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A15047	Sir Phillip Sidney, his honorable life, his valiant death, and true vertues A perfect myrror for the followers both of Mars and Mercury, who (in the right hardie breaking vpon the enemie, by a few of the English, being for the most part gentlemen of honor and name) receiued his deathes wound, nere vnto Sutphen the 22. of September last past, dyed at Aruam the 16. of October following: and with much honor and all possible mone, was solemnely buried in Paules the 16. of February 1586. By G.W. gent. Whereunto is adioyned, one other briefe commemoration of the vniuersall lamentation, the neuer dying praise, and most sollemne funerall of the sayd right hardie and noble knight. By B.W. Esquire. Dedicated, to the right Honorable the Earle of Warwicke, by his Lordships faithfull seruant George Whetstones.	Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?; B. W. (Bernard Whetstone) aut	1587 (1587)	STC 25349; ESTC S111735	12,399	21

and blood A moments ioie a blast a blase a breath A bitter-sweate that yeldes no sauery good A certayne cause that bringes vncertaine death A rustie swoorde closde in a paynted sheath Which being drawne to sett the soule at large They onely liue whom vertue hath in charge Fame is the life and ioy of valient sprites Desire whereof both driue them on the Pike Happe Life happe death who first at dangers smites In Countrie cause both either fortune like Death cannot daunt though death them dead doth strike And these be they that Fame with name doth Crowne When shallow Graues the multitude do drowne Of such a one and equall with the beste My muse is bounde the praises to reuiue A Knight he was that with the formost prease Where martiall menne for highest honor striue Within whose breaste the graces all did hiue His name that liues was Phillip Sidney Knight His death blames not the foe but fortunes spight Whom to reuiue Mars and the Muses meete In Armor faire his hearse the haue arayde And on the same a robe downe to the feete About his Healme a Lawrell wreath is brayde And by his Swoord a Siluer penne is layd And either saide that he their glory was And either sight to see him vade like Grasse But to discribe this worthis Knight at Lardge His Life his death his giftes from mothers wombe Beseemes the Muse that Homer had in chardge Who wrote so well vpon Achilles Tombe As Alexander wisht that he were dead So Homer liu'd his victories to spreade And for my Muse that worst may pay this dewe I well may say the dead the doth adore Azeale that thriues God wot but with a fewe Flatry doth liue not at the dead mans dore Liue-men haue eares when Tombes are deafe and poore Yet thus my name shall with the best remayne When such froth vades like Thunder smoke and rayne Now to this Knight his house or Birth to blaze May well be spar'e his praises to procure The Iuy bushe is but a Needles gaze To sell the Wine which of it self is pure So sw●tte a Grape grewe on no Thorne be sure Sidney his sire and Dudley was his Dame Parentes well knowen of Honnor and of fame In tender yeres where one instruction might Grafte Lore and Grace by which men Honor knowe His vertues blasd so cleare in all mennes sight As by the same a number did foreshowe What frutes in fine vpon those blomes would growe Euen these the best Loue loyaltie and Zeale To God to Prince and to the common weale His wisdome shewed while Learning might engraue Within his pliant minde her sacred heaste He bente his eare to heare the Counsells graue That science taught and wrot them in his brea ste Thus stil with time his worthines increaste His name his fame his vertues full of grace Was spread admir'd and lou'd in euery place To decke his minde with Language and with Lore In greenest youth to trauaile he was sett By forrayne toyes he sette but little store Sound knowledge was the Marchandize he fette And he abroade such worthy praise did gett As Princes when his fame they vnderstoode They honor'd him by all the meanes they could The Frenche he sawe and at their follies smil'de He sildome did theire gawdes in garments ware In Italy his youth was not begilde By vertue he their vices did forbeare Of this bie-speache be euermore had care An English-man that is Italionate Doth lightly proue a Deuell incarnate The Germayne plain his humor best did please They lou'd him much he honor'd them as farre And when the good he gleaned had from these Home be return'd a perfect man to serue His Prince and Countrey both in Peace and Warre And after him men Qualited did baste And for our good in England he them plaste He oft did reade which well he did regarde That prudent Peace had still to Warre an eye And therefore he the souldier good prefarde Whose life himselfe in Ireland did trye Till Essex di'de the flower of Chiuallry And euermore the Lawrell with the Launce He excerside his Honour to aduaunce What may be said to praise this knight to much Yea what suffice his vertues to extoll In greenest yeares his grauety was such As he was sent in message to Condole The Emperours death which rites he did inrowle With much regarde of that most follome grace As that his name still liueth in that place In Court he liu'de not like a Carpet knight Whose glory is in garments and his tongue If men but knew the halfe that he did write Enough to tyre a memory so young Needes must they say the Muses in him sounge His Archadia vnmacht for sweete deuise Where skill doth iudge is held in Soueraigne price What else he wrote his will was to suppresse But yet the darke a Dyamond cannot drowne What he his workes the finest wittes doe gesse The Shepheards notes that haue so sweete a sounde With Lawrel bowghes his healme long since haue Cround And not alone in Poesie he did passe But eu'ry may a learned Knight he was Plesses rare worke of true Religion Confuting those which no Religion holde In vuglar speech by him was well begonne A Learned worke more pretious farre then Gold Worthy his paynes and worthie double folde If his penne might the hole with English fitte Whose wordes are waid by Iudgement Arte and witte The faulte that makes the wisest seeme vnwise A selfe conceite in wisdome to exceede Was farre from him the worde in whose deuise Spero his hope did from desire proceede Honour to gaine by many a worthie deede On Hope truth zeale Learning and the Launce He built his fame and had no foe but Chaunce In peace he liu'd admired of the best In peace he liu'd beloued of the worste In peace he liu'd and neuer man oppreste In peace he liu'd and euer with the first Layde helpe on those whom fortune had accurste And to be short the rising sonne he was That comforted and shinde in eu'ry place But sith Sonne Mone and Starres of Heauen must vade And all thinges else the Worlde conteynes belowe Man can accompte his glory but a shade His earthly Life the slaughter of a blowe As well appeares by this our Common woe The worthy Knight of whom this good I sing Bids sounde the Drome his follow knell to ring But ere it towles the sorrowe of his death The griefe of Prince Peare and euery state Let me first showe the cause that did unsheath His trenching Sword In peace which shund debate Euen chiefely this to coole the Spannish hate Who arm'oe with wroth against this happy Isle Our Neighbours burn'de to make a way for spoyle For when we heard the out-cries of the Dutch And how their foes did make their will a lawe Theire harmes that neare did now our safety

SIR PHILLIP Sidney his honorable life his valiant death and true vertues A perfect Myrror for the followers both of Mars and Mercury Who in the right hardie breaking vpon the Enemie by a few of the English being for the most part Gentlemen of honor and name receiued his deathes wound nere vnto Sutphen the 22. of September last past dyed at Arnam the 16. of October following and with much honor and all possible mone was solemnely buried in Paules the 16. of February 1586. By G. W. gent. Whereunto is adioyned one other briefe Commemoration of the vniuersall lamentation the neuer dying praise and most sollemne funerall of the sayd right hardie and noble Knight By. B. W. Esquire Dedicated to the right Honorable the Earle of Warwicke by his Lordships faithfull Seruant George Whetstones Mors honesta vita ignominiosa preferenda Imprinted at London for Thomas Cadman FUIMUS The Right Hon ble Charles Viscount Bruce of Ampthill Son and Heir Apparent of Thomas Earl of Ailesbury and Baron Bruce of Whorleton 1712 ¶ To the Right Honorable my especiall good Lord and Maister Ambrose Earle of VVarwick Baron Lisle Knight of the most noble order of the Garter Generall of all the Queenes Maiesties Ordinance through her Highnesse Dominions and of her sacred excellencies most honorable and prudent priuie Counsell be heaped the true rewards of his godly and honorable vertues RIght Honorable albeit that sundry of the Manifold louers of your most worthy Nephewe of deare memorie Sir Phillip Sidney Knight haue alreadie witnessed their true affections in publishing of passionate Poems Epitaphs and Commemorations of his neuerdying vertues yet I hope my later writing shall finde intertaynment of your Lordship fauour amongst those that truely loued him Considering that my slacknesse to the world proceeded from a diligent search to set downe his deuine and heroical gifts according to truth though vnpossible to giue them the life grace which shined in his actions The learned Lypsius was not deceiued when in beholding of this noble Gentleman he aduisedly sayd THE EPISTLE DEDICATORIE Anglia est flos regionum tu flos Anglia England is the flower of Kingdomes And thou the flower of England Enuy his onely enemy will not deny but that the comfort of his wisdome combined with all morrall vertues was the rising sonne of England and that his mortall abilities were generallie admired and especiallie feared where the Englishe are not beloued your Lordship needeth not this information to knowe his inestimable valewe when he was like to possesse your temporal honors after death and was sure of your vertues in his life His losse will make his goodnes best knowne and soone mist in England notwithstanding the recordes of his life are profitable for our posteritie and holy workes that reuiue him after death My remembraunces of this worthy Knight now with God I hūbly present vnder your honors patronage to whom he was most deare and neare that your Lordshippe allowing of my god intent I may deceaue the enuious findefault of his Idle censure The Lord be with your Lordshippe in all your affaires for whose health and honorable prosperitie I doe dayly pray and to the ende will constantly remayne Your Lordships faithfull Seruant George Whetstones To the right Honorable my especiall good Lord Ambrose Earle of VVarwicke Baron Lisle Knight of the most noble order of the Garter Generall of all the Queenes Maiesties Ordnaunce through her Highnesse dominions and one of her Maiesties most honorable priuie Counsell T. C. wisheth increase of all Honor and Vertue ALthough right Honorable to bring fire to the Altars when the Sacrafice is ended or Epitaphs for the dead whē their funeralles are halfe forgotten is to wish for rayne when the haruest is past yet considering with my self the neuer dying vertues of the worthie once hopefull Gentleman of England Sir Phillip Sidney Knight a mā so beloued of al as obliuiō feareth to perswade time any waies to impaire his immortall fame seeing that all in heart diuers in their labours did bewayle his losse painting out in Poemes Epitaphs his vertues their owne sorowes amongst whō a gentleman and seruaunt of your Honors George Whetstones had before his going into the Low Countries writtē learnedly an Epitaph of his life and death although destinie and fate hath too vntimely ended his daies yet sith his works before his departure were dommitted to my hands I thought it my dutie and held it as a religion first not to depriue the gentleman of that due which his willingnesse and labours did worthely deserue secondly for that his workes bewrayed the vertues of such a Paragon of our time and lastly not the least cause for that your honors seruant had dedicated his Poems to your Lordship whose Epistle as he wrote it to your honor I haue prefixed These considerations right Honorable moued me to attempt the impression of this Epitaph which I humbly present vnto your Lordship desiring your Honor to vouchsafe of my good meaning and not to misconster of my boldnes In which hope testing I commit you to the Almightie Your Lordships in all dutifull seruice to commaund Thomas Cadman To the Reader COurteous reader diuers of my frendes that haue obserued my former readines in exposing the liues and vertues of many worthy personages deceased that their good examples might liue in the imitation of their posteritie have charged me to be to remisse in setting forth the life death and vertues of the most learned right valiant best beloued gentleman Sir Phillip Sidney Knight But I satisfied my frendes with this reason that I certifie vnto the generall reader vid. that the error that I sawe some hasty writers to commit for lacke of true instructiō and the iniurie that they did vnto so worthy a gentleman in publishing his History not hauing knowledge of the one halfe of his vertues to shunne the blame of two such capitall wronges moued me to be headfull that I published nothing but truth of so true a Knight Frō this feare through zeale proceeded my slownes in writing which cannot come to late when good Sir Phillip Sidney liueth euer And for the comfort of those that loued him or would be like vnto him I further say that the imitation of his vertues will eternize their praises whether they liue long or die soone for vertue is immortal Thus wishing the wish of al good desiers to the frendly reader I ende commending vnto the same my ready seruice G. W. Of the life death and Noble vertues of the most Aduenturous Knight Sir Phillip Sydney c. LOng liues the man that dyes in lusty yeares In actions that Life and death dispise Alexander the chiefe of Royall Peeres Who won one World and wisht another rise That he too worlds or one might cōquer twise In prime of youth in Enuies bane did light Yet liues through fame in spight of euery spight And what is Life the Life of flesh