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<P>THE MUSES DIRGE, CONSECRATED TO the Remembrance of the High and Mightie Monarch, IAMES, by the Grace of <HI>God, late King of</HI> Great Brittaine, France, and Ireland; Who decea&s;ed at <HI>Theobalds,</HI> vpon Sunday, being the &s;euen and twen|tieth of March, 1<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">5.</P>
<P>Written by <HI>Richard James,</HI> Ma&s;ter of Arts, and Preacher of Gods Word at <HI>Stoke-Newington,</HI> in the Countie of <HI>Middle|&s;ex, neere</HI> LONDON.</P>
<P>LONDON, Printed by <HI>A.M.</HI> and <HI>I.N.</HI> for <HI>Iohn Browne,</HI> and are to bee &s;old at his Shop in <HI>Pauls</HI> Church|yard, at the Signe of the Crane. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">25.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
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<HEAD>TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE EDVVARD Lord CONVVAY Barron of RAGGLEY, and one of his Maie&s;ties Principall Secretaries: And to the Right Wor&s;hipfull Sir FRANCIS POPHAM <HI>Knight,</HI> RICHARD IAMES wi&s;heth all Temporall and Spi|rituall Happine&s;&s;e.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>_RIGHT Honourable, and Right Wor|&s;hipfull,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>my publike zeale to the one f you, and my priuate ingagements to the other, haue inuit<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> mee to this Dedica|tion; In it you may &s;ee a King dead, and liuing: dead according to the fle&s;h, but liuing in the monument of his vertues, which &s;uruiue beyond all de&s;olation, be|yond all Funeralls. Their lu&s;tre and irradiation is &s;uch, both in the fir&s;t action, and in the thence procee|ding precedent of their examples, that in them|&s;elues, they neede no Panegiris, nor Commendation. But yet that I might expre&s;&s;e my zeale to his Tombe,
<PB REF="3">I did my obedience to his Crowne, I haue brought the myte of the&s;e Tributary Layes, to the Con&s;ecrated Al|tar of his remembrance. If your Candor and worthi|ne&s;&s;e entertaine them fauourably, and giue them a free and noble acceptance, the <HI>Authour</HI> &s;hall thinke his endeauours fortunate, and &s;hall for euer re&s;t:</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your Honours, and your Wor&s;hips euer deuoted</HI> Seruant. <HI>RICHARD IAMES.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
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<HEAD>THE MVSES DIRGE.</HEAD>
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<LG>
<L>_BEehold this heape of bones, this &s;en&s;le&s;&s;e &s;cull,</L>
<L>This &s;peaking Embleme repre&s;ents at full</L>
<L>Mans fraile e&s;tate, which like vnto the gra&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Doth fade, and wither, and away doth pa&s;&s;e</L>
<L>In le&s;&s;e then time: So that from out the wombe</L>
<L>We come no &s;ooner, but vnto the Tombe</L>
<L>we make our Cour&s;e, this being Heaue'ns decree</L>
<L>Since the fir&s;t fruite of the forbidden Tree</L>
<L>Was chew'd by <HI>Adam;</HI> that his &s;eed allwayes</L>
<L>Should haue on Earth but few, and euill daies.</L>
<L>The truth whereof, we with wet eyes may &s;ee</L>
<L>In this &s;ad Mirrour of Mortalitie,</L>
<L>Who&s;e dayes though Long, were euen as a Span</L>
<L>To great <HI>Iehouaes</HI> wide all mea&s;uring hand.</L>
<L>Who&s;e daies though good, had yet their thorny &s;hares</L>
<L>Of worldly griefes, and Scepter cirkling cares.</L>
<L>Which he &s;urmounting with the powerfull &s;trength</L>
<L>Of his Seraphicke Soule, or'e &s;wai'd at length</L>
<L>Eu'n as at fir&s;t; transforming all their gall</L>
<L>(Which makes &s;o many Soules &s;icke mortalls thrall)</L>
<L>To &s;weete <HI>Nepenthe,</HI> with who&s;e plea&s;ures drunke</L>
<L>Vnder their Ma&s;&s;e. his vigour neuer &s;uncke</L>
<PB N="2" REF="4">
<L> But &s;till a&s;pir'd: Like to the Bird they call</L>
<L>Of Paradice, which nere on Earth doth fall</L>
<L>Though made of Earth: But &s;till frequents the skie,</L>
<L>And &s;till among&s;t tho&s;e Azured Orbs doth flie.</L>
<L>On Earth he liuing, liu'd no earthly life</L>
<L>But fly'd aboue ambition, pride, and &s;trife:</L>
<L>Aboue tho&s;e &s;innes, which with diui&s;ions chaine</L>
<L>Plucke Man from God, and God from Man againe.</L>
<L>So that what&s;oeuer Lu&s;tre you could finde,</L>
<L>Di&s;per&s;t among'&s;t whole millions of Mankinde,</L>
<L>Of different graces, &s;hining like rich gemmes,</L>
<L>Set in the fronts of &s;euerall Diadems:</L>
<L>All the&s;e, like Crownes, adorn'd his Royall head,</L>
<L>And of them all, large &s;tories you may reade</L>
<L>In his Life Legend: Learning, Grauity,</L>
<L>Soule piercing Eloquence, rare Cha&s;tity,</L>
<L>Iu&s;tice, Compa&s;sion, Pitie, Piety,</L>
<L>Con&s;tancie, Prudence, Saint-like Charity:</L>
<L>All the&s;e were lockt within the Sytttim Che&s;t,</L>
<L>Of his retyred and Caele&s;tiall brea&s;t.</L>
<L>Then as &s;ome rich perfumes being &s;ent from farre,</L>
<L>Where ri&s;ing Phoebus mounts his gli&s;tring Carre,</L>
<L>Shut vp in Boxes of <HI>Arabian Gold,</HI></L>
<L>Send from the mid'&s;t of that enclo&s;ing mould,</L>
<L>An Aromaticke &s;weete perfuming &s;mell,</L>
<L>Whereon the Soule and raui&s;h't &s;en&s;e doth dwell:</L>
<L>The&s;e vertues inthronized in that &s;hrine,</L>
<L>Which did enclo&s;e tho&s;e faculties diuine,</L>
<L>Sent forth vnto great Brittaines gazing view,</L>
<L>An obiect of a bright tran&s;parent hewe,</L>
<L>His glorious Life, which all men did admire,</L>
<L>As &s;parkling from the cleere <HI>Promethian</HI> fi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e</L>
<PB N="3" REF="4">
<L> Of Lawe, and rea&s;on, which were &s;till the &s;quares</L>
<L>Of all his Life, his actions, and affaires,</L>
<L>Nor thus alone did admiration grace,</L>
<L>But imitation did the foot&s;teps trace</L>
<L>Of his example. That the common wealth</L>
<L>Was fraught with plenty, peace, and publike health:</L>
<L>So that no members vnimploy'd did lye,</L>
<L>But an&s;wer'd others with conformitie:</L>
<L>All this proceeded from th'iradient light</L>
<L>Of IAMES his pre&s;idents, who&s;e &s;plendor might</L>
<L>In future Ages &s;erue for patternes &s;tore,</L>
<L>And blemi&s;h all examples wrought before.</L>
<L>He was that Head from whom the Reuerend traine</L>
<L>Of our Law-giuers did their motions gaine:</L>
<L>He was that head from whom the State&s;-man tooke:</L>
<L>His Oracles, as from &s;ome <HI>Delphian</HI> Booke:</L>
<L>He was that head from whom the Scholler drew</L>
<L>Contemplatiue and Pracique <HI>Maxims</HI> too.</L>
<L>Sixt <HI>Henries</HI> zeale, was lodg'd within his brea&s;t,</L>
<L>Seuenth <HI>Henries</HI> wi&s;dome in his Soule did re&s;t,</L>
<L>Third <HI>Edwards</HI> care his Scepter di<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> attend,</L>
<L><HI>Elizabeths</HI> &s;weet meekene&s;&s;e did commend</L>
<L>His Princely gouernment, as truely good,</L>
<L>As it was free from &s;laughter-breathing bloud.</L>
<L>And all the&s;e Graces in &s;uch plenteous mea&s;ure,</L>
<L>Were powred forth of great <HI>Pandorus</HI> trea&s;ure,</L>
<L>Vpon his Regall &s;elfe, that all her hoord.</L>
<L>All her large <HI>Magazin</HI> could &s;car&s;e affoord</L>
<L>But &s;uch another Patterne; plea&s;ing Peace,</L>
<L>Full &s;welling plenty, priuate, publike ea&s;e</L>
<L>Were Handmaides to his Scepter; He that ploughes</L>
<L>The We&s;terne I&s;les, and <HI>Irelands</HI> &s;limy &s;loughes,</L>
<PB N="4" REF="5">
<L> The Red&s;hanke which frequents that Northerne &s;hore,</L>
<L>Where <HI>Neptunes</HI> waues again&s;t cold Orkney roare.</L>
<L>The nimble <HI>Kerne,</HI> who footes it or'e the paces,</L>
<L>The Bog's, and Quagmires, and tho&s;e vncouth placess,</L>
<L>Where <HI>Oncals</HI> ba&s;tard i&s;&s;ue, proud <HI>Tyrone</HI></L>
<L>As <HI>Vl&s;ters</HI> Monarch did him&s;elfe <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nthrone:</L>
<L>All the&s;e reformed grew, and patternes tooke</L>
<L>Of life and liuing, from th'exemplar booke</L>
<L>Of their late Soueraigne: who&s;e religious care,</L>
<L>No co&s;t of Coyne, no labour did ferbeare,</L>
<L>To re&s;tore Churches in th' <HI>Hybernian</HI> Land,</L>
<L>Spoyl'd by th'accur&s;ed Northerne Rebels hand</L>
<L>Thus popular, and vncontrould applau&s;e,</L>
<L>Did all the Current of his actions grace;</L>
<L>Only that impute, pure reputed &s;ect,</L>
<L>Which &s;ingular preci&s;ene&s;&s;e doth affect,</L>
<L>Which &s;lies from Con&s;cience, and makes gloz'd pre|tence</L>
<L>Their &s;talking-Hor&s;e, and their Religions e&s;&s;ence:</L>
<L>Only th'Ignatian Conclaue, which adores</L>
<L>Their triple Mytred Prelate, and implores</L>
<L>His Pardon more then Gods, when as they &s;pinne</L>
<L>The vnhallowed web of their vnueniall &s;inn:</L>
<L>The&s;e were the &s;ole enuiers of that &s;tate</L>
<L>Which all this continent po&s;&s;e&s;t of late,</L>
<L>From th'in&s;luence of his mo&s;t glorious Raigne,</L>
<L>Free from that blemi&s;h, and that men&s;truous &s;taine</L>
<L>Which forraigne Kingdomes &s;uffer; and to the&s;e</L>
<L>Who were this Ilands burthen, and di&s;ea&s;e,</L>
<L>But marke his mercy: that blacke Powder-plot,</L>
<L>Which at the publike de&s;olation &s;hot,</L>
<L>And meant with one &s;tate and King-killing &s;troake,</L>
<L>Religions forme and gouernement to choake:</L>
<PB N="5" REF="5">
<L> Th' <HI>Argilian</HI> Trea&s;on, nor the dreadfull bent</L>
<L>Of <HI>Gowries</HI> complot wanting pre&s;ident;</L>
<L>All the&s;e Con&s;piracies could not enforce</L>
<L>Our IAMES to leaue his mercies ancient cour&s;e.</L>
<L>As knowing this to be th'Almighties Type,</L>
<L>Which makes the Creature to his Creator like;</L>
<L>Yet all the&s;e Graces, nor their &s;welling dower,</L>
<L>Which th'heauens did in &s;uch abundance power,</L>
<L>Could not once &s;top the Fatall Si&s;ters knife,</L>
<L>Nor adde one minute to his cancel'd Life.</L>
<L>Not all that ma&s;&s;e of vnexhau&s;ted &s;tore,</L>
<L>Which lies from <HI>Douer</HI> to the Northerne Shore,</L>
<L>Not that mo&s;t awfull Scepter, nor that Crowne,</L>
<L>Which now the Princes temples doth &s;urround,</L>
<L>Not all the&s;e dignities could once a&s;&s;wage,</L>
<L>The boundle&s;&s;e bounds of Deaths vn&s;atiate rage,</L>
<L>Which &s;trikes alike the Scepter, and Plough-&s;hare,</L>
<L>And &s;triking doth nor King, nor Pe&s;ant &s;pare.</L>
<L>But &ocirc; thou &s;courge of Man-kind, why &s;hould&s;t thou</L>
<L>To Kings, and Monarchs, thy de&s;truction vow?</L>
<L>O why &s;hould their Annoynted Corps endure</L>
<L>Thy killing Plague, thy raging Callenture?</L>
<L>VVa'&s;t not enough that &s;treames of purple blood,</L>
<L>Conieal'd of late on <HI>Beame-lands</HI> &s;urface &s;tood?</L>
<L>VVa'&s;t not enough that all <HI>Sycambr'ias</HI> tract</L>
<L>By thy dire &s;hafts lay de&s;olate and &s;acte?</L>
<L>But mu&s;t thy winged wrath inuade this Land,</L>
<L>And <HI>Myriads</HI> kill with that accur&s;ed hand,</L>
<L>Who&s;e rage no vulgar blood-&s;hed could alay,</L>
<L>Nor common Carnage could thy furie &s;tay?</L>
<L>But mu&s;t thy longing &s;oule deuoure a flood</L>
<L>Of more e'nobled con&s;ecrated blood?</L>
<PB N="6" REF="6">
<L> And like &s;ome Hor&s;e leach thou mu&s;t &s;ucke the veines</L>
<L>Of foure thri&s;e honour'd Peeres, who&s;e mouing &s;traines</L>
<L>Vnder our King, did rule three Kingdomes lore,</L>
<L>And in that rule a glorious portion bore.</L>
<L>And could not heare thy banefull malice &s;top,</L>
<L>But mu&s;t thy fatall Axe that Cedar lop,</L>
<L>That branched Tree, which &s;haddowed all the &s;oyle,</L>
<L>Of this Heau'ns-ble&s;&s;ed, and <HI>Iames</HI>-ble&s;&s;ed Ile?</L>
<L>Mu&s;t <HI>Iames</HI> dye like the re&s;t, and die to vs,</L>
<L>When we did want him mo&s;t? Then dying thus,</L>
<L>Shall his remembrance vnremembred pa&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>A&s;&s;oone as h'is intombed in the ma&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Of's Mother Earth? Shall no <HI>Plebeian</HI> Ver&s;e</L>
<L>Adorne the Shrine of his diuiner Hear&s;e?</L>
<L>Shall not the Mu&s;es learned Pen&s;ill rai&s;e</L>
<L>Some Monument to his immortall prai&s;e?</L>
<L>Shall hee that wrote <HI>Lepantoes</HI> famous Story,</L>
<L>And gaue a liuing lu&s;tre to the glory</L>
<L>Of tho&s;e time-honour'd Chri&s;tians, who did fight</L>
<L>Again&s;t fierce <HI>Partaes</HI> and <HI>Euchalies</HI> might?</L>
<L>Shall hee that wrote vpon that thornie Care,</L>
<L>Which Crownes &amp; Scepters in their Compa&s;&s;e beare?</L>
<L>Shall hee that &s;quar'd the &dgr;&ohgr;&rgr;&oacugr;&ngr;&sgr; Royall Gemme,</L>
<L>Farre richer then his Triple Diademe,</L>
<L>Wherein his &s;onnes might tho&s;e Characters &s;ee,</L>
<L>Which God requires in &s;elfe-like Maie&s;tie?</L>
<L>Shall hee that did tho&s;e My&s;teries vnfold,</L>
<L>Which ble&s;&s;ed <HI>Iohn</HI> in <HI>Pathmos</HI> Ile foretold,</L>
<L>Who did di&s;couer all the cur&s;ed &s;hifts</L>
<L>Of <HI>Demoniacks,</HI> and their helli&s;h drifts?</L>
<L>Shall hee that gaue the Scepter, rules to &s;way,</L>
<L>And taught how Subiects &s;hould their King obey?</L>
<PB N="7" REF="6">
<L> Who did defend that Oath which doth maintaine,</L>
<L>The right of Monarchs, that on earth doe raigne?</L>
<L>Who made <HI>Perounes</HI> proud Cardinall &s;tand mute,</L>
<L>And <HI>Vor&s;tius</HI> Summes did learnedly confute?</L>
<L>Shall hee that ray&s;ed others from the night</L>
<L>Of darke obliuion want ob&s;equious right?</L>
<L>Oh &s;hall the Si&s;ters three thrice numbred Chore,</L>
<L>Which walkes on <HI>I&s;is,</HI> and on <HI>Grantaes</HI> &s;hore?</L>
<L>Oh &s;hall <HI>Apolloes</HI> Laureat Conclaue bee</L>
<L>So enuious vnto Iu&s;t Solemnitie,</L>
<L>As not to bring their tributary Layes,</L>
<L>To Fronti&s;pice the Marble of his prai&s;e?</L>
<L>Not &s;o, nor &s;o, for &s;ooner &s;hall that Hill</L>
<L>Whereas they &s;it <HI>Achaias</HI> Champion fill?</L>
<L>Sooner &s;hall <HI>Aganippes</HI> &s;prings grow &s;cant,</L>
<L>And <HI>Phoebus</HI> Darlings &s;acred Liquor want,</L>
<L>Then that great <HI>Iames</HI> his con&s;ecrated Vrne,</L>
<L>Shall want Fames Ve&s;tall flames, which &s;till &s;hall burne</L>
<L>Till Times la&s;t period, and &s;hall neuer die,</L>
<L>Till all things fade, except Eternitie.</L>
<L>For wa&s;t not that the Mu&s;es &s;tood at gaze</L>
<L>Vpon that Sunne, who&s;e &s;plendor did amaze</L>
<L>Their dazeled &s;en&s;es? Wa&s;t not that his life</L>
<L>Within their doubtfull Iudgements rai&s;'d a &s;trife,</L>
<L>And made their Con&s;ort to demurre at large,</L>
<L>Before they dur&s;t to vndergoe this charge,</L>
<L>Thinking their outward Varni&s;h might deface</L>
<L>His inward worth, perfection, forme and grace;</L>
<L>Had it not been their candor &s;cornes to giue</L>
<L>Fames Funeralls to Princes whil&s;t they liue?</L>
<L>Or that their Synode did de&s;ire to &s;ee</L>
<L>The finall Act of his Mortalitie?</L>
<PB N="8" REF="7">
<L> Some <HI>Iohn&s;on, Drayton,</HI> or &s;ome <HI>Herick</HI> would</L>
<L>Before this time haue charactred the Mould</L>
<L>Of his perfections; and in liuing Lines,</L>
<L>Haue made them knowne before the&s;e mourning times.</L>
<L>Nor was our <HI>Iames</HI> his life more fit me and &s;ure,</L>
<L>More free, and &s;potle&s;&s;e, &s;ublimate and pure,</L>
<L>Then was his farewell to this &s;infull earth,</L>
<L>Which brought him to Eternities fir&s;t birth:</L>
<L>So that a fruitfull Panegericke field,</L>
<L>His Life and Death vnto the Learned yeeld,</L>
<L>Whereafter all the volumes of their prai&s;e,</L>
<L>Their &s;able &s;heets, and Elegiacke Layes,</L>
<L>They may conclude, <HI>Iames</HI> liu'd and died &s;o well,</L>
<L>That Life and Death in him were parallell.</L>
<L>His life, was not like &s;ome <HI>Aprilian</HI> bla&s;t,</L>
<L>Which endeth in a cloudy &s;torme at la&s;t.</L>
<L>Nor was it like &s;ome Riuers Chri&s;tall &s;ource,</L>
<L>Which muddy runnes in his continued cour&s;e:</L>
<L>For as he liu'd, &s;o did this Monarch die,</L>
<L>And left for patterne to Po&s;teritie,</L>
<L>The bright examples of his life and death,</L>
<L>Shining like <HI>Ledaes</HI> twinnes, on heauen, on earth.</L>
<L>Thus to be briefe, he liu'd and dyed &s;o well,</L>
<L>That Life and Death &s;troue both which &s;hould excell.</L>
<L>For when that <HI>Galens</HI> skill could not appea&s;e</L>
<L>The raging of his Callentur'd di&s;ea&s;e;</L>
<L>When Death approached, and the fatall knife</L>
<L>Began to touch the cordiall &s;trings of life:</L>
<L>Hee knowing, that th' Egyptian tottering reed</L>
<L>Of humane helpe, and &s;uccour could not &s;teed</L>
<L>His Soule in this di&s;tre&s;&s;e; did not relye</L>
<L>Vpon that broken Collumne, but did flie</L>
<PB N="9" REF="7">
<L> To that all-helping, and all-healing hand,</L>
<L>Which for his good, &s;till moouing, &s;till did &s;tand.</L>
<L>His Con&s;cience being iealous of tho&s;e faults,</L>
<L>Of tho&s;e tran&s;gre&s;&s;iue crimes, and tho&s;e defaults,</L>
<L>Which pre&s;t his Soule, before his finall ga&s;pe,</L>
<L>Their Counting booke he plainly did vncla&s;pe,</L>
<L>And fully did confe&s;&s;e that Ma&s;&s;e of Sinne,</L>
<L>Which hee from's youth to's elder Age did &s;pinne;</L>
<L>He knowing true repentance for to bee</L>
<L>A &s;econd <HI>Iordan</HI> for that Lepro&s;ie,</L>
<L>Which ouer&s;preads the Soule: and that the Balme</L>
<L>Of <HI>Maries</HI> teares was &s;oueraigne for his harme.</L>
<L>Hee grinds his carnall heart, and &s;traight relents,</L>
<L>Hee flies from Law to Grace, and then repents</L>
<L>For all tho&s;e &s;innes, which rai&s;e the parting wall,</L>
<L>And make the creature from th' Creator fall:</L>
<L>Hee grieues for them, as though hee meant no more</L>
<L>To grieue for &s;innes, like to tho&s;e &s;innes before.</L>
<L>Then mounted on the Cherub of his Faith,</L>
<L>Hee thus and thus to his Redeemer &s;aith:</L>
<L>The dreadfull terrours of the gaping Graue</L>
<L>Cannot my Courage, nor my Zeale depraue:</L>
<L>I know that Death eu'n with his grimme&s;t face,</L>
<L>Can but this rotten Hou&s;e of clay deface,</L>
<L>And that, that la&s;t <HI>Omega</HI> well to die,</L>
<L>Is but the <HI>Alpha</HI> to Eternitie.</L>
<L>I know my &s;innes are great, and that their fright</L>
<L>Might iu&s;tly bring an euerla&s;ting night</L>
<L>Vpon my pen&s;iue Soule, but that my Hope,</L>
<L>Ioyn'd with a liuely Faith, doth vnder-prop</L>
<L>The&s;e humane frailties, and doe make mee flie</L>
<L>From feares &s;ad Man&s;ion, to that Chri&s;tall Skie</L>
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<L> Where my Redeemer liues, who doth receiue</L>
<L>All tho&s;e who leaue &s;inne, before &s;inne them leaue.</L>
<L>But though my faults be great, my priuate &s;en&s;e</L>
<L>Doth thus farre comfort my &s;ad Con&s;cience,</L>
<L>That though they be, of a vermilion die</L>
<L>I neuer yet left my fidelitie</L>
<L>To Faith nor true Religion; but did lay</L>
<L>My &s;ole foundation on that Rockie &s;taie:</L>
<L>This was the Pole, the Pillar, and the light,</L>
<L>Which did direct my &s;inne-e&s;chewing &s;ight</L>
<L>From the fir&s;t day, that I this light did &s;ee</L>
<L>To this la&s;t act of my mortalitie.</L>
<L>Then calling for the &s;acred Bread and Wine,</L>
<L>Which powerfully doth man and God combine,</L>
<L>He takes it from that learned Prelats hand,</L>
<L>Which <HI>Lincolnes</HI> Sea rules as Dioce&s;an,</L>
<L>And this he did vpon that glorious day,</L>
<L>VVherein he fir&s;t did <HI>Englands</HI> Scepter &s;way.</L>
<L>Twi&s;e had the Sunne his &s;moaking Axle &s;teep't,</L>
<L>Within the Billowes of the We&s;terne deepe,</L>
<L>When <HI>Saturne</HI> look't vpon the third daies light,</L>
<L>With a malignant, ill fore-boading &s;ight,</L>
<L>For two howres after that &s;ad middaies date</L>
<L>Hee lo&s;t his Speech, which did progno&s;ticate</L>
<L>The dire di&s;a&s;ter of this Monarchs death,</L>
<L>Who next day left, that Man&s;ion hou&s;e of earth,</L>
<L>And laid his Royall earthly Scepter downe,</L>
<L>To put on heau'ns immortalized Crowne.</L>
<L>But after that his &s;peech began to faile,</L>
<L>And pale-fac't Death did cu'ry &s;en&s;e a&s;&s;aile;</L>
<L>When as they prai'd or read, to tho&s;e &s;weete lines</L>
<L>He gaue con&s;ent with cleere tran&s;parent fignes,</L>
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<L> By lifting vp his hands, his armes, his eies,</L>
<L>To him that dwels aboue th'all Circling skies.</L>
<L>But on the Sunday morne, foure howres before</L>
<L>The Sunne &s;aluted <HI>Englands</HI> Ea&s;terne &s;hore,</L>
<L>Hee calling for his Sonne, lifts vp his head,</L>
<L>By <HI>Ram&s;eys</HI> helpe, from off the fatall bed,</L>
<L>Where his la&s;t act was ki&s;sing of his Sonne,</L>
<L>And his la&s;t words were calling &s;till vpon</L>
<L>His Princely CHARLES, who did euen melt,</L>
<L>For tho&s;e &s;ad paines which dying IAMES then felt.</L>
<L>Hence in the mid'&s;t of tho&s;e &s;u&s;picious feares,</L>
<L>That ma&s;&s;e of woes, tho&s;e Cataracks of teares,</L>
<L>His Royall Race, his Stock thats left behind,</L>
<L>May in their mourning thoughts this comfort finde;</L>
<L>That alls not dead, for one part is a&s;cended,</L>
<L>T'other being du&s;t, to du&s;t is now de&s;cended,</L>
<L>Whereas a pawne ingag'd that mortall lies,</L>
<L>Till glorified immortall it &s;hall ri&s;e.</L>
<L>And as for me though that blacke Sundaies light,</L>
<L>Whereon grim <HI>Saturne</HI> look't as blacke as night,</L>
<L>And th' heauens powr'd &s;uch &s;tormes of melting &s;howres,</L>
<L>Out of <HI>Aquarius</HI> tempe&s;t-breathing bowres,</L>
<L>And wept as though his Lo&s;&s;e they did lament,</L>
<L>In whom the world receiu'd &s;o much content.</L>
<L>Although that day &s;hall ne're be regi&s;tred</L>
<L>In my &s;ad thoughts, nor once be kalendred</L>
<L>Among&s;t the white ones, but be mark'd for bad</L>
<L>Prodigious, Di&s;mall, Ominous, and Sad.</L>
<L>Yet this &s;hall be a Cordiall to my mind,</L>
<L>Vertues did adde before, Fame adds behind,</L>
<L>Life to his life, which &s;hall for euer la&s;t</L>
<L>Beyonds Times power, and fal&s;e detractions bla&s;t,</L>
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<L> Yet this &s;hall be my comfort, that his Throne</L>
<L>VVants not a CHARL's fit for &s;ucce&s;sion,</L>
<L>Vnder who&s;e Raigne, this Sea deuided Land,</L>
<L>VVhich runnes from <HI>Kantium</HI> to th' <HI>Orcadian</HI> Strands;</L>
<L>Vnder who&s;e Raigne, fat <HI>Ireland</HI> and faire <HI>France</HI></L>
<L>Shall lift vp their deiected countenance</L>
<L>VVith mirth and gladne&s;&s;e. For no forraigne foe,</L>
<L>This <HI>Neptune</HI>-girdled Monarchie &s;hall know</L>
<L>Nor feele within her entralls; no State cankers,</L>
<L>With publike mi&s;eries &s;hall glut their rankors,</L>
<L>No Court-<HI>Hyrudoes</HI> &s;hall make Iu&s;tice bleede,</L>
<L>Nor on the Commons de&s;olation feede,</L>
<L><HI>Elizaes</HI> dayes &s;hall once againe returne,</L>
<L>And IAMES his daies ri&s;e out of IAMES his vrne.</L>
<L>Let vs not then who doe &s;uruiue him here</L>
<L>In this darke vale, with &s;able mourning cheere</L>
<L>Lament him more, &s;ince he doth liue, though dead,</L>
<L>Within his CHARLES, &s;ince that his glorious head</L>
<L>Is Heau'n-Thronized, where he now doth &s;ing</L>
<L><HI>Alleluiae's</HI> to the Coele&s;tiall King,</L>
<L>Among'&s;t the winged troopes, where he now &s;ees</L>
<L>The perfect &s;hape of faithes darke mi&s;teries,</L>
<L>And that not in a gla&s;&s;e, but face to face</L>
<L>Reflected from the Splendor of that grace,</L>
<L>VVhich giues vs faith below; and then aboue,</L>
<L>Immortall Knowledge, Wi&s;edome, Truth and Loue.</L>
</LG>
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<DIV1 TYPE="collection of poems">
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<HEAD><HI>Anagramata Anglica-Latina,</HI> OR: Certaine Anagrams applied vnto the death of our late Soueraigne King IAMES of ble&s;&s;ed Memorie.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>KING IAMES.<LB> <HI>I am &s;eeking.</HI></HEAD>
<L>WHat did&s;t thou &s;eeke, O <HI>Iames,</HI> Great Brittaines King</L>
<L>Wa&s;t Scepters more or Diadems to bring</L>
<L>Vnto thy rule? or &s;oughts thou to &s;ubdue</L>
<L>By &s;ubtill Plots, or <HI>Mars</HI> his warlike crew</L>
<L>Thy &s;mooth-toung'd foes? who had they had but power</L>
<L>Would not haue &s;par'd, blood-&s;torming &s;howers to poure</L>
<L>Vpon thy Selfe, thy Kingdome, and thy Race,</L>
<L>But would haue &s;ought Great Brittaine to deface,</L>
<L>And doe to thee, as they haue done to tho&s;e</L>
<L>Whom iu&s;t pretences made them lawfull foes.</L>
<L>Or did'&s;t thou &s;eeke by force to make the <HI>Rhine</HI></L>
<L>Reacknowledge homage to the <HI>Palatine?</HI></L>
<L>Or &s;oughts thou by new conque&s;ts to obtaine</L>
<L>Another World vpon the We&s;terne maine?</L>
<L>Not thus, nor thus, for thy diuiner bent</L>
<L>Did neuer re&s;t vpon the Firmament</L>
<L>Of the&s;e proiections, for thy chiefe&s;t aime</L>
<L>Was Heau'n on Earth, and from Earth Heau'n to gaine,</L>
<L>On Earth, &ocirc; King, thou ne're &s;oughts Earthly trea&s;ures,</L>
<L>'Twas Iu&s;tice, Piety, Peace, and Heauens plea&s;ures;</L>
<L>The&s;e were the things, which thou great Monarch &s;ough</L>
<L>And th' only &s;copes of thy Coele&s;tiall thoughts.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
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<HEAD>Another vpon the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<L>O Hee is gone, for whom the Si&s;ters three</L>
<L>Of grace doe mourne, and chide with de&s;tinie:</L>
<L>O he is gone for whom <HI>Apollo</HI> &s;ings</L>
<L>A fatall Dirge, vnto his weeping &s;trings:</L>
<L>O hee is gone, for whom the Mu&s;es crie</L>
<L>In &s;able weeds with dolefull melodie.</L>
<L>But although <HI>Iames</HI> bee gone, hee's gone <HI>to &s;eeke</HI></L>
<L>That Man&s;ion, where the King of Kings <HI>doth keepe;</HI></L>
<L>Yet all's not gone, for heauen keepes his Spirit,</L>
<L>Fame his remembrance, Honour his due Merit.</L>
<L>Thus being lo&s;t, hee's found, and &s;eeking finds</L>
<L>That happine&s;&s;e, which earth-deuoted minds</L>
<L>Doe neuer &s;eeke, nor euer &s;hall obtaine,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e they &s;eeke not heau'n on earth to gaine.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Anagrammata Latina.</HEAD>
<HEAD>IACOBVS REX.<LB> Bis Rex Vaco.</HEAD>
<L>QVi modo regnaui trino Diademate cinctus</L>
<L>Bis Rex Imperio, bis Diadema gerens:</L>
<L>Cuius erat quicquid diui&s;us ab orbe <HI>Brittannus</HI></L>
<L>Po&s;idet, &amp; pulchri quicquid Hybernus habet.</L>
<L>Nunc ego mundanis curis &amp; mole &s;olutus</L>
<L>Ethere&acirc; Liber &s;piritus arce vaco.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="15" REF="10">
<HEAD>Aliud in idem.</HEAD>
<L>DIgnus eras cunis <HI>Scotiae</HI> Diademate, dignus</L>
<L>Qui gereres tenera Regia &s;ceptra manu;</L>
<L>Dignus eras, quum te &s;enior cognoueraraetas,</L>
<L>Anno&s;a vt gereres &s;ceptra <HI>Brittanna</HI> manui</L>
<L>Bi&s;&abque; coronatus, meliori cincta corona</L>
<L>Tempora pro meritis, nuuc Iacobe, tenes:</L>
<L>Sic tibi po&s;t triplicis, triplicata pericula regni,</L>
<L>Post haec Diuinis rebus ade&s;&s;e vacat.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Aliud Anagramma.</HEAD>
<HEAD>IACOBVS REX.<LB> Ob curas Ex&icirc;.</HEAD>
<L>QVi triplicis Regni totidem moderatus habenas,</L>
<L>Bi&s;&abque; coronatus no&s;tro regnauerat Orbe,</L>
<L>Cuius erat, quicquid toto circumflua ponto</L>
<L>In&s;ula diues habet, quicquid quae a Virgine terra</L>
<L>Nomen habet, habuit, vel quicquid <HI>Hybernia</HI> tota:</L>
<L>Po&s;t varias curas, &amp; multa pericula Regni</L>
<L>Hac tumulatus humo, foelici conditur vrna.</L>
<L>Exutus, &s;ic exiuit, &s;ic pondere liber</L>
<L>Terreno, ad manes facilis migrauit Ely&s;e,</L>
<L>Henrici&abque; Annae&abque; &s;uae, iunctu&s;&abque; corone</L>
<L>Coelicol&ucirc;m, aeterna foelix dominatur in aula.</L>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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