An Elegie on the death of the Most Serene Majesty of Henrietta-Maria, Queen-Mother of Great Britain &c. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A39126 of text R34868 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E398A). 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 A39126 Wing E398A ESTC R34868 14876784 ocm 14876784 102802 2248497845

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A39126) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 102802) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1569:6) An Elegie on the death of the Most Serene Majesty of Henrietta-Maria, Queen-Mother of Great Britain &c. 1 broadside. Printed by and for Thomas Ratcliffe and Thomas Daniel and are to be sold at their house ..., London : 1669. "Licensed and entred according to Order." Printed inside mourning border. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library. eng Henrietta Maria, -- Queen, consort of Charles I, King of England, 1609-1669 -- Poetry. eebo An Elegie on the death of the Most Serene Majesty of Henrietta-Maria, Queen-Mother of Great Britain &c. [no entry] 1669 1 443 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 ELEGIE On the Death of the Most Serene MAJESTY of HENRIETTA-MARIA , THE Queen-Mother of Great Britain , &c.

Licensed and Entred according to Order .

AS on the Martial-Plain We slightly view The Fate of common Souls ; but if a few Commanders , or the Chieftain of the Field Be to the Fatal Stroak compell'd to yield , Then what a Grief 's dispers'd through all the Camp ? The Army 's smitten with a general Damp. So , What a Sable Cloud hangs o're the Day That tells Us Our Great QVEEN is snatcht away ? How Subjects are concern'd t' have understood Death dares attempt to touch at Royal Blood ? But what great Poet 's Genius can devise Upon Her Tombe a decent Sacrifice ? Whose Glories doe exceed a Mortal Pen , As much as Gods do momentany Men. Let then Melpomene , nay All the Nine Conceive so rare a Fancy , so Divine , As may compose a sad Heroick-Verse Worthy to wait upon Her Sacred Herse : While the Coelestial Nymphs and Graces will A Tear upon Her holy Dust distill ; And great Apollo with his Heavenly Quire Her Threnodie will tune unto his Lyre . That flattering Art which Poets use , to save Declining Reputations in the Grave , Is needless here , Since no Hyperbole Can figure out how great Her Merits be ; And busie Chronicles can say no more Than what Her Fame hath told the World before . When those poor Rebell-wretches ( Sinners , who Are right like Those that know not what they do , ) Proclaim'd her Traytor , How did they proclaim In that Her Loyal and Her matchless Name ! Who for Her Soveraign-Husband did Her Life Expose , as loyal Subject , and as Wife ; Crossing the dangerous Seas , that She might bring Treasure t' accommodate Her Lord the KING . And when rude Cannons by a ruder Hand Pursu'd Her Majesty arriv'd at Land , Then Her Spectators clearly understood Th' undaunted Courage of Her Mighty Blood . So Penthisilea th' Amazonian Dame Before the Trojans won Immortal Fame . No Hipsecratea or the Turtle Dove More Constant was in Hymenaean-love . But on each Virtue to dilate is meet For Volumns , not a Page or single Sheet : Let it suffice , Her CONSORT now and SHEE Are Crown'd together to Eternity .

LONDON , Printed by and for Thomas Ratcliffe , and Thomas Daniel , and are to be sold at their House in New-street , betwixt Shooe-lane and Fetter-lane . 1669.