Obsequies offer'd up to the dear and never-dying memorie of the honorable Sr Paul Pindar Kt. P. F. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A85142 of text R212036 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.15[58]). 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. 6 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 2017 A85142 Wing F49 Thomason 669.f.15[58] ESTC R212036 99870691 99870691 163132 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A85142) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163132) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f15[58]) Obsequies offer'd up to the dear and never-dying memorie of the honorable Sr Paul Pindar Kt. P. F. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. s.n., [London : 1650] Signed at end: P.F. Imprint from Wing. Verse - "Hence all unhallowed orgies; let no tongue". Annotation on Thomason copy: [barely legible] "7tbr [i.e. September] 1650". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Pindar, Paul, -- Sir, 1565 or 6-1650 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Elegiac poetry, English. A85142 R212036 (Thomason 669.f.15[58]). civilwar no Obsequies offer'd up to the dear and never-dying memorie of the honorable Sr Paul Pindar Kt. P. F 1650 710 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. 2007-09 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-09 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-10 Emma (Leeson) Huber Sampled and proofread 2007-10 Emma (Leeson) Huber Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion OBSEQUIES OFFER'D UP To the Dear and never-dying Memorie of the Honorable SR PAUL PINDAR KT . HEnce all unhallowed Orgies ; let no tongue Presume to chant the Epicedium Of our renowned PINDAR , less hee bee The Grecian PINDAR , or as great as Hee . Nought but the Sock or Buskin can becom Such Tragick Rites ; or Personate thy Tomb Admired PINDAR ! whose Heroîck Hers Admit's no Paralel with a slow-pac't vers. The Quire is too too narrow , and th'whole Nine Too few , to warble Anthems at this Shrine , Though they could out-weep NIOBE , and sing Sorrows as fluent as their Thespian Spring . But why do I thus , to inhance Thy prais , Mingle my Cypress with thy spreading Baies ? Since Thy Encomium needeth here no more Then Gold in Peru , or a Map on Shore . Let those that track the Mysteries , and the Truth Of PRINCEly-Embassies , define His Youth , Spurr'd on with heat of Honor through the whole Circle , from th' Artick to th' Antartick Pole ; Whose Travel this advantage had to bring Riches to 's Countrie , Honor to his KING . Nor could the Heresie of that CLIME Impair His Pious Soul ; the influence of that Aër , Whose venom hath kill'd thousands , hurt him not , I' th midst of Sodom who remain'd a LOT . Let those who 're grounded in the Grand debates Of Kingdom's Rights , and Interests of States Revolv his Counsels ; so maturely wise , They alwaies Conquer'd where They did Advize . Solid , but not Severe ; who could unite Candor with Prudence , Prudence with delight - Most Rich , yet Humble in the richest sens ; His Minde was moderate , though his Means Immens . Liberal , but not Profuse ; Hee could express The difference 'twixt true Bountie and Excess . Courteous , without exception , or self-ends : Kinde to the Stranger , Ample to his Friends : Pious to admiration , and Free Beyond all President , to each degree That Crav'd his Alms ; who was the Poor's Supplie , Crutch to the Cripple , and the Blinde-man's Eie . But who can write his Storie ? 't was so Ample , It might serv both our mirrour and example . So Heavenly was each Action , and so Just Poiz'd in the Scale of TRUTH , that scarce one dust Or atome did fall scantie , or surmount In the Examen of his life's account . No wordly cares could discompose , or cross His thoughts with sens of lucre or of loss . No shocks of Fate or Fortune could controul Or storm the Bulwark of his fase-built Soul . No threats could fright his Loial Temper ; Hee when half the Land Apostatiz'd , stood free In his Resolvs ; abhorring to divide Himself , or shift his Tenets with the Tide . Hee sought not in those troubled streams to swim Nor courted Honor , which so courted Him . PEACE was his Aim , and End ; who liv'd , and di'd Lull'd in a Calm , when all the Earth beside Reel'd with those storms of WAR , whose Shocks have hurl'd Realms from their Center , and unhing'd the world . But why do I Epitomize a Theme In this small Schedule , which deserv's a Ream ? ' Way then with Elegies ; which can't add more Life to His Honors , then they had before . Nor need wee ransack the Corinthian Mine , Or rob the Parian Quarries , to enshrine His Memorie , since thy Structure great St PAUL ( Indebted to great PINDAR'S Bountie ) shall Perpetuate His Name , and in her Womb And sacred Entrails Rear Him such a Tomb As shall out vie proud Memphis , and surpass Those Mausolean Obelisks of Brass . Great TIME shall tell the rest ; and quote His glorie From her own Register ; the wel-pen'd Storie And Legend of whose Actions shall strike Dumb The Present , and amuse the Age to Com. P. F.