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A15043 A remembraunce of the precious vertues of the right honourable and reuerend iudge, Sir Iames Dier, Knight, Lord cheefe Iustice of the Common Pleas who disseased at great Stawghton, in Huntingdon shire, the 24. of Marche, anno. 1582. The reporte of George VVhetstons, gent. Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587? 1582 (1582) STC 25345; ESTC S111683 7,053 21

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time was come Could by no Plea defer his fatall doome VVhen Sicknesse came the messenger of death He patiently his sommons did obay See heere the end of all that draweth breath Night clowdes quod he the sun brightest day The huge high Oke a blast dooth ouerwaye So Prince not peere to saue them from the graue Noe Charter haue more then wretched stand A heauy tale vnto the worldly wight That hath health wealth and in his bowels peace But folish man and foe to thy delight Thy sorrow leaue thou liu'ste by this discease As buryed corne consumes ere it increase For flesh and blood no lasting life can giue But beeing dead the soule dooth euer liue If mén with zeale this difference foresawe A chaunge in life I hope would foorth with bee Fiat per me could neuer stand for lawe The Cleargies workes should with their wordes agree The Iudge would Iudge as he would Iudged be This sentence would the murdrers hart affright The sheathe shall woūd who with the sword doth smight And to be short all sorte of men would learne To liue to die and die to liue againe For what auay les a world of rule to yearne To lose the soule and leaue the same in fyne Bothe lands and goods men must of force resigne And onely keepe their actions good and bad Them to condemne or else with joyes to clad More would I saye if greefe to ease gaue place But all in vaine weakenes commaunds my wyll The tyred Iade dooth trip at euery pace when pampred horse doo praunce against the hill So fewe woords the sicke mans hart dooth kyll VVhen healthfull men with long discourses play But what is breefe may best be borne away These woords and more of more deuine regarde He soundly spake when as his hart was ill His seruaunts paines he largely did rewarde To Orphants poore whose Father he was still Bothe lands and goods he did bequeathe by will And other gifts of charitie did giue VVhich scape my Pen but make his same to liue Lords claime quod he a Heriot of the dead A homage dew and men their rights must haue bound to my Prince by seruice looue and dread Tys iust I paye a Heriot for my graue VVherefore I will her Maiestie shall haue My Diamonde and my Chaine of honnor eke So showde his zeale at death was not to seeke His worldly wyll in order thus dispos'de His care was past he found his conscience cleare VVho yet aliue through hope in heauen repos'de And neither hell the Diuell nor Death did feare Thus like a Taper light his life did were And in the end at Stawghton he did die VVhere longe helyu'de and little liu'de awrye The heuē his soule the tomb thus shrowds his corse the world his fame while world doth last wil keep Vnto the wyse his deeds remay ne in force VVho for his death their harts in sorrow steepe But wronged men haue cause on cause to weepe VVherefore of right for euery eye to see VVheteas he lyes this moneing rau'de would be ¶ In obitum venerabilis et Consularis uiri Iacob Dier Equitis aurati et iurisperitssimi Epitaphium Conditur in tumulo Cato nostri temporis isto conditur O maestas Consulis ex●●ias Flet Princeps lugent proceres et corde sub imo plebs fundit refluas cum gemitu lachrymas Et merito nam fautor erat virtutis et auctor Consilijque simul Iusticiaeque Parens Et vitij durus Iudex censorque malorum et pius et multis vir generosus auis Et semper bonus ille bonis fuit ergo bonorum sunt illi demium pectora Sarcophagus Viuit post funera virtus The moste famous Orrators Poets of Greece were hyred by Queene Artimisea to eternise the life vertues of her husbād Mausolus The vveapons of vertue A custome vvith which the Venetians in their funetals do honour their Maiestrates Meete vertues for a Iudge He was borne in an house of aunce 〈…〉 woorship Vertue the best Cognizance of a Gentle Strand Inne sometimes an Inne of Chauncerie A good example for lawiers He liued 23 yeares to this 〈◊〉 He contraryed Arist opinion Amor et odium et proprtum comodum semper facet indices non cognoscere verum A good consideration Summum ius est ium ma iniuria The testimony of a good conscience Sufficient men ought to be placed in offices because they are seruaūrs of the common weale Sic volo sic Iubeo stet pro ratione voluntas Needefull reprehention Non facias altrui quod non vis tibi fieri Ignorantis iuris non excusat Sute of lavv is greeuous to all men The of fice of a good man The vertue of Musique ●emo sine ●crimine v●uit The enuious vvound themselues The imperious subscription of the Pope in his commissions and warrants alluded vnto tiranous Prynces which make their wyls a lavve He gaue to the Hospytall of saynt Bartholmea tvvo fayre houses and to other Hospitalles and almes houses money and lyuinges He bequethed the Queenes Maiestie his Coller of Esses and a very ritche Diamond