Facetiae : Musarum deliciae, or, The Muses recreation, conteining ...

Epitaphs. 285Whose happy union of Great Britanny,Calls him the blessed King of Unity.And in whose Royall Title it ensu'th,Defender of the Faith, and King of Truth,These girt thy brows with an immortal Crown,(Great James) and turn thy Tomb into a Throne.208. On the King of Sweden.The world expects Swede's monumental stoneShould equall the Philosophers ;each groaneShould breath a golden vein, and every verseShould draw Elixar from his fatall Herse.No fitter subject where strong lines should meet,Than such a noble Center : could the feetOf able Verse but trace his Victories,They need not feare o'r strain'd Hyperbolies,Where all's transcendent, who out parallel'dPlutarchs selected Heroes, and is heldThe tenth of Worthies :who hath over-actedGreat Ccesars German-Comment, and contractedHis expeditions by preventing aw,He often overcame before he saw :And (what of his great Son, Jove us'd to say)He alwayes either found or made his way.Such was his personall and single fight,As if that death it self had ta'n her flightInto brave Swedens scabbard, when he drew,Death with that steel inevitably flew.His Camp a Church, wherein the Gen'ralls lifeWas the best Sermon, and the onely strife