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<HEAD>AN ELEGY To the Memory of the Right Houorable THOMAS Earl of OSSORY, Who departed this Life, <HI>July</HI> the 30th. 1680.</HEAD>
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<L>LEt no man our officious ha&s;t condemn,</L>
<L>that we the lo&s;s of &s;o much worth proclaim</L>
<L>Want of his &s;ervice &s;oon had made it known,</L>
<L>And we are &s;ure but ju&s;t, the lo&s;s to own.</L>
<L>Since he is dead, there is no other way,</L>
<L>Our Gratitude for his De&s;erts to pay.</L>
<L>In his Di&s;temper every Man took part,</L>
<L>For he had &s;ure a &s;hare in every Heart.</L>
<L>To every hone&s;t Man, mo&s;t dear before,</L>
<L>But by the unhappy lo&s;s endear'd much more;</L>
<L>For 'tis a natural Vice with mankind born,</L>
<L>That &s;till the Good which we po&s;&s;e&s;s, we &s;corn.</L>
<L>Never allowing Vertue pa&s;t e&s;teem,</L>
<L>Till the Grave &s;natch what we can nere redeem.</L>
<L>Yet &s;oon as we the mighty lo&s;s &s;u&s;tain,</L>
<L>We pray, admire, and wi&s;h for it in vain;</L>
<L>How would we value it, if we had'tagain.</L>
<L>Ju&s;t &s;uch was every Engli&s;h mans concern,</L>
<L>When of his Life they did the danger learn.</L>
<L>Well might they love him; one &s;o ju&s;t and good,</L>
<L>Much greater by his Vertues, than his Blood.</L>
<L>Who ju&s;tly &s;till ambition'd a good Name,</L>
<L>Yet lov'd his Country, more than he loved Fame.</L>
<L>No fear of Death could e're his Courage &s;tay,</L>
<L>Wherever dangerous Honour led the way;</L>
<L>For this he left his Ea&s;e and plenty &s;till.</L>
<L>His natural Valour high improv'd by Skill.</L>
<L>Hardned by danger, and by con&s;tant pain.</L>
<L>His Countries Good, his great, nay only Gain.</L>
<L>For that &s;uch wonders he in Fight has wrought,</L>
<L>For that at Land and Sea &s;o often Fought.</L>
<L>Tho&s;e different Forms of War he made his own,</L>
<L>And know both better, than mo&s;t men do one.</L>
<L>In this our Briti&s;h World our God of War,</L>
<L>Great in his Martial-Acts, but greater far</L>
<L>In his untainted and firm Loyalty.</L>
<L>His con&s;tant and oft proved Fidelity</L>
<L>What to his Prince, what to the People due,</L>
<L>His hone&s;t Mind and &s;earching Judgment knew.</L>
<L>And what he knew, He &s;till to Act reduc'd</L>
<L>Hating meer notions that were nere of U&s;e.</L>
<L>Betwixr the&s;e two &s;o equally he moved,</L>
<L>That he by both was equally beloved.</L>
<L>A rare Example of a Worthy Lord,</L>
<L>His Prinees Favour have, and Countries Word.</L>
<L>And to his great and everla&s;ting pral&s;e,</L>
<L>Even in the&s;e &s;urly dark de&s;igning days;</L>
<L>The&s;e Times when mo&s;t try openly their Skill</L>
<L>In making Parties, He was hone&s;t &s;till.</L>
<L>By feign'd Affronts ne're his Duty led,</L>
<L>Ba&s;e Faction for to Countenance or Hed</L>
<L>Oh that our Lords would their lo&s;t time Redeem,</L>
<L>And not &s;o much admire, as Copy him!</L>
<L>Be good like Him, if they do like him be Great,</L>
<L>And be his Peers in Vertue as in State.</L>
<L>He who&s;e great Worth all did &s;o ju&s;tly own,</L>
<L>That Rivals in his Honour&punc; he had none.</L>
<L>To all as their de&s;erts were, He was kind,</L>
<L>Still with right Judgment and unbia&s;t Mind;</L>
<L>Great without Vanity, and without ends Ju&s;t,</L>
<L>Humble tho honoured, faithful when in Tru&s;t.</L>
<L>The dangerous fruits of too great Prai&s;es He</L>
<L>Knew well, and to decline them till was free</L>
<L>The new di&s;traction pre&s;ently he knew,</L>
<L>Love without Fear, Prai&s;e without Envy drew;</L>
<L>The Country&punc; Souldier, Souldiers Father too.</L>
<L>Should we all reckon, we &s;hould ne're give ore,</L>
<L>But to Crown the&s;e and many Vertues more.</L>
<L>His Love to our Religion &s;till was great,</L>
<L>Which he profe&s;t not as a Trick of State.</L>
<L>Le&s;t he &s;hould Favour, or an Office want,</L>
<L>His Life as well as Faith was Prote&s;tant.</L>
<L>His Theme is boundle&s;s, who his prai&s;es &s;ings,</L>
<L>Tho be&s;t of Servants to the be&s;t of Kings.</L>
<L>So after Years of pains and dangers pa&s;t,</L>
<L>In Heaven de&s;ervedly he Re&s;ts at la&s;t.</L>
<L>Mu&s;e here lets end, and wi&s;h for time to come,</L>
<L>We ne're want <HI>O&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ri's,</HI> nor like him be dumb.</L>
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<BYLINE><HI>By a tru<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> Lover of his Vertu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">s.</HI></BYLINE>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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