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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08597	Sir Thomas Ouerburie his wife with new elegies vpon his (now knowne) vntimely death : whereunto are annexed, new newes and characters / written by himselfe and other learned gentlemen.	Overbury, Thomas, Sir, 1581-1613.	1611 (1611)	STC 18909; ESTC S1598	73,798	259

two are ill combin'd Whō any third thing frō themselues hath ioynd Rather then these the obiect of my Loue Let it be Good when these with vertue go They in themselues indifferent vertues proue For Good like fire turnes all things to be so Gods Image in Her Soule ô let me place My Loue vpon not Adams in Her Face Good is a fairer attribute then White T is the mindes beautie keepes the other sweet That 's not still one nor mortall with the light Nor glasse nor painting can it counterfet Nor doth it raise desires which euer tend At once to their perfection and their end By Good I would haue Holy vnderstood So God she cannot loue but also mee The law requires our words and deedes be good Religion euen the Thoughts doth sanctifie And she is more a Maide that rauisht is Then She which onely doth but wish amisse Lust only by Religion is withstood Lusts obiect is aliue his strength within Moralitie resists but in cold bloud Respect of Credit feareth shame not sinne But no place darke enough for such offence She finds that 's watcht by her owne Conscience Then may I trust her Body with her Minde And thereupon secure neede neuer know The pangs of Iealousie and Loue doth finde More paineto doubt her false then know her so For Patience is of euils that are knowne The certaine Remedie but Doubt hath none And be that thought once stirr'd t will neuer dye Nor will the griefe more milde by custome proue Nor yet Amendment can it satisfie The Anguish more or lesse is as our Loue This miserie doth Iealousie ensue That we may proue her false but cannot True Suspicion may the will of Lust restraine But Good preuents from hauing such a will A Wife that 's Good doth Chast and more containe For Chast is but an Abstinence from ill And in a Wife that 's Bad although the best Of qualities yet in a Good the least To barre the meanes is Care not Iealousie Some lawfull things to be auoyded are When they occasion of vnlawfull be Lust ere it hurts is best descride a farre Lust is a finne of two he that is sure Of either part may be of both secure Giue me next Good an vnderstanding Wife By Nature wise not Learned by much Art Some Knowledge on Her side will all my life More scope of conuersation impart Besides Her inborne vertue fortifie They are most firmly good that best know Why. A passiue vnderstanding to conceiue And Iudgement to discerne I wish to finde Beyond that all as hazardous I leaue Learning and pregnant wit in Woman-kinde What it findes malleable maketh fraile And doth not adde more Ballast but more Saile Domesticke Charge doth best that Sexe befit Contiguous businesse so to fixe the Minde That Leasure space for Fancies not admit Their Leasure t is corrupteth Woman-kinde Else being plac'd from many vices free They had to Heau'n a shorter cut then wee Bookes are a part of Mans prerogatiue In formall Inke they Thoughts and Uoices hold That we to them our solitude may giue And make Time-present trauell that of old Our Life Fame peeceth longer at the end And Bookes it farther backward doe extend As good and knowing let her be Discreet That to the others weight doth Fashion bring Discretion doth consider what is Fit Goodnesse but what is lawfull but the Thing Not Circumstances Learning is and wit In Men but curious folly without it To keepe their Name when 't is in others hands Discretion askes their Credit is by farre More fraile then They on likely-hoods it stands And hard to be disproou'd Lust's slanders are Their Carriage not their Chastity alone Must keepe their Name chaste from suspition Womens Behauiour is a surer barre Then is their No That fairely doth denie Without denying thereby kept they are Safe eu'n from Hope in part to blame is shee Which hath without consent bin onely tride He comes too neere that comes to be denide Now since a Woman we to Marry are A Soule and Body not a Soule alone When one is Good then be the other Faire Beauty is Health and Beauty both in one Bee shee so faire as change can yeeld no gaine So faire as Shee most Women else containe So Faire at least let me imagine Her That thought to me is Truth Opinion Cannot in matter of opinion erre With no Eyes shall I see her but mine owne And as my Fancy Her conceiues to bee Euen such my Senses both doe Feele and See The Face we may the seat of of Beauty call In it the rellish of the rest doth lie Nay eu'n a figure of the Minde withall And of the Face the Life moues in the Eye No things else being two so like we see So like that they two but in number be Beauty in decent shape and Colours lies Colours the matter are and shape the Soule The Soule which from no single part doth rise But from the iust proportion of the whole And is a meere spirituall-harmonie Of euery part vnited in the Eye Loue is a kinde of Superstition Which feares the Idoll which it selfe hath fram'd Lust a Desire which rather from his owne Temper then from the obiect is inflam'd Beauty is Loues obiect Women Lust's to gaine Loue Loue Desires Lust onely to obtaine No circumstance doth Beauty beautifie Like gracefull fashion natiue Comelinesse Nay eu'n gets pardon for Deformity Art cannot it beget but may encrease When Nature had fixt Beauty perfect made Something she left for Motion to adde But let that Fashion more to Modestie Tend then Assurance Modesty doth set The face in hir iust place from Passions free T is both the Mindes and Bodies Beauty met But Modesty no vertue can we see That is the Faces onely Chastitie Where goodnesse failes twixt ill and ill that stands Whence t is that women though they weaker be And their desires more strong yet on their hands The Chastitie of men doth often lie Lust would more common be then any one Could it as other sinnes be done alone All these good parts a Perfect woman make Adde Loue to me they make a Perfect Wife Without her Loue Her Beauty should I take As that of Pictures dead That giues it life Till then Her Beauty like the Sunne doth shine Alike to all That makes it onely mine And of that Loue let Reason Father be And Passion Mothor let it from the one His Being take the other his Degree Selfe-loue which second Loues are built vpon Will make me if not Her her Loue respect No Man but fauours his owne worths effect As Good and wise so be she Fit for mee That is To will and Not to will the same My Wife is my Adopted-selfe and shee As Mee so what I loue to Loue must frame For when in Mariage both in one concurre Woman conuerts to Man not Man to her FINIS The Authors Epitaph written by himselfe THe Span of my dayes measur'd heere I rest That is my body

still open breasted to his friends for his foile and his doubler weare not aboue two buttons and resolute he is for he so much scornes to take blowes that he neuer weares Cuffes and he liues better contented with a little then other men for if he haue two eyes in 's head he thinks Nature hath ouerdone him The Lord Maiors triumph makes him a man for that 's his best time to flourish Lastly these Fencers are such things that care not if all the world were ignorant of more Letters then only to read their Patent A Puny-clarke HE is tane from Grammar-schoole halfe codled and can hardly shake off his dreames of breeching in a twelue-month He is a Farmers sonne and his Fathers vtmost ambition is to make him an Atturney He doth itch towards a Poet and greeses his breeches extreamely with feeding without a napkin He studies false dice to cheat Costermongers and is most chargeable to the butler of some Inne of Chancerie for pissing in their greene pots He eats Ginger bread at a Play-house and is so saucie that he venters fairely for a broken pate at the banqueting house and hath it He would neuer come to haue any wit but for a long vacation for that makes him bethinke him how he shall shift another day He prayes hotly against fasting and so he may sup wel on friday nights he cares not though his Master be a Puritan He practises to make the words in his Declaration spread as a Sewer doth the dishes at a Niggards table a Clarke of a swooping Dash is as commendable as a Flanders horse of a large taile Though you be neuer so much delaid you must not call his master knaue that makes him goe beyond himselfe and write a challenge in Court hand for it may be his owne another day These are some certaine of his liberall faculties but in the Terme time his Clog is a Buckrom bag Lastly which is great pittie hee neuer comes to his full growth with bearing on his shoulder the sinfull burden of his Master at seuerall Courts in Westminster A Foote-man LEt him be neuer so well made yet his Legs are not matches for hee is still setting the best foot forward He will neuer be a staid man for he has had a running head of his owne euer since his childhood His mother which out of question was a light heel'd wench knew it yet let him run his race thinking age would reclaime him from his wilde courses He is very long winded and without doubt but that he hates naturally to serue on horsbacke hee had proued an excellent trumpet He has one happinesse aboue all the rest of the Seruingmen for when he most ouer-reaches his Master hee 's best thought of He liues more by his owne heat then the warmth of clothes and the waiting-woman hath the greatest fancie to him when hee is in his close trouses Gardes he weares none which makes him liue more vpright then any grosse gartered Gentleman-vsher T is impossible to draw his picture to the life cause a man must take it as he 's running only this Horses are vsually let bloud on S. Steuens day on S. Patrickes he takes rest and is drencht for all the yeere after A noble and retir'd House-keeper IS one whose bountie is limited by reason not astentation and to make it last he deales it discreetly as wee sowe the furrow not by the sacke but by the handfull His word and his meaning neuer shake hands and part but alway goe together Hee can suruay good and loue it and loues to doe it himselfe for it owne sake not for thankes Hee knowes there is no such miferie as to out-liue good name not no such follie as to put it in practise His minde is so secure that thunder rockes him asleepe which breakes other mens flumbers Nobilitie lightens in his eies and in his face and gesture is paintted The God of Hospitalitie His great houfes beare in their front more durance then state vnlesse this adde the greater state to them that they promise to outlast much of our new phantasticall building His heart neuer growes old no more then his memorie whether at his booke or on horsebacke he passeth his time in such noble exercise a man cannot say any time is lost by him nor hath he only yeeres to approue he hath liued till hee be old but vertues His thoughts haue a high aime though their dwelling be in the Vale of an humble heart whence as by an Engine that raises water to fall that it may rise the higher hee is heightned in his humilitie The Adamant serues not for all Seas but his doth for he hath as it were put a gird about the whole world and sounded all her quick-sands He hath this hand ouer Fortune that her iniuries how violent or sudden soeuer they do not daunt him for whether his time call him to liue or die he can do both nobly if to fall his descent is breast to breast with vertue and euen then like the Sunne neere his Set hee shewes vnto the world his clearest countenance An Intruder into fauour IS one that builds his reputation on others infamy for slaunder is most commonly his morning praier His passions are guided by Pride and followed by Iniustice An inflexible anger against some poore sutor he falsly calles a Couragious constancy and thinks the best part of grauitie to consist in a ruffled forehead He is the most slauishly submisse though enuious to those are in better place then himselfe and knowes the Art of w●●●●●● well that for shrowding dishonestie vnder a faire pretext he seemes to preserue mud in Chrystall Like a man of a kinde nature he is first good to himselfe in the next file to his French Tailor that giues him all his perfection for indeed like an Estridge or Birde of Paradise his feathers are more worth then his body If euer hee doe good deede which is very seldome his owne mouth is the Chronicle of it least it should die forgotten His whole bodie goes all vpon screwes and his face is the vice that moues them If his Patron be giuen to musicke hee opens his chops and sings or with a wrie necke falles to tuning his instrument if that faile hee takes the height of his Lord with a Hawking pole Hee followes the mans fortune not the man seeking thereby to increase his owne He pretends he is most vndeseruedly enuied and cries out remembring the game Chesse that a Pawne before a King is most plaide on Debts he owes none but shrewd turnes and those he paies ere he besued He is a flattering Glasse to conceale age and wrinkles He is Mountaines Monkie that climbing a tree and skipping from bough to bough giues you backe his face but comne once to the top he holdes his nose vp into the winde and shewes you his taile yet all this gay glitter shewes on him as if the Sunne shone in a puddle for he is a small wine that