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A musicall consort of heauenly harmonie (compounded out of manie parts of musicke) called Churchyards charitie; Churchyards charitie
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Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604.
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throte ere we be ware Cold poison â—onke a quicke dispatch it giues Cold craâ—â—s dries vp the sences where they are Cold lims waxe lame and breeds diseases rare Thus cold mars all then warmth God send vs now That eurie part of man feele comfort throw Cold food is faint vnto weake stomacks still Warme broths keeps health in perfect sound estate Warme daies we wish cold bitter aire is ill Cold blasts be nought sharpe blustring storms we hate Sweetly sun shines in world earlie or late Cold quicklie caught goes seldome soone away And long cold nights kils some before the day Cold drie hard froâ—â— makes thousands seeke for fire Warme meate giues spreet to either sicke or sound Cold hungrie baites makes many a horse to tire Warme clouts and clothes doth comfort eurie wound No fruit thriues well where cold doth much abound The warmth doth ioy both spring and fall of leafe Makes dead things quicke delights both dum deafe Yea blind and lame and all that life doth beare Are glad of heate then cold is out of grace Cold words God wot when meaning scarce is there Kils many a man in court or any place O wold to God warme deeds did show his face That charitie hir whole effect may show On those that needs which knows not where to goe A colder time in world was neuer seene The skies do lowre the sun and moone waxe dim Sommer scarce knowne but that the leaues are greene The winters waste driues water ore the brim Vpon the land great flotes of wood may swim Nature thinks scorne to do hir dutie right Because we haue displeasde the Lord of light Cold works cold words cold world and al things cold Showes death drawes neer and then a deep cold graue Such hard cold hap may make a yoong man old Or old gray beard become a gallâ—e slaue Well let them loose that can neâ— in nor saue The state of man on strange hap hazard lies As one fals downe so doth another rise If charitie would once bespread hirraies As Phoebus showes abroad his shining beames Or winter cold would bring some sommer daies And rid vs soone from all these great extreames Then shee dies not but haplie sleeps and dreames Now waken hir that haue most powre to speake I haue tane cold and so my voice growes weake You whose cleer speech doth loud as trumpet sound And may command the world the skies and stars And rules at beck the massie earth so round Sets orders downe and can make peace and wars And hath the force to breake big iron bars Call charitie fot loue once home againe That shee may heare hir people poore complaine My breath but bores a hole within the aire My date neer don cals for a shrouding sheet My darke dim daies lookes for no weather faire Mine eies can scarce look to my stumbling feet My wounted muse forsakes my drowping spreet My books and scroules and all that I haue wrot Hides now their heads as I were cleane forgot When aged yeers showes death amid my face My words are of small credit in this plite My hap and hope is in a better place Wherefore of world I plainly speake and write And ere I goe discharge my conshence quite To win the wise and loose the fonder sort That vnto quicke nor dead yeelds good report The wise well won waies ech thing as it ought Mistakes no terme nor sentence wrests awrie The fond will read awhile but cares for nought Yet casts on ech mans works a frowning eie This neither treats of matters lowe not hie But finds a meane that ech good meaning might In all true meanes take charitie aright FINIS A PRAISE OF POETRIE Imprinted at London by Ar. Hatfield for William Holme 1595. A praise of Poetrie some notes therof drawen out of the Apologie the noble minded Knight sir Phillip Sidney wrate WHen world was at the very woorst And vice did much abound And for offence the earth was curst Yet charitie was found Among the wise and woorthie sort Who euer had good chance with treble fame by their report True vertue did aduance The Poets and Philosophers Stept first on stately stage And plaid their parts with hazards great In euery world and age In eury age while wits of men Could iudge the good from bad Who gat the gift of toong or pen Of world great honor had Good Poets were in hie esteeme When leaâ—ning grew in price Their vertue and their verse did seeme A great rebuke to vice With blunt base people of small sence They fall now in disdaine But Sydneyes booke in their defence Doth raise them vp againe And sets them next Diuines in ranke As members meete and fit To strike the worlds blinde boldnes blanke And whet the bluntest wit Heere followes Histories good store That much thereof shall tell If paines may purchase thanks therefore My hope is answerd well AMphyons gift and grace was great In Thebes old stories saie And beasts and birds would leaue their meatâ— To heare Orpheus plaie In Rome were three of peereles fame That florisht in their daies Which three did beare the onely name Of knowledge skill and praise In Italy of yore did dwell Three men of spechall spreete Whose gallant stiles did sure excell Their verses were so sweete In France three more of fame we finde Whose bookes do well declare They beautifide their starely minde With inward vertues rare In England liued three great men Did Poetrie aduance And all they with the gift of pen Gaue glorius world a glance In Scotland finde we other twaine Were writers of good woorth Whose studies through their Poets vaine Brought many verses foorth In Ireland to this present time Where learning is not mich With Poetrie in verse or rime Their language they inrich In Wales the very remnant yet Of Brittaine bloud and race They honor men of speshall wit And giues a Poet grace Albinus long that rained heere Made verses in his youth And in his age as doth appeere With verse auancst the truth Among the sauage Indians still Who knowes no ciuill thing They honor writers of some skill Their parents liues to sing Among the anshent noble Danes And Saxsons long ago We read of many Poets names Whose woorthy wits did flo The graue wise learned men of Greece Durst neuer shew their art Till those Philosophers presumd To plaie the Poets part Some sang in verse their naturall Philosophie we finde And in sweete songs heroicall Exprest their secret minde So morall counsels vttred were In that same selfe sweete sort Thus Poets flourisht eury where As stories makes report And marshall matters in those daies Were song and set aloft So some the art of warre did raise Vnto the skies full oft Sibillas prophesies in verse Were alwaies vttred well The oracels of Delphos to In verse
world cares little for a man Charitie and fortune differ far Fortune fauors many an asse Charitie forgiues and forgets iniuries Charitie hath no end of hir bountie Charitie giues few words but doth many good deeds Charitie is the 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 shall beâ—â—sled Charitie conquers euery where like a victor Bad life would driue charitie in exile Men go transformed now a daâ—s Some people are as greedy as guls Quarrels breeds mischiefe and bloudshed Lust is a theefe and robs vs of life Pride and presumption is bold as blâ—nde bayaâ—d New fanglenes is easily found out Wilful heads hates good counsell Ill custome Breedes abuse Two plagues past thâ—eatens a third Shame followes pride and deartâ— nipped sore Proud painted posts are rotteâ— in the middle Pride alubberly lout lookes like a monarke The woorst with hâ—e hart compares with the best A surly sire swels like a a toad A stately stalke thinks none like himselfe A craftie crue are wilier than the foxe Cunâ—ing lads are â—s quicke aâ— a â—ee Preferments are not got with shooting toe short They hit the white that haue good hap Ech man prefers his seruaâ—ts and friends Hope well can get no money from the mint Serue long spends much and gets little Who makes haste to amend any misse New natures alters good old conditions Not one doth right search and you shall see Artificers and all are light in the ballance Plagues will not cease till bad life be reformed Wild buds brings foorth no good fruit Neither world not weather keeps good course Neither world nor weather keeps good course Cold weather or world pleaseth none Cold aire kils sometime sound and sicke Cold loue quicklie takes leaue Cold fortune kils any man liuing Cold foode is comfortles and hard to digest Cold hungrie baites may kill a horse Cold words makes a man desperate A colder season in all sorts was neuer seene Cold words and workes makes many a heauy hart Cold winter may bring some sommer daies Warme loue 〈◊〉 awaken charitie againe The authorâ— breath is to cold 〈◊〉 do any good Aged yeers showes death 〈◊〉 â—t hand Labor is well â—â— stowed when wise men are 〈◊〉 Amphyon and Orpheus Poets and excellent musitions Liuius Andronicus and Ennius Dant Bocace and Petrarke Marâ—ot Ronsaâ—t and dâ— Baâ—tas Goâ—re Chaufer 〈◊〉 the noble earle of Sâ—â—â—â—e Dauy Lindzey and Buckananus They honor and make much of their â—imers In Wales they call their rimers Bardes Albinus loued poetrie much The rude Indians make much of their rimers The Danes and Saxons had many poets among them In Greece their best philosophers at the first became poets Thales Empedocles and Parmenides Pithagoras and Phosillides Torteus Solon that wrate the fable of the Atlantick Iland Plato a diuine philosopher did stoup to poetrie Herodotus Dominician Vaspasians sonne as Plinie saith was an excellent poet Alexander Caesar and Scipio Alexander Phoreus wept at a tragedy Menenus Agrippa a philosopher made peace among the people in an vprore Simonides and Pyndarius made Hiero a iust king Nathan spake of a lambe vngraciously taken from his bosome Dauid and Salomon deuine poets Platoes dialog called Ion. Lelius a Romane Socrates both were poets Iames the first that was king of Scotland and K. Iames the sixt now raigning great poets The Greeke Socrates put Aesops fables into verse and Aristotle wrate the art of poetrie Emperors kings captains and Senators were poets and favoured the art Adrian and Sophocles great poets â—f our 〈◊〉 me the paâ—â—â— poetry Robert â—ng of Cicâ—ll and 〈◊〉 great Frances â—ng of France Cardinall Berabus and Bibiena Famous teachers and preachers Beza and Melancton Learned philosophers Fracastorius and Scaliger Great and good orators Pontanus and Muretus And beyond all these the hospitall of France being builded on vertue gaue poets a singular commendation Alexander kept the bookes of Homer in 〈◊〉 his Iewel casket Menander the comicke poet being sent for by embassadors of Macedonia and Aegipt preferred the conscience of learning before kinglie fortunes Augustus Caesar wrate familiar epistles vnto Horace which Horace in his life was aduanced to the tribuneship of soldiers and when he died he left Augustus Caesar his heire Virgill entring the colledge of poets in Rome the rest of the poets there did more reuerence to him than to the emperor and when he came into the senate the senators likewise did so Dauid sung the Liricke verses to his harp and those ebrue songs consisted of divers feet and vnequall numbers somtime in Iambikes running other while Insaphicks swelling again in halfe a foote amiably halting Salomon in the gardens of Engadda framed songs to his harpe which then was a heauenly musicke Ieremie wrate his funerall lamentations in saphycks long before Simonides the Greeke poet Isaias wrate sacred Odes holie verses and for remembring the mysteries of god therein a tyrant king caused him to be sawed a sunder The song of Sydrack and his fellowes in the hot flame was in verse Moises by some men is thought the first deuiser of verse and his sister Marie deuised the exaâ—eter and by it to haue glorified Iehoua Ausonius a french man and poet schoolemaster to Gracianus the Emperor was aâ— orator and consul of Rome therfore Homer writes that Achilles sonne of Peleus was a singular liricke poet singing and plaing the noble deeds of cheeftaines Linus of Thebes a most ancient poet he was the sonne of Mercury and wrate the course of the sun moone and spheres in excellent verse Tiberius Nero the Emperor a poet and Lucan his tresorer a poet on a publike theater they shewed â—he tragedie Orpheus Adrianus Augustus Emperor a poet and preferrer of poetrie Iulianus Empeperor and Caius Iulius Caesar. Oppianus of great nobilitie Sextus Aurelius Propertius one of the Dedicie Scenica a spaniâ— knight Neros schoolemaster Sophocles and Pericles â—milius 〈◊〉 a man of noble parentage Anacreon of Theios with Pollucrates king of the Samiana Aâ—atus all his life time liued with Anâ—igâ—nus Lucius Cecilliâ—â— Câ—sar play â—â—loâ—e Cirus the poet treasorer of the Emperor Theodocius and Apatrician Publius and â—aberius companions with Iulius Caesar. Arian the poet of Periander king of Corinth Raâ—ullides with Iulianus the Emperor Claudianâ—s his tombâ—â—â—â—ored bâ—â—â—norâ—â—s and Aâ—cadius Emperors Aeschiron in hiâ— whole militarie expedition â—amiliar with Alexander Masonides honored of Adrian the Emperor Ariosto liked of all good wits Torquator Tasso an Italian knight and poet laureaâ— who departed from obliuion to immortalitie this last Aprill 1595. whose memorie shall neuer vanish Mounsiour Dâ—uereux a yoong Bishop at this day liuing in France accounted now the singular man in Europ for verse and poâ—ticall deuises Sir Phillip Sidney to appology