haue made or else excus'd a soule The Roome mournd where he lay the weeping stones Ioyn'd with his friends in their relenting mones Death migt haue well mistaken being sent For one to see so many that wayes bent The Father three times offerd to haue payd Him-selfe for his Sonnes ransome had Death stayd His hasty hand hee had found many more That had bin fitter to haue payd this score Alas he was but in the blossom yet Of tender yeeres though aged for his wit Hee had some insight into euery Art That to Nobility might adde a part His Parents reapt as much ioy from his spring As many childrens Haruest home doth bring But hee is fled away to passe the time Hee ow'd to vs in a farre better Clime There shall his Summer and his Haruest bee Where hee shall neuer any Winter see Then Parents grieue no more for he 's in ioy Doubt not wipe yours his teares are wip't away Death tells mee he was old enough to die And young enough to liue eternally Geruase Warmstrey Alumnus WHat fatall booke is this which doth declare That Noble Stanhop's house has lost her heyre A Sermon preach'd at Shelford ah tisso Stanhope is layd in Earth these lines of woe Demonstrate he is dead yet stay wer 't he Oxford would put on sorrowes liuery Each Colledge mourne in ashes euery Hall Looke like the Embleme of a Funerall Christ-church would sink in ruine were he gon On whom shee built her hopes foundation Dulnesse has seaz'd vpon me can I reade That vertue 's slaine yet iudge not Stanhope dead Betweene which two there was such league that o◠Could not subsist the other beeing gon In Churches why should Death triumph and bee Hanging vp Banners of her victory What siege of Honour has shee won Is' t all That shee has payd to Fate one Funerall And that of feeble youth yong Stanhope dyes ' Cause else shee knowes not where to tyrannize It had beene Iustice if some hoary head Had felt this deadly dart and perished To bee vniust is Death's iust attribute For shee did murder him not execute But why should wee her murders thus relate Death 's but the Executioner of Fate Fate was to blame whose too too greedy hand Did breake his thred of life as loth to stand The leisure for to cut it with her sheeres And so at once rob'd him of many yeeres This is not all his theft's farre greater yet In robbing him Fate rob'd vs all of wit For Stanhope might haue liu'd a worke to raise Which mought frō Sydney's Temples pluck the Bayes At least haue equall'd him such hopes his braine Did promise to the world to bring againe But wee haue lost him strangers which but heare How good he was are forc't to shead a teare Well may his Father say hee is vndone Hee onely knew the worth of such a Sonne Let others thinke it strange that griefe should bee As bold as death to worke a Tragedy Thrice did his Father sound as if his Ghost Would take a Farewell of his son that 's lost Yet wher 's your wonder here at such a sight I would not think it strange to dy outright So would hee but one Death cannot suffice T' expresse his griefe therefore hee after dyes And could his sorrowe quit his son from Death Hee 'd neuer leaue to grieue whilst he had breath Will. Hemmings Alumnus TRiste onus Hexaphori moestaeque Epicedi◠turbae Inuitant lachrymas ore madente pias Occidit alma Hebe patris spes gloria fratrum Qui partu primus funere primus erat Vendicat hanc Natura hanc moesta Academia prolem Arsque suam petit hanc Nobilitasque suam Laurea cum moesca certat numerosa Cupresso Charta istos cineres et leuis vrna petunt Sed de virgineo ne sit discordia vultu Mors citiùs praedam vendicat atra suam Igne crepent gemmae Domini noctescit ocellus Huic gemmae nusquam gemma superstes erit Pingues quos tantùm capiti modò sparsit odores Iam caput et plantas corpus et omne linant Sed tamen vnguento meliori funera lauit Dum soluit nimijs imbribus ora parens At toti lachrymae non suffecêre dolori Pars erat in vultu plus tamen intùs erat Quid miserande Pater langues animoque liquescis Cur fugit exanimis membra supina cruor Siste Pater gemitus et vitae parce ruenti Vitam non satis est huic tribuisse semel Pace tuâ valeant manes permitte quietem Et praeter famam murmura nulla sonent Manibus Augustis non pandit Cerberus aulam Iam canis aethereus regnat astra parat In Eundem HIc splendidius decus Parentū Orta stemmate nobili propago Funestum posuit citò cadauer Et compagine spiritus soluta Languentis malè corporis fauillae Extincta est Lachrymas mouent sorores Et moestae Tragico sonant boatu Dum Parcea indociles fauore flecti Primae stamina dissecant iuuentae Quis non exequijs liquescat istis Et fati scelus improbet seueri Sed fundant Tetricae minas sorores Non condet Libitina saeua Famam Vita perfruitur beatiori Extentoque diu superstes aeuo Vitam artis trahit sepulchra ridet O pectus iuuenis Vale quietum Solennes feretri rogos superbi Dum plaudit famulante musa cantu Et coetus iuuenûm modestiorum O sit terra tibi leuis Precamur Terrae tam leuis antè qui fuisti Franciscus Minne Alumnus ANne ego te Iuuenem Stanhope putabo Senemue Cuius verna dies gloria cana fuit Cuius in decimâ vix quintâ aestate senectus Imperat puerum non puerum esse sinit Sic non iustus eras non fortis doctus ad Annos Sed potuit virtus praecipitare dies Non data longa tibi est facta est longissima vita Nec viuendo breuis sed moriendo fuit Iohannes Donne Alumnus NObilis atque sagax properae virtutis alumnus Et patris patriae gloria prima suae Occidit impubis raptus trieteride quinta Eheu quà m Parcas iam rapuisse pudet Vidêre vt multa canum virtute sorores Crediderant viridis qui fuit esse senem DEATH alas could none but hee Suffice thy greedy Tyranny Wel thou knowst that thousands more Long haue run vpon thy score And with all humility Yeeld themselues as due a fee. Thy subtile cruelty is spide Whilest in one a thousand dy'de Hadst thou tane Achilles Dart Strucke and then releas'd that smart Thou hadst done well Once or twice It was thy sport to let him rise Out of his Bed Now he stray'd Too farre with thee now he stay'd So Apollo slew his friend Hyacinthe against his minde Whil'st the Quoit that he had thrown Smote his gentle Play-mate downe Grieue not then for him that 's gone See Death's sorry for what 's done Let no cryes oppresse your eares Dry O dry
did heau'n call To haue him there so that he needs must fall If so t is well for it was equity Mankind and hee by the same Fate should dye But though th' art dead thy memorie suruiues And thy good deeds shall out-last others liues Guliel Buckner Art Bac. DEpositum Stanhope tuum memorande supremum Ipse pater patriâ concumulauit humo Nec licuit feretro nobis suspendere Carmen Nec Trentae lachrymas annumerare tuo Nostra tamen similes lacrymarum Nympha lacunas Hauriet Trentâ non minor Isis erit WEepe weepe your sorrowes are well paid 'T is a Stanhope here is laid You that see this Monument And cannot at this sight lament The conscious Marble will you show How to discharge your comely woe Either you may th' occasion sit By melting into teares like it Or if you punish nor your eye By weeping cause it fatally Behold his Tombe then may you mone By standing stupid like the stone Yet both these sorrowes are well paid 'T is a Stanhope here is laid Guli Treshans Equitis Aurat Filius IMmitis properare necem Libitina potirâ— Dum tanto exoptat coniuge fata iubet Spiritus ingenium genius decor oris ortûs Stemmata quem celebrant aemula fatae prema â—â— Indole maturum flos indolis abstulit illum Dum numeraet laudes quis negat esse senem Non aeui breuitate fuit fraudata tropaeis Gloria cum fuerit copia nulla nouis Laude viget cuius fraterna videtur imago Accipere parili reddere fata vice In Canem coelestem eò quòd circa initium dierum Canicularium mortuus sit LEge nimis durâ funebria iusta referre Icarij cogis feruida stella canis Icaria peiora precor tibi fata ruina Dùm tua sic lachrymas sorbet anhela sitis Betrus Tryon Armig. Fil. nat max. In Variolarum luem qua interijt HOc Iuuemem placido decus immortale Sepulchro Aspice qui viuens immaculatus erat Dixissem si non fera Mors morbique perosi Polluerant moriens immaculatus erat Ah Laethi crudele genus cum tetrica vultus Abstulit tenero saeuit in ore lues Dulcia deformes ederunt oscula morbi Nec data sunt auido pura labella rogo Tam celeri si saeua gradu ventura fuissent Nonne alia poterant fata venire via Sed Mors saeua decus properauit perdere vultus Ne posset duras flectere forma Deas 'T Is not Nobility that is of force To stop the Progresse of this Tyrants course Nor mortall can vnto himselfe assume A sparke of time when Fate hath past her doome So fraile are all Earths momentary things That Death a Tribute claimes of greatest Kings But Death hath had her pay and he his Crowne Where neither Death can strike nor Fate can frown Gul. Pennyman Armig. filius natu max. Ex Aede Christi WErt not that dayly spectacles deny A difference betweene Nobility And other Pigmy Mortals good and bad The old and young we iust occasion had Of admiration when we doe behold Thee so good young and noble vnder mould But when the Graues and Sepulchres we view We turne our admiration from you Not wondring that a life so short you led But that our selues haue spun so large a thred Of our Mortality when all places see Some dye continually so that we Need draw our neuer-discontinued teares Vnto the Period of our latest yeeres Here one fall's sicke and dyes there another Griefe for whose death killeth perhaps his Brother Father or Mother so it far'd with thee For not thou onely but a Family Did seeme in thee to die for loe thy Father Secure of any worse mishap had rather Suffer himselfe some perill than that death Before his comming should cloze vp thy breath He comes and iourneying thrice with humble knee Fall's to the Earth yet being vtterly Insensible of this through the great fire Kindled by Loue obtaineth his desire Thy Mother fearing that thy houre was come Striues to bring forth another in thy roome And so with motherly compassion loth To lose the one endangereth you both Thy Brother of thy Fortune aemulous Striues to preuent thee whose ingenuous Loue and good-will to thee did then appeare When thy last houre did shew he held thee deare He faine to heauen would thy fore-runner bee And there prouide place for himselfe and thee Wherefore he often offers willingly Ransome to pay for thy deliuery And on condition thou maist here remaine Dyes often but deny'd reuiues againe To his great griefe at last when nought would doe Cryes out and saies Shall we be parted too T is true you must a while yet weepe no more Since all your teares will not his life restore Then since your weeping can't recall him gone Waile not his death seeke to preuent your owne Ad defuncti fratrem DEfunctus foret ipse sibi tantae indolis haeres Si possent iustae flectere fata preces Sed Natura negat cui munera tanta relinquet Cùm nuda Elysios vmbra pererret agros Deuouet haec fratri hunc haeredem ex asse reliquit Quem socium tantae Nobilitatis habet Viue tibi fratri duplicem sortitus honorem Sisque haeres illi moribus ingenio Thomas Ballowe Alumnus AN Heire and dead must some erected Tombe Cloze in the bowels of an earthly wombe Stanhopes great Heire must it a Trophy bee Of his decease boast we in misery Are these the Lands that he was borne vnto To lye dead in some Ephrons Field of woe O tell me Death why is he turn'd to dust Wilt thou plead Fates decree and cry He must Is thy best reason a necessity Or grounded Maxime in Philosophy He was not old for age he did not dye Nor was the onely cause Mortality This was the chiefest reason he deceast Thy hunger was ingenuous and to feast Was thy desire thou 't not picke the bone Of some Anatomy or Skeleton As for a Carkasse hanging in the Ayre Halfe eaten vp by Time thou dost not care The Wormes are Epicures whose enuious strife Deuoures that Carkasse that had giuen them life Nor can I blame them that they so doe eate Though hee 's a Course yet is he dainty meat Eduard Price Alumnus I Thinke it is a policie in Death To take the young and spare the aged breath Nature 's the bane of old men Times decree Sends them a packing Death they need not Thee Thou onely seru'st to crop our tender yeeres To draw from Parents eyes abortiue teares Thou letst them liue their children tak'st away Knowing that sorrow will be their decay But Death pale enuious Death how could'st thou find Out the sweet picture of so pure a mind Me thinkes although thy bloudy Dart were steel'd With thy sad purpose yet it must needs yeeld To see the Father melting into teares His sad acquaintance and his Brothers feares Who sent as many sighes vnto the Pole As might
rege integro cultu Dei Accidere nobis lector istorum benè est Si conualescat deficit mihi spiritus G. I. REdde ô Depositum Patri petenti Redde ô Depositum diserta sedes Tanti non emo Literas nec Antrum Et Phoebi Tripodas Deumque totum Illum sub dubij tepore sensus Et fuscâ biuij trementis horâ Luctantem toties Lare in Paterno Emersisse semel nec inde nostro Illum tendiculas manumque Fati Prensantis toties cauere posse Vt damni mora foeneraret ingens Huic aurae scelus inuidumque nomen Seruaret miseris ruina Musis Nunc iras veteres palam fatentur Musis ah nimis asperae sorores Musis irrita quòd Sepulchra reddunt Et fallunt tenebras silentis Vrnae I am fato cecidit Triumphus ingens Non vulgare epulum rogum saginat Sed Praenobile quodque delicato Reddat iam proceres sapore vermes Cymbam nunc inopem rosis alga Nauclerus Stygiae paludis ornat Ornat sollicitus magisque sudat Quam si nunc reduci foros pararet Aeneae Dominaeque nauiganti Illo quot Veneres Facetiasque Vernantes licuìt videre vultu Quot pexo mulierculas in Ore Et quantos animo viros adulto Vno non potuit iacere telo Virtus tam numerosa sed tenello Centum pectore condidit sagittas Fati certa lues Character irae Dum vestigia vulnerum fatetur Seu morbus fuerat Pudoruè Morbi Crebris morsibus hinc hinc rubescit Absumptum est iaculis repentè pectus Et posses pharetram vocare metam Non sic foemina spinulis refertum Puluillum iugulat veneficaeque Humanas fodiunt acu figuras Non tot vulnera tot per omne corpus Caesar sustinuit quot ille solo Sensit corde puer Puerque spreuit Ingens pectore iamque vulnerato Qui quamuis puer ausus est minantes Non pallere Deas ferociamque Ostentare viri tuamque Caesar Dum stratis operit pudicus ora Obnubitque sinum ferox acer Quem vinci puduit iubente Fato Gulielmus Strode Art Bac. SLeepe sweetest youth in thy still graue Whom birth nor vertue could not saue Nor louelinesse nor youth could free From this doome of mortality Could we with teares thy life redeeme Our eyes should be a liuing streame Or else what would wee not contriue To giue so heauen would thee repriue To older yeeres and would thee saue Till old thou might'st become a graue Thou might'st depart then without wonder When soule and body fall asunder But thou wast louely young and wise The comfort of our hopes and eyes Could Death discerne thy parts or see Hee had enamored beene on thee Thy beauty would force him forbeare His churlish dart and shead a teare To see so faire an obiect stand That loue and pitty could command And force compassion in each one That had or sence or passion But thou wast ripe for heauen and wee Are left behind to grieue for thee Nor are we angry with that doome Could wee weepe Amber and entombe Those louely Reliques which might blesse Our sorrow in thy happinesse That so our teares might thee embrace And shrine thee in a louely place So they vnto eternity Might both enbalme and bury thee Could we thus blesse our griefe and thee Wee should weepe a glad Elegy Had we such comfort in our teares We'd weepe the remnant of our yeres To halfe redeeme thee could wee saue Thy ashes in so rich a graue Though this is but a wished gift Yet griefe can make a louing shift And know our loue can make a roome As euerlasting as this Tombe In spight of death wee will thee saue Both from the fate of death and graue Thy loue shall find though life 's thus spent In each mans heart a Monument Thus wee 'le preserue thee and contriue Though dead thou still shalt bee aliue INuidia Fati prima surrepta iuuenta Hic iacet Oxonij gloria delitiae Hunc populo indignum Musae rapuere benigno Amplexu gremio deposuere suo Formam tota cohors Musarum deperit ambit Aeternumque aiunt Hoc requiesce sinu Annorum spondent faciles per saecula lapsus Dum rapit audaci mors inopina manu Inuidiam hanc rident Musae tumuloque reponunt Carmineo inuita viuere morte iubent Sic quem mortalem Parcae inuidere Cmamaenis Aeternum in nostro carmine tutus erit Gulielmus Pickering Art Bac. De morbo quo fratres vtrique laborabant Corpora tam similes vestesque habuere colores Corpora nescires an tunicata vides Tam similes vtrique dedit morbusque figuras Fratres vel morbo noueris esse duos Sic morbi obseruant habitus conformia Fata Si fuerant fratres viuere vtrosque velint Ioh. Euans Gen. Art Bac. QVam fueras fratris morbo praeposterus haeres Vt viuat titulis posthumus ille tuis Iam nimius fueras Haeres natura Parensis Haeredem fratris te tua Fata volunt Credibile est mortem tum lasciuisse pharetra Dum sic alternas vibrat vtrisque minas Non errare potest dubiae manus impia mortis Dum pro fratre mori gestit vterque prior Dum sic Bacchatur Fatum est crudelius alter Fratri morbus erat te perijsse suo Petr. Aspley in Art Bac. Equitis Aur. Turris Londini praefect primogenitus T Is indeed t is Stanhopes heire Whose corps lye muffled on this Beere Which a pure loue before it went Ennobled more then his descent But count his vertues not his yeeres Or ghesse him by his Fathers teares And then no Son or Heir 's desir'd But th' whole Name and Race expir'd Nor doth his death cause this our woe Death's our nature not our foe But that his life so soone being gone Made him a ghest and not a sonne That hee snatcht in 's minoritie Did rather loose his life then die And now his yeeres being vnderstood To be so short and yet so good Wee may diuide our passions so That we may grieue yet wonder too His wit so ripe in youth so greene Made him ancient at fifteene And now you see his face no more You would date him at threescore But if you would memorials keepe Of this faire body lies asleepe That looking on the toyes you weare Though hee bee gone you 'd thinke him heere First know you do this soule no grace To catch his Ribbands or his Lace Or as the Iewes did heretofore To keepe his Earerings to adore If for his memory you care Weare his manners not his haire Thinke on him in his latest rest When death had spawnd vpon his brest And hurl'd those deadly Atomes on Enamel'd with corruption How still that harmelesse soule remaind Among so many spots vnstaind O why was Fate so soone seuere T' enchase those vgly Rubies there Nor will we mitigate the name And call them Measels for the same Were on the brothers body tride Nor yet complain wee
Actus quinque sed OPTIMIS negatos Quaenam istud noua crimen execrandum Parcis addita Parca perpetrauit Aut quo quo properas Amor Parentum Phoebo pulchrior sorore Phoebi Eheu fabula quae breuis minuta Festinata tibi est tibi merenti Cornìcis vetulae quater senectam Interrupta tibi est in * secundo Actu non rediturus exijstì Hen. Elsynge Armig. Fil. natu max. Commensalis STanopum primâ rapuit mors atra iuventâ Delicias vestri turba novena chorj Si quem fortè mori vetuerunt carmina Musae Nùnc venam vires Castalis vnda probet Qui desunt vitae numerentur laudibus anni Sic fiet manes sine morte cimis Dic quibus in terris coelum capit vrna Stanopi Hac quâ parte iacet mersa fauilla sapis Quid parios lapides marmora sacra paratis Quem nemo deflet Pyramis ista decet Stillant Heliades stillant Electra Camaenae Vt tegat exanimem succina gemma cutem Sic decuit clarum tumnlo lucere Stanopum Qui vixit nostrae Sydus honosque togae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Io. Wall Sa. The. Dr. ex Aed Ch. Of the transportation of his Corps from Oxford to Shelford in a Coach HEre Charon Coach-man gently waft froÌ„ Thames To Trent this Body iog him not he dreames Now of Eliah's Charriot and a Paire Of Angels drawing him along the Aire In stead of Horse Innocence may not feele The Iustice of a Purgatorie wheele I prethee vse him gently I resigne Into â—hy hands a thing that whilst 't was mine Deseru'd the curt'sie if th'adst pau'd the way 〈…〉 boughes or rushes as the Iewes the day 〈…〉 he Passion did entertaine 〈…〉 â—erusalem for him home againe 〈…〉 n goe before let vs diuide 〈…〉 rankes and I will ride 〈…〉 rd now or ne're we goe Vnto ou◠〈…〉 Piâ—grimage of woe For we do 〈…〉 all He that shall aske Me who is deaâ— doâ—h put me to a Taske I cannot answere well yet if we know Effect by Cause and demonstration shew A necessary Consequence I guesse The King not's Father had the losse no lesse If the Natiuitie be cast of 's breeding Honour can follow so direct Proceeding Were I not tongue-tide or some reference Muzled my Pen from telling of the sence Of this young Mystery I could read who Remembred God in 's youth and neuer knew How to run out in Oxford nor th' expence Of Sinne or Money ' les 't were to dispence Vnto the Poore You that dispute the Case Of Mans Saluation thinking it a grace To vse a neat distinction learne to doe Of him that learn'd the Theorie of you Harke the Bels ring away peace dolefull sound Let vs enioy our woes doe not confound Still Passions with loud Musicke yet ring on Helpe to make vp solemne Procession Now is Rogation weeke Here Oxford ends And here Northampton-shire Lester extends It selfe vnto this Bridge and then we be Riding along in Notingham A Tree Though young yet wither'd did distinguish one Another was distinguish't by a Stone Fit for an Epitaph Here I sow'd a Teare Which I will reape againe when I come there Thus euery thing 's an Enblem that we see To represent to vs our misery The poore o' th Parishes accompany Vs in our Progresse and as lowd doe cry Vnto as for the dead and some in loue Drowne their Religion calling God aboue As if the dead their Prayers did auaile To blesse the Burden that we goe withall Thus we found pittie though we found no ease And Trauelling will seldome bring release For Care will be a Horse-man Now I 'ue grieu'd Threescore and ten to Shelford and haue liu'd The date of Man in Miles the surplusage Like Dauids is a trouble not an Age. I. Hodsdon FINIS