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A02618	A happy husband or, Directions for a maide to choose her mate As also, a wiues behauiour towards her husband after marriage. By Patricke Hannay, Gent. To which is adioyned the Good wife, together with an exquisite discourse of epitaphs, including the choysest thereof, ancient or moderne. By R.B. Gent.	Hannay, Patrick, d. 1629?; Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673. Good wife. aut	1619 (1619)	STC 12747; ESTC S103737	79,392	200

raising him from death to life and Samuel wept for Saules wickednes but we are now to argue of weeping touching those that be asleepe of moderate weeping and of the inconueniences which proceed from immoderate Sorrow and Dolour Moderate weeping is most highly commended for it expresseth a naturall Affection we had to the Departed with a Christian-li●…e Moderation of our Griefe whereby our Faith to God-ward is demonstrated the reason is manifest Since the Departed rest from their labours and their workes follow them corum imò opera praecesserunt eos They haue gone before them Why should wee then weepe since they are receiued into the Throne of Blisse and are made partakers of Aeternitie and therefore Saint Cyprian saith Praemissi sunt non amissi Those that depart in the Faith of Christ They are sent before vs not lost from vs They shall receiue Immortali●…ie and be heires of Christs Kingdome Againe they who attain to the glory of Gods Kingdome are to be thought happie and in ioy not in sorrow vex●…tion or woe and therefore not to be grieued for in that they are Departed from vs for of necessitie it is we must either Depart from them or They from vs. O happie were we if we were receiued into that ioy that glorie that aeternit●…e whereof the Saints in Christs Kingdome be Partakers Dispar est gloria singulorum communis tamen laticia omnium A Glorie distingu●…shed but a ioy communicate O admirable mysterie O ineffable mercy a mystery onely to Those●…euealed ●…euealed whom He in his mercy hath reserued to be Inheritors in the Couenant of Peace established by his Promise confirmed by his Power and conferred on his Elect Israelites glorified by Iesus Christ our Lord in the highest Heauen euen where the Cherubims and Seraphims make melody and solace to the Lord of Heauen and Earth Touching the inconuenience of immoderate ●…orrow the blessed Apostle Paul 1 Thess. 4 13. gi●…eth vs a taste where he saith I would not Brethren ●…aue you ignorant concerning them which are asleepe ●…hat yee sorrow not euen as other which haue no hope whence it appeareth that excessiue and immode●…ate sorrow implieth a diffidence or distrust wee ●…aue of our Soules immortality resurrection glo●…ification whereby wee seeme to derogate from ●…hat written verity who said Verily verily I say vn●… you the houre shal come and how is when the dead shall ●…are the voice of the Son of God and they that heare it ●…all liue Ioh. 5. 25. But many carnall men there be ●…hose spirituall eyes dazled or rather blemished ●…ith terrestriall Obiects can extend their intelle●…tuall sight the eye of their Soule no further then ●…e exteriour Obiect of Sence leades them and ●…ese like Nicodemus will not let to aske How ●…n a man be borne againe which is old Can he enter to his mothers wombe againe and be borne Little ●…e these con●…ider how Melius est non 〈◊〉 ●…n renasci Nor know they how ther●… be children by Procreation and children by Regeneration of which sort might Rachel seeme to be who wept for her children and would not be comforted because they were not So strangely doth the violence of Passion transport These as they become stupid and sencelesse in the depriuall of a friend pithily expressed by the Poet Leuiora spirant mala grauiora stupent Some silence grieues and griefes doe silence some For lesse griefes speake when greater griefes be dumbe This was pleasa●…tly shadowed in the Morall of Niobe Alcyone and sundry others with singular delight illustrated and very accommodate to ou●… present purpose but our intended breuity preuēt●… vs and rather would I moue by way of Precep●… then Discourse for the latter tastes of Affectation where the other ministers argument of vse without Ostentation To conclude I wish euery immoderate and dispassionate Mourner to reflect to these two considerations The first is to conceiue the matter or composition where of hee was made for whom hee mourneth The second is which by a necessary consequenc●… depends vpon the first The necessity of his dissol●… tion being enioyned by that vniuersall doom which cannot be protracted much lesse repeale●… to returne to that Moulde from whence He ha●… his Beginning In the first to wit his Composition thou shalt finde the matter where of He was mad●… vile sordide and contempti●…le where that Beau●… wherein consisted the eminent part of his luster but Earth which wee make our inferiour Center yea though He were ennobled in the highest rank of Descent yet Non luti melioris the matter whereof he was composed is but equall with the obscurest vassall In the latter to wit his Dissolution as the time or instant is doubtfull and to the knowledge of man illimited so is the necessity of the Doome not to be auoided it was the Pagan Poets Maxime Earth must to Earth and it is Pittacus saying That the immortal gods themselues could not ●…truggle against Necessitie Seeing then the frailty of his Composition the necessity of his Dissolution haue recourse to him in the depth of thy Affliction who will infuse into thy teare-distilling wounds th●… Balme of his Consolation acknowledge thou thy infirmities with the Publican and He will play the faithfull Samaritan restraine thy too-tender affection as one that is beleeuing so shall not the death of thy happy-departed friend grieue thee but by the wings of Faith transpose thee from cogitation of Earth to Heauen tran●…late thee a skilfull and cheerefull Builder of Gods Temple as a faithfull Bezalie from Idolatrous Babel to saintly zealous Bethel from Edom to Eden from the Tents of Kedar and the Habitations of Moloc to those princely Cedars of Lebanon from the Son of Syrac from Marah the water of bitternesse to Bethesda the Poole of Solace finally from this exile of teares and miserie to the Syloe of ioy and eternall Glory Mallem me mori quam viuere mortuum FINIS AN EPITAPH Vpon one Iohn Combe of Stratford vpon Auen a notable Vsurer fastened vpon a Tombe that he had caused to be built in his life time TEn in the hundred must lie in his graue But a hundred to ten whether God will him haue Who then must be interr'd in this Tombe Oh quoth the Diuell my Iohn a Combe ¶ Vpon the life of Man What is our life a play of Passion Our mirth the musicke of diuision Our Mothers wombes the tyring houses be To decke vs vp for Times short Tragedie The World 's the stage Heauen the spectator is To sit and iudge who here doth act amisse The cloudes that shadow vs from the scorching Sunne Are but drawne curtaines till the Play be done ¶ On Sir W. R. The life of Man is like the moouing hand Of euery Clocke which still doth goe or stand According to the weight it has if light It makes vs thinke it long before t be night If weighty Oh how fast the wheele doth runne That we thinke mid-night ere the day be done Thy life was

sudden and premature deaths occasioned vpon some occurrents lately and vnhappily arising WHo walkes this way what Charitie i st thou I need not feare thy doome for thou'lt al●…ow This Axiome for vndoubted Once we must Returne vnto our mother earth and dust Our first creation challengeth the same Being the Mould from whence our bodies came If Enuie passe this way and iudge am●…sse I rest secure what ere her censure is Faith is my Anchor Comfort is my Shield How should I doubt then but to win the field For this is true as I haue oft times heard No death is sudden to a minde prepar'd My Hope being thus erected Enuie cease To wrong his soule that haz assured peace Another Epitaph vpon the same subiect Thou look'st vpon my Tombe and wagg'st thy head And with remorcefull te●…res weep'st ore me dead As if past hope thou seem'st to be my frend In that thou grieu'st at my vntimely end Vntimely dost thou call it True report Brutes my Repentance was but very short Because cut off I graunt it for the space It was but short yet was the c●…urse of grace Abundant which confirmes my Pilgrims wish Where man 's prepar'd there no death sudden is An Epitaph of the same Hopelesse thou weep'st and com'st vnto my Tombe Descanting on my death with oh too soone Dide this poore wretch I pray thee ceasse to weepe I am not dead but onely falne asleepe Ablessed sleepe secure from Enuies sting Flying from earth to heauen with ayrie wing Should'st thou then doubt my end O do not doubt My virgin-lampe is in 't shall nere goe out Thou saist I dide too soone thou saist amisse Can any die too soone to liue in Blisse Wipe then thy Teares I know thou wish me well Heauen is my mansion Earth I tooke for hell And that was cause I went so soone from thence To plant in Heauen my eternall residence For men how short their end are neuer tride But how they learn'd to die before they dide ¶ Vpon a vertuous young Ladie lying in child-birth B●…rne at the first to bring another forth She leaues the world to leaue the world her birth Thus Phoenix-like as she was borne to breed Dying herselfe renews it in her seed ¶ Vpon a Souldier for resolutiō worthily affecte●… and aduanced by his Country yet interred an●… by vnworthy Fate obscurely Dead Yes Alas is this the Souldiers tombe A silly monument to them shall come To see it True what tho the body lie Interred low in her obscuritie Thy vertue honour'd Souldier shall remaine Aboue the Boundiers of triumphing Spaine France or the Belgicke rampires what Death m●… Sh'haz done already turnd thy corpse to clay But death of Fames possession may despaire For she erects her Tombe within the Ayre That whosoeuer this way chance to moue Shall see his corpse heere but his fame aboue Triumphant Souldiers glorious by thy birth Reign'st now in heauen because thou wer'st in earth Then such Professants ouer blessed are That raise their Peace by managements of warre Vpon a Drunkard buried in a ruinous fort in Dunkerke was this Inscription engrauen which by the ancientnesse of Time was well neare defaced In Dunkerke heere a Drunkard lies with mickle careysought Drinke was the boone the lorden crau'd for rest he cared nought Long may he wun in this large Tombe and neuer henceforth sinke To earth again that while he liu'd claimd earth for wāt of drink ●…eauen rest his soule and others all whosere the Lord will saue And grant Dunkerk if 't be thy wil may nere such drūkards haue ¶ An Epigram vpon Alphonso Prince of Naples and vpon his Crest whereon was engrauen a Pellican with this Impressa Alios seruans meipsum perdo The Crest I weare expresseth what I am A soft and tender-hearted Pellican Who to recall life to her dying brood●… Suckes from her owne heart life-renewing blood Being the same if I appeale to time Shee 's not more deare to hers then I to mine ¶ An Epitaph vpon one who died confined Report tells me that thou didst die confinde Confinde its true in body not in minde Confinde the body was where it had birth But minde without confinement leaueth earth To dwell in those ●…efined Groues abou●… A Gro●…e refin'd which yeelds eternall loue To the possessor let thy minde appeare Free though thy body was confined heere This shall remaine engrauen vpon thy Tombe To memorise thy fame in time to come ¶ Vpon a Iustice worthily deseruing of his Countrey The misse of thee since th●… decease is knowne For whoso comes to Iustice or her throne Shall see her silent and as o●…e that 's domb Good reason why with thee she lost her tongue ¶ Vpon a Iustice of lesse demerite Who comes this way Let him looke downe and reade Here li●… one spake lesse liuing then being dead For heere in Ri●…e Fame speakes of him in time Who whilst he liu'd spak●… Reason nor good Rime This yet h●… comfort is when time is spent God will haue mercie on the innocent ¶ Vpon a bragging Souldier Heere lies a bragging Souldi●…r that could lie With 〈◊〉 and s●…te in face of maiestie Yet he that lied ' gainst heauen in earth now lies An open mirrour to all mortall eies For though he lied yet could he not denie With all his lies but man is prest to die Vpon Peter see me Peter see me thou canst not for thy eies Lie ●…here interred where thy body lies How canst thou see me then as Peters doe Not by my worth but by my outward shew●… For Gallant-like by perfumes I transpose My knowledge from thy eies vnto thy nose That though th' art dead yet thou may well perceiu●… A Perfum'd gallant walk 's vponthy graue ¶ Vpon a Captaine which in the Low Countries was hanged and afterwards taken vp againe A Captaine hangd and taken from his Graue For what a pardon came and did him saue Saue what did it saue his body Yes From putrefaction no but from that peace All buried corps enioy It was not done With Iustice Yes she is a Saint diuine And raisd him vp because dead'fore his time his throwing Poore Thrower art thou dead Now do I feele Euen by thy End that Fortune haz a wheele That spinnes and weaues turnes and returnes againe And in mens death esteemes the chiefest gaine For this by thee may very well be knowne That made their owne wheele ruinate thy owne Thou wast a Thrower Fate a Thrower too After this cast thou'lt neere make such a throw Rest then in peace it 's Fate tript vp thy heele And bids thee yeeld vnto her Turning wheele ¶ Vpon one Span. Rightly compared is the life of man For shortnesse of continuance to a span It is mans met-wand euery one must haue This span to end his life and mete his graue Then who dare say that he does liue secure Possessing that which cannot long endure This is expressed by this man lies heere Whose name

and nature in one span appeare So lest the name should do the nature wrong Being short by nature name would not be long ¶ Vpon one Flower a hopefull yong Student Mans life 's a flower how should it then but fade Since at the first for dying it was made Yet if this Flower had beene exempted then We might haue thought this Flower not for men To crop no more it was and ther●…fore giuen As one aboue desert of earth to Heauen Once thou was planted in the Cambrian Groue Where thou was watred with the Students loue But now from thence I see thy glory rise From Cambrian Beakes to Brookes in paradise ¶ Vpon a Reuerend and honourable Iudge of this land was this Epitaph inscribed Who so would Honours frailetie pictur'd haue Let him behold that picture in this graue Where frailetie ne're was with more honours clad Nor more deseru'd those honours which he had Had lasse that we should say wee had thee haue Would be a Tence the state would rather craue Small difference twixt the accents Haue and Had Yet th' one did cheare vs th' other makes vs sad But whence these tea●…es whence be they to expresse His worth our want his peace our pensiuenesse For to discribe him in each liniment He gaue his to●…gue vnto the Parlament His hands to sacred writ his eare to heare Iudgement pronounc'd his eye to see more cleare In the 〈◊〉 of Iustice and his feete To walke in paths for Christian soules most meete Thus his impartiall tongue hand eare foote eye Show'd him a mirror in mortalitie Yet in his age a Reuerence appeares Many are yong in houres are olde in yeares But he was old in both full seuentie sixe Surpassing Dauids fi●…st Arithmeticke Fifty one yeares he with his Lady liu'd That in himselfe his race might be reuiu'd For what was by the vertuous Father done Seemes by resemblance shadow●…d in the Sonne Sergeant vnto the Queene Iudge o' th kings B●…nch For twelue yeares space wherein his eminence Did not transport his passions For his thought Fixt on his end esteem'd all honour nought Thus liu'd he thus he di'de liu'd long di'de wel Heere Iudge on Earth now Iudge in Israel Terras Astraea reliquit ¶ Distichon funebre in obit princip ob eximiam corporis mentis temperiem qua licet nos reliquit altiora petit Qui formam mirantur ament Uestigia mentis Illi forma perit nescit at illa mori ¶ An Epitaph vpon the Sonne buried in his Fathers graue Stand goe no further looke but downe and reade Youth fed that body on which wormes doe feede Looke lower downe and thou portrai'd shalt haue Father and Sonne both buried in one graue And what does couer them poore mother Earth Which gaue to Sonne and Father both their birth Thus one to three reduc'd and three to one Sonne Mother Father Father Mother Sonne Make then this vse on 't wheresoe're thou come Earth was thy cradle Earth must be thy tombe ¶ Vpon one who louing honour died ere hee possest it Thus fadeth honour and returnes to nought Which is not got by merit but is bought For it affoords th' aspiring minde small good When wreaths of honour are not drawne from blood Nor from desert for honour cannot bide Being supported by the stayes of pride ¶ Vpon Master Laurence Death an Epicede accommodate to his Name Why should one feare to grapple with his Name Death thou wast liuing and art now the same No I may say farre more renewing breath Tels me th' art liuing for thou hast kil'd Death Liue then victorious Saint still may thou be Though dead by Name ●…et fresh in memory That who so passeth or shall chance to come This way may say Here lies Deaths liuing Tomb. ¶ Vpon one Merie Merie why liest thou like Heraclitus That vs'd to laugh like blith Democritus Thou seemes in dis●…ontent pray thee tell why Thou liest so sad Thou art learning how to die Learning to die why th' art already dead I st possible that Peter Meries head That was so full of wit so stuft with sage As he appear'd the mirror of this age Peter that knew much and could speake much more Then ere be knew should now fall to deaths store Alas poore Merie wormes begin to feast Upon that skonce fed Gallants with fresh ieasts Those saucer eyes plast in that witty skonse Which vs'd to looke some twenty waies at once For if they had matches beene some might enquire Whether they set thy sparkeling-nose a fire Those hollow eyes I say or lamps of thine Are now like Hogs-heads emptied of their wine For hollow Hogs-heads giue an empty sound And so does Merie being laide in ground ¶ Vpon one Hogge Hog by name and by condition Heere lies Hog that blunt Physition Christian nor good moralist But liu'd and dide an Atheist Yet after death giue Hog his dew He was a foe vnto the Iew. And that he might expresse the same He gloried euer in his name He bad me write vpon him dead Heere lies Iohn Hog or Iohn Hogs-head ¶ Vpon a vaine-glorious Student that would needes be called Aristarchus Fate last night hath beene i' th warke house Of our renowmed Aristarchus Where fate no sooner entred in Then shee a starke-Asse made of him For Aristarchus Authors say Inuited death from day to day But our last Aristarchus prai'd Seeing Death come as one dismaied That he his summons would delay And come for him another day Vpon two Twins that died together Heere lie two faithfull Brothers in one tombe As they did lie together in one wombe Heere they came hand in hand and they do craue That hand in hand they may goe to their Graue ¶ Vpon an ancient Tombe was this inscription found Church-men that should be best of al are pardie growne the worst The F●…x I ken the Prouerb saies fares best when he is curst This Abbot heere that lies in ground proues this to be too true Due would he giue to Prie●… nor Cleark yet would he haue his due But marke his end who ●…re thou be for 't was a fearefull end No friend he had as he did thinke to whom he might commend His Gold therefore one day he went to finde out some darke caue Where be might hoord his treasure vp where he this voice receau'd T●… iudgement churlish Nabal had fall presently on thee W●…ich voice being past the Abbot droupt and died presently ¶ Vpon my Lady Woodb●…e What would my Lady be lasse shee has sought To rise to something and shee 's falne to nought Poore Lady that so faire and sweete a face Should haue no other home or dwelling place Then a poore Sepulcher lasse it s not meete So faire a Lady should shroud in one sheete Who whilst shee liu'd which was but very now Did vse to lie perfum'd and chaf'd in two ¶ Vpon the same Subiect extracted Looke throgh throgh see Ladies with false formes You deceiue

men but cannot deceiue wormes ¶ Vpon an Adulterer extracted Nay heauen is iust scornes are the hire of scornes I nere knew yet Adulterer without hornes ¶ Vpon a Sexton an Epitaph Rest thee well Sexton since thou lost thy breath I see no Man can be exempt from death For what will Death doe to the simple Slaue That durst assault him made for Death a Graue In peace sleepe on of thee we haue no neede For we haue chosen a S●…xton in thy steede Thy sacring Bell has tinckled all it can And now the Sexton showes he was a man ¶ Vpon Kempe and his morice with his Epitaph Welcome from Norwich Kempe all ioy to see Thy safe returne moriscoed lustily But out alasse how soone's thy morice done When Pipe and Taber all thy friends be gone And leane thee now to dance the second part With feeble nature not with nimble Art Then all thy triumphs fraught with strains of mirth Shall be cag'd vp within a chest of earth Shall be they are th' ast danc'd thee out of breath And now must make thy parting dance with death ¶ Vpon one Skelton Here lies one Skelton whom death seasing on Changeth this Skelton vnt●… Sceleton Thogh little chang'd in name in substāce more For now hee 's rich that was but poore before ¶ Vpon one Babylon Of all the stones that rear'd vp Babylon There now remaines of all that pile but one Which serues to couer both the corps and fame Which he had purchas'd onely by his Name ¶ Vpon a spare Patron This Man lies here to say what name he had Or to expresse't would make a Poet mad For once a Poet offred him a labour Which he would hardly reade or vouchsafe fauour To giue the Author one bare smile or sooth The Poets good meaning to be briefe his tooth Was poysoned for th' occasion of his death It first proceeded from his stinking breath Which did corrupt his lungs this has beene tride To be the cause where of this Patron dide May he ●…est yet in peace the Poet prayes Who though contemn'd yet crown●…s his Tombe with bayes ¶ Vpon a cashered Souldier A Souldier not for his desert Cashered was of late But for the Captaine by his pay Ment to encrease his state For which in want the Souldier beg'd But could not be relieu'd As Charity God knowes is cold Where at the Souldier grieu'd And swore since warre would doe no good He now would change his sang Either to raise his meanes by stands Or Souldier-like to hang. Fate seldome fauours war like men The case so altered was As being tane for bidding stand To one that chanc'd to passe The poore renowme this Souldier got Downe to obli●…ion fell And he for Gantlet wrapt with Giues Was brought to second Hell Captiuitie what should he doe appeale from Iustice Throne That bootelesse were for now his hopes Are fully razed downe The time approach'd sad time God wot When brought vnto the Barre He gaue the Iudge blunt eloquence Like to a Man of warre But to be short accus'd he is What he cannot denie And therefore by a publike doom●… He censur'd was to die But if the Iudge had rightly done The Captaine by the way As he had tane his standing-wage Should reape his hanging-pay ¶ Vpon the death of one Thete who died and was cast in a great tempest vpon the Sea into a straite of that part of the Sea which diuides Mysia from Hell●…spont Here lies Thete pale and wan Buried in the Ocean More it seemes to augment her fame Since from Sea shee tooke her Name Thetis was Achilles mother Yet of that name there 's another To this day record'd by Tyme That she was a Saint Diuine Here her Image sleepes in peace Promising this I le encrease Nere this Fount Of Hellespont Where Hero and Leander amorous soules In midst of her greene bos●…me daily ●…oules Which to Abydos ancient towne And to Cestos brought renowne And that shrine So diuine Where Paphos was erected to expresse There Hero was to I'enus Uotaresse Rest in honor Thete rest By the Sea-Nymphs euer blest for they loue to approue The rare condition of that diuine Creature Where Art is far surpast by spotlesse Nature ¶ Vpon Synon that villaine which sacked Troy I st possible that wormes dare once conspire To tutch his shrowde that sackt all Troy with fire O saies poore Hecuba that thou hadst dide Before shee had such fatall obiects spide Of her dislaughter'd Sonnes weeping to see M●…ther and issue slau'd to miserie O saies old Priam and he teares his haire Wishing thy Tombe had razed his despaire When in the ruines of def●…ced Tr●…y And in the Gore of his beloued Boy His yongling Troylus he wash'd his head In an eternall Concaue buri●…d Thus does Troy curse yet may thou defend Thy Proiects and the cause of Troyans end Proceeding from themselues thou for the sake Of thy deare Country and fair●… Hellens rape Became a villaine and to keepe thy Name Th●…u liu'd a villaine and thou died the same Then villanie is dead in Synon true But he haz left his trade vnto the Iew And English cormorant who in one houre Desire both Name and Substance to de●…oure Then there 's no diffrence both bring like annoy Saue th' one for England is th' other for Troy Sleepe then in silent slumber for thy Race In right of their succ●…ssion take thy place ¶ Vpon Argus Argus with his hundred eies Eie-lesse in this Coffin lies While Wormes keepe their Sessions there Where once Lamps of eye-sight were Another Earth feedes on me that once fed me Court begot me Country bred me Thus my doat●… preuents my yo●…th Bastard ●…lippes haue slowest growth ¶ Vpon Gold a dissolute Hac●…ster Gold th' art a knaue and drainst thy golden showr●… Not from the lap of Danaë but thy whoore Leaue thy base Panders trade make speede reuolt From so deform'd a standard who would be boult To his wifes lewdnesse or expresse his shame By vshering the ruine of his name For money ceasse ceasse to be impudent Transplant thy selfe to some pure element More wholesome and lesse shamefull liue enrold And haue thy Name in characters of Gold That whoso passeth may this Impresse reade Thy age did end in Gold begunne in lead ¶ Vpon a Quackesaluer Doctors graue in Venice by Transcription we reade this Inscription as followeth Heere lies a pound of Rheu-barbe as 't doth seeme To purge the worms of Choler Rheume and Fleame A Dapper Doctor ill may Fate befall To take from vs Sir Ierome Vrinall Yet this our comfort is though he be dead Haz left another sauce-fleam'd knaue in 's stead That can call backe from dea●…h a breathlesse corse And cure his griefe as he doth cure a horse Farewell Sir Ierome thou with horse began And Don begins with Horse and ends with Man ¶ Vpon Croesus and Irus Tw●…xt Croesus and Irus difference I know none Saue Irus haz

Temples with a golden wrea●… Infusing in their soules eternall breath Thrice blessed vine that in heau'ns Vineyard growes Whose spreading branches farre more beauty showes Then Sun or Moone or th'purest Element Or any Starre within the Firmame●…t Such trees we see bring forth the ripest fruit As planted are vpon the waters side Whose liquid streames their neighbour bankes diuide Euen so where Springs of diuine grace doe glide The seeds of Vertue take the deepest roote Where euery sprig both bloome and fruit sends out A Glorious Haruest w●…ich what ere betide Is not by stormes dismaide but fructifide Such goodly trees are plants of Paradise Which bring forth fruit in such varieties And such a ●…ree art thou whose noble stem Did nourish Learning Mineruas friends Thy flowrie blossome in their growth extends And after death some fruitfull gleanings sends From Heauen aboue to Earths-suruiuing men That seeing them might seeke to foll●…w them But most to such as 'bout the Court attends That vert●…ous liu●…s may weaue their glorious ends For Uertue was as Ariadnes thread That led the liuing and empales the dead What ●…issing Serpent with her venemous s●…ing Can hurt thy vertues which be registred In Heauen aboue where th' art canonized And with the fruits of vertue garnished Shining for euer with the supr●…ame King Of glorious Sion where the Angels sing Hymns of delight whose Quires are polished With Saphires Emeralds repl●…nished With springs still flowing full of sweet delight Not cross'd by shadowes of a gloomie night If we be Pilgrims here as sure we be Why should we loue to liue and liue to die If Earthen Vessels why should we relie With such assurance on our frailtie Since greatest States doe perish soon'st we see And rich and poore haue one communiti●… In th' eyes of Fate nor could I ere espie In humaine state ought saue inconstancie Times follow Times motion admits n●… rest But in this motion worst succeede the best If loue be said to liue honour encrease Or Uertue flourish in despite of Fate I neede not feare this noble Heroes state Though much pursu'd as 't seemes by publike hate His Ship is harbour'd in the Port of peace Where times succeeding ioyes shall neuer cease Great are they sure which none can explicate And great in worth which none can estimate Thus great on Earth and great in Heauen together Uertue with greatnes makes him heire of either Let this same Epit●…ph I consecrate Unto thy Noble Hearse expresse my loue And duty both for both doe me behoue If of my poore endeuours thou approue These lines be th' obsequies I dedicate Which though they come like Seede that 's sowen to●… late Yet some in due compassion they may moue To plant more cheerefull tendrells in thy Groue Honour attend thy presence famous Herse Too much obscur'd by my impolisht verse Epitaph Mortis vbi stimulus pro me tulit omnia Christus Consul eram primo tempore Consul er●… ¶ A funerall Ode O thou heauen-aspiring Spirit Resting on thy Sauiours meri●… liue in peace for encrease Blest●… this Iland in thy being Mindes vnited still agreeing Peace possest thee Peace hath blest thee Halcyon dayes be where thou dwellest As in Glorie thou excellest Death by dying Life enioying Richer fraight was nere obtained Then thy Pilgrim-steps haue gained Blessed pleasure happy Treasure Thus many distinct ioyes in one exprest Say to thy Soule Come Soule and take thy rest ¶ Vpon the death of the vertuously affected Sr Thomas Bointon a Knight so wel-meriting as his vertues farre aboue all Titles enstiled him worthy the loue of his Countrey Sad●… shadie Groue how faire so ere thou show Reft art thou of thy Teare-bath'd maister now Yet grow thou shalt and mai'st in time to come With thy shed-leaues shadow thy Maisters tombe Which is adorn'd with this Inscription Weepe Marble weepe for losse of Bointon Yet he 's not lost for as the Scripture saith That is not lost for certaine which God hath Ceasse Ladie then with teares your eies to dim He must not come to You but you to Him ¶ Vpon that memorable Act atchieued by an Auncestour of the Cogniers in the discomfiture of a Winged-worme or Snake Whose approach was no lesse obuious then mortally dangerous to the distressed Passenger His Monument remaineth in the body of the church at Sockburn where hee lieth crosse-legged which inferreth his being before the Conquest hauing his Fauchion by his side his Dogge at his feete Grasping with the Snake the Snake with the Dogge the renowmed memorie of which Act addeth no lesse glory to the houses Antiquitie then the worthy Knight who now possesseth it gaineth harts by his affability C●…lle sub exiguo iacuit canis vnde peremit Aligerum vermem quo sibi fama venit Quo sibi Famavenit veniet semperque manebit Sidera dum coeli gramina tellus habent Paraphrastically translated Vpon a hill his Gray-●…ound lay till that his Maister blew His writhed horne at whose approach the winged Worme he slew Whece Fame gaue wings to Cogniers name which euer shal be giuē So long as grasse growes on the earth or stars appeare in heauen Vpon his Tombe Who slew the Worme is now worms meat yet hope assures me hence Who th'worme ore-threwhe after slew the worme of Conscience ¶ Epitaphs vpon diuerse of the Sages of Greece translated omitting Thales and Solon and beginning with the rest originally traduced from Laertius Vpon Chylo Thankes to the blushing morne that first begunne To decke the Laureat brow of Chyloes sonne Which He old-man as ouer-ioy'd to see Fell dead through Ioy I wish like death to me This Inscription also was engrauen on his Tombe Heere Chylo lies in Lacedemon bred Who 'mongst the Seuen was rightly numbred ¶ Vpon Pittacus whose Tombe was erected by the Citie Lesbos wherein he liued beautified with this inscription to perpetuate his memory Within this Tombe doth Lesbos thee enshrine Drencht with their teares and consecrate as thi●…e ¶ Vpon Bias whom Priene with all solemnitie and magnificence at their owne proper cost interred Engrauing these verses vpon his Tombe for the continuance of his Name This well-wrought stone doth Bias corp●… contain●… Who was an honour to th' Ionian Pleading his friends cause as a faithfull friend Pausing to take his breath He breath'd his end ¶ Vpon Cleobulus who was buried in Lyndus which boundeth on the Sea-cliffe the situation whereof is shadowed in this inscription vpon his Tombe That wise Cleobulus should extinguish'd b●… Lyndus laments en●…iron'd with the Sea So as two S●…as ne●…re Lyndus 〈◊〉 A Leuant Sea a Sea in Lyndus eies ¶ Vpon Periander of Corinth was this Epitaph ensuing found to be engrauen which through the iniurie of time and want of Art in the impressure was so defaced as by the testimonie of Laertius it could scarce be reduced to Sence yet now according to the Originall faithfully translated including a Christian resolution in a