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<HEAD><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">ELEGY On the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> of the Mo&s;t Ill&s;trious PRINCE <HI>HENRY</HI> DUKE of GLOUCESTER, Third Brother to our mo&s;t Gracious Soveraigne <UNCLEAR>Lord</UNCLEAR> KING <HI>CHARLES</HI> the Second, Who Decea&s;ed <UNCLEAR>this</UNCLEAR> pre&s;ent LIVE <DATE>the 13th&punc; of <HI>September</HI> 1660.</DATE></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">TOGETHER W<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3+ letters">tation of all his Vertues and Religious Acts, Prudent Coun&s;ells, and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters">ely Behaviours both in the R<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">lm of <HI>England,</HI> and beyond the Seas.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> Sacred Flame&punc; <UNCLEAR>What Glorious light?</UNCLEAR></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> that left the World in &s;uch a fright,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> all were in a doubt</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> when his Soul went out,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 line"></L>
<L>World was <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> Glory,</L>
<L>Of &s;uch an O<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2 letters">entiall pearle,we know</L>
<L>Angels Injoy'd him, while we Mourn below:</L>
<L>For &s;uch a &s;weet and Lovely lo&s;&s;e as he,</L>
<L>Younge&s;t of years did Blu&s;h in his Maturity;</L>
<L>Who&s;e Fragrant &s;miles, &amp; Crim&s;on coloured Cheek,</L>
<L>In prime&s;t of beauties, all might far go &s;eek:</L>
<L>And &s;till will &s;ay, not finding &s;uch a one,</L>
<L>The prime Cornation of the Gardens gone,</L>
<L>The Earth &s;urrender'd him, he was to &s;weet,</L>
<L>An Orient Fabrick, here with us to keep,</L>
<L>For Angells them&s;elves, in Heaven they,</L>
<L>Made compo&s;ition to take him away:</L>
<L>For who&s;e rich Vertues &s;weet Society,</L>
<L>Need mu&s;t they Crown him with Immortality:</L>
<L>O ble&s;&s;ed Prince! who thought thy Coronation</L>
<L>Had been &s;o near in this thy Tran&s;portation:</L>
<L>Unto a Heavenly Kingdom, all doth know,</L>
<L>But could not we have Crown'd thee here below;</L>
<L>Heavens &s;aid nay to that, and with Applau&s;e,</L>
<L>Advanct thy Soul, to &s;weet Halelujahs,</L>
<L>Heavenly Harmonies, Angelical Prai&s;e,</L>
<L>Circle thy Throne in mo&s;t Glorious Raies;</L>
<L>Of Triumphant Graces, among&s;t the holy Dieties,</L>
<L>Who&s;e wonderous Vertues, and Godly Pieties,</L>
<L>Exceeds a <HI>Solomon,</HI> the world doth know,</L>
<L>That &s;uch a tender Branch, could vertue &s;hew,</L>
<L>In &s;uch abundance, and of &s;uch a prize,</L>
<L>The Worlds too little for to Equalize;</L>
<L>His admirable parts he had of late,</L>
<L>Which could give Coun&s;ell, to a Church and State:</L>
<L>To all good things, by Nature did Incline,</L>
<L>He &s;prung from &s;uch a good and Godly Vine,</L>
<L>Of Royall Decent, and Linage of a King,</L>
<L>Peace, Vertue, and Religion well Grounded in:</L>
<L>His Sacred Flames, no le&s;&s;e Divine then bright,</L>
<L>That Heaven it &s;elf unto him took Delight,</L>
<L>And in an in&s;tant open'd on each &s;ide</L>
<L>That through the Aire, mo&s;t gently down did glide,</L>
<L>A Curious Chariot, of <HI>Azur</HI> cullered hew,</L>
<L>That <HI>Cherubins</HI> and <HI>Ceraphins</HI> mo&s;t glorious drew,</L>
<L>Guarded by Angells Everla&s;ting Smiles,</L>
<L>Clouds of <HI>Auroras</HI> culler bore the Wheeles,</L>
<L>Whereon their Heavenly Banners did di&s;play,</L>
<L>To take this &s;eemed Diety away:</L>
<L>And made a <HI>Coronis</HI> of Stars to be</L>
<L>His mortall Crown unto Eternity;</L>
<L>An Earthly one was not for his behoof,</L>
<L>El&s;e Heavens did not think it good enough;</L>
<L>For to adorn him with an earthly prai&s;e,</L>
<L>Or wreath his &s;acred Head with laurel bayes:</L>
<L>No no, to Heaven he mu&s;t &s;oon depart,</L>
<L>And leave a Mournfull Realm without a Heart:</L>
<L>His lo&s;&s;e with forrow doth the Land involve,</L>
<L>But that the Royall State is not di&s;&s;olv'd:</L>
<L>O<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> he that truly would Mourn for &s;uch a Man,</L>
<L>To find him tears, &s;hould drain the Ocean;</L>
<L>And leave no more in't, with a grieved heart,</L>
<L>Then one Ararat under <HI>Noah</HI>'s Ark:</L>
<L>But can tears cea&s;e us, or complaints renew</L>
<L>This Vertuous Prince, that Heavens will not doe;</L>
<L>Except Cele&s;tiall, then his purity</L>
<L>Tran&s;cends the cry&s;tall apple of the eye;</L>
<L>So then if grief by no means can revive,</L>
<L>'Twill be &s;o happy to keep Fame alive;</L>
<L>And &s;ay ble&s;t Prince of everla&s;ting prai&s;e,</L>
<L>Thy Country gloried in thy youthfull daies:</L>
<L>O glorious Heavens! why wert thou &s;o prone</L>
<L>To extract his immortall Soul from us &s;o &s;oon;</L>
<L>That we more fuller all may here declare</L>
<L>Our plaints, we &s;hould lay by our tears which are</L>
<L>Too weak for &s;uch a lo&s;s; we now &s;hould &s;lack</L>
<L>With a ju&s;t &s;igh, the center and awake</L>
<L>The &s;pirit of Grief, that &s;o our Ancients may</L>
<L>Make our love known in what we mournfull &s;ay.</L>
<L>Wee've lo&s;t our Prince, a glorious light we mi&s;s,</L>
<L>The very of-&s;pring and the root of <HI>Je&s;s,</HI></L>
<L>Which in the highe&s;t Heavens now in &s;hrouds</L>
<L>All immortality above the Clouds,</L>
<L>Of eternall ble&s;&s;edne&s;&s;e: O! may we find.</L>
<L>Joy in tho&s;e Royall <HI>Branches</HI> left behind;</L>
<L>Since that Divine providence hath it &s;o,</L>
<L>Let grief befriend us, that we all may grow</L>
<L>Rich in thy Vertues, and be Noble bent,</L>
<L>To Honour thy Relicks in thy Monument:</L>
<L>So ending in thy glorious &s;plendid lu&s;ter</L>
<L>Of Thrice Renowned <HI>HENRY</HI> Duke of <HI>Glouce&s;ter.</HI></L>
<BIBL><HI>Tho. Howard.</HI></BIBL>
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