An elegy on White-Hall This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B08988 of text R174933 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E443C). 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. 2 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 B08988 Wing E443C ESTC R174933 69648637 ocm 69648637 184904 2248535425

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 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B08988) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 184904) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2879:12) An elegy on White-Hall 1 sheet ([1] p.). Printed for John Harris, London : 1698. Caption title. Imperfect: faded print; filmed in the negative to get better print. Reproduction of original in: Harvard University. Library. eng Political poetry, English -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1689-1702 -- Poetry. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo An elegy on White-hall. [no entry] 1698 1 307 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. 2012-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2012-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2013-06 Sampled and proofread 2013-06 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2014-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
AN ELEGY ON WHITE-HALL . WEEP all ye Mortals who have Teares to spare You that have none , continue as you are : But if you can't your usual Temper keep , You , if you please , may Laugh at those that Weep But Reader , thou may'st justly ask me why , Or wherefore , I would have you Laugh or Cry : I 'll tell thee then , if know the truth you must , Alas ! alas ! WHITE-HALL's Consum'd to Dust , In Earthly things , Ah! Who would put their trust ? Tho' I confess , if I may be so bold , To tell to you , what I have oft been told , 'T was but a wicked Structure whilst it stood , I always thought 't would never come to Good . Most , I believe , will my Opinion hold , Like some good Wives , 't was Vgly , and 't was Old . Some think it was a Palace of Renown , But I must say ( with rev'rence to the Crown ) It never look'd truly Noble till 't was down . As scatter'd Ruins most delightful be , In whose Disorder we more Beauty see , Than can be found in Regularity . Before 't was Burnt , it Unregarded stood , A shapeless , homely Pile of Brick and Wood But when the fatal Flames had bore it down , 'T was Gaiz'd at , and Admir'd by all the Town . Alas 't is gon ! And all that does remain , Is to Rebuild it Finer up again ; Which Politicians say will be the sequel , So Laugh , or Cry , to me the matter 's equal .

LONDON Printed for John Harris 1698.