his body was enterred with a gilt image were these sixe excellent verses written in golden letters contayning his greatest and most glorions atchieuementes as his victory against the Sicilians his conquering of Cyprus the sinkinge of the great Galiasse of the Saracens the taking of their Conuoie which in the East partes is called a Caruana and the defending of Ieppe in the holye land against them Scribitur hoc tumulo Rex auree laus tua tota Aurea materiae conueniente notâ Laus tua prima fuit Siculi Cyprus altera Dromo Tertia Caruena quarta suprema Iope Suppressi Siculi Ciprus pessundata Dromo Mersus Caruana capta retenta Iope But sharpe and satyrical was that one verse which by alluding noted his taking the Chalices from Churches for his ransome and place of his death which was called Chaluz Christe tui calicis praedo sit praeda Caluzis Sauaricus Bishop of Bath and Wells a stirring prelate which laboured most for the redeeming King Richard when he was captiue in Austria and is famous in the decretalls lib. 3. tit 9. 0 Nouit ille had this Epitaph for that he was alwayes gadding vp and downe the world and had little rest Hospes erat mundo per mundum semper eundo Sic suprema diès fit sibi prima quies And the like in late yeares was engrauen vpon the monument of Iacobus Triulcio a military man of the same metall as Lodonic Guicciardin reporteth HIC MOR TVVS REQVIESSCIT SEMEL QVI VIVVS REQVIEVIT NVNQVAM But â—imilis Captaine of the guard to Adrian the Emperor when he had passed a most toylesome life after he had retired himselfe from seruice and liued priuatly 7. yeares in the countrie acknowledged that he had liued only them 7. yeares as he caused to be inscribed vpon his monument thus Hic iacet Similis cuius aetas multorum annorum fuit ipse septem duntaxat annos vixit It may be doubted whether Wulgrine the Organist was so good a Musician as Hugh Archdeacon of Yorke was a Poet which made this Epitaph for him Te Wulgrine cadente cadunt vox organa cantus Et quicquid gratum gratia vocis habet Voce lira modulis Syrenes Orphea Phoebum Vnus tres poteras aequiperare tribus Si tamen illorum non fallet fama locorum Quod fueras nobis hoc eris Eliijs Cantor eris qui cantor eras hic charus et illî Orpheus alter eras Orpheus alter eris Vpon one Peter a religious man of this age I found this Petra capit Petri cineres animam Petra Christus Sic sibi diuisit vtraque petra Petrum Vpon the death of Morgan base sonne of king Henry the 2. was made this Epitaph alluding to his name in that alluding age Larga benigna decens iacet his stirps regia morum Organa Morgano fracta iacente silent In the time of king Henry the third they began to make Epitaphs as they call it now out of Propria quae maribus as some do in our age but among them this was short and good for William Erle of Pembroke and Marshall of England buried in the Temple church Sum quem Saeturnum sibi sensit Hibernia Solem Anglia Mercurium Normannia Gallia Martem And this was not bad for Richard de Clare Erle of Glocestor and Hertford which died Anno 1262. Hic pudor Hippoliti Paridis gena sensus Vlissis Aeneae pietas Hectoris ira iacet I doubt not but this time of Simon Montfort Earle of Leicester slaine at Euesham found fauour in that age as the Earle himselfe who was so followed by the people that he durst confront his soueraigne king Henry the 3. and as the Epitaph doth implie was the peerelesse man of that time for valour personage and wisdome Nunc dantur fato casuque cadunt iterato Simone sublato Mars Paris atque Cato Vpon a gentleman as some thinke named None buried at Wimondham who gaue nothing to the religiÌ„ous there was made this Hîc situs est Nullus quia nullo nullior iste Et quia nullus erat de nullo nil tibi Christe Excellent is this which I found in the booke of Wimondham for Pope Lucius borne at Luca Bishop of Ostia Pope of Rome and dying at Verona Luca dedit lucem tibi Luci Pontificatum Ostia Papatum Roma Verona mori Imo Verona dedit tibi verè viuere Roma Exilium curas Ostia Luca mori If you will see an ould Deane named Hamâ— Sol resembled to the twelue sonnes of olde father Annus which had euery one as Cleobulus was wont to call them thirty daughters some faire some foule all dying and neuer dying read this epitaph Participat mensis dotes cuiuslibet Hamo Circumspectus erat vt Ianus crimina purgans Vt Februus veterana nouans vs Martius ipse Semina producens vt Apâ—ilis flore coruscans Vt Maiuâ— facie plaudens vt Iunius intùs Feruens vt Iulius frugis maturiâ—â— adultae Messor vt Augustus faecundans horrea more Septembris replens vino cellaria more Octobris pâ—stor pecundum sed spiritualis More Nouembris epulator dapsilis instar Omne Decembris habet hiemalis peste quiescens Another playing vpon the name Hamon made this for him Olim piscator hominum quasi pisces ab hamo Mortis captus hamo celebrat conuiuia vitae But witty was this whereas he died in a Leape yeare vpon the leape day accounted so vnhappy a day of the Romans that Valentinian the Emperour durst not peepe out in that day one made this Hamo Decane iaces toto fugit exul ab anno Interitum Solis ausa videre dies Verely he was a man of some good note in that time for I finde another of him alluding also to this leape day Nulla dies anni nisi bisextilis et anni Iudicio damnata sui nec subdita mensi Sed noctis lux instar erat lux nescia lucis Et lux existens inter luces quasi bubo Inter aues huius poterat concludere vitam Solis et humanum genus hac priuare lucerna AlexaÌ„der NechaÌ„ a great learned man of this age as appeareth by his books de diuinae sapientiae laudibus was buried in the cloister at Worcester with this but deserued a better Eclipsim patitur sapientia sol sepelitur Qui dum vinebat studij genus omne vigebat Soluitur in cineres Neccham cui si foret haeres In terris vnus minus esset flebile funus A mery mad maker as they call poets now was he which in the time of K. Henry the 3. made this for Iohn Calf O Deus omnipotens vituli miserere Iohannis Quem mors praeucaiens noluit esse bouem Robert de Courtnâ—y was buried at Ford as appeareth by the register of that place 12 â—2 vnder a stately Piramis who whether he was descenâ—ed from the Earles of Eodessa or from Petre the soÌ„ne of 〈◊〉 the Grosse K. of FraÌ„ce had but this bad inscriptioÌ„ which I insert more for the
backe vnto his flocke Whereuppon the King sent vnto the Pope the armour that he was taken in and willed his Ambassadour to vse the words of Iacobs sonnes vnto their father when they had solde away their brother Ioseph Hanc invenimus vide vtrum tunica filij tui sit an 〈◊〉 This wee found see whether it be the coate of thy sonne or no. Nay quoth the Pope it is not the coate of my sonne nor of my brother but some impe of Mars and let him procure his deliverie of he will for I wil be no meane for him When the French king and king Richard the first beganne to parlee of peace his brother Iohn who had falsely and vnnaturally revolted vnto the French king fearing himselfe came in of his owne accord and suppliantly besought Richard brotherly to pardon his manifolde offences that he had vnbrotherly committed against him hee rehersed the straight league of brotherly piety he recounted the many merits of his brother he bewailed with teares that hitherto he had beene vnmindefull of them as an vnnaturall and vnthankefull person Finally that hee dooth live and shall live hee dooth acknowledge that hee hath received it at his handes The king being mollified with this humble submission saide God graunt that I may as easily forget your offences as you may remember wherein you have offended IN the wofull warres with the Barons when king Iohn was viewing of the Castle of Rochester held against him by the Earle of Arundel he was espied by a very good Arcubalister who tolde the Earle thereof and saide that hee would soone dispatch the cruell tyrant if he would but say the word God forbid vile varlet quoth the Earle that we should procure the death of the holy one of God What saide the souldier he would not spare you if hee had you at the like advantage No matter for that quoth the Earle Gods good wil be done and be wil dispose and not the King Math Paris When one about him shewed him where a noble man that had rebelliously borne armes against him lay verie honourably intoombed and advised the king to deface the monument he said No no but I would al the rest of mine enemies were as honourably buried Idem When diverse Greekes came hither and offered to proove that there were cettaine â—rrours in the Church of England at that time hee reiected them saying I will not suffer our faith established to be called in question with doubtful disputations Fragm antiquum aeditum à P. Pithaeo Yet when the saide king Iohn sawe a fatie Bucke haunched he saide to the standers by See how faire and fatte this Buâ—ke is and yet hee never heard Masse all his life long But this may be forged to his disgrace by the envious Math. Paris IN a solemne conference betweene king Henry the third of England and Saint Lewes king of France the onely devout kings of that age when the French king saide He had rather heare Sermons than heare Masses Our king replied which some will smile at now but according to the learning of that time That he had rather see his loving friend meaning the reall presence in the Sacrament than to heare never so much good of him by others in sermons This I note because it was then thought facetious which I doubt not but some wil now condemne as superstitious Gâ—â—l Rishanger Pecham that Opticall Archbishop of Canterbury who writte Perspectiva Communis when Pope Gregorie the tenth who had created him Archbishop commaunded him to pay foure thousand markes within foure moneths vnder paine of excommunication hee that came vnto the See then deepely indebted saide Beholde you have created me and as a creature doth desire to be perfected by his creator so I doe in my oppressions flie vnto your Holmesse to be recreated Archiep. Cantuar. Sewall Archbishop of Yorke much agrieved with some practises of the Popes collectors in England tooke all patiently and saide I will not with Chaâ— discover the nakednes of my father but cover and conceale it with Sem. As Constantine the Great saide that hee would cover the faults of Bishops and Fathers of the Church with his Imperiall robe Mat. Paris Pope Innocentius the fourth when he offered the kingdome of Sicil and Naples to Richard Earle of Cornewall with many impossible conditions You might as well say de the Earles Agent at Rome say to my Lord and Maister I sell or give you the Moone climbe vp catch is and take it Anonymus qui incipit Rex Pictorum Alexander successor to Innocentius sent vnto the saide Earle Richard to borrow a great masse of money but the Earle answered I wil not lend to my superior uppon whome I cannot distraine for the debts This Richard is reported by the saide Author to have had so great treasure that hee was able to dispend for tenne yeeres an hundred markes a day which according to the Standard of that time was no small summe Idem In the raigne of king Henry a Bishop of London stoâ—â—ly withstoode the Popes Nunciâ— that would have levied exactions of the Cleargie Whereupon the Nâ—â—ciâ— complained vnto the king who shortly menaced the Bishop and tolde him he would cause the Pope to plucke his peacockes toile but the Bishop boldely answered the King that the Pope and he being too strong for him might bereave him of his bishoprick by might but never by right and that although they tooke away his Mitre yet they would leave him his Helmet Lib. Cantuar. Wicked rather than wittie is that of a Deane high treasurer of England that had demeaned himselfe so well in his office that when he died he made this wicked will I bequeathe all my goodes and possessions vnto my liege Lords the King my body to the earth and my soule to the divell Idem VVHen Edward the first heard of the death of his onely sonne hee tooke it grievously as a father but patiently as a wise man But when hee vnderstoode shortely after of the departure of his father king Henry the third he was wholy deiected and comfortlesses whereat when Charles king of Sicile with whome he then soiourned in his returne from the holy land greatly marvelled He satisfied him with this God may send more sonnes but the death of a father is irrecoverable Waâ—singham This is that king Edward the first who as in lineaments of body he surpassed all his people being like Saul higher than any of them so in prudence conioyned with valour and industry he excelled all our Princes giving ther by sure ankerholde to the governement of this realme waving vp and downe before most vncertainely Which hee effected not so much by establishing good lawes as by giving life vnto his lawes by due execution And as my Author saith Iudices potissimùm iudicans quos constituit indices aliorum Who addeth also this of him Nemâ— in consilijs illo argutior in eloquâ—â— torrentiâ—r in periculis socurior in prosperis â—â—utiâ—r in adversis
amiddest the ennemies And God bee thanked I have sufficient revenews left by my Aâ—ncestours to maintaine me in your service Whereupon the Prince praising his prudence and liberalitie confirmed his gift made to his Esquiers and assigned him moreover sixe hundred markes of like land in England â—rossard William Wickham after Bishoppe of Winchester came into the service and also into the great favour of King Edward the third by beeing overseer of his great woorke at Windesor wheras before he served as a poore parish priest Wherfore he caused to be written in one of his windows This worke made Wickham Which being tolde vnto the King hee was offended with Wickham as though hee had gone about to robbe him of the glorie of that magnificent worke But when Wickham tolde him that his meaning was that that worke had beene his making and advauncement the King rested content and satisfied Vita Wiccami When the saide William Wickham as it is commonlie saide sued vnto Edward the third for the Bishoppricke of Winchester the King tolde him that hee was vnmeete for it because he was vnlearned but hee saide In recompence thereof I will make many learned men The which hee performed indeed For he founded New Colledge in Oxford and another in Winchester which houses have affoorded verie many learned men both to the Church and to the Common-wealth When Henry of Lancaster surnamed the Good Earle of Darby had taken 1341. Bigerac in Gascoigne hee gave and graunted to every souldier the house which every one should first seaze vpon with all therein A certaine souldier of his brâ—ke into a Mint-maisters house where hee found so great a masse of money that hee amazed therewith as a prey greater than his desert or desire signified the same vnto the Earle who with a liberall minde aunswered It is not for my state to play boyes play to give and take Take thou the money if it were thrice as much Walsingham When newes was bâ—ought vnto king Richard the second that his vnkles of Yorke and Gloucester the Earles of Arundell Warwicke Darby and Nottingham with other of that faction who sought to reforme the misorders of the King or rather of his wicked Counsellors were assembled in a woodde neere vnto the Court after hee had asked other mens opinions what was to be done in so weightie and doubtfull a case At length hee mernly demaunded of one sir Hugh a Linne who had beene a good militarie man in his dayes but was then somewhat distraught of his wittes what he would advise him to doe Issue out quoth sir Hugh and let vs set vppon them and stay them every mothers sonne and by Gods eyes when thou hast so done thou hast killed all the faithfull friendes that thou hast in England Anonymus KIng Henry the fourth a wise Prince who full well knew the humour of the English in his admonition to his sonne at his death saide Of Englishmen so long as they have wealth and riches so long sâ—alt thou have obeysance but when they be poore then they be alwayes ready to make insurrections at every motion Hall King Henry the fourth during his sickenes caused his Crowne to be set on his pillow at his beds head and sodainâ—ly his pangue so sore troubled him that hee lay as though his vitall spirites had beene from him departed Such chamberlaines as had the care and charge of his bodie thinking him to be dead covered his face with a linnen cloth The Prince his sonne being thereof advertised entred into the chamber and tooke away the Crowne and departed The father being sodainely revived out of his traunce quickely perceived that his Crowne was taken away and vnderstanding that the Prince his sonne had it caused him to repaire to his presence requiring of him for what cause he had so mis-used himselfe The Prince with a good audacitie answered Sir to mine and all men iudgements you seemed dead in this world wherefore I as your next and apparant heire tooke that as mine owne not as yours Well faire sonne saide the King with a great sigh what right I had to it and how I enioyed it God knoweth Well quoth the Prince if you die King I will have the garland and trust to keepe it with the Sworde against all mine enemies as you have done Hall KIng Henry the fift when he prepared warres against Fraunce the Dolphin of Fraunce sent him a present of Paris Balles in derision but hee returned for answere That he would shortly resend him London Balles which should shake Paris Walles Anonymus Angticè When King Henry the fift had given that famous overthrowe vnto the French at Agincourt hee fell downe vppon his knees and commaunded his whole armie to doe the same saying that verse in the Psalme Non nobis Domine non nobis sed nomini tuo da gloriam Not vnto vs O Lord not vs but vnto thy name give the glorie HEnry the sixt did take all iniuries whereof he received plenty so patiently that he not only did not seek to revenge them but Gave God thankes that hee did send them to punish his sinnes in this life that hee might escape punishment in the life to come Vita Henrici Sexti As the Emperor Fredericke the third when he heard of the death of a great noble man of Austria who lived ninety three yeeres most wickedly in fleshly pleasures and yet never once afflicted with griefe or sickenes saide This proâ—veth that which Divines teach that after death there is some place where wee receive rewarde or punishment when wee see often in this worlde neyther the iust rewarded nor the wicked punished The same King Henry having in Christmasse a shew of yoong women with their bare breasts layde out presented before him hee immediately departed with these wordes Fie fie for shame forsooth you be too blame Idem He receiving on a time a great blowe by a wicked man which compassed his death hee onely sayde Forsooth forsooth yee doe fowly to smite a King annoynted Not long before his death being demaunded why hee had so long held the Crowne of England vniustly hee replied My father was King of England quietly enioying the Crowne all his raigne and his father my grandfire was also king of England and I even a childe in cradle was proclaimed and crowned King without any interruption and so held it fortie yeeres wel-neere all the states doing homage vnto mee as to my Auncestors Therefore wiâ—â— I say with King David My lot is fallen in a faire ground I have a goodly heritage my helpe is from the Lord which saveth the vpright in heart Idem Thomas Montacute â—arle of Sarisbury when hee besieged Orleans and had so enforced it that the Inhabitants were willing to articulate and to yeelde themselves to the Duke of Burgundie then being in his company he highly disdaining it saide in the English proverbe I wil not beate the bush and another shal have the birdes Which proverbiall speech so offended the
Thomas Earle of Surrey father to Thomas late Duke of Norfolk and the right honourable and nobly learned now Earle of Northampton in the time of King Henry the eight first refined our homly English Poesy among many other made this Epitaph comparable with the best for Thomas Clere Esquire his friend and follower buried at Lambeth .1545 Norfolk sprang thee Lambeth holds thee dead Clere of the County of Cleremont though high Within the wombe of Ormondes race thou bread And sawest thy cosin crowned in thy sight Shelton for loue Surrey for Lord thou chase Aye me while life did last that league was tender Tracing whose steps thou sawest Kelsall blaze Laundersey burnt battered Bullen render At Muttrell gates hopeles of all recure Thine Earle halfe dead gaue in thy hand his will Which cause did thee this pining death procure Ere summers seauen times seaven thou couldest fulfill Ah Clere if loue had booted care or cost Heauen had not wonn nor earth so timely lost The Duke of Suffolke and his brother sonnes of Charles Brandon which died of the sweat at Bugden were buried together with this Vna fides viuos coniunxit religio vna Ardor et in studijs vnus et vnus amor Abstulit hos simul vna dies duo corpora iungit Vna vrna ac mentes vnus Olympus habet The Earle of Deuonshire Edward Courtney honorably descended from one of the daughters of King Edward the fourth is buried at Saint Anthonies in Padua with this which I set downe more for his honor then the elegancy of the verse Anglia quem genuit fueratque habitura patronum Corteneum celsa haec continet arâ—a Ducem Credita causa necis regni affectata cupido Reginae optatum tunc quoque connubium Cui regni proceres nou cosensere Philippo Reginam Regi iungere posse rati Europam vnde fuit iuuem peragrare necesse Ex quo mors misero contigit ante diem Anglia si plorat defuncto principe tanto Nil mirum Domino deficit illa pio Sed iam Corteneus caelo fruiturque beatis Cum doleant Angli cum sine fine gemant Cortenei probitas igitur praestantia nomen Dum stabit hoc templum viuanda semper erunt Angliaque hinc etiam stabit stabuntque Britanni Coniugij optati fama perennis eris Improba naturae leges Libitina rescindens Ex aequo iuuenes praecipitatque senes Walter Milles who died for the profession of his faith as some saye made this Epitaph for himselfe Non praua impietas aut actae crimina vitae Armarunt hostes in mea fata truces Sola fides Christi sacris signata libellis Quae vitae causa est est mihi causa necis This man was not so godly as he was impious as it seemeth who was buried in the night without any ceremony vnder the name of Menalcas with this Here lyeth Menalcas as dead as a logge That liued like a deuill died like a dogge Here doth he lye said I then saye I lye For from this place he parted by and by But here he made his discent into hell Without either booke candell or bell This may seeme too sharpe but happily it proceeded from some exulcerated minde as that of Don Petro of Toledo Viceroy of Naples wickedly detorted out of the Scriptures Hic est Qui propter nos nostram salutem descendit ad inferos A merry and wealthy Goldsmith of London in his life time prepared this for his Grauestone which is seene at S. Leonards neere Foster-lane When the Bells be merrilie runge And the Masse deuoutly songe And the meate merrily eaten Then is Robert Traps his wife and children quite forgetten Wherefore Ihesu that of Mary sprong Set their soules the Saints among Though it be vndeserued on their side Let them euermore thy mercy abide Doctor Caius a learned Phisition of Cambridge and a co-founder of Gunwell and Caius colledge hath onely on his monument there FVI CAIVS Which is as good as that great learned man of his profession Iulius Scaliger SCALIGERI QVOD RELIQVVM But that which Cardinall Pole appointed for himselfe is better than both Depositum Poli Cardinalis This ensuing for Sir N. Bacon Lord Keeper of the great Seale is worthy to be read both for the honour of the person who was a most wise Councellour and the rarenesse of Iambique verses in Epitaphes albeit this our age doth delight 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But as he saith Malos Iambus enecat beat bonos Hic Nicolaum nâ— Baconum conditum Existima illum tam diu Britannici Regni secundum columen exitium malis Bonis asylum caeca quem non extulit Ad hunc honorem sors sed aequitas fides Doctrina pietas vnica prudentia Non morte raptum crede qui vnica Vita perennes emerit duas agit Vitam secundam caelites inter animos Fama implet orbem vita quae illi tertia est Hac positum in arca est corpus olim animi domus Ara dicata sempiternae memoriae W. Lambe a man which deserued well of the citie of London by diuerse charitable deeds framed this for himselfe As I was so be yee As I am yee shall be That I gaue that I haue That I spent that I had Thus I end all my cost That I left that I lost All which Claudius Secundus a Romane contained in these foure words HIC MECVM HABEO OMNIA Shorte and yet a sufficient commendation of M. Sandes was this Margareta Sandes Digna haec luce diuturniore Nisi quod luce meliore digna And answerable thereunto is this for a Gentleman of the same name Who would liue in others breath Fame deceaues the dead mans trust When our names do change by death Sands I was and now am dust Sir Philip Sidney to whose honour I will say no more but that which Maro saide of Marcellus nephew of Augustus Ostendunt terris hunc tantum fata nec vltra esse sinunt which also was answered by the Oracle to Claudius the 2. Emperour of his brother Quintilius hath this most happily imitated out of the French of Mons Boniuet made by Ioach. du Bellay as it was noted by Sir George Buc in his Poetica England Netherland the heauens and the arts The souldiers and the world hath made six parts Of noble Sidney for who will suppose That a small heape of stones can Sidney enclose England had his body for she it fed Netherland his bloud in her defence shed The heauens haue his soule the arts haue his fame The souldiers the griefe the world his good name Vpon the golden Lion rampaut in Gueles of the house of Albenye which the late Earle H. Fitz-Alan bare in his armes as receauing the Earledome of Arundel from the house of Albenye one composed this Epitaph Aureus ille leo reliqui trepidate leones Non in sanguineo nunc stat vt ante solo Nam leo de Iuda vicit victoque pepercit Et
families of Tweng Lumley and Constable and thought to be Valâ—ntinianus translated MARKE In Hebrew signifieth High but in Latine according to Varrâ— it was a name at the first given to them that were borne in the moneth of March but according to Festus Pompeius it signifieth a Hammer or Mallet given in hope the person should be martiall MATHEVV hebr Gods-gift MARTIN Lat from Martius as Antoninus from Antonius Saint Martin the militarie Saint bishop of Toures first made this name famous among the Christians by his admirable piety MERCVRIE Lat Quasi medius currens inter deos homines as the Gramarians Etymologize it A mediate coursiâ—or betweene gods and men MEREDITH Brit in Latine Mereducius MERRIC Brit in Latine Meuricus I knowe not whether it be corrupted from Maurice MICHAEL Hebr. Who is perfect or Who is like God The French contract it into Miel MAXIMILIAN A new name first devised by Frederic the third Emperour who doubting what name to give to his sonne and heire composed this name of two worthy Romans names whome he most admired Q. Fabius Maxâ—â—us and Scipio Aemiliâ—â—â— with hope that his sonne would immitate their vertues Hieronymus Gebviterius de fâ—milia Austriaca MILES Lat Mile which some fetch from Milium a kinde of graine called Millet as probably as Plime draweth Fabâ—â— Leâ—tulus Câ—eerâ— from Faba Lens Cicer that is beanes lentill and chich pease But whereas the French contract Michael into Miel some suppose our Miles to come from thence MOSES hebr Drawne vp MORGAN Brit the same with Pelagius that is Seâ—man if we may beleeve an olde fragment and Mor signifies the Sea among the Welsh So Marius Marinus Marianus and Pontius among the Latines have their name from Mare and Pontus the Sea Quâ—re MAVGER a name eftsoones vsed in the worshipfull family of Vavasors Malgerius in olde histories Quare MORICE from the Latine Mâ—â—â—itius and that from Maurus A Moore as Syritius from Syus a Syâ—ian The name not of any worth in his owne signification but in respect of Saint Maurice a Commander in the Thebane Legion martyred for the Christian profession vnder Maximianus N NATHANIEL Hebr The gift of God as Theodâ—sius c. NEALE Fre Blackish or swart for it is abridged from Nigel and so alwayes written in Latine records Nigellus consonant to Nigrinus and Atrius of the Latines Melanius and Melauthus of the Graecians NICHOLAS gre Conquerour of the people NORMAN drawne from the Norman nation as Northerne-man vsuall antiently in the familie of Darcy NOEL Fre the same with the Latine Natalis given first in honour of the feast of Christes birth to such as were then borne O ODo See Othes OLIVER A name fetched from the peace-bringing Olive as Daphnis and Laurence from the triumphant Larâ—rell OSBERN Sax. House-childe as Filius familià s Luther OSBERT Sax. Domesticall brightnes or light of the family OSMVND Sax. House-peace OSVVOLD Ger. House-ruler or Steward for Wold in old English and high Dutch is a Ruler but for this the Normans brought in Ledespencer now Spencer The holy life of S. Oswald King of Northumberland who was incessantly in prayer hath given much honour to this name See Ethelwold OTHES An old name in England drawne from Otho written by some Odo and by others Eudo in English-Saxon Odan and after the originall whereof when 〈◊〉 could not finde I will not seeke Avâ—ntâ—â—s maketh it Hud that is Keeper but Petrâ—â— Blesâ—â—sis Epist 126. maketh it to signifie a Faithfull reconciler for he writeth Odâ— in Episcâ—pum Parisionsem consecratus nomen sâ—is operibus interpretâ—â—i non cessat fidelis sequester inter deum 〈◊〉 Ottwell and Ottey seeme to bee nursenames drawne from Othes OVVEN Lat. Audoenus if it be the same with S. Owen of France But the Britans will have it from old King Oenus father in law to Hercules others from Eugenius that is Noble or well borne Certaine it is that the Country of Ireland called Tir-Oen is in Latine Records Terra Eugenij and the Irish Priests know no Latâ—ne for their Oen but Eugenius as Rothericus for Rorke And Sir Owen Ogle in Latine Records as I have beene enformed was written Eugenius Ogle ORIGINALL May seeme to be deducted from the Greeke Origenos that is Borne in good time P PASCAL Deduced from Pascha the Passover PATRIK Lat. From Patricius Quasi Patram cians A Peere or State he which could cite his father as a man of honour A name given first to Senators sonnes but it grew to reputation when Constantinâ— the Greeke made a new state of Patricij who had place befor the Praefectus Praetâ—riâ— or Lord great Master of the house if it may be so translated Zosimâ—s PAVL Heb. Wonderfull or rest But the learned Baronius drawing it from the Latine maketh it Little or Humble PAVLIN From Paul at Nigrinus from Niger PERCIVAL Is thought at first to have bin a surname and after as many other a Christian nâ—me fetched from Pâ—rcheval a place in Normandie One by allusion made this Percival Per se valens PAYN in Lat. Paganus exempt from militarie service a name now out of vse but having an opposite signification to a millitarie man as Scaliger observeth vpon Ansdnius PETRE For which as the French vsed Pierre so our Ancestours vsed Pierce a name of high esteeme among the Christians since our Saviour named Simon the sonne of Iona Cephas which is by interpretation a stone Ioan. 5. 42. But fole-wisely have some Petres called themselves Pierius PEREGRINE Lat. Strange or outlandish PHILEBERT Ger. Much bright fame or very bright and famous as Polyphemus in Greeke Rhenanus PHILIPPE Gr. A lover of horses Philip Bâ—roald conceiting this his name very clerckly proveth that Phillippe is an Apostolicall name by Saint Philip the Apostle a royall name by King Philip King of Macedonia and an imperiall name by Philip the first Christian Emperour POSTHVMVS Lat. Borne after his fathers death Q QVINTIN Lat. From Quintus the fifth borne a man dignified by Saint Quâ—tin of France R RALFE Germ. Contracted from Radulph which as Rodulph signifieth Help-councell not differing much from the Greeke Eubulus RAYMVND Germ. Quiet peace as Hesichius in Greeke RANDAL Sax. Corrupted from Raâ—ulph that is Faire helpe RAPHAEL Heb The Phisicke of God REINHOLD Sax. Sincere or pure love for the Germans call their greatest and goodliest river for purenes Rheine and the old English vsed Hold for love Holdlic for lovely as Vnhold without love Willeranus vseth Hold for favour which is answerable to love I have also observed Hold for Firme and once for a Generall of an armie RHESE A British name deduced as they thinke from Rhâ—sus the Thracian King who was as Homer describeth him by his Armour of a Giantlike stature But I dare not say the wordimplieth so much in signification yet Rhesi signifieth a Giant in the German tong RICHARD Sax. Powerfull and rich disposition as Richer an antient Christian name signified Powerfull in the Armie or Rich Lord
his learning great Grandfather to the honourable Charles now Earle of Denshire who is no lesse famous for his vertue and hereditary love of learning when hee was the Queenes Chamberlaine in an Epistle to Erasmus called king Henry the eight Octavius for Octavus resembling him thereby to Octavius Augustus the onely mirror of Princely vertues Lady Iane Grey daughter to the Duke of Suffolke who payde the pâ—â—ce of others ambition with her bloud for her excellency in the Greeke tongue was called for Greia Graia and this made to her honour in that respect Miraris Ianam Craio sermone valere Quo nata est primùm tempore Crata fuit When the duke of Buckingham was put to death by the practise of cardinall Wolsey a Butchers sonne the Emperour Charles the fift saide It was great pitty that so faire and goodly a Bucke should be woried to death by a Buchers curre alluding either to the name of Buckingham or to a Bucke which was a badge of honour to that familie Domingo a Spaniard in the time of Queene Mary offended with an Englishman that called him Domingus tolde him hee was Dominicuâ— but hee was I assure you more highly offended when hee after for Dominicus called him Dâ—moniacuâ— In the beginning of her late Maiesties raigne one alluded to her name Elisabetha with Illasa-Beata that is Safe without hurt and happy The sense whereof as the Almightie by his fatherly mercy performed in her person so shee by her motherly providence vnder God effected in this realme in blisfull peace and plenty whereas contrariwise other conâ—ining Regions have beene overwhelmed with all kinde of miseries The cause whereof one in this last French broyles referred by Allusion to Spania and Mania two Greeke words signifying Panury and Furie but implying therein closely the late King of Spaine and duke du Maine Rebus or Name-devises MAny approoved customes lawes maners fashions and phrases have the English alwayes borrowed of their neighbours the French especially since the time of King Edward the Confessour who resided long in Fraunce and is charged by Historians of his time to have returned from thence wholy Frenchified then by the Norman Conquest which immediately ensued after by the honourable aliances of the Kings of England with the most renowned families yea and with the verie royall house of Fraunce But after that the triumphant victorious king Edward the third had traversed Fraunce with his victories and had planted English colonies in Calice Havres and Guynes our people bordering vpon the pregnant Picardes beganne to admire their fooleries in painted Poesies For whereas a poesie is a speaking picture and a picture a speechlesse Poesie they which lackt wit expresse their conceit in speech did vse to depâ—int it out as it were in pictures which they called Rebus by a Latine name well fitting their devise These were so well liked by our English there and sent hither over the streight of Callice with full saile were so entertained heere although they were most ridiculous by all degrees by the learned and vnlearned that he was no body that coulde not hammer out of his name an invention by this wit-craft and picture it accordingly whereupon who did not busie his braine to hammer his devise out of this forge Sir Thomas Cavall whereas Cavall signifieth an horse engraved a gallopping horse in his scale with 〈◊〉 limping verse Thomae credite cùm cernitis eius equum So Iohn Eagleshead as it seemeth to notifie his name about his Armes as I have seene in an olde Sâ—ale with an Eagles head set downe this Hoc aquila caput est signumque figura Iohannis The Abbot of Ramsey more wisely sette in his Seale a Ramme in the sea with this verse to shew hee was a right ramme Cuius signa gero dux gregis est vt ego William Chaundler Warden of New colledge in Oxford playing with his owne name so filled the hall-windowes with candles and these wordes Fiat lux that hee darkened the hall Whereuppon the Vidam of Charters when hee was there saide It should have bin Fiant tenebrae Did not that amorous Youth mystically expresse his love to Rose Hill whome hee courted when in the border of his painted cloth hee caused to be painted as rudely as he devised grosely a rose an hill an eye a loafe a well that is if you will spell it Rose-Hill I love well You may imagine that Frauncis Cornâ—field did scratch his elbow when hee hadde sweetely invented to signifie his name Saint Francis with his Frierly kowle in a corne-field It may seeme doubtfull whether Bolton Prior of Saint 〈◊〉 In Smithfield was vviser vvhen hee invented for his name a bird bolt through a Tâ—nne or when hee built him an house vppon Harrow Hill for feare of an mundation after a great coniunction in the watry Triplicitie Islip Abbot of Westminster a man most favored by king Henry the seavenâ—h had a quadruple devise for his single name for somewhere hee sâ—tte vppe in his windowes an â—ie with a slip of a tâ—ee other places one slipping boughs in a tree in other places an I wiâ—h the saide slip and in some places one slipping from a tâ—ee with the woorde Islip Whosoever devised for Thomas Earle of Arundell a capitall A in a Rundle wherewith hee decked an house which hee built did thinke I warrant you that hee did the Nobleman great honour No lesse did he 〈◊〉 his invention which for sir Anthony Wingfield devisedâ— Wing with these foure letters F E L D quarterly about it and over the Wing a crosse to shew he was a Christian and on the crosse a red rose to shew that the followed the house of Lancaster Morton Archbishop of Canterbury a man of great wisedome and borne to the vniversall good of this realme was content to vse Mor vppon a Tunne and sometime a Mulbery tree called Morus in Latine out of a Tunne So Luton Thorneton Ashton did notifie their names with a Lute a Thorne an Ash vpon a Tunne So an Haâ—â— on a bottle for Harebottle a Maggot-pie vppon a goate for Pigot an Hare by a sheafe of â—e in the Sunne for Harrison Med written on a calfe for Medcalfe Chester a chest with a Starre over it Allet a Lot Lionel Duckes a Lion with L. on his head whereas it should have beene in his 〈◊〉 If the Lion had beene eating a ducke it had beene a raâ—e devise woorth a duckat or ducke-egge And if you require more I referre you to the witty inventions of some I â—â—doners but that for Garret Dews is most memorable two in agarret casting Dews at dice. This for Rebus may suffice and yet if there were more I thinke some lips would like such kinde of Lettice In parte to excuse them yet some of the greatest Romans were alittle blasted with this fooleriâ— if you so censure it Our great Maister Cicero in a dedication of his to his gods inscribed Marcus 〈◊〉 and that 〈◊〉 pulse lesse than 〈…〉 call I thinke
at his eyes This his devise had no life because it had no Motte but his answer gave it life when he said to one demaunding his meaning That they were his sonnes which did so pecke him and that Iohn the yongest whome he loved best practised his death more busily than the rest Giraldus Cambrensis distinct King Henry the third as liking well of Remuneration commaunded to be written in his Chamber at Woodstocke as it appeareth in the Recordes in the Tower Qui non dat quod amat non accipit iâ—le quod optat Edmund Crâ—uch-backe his second sonne first Earle of Lancaster vsed a red Rose wherewith his Tombe at Westminster is adorned Edward the third bare for his devise the rayes of the Sunne dispersing themselves out of a cloude and in other places a golden truncke of a tree The victorious Blacke Prince his sonne vsed sometimes one feather sometime three in token of his speedy execution in all his services as the Postes in the Roman times were Pterophori and wore feathers to signifie their flying post-haste But the tradition is that hee wonne them at the battell of Poitiers whereunto hee adioyned this olde English word IC DEN that is I serve according to that of the Apostle The heire while he is a childe differeth nothing from a servant These feathers were an anâ—ent ornament of militarie men as is evident by that of Virgil Cuius olorina surgunt de vertice pennae And were vsed by this Prince before the time of Canoy Chan the Tartarian who because his life was saved by an Owle would have his people weare their feathers from whome Haithon fableth that the people of Iurope received first the vse of feathers Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster brother to this Prince tooke a red Rose to his devise as it were by right of his first wise the heire of Lancaster as Edmund of Langley Duke of Yorke tooke the white Rose Before these two brethren tooke these two Roses which the fautors and followers of their heires after bare in that pittifull distraction of England betweene the families of Lancaster and York a white Rose-tree at Longleete bare vpon one branch a faire white rose on the one side and as faire a red rose on the other which might as well have beene a fore-token of that division as the white henne with the bay sprigge lighting in the lap of Livia Augusta betokened the Empire to her posteritie which ended in Nero when both the brood of that hen failed and the baies of that sprigge withered The said Edmund of Langley bare also for an Imprese a Faulcon in a fetter-locke implying that he was locked vp from all hope and possibility of the Kingdome when his brethren beganne to aspire therevnto Wherevpon he asked on a time his sonnes when he saw them beholding this devise set vp in a window what was Latine for a fetter-locke Whereat when the yong gentleman studied the father said well then you cannot tell me I will tell you Hic haec hoc taceaâ—s as advising them to be silent and quiet and therewithall said Yet God knoweth what may come to passe heereafter This his great Grandchilde King Edward the fourth reported when he commanded that his yonger sonne Richard Duke of Yorke should vse this devise with the fetter-locke opened as Roger Wall an Herald of that time reporteth King Richard the second whose vntrained youth and yeelding lenitie hastened his fall vsed commonly a white Hart couchant with a crowne and chaine about his â—â—cke For wearing the which soone after his deposition lost their lives He also vsed a pescod branch with the cods open but the pease out as it is vpon his Robe in his Monument at Westminster His wife Anne sister to Wenceslaus the Emperour bare an Ostrich with a naile in his beake King Henry the fourth as it is in Maister Garters booke vsâ—d onely a Fox tayled pendent following lysanders advise if the Lions skin were too short to peece it out with a Foxes case His halfe brethren surnamed Beausort of their natall place who after were dukes of Sâ—mmerset c. bare a port-cullis golde wherevnto not long afterward was added this word ALTERA SLCVRITAS And not long since by the Earles of Worcester issued from them MVTARE AVT TIMERE SPâ—RNO His yonger sonne Humfrey Duke of Glocester a noble fautor of good letters baâ—e in that respect a Laurell branch in a golden cup. That most martiall Prince King Henry the fift carried a burnâ—ng Cresset sometime a Beacon and for his word but not appropriate therevnto VNE SANS PLVS One and no more King Henry the sixt had two feathers in saltire King Edward the fourth bare his white Rose the fetter-locke before specified and the sunne after the battell of Mortimers crosse where three Sunnes were seene immâ—diately conioyning in one King Richard the third bare a white Boare which gave occâ—sion to the ryme that cost the maker his life The Cat the Rat and Lovell the Dog Rule all England vnder an Hog King Henry the seaventh in respect of his descent from the house of Summerset vsed the Portcullis before mentioned and in respect of the vnion of the two houses of Lancaster and Yorke by his marriage the white Rose vnited with the red sometime placed in the Sunne And in respect he was crowned in the field with King Richards crowne found in an hawtherne bush hee bare the hawthorne bush with the crowne in it with this he filled the windowes at Richmond and his Chappell at Westminster His wife Queene Elizabeth had a white and red rose knit together His mother Lady Margaret Countesse of Richmond had three white Dasies growing vpon a turfe When king Henry the eight beganne his raigne the English wits beganne to imitate the French and Italian in these devises adding the Mots First king Henry himselfe at the interview betweene him and king Francis the first whereat also Charles the fift was present vsed for his Impresse an English Archer in a greene coat drawing his arrow to the head with this inscription CVI ADHAEREO PRAEEST whenas at that time those mighty Princes banding one against the other wrought him for their owne particular His wife Queene Anne a happy mother of Englands happines by her most happy daughter bare a white crowned Faulcon holding a Scepter in her right talon standing vpon a golden truncke out of the which sprowted both white and red roses with MIHI ET MEAE To the honour of Queene Iane who died willingly to save her childe King Edwarde was devised after her death a Phaenix in his funerall fire with this Motte NASCATVR VT ALTER King Edward the sixt bare as the Blacke Prince three feathers in a crowne while his father survived as Prince of Wales with IC DEN. Queene Mary when she was Princesse of Wales vsed both a red and white Rose and a Pomegranate knitte together to shew her descent from Laâ—caster Yorke and Spaine When she
same King at the time of his death saide I appoint 〈◊〉 successour in the kingdome of England but I commend it to the eternall God whose I am and in whose handes all thinges are happly remembring that of the Monke before specified pag. 5. This king perceiving his owne defects in some poynts for want of learning did exhort his children oftentimes to learning with this saying An vnlearned Prince is a crowned Asse Which speech tooke so great impression in his sonne Henry that hee obtained by studie and learning the surname of Beauclearke or fine Scholler Annales Ecclesia Cant. Malmesburiensiâ— VVilliam Rufus loved wel to keep vacant Bishopriks and Abbies in his handes saying Christes bread is sweet dainty and most delicate for Kings But although this King made most commonly as it were port-sale of the Spirituall livings yet when twoo Monkes were at drop-vied Bezantines the currant golde of that age before him for an Abbey hee espied a third Monke of their company standing in a corner whom the King asked what hee would give to be Abbot Not one farthing saide he for I renounced the world and riches that I might serve God more sincerely Then said the King thou arte most woorthy to be made Abbot and thou shalt have it Liber Cantuar. When newes were brought him that the French King had besieged the cittie of Constances in Normandy â—e posted with a few to the sea coast to take ship But because the winde blew very strong from South the sailers signified that it was very dangerous for him to take Sea but the King replied Hoise vp sailes in Gods name for I have not heard of a King drowned by tempest You shall see both winde and weather serviceable to vs. Answerable to that of Iulius Caesar which inforced a poore Pilote in the like case to launch foorth and in the rage of the storme comforted him with saying Caesarem Caesaris fortunam vebis And as couragiously as that of Charles the fift who in the battel of Tunis when he was advised by the Marquise of Guâ—sto to retire his person when the great ordonance began to play saide Marquesse thou never heardst that an Emperour was slaine with a great shot I will heere present you with an other speech or call it what you will of the same King William Rufus out of the good and historicall Poet Robert of Glocester that you may compare a Princes pride in that age with our private pride and that our first finest Poets may smile at the verses of that time as succeeding ages after some hundred yeeres will happly smile at theirs As his Chamberlaine him brought as he rose on a day A morrow for to weare a paire of hose of Say He asked what they costned three shillings he seid Fie a dibles quoth the King who sey so vile a deede King to weare so vile a cloth but it costned more Buy a paire for a marke or thou shalt ha cory fâ—re A worse paire enough the other swith him brought And said they costned a marke vnneth he them so boght Aye bel-amy quoth the King these were well bought In this manner serve me other ne serve me not Hitherto also may be referred that of this king William who the morning before hee was slaine with an arrow in hunting tolde his company he dreamed the last night before that an extreame cold winde passed throgh his sides whereupon some disswaded him to hunt that day but hee resolved to the contrary answering They are no good Christians that regard dreames But he found the dreame too true being shot through the side by Walter Tirell Tragmentum antiquae historiae Franc. à P. Pâ—thâ—â— aditum OF Henry the first I have read no memorable speach but what I have read I will report He was by common voice of the people commended for his wisedome eloquence and victories dispraised for covetousnes cruelty and lechery Of which hee left proofe by his sixteene bastards But it seemeth that his iustice was deemed by the common people to be crueltie for the learned of that age surnamed him the Lion of Iustice Huntingd. Polycraticon Gemeticensis It was the custome of the Court in the time of King Henry the first that bookes billes and letters shoulde be drawne and signed for servitors in the Court concerning their owne matters without fee. But at this time Turstane the kings steward or Le Despencer as they then called him from whom the family of the L. Spencers came exhibited to the king a complaint against Adam of Yarmouth clarke of the Signet for that he refused to signe without fee a bill passed for him The king first heard Turstane commending the olde custome at large and charging the Clarke for exacting somewhat contrary thereunto for passing his booke Then the Clarke was heard who briefly saide I received the Booke and sent vnto your steward desiring him only to bestow of me two spice cakes made for your owne mouth who returned answer He would not and thereupon I denied to seale his Booke The King greatly disliked the steward for returning that negative and forthwith made Adam sit downe vppon the bench with the seale and Turstanes Booke before him but compelled the steward to put off his cloake to fetch two of the best spice cakes for the kings owne mouth to bring them in a faire white napkin and wiâ—h lowe curtsie to present them to Adam thâ— Câ—arke which being accordingly performed the Kiâ—g commaâ—ded Adam to seale and delive him his Booke and made them sâ—endes addâ—ng this speech Officers of the Court must gratifie anashew a cast of their office not onely one to another but also to all strangers whensoever neede shall require â—ualterus Mapes De nugis Curialium There was allowed a pottle of wine for livery everie night to be served vp to king Henry the first chamber but because the king did seldome or never vse to drinke in the night Paine Fitz-Iohn his Chamberlaine and the Pages of the Chamber did carowse the wine among them On a time it happened the King at midnight called for wine but none was to be found Paine and the Pages bestured themâ—elves in vaine seeking wine heere â—nd there Paine was called in to the King who asked him if there were not allowance for livery hee humbly answered that there was a pottle allowed everie night but for that hee never called for it to say the trueth in hope of pardon wee drunke it vp amongst vâ— Then quoth the King have you but one pottle every night that is too shorte for mee and you from hencefoorth there shall be a whole gallon allowed whereof the one pottle shall be for mee the other for you and yours This I note not for anie graviâ—e but that the King in that age was commended herein both for bountie and clemencie Cualterus Mapes Queene Mawd wife to King Henry the first of England and daughter to Malcolme Canmore King of Scotland was so devoutly religious
shee looke heere is one steppe to heaven-ward shewing him a Friers girdle I feare mee quoth sir Thomas Moore this one steppe will not bring you vppe a steppe higher One day when shee came from shrift shee saide merrily vnto him Be merry sir Thomas for this day was I well shriven I thanke God and purpose now therefore to leave off all my olde shrewdnesse Yea quoth hee and to beginne afresh When he was sent prisoner vnto the Tower and the Lievtenant his olde friend received him with a heavy cheere hee sayde Is this the entertainement and good countenance you give your guests when they come to you Why looke man heere are twenty angell nobles shewing him his purse and when this is spent turne me out at doores as a bare gamester and not able to pay for that he takes Hitherto may bee referred his silent answere when at his entring into the Tower one of the Officers claimed for a fee his vpper garment meaning his gowne or his cloke he offred him his cappe Being asked after his condemnation and before his execution whether hee had changed his minde hee saide Yea for I thought to have beene shaven but now seeing I shall die so shortly I will let my beard growe His daughter Roper one day as shee repaired vnto him into the Tower counselled him to recover the Kings favour and his owne former libertie by doing I know not what the which shee saide one of the greatest States of this Realme and a man learned too and his tender friend saide he might doe without scruple of conscience as most of the Nobilitie of the Realme hadde doone not once sticking thereat save onely himselfe and one other man This speach of her hee aunswered with a pleasaunt tale At a Bartholomew faire at London there was an Escheater of the same city that had arrested a Clothier that was outlawed and had seized his goodes which he had brought into the faire tolling him out of the faire by a traine The man that was arrested was a Northerne man which by his friendes made the Escheator to be arrested within the faire vppon an Action I not neere what and called a Court of Pipowders Now â—ad the Clothier by friendship of the Officers found the meanes to have all the Quest almost made of the Northerne men such as had their Boothes standing in the faire who were no sooner departed from the barre and come into the house but the Northerne men were agreed and in effect all the other to cast our London Escheater They thought they needed no were to proove that hee did wrong than even the name of his bare office alone But then was there amongest them as the Divell woulde an honest man of another quarter called Company And the fellow seemed but a seely soule and sate still and sayde nothing they made noreckoning of him but saide We be agreed now come let vs goe and give vp our verdict Then when the poore fellow sawe that they made such hasle and his minde nothing gave him that way that theirs did if that their â—â—ndes gave them that way they saide hee prayed them to tarry and talke vpon the matter and tell such reason therein that â—ee might thinke as they did and when they should so doe be would be glad to say with them or else hee saide they must pardon him For sith â—ee had a soule of his owne to keepe as they had be must say as he thought for his soule as they must for theirs When they heard this they were halfe angry with him What good fellow quoth one of the Northerne men whare wannes thou Be not we eleaven heere and thou but one all alone and al we agreed whereto shouldst thou sticke Whates thy name gud fellow Maisters quoth he my name is called Company Company quoth they now by my troth good felow play then the gud companion come thereon foorth with vs and passe even for gude company Would God good maisters quoth the man againe that there lay no more weight thereon But now when we shall hence and come before God and that hee shall send you vnto heaven for doing according vnto your conscience and me to the divell for doing against mine al passing at your request heere for good company now By God Maister Dickenson that was one of the Northerne mens names If I then shall say vnto you al againe Maisters I went once with you for good company which is the cause that I goe now to hell play you the good felowes now againe with mee as I went then for good company with you so some of you go now for good company with me would you goe maister Dickenson Nay nay by our Lady nor never a one of you all And therefore must you pardon me for passing as you passe for the passage of my poore soule passeth all good company In the like sence he vsed often to say That he would never pinne his soule at another mans backe not even the best man that he knew that day living for he knew not whither he might hap to carry it When one came to him to signifie that hee must prepare himselfe to die for hee coulde not live he called for his vrinall wherein when hee had made water hee cast it and viewed it as Physitions vse at last hee saide soberly That hee saw nothing in that water but that he might live if it pleased the King When he was in prison and his bookes and papers taken from him he did shutte his chamber windowes both day and night saying When the wares are gone and the tooles taken away we must shut vp shop When he went to death a certaine woman offered him a cuppe of wine which he refusing saide Good woman Christ in his passion drunke gall and no wine When he was to mount the scaffold hee saide to one of the Shiriffes men I pray thee helpe mee vp as for comming downe I take no care When the hangman according to his manner desired him to pardon him his death hee answered I doe forgive thee with al my heart but one thing I wil tel thee thou wâ—â—t never have honestie in cutting off my head my necke is so short NOw we have done with sir Thomas Moore his owne Apothegmes which have come to my handes I will transcribe out of his workes a few Tales or call them what you please A poore man found a priest over familiar with his wife and because he spake it abroad and could not prove it the priest sued him before the Bishops Officiall for defamation where the poore man in paine of cursing was commaunded that in his parish Church hee should vppon the Sonday at high Masse stand vp and say Mouth thou liest Whereuppon for fulfilling of his penaunce vp was the poore soule set in a pew that the people might wonder at him and heare what hee sayde and there all aloude when hee had rehearsed what hee had reported by the priest then hee sette
sung briefely Si quid de cùlmine Troiae Diminuit liuor virtus reparauit vt orbi Hic vrbem rapuit haec orbem reddidit vrbi Passionate are these verses vpon the death of K. Richard the first penned by one Gaulfrid Neustria sub clypeô Regis defensa Richardi Indefensa modò gestu testare dolorem Exundent oculi lachrimas exterminet ora Pallor connodet digitos tortura cruentet Interiora dolor verberet aera clamor Tota peris ex morte suâ mors non fuit eius Sed tua non vna sed publica mortis imago O Veneris lachrimosa dies ô sidus amarum Illa dies tua nox fuit Venus illa venenum Illa dedit vulnus sed pessimus ille dierum Primus ab vndecimo qui vitam victricus ipsam Clausit vterque dies homicida tyrannide mira Traiecit clausus inclusum tectus apertum Prouidus incautum miles munitus inermem Et proprium Regem And after a fewe verses he speaking to Death addeth in commendation of that prince Nihil addere nouerat vltrà Ipse fuit quicquid potuit natura sed istud Causa fuit quare rapuisti res pretiosas Eligis viles quasi dedignata relinquis These former verses were mentioned by Chaucer our English Homer in the description of the sodaine stirre and Panicall feare when Chanteclere the cocke was caried away by Reynold the Foxe with a relation to the said Galfride The silly widow and her daughters two Herd the hennes crie and make ado And out at the dore stert they anon And saw the fox toward the woodygon And bare vpon his back the cock away And cried out harow and well away Aha the fox and after him they ran And eke with staues many other man Ran Coll our dogge Talbot and eke Garland And Malkin with her distaffe in her hand Ran Cow and Calfe and eke the very hogges For they so sore affraid were of the dogges And showting of men and of women eake They ran so her hert thought to breaks They yellen as fends do in hell The Duckes cried as men would them quell The Geese for feare flew ouer the trees Out of the heues came swarmes of Bees So hideous was the noyse ah benedicite Certes Iack Strawe ne his meiney Ne made neuer shoutes halfe so shrill When that they would any Fleming kill As that day was made vpon the Fox Of brasse they blew the trumpes and of box Of horne and box i which they blew and pouped And therewith they shriked and shouted It seemed as though heauen should fall O Gaulfride dere maister soueraigne That whan the worthy King Richard was slaine With shot complainedst his death so sore Why ne had I now thie science and thy lore The Friday for to chide as did ye For on a Friday shortly slaine was he Then would I shew you how that I could plaine For Chauntecleercs dred and for his paine Certes such crie ne lamentation Was neuer of Ladyes made when that Ilion Was won an Pirrhus with his bright sword Whan he hent King Priam by the beard And slough him as saith Aeneidos As made all the hennes in the cloos Whan they lost of Chantecleere the sight But souerainly dame Pertâ—lott shright Well louder than did Hasdruballs wife Whan that her husband hath lost his life And that the Romans had brent Cartage She was so full of torment and of rage That wilfully into the fire she stert And brent her selfe with a stedfast hert O wofull Hennes right so cried ye As when that Nero brent the city Of Rome cried the Senators wives For that her husbonds should lose her lives These may suffice for some Poeticall descriptions of our auncient Poets if I would come to our time what a world could I present to you out of Sir Philipp Sidney Ed. Spencer Samuel Daniel Hugh Holland Ben Iohnson Th. Campion Mich. Drayton George Chapman Iohn Marston William Shakespeare other most pregnant witts of these our times whom succeeding ages may iustly admire Epigrammes IN short and sweete Poems framed to praise or dispraise or some other sharpe conceit which are called Epigrammes as our countrie men now surpasse other nations so in former times they were not inferior if you consider ages as the indifferent Reader may iudge by these In the praise of our natiue Countrie England Alfred of Beuerley made this Anglia plena iocis gens libera et apta iocari Libera gens cui libera mens libera lingua Sed lingu i melior liberiorque manus And in another olde Booke I finde this Anglia dulce solum quod non aliena recensque Sed tua dulcedo pristina dulce facit Quae nihil à Galliâ— sed Gallia suscipit à te Quicquid amoris habet quicquid honoris habet In the darke misle of all good learning about 800. yeares since in commendation of the godly King Saint Osâ—uald was made this Quis fuit Alcides quis Casar Iulius aut quis Magnus Alexander Alcides se superasse Fertur Alexander mundum sed Iulius hostem Se simul Osuualdus mundum vicit hostem To the honour of Elfleda noble Lady which repaired Darby Chester Warwicke c. I haue found this O Elfleda potens ô terror virgo virorum Victrix naturae nomine digna viri Te quo splendidior fieres natura puellam Te probitas fecit nomen habere viri Te mutare decet sed solum nomina sexus Tu Regina potens Rexque trophaea parans Iam nec Caesarei tantum meraeri triumphi Caesare splendidior virgo virago viges This also may here haue place which William Conquerours Poet made to him wheÌ„ he had obtained this Realme Caesariem Caesar tibi si natura negauit Hanc Wilielme tibi stella comata dedit It may seeme he alluded to the baldnesse of Iulius Caesar who for that cause vsed a Lawrell Garland to the Comete appearing before his conquest of this kingdome portending the same as it was thought and to the manner of the French in that time among whom long bushie haire was the signale marke of Maiestie as Agathias noteth when as all subiects were rounded and the Kings only long haired Which custome continued among the French Kings vntill Peter Lombard Bishop of Paris disswaded them from it and among ours as appeareth by their seales vntill King Henry the 5. The happy successe of English and Normans with the cowardly flight of the French at Nugent 1109 in the time of King Henry the first was thus expressed Henricus regum rex decus abstulit altos Francigenis animos Ludouicum namque Nugenti Rex regem campo magnum maior superauit Praeposuere fugam bellis calcaria telis Galli praecipites fama spolijsque potitos Laureâ Normanos laus aterna coronat Sic decus iste ducum sic corda tumentia pressit Oraque Francorum superba mutire coegit Maud daughter to Malcolm King of Scots a woman of rare pietie
buried at Westminster to which Church she would come dayly barefoote while the Court laye there had an excellent Epigramme made to her commendation whereof these foure verses onely remaine Prospera non laetam fecere nec aspera tristem Aspera risus erant prospera terror erant Non decor effecit fragilem non sceptra superbam Sola potens humilis sola pudica decens No bad Poet was he which wrote to the honor of Adeliza second wife to King Henry the first who was daughter to the Duke of Brabant sister to Lord Ioscelin from whom the Percies Earles of Northumberland descended Anglorum Regina tuos Adeliza decores Ipsa referre parans Musa stupore riget Quid Diadema tibi pulcherrima quid tibi gemma Pallet gemma tibi nec Diadema nitet Deme tibi cultus cultum natura ministrat Non exornari forma beata potest Ornamenta caue nec quicquam luminis inde Accipis illa micant lumine clara tuo Non puduit modicas de magnis dicere laudes Nec pudeat dominam te precor esse meam But among all our olde Epigrammatists all commendation is carried away by olde Godffery Prior of Winchester who liued Anno 1100. which Citie hath brought forth so many excelling in Poeticall facultie not onely in former ages but also in latter out of the worthy Colledge there that the very Genius loci doth seeme Poeticall Out of his Epigrammes first imparted to me by the right learned Maister Th. Allen of Oxford I will here impart a few vnto you To one that would know how long he should learne he wrighteth thus Discendi Damiane modum te quaerere dicunt Discas dum nescis sit modus iste tibi That the contempt of fooles is not to be respected Contemptum stulti contemnere Dindime laus est Contemni a stulto dedecus esse nego Against pride in prosperitie Extolli noli quùm te fortuna beauit Pompone haec eadem quae leuat ipsa premit Against such as teach well and liue not accordingly Multa Solon sed plura Cato me verba docetis At nemo vestrum quanta docetis agit To one which had eaten stinking meate Druse comedisti quem misit Siluius hircum Vel tibi non nasus vel tibi nasus olet He teacheth vs to relye vpon firme and sure supports lest we fall to the ground with them in this Non est securus super titubantia fultus Iungere labenti labitur ille ruis That we must looke for like measure if we doe not as we would be done vnto he admonisheth all vnder the name of Albius Iurgia clamores tibi gloria gloria lites Et facis dicis omnibus vnde noces Expectes eadâ—m quae nobis seceris Albi Nam quem tu laedis te ferit ille libens Youth which in their haughty heat reiect the aduise of ould men he aduiseth thus Pannorum veterum facile contemnitur vsus Non sic consilium posthumiane senum The vanity of them which vaunt of their auncient nobility and haue no nobility in themselues he thus taxeth Stemmata continuas recitas ex ordine patres Queis nisi tu similis Rufule quid recitas That there was no contending with him who with missiue bribes can preuaile against Iustice Missilibus Daciane tuis Astraea recessit Vincis mâ—ssilibus Ius Dacâ—â—nc tuis The common prouerbe Loue me loue mine he thus aduised vs to obserue Me tanquam socium te dicis amare Trebati Et quos totus amo dente furente teris Sed nisi sis socius socijs amicâ—s Non potero nostrum dicere te socium Against hooked gifts which draw others Multa mihi donas vereor ne multa requiras Nolo mihi doncs Aulice si repetas Against one that sought a benefice and would teach before he could teach Quâ doceat sedem quaerit Plâ—timus aedem Quarit quâ doceat non ea quae doceat Against a couetous wretch Nasidiane diu vixisti semper anarus Oro tibi â—â—uas Nasidiane dus Against one that would exact of others and do nothing himselfe Exâ—gis a nobis quem 〈◊〉 soluis amorem Quam nulli praestes exigis Aule sidem Exigâ—â— Ã nobis quem non mâ—rearis honorem Mirum est quod non das id tibi velle 〈◊〉 Against an Abbot that would defend his monks from others but worrye them himselfe Tollit onem de fauce lupi persaepe molossus Ereptamque lupo ventre recondit ouem Tu quoque Sceuae tuos praedone tueris ab omni Vnus praedo tamen perdis vbique tuos One amidst the warres betweene King Stephen and Henrie the second commended the same Henry in these verses Praelia quanta mouet Stephanus moucat volo namque Gloria nulla foret si pralia null moueret Tu contra Stephanum cui copia multa virorum Duxisti pautos our paucos gloria maior Est multos paucis quà m paucos vincere multis At the same troublesome time and as it were desolation of England were written to the same Henry as it were in a Prosopopcia of England Dux Henrice nepos Henrici maxime magni Anglia tota ruo nec iam ruo tota ruina c. Vpon two other fearfull flights of the French one at Vernoil the other at Vandosme in the time of King Henry the second one made this Gallia fugisti bis hoc sub rege Philippo Nec sunt sub modio facta pudenda duo Vernolium sumit testem fuga prima secunda Vindocîum noctem prima secunda diem Nocte fugam primam celerasti mane secundam Prima pauore fuit vique secunda fuit When one had flattered William Longchampe Bishop of Elye the only powerable man of England in his time with this blandation Tam benè tam facile tu magna negotia tractas Vt dubium reddas sis homo siue deus Giraldus Cambrensis a man well borne and better lettered of that house from whence the Giraldines of Ireland are descended and secretary to King Iohn played vpon these verses and that Bishop after he was apprehended in womans attire flying out of the realme Tam male tam temerè tam turpiter omnia tractas Vt dubium reddas bellua sis vel homo Sic cum sis minimus tentas maioribus vti Ve dubium reddas simia sis vel homo He that made the verse following some ascribe it to that Giraldus could adore both the sonne rising and the sonne setting when he could so cleanly honour King Henry the second then departed and King Richard succeeding Miracano sol occubuit nox nulla sequuta Great was the commendation of Maecenas who when he could do all with Augustus yet neuer harmed any wherevpon in an Elegie vpon his death Pedo Albinouanus writeth Omnia cum posses tanto tam carus amico Te sensit nemo posse nocere tamen Which commendation king Henry the eight gaue to that worthy Duke of Suffolke Charles Brandon
secum patris duxit ad vsque domos Sic cadit vt surgat sic victus vincit et illum Quem modo terra tulit nunc Paradisus habet In the Cloyster of New Colledge in Oxford this following is written with a coale for one Woodgate who bequeathed 200 pound to one who would not bestowe a plate for his memoriall Hâ—us Peripatetice Conde tibi tumulum nec fide haeredis amori Epitaphiumque compara Mortuus est nec emit libris haec verba ducentis WOODGATVS HIC SEPVLTVS EST. Therefore the counsaile of Diego de Valles is good who made his owne tombe at Rome with this inscription Certa dies nulli est mors certa incerta sequentum Cura locet tumulum qui sapit ante sibi A Gentleman falling off his horse brake his necke which soddaine hap gaue occasion of much speech of his former life and some in this iudging world iudged the worst In which respect a good friend made this good Epitaph remembring of S. Augustin Miserecordia Domini inter pontem fontem My friend iudge not me Thou seest I iudge not thee Betwixt the stirrop and the ground Mercy I askt mercy I found To the honour of Sir Henry Goodyer of Polesworth a knight memorable for his vertues an affectionate friend of his framed this Tetrastich An yll yeare of a Goodyer vâ—â—â—rest Who gon to God much lacke of him heere left Full of good gifts of body and of minde Wise comely learned eloquent and kinde Short and sufficient is this of a most worthy Knight who for his Epitaph hath a whole College in Cambridge and commaunded no more to be inscribed than this Virtute non vi Mors mihi lucrum Hic iacet Gualterus Mildmay Miles et vxor eius Ipse obijt vltimo die Maij 1589. Ipsa decimo sexto Martij 1576. Reliquerunt duos filios et tres filias Fundauit Collegium Emanuelis Cantabrigiae Moritur Cancellarius subthesaurarius Scaccarij et Regiae Maiestati â consilijs Vpon a youngman of great hope a student in Oxford wâ—â—a made this Short was thy life yet liuest thou euer Death hath his due yet diest thou neuer But I feare now I haue ouercharged the Readers minde with dolefull dumpish and vncomfortable lines I will therefore for his recomfort end this part with a few conceited merry and laughing Epitaphes the most of them composed by maister Iohn Hostines when he was young and will begin with the Bellowes maker of Oxford Here lyeth Iohn Cruker a maker of Bellowes His craftes-master and King of good-fellowes Yet when he came to the hower of his death He that made Bellowes could not make breath Thomas Elderton who did arme himselfe with Ale as ould Father Ennius did with Wine when he ballated had this in that respect made to his memorie Hic situs est sitiens atque ebrius Eldertonus Quid dico hic situs est hic potiùs sitis est Of him also was made this Here is Elderton lyeng in dust Or lyeng Elderton chose which you lust Here he lyes dead I doe him no wrong For who knew him standing all his life long Some wise man was he and so reputed for whom this was composed Here lyeth Thom Nicks bodie Who liued a foole and dyed a nodye As for his soule aske them that can tell Whether fooles soules go to heauen or to hell Neither may this offend any for that of Durandus the ould priest is little better Hic est Durandus positue sub marmore duro An sit saluandus ego nescio nec ego curo Miserable was Hermon who when he had onely dreamed that he had disbursed money dyed for woe likewise Phâ—idon who weapt not for that he should dye but that his buriall would stand 〈◊〉 at 4. s. But most miserable was that pinchpenie Hermocrates that in his last will and testament made himselfe his owne sole heire and executor of all he had and yet refused to liue when he might because he would not be at charge of a purgation And our countriman ould Sparges â—ight seeme to be of his tribe for whom was made Here lyeth father Sparges That died to saue charges Maister Wills doctor of Phisick who died lately at Vienna would often say that he would haue this verse only for his Epitaph Here lyeth willing Wills But a friend of his that knew him to be Caprichious wished him to adde one verse more to make vp time after the manner but when he said he had nothing he might adde more one extempore sayed it might be wel made vp thus Here lyeth willing Wills With his head full of Windmills For one that had continuall new encounters in his owne minde and crammed his head with contrary discontents I haue heard this Here lyeth he Which with himselfe could neuer agree You shall haue this out of the Cathedrall Church of Norwich whatsoeuer you account of it Vnder this stone Lies Iohn Knapton Who died iust The xxviii of August M.D.XC. and one Of this church Peti-Canon Vpon merry Tarlton I haue heard this Hic situs est cuius vox vultus actio possit Ex Heraclito reddere Democritum Here lyeth Richard a Preene One thousand fiue hundred eighty nine Of March the 22. day And he that will die after him may Here lieth he who was borne and cried Told â—hreescore yeares fell sick and died Here lyes the man whose horse did gaine The Bell in race on Salsbury plaine Reader I know not whether needs it You or your horse rather to read it Here lyes the man that madly slaine In earnest madnesse did complaine On nature that she did not giue One life to loose another to liue Here lyeth C. vnder ground As wise as L. thousand pound He neuer refused the Wine of his friend Drinke was his life and drinke was his end Here lyeth N. a man of fame The first of his howse and last of his name At Faâ—lam on the west marches neare Naworth Castle Iohn Bell broken-brow Ligs vnder this stean Fourâ— of myne een sonnes Laid it on my weam I was a man of my meate Master of my wife I liued on myn own land Without micle strife For old Th. Churchyard the poore Court-Poet this is now commonly current Come Alecto and lend me thy torch To finde a Church-yard in the Church-porch Pouerty and Poetry this tombe doth enclose Therfore Gentlemen be mery in Prose With this memoriales of the dead which giue a little liuing breath to the dead for as he saith Mortuorum vita in memoria viâ—orum posita est I conclude Et veniam pro laude peto laudatus abundè Non fastiditus si tibi Lector ero FINIS Gascoigne then vnder the crown of England Alfred◠〈…〉 Tho Moore in the Debellation Parl. 43. Edw. 3. Curopalares Charisma of doctor Tooker Epist Bonif. sept ad â— d. 1. reg Anglâ—â— Mathew Paris Samuel Daniel Cicero Petrus Nanuius Pâ—ol in Quadâ—â—â— Britains Plinius Notitia provinâ—â—arum Pict-Britans Welsh-Britans American or French Britans Scottishmen â— Bâ—â—a lib. â— Englishmâ—◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 colledge In Psalm 104. 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