left five un&s;potted Plants,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">ill the Nation with &s;uch ble&s;&s;ed Saints,</L>
<L>The pledges of his fruitful love, and bed;</L>
<L>Happy be he that might &s;uch darlings wed.</L>
<L>To him that brings not an unworthy flamm',</L>
<L>Kind may they be, as Heaven hes been to them;</L>
<L>In them he lives, to them he did bequeath</L>
<L>His vertues as a legacie at death.</L>
<L>And every one but &s;ome fanta&s;tick &s;nake</L>
<L>Will love the off-&s;pring for their Fathers &s;ake.</L>
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<HEAD>His EPITAPH.</HEAD>
<L><HI>HEre lyes an hone&s;t heart, a valiant hand,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Knew both how to obey, and to command,</HI></L>
<L><HI>A loving Father, and an Husband kind,</HI></L>
<L><HI>A Souldier both in body, and in mind;</HI></L>
<L><HI>So &s;tout that to the pale beholders wonder</HI></L>
<L><HI>He dur&s;t encounter the amazing thunder.</HI></L>
<L><HI>And did the Honour of the</HI> Scots <HI>advance,</HI></L>
<L><HI>By prowe&s;s both through</HI> Germany, <HI>and</HI> France;</L>
<L><HI>His valour and his Loyalty was &s;een,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Against the Rebels at the</HI> Rull&yogh;ion <HI>Green.</HI></L>
<L><HI>He</HI> Hector <HI>and</HI> Uly&s;&s;es <HI>both in one,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Knew to match valour with di&s;cretion.</HI></L>
<L><HI>In point of Honour when his &s;pleen did ri&s;e,</HI></L>
<L><HI>He quell'd his foes by lightning from his eyes.</HI></L>
<L><HI>His martial frown it could at once controul,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And cure the Lethargie of a cowards Soul.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Nor did his worth alone con&s;i&s;t in warrs,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In him</HI> Minerva <HI>joyned was with</HI> Mars,</L>
<L><HI>He owed a brea&s;t to which it did appeare,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Valour and vertue native Tennants were;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Yea vertue &s;way'd her Scepter there, for both</HI></L>
<L><HI>He fear, and ba&s;ene&s;s equally did loath.</HI></L>
<L><HI>And in his Heart, which was a Sign of Grace,</HI></L>
<L><HI>God, and the Church, and King had chiefe&s;t place.</HI></L>
<L><HI>As King and Church did gratefully regard him;</HI></L>
<L><HI>So God hath call'd him home now to reward him.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Therefore let's mode&s;tly bewail our cro&s;&s;e</HI></L>
<L><HI>Heavens gain, and his can never be our lo&s;&s;e.</HI></L>
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<Q><L>Optima quaeque dies, mi&s;eris mortalibus aevi</L>
<L>Prima fugit: &s;ubeunt morbi, tri&s;tisque &s;enectus,</L>
<L>Et labor, &amp; durae rapit inclementia mortis.</L></Q>
<BIBL><HI>Virgil.</HI></BIBL>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Mr.</HI> N. PATERSON.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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