Amanda A Sacrifice To an Unknown Goddesse, or, A Free-Will Offering Of a loving Heart to a Sweet-Heart. By N. H. [i.e. Nicholas Hookes] |
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An ELEGY on the death of Mr. Crane, Apothecary in Cambridge. |
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An ELEGY on the death of Mr. Crane, Apothecary in Cambridge.
Ashes to ashes! who! our Æsculape!Our Cambridge-Chiron! can't such skill escape?
Such Peons die! strange! dust to dust! who is't!
What noble Crane, that golden Alchymist?
Is't he! then proud Dame Vesta certainly
Will vaunt those atomes to eternitie.
Swell, boast, look big, and in her womb
'Teem him an everlasting, growing tomb;
Embalme him Reader in thy memorie,
Shroud him with silver-blossom'd rosemarie;
With pennie-royal, marigold-flowers,
And yellow saffron, embleme out what powers
Of Sol and Luna in his coffers lie,
Forc't in by his great Art and Industrie:
'Tis fit this great Preservative of formes
Should never want a med'cine 'gainst the wormes:
Tir'd with dull elements, he's gone from hence
T'extract and clothe his soul with quintessence;
There is no all-heal, but a funeral;
All things before are mix't with wormwood, gall,
And vineger; Now he is gone from us;
Tis benedictus without carduus;
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'Tis lignum vitæ, and no aloës.
His house and shop since death hath overcome,
Is furnished with Caput mortuum,
Let your Alembicks freely crystallize,
Fill gallipots with catarrhs from your eyes,
Or rather wipe them, let them not be mistie,
He's gone for Manna or for manus Christi.
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