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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

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

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