An elegie upon the death of that renovvned heroe Coll. Rainsborrow. Who vvas traiterously murthered on Munday Octob. 19. 1648. Alleyn, Thomas. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A75033 of text R211070 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.13[41]). 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 2017 A75033 Wing A1200 Thomason 669.f.13[41] ESTC R211070 99869807 99869807 162937 2240952114

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A75033) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 162937) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f13[41]) An elegie upon the death of that renovvned heroe Coll. Rainsborrow. Who vvas traiterously murthered on Munday Octob. 19. 1648. Alleyn, Thomas. 1 sheet ([1] p.) for Robert Ibbitson, Printed at London : 1648. Signed at end: Tho. Alleyn. Verse - "Something it was, that made the envious stars". Annotation on Thomason copy: "Nouemb 14". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Rainborow, Thomas, d. 1648 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Elegiac poetry, English. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. A75033 R211070 (Thomason 669.f.13[41]). civilwar no An elegie upon the death of that renovvned heroe Coll. Rainsborrow. Who vvas traiterously murthered on Munday Octob. 19. 1648. Alleyn, Thomas. 1648 1 530 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. 2008-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-11 Sampled and proofread 2008-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
AN ELEGIE UPON The Death of that Renowned HEROE Coll. RAINSBORROW . WHO Was most Traiterously Murthered on Munday Octob. 29.1648 SOmthing it was , that made the envious Stars To mutinie , and discord into Warres , In that great Constellation — 48. Whose brows with curled flashings yet affright The reeling Universe : It was thy Fame , Thy peerlesse Valour and thy precious Name , O Rainsborrow , something it was the Sun , Did walk in mourning since thy day was done , In Sable Clouds , masking his glorious face , As loathing to behold that fatall place , Wherein thy righteous blood ( yet reeking ) cryes Against those bloody Caines butcheries . But didst thou dye as fooles , or were thy hands ( The Twins of prowesse ) braceletted with bands ? ( Whereof each singer was a charme to still The balls of Death , and whole Campania's fill With palmed Trophies ) No , as Vertue fares Loathed by vicious Hell-born Councellers , Such was thy fall , such thy bewailed fate , Though blood-gorg'd Envy could but Antedate Thy mortall peece , Shryne to that purer part , Not to be pensill'd by Seraphick Art . Therefore the Heavens , grown covetous to see The Earth inrich'd with such a Gemme as thee , Down glydes a winged Cherub in all hast , To snatch thee hence , in triumph to be grac'd , A fixed Star ; where though the Quires doe sing For joy , we ( steep'd in tears ) our hands doe wring Like melting Niobes , though from our eyes , Thy worth may claime as debt such sacrifice , Mirrour of men , Arts abstract , Souldiers glory . True Graces splendor , and sweet peace's story , Engine of Warre , a valour double edg'd . Not to be blunted , though with Armies hedg'd , ( Nor durst grim Atropos , presum'd thee harm , Had not the subtle Hagge , us'd Treasons Arm ) Whom all succeeding Ages may admire Not imitate , yet there is living fire Within thy name , enough to blaze on high , Coward Succession , into Chivalry , Nor doth the languish'd Land lament alone , But Neptunes Court , where thy great name is known , Are all in mourning , there the Sea-Nimphs weep Vailing their beauties in the curled deep : The showres unto the Billows mourn , and they Unto the shoares return , a Welladay . The burthen of whose Eccoes passing knell Is this : A great Man 's falne , in Israel . Farewell dear Patriot , since th' art gone , we have But two things to be proud of , first a Grave , And then thy name , in that wee 'l happy be , In this more Active through thy memory . And thus our Teares of Joy and Griefe , wee shed , Glad th' art in Heaven , yet sorry thou art Dead . Virtus post Funera . THO. ALLEYN .

Printed at London for Robert Ibbitson . 1648.