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death_n	life_n	live_v	soul_n	20,060	5	5.3995	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09587	An epytaphe, or a lamentable discourse wherein is bewayled the death of the right worshipfull knight, Sir William Garrat: one of the Queens Maiesties commissioners, and chiefe alderman of the honourable citie of London. Who deceased the. 27. of September. 1571.	Phillips, John, fl. 1570-1591.	1571 (1571)	STC 19869; ESTC S121826	1,951	1

✚ An Epytaphe or a lamentable Discourse wherein is bewayled the death of the Right worshipfull Knight Sir William GARRAT One of the Queens Maiesties Commissioners and chiefe Alderman of the honourable Citie of London Who deceased the .27 of SEPTEMBER 1571. s WHo can refraine from sorwing plaints and brinish blubbring teares What hart wyll now refuse to grone and tourne from Ioy his eares Ne high ne low ne Rich ne poore in London that remayne But haue iust cause for GARRATS losse to languish and complayne Helpe me therefore ye powers deuine that in the heauens doo dwell The losse of this moste worthy wight ▪ in mourninge Uerse to tell Come now CALLIOPE I pray and CLIO Goulden Dame with Sisters thine from HELYCON aide mee frssh plaints to frame Stay not on Mownt PERNASO now cast on your mournyng weede conuert your Hymnes and Songs of Ioy to wailyng woes with speede Send foorth with mee your sighing sobbes the sacred Skies to pearce that vnto Goddes and mortall men our plaints we may dispearse And fayle mee not O PALLAS now amidst my griefe and woe But graunt with skyl to guide my Quil these heauy Newes to shoe Sith I with teares do craue your aide let mee your fauour finde The losse of GARRAT worthie Wight help now to print in mind What flie ye thus from mee alas why go ye backe againe wyll none of you to further mee vouchsafe to take the payne Alas vnskilfull wretche Disdaine doth thee betide For MEDVCE and PIERIDES with thee in place abyde These Dames as hard as Steele or Flint are fixed in thy sight and thou hast nought but black and white thy meanyng to endight Leaue off therfore sith CLIOS Spring of Rhethorique is fled thy wyll is good but powers thyne with Ignorance are fed I wept to see my Fortune suche my woes did then abounde But Hoape at last to comfort mee a present meane foorth fownd Feare not quoth she dispaire thou not set drowpyng dread aside take Pen and wriie to comfort thee I Hoape a meane prouide Lift vp thyne eies behold and see Dame Trueth is in thy sight with that I rendred humble thankes and tooke my Pen to wright And now awaye ye doubtfull lettes that clogde my hart with feares By force to geue you ouerthrow Dame Trueth in place appeares Should GARRATS losse vnminded bee such Friend to Cōmon weale Though he be gone should we not way his true and godly zeale Should we forget his curtesie so plainlie knowen and seene Then most vnkind we should remayne sith he our frend hath ben Ye Consuls wise ye Senatours that Londons wealth prouide Lament and wayle for vnto you no small losse is betide Ye all haue lost a faithfull Frend for Counsell sage and wise In thynges of weight ye fayled not to folow his aduise But now that sacred IOVE by wisdome his decreed ▪ That LACHESIS CLOTHO both their toyle shuld leaue in deede Coms PARCHAS shee with Sickle sharp shreads the thred in twaine That three score yeares vii to weaue they had imployd their payne She cutteth downe this Olyue greene whose Branches fayre did shoe His dayes are ron to CHAMPIAN now and BE●CHER he wyll goe Of HAYVVARD wise ▪ Pretorian hee now GARRAT leaue doth take Good OFFLEY olde and gentle VVHITE by Death he must forsake The DRAPER wise and ALLEN hee whose wisdome doth excell with all the Troupe of Aldermen thus GARRAT byds Farewell Therfore in Senate when you sit ▪ and want hym in your trayne For wisdome his in Memorie let Image his remayne In ●ule he was your equall sure for Counsayle SOLON hee Then meete with teares his Absence should of you lamented bee No Rule ▪ but he hath borne ▪ that doth to LONDON longe A man vpright in Iustice sure that knew the right from wronge Most apt was GARRAT to doo good to all and euerie wight Both riche and poore ▪ may wayle the losse of suche a gentell Knight In Iustice single was he sure in Iudgement alwaye sownd To cease contendyng ▪ prone and prest this worthie man was fownd To needie poore a perfite frende to tender all their griefe And suche a one as spared not to them to geue reliefe Unto the Prysoners poore that did in captiue plight remaine From bandes to free all that he could he did imploy his payne But who hath lost the greatest losse I knowe not one but all But to his Spouse and Ladie deare the greatest losse doth fall She wants her louyng Make her Friend and Turtle true whose death with sighes sorowyng sobbes she ceaseth not to rew His Children deare their Father want they lacke their Staffe stay His Seruantes they their Master misse alas and well away But that they lost the Lorde hath sownd the mightie God on hie For as his lyfe was vertuous so godly he did die Amidst his bytter panges of death that were both sharpe and strong To see his Christ and heauenly Ioyes he vehemently did longe And now his wish he hath obtaind for Death hath done his wyll His Corps deuoide of breath doth rest yet shall his Fame lyue styll His Soule by faith the Heauens hath won his Body shrowdes in Clay This finall farewell GARRAT take I haue no more to say I. PHILLIP FINIS ¶ Imprinted at London in the vpper end of Fleetelane by Richarde Ionnes and are to be sould at his Shop ioynyng to the Southwest Doore of sainct Paules Churche 1571. October 4.