On Ye Bishop Of Meaths Death

Mourn widdowd Iland, Mourn, your Pan is dead. Mourn ye unhappy flocks your Sheapherd Pan is fled; Around your grief in dolefull straines convey, & Lett ym in sad Eccho's dy away, As sympathising wth their masters care, As if they felt th' unlucky newes they bear, Of this so true a saint heav'n seem'd to send him here. To shew how good in innocence we were: So true a saint.— We thought he was no man, but from ye skyes (as there were oft of old) some angell in disguise, But see to undeceive us to our grief, he dies. He was with so good thoughts so freely springing blest, ye divine garden so few briars did molest, As if a Paradise were in his breast. Serene his mind as heaven did appear; His lookes serene as mercy's self might wear; His actions might in Justice scales be try'd; When ere he speak & heav'n a theam suppli'd, Hed melt ye rockiest hearts like Moses to a tide. But now he setts, his paines & toiles are o're, & heav'n rewards ye seer with all his store: He's spent wth doing good, & now lies down at ease Stretcht on ye Pillows of æternall peace. So ye fam'd Pithian Priestess when her soul With ye demanded Oracle is full, Vext with ye God yt rages in her breast, Nature is tir'd, her spirits are opprest, She flyes to sacred groves, & sinkes away to rest.