Evgenia Or Trve Nobilities Trance; For The Most Memorable Death, of The Thrice Noble And Religiovs; William Lord Rvssel, &c. Divided into foure Vigils of the Night. By Geo. Chapman |
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Hymnus ad D. Russelium defunctum
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Hymnus ad D. Russelium defunctum
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Rising and setting, let the sunneGrace whom we honor;
And euer at her full, the Moone
Assume vpon her,
The forme his Noblesse did put on;
In whose Orb, all the vertues shone,
With beames decreasing neuer;
Till faith, in her firme Rocke reposde;
Religion, his lifes Circle closd,
And opened life for euer.
Earth, seas, the Aire, and Heauen, O heare
These Rites of ours, that euery yeare,
We vow thy Herse,
And breath the flames of soules entire,
Thrice Het, with heauens creating fire,
In deathlesse verse.
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Rvssell , Lord Russell, while we payThy name our numbers:
Directed by the eye of day
That neuer slumbers:
May all Heauens Quire of Angels sing,
And glorifie in thee, their king
That death with death subdueth;
While we strike Earths sounds dumbe, and deafe,
And Croune thee with a feastfull leafe
Whose verdure still reneweth.
Earth, Seas, the Aire, and Heauen, O heare,
These Rites of ours, that euery yeare
We vow his Herse;
And breath the flames of soules entire,
Thrice het, with heauens creating fire
In deathles vierse.
3
Euer O euer may this EueThat we keepe holy,
Thy name encreasing honors giue,
That serue it solely.
And second with diuine encrease
Thy progenies religious peace,
Zeales Altars euer smoking;
And their true Pieties excite
With full draughts of celestiall light.
Thy vertues still inuoking,
Earth, Seas, the Aire, and Heauen O heare
These Rites of ours, that euery yeare
We vow his Herse, &c.
4
Requests that Iustice would fulfillGreat Giuer giue them,
Vniust moodes, make them bridle still
And here, out liue them.
Directly let their zealous praiers
Her euen ope in their blest affaires,
And of their Noblest Father;
Enable them to fill the Place;
And euery one; proofes of his Race
From his Example gather.
Earth, Seas, the Aire and Heauen, O heare
These rites of ours that euery yeare
We vow his Herse, &c.
5
Honors, that vertues keepe in heightWith sires deceased;
All know, make vp their Comforts weight,
And them more blessed.
And therefore in thus wishing thine,
We wish the more, thy worth may shine,
Great Grace of all men Noble;
From whose life, faith, and zeale did flow,
In whose death, they shall freshly grow,
And thy blest Race redouble.
Earth, Seas, the Aire, and Heauen, &c.
6
Monsters, for Nobles, let the Earth,Bring forth to brand her;
And their Adulterate Beastly Birth
At swindge commaund her.
Yet slaues made to their Lusts, and Hell
And breede but flames, and Thunder
To beate them vnder their owne Hils,
Their sweetes turnd Torments, their Goods, ils,
Thy Race, their Enuies wonder.
Earth, Seas, the Aire, &c.
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Exult, and triumph then in allThy thoughts intended,
Which heauen did into Ioies exhall
For thee, ascended.
If not a haire, Much lesse a thought
Shall losse claime, of what Goodnesse ought,
But shine in heauen together;
Whose ioies (to truely-studied soules)
Shall shine euen here, like ashe-kept Coles,
Laid open gainst the weather.
Earth, Seas, the Aire, &c.
8
Knowledge, not fashiond here to feeleHeauens promist pleasure;
In lifes sea, is a turnd vp Keele
With all her Treasure:
Not One, return'd from Death, to tell
The Ioies of Heauen, the paines of Hell,
Can ad to that relation;
Which (possible impulsions vs'd
The Soule knowes here: and spirits infus'd,
Farre past her first creation.
Earth, Seas, the Aire, &c.
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Infuse this into his deare kinde,With Fire that first informd the minde,
Now nothing coulder.
For which the Thrice Almighty One:
The Spirit, Sire, and word still done:
Praise giue, that gifts transcendeth.
Despisd soules, Comfort with thy loue:
In whom, with thy first motion moue,
Till in fixt truth it endeth:
Earth, Seas, the Aire, and Heauen, O heare,
These Rites of ours, that euery yeare,
We vow thy Herse:
And breath the flames of soules intire,
Thrice het with heauens creating Fire,
In deathlesse verse,
Explicit Hymnus.
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