Definition of "elogy"

In the Centre, or midst of the Pegm, there was an Aback, or Square, wherein this Elogy was written.

1604, Ben Jonson, “Part of the King's Entertainment in Passing to His Coronation”, in The Works of Ben Jonson, London: Printed by Thomas Hodgkin, published 1692, page 306

And his Elogy upon Q. Elizabeth, and her Successor K. James, in the latter end of his Henry VII, is a Proof of that Play's being written after the Accession of the latter of those two Princes to the Crown of England.

1709, Nicholas Rowe, Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear‎