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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>MEMENTO MORI</P>
<FIGDESC>depictions of skeleton, hourglass, and other emblems of Death</FIGDESC>
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<HEAD>AN ELEGY ON That Great Example of Heroick Valour The Right Honourable, Edvvard Earl of Sandvvich.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>SHall Mercenary Pens <HI>Pro&s;titute</HI> Ver&s;e,</L>
<L>To <HI>Guild</HI> with Flatteries each Trivial Hear&s;e?</L>
<L>And &s;trive in vain t'<HI>Imbalme</HI> &s;ome <HI>Silken Sot,</HI></L>
<L>Who&s;e <HI>Name</HI> de&s;erves, &s;oon as his <HI>Corps</HI> to Rot:</L>
<L>Shall <HI>u&s;ele&s;s men,</HI> whom Age, or Surfeits Slay,</L>
<L>Or <HI>ju&s;t de&s;erv'd Di&s;ea&s;es</HI> &s;weep away,</L>
<L>Have <HI>Gaudy</HI> Tombs, and <HI>Epitaphs,</HI> that ri&s;e</L>
<L>In &s;trange Impert'nent <HI>Plaudit's</HI> to the skies,</L>
<L>And <HI>Noble SANDWICH</HI> thus &s;ubmit to <UNCLEAR>Fate</UNCLEAR></L>
<L>Without a Mu&s;e, his <HI>FAME</HI> to Celebrate;</L>
<L>Condoling in &s;uch Pa&s;&s;ionate <HI>Strains,</HI> till we</L>
<L>In our own <HI>Tears,</HI> be drown'd as well as <HI>HE.</HI></L>
<L>He that in <HI>Honours Field,</HI> his Countries Cau&s;e</L>
<L>Did more, than <HI>Fancy</HI> can reach when it draws</L>
<L>The Acts of <HI>Hero's,</HI> and will henceforth &s;hame</L>
<L>The <HI>brightest Glories</HI> of the <HI>Roman</HI> Name:</L>
<L>Who &s;tood the <HI>Shock</HI> of all the <HI>Mogan</HI> Fleet,</L>
<L>And almo&s;t <HI>Single</HI> dur&s;t their <HI>numbers</HI> meet:</L>
<L>'Gain&s;t whom he <HI>long</HI> maintain'd a doubtful fight,</L>
<L>Di&s;patching <HI>Hundreds</HI> to Eternal Night;</L>
<L>(Who&s;e <HI>ba&s;e Lives</HI> yet no Recompence afford,</L>
<L>Their blood's &s;o thick it <HI>Blots</HI> a Noble Sword;)</L>
<L>Some <HI>Sunk</HI> to Rights, not able to abide</L>
<L>The fierce &s;alutes He gave them each <HI>Broad-&s;ide:</HI></L>
<L>Others <HI>&s;tood off,</HI> their <HI>Hulks</HI> and <HI>Tackle</HI> tore,</L>
<L>And Decks o'reflow'd with Brandy &amp; with <HI>Gore.</HI></L>
<L>But <HI>Fate,</HI> that &s;ometimes makes <HI>Vertue</HI> its &s;lave,</L>
<L>And takes delight for to oppre&s;s the <HI>Brave,</HI></L>
<L>Seeming at length with the Foe to Con&s;pire,</L>
<L>Spight of Re&s;i&s;tance, &s;et his Ship on <HI>Fire:</HI></L>
<L>Though he with Noble Re&s;olution cho&s;e</L>
<L>Either to bring her <HI>Off,</HI> or his Life lo&s;e:</L>
<L>VVhen thick as <HI>Attoms</HI> Cannon Bullets flew</L>
<L>And all his men were <HI>kill'd,</HI> or el&s;e <HI>withdrew:</HI></L>
<L>When &s;toute&s;t <HI>rocks,</HI> that Tempe&s;ts did out-brave</L>
<L>Trembled for fear, and <HI>duckt</HI> under a Wave:</L>
<L>When certain <HI>ruine</HI> on all &s;ides drew near,</L>
<L>And Death in &s;everal <HI>Vizards</HI> did appear;</L>
<L>The cruel <HI>Elements</HI> &s;eeming at &s;trife,</L>
<L>VVhich of them <HI>first</HI> &s;hould rob him of his Life:</L>
<L>Had you but &s;een how <HI>&V;nconcern'd</HI> he &s;tood,</L>
<L><HI>Flames</HI> over's Head, his Feet dabling in Blood;</L>
<L>In what a <HI>fearle&s;s</HI> and <HI>compos'd</HI> E&s;tate</L>
<L>He <HI>brav'd</HI> the approach of the &s;evere&s;t Fate;</L>
<L>And did at la&s;t <HI>from</HI> Death <HI>to</HI> Death Retire</L>
<L>Courting the <HI>Water,</HI> to avoid the <HI>Fire;</HI></L>
<L>You would confe&s;s, &s;uch <HI>Courage</HI> ne'r can be</L>
<L>Enough bewail'd in griefs <HI>Hydrography.</HI></L>
<L>And would you, <HI>Cruel Seas!</HI> de&s;troy Him there</L>
<L>Whom rageing Fire, &amp; Cannon-&s;hot did &s;pare?</L>
<L>By this <HI>Black</HI> deed henceforward you'l become</L>
<L>More odious for, than <HI>Mare Mortuum.</HI></L>
<L>Kind <HI>Dolphines</HI> &s;hould methinks in Shoals appea<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>And on their Backs him above VVater bear;</L>
<L>Or &s;ome <HI>new I&s;land</HI> in his Re&s;cue peep,</L>
<L>Rather than he &s;hould Peri&s;h in the Deep:</L>
<L>Could not the <HI>Winds</HI> to Countermand his death</L>
<L>with their whole <HI>Card of lungs,</HI> redeem his breath</L>
<L>No! 'tis decre'd, his <HI>Soul</HI> mu&s;t leave her <HI>Clay,</HI></L>
<L>And took at parting a contrary way</L>
<L>I'th Flames, <HI>Elias-like,</HI> that up a&s;cends,</L>
<L>And to it every ble&s;&s;ed Center tends:</L>
<L>VVhil&s;t <HI>Sea-Nimphs</HI> ne'r Enamour'd &s;o before</L>
<L>Doat on the Corps, and wa&s;t it to the Shore:</L>
<L>Knowing it ought, a Nobler Tomb to have,</L>
<L>Than the Impo&s;thum'd Bubble of a VVave.</L>
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<P><UNCLEAR>MEMENTO MORI</UNCLEAR></P>
<FIGDESC>depictions of skeleton, hourglass, and other emblems of Death</FIGDESC>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Philip Brooksby.</HI></P>
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