Selected quad for the lemma: death_n
Text snippets containing the quad
|
ID |
Title |
Author |
Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) |
STC |
Words |
Pages |
|
A19528
|
The poetical recreations of Mr. Alexander Craig of Rosecraig
|
Craig, Alexander, 1567?-1627.
|
1609
(1609)
|
STC 5959; ESTC S105002
|
11,162
|
33
|
as friends that fane wold see thy wrack Envy awaits on vertue as her slaue Yet still delights in digging vertues graue O pale Envy the ouldest childe of Pryd The Dame of Murther Treasons onely nurse Of glore the stane of squint-ey'd fraud the bryd The blesse of Hell and Heavens cheefest curse God grant my Lord be harmeles from thy hate Thy blood thy drink thine owne heart be thy meat TO JOHN EARLE OF MONTROSE first Vice-Roy of Scotland EPITAPH IF Rhadamanthus in th' Elisian field VVith Aeacus and Minos Judges bee And Gods over ghosts they all of due must yeeld For Pietie Truth Justice place to thee At least Montroes for Minos must command And beare his Scepter in the blessed land The Rapt of Proserpina SHall Ceres daughter still remane at hell Shall Pluto comb her eurling loks of amber Shall bewtie braue in loathsome bondage dwell And be imprison'd in a pitch-black chamber Ah sleuthfull Ceres thou art much to blame Thy negligence hath broght thy child to shame Proserpina hath bewtie both and wealth A pleasant prey entiseth many a theif Of bewtie rapt of riches must be stealth And from the hels we heare is no releif Proserpina is Plutoes wife it 's known The devill is black yet let him bruke his own Against Sycophants and Parasits FAlse Sycophant that wrongs the virteous name Proud Parasit thou poysons him that hear's thee And brings the absent to disgrace and shame Who neither cares for forged lies nor fear's thee When Titan shyns we see the vermin swarme Thou dwel'st at court because thou know'st it's warm False flattering foole thou art but friendships Ape Camelion-like thou changest every hew Saue white alone thou loath's an honest shape As cheef companion of the cursed crew Proud Trencher flee thy pansh once fild thou'ill goe And proue to him that feeds thee best a foe The praise of humilitie in his L. and Mr. IT seems me think a thing of small effect When Fortun frowns for to be meek and lowlie But he that can eies heart looks thoghts deject VVhen Fortun fauns is happie both and holie He looks like God and hath his makers show VVhose pow'r is much whose sprit is meek and low Of true friendship IN shaddie night the glow-worme shines like fire And yet no heat to frostie hand she lends In calme who swear's he lou's thee is a lier He 'ill shrink in storme and so his friendship ends Let Pythias then take Damon by the hand VVho for his friend in Fortuns stormes can stand TO THE MOST HONORABLE and religious Lord G. Earle Marschell great Commissionar of Scotland for his Majestie BRaue Cincinnatus from his house was broght To be Dictator in the towne of Rome Thou in this sort Religious Lord art soght Thy Princes place and seat for to assume He in a month put Rome to rest and peace And thou hast done much more in much lesse space Contempt of Death MEn seldome wish to die thogh nev'r so old This day of death they doe adjorne till morrow And by them all this fond excuse was told The life is sweete suppose they liue in sorrow Blind lame dumb leaf sick poore and more we see Men dam'd wold liue yet know they needs must die My wofull heart must weepe to see such fools As th'ould poore blind leame damd diseas'd deaf dum Broght vp and traind in Epicurus schools Can not beleeue there is a life to come God saies I haue a Crown of glore to giue thee Then call kill Crown for Lord I doe beleeue thee FINIS