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A monument of mortalitie vpon the death and funerals, of the gracious prince, Lodovick, late Duke of Richmond and Lenox: Earle of New-castle, and Darnley, &c. ... By Iames Cleland Doctor in Diuinitie and domestick chaplaine to his Grace.
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Cleland, James, d. 1627.
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A MONVMENT OF MORTALITIE VPON THE DEATH AND FVNERALS OF THE GRACIOVS PRINCE LODOVICK Late Duke of Richmond and Lenox Earle of New-castle and Darnley c. Lord of Torbolton and Methuen Baron of Settrington c. Knight of the Noble Order of the GARTER Lord high Admirall and great Chamberlaine of SCOTLAND Lord high Steward to the Kings most Excellent Majesties most Honorable House-hold Gentleman of his Bed-chamber and one of his Majesties most Honorable Priniâ— Councell for ENGLAND and SCOTLAND Captaine of an hundreth Scots-men at Armes of the French Kings Ordinances By IAMES CLELAND Doctor in Diuinitie and Domestick Chaplaine to his GRACE LONDON Printed by William Stans by for Ralph Rounthwaite 1624. TO THE ILLVSTRIOVS PRINCE ESME Duke of Lenox Earle of March and Darnley Lord of AVBIGNY Torbolton Methuen Baron of Settrington c. Knight of the Noble Order of the GARTER Honourable LORD LOe here A Monument of mans Mortalitie erected in haste to represent the Death and Funerals of my good Lord your Noble Brother whose heroicke LIFE requires more leasure to build A MAVSOLE to his Immortall Memorie Meane time J offer vnto your Grace these mournefull Spoiles and funerall Trophees as most proper and due vnto you his Successour and Jnheritour in assurance you will accept them fauourably and with your gracious aspect giue them a speaking-power as the Sunnes reflection did on the Image of Memnon The Ghostly visage of his Effigie I know cannot affright your Grace who is ready and prepared at all howers for Death nor I hope will the representation of it renew your griefe as Iosephs particoloured Coate caused sorow to his father Iacob and Caesars shirt to Calpurnia But that you will looke and behold in it as a Mirror to see your Fate as your Fortune and so esteeme me for euer one of Aprill 20. 1624. Your Graces Most humbly Deuoted in all dutifull obseruance IAMES CLELAND IN IVSTA FVNEBRIA OPTIMI PRINCIPIS LODOVICI Ducis Richmondiae Lenoxiae c. EPITAPHIVM Dum Populum Proceresque suos IACOBVS in vnum Cogit Europam terror vbique tenet Spes populi Procerumque decus LENOXIVS Heros Non expectato funere raptus obit Prô Superi non haec mors est sed Publica clades Quam Rex Proceres plebs populusque lugent Egregiè factum Funus Moestissma Coniux Produxit Ciniri gloria magna fuit MONVMENTVM MORTALE In Obitum Optimi Ducis RICHMONDIAE LENOXIAE c. B. M. P. VIde Mortalis quisquis es hoc te MonumentuÌ„ rogat se vt aspicias Speculum Putes aut Scholam Viden ' formam mutatam gloriam marcidam euanidam Pompam Triumphus est Mortis fati Trophaeum fragilitatis documentum Disco omnia praecipits cursu fluere lubrico orbe versari raptari auolare vanescere Fui non sum aut quicquid Sum Puluis cinis terrae pondus Parcae spolium dum melior pars mei in caeluâ—â— ascendit vnde descendit vbi quiesco Quis Fuèrim sâ—lubido audire est 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 breus capies Interim ne mirere quisquis es hoc tanto tamque inopinato euentu neue curiâ—su◠〈◊〉 hic causas inuestiga non vis non casus non ordo eternus fatorum Me de medio sed vnus Ille Omnium rerum Moderator sustulit vt post tot exantlaâ—os labores in perpetuum cum eo vinam ac conquiescam Hac moncre volui nunc abi sed heus tu Deum Verere Regem reuerere hoc tantum Vale. A Funerall Discourse VPON THE DEPLORABLE DEATH OF THE GRACIOVS PRINCE LODOVICK Duke of Richmond and Lenox c. ALthough Ioseph of Iohn 19. 38. Aramathea and Nicodemus begged of Pilate the body of IESVS and on the day of preparation wrapt it in a fine cleane linnen cloath embalmed it with odoriferous spices buried it and so gaue him the last dutie of Iewish Ceremonies the first of Christian Funerals yet Mary Magdalene and the other Mary could not bee satisfied with all that was done by Ioseph and Nicodemus for their Lord and Master Christ vnlesse in the next day after the Preparation their poore balme had gone likewise for him After which imitation of these two Maries I cannot content my selfe with what hath beene done by others hitherto for my late Lord and Master the Duke of Richmond and Lenox though most sufficiently except I bring some Sindon of my owne now and buy some Balme to bestow vpon his Grace Yesterday you heard how the Lord Keeper most accuratly and affectionatly expressed my Lord Duke his Heroick life to day with permission I will represent vnto you and others afarre off his Deplorable Death and Christian Funerall Behold them then both in this Monument as better to be considered by the Eye then by the Eare by the Grauers pencill then by the Writers pen by silence then by discourse In this Monument which may giue feare to the Faithfull amazement to the Prophane and sorrow to all men For on the sixteenth day of Februarie last in the Kings Palace of White-Hall whiles the Kings Majestie the Prince the Peeres and the Noblemen of the Land were readie to ride in state vnto the High Parliament of England Behold an ancient Statute from the highest Court of Parliament in Heauen put in Execution vpon this honorable person my Lord Duke of Richmond and Lenox This Execution was serued vpon him whiles the people expected a pomp and whiles I for my part was preparing another Iacob Triumphant or King Iames Second Triumphs in Executing his Statutes and penal Lawes against all Popish Policies and Practises within his Majesties Dominions But oh the sodaine change and strange passage of the peoples expectation and my design from a glorious Pompe on Horse-backe to a mournfull Hearse followed afoot from a Triumph to a Tombe from the Trophees of ioy to the Spoiles of sorrow in a moment all my thoughts turned to a Monument This is euer the miserable condition of man to mixe sowre with sweet or else to ioyne them so inseparably together as a concaue superficies with a conuexe In that morning all the Court and Citie of London were full of mirth but about noone all in mourning then in pleasure and delight soone after in sorrow and sadnesse Thus the clearest dayes haue their stormes the euening is not answerable to the calmnesse of the morning nor to the cleernesse of the noone-day but the Sunne eclipses the Cloudes ouercast and the Day is changed into Night or darknesse The Statute that was Executed so peremptorily vpon this honourable Person was first enacted in the vpper House of Parliament in Heauen generally against all men All men Heb. 9. 27. must once die and then receiued and resolued vpon of all in the lower House of Parliament on Earth Here Gods Word Reason and Experience the three States of our Earthly Parliament haue ratified and confirmed it vna voce without appeale God said expressely In that day
the place of his beginning after a long continuance of yeeres and that the gracious Duchesse his Lady had taken her last leaue of him that he had giuen Legacies and tokens to his friends and fauourites finally appointed recompences for his old and faithfull seruants but God thinke vs not worthie of those fauours and kindnesse of our Lord and Master Wherefore should wee rather lament for our selues then for him and let vs say of him as Rome did of Titus Hee is gone for his owne good and for our afflictions Death which hath raised him to immortall felicities doth plunge vs into a gulfe of miseries Wee lament iustly for our selues who see our hopes Dead and our miseries liuing Death hath strooke but one and hath slaine many The felicitie which hee enioyes doth not ease the affliction which doth torment vs the contents which he finds in heauen takes not from vs the feeling of those griefes which his absence hath left vs vpon the earth If Death after this blowe should haue broken his bowe despairing euer to make the like shot that would not cure the wound which his arrow hath made But if there be anything in this world able to mollifie our griefe it is that diuers nations and many people haue sorrowed for that which wee lament The afflicted receiue some ease when as euery man beares a share of their affliction Alas when the Doctour of Physike and the Groome of his Bed-chamber drew the Courtaine and found him cold Dead without breath or motion hauing one hand lifted towards heauen and the other as is written of Iulius Caesar when he was murthered in the Senate collecta manibus toga honestè cadere studuit Sueton. in vita Câ—â—s spread his gowne ouer himselfe so this Comely Lord desiring to Die decently in his Bed as he carried himselfe in all his actions of his life hee pulled vp the vpper sheet close about his necke and so quietly gaue vp the Ghost not so much as giuing one groane Then alas all their rubbing with hot clothes was in vaine and to no purpose when Death seizes one all the Aurum potabile in the world cannot auaile nor will the Bezar stones helpe against the heart-beatings nor the confection of Alchermes against the dissentories nor the feet of Elan against the crampes and contractions of the sinewes No more then Aristotles arguments Platoes interrogations Gorgias his sophismes Demosthenes eloquence Tullies oratorie S. Thomas his fundaments Scotus his subtilties Durandus his sentences nor Hectors courage Achilles his valour Samsons strength Croesus his riches Caesars fortune can preuaile against Death What pen or pencill can represent vnto you the iust outcries of my Ladie Duchesse all the house ouer outcries I confesse so iustly and deseruingly that they may approue rather their continuance then condemne their extremitie How she casts herselfe vpon the ground teared her faire haire from her head beating her breast blubbering or disfiguring her face and renting her clothes from her backe I am not able to expresse nor yet could learned Haelicarnasseus who painted out the transported Ladies of Rome for their husbands Death paint out this our Ladies griefe and sorrow Or how should I or any other figure vnto you how the Kings Maiestie was amazed at the first dolefull newes My Lord Duke is Dead and euer since hath missed him Surely Timanthes himselfe that inimitable painter of Mourning if he were aliue and would vndertake this picture of the Kings griefe he should faile in his art and skill otherwise then with a vaile before Agamemnons face Royaltie nor Philosophie cannot free nor priuiledge him from the first motions and sudden passions of the minde Nor yet can I tell you how the Prince his Highnesse and the whole Court tooke these sorrowfull newes of my Lord his Death otherwise then by silence and by all mens teares Discourses are to no end neither to augment the griefe of the losse nor to aduance the greatnesse of the glorie of this Prince LODOVICK for the one is infinite and the other is seene in his Apogea But teares shew that hee which was lamented of euery man was necessarie for all Teares are better vnderstood then words it is more easie to weepe for this Prince then to speake of his Princely vertues Frame hath sorrowed for this Duke and Prince like vnto a Mother who being a Widdow and Old hath lost her owne sonne and as a Campe or an Armie of men hath lost their Captaine and Commander For he was borne in France where his wofull Mother yet liueth and bred there vntill the ninth yeere of his age and now Died their Captaine of an hundred men at Armes in Scotland of the French Kings Ordinances Then was he in his ninth yeere brought into Scotland which now lament and grieue for his Death as it was delighted for twenty yeers together with his life there As also hee is vniuersally lamented of euery one here in England where he liued these twentie last yeeres of his life in all honor and loue and now is Dead and Buried with great griefe and sorrow Ireland likewise sorrow for his Death and hang vp their Harpes from the touching or trembling of their strings to any pleasant sound So that his Funerall needed not any hired teares nor borrowed weepers called in Latine Praeficae and in Hebrew Mekonenoth as it is written in the ninth chapter of Ieremie Euery one did affoord them with abundance those which had not their eyes full of teares had their hearts voide of pitie and commiseration Teares which constancy and grauitie held in that they might not appeare were no lesse bitter then those which common griefe did cast forth to be seene If any one had strength to resist teares it was wanting to fight with sorrow To tell now what the lamentation of London was it is impossible and incredible the people sighed and lamented one to another so nor can I tell you how the poore people of the Countrie euen such as neuer saw him were sorrie for his Death because they heard of his goodnesse Nor yet needed he those Lawes of other nations appointed to weepe at the Death of their Princes and Great men As the Egyptians in Diodorus Historie wept threescore and Diodor. lib. 2c 2. twelue dayes for the Death of their King and we did now for our Prince LODOVICK before his Funerall and will many more hereafter So did the Sparthians or Lacedemonians mourne for their Kings Death some certaine dayes as Herodotus writes Such was the cruell policie Herodot lib. 6. Ioseph Antiq. lib. 17. c. 8. of great Herodes to cause the chiefe Councellours of the Kingdome to bee murthered at his Death that there might some teares bee shed then liking belike that which Medea said in the Tragedie Mors optima est perire Seneca de Med. lachrymosum suis it is to bee wished to bee wept for euery man wept and lamented willingly his Death and their teares which