An elligie upon the death of the Right Honourable Robert Devereux late Earle of Essex, Lord Generall of the Parliaments forces, who deceased the thirteene day of Sept. 1646. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A84338 of text R210636 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.10[83]). 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 A84338 Wing E475 Thomason 669.f.10[83] ESTC R210636 99869415 99869415 162617 2240926896

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A84338) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 162617) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f10[83]) An elligie upon the death of the Right Honourable Robert Devereux late Earle of Essex, Lord Generall of the Parliaments forces, who deceased the thirteene day of Sept. 1646. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. Printed by Iohn Hammond, London : [1646] In verse: "Oh! Autumne how hast thou began to fall," ... With woodcut of skeleton on bier. Annotation on Thomason copy: "7tber: [i.e. September] 18 1646". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Essex, Robert Devereux, -- Earl of, 1591-1646 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Elegiac poetry, English. A84338 R210636 (Thomason 669.f.10[83]). civilwar no An elligie upon the death of the Right Honourable Robert Devereux, late Earle of Essex, Lord Generall of the Parliaments forces, who decease anon. 1646 1 552 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. 2007-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-12 Sampled and proofread 2007-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

An Elligie upon the death of the Right Honourable Robert Devereux , late Earle of Essex , Lord Generall of the Parliaments Forces , who deceased the thirteene day of Sept. 1646.

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OH ! Autnmne how hast thou began the fall , Our happy Summer being newly spent , Thou over turnes the Tree with Roote and all , And shakes to us the Fruite of discontent : Both Death and thee , conspired in one thing , To throw down that which flourisht many a spring . The much Renowned Champion of our dayes , And most lamented ( in our hemisphere , ) For 's Death , who in his life time gain'd such praise , As ( till the World doth end ) may perciviere , Though we have lost thy presence , yet thy fame , Shall ever be attending on thy Name : Which at the first of all did undertake To breake the Ice , and lay the storme of Warre , Where he a passage did for others make , Who by their Fortunes now victorioas are : Alwayes a Doer of his Kingdomes good , A Friend to Peace , and slow in sheding Blood . Vnto the State he prov'd a faithfull Friend , Free from the blemish of unconstancy , Holding his Resolution to the end , Whilst others fell unto a posticy , Yet noble ESSEX still did iustly deale , Both with the King , the State , and Common-weale . His Love extended both to great and small , The greater then his losse ( to rich and poore , ) The Souldiers sighing for their Generall , Whose presents here they 're like to see no more , Devereux adieu , they shake their Heads and cry , Yet we 're thy followers still , for all must die : As loving , so religious he was found , No Vice appear'd to harbour in his Brest , But honour , valour , mixt with iudgement found , Which sends his Soule unto eternall rest : This is our comfort , thou art happy there , Yet must we needs lament thy absence here .
An Acrosticke on his Name . Righ Honourable , we thy Tennants here , Over the Toumb ( of such a Noble Peere , ) Brings teares enough , whereby to raine a Shower , E xcelling those which from the Clouds doe poure , Rich in thy life time , still our selues we thought , Till Death , thy fat all end , our woes hath wrought . Death wherefore hast thou stolne our Joyes away , Earth why didst thou so gape , was he thy Prey , Are both of you Confederates in our griefe , V nkind , to mankind , thus to take the chiefe Excepting Majesty , none went before Renovned ESSEX , nor hath beene one more Victorious , yet did this Champion die , Xternall Death , to gaine Eternity . Thus from an earthly seate , unto a throwne , Now his trancescendant Soule from us is flowne , Here leaving of our English Parliament , Vnto a higher Court , in Heaven it went .

LONDON , Printed by Iohn Hammond .