An Elegy to the heroick and eternal memory of the Right Honourable and most loyal Edward Henry, Earl of Lichfield, lately deceased This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A39170 of text R36193 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E448A). 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. 4 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 A39170 Wing E448A ESTC R36193 15615574 ocm 15615574 104164 2240853876

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A39170) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 104164) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1591:40) An Elegy to the heroick and eternal memory of the Right Honourable and most loyal Edward Henry, Earl of Lichfield, lately deceased 1 broadside. [s.n.], London printed : 1694. In verse. Within mourning borders. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library. eng Lichfield, Edward, -- Earl of, d. 1694? -- Poetry. eebo An Elegy to the heroick and eternal memory of the Right Honourable and most loyal Edward Henry, Earl of Lichfield, lately deceased [no entry] 1694 1 494 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 2008-09 Sampled and proofread 2008-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
An ELEGY ; To the Heroick and Eternal Memory of the Right Honourable and the most Loyal , EDWARD HENRY , Earl of LICHFIELD , lately deceased . — Signataque Jura Et Causas , non fata sequi — WHile England shall to Monarchs Homage bring With Lawful Titles , Fame of thee shall sing . Much have you quitted , more have undergone , T' assert your Sovereign's Title to the Throne . The Peers no sooner Rebels prov'd , but you From their Disloyal House your self withdrew . While they nor Conscience , King , nor Laws regard , By Foreign Force and London Tumults scar'd . Their Suffrages resigning to the Crowd ; You nobly their Proceedings disavowed . Forfeited Birth-right , your King's Fortune shar'd ; Your Places lost , and your Estate impair'd , Retrench'd your House , by Double Taxes griev'd . And all you by Complyance had retriev'd . But your undaunted Spirit rather chose , Your Person , with your Fortune , to expose . A noted Mark , at which the State has aim'd ; With Warrants oft persu'd , and oft proclaim'd , By Subornation into Shelter sent , Which made your Res'dence worse than Banishment . More Home-bred Dangers you have ventur'd far , Than our Usurper in his Six-Years War . Yet in one Point you was subdu'd by Fear ; Because to the New Oath you could not swear : At this you trembled , and abhorr'd such Art , As makes a Tongue disguise a Faithless Heart . Shall Mortals , Faith with Perjury confound , When by the dread of Styx the Gods are bound ? Great Phoebus would not a Rash Oath retract , Tho' his Child's Ruine did attend his Act , And the whole Globe to Fatal Flames commit ; But English Bishops will the Gods out-wit . Then the Gods those discard , who cannot starve Rather than feed themselves by such Reserve . Who to his King and Countrey breaks his Oath , His perjur'd Carcass values above both . The King and Nation but one Interest knew , And you to both , oppress'd , was bravely true . Let none invidious of thy Fame object , For Personal Favours you did JAMES respect ; Or you by Accident was only Good , As byass'd by a Match of Royal Blood : Tho' for thy Vertue she 's a full Reward , The handsom'st Lady for the Gallant'st Lord . But grant with Justice , Zeal for England's Laws , Join'd hand in hand your King's & Country's Cause . For your most steady Conduct verifies Our Maxim , That our Monarch never dies . Then since the King from Civil Death is free ; Such Subjects Memories shall Immortal be . — signataque Jura Et Causas , non Fata sequi — Lucan Lib. 2.

London , Printed in the Year , 1694.