Characters and elegies. By Francis VVortley, Knight and Baronet.

An Elegy upon his noble friends and Allies the Earle of Chesterfields Sonnes.

BRave Stanhops you have really made it good, You are discended from true Royall blood: Few Fathers have in this kinde been more crost, But fewer could so gallant sonnes have lost. But th'are not lost, who suffer in this cause, If we respect, or God's, or humane Lawes: Did Christ to Caesar tribute money pay (The badge of Conquest?) what can subjects say? Would he submit himselfe to Caesars Law, Who was a King? must not his subjects draw?

You paid your Caesars tribute, in such blood, That I dare say, few subjects have so good: You drew your sword for Caesar, and you tri'd Your Fathers right (which cannot be deni'd.) Who is't hath done the cause more right, then they? And none could die more nobly for the way: There are but few to whom the King owes more, (Except the Duke) look through the Royall score, Then unto you; he hath lost more then you, Three of the Royall blood, and you but two. Your sonnes have such a stock of honour wonne, They have enrich the blood of Huntington: What they had purchas'd, they on yours bestowed, And bravely paid to nature, what they owed.

Pernobilis Philippi Chesterfeldiae Comitis, & Claris∣simae Conjugis ejus, Regali stemate Huntingtoniae Co∣mitis filiae, filii en jacent hic qui sanguinem sanguine sublimarunt, & morte etiam illustri ditarunt.