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A03204	A funeral elegie, vpon the much lamented death of the trespuissant and vnmatchable king, King Iames, King of Great Brittaine, France and Ireland, defender of the faith Who to the vniuersall sorrow of the princes his allies, his owne kingdomes and people, expired the 27. of March, anno 1625. in the yeere of his reigne 23. Written by Thom. Heywood.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1625 (1625)	STC 13324; ESTC S106115	9,794	31

A FVNERAL ELEGIE LONDON Printed for Thomas Harper 1625. A FVNERAL ELEGIE VPON THE MVCH LAMENTED DEATH OF THE Trespuissant and vnmatchable King King IAMES King of Great Brittaine France and Ireland Defender of the Faith Who to the vniuersall sorrow of the Princes his Allies his owne Kingdomes and people expired the 27. of March Anno 1625. In the yeere of his reigne 23. Written by Thom. Heywood Tibul. Lib. 5. Eleg. 2. Non ego firmus in hoc non hac patentia nostro 〈◊〉 frangit fortui corda dolor LONDON Printed for Thomas Harper 1625. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE EDWARD EARLE OF Worcester Lord of Chepstoll Ragland and Gower c. Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter Lord 〈◊〉 Seale and one of the Kings most Honourable 〈◊〉 C●…fort THe continuance of your fauours and necessitie of my dutie Right Honourable as hauing beene the vnchanged Patron of all my weake and vnperfect labours that haue beene published euen from the first to the last haue compeld me bowsoeuer troublesome to your more serious and weightie designes to make this affectionate presentment of my long seruice and yet still due to your Lordship in these mourning papers Assuring my selfe that you who reioyst in so incomparable a Kings life will not refuse to ●…rtaine this sad Elegic of his death For euen amongst the greatest 〈◊〉 best of their vertues this is nor held the teast to have bec●… compossionate and heart-sad for the lamented losse of our so gracious and so good a King whose wisdome and his the whole earth not equall Account at ●…seech your Lordship is your 〈◊〉 grace and elemencie this solemno Obsequie performed to Him and obliged affection celebrated to you wishing you as many happie future ioyes as for King 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 been or shall hereafter be wept Funerall teares Thomas Heywood To the sad Reader TO thee Compa●… Reader 〈◊〉 I pay My lost of Duties at this Bayall●… 〈◊〉 For best of●… 〈◊〉 better give me Ieame Some thing to speake which I intraint recaine With as prepar'd and well-dissasta 〈◊〉 As it is freely to thy I haue obseru'd and still me thinker I see Beneath this goodly and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tree Now ruin'd and Vnder his shadow By his protection cheer'd and kept aliue Their growth and beauties multiply and thriue Sweld with increase their boughs on him depending Laden with ripe fruits to the ground euen bending Hath shadowed from the Winters bleake extremes And in the Summer the Sunnes scorching beames Yet this faire Dodon Oake late all-commanding Hath in his mightie ruine left them standing And not as we 〈◊〉 seene great buildings fall Crushing and Now Bettred to this day by his former graces Others by transplantation higher rear'd And to more eminence in Court preferr'd Excepting still those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That sought to sute his fauours with their merits Since some 〈◊〉 ●…rrely by him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To such great worth and goodnesse 〈◊〉 Rites due and needfull as For such a royall Patriot fr●… 〈◊〉 came Excuse me euen the weakest if I 〈◊〉 Not knowne to him that onely from him grow To others profit Yet neuer tasted of his And this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Reader 〈◊〉 Now if thou please to teares prepare thine eyes A Funerall Elegie DOubly at once despoil'd where shall I borrow T' expresse one priuate grief a two-fold sorrow Oh thou of all the nine the saddest Muse Whose Inuocation I of force must vse Giue me direction in what Funerall straine A Subiect may a Soueraignes losse complaine It were too little should we weepe whole Seas And sigh huge tempests what alas could these Or could we to our selues assume a powre To drop vpon the earth a greater mowte Then made the generall deluge t were too small Sufficiently to weepe his Funerall Let the Gangetick shores their Emperors boast Or where Chiaspes is renowned most Let Tanais speake of Princes neere it bred Let Granicus that of Darius dead Keepes memory or such as crowne the stile Of Potentates bred by the Riuer Nile Sca●…der shew thy worthes or thou Rine Thy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or faire Tiber thine The all 〈◊〉 Caesars Let that stood That in the greatest compotence 〈◊〉 stood For Ancestry that flowes through France or Spaine They for priority shall 〈◊〉 in vaine Since about the●… or thy Londons Thames Hath bin ma●… glorious by the great King IAMES He than the Romans with the Greeks compar'd And punctually their amplitudes declar'd Of such as werain veriucs anteoelling Their greatnesse and their goodnesse paralelling Though in his search of Annals he might finde Matches and likes in fortunes and in minde For Iustice Mercy Bounty Wisdome Glory Or for what else could dignisie a Storie Obserues no equall to Him mourned here Who as he liu'd so dyde without compeere For sound in struction and wise document He might haue bin a remark'd president To th'Sages of whose memory euen Greece Is proud to this day more then of their Fleece For what by any of them hath boene done Like to his gift bequeath'd vnto his Sonne Had graue Hartenfius in his time so Fam'd Or Cicero by some before him nam'd Heard his smooth ●…oquence which was 〈◊〉 But their●… 〈◊〉 laboure●… and premoditante They would have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as forhemring To giue his Languages delightfull hearing The Academics both his fluence praise And worthily did laurtace him with Bayes In Parlaments phat were by him acci●…ed Where then the members with the head vinted Sate in delibe●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Of pol●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and deepe designet of State You might observe them in his words inelining As to an Oracle He still diuming Nothing but ●…mmongo●… did beb●… speak The wisest there to him to 〈◊〉 foem'd weak His apprehensions and concepcious growing Like Hydraes heads for with continuall flowing Conceirbogot conceit by all admir'd As still in course and yet at no time tyr'd No phrase but was an Apotheg●… Inn●… New and unwearied to bego●… Nothing that slipt him but to be inrold By pens of Diamonds in rich leaues of Gold But whether this so said 〈◊〉 depriuation Be for the many sin●…es of this our Nation Or for our great Ingratituds not estimating So great a blessing inther vnder-rating This gemme beneath his value as possest Of mighty wealth like Mysers nay the best Yet in this height of fulnesse did not 〈◊〉 it To others good but in our selues abuse it Or to what else our losse we may impute This all-good-speaking Oracles are mute Yet haue his vertues in their last bequest Departing to his cuerlasting rest To recompence the silence of that tongue Which might haue still his own deseruinge song Behinde him left to all succeeding dayes Myriads of pens and tongues to sound his praise I onely yet speake to y●… how he spake But of his actions who shall notice take Shall finde them if they but consider well As farre as good works good words to excell His Machination●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 common things Leauing a president to after Kings Of which he onely and

alone might boast That seeming to doe least he still did most The King of Peace this King did imitate Who planting it in our domesticke state Did labour it in others remote hence Sparing therein not counsell nor expence But so his purpose to his Sauiours suited Who the command of peace first instituted Knowing no better president to finde He where he left vs left his peace behinde Yet as the couchant Lyon when he lyes Downe to repose and rest ne're shuts his eyes Hee the like prouidence about him kept And still wakt for vs when he seeming slept For when whole Christendome was vp in Armes Frighting the fearefull Subiect with alarmes Nations distracted euen the great'st abilitie Of the most potent weakned with hostility Drums each where thundring the Canon roaring Proud victory tweene doubtfull battailes soaring While horrid warre in his extream'st of rage Fill'd both the streets and fields with blood and strage How haue these late afflicted Kingdomes wondred To see vs in our blessed Goshen sondered As freed from Egypts plagues no way distrest Yet they with all calamities opprest Ruins attending them on vs increase Still multipli'd by this faire King of peace Wherefore should I thus labour to commend Him whose renowne is datelesse without end Subiect to no expression their least straine Not within compasse of the pen or braine Scarce dare I further in his praise proceed Being a proiect that in me doth breed Amazement onely as so far aboue My weake performance that the more I loue The more I feare for as a moderate light Comforts the eye and benefits the sight But view the Sun in 's glory and we finde That his more perfect lustre strikes vs blinde 'T is eath t' apply His worth being so diuine In all respects and so defectiue mine Yet shall my loue so farre outstrip my feare Rather to dare then breake abruptly here Ere I proceed let me a little borrow Space to collect my selfe high drown'd in sorrow Beware the Ides of March 't was a prediction To him that had the whole Worlds Iurisdiction Iulius the first of Caesars who declin'd Iust in the houre that was before diuin'd In th' Ides of March the blest Eliza fell The famous Mother of our Israel In March Queene Anne a Princesse much admir'd As much lamented in her death expir'd Now lastly in these ominous Ides of March Is snatcht away our strong and glorious Arch As violently by death from vs extorted By whom three mighty Kingdomes were supported And had he not an Atlas left behinde Succeeding him in potency of minde In vertue goodnesse royalty of State And all things that a Sonne may imitate So great a Father in so iust so wise So rare a Phoenix suddenly to rise Out of his Ashes in a Time so small We likewise had bin crushe beneath his fall Oh ominous Moneth thou didst our losse presage When with thy windy and obstreperous rage Thou vsher'dst in the Spring yet I commend Thy going out thou lest'st-ys as a friend And fellow mourner as to all appeares Parting with vs in many showres of Teares In strange varieties of stormy weather Snow raine haile windes and in all these together Weeping and sighing But O King t' attend thee How many Noble seruants did death send thee As harbingers before to view the place Where thou art anchor'd now the land of Grace Richmond and Lenox Duke whose memory was Worthy to be ingrau'd in Iron or Brasse For his inimitable modesty And what doth grace euen Princes honesty Integrity of life nay euery Thing That might become a kinsman to a King It was the noble Earle of Dorsets taske To make one likewise in this dolefull maske And much more cause we should haue still to need him Had he not left behinde here to succeed him So braue a brother one so good so wise In all true Noblesse him to equalise Then Lenox Duke a brother him succeeding Alike indow'd as of one birth and breeding In this the partiall sisters were too blame To take him hence so soon as giue him name Now Duke now dead stooping to th' earth his knee Ere he could well expresse what he would be Then Nottingham a Pilot who did steere Englands once dreaded Nauie many a yeere Who though he cut his cable ere he dyde Brought here his Ships in a faire Port to ride Henry Southamptons Earle a Souldier proued Dreaded in warre and in milde peace beloued Oh giue me leaue a little to resound His memory as most in dutie bound Because his seruant once His worth exprest Can no way be detraction to the rest HENRY WRIOTHESLY Earle of Sowth-Hampton His Anagram Thy Honor is woorthe all praise A short Elegie vpon the ANAGRAM THy Honour 's woorthe all praise 't is true the same By which we Anagram matise thy name Thrice Noble Henry which let me define And first shew wherefore Honour next why Thyne Last from thy Ashes vrne to build and raise A Monument to proue it Woorthe All prayse If onely that bare honour here were ment Which Heraldry allowes thee from discent And onely that inherent vnderstood Which lineally Nobilitates the blood It rankes thee equall with the great'st of Peeres Deriuing thee from long forgotten yeeres But that 's thy least though some affect it most Of that which is not ours why should we boast The noble seedes in our fore-fathers sowne May well be tearm'd our Grandsires not our owne But happy those their Ruins can repaire And husband still their Names from heire to heire Wriothesley was such in all things striuing To gaine a Name by Arts and Armes suruiuing Beyond all Marble which at this time weepes Vpon the bed where now this worthy sleepes Cambridge thy pupillage thy youth the Court And singularity that can best ●…opprt Of thy braue valour Ireland witnesse can Writing thee Souldier euen as soone as Man And what as natiue was in thee begon Thy valour left success●… to thy Son Let Belgia mourne with vs a double losse Your gold repur'd thence you haue left them drosse Let me looke backe againe to Ireland where Me thinkes I see thee a braue Cheualeere Commanding others and so farre extend Thy worth as onely to be tearm'd the friend Of Noble Essex such thy friendship was Deseruing to be character'd in Brasse And euer read shrield with a stentor's breath 'Twixt you it liu'd and parted not in death Thy patience in thy troubles thousands sing Thy innocence the goodnesse of the King Crown'd at 's inauguration whose free grace Suited thy merits both with gifts and place And thou whose wisdome seem'd obscur'd but late Thought worthy to be Councellor of State And honour'd with the Garie●… we fuide then Kings through the brest see more then common men Religion which becomes a Statesman best Was in thy bosome planted and irop●…est Without all schisme or faction charitie Deuotion bounty noble curtesie Which many sweld and pust with