FunerA!Elegies. 4ij' MifcaU'd ithis; and onlyzeal did inake · ·, " ·· ....., Him love the building for the builders fake• .·.:; ...·. ' . E-L EG. 8. . V HAd vlrt~, Learning, rhe I)iviner Arts, ·. . ' Wit, Judment, Wifdom ·(,or what other partt · That make perfefiion, and return the mind As great as earth can fuffer) been confin'd · To earth,_ had they the Patent to abide . · · · Secure from change, our Ailmerne,r had dfd i · Fond earth, fo.rbear, and let thy childifh eys · '· Ne'r weep for him,thou.ne'r knew'fi,how to prizci Shed not a te~r,. blind earth : for it appears, , Thou never lov'dfi our ;1.ilnrer, .by thy tears: l ;' - i I Or if thy ftoodsJnufi .needs o~rftow· their brim, . ~·- ; Lament, Iamentt_hy blindnefs, and not him~ . · · ' ELEG•9· ·' . _;..q·.~ I Wondred not to hear·fo orave an end, .. · l Becafe I knew, who made it, ·could contend · With death, and conquer, and in · opencha~e Would fpit defiance in his conquered face: _ And did: Dauntlefs he trod him undern.earh, To fhew the.weaknefs of unarmed death : • ·' .ii · Nay, ha~:l:repor.r, .or niggard Fame; deny'd His name,it had,been knowrl.'twas Ailmer dy'd. ' ' It was no wonder, to hear Rumour tell, That he which dy'd fo·oft, once ·dy'd fo weU: Great Lord of life, how bath th'y ·dying breath . Made man;whom death _had conquer'd,conquer death! . E' LEG. IO. I · T.T Nowledge (the depth' ofwh?fe un?ounde~ Main ·. l~Hath been the wreck oftnany a cunous bram, J\nd frotp her (yet unreconciled)fchools · Hath fill'd us with fo many l~arned fools) Hath tutourfl.the_e with Rules that cannot err, " · And taught thee how to know thy felf, and her ! G g Fu.rnHht
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