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

j286 Epitaphs.Amongst his, was to repeat it ;bended kneeWas his prime posture, and his enemyFound this most prevalent ;his disciplineImpartial! and exact, it did out-shineThose Antique Martiall Grecian, Roman lamps,From which most of the worlds succeeding campsHave had their borrow'd light ; this, this was he,All this and more ;yet even all this can dye.Death surely ventur'd on the Swede to try,If heav'n were subject to mortality ;And shot his soul to Heav'n, as if that she'"ioCould (if not kill)unthrone a Deity.Bold Death's deceiv'd, 'tis in another senseThat Heaven is said to suffer violence.No ir'n Chain-shot, but 'tis the golden chaineOf Vertue, and the Graces are the'maine,That 'do unhinge the everlasting Gates,All which like yoked undivided mates,Were.link'd in Sweden; where then were enchain'dLike Orthodoxall Volumes nothing feign'd:Though fairly bound, his story is not diptIn oyle. but in his own true Manuscript.. nr.vfto