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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

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