An epitaph upon Thomas, late Lord Fairfax written by a person of honour. Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1628-1687. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A29977 of text R19941 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing B5311). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A29977 Wing B5311 ESTC R19941 12258806 ocm 12258806 57711 2248557439

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A29977) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 57711) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 173:12) An epitaph upon Thomas, late Lord Fairfax written by a person of honour. Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1628-1687. 1 sheet (2 p.) s.n., [London? : 1680?] Written by George Villiers. Cf. Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.). Place and date of publication from Wing. eng Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, -- Baron, 1612-1671 -- Poetry. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo An epitaph upon Thomas late Lord Fairfax· Written by a person of honour. Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1679 2 518 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2004-02 Assigned for keying and markup 2004-03 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2004-04 Sampled and proofread 2004-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2004-07 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
AN EPITAPH UPON THOMAS Late LORD FAIRFAX . Written by a Person of HONOUR . 1. Under this Stone doth lye One Born for Victory . FAirfax the Valiant , and the only he , Who e're for that alone a Conquerour would be . Both Sexes Virtues were in him combin'd , He had the fierceness of the manliest mind , And all the meekness too of Woman-kind . He never knew what Envy was , or Hate ; His Soul was fill'd with Worth and Honesty , And with another thing quite out of Date , Call'd Modesty . 2. He ne're seem'd Impudent but in the Field , a place Where Impudence it self dares seldom shew its Face . Had any Stranger spy'd him in a Room With some of those he had Overcome , And had not heard their Talk , but only seen Their Gestures and their Meen , They would have sworn he had the Vanquish'd been . For as they brag'd , and dreadful would appear , Whilst they their own ill luck in War repeated , His Modesty still made him blush to hear How often he had them defeated . 3. Through his whole Life the part he bore Was wonderful and great , And yet it so appear'd in nothing more , Than in his Private last Retreat : For 't is a stranger thing to find One Man of such a Glorious mind , As can despise the Power he has got , Than Millions of the Sots and Braves , Those despicable Fools and Knaves , Who such a pudder make , Through dulness and mistake , In seeking after Power , and get it not . 4. When all the Nation he had won , And with expence of Blood had bought Store great enough he thought Of Fame and of Renown , He then his Arms laid down , With full as little Pride As if he had been of the Enemy's side , Or one of them could do that were undone . He neither Wealth nor Places sought , For others , not himself he fought ; He was content to know , For he had found it so , That when he pleas'd to Conquer , he was able , And leave the Spoil and Plunder to the Rabble . He might have been a King , But yet he understood How much it is a meaner thing To be unjustly Great , than Honourably good . 5. This from the World did Admiration draw , And from his Friends both Love and awe : Remembring what he did in Fight before . His Foes lov'd him too , As they were bound to do , Because he was Resolv'd to fight no more . So blest of all , he dy'd ; But far more blest were we , If we were sure to live till we could see A Man as great in War , as Just in Peace as he . FINIS .