On that devout and industrious gentelman, George Monteith, merchant in Edinburgh, who departed this life the 2. day of Juny [sic], 1685. A funeral elegie. / N. Paterson. Paterson, Ninian, d. 1688. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B04934 of text R181521 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing P696). 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 B04934 Wing P696 ESTC R181521 51784596 ocm 51784596 175005 2240898883

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B04934) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 175005) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2709:10) On that devout and industrious gentelman, George Monteith, merchant in Edinburgh, who departed this life the 2. day of Juny [sic], 1685. A funeral elegie. / N. Paterson. Paterson, Ninian, d. 1688. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [Edinburgh? : 1685] Caption title. Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in: National Library of Scotland. eng Monteith, George, d. 1685 -- Death and burial -- Poetry. Elegiac poetry, Scottish -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century eebo On that devout, and industrious gentelman [sic], George Monteith, merchant in Edinburgh, who departed this life the 2. day of Juny [sic], 1685. Paterson, Ninian, 1685 1 384 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. 2008-04 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
On that Devout , and Industrious GENTELMAN , GEORGE MONTEITH , Merchant in Edinburgh , who departed this Life the 2. day of Juny , 1685. A Funeral ELEGIE . DEvout and Precious Soul should I in verse , Attempt they glorious virtues to reherse , It were a contradiction to expresse , And bring to numbers what is numberless : Verses must loss their feet , and Elegies Give up their running to our melting eyes ; Yet reason sayes , that it can be no Crime What we may speak in Prose to writ in Rime . Witness the Sacrid Scriptures , it 's no wrong To vent a Lamentation in a Song . So rational a grief who utters it , At once both show's his sorrow , and his witt . I 'l not imploy my Muse to chide stern death , That with Blood-thirsty haste did cut thy breath , When thou thy self did chide the fates delay , Gasping from those sad times to be away . Nor with Fantastick flight implore the sphears , To bath thy memory with us in tears . While we believe that new Jerusalem Where now thou art , Surmounts both us and them . Thou now art infranchised , and at large , And from our Warrs death Seals thee a discharge . Where clad in Robes of Immortality Thour' t levi'd with the glorious Hierarchy . For here below thou wer 't in each Estate Humble , active , prudent , just , and temperat , And with both actions and thy thoughts expence Did keep thy Conscience still without offence . Who knew thy vertues well , thy understood Thou wert an Angel cloath'd with flesh and blood . Thy birth above the common levell was , Thy Nuptial types in honour did surpasse . Thou was not troubled with mad Midas itch , Yet GOD did bliss thy store , and made thee rich . Thou was a man of business , and yet , To serve thy Maker was they chief delight . Wherefore GOD takes thee home , where now thou sings Grave , wher 's they conquest ? death where are thy stings ? Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori . N. PATERSON .