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An epitaph vpon the death of the honorable, syr Edward Saunders Knight, Lorde cheefe Baron of the Exchequer, who dyed the. 19. of Nouember. 1576
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Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.
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An Epitaph vpon the death of the honorable syr Edward Saunders Knight Lorde cheefe Baron of the Exchequer who dyed the .19 of Nouember 1576. YOU Muses weare your mourning weedes strike on the fatal Drome Sounde Triton out the Trumpe of Fame in spite of Parcas dome Distyll Parnassus pleasant droppes possesse Pierides plase Apollo helpe with dolefull tune to wayle this wofull case Wring hard your handes wayle on your losse lament the fate that fell With sobbes and sighes to Saunders say oh Saunders nowe farewell Whom Pbaebus fed with Pallas pappe as one of Sibils seede Loe here where Death did rest his corpes the vermines foule to feede Whom Impes of Ioue with Nectar sweete long in Libetbres noursht Behold howe dreadfull Death him brought to that whence he came first Lycurgus he for learned lawes Rhadamanthus race that ranne Another Nestor for aduise Zaleucus fame that wanne A Damon deare vnto his freend in faith like Phocion found A Cato that could counsell geue to prince a subiect sound Not Athens for their Solon sage not Rome for Numa waile As we for Saunders death haue cause in flooddes of teares to saile Not Sparta card for Chilos death ne proud Prienna prest To weepe for Bias as we wayle our Saunders late possest His learned pathes his talentes rare so nowe by Death appeares As he that Salomon sought to serue in prime and youthfull yeares His counsell sadde his rules his lawes in countrey soyle so wrought As though in Cuma he had been of sage Sibilla taught His vertuous life was such I say as Uertue did embrace By Uertue taught in vertuous schoole to growe in vertuous race Might tender babes might orphantes weake might widowes rere the cry The sound thereof should pearce the cloudes to skale the empire sky To bidde the goddes to battel bend and to dissend in sight Though farre vnfit and mates vnmeete with mortall men to fight Too late alas we wyshe his life to soone deceiued vs Death Too little witte we haue to seeke the dead agayne to breath What helplesse is must carelesse be as Natures course dooth shewe For Death shall reape what life hath sowen by Nature this we knowe Where is that erce Achilles fled where is king Turnus shroude What is become of Priamus state where is Periander proude Hector Hanno Hanibal dead Pompei Pirrhus spild Scipio Cirus Caesar slayne and Alexander kild So long there Fortune fast dyd floe and charged Fame to sound Tyll frowning Fortune foyld by fate which fawning Fortune found Shun Fortunes feares shake Fortune of to none is Fortune sound Sith none may say of Fortune so I Fortune faithfull found Beholde where Fortune flowed so fast and fauoured Saunders lure Tyl fickle Fortune false agayne did Saunders death procure Lo clothed could in cloddes of clay in drossy dust remayne By fate returnd from whence he came to his mothers wombe agayne Who welnigh thirtie yeeres was Iudge before a Iudge dyd fast And iudged by that mighty Iudge which Iudge shall iudge vs all The heauens may of right reioyce and earth may it bewayle Sith heauen wan and earth hath lost the guide and arke of vayle There gayne is much our losse is great there myrth our mone is such That they may laugh as cause doo yeelde and we may weepe as much O happy he vnhappy we his happe dooth aye encrease Happy he and haplesse we his hap shall neuer cease We liue to dye he dyed to liue we want and he possest We bide in bandes he bathes in blisse the gods aboue him blest Being borne to liue he liued to dye and dyed to God so plaine That birth that life that death doo shewe that he shall liue agayne His youth to age his age to death his death to fame applied His fame to tyme his time to God thus Saunders liued and dyed O happy life O happier Death O tenne times happy he Whose happe it was such happe to haue a Iudge this age to be Oh ioyfull time oh blessed soyle where Pallas rules with witte O noble state O sacred seate where Saba sage dooth sitte Like Susan sound like Sara sadde with Hesters mace in hande With Iudiths sworde Bellona like to rule this noble lande I had my wyll you haue your wishe I laugh reioyâ—â— you may I wan now much you gaine no lesse to see this happy dâ—â— Wherein I died wherein you liue Oh treble happy cost Wherein I ioyed in glory greate wherein you triumph most Kneele on your knees knocke hard your brests sound forth the ioyful Drome Clappe loude your hands sounde Eccho say the golden worlde is come Reioyce you Iudges may of right your mirth may now be such As neuer earst you Iudges had in England mirth so much Here Cuma is here Sibill raignes on Delphos seate to sitte Here shee like Phaebus rules that can Gordius knotte vnknitte I liued to nature long yenough I liued to honor much I liued at wish I died at wyll to see my country such As neither needes it Numas lawes nor yet Apollos sweard For Mauger Mars yet Mars shal be of this our Queene afeard O peerlesse pearle O Diamond deer O Queene of Queenes farwell Your royall Maiestie god preserue in England long to dwell Farwell the Phaenix of the woorld farwell my soueraigne Queene Farwell most noble vertuous prince Mineruas mate I weene No Iuel Gemme no Gold to geue no perles from Pactolus lo No Persian Gaze no Indian stones no Tagus sandes to show But faith and will to natiue soyle a liue and dead I finde My hart my mind my loue I leaue vnto my prince behinde Farwell you nobles of this land farwell you Iudges graue Farwell my felowes freends and mates your Queene I say God saue What rise in time in time dooth fall what floweth in time dooth ebbe What liues in time â–ª in time shall die and yeelde to Parcas webbe â–ª The sunne to darknesse shall be turnde the starres from skies shall fall The Moone to blood the worlde with fire shall be consumed all As smoke or vapour vanishe streight as bubbles rise and fall As clowdes doo passe or shadowe shiftes we liue we die so all Our pompe our pride our triumph most our glory greate herein Like shattering shadowe passe away as though none such had bin Earth water ayre and fyre as they were earst before A lumpe confused and Chaos calld so shall they once be more And all to earth that came from earth and to the graue descend For earth on earth to earth shall goe and earth shal be the end As Christ descended vp in cloudes so Christ in cloudes shall come To iudge both good and badde on earth at dreadfull day of dome From whence our fleshe shall ryse agayne euen from the drossy dust And so shall passe I hope vnto the mansion of the iust Lodowick LLoyd EGO SVM VIA ET VERITAS DVM TEMPVS ABEMVS OPEREMVR BONVM ¶ Imprinted at London by H. S. for Henry Disle dwellyng at the Southwest doore of Saint Paules Church and are there to be solde December 3.