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EDITOR'S NOTE. 
 
 The Editor thinks it neceflary to ftate that had he been preparing 
 the prefent volume according to his original intention for a wider circle 
 of readers he fhould have deemed the addition of a large body of ex- 
 planatory notes abfolutely indifpenfable. — 
 
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 Roxburghe Club, he has confined his remarks within as narrow limits as 
 pofllble. 
 
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 that of Lord Chancellor Hatton, are placed before the titles of the poems 
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 deprived of a fimilar embellifhment. 
 
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EMARICDULFE. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 EMARICDULFE 
 
 I HE prefent colledtion of Sonnets is printed from an unique and 
 hitherto unknown work, which is bound up with three other 
 Poetical Tracts of great rarity and value, namely, Barnfielde's 
 Cynthia, 1595; Griffin's Fidefsa, 1596; and Tofte's Laura, 1597. 
 
 Its claims to the honour of a reprint are not merely on account of its 
 rarity. In fome parts the Sonnets fhow great excellence, both in thought 
 and expreffion; but in mufical rhythm they are perhaps — with fome 
 exceptions where the lines, though they each scan, read more like profe 
 than poetry — of better quality than they are in fonnet-fenfe. One 
 peculiarity is, as compared with Shakespeare's poetry of the fame date, the 
 frequent ufe of an extra syllable, as is apparent in Sonnet VII. This is 
 noticeable, becaufe it fhows that the ufe of this extra fyllable, and Shake- 
 Ipeare's increased ufe of it as his years went on, was not even a femi- 
 originality. 
 
 Another fource of intereft is the obfcurity which involves both the 
 writer and the objedt of his adoration, for the whole work is devoted to 
 the expreffion of love for a lady who is concealed under the remarkable 
 pfeudonym of Emaricdulfe, by her admirer, who is equally succeiTful in 
 concealing himself under the initials E.C. Yet this obfcurity arifes 
 perhaps only from lapfe of time, for when a difcarded lover commits his 
 forrows to the prefs, and this with the tacit confent of the lady — when 
 initials (no doubt true ones) and a pfeudonym (perhaps in deference to 
 the fame) are affixed to the title-page — and when friends with well-known 
 
ii Introduction to Emaricdulfe. 
 
 names are appealed to — it is hardly conceivable that the names of the 
 lovers and the circumftances of their connexion could long efcape the 
 knowledge of their contemporaries ; efpecially as both belonged — as is 
 demonftrable from the tone of the dedication and the names mentioned 
 therein — to the upper clafles of fociety. 
 
 Much refearch has been made by the Editor and others to folve the 
 myftery of thefe faid initials of ' E. C and of the evidently compofite 
 name of Emaricdulfe — or, as it is ofteneft {pelt, Emaricdulf — but without 
 fuccefs. As to the initials ; it is to be obferved that a writer ufing the 
 fame has verfes "In prayfe of Gafcoignes Pofies," before the latter's 
 poems ; but it muft be confefled that they more probably belong to an 
 older man than the E. C. now in queftion. Yet it is quite pofllble that 
 other explorers into literary myfteries may be more fortunate, and that the 
 identity of the parties may at a future time be eftablifhed when least 
 expefted. With this objeft in view, therefore, the Editor ventures to 
 print, in extenjo, the following verfes (on the reverfe of the leaf containing 
 which are the names of the fpeakers in the play), which are fubfcribed with 
 the fame initials 'E. C, as it is not abfolutely impoffible that they emanated 
 from the author of our trait. They were previoufly communicated to 
 Notes and ^eries, Sen iii. vol. 8. (9 Sept. 1865) ^y Mn W. Carew 
 Hazlitt, who introduces them thus: — 
 
 " In examining fome old books and MSS. for a different purpofe, I 
 came acrofs a copy of ' The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Qfueen of 
 Jewry,' 1613, by Lady E. Carew, with a Dedication, which I never met 
 with before in copies of this drama, as follows : — 
 
 TO DIANAES 
 
 EARTHLIE DEPVTESSE, 
 
 and my worthy Sister, Mistris 
 
 Elizabeth Carye. 
 
 When cheerful! Phcebus his full courfe hath run. 
 His fiflers fainter beams our harts doth cheere: 
 So your faire Brother is to mee the Sunne, 
 And you his Sifter as my Moone appeere. 
 
Introduction to Emaricdulfe. iii 
 
 You are my next belou'd, my fecond Friend, 
 For when my Phcebus abfence makes it Night, 
 Whilft to th' Antipodes his beames do bend. 
 From you, my Phoebe, fliines my fecond Light, 
 
 Hee like to SOL, cleare-fighted, conftant, free. 
 
 You, ZLWJ-like, vnfpotted, chaft, diuine: 
 
 Hee fhone on Sicily, you deftin'd bee, 
 
 T'illumine the now obfcurde Palejiine. 
 
 My firft was confecrated to Apollo, 
 
 JVIy fecond to DIANA now fhall follow. 
 
 E. C. 
 
 The allufions in the above verfes to " hee fhone on Sicily " may be 
 either to fome Works or fome Travels of her brother, in the fame fenfe 
 as the reference to the "now obfcurde Paleftine" indicates her own 
 tragedy of " Mariam." In the Catalogue of the Harleian MSS. in the 
 Britifh Mufeum (No. 6917) is mention of "Sir George Carew's Poems"; 
 but this is an error, for they prove to be not by him but tranfcripts of 
 thofe by Thomas Carew. There being feveral families bearing the names 
 Carew and Carey (which were ufed indifcriminately by all of them), it is 
 not impoflible that the Beddington Carews may have furnifhed the authorefs 
 of " Mariam." Sir Francis Carew fucceeded his father Sir Nicholas in 1 539, 
 and died in extreme old age (81) in May 1 6 1 1, having had no iflue. (See 
 Nichols's Progrefles of James I. vol. i. p. 164). His heir was his filler's 
 fon. Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, who then affumed the furname of Carew. 
 This Sir Nicholas (who was brother-in-law to Sir Walter Ralegh) had a 
 daughter, Elizabeth, who might- have been the authorefs of "Mariam "; 
 and flie had likewife brothers, namely Francis (who died in 1 649, and whofe 
 fon. Sir Nicholas, married Sufan, daughter to Sir Juftinian Ifhamj Bart.), 
 Nicholas, George, and Edmund. This latter may have been the writer 
 of the "Dedication." 
 
 After this digreffion, we will return to the Sonnets— which, according 
 to the author's Dedication, were " begun, at the command and fervice 
 
iv Introduction to Emarkdulfe. 
 
 of a faire Dame," and which refer to one fubjed — the glorification of his 
 lady-love. That his addrefTes were at one time favourably received may 
 be gathered from fev^eral of the Sonnets, and that the couple flood on 
 intimate terms towards each other may be inferred from Sonnet VII., 
 in which he is compelled to exprefs contrition for his overbold prefumption 
 on one occafion by which he incurred her difpleafure. That he had, 
 moreover, fome grounds for anticipating a favourable iflue for his fuit 
 is hinted at in Sonnet XIIL, in which he expatiates on their mutual 
 love, of which her prefents to him were an evidence. And this ftate of 
 things is reiterated in Sonnet XXVII. But afterwards he feems to have 
 abandoned all hope of obtaining her, and the remaining Sonnets fhow that 
 he was certain of ultimate rejeftion. Yet, notwithftanding this downfall 
 of his hopes, it is fufficiently clear from paflages in the later Sonnets, 
 and in the Dedication — which was naturally the laft portion written — 
 that the couple retained kindly feelings for each other; ftrengthened 
 perhaps by the fad that her choice of a hufband was not a happy one. 
 But, be the latter conjedure true or not, it is certain that the Dedication 
 points to fome domeftic embroilment or fcandal which has advifedly been 
 left unintelligible except to the parties concerned. 
 
 At the clofe of the laft Sonnet are clear allufions to the poets Daniel 
 and Spenfer, and to Queen Elizabeth. Thefe, however, thfow no light 
 on the date of the compofition of the body of Sonnets, which were pub- 
 lilhed in 1595. The former's colledtion of Sonnets, entitled " Delia," firfl 
 appeared in print in 1592 ; and the firfl part of Spenfer's "Faerie 
 Queene," which is no doubt the work alluded to, in 1590. 
 
 As to the choice of the name " Emaricdulf " (more rarely " Emaric- 
 dulfe") ; it is doubtlefs a pfeudonym, like the "Laura" of Tofte, the 
 " FidefTa " of Griffin, the " Cynthia " of Barnfielde, the « Delia " of Daniel, 
 etc. Unlike them, however, it is a pfeudonym compofed, in all pro- 
 bability, of the letters of the real name of the lady commemorated. But 
 it feems impoffible to difcover in the Sonnets any clue to this name. 
 They are full to overflowing of praife of her " more than heavenly 
 parts " ; her wifdom, chaflity, beauty, fkill in mufic, etc. but filent with 
 
Introduction to Emaricdulfe. v 
 
 reference to her lineage or any other circumftance from which bio- 
 graphical or genealogical fadts might be inferred. 
 
 That the author intended the word to be pronounced "E-marric- 
 dulf " is clear from the rhythm, and from his fpelling it, throughout the 
 fixteen fonnets in which it forms part of the verfe (with a fingle exception 
 in Sonnet IV), without the final e. On the title-page, and in the firft 
 heading alfo, it has this final vowel. Why this variation fhould have been 
 made it is difficult to fee, unlefs it were the whim of the printer. 
 "Emaric" occurs in Sonnet XII.; but this name applies to another perfon 
 than "Emaricdulf" — in faft to " a young Emaricdulf" — a boy, who is 
 fpoken of alfo in Sonnet XI. 
 
 Edward Fitton — one of the gendemen to whom the work is dedicated 
 — was probably the fon of Sir John Fitton, of Gawfworth, Chefhire, and 
 the one who fubfequently (2 Oct. 161 7) was created a Baronet. The 
 other friend — John Zouch — was apparently one of the Zouches of 
 Haryngworth. Full particulars of thefe families will be foiind in Betham's 
 Baronetage of England. 5 Vols. 4to. 1 801-5. 
 
Emaricdulfe, 
 
 SONNETS 
 
 WRITTEN BY 
 £.C.Erquicr. 
 
 N'onpmt vt ^HoHcUm, pknafatteris erunt. 
 
 At toNDOK, 
 
 Printed for Matihe'^ Z.<^. 
 
TO MY VERY GOOD 
 fricndsylohn Zouch, and £</- 
 
 w«rd FittmJEfjmeru 
 
 VOtb U»uig frienistfatafmueh as bj 
 freafi» tfatidgue, Iwt infcareti to 
 \kftfe tnj chambtr yOnd 19 abandon 
 ' idteKes,ItookeiH baiuU m^feii tefi- 
 nifb an idle workf Ihadbegun, at the eommanti 
 ttndfermee of a fair e Dame, being moji ex qui- 
 fitijr wellfeatiired,and of as exceUeatgooi r<«r- 
 riage, adorned withverme.-andvnderftandtHg 
 theflorie,tmdkneti»ingyoH both to be offnffi^ 
 cientvalourjmit^mdhoifeJiieMefMmed todedi- 
 eate the fame tojou, not doubting but tbatjoie 
 tPiUvoMcbptfefar m/ fake, to maintaiiie tbeho' 
 noureffi/iiwetea Saint. Thkteriuing^eumf^ 
 deare friends to be fatrones of tbefe fme Son- 
 nets: being well ferfwaded jOM.vpiB excufe tKf 
 A 3 vaiearned 
 
The Epistle. 
 
 itUarHeivfritiugfinregardyoHmt^iealfiirei 
 
 Jam tto fehoUer , as dooth offeare by this my 
 
 VBrthlesverfe:h^ingj9H wiBreeeiue njgooi- 
 
 wiB mth content, as I my felfefhaU be then befi 
 
 fatisfied. Audfo wtfbingjfou bothas much 
 
 ecafartable happines^as to myfonle: 
 
 I bidyMhearttlyfaremU. 
 
 Tours in aUtruefiiendf 
 fiip, E.C. 
 
EMARICDVLFE. 
 
 SONNBT. t. 
 
 TirrHen firft the rage ofloue aflailM my haiij 
 
 And towards my diouebts his fiery forces ben£: 
 Eftlbones to fliield me from his wounding dart* 
 
 Arm'd with dildaine,! held him in contempt. 
 Curldheadedloue when fzom mount Erecine 
 
 He faw diis geere,fo ill thereof he brookesi 
 That thence he fpeedes vnwilling to be feen^ 
 
 Till hchadtanehisftandindiy faiielookes. 
 There all inra^dhis golden bow he bent. 
 
 And nockt his arrow like a pretie dfe: 
 Which wheal {aw,I humbly to him went. 
 
 And cri'd hold,hoId,and I will yeeld my icSe^ 
 Thus C(^<</conqucr'd me,and made me fwcare 
 Homage to him,and dutie to my deare. 
 
 A 4 Homage 
 
SOrfNET. 11. 
 
 UOm^ n k>ue,<Iutie to thee my deare^ 
 
 Deareini{bisofmyt!ioughts,Queeneorin]ria]rt 
 Then my lifes gradoiu planet bright appcare, 
 
 My heans dcepe griefe and (brrow to deftroy. 
 Be not(I thee bcfcecn)niy cares maintainer i 
 
 For in thy power it lyes tolaue orfiiike. 
 To kill the gnefe,or els die ericfes retainer, 
 
 Widtloue or hate dietimncof diflike. 
 O if chatcnielllouedidrtotcoininand 
 
 To flav my heart without ttmorfe or pitie: 
 Or ifhe aid that liid doome counterinand, 
 
 AndbeagraiiousQueeaeof^entIe,niercie: 
 Sweet {hew thy felfe iiuine in being pidfiiU^ 
 For natuieof thegods is tohe mercinill. 
 
 Why 
 
SONNET, in. 
 
 trrHf doe I pleade for mercie vnto thee, 
 ' When from ofTence jny life Scfouleare cleete? 
 For in my hean I neere oficitdedthee, 
 
 Vnlefle the hie picch of hb fiighc it were. 
 I.that is it,I CO too well confider. 
 
 Thy ^arkling beautic is die fimne that nnetteck 
 My thoughts the waxe that ioynM his wings together, 
 
 And tiU my very fall I ncuer felt it: 
 Defpaire theOceanis that fwaQowed m^ 
 
 Where I \is&lt«tHi continue drowned* 
 Till with thy beautie I reuiucd b^ 
 
 And with loucs imoiortalitie be crowned. 
 True loue immortall i$,then louc me truly : 
 Sweet doe,stnd then thy name lie honor duly. 
 
 My 
 
SOMNET. nil. 
 
 «k4 Y forlocne mule diat neuer erode ibe path 
 
 That leades to top of hie Pierion mount. 
 Nor neucr wafht within the Uuelbme bath 
 
 Of learnings fpiing^bright Aganippe fount; 
 Kline artlespen that neuer yet was dipt 
 
 In facred ne&ar of fweet Caftalie, 
 My louelicke heart that euer hath I clip^ 
 
 Einaricdulfe{i\t Queene of chaftitie: 
 Shall now leame skill my Ladies fame to raife. 
 
 Shall now take paines her venues to record. 
 And honor her with more immortal! praife. 
 
 Then euer heretofore they could afibord: 
 Both heart,and pen,and mule (hall thinke it dutie, 
 With fighefwdne words to blaze her heaucly beutie. 
 
 Nature 
 
SONNET, r. 
 
 KjAture (£»»-*r/f<&«|/9 ^^ gTcatly fauouf, 
 
 ^^ When firft her pounraitflie began to pencill, 
 
 And rob'd the heauens of her chiefeA honour: ' 
 
 There lacredbeaude all tierpamdoth thicill. 
 Heauens Hyratkie is in her bri^t eyeslpheered: 
 
 The Graces (port in her cbcekes dimpled pits« 
 Trophies of maieftie in her face be reared, 
 A nd in her lookes ftately Satumia fits. 
 Modeft Diana in her thoughts doth glorie, 
 
 Loue-lacking Vefta in her heart inthroned : 
 The quired Mu(es on her lips doe florie 
 
 Their heauen fweet notes, as if that place they ow. 
 But aye is ine,C«(^/^and i^enui faire (tied, 
 
 Haue nodegree,laue in her golden baire. 
 
 Within 
 
SON' NET. VI. 
 
 tjcrlthm her baire yetmi and Cu^f^aa. tbem: 
 . SomeciiBe they twifi it Amberlike in gol<^ 
 
 To which the wfaifiling windes doe oftrefort them. 
 
 As if they fltone to haue the knots vnroU : 
 Sometime they let their golden trrfles dan^. 
 
 And therewith nets and amorous gins diey make, 
 Wherewith the hearts of louecs to intan^e: ' 
 
 Which once inthraI'd,no ranfbme diey will take. 
 But as CO tyrants fitting in their thrones, 
 
 Looke on their flaues with tyrannizing eyes: - 
 So they no whit regarding louers mones, 
 
 Doome worlds of hearts to endles flaucoe^ 
 Vnlefle cheylabied-Iike fiveate to adore. 
 And (erue Bnuuntiulf for euermore. 
 
SONNET. VII. 
 
 TWill pedeuereuer fortolouethee, 
 
 O ceale dhiineft (weemes to difilaine mec: 
 iUbeic my loues uue types can neuer raoue thee^ 
 
 Yet from afiedion let not ptide detaine (bee. 
 Aliho(ig}t my heart once porcbafi thy difpleafurc 
 
 Whh ouetbold preSioiptioii on tby £anour: 
 %&. now He facrifice my richeftirearare 
 
 Vntotfay name and much admired honoOR 
 Tcares are die creaiiire of my gridfe-gai'd harr. 
 
 Which on (diy loue) o^ altac I haae dropped 
 To dtee,tfaatmy thou^ts temples eoddeflc^rv, 
 
 Hwingdiy anger would tfaerdtybe ftopped^ 
 If diele to get thy grace may net fuffice. 
 My hean is flaine,accept duitlacnfice;: 
 
SONNET. V'lJI. 
 
 p.Afrf>-/r:/«//;thougrace to euery grace, 
 
 Thouperfcjftlifeofojyvnperfeaiiuing: 
 My choughcs fole heauc,iny hares ftsecc relnng place^^ 
 Caule of my woe and comfort offtiy grieuing, 
 
 giue me leaue and I will cell thee hpw 
 
 T he haples place and the vnhappie time. 
 Wherein and when my fclfe 1 did auow 
 
 To honour thce,and giue my heart ttythine. 
 Wearie with labour,labour that did like me_, 
 
 Igaue my bodic toa fweet repofe : 
 A golden /lumber fuddenly did flrike me, 
 
 That in deaths cabbm eucry (cnfe did dole i 
 And either in a heauenly trance or vifion, 
 
 1 then beheld thi$ pleafing apparition, 
 
 A 
 
SONNET. IX. 
 
 AWightwascIadmoftFofter-likeingrcene; 
 
 With loyal home and banting pole in hand : 
 Whofc chancing hoGds Were heard in woods 8c Icene 
 
 The decre amafde before the rider ftand : 
 The keeper bids goc choofe the beft in beard : 
 
 The huntfinaniayd^y choiic is not corhangc: 
 And drawing neere the deere was (ore afiFcard, 
 
 Into the woods the rider (purd to range: 
 There did he view a taire young barren doe 
 
 Within the hey faft by the purley fide. 
 And woodonan-bkc did take the winde thenfoe. 
 
 Whereby the deere might better him abide. 
 At length he (hot,and hit the very fame 
 Where be befi likte and lou'd of all the game. 
 
 But 
 
SONNET. X. 
 
 O Vt ftay eonccic where he beft Iikt to Iohc, 
 
 Yea better he if better bcft might bee: 
 
 The Rider thought the bcft of better prouc. 
 
 Till fortune iign'd his fortune for to fee. 
 Now wcaric he betooke himfelfc to reft, 
 
 Deuifcd where he might good harbour finde: 
 £m4Wi/«// (quoth he) 1 am her gucft, • 
 
 A nd thither went : flic grce ted him moft kinde: 
 Welcome fayd ftiCjthrec welcomes more ftie gaue: 
 
 His hand (He tooke,and talking witli him then, 
 What wine or bccrc to drinkc wijt plcafe y ou hauc, 
 
 Sixe welcomes more,and foOic made them ten. 
 He drankc his Hll,and fed to his dcfirc, 
 Kefireflic himfelfe,and then did home retire. 
 
 Forth- 
 
SONNET. XI. 
 
 pOrthwith I raw,and with the fight was bleft, 
 A beauiious ifliie of abeautious mother, 
 A young Em/tricdulf, whofc fight tncreaft 
 
 MiUions of ioyes each one exceeding other: 
 Fairc (pringingbranch Iprong of a hopeful! ftocfee. 
 
 On thee more beauties nature had beftowde. 
 Then in her heaiienly ftorehoufe fhe dothlocke. 
 
 Or may be fcene dilperft on earth ^rodc. 
 Thrife had the Sunne the world encompafled. 
 
 Before this bloflbme with deaths winter nipt : 
 
 cruell death that thus had witherejj 
 
 So faire a branch before it halfe was ripte ! 
 Halfc glad with ioyes,and halfe appal'd with feares, 
 
 1 wak't,and found my cheekes bedcw'd with tcares. 
 
 B My 
 
SONNET. XII. 
 
 lUlY checks bedew'd,my eies cue dtown'd with tear«s 
 O fewfull ftorme thaccaufdc lb great afliowte 
 Griefe ty'J my fonguCjfbjTow did flop my cares, 
 
 Bc^aule earth loft her fweetefl paramoure. 
 O cruell hcaucnsand regardlcite fates ! 
 
 If the worlds bcautie had compafsion'd yoU, 
 You Inight by powrc haue lliuc deaths ebongates. 
 
 And been remorreflill athcr hcaucnly view. 
 O fooliHi nature why didft thou create 
 
 A thing (b faire,if fairencs be negleftedf 
 But faireft thing* be fubieft vnto fate, 
 
 Andin the end are by the fates tcje^J. 
 Vone £maticy<t thou croft the deftinie, 
 tbr cnou furum'ftin faine,thacnere diall die. 
 
SON MET. XI If. 
 
 THat 1 did louc and once was lou'd of thtt, 
 
 Witneff^ ihcfauours that I haue receiaedt 
 That golden ring,pledge of thy conilancie ; 
 
 That,bracelec,that my hbertie bereaaed: 
 Thofe glouesjthat once adom'd thy lillie hands: 
 
 Thathandkercher,who{eniazeinthral'dnne(b: 
 ^ ho(e choufgnd ^&s,that like a thoufand bands 
 
 Bound.both tny heart andfouktoweale and woe. 
 All which lvyeaie,and wearing themflgh iKmh 
 
 , YgUii^Uhciesof her true loyalae : 
 I doe noclceepe you &» youc fijuetaigdcworch) 
 
 But for her fake that &ncyou vnco oie ; 
 Tis rhcjnpr you.thatdodi compell my cyeSj 
 My Ufes ible hghc,my hcattslble patadice, 
 
 3 1 Oae 
 
SONNET. XI in. 
 
 QNc da)[jp ten times happie was that day, , 
 Emaricda/fvtii in her garden walking, 
 Where TltrM imps ioy'd with her feetc to play. 
 
 And I to (ec them thitherward ran (talking, 
 Behind the hedge(not daring to be feenej 
 
 I faw the fweet fent Roles blufh for fliame, 
 The Violets ftain'd,and pale the Lillies becne: 
 
 Whereat to finile my Ladic had good game. 
 Sometimes fhe pleafde to (port vpon the gralTe, 
 
 That chang'd his hew to lee her hcauenly prcfence: 
 But when (he was imaskcd,thcn (alasj). 
 
 They as my fclfe wail'd for her beauties ab(encei 
 They mourn'd forthat their iniftris went away, 
 A nd 1 for end of flich a blelTed day. 
 
 What 
 
SONNET. Xr.. 
 
 \1r7Hat meane our Merchants lb with eger minds 
 To plough the feas to findciich iuels forth? 
 Sith ill EmaricJu/J-^ thoufand kinds 
 
 Arc heap'd, exceeding wealthie Indias worth: 
 Then India doth her hairc alFoord more gold. 
 
 And thoufands (Uuer mines herforhead (howes. 
 More Diamonds then th'Egyptian furges folde. 
 
 Within her eyes rich treafutie nature ftowes: 
 Her hony breatn,but more then hpny jwcetc. 
 
 Exceeds the odours of Arabia : 
 Thofe prctious rankes continually that mcete. 
 
 Are pearlcs more worth then all Apierica. 
 Her other parts(proud Cupidj countermaie) 
 Exceed the world for worth,the hcauens for fiate. 
 
 B ] Look« 
 
SOI^NET. XVI. 
 
 J Ooke when dame r<vi!i*« clad iaf/rr^/pride. 
 
 Her fbinrnei vaile widi faire imbroderie, 
 And fragrant hcarbs fvveet bloiTom'd hauing didct 
 
 And ipred abrode her (panglcd upiflrie ; 
 Then (halt thou fee a thoufand of her flowers 
 
 (?or dieir faire hew and Ufc delichting faooiin) 
 Gathered to dcckand beautitie thebowers 
 
 Of Ladies fairCjgrac'd with their louert fauours. 
 But when Tough winter nips them with his rage. 
 
 They arc difdain'd and not at all refpei^led : 
 Then la>ie(Bmaricdulf)m thy yong age, 
 
 Left beutg<jd,ltke flowers thou be reie Aed : 
 Nature madenoihingihat dorh eiier flourilh, 
 And euen as bet^tie ^de^o loue dodi perifti. 
 
SONNET, xrn. 
 
 T Am inchanted with thy (how-white hands. 
 
 That mafe me with their quaint dexceritie. 
 And with their touch,tye in a thoiifand bands 
 
 My veclding heart eucr co honour thee: 
 Thought of thy daintie fingers long and finall. 
 
 For precie action that exceed eompare. 
 Sufficient is to blefle lne,and withall 
 
 To free my chained thoughts from (brrowes fnare. 
 But that which crowncs my foule withheauefllyblis, 
 
 A nd giues my heart fruition of all ioyes. 
 Their dainde concord and fweet mu&ck is, 
 
 Thatpoylbns griefc andciireth all annpyeS, 
 Thore eyes that tee^ thofe eares itc bleft chat heare 
 Thefe heauenly giRs of nature ints^ deare. 
 
 B 4 Enn^- 
 
SONNET. Xrill, 
 
 p MorieJfJf, if diou this lidcUe read«, 
 
 ^ This (!arkeyj(£»^»>4 that I willdemand thee, 
 
 Tlien for thy wiiedoraes well <le(eniin,|'«iec(le. 
 
 In loues pure dutie thou (halt ay command mee. 
 A Turtle that had chole his louing mate, 
 
 Sate leemlv percht vpon a red ro(e breere : 
 Yet faw a bira(a7res paragon for ftace) 
 
 That &rre fiiipaft nis late efpouieddeere : 
 He chang'd himfelfo into that luft&ll bird 
 
 That /«n»Ioue$,and to his loue relbned: 
 And thought with anu>rous Ipeeches to haue firde 
 
 Her conftant heart : but her in vaine he couned. 
 When booties he had woo'dherto his paine. 
 He tooVcehisIeau^andtum'dhisthapcagaine. 
 
 The 
 
SONNET. XIX, 
 
 THe Heauens and Nature whe my Loue was borne» 
 
 Stroue which of both (huld tnoft adome & grace 
 
 The racredheaucnsinwealthie natures (come (hen 
 
 With wifedomcs pure ijifufioQ did iihbrace her: 
 Nature lent wings to wifedome for her (light. 
 
 And deckc toy Ladie with fuch heauen^ features. 
 As ncrc before appear'd in humane Hght, 
 
 Ne euer fithcnce in tcrrcAriall creatures. 
 (Quoth WifedoineJI will guide ber conftant hart 
 
 At all aflaies with policic to rclieuelier: 
 (Quoth Nature}! will caft thofe gifts apart. 
 
 With outward graces that I mcane to giue her. 
 Yet were they rcconcil'd, and fwore withall 
 To make her more (ben halfe celefiiali. 
 
 That 
 
so?/ NET. XX. 
 
 "THat thou art faire exceeding all companr, 
 
 Wtcnes thy eyes that gaze vpon thy beaude, 
 Witnes the hearts thou iiiny doft inPnare. 
 
 And draw to honouf thee with louers dutie: 
 That thou an wife witnes the worlds report, 
 
 V^tnes the thoughts that do lb itiucn adniire tbee, 
 Witnes the heauen-bome Mules that lelbrt. 
 
 And for their mifins tueekly do defire thee : 
 Thacthou art both exceeding faite and wife, 
 
 Witnes the anguifli of my fillie hart; 
 Tliy heauenly ihape bath Caught me by my eyes, 
 
 Thyfeccetwiiedomethatgiuesanroare, 
 So drcumuents me and procures my paine, 
 That I muft dye,vnles diou true remaine. 
 
 All 
 
SONNET. XXL 
 
 A L thole that write of heaueaand hcauenty ioyest 
 
 Defciibc the way with nartDW crooked bediogs^ 
 Eefet with griefe, painc,hon'or andannoyes, 
 
 I hat tilfall etiid haue neuer petfed endings. 
 The heauen wherein my thoughts are refiden^ 
 
 The paiadice wherein my heart is fainted. 
 Through fi«f et-hkc ftraight hie- waies I did aaemp!Ct 
 
 Nor with cough care nor ligd^rous nolle attaiiucJ. 
 I mnfl coafeflc'fiutHwas the only meane. 
 
 For that wieb jbme for want tfaettiof did fflifle^ 
 Only thereby atlcngthldid.obtaine, 
 
 Aiidby tliacliuiham now inftal'd in blifle: 
 There fi«epeipy:tho^^ts,roy heart there ferthy r#, 
 Boih heart & thoughts thinke that her bcauen i$ beft. 
 
SONNET. XXII. 
 
 y^E (iibiefts ofher partiall painted praife, 
 ^ Pen,paper,inke,you feeble inftrumcncs : 
 Vnco a higher ftraine I now muft raifc 
 
 Your miflrisbeaucious faire abiliments. 
 Thou author of our hie Mconian verfe. 
 
 That checks the proud Caftalians eloquence: 
 With humble (pirit lif I now reher(e 
 
 Her feueraU graces natures excellence: 
 Smile on thefe rough-hewd linesjthefe ragged words 
 
 That neuer ftil'd from the Caftalian fpring: 
 Nor that one true Apoloeie aflbords, 
 
 Nor neuer learn'd with pleafant tune to (uig : 
 So (hall they liue,and liuing ftill perfeuer 
 To dcificher (acred name for euer. 
 
 Ye 
 
SONNET. XX III, 
 
 VE moderne Laureats ofthis later age, 
 
 Thatliue the worlds admircincm for your writ/ 
 And fcf rae infufed with a diuine rage. 
 
 To (hew the heauenly quinteflence of wit : 
 You on whoft weltun'd verle fits princely beautie, 
 
 Deckt and adorn'd with hcauens etemitie. 
 See I prefume to cotc('and all is duetic) 
 
 Her graces with my learnings (carfitie. 
 But if my ^va(Maratu harfti-writing quill) 
 
 Could feedc the feeling of my thoughts defire. 
 And ftiew my wit coequaU with my will, 
 
 7 hen with you men diuine I would conlpirc, 
 In learned poems andlwcetpoefie. 
 To fend to hcauen my Ladies dignitie. 
 
 Oft 
 
SONNET, XXriJI. 
 
 AjPtbaue I he«<ihony-^ong'<} Ladies fj)eake, 
 
 Striuing their ameitous couniers I oiticbanr. 
 And from their nedaj lipi fuch fwett words breake, 
 
 As neither an nor bsaueni/ skill did want< 
 Bnt when EmarieJuifffOs to difcouile. 
 
 Her words are more then wel-twn'd harmonie. 
 And eucry lenience of 4 greater force 
 
 Then Mermaids IbngjorSyrcfi; forcecies' 
 And iftohcare her (pcike;,£j*r/*j heire 
 
 The wife f^lij?ej liu'd vs now among, 
 Frona her fweet words he could not ftop his care, 
 
 As from rile. Sytttii add the~Mcrmaids fong : 
 And had (he in the Sviens place but dood, 
 Hethcauenlf Vo/cekad drowa'dhimin the flood. 
 
 Let 
 
SONNET. XXr, 
 
 T Et gorgeous Tj/rfB bluflr for ofhcr h aire 
 
 Koch tranncl checks hisbrighteftrummcrsihinc 
 Ttie cIcereQ. Comets drop wiihin the aire 
 
 To fee them dim'd with thofc hei' glorious eine: 
 lu/iQ for ftare (he tnatcbles doth dilgrace, 
 
 Surpafsing eke for Aatiire 27^49 tall, 
 yenm for faire £air« f^eriHi for her face, 
 
 In whofe fwert lookes are heap'.t the graces all<: 
 Forwifedome may (he mpkecomparilbil 
 
 With PallM^yei I »»rongheirouer-nmch«. 
 Forwhofofoundsherpolicieseachonc, 
 
 Will (wcare7ni/o»/»» witwasheuerfuA: 
 Her (he excceds,thougj|i flie exceed all other, 
 Bdng loHci grcardaughtcr borne without a mother, 
 
SOMNET. XXVI. 
 
 P Varit/lulf'cciiAc hcrCjbut reading marke 
 
 Asin a mirror roy true conftarjcic : 
 The golden Sunne (hall Hiftbc curn'd to darke, . 
 
 And darkncs claime the Sunncs briglic dignitie : 
 The ftarres that Jpanglc heaucn with gliftriRg light) 
 
 In number more then ten times numbctkile. 
 Shall Ibonci leaiie to bcautifie the night. 
 
 And tliercby make the world iceme comfortleflei 
 Firft (hall the Sea become the continent. 
 
 And rcdgild Dolphins dance vpon the fliorc : 
 Firft wearic yf /Zw from his painc. exempt. 
 
 Shall Icaue the heauens to tremble euermorc, 
 Before I change my thoughts and Icaue to loue thee. 
 And plpad with words and direful lighs to mouc thee. 
 
 Sweet 
 
SONNET. XXirii, 
 
 <'Weet arc the thoughts of plcafures wc haue vfdc, 
 "^ Swecte arc the dioughts that thinke of that fame 
 Whofe fweetncs is too fweet to be refufde, (fweet. 
 
 That vcrtuous loue-tafl for my faith was meec 
 The tafte whereof is fweeter vntd mc. 
 
 Then fweeleftfwcet that euer nature made- 
 No odours fweetncs may compared be 
 
 To thistrucfivcetnes that will neuer fade. 
 This Sonnet fweet with checref uU voyces fing, 
 . And tune thtfame; (b plealihg to mine eare. 
 That £OT.*r/r<&//'thy praifes (b may ring, 
 
 As all the world tl\y honors fame may heare, 
 Oncedidft thou vqwjthat vow to me obferue. 
 Whole faiih and cruth from thee (hall neuer fvreruc. 
 
 c ■ If 
 
SONNET. XXrill. 
 
 TF euer tongue withheaucn inticing cries, 
 '' I£ euer words blovuae from a rcntcdharr. 
 If euer te^res (hed from a Louers eyes. 
 
 If eiicr{ig{ies iflueofgriefeandfmaR, 
 If euer trembling pen with more then skill, 
 > If euer paper, witnesjof true loue. 
 If euer inke,checfe harbcHger of will. 
 
 If euer lentence made with art to moiie. 
 If all of cHefe combinde by Cufidi power. 
 
 My long borne liking to anatomifc: 
 Had but the af t^with arc for to dilcouer 
 
 What loue in tne dotht)y his art comprife. 
 Then might the heauens,the earth,watcr and ayre> 
 £e witncs that I thi^c cbcc oncly fayre. 
 
 M, 
 
SONNET, XX rX. 
 
 \Vl hart is Lke a fliip on Neptunes backe,' 
 
 Thy beaurie is the fca where my (hip (ayleth. 
 Thy ftownes the fu^esare that threat tny wracke 
 
 Thy finiles the windes that On my failes fbftgailcth 
 Long coft betwixt faire hope and fbulc delpaire. 
 
 My lea fick han,arriued on thy (hore : 
 Thy loue I nieane,begges that he ma/rfepaire 
 
 His broken veflell witli thy bounteous Qoie, 
 Dido relicu'd>f£»<v</in difitefle. 
 
 And lent him Ioue,an>I gaue to him her hearti 
 If halfe fUchbountie thou to me exprefle> 
 
 From thy faire (hore I neuer will depart: 
 But thankekinde fbnune that my courfe did iene. 
 To Mcr fliipwnck on fo fweetc a pone. 
 
SONITET. XXX. 
 
 q'N r*/Aribofomelpring two fragrant flowers, 
 
 TheniilkwhiteLiIljr,andlhcblulhingRoIe, 
 Whichdaincie Tltrdiotxa dccke her bowers 
 
 Aboue ^ other colours chiefly chole. 
 Thef^ in mymiftris dieekes both empire holding 
 
 In emulation of each others hew. 
 Continually may be difcerned folding 
 
 BeauticinIookes,and maieftieinview. 
 Sometime they meet,and in a skarlet field 
 
 Warre with rebellious hearts iiegle£ling dutie. 
 And neuer ceale,vntill they fi>rce to yeeld 
 
 Them coward capdues conquered by beaude. 
 EmtrictbHfiiKa Hidft thouplay the foe. 
 And I the rebell,and was cohquet'd fb. 
 
 In 
 
SOTiTNET. jnCXh 
 
 TM tedious Tolames I doe norintend 
 
 To wiiie my w!oes,iny woes bv loue procuttd. 
 Nor by myin^tmufeiinploretneend 
 
 Of loues true]ife,thisfJoufe>I haue abiuivd: 
 Only my &ce f'faice deare)ffaall be the boolie 
 
 Wherein m^ daily care fliall be rehearfed: 
 Wh ereby thon (halt perceiue when thod doeft looke, 
 
 How by'thsbeautiesdammy heart was pifirfed. 
 My eyes (hall witnes with diflilling teares. 
 
 And heart wiA deepe fetchcfi^es Ihall nanifeft 
 My painfiiU oxments caniHe by grie&s and fearesj 
 
 And houiely Ial)ours mixt with deepe vnreftt 
 Both hearfj and eyes^and face (hall all expreOe, 
 That only thouartcatiieofmy difttrefie. 
 
 C3 Thj 
 
SONNET. XXXII. 
 
 'T^y image is plaine pomirde in my tbougbt. 
 
 Thy conu»it minde is written in my hcar^ 
 Thy ieemely grace and pleafing fpeechhaue wiou^i 
 
 To vow me thine,till death a Kinder pare 
 Thy fauours focft me Itibie A vnco thee. 
 
 Thy ondy care extended to my good, 
 TflouefylootocSjCommaunded allin me 
 
 For diy dearefaketolpend my deareft blood: 
 My ioy confiftsififeeepingbf thy loue. 
 
 My bale dothbreede if I inioy it not : 
 My feruice true,&om thee none can remoue, 
 
 Vrdefle both life and loue I (hall forgot, 
 itiougblifeandlouein time mufth|uean end, 
 Yet tber I haue vowde to betby freni. 
 
so T^ NET, XXX III 
 
 pMi«w(i»^niy Orphan mufes onother, 
 
 *^ Pure map of verttiCjHonors onety daughccK 
 
 Brighcgemnie of bewtie/ayre aboite all other. 
 
 True badge (^ faich,fouIe ignominies HaughEer, 
 Enfi'gne of loue,(bure cnemie to luA, 
 
 The graces gracc,£>ire Ereeines di^ce : 
 Wroi^s chcefe reprouer,cauIe df what is iuft, 
 
 Aduicespacron,councelucfting place : 
 WiiHomes chiefe fon^wics onely pure refiner, 
 
 Craue of deccke, ^e life of polid^ 
 Fates beft beIoucd,nacures tiuc diuincr, 
 
 Nurce of ihuention,hould of conflanci^ 
 PoytbnofpainejPhiiitiondfanoyes, 
 <Cwe/«A)/pnde,and paradice of ioyes. 
 
 C4 tmaeU- 
 
S.OJVAtEr. XXXIIIl. 
 
 t; MaricJutf,\ont'K a holy fire ', 
 
 Tbat bumes vnleene,an(l yer not burning/eene:' 
 Free o£hi0>(el&,yec cbain'd with firong defirc; 
 
 Con<iucrd^ thee,yec triumphsin thy einc: 
 An eye-bewitching vjfion thee in fceming, 
 
 Thatftiadojw-like Byes ftonnalouers eyes.* 
 An heaucnalpitiftg Qnrifcyoyd of leejng : 
 
 A gentlegod,yec l<aies sb tyrannize : - 
 Bond-()aae.toh.onour,bunhcn of conceit. 
 
 The only god of thini eyes Hyrarific, 
 Decay rffifiendfiiip^aadfire of deceit. 
 
 More tbeitagi>d,yct-waiits a monarkie: 
 Eaftard of nature, that tobcauen di^ clime. 
 To fceme the misbegotten hcire ottimei 
 
 O 
 
SONNBT. XXX jr. 
 
 /-jFaithjtbou facred PhQenkof this age, 
 
 > Into another world fiomheaceexilcd 
 Diuorc'd (rom honor by vnhecdfull rage, 
 
 Pure vemies nefi by hatefiill vice defiled: 
 Thou faith that cal'ft chy-fimame Conflancic, 
 
 Chriftnrd aboue the nine- fold glprious fphcrc. 
 And horn the heauens deriues tby pedegrec. 
 
 Planting, chej-oote of thy faire linage there 
 Let this thy,gloiic-be aboue the reft. 
 
 That baniflit earth where thou didflonce reniaiae. 
 Thou yecmaift harbour in my tniftrisbreft. 
 
 So 3J>ur«chefl pure treafiiremay containc,. 
 And in nerJitiingbeautie/ieucr old, 
 Seem like a pretious Diamond fet in gold. 
 
 When 
 
SON'N'ET. XXX ri. 
 
 XKjiien I behould fieaucos allbchoulding ftarrei, 
 I doe compare them to my woes and fmart, 
 Caufde by the many wounds and mighdc Icarref 
 
 That lottc hath trenched in my bleeding hart i 
 And when I thinkcvpon the Ocean (ands, 
 
 Methinkes they number but my lac^bewtiet,,' 
 And rcprcfcntthcinfinires of bandes 
 
 Wherein my heart is bound to endlcs duties: 
 And when I fee natures faire children thritic, 
 
 Nurflin the bofomc of the fruitcKilI earth. 
 From my chad vowes they their increafe deriue; 
 
 And as they fpting.fohatle my vowes their birth : 
 And as the ftarres and fands haue cndles date. 
 So is my louc lubicA to naught but fate. 
 
SOT^NET. XXXVI h 
 
 r\ Luft of facred loue the foule corrupter, 
 
 ■ Vfurpcrof herheaueinlydignjtie, 
 Follies firft chJlde,good councch internipter 
 
 Fofteted by floth,firft ftep to infamie. 
 Thou hel-bonie raouftcr that affrights the wife, 
 
 Louc- choking Iuft,vertucs difdainefuUfbc : 
 Wifdomes contemner fpurnerof adviife, 
 
 Swiftto foilwearc,to faithfull promife flow. 
 Be chou as far froiil her chafi- thoughted breaft, 
 
 Her true louc kindled hearr,her vertuous niiiule, 
 As is alf-feeing7jfr<<» from the weft, . 
 
 When from Auroras armes he doth vntwinde. 
 Nature did make her of a heaucniy inoujd, 
 Oncly true heaucniy vermes to inio(tId. 
 
 My 
 
SONNET. XXXVIIl. 
 
 K^Y tlioughK aicending the hie houfe of fame, 
 Fouftd in records of venuous monuments 
 A map of honours in ano&Ie frame. 
 
 Shining in fi>ight of deaths oft baniihmencs: 
 A tfaou&id colours Louc (ate liited in, 
 
 Guardedwith honour and immortal] time, 
 Inft led witiieBuie,feftre,.and deadly iin, 
 
 Oppofde againfi faire Loues out-Uuing line. 
 Tme Conftancic kneeld at the feet of Loue, 
 
 And begg'd for feruice,but could notprocure it: 
 Which feene,m}' heart ftepcfbnh & thought to mone 
 
 IQnd Loue for (auour,bui did not allure it: 
 Tec when my heart (wore Conftancie was true, 
 Xooe wclcoDi'd it,and gauc them both their due. 
 
 Image 
 
t Magcof honourjVeftues&fi borne childe, 
 
 Naniies fiure painted fl3ge,Fanies bri^ceft face^ 
 Syren that neuer with thy tongue beguild, 
 
 Sibill more wile then CumasSibifi Was, 
 When learnings lim with more'xeiplendenc ^eaiMs^ 
 
 Shall with imtnottall flowres of poefie. 
 Bred by the venue of Bram bigningbeames 
 
 Deck mj inuention for thy dignitiei' 
 With heaueiily hymnesthy more theheauenly parts 
 
 lie deifie, thy namccomniandt liieh dutie. 
 Though maay heads of poi&ft poets arts 
 . Areinlufiicienttoexpreflethybeauti^, 
 Thy nanie,thy honour,and loues puritie, 
 WicfaStanzas,Layesand>lynu}es Ilefleliifie. 
 
 Some 
 
SONKET. XXXX^ 
 
 - > 
 
 cOnebewtiesmakeagodof flanerici 
 ^ And fawne EliKjmms eternall types, 
 MathetJ ^oirefuch £utMcs propbelie, 
 
 L eaft I be beaten with thy venues fliipest 
 Wilt tbou fuiuie another world to &e' 
 
 Detutt fweete Prophet (htdl the praifes finge 
 Of bewties worth exemplified in thee, 
 
 A nd thy names honour in his fweete tunes ring: 
 Thy venues CtUm (hall immortalize, 
 
 CulUn chafi vertues organ Iwcetfi efteero'd, 
 When (or SAk/htook hedidcomprile 
 
 Such matter as inuentions wonaer leem'd. 
 Thy venues hee,tlur bewties fliall die odsei; 
 Chiift(aaoew,whileslfitby and wonder; 
 
 yt btdiejic er/is^femfar. 
 
 rtNia, fd.£.c. 
 
CELESTIALL ELEGIES. 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 TO 
 
 ROGERS'S CELESTIALL ELEGIES. 
 
 HIS poetical Tradt, like the others in the volume, is printed from 
 an unique exemplar. Not only is no other copy known, but 
 apparently no mention has been made of it by any Biblio- 
 grapher or Biographer. It is marked by more ability and intereft than 
 the one which follows. 
 
 The author was poffibly the fame Thomas Rogers, a native of 
 Gloucefterfhire (being born in or near to Tewkefbury), who lived moftly, 
 in his latter days, in the parifh of St. Giles in the Fields, London, and who 
 publiflied, in 1 6 1 2, a funeral tribute to the memory of Prince Henry under 
 the quaint (perhaps intended as a punning) title of " Gloucefters Myte." 
 Dr. Blifs, who, in his edition of Wood's " Athenae Oxonienfes," gives the. 
 concluding ftanza of it, mentions a copy as being in the Bodleian Library, 
 but it is not known to exift elfewhere. 
 
 Some interefting allufions wiU be found fcattered through the work. 
 Among them may be noticed the following : — In Quatorzain 8, Bajazeth 
 and Tamberlaine. [Marlowe's play on this fubjedt was printed in 1590.J 
 In Quatorzain 1 2, " Seas of troubles ;" and " adling a part upon this 
 worldly ftage ". [The firft allulion here is curious, for Shakefpeare's play 
 
ii Introduction to Rogers's Cekstiall Elegies. 
 
 of " Hamlet ", in which it occurs, is fuppofed not to have been written before 
 1602-3]. I*^ Quatorzain 13, a poor attempt at a pun. In Quatorzain 
 14, fome far-fetched Similes. In Quatorzain 14, allufions to "Thetis 
 ftreames ", and " the rockes by Netleys fhores ", etc. 
 
 The " Ladie Fraunces, CountefTe of Hertford," here commemorated, 
 was the third daughter of Lord William Howard, firft Lord Howard of 
 Effingham (created Lord Admiral by Queen Mary), by his fecond wife, 
 Margaret, fecond daughter of Sir Thomas Gamage, and fifter of Charles, 
 fecond Lord Howard of Effingham, who was created Earl of Nottingham 
 in 1596. The latter was the chivalrous Lord High Admiral of England 
 who did fuch good fervice againft the Spanifh Armada in 1588, as well 
 as on other occafions. His firft wife was the Lady Katharine Cary, 
 daughter of Henry Cary, Lord Hunfdon, and the fubjedl of the following 
 poetical tribute by Thomas Powell : confequently the two ladies were 
 fifters-in-law. 
 
 The Countefs of Hertford died without iflue 14 May, 1598, aged 
 44, and was buried in the Chapel of St. Benedi6b, Weftminfter Abbey; 
 againft the eaft wall of which Chapel is a magnificent monument, twenty- 
 eight feet high, with a fuitable infcription to her memory. 
 
 " This monument occupies the place of the original altar, and was 
 probably ered:ed within two years after the Counteff's demife, when the 
 two fteps to the altar were made to ferve as basements to it. This ftately 
 tomb is enriched with columns and pyramids of various kinds of marble, 
 decorated with the enfigns and devices of the noble families of Somerfet 
 and Effingham. The Countefs is reprefented in her robes, in a recum- 
 bent pofture, with her head refting on an embroidered cufhion, and her 
 feet on a lion's back." Abridged from Ackermanns Hifiory of Weftminfter 
 Abbey, vol. 2. p. 109. 
 
 Traces of the gold on the embroidery of the cufhion and of the 
 crimfon colour on the robes may ftill be observed. 
 
 This lady's eldeft fifter was named Douglas, and her career was an 
 extraordinary one. She was married, firft, to John Lord Sheffield ; 
 
Introduction to Rogers s Celestiall Elegies. iii 
 
 fecondly to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicefter; and thirdly, to Sir Edward 
 Stafford. An account of her intrigues with Leicefter (during her firft 
 hufband's life), will be found in Gervafe HoUes's curious Memoirs of the 
 Holies family. Her marriage with Lord Leicefter, however, was denied 
 by him ; and in confequence, her fon, the celebrated Sir Robert Dudley, 
 was declared illegitimate. 
 
 The principal events in the life of the Earl of Hertford are too 
 eafily acceflible to require a lengthened notice here. Suffice it to fay, 
 that, though the malice of the enemies of his father, the Protedor 
 Somerfet, deprived him, after the fall of that great nobleman, of his 
 hereditary dignities and eftates, the favour of Queen Elizabeth, im- 
 mediately on her acceffion, in November, 1558, reftored them to him. 
 But his firft marriage, very early in life, with Lady Catherine Grey (the 
 fitter of Lady Jane Grey), who had certain claims to the Succeflion, 
 provoked the ire of his fovereign to fuch an extent, that he was not 
 only fined by the Star Chamber in the fum of ^15,000, but was, with 
 his unfortunate wife, committed to the Tower. After a captivity of four 
 years flie was releafed, but never faw her huft>and again. She died 26 , 
 January, 1567-8. The Earl was not releafed till he had fuifered nine 
 years' imprifonment. The fate of their grandfon. Sir William Seymour, 
 was fomewhat fimilar, for having married the Lady Arabella Stuart, her 
 nearnefs to the throne excited the jealoufy and apprehenfions of the 
 reigning fovereign, and led to her imprifonment, lunacy, and early death. 
 
 The Earl's fecond wife was the Lady Frances Howard — the fiibjed 
 of the following poetical tribute — who died in 1598, and by whorn he 
 had no iflue. 
 
 His third wife, whom he married when he was upwards of fixty 
 years old, was alfo of noble defcent, and her charadter may be given in 
 the words of Granger {^Biographical Hiftory of England). "She was 
 Frances, daughter to Thomas, Lord Howard of Bindon, fon to Thomas, 
 Duke of Norfolk. She was firft married to one Prannel, a vintner's fon 
 
iv Introduction to Rogers s Celestiall Elegies. 
 
 in London, who was poffefled of a good eftate. This match feems to 
 have been the efFed of youthful paffion. Upon the deceafe of Prannel, 
 who lived but a ftiort time after his' marriage [he died in December, 1599], 
 fhe was courted by Sir George Rodney, a weft-country gentleman, to 
 whofe addrefles ftie feemed to liften ; but foon deferted him, and was 
 married to Edward, Earl of Hertford [about 27 May, 1601]. Upon 
 his marriage. Sir George wrote her a tender copy of verfes in his own 
 blood, and prefently after ran himfelf upon his fword. Her third huftand 
 was Lodowick, Duke of Richmond and Lenox, who left her [in February 
 1623-4], a very amiable widow. The aims of great beauties, like thofe 
 of conquerors, are boundlefs. Upon the death of the Duke, fhe a^ired 
 to the King, but died in her ftate of widowhood [8 th Odlober, 1639, ^?!^^ 
 62; leaving no children.]" "Her will, dated 28th July, and proved 
 31st 0(5lober, 1639, ^^" (says Col. Chefter in his valuable 'Marriage, 
 Baptifmal, and Burial Regifters of Weftminfter Abbey 1875') "very long 
 and of marvellous hiftorical and genealogical intereft, and contains one 
 eccentric diredtion (for a lady of her years), viz: that her body fliall not be 
 opened, but packed in bran before it is cold, and buried wrapt in thofe 
 iheets wherein my lord and I firft flept that night when we were married." 
 
 She lies buried in Weftminfter Abbey, in the fame grave with her 
 third huft)and — who, like herfelf and her fecond huftjand, had been three 
 times married. The fplendid monument which covers their remains, and 
 which was eredled by her, is thus defcribed in Ackermann's work on that 
 edifice. 
 
 " This tomb, which is of brafs, almoft fills the chapel to the north of 
 Henry the Seventh's monument. The figures of the Duke and Duchefe 
 are finely caft ; but the caryatides, which fupport a canopy of various 
 ornamental pierced fcroll-work, in the characters of Faith, Hope, Charity, 
 and Prudence, poffefs fuperior excellence. The figure of Fame, on the 
 top, is reprefented in the adt of taking her flight ; and the urns are copied 
 after antique forms." 
 
Introduction to Rogers s Celestiall Elegies. v 
 
 A curious account of this beautiful, attradive, and eccentric lady will 
 be found in Arthur Wilfon's Life and Reign of K. James I. publifhed in 
 1653, folio. Lodge, however, in his " Portraits of Illuftrious Perfonages^ 
 of Great Britain," has inferted a lefs prejudiced life of the Duchefs, to 
 accompany her portrait, which is there engraved after a full-length 
 pifture by Vandyck, dated 1633, i" the pofleffion of the Marquis of 
 Bath. Another engraved portrait of her by William Pas, dated 1623, 
 after a painting by Van Somer, formerly poflefled by Horace Walpole 
 at Strawberry Hill, is prefixed to fome prefentation copies of Captain 
 John Smith's Hiftory of Virginia, folio, 1624, a work dedicated to the 
 Duchefs. 
 
 A full length portrait of the Duke of Richmond, painted by Van 
 Somer, dated 1623, aged 59, is in the pofleffion of Her Majefty at 
 Hampton Court. 
 
 The Earl of Hertford makes no figure in the politics of his time, 
 but towards the end of the reign of Elizabeth he mufl have regained 
 fome portion of her favour, as we find that in September 1591 fhe vifited 
 him at his feat of Elvetham in Hampfhire, where very elaborate enter- 
 tainments, which occupied four days in reprefentation and elicited her 
 warm approval, were given in her honour. The account of thefe 
 feftivities is reprinted in Nichols's ProgrefTes of Q. Elizabeth vol. iii. 
 He was alfo one of the patrons of the Stage, for in 1592, according to the 
 Privy Council Regifters, he had among his fervants a body of players ; 
 who have, however, left few materials for the hiflorian of the drama ; 
 differing, in this refpedt, from the comedians under the protedbion of his 
 brother-in-law, the Lord Admiral, who had connedted with them in their 
 management and concerns Philip Henflowe and Edward Alleyn. By 
 James L he was feleded (in 1605) as one of the AmbafTadors to the 
 Archduke, an office which he accepted after much importunity, but which, 
 in fplendour at leaft, did not fuffer at his hands, for Sir Dudley Carleton, 
 writing to Mr. Winwood, fays, " Our great AmbafTadors draw near their 
 
vi Introduction to Rogers's Cekstiall Elegies. 
 
 time, and you may think all will be in the beft manner, when 'the little 
 Lord Hartford makes a rate of expence of ^10,000, befides the King's 
 allowance." 
 
 The Earl of Hertford died in April 162 1, at the advanced age of 
 83, and is buried with his unfortunate firft wife in Salifbury Cathedral, in 
 the fouth choir-aifle, under a flately though taftelefs monument. " It is 
 worth while " Cfays Hallam, in his Conftitutional Hifiory, in which he 
 difcufles the claims of the Countefs to the throne) "to read the epitaph 
 on his monument ; an afFedling teftimony to the purity and faithfulnefs of 
 an attachment rendered ftill more facred by misfortune and time. Quo 
 defiderio veteres revocavit amores." 
 
 Of Matthew Ewens, with whom the author of the prefent trad: 
 claims relationftiip, the following account is given in Fofs's Judges of 
 England. " He was called upon to take the degree of ferjeant by writ 
 dated 29 November, 1593, the return of which was probably in the 
 following Hilary term. During that term, on 1 February, 1594, he was 
 raifed to the bench of the Exchequer ; and his judgments in that and the 
 following years are reported by SavUe and Coke. Beyond this no account 
 appears of him ; but his death or refignation foon after occurred, as his 
 fucceflbr, John Savile, was appointed in July 1598." 
 
CELESTIALL ELEGIES 
 of the GoddefTes and the Mufes, de- 
 
 idiftoringthedeathaftherighthoiiottrahteaHdvertuatii 
 
 LadieiheLadie Fravn.ces Countefreof Hertford, 
 
 laccwifcvnto ihe ri^ht honorable £ d vv a^u 
 
 SsTHOK Vicoum Beaachamp 
 
 WHEREVNTOARE ANNEXED 
 
 ibme funeral! vcrffs touching^ die death of 
 
 Mat HEW £vv£N5 Eiqiojre, iaceone^ 
 
 «t ihe Baruniof her Maicitici Couri st fci'. 
 
 cbequer,vnto li'ha.bi: ibe •||iv!iO( 
 
 hectoi' wa< aU;c<]| 
 
 Propcrdus £lcg. S<- Ub. ;. 
 Baui vHaf furtahit efts Athmittu ad vndat 
 H«dM dd infertiM fitltt vtfftre retei. 
 
 Uor, Uib. I.Cp. ad Qainc . 
 
 Mors vUitQa finea recuts eft. 
 By Thorn at Rpgtrs Efqui.c. 
 
 imprinted at London by R'ehurd BrAdocke, Xot 
 I, B, a»d. are to befoldai her {hop tn PmUi 
 Churdi-jrardiic che %iieof the &ible> 
 
 » y *«' 
 
M To the Right 
 
 Honoui able his {ingulcr good Lord^ 
 the I,(?r^ Edward Seymor W(?««( 
 
 Beauchampe Earle o} Hetiford. 
 
 JEhold ( T{ight Honourable ) m 
 this Theater ofmortalttie a Tra~ 
 
 fl gedie^with A jolernne funerall ^ 
 at vohnh the Goidejfes are chief e mourners^ 
 and the ^njes attendants^vpherem death 
 plates the Tyranmcall Ktng or the kinglie 
 Tyrant y your deare Ladte and wife thefuh- 
 t'iUof his furte^ which in a dia^he fhovre ts 
 heere frifentcdbyme.'xoherenf I deftreyonr 
 
 *A 1 Lord 
 
Zord/hippe to i/eASpe^ator tmdd Judge 
 If I haue mttilie ^Uide the fooles part m 
 contriumgthe matter ( 7 thtnke i haue plat J 
 t^e voijeH part : ) And then I hope Ijhdl, 
 haue your Lordjhtpsapplaufe, nAnd that is 
 all I expeSl, 
 
 Your Lordfliips caer at 
 ' commaund. 
 
 T. K. 
 
Cele/liall Eligies for rfielate dcatliof 
 
 jhe right HoHHttrabl^he taclit Psaixnct^ 
 CouDteffe of Mertforde, 
 
 ay ATORZ AI N. 1 
 "Bereeyuthia. 
 
 (To wes, 
 ■r\RavwiK in my Royal! chariot , crowncj with. 
 Through all the kingdoms of the centred earths 
 With a great Traine of the ccloltiali Powrcs 
 That from my wombetooketheirimmortallbirthj, 
 Defcend I as chief e mourner from the skye , 
 To foIemnizetbisCouDCene funeraii , 
 And crowne her fame with immortalitie. 
 Although hecbodicnow to death be thrall 
 My daughter Cywr^Mwhilome lou'd herdeareji 
 Noblefhewasby vercue, birthjaod matchj 
 Match'd with a Peare,yct matchlcs WJthouePcaire!. 
 For Pearcles ftc, did othcrsouec match. 
 
 Wherefore the Fates grown e cnuions of he,t praifcj 
 For vercues/ake, ab 'idg'd her earthlie daies^ 
 
 A3 I 
 
CeUjiUll Elegits 
 
 QJ^ATORZAIN. a. 
 fynt. 
 
 T that am both hues tidier an d his wife, 
 '*7'heQtlcenc<jfffrtncn,whom Gods &mcn adore 
 tiealnflgrhe fameof this braue Ladies lifc) 
 /n moHrnfuII habtt"now her death deplorct 
 She hath putt of all earthly ornaments 
 And cloth 'd herfoulein glories fpotleflerobe^ 
 Sh&hith exchang'd thefe mixed El< m e nts^ 
 For ttrat puire Quintcflcncc, the heaucniie globe 
 Lochowherfpright infranchtfed from thrall^ 
 Of finfuliflefh, afcends theCbrifiallskyc. 
 Sc<miiDgtodweltlong in this earthly vale, 
 Wh«re all ttten rife to fall, andliue to die; 
 
 Therefoire (he foardaboDe a hui&ane pitchy 
 And with hctvettuesdoth my Realmeinrich* 
 
 Th 
 
Ofiht GodtUffet. 
 
 QjATOR^AlN. > 
 
 •TTF^e potnpeiDfthisvainc worWffic did dcfpiie^ 
 * Weighing the flippetie flatc of earthly th iugs, 
 Therefoi«aboue theSpbearesof heauen ihs fUe^ 
 To flag and loybefotethcKingofKingSj 
 Her vertues that did militateoaiearth, 
 Againd the flelh,the deutU,fi(me and hell, 
 Nowtniunphe in the heaucns^and conquet death' 
 And in loucshcly monarchie doe dwetk 
 I rue the Idle of true No^Iitie 
 WhiloRK inuefted in her noble breaf^ 
 Wifedonae with honourfiokt in am<tic^ 
 Were both in hcr^and fheindeaai fdppred: 
 How can /cbufe but wailifor htrdtce^Je, 
 Sidi by her death iny kingdom dochd££re:aie« 
 
 A4 M 
 
ipelefliatl.EUi'^f 
 
 Q^V ATORZAIN. 4 
 
 A Y me ; my vefbll flame is now exrinft. 
 My Rqwvc ofCh/iJiiiiedoth fade away 
 In Cethes Houds true nobicncs doth finke. 
 My Empyrerunnes to niJnous decay; 
 Pittie,Aimes-dceds and chaiitieisfled, 
 FidfUt/ebtyondthe fcasisgonc. 
 True friepdHiip now and fakhfullloue is dead. 
 And Priapusyiutpcth Cuptds throne : 
 She chat did lecke my kingdonje to maintaine. 
 By fanflitle, religion, [aith, and zeale. 
 Through enuie of the Dcftenies is flaine, 
 Pcath robs th'Efcbeqiier of my common weale. 
 For all thofe rices which I was wont tohaue« 
 Arc fled to hcaucQ or buried in her grauc. 
 
OftheGoddelfes^ 
 
 IF that lamaflanCjUcloofc my light. 
 And fall from Hcaiw n. vpon the earth to morqea 
 Becaufe herlifes faire day is turnde to flight. 
 My ioye tq gricfe, my louc to hate fliall turnc. 
 If that I am aGoddcfle asmenfay. 
 Whom louet s tearmc Celeftiall and dcu jne. 
 With humaine teares He wafh my ioyes away. 
 And on the earth no more by day-time fliinc: 
 Ifl be beauties Soueiaignc, and loues Queenej 
 He put a maike of clouds before my face. 
 Hating toloue , loumgto liuevnfecnej 
 I will obfcure my felfe in fomedarkc plare* 
 
 Andiflbc aPlanct.whilelraignc, 
 
 He frown on th'carth where my delight is flainc* 
 
 From 
 
CtU^URSItgiet 
 
 Q^ ATORZA2N.(5. 
 Ihetit. 
 
 FRom th'vnknowne kingdome of th' A ntipodes. 
 And from the i arthcA ronds of th'Ocean mune. 
 Attended with troopes . of Nereidesy 
 And charming SyreHJt that fupporte mytraioe.* 
 Mou'd with ihegfntlcmurmurcofthcflrcaraes. 
 That fccmetnf humancmifcricstowcepr, 
 IthittdockHI'ethe Siinnes tranfplendent beamet^ 
 When hcin A^fff?«««boromcfalI$aflccpcj 
 Come to tliiifamousland in waues of woe. 
 Like to a Queenein mourning weedesaraide^ 
 Growncd v^ithcares^becaufcmant mortal] foe^ 
 TheTyrantdca^hjhistragick part hath pi aidtf; 
 Sftamorc lamentestnan allthe woildebefidcj 
 " Hiitrueloucslofle that Jate in England dydc. 
 
 My 
 
Ofthf Geddeffif. 
 
 QJTATORZ A IN. 7 
 Ceres. 
 
 ■jVi^ Y wealth decaiesforwantofSomcrshcat, 
 ■'^ -*^5omers heat fades bccaufe the Sunnc is fled^ 
 The 5uRneis fled, becauft ^isgriefc is great^ 
 His grisfe is great, bceaufe bis ioye is dead , 
 Hisioye is dead, (ince hi!; desteladie dyde, 
 ^nd fince his lady dide he «uer mournde. 
 He cucr moutndc,for lofle of Natures pride. 
 For Natures pride, is now to a fhes t urnde. 
 To aftics cuoide that v/as a Phosnix rare, 
 A Phcenixtiitej of whom no other bredj^ 
 No other bred , that brecdes the more my care. 
 The more tnycarCjAch all inherisdesd: 
 OHeaueSjwhy do you bring thislandfuchdearib, 
 As for Co cake a Phceaix from the earth- 
 
CeUjiijuRhlegltt 
 
 I that do turncthe rowling whcele of cbauncc, 
 The blinde light Goddcflc ofvnconftancic, 
 Thkr fometime did the Romaine Peers aduancc^ 
 To/way the worlds imperiall Monarchic- 
 /that doc kings enthrone, annOjFOtjand crownCj 
 Andofte depafeihemfroin the Royallfeaie, 
 I chat on mightie Baiiu.eth did fiowncj 
 And made the bafcborne TAmberldMelo great; 
 Lament that death hath got the vi^rie. 
 While/ am faine to flic away forfcare. 
 For where death raioes^therc ends my {bueraJntic, 
 He <iafls downc Trofhces which 1 did vf rcarc, 
 , This Ladic wfieme I raifde to high degree, 
 Dyde not bycbauncebutfatall dcftenic, 
 
 Ked 
 
Of thi Goddaffes: 
 
 CXVATORZAIN. 9 
 
 Nemejis, 
 
 D Ed ho.ic with rage whofe heart with gricfc doth 
 J come froin loite fell Atrofos to chide, (blcede. 
 That cut too foone thisCounteflcvitall thrccdc. 
 Wherewith herfoule and bodic were fait tide: 
 While wicked men long liue In loy and pleafure^ 
 5heMu'd ]01ig time in fickneflc and in paihe. 
 Who dill accoantcdvertue herchiefc treafure. 
 And lofle of worldly wealth heaucns richell gaine: 
 Where/ore flie fled to beauen/rom whence I came; 
 And with reuenge to fcourge mens infolenccj 
 And thole fame ruthlefle dcftcnies to tame, . 
 That by this Ladies death loues wrath incence. 
 Who let the wicked long time liue in pride. 
 
 WhilcAc \.\mi beddcferued^fooncft dide, 
 
 Though 
 
CtttftUB ttegies 
 
 CLVA TOR Z A IN, lo. 
 
 T Hough I am fearcfijil Goddeflaof tircad warrc. 
 That hacetoUueldly as home iitpeace, 
 With humane cries allured 1 come from farrc, 
 In (treamcs of hloude to ruothls datnes deccafc, 
 Tills Lady vias 3 Howard asid didipringCj 
 Oat of the antient Duke of Nerfolkfuicc , 
 Whofc ofspnng did fvibdue the 5cots ftout king » 
 And from the held rebellious foes did ctufe^ 
 Her brother ft ill reftes loyal totheCrawflCf 
 -/4hd Scepter which faireC;>»f/&i4 now doth wield. 
 By Seas he hath obcaiu'd his high renowne. 
 The other by his conqucft in the field. 
 Wherefore I vow by land and Sea to ttife, 
 Eterijalltriumphes to the Howards fii\(t. 
 
 Crowned 
 
OftheGoddeJfis. 
 
 QV a T O R Z a ! N. II 
 
 F/ora, 
 
 CRoWned with wrcathcsof Odoriferous flovvrff, 
 'Whofelentperfumcs the Empire of the -<4yrc, 
 i^niong the teli of the immortall powers, 
 Vnto the lind o( Albion I repare. 
 Where 1 with garlands will her Toombe adcme. 
 And make death proud with ceremonious rites> 
 Tliat for thisLadies fake I doe not fcorne/dthghtt; 
 To df : ke her Graue, with th' earths f aire flower* 
 For fith the world was fwee.tned by he r breath, 
 7nacbteath'dYarevertuesforth,asthenaliue, 
 ^lebeautifieherSepulchet,nnce death 
 Of her fweetc fbwic her body did depriue^ 
 For this braue dame was a fwect fpringing flower, 
 Bcdewde with heaueniy grace till her lallhowre. 
 
 From 
 
CeUfiiaS EkgUt 
 
 CLVATORZ AIN. 12 
 
 'Profer^iaa. 
 
 FRom t;be black kiBgdomeoflnfirrnall Disi 
 AUcircutftfcnb'd with Charaft^rsofwocj 
 And from the dungcn of the darke abyfle. 
 Wherein the Ocean Seas of troubles flovve^ 
 I doeafccrid vpon this worldly flage, 
 In this fadTragedie to i&. a part, 
 Sithflicthatwasalighttothatlaftage, 
 Is now confounded by deaths fatal) darte; 
 Thccruell deftinics were much 10 blande. 
 To cutherthreedcof life ere throughly fpunnCj 
 Her life burnd out lik« to a Tttjiers flaiii.e, 
 And thus ihehowrglaflc of my ioyes isrunne : 
 
 Wherefore the FataUfiftetsfliall repent 
 Her bodies dcathjandfaire foules banlHimenr. 
 
CfthfX^Sdeip^t^ 
 
 Q^VATORZAIN. ^ 
 
 I now {Kail bliifli co klfle tbe5annsifa)re face^ 
 OibicUa<i/0»rvntQ |bis \itmylx]k9&tCi 
 i rather vyiH kinentjn dolefull c a(e. 
 The bfflb oflijcr whom J did louc fo deaf ?^ 
 I am the Mufes cuct conrtam&ifad 
 And fith {he wasiheir Matronc vvhik {hft^'4 
 I will bewaile forhftr Tntifflcly cnde^ 
 By whom the lacred5iiler$wcB:rcleC'd/ 
 1 iqufe whatMufechere is that will not wccpe 
 .When /{halltell this lamentable ftoty, 
 Th2t{heis dead andnow in duft doth (Icepe^ 
 Although dec fbule isccown'd withlaftiogglotyr 
 I tbinke the world wflbc d ilTolu'd to wares, 
 WheatHs laid tale {hall penetrate menseafes; 
 B Atiy- 
 
CiUfiiaB UUgiit 
 
 CLVATDRZAIN, 14. 
 PTox. 
 
 Attyrde in black fpanglfrd with flatncs of ficr, 
 Imbroidcred with ftatres in fiicQt nignc , 
 While Phccbus datfithe lower wbtldmfpire, 
 with his bright beamcs &cofottbteathing ^'"gf'fj 
 I comit in clowds of gricfc with penfiuefoule) 
 Sending forth vapours df blacke diTcontcntj, 
 To fill the concaue Circle ofthe Pole, , 
 And with my teares bedeawe each Continent: 
 Becaufe t&ai flie that made my night feeme dayCi 
 By her purcverrues eucrfhihinglampsj 
 Now makes my night more blacke by her d^ecay, 
 Wandring with Gholis.inthtf £///f^if Camps: 
 Whcrefote I (i ill. will were a mourn jogvaile. 
 For fhe is. dead and humane flefh is fraile. 
 
 Ad ewe 
 
OftheGedclept. 
 
 CLVATORZAIN. ty 
 Grttkt 
 
 ADewe fsdre Venw Ladic of delight, 
 Weltfottiepalc horrorgriefe and difcomcnt. 
 Come let vs wander to the vaile of nig|ht. 
 And for this Ladies death Hghe and laineati 
 Our hopfes late deadeingender lining fearc'S^ 
 Our gricfcs awake doc btinge oUr ioyes alleepe^ ■ 
 Now vtc from Thttis ftrcames will borow teares, 
 Andteath the rockes by Netleys (LiQres to weepc. 
 Oaf fairfc complexion is with forrow chang'd, 
 Wehaiue bin fellowe Mates with beauties Quecnei 
 But horn otif felucSwenow arefoeftrang*d, 
 Wc are but fhadowes of what we haue becpe, 
 >4ndthosjn vainewc daily doc deplore. 
 For lofle of life which we cannot reftbtc* 
 
 Bz \Ri. 
 
^ 
 
 Celejliall Elegies 
 
 Q_VA TORZ A IN. 17. 
 
 ytiE that accicalde Tymes golde winged Howrcs: 
 Andaire the Porters of Hcauens Ghriftall gate. 
 Come from the PalUcepf CcIefliallpowcfS, 
 ThirCountefic dcach withpompe tocckbrare; 
 By fhuttingvp HeaucnSgate wefend dowoc raync* 
 Datkingtbe triple region oftheAire, 
 And when we lift opening the door( agaiflc. 
 Dry the inoyft cIov?dc$& malfc Ac wpatJier Taire^ 
 Wcepe nowOcIowdesvpponthe graflClc^aiBh, 
 With oftett drops fret through the hardefi (lonesj 
 While we iaforrowe for this Ladies death. 
 Flic back againe todic Cplefi iallthroncsr 
 And locking faft the great Porte of the Skiff, 
 5enddownc more fliqwrcs for her raortalitie. 
 
Ofthe'GodJeffet. 
 
 ^ Q^VATORZAIN. 18. jfj^ 
 Pandora. ^^rS^ 
 
 I bring a box wherein all woes ate dbfde. 
 Mingled with teares difiildfrom facrcd eyes. 
 And not fo much as hope for nic repofdc 
 Is left befiindcbut quite away it fires- 
 The graces wherewith alitheOods indue mcj 
 Arc gone from me and to loues throne reADrr, 
 The blefllngs which vntill this day purfiide inc, 
 For(akemetiowandI ftand all'amort. 
 Like Nrobe that eucr tiU death ftill moBrn'dCj 
 Forher deare childrcnslofie whcjm PhoebiuOMCj, 
 And to a fencclcffc flonc atlaH vva?turndf, 
 Thatin her life did raciftextrcamely rue: 
 
 And thas'transfbrmdelvwill become a Toombe. 
 
 Pcnclofe hcrvcrtuesin roy dying woambe. 
 
 B^ If 
 
Ceh^ialieiegiet 
 
 QJ^ATORZ AIM i8. 
 Fnles Dea paftomm. 
 
 TEkingddmes VKaJleftiall not theCptrage wecpe ? 
 
 If the Court grccue fliall not the Country grone ? 
 If they docmorne that doe ftrong Lions kcepc? 
 Shall noti, that kecpc teadet:fheepe,bemoiie.^ 
 If faire EUfa monarch of this He, 
 This LadiesJoiTc doth gratiouflyiament ^ 
 It ill bfscouies a country fwayneto fmyle, 
 Ormc that ain the Shepheardsprefidcnte: 
 O thou rarc^c^nc thatmakcft thefcmal gender, 
 Sy much,more worthie then the Mafcuiinc, 
 To thee all prai£c andglorie Ifurrcndcrj 
 Whom! cftceme as facred and dewne: 
 
 Had not thy life giuen fiicpheards (wcet relcefe, 
 
 Ifliouldhauevyell nigh pcnflied with greefc, 
 
 Eucn 
 
Of the Goddeffes. 
 
 QV A T O R Z A I N. i5». 
 FerontA. 
 
 EVen in this fad and melancholy moode^ 
 With Sil»a» Nimfhet which on roe daily tends 
 Mated with (brrowe come 1 from the woode, 
 'And to fairc Cywhitu kingdome noW I wende^ 
 Where the immortall (7oddefles aniu'd, 
 At7>-tf7>lo«iw»f, by which TiS<!«?tfywaue$ do glide, 
 WhcrelateaLadie of great honour liu'd. 
 But greater vertue, that vntimely dy de: 
 Thither goc I among the re(t to mourne, 
 jini oflFervpmy teares vpon her nirine. 
 My loftic trees I will cut downe and barne^ 
 In wimcffc of her death for which I pync.- 
 And as my trees confume away with fiaote 
 So doth my heart with griefc,and ioy with (hame. 
 B4 In 
 
CtlepaVSlepti 
 
 <ijrATt)RZ A2N. 15 
 
 Libttin*. 
 
 IN dreary accents ofa dolerviUvcife, 
 lie fpeakc hcrpraift thougblhaue.loDgbin dube^ 
 In fable wcedesile dickeher ^i^i-qa^Iiearrr^ 
 Andfactifice my tears vbpooihectoojn&e;. 
 With goI(iehStatuesihall her toombe be gUtCj 
 Like King Mmjolw lately .tnonuaicnt, • 
 Whkh h is deare wife tbe ^uecne oiCaria builc 
 To be the wotldcs cteroafl wonderment. 
 Or elfe 1 will her fenceli^e corps intcrte, 
 /n (Qm.t faire graue like tbe Pjramides, 
 And will enbalme her bodte witb fwectc ^firrh 
 yt'ii^CaJpa^AmiergreeceaxiA Aloes (Tinell, 
 
 -That lb 'AyieperfumM therewith fhall fwectly 
 While hcaucnly pdwert fhal ring hcr\vorall knel. 
 
 An. 
 
Annotations vpon the CeleAiall^ 
 
 ■Bie£ies of the Goddeftt 
 
 Ereeifithia -alfat Rhta Cyhte Opi fV- 
 
 thedaiightei-6f Ctdum and Terra thfe 
 wife of Satut»ecoVK«u3iaiy called the 
 niotbetoftlie god^Sf goddeffes of the 
 eatth ; uherffie Poets faine tg be drawne by four* 
 Lioti^lh B eHsriotWjtka ctowntof Towres en fret 
 h«ad and a ro> afl fcep^fcerin Bet habd* fee is alfd re- 
 ffcuied^e fenfltiMor Citits4itd To-wrcsfordefencei 
 
 Imo called Prtmnta and of fome LtKittd the 
 daughter of 5 <r/«>-w aod Op/jWife^ndfiHerof'/i^V 
 wrj^eeneofheauen^ and g<ydd«fle of riches, Vtn- 
 ptffied with<he ceie(iia}tf)i3d.eme,drawne in het 
 chariot by Pc4tOckcS,flit ii ac^oUhted to ptedorai: 
 nate matia^s , aiod the bitlh ef ^llidren. 
 
 P«ff<2i otherwife called c>lfMfnt«as Hefiodut aC 
 fiimech is the dflughtecof Ne^tUHt zadTmeu, poe< 
 
tically 3 1 To fayned to be cngendred of thebrainc of 
 /upitcr : She is the Goddeffc of wiledomc,Iearning, 
 Sidthclibetallfcienccs , She is the firtcr oi Afars 
 and is faid to be the Goddefle of warrcs and martialJ 
 ibitao^ms y and for chat i«ottcn called Belloua. 
 
 C^mhia called alfo Diana and Phahe the daugfircr 
 of iufiter andLatona die fiftcr of Pbahiu flic is the 
 Goddeife of hunting and fifhing, who addidting her 
 ielfe wholy tovirginitic obtained of lufiter there- 
 fore to Jiuc in the vioo6syirgil.Lii>.U.Almc tibihae 
 ?jcmorii!» cultrix Ldtania virgo, 
 
 Kenm tetmedaKo C/tkfre4 poetically fained to 
 be bred of thefrotb of the Sea, excelled all other 
 GoddcfTfsinbeautic, {heisthe GoddcfTe of louc, 
 pleafures and lafciuious delightes^fhcridcth in a cha- 
 riot dtawiie by doueSjfhe is the mother of Cupid and 
 IS accounted one of the feuen planets ' 
 
 Thtttt 
 
Thetis called alfo ^mphitrite the wife oi Pelem 
 King of TAi'jI/ii/if, daughter of Nerfus and mother 
 of j^cbiiUsvias efteeined Goddefle of the Sea::of 
 Nertm all the Ny mphes were called Nereiits, 
 
 m 
 
 Cerenhc daughter oiSaturue and Ops fifter of Tu- 
 Jit ft & PiutOjis the Goddefle ofCorne drawen m hep 
 chariot by dragons, crowndewithfheaucs of wheat 
 (he wandred about the vvorldcofindeher daughter 
 Prcfelfwa 'shorn Pluto GioletwiY, flicfirft caught 
 thcvleoftbe plough and coxilltheiaod^ 
 
 jittrerathemotaiag, the daughter of ff^periati 
 indJ^tif in the judgement of He/isdm,ot as others 
 fay of 77"M»3nd Terra whom for hcrfaf re vermilion 
 coloar Homer fainethto hauc fingers of dam askc 
 Tofesj andto.be dtawneby bright bay horfcsin z 
 goldeacharriot,ihe is faid by Orfhew not only to be 
 ambftcomfotrable Ladictomeo,butalfoto b?afts 
 liai plaotsand is a great friend to the Mufes. 
 
 Nvx 
 
AnHctationsvpfou 
 
 Nex the night, bred o( Chaes as Poets faine 
 vhoin they cal the niuilauntient mother ofallcrea- 
 tores, bctaure there was no light but darlcenes be» 
 fore thcSunneand the hcauens were made,Andflie 
 poflefTcd all places before the birth ofthcgods,(he 
 iscloathedinWackerayment. with a fable vaylevp-' 
 onherheadjtranfpoited byblaekehorfes in her e- 
 benchiriot, (he came from Ereifu and the jnfcr- 
 nalsobfcuringiihis Hemy/pheie when the Siwine4s 
 gone x.o'^t Antipodes. 
 
 F/«r<fcalled alio Ci6/(7)-M the wife ofZepiirm is 
 deemed thegoddcflcof Flowres; 
 
 Bellofiathe goddcffepf warre called ilfoP<i//^, 
 which to etprefic both the valour and the wifedonpr 
 of the honorable race of the Hasvardtsl hauc twife 
 exprcffed m'fcuerall fonnets,whom Vtrgil nan\eth 
 the prcfident ofwartc. 
 
of the Gtddejfts. 
 
 Arviifotem belli prdfes Tritma Pallas 
 
 Fortund as feme fuppofc vastlic daughter of 0«- 
 linMf, albeit Hepidtu writing of the origb^ll birch 
 >oftheGp3«,makesno mention of her j ycdfljc is 
 vainely reckoned among thenumbcr of the Gods a* 
 luHttiAl witnefTeth. 
 
 NhHuw »HmeftiheJt fi pi fmeUttia^fed tt 
 NesfacimtuFtrttinadiim C*la^laCiV»ntt 
 
 , Sheistbe GoddeHe of change 9ad Lnconflancie 
 (he is faidc to be blindc and to be roulcd about vp> 
 on a wWeatc as TiiuBiti in i,Elcgiarut», rerpuur 
 (tkri^s ItHti otbe rota. 
 
 Prqferp:»a called al^Perfephtve and of fotne Iff. 
 r^r^is the daughter or/sr^Vrr and ^<r«,tbc wife of 
 Pluite Queencof Hell^flichacblbujEraignepovveTof 
 dead bodies* 
 
 Nemefs 
 
^HitttafMis bppoH 
 
 NetHtp\!at daiughter of Cfft*»«» and A'a* may be 
 calledche Goddeflcof *OKage, who wasleatfroni 
 tiifitir rodiipprefleAe jpride and infblence of fuch is 
 ai-etomuchpuftvp wkli arrogsiide for the fruiiid 
 of worldly felicitterand therfore Anftstle LiJe man'* 
 da, afHrttieth Nemt^r- to be the dcuide power and 
 iufficeof Godn> puoiQj'malefaSbrs for their hay- 
 nous ctiiuesj and to diOributeta eiicry one; aeicd^'' 
 ding to bis demerits. ' 
 
 LiiitMS is the GoddefTcof FunenII& 
 
 The Qraces called iffmri* or Chariter the Graces 
 daughters of Itiptttt and E»ryna»e wbofe names arej 
 ^gtM^EHpbrofyneiXiA Thalia .they were beautifutl' 
 and the companions of Venus. 
 
 tJdtt the howreSjdaughters of ftipiter and The- 
 fnu^ixe by Homer alid other Poets faidc to kecpc th* 
 calesof hcauen, and by opening of them tomak^ 
 faureweaiherjandbyfliutring them to make foule 
 
 weather 
 
ihe Caddeffes. 
 
 weather, they fauourfearoing and altocUte P^nta 
 artd the Graces: ThcT^areimagincdrohauefoft feet 
 and tobc mott flow of ail the OoddeHcs^ asd (liH CO 
 workcfomencw matter, they moderate and dc- 
 ui'dc the rncccffioa of times, ' ' 
 
 Paiiiorit',3 Ladte imbdliftted yflth ill fayre orna- 
 ments of bodie andminde on vvhome-citery one of 
 ihe Ged$ bcAowed 21 (eue rail gift ofgrace^wasfent 
 by Io\xe\.o frometheiu with alL^uils iuclofed/aA in a 
 box orhcile cofer , which gift being refufedby^w 
 vtethettt wis bylier brougnt to Epimfthetn, who o- 
 pcningthecouer ofthebox,pcrcci"uinga!I diofc c- 
 uilsco flicQUtiuddenly (hut the fame, rcfcrulng ooly 
 hope \a the botcotne thereof rcpofed which he kept 
 «{l: which hope yoamuft imagine now that P^w- 
 
 iorahith loH in the cariagc byicafouofthisinoft 
 noble CountcfTe deaths 
 
 T^ioie 
 
^nKqf(Ufatfi VJian 
 
 ?7/«^«tbed3Ughcef oTTantalm waxing infolenc 
 beyond meafurcfoi the beautieaiid goodly ptopoN 
 cionoCherchildrenjid&njuch that (he compaiedot 
 r^ber preferred her fclf'e in opinion of glory before 
 Z>'>fo»<iandherfacred ofspting was therefore by the 
 decree of theGodsmetamorphofed into a flone,and 
 fo became her owae bodies lepulcher tand her chil- 
 dren were flaine by ibaebtu and TliwA with at- 
 towcs as Poets fayac. 
 
 Pales is the Goddcfle of Shepheards in honour of 
 whofe diety Shepheards did celebrate certain games 
 called Paliiia. 
 
 , fw-owM the Goddefle of woods or groues^whofc 
 temple [isStraho writel;h)was famous in the CitJe 
 Soractes^zadiht with great deuotion was there wor^ 
 iffiipped,ofwhome thcreis no mention made touch- 
 ing her birth or cducation,noiwithftatjdingflie is ret 
 koutd fouctaigne of the woods as Virgil writeth, 
 
 EtviridigAudens Ferofiialuco. Great 
 
CeleJIiaS Elegies of the Mufes. 
 O R Z I A N. t 
 
 Ctio. yd^"^ 
 
 (jKcat princes acfcs I vrctofoyalize. 
 
 And from the Stigian ftouds their fame to faue^ 
 And in tftf Criftall mirror of the skicSj 
 With wits feirc Diamond IrhcirpraiFditlgraue* 
 By m c AltTAtnM ibnne is- m adc deuinc. 
 And Tiire Cabfio turned to a Bcare 
 Now in the Starrie firmament doth fiiine. 
 And with her light adomes this Heii^fphcrc, 
 And-I will raifetoVicaacn this hobk datne, 
 Abotie itic purert Element of fire. 
 And loin Srarres charaftcrize hirfaftjCj 
 That tiftie ftiall nother glones dat? expire, 
 Aftd yet mv heart in pittie takesremorfc. 
 For her deatcfoule and bodies late diuorfe. 
 
 C Knowing 
 
CtttfiMl Btegtis, 
 
 OyATORZIAN, 2 
 
 AfelpMHenct 
 
 KNowinglier life what fliall I found her praifc/ 
 Or mu&ig of her deathfill in a foundcf 
 ShalilrecordehcEfame in my fweete laies? 
 Oc by my forrow make her .death renovyndef 
 I know not what to doe , ]am.amazde, 
 I wander in a Ldborindt oTwocs, 
 Herprai/e alreadiethrough. the world is HvtAi 
 Andnow herdcadi with gteefe /muft diTcIofe; 
 Wherefore ItegiSitx her death with teares* 
 Which doe lumeblacke with forrowe in the full. 
 Wringing my hande$ f enting my ^Msa hearesy 
 And with thefe reliqucs grace hec funerdl^ 
 Exclamingthus with euedaAing cries, 
 Vertuegrows Hcke^iftiame liuesjtrue bonot dfct* 
 
•ftbe USfufist 
 
 Oy A T O R Z A I N. 3 
 
 T That in Princes Pallacci was bred, 
 ^ And did delight in euerie comicke iporc, 
 Whofe daint'tc feeteoa carpcct vfde to treadc^ 
 And dance &e tneafures ftatly in the court, 
 Will tume my mirthfull ibngs to dolefuri cffes^! 
 And fin with tearcsthe Heliconian brooke. 
 My louely cheekes befmeard wichweeping eyes^ 
 ]Like flcfiilcfle dcathes Anatomic I looK.e» 
 Por (he thai brought new reuels out of fiww, 
 Whcnflie returned to her natiue foyle, 
 tVhoibnght my glory chiefly to aduance. 
 Hath nevfby death receiuf^ afatallfoile, 
 TKuibyhetlofle I amcocnpeldto rue 
 That file to ibonehath bid the world adevirff« 
 ^ 2 Cooifii 
 
CeltJiiaB Elegies 
 
 QVATORZAlN. 4 
 
 SHterft^ 
 
 r^Ome. fiflcts letvs fitig (ai roundelaiciSj 
 
 And ftrew green Cypres boughs vpo birTombe 
 CrovJning her image with immortall bayes^ 
 Oh facreaofspriag of taton/u wrombe. 
 Play 00 thy reaucn.An]ng« harpe aodfadly warble. 
 The wa5f<;fuIJ murmur of celefliallfrhcares. 
 And while thou doefl engraue herfame in marble, 
 Ik diggeher greue withihowrcsof fatxed teares; 
 My pipe (haU m ake the fi ones to weepe for piictej 
 As great Amfhiow'Lyn didmake them danced 
 "Xobuild againe the ruynesof that Citie* 
 Which did'maintaine the Grecian puifance. 
 
 And yet- not Thtbeshwt TrpymtMnt (hsil mourae 
 Forhctwhofc fleflico Elcmcritsdidtumtf, ' 
 
 Whas 
 
0fiie MtffSt 
 
 C^VATORZ AIM.5 
 Terfpehortt 
 
 T^"yHatdoIefulI 7>iap*[on (hall I make, 
 " ' What moumfuli fongs of rotrow ftiall I fiog 
 Whstt comfort in fwetCe Muficke can I take, 
 Sith deatii hath broke this Ladies vicall Hrtng: 
 My facred Lyre that did refound of ^ore> 
 Celeftiall harmony, like PJ&fi;^M Lute, 
 Such ioyfull iccents now iLall Jbund no mot?;^ 
 For inward ibrrowmakesour conforc mute; 
 SitA deacb hath broke that ftfing that did rmte 
 In mutuall loae her bodie and her (bule. 
 My dulcimers fhall make no more delighc 
 And I wiltliue in cuerlafting dole 
 
 For howcan Mulicke folace humaine e^res, 
 Whe filings are broke 8c harts are dcownd in tears 
 C3 Ye 
 
Ctkfiiall Ekgin 
 QJ^ATORZAlN» 6. 
 
 VE that like ImlinsCifar feekc to mcafiirc, 
 
 'Xhcfpacioiisctymatesof the c^ntied toun<^ 
 To fi(h for king^omes and to purchafe treaniEC* 
 Oppofe your liucsto euerie fat ail wound i 
 Behold cuen in tfie map of my fad face, 
 A true Cofmographie of humane woesj 
 For (ipce foule death his Tropheesheare didplace^ 
 Inquitt reft I neuir could repofc, 
 Vnto rh'Antarticke Pole whacneed ye failci 
 At home in fafctic better may y ce flcepe, 
 Coniidcrby her death your flcfli is fraile, 
 Sitdownebyme vppon thefe rockes andweepe, 
 pot Albion now more forrowes doth containe, 
 Then there is Wealth in all the Qcean mayne. 
 
 Were 
 
vfthe Mufts, 
 
 QJ/ ATORZAIN. 7 
 
 XTX/Ercitnorthat £/!»*4didrcuiae, 
 
 Mydroopingfpiritsthatareliketopcrifli, 
 'Jf that worlds myrrburondy flie aliue, 
 Dtdnotwith bountie flill my Poeiiischerifh, 
 I (hbuld goe languifti in fome obfcurc txxty 
 Or with rude Satyres^K wood-nymphs Il^ould dwel 
 Learning Hiould fie in ba fe Oblmions graiie^ 
 And flow no more from Ag*ni^e well: 
 But fincetbis Ladies, fbulets vanifhcdj 
 putof this world (her corps to death eathrald^ 
 She to a fiacre is mecamorphofcd 
 And with th^ golden Twinds in heauen enff aid 
 Or like the Pleiades enthron'd on high 
 She may be tcriti'da PhoeHix in the »cie. 
 
 C 4 Ifaw 
 
Celejtiall Elegies 
 
 CLVATORZ AIN, 8. 
 
 "I Sawe no fearefull comet in the Skye, 
 -*^Nor firieMeteors lately did I vicwe, 
 Whofe dread a{pc(5ltbrcatcnsmortalitJe, 
 And lofle of fome great Princes to infue : 
 Nor by Aflrologie did I deuine , 
 That death fa foonc this Paragon fliouid flay, 
 Thatfliewho did ingrace and vcrme {hine, 
 Aboue her Pceres before them fhould decay, 
 I thinkc while all the Gods incounfell fate. 
 To canonize fome Sainti that late did die. 
 Not being mjndfull of this Ladies flatc, 
 Whoicfatall howte did then approach fo nigh. 
 Death ftole vppon her with his Eif» darte 
 And vnwares didiioke-het to the heart. 
 
.fifthe iMafes-f 
 
 SItblam tearni'dthcMufesOratrix, 
 My pctt fliall wright the Ilia dcs of my greere. 
 My tearcfull eyes vppon her beare ilcfixe. 
 My tongue fhall tell a woftill tale in brecfc: 
 My handi fhall ad the pafHonsofmy ttiinde. 
 My rHth/uII lookcs bewray siy pcnfiuc fbooghtf 
 I will tromplainc the Fates are toovnkinde. 
 Fro bad to worfc the world (iillgrowes to nought.- 
 Wherefore 1 thinkethat Pkto'j wondrous yearc, 
 (When asiheOrbsof Heauenflialbe reuolu'd. 
 To their firft courfc) approchcth very nearc 
 Thcbands ofth* Elements flialbc diflblu'd: 
 And till thofe daiesofconfummation come. 
 Cares make mepaflionate&rorrowes dombe« 
 
 Now 
 
Tht AHtbortCo»ctMjio>t. 
 
 NOw Goddejfes Md Mufei giuemeleaue. 
 In thisfacfTragedieto adtc a part, 
 1 haue more caufe for her dcceafe to greeue. 
 Though you more wit to (hew your (arrows finart.* 
 Yee for afiFcdtion doc extoll her praiTe, 
 And for mere pittie doe her death lament, 
 / both forloue and duetieftriue to raife 
 Her fame aboue the Harrie firmament: 
 And death for enuie did abridge her daies 
 T'cnrirch his kingdome with thisrertuousdamo 
 But I fprgriefe that death the Tyrant plaies, 
 Jinpoueri(ht haue my wit t' enrich her fame 
 While I pcrforme thefe rites which are mo(^ fit. 
 Death waxeifa rich in (ppyle,! (poild of witte. 
 
 Alt' 
 
Annotations vpcn the Celefiiall Sl'£i:t 
 of the Mh[m. 
 
 THE nine Mnfet which arc the prefiden'ts ofPo- 
 c ts and firft authors of Poetry Muficke & othec 
 {cienccs,arcthe daughters of/Mpitetdc mtiemofjne 
 Alias «»r»;or/<»whofc names are Clio j^^elfomific^ 
 ThaliMf Eutefre,TerpfchoreyErAtt)j^4lltope,yraKia & 
 Pelihimnia , C//«i txercifeth her wit& iKill chiefely 
 in Hiflorics and recording thcaflesS: monumcts 
 ofworthie perrons,OTf?//)ew'win Tragedies, and 
 Isxncniihh £legies,Thalia[Q Cofticdies, comely 
 geftures.andfwcete (pcechcs,f«r«y?in the pipe 
 & fuch likeinftruraeBts^T^r^/f^sr* in the Citternc 
 orlute,£ri(/0in Geometric, or Chofmographicj 
 Calliofeia heroicke verfeSjP^raniAin Aflrologic and 
 contemplation of the ftarres^ and pelihintniti iti 
 Rh^orickaod Eloquence, 
 
 Dr. 
 
Deuine fonnets dedicated to the faid La«dy not 
 loKg before berdeceafe by tbt fAui AHthar> 
 
 Of Gods hal^ tame, hhoudhy or TetragrammatoH, 
 
 THat name which Mojesoa bis forehead bare, 
 I in myheartdoewotfhipaQdadore> 
 That name which lewcs to name did fcldome date. 
 May I prefume fbt mcrcie to implore? 
 Th at n am e which SalomoH vppon his brcaft| 
 In his diuinc Pentaculuoi did wcarc. 
 With gxtitIehoti*h Charaiftersimpreft, 
 T^at name I loue I reueiencc and feare; 
 TTiat name which AroH wore ypon his head, 
 Grau'd in his hofy Miter made o fGolde, 
 Thachame which Angels laude and furies dreipdc^ 
 Whofe praife no tongue can worthily rnfolde^ 
 That name which flerti is to impure to name. 
 My (infuUroulcwith facred zealeinflafncj 
 
 Of 
 
of the Starre which the Magi did worfhip at 
 Chyifles Natimtir^Md of his isAth. 
 
 I blaze that flarre, which was qo blazing (larre, 
 But the true figure of etetnall life, 
 1 he pri'iJcc of peace was borne then ccafed wane. 
 His birthcs bcginniag enocd inonall Anfe, 
 This glorious ftarre did lead the aged wile 
 To worfliip th'/nfants Godhead in th c Eaft, 
 Which came with gladiboic hran Scioyfnileyesj 
 To fee that Babe that made i]\ IfrMllble^', 
 O light of Ueaueoth^u waft extiofi on earth. 
 Yet to our feuTesCelcfiialllife doth giue 
 Thy death our hfe, thy rifingour. new birth 
 Thou three daics dead didft make vs etier liue^ ^ 
 Yet at thy death obfcur'd was th' earth and Ijjie, 
 Bccaufc he that was God, as man did die. 
 
 • Foun- 
 
FOuDtaine of grace frooi whom doth only runne^ 
 Water of life to fauc our foules from deatb^ 
 O faujour of the worldj^nre virgins Tonne, 
 That in red earth infuPd firft vttallbrcaih. 
 Oh thou whofe name was calde EtHmnnuttf 
 Ibyningthv Godhead \«ith humanicie. 
 Thou that for our fakr s didfi difc end to he 11^ 
 And ouerdeaih did'fl get the viflorie.* 
 Oh womansfeede that didft ftom Godproceeae^ 
 By Prophets faid tobreake theSerpenfrhead, 
 -Thcu that in grace and rertuc doeft e)£cecde. 
 Content to die that thou mighteft quicken dcade$ 
 Thoutbat didfl-tayfe the dead men fro the tombe . 
 Eartiu kingdonos pafle^oh let cbykiDgdoni e come. 
 
 Amicnt 
 
'Denim Sen^tSi 
 
 ANtient ofdaies^and y «c flill young in yeares f 
 Oh God on earche, Oh man yet moft deuine;^- 
 J'oore in this wotld,yet chicfc of heaucnly.Pccrcs, • 
 Whcfe glorie in th'iafi:;nall pit did (hine. 
 Borne Hnce old Abrahams dales yet]«ng before, 
 TFor Abraham reioyc'd to fee thy daicsj 
 He faw by faich,^^rhom now all powers adore. 
 The Cerubins doe daily Hng thy praifey 
 °Q ^od oftymes, and yet in time a man, 
 before ail times thy time of be'ing was. 
 And yet in time thy humalne birth beganne^ ' 
 Leaftwcfliouldfade vntimely like the grafle, 
 Ofa thouthat doeft all timcsbeginnc and ende,^ 
 Graunt all our woikes may to thy glory ccnde. 
 
prefperitie. 
 
 \7l7Hefe IjUcs the man that ncu« fdt a crofle? 
 V V Who Fortunes wheel did ncucr tumble down 
 ^hcrc lines the ipao that ncucr fuffred lofltf ? 
 On vvbomc theftarres oFiieaaen did neuer frowne ? 
 Where Hues the man that is inall polntes b/cfl? 
 Wife yaIianc,inightie,wealchyifayKand flrong.- 
 If fuofiaone vpon the earth dothreft 
 •His date of life Heaucn doth abridgeerelong 
 Such -was King Edamrd in his youtl^fuil prime 
 Who tpightby/'/&a^wOracle be deemd 
 Oneofche witefl princes of his time 
 Fol" vAt and learning excejknt eQcemde 
 But ctuell death maligning his great ptaife 
 Thatinfewe yeares fb highly did afpyte 
 Wuh yron dartijifring'd his golden dales 
 Whom nations farrc away did then admyre 
 Weeds long time growc, the fayrcft flowres do fade 
 Theripeft wits grow rotten at the la(l 
 AUtheie-faitctiungs which God and Nature made 
 
 In 
 
Ofthetnfialilitu of Fortune 
 
 lathis huge ' Chaos JhaW at length lye wal^e 
 Where is king SaComnh .the wiicft .wight 
 iOiiinioitaU men that Itiord vpon the grdi/iide 
 Dochhendtwandetin the:(hades of nighty 
 Whofc wifdomc through the world was foienound? 
 what didtrencebccwixt the rich and poore 
 Irui with Cfeftu boldly may compare 
 Both equdl arewhen death flandes at thedoofe 
 That maketh proudcft kings like beggars bare, 
 Then let the wealrhv men refpeft theiTend 
 Not cOuniing themfttueif happy vntyl! death; 
 SirhHeMcata them this wealtn doth dnlylende^ 
 Whichthey muft pay with loffe of vitall breach 
 This madethat kingof L/VA<i to crye 
 When he was by king Cyrus oucrcome: 
 O Solon now thy faying tme I trie 
 No man ishappie till his day of dome. 
 That Monarch novjn is dead that did poflcffc. 
 The golden Tands ofbright P^ffo/w waues. 
 And Jam^ertaiae whom Fortune (o did blell^, 
 
 D That 
 
Of the infiabilitie ofFmuife. 
 
 Thache a Shcpheard mstde great kingshic flaucs, 
 Dead is iHaLinigbtie kiog of<JUae*do>ty 
 That wcpi whe of more worlds he hard (ome talkr, 
 Sit\\ his vi(£loiious fword as then had wonnc. 
 Scarce this^,one worW,wiher€ we Jike pilgrims walk 
 Who hcing.woundcd fellvpoD one knee, 
 Tigh'cing againltan hoaft of barbarous foeSj^ 
 ,Sa«l Ijsm mortall by thcfe yvounds 1 fee, 
 Fotooiiicb bloode from powers Cclefliallflowcsj* 
 Jnbeaytje ^^y^/^/i did farrc eXccU^ 
 MoO part of mcrtthac fprung-of hiimaine fecdcj 
 '^utwhcnagainfthis5irchedidrcbeiJ>. ( head? 
 Thcnhcaucnjdid power ddwnc vengeance on his 
 The facred fccipture tt\X{\y doth exprcflej 
 That SampJ^/3. didfurpaflcaUinen in flreogth> 
 But he that did thowfands in fighc difirciTe, 
 Was by a womans wiles fgbdu'd at lengthy 
 B^aUticiitlike a faircbut fadjog OcWcr, 
 Riches arc like a bubble in a f Ireatne, 
 - Gieatftrength is like afbrteficd Xowre, 
 
 Honox 
 
Of the mjiabititie ofFprtme. 
 
 Houour islikcavaincbutpljafingdteame. 
 Wee fee the fay reft flowers foone fade awayi 
 Bubbles doe quickly vanifli like the winde. 
 Strong Towers are ientj9od doe in tyme decays 
 And dicamcs are btic iliulions of the ininde. 
 Let none puft rp with inibfvncc deride* 
 MyPcrtutJcSj(i«f«>»«fin<ny'pjrimeofyearcs^ 
 Sh^ manydifniall c^skiices do betide', 
 To royall princes and 5tate-rulihg pec/CS, 
 1 am content with my diiaftcTchancie, 
 I'd followfate fithprinccslcad the djlunte^ 
 huditvi Hitmants diuina fite mU reins. ' 
 £t certtttf pTitJeas vix kjiie.t 6orafidet^* 
 '• 0,1 
 
FVNERALL 
 
 LAMENTACIONS 
 
 VPON THE DEATH OF 
 
 his moft worthy and reuercnd vijckle 
 
 MaiHcr Mathew ewens Efquire one 
 of her MaieHies Barons of her High- 
 nesJCeutt of. Efihequer . 
 
 London, 
 PrinrcdbyRi CHARD Bradock" 
 for I B. 1558. 
 
Efi honor-3& tamuIintnimM-flacare 
 
 faternas, %f*~ 
 
 Parua^ in extruUM muneraferrt ^ 
 pyras. 
 
Funerall lamentations vpon the death 
 
 M- MaThew Ewens Efquire.^c^ 
 
 LE T Nttmof death be fiill deplordein Rome, 
 Licurgtu end lec fam ous Spurt a wsiile. 
 Let jitheiu wccpe on Arifitdes toombe. 
 For there religion la wes and luftice fail* y 
 But let (Hk ^inihiMTrojuouaHtlimcm^ 
 TTiis Barons death whofc rtcfh returnes to duft, 
 iVhofcfouieis fled ahouethe firmament^ 
 Who hu'd on earth rc]igious,true,4nd iuft. 
 Now I oye O hcauen t'eniby th' earthif otaixaet^iy 
 Whofc heauciily part to the third heaucn [s fled 
 His earthly part to earth doth now relent 
 Bothheaue^n and earth loucbimaliucand deai^ 
 His flelh to Elements refolu'-d dorf>4ye, 
 Hu foulc aboue the Element doth f ly e, 
 D4 
 
Fmerall Lamemations. 
 
 IKnownot whether! fliould icy or wcepe 
 His louing foulc doth wiumph in the lltie. 
 But his dead corps in dult a white doth flcepe. 
 Till bea\ien fhall r*yfe it rromlnortalitie, 
 Helod hisolde life and hath gaind a ncwe 
 Loofing nis care he gainde a glorious crownc, 
 The world loft him.ihercfore the world doth rue. 
 He. loft the world yet wins for ayercnownCj 
 I loft a friende and diercfore 1 lament. 
 My frieud loft in e and I h auc loft my felfe 
 SithI for his lofle line in difcontcnt 
 Heloucshcauensioycsand leaues all worldly pclfc, 
 
 O England now be waile thisfatall crofl'e. 
 He loft this world , wc gainde a world of loflc. 
 
 He 
 
TttrtrM. UmtntAttonT^ 
 
 clvatorzain. 3 
 
 K 
 
 rE that did feckc the poore mens wrongsto right 
 He thacmaintain'd his natiue countries lawcs. 
 He thatintructh and luflice did delight 
 Is now conliim'd by deaths deuouringiawes, 
 Wasitbyiieauens high court of Parliamentj 
 Decreed that his lifes dacefofoone (hould cnde. 
 Oh th;n let vs vpon the earth lament 
 ThacwehaueloOinhimapubliquetrieod 
 The ioy of many in hisgraue now licth. 
 And he in heaueaenioyes immortal! blilTe, 
 His care is vaiiiflit and in him now dicth. 
 And liuesin others that his life doc mifle 
 
 Thus death ftrookcmany vwth this fatal! Hrnke 
 And keeping natures lawcs^ouriawesHe-broke. 
 
 Let 
 
T Etnot theworldthinkeldoepartialize, 
 
 In (hat I doe extoll my fndesiame^ 
 And ftriue his glorietio immdrtabze 
 B/thcCefzdacccnt^which nciyniiife ^othfranne^ 
 Buclct men know that he dekttia more praifd. 
 Then my poore mureis able oo bcftov*. 
 Though (he doth crown his death with glorious baics 
 And through the world the breath ofFame doth blow 
 Which breath by multiplying the fwcete ayre 
 May mcuint the facred Throe e of beauenl^ pov^ers,), 
 Andcaufe the winged Chcrubins repayre, 
 ^0 mournehis death from their cdeRiall bowres. 
 His vertucs merit /ftfM^/ goldenpeu 
 To|(r1flC his.praife wittrtearesof Godsandmen, 
 
 Lee 
 
Tmer^ll lameutatioKs^ 
 
 ay A T O R Z. A IN 
 
 T Et all men iudge how i«ft a ludge he was^ 
 
 I ha^laxc was iudged by iieauen (acred dobmc, 
 TofiiflTcr.deathjthat when this life fliouldpafle 
 He might ob'caineinheaueo a glorious roome^ 
 For he among the bleifed faints muft dwell 
 Wh«re Pacriarches andtfic Apofliesfit, 
 Wb ich (hall iudgcrhe twelue Ttibts of f fiacl 
 Accordingias to cAcir dcfcrts is fit 
 As here on earth this ludge was magnifide 
 Aboue the vulear fo^t in n igh degree, 
 In fieauen he (nalbe tiiUch more glcxiiide.^ 
 And'fiiall enioy. the full fcKcitie, 
 
 And all fiicbiudges as here iudge aright ^ 
 Shall haue tHcirplace in hedue with Angels btighc 
 
 The 
 
punertdl 1ameHt(ttioH(, 
 
 'T'He Acred «ord ddjh fay thou (halt not kill 
 Yet Death thou here doelt kill a magjftrate ; 
 Dof{ thou notthen infringe Gods-holy Vvill 
 Nor yet the lawcs of Ulfo/f/ vioUt*-/ 
 And wheras m'ghtie kings eftablJft» hwes 
 Thouby thine ownc la wc (nighty Kings doeftflay> 
 And caking thus away th'cfficicnt caiilCj 
 Th'effe^, which isjchc Lawc mutt needs decay, 
 Thus'now thoutakeO away apiibliqueguide, 
 Thatdidmainttine all cquitic and right. 
 Wherefore heaucn fhall correct thee for thy pride 
 And (haH fiibdue thy all-fletii'^tlling might, 
 AndihoVi thatdottallcrcaturcsouercoras^ 
 Shalrbe 9tla(t dcttrbyicd by hcauensiu()(IoOf^<e. 
 
 If 
 
IF that thcfoiire ( asfomefuppofed J .might gbc, 
 - pijitof one bodictd an others bred. 
 Would that mceke fpitit whicn from him did (IqW> 
 /n eucry Lawyers heart were now imprc(l 
 Hisiifesiiitcgritic andzralcwas fuch 
 He morecAeeind oi'honefHe-th^ gpld 
 Which n any now a daiesdoc loiic'tOtt rnwcfi 
 Fotloucis oft with money bought :indtol(^ 
 This right/jjirtay beCermdca goldenagc. 
 With gold. is/r.Di« 3 nd reputation bought 
 S ciSaluoiBv (har was n)6AwLrc and fa^c, 
 For wi/edoine pr<iide, e/iermiBg goldas iion^gAt, 
 Gold vntodrolTe and fjefh toduflmufltiitrie. 
 For thisjB^sioflelet^he Elcrhe.^uer mouniq^ 
 
 jiartammye vtre (sfrtfeeiiLt oYufimia amoK^ 
 t^«nil hoy 01 y auro couctltatur amsr^ * 
 
 Trifiitt 
 
ijf Iri bbitum Patiui firi coIendifTimi 
 Mathei Eiieni illuflrifstmi Baronis 
 
 Scaccarij T. R- ncpotis Nacuia, fnie 
 carmen funcWe* 
 
 T%iftia Melfomine Uchryataritm fiumina funic , 
 Sir cum perpetHo iunSus amare doLrt 
 iHepattrpatria poUenspietatei Pjtroriin 
 
 'Ttsuperis , ^ riebis, per mala fat a peril ^ 
 Spffrifia ajcfKflir IplendeKtis culmen Olympi, 
 
 DiHittas cbeli, ejiias capie hat, ha&et. 
 Non rapuitfifcM, cfuod non vult Chrifias h*bire. 
 
 Nonplui cjuum Ucxtt coactlianitcpes, 
 Ille w«)i/ Patruus charHi,patria^patri^ y 
 
 Eygoftttti defetfuncra mefia nepoi. 
 tDeSim eratjfaci/is tiarura, mtnte htmgmu, 
 
 Marthtu humaatu, denig^ mortfpim' 
 Lege So'on j grauitate QziCtjftd Tullius ore, 
 
 fi^^OTConfilijs, 0-ptetate PlatOt 
 JHemhrditf^iitHtnyluijVim poJifttnerA faCfX, 
 
 pama vid^fmutSo, fptrHiuaflracalit. 
 PurfU''eot^tirg/imflyyej;opoii4lfam<*fu»dam, 
 
 ■f Et f/enu matitbKfUiafiileliira daho. 
 i^U/^Altemexec^ui^s ^raunere jun^ar inani^ 
 )r{u unimam dekis dccumy.litre vehm. 
 
 Non 
 
Nm ^ates exfeil0tamen,ftec praemU euro, 
 Man hominum laudcs : hocpietatii opui, 
 Cogit amor pair M pair it lugere paremem 
 DefutUitm, r ant ode hi I tu vract honos. 
 O decKs, O patriie riuper lux, nt^ coluitint 
 
 ■ Natalifa, fali gloria m*gna vale. 
 O longumve»erandevale,'ua[c. tntjicit Eucnc 
 Qui tuns eftfemper fidw HrtHiJque Nepo s. 
 Sic viuam ^ moiiar fem^ertibicertiuamictUj 
 
 MufaqmcMmfatiseJtmorttur.% tuia 
 lurtfcanfuttui^ riaeurt iure peremptit* 
 
 Nunc ftabtt aterni ludica ante ThrotiHtn 
 l)i*}. vuios kotnitres diutno tudicet ore, 
 ludex ifltiu ludicis atmus erit. 
 ,,Sic piavitafuft;^unc rerej; tjuater^jtearay 
 I/trutilo viititf njiiluvmbrafolo. 
 
 F I MIS. 
 
VERTUES DUE. 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 POWELL'S VERTUES DUE. 
 
 HE prefent Tradl is printed from an unique and hitherto 
 unknown one. The author was probably the fame Thomas 
 Powell who has verfes before Foorde's (or Ford's) " Fame's 
 Memorial!, or the Earl of Devonlhire deceafed ; with his honourable 
 Life, peaceful! End, and folemne Funerall." 4to. Lond. 1 606 ; and who 
 wrote alfo the following works : — 
 
 Love's Leprofie, 1598. 
 
 The Paffionate Poet: with a Defcription of the Thracian Ifmarus, 
 1601. 
 
 A Welch Bayte to fpare Provender, 1603. 
 
 Direftion for Search of Records, 1622. 
 
 The Myfterie of Lending and Borrowing, 1623. 
 
 The Attourneys Academy, 1623. 
 
 The Attornies Almanacke, 1627. 
 
 The Repertorie of Records, 1 63 1 . 
 
 Tom of all Trades, or the Plaine Path-Way to Preferment, 1631. 
 
 Mr. F. J. Furnivall, in reprinting the laft tracft among the Publica- 
 tions of the New Shak/pere Society, 1876, thus fpeaks of the author. " Our 
 third trad is by a reverencer of Bacon in his diftrefs, a rollicking attorney 
 and Welfhman, Thomas Powell, who feems to have begun writing very 
 
ii Introduction to Powell's Vertues Due. 
 
 bad ferious poetry in 1598 and 1601, and then turnd to chaffing profe, — 
 ftill interfperft with fcraps of bad verfe, — and divers profeffional hand- 
 books, till he ended. his career of authorfhip in 1631 with his Tom of all 
 Trades, here reprinted. There may have been two Thomas Powells. 
 But as the one of 1603 — 1631 had both a ferious and humorous ftyle in 
 his profe, and in his verfe in his profe-books, I fee no fufficient reafon for 
 fuppofing that he is not the ferious-ftyle verfe-writer of 1598 — 1601." 
 
 Our tradt, Vertues Due, fully bears out the above charafter given of 
 fome of his other works by Mr. Furnivall ; for, like his firft produ(5tions 
 which appeared in 1598 and 1601, this is not only "very bad ferious 
 poetry", but it has a greater fault, that of being in fome places unintelli- 
 gible. Attempting to foar, obfcurity immediately envelopes him, and to 
 make matters worfe, not content with ufing the hardeft words for the 
 fimpleft fubjefts, he prefTes into his fervice other words and expreflions not 
 elfewhere to be met with in any work, ancient or modern. 
 
 His peculiar temperament feems to render him incapable of telling a 
 plain ftory in a natural manner ; and, while ftriying to elevate the verieft 
 common-places into poetical dignity, he makes doubtful what he fliould 
 explain, and by his awkward verbiage and circumlocution fucceeds, not in 
 impreffing his readers with a refpeft for his poetical powers, but, with the 
 grave complacency of a Malvolio, in making himfelf a laughing-ftock by 
 his aiFeftations and abfurdities. 
 
 Yet fufficient reafons we think may be ffiown for the prefent reprint, 
 independent of its rarity; inafmuch as it not only deals with a courtly 
 perfonage, whofe memory has for nearly three centuries been furrounded 
 by a fort of fentimental halo, but as it is the hitherto unknown produftion 
 of a man whofe other labours with the pen have earned for him a certain 
 degree of notoriety — while, more than all, its remarkable phrafeology 
 entitles it to rank among the minor " Curiofities of Literature." 
 
 The Lady herein commemorated was the daughter of Henry Gary, 
 Lord Hunfdon, and firft wife of Charles fecond Baron Howard of 
 Effingham, created Earl of Nottingham, 22 06t. 1596. He was the 
 
Introduction to Powell's Vertues Due. iii 
 
 celebrated Lord High Admiral, who aflifted in defeating the Spanifh 
 Armada in 1588, and who died 14 Dec. 1624. His wife predeceafed 
 him many years, dying at Arundel Houfe, in London, 25 Feb. 1602-3, 
 only a month before Queen Elizabeth, whofe laft days fhe is faid (but on 
 very doubtful authority) to have embittered by her treacherous condud: 
 in not tranfmitting to her fovereign the Earl of EfTex's ring, the delivery 
 of which might have been the means of preferving the life of that rafh 
 but ftiU-loved favourite. She furvived Effex exadlly two years to a day, 
 he having been executed 25 Feb. 1 600-1. 
 
 She left five children, the third of whom — the eldeft daughter — married 
 Sir Robert Southwell, of Woodrifing, Norfolk, who ferved under his 
 father-in-law againft the Spaniards. The portraits of both thefe naval 
 worthies, it may be mentioned, are given in Pine's engravings from the 
 old tapeftry which was preferved in the Houfe of Lords till its deftru(5tion 
 by the great fire in 1835. -^^^ °^" portrait and that of her hufband 
 appear in the large painting by Mark Garrard (the property of G. Digby 
 Wingfield Digby, Esq.) in which Queen Elizabeth is reprefented as 
 carried in ftate to Hunfdon Houfe, 18 Sept. 1571. And another full- 
 length portrait of the Earl of Nottingham, painted by Zucchero, is in the 
 Naval Gallery of Greenwich Hofpital. 
 
Vcrtues due; 
 
 or, 
 
 A true modell of the life 
 
 of the right Honourable Ka- 
 tharine Ho ward,Iacc Counttfle 
 of Nottinqhatttt dc" 
 
 ceafed. 
 By T. P, Gentleman^ 
 
 Printed at London by SiiTian Staffbrdi 
 
 dwelling in Hofier Iane,ncerc 
 
 Smithfeld, i^oj. 
 
S^To the right Honorable^ 
 
 Vhdrfes Mowardy Earlc of jVottihq-^ 
 
 ham, Baroa of Effinghanif Lord high 
 
 ^drntTAQ ofEftgluid, ef ha^ MMcfttes 
 
 molt Honorable pnoie CoOnfayle, and 
 
 tfthe KobU Crdtr 9/ the 
 
 Carter J ^c. 
 
 Ight Nohle Lordt mj rejoUte wds 
 aauifedyto make immoratifijt vpon 
 the niceft circumjlitnces ofjourprC' 
 ^fent fjAuiour^n flentifull and horKh 
 Tdble forrorVywhofe animaU motion might bee 
 admotid to the violence hereof : This gaut 
 IfAue to the greater obferuance which wee we to 
 the dece4fed^(tbat is)irt protection andcontejia' 
 lian: Be/ides thdtwarrnfit of the antentique ^ 
 CenJoriaS rites, tvhofe example! haiuhereqao- 
 tedfor mofl Honorable Heraldrie^ in dtjpofing 
 her funeraU'torch bj due reference, into four 
 fur Hiding hand-^ neither infeebling the (eurtefe 
 
The EpiftleDeclicatoiyi 
 
 efthetiaing^ notprtmiliag mineowMea/luai!'' 
 tdge vpmiour T^mUmimmteigoodnt^e^ei' 
 ther it A£hidte,8Crdiic3xe malelliits, hut ia 
 mneorvmA^tSldtigfi febeeoHfonnedmththin 
 Samane filemnUj of iedicAttont 
 
 ^ndasfhetvasy I write for prefidenf^ 
 iMere^fiiecefsion,th4tigrieJs argumtnt^ 
 
 Your Honours, 
 
 in all thtfncrucs 
 of my ability, 
 
 Thontas TovocJi 
 
To the Reader, 
 
 prepare ye to wiiat is wnr, 
 
 1 know,my(inoocheflcoinpo< 
 fiirc would be coo boy Rcrcus, 
 vpoiiche rigall jtal^cdneOe ai 
 yourimpatience* A loiigprc> 
 face were a ficke fcthcr vpon 
 yourwinged iy^ertufj* And 
 
 yee,to cxpofe me to voiofbru^ed'cenfurie,whofe 
 proofe is too Diucliin feuericy) I fliould releafe 
 the bond of our fecodliation}& feeme cofu(pcA 
 appr6h3tion,to bemoreof fortunes aIaies,ciraQ 
 ourowne dereruing.Iidaply to your £reer,lpitic|, 
 all cuftomary requiAtes, and to my felfe referus 
 this oncly oiittr of opinion: Thad write inor^ 
 of ducy^ to the dead, tfjian repiitation of Imiiig 
 Poefie. In both which^I am wilfully confident'^ 
 to be confidently willing* 
 
 A% 
 
 ^^Sjtoj^&t 
 
Relumptio. 
 
 •— Cum tonat Ocyus Fex, 
 ^u/pburc dijcutititr/acro quamfu^UC 
 domuj^; 
 
 T. P. 
 
Uertues due. 
 
 He Sunne but now 
 
 began CO gacher fire. 
 And lay a (harper edge 
 
 vpon his beames. 
 Abated to die fulncfTe 
 
 of the yeerc, 
 As fretted mxh the (ah 
 of Neptanes fteames. 
 When blacke rolemnicy enuide anew. 
 And foyld liis face with amore precious devtrc; 
 
 Dew'd with therooft religion of affcflion, 
 
 Madefofcinnature,andin Heraldry ; 
 
 The one accufing fate for his election : 
 
 The other, weeping hk feuerity 
 
 Both from their Cyprus altars offring teare5, 
 Ynowe to make him aged in yong ycares. 
 
 B 
 
It was not for the gods t/freaJuut thtfCf 
 When he drew dry their vdders milch-cxceflr, 
 Norforiiisniotlier fthiatf wheaflieWept 
 His rage,tbar cixxh nialign'd his murrineflct 
 Buc,loe, a^Aions law of like for like : 
 It is our natures freedeme to requite* 
 
 For he bad luftre oo his infant rayes. 
 To blandilh out the glory of his Spring, 
 Reft&bmtlie falbng Lodd-ftarre ofourdayes, 
 Whofe motion was the mufike which I fingj 
 The meafureof confent to all her fphere $ 
 Indeed ihe was the bcft in Cynthia s quiere* 
 
 She 
 
l^ertucs due, 
 
 She was> (and To are loofers iltll ia leefing, 
 Wlien they recount die worth of. what is loft) 
 Aodiinoc. Cold remembrance euer f|^ee7ing« 
 Whenicfttalifcadecbe ftoryof what's paft. 
 Yet as (he nraij repeace for prelidcnt 
 More of faccel<iQa« then griets argument* 
 
 Was of her tra/ile* Eternities decreeing 
 Did dedicate her in her parentage, 
 Whofe neere alliance askt as neere a beeingj 
 And gently firal'd it on her virgin waxe : 
 
 And fo^for nature and eleAioo, 
 
 Would Cjntht*'s felt endccrc her as her owns 
 
 B2 
 
 She 
 
Venues due. 
 
 She ^ue her ranke, refpe^jand full acceflc, 
 
 AgnizingJierafHnicy andmecit 
 
 AVith fjiuours, graces after gracioufnefle; 
 
 WherdJtiihe feem'd asjf iTicdidinheric 
 The tlraft and dignities, which long before 
 Her Honourable Anccftors did ftoic. 
 
 Her parents honours did She cxtraduce 
 
 Into her very difpofition ; 
 
 As if the gcncrall Car^ were infufdc 
 
 And had 00 other formes of his diuidon. 
 Their ancient vnattainted loyalty 
 Broad blow'ne,aQd Bulh vpon her infancy. 
 
 Yet 
 
P^crtues dudf 
 
 Yetbeauty was not anely of her blood : 
 Her bircb-day Soffiiee height vnco perfcftioa* 
 TheCantharisenuiesa verdant bud. 
 And birth doe$ only counfaile to protef^ion. 
 So learnd flie withtlie chage of eucry Tpringy 
 To fane her bjood with hccdfull dyeting. 
 
 Her youth preferu'd it chafte with conutience; 
 A virgin diet for the hote intention* 
 Whicli might vngloflTehi? colour : addc expcce. 
 Both of the length &bredth of their diiiie(ioD» 
 But the exampleof her mariagebed, 
 Were Oratory to perfwade to wed. 
 
 B 3 
 
 For 
 
T^crtucs dm. 
 
 For after fiie had blcft To many raooncs, 
 As Had ^JlrMf wheoihewascransfixt; 
 With moreattfterityySbao that which crowoes 
 The RomanecIiafticy,did (he commuce 
 Her birtli, her blood, Nobilitv ^nd name, 
 -To Bowe more lofty in asnchveyne; 
 
 In Uairttrdt ample veynes; a Family 
 Of em jnr ncc, dcryii'd without difleot, 
 ^From the fir It fll ield of all their A unccftry , 
 To this of Charlft^ the latcrt Eminent : (pirr,. 
 Whofefay th and fortunes may chey nc'rccx- 
 But in a melting fjftndmsQC of fire. 
 
 She 
 
Sheweddcd, yet fiic was a Votary, 
 Tominifterin conrectated flame, 
 Aodweare Dianaes bow^vpon her thigh, 
 Tillonadayoffanftifiedname, (bids. 
 
 To (lore eche Nymph wicli ihatts^the goddcflle 
 To fill her quiueis aU with Poplar twigs. 
 
 ■ That grew vpon a leuin, which thefca 
 Had feafon'd thriftily within the (here j 
 'I'here AlfpMm fell in loUe with Mmonr, 
 Tbat cili tlus day ne*re fawe the Nymph before* 
 Nc're had his htt& improou'd or fofeened. 
 But like the temper of his Coiall bed : 
 
 B4 
 
 From 
 
J/^crtues due*. 
 
 From which he lately rifle to lay her in. 
 And plac'd his Aggoc wreath vpon her browes, 
 Whofe potent charmes Dimi4 pardon'dhitn, 
 And gaue her back thefreedome of her vowes; 
 So fhe might ftill be of her fayrie trayne. 
 He war with Satitrnes Tonnes vpon the mayor. 
 
 And now^ Eli^ajViith her wedlocke Face, 
 
 Did wed her to a higher dignity. 
 
 She kept ihe chayreihatdidfuborne her (late, 
 
 Andgrac'd itUkethe blae-eyde Cafstope: 
 She ne're furcharg'd ability with grace, 
 BvK. Mi her owne dimenfions fild che place : 
 
 Wherein, 
 
J/h-tucs due, 
 
 Wlierein this noble Lady KatberiHt feemcl 
 T'ancic^atc her Miftris b6unceous hand, 
 As if Iicr ofificcs were but redecmd 
 From vnder mcriting^d (he did (land 
 Aloneyind vneocountred in her worth} 
 One whom inheritance had called Corth; 
 
 Or rather proaidcnce! for what Hie was,' 
 She was to others,throagh her felfe intended t 
 ^/tke CO Tome interie£%ed leafe of glafle, (ded« 
 Thacbreaks,yetheat$,whenncererrayesofIiea« 
 She was all Organs^euen to the mind. 
 Whereby God did indnuatewithmaokind^ 
 
 Her 
 
p^crtms due. 
 
 Her whole morcaUc/ had this «R«ne.' 
 She had affcflionsof immortall fenfe : 
 For /he would picy much, and much relent : 
 But the affe A of greaceft preiidence 
 
 Ouer her aature,held no finne to (hit; 
 
 To]eaueaptgoodvndone,ordoot amiffe. 
 
 Themorethey mifle of her that are imbayd, 
 Ar\i\ fortooe Hxt for want of Tea and (cope. 
 Their burden with their fayle being ouerlaydi 
 ,Ynlefletliey Anclioi all their after-hopet 
 They mifl'c : alas, 1 write of that too foone, 
 And lend her liutflg wortii for griefe cocoptei 
 
 Yet 
 
T^ertucs due* 
 
 Yet liu'd fhetootitliue that old repors, 
 Wluc h now againe our new worlds formes ap' 
 That, there is ito rettremet in the coiu% (preiteS 
 Where there is much vatisxf to moue. 
 And ftealeaway*0,there's no lif" like hxta% 
 That liu'dto bury her exccuters. 
 
 For foftaeSe oeucr rey2*d her appetite* 
 A bbodlciTelyuor liuesfloconhisheat: 
 Her refolutton was Pnpoatickf tighe. 
 And forward fteai'd agauifttAe McKMsesfctrcflS^ 
 No changCjiio hhercy,no fol-eydepleaface 
 Could bring deuoueos mulske oae of toss- 
 
Vermes due. 
 
 It was for Iier,the million of her foce* 
 Andcallingjdoe bcfide approue their kind; 
 Whofc ftory often read^asoft begets 
 Opinion, that the fexe is fo inclin'd, 
 And calling, fo difpofed vneo good, 
 As well in Courtfliipi,a$ in woman-hood. 
 
 Shewasa woman;yet,ootone of thofe 
 Whofe crogated heate conuertitohatc* 
 It was her honour to forgiue lier foes, 
 Euen in their ebbe,and full dtftenc di date. 
 Alas, Hie would not take aduaatage than. 
 Left iheHiQuld Crip the fraylty of lus man. 
 
 She 
 
VtrtMss due 
 
 She would notgjoey his humiS>ty» 
 Nor aAuateKeroIdaggre^uances 
 O'f e w«ake <JiilMffe^an d^efent mifcry s 
 Such^fioxiqucft 1 O* tis ^fe andJionourlelle', 
 Foi wlwn 1 doe bue&cond Foreuiiesiiraki^ 
 I wound a hcarcthasis^lneadybrokc^ 
 
 Shewasa QowKiitttoa\.h^3n% Starre 
 Vnfixt, and like Orim id a (beamc; 
 At (tee asfeacberd Faulcons mthe£^re« 
 Moou°d on no otHer linC) buc Cpitbiai beanw; 
 Her freer fpirk ne*K was putit) frame. 
 Though fhe puc on het felf aCounieis JiaiTte* 
 
 For 
 
l^ertues due. 
 
 For fbe did hofpitable bouncy too, 
 And euer kept her influence ax home} 
 Which cuery Courtier vfes not to doc, 
 Wliy* (be was aothing G>urtier,nor her owne: 
 Her light was made a Sea-marketo diftrefle. 
 Where Fortunes wracks arryu'd their neediaes. 
 
 In Court, no fhidy that would apprehend^' 
 
 Or aike Religion of her duty more. 
 
 Than, what Eli^a gaue» might fliU co(nmend 
 
 Her nioftmagnificenee, and fouatayae ftor^S 
 
 She was not Ike a Conduit-'pipefaft by. 
 
 To turoe the ftreame, & leaae the chaonel dry. 
 
 Hov9 
 
t^ertues due. 
 
 Hon^tnany feruannof ehatRoyall cnyne 
 Could chefrcfh image of her loue excice. 
 To witnefle, fhe preferd ElUdet fame 
 Aboue her priuate reputations height ! 
 S he hated to be hyr'de to doe them good^ 
 Or bcgd to buy their merics,thougii fhe cou*d. 
 
 And yet did her contentment ftretch it felfe 
 More amply: GreatneOe was aboue her fearcj 
 A faith beyond the curfe that followes wealth, 
 Who eucrmore fu^efts eruptions neere, 
 Whofe chage does chage the flate of their fab-' 
 And giues £is duty to the next cledio* 0e^o^ 
 
 Greit 
 
J^ertues due. 
 
 Great&fecurelMethinks^iswodrousftrange: 
 Sut gracious ooc cnuyde ! Icn^fsible ; 
 For difcDOtcnt makes worthhisfrct of duogc. 
 And no^rcruilicy ic felfc fpeakcs well 
 Of Honourable birth orbetcermenr: 
 Acfpef^witb liia>isfearc}& fcare,concen)pc. 
 
 I know not fio w rcfpeffc came ouer all; 
 But the moil bumble did admire her mofh 
 A brancli of raoke loueturndto prodigall; 
 Such Ipue is ftill exhauft, or ouerflowc^. 
 
 Jleieameyehonrniediddiuert their hate; 
 
 Shi jniade her felfc «s humble as their ftate^ 
 
 The 
 
l^mucs due. 
 
 jTJie ly ft of alliier vecdies had a iuune 
 Of greater reuerence^tban had diCMft^ 
 Religioo* Tis a fe(sioas to arraignr , 
 Detcct^odfaoagour aAionsto theteft. 
 And where that lift was QA^jcttoi&c^<k loo(e| 
 Aflfure ye^t was ftaiky extraduc'de* 
 
 She liad no other principic$(God wot) 
 Whereey to Icaell andconforme her life: 
 All was not honeft that was iaft^ly got : 
 She would aotbyiniufticeCotnpaiTe right} 
 
 Nor vfde to fay,Tis C*fir anfweres aB; 
 
 ^othourefcruetoftandy may kingdomes fall* 
 
f^criucs due. 
 
 Her fife wasbueamodcll imitation^ , 
 Dravnewich thefrefhellcolours inftance dad 
 In hdy wriCj which gaue it approbatioo} 
 They were lier eflence (dierfore couldnot Fade) 
 Like corour layd in wine: her Lenten blacke 
 Did fit| like Ktfftit fbitt vpon her backe. 
 
 AethbpcrfieCHon andmattinty,' 
 Siie flood in natures frayle adoption heere* 
 Wheoheauen ivould<vouGhfafeh«r fuiito be 
 A raotheryand her vcitUes to appeare 
 In propagated nebieilfe of a Csnor* 
 That layd his roote as hir as ihe begonnc? 
 
 That 
 
J/^ertucs due. 
 
 That firfti L. Wtllidm was oE Effn^hdm, 
 A Bafonyt that iield and Knighthood eamd 
 WicI) fweacingipurs, when heraldry de^aign^ 
 His hardimeat>0«'ewere a iighcto learoc. 
 >Andpuc ambitious fire.iaai^ S way ncy 
 To fee Nebility Ce dezrely gaynd. \ 
 
 HeaacQ was delighted in his vtrorknianfhipf 
 And now bejcame more boCttousof hisbfeat^, 
 Whkb fweld her womb to be more frdtf ul y et^ 
 Periu'd a ftcond labi:>rs where flie left « 
 
 A&czMidblefsing, and a Chdrlft befide; 
 
 ^or'Hoaoais lo^ bed did open widd,' 
 
 Ca 
 
 A third 
 
f^ertues due, 
 
 A ebbd. Inuention, giue mebackc,tnyrelfe 
 Peuided* All my numbers keepe coofenc. 
 And with my foule my ftilcs ambition melt. 
 £cl)c finew of our duty be attcnCf 
 ForgetcbefoiieraUfbteaad maiefty. 
 And proftitucion whoUy fununonmc. 
 
 an her by any epithite exprcfi; 
 la vertatslnuentory^naydifcourfe 
 Hcrmotherslife : fee with what liudinefTe 
 She does iafert it^ freely, and vnforc'd. 
 Be fhethe noble CountelTe of Kildartf 
 Or Cobham Baronefle^ihec's wondrous fairc* 
 
J/'crtucs cbte, 
 
 A n(!Xt.ThcLzdySoutk9Ptl'. here 1 fliou'd 
 • Confound tny methodewicJiaplcntious vayne 
 Of grcac dcuotion.and of wyddowhood : 
 But my more free propofcmcnrs are reilrayoJ^ 
 To (hew the Ioft,thcir laft fimilicude. 
 To which the Lady L«/5»rauch accrade. 
 
 Here,happinc(re did doate ae all the lyne! 
 "this day accounted for the greateft dcbr. 
 That grace and goodeft Stars could her afsigne: 
 And all this day her circle neuer met; 
 Now was her happineffc fo fatisfide, (fide. 
 She knew not what her wifh might adde be- 
 
 C? 
 
 Content- 
 
J^trtu^s due, 
 
 m 
 
 Conteiicment crownd her flreiglit beyond cfie 
 Androugheft oppofitionsinher birthj (mayne. 
 The weeping Crtfw«/»/(f,thfc Syrens Itraync, 
 Atiisllthc Delioitionsthatmuerc 
 
 Our»Fye,wI«tift that wc can call our owne? 
 
 She paft the reas,& Oiipwrackc here at home 
 
 Within the hauen. Npw,it.«iras difpord 
 Withhcauenly wifdome,cothcbcftof vfcs. 
 So, wc arc wife, co purchafc from oar foes, 
 T'cnrichthe fea with that which land abufes. 
 
 We doc fcciirc vs in their feebled flore. 
 
 SecurencfTehurtsIeaflywhenicis moftpoore* 
 
 The 
 
P^ertucs due. 
 
 The goodneife of the Higheft left her not .- 
 ForT^c^ttw^jConquertflg^r/ff Tnarriu*d, 
 Mult disimbark the golden Fleece ihe broughCf 
 In herbwnehaucn to be ftellifyde. 
 And feemaboue her weeping Marble fphere^ 
 To fvTimme as free in heaueni as Oie did heere- 
 
 *T«vas oncly in her wishes now to dye, 
 When as her fulnclTc fear'd to be O'rc-ioydj 
 Like thofc that furfet of faciety, ' 
 And yec their furquedry is cuct voyd t 
 Thefe haue theirfulneffe fo intemperate^ 
 Nothing refreihes,till itfu^ocate. 
 
 C4 
 
 She 
 
Jy^ertucs due. 
 
 Slie would not haue her Sumer beanfics to light 
 .Vpon the rancke, and thrifty flyme beneath. 
 Where honours heatbegets the parafite. 
 And other monftrpus (hapesj that wil bequeath 
 ;. VntotheitCefm-t louts ownehcritance, 
 ' AndfweU his greatnelTe into arrogance. 
 
 "S He fcar'd that fuch fhuld know her to be great. 
 
 3heknew h^rgrcatncfle was fuperlatiue. 
 
 N^tiiFe^nd grace, ati<{^rs their red had fer, 
 
 And euei^pppofitionicftto ftriuc» 
 She wanted nothing of felicity* 
 Buc free commifsion to defid and dye* 
 
 She 
 
yertucs due. 
 
 She prayd h«aDd preuenced conftanc face, 
 Thac would not he; delight (huld fee her fvireat 
 Out of conuerfc familiar, and ianace* 
 I oy,1onger then tis fre(h,is not compleat t 
 Butljike to Times own tunesjthatrauifhno^ 
 Becanfe they iygd it, when wc were begosi 
 
 This burthen would be {ayne deliuer^^ 
 When (he had re ckon'd to maturity, 
 Appealing from the MoonethaifbUowe^, 
 The eyght, which mortals call anenemf 
 Vnto conception. Fate and fhe complydc, 
 And in afeuen-foldhappincfCc (hedyde« 
 
The Offering. 
 
 SHou that ow'ft this brcathles bcau- 
 \ Miftris of the daycs deuotion, (ty, 
 I And her blackcft rites of duty, 
 Guyd'ft hertimclcj^unclcs motio: 
 O ! 1 would not leauc thee yet. 
 Till I fee thy Scaremcnts fit. 
 
 Tl»ou,tiiat art complexion carelefTc, 
 Let afieOions armcs vnfold. 
 After laft imbracings durelclTe, 
 A nd vpon the hallowedd mold, 
 Lirftfbrmonumentall vfe, 
 By thy iuft cxtcnfure chufe* 
 
 If 
 
If the earth deny thee reft, 
 like the foulethac lyes fo (ok 
 In her groning^grieued breft. 
 Shale chou there be buried ofe 
 £arth affords no freer Toombe^ 
 NoAe fo wide as forrowes wombe* 
 
 There in ftcad of balmde confeAion, 
 Righteous teares^nd feafod'd Hghing 
 Sprinkle o're thy ecaft complexion. 
 Till they feale tliy fearements plighting. 
 Gratcfuir odqurs be about thee : 
 Truce within,andteares without thee. 
 
 Next, 
 
p'^crtucs due, 
 
 Nesci for Scuchions o're thy herfc. 
 
 I chat truly would difplay thee, 
 
 O^Ter vp cliis facred rcrfej 
 
 Y Vich the greaceft zeale that may be t 
 Though uiy Herald,lcngththey lacke^ 
 Yctour Scuchionft^ucsaccbiacke* 
 
 Xeafe by Icafe,be open wide- 
 Spcake to all that pafTc this way. 
 That they pare not from thy fide^ 
 Till they read, and reading pray. 
 If ay this (lory neaer fade^ 
 TiU th^ibuIcbcQuicke conuayd. 
 
 Angeb 
 
The offering. 
 
 Angelswitli their munkecharmet 
 
 All vnknowne malignity, 
 
 Drownetfae midnights bye allarme, 
 
 Whea the facring fumnioni be x 
 Let not her rnhallowedbrteh 
 £mcriatLy houfc of death* 
 
 Spirits fanAifide fecure theer 
 
 All corruption quite be (jpenc. 
 
 Let thy natures workesafliirethee 
 
 Confuininttion imminent. 
 
 Though thou left'ftthem all behind chee^ 
 Yet tl^ir merits there refine thee* 
 
 Workes 
 
The o^cri^g. 
 
 Workes andfaytiithy(bule conuay^ 
 On a heaucn>deuiding wing. 
 Let deuotion rcade and pray* 
 Saints and miniflring Angels fing. 
 All. with natures latcft debt, 
 Wypeaway thy Marblci fwcat. 
 
 Tinis^ 
 
LIFE AND DEATH 
 
 oir 
 
 SIR CHRISTOPHER HATTON. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 TO 
 
 PHILLIPS'S COMMEMORATION 
 
 ON THE 
 
 LIFE AND DEATH OF SIR C HATTON. 
 
 IKE the three preceding tradts, the prefent is areprint of a hitherto 
 unrecorded work, and of which no other copy is known. 
 
 The author, from bearing the fame names, and from poflefT- 
 ing the fame talent for commemorating great people, feems to be the fame 
 John Phillips who wrote " Epitaphs " upon the following. I. On " the 
 Death of the Ladie Maiorefle, late wyfe to the Lorde Alexander Auenet 
 [more properly Avenon], Lord Maior of London," 1570. II. On "the 
 Death of Sir William Garrat, chiefe Alderman of the Citie of London," 
 1 57 1. III. On "the Death of the Lady Margaret Duglafis good grace, 
 Countifle of Linnox," 1578. IV. On "the Death of Lord Henry 
 Wrifley [Wriothefley], Earle of Southampton," 1581. V. "The Life 
 and Death of Sir Phillip Sidney," 1587. 
 
 All of thefe works are exceflively rare. Truftworthy evidence on 
 this point is given by the late S. Leigh Sotheby, the eminent book- 
 au6tioneer, who fays, in JoUey's Catalogue, part IV. p. 10, " that he had 
 no knowledge of the works of a poet named Phillips." 
 
 So much has been written about Sir Chriftopher Hatton, and the 
 romance of his elevation, that it is unneceflary to fay much concerning him 
 here. The account of his Life by Sir Harris Nicolas collects almoft all that 
 is known of his public career, but the prefent tradt contains fome par- 
 ticulars which were beneath the dignity of a profefled biographer to record. 
 
ii Introduction to Phillips's Commemoration on the 
 
 even if he were acquainted with them. The amufing allufions to him and 
 his dancing powers in Gray's " Long Story " and Sheridan's " Critic," 
 will always keep his memory green, when it is forgotten that he was 
 made by his admiring Sovereign, to the aftonifhment of the court, a 
 Lord Chancellor without any knowledge of law. But an error as to the 
 date of his death is worth noticing for the purpofe of corredion. The 
 true date is 20 Nov., 1591. Moft biographers print it as 20 Sept., 1591 5 
 but among the Burghley " State Papers " is a letter from him to the Earl 
 of EfTex, " Lord Generall of her Majefty's Forces in Normandy," dated 
 5 th Oct. in that year. Eulogiums in rhyme — it is impoffible to dignify 
 them by the name of poetry — of courfe appeared as foon as the needy 
 and expedtant verfifiers-by-profeffion could produce them. The above 
 was, no doubt, the firft one publifhed. But another was written by the 
 noted Robert Greene, entided " A Maidens Dreame. Upon the Death 
 of the right Honorable Sir Chriftopher Hatton, Knight, late Lord 
 Chancelor of England " ; which was entered in the Stationers' Regifters, 
 6th Dec, 1 59 1. Of this tradt only two copies are known to exift — one 
 of which is at Lambeth. 
 
 Although Hatton owed his rife entirely to the favour of Elizabeth, 
 who fhowed for him an almoft romantic affeftion, which lafted many 
 years, and which he reciprocated, at leaft in words, for nothing can exceed 
 the ardour of expreffion in his letters to her (thofe of the Queen to him, 
 unfortunately, have never been difcovered), yet he was, throughout his 
 career, one of the moft painftaking of her public fervants. He had 
 natural ftirewdnefs and mother-wit, and confiderable aptitude for bufinefs, 
 which ftood him in greater ftead than book-learning. He was returned 
 to Parliament for Higham-Ferrers, and afterwards having become member 
 for the county of Northampton, he was the organ of Government in the 
 Lower Houfe. His activity was exhibited in pafling dirough it the Bill 
 under which Mary Queen of Scots was to be tried, and he fat on the bench 
 as a Commiffioner at the preliminary trials of Babington and the other 
 confpirators. He was, alfo, one of the Judges for the trial of Mary ; 
 and it was by his artful perfuafion that ftie was induced to withdraw her 
 
Life and Death of Sir C. Hatton. iii 
 
 refufal to recognife the authority of the tribunal. It was now that he was 
 created Lord Chancellor; the occupation of which difficult poft, it was 
 thought by his aftute rivals, would efFecftually prevent him from interfering 
 with their own felfifti plans. How creditably — owing to good manage- 
 ment — he filled the office, is well known. 
 
 He was not deftined, however, to die a happy or a wealthy man. 
 The Queen, a fhort time before his deceafe, peremptorily infilled— as 
 was her wont in fuch cafes — on his repaying her large fums of money 
 which fhe had provided for the purpofe of his advancement years before. 
 This he was unable fuddenly to do. But her changed condudl, amounting 
 to cruelty, fb affefted him that he took to his bed. She then vifited him, 
 and endeavoured to comfort him ; but his heart was broken, and he 
 departed this life at the comparatively early age of fifty-two. 
 
 The following eulogy of Hatton may not inappropriately clofe this 
 notice. It is extracted from a fcarce work printed in Cambridge, 1595, 
 (which alfo contains one of the earlieft notices of Shakefpeare, as well as 
 references to other contemporary poets), entitled " Polimanteia, or the 
 Meanes lawfull and vnlawfull, to judge of the Fall of a Common- wealth, 
 againft the friuolous and foolifh conieftures of this Age. Whereunto is 
 is added a letter from England to her three Daughters, Cambridge, 
 Oxford, Innes of Court, and to all the reft of her Inhabitants. By 
 W. C." Thefe initials are affigned in the Bodleian Catalogue, 1843, to 
 Wm. Clarke. 
 
 " Then name but Hatton, the Mufes fauorite : the Churches miifick : 
 Learnings Patron, my once poore Hands ornament : the Courtiers grace, 
 the Schollars countenance, and the Guardes Captaine. Thames I dare 
 auouch wil become teares: the fweeteft perfumes of the Court will bee 
 fad fighes: euerie aftion fhall accent griefe ; honor and eternitie Ihall 
 ftriue to make his tombe, and after curious fkill and infinite coft, ingraue 
 this with golden letters. Minus merito: the fainting Hind vntimely chafde 
 [his Creft] fhall trip towards heauen, and tandem ft fhall be vertues mot." 
 
 Spenfer's Sonnet to Hatton, prefixed to the 'Faerie Queene,' is too 
 well known to require quotation. 
 
AC 
 
 VtlfOYd, jic fu^n "Vita. 
 
 ommcmoration 
 
 on the life and death of the right Ho^ 
 nourable, Sir Chriftopher Hacton,. 
 Kfii^htylate Lord Chmncellor 
 of England. 
 
 Wherin tiiumphant Truech reuiueth his me- 
 moriefrom thegrauc: exhorting NobilitieyGen- 
 trie,andductifull Subicj£ls,to continue their 
 obedience to God and her Maicflie,and 
 topreucnt by pollicicthepcnl- 
 Ious pra£lifes ofeuery ciuil 
 and forrain enemy. 
 
 Published by lohn Phillips, 
 Fidentif^erata cedunt. 
 
 L O K D O N 
 
 Printcdfor Edward White, x 5 p t 
 
TO THE RIGHT Vl'^ORSHlPFVL 
 Sir William Hat ton Knight, Sonne adopted 
 
 andHeire to the right honourable Sir Chrifiopher 
 
 Htutotiyhxc Lord Chaunceller oi England, 
 
 lehn Phillips wiflieth the fcarc of 
 
 God,c6tinuance ofhelth, 
 
 with increafe of wor» 
 
 fliip Sever cue. 
 
 T hath heene in all times 
 (right worfhipfull) a princi- 
 ciple obferued, that publick 
 and apparant vertues in per- 
 fons deceafed, haue neuer 
 been buried in obliuion, but 
 haue alwaies been recorded 
 and left to pofterities : the end only this, that they 
 who ftill liue, by apt imitation, might be prafti- 
 fers of like vertues. Which in my felfe confide- 
 red, I concluded, that great vnkindnes to God, and 
 iniurie to remayning Subiedts fhould be offered, 
 if the vertuous life and death of this right hono- 
 rable deceafed Lord, fhould not be emblazoned. 
 To God vnkind,if he, as the author, fhould not be 
 acknowledged, the caufe efficient of all thefe rich 
 graces, wherewith he was inuefled : & iniurie to 
 furuiuing fubiedls, if there fhould not be comme- 
 
 A 2 moration 
 
The Epijile Dedicatore. 
 
 moration of his (more then naturall vertues) as by 
 
 recordation whereof, they might walke & tread 
 
 the fame way and path. My felfe I confeffe, am 
 
 the leaft of others, and moft vnable to perfourme 
 
 what I wifh, yet wil I not be the laft that fhall vfe 
 
 endeuour to effedt what I may. (With hoping 
 
 that you would accept) I prefumed tothruft forth 
 
 this fmall Pinnace, fraught with fimple marchan- 
 
 dize, into the harbor of your worfhips protedti- 
 
 on : affuring my felfe, that as the pureft Emerauld 
 
 fhineth brighteft when it hath no oile, to Trueth 
 
 will delight you, though bafely apparrelled. The 
 
 fhorteft and moft clowdie day, is a day as well as 
 
 the longeft and brighteft, when the fim is in the 
 
 height of his Horizon. Pardon then I beefeech 
 
 you, wherein I haue prefumed, and accept (I moft 
 
 humblie craue) what here I haue prefeted : which 
 
 if your worftiip vouchfafe, Trueth concludes, her 
 
 felfe fufEciently graced, and my felfe moft happy 
 
 which haue beene her pen-man. Of this refting 
 
 my felfe afTured, I ftiall continuallie pray for the 
 
 increafe of your worftiip, that both in this 
 
 life you may haue your harts defire, 
 
 and in the end, fruition of thofe 
 
 ioyes that are endlefle. 
 
 Tour wor/hips moji duetifull 
 to cmmaund "^ 
 
 I. Phillips. 
 
A COMMEMORATION OF THE 
 
 life and death of Sir Chriftopher Hatton, knight. 
 Lord Chancellor of England. 
 
 YOu noble peeres, my natiue Countrimen, 
 I need not fliew to you my Gloud nor birth: 
 As duft I was, I turne to duft agen, 
 I go before, but you muft to the earth. 
 Yet when, or how, to you it is vnknowne : 
 For be you fure the earth doth claime her owne. 
 
 It is not gold, nor treafures that are vaine, 
 
 can you preferue when that the time is come: 
 Your houfes gay wherin you do remaine, 
 . can you not fliield from Gods decreed doome. 
 As I am dead, fo likewife you fhall die : 
 But learn by death with me to Hue on hie. 
 
 Though gaping graue inclofe my Corps in clay, 
 and filent I reft couered clofe in mould: 
 
 Yet from my fhrine Trueth ftriues both night and day, 
 to you my mind (good Lords) for to vnfould. 
 
 Whereto if cafe you vouch to yeeld regard : 
 
 Your felues with right, I truft, wil me reward. 
 
 Which of you could with Hatton finde a claufe, 
 
 or fay that he vniuft or faithleffe was? 
 Did he notliue according to the lawes? 
 
 and on the earth his dales in duetie pafle? 
 Was not his care fet on his God for aye."* 
 And did not he his foueraigne Queen obay .'' 
 
 Was not his hart bent for his Countries weale? 
 
 did he not ftil euen from his tender youth 
 With rich and poore vpright and iuftly deale, 
 
 and cloath himfelfe in robes of tried trueth.^ 
 If this be true, as no man can denie: 
 Fame faith he liues, although our Hatton die. 
 
 A 3 Where 
 
Where he might help he would be helping ftill, 
 where he might hurt he neuer would do harme : 
 
 His chiefeft care was to doe good for ill, 
 
 thus God with grace did gentle Hatton arme. 
 
 No trecherous thought could harbor in his breft: 
 
 The fruites of faith in him were aye expreft. 
 
 The worlde knowes wel Trueth tels a tale moft true, 
 the heauens aboue of this do witnes beare : 
 
 Though Momus mates, and Zoilus do purfue 
 fcandals with fcorne againft the iuft to reare. 
 
 But fuch doe weaue themfelues a web of woe : 
 
 For Trueth triumphs, who works their ouerthrow. 
 
 In luftie youth he lou'd the barbed fteede, 
 
 and Hfi^or-like would breake the manly launce * 
 
 For martiall adls furnamed Mars indeed 
 
 was Hatton fweete, that manhood did aduaunce. 
 
 At tilt the prize and praife he duely wan : 
 
 His might in armes they felt that with him ranne. 
 
 At turney he and barriers did excell, 
 ^ fome peeres in arms haue borne his battring blowes 
 In court and towne he was beloued well, 
 
 a fcourge he was vnto his Soueraignes foes. 
 Faith was the fliield that worthy Hatton bare : 
 Whofe like fcarce Hues, his vertues were fo rare. 
 
 Should Trueth then dread to fpread his vertues out, 
 that for his deedes hath wonne deferued praife.-' 
 
 Her cheareful voice, with courage .bold and ftout, 
 throughout the world his lafting laud fhall raife. 
 
 And moue thereby the minds of noble men 
 
 To high attempts, to win them honor then. 
 
 Where might the fick, the fore, the halt and blind, 
 reape more reliefe then happy Hatton gaue.? 
 
 To fuiters poore he euer was moft kind, 
 
 he fought difpatch that they with Prince might haue 
 
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Then Lordings learn his fteddy fteps to trace,: 
 With God and Prince you thus fhal purchafe grace. 
 
 Thus for his loue, his faith and tried trueth, 
 he of the Guard, by our moft grations Queene 
 
 Was chieftaine made, who firmly held his oath, 
 from Hattons hart faiths fruites to flow were feene. 
 
 A chieftaine kind he to the Guard was found: 
 
 Whofe want, with grief their tender harts doth wound 
 
 He fought all meanes to wifh and work their weale, 
 to doe them good he took no fmaU delight: 
 
 In their caufe he with our good Queen did deale, 
 t' augment their wage he did aU that he might. 
 
 From fixteen pence, to twenty pence a day : 
 
 Whil'fl: world doth laft he did reduce their pay. 
 
 And by the day three moneths in the yeare, 
 two {hUlings he for them obtaind indeed: 
 
 Such feruent loue in him did flill appeare, 
 that they him found a fort in time of need. 
 
 Their wrongs he fought by flcil for to redreffe: 
 
 His Joue Avith teares Trueth fhows they can expsefle. 
 
 In wifdoms bower he did obtayn his feat, 
 whofe lore to learn he did his time imploy : 
 
 And God from heauen with his graces moft great, 
 in mercies milde fought to augment his ioy. 
 
 For vertues vfe wherein he took delight: 
 
 Our gratious Queen did dub our Hatton knight. 
 
 Difcreet he was, and wary in his wayes, 
 rafhly to fpeak at no time he thought fit: 
 
 In faith and feare he fpent his Pilgrims dayes, 
 for common weale he did imploy his wit. 
 
 Where Syno fought his treafons to inure : 
 
 His cenfures graue conuinced the impure. 
 
 And as from Trueth at no time he did erre, 
 
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but truely fought the Trueth for to vphold : 
 He had a care his feruants to preferre, 
 
 the good found grace, the wicked he controld. 
 The poore oppreft he wifely did defend: 
 And on the poore a portion he did fpend. 
 
 Belou'd of all he was for vertues vfe, 
 
 the grafts of grace in Hattons breft did grow: 
 
 By wildoms lore he brideled all abufe, 
 and did himfelf a loyall Subiedb fhow. 
 
 Thus he with God did grace and fauour find: 
 
 Whofe facred trueth he planted in his mind. 
 
 And with our Queen that princely Phenix rare, 
 whofe like on earth hath fildome times bin feen. 
 
 He was efteemd and fet by for his care, 
 as noble Peeres that aie haue trufty been. 
 
 Vizcechamberlain her HighnefTe Hatton made: 
 
 Whofe tried trueth could neuer faile ne fade. 
 
 The curfed curres of Catalin vnkind, 
 
 that did confpire againft her Royall Grace: 
 
 And to fubuert the State did beare in mind, 
 
 with might and maine he fought for to difplace. 
 
 Thofe wily Wolues vntrufty to the Crown : 
 
 By luftice he threw topfie turuie down. 
 
 Our princely Queen whome God from danger faue, 
 of Counfaile hirs, did Hatton fure eledl: 
 
 Who Solon-Yike did vfe his cenfures graue, 
 the good to fhield, the wicked to corredt. 
 
 And as he was adornd with graces great: 
 
 So fate he fafe in honors blisfull feate. 
 
 Lord Chanceler then her Grace did him ordaine, 
 . Which charge with care he wifely did difcharge. 
 For fuccour Iweet none came to him in vaine, 
 
 good confcience had her fcope to goe at large. 
 The right of might need not to ftand in awe : 
 Ne would he trueth ftiould be defaft by lawe. 
 
AfFedtion could in Hatton beare no fway. 
 No giftes nor gold might once corrupt his minde : 
 Fraude to fubuert, he ftudied night and day, 
 To equitie his heart was aye enclinde. 
 
 Where confcience was corrupt and found vncleane, 
 to vanquifh he, by wifedome fought the meane. 
 
 Opprefled men from daunger he did fhielde. 
 Their wofuU wronges he wifely did redreffe; 
 In deepe difpaire fweete comfort hee did yeelde. 
 To eafe their griefe that languifht in diftrefle. 
 
 And where as Trueth durft fcarcely fhewe her face, 
 Fraude was fubdude, and foyled with difgrace. 
 
 The Lawes he fought, with confcience for to vfe. 
 Triumphant Trueth, he feated in her throne: 
 To heare the poore he neuer did refufe. 
 Right glad he was to helpe them to their owne. 
 
 Wrongs went to wracke, Craft could no harbour finde. 
 To maintain trueth our Hatton was enclinde. 
 
 Thus Lordings all his life you may beholde. 
 That liuing heare hath wonne deferued fame : 
 And though his corps lye couered clofe in molde, 
 In Court and towne {hall Hue his Ipotlefle name. 
 Death dies in him, his vertues death hath flaine. 
 And hee by death eternall life dooth gaine. 
 
 Yet from his graue, Trueth dooth you all exhort. 
 To lincke your hearts and mindes in loyaU loue: 
 Let faith in you builde fuch a famous fort, 
 That nothing may from trueth your mindes remooue. 
 Though Pope and Spaine, againft your peace doe iarre, 
 Withftand their rage, prepare your your felues to warre. 
 
 Clap Corflets on, your ftanderds take in hande. 
 Your barbed fteedes beftride with courage ftoute : 
 Brandifh your fwordes, fight for your natiue lande, 
 By Seas and fliores befet your foes about. 
 
 Nowe is the time where honour may be founde. 
 
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Thinke on the ads, your Aunceftours haue doone, 
 
 Hafte to your fhippes, hoyfe failes in name of God, 
 Man you your coaft, march after warHke Drumme: 
 Your Enfignes braue, each where di^lay abroade, 
 Downe with your foes, that for your Ipoyles doe come. 
 
 Take Lyons hearts, feare not your hatefull foes; 
 
 But let them feele, your manly battering blowes. 
 
 They come to facke, your Citties, Fortes, and Towres, 
 Your Wiues and maides they purpofe to deflowre : 
 Stande to it then, and cracke thofe crakers crownes. 
 That thinke to win your wealth, within an howre. 
 Be bolde in God, and neuer turne your backes. 
 But 'beard thofe braues, that mind to worke your wracks. 
 
 You are, and haue beene feared ouer all, 
 
 England's an He, of ftoute and hardie men : 
 
 Be ftronge in faith, your foes downe right ihall fall. 
 
 For one of you, in armes fhall vanquifli ten. 
 
 You fight for God, and God your guide fhall be. 
 And from the handes of enemies fet you free. 
 
 Richard the firft, of England famous King, 
 Good Lordings vouch, to- call vnto your minde : 
 Whofe Martiall adts, throughout the World dooth ring. 
 The Heathen rout, of Pagans moft vnkinde 
 
 His force haue felt; whofe manly conquering hand. 
 
 No Pagan proud was able to withftand. 
 
 And then fhall Spayne, a fincke of deadly finne, 
 Or raging Rome, a cage of Birdes vncleane : 
 Be bane of you and yours, as they beginne.'' 
 Or from your heads, the creft of glorie gleane. 
 
 As yerft of yore, plucke vp thofe rotten weedes ; 
 
 Let heauen and earth, record thofe conquering deedes. 
 
 Edward the third, your King of rich renowne, 
 Againft the French did vfe his conquering fworde : 
 Mauger their beardes, he did pofTefTe their Crowne, 
 
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The French were faine, to ferue him as their Lord. 
 Take courage then, maintaine your Countries right, • 
 Gainft Rabfica, in Gods name enter fight. 
 
 Henry the fifit, I wifh you not forget. 
 At Agent Court, thinke what a field he fought: 
 When all the powre of Fraunce him round befet, 
 Ten thoufand men, them to fubiedtion brought. 
 
 Though night before, they Bonfires great did make. 
 And made their boaftes, what prifoners they would take. 
 
 But they that bragge of conqueft and renowne. 
 Before the fielde be fought, or truft their ftrength : 
 We fee the Lord in moment can caft downe. 
 And giue the weak'ft the vidtorie at length. 
 
 Though Englands King, and his, they bought and folde. 
 The French were flaine, though they to brag were bold. 
 
 Then though to Spaine, the Pope haue giuen your land. 
 And your good Queene depofed from her Crowne : 
 A conqueft win, your weapons take in hand. 
 The pelting pope, and Spaniards proude beate downe. 
 As earftto fore, you Conquerers haue beene 
 Through world, now let, your coquering deedes be feene. 
 
 What Nation yet, that menac'ft you with warre. 
 But you haue met, and giuen the vtter foile : 
 Snafile thofe'Coultes, that at your peace doe iarre. 
 And beard thofe braues that labour for your fpoUe. 
 Fight for your felues, your wiues and Children now. 
 To ftraungers Yoakes, your neckes doe neuer bow. 
 
 Thus Trueth her charge, to rich and poore hath tolde. 
 From this good Lord, whofe life to you is knowne: 
 And Trueth to you fuch tydings will vnfolde. 
 As may enforce both yonge and olde to moane. 
 
 Marke Hattons ende, whom death from vs hath reft. 
 Yet he good name to conquer death hath left. 
 
 Thus as in health, in trueth he God did praife, 
 
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In fickenes his, he did extoll his name. 
 His hope was heauen, by faith on Chrift he ftaies. 
 And battaile dooth gainft finne and hell proclaime. 
 Rebelling flefh he manly did fubdue. 
 And in fweete Chrift his health he did renue. 
 
 Moft like a Lambe amidft his greeuous paine, 
 He beares the Crofle that God vpon him laide: 
 With patience hee his anguifhes fuftaines,* 
 In extreamft griefe moft faithfully he praide. 
 
 Chrift was the rocke, whereon he fought to builde. 
 All other meanes this Chriftian Lord exUde. 
 
 Thus in Gods trueth his heart and minde was-ftaide. 
 
 He ftudied ftill to exercife his Lawe : 
 
 By-pathes to treade he euer was afiraide. 
 
 Of iudgement he did alwaies ftande in awe. 
 
 His Lord and God, right glad hee was to ferue, 
 He from his heafts, of purpofe would not fwerue. 
 
 Thus fpent this Lord his time in his diftrefle. 
 On Gods fweete wUl he alwaies did'depende: 
 To handfaft Chrift by faith he foorth did preafe. 
 And he through grace, did fweete releife him fende. 
 
 Though bodie his, were feeble, faint, and weake ; 
 
 His foule was ftrong, Chrift kept the fame from wreake. 
 
 When phificke fought, his health for to recure, 
 He held Gods word the phificke for the Spirite : 
 From thence he dranke foch precious water pure. 
 As in the heauens augmented his delight. 
 
 Yet phificke ftiew'd on him her wonted skill. 
 But all in vaine, for God muft haue his will. 
 
 Our gratious Queene, of curtefie the flowre, 
 Faire Englands Gem: of lafting blifle and ioye: 
 Whom God long ftiielde with arme of might and powre. 
 From all her foes that would worke her annoye. 
 
 From Rich mount came, this Lord for to releeue; 
 
 Whofe Princely fight great comfort did him giue. 
 
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All meanes fhe fought to worke her Hattons eafe, 
 Moft louing wordes fhe gaue the ficke and weake : 
 Her Highnes voice his griefes did much appeafe, 
 His heat reuiu'de to heare her Highnefle fpeake. 
 Phifitions then, had charge to fliewe their skill 
 Vpon this Lord, as they would win good will. 
 
 And they with care, (as fubiedts to her Grace) 
 
 Obedient were, to waite vpon their cure: 
 
 On whom they wrought, God knowes a certaine fpace, 
 
 Deuifing howe, their health he might procure. 
 Fiue dales our Queene remain'd with the deftreft. 
 Who thought himfelfe through her for to be bleft. 
 
 She tooke her leaue and bad this Lord farewell. 
 And he to heauen with handes outftretched hie: 
 CaUes vnto him, that in the heauens dooth dwell. 
 With grace from heauen her Highnes to fupplie. 
 Long liue faide he, moft gratious Queene in peace, 
 God make thee ftronge, the rage of foes to ceafe. 
 
 Thus praide our Queene to God to fende him health. 
 And he to heauen for her fafegard dooth call : 
 That long fhe might liue in the common wealth. 
 To fhield the good and bring the bad to thrall. 
 He tooke his leaue of his moft gratious Queene, 
 And praifed God fhe had his comfort beene. 
 
 Phifitions then did on this Lord attend. 
 
 And graue diuines were euer at his hand: 
 
 But that which God dooth minde to bring to end, 
 
 Its vaine for man to gain fay or withftand. 
 
 His hope was heauen, his truft was in Gods fonne; 
 
 Small was the eafe, that he by phificke wonne. 
 
 Time pafTeth on, and calles this Lord away. 
 The Sexten waights to ring his dolefull Knell: 
 But he prepares himfelfe to watch and pray. 
 He leaues the world, and hopes with Chrift to dwell. 
 And as by Chrift in trueth this Lord was taught, 
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 With th'oyle of faith his Lampe was fully fraught. 
 
 Securely he, to fleepe thought it not meete, 
 The fleepe of finne, he did abandon quite: 
 He look't for Chrifl:, His Lord and Sauiour fweete. 
 His hope and trufl: in his deere death was pight. 
 His wedding Roabes with ioy he did prouide, 
 In hope to feaft with Chrift and his fweete Bride. 
 
 What were the words he to the world did leaue.'' 
 
 He by his will all things in order fet: 
 
 lie fought no man of duetie to deceiue; 
 
 His hope was Chrifl:, from him he comfort fet. 
 And as he had beene euerie poore mans friend. 
 So he in minde the poore had to his end. 
 
 The Schooles of flcill, where fcience dooth abound. 
 He thought vppon: and dayly had in minde 
 Poore Captiues that in clogs of care are bound. 
 To eafe their griefe he fome releife aflignde. 
 His feruants all, whofe loue to him was tender. 
 For feruice doone, he duely did remember. 
 
 But waxing faint, and drawing to his ende. 
 
 He leaues his Queene vnto the Lord of might: 
 
 Defiring him, from griefe her to defende; 
 
 And all her foes to foile and put to flight. 
 
 From treafons vilde, and Traytors, Lord her faue. 
 And let thy Trueth, through world her pafl!age haue. 
 
 Farewell my Peeres, the Lord God be your guide. 
 Her Counfell graunt, with thy grace to dire(5l: 
 That they a falue may day by day prouide. 
 To fliielde the good, and cut off the infedl. 
 
 Her Highnes weale, God make them ftill to minde. 
 And to roote vp rebellious plants vnkinde. 
 
 You manly Knights and Gentlemen adue. 
 
 Be ftronge in Trueth, and conftant to your Queene: 
 
 Farewell to you good Subiedts iuft and true, 
 
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 Nowe from your hearts let loyaltie be feene. 
 Vpholde the ftate, be Fillers found of truft: 
 Falfe not your fayth, to God and Prince be iuft. 
 
 Be not feduc'ft, by any popifli meane ; 
 Abhorre and hate their do6brine moft vnpure : 
 Thofe raflcaU Priefts, as Traitors holde vncleane. 
 That would you from obeyfance due allure. 
 
 Cleaue you to Chrift, let Pope and blind guides goe, 
 They fpeake of peace, but minde your ouerthrowe. 
 
 Thus time in Trueth runne ouer faft away. 
 And fickenes ftiarpe gaue more and more increafe: 
 And death dooth waite, to clofe his corpes in clay, 
 But he for grace, to call dooth neuer ceafe. 
 
 Sweete Chrift; I fue, for mercie vnto thee; 
 
 Bowe downe thine eare, from hell my foule fet free. 
 
 His fonne adopt. Sir William Hatton Knight, 
 He dooth exhort obediently to Hue: 
 In God and Trueth he wils him to deUght, 
 And to his Prince her honour due to giue. 
 Thus flialt thou win deferued praife and fame. 
 And fpotlefle keepe for euer Hattons name. 
 
 And thankes to you my Seruants for your paine, 
 Hencefoorth for mee you may take eafe and reft: 
 I fee with you I ftiall not long remaine. 
 For death to facke my life is prefent preft. 
 But pray my faith in Chrift may neuer faile. 
 Life is no lofle, death workes for mine auaile. 
 
 And now fweete death moft welcome vnto mee. 
 Thy ft;roakes ne can, ne ftiall me once difmay: 
 No griefe but ioy, I ftiall obtaine by thee. 
 Although thou come to take my life away. 
 Yet Chrift to me a Crowne of life will giue. 
 Death dies in his, and his with him fliall liue. 
 
 I call to thee, O Chrift my Sauiour come. 
 
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 My filly foule into thy bofome take : 
 And in the great and dreadfull day of doome, 
 A member of thy kingdonie Lord me make. 
 I come to thee; thy Seruaunt Lord receiue. 
 My corps to clay, my foule to thee I leaue. 
 
 O happie Lord that made fo good an end, 
 
 Thy Queene thy want, with noble Peeres dooth waile : 
 
 Thy fonne adopt, laments his deereft friend, 
 
 Drie dumpes of dole, conftraines his ioy to faile. 
 
 Poore Suters weepe, thy feruants penfiue are; 
 
 The needie poore with teares, their woes declare. 
 
 Thus Trueth the trueth hath fet before your eyes. 
 His life and death moft truely is fet downe : 
 And let the trueth both rich and poore fiiffice. 
 Who fpreades his praife, in euery Port and Towne. 
 A godly life he ledde vpon the earth, 
 And in Gods feare did render vp his breath. 
 
 Then Lordings yeelde in weedes of waUefuU woe. 
 To bring his corps vnto the gaping graue: 
 Hee's gone before, the way he dooth you fhowe. 
 And you your felues of life no charter haue. 
 
 Then thinke on death, which way fo ere you wend. 
 He fbllowes you, your pilgrimage to ende. 
 
 Thus though this Lord vnto the world be dead. 
 His faith in Chrift the ioyes of heauen hath wonne : 
 Sinne, Hell, and Death, he vnder feete dooth treade. 
 And Hues in bliffe, with Chrift; Gods onely fonne. 
 Then Lordings chaunge your griefes to ioye againe. 
 For Hatton liues and death in him is flaine. 
 
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