Upon the much lamented departure of the high and mighty Prince Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, &c. A funeral elegie. Rowland, John, 1606-1660. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A92026 of text R211097 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.21[11]). 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 A92026 Wing R2072 Thomason 669.f.21[11] ESTC R211097 99869835 99869835 163506 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. A92026) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163506) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f21[11]) Upon the much lamented departure of the high and mighty Prince Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, &c. A funeral elegie. Rowland, John, 1606-1660. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1658] Verse - "Is the states Atlas dead, whose strongest brain". Signed: Jo. Row. C.C.C. Imprint from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "1658: Oct 2.". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Elegiac poetry, English. A92026 R211097 (Thomason 669.f.21[11]). civilwar no Upon the much lamented departure of the high and mighty Prince Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, &c. A funeral elegie. Rowland, John 1658 885 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 C The rate of 11 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-07 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-07 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-08 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2007-08 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion Vpon the much Lamented Departure of the High and Mighty PRINCE , OLIVER LORD PROTECTOR Of ENGLAND , SCOTLAND and IRELAND , &c. A FUNERAL ELEGIE . IS the States Atlas dead , whose strongest Brain Held it from Ruine , with his might and main ? Could not his Wisdome , Prudence , Prowess , Zeal , And rich endowments for the Commonweal , Nor Conqu'ring hand , nor peoples Votes , nor Tears , Nor Prayers for him to prevent their Fears Prevail against the stroke of Destiny ? No , 't is a Statute-Law that all must dye . Death is impartial , Kings , and Peasants must , When Death knocks at their doors , lye in the dust And fate wise Princes seldome so long spares As common men , their heads are full of cares , Which is the reason that by most is guest , Why Joseph younger dyed before the rest . Scepters and Crowns are oftentimes begirt With thorny cares that lying in the dirt , Few men would take them up , did they but know The thoughts of heart they bring with grief and woe . So Henry Bullingbrook on his deaths-bed , Henry the Fifth his Son admonished . Men oft-times strive for things they know not what , Which being gain'd , they wish they had them not . Crowns cannot respite time , nor hinder fate , But are more likely for to antidate . This Wise PROTECTOR that is lately dead , How was He toyl'd with thoughts that fill'd His head For to preserve from dangers that appear'd On every side most justly to be fear'd ? Would men lay this to heart I dare profess , They 'd never envy Princes happiness . They watch when subjects sleep , and counsel take For publick good , and for the peoples sake . The People press'd it , and the Parlement On Him they thought most fit for Government ; And strove to crown Him , but He that refus'd , And much adoe He had to be excus'd . Which shew's , that He was loath to undergo This burthen , but that God would have it so : Who heard the peoples voice up to the skies , Sadly complaining for their Liberties . Reflect on Him departed , whom , in vain , With Sighs and groans you would call back again . How did His great Achievements fill His soule , Almost ubiquitary , to controule , And rule such multitudes , so divided In mindes and hearts , hardly to be guided ▪ How did His great Employments make Him sad ; Needing more eyes than ever Argus had ! To see in every corner , and descry Mens private Plots , and hidden Treachery , Which did retard , and lay'd on Him more load ; Yet could not stop His vast designes abroad . Let England , Scotland , Ireland speak what Hee Perform'd , by making One , these Countries Three . Let France , and Holland , Portugal , and Spain , Denmark , and Turkie send to us again A true Report of Victories He got Where er'e His Armies martch'd , almost where not ? Raising his Trophies not farre from the Line ; Let but Jamaica speak His great designe : ( Hispaniola , by Calumbus found , Was first intended to be English ground : But here refus'd ; by the King of Castile Accepted . Gold may yet be gain'd by steil , Where that the cause is just , but private jarrs Have often hindred great attempts in warrs . ) The Indies , East and West will say no less ; His Name 's Renoun'd with the Antipodes . Each day brought a new Conquest , Flanders now In part subdu'd , almost they knew not how : Dint of his sword Dunkirk no sooner felt , But all the peoples hearts like Ice did melt . Nor Pompey , Cesar , great Alexander Nor great Emperour , the worlds Comander Prevail'd so farre , counting the time He steer'd At Helme : yet by this haste 't was to be fear'd That these his noble Acts did much portend Hee hasted drawing near unto his end . All things did prosper that he undertook : And if we nearly into causes look ; Hee ner'e attempted any thing , but Cries And Prayers made way for His Victories : His Devotion may examples give To Christian Princes that now do live ; That if they mean to speed , they must implore Aid from above , and seek to God before . Thus this Lands Gideon prosper'd alwayes , And , having settled Peace , ended his dayes . At such a time , when as most things do stand In a fair posture , both by Sea and Land , On the same Day of Thanks , design'd to bee , For Woster , and Dunbar's great Victorie . Wee wish that his Successour may excel , And bee the Sonne of great Jerubbaal . Vivit post FVNERA VIRTVS . JO . ROW . C. C. C. FINIS .