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<HEAD>ELEGIE On the Univer&s;ally Lamented Death, of DUNCAN RONALD: Director Depute of the Chancelary, and Writer to his Ma|je&s;ties Signet.</HEAD>
<P>Who died at EDINBURGH, Augu&s;t 1700.</P>
<LG>
<HEAD>D</HEAD>
<L>This year at <HI>Rome</HI> the Jubilie doth &s;tand;</L>
<L>But whether Death or Pope doth mo&s;t Command,</L>
<L>My Querie! pray tell me Travler now,</L>
<L>Where Death inhabites, Reigns, and pays his vow!</L>
<L>If you can tell me, where this King do Lodge;</L>
<L>I'le be thy va&s;&s;al, and thy &s;orley Drudge.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>U</HEAD>
<L>Death! Death! our Kings, our Queens, our Nobles all,</L>
<L>Our Knights, our Barrons, Lairds, by thee they fall;</L>
<L>Our <HI>Dives, Lazrus,</HI> Senecas, and Lords;</L>
<L>Can never &s;cape thy deadly fatal Cords.</L>
<L>Why is it &s;o! By hear us alone decree,</L>
<L>Men mu&s;t be living, al&s;o men mu&s;t die</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>N</HEAD>
<L>But ah! Death, now thou carries high thine hand,</L>
<L>Thou &s;oars aloft; we cannot thee Command:</L>
<L>Thou &s;hoots (like Cupid) Arrows from the Skyes,</L>
<L>Thou &s;ends thy da<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ts, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> the mortal Dies,</L>
<L>Ah me! why &s;o! can nothing <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> Dimonds never <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>C</HEAD>
<L>No, no, &s;ay'th Death: for why! my time is come,</L>
<L>My Scepter Crown, are old and Reign nigh run&punc;</L>
<L>I'm but a va&s;&s;al of the pow'rs above&punc;</L>
<L>I mu&s;t di&s;play the Banner of my love.</L>
<L>For Death's my name, a Lyon I mu&s;t be,</L>
<L>Untill my day's be turn'd to Eternity.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>A</HEAD>
<L>Now Judgements nigh, the World is near an end;</L>
<L>My Sword is &s;harpe&s;t when I mu&s;t Defend,</L>
<L>My cau&s;e; and my Commi&s;&s;ion I di&s;play,</L>
<L>When du&s;t I &s;end to Du&s;t their Natives clay.</L>
<L>So Queries are but idle, vain to thee;</L>
<L>Read Birth, Death, Judgement and Eternitie.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>N</HEAD>
<L>For if I could have &s;par'd a Lov'ly Face;</L>
<L><HI>Helen</HI> of <HI>Troy,</HI> might damped me with Grace.</L>
<L>If Riches; <HI>Cre&s;us</HI> might have brib'd me then:</L>
<L>If Grace or beauty, or the &s;ons of men,</L>
<L>Then might I have had Thou&s;ands at my hand,</L>
<L>Of <HI>Ab&s;oloms,</HI> and <HI>Solomons</HI> to &s;tand.</L>
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<LG>
<L>If Learning <HI>Cicero, Seneca,</HI> the&s;e Wits,</L>
<L>Wou'd play'd me Mu&s;ick, when I took my Fits,</L>
<L>Al&s;e well as <HI>DAVID;</HI> But no Harmonie</L>
<L>Can Wound Me; <HI>Magick,</HI> cannot Blind mine Eye.</L>
<L>Nay, Kings and Emperours are my <HI>Trophies</HI> &s;till,</L>
<L>Who then can Bribe me, who has all at Will.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>R</HEAD>
<L>Thy <HI>DUNCAN RONNALD,</HI> Depute of the <HI>Rolls,</HI></L>
<L>The Keeper of Thy <HI>Chartors, Sea&s;ines, Scrolls,</HI></L>
<L>Might been Pre&s;erv'd, if Grace or Parts might do:</L>
<L>But who's the Man, I &s;pare, of Candour, now.</L>
<L>Yes, weep ye may, ye <HI>Scribes</HI> and Writers throng!</L>
<L>But ye that Weep, mu&s;t meet Me Ere't be long.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>O</HEAD>
<L>Kindne&s;s of Nature, <HI>Sympathie</HI> Indites,</L>
<L>Our Mourning over <HI>RONNALD,</HI> and Invites:</L>
<L>He was a Man of <HI>Geni<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">usne&s;s</HI> and <HI>Arts,</HI></L>
<L>Divine and Moral; Lov'd by Men of Parts.</L>
<L>What's more; He had the Popular Applau&s;e,</L>
<L>Of <HI>Commons, Learning's, Enemies,</HI> and Foes.</L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>N</HEAD>
<L>He carri'd Civil in his <HI>Po&s;t</HI> and <HI>Chaire</HI></L>
<L>Of Honour's Di&s;trict, void of Anxious Fear;</L>
<L>Content with Fortune, Providence's Decree,</L>
<L>And vain Ambition, Emptine&s;s did <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 line"></L>
<L>For fear of With'ring here among his Foes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>A</HEAD>
<L>Well &s;poke, O <HI>Death!</HI> Crown Me with Mortal Rayes,</L>
<L>Come, &s;tay no longer, quickly cut My Dayes;</L>
<L>Since We mu&s;t Pa&s;s to Heav'n through <HI>Baca</HI>'s Vale,</L>
<L>Hoi&s;e Anchor, Death, &s;et M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">zons on thy Sail:</L>
<L>For Dye We mu&s;t, before we come to be,</L>
<L>With <HI>DUNCAN RONNALD</HI> in Pro&s;peritie.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>L</HEAD>
<L>For We mu&s;t walk by Faith, as <HI>RONNALD</HI> did,</L>
<L>And get Our <HI>Chartor-Party,</HI> to be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">id,</L>
<L>In Our <HI>Rece&s;ses:</HI> Pray'r mu&s;t be the Key,</L>
<L>Love and A&s;&s;ureance, twofold <HI>Charitie.</HI></L>
<L>Then <HI>JESUS</HI> Merits, <HI>Jacobs</HI> Ladder can,</L>
<L>Make <HI>Scarlet Sins,</HI> made whiter than a Swan.</L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>D</HEAD>
<L>Death, Death, deny us Fate of Sudden Calls,</L>
<L>Seize but <HI>Gradatim,</HI> e're you break Our Walls;</L>
<L>Then Sound Thy Trumpet, as a <HI>Jona</HI> Shrill:</L>
<L>Our Bodies Yield, decay to Du&s;t they will.</L>
<L>For Moulder Dwindle, and con&s;ume to Du&s;t,</L>
<L>Men (Du&s;t they are) Return to it they mu&s;t.</L>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Hoec raptim &amp; cur&s;um Compo&s;uit,</HI> Mr. GEORGE DEMPSTER</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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