A rhetorical rapture as composed into a funeral oration at the mournfull moving of His Highnes stately effigies from Somerset-House. / By Mr. Slater. Slater, Samuel, d. 1704. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B05880 of text274 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S3969). 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. 11 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 B05880 Wing S3969 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.3[40] 99885181 ocm99885181 182525 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. B05880) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182525) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A4:1[40]) A rhetorical rapture as composed into a funeral oration at the mournfull moving of His Highnes stately effigies from Somerset-House. / By Mr. Slater. Slater, Samuel, d. 1704. 1 sheet ([1] p.). s.n., [London : 1658] Imprint from Wing. Verse: "Had not our sins or'e our prayers prevail'd ..." Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Elegiac poetry, English -- 17th century. B05880 274 (Wing S3969). civilwar no A rhetorical rapture as composed into a funeral oration at the mournfull moving of His Highnes stately effigies from Somerset-House. By Mr. Slater, Samuel 1658 1570 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. 2008-01 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-05 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-06 Pip Willcox Sampled and proofread 2008-06 Pip Willcox Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A RHETORICAL RAPTURE AS COMPOSED INTO A FUNERAL ORATION At the Mournfull Moving of His HIGHNES Stately EFFIGIES from SOMERSET-HOUSE . By Mr. Slater . Si mea cum vestris valuissent vota Britanni , Non essem exiguus tanti ploraminis actor , Túque tuis Armis , nos Te potiremur O Cromwel . HAd not our Sins or'e our Prayers prevail'd , We might have now for them , not Thee bewail'd : Thou thine owne Arms enjoy'd , we joy'd in Thee ; Nor had there been this grand Disparitie , So mean a Muse mourn so Heroick Worth , But our kind Angel brings Fame's Treasures forth . Fame sounds the Victories which Thou bequeaths Christendome , crowning Thee with Laurel wreaths : Seventh Henry's Chappel may Thy Corps entombe , But for Thy Monuments the World 's the room : Seventh Henry's or Cromwell's Chappel , which you please Call it ; or , to Them Both , Chappel of Ease ; Or , Honors Cabinet ; or , Valours Tent To repose in , after the Day is spent , To rise at sound of Trump , clad cap a pe pe In bright Armour of Immortalitie . But soft , Must CROMVVELL to an Abbey goe ? The name of Abbeys is to Cromwell's Foe : 'T is true , That Nobles zeal was very hot ; According unto Knowledge , Was it not ? Knew Hee not too-too-well the Tromperies , The fond Fripperies of the Friaries , Dull Abbey-lubbers glutt'nous Luxury ? Zeal qualified thus , though hot , is not dry ; Not so dry , to swallow them at a gu'p , The Crimes of Abbeys did themselves eat up . Go CROMVVELL then , down to the Abbey go , Down to thy mother bow : Thy Daughter ( know ) Toll'd thy Great Bell ; the Prim-rose fading young , The old Stock-Gilly-flower could not last long . Go , Honorably down , to Thy long Home , Thy Mother Earth hath deck'd Thee up a room : Ah! Kind Mother , that never forsaketh In life time Man of her Fruits partaketh , And dead , into her Bosome is receiv'd ; Such kindness , not known , might not be beleiv'd ; Patient Grizels Passive Great Grandmother We dare not in be-dull'd silence smother Top of our Kindreds so stupendious Kindness , Left Ingratitude blast us to Blindness : To give thy children Bread , Thou suffering Long furrows in thy Back , and they whistling The while ; and when that we ( Clods of Clay ) must At length come to our selves , Dust unto Dust , Thy very Bowels be digg'd up for us ; Why doest Thou suffer ? Why we serve Thee thus ? Like Agrippina art Thou upon it set To cry Occidar modò Imperet ? To gain thy Dirt-Bloud Off-spring Heavenly Crowns Without a Tear courting their heavy wounds ? Go CROMVVELL peaceably , to thy long Home , There needs not any bustling to make room : Divine Eliza's , and Sixth Edward's Dust Deposited in rich Carcanets , in trust Till glorious morn of Resurrection , Will ( in a Land-skip of th' Ascention ) To congratulate thy Sereness , rise , Flying quick into thy Followers eyes : Whence such an Inundation of Tears , That out-vied Thamesis , shrinking with Fears , Glides ghastly to the Main-Guard for recruit : The mobled Ocean ( as its Natives , mute At the Starting news ) flowes to th' Funerall Of his Great Master , and out-weeps 'um all : The trickling Brine blazoning , All Strike-fail To RICHARD ; Oliver's Blazing Star , the Whale . Flaming Comets Divination hold , But Whales , extinct , Divinity unfold : Jonah's Pulpit , ( dead ) turn'd Prophet , shew'd Thee Thy Death , swallow'd up into victorie . Trees six-and-sevens toss'd : the Storm 's Deep-witty ; While Sixty-six throws out the Seven-Hill'd City , Griev'd Tyber , crimson'd with Companions gore , New-sleeks in her own wash Romes rivell'd Whore : How 's Babylon Babel'd ! Her Merchants cry ; Ruining Storm , ruin'd , ecchoes as I. Go from this thy brave House of Somerset To a braver , trimm'd with Thee our Summer set : Sun-like , Go down into thy Western Vault ; Our Great Generals Bride-chamber let us call 't ; CROMWELLS and Cromwellines True-Lovers-Knot , Till to Glory waked , Their Gloomy Grott To rest in , or the Suns cool-silent Shade ; Where , Worms do drive a very subtle Trade I' th Royal ' Change of ( the Moons Hieroglyphick ) The Arched Vault ; by the Mysterious trick Of Bartering growing big as Burgesses , Trucking their Snips of Prince-worn Taffeties For whole pure Peeces of God-like durance : But ( see the Wit of Justice ! ) though t' advance Themselves a-while by gourmandizing gains , They neither Day nor Night spare any pains , But to Corpulentize ravenous Wembs Anthropophagize even Royal Stems ; Vengeance at last doth Covetousness repay , All Merchant-worms quite Breaking on Doomsday . Go to thy Monumental Home : 't is our part To attend Thee to thy Tombe ; where each Heart Entombing Thee our entombed Center , We , New Monuments , mongst the Old shal enter In doleful March , slowly to solemnize Our bounden Loyaltie in free-flowing eyes . Stand there , like Cristal Cloud-pointing Pyramid Carved by Angels for Great Brittains David , Providences second Sweetheart : There , Stand Dictator ( of the first word of Command ) To Englands Senators ; who , to Her true , Can ( best knowing Caesars and Senates due ) Dominion-debates make like That ; unite ; Arm Hands abroad , not Heads at home to fight . Stand a Mirrour to Christian Magistrates , A Terrour stand to Popish Potentates : Stand an Honour to Seventh Henry's Pile , An Horrour to Enemies of This Isle : Stand , in thy fair Effigies , erect , Admired Center of all Eyes : Reflect The Royal rayes of thy Majestick form Calmly on thy Spectators ; let no storm Intwist thy Brow at an approaching Foe , But seeing Thee he will a Convert goe . Go CROMVVELL then , Down to the Abbey goe , Down to thy Mother Earth : From Heaven know Honour keeps pace with Thee , unto thy Tombe ; Nor will it there forsake Thee ( as with some ) And back go with the Heralds : but fairly Hovering o're Thee , out of thy memory Brood numberless Protectors to this Isle , Who shall make Babylon frown , and Syon smile . The VVorlds chief General , march to thy long Home , March on thy Brave Herse to the worlds chief Tombe ; Thy Elias-Soul long since march'd away , The Mantle falling on our Elisha : Thy Souls march upwards was , thy Corps march down ; Thy Soul hath free Reward , Corps due Renown ; The Angels Treble-Anthem That singing is , Adam's Heavy Slumber debasing This ; But This to That shall rise , That welcome This ; Prerogative and Priviledge joyn in bliss : March , March away ; March down to thy long Home , Millions of Mourners sigh to see Thee come . Ye pretty chirping Choristers of th' Air , Warbling wilde Elegies , nimbly repair To His Chariot : there , Melody-spent , die , Out-doing Art in Natures Poetrie : But yet hold out , 'till ye have sung Him home , To pick Him , out your Feather-beds , one of Downe . Great Grandmother of walking Worms , grave Earth , Our Dry Eyes may portend deserved Dearth ; Admit our Plea , Only light Sorrows whine , The Grandeur of our Groans does surmount thine : But Dame , — lest You gravell'd with groans , falter , All-a-row , Souldiers , row Him home by Water . Phoenix of Princes Fame doth OLIVER own , And prophecy'ng thus , or'e the World 's now flown ; An Angels Quill dipt in Babylons Blood Shall make My CROMVVELL fully understood : Till then ( Muses , Rhet'rick , shortning thy rate ) OLIVER's own Acts CROMVVELL best celebrate . THE EPITAPH . STay , Pilgrim , Stay ; Tread gently ; Mourn a while O're that rests under , Th' Honour of this , Isle : Englands PROTECTOR , Victorious OLIVER : Europe's Arbitrator : The World's Wonder : The Nine Worthies grace-chymickt Quintessence : Diamond of Saints : Darling of Providence : Amboyna's Blood-shed's Cure : A Pearl i' th' Eye Of Romes , Spaines , Universal Monarchie : Who broke the Irish-Harp : the Welch new-strung : Refin'd Parliaments : did old Scots new-dung : Was wise Servant : a religious Master : Provident Parent : Bounteous Lord : no Waster : Captives Ransomer : poor Pilgrims Patrone : Champion 'gainst Gods Foes , Chaplain to his owne , Hast , Pilgrim , Hast ; Trip nimbly hence , Be gone : Lest free in Tears Thou freez into a Stone . To be sold by Isaac Pridmore at the Golden Falcon near the New-Exchange . 1658.