AN ELEGY On the Death of the Most Serene MAJESTY of HENRIETTA-MARIA, THE Queen-Mother of Great Britain, etc.  
Licenced and Entered according to Order.  

AS on the Martial-Plain We slightly view  
The Fate of common Souls; but if a few  
Commanders, or the Chieftain of the Field  
Be to the Fatal Stroke compelled to yield,  
Then what a Grief's dispersed through all the Camp?  
The Army's smitten with a general Damp.  
So, What a Sable Cloud hangs o'er the Day  
That tells Us Our Great QVEEN is snatched away?  
How Subjects are concerned t' have understood  
Death dares attempt to touch at Royal Blood?  
But what great Poet's Genius can devise  
Upon Her Tomb a decent Sacrifice?  
Whose Glories do exceed a Mortal Pen,  
As much as Gods do momentany Men.  
Let then Melpomene, nay All the Nine  
Conceive so rare a Fancy, so Divine,  
As may compose a sad Heroick-Verse  
Worthy to wait upon Her Sacred Hearse:  
While the Celestial Nymphs and Graces will  
A Tear upon Her holy Dust distil;  
And great Apollo with his Heavenly Choir  
Her Threnodie will tune unto his Lyre.  
That flattering Art which Poets use, to save  
Declining Reputations in the Grave,  
Is needless here, Since no Hyperbole  
Can figure out how great Her Merits be;  
And busy Chronicles can say no more  
Than what Her Fame hath told the World before.  
When those poor Rebell-wretches (Sinners, who  
Are right like Those that know not what they do,)  
Proclaimed her Traitor, How did they proclaim  
In that Her Loyal and Her matchless Name!  
Who for Her Soveraign-Husband did Her Life  
Expose, as loyal Subject, and as Wife;  
Crossing the dangerous Seas, that She might bring  
Treasure t' accommodate Her Lord the KING.  
And when rude Cannons by a ruder Hand  
Pursued Her Majesty arrived at Land,  
Then Her Spectators clearly understood  
Th' undaunted Courage of Her Mighty Blood.  
So Penthesilea th' Amazonian Dame  
Before the Trojans won Immortal Fame.  
No Hipsecratea or the Turtle Dove  
More Constant was in Hymenaean-love.  
But on each Virtue to dilate is meet  
For Volumes, not a Page or single Sheet:  
Let it suffice, Her CONSORT now and SHE  
Are Crowned together to Eternity.    

LONDON, Printed by and for Thomas Ratcliff, and Thomas Daniel, and are to be sold at their House in New-street, betwixt Shooe-lane and Fetter-lane. 1669.