The character of a London-diurnall with severall select poems / by the same author.

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Title
The character of a London-diurnall with severall select poems / by the same author.
Author
Cleveland, John, 1613-1658.
Publication
[London :: s.n.],
1647.
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Subject terms
Political poetry, English.
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"The character of a London-diurnall with severall select poems / by the same author." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A33429.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.

Pages

Page 51

Epitaphium Thomae Comitis Straffordii, &c.

Exurge Cinis, tuúm{que} slus qui potis es, scribe Epitaphiū: Nequit Wentworthi non esse facundus vel Cinis, Effare Marmor: & quem coepisti comprehendere, Macte & Exprimere. Candidus meretur urna, quàm quod rubris Notatum est literis, Elogium. Atlas Regiminis Monarchici hîc jacet lassus, Seunda Orbis Britannici intelligentia: Rex Politiae, & Prorex Hiberniae, Straffordii, & Virtutum, Comes: Mens Jovis, Mercurii ingenium, & lingua Apollinis; Cui Anglia Hiberniam debuit, seipsam Hibernia. Sydus Aquilonicū, quo sub rubicundâ vesperâ occidente, Nox simul & dies visa est: dextróque oculo flevit, Laevóque laetata est, Anglia. Theatrum Honoris, itémque Scena calamitosa virtutis Actorib us, morbo, morte, invidiâ, Quae ternis animosa Regnis non vicit tamen, Sed oppressit. Sic inclinavit Heros (non minus) Caput Belluae (vel sic) maltorum Capitum: Merces favoris Scotici, praeter pecunias, Erubuit ut tètigit securis, Similem quippe nunquam degustavit sanguinem. Monstrum narro: fuit tam infensus Legibus, Ut prius Legem, quàm nata foret, violavit: Hunc tamen non sustulit Lex, Verùm Necessitas, non habens Legem. Abi Viator, caetera memorabunt posteri.
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