Elegie on the universaly [sic] lamented death of the right honourable Lady Ann Elcho This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B03254 of text R174931 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E442AC). 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 B03254 Wing E442AC ESTC R174931 52614639 ocm 52614639 175853 2240868174

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B03254) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 175853) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2752:39) Elegie on the universaly [sic] lamented death of the right honourable Lady Ann Elcho 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by George Jaffrey, Edinburgh : Anno 1700. Caption title. Mourning border. Reproduction of original in: National Library of Scotland. eng Elcho, Ann, d. 1700 -- Death and burial -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Elegiac poetry, English -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. eebo Elegie on the universaly [sic] lamented death of the right honourable Lady Ann Elcho [no entry] 1700 1 402 1 0 0 0 0 0 24.88 C The rate of 24.88 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-05 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-09 Sampled and proofread 2008-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
ELEGIE ON THE UNIVERSALY LAMENTED DEATH OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LADY ANN ELCHO . THe universe , it seems , is drawing nigh , It 's final , and foredom'd Catastrophie . We have seen , it 's firie preluds seise upon , And marr the glory of our Caledone , In her most stately structurs , And we see , That human kind is not from the same free , And burning seavers every where do waste , And moulder humane bodies unto dust , As if this present Age were to expire , Both with all time , and th' universal fire . My Lady ELCHO we the more Lament , That She by a malignant flame is sent , And earlie to the charnel house doth pass , Since nothing of malignant in Her was : She 's as i●lustrious in her pedegree ; And name , as the most Noble family . That 's here : her father's , and her brother's bays , Are as extensive as Apollo's rays ; All the conspicious honours of the face , And symmetrie , our Lady ANN did grace . And all the rare accomplishments we find , Dispers'd in others , renter'd in Her mind . A snow like candor did adorn Her Soul ; It ever was without all fraud and guile ; And all the actions , which from hence did flow , Were like the source upright , and serene too ; She of all other vertues had such store , As there be flowers which Flora's brow decore . So were 't the custom now to canonize , We might Her in the Alb of saints comprise : She either was as free from stains as they , Or had She faults , the flame purg'd these away . And She 's gone straight above the starry pole , Leaving Her noble Husband to condole . His double loss Alace ! a phrase to mild ! Where His most loving Lady and dear Child , Or rather Children , and all hopes from them , Ascend like to Elijah in a flame , Onlie well grounded hopes of Her blest state , Can His excessive agonies abate , And the two hopeful boys She left behind , May mitigat the sorrows of His mind ,

EDIN BVRGH Printed by George Jaffrey , ANNO 1700.