To the memory, of the incomparable Sir Andrevv Ramsey of Abbots-Hall. Provost of Edinburgh, counsellor to His Majesty, Lord of the Session, &c. Who departed thi life, January 17. 1688. A funeral elegie. / N. Paterson. Paterson, Ninian, d. 1688. 1688 Approx. 4 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). B04940 Wing P705 ESTC R181530 51784602 ocm 51784602 175011 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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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 Ramsay, Andrew, -- Sir, d. 1688 -- Death and burial -- Poetry. Elegiac poetry, Scottish -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century 2008-04 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-04 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-05 Emma (Leeson) Huber Sampled and proofread 2008-05 Emma (Leeson) Huber Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion MEMENTO MORI To the Memory , of the Incomparable SIR ANDREVV RAMSAY OF ABBOTS-HALL . Provost of Edinburgh , Counseller to His Majesty , Lord of the Session , &c. Who departed this Life , January 17. 1688. A FVNERAL ELEGIE . AS to divide the Winds that disagree , When in Tempestuous Storms they mingled be , And lay their Stern Encounters so asleep , That they may whisper Musick to the Deep , Impossible to us it is ; no less , Thy Praises , or our Griefs , are to express , Great Abbots-Hall ! Thy worth they only know , Who are above , when we do mourn below , By Intellect and Love , Ye converse there , Things banished our muddie Hemisphere . Soul-wounding-grief , and wonder , are the two , Sole Legacies , Thou leaves us here below . And could not Thou have stayed with us a while , Till Thou had seen a fully purged I le . Thou Edinburghs Glory , Pleasure of our eyes ! Yet blest be God , it is with no surprise . Although our woeful Comfort who can smoother , Is only this , we 'll ne're losse such another . And this compleats our Tragedie , beyond This , Fate can hardly give a greater wound . Our Nation 's Bankrupt grown , all men may see , Beyond the hopes of a Recoverie . When Gallantry and Justice have their Fall , In Collington and Generous Abbots-Hall , For we could say , while they were both alive , The Kingdoms Honour could all Storms survive . Never did active Soul of Sacred Birth , Inform a more Celestial piece of Earth , Than Abbots-Hall , who scarce has left behind , A Subject , of a more Majestick Mind . How did He all our angry Broiles appease , And with His own Unrest , procure our Ease . He car'd not what Turmoils possest His Breast , So that the Town from Tumults , was at rest . For alwayes like a Monarch , He did Reign , Above dull-piti'd Envie , or Disdain . Yet never did He to Preferment rise By Scrapes , or Bribes , or such base Simonies . He Calm'd all Quarrells , Vanquisht every Spite , And made each Enemie His proselyte . More than ten years , which spoke His high Renown , He was the Angel-Guardian of the Town . Where he made void the Poets sad Regrate . Of just Astreas long bewail'd Retreat , His every Act that Opprobrie cancell'd . In Him she spoke , in Him she Breath'd , and Dwell'd . We may affirm it since our Saviours Birth , He was Her truest Deputie on Earth . What ever Sentence from his Lips did fall , His Prudence made it still Rhetorical . When this whole Island Floated in a Sea. Of Disobedience , and Disloyaltie , He by his Wisdom all these Syrens past , Being pinioned unto the Loyal Mast . His Goodness , and his Wisdom , was so Great , He Equally both Knaves , and Fools , did Hate . If what we Great or Generous Esteem , Exemption from the Grave could justly claim , He had ( could now Fates Rigour be abated ) With Enoch and Elias been translated . And yet though Death dissolved hath His ; Frame , He 'l be immortal in a lasting Fame ; If Generosity from Death could save , Great Abbots-Hall He had escapt the Grave . But now being Heavens Inhabitant , and Guest , He unmixt Sweets enjoyes amongst the Blest . Yet may His Fame on Earth , till time shal die , Yeeld unto nothing , but Eternitie . N. Paterson . O anima emigra , Christo moriente quid horres ? Vivam seu Moriar , Sanguine vivo Dei. Transitus รจ vivis , Vitae melioris Origo est , Aut potins Vitae mors ea Principium .