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death_n	child_n	father_n	put_v	5,228	5	5.8876	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03470	Pancharis the first booke. Containing the preparation of the loue betweene Ovven Tudyr, and the Queene, long since intended to her maiden Maiestie: and now dedicated to the inuincible Iames, second and greater Monarch of great Britaine, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, with the islands adiacent.	Holland, Hugh, d. 1633.	1603 (1603)	STC 13592; ESTC S116940	23,955	84

the more you would haue mine published It was if you remember the worke or rather the Pastime of one Vacation Howbeit that can no way iustly excuse me For if the Destiny of these leaues should out-spin Nature in our liues how should posterity be informed in how short time the same were written All the writings of old time were as the Testaments of the writers But most of the writers of our dayes are as Executors to their writings not vnlike Hecuba in the Tragedy who in her owne life time saw the death of all her children And to say but truth had not I beene the more indulgent father these Rimes of mine which nigh vpon two yeares haue nowe layen by me had long since made windeing-sheetes for perfumed gloues in the EXCHANGE The last Summer I began to put this Infant then about some twelue-moneths old out of his foule and swatheling clowts and like our London Nurses who when they bring their foster-children to be shewed the friends dresse them vp in their best habilimen● wrote it out curiously with mine own hand think to haue gone into Scotland and to haue giuen it the King Towards whom my loyaltie I was in those dayes as daring to powre into your bosome as I found it ready to endeere the same Your loue to me and our duty to him gaue vs both confidence therevnto to speake nothing of particular Interest his Maiesty and you descended of two brothers hee from Rob. le Bruse and you from Bernard But ill newes carried me into Wales and vpon my returne Maister Secretary Herbert with whom was in commission the Noble and gentle Lord Eure and the right worthy and vertuous Maister Doctor Dun being ready to goe into Germany which was his thirteenth publike Employment I signified to his Honour the desire I had but once in my life to see the world for vntill then I had beene alwayes one of the Queenes Decre and he louingly consented thereunto Beleeue me Sir Rob. hee is the man I tooke him for and told you of I will not speake of honors and titles things like representations in glasses actuated by other but rather of his learning his wisdome 〈◊〉 honesty the first and last whereof are goodly Vertues in a man of his Fortune all three lying within the spheare of our owne actiuitie At Amste●red●● in my way homeward for I returned before their Lordships I met those good ill-newes of the Queen● death to whose honour and memory néque me m●●inisse pigebit ELISAE as by the Preface may appeare I had once entended this first booke of the Praeparation or Praeludium of the loue betweene Owen Tudyr and the Queene Which Praeface notwithstanding I will haue printed with the rest that I doe so much right to that dead Lady sometimes our Soueraigne Queene and Mistresse The very Gospel itselfe next which no gladder tidings could haue pierced our eares then that King IAMES his head should be inuested with the Royall Diadem did allow the Law an honorable buriall Neither should we fashion ourselues to such whose affection to her waxed cold before her body who thought they had done her a stout piece of seruice that they forsooke not her body before her soule did I iudge modestly of them all and hope it was but a longing they had to see his Maiesty whom God of his mercy long preserue lest he who hath freed vs from one curse of a Kingdome that is a Woman leaue vs vnto another that is a Childe I haue written an Acrosticke Sonet to his Maiestie a Canzonet to the Queene and another Acrosticke vnto the Prince whose Seruant I am by vow and subordinate Subiect by birth For I doubt not but his Noble Father will shortly kisse him and deliuer him the Verge of gold with his Patent whereby hee is entituled Prince of Wales Which though now high in nothing but Mountaines I hope one day shall be raised by his Graces presence In whom we claime a double interest as well by Walter Stewarte as Owen Tudyr both of them lineally descended from the most haught and magnanimous Princes of Wales My second booke if God spare life of the entertainment of their loue which I principally vow to the honour of the better parte of his Graces Principallity my beloued Country gentle Northwales where by the way I am to speake somewhat of the warres of Owen Glindoure with the worthy deeds of the two thunder-bolts of warre the Noble Percies I purpose to consecrate vnto his Highnesse As also the third booke of the perfection of their loue vnto the Queens Right excellent Maiestie For vnto whom should I dedicate the perfection of Loue but to the perfection of Beautie I speake this but by heare-say you haue seene her and know I flatter not from which fault if from any I am most free For in flattery saith Tacitus is the foule fault of Slauery and freedome of speach will be thought Malice Howbeit after the faire Example of our good friend M. Martin who with like libertie as eloquence was not afraide to tell the King the truth I will so comporte my selfe and wade warily betweene both that I euer carry the heart of a Monarchy and the tongue of a Common-wealth the one loyall the other liberall In which resolution I end Commending this Poëm to the conceipt of the Reader my selfe to you and you to God Your very louing Hugh Holland