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ALL Humane Things are subject to decay, / And when Fate Summons, Scriblers must obey; Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 346 AN / ELEGY / On the Lamented Death of / Poor Truth and Honesty; / Who Departed this Life, with the Renowned Paper call'd / the London-Post, on Monday the 11th Day of June, 1705. AN ELEGY On the Lamented Death of Poor Truth and Honesty; Who Departed this Life, with the Renowned Paper call’d the London-Post, on Monday the 11th Day of June, 1705. An ELEGY On the Lamented Death of Poor Truth and Honesty; Who Departed this Life, with the Renowned Paper called the London Post, on Monday the 11th Day of June, 1705. 1705-1705

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ALL Humane Things are subject to decay, And when Fate Summons, Scriblers must obey; This Authors find, who forward to Transgress, Disturb their Readers, and Disgrace the Press. Amongst the Rest, none more Experience shews Of Sublunary Beings Mortal Woes Than Transitory Ben's obsequious Quill, Resistless of the Grand Destroyer's Will. Not but he try'd all Methods of Escape, Shifting, as others do, from Shape to Shape, In hopes, stern Death Ambiguous in the Chase Might seize some other Libel in his Place, And with a Nobler Victime Sate its Rage, Than with his Emptyness and Hungry Page, But Hopes are vain to Men by Fate persu'd, No Tricks can its unerring search Elude, It penetrates through every Thick Disguise And Fixes on the destin'd Sacrifice. Such H---------s was, whom no Escape avails, Ev'n undisguis'd, behind his Beam and Scales, Death found him out, and follow'd him from thence Under another Title tortring Sense, Dragging th' Offender out to Execution With all his Mermydons of Resolutions, As it dismiss'd the Traitors to their Graves, And Truth and Honesty were Hang'd for Knaves. Yet shall not his Devoted Paper Die; Without the Funeral Rites of Elegy, Living he made us Laugh, and Dead should make us Cry. O Ben. to thy Immortal Pains is due, We had not only News but Nonsense too, That Mails when wanting, daily were supply'd, With storm'd Entrenchments on thy Country's side, That Winds when Adverse brought us in Expresses, And we were made amends for Facts by Guesses, That Men were charg'd with FauIts they ne'er committed, And Ladies with base Characters Bewitted, For this must to thy Honour be recorded, Thou hast o'er both the Sexes strangely Lorded, Trampel'd on Virtue, wheresoe'er 'twas found, And Innocence left Bleeding on the Ground, As every Grace, and every Cupid griev'd, To see what Wounds the tender Sex receiv'd.
Who now shall Lash the Priesthood with the Laymen! Make Sport for Porters, and Discourse for Dray-men! Who shall, like Thee, his Empty scull be racking For Billing-gate against the Sin of Tacking. Alass! that Excellence with Thee's departed, For which the Rabble Rout is broken Hearted! For which so many Coblers left their Stalls, And Butchers hung their Patch-work on their Walls. Mourn Him ye Coffee-Houses, Mourn Him Dead, And weep your Day-break Custom from you fled, Since He's no more for whom they Early rose To make their Comments on, with untied Rose. But Grief prevails and gains upon my Spirits, Impatient to sustain such Wondrous Merits, The Loss of which breaks in upon my song, And stops the rising Accents of my Tongue. Not that this Loss is not to be retriev'd, Aeneas in his Son Ascanius liv'd, Whose Virtues in his Offspring's Offspring known, Settled his Empire and confirm'd his Throne. So may the canting Scribelers He has left behind, Of the same Stamp and Virulence of Mind, Go on with his most pestilent Designs, And six what's aim'd at in his Mortal Lines: While scandal though it does its Champion lose, Survives in Observators and Revieues. F1NIS. EP1TAPH. Under this Stone lyes Honesty and Truth Who dy'd with a Known False-hood in their Mouth, Mistake me not, I speak it to his shame, Who dar'd to give a Fiend an Angels name. From hence let Authors have a special care, They represent Transactions as they are, That subjects with their Titles do aggre, Not lash in Extravagange, as we. Else one that writes may find it to His cost, London's Gaztte may fall like London's Post.
LONDON: Printed in the Year, 1705.