In memory of Joseph Washington, Esq., late of the Middle Temple an elegy / written by N. Tate ... Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715. 1694 Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 3 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2003-01 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A62934 Wing T189 ESTC R187 11940735 ocm 11940735 51274 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A62934) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 51274) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 516:21) In memory of Joseph Washington, Esq., late of the Middle Temple an elegy / written by N. Tate ... Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715. 4 p. Printed for Richard Baldwin ..., [London : 1694] First edition. Caption title. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Washington, Joseph, d. 1694 -- Poetry. 2002-02 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2002-03 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2002-04 TCP Staff (Michigan) Sampled and proofread 2002-04 John Latta Text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-05 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion IN MEMORY OF Joseph Washington , Esq Late of the MIDDLE TEMPLE , AN ELEGY . Written by N. TATE , Servant to Their Majesties . LICENS'D November 7. 1694. EDWARD COOKE . CAN Learning's Orb , when such a Star Expires , No Notice take of it 's extinguish'd Fires ? Can WASHINGTON from Britain's Arms be torn , And not one British Muse his Hearse Adorn ? Since abler Bards his Obsequies Decline , And They whom Art inspires desert his Shrine , I 'll trust my Grief his Fun'ral Dirge to Breath ; I 'll Crown his Tomb , thô with a fading Wreath . Nor shall the Boasting Fates have this to say , That unobserv'd they stole such Worth away ; No — since Mankind a Loss in him sustain , We 'll of that Wrong to all Mankind Complain . O whither tend the famish'd Hopes of Wit , That do's whole Years in Brooding Study sit ! From Early Dawn , till Day forsakes the Sky , And Midnight Lamps the absent Sun supply ; Why should the Learn'd , with Chymist's Patience wait Their Works Projection , never gain'd till Late ? If , soon as got , Fate 's rigid Law must Doom Them , and their rich Discov'ry to one Tomb ! Why should we Ancient Arts steep Ruins Climb , And backward Trace the Painful Steps of Time ? Why moil , and ransack , for a Golden Mite Past Ages Rubbish till we lose our Sight ? If baffled from the Search we must Retire ; Or , having seiz'd it , o'er the Prize Expire . In vain do's friendly Nature too Combine , And with our Industry her Forces join ; In vain her Ablest Faculties are brought , Quick Fancy , Judgment to perfection wrought , And Memory , the Magazine of Thought ; Convincing Reason , Charming Eloquence , All these she did to Him we Mourn Dispence ; To Him who lies in Death's cold Arms enclos'd , And leaves his Sacred Fame — To such an Artless Song as mine , Expos'd . O for a Mausolaeum ! no less Tomb , Can for his Merit 's History have Room : Then let some Angel from the Realms of Light Descend , the shining Epitaph to Write ! No Mortal Wit his Character may give ; Our Verse can only on his Marble live . His Genius rival'd Rome's and Athen's Fame , Breath'd Virgil's Majesty , and Homer's Flame ; Touch'd the Horatian Lyre with equal Ease , Sail'd with Success on Tully's flowing Seas . In Languages his Knowledge was Sublime , From Modern to the Speech of Infant Time. Thus from the Sacred Oracles he drew Those Truths , which scarce the Patriarchs better knew . The Sages , by Antiquity Admir'd , ( Who justly to the Name of Wise Aspir'd , ) In Speculation ne'er cou'd soar so High , Nor Contemplation to such Use apply ; For He , his Life adjusting to his Thought , Practis'd more Virtue than those Masters Taught . His Soul of ev'ry Science was the Sphere , Yet Artless Honesty sat Regent there ; Bright Learning's Charms none better understood , Yet less he study'd to be Learn'd , than Good. To Truth , in Notion , as in Practice , just , Ne'er servily his Knowledge took on Trust ; Nor held for Sacred Custom 's doating Dreams ; Disdain'd to drink Tradition's muddy Streams : But to clear Principles had still Recourse , Nor rested , till he found the happy Source : And then , with gen'rous Charity possest , His Country with the rich Discov'ry blest . His Skill in Laws was less for private Gain Employ'd , than publick Freedom to Maintain ; While Mercenaries with the Current steer'd , His Country's constant Patron he appear'd . With Roman Virtue at the needful Hour , Oppos'd encroaching Tides of Lawless Pow'r . His brandish'd Pen , in Liberty's Support , Cou'd Lightning on th' astonish'd Foe retort . Scarcely in Marvel's keen Remarks we find Such Energy of Wit and Reason join'd . Great Milton's shade with pleasure oft look'd down , A Genius to applaud so like his Own. FINIS . London : Printed for Richard Baldwin , near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane , 1694.