An elegie upon the Earle of Essex's funerall. Wild, John. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A96478 of text R201170 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E359_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. 2 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 A96478 Wing W2122C Thomason E359_11 ESTC R201170 99861719 99861719 113861 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. A96478) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 113861) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 58:E359[11]) An elegie upon the Earle of Essex's funerall. Wild, John. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1646] Signed at end: J.W. [i.e. John Wild]. Imprint from Wing. Verse - "And are these all the rites that must be done,". Annotation on Thomason copy: "Octob: 29"; after J. W.: "ild". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Essex, Robert Devereaux, -- Earl of, 1591-1646 -- Death and burial -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Elegiac poetry, English -- 17th century. A96478 R201170 (Thomason E359_11). civilwar no An elegie upon the Earle of Essex's funerall.: Wild, John 1646 263 3 0 0 0 0 0 114 F The rate of 114 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2007-06 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-07 Robyn Anspach Sampled and proofread 2007-07 Robyn Anspach Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion An Elegie upon the Earle of ESSEX'S Funerall . ANd are these all the rites that must be done , Thrice Noble Essex , Englands Champion : Some men , some walls , some horses put in black , With the throng scrambling for sweet-meats and Sack , A gawdy Herald , and a velvet Herse , A tatt'red Anagram with grievous verse , And a sad Sermon to conclude withall , Shall this be stil'd great Essexs Funerall ? Niggardly Nation , be asham'd of th●ods , Lesse valour among Heathen made men Gods , Should such a Generall have dy'd in Rome , He must have had an Altar ▪ not a Tombe , And there instead of youthfull Elegies , Grave Senators had offer'd sacrifice To divine Devereux : ô for a vote ( Ye Lords and Commons ye are bound to doo 't ) A vote that who is seen to smile this year , A vote , that who so brings not in a tear , Shall be adjudg'd Malignant : It were wise T' erect an Office in the Peoples eyes For issuing forth a constant sum of tears ; There 's no way else to pay him his arrears . And when we have drein'd this Ages eyes quite dry , Let him be wept the next ▪ in History , Which if Posterity shall dare to doubt , Then Glosters whispering walls shall speak him out : And so his Funerall shall not be done , Till he return i' th' Resurrection . J. W