Elegie on the universally lamented death, of Duncan Ronald: Director depute of the Chancelary, and writer to His Majesties signet. Who died at Edinburgh, August 1700. Dempster, George. 1700 Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). B02929 Wing D983A ESTC R175931 52614601 ocm 52614601 175824 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. 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Who died at EDINBURGH , August 1700. D This year at Rome the Jubilie doth stand ; But whether Death or Pope doth most Command , My Querie ! pray tell me Travler now , Where Death inhabites , Reigns , and pays his vow ! If you can tell me , where this King do Lodge ; I 'le be thy vassal , and thy sorley Drudge . U Death ! Death ! our Kings , our Queens , our Nobles all , Our Knights , our Barrons , Lairds , by thee they fall ; Our Dives , Lazrus , Senecas , and Lords ; Can never scape thy deadly fatal Cords . Why is it so ! By hear us alone decree , Men must be living , also men must die N But ah ! Death , now thou carries high thine hand , Thou soars aloft ; we cannot thee Command : Thou shoots ( like Cupid ) Arrows from the Skyes , Thou sends thy da●ts , 〈…〉 the mortal Dies , Ah me ! why so ! can nothing 〈…〉 〈…〉 Dimonds never 〈…〉 C No , no , say'th Death : for why ! my time is come , My Scepter Crown , are old and Reign nigh run ▪ I'm but a vassal of the pow'rs above ▪ I must display the Banner of my love . For Death 's my name , a Lyon I must be , Untill my day's be turn'd to Eternity . A Now Judgements nigh , the World is near an end ; My Sword is sharpest when I must Defend , My cause ; and my Commission I display , When dust I send to Dust their Natives clay . So Queries are but idle , vain to thee ; Read Birth , Death , Judgement and Eternitie . N For if I could have spar'd a Lov'ly Face ; Helen of Troy , might damped me with Grace . If Riches ; Cresus might have brib'd me then : If Grace or beauty , or the sons of men , Then might I have had Thousands at my hand , Of Absoloms , and Solomons to stand . If Learning Cicero , Seneca , these Wits , Wou'd play'd me Musick , when I took my Fits , Alse well as DAVID ; But no Harmonie Can Wound Me ; Magick , cannot Blind mine Eye . Nay , Kings and Emperours are my Trophies still , Who then can Bribe me , who has all at Will. R Thy DUNCAN RONNALD , Depute of the Rolls , The Keeper of Thy Chartors , Seasines , Scrolls , Might been Preserv'd , if Grace or Parts might do : But who 's the Man , I spare , of Candour , now . Yes , weep ye may , ye Scribes and Writers throng ! But ye that Weep , must meet Me Ere 't be long . O Kindness of Nature , Sympathie Indites , Our Mourning over RONNALD , and Invites : He was a Man of Geni●usness and Arts , Divine and Moral ; Lov'd by Men of Parts . What 's more ; He had the Popular Applause , Of Commons , Learning's , Enemies , and Foes . N He carri'd Civil in his Post and Chaire Of Honour's District , void of Anxious Fear ; Content with Fortune , Providence's Decree , And vain Ambition , Emptiness did 〈…〉 For fear of With'ring here among his Foes . A Well spoke , O Death ! Crown Me with Mortal Rayes , Come , stay no longer , quickly cut My Dayes ; Since We must Pass to Heav'n through Baca's Vale , Hoise Anchor , Death , set M●zons on thy Sail : For Dye We must , before we come to be , With DUNCAN RONNALD in Prosperitie . L For We must walk by Faith , as RONNALD did , And get Our Chartor-Party , to be ●id , In Our Recesses : Pray'r must be the Key , Love and Assureance , twofold Charitie . Then JESUS Merits , Jacobs Ladder can , Make Scarlet Sins , made whiter than a Swan . D Death , Death , deny us Fate of Sudden Calls , Seize but Gradatim , e're you break Our Walls ; Then Sound Thy Trumpet , as a Jona Shrill : Our Bodies Yield , decay to Dust they will. For Moulder Dwindle , and consume to Dust , Men ( Dust they are ) Return to it they must . Hoec raptim & cursum Composuit , Mr. GEORGE DEMPSTER