/ 4'-2 Sio~r Elegin~ f ' • ' . ' Is turn'd aGolgoths;. before mineeye, Unfepulchei7d 1 my m~rthCJ:red. people lie; My dead lierudely fcarered on the ftones ;~ MyCaufies all pav'd wirlr dead mens bones: The fierce dcfiroyer doth alike forbear TheMa.ide'Fls trembling; arid the Matrons rear; ·, Th'"itttperial fword (pares neither fool nor wife, The old mans pleading, nor the infants cries: .}engeance is deafand bli nd~and the refpefis Not ycung, nor old, nor wife, nor fool, nor fex. . I E. LE0. 22 • "., ·, . yEars he~vy laden with their months, retire; · Moneths,. gone their d~te ofnumbred days,. expire; The d~ys, full .Jioured., to their period tend i And howers,chac'·d V'1ith lighrfoot-rninures; end; Yet myundated evils, no time will minifh, . ·Though years & rnonitths-, though days & hours fir;ufh ; Fears flock about me, a~ invited guefls Before the Porrals at proclaimed feafis; .·.. (faH, Where heav1tiha'th breath'd~ .that m!!Jl, that flare muft Heaven wa.nrs nO. thdndetbolts to fttike withall ; ' l am the fubjell rif that arigry breath, · My fons are flain;and ~ am.ma~k'd for death. Threnodia Ill. .. ' ti.EG. I. t. ... " f ,. .. • ' e. .J '.,. , I .. , ~ 4 A. L L y()u, whofe.unpreEared lips .did tafle The t e~ious C~p (?f., fh.trp affhthon, catl lour·wpndnng eyes-on me, that have drunkup thofe dregs, whereof. yoil only kift rhe Cup ; ·• 1
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