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<P>MEMENTO MORI</P>
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<P>AN ELEGY <HI>Vpon the Death of</HI> M^r^. WILLIAM LILLY The A&s;trologer.</P>
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<L>OUR Prophet's gone: No longer may our Ears</L>
<L>Be charm'd with Mu&s;ick of th' harmonious Spheres.</L>
<L>Let Sun and Moon withdraw, leave gloomy Night</L>
<L>To &s;hew their Nuncio's Fate, who gave more Light</L>
<L>To th' erring World, than all the feeble Rays</L>
<L>Of Sun or Moon; taught us to know tho&s;e Days</L>
<L>Bright <HI>Titan</HI> makes; followed the ha&s;ty Sun</L>
<L>Through all his Circuits; knew the uncon&s;tant Moon,</L>
<L>And more uncon&s;tant Ebbings of the Flood,</L>
<L>And what is mo&s;t uncertain, th' factious Brood,</L>
<L>Flowing in civil Broils; by th' Heavens could date</L>
<L>The Flux and Reflux of our dubious State.</L>
<L>He &s;aw th' Eclip&s;e of Sun, and change of Moon:</L>
<L>He &s;aw, but &s;eeing would not &s;hun his own.</L>
<L>Eclip&s;'d he was, that he might &s;hine more bright,</L>
<L>And only chang'd to give a fuller Light.</L>
<L>He having view'd the Sky, and glorious Train</L>
<L>Of gilded Stars, &s;corn'd longer to remain</L>
<L>In earthly Pri&s;ons. Could he a Village love,</L>
<L>Whom the twelve Hou&s;es waited for above?</L>
<L>The grateful Stars a heavenly Man&s;ion gave</L>
<L>T' his heavenly Soul, nor could he be a Slave</L>
<L>To mortal Pa&s;&s;ions, who&s;e immortal Mind,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t here on Earth, was not to Earth confin'd.</L>
<L>He mu&s;t be gone: The Stars had &s;o decreed,</L>
<L>As he of them, &s;o they of him had need.</L>
<L>This Me&s;&s;age 'twas the blazing Comet brought,</L>
<L>I &s;aw the palefac'd Star, and &s;eeing thought</L>
<L>(For we could gue&s;s; but only <HI>Lilly</HI> know)</L>
<L>It did &s;ome glorious Hero's Fall fore&s;how.</L>
<L>A Hero's faln, who&s;e death more than a War</L>
<L>Or Fire, de&s;erv'd a Comet. Th' ob&s;equious Stars</L>
<L>Could do no le&s;s than his &s;ad Fate unfold,</L>
<L>Who had their Ri&s;ings, and their Settings told.</L>
<L>Some thought a Plague, and &s;ome a Famine near,</L>
<L>Some Wars from <HI>France,</HI> &s;ome Fires at home did fear.</L>
<L>Nor did they fear too much, &s;carce kinder Fate.</L>
<L>But Plague of Plagues befell th' unhappy State,</L>
<L>When <HI>Lilly</HI> dy'd. Now Swords may &s;afely come</L>
<L>From <HI>France</HI> or <HI>Rome,</HI> Fanaticks plot at home;</L>
<L>Now an un&s;een and unexpected Hand,</L>
<L>By guidance of ill Stars, may hurt our Land.</L>
<L>Un&s;afe, becau&s;e Secure, there's none to &s;how</L>
<L>How <HI>England</HI> may avert the fatal Blow.</L>
<L>He's dead, who&s;e Death the weeping Clouds deplore:</L>
<L>I wi&s;h we did not ow to him that Shower,</L>
<L>Which long expected was, and might have &s;till</L>
<L>Expected been, had not our Nation's ill</L>
<L>Drawn from the Heavens a Sympathetick Tear.</L>
<L><HI>England</HI> hath cau&s;e a &s;econd Drought to fear;</L>
<L>We have no &s;econd <HI>Lilly,</HI> who may die,</L>
<L>And by his Death may make the Heavens cry.</L>
<L>Then let your Annals, <HI>Coley,</HI> want this day,</L>
<L>Think every Year, Leap-Year, or if't mu&s;t &s;tay,</L>
<L>Cloath it in Black, let a &s;ad Note &s;tand by,</L>
<L>And &s;tigmatize it to Po&s;terity.</L>
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<P>LONDON, <HI>Printed for</HI> Obadiah Blagrave, <HI>at the</HI> Bear <HI>in St.</HI> Pauls <HI>Church-yard, near the little North Door.</HI> 1681. <DATE><ADD>July 11</ADD></DATE></P>
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