%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> AN / ELEGY / On the Death of the Right Honourable / HENEAGE LORD FINCH, / Baron of Daventry, High Chancellour of England, / Earl of Nottingham; And One of the Lords of the most Honourable Privy-Council; / Who Departed this Life, Decemb. 18. 1682. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1682-1682 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 06/26/2012 32262

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R220984 GReat FINCH is Dead, Oh! tell it not aloud, / Lest cruel Death insult and grow too proud, Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 135291 AN / ELEGY / On the Death of the Right Honourable / HENEAGE LORD FINCH, / Baron of Daventry, High Chancellour of England, / Earl of Nottingham; And One of the Lords of the most Honourable Privy-Council; / Who Departed this Life, Decemb. 18. 1682. AN ELEGY On the Death of the Right Honourable HENEAGE LORD FINCH, Baron of Daventry, High Chancellour of England, Earl of Nottingham; And One of the Lords of the most Honourable Privy-Council; Who Departed this Life, Decemb. 18. 1682. AN ELEGY On the Death of the Right Honorable HENEAGE LORD FINCH, Baron of Daventry, High Chancellor of England, Earl of Nottingham; And One of the Lords of the most Honorable Privy Council; Who Departed this Life, December 18. 1682. 1682-1682 J. Deacon

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GReat FINCH is Dead, Oh! tell it not aloud, Left cruel Death insult and grow too proud, Fraught with so rich a Spoil, whose Worth alone Was more than Thousand common Victims own, And by our Loss, alas! too dearly known. Let Sorrow stalk in silence, and become The greatness of our Grief by being Dumb: Let all our Eyes release their flowing springs, While some sad Bird his Mournful Ditty sings; Justice her self in sables will appear, As for a Son, the Darling of her Care; She Weeps and Mourns, and sighing sorely, stands Unmovd, dejected, and with folded Hands: Where shall be found a Man so good, so great, So Noble, and so every way compleat; When young, untainted with the vice of Youth, A Soul made up of Innocence and Truth. Vice he abhorrd, but Virtue was his Life, By which he evermore maintaind the strife With wickedness and sin; nor would submit To be ungodly to be thought a Wit; But sollid Wisdom was his only Rule, (All else is but pretence to guild a Fool) Sage Care and prudence in his Face were seen, Sweet, though Majestick, was his portand meen; His Tongue dropd Manna, sweetly did he speak, Nor was his Copious Fancy long to seek; Judgement and Eloquence together joyn, And with a perfect Harmony combine, To make his sense and Language both Divine, As in some great and Regular Design. But never must we hope to reach thy praise, He that dares highest will deserve the Bays. Nothing thy Merit ever can express, We hope but pardon, since we do confess Our Faults, acknowledgement will make them less.
Thou livst above the power of Time and Death, Which though it has deprivd thee of thy Breath, Thy Lasting Name to ages shall endure, Than Rocks of Adamant more firm and sure; Thy Universal Goodness shall be told Throughout the World, thy Glories be enrolld In the great Book of Fame, where thou shalt stand An Instance high of Vertues large command: To God thy Duty thou didst early pay, Presenting him the first Fruits of the Day, And over all thy great Concerns didst pray: The Pillar of the Church as well as State, Thou boughtst thy Honours at no easie Rate; But still wast caring for the Nations Peace, That Arts might grow, and Piety encrease, Thy Countries Glory was thy latest wish. Most Loyal to thy Prince, whom thou didst know Was placd as Gods Vicegerent here below; And therefore didst oppose all lawless Rage, That threatned so to over-flow the Age; But thou, the Chancellour, with prudent Law Didst keep the Factious Multitude in awe; Thou every part of Life didst act with skill, And each Relation prudently fullfil: And when thy Work was finishd quite and done, The all-wise God thought fit to call thee Home. The Epitaph. HEre lies the sacred Dust Of FINCH, as Great as Just; The Glory of His age, Who having left the Stage Of Mortal Life, by Death Has gaind a better Breath.
FINIS. Printed for J. Deacon, at the Rainbow, near St. Andrews-Church, in Holbourn, 1682.