An elegy on the Death of the Duke of Cambridge, which happened on the 12th of December 1677. being our shortest day of the year. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B03216 of text R220904 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E395). 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 B03216 Wing E395 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.3[13] 99885169 ocm99885169 182499 2264212187

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B03216) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182499) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A4:1[13]) An elegy on the Death of the Duke of Cambridge, which happened on the 12th of December 1677. being our shortest day of the year. 1 sheet ([1] p.). Printed by T.D. for H. Brome., London, : 1678. Verse: "Since solemn mourners the bright day-beams ..." On the death of Charles Stuart, aged 5 weeks; first son of James Duke of York (James II) by his second wife; designated Duke of Cambridge but died before the patent passed; cf. G.E. Cokayne. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Cambridge, Charles Stuart, -- Duke of, d. 1677 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Elegiac poetry, English -- 17th century. eebo An elegy on the Death of the Duke of Cambridge, which happened on the 12th of December 1677. being our shortest day of the year. anon 1678 1 466 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 2008-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-07 Sampled and proofread 2008-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
AN ELEGY On the DEATH of the DUKE of CAMBRIDGE , Which happened on the 12th of December 1677. being our shortest day of the Year . SInce Solemn Mourners the bright Day-beams shun , And with dim Tapers do supply the Sun ; Since with their sable Curtains they exclude The Light , and ev'ry thing with Darkness shrow'd : The Heavens ( as if they did our Grief fore-see ) Decreed that now our Longest Night should be . And yet , alas ! too short 't is to relate How much we loose by one untimely Fate . To tell how long we for a Man-child pray'd , And how long that great Blessing was delay'd ; To tell at last there was a Man-child born , Which all our Pray'rs did into Praises turn : And how the Infant smil'd , whilst in it's Eye , We did it's Father's mighty Genius spy ; ( A Genius , which thus propogated might The Present Age and Future too delight . ) To tell what happy Dawning did appear To usher-in our new ensuing YEAR : And how a Morning STAR did Rayes display , Which seem'd to promise a long Summers DAY : To tell how soon this LIGHT was overcast , And how our Joys , with the swift Shaddows past ; How all those Grateful Piles which we did burn , Were damped with the Ashes of One Urn : To tell , in fine , how all our Mirth did die , And with the Royal BABE do's buried lye : To tell this as we ought , Our NIGHT , I say , For many Months should be without a Day : Darkness should over-spread our Hemisphere , ( As in most Northern Climats ) half the year : So should our Britain , like sad Rachel be , When She in Ramah wept so bitterly : The loss the same is , which did both befal , But that Hers single was , Ours general : And if Her Tears could make one Current , Ours Should flow like Rivers swell'd with many Show'rs . So let us weep , till th Voice of Heav'n dos deign , To bid us ( as it Rachel did ) Refrain , In hopes our Children shall come back again . Jer. 31. 15 , 16 , 17. T is from our Royal JAMES his Virtuous Root , We pray & hope new Branches still may shoot , To make him known hereafter by his Fruit. Such Fruit must needs ( like that of PARADISE , Be alwayes Good and Pleasant to our Eyes .

London , Printed by T. D. for H. Brome . 1678.

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