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<HEAD>AN ELEGY Upon the Mo&s;t Illu&s;trious and High Born PRINCE RUPERT Duke of Cumberland, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>One of His Maje&s;ties Mo&s;t Honourable <HI>Privy-Council,</HI> and one of the Mo&s;t Honourable Order of the <HI>Garter,</HI> Son of the Mo&s;t Illu&s;trious Prince <HI>Frederick</HI> the 5th, Prince <HI>Elector Palatine</HI> of the <HI>Rhine,</HI> and the High-Born Prince&s;s the Lady <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> Si&s;ter to our late Soveraign of Ble&s;&s;ed Memory, King <HI>Charles</HI> the fir&s;t, and Queen of <HI>Bohemia,</HI> who <HI>Decea&s;ed</HI> on the 29th of this In&s;tant <HI>November,</HI> 1682. to the great grief of all His Maje&s;ties Loyal Subjects.</P>
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<L>CAN a great <HI>Hero</HI>'s Soul and Body part,</L>
<L>And not fore&s;hown by Nature, nor by Art!</L>
<L>Can the Great Princely <HI>R&V;PERT</HI> leave the World,</L>
<L>And no part of't into di&s;order hurl'd!</L>
<L>No <HI>Blazing-Star!</HI> Eclip&s;e of <HI>Moon</HI> nor <HI>Sun</HI></L>
<L>To u&s;her his depart, or's Death forerun!</L>
<L>Methinks it &s;hould not be! A Soul &s;o Great,</L>
<L>A Soul &s;o Noble, every way compleat,</L>
<L>Should leave us thus in &s;ilence, and depart,</L>
<L>And Nature &s;hew us that &s;he felt no &s;mart!</L>
<L>In what parts bu&s;ied were our <HI>Merlin</HI>'s Eyes?</L>
<L>Had our Great Prince no Star within the Skies,</L>
<L>That could before hand the effect relate,</L>
<L>To have prepar'd us for &s;o &s;ad a fate?</L>
<L>From all his Warlike toyls he now doth cea&s;e,</L>
<L>He's gone, alas! and left us all in Peace:</L>
<L>Like other Men he &s;ilently doth &s;leep,</L>
<L>And left Three Kingdoms the &s;ad lo&s;s to weep.</L>
<L>From Earth below, to Heaven above he's gon,</L>
<L>For the Reward of his Great Actions done,</L>
<L>For our Two Kings, the Father and the Son.</L>
<L>He gains by Death, the World alone hath lo&s;t,</L>
<L><HI>Europe</HI> will mi&s;s him, but &s;ad <HI>England</HI> mo&s;t.</L>
<L>A Mighty Pillar of the State is broke,</L>
<L>Three Kingdoms &s;eem to tremble at the &s;troke:</L>
<L>And all who love the King and Kingdom, now,</L>
<L>For &s;uch a lo&s;s no &s;mall concern will &s;how.</L>
<L>With a &s;ad Heart the King doth entertain</L>
<L>The heavy news, and can't from tears refrain;</L>
<L>For <HI>R&V;PERT</HI> lay nigh to His Royal Heart,</L>
<L>And of His Love de&s;erv'd no little part:</L>
<L>But this Great Prince, what is obtain'd by few,</L>
<L>Had both the Love of King and People too.</L>
<L>Of others his great merits got the &s;tart,</L>
<L>Compelling to adore him every Heart;</L>
<L>All &s;orts of Men, tho' different in their ways,</L>
<L>Agreed the Name of <HI>R&V;PERT</HI> &s;till to prai&s;e:</L>
<L>His worth they all admired with con&s;ent,</L>
<L>And now his Death as generally lament.</L>
<L>The King has lo&s;t a Councellor of State,</L>
<L>Who knew as well to Act, as to Debate;</L>
<L>One who had Wi&s;dom, Courage, Prudence, Wit,</L>
<L>Things that together one Soul &s;eldome &s;it.</L>
<L>The Church in him has lo&s;t no &s;mall &s;upport,</L>
<L>For he there &s;hin'd as bright as at the Court.</L>
<L>All <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> have lo&s;t a &s;ure defence,</L>
<L>He to their Cau&s;e was true, as to his Prince.</L>
<L>In him the Kingdom too has lo&s;t a Shield,</L>
<L>Still ready to defend it in the Field:</L>
<L>For in the Gap, in danger he did &s;tand,</L>
<L>Freely expo&s;ing Life by Sea and Land.</L>
<L>His Noble Acts with <HI>Caezars</HI> may compare;</L>
<L>Like him, as bold, &s;ucce&s;sful &s;till in War:</L>
<L>For Victory &s;till &s;eem'd to be his Friend,</L>
<L>And him where e're he Fought &s;he did attend.</L>
<L><HI>England</HI> his Courage and great Acts have known,</L>
<L>When in his Youth he did defend the Throne</L>
<L>Of his mo&s;t gracious Uncle, then, even then</L>
<L>He did &s;urpa&s;s the Acts of Famous men;</L>
<L>Where e're he did his Loyal Force di&s;play,</L>
<L>He made the Conquering Rebel &s;till give way;</L>
<L>And tho' his &s;ide to Cruel Fate did yield,</L>
<L>He was him&s;elf Victorious &s;till in Field:</L>
<L>For Victory her &s;elf to him gave way,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t like a Lion &s;till he &s;eiz'd his prey;</L>
<L>The <HI>French</HI> have &s;een what this great Prince could do,</L>
<L>The <HI>Dutch</HI> have felt his dreadful Valour too,</L>
<L>His very Name at la&s;t a Terror grew.</L>
<L>Nor did he ra&s;hly fight the Foe, for &s;till</L>
<L>His forward Courage mixed was with skill;</L>
<L>So very Dextrous he grew, that He</L>
<L>Beat them in their own Element, the Sea.</L>
<L>Among the <HI>Hero</HI>'s of the <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> Land,</L>
<L>The glorious Name of our great Prince &s;hall &s;tand;</L>
<L>His Valiant deeds &s;hall never be forgot,</L>
<L>Nor &s;hall among the Common Rubbi&s;h rot;</L>
<L>Whil&s;t Hi&s;tories live, whil&s;t there's a Mouth for Fame,</L>
<L>The World will hear of Mighty <HI>Ruperts</HI> Name,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t the World la&s;ts, whil&s;t Time about doth role,</L>
<L>Here he &s;hall live in Fame from Pole to Pole,</L>
<L>And in the Heavens Eternally his Soul.</L>
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<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed for <HI>Tho. Benskin</HI> in St. <HI>Brides Church-yard,</HI> MDCLXXXII.</P>
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