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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

world and halfe from the world built his owne funerall nest or pile composed of the Teberinth and Cinnomon inter-woven with Onix and Galbanum with the sweete and odoriferous smells of Myrrh Aloes and Cassia and so made his death-bed an Altar and his godly zeale kindling those sweete spices sent up his soule in an acceptable Incense to that blessed and sacred Throne where a contrite heart and humble spirit were never despised To the sacred Memory of that most abstenious Gentleman Mr. Henry Welby OF any man at once alive and dead Should any make report as seene or read He 'd hardly find beleefe yet they that knew This shadows substance say this may be true And in his person prove it for his breath Was ballanc'd equally 'twixt Life and Death To Heaven he liv'd but to this treacherous world Her toyes and all her honyed-poyson hurl'd Farre from his bosome he was dead his Face Not seene by any in the lingring pace Of foure and forty Winters but his hand And heart were often in his strict command Of Almes and bounteous Largesse his Estate Not seene so at his Table as his Gate Forty foure Winters one poore petty roome To him was all the World to him a Tombe Tho. Brewer In Commendation of that vertuous Gentleman Mr. Henry Welby WEll be the blessed Subject of these lines Well be the Star that now in glory shines Well be thou well be all that live to dye And dye in grace to live immortally Thou that did'st from the world thy selfe exclude And by abstaining flesh the flesh subdu'd And with the Sword Gods Word warr'd with the devil Still striving to shunne all occasions evill For knowing mans best workes to be impure From sight of man thou didst thy selfe immure Where reading good things sin was mortifi'd Hope was confirm'd and Faith was fortifi'd Thy Charity did worke not one day idle True Prayer and Fasting did thy frailty bridle And like Cornelius up to Heaven ascended Thy Almes and Orisons and there attended Vntill thy soule shooke off earth transitory To be enshrin'd and crown'd with endlesse glory J. T. Upon the Life of that most worthy Gentleman Master Henry Welby OLd Henry Welby well be thou for ever Thy Purgatory's past thy Heav'n ends never Of Eighty foure yeeres life full forty foure Man saw thee not nor e're shall see thee more 'T was Piety and Penitence caus'd thee So long a prisoner to thy selfe to be Thy bounteous house within exprest thy mind Thy Charity without the poore did find From Wine thou wa'st a duteous Rechabite And flesh so long time shunn'd thy appetite Small Beere a Cawdle Milke or water-gruell Strengthned by grace maintain'd thy dayly duell Against the witching World the Flesh and Fiend Which made thee live and dye well there 's an end JOHN TAYLOR AN EPITAPH Or rather A Funerall Elegie upon the Right Worshipfull Mr. Henry Welby Esquire who dyed at his House in Grub-streete and lyeth buried in the Church of Saint Giles neare Cripple-gate WHo on the setting Sun shal cast their eyes May easily guess next morning how he 'l rise Those that our parting from this old world view May presuppose what welcome in the new Is to be had but best when Qualis vita Is sweetly Echo'd to by Finis ita If this be true as no man needs to doubt Search this mans life nay all the world throughout To paralell in both 't may be deny'd Many more strictly liv'd more Saint-like dy'd And therefore we may fairely hope that he Is now where we may wish our selves to be This man through many stormes tempests hurld Though he was in yet was not of the world When forty foure yeeres since he did divide Himselfe from men even then to men he dy'd And at that time his precious soule to save His Chamber made his Chappell Bed his Grave What did he now then since none twice can dye He chang'd his Bed remote from noise to lye Where undisturb'd he better rest might take Untill the Angels Trumpet him awake This of such note so late shall we let passe Sleightly No rather make his Dust our Glasse Him our Memento and his Life no lesse A Mirrour by the which our lives to dresse And though we strive not to be like austere For that indeed scarce humane strength can beare Let 's in some sort our love to vertue shew And crawle like Children ere they well can goe If he hath beene so abstinent at least Let us forbeare to surfeit when we feast He dranke no Wine at all let us not use Immoderate Cups our senses to abuse His cloaths were onely to defend from cold Shall our pyde garments then be dawb'd with gold Many his Manours were and great his rent Yet he with one small chamber was content Then let not such already well possest By powers hye hand their lands from others wrest His Temperance all vaine obiects did despise Let us then make some covenant with our eyes If he from his best strength to his last houres Pull'd downe his body let 's not pamper ours Rare Presidents ought to be followed most Than this a rarer there 's no Age can boast THO. HEYVVOOD FINIS * Sir Christopher Hilliard in Yorkeshire

temperate for there is nothing in the world better than Moderation for by it the assaults of the flesh are subdued and the fruits of a good life are retained it is rich in losses confident in perills prudent in assaults and happy in it selfe It is the property of Justice not to violate the right of any man and it is the Appendix of Temperance to offend no man He cannot praise Temperance who proposeth his chiefe felicity in Voluptuousnesse and pleasure because it is the grand enemy to riot and excesse Solon telleth us that it plucketh a man from all grosse affections and carnall appetites and letteth him not exceede either in foolish reioycing nor ungodly sorrowing for the pride of the flesh is to be curbed and restrained with the sharpe Bit of Abstinence As no man can be temperate unlesse withall he be prudent so no man can be held to be truely valiant unlesse withall he be temperate Nay more Justice cannot subsist without it because it is the chiefe point of a iust man to keepe his soule free from all perturbation I conclude with that of Plotinus Temperance is the Mother of all duty and honesty These three vertues we have strived to illustrate vnto your view but how all these accidents meete in one subiect is the Argument now in hand Abstinence is a vertue found in one man but scarcely in another solitude and retyrednesse of life in few not in many and Temperance and Continence may be imbraced by some not by all yet all these eminent lines meete in this one Center as the circumstances following shall make apparently manifest This noble and vertuous Gentleman Mr. Henry Welby borne in Lincolne-shire was the eldest sonne of his Father and the inheritor of a faire revenue amounting to a thousand pounds by the yeere and upward first metriculated in the Vniversity and after made a Student in one of the Innes of Court where being accommodated with all the parts of a Gentleman hee after retyred himselfe into the Countrey and matched nobly unto his good liking but thinking with himselfe that the world could not possibly be contained within this Island and that England was but the least peece and member of the whole body of the Vniverse hee as many or the most of our young gentlemen doe had a great minde to travell as well to profit him in experience as benefit himselfe in language and to that purpose spent some few yeares in the Low Countryes Germany France and Italy making the best use of his time and not like some phantasticke heads learne onely to drinke with the Dutch-men complemant with the French-men some aiming onely to fetch Venus from Venice others studying to steale Matchievel out of Florence and generally bringing home fashions rather than faith and many more vices rather than vertues Others also by the change of the aire have tooke their advantage to change their religion which is quite averse to the old Proverbe Coelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt such as crosse the seas and travell from one Province unto another though they receive new aire yet keepe their old mindes yet this was verified in him who well knew no errour to bee so dangerous as that which is committed in Religion because therein and in the constant profession thereof subsisteth our perpetuall happinesse and ever-during felicity for truth is the medicine to a troubled spirit but if erroniously taught it turneth into mortiferous poyson The ancient Fathers have given their especiall markes by which the true religion may be knowne First that it serveth the true and onely God Secondly that it serveth him according to his word And thirdly that it reconcileth that man unto him which unfeignedly followeth it it is like an even square or ballance the rule and Canon by which wee are to direct our lives and the very touch-stone which discerneth truth from falshood moreover as vices border upon vertues so superstition reflecteth upon religion which Religion doth linke and unite us to serve one God with willingnesse and unanimity it is the guide and conduct of all other vertues and they who doe not exercise themselves therein therby to resist and oppose all false and erronious opinions are but like those foolish and unexpert souldiers who goe to warre without weapons now if all men as this Gentleman would but study the truth and strive to persevere therein the voluptuous man would therein seeke his pleasure the gormundizer his surfeit the proud man his ostent the avaritious man his wealth the ambitious man his glory for it is the onely mediocrity that can fill the vacuum and emptinesse of the heart and sate and satisfie the desire it serveth also for a skilfull Pilot to direct us the way to heaven when as the contrary is that blinde guide which leadeth us the broad and spacious passage to hell Briefly those men may be truely tearmed religious who refusing the vaine and transitory pleasures of the world wholly set their thoughts and mindes on divine contemplations and so much for his religion Now courage and courtesie are the two principal decorements that adorne a gentleman in neither of which he was any way deficient For the first as he was ever farre from giving any distaste so hee was never knowne to take any affront for valour consisteth not in hazarding a mans person without feare but to put on a noble resolution in a iust cause neither could this gentleman beare himselfe so innocuously in his youth but that he hath beene inforc't to make proofe of his valor in the field in which he still came off with honour and advantage but never boasting when he had the better but still sparing when he might have spoiled holding this maxime that to conquer is naturall but to pitty heavenly and it is the property of true courage to out-face danger conquer by custome and end with honour it contemneth all perills despiseth calamities and conquers death Quemcunque magnanimum videris miserum neges None that is magnanimous can be miserable Bias holding warre with Iphicrates King of Athens and by the disaster of Warre being round invironed by his enemies and his souldiers thronging about him and asking very timorously what hee would advise them in that extremity to doe with a bold and undaunted courage answered them againe Leave me and seeke your owne safeties if you be so minded and make report to those that are alive that your Generall dyed with courage fighting and I will tell to the dead that you escaped from death basely and cowardly flying But from his courage I come to his courtesie It is a true saying as a Tree is knowne by its Fruit the Gold by the Touch and a Bell by the Sound so is a mans Birth by his bounty his honour by his humility and his calling by his courtesie which not onely draweth unto us the love of strangers but the liking of our owne Country-men Mildnesse and Courtesie are the Characters of

The Phoenix 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 LONDON Printed by N. Okes and are to be sold by Richard Clotterbuck at his shop in little Brittaine at the signe of the golden ball 1637. Mr Henry Welby Gt. Aetatis Suae 84. Epitaph Obijt Die 29 Octobris 1676. Arabia yeilds a Phenix and but one England This Phenix and besydes him none To solitary Desarts boath retyer Not mindinge what the World doth most admire His Face though it was much desyr'd by many In forty foure yeares was not seene by any She in spyal flames in fervent zeale he dyes And Boath in Tyme new Phenixes shall ryse The Description of this Gentleman THis Gentleman Master HENRY WELBY was forty yeares of age before hee tooke this solitary life being eighty foure yeares old when hee dyed those that knew him and were conversant with him in his former time do report that he was of a middle stature a browne complexion and of a pleasant chearefull countenance his haire by reason no Barber came neare him for the space of so many yeares was much over-growne so that he at his death appeared rather like an Hermite of the Wildernesse than the inhabitant of a City His habite was plaine and without ornament of a sad colourd cloth onely to defend him from the cold in which there could bee nothing found either to expresse the least imagination of pride or vaine-glory The expence of his time was study the use he made of it meditation those houres he retired from reading he spent in prayer He bought all bookes whatsoever which came forth onely making use of the best such as broached controversie he laid by as aiming at the peace of his owne Conscience What should I say hee dyed living that hee might live dying his life was a perpetuall death that his death might bring him to an eternall life who accounted himselfe no better than a Glow-worme here on Earth that hee might hereafter shine a most glorious Saint in heaven Vpon the Life and Death of Master Henry Welby IF miracles and wonders with each Nation Doe strike the People there with admiration If it be so with them tell me I pray Why wee should not admire as well as they Wee have of late seene miracles in Nature Both for old age some small some great in stature I thinke wee gap't and star'd enough at those In which we did our folly much disclose And seeing wee have don 't so well before Faith let us wonder now a little more For we that were so perfect at it then Doe know the better how to do 't agen And furthermore 't is such a strange thing that You cannot blame a Man to wonder at Read and beleeve it for indeed 't is true This Picture here presented to your view Doth represent the subject of my verse The manner of his life I will rehearse First having spent abroad full forty yeares Some for his pleasure mixt with cares and feares Examaning himselfe he then retyr'd And spent the remnant that were unexpir'd In burning flames of zealous contemplation All for Gods glory and his owne salvation He bought all sorts of bookes what ere came forth Onely made use of them of greatest worth If any thing amisse therein he spyed He would be sure to lay that booke aside God had increas'd his Basket and his store And he thereof gave freely to the poore There was to him no greater recreation Than fasting praying reading meditation He closely kept himselfe from all mens sight On all occasions he his minde would write His life he led for forty yeares and more Besides the forty spoken of before Full foure and forty yeares 't was just so many And in that time was never seene by any His haire was growne as it is figured here That he much like a Hermite did appeare Though he be dead and gone yet let his name For ever live with never dying fame J. B. Vpon the Life and Death of Master Henry Welby WHat age is this we live in that does see And produce wonders above Antiquity Some Nature taxe as if our life and growth Were unto former times inferior both Yet we saw one of late that when he stood He look't as he were borne before the Flood A second numbring dayes as they should have No end or did defie Death and the Grave A third as if that Nature would amend And contract what she did before extend Is like a Pigmy in his height decreas'd Who now will say that Miracles are ceas'd Looke farther in Mens manners you will finde As great a disproportion in the minde We have a Welby can himselfe immure Within his Chamber and there live secure Forty odd yeares and rather more than lesse Than Israel once did in the Wildernesse He eate no Manna nor no fare so good And yet he never murmur'd at his food Flesh he abhorr'd and wine he drank smal beere Cowes Milke and water-gruell was his cheere It was not avarice nor hope of gaine Nor love towards his heire made him abstaine He was no Sectary no Anchorite Nor yet of that engagement to invite To such a strictnesse vaine applause to winne Nor was it any pennance for his sin But once upon distaste he took an Oath And since all mens society did loath Which made him live inclos'd thus yet his purse VVas open and the poore far'd ne're the worse He read all Bookes and for his recreation He used frequent Prayer and Contemplation O who can found the thoughts that doe arise From minds so rap't and fill'd with extasies Thus Welby liv'd according to his vow Whose Life to us was but a Death and now That he his wonted solitute may have He is retir'd to a more silent Grave Shackerly Marmion The Phoenix of these late times Or the life of M. Henry Welby Gentleman who lived at his house in Gruh-street forty foure yeares and was never seene by any aged eighty foure I AM to present you with one of that rare temperance and abstinence that the times past those present or those to come neither have already can now or but with great difficulty may hereafter yeeld a more rare president It is said of Fredericke the third Emperor that when the Physitians told him that his Empresse Augusta Leonora being then barren if she would drinke Wine from which shee had abstained from her youth in these cold parts of Germany she might easily have issue The Emperor after some pause assented thereunto but said withall Malim uxorem sterilem quam vinosam I had rather have a wife subiect to sterility than vinosity

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