An Elegy on the death of the Lord Chief Justice Hales who died December 26, 1676. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A39124 of text R36107 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E396A). 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 A39124 Wing E396A ESTC R36107 15604426 ocm 15604426 104078 2240893209

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A39124) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 104078) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1591:14) An Elegy on the death of the Lord Chief Justice Hales who died December 26, 1676. 1 broadside. Printed for the author, [London] : MDCLXXVII [1677] In verse. Place of publication suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library. eng Hale, Matthew, -- Sir, 1609-1676 -- Poetry. eebo An Elegy on the death of the Lord Chief Justice Hales who died December 26, 1676. [no entry] 1677 2 444 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. 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
AN ELEGY On the DEATH of The Lord Chief Justice HALES : Who died December 26. 1676. BRing your Oblations , Poet-laureat Wits , Here is a Subject your best Art befits . From me a meaner Offering must suffice ; Who have no Brain for such a Sacrifice : But what needs an Encomium ? Silly Verse Does but debase this honourable Herse . Is the blest Saint ascended up to rest ? His holy Life and his Love-labours ceast ? Good devout Simeon ! Such was his Decease , Clasps his Redeemer , and departs in peace . What Heart droops not at his departing hence ? 'T is as the Sun set , his set influence . Like that great Light , rejoycing in his Sphere , He ran his Circuit profiting every where : With an impartial hand turn'd Justice Scale , The poor mans Patron , helpt where fees did fail . A ruling great Example of the Gown , True to himself , his Countrey and the Crown . In all times fixt : so well he kept his ground , He seem'd the Ax on which the wheel went round . High above Praise , his own works well exprest , And better prove , He knew most and did best . Hence petty grief ! Death here wounds a whole nation , It calls for more than common lamentation . Church and State , put on black ! Mourn Friends , mourn all . The Loss is vast and Epidemical . This worthy Pillar being faln to ground , Where is another Atlas to be found ? Where such a Healer ? where so right an Eye ? Sage to discern and faithful to apply . You of the long Robe , in each Inns-a-Court , To Coke's great name add Hales his good report , May it prove sem'nal of your Excellence In propagating Law and Conscience . A thousand Phoenix ( if it may be ) rise Out of his Ashes , good ( like him ) and wise : To build up Justice , Wrongs and Vice asswage , And reinforce the beggar'd bankrupt Age , In whom surviving it may yet be said , The Oracle of Law still lives , though dead .
The EPITAPH . INgenious Reader , stay and drop a tear , Englands great Darling and Defence lies here . Weep widow'd Nation , weep till streams do fall , Like a kind Bride : His Love was Conjugal .

Licensed .

Jan. 5. 1677. Ro. L'Estrange .

Printed for the AUTHOR . MDCLXXVII .