On The Death Of The Right Honourable The Lord Viscount Bayning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEFBBGGHIJJKKLL MMNNOOPP QRSTUVWXYZA2A2OONN BBJJBBRRNNGGB2B2C2OD 2D2E2E2JJ| Though after Death Thanks lessen into Praise | A |
| And Worthies be not crown'd with gold but bayes | A |
| Shall we not thank To praise Thee all agree | B |
| We Debtors must out doe it heartily | B |
| Deserved Nobility of True Descent | C |
| Though not so old in Thee grew Ancient | D |
| We number not the Tree of Branched Birth | E |
| But genealogie of Vertue spreading forth | F |
| To many Births in value Piety | B |
| True Valour Bounty Meeknesse Modesty | B |
| These noble off springs swell Thy Name as much | G |
| As Richards Edwards three foure twenty such | G |
| For in thy Person's linage surnam'd are | H |
| The great the good the wise the just the faire | I |
| One of these stiles innobles a whole stemme | J |
| If all be found in One what race like him | J |
| Long stayres of birth unlesse they likewise grow | K |
| To higher vertue must descend more low | K |
| When water comes through numerous veins of lead | L |
| 'Tis water still Thy blood from One pipe's head | L |
| Grew Aqua vit streight with spirits fill'd | M |
| As not traduc'd but rais'd sublim'd distill'd | M |
| Nobility farre spread I may behold | N |
| Like the expanded skie or dissolv'd gold | N |
| Much rarified I see't contracted here | O |
| Into a starre the strength of all the spheare | O |
| Extracted like the Elixir from the mine | P |
| And highten'd so that 'tis too soone divine | P |
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| Divinity continues not beneath | Q |
| Alas nor He but though He passe by death | R |
| He that for many liv'd gaines many lives | S |
| After hee's dead Each friend and servant strives | T |
| To give him breath in praise this Hospital | U |
| That Prison Colledge Church must needs recall | V |
| To mind their Patron whose rich legacies | W |
| In forreigne lands and under other skies | X |
| To them assign'd shew that his heart did even | Y |
| In France love England as in England Heaven | Z |
| Heav'n well perceiv'd this double pious love | A2 |
| Both to his Country here and that above | A2 |
| Therefore the day that saw Him landed here | O |
| Hath seen him landed in his Haven there | O |
| The selfe same day but two yeares interpos'd | N |
| Saw Sun and Him round shining twice clos'd | N |
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| No Citizen so covetous could be | B |
| Of getting wealth as of bestowing He | B |
| His Body and Estate went as they came | J |
| Stript of Appendix Both and left the same | J |
| But in th' Originall Necessity | B |
| Devested one the other Charity | B |
| It cost him more to clothe his soule in death | R |
| Than e're to cloth his flesh for short liv'd breath | R |
| And whereas Lawes exact from Niggards dead | N |
| A Portion for the Poore they now are said | N |
| To moderate His Bounty never such | G |
| Was known but once that men should give too much | G |
| A Tabernacle then was built and now | B2 |
| The like in heav'n is purchas'd Learn you how | B2 |
| Partly by building Men and partly by | C2 |
| Erecting walls by new found Chymistry | O |
| Turning of Gold to Stones Our Christ Church Pile | D2 |
| Great Henrie's Monument shall grow awhile | D2 |
| With Bayning's Treasure who a way hath took | E2 |
| Like those at Westminster to fill a nook | E2 |
| 'Mongst beds of Kings Thus speak speak while we may | J |
| For Stones will speak when We are hush'd in Clay | J |
William Strode
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