a bed of flowers Like as of Helens teares once came The hearbe which Emila we name A floure he was and as a floure he died But now to stars as fairer flowers is hied There to behold the chiefe rose of the field The fairest Lilly that the vallies yeild Sweet flowre of peace loue both red white That God and man together doth vnite R. S. Coll. Iohan. Two Countries do contend for me Faire Albion and Italie To both I owe my selfe at once There was I borne here lye my bones There did I rise here do I fall That gaue me birth this buriall That was my cradle this my graue There had I life here death I haue But that gaue life which now is runne This life which neuer shall be done R. F. Pemb H. Admired Maro let me vse thy name To proue Aeneas to Italia came Italian Knight if I should dare define That thou art come of this Aeneas line How ere perhaps some Critick wil say no Yet will thy life and likenesse proue 't is so And yet me thinkes Vlisses though a Greeke Was like Horatio too since both did seeke A toong of eloquence so by a chast wise Each of them had three children in his life And now to trauell is Horatio gone Leauing his Penelope to mourne alone Now doth she tell her selfe how he doth liue And to her thread of life that doth length giue Now doth she thinke hee 's dead and gins lament And wish her thread of life were also spent Thus like Penelopes lingring web of paine She weaues her life and it vnweaues againe But it may be when twentie yeares are past That thy Vlysses will returne at last A ye if he were on earth but hee 's too wise For earth to leaue the heauens faire Paradise R. Sen. Coll. Iohn See here lie Myrmidons more hard then steele That no remorse nor woe could euer feele This deare deare tombe that doth Horatio keepe And learne of this moist marble how to weepe Idem The Elements that when he was a liue Conspired in one to giue Horatio breath Are since he dy'd deuided and do striue Which shall be kindest to him after death The earth doth promise gently to enfolde His tender body in her colde embrace And for he softly trode commaunds the molde Softly to he vpon his louely face The water for his sake to teares will turne And drowne all eyes in neuer ceasing woe That where Horatio they gin to mourne Whole streams may from the swelling circles floe The ayre will through his lightsome Regions sound In doubled ecchoes great Horatios fame That through the world no Kingdome may be found Whose vtmost shore haue not receiu'd the same The fire no more will burne his Pictures frame But gliding from his natiue seate aboue Will henceforth vse the vertue of his flame In kindling hearts with dead Horatios loue N. F. Reg. Coll. England lament thus of thy neighbours checkt A straunger came thy fruitfull wombe to cherish But him thou sufferest without due respect Vngratefully within thy wombe to perish For such a one within thee is inshrinde As of thy owne scarce one is left behinde S. H. The fates are Queenes they cannot be controld This obiect proues it who can it denie Their law is ostracisme mongst yoong and old They expulse the best for still the best doth die But A eacus is iust what ere betides At Plutoes Court I le sue these homicides I. Cecill S. Iohns Coll. To the suruiuing Lady of the deceased Knight WAst Venus no. The fates haue stolne your loue Oh cut-throat queans I hope they heare me not This yeare for-soothe they spunne tissue for loue To gaine a thread they 'le spoyle a true-loue knot Let not his absence Lady be your dome Phaebe shines most when Phaebus is from home Idem Noctuluctus or his Night-mourning 1 RIch tapird-Sanctuarie of the blest Pallace of Ruth made all of teares and rest Day of deepe Students dead Night nurse of death Who breathlesse seed'st on nothing but our breath To thy deepe shades and desolatione I consecrate my dying liuing mone 2 You dreadfull Furies visions of the night With ghastly howling all approach my sight And palish Ghosts with sable Tapers stand To lend sad lights to my more sadder hand Foxes come barke and Night-Rauens belch in grones And Screetch-owles hollowe times confusiones 3 Or I will furnish vp a Funerall bed Strew'd with the bones and reliâ—ques of the dead Redoubling Ecchoes shall like passing bells Chiming the dismall accent of their knells Reuiue the dead or make the liuing die In Ruth and terror of deathes torturie 4 Here liues imprisoned sorrow cloath'd in blacke A dolefull hearse fit for a dead mans backe Natures faire red clad in pale sheetes of Ruth Expressing in dumbe shew a serious truth A Funerall solemniz'd in sad cheere Where eies be mourners and where legs the beere 5 But ah my Muse my Muse can but lament With haire disheueld words and teares half spent This dead quick-spirit wits strange Cameleon Which any authors colour could put on And not in one sole tongue his thoughts dissuÌ„der But like to Scaliger our ages woonder The learneds Sun wrapt in whose admiration The rarest wits are fir'd in euery Nation 6 Whose happie wit with gracious iudgemeÌ„t ioyn'd Could giue a pasport unto words new coynd In his owne shop who could adopt the strange Engraft the wilde enrich with mutuall change His powerfull stile yet sanz respect of sweetes Death folded vp his earth in earthen sheetes 7 O had I eyes to weepe griefes great'st excesse Or words expressing more then words expresse Each line should be a Historie of woe And euery accent as a dead mans throe 8 But teares shall serue for Inke for paper stones Eyes pens for letters drops for subiect mones For Epitaph these Threnes Entomb'd here lies In graue of memorie digd with weeding eies Wits strange Cameleon dead quick-sprited Roman Most like himselfe else almost like to no man Arts various-varnish enricht so with th' Italian French Latine Spanish Dutch and Nubian That Rome Rheyn Rhone Greece Spain Italy May all plead right in his Natiuity 9 Ye liuing spirits then if any liue Whom like extreames do like affections giue Shun shun this cruell light and end your thrall In these soft shades of sable Funerall Omnis vt vmbra Io May An other Muses losse lamenting treasure Dest'nies crosse-tormenting pleasure Wisedome wayling honour crying Vertue weeping Iudgement dying Altogether all betoken Griefes-griefe not without griefe spoken Learnings Legend Physicks Phusicke Sence of Science Muses musicke Pandoraes Dowry Graces Glory Sad Melpomines sad Story Write in teares and in teares read Natures grace Horatio dead Dead not dead in heauen he raines Dying life such liuing gaines Liuing-dying was his state Now dying liuing spite of Fate Rais'd from earth to heauen where liuing Liues concent concent life-giuing Though bodies life here dead do lie Life of his soule liues ne're to die The same Idem Lectori In Funera Pallauicinaea ASpice quot vates Pallauicinaea crearint Funera quos nunquam vates potuêre Magistri Reddere noctem vnam magnos fecisse Poetas Fama est extempso velut olim Perseus inter Enituit summos vates Helicone relicto Tu modo si quis aues fueris conaâ—ine tanto Versifices inter si non potes esse Poeta Eia age sis delubra Deum delubra Dearum Sedulus implora totumque Helicona duobus Haustibus epotans ingentem imitare furorem Atque altum quiddam spira dignumque cothurno Ad fingendum audax sic nostri ex tempore facti Grandiloqui vates sic tu plaudente popello Si nihil est aliud dic occubuisse Mineruae Aonidumque decus dic interijsse decorem Pol Latij et qui omnes paenè praedatus Honores Dic obijsse diem dic inuida Fata colosque Detestare nigras nentesque ex ordine Parcas Exagita diris Musasque Apollina quoquo Versu itera atque illas vitam attribuisse perennem Defuncto exclama mortem nos viuere vitam Illum perpetuam vatesque videbere tandem Dum nulla occurret melior via trita terenda'st Idem Pictoribus â—que Poëtis SIvspiam vapulet Priscianus Bone Sciaâ— Lector vapularâ— a Typographo Si verbum syllaba vel desit litera Veâ— punctum scias culpa est Typographi Est primum tempus parce nunquam prius Latinas literas impressit hic Typographus Si non parces nunquam imprimet imposterum Io May Ceâ— potius alter Idem Ignotus FINIS
time aspire to higher place And effect wonders by enchaunting wand It hath alreadie turned earth to water It may drie vp your sea of teares hereafter This colour suting to the time I chose Hoping it might be pretious in your eyes This blacke those faire and that it would expose By foule your fairnesse as two contraries Let them be white and black together placed Are by their opposition ioyntly graced My book 's a perfect mourner see it weares Your liuery and mourneth for your Lord His patron drops of Inke in steed of teares Haue blubbred his leaues His strings accord Vnto the mourners fashion all in all It goes as they went to the funerall In this respect you ought to welcome it That it will be copartner of your griefe Nor suffer you alone lamenting sit But mourning with you giue some reliefe 'T will tell you he you mourne for is not dead But from this country to a better fled My child I cald it for his infancie Because it cannot tell his tale of wo As it conceaues but onely yet can crie And sound the name of dead Horatio When it growes troublesome do you but will it It soone will cease cease crying and you still it It onely yet can cry but when t is growne Able to tell his mind in better words If you meane while vouchsafe it for to owne It then shall giue you what his skill affords Then shall you gather for these weeds I yeeld A Coal-wort at the hardest in your field Your Ladiships bounden in all dutie and seruice Theophilus Feild Horatio's departed so men do say Great pittie he could here no longer stay Say hee 's departed say not hee 's dead Nor as of others let of him be sed He was not quelde nor conquered of death But him did combat while he was in breath His breath him failing cause he would not fite He challeng'd death and for he has his rite His body challendg'd as a challenge gloue He gaue his body plighting faith to proue Death in a deadly combat and affray When the last sound shall call all men away Till then his soule aboue doth heauenly pleasures gaine Then will his bodie win from death for aie to raigne T. S. Pemb. Horatio's departed so I heard them say Pittie he could here no longer stay Say hee 's departed say not he is dead But from one place vnto an other sped Say not of him that he is dead and gone Say onely he is gone With company or alone His wife and children he hath left behind Though to haue borne him company was their mind But thus he thought a long dead way and ill For them poore soules to go it would them kill Alter Idem Another Who sayes Horatio died in his bed He lyes he died like a dubbed head He di'd I say like knighthood in the field Encountring death which forc't him not to yeeld I saw the fight the knight nere shrunk for death But stoutly stood too 't while he was in breath When breath him failed his foe him did cōfound With deadly blow he feld him to the ground A cowards part Might he haue tooke his winde The knight had liu'd yea kild I beare the minde Who dying mindfull of his honor graspt And held his armes men dying vse hold fast Nor did his foe out of the field them carry You saw the Herauld did them with him bury The same Another A Knight of late death challen'd into field To fight a combat at sword and shield The Knight him answer'd as did become And when they met as I haue heard by some He felly fought and stood to 't to the death He tride it out till he was out of breath A noble knight death did him valiant finde And had the worst while he might fetch his winde Pittie our life 's no better then a blast And brauest mind should so be spent at last When breath him faild that day was at an end He ceas'd hi◠sword against his foe to bend And giuing death the glory of that fray Dar'd him to try t againe another day Withall his corps his challenge for to proue He cast in steed of gantlet or of gloue And swore by th' honour of his head he would Againe recouer what was cast on mould Death tooke vp one and vndertooke the other And bids him poynt both place and places brother He points the Church-yard and the latter day When sound of Trumpe shall batle bid array The same What i st thus many eyes one obiect haue And all are bended to yon new made graue O t is on yonder Corse their eyes are fixt It sor to see thus people here are mixt And as the twinckling diamonds of heauen When all thing◠are of Phaebus light bereuen B◠spred the heauens appearing to our sight And lend the earth their litle borrowed light So they all deeming this thrise worthy Knight Worthy more dayes his day now turn'd to night Endeuour to illustrate with their light In spight of clowdie death to make him bright They do not looke vpon the fatall bere As most of them afore accustom'd were His body hauing lost his soule and breath They say's become a soule vnto the earth His Coffin is a Coffer as they say Wherein this wary world thought good to lay This pretious Iewel brought from farther parts An ornament to Schollers and the Arts. T. S. Pemb. Horatios Coffin no more it call Death's Coffin call 't if ye call 't at all Wherein he hath laid vp a pretious Pearle A Noble man though neither Lord nor Earle Muse you on earth death would not let him tarrie Men in the earth their Treasure vse to burie Alter Idem The conquest of two Traitors Enuie and Death by the worthy Knight Sir Horatio Pallauicino ENuy and Death conspired both togeather Gainst Sir Horatio two leane-fac'd fiends Which euer haunt the best birds of one feather Voyd of all loue that pray vpon their friends Both qualifi'd alike both treacherous Enuy is deadly death is enuious Th' one to the body mortall wounds doth giue The other doth impeach a mans good name Th' one pines the other liues by them that liue Yet fretteth at the liuings liuing fame Th' one is like Sagittarius with shafts dight Th' other like Scorpio's venomd teeth doth bite This the conspiracie was which they wrought That Enuy for his life 's vncertaine lease Should wrack his fame whose ouerthrow she sought When death should warning giue then to surcease Death vowed not to hasten till that houre When Enuy on his name should haue no pow're Enuy who neuer lookt with cheerfull eye Was glad at this wishing no longer date Her malice all-bewitching force to try And exercise her inward-boyling hate Thinking that sooner heate would fire faile Then any thing her force abate or quaile Eftsoones she as impatient of delay With tooth and nayle endeuor'd to outrace His rising fame taking the cause away Vertue I meane and good deeds
him for his fist thy Muse vpraise As high as he is arme a box on the eare A pox vpon his hand much kinder they Who with a flea in eare do send away It bites not halfe so much who lookes for more Then flap with Foxe-taile nay t is well if so We scape yet make a crosse vpon his dore Nere beg more there O my Horatio My patron when I view these Carles in grosse Thy death presents to me a greater losse I was a deare deare plot of ground to thee I was waste ground till in a barren field Made fruitfull by thy liberalitie You sowed and planted yet I nere did yeeld Better then flowers in them thou lookest delight Liuing with them thy deads corpes shall be dight Sixe winters did thy bountie raine on mee Sixe sommers with thy Sun-beames ouersplead So many sommers brought not into thee One haruest I still green thou withered Before my fruite be ripe for I could pay Tithe of thy April shewres in flowres of May. Would thou hadst liu'd till Pan the shepheards god Had entertained me into his rout I might haue charm'd mens eares with Arons rod Shimey his railing toong haue pulled out Giue vertue her due praise which neuer liues Till death to enuy death and honour giues Would thou hadst liued till then and then thy field For all thy cost and labour would haue paide Some better vse now onely it doth yeeld Tenne in the hundred being ouerlaide With too much seed If teares were spent and all My Land-lord might haue lost his principall But I am rich in teares oh that they could Supple thy withered rootes reduce thy spring My earth should turne to water and I would Weepe Oceans when I could no longer wring One poore teares sap from fountain of my eies My heart should be thy tombe I here he lies Namque prius timidi pascenter in aethere Cerui Et freta destituent nudos in littore pisces Ante perratis amborum finibus exul Aut Ararim Parthus bibet aut Germania Tigrim Quam nostro illius labatur pectore vultus Vpon the same Death went a rouing for to finde a marke His day is night his white is blacke and darke At last by chaunce a paire of Doues he spide Who had three louely Pidgions by their side Fiue louely birds in all all full of life Too faire a bootie for so foule a thiefe His arrow to his bowstring he did fit And so the biggest and the fairest hit But in the foote who could not runne away The other fled so he seiz'd on his pray And well they did to flie for sure he ment T' haue kill'd them all but missing his intent He doth excuse his fact and sayth that hee Meant to kill none but skare the yoonger three How comes it then this faire Doue lost her mate He kild him sure for loue and not for hate For Death indeed with Cupids arrowes dight Sought the loue shaft on deadly shaft did light Why shot he not at her He oft did trye Shee was too glorious obiect for his eye Had he kild both I would haue surely thought That Venus for her chariot had them bought Yet see not how of price they could agree Since the two Doues could no way valued bee Why kild he not the yoong ones Oh quoth he They smil d vpon me ' thad bene crueltie Besides ripe fruit fed foule make death best cheare As yet yong Pigens out of season were T is well thou slew'st not them for on their death Did hang a fiuefold threed of vitall breath T is well thou slew'st not her for had she dy'de None but death should haue bene his second bryde And mother to his young ones So in this Death hath bene mercifull our comfort is He liues and still shall liue in his whom wee Murdred by deaths dead hand suppose to bee And yet then so liues better for indeed The cause why this my Doue to heauen did speed Was this Ioues Eagle was in some disgrace This Doue made Eagle does supply his place The same An other Dead doubtlesse death thinkes Sir Horatio is But death deceiu'd he tooke his markes amis Two yoong Horatios he hath left behinde The liuely Image of the fathers minde In them Horatio liues in spight of death And shall so long as they on earth draw breath Good lucke it was doubtlesse had death them seene These two fine boyes now liuing had not beene Your Ladiship he saw but thought you might Be kild with griefe for your deceased Knight Deceiue wise Ladie his expectation In making mone and lamentation Cheare vp your heart yet looke still as you cried And see your pretie sweetings be not spied The same An other Once Sir Horatio from the Pope did steale He stole away into our Common-weale But well and wisely from hence he stole Where still he liued in perill of his soule But ill thou didst to steale the second time Away from vs that was no veniall crime True it was mortall death was is in the faut That stole him hence for some lookt on saw 't Who did their part in making hue and cry Which forc't the theefe the while forgoe his booty Yet afterwards he spied his time and sped Doo what they could that stood then by his bed I rather thinke he got himselfe away At least consented to his dying day Nor can I iustly blame him for his deed What brought him hither made him hence to speed His soules estate which was not at the best Vntill it came to euerlasting rest The same An other If when the partie hath penance done And in a white sheete stood his time For him that lawe and penaltie will shunne It is not good once â—o obiect the crime Deserue not they be taught to rule their tongue That now he lies lapt in his winding-sheet Stick not to do that noble Knight such wrong In saying still their doue will with them meet He robd the Pope did other things beside Wherein he was the while he liued belide The same Another A wandring Knight was Sir Horatio In this the lowe and other Countreys mo He liued and died a straunger with vs here Why name I where that 's neither here nor there All men on earth they runne a straungers race Passe on along and haue no biding place Wherefore Horatio died not for age He died because our life 's a Pilgrimage The same An English man Italionate Becomes a diuell incarnate But an Italian Anglyfide Becomes a Saint Angelifide Ed. Ma Pemb Hall To the right vertuous his much honoured Lady the Lady Pallauicino THus haue I cloath'd my childe the second time Because I had no flowers in mourning weed Both fields and flowers and weeds are past their prime Doo on them all a charitable deed It lyeth in the flagges exposde reiected Vnlesse by your faire hand it be protected Like Pharo's daughter take it into grace Though meanly borne yet brought vp by your hand It may in