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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10971	Gloucesters myte deliuered vvith the mournefull records of Great Britaine, into the worlds register. For the inrolement of the euerlasting fame and perpetuall remembrance of our late and most gratious Prince Henrie. With motiues to repentance. The materiall points touched, appeare in the next page.	Rogers, Thomas, of Tewkesbury.	1612 (1612)	STC 21241.5; ESTC S113421	5,908	24

Gloucesters MYTE DELIVERED VVITH the mournefull Records of GREAT BRITAINE into the Worlds Register For the inrolement of the euerlasting Fame and perpetuall remembrance of our late most gratious Prince HENRIE With Motiues to Repentance The materiall points touched appeare in the next Page LONDON Imprinted by William Hall for Ionas Man 1612. The Contents OF the inseparable perturbations annexed to this our mortall life The shortnesse of our earthly pilgrimage The vnspeakeable griefe of the State City of London other parts of the Kingdom vpon the dangerous sicknes of our most gratious Prince Our feeble strength to repulse Death That the greatest Princes of the world notwithstanding their Treasur●s and commands in the world are subiects The departure of our most deare Prince out of this life Our vnworthinesse of him His estimation and value His loue to vs our zeale to him His euerlasting remembrance With other Additions leading to Repentance TO THE RIGHT VVORSHIPFVLL SIR RICHARD TRACIE Knight AS a Wheate Corne or other graine Right Worshipfull lying long buried in the bowels of the earth d●th in the end notwithstanding spring vp and yeel●e that encrease that eit●er the weaken●sse or strength of the body can afford Euen so the interior zeale of mans heart though it lye long shr●wded in the breast with the vaile of res●raint will at last neuerthel●sse come forth and shew the aff●ction therein conceiued and nourished At what time your Wo●ship came in great Poste to your neighbour Towne of T●wkesbury in the County of Gloucester opened the late Queenes death and proclaimed the Kings Maiesty where at your first entrance another my selfe vpon strait charge giuen by the Officers of the said Towne stood as it were Centinell though little expecting such an alarum I conceiued a kind of grudge towards you for newes on the one side but honoured you and still doe and great cause for the other To heare of her death did kill the heart but intelligence of so gratious a King did raise it vp The assurance of the Gospell war life to the soule And that the expected danger at the Queenes death was euen with her death stifled to death did augment the astonishment In what perplexity would that louing sonne stand I beseech you that should at one instant heare of the sinister death both of father and mother and while the tale were yet in telling the father liuing and in health should present himselfe in presence but withall assuring of the death of the tender mother Jn what perplexity I say would that son rest in what confusion of minde and spirite betweene ioy on the one side and griefe on the other comforted by the life of the one dismaied by the death of the other Ioy and griefe at ●ne instant equally weighing in the ballance of the heart striuing for victory Such was the sorrow of many thousand louing Subiects at that day and the same also among the rest was mine Right Worshippefull The which by how much the more was great by so much the more it made a deepe impression of zeale in my heart towards you The print whereof hath euer sit hence lien hidden therein and euen now with the graine hath found passage to creepe out and yeeld you this poore fruit as a manifestation thereof It is small I confesse and blasted in comming vp and great cause too for the root in bringing it forth hath beene nipt with many vnkind frosts which hindred the growth Yet as it is I present it For good reason is that you sowing the seed should reape the croppe You cast the graine into the ground of my heart in a time of griefe and now reape in a like season Receiue it therefore as your owne I beseech you and in so doing you shall adde life to the Tree hereafter to yeeld you fruit of more pleasing rellish In the meane time I leaue it to your fauourable acceptation and you yours to the Lord who in mercy so blesse you in this life that in the life to come you may attain that happinesse which is prepared for the elect of God At my lodging in S. Giles in the fields in Middlesex where the hand of God hath set me December 14. 1612. Your VVorships for euer most humbly deuoted and at command THO ROGERS Gloucesters MYTE SAd discontent inuites vs to her feasts And we copartner-like attendance make Feede on her fruites drinke of her flowing breasts And euery taske of hers wee vndertake Shee welcomes vs we imitate her guise Shee walkes with vs and in our lodging lies And as the shadow doth the Sunne pursue Shee followes vs her feeble shady sunne As wee one lesson learne she giues a new Still tut'ring vs till mortall race be run VVe need not seeke her shee our footing finds Shee wreathes about vs as the yuie windes And as the head is to the body ioynde Or wine with water equally commixt Or as the Carracters on copper coinde Inseparably euen so are fixt Woes perturbations and growing strife Vnto our euil short and wretched life Thus pilgrim-like as strangers on the earth We through the Sea-waues of this world wade Still at vnrest eu'n from our naked birth Three woes ensue for one woe that doth fade If at some time a little Sun doth show Anon the rugged gusts doth it ore-blow Our smoothest walks are but as Rocks of stone Our softest rests are as the Bramble sprayes Our best delights are chock'd with woefull mone And all our earthly hopes disturbing frayes Our lease of life at such vncertaine tane Ere at the full it dieth in the wane What are our pathes though pleasing to the foot What is our rest though Downe our bedding be When loe the Axe lies hewing still root What pleasure take we in our dying ttee Our longest life is as a minutes breath For in the mid'st of life wee are in Death The present State an instance now doth yeeld For when our ioys were full our Pearle wee lost Pale Death in armes intruded to the field Brake the array discomfited the Hoast So thus our little sweet still mixt with gall Shews whil'st we rise in ioy in griefe wee fall With deare Elizaes ioy did woe insinuate And more and more did rule as grew the doubt The doubt increas'd and did our ioy extenuate In Court in City and the Realme throughour Who could restrain but teares of grief to shower On the sad fading of so sweet a flower A King most humbly su'● with teares of woe A Queen deepe plung'd in flouds of equal strife A Prince and Princesse and a Million mo● Ma●e supplication for a Peerelesse life And as they vsed were be su'de vnto Themselues as others did most humbly do● They th●n on bowed knees sad suitors wer ' And thoughts were words for to expresse the mind For thoghts are most of force whē grief doth bar The tong to speake ey●s with teares are blind Then sighes and groanes the Orators of griefe VVere the Post-messengers