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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>To the Memory of the Right Honourable THOMAS LORD NAPIER Who died in FRANCE, Anno <HI>DOM. 1686.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">A Funeral ELEGIE.</HEAD>
<L>WHO without pale Amazement ponder can</L>
<L>The Di&s;&s;olution of the Frame of Man?</L>
<L>Heavens Ma&s;ter-piece, in whom the <HI>ETERNAL</HI> drew</L>
<L>His Portracture, for ravi&s;ht Earth to view,</L>
<L>That Heavenly, and Immortal &s;parks, might &s;way.</L>
<L>The Monarchie of brittle Clods of Clay:</L>
<L>Who&s;e twi&s;ted Chains compo&s;'d of Love, and Wonder,</L>
<L>Di&s;&s;olves like Ice, like Gla&s;s does brake a&s;&s;under;</L>
<L>So that each Man of Low or High Degree,</L>
<L>When weighed is lighter found than Vanitie.</L>
<L>So &s;wi&s;ts this &s;pan of Frailtie, Life, We know</L>
<L>Eagles compared, are &s;uppo&s;ed &s;low:</L>
<L>Po&s;ts on the Earth, Ships on the Sea, the Wind,</L>
<L>Motion it &s;elf is hovering left behind;</L>
<L>The&s;e to our Faith (the Souls enlightned Eye)</L>
<L>Scriptures makes Emblems of Mortalitie.</L>
<L>And by dear-bought Experience, it appears</L>
<L>Youth's downs may fall, as well as grizlie Hairs.</L>
<L>The Patient, and Phyci&s;ian, &s;trong and Weak,</L>
<L>To Death the King and Beggar are alike:</L>
<L>If &s;ins add fewel to the fire of Hell,</L>
<L>Thrice happie he in Youth that dieth well.</L>
<L>Then onely NAPIER, Thee We mu&s;t confe&s;s</L>
<L>Plac'd in the <HI>Zenith</HI> of all Happine&s;s:</L>
<L>To who&s;e Nativity the Fates did owe</L>
<L>All Glories, &s;miling Fortune can be&s;tow.</L>
<L>A Birth, ble&s;t with &s;uch Honours, Vertues, Parts,</L>
<L>That Court, or Countrey can boa&s;t for their Arts:</L>
<L>A Name, all <HI>Albion</HI> over (it is clear)</L>
<L>For Learning, Valour, Prudence had no <HI>PIER.</HI></L>
<L>Hence they, and onely they, po&s;&s;e&s;t that Name,</L>
<L>As a ju&s;t Donative of Glorious Fame;</L>
<L>Which &s;till from Age to Age no Limits knew,</L>
<L>Till Glories cre&s;cent to a Circle grew;</L>
<L>Which pa&s;&s;ing the Worlds bounds could bounded be</L>
<L>By nothing now, but va&s;t <HI>Eternitie.</HI></L>
<L>Scarce four and twenty times the po&s;ting Sun,</L>
<L>Through his Coele&s;tial Inns, the &s;igns, had run</L>
<L>Till Heavens great Privy Council (ruthle&s;s fates)</L>
<L>Above the Saphir Rafters him tran&s;lates:</L>
<L>Where he pure Vertues Plea&s;ures might obtain,</L>
<L>Who only here, had ta&s;ted of their pain.</L>
<L>Who&s;e comely Per&s;on to our ravi&s;ht Eye</L>
<L>Vi'd only with his Soul for Beautie:</L>
<L>Yet hand&s;omne&s;s was but the outward Shrin</L>
<L>To vail the Glorious Saint was lodged therein;</L>
<L>His Judgement was &s;o clear, it knew no night,</L>
<L>His Apprehen&s;ion active as the Light;</L>
<L>Who&s;e Vigour could Di&s;cover and Di&s;cern</L>
<L>The deepe&s;t My&s;teries, frail Man can learn.</L>
<L>That had he liv'd, with that &s;ame Approbation,</L>
<L>H'had write a Comment on the Revelation,</L>
<L>As that great miracle his Grand-&s;yre did,</L>
<L>Admir'd by all alive, ador'd when dead.</L>
<L>Such was this Noble Lord, where ever known,</L>
<L>Amazing Strangers, loved of his own.</L>
<L>At Home, Abroad, his Vertues prov'd his Name,</L>
<L>H'had NA PIER in the De&s;erts of Fame;</L>
<L>Yet his &s;hort Time deny'd to tell Us what,</L>
<L>Leaving Eternity to open that;</L>
<L>Onely de&s;erv'd &s;uch Trophies: at his Urn</L>
<L>That <HI>France</HI> and <HI>Brittain</HI> both at once do mourn.</L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>N. Pater&s;on.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<Q><P>Foelix qui portum &s;ubiit, in quem &s;i quis intra primos annos delatus e&s;t, non magis queri debet, quam qui cito navigavit;</P>
<BIBL>Seneca.</BIBL></Q>
<Q><L><HI>TOlle caput luctu mer&s;um, quando omnia functa</HI></L>
<L><HI>Aut moritura vides; obeunt nocte&s;que die&s;que,</HI></L>
<L><HI>A&s;traque, nec &s;olidis prode&s;t &s;ua machina terris</HI></L>
<L><HI>Ortum qnicquid babes finem timet: ibimus omnes,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Ibimus; immen&s;is urnam quatit AEAC&V;S umbris.</HI></L>
<L><HI>A&s;t hic quem gemimus, foelix; non ille rogavit,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Non timuit meruitve mori; nos anxia plebes,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Nos mi&s;eri, quibus unde dies &s;uprema, quis aevi</HI></L>
<L><HI>Exitus incertum: &s;ed &amp; hic jam numine plenus,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Et dubios ca&s;us, &amp; caecae lubrica vitae</HI></L>
<L><HI>Effugit immunis fati:</HI> Chri&s;tique <HI>beatus</HI></L>
<L><HI>Dulcibus alloquiis &amp; vivis vultibus ardet.</HI></L>
<BIBL>Statius Evangelizans.</BIBL></Q>
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