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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

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