Elegy occasioned by the death of the Reverend Mr. Samuel Smith late ordinary of Newgate, who departed this life on the 28th day of August 1698, aged 72 years. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A38831 of text R36161 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E353A). 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 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A38831 Wing E353A ESTC R36161 15613437 ocm 15613437 104132 2240940270

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A38831) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 104132) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1590:48) Elegy occasioned by the death of the Reverend Mr. Samuel Smith late ordinary of Newgate, who departed this life on the 28th day of August 1698, aged 72 years. 1 broadside. Printed for and sold by J. Read ..., London : 1698. In verse. Within mourning border, with emblems and motto at head. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library. eng Smith, Samuel, d. 1698 -- Poetry. eebo Elegy occasioned by the death of the Reverend Mr. Samuel Smith late ordinary of Newgate, who departed this life on the 28th day of August 1698, aged 7 [no entry] 1698 1 491 1 0 0 0 0 0 20.37 C The rate of 20.37 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-05 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-10 Sampled and proofread 2008-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
ELEGY , Occasioned by the Death of The Reverend Mr. Samuel Smith , LATE ORDINARY of NEWGATE . Who departed this Life on the 28th . Day of August 1698. Aged 72 Years . WHAT , shall a Man so justly famous Dye , And no one yet to write his Elegy ? No threadbare Authour Squeez a doleful Tale Out of a Penny Brick , and pint of Ale , To tell the wondering World that Smith is Dead , And just like other People in his Bed . Ye Meager Bards who high in Garrets dwell , Near Jewin street , and drink at Crouders Well Whose every moments fertil work produces Wast . Paper for the Cooks and Grocers uses . A while suspend your other News , and give This Man a Verse that He again may Live , And from Your Muse , receive his Breath that 's fled To Preach a Sermon after he 's been Dead . But see the fondling scriblers rather chuse , To dwell upon their dear Familiar News , And keep to forgeing Blazeing Stars , or tell How Felons hang'd , and much lamented fell . These are the Themes which others like , but I Will Sing of him , who taught the rest to Dye , Forgive , Dead Preist , if I not well express Thy worth , or make thy Well-known Merits less , If this my Pen , should not perform its part , In giveing holy Sam his due desert . For if those Men whom Sinners hate , are good , And Sinners hate those not by Sin subdu'd , Thou surely might'st thy Goodness cheifly boast , For of all Mortals thou wast hated most . Witness the many Dying Folks , who here Would ev'n so much as take thy proffer'd Prayer , And tho' for want of Holy Men distress'd Would Dye Repentless , not by thee Confess'd . How often has thy Counsel been refus'd , And Thou without Absolving fee abus'd ? When Criminals thy Knowledg would disgrace , And dar'd to send for Learning in thy Place . But Heav'n at last has hear'd the Pris'ners Pray'rs And took Thee from this Worlds attending Gares ; Aged in Years , and Worn with Greif , to see Thy Counsel lough'd at , as they lough'd at Thee . And let the Silent Graye thy Body take , Offenceless now , because it cannot Speak .
The EPITAPH . Vnder this stone here lies a Preist Whose Praying , nor his Preaching Could never Edefie the least , Tho' He was allways Teaching . Others his good advice could lead With calmness to the Gallows : But chose Himself to dye in 's Bed , Not Hang amongst such Fellows .

LONDON , Printed 〈◊〉 and Sold by J. Read near Fleet-street . 1698.