Only of all the troop, meant him no harm. And so he looked upon the axe as one Weapon yet left to guard him to his throne. 50 In his great name then may his subjects cry, 'Death, thou art swallowed up in victory.' If this, our loss, a comfort can admit, 'Tis that his narrowed crown is grown unfit For his enlargéd head, since his distress Had greatened this, as it made that the less. His crown was fallen unto too low a thing For him who was become so great a king. So the same hands enthroned him in that crown They had exalted from him, not pulled down. 60 And thus God's truth by them hath rendered more Than e'er man's falsehood promised to restore; Which, since by death alone he could attain, Was yet exempt from weakness and from pain. Death was enjoined by God to touch a part, Might make his passage quick, ne'er move his heart, Which even expiring was so far from death It seemed but to command away his breath. And thus his soul, of this her triumph proud, Broke like a flash of lightning through the cloud 70 Of flesh and blood; and from the highest line Of human virtue, passed to be divine. Nor is 't much less his virtues to relate Than the high glories of his present state. Since both, then, pass all acts but of belief, Silence may praise the one, the other grief. And since upon the diamond no less Than diamonds will serve us to impress, I'll only wish that for his elegy This our Josias had a Jeremy. 80 [_An Elegy, &c._ See above. First printed in _Monumentum Regale_, _1649,_ p. 49; then in the _1654_ edition of Cleveland.] [Line: 3 _1654_, _1657_, _1669_ 'doth'. Other (it is true inferior) texts, such as _1659_, _1665,_ and the successors of _1677_, 'do': which any one who has ever read his Pepys must know to be possible in the singular.] [Line: 33 'this' _1649_: 'their' _1653_ and later editions.] [Line: 35 paints = 'tries to disguise'.] [Since these sheets were last revised, and when they were ready for press, Mr. Simpson discovered and communicated to me some variants (from Bodley MSS.) of Cleveland's pieces on Chadderton (_v. sup._ p. 81) and Williams (p. 69). His note is as follows: "There is a version of the _Elegy upon Doctor Chadderton_ (page 81) in Ashmole MS. 36-7, fol. 263. After l. 14 four lines are inserted: We thought, for so we would it have, Thou hadst outlived death and the grave, Hadst been past dying, and by thine own Brave virtue been immortal grown. Not very brilliant, but no one would have any motive for interpolating such lines. Further, ll. 17-18 are omitted. 25 'dear S^{nt}.' i.e. as conjectured in the note, 'Saint.' 30 'Kend' written in a larger hand, with a view to emphasis. Query, a favourite word of Chadderton?