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<HEAD>ELEGIE ON THE UNIVERSALY LAMENTED DEATH OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LADY ANN ELCHO.</HEAD>
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<L>THe univer&s;e, it &s;eems, is drawing nigh,</L>
<L>It's final, and foredom'd Catastrophie.</L>
<L>We have &s;een, it's firie preluds &s;ei&s;e upon,</L>
<L>And marr the glory of our <HI>Caledone,</HI></L>
<L>In her mo&s;t &s;tately &s;tructurs, And we &s;ee,</L>
<L>That human kind is not from the &s;ame free,</L>
<L>And burning &s;eavers every where do wa&s;te,</L>
<L>And moulder humane bodies unto du&s;t,</L>
<L>As if this pre&s;ent Age were to expire,</L>
<L>Both with all time, and th' univer&s;al fire.</L>
<L>My Lady <HI>ELCHO</HI> we the more Lament,</L>
<L>That She by a <HI>malignant</HI> flame is &s;ent,</L>
<L>And earlie to the charnel hou&s;e doth pa&s;s,</L>
<L>Since nothing of <HI>malignant</HI> in Her was:</L>
<L>She's as i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">lu&s;trious in her pedegree;</L>
<L>And name, as the mo&s;t Noble family.</L>
<L>That's here: her father's, and her brother's bays,</L>
<L>Are as exten&s;ive as <HI>Apollo's</HI> rays;</L>
<L>All the con&s;picious honours of the face,</L>
<L>And &s;ymmetrie, our Lady <HI>ANN</HI> did grace.</L>
<L>And all the rare accompli&s;hments we find,</L>
<L>Di&s;per&s;'d in others, renter'd in Her mind.</L>
<L>A &s;now like candor did adorn Her Soul;</L>
<L>It ever was without all fraud and guile;</L>
<L>And all the actions, which from hence did flow,</L>
<L>Were like the &s;ource upright, and &s;erene too;</L>
<L>She of all other vertues had &s;uch &s;tore,</L>
<L>As there be flowers which <HI>Flora</HI>'s brow decore.</L>
<L>So were't the cu&s;tom now to canonize,</L>
<L>We might Her in the Alb of &s;aints compri&s;e:</L>
<L>She either was as free from &s;tains as they,</L>
<L>Or had She faults, the flame purg'd the&s;e away.</L>
<L>And She's gone &s;traight above the &s;tarry pole,</L>
<L>Leaving Her noble Husband to condole.</L>
<L>His double lo&s;s Alace! a phra&s;e to mild!</L>
<L>Where His mo&s;t loving Lady and dear Child,</L>
<L>Or rather Children, and all hopes from them,</L>
<L>A&s;cend like to <HI>Elijah</HI> in a flame,</L>
<L>Onlie well grounded hopes of Her ble&s;t &s;tate,</L>
<L>Can His exce&s;&s;ive agonies abate,</L>
<L>And the two hopeful boys She left behind,</L>
<L>May mitigat the &s;orrows of His mind,</L>
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<P><HI>EDIN B&V;RGH</HI> Printed by <HI>George Jaffrey, ANNO</HI> 1700.</P>
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