On the much lamented death of the valiant Major William Cockburn, who died at Stonie-flet, June 6. 1683. A funeral elegie / N. Paterson. Paterson, Ninian, d. 1688. 1683 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) : 2009-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). B04936 Wing P698 ESTC R181523 51784598 ocm 51784598 175007 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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THis world 's a boyling gulph of greefs & fears , The Rendevouz of anxious sighs and tears : This worm of five foot long , this moving span , Compos'd of sin , and dirt , we call a man , Is the tost passenger ; what tho the ga'le Be strong , or weak , the Ship is still a Sail ; Whither the Passengers do stand , or lie , She keeps a straight course to eternitie . And who so can the longest passage boast , At last th' Eternal Haven salute he must . A pregnant , ( tho a pensive ) proofe is here To make this truth as with sun beams appear . Here the undantoun'd COCKBURN full of years That ne'er gave place to ignominious fears , Who like the Roman Scevola hath stood Bashing in flamm's his hands , his feet in blood , Who in the storms of Warr , by day and night , Could never flee from any thing but flight , ( Till now unconquer'd ) yet at last he must Lay down his valour in a bed of dust : But with a deathless and renowned name , Happy in Fortune , Familie , and Fame . He was no carking dunghill miser , yet God blest him with a plentiful Estate : From which , as from an overflowing store , He blest the backes and bellies of the poor . And with an active , and sagacious care , He knew both when to spend , and when to spare . 〈…〉 prayer , and praise , at morning and at even With pious fervencie addrest to Heaven , ●●s house a Sacrid Temple did become : 〈…〉 Souldier in the Camp , a Priest at home . 〈…〉 one may be ( tho rare ) as Scriptures note , 〈…〉 once both a Centurion , and devote . A Souldier and devote , with Loyalty , 〈…〉 ormist too , and each in high degree , 〈…〉 in this age when it s considered well Appear at least next to a miracle . A Father , and an Husband past compare , 〈…〉 knew , which greatest was his love , or care . 〈…〉 ly as I hear'd Friends and Strangers tell Spouse and Children made the parallel : ●hom he hes left five unspotted Plants , ●ill the Nation with such blessed Saints , The pledges of his fruitful love , and bed ; Happy be he that might such darlings wed . To him that brings not an unworthy flamm ' , Kind may they be , as Heaven hes been to them ; In them he lives , to them he did bequeath His vertues as a legacie at death . And every one but some fantastick snake Will love the off-spring for their Fathers sake . His EPITAPH . HEre lyes an honest heart , a valiant hand , Knew both how to obey , and to command , A loving Father , and an Husband kind , A Souldier both in body , and in mind ; So stout that to the pale beholders wonder He durst encounter the amazing thunder . And did the Honour of the Scots advance , By prowess both through Germany , and France ; His valour and his Loyalty was seen , Against the Rebels at the Rullȝion Green. He Hector and Ulysses both in one , Knew to match valour with discretion . In point of Honour when his spleen did rise , He quell'd his foes by lightning from his eyes . His martial frown it could at once controul , And cure the Lethargie of a cowards Soul. Nor did his worth alone consist in warrs , In him Minerva joyned was with Mars , He owed a breast to which it did appeare , Valour and vertue native Tennants were ; Yea vertue sway'd her Scepter there , for both He fear , and baseness equally did loath . And in his Heart , which was a Sign of Grace , God , and the Church , and King had chiefest place . As King and Church did gratefully regard him ; So God hath call'd him home now to reward him . Therefore let 's modestly bewail our crosse Heavens gain , and his can never be our losse . Optima quaeque dies , miseris mortalibus aevi Prima fugit : subeunt morbi , tristisque senectus , Et labor , & durae rapit inclementia mortis . Virgil. Mr. N. PATERSON .