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A68870	The phœnix of these late times: or the life of Mr. Henry Welby, Esq . who lived at his house in Grub-street forty foure yeares, and in that space, was never seene by any, aged 84. Shewing the first occasion, and the reasons thereof. Whose portracture, you may behold, as it was taken at his death. With epitaphs and elegies of the late deceased gentleman, who lyeth buried in S. Giles Church neere Criple gate, London.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1637 (1637)	STC 25226.5; ESTC S103493	14,021	52

which being told unto to her she made answer True it is that I am bound in al things to obey the will of my Lord and husband the Emperor but if on one side he would set Wine and Life and on the other my Deniall and Death I wish rather to die than to drinke it Of abstinence there be foure kindes Natural Miraculous Violent and Voluntary we call that naturall when either by nature we abhorre certaine meats though we be then in good and perfect health betwixt which and us there is an antipathy or else when by some distaste or disease in the stomacke wee loath such things as our eyes can scarce endure to looke upon much lesse our palets to taste and that is the first sort of abstinence the second are such supernaturall fasts which we reade of the Saints of God Moses and Elias and of Christ himselfe in the wildernesse all which were for the space of forty dayes together and these are rather for our admiration than our imitation The third is violent or compeld when we fast because we have not wherewith to eat as it hapneth in famine scarcity The fourth and last is voluntary which wee undergoe by our owne counsaile and reason and that is branched into divers sorts as Physicall Politicall Religious superstitious c. which are largely disputed of by the learned Fasting saith one of the Fathers purgeth the minde enlightneth the sences subiects the flesh to the spirit maketh the heart contrite and humble disperseth the clouds of concupiscence extinguishes the flames of lust and strengthneth chastity keeping it within the secure bounds of sincerity and purity it loveth not verbosity it hateth superfluity it despiseth insolency it commends humility and informeth a mans selfe of of his owne infirmity Fast and Almes are the two godly assistants unto prayer and as Saint Gregory saith in his Homilies such an abstinence God himselfe approveth when that which thou takest from thy self thou distributest to another and when thy owne flesh is punished the hungry stomacke of thy needy neighbour is by thee replenished He that will fast as he ought to doe saith a learned Father must be in prayer frequent in iudging iust in friendship faithfull in iniuries patient in contentions temperate from filthy speaking an aliene to evill deeds averse in banquets continent in charity simple amongst the crafty cautelous amongst the sad sorrowfull amongst the evill speakers silent amongst the humble equall against the proud and contumacious daring in suspicions sparing for true abstinence is not to forbeare meate and to follow vanity but it is rather to separate thy selfe from sinne and iniquity Dost thou forbeare flesh and yet wilt not make it scrupulous to feede upon thy brother abstainest thou from wine yet cannot refraine thy selfe from doing thy neighbor iniury wilt thou taste no foode untill the evening and spend the whole day in oppressing the fatherlesse and needy it little profiteth thee to starve thy body by keeping it from necessary viands if in the meane time thou surfeit thy soule with superfluity of vices Concerning the strange and strict retyred cloystered life which this Gentleman lived it cannot be said of him as it was spoke of those who tooke upon them a Monastick life of old to be in the cloister with their bodies in the streets in their minde now within anon abroad to sing one thing to thinke another to have a Psalme in their tongues but not the sence in their heads to be in heart desperate in habit dissolute to have wandring eies wavering thoughts the shape of one religious the substance of one that is irregular and if he have but the Cucullus which the old Proverbe saith non facit monachum the Hood which maketh not the Monk all is safe all is well he apprehends no other hope hee aimeth at no other happinesse If thou takest upon thee a retired life what makest thou in the multitude If thou dost professe silence why pratest thou abroad amongst the people If thou onely professest fast and reares why dost thou at any time gurmundize or laugh Of a retyred man his simplicity is his Philosophy but thou wilt say that thy ambition is to teach and instruct others thou oughtest rather to weepe for them than to wrangle with them but if thou dost cover to be a teacher know thou what thou hast to doe let the vilenesse of thy habite the sincerity of thy countenance the innocency of thy life and the sanctity of thy conversation be their example and president and that is thy best Doctrine and Instruction These bee the words of an Ancient and Reverent Father These our garments which I weeping speake ought onely to be the Emblemes of Humility are worne by the separated men of these dayes in all pride and ostentation nay our owne Climes can scarcely afford us wherewith to apparrell our selves For the Monke and the Martiall man from the same peece of cloth buyeth his Hood and his habite But Sobriety and Solitude with voluntary poverty are the true Ensignes of all monastick retirement when those amongst us which would pretend themselves to be reclusists beare their eyes which ought to be deiected upon the earth to look still upon the world from whence they came advance them up towards the Heavens to looke upon that sublimity to which they can never attaine when their feere that should onely be confined to the Cloyster tyre themselves in needlesse Iourneys both in Court City and Countrey when those Tongues that are vowed unto Taciturnity and silence are heard in all private and publicke counsells and when those hands which are soly appropriated to supply their owne necessities are imployed to snatch away the patrimony of others But I come to a third thing most remarkable in this noble Gentleman namely his Temperance which I have read to be thus defined A moderation of the desires obedient to Reason an affection binding and cohibiting the appetite a mediocrity restrayning the lusts and desires of all carnall affections a vertue which governeth all the motions of the minde and body so farre that they comply and agree with the order of persons places and times The parts thereof are gentlenesse liberality gravity sadnesse severity shamefastnesse urbanity friendship benevolence or good-will concord love peace continence clemency charity meekenesse chastity and honesty moderation taciturnity frugality parsimony goodnesse purity and innocence Shee is likewise that light which excelleth the darknesse and obscurity of passions she is of all vertues that are the most wholesome for as well publickly as privately she doth perswade humane society shee exalteth the Soule wretchedly throwne downe in vice and restoreth her to her pristine place Shee is moreover a mutuall consent of the Soule causing all disorder and irregularity to take Reason for a rule and discretion for a direction Whosoever is neither puffed up with praise nor afflicted with adversity nor moved by slanders nor corrupted by gifts is fortunately

Chamber which was very seldome or upon an extraordinary necessity that he saw her which Maid-servant dyed not above sixe dayes before him As touching his Abstinence in all the time of his retirement hee never tasted Flesh nor Fish hee never dranke either Wine or strong water his chiefe food was Oat-meale boyled with water which some call Gruell and in Summer now and then a Sallet of some choise coole hearbs For dainties or when hee would feast himselfe upon an high day he would eate the yelke of an hens egge but no part of the white and what bread he did eat he cut out of the middle part of the loafe but of the crust he never tasted and his continuall drinke was foure shillings beere and no other and now and then when his stomacke served him he did eate some kinde of suckets and now and then dranke redde Cowes milke which his maid Elizabeth fetcht for him out of the fields hot from the Cow and yet he kept a bountifull table for his servants with entertainment sufficient for any stranger or tenant that had any occasion of businesse at his house In Christmas holy-dayes at Easter and upon all solemne festivall dayes he had great cheare provided with all dishes seasonable with the times served into his owne Chamber with store of wine which his maid brought in when he himselfe after thanks given unto God for his good benefits would pinne a cleane Napkin before him and putting on a paire of white holland sleeves which reached to his elbowes call for his knife and cutting dish after dish up in order send one to one poore neighbour the next to another whether it were Brawne Beefe Capon Goose c. till hee had left the table quite empty Then would he give thanks againe lay by his linnen put up his knife againe and cause the cloath to be taken away and this would he doe Dinner and Supper upon these dayes without tasting one morsell of any thing whatsoever and this custome he kept to his dying day an abstinence farre transcending all the Carthusean Monkes or Mendicant Fryars that I ever yet could read of Now as touching the solitude of his life to spend so many Summers and Winters in one small or narrow roome dividing himselfe not onely from the society of men but debarring himselfe from the benefit of the fresh and comfortable aire not to walke or to confer with any man which might either shorten the tediousnesse of the night or mitigate the prolixnesse of the day what retirement could be more or what restriction greater in my opinion it far surpasseth all the Vestals and Votaries all the Ancresses and Authors that have beene memorized in any Hystory Now if any shall aske me how he past his houres and spent his time no doubt as he kept a kinde of perpetuall fast so hee devoted himselfe unto continuall prayer saving those seasons which hee dedicated to his study for you must know that hee was both a Scholler and a Linguist neither was there any Author worth the reading either brought over from beyond the seas or publisht here in the kingdome which he refused to buy at what deare rate soever and these were his companions in the day and his Councellors in the night insomuch that the saying may bee verified of him Nunquam minus solus quam cum solus He was never better accompanied or lesse alone then when alone I need not speak much of his continence since that doth necessarily include it selfe in the former Abstinence is a fast from meates and vice but continence is a continuance in all the foure cardinall vertues what should I say his continence he exprest in the time he lived in the world and his abstinence in the greater part of his age after he had separated himselfe from the world every man is known by his actions neither is any man to bee accounted a good man for his age but for his charitable deedes it is most true indeed that such an one as we call good is better than the good he doth and a wicked man is worse than the evill that he is able to doe But in this gentleman the thing most worthy our observation is that he who was borne to so faire fortunes and might have enioyed prosperity for his soules sake and to enioy the pleasures of a future world should study adversity to have much and enioy little to be the Lord of all and a servant to all to provide for others to eate whilst hee prepared himselfe to fast and out of his great plenty to supply others whilst himselfe wanted and so much for his great continence but all this while I am come to no particulars of his charity Charity saith Saint Chrysostome is the scope of all Gods commandements it ransometh from sinne and delivereth from death for as the body without the soule can enioy no life so all other vertues without charity are meerely cold and fruitlesse she in adversity is patient in prosperity temperate in passions strong in good workes active in temperance secure in hospitality bountifull amongst her true children ioyfull amongst her false friends patient and the onely measure to love God is to love him without measure moreover it maketh a man absolute and perfect in all other vertues for there is no vertue perfect without love nor any love that can be truely sincere without charity a poore man being in charity is rich but a rich man without charity is poore Charity and Pride both feed the poore but after divers sorts the one to the praise and glory of God the other to purchase praise and glory with men the first concerneth him the latter not He was no Pharisee to seeke the praise and vaine ostent amongst men neither did he blow a trumpet before him when he gave his almes neither when any impudently clamord at his gate were they therefore immediately releeved but hee out of his private chamber which had a prospect into the streete if he spyed any sicke weake or lame would presently send after them to comfort cherish and strengthen them and not a trifle to serve them for the present but so much as would releeve them many dayes after Hee would moreover inquire what neighbours were industrious in their callings and who had great charge of children and withall if their labour and industry could not sufficiently supply their families to such he would liberally send and releeve them according to their necessities and this was charity as it ought to bee for so our best Divines have defined it I cannot reckon up the least of infinites in this nature done by him and therefore I leave them to the favourable consideration of the charitable and understanding Reader thus concluding He may not improperly be cal'd a Phoenix for as in his life he might be tearmed a Bird of Paradise so in his death he might be compared to that Arabian Monady who having lived fourescore and foure yeares halfe in the