An elegiacall epitaph upon the deplored death of that religious and valiant gentlemen, Colonell Iohn Hampden Esquire, a worthy Member of the honourable House of Commons in Parliament who received his death wound in a battell neere Chinnar in Oxfordshire, and deceased at Thame. June, the 27. M D CXLIII. Leicester, John. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A88893 of text R212066 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.8[17]). 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 A88893 Wing L963 Thomason 669.f.8[17] ESTC R212066 99870718 99870718 161068 2240940480

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A88893) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 161068) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f8[17]) An elegiacall epitaph upon the deplored death of that religious and valiant gentlemen, Colonell Iohn Hampden Esquire, a worthy Member of the honourable House of Commons in Parliament who received his death wound in a battell neere Chinnar in Oxfordshire, and deceased at Thame. June, the 27. M D CXLIII. Leicester, John. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by Bernard Alsop, London : 1641. [i.e. 1643] Verse - "Since God himselfe did stoop so low, to lay". Signed: Jo: Leicester. Dated at end: Iuly, 27. 1643. The imprint date is in error; actual publication date from Wing. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Hampden, John, 1594-1643 -- Early works to 1800. Elegiac poetry, English -- Early works to 1800. A88893 R212066 (Thomason 669.f.8[17]). civilwar no An elegiacall epitaph upon the deplored death of that religious and valiant gentlemen, Colonell Iohn Hampden Esquire, a worthy Member of the Leicester, John. 1641 1 520 1 0 0 0 0 0 19 C The rate of 19 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-08 Sampled and proofread 2007-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
AN ELEGIACALL EPITAPH UPON The deplored Death of that Religious and Valiant Gentleman , Colonell Iohn Hampden Esquire , A worthy Member of the Honourable House of Commons in PARLIAMENT ; who received his Deaths wound in a Battell neere Chinnar in Oxfordshire , and deceased At Thame . JUNE , the 27. MDCXLIII . SInce God himselfe did stoop so low , to lay His Picture on a piece of that same Clay Whereof we are composed , 't is but just , To wayle his losse , and to adorne his Dust : In doing which , both head and hand may misse , For who can pourtray Vertue as it is ? Or make a true description of that fire , That so inflam'd him with a brave desire ? But if a Jem , which God both made and bought , Of manly shape , yet of more manly thought , If Piety , and to the truth true Zeale , If love and care of Church and common weale , If Chastity ( rare in a Souldiers brest ) And Temperance , ( which Cavaliers detest , ) If wisdome , courage , and an humble minde , ●ust dealing unto which he was inclin'de ; If love of Peace , of Armes , and heavenly Arts , And bounty unto men of good deserts , May make a man unto his Country deare , Brave Hampden justly may exact a teare From present and succeding Ages ; then Come Albion Muses all , come Maids and Men , Come silver Swannes leave singing on the banks , Of Isis floods , and in you painted Rankes Yee merry Birds goe solitary sitt , Silence and sorrow , does us best befitt : For though we live , yet are we deadly shot , ( Like stricken Deere at gaze ) and feele it not . Then let our Teares upon our selves descend , For our Heav'n-daring Crimes , which do portend More heavy Judgements comming on apace , To Court and Country , retrograde to Grace . In vaine ( deare Hampden ) we sollicit Thee , Whose passive part hath made thee now shot-free From Syrens violence , Sin , Feare and Death , Wherewith we Mortalls struggle heere beneath . Then let us strew thy Herse with bud and bloome , As Thetis did her lov'd Achilles Tombe , Or rather hang ( with Athens ) Lawrell by , In token of Thy happy VICTORY , Triumphing over all fore-named Foes , And whatsoever did Thee heere oppose . Farewell then honour'd Hampden ( heav'nly Jem ) Adoring now the new IERVSALEM . Farewell belov'd in Parliament and Field , Farewell thy Soldiers faithfull broken Shield : Farewell thy friends and native Counties stay , To them it is an over-clouded Day ; And dismall unto all it may be spoke , Save such as love to beare the Romish Yoake . IULY , 27. 1643. Per JO: LEICESTER .

LONDON , Printed by BERNARD ALSOP . 1641.