An elegie on the famous and renowned lady, for eloquence and wit, Madam Mary Carlton, otherwise styled, the German Princess. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B03230 of text R220922 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E417). 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 B03230 Wing E417 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.3[20] 99885175 ocm99885175 182505 2264214848

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B03230) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182505) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A4:1[20]) An elegie on the famous and renowned lady, for eloquence and wit, Madam Mary Carlton, otherwise styled, the German Princess. 1 sheet ([1] p.). Printed for Samuel Speed, London: : 1673. Verse: "Oh dire misfortune! 'twas a cruel fate ..." Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Carleton, Mary, 1642?-1673 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Elegiac poetry, English -- 17th century. eebo An elegie on the famous and renowned lady, for eloquence and wit, Madam Mary Carlton, otherwise styled, the German Princess. anon 1673 1 513 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 2009-02 Rekeyed and resubmitted 2009-03 Sampled and proofread 2009-03 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
AN ELEGIE On the Famous and Renowned LADY , for Eloquence and Wit , Madam MARY CARLTON , Otherwise styled , The German Princess . OH Dire Misfortune ! 't was a cruel Fate Should make her wit the object of its hate . Death surely hath no mercy in his sting , To noose a Princess in a Hempen String . Had he or manners , or a sharpen'd Dart , He had e're now surpriz'd her Martial heart ; And not admitted her in all the throng Of Beauties , to ride Conqueress so long : But he in policy observ'd her will , Spar'd her to send more Grists unto his Mill ; For she , whose Beauty lay within her pate , Slew more by Love , then Death could slay by hate . But yet we see in vain it is to groan , The Gallows , and the Grave , refuseth none . Nor let the Reader now exalt his horn , None know their Doom so soon as they are born . And who is he that dares to have the skill To judge who next shall ride up Holborn-Hill ? Nor is it much material ; Fate , we know , More ways then one unto the Grave can show ; Some by Beheading , some by a Surprize ; Some by those Darts shot from their Ladies Eyes : Nor has the Gallow-Tree been ill adorn'd , Lords , Knights and Gentlemen , have there bin scorn'd : 'T is not the manner of their Deaths that die , That make them odious , but their Obloquie . Detracting from good breeding , looks more black Then many faults , in them good breeding lack . The world miscall'd her Cheat ; when as her strife Was to act Natures part , preserve her life : Or if it was her Genius to approve O' th' Female Craft , its Sentiments of Love . Who can ill language on her Craft bestow , In seeking to have two strings to her Bow ? Thus Fate with Ignominy doth reward Those daring Souls , that seldom have regard To the success of what they undertake , And turns a Golden Wedge into a Stake 'T was Canterbury , that thrice-happy Earth , Grew proud , because it chanc't to give her birth . Her Father , though but mean by Pedigree , Liv'd well belov'd in that most spacious See ; And she grown up to years , acquiring man , Improv'd , till she was Metropolitan : Yet her cross stars too suddenly have hurld Her parts from hence , into another World .
HER EPITAPH . HEre lieth one was hurried hence , To make the World a recompence For Actions wrought by Wit and Lust , Whose Closet now is in the Dust . Then let her sleep , for she has Wit Will give Disturbers Hit for Hit . FINIS .

LONDON : Printed for Samuel Speed , 1673.