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A05409 Threnodia in obitum D. Edouardi Lewkenor Equitis, & D. Susannae coniugis charissimæ. = Funerall verses vpon the death of the right worshipfull Sir Edvvard Levvkenor Knight, and Madame Susan his Lady With Deaths apologie, and a reioynder to the same. Lewkenor, Edward, Sir, d. 1618. 1606 (1606) STC 15561; ESTC S109434 22,683 58

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THRENODIA IN OBITVM D. EDOVARDI LEWKENOR Equitis D. SVSANNAE Coniugis charissimae FVNERALL VERSES Vpon the death of the right Worshipfull Sir EDVVARD LEVVKENOR Knight and Madame SVSAN his Lady With DEATHS APOLOGIE and a Reioynder to the same PROV 10.8 Memoria Iusti benedicta LONDON Printed by Arnold Hatfield for Samuel Macham and Matthew Cooke and are to be solde in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Tigers head 1606 HONORI AC MEMORIAE CHARISSIMORVM CONIVGVM EDOVARDI ET SVSANNAE LEVVKENORVM QVORVM ILLE NOBILI FAMILIA IN AGRO HARTFORDIENSI NATVS A PVERITIA OPTIMIS DISCIPLINIS INNVTRITVS ADOLESCENS SOCIVS COLLEGII D. IOHANNIS IN ACADEMIA CANTABRIGIENSI POSTQVAM EVASIT IN VIRVM S. PRINCIPIS ELIZABETHAE DOMESTICVS PRIMVM EXINDE IN AGRO SVFFOLCIENSI EIRENARCHA POST IN AMPLISSIMVM ORDINEM SVPREMAE CVRIAE PARLIAMENTI NOVIES CONSCRIPTVS POST REMVM A IACOBO MAGNO FOELICE BRITANNIARVM MONARCHA EQVESTRI DIGNITATE ORNATVS CVI VNO ORE OMNES CONSENTIVNT CIVEM FVISSE BONVM MELIOREM MAGISTRATVM VIRVM OPTIMVM CLIMACTERICO SVO AD SVPEROS CONCESSIT IIII. NONAS OCTOBREIS HAEC ILLVSTRIS HEIGH AMORVM FAMILIA CVM SORORE COHAERES FOEMINA RARI EXEMPLI PIETATE AC MODESTIA SINGVLARI ANNO AETATIS SVAE LVI VIRVM CVI SE NVNQVAM IN VIVIS ANTEFERRE SVSTINVIT MORIENS VNO DIE PRAECESSIT VIXERE CONIVGES SINE QVERELA AN. XXXVI VNIS EXEQVIIS SVNT ELATI AN. M.DC. v. V. ID IAN. FILIOS SVPERSTITES RELIQVERVNT II FILIAS VI. PARENTIBVS OPTIMIS AC DVLCISSIMIS B. M. P. E. LEWKENOR F. YE learned Sisters which mount Helicon And high Parnassus cragges vnneth to scale Your best beloued seats in times begone Haue enterchanged for that lowly dale Amid'st the which sweet CAME doth softly slide Willing may seeme longer with you to bide And with his BRIDGE doth couple what his streames diuide So may you neuer of your change repent Or thinke to change againe for other place So may the rigor of the Heauens relent Which on your mansions faire with frowning face Hath look't too long and this contagious ill Be soone remoou'd and farre kept from them still So may your numbrous nurselings all your houses fill So lastly may our PHOEBVS deigne to see And with his gracious sight those Temples blesse And consecrate them with his Maiestie The highest pitch of all their happinesse No lesse than those your other deare delight Which by the FOORD of OVSE are stately pight And since that day do rise and threaten heauens height As ye vouchsafe to lend your willing eare And condescend to Sheepheard swaines request If yet the same but equall shall appeare And to your selues may worke no great vnrest Scarse may though needs it must his suite be tolde O griefe who seeks the cause of griefe t'vnfolde And double griefe which doth from remedy withholde Lewknor alas is dead that worthy Knight And follow'd his good Lady dead before And both within a day Helpe vs to dight Their herses with your plaints and if no more Helpe with your teares our common losse bewaile Your teares are left if other power do faile And fellowship is ease though griefe do nought auaile If of this paire one from his tender yeeres Was wholly yours denoted heart and will Nor that alone but of his equall peeres Few might in all your arts surpasse his skill If in your Court he did sometimes defend No vulgar place O you that wont to lend Your teares to others losse some on your owne exspend You shall not mourne alone the State hath lost A Senatour of many Parliaments The Church may well account her losse is most Of such a sonne The Countrey sad laments A wise and vpright Iusticer The poore A worthy house keeper O if no more Ye feele your owne yet others domage helpe deplore And if how much he in your gifts surpast So much the Graces sweet his Lady graced A right Susanna vertuous faire and chast A lilly bright though now by death effaced If both in euery part of vertue were A matchlesse match a paire without compeare For Vertues sake weepe while ye may not weepe a teare Whereto serues all your skill if not for this To blazon farre and wide well purchasd praise And register to all posterities In honors iust records what might vpraise A caytiue courage vnto faire pretence And teach a gentle Spirit flie from hence To highest heauen Loe heere your arts chiefe excellence Liuing and dead your faculty is debt To good desert which payd in life may haue Malignity perhaps thereat to fret Not so in death No enuy lets the graue Discharge this debt with safety euery deale And let eternall Fame the acquittance seale The world be witnesse vnto whom ye may appeale Besides O let me tell you otherwise Ye owe this duty to that worthy paire Sith first from you the danger did arise Which wrought their death That harme ye ought repaire So might it be repair'd O that it might Butah for life the recompence is light To waile the dead or verses in their praise endight Pardon my griefe if ought my tongue haue strayd Dread Ladies well I wot vnguilty all Ye beene of blame heerein It was misse-sayd No greater sorow mought your selues befall But this is true from that vnhappy place Whose late infection did your nurselings chase To diuers parts this mischiefe came Thus was the case Two sonnes they had Ah now no longer they This worthy paire were hanging on your brest Their chiefest ioy and care when they heard say Contagious Agues did begin t'infest The place whereas ye dwell Not fear'd in vaine As since the sad euent hath shew'd it plaine And such before the Pestilence are wont to raigne Nature and Reason bad them seeke to shend From danger those their hopes They send straightway To fetch them home Their Father had a friend Of well-approued faith full many a day Whose sonne in equall danger with his owne He could not leaue but sent all vnbeknowen His Father for him to Hence hath this sorow growen O weake and feeble wit of mortall wight Which wor'st not what to take and what refuse Chusing the worst thou ween'st to hit the right And leauest the best which wisdome were to chuse As now this worthy knight he would set free His owne from harme and saue from ieopardie His friends also but all his care turnes contrary Not many dayes but sicke began to fall This youth I told in kindnesse brought away Before I should haue told you first of all His fearelesse Father which mislik't his stay From you as losse of time had thought againe Haue sent him backe The knight needs would retaine Him with his sonnes which turn'd himselfe and them to paine But now his father gan most instantly Request he might remoue him home from thence It was within a mile or two thereby Scarse might he speake so much without offence But heard straight way And set you then so light Your only sonne as that regardlesse
quite Euen of his life you would remoue him in this plight Except you feare that ought should lacke him here Ah nay quoth he But this your household's great And what a griefe and trouble both it were Besides the danger if this sicknesse seat It selfe therein they fear'd the pocks Alas I would it not for all that is or was So sayd full little hop'd he what would come to passe To whom the knight Th' eternall Wisdome hie Which rules this world knowes what he hath to done And what is best for vs who seeks to flie With winde and saile from him is all as soone Atach'd as he that euer frames him still To suffer what he must Is death such ill As is default in duty No God worke his will So sayd yet as he could did faire prouide Both for his guest and all their safeties But who can shun the ill that must betide Him lightly touch't the deadly mischiefe flies Ceaz'd on his hostes that had him entertained And shew'd this goodly part of loue vnfained Ay me that cruell death should rage thus vnrestrained Ah good Tisander who can halfe expresse What raging sorrow tare thy heart in twaine When thou beheldst them brought to this distresse How dolefully thy hap thou didst complaine And praydst the heauens vpon thy selfe might light Or on thy sonne or both their vtmost spight To scuse this gentle Lady and this courteous Knight Nor were we seely sheepheards ought behinde To send our plaints and prayers to the skies Too well was now our griefe-deiected minde Suited vnto our pluncket liueries This comfort haue we if that fellon Death If Destinies sad or if the graue beneath Had not beene deafe these had not lost their vitall breath How shall I that sad households griefe relate Their Masters fastned both to sickly bed How shall I tell alas your wofull state Twise Orphans now the vowes the teares ye shed Now for one Parent Then th' other Againe for both But all in vaine Loe first your Mother go'th Your Father followes fast how euer ye be loth To whom when first the heauy word was brought Of greatest losse that euer he might heare O would to God it could haue beene fore-thought That message sad would touch his heart so neare And is she gone sayd he Are ills so rife Well may I say I had as good a wife As liues Dearest I come what boots me longer life But who had seene how Grace perform'd hir part To teach the patient minde her crosse to beare And how the gentle Knight with manly hart Swallowed his griefe And when the trickling teare Fell from his eye that still on heauen did feed Albe his countenance gaue his heart did bleed Would say I held my peace because it was thy deed Ay me for sobs I cannot tell the rest He 's dead o death for vertuous enterprise Ah gentle Sisters beat your pensiue brest And chuse the mournful'st notes you can deuise To accent your sad verses ruthfullest And when you haue a while your griefe exprest Recomfort ours Ye Muses ye can do it best The power of words is subiect to your skill And words well plac'd can charme the wounded hart Vp then ye Muses And if so ye will We sheepheards swaines will helpe to beare a part Vp thou first mournfullest Melpomene And Erato with thee Terpsichore Shall with Thaleia sing when PHOEBVS shall you see THRENODIAE In funere Clarissimorum Coniugum D. EDVVARDI SVSANNAE LEVVKNORVM Pars prior Quae vt plurimùm fletus habet querelas CVR per vos Elegi Lasciua poemata famam Quaerunt cur proprium destituistis opus Munera vestra vocant passis prodite capillis Pullae sint vestes funera vestra vocant Occidit heu Lewknor Musarum gloria tantum Lugeat amissum virque puerque virum Credibile est nimium iam saeuas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 benigna Parcas nascenti fila dedisse nanu Tantus erat morum candor tanta arte politum Ingenium foelix tantus vbique fauor Vt quanuis stirpem clara de gente referret Dotibus his claros nobilitaret auos Nec tamen ingentes fortuna maligna negauit Illi quas doctis saepe negauit opes Huic cumulo accedit pietas insignis in illos In quos caelestis lex iubet esse pios Cura Dei prolis vitam laudauit at alter Coniugis vita morte patebat amor Cuius vt aspexit morientia lumina dixit Aut viue aut comitem me quoque mortis habe Vota valent Quos fidus amor dum vita manebat Iunxit disiunctos noluit esse rogus In terra ossa iacent animae super astra volarunt Vtrunque meritò fama loquetur anus THO. SOTHEBY Coll. S. Ioan. In Coniunctum EDOVARDI LEVVKNORIS Militis dignissimi SVSANNAE vxoris eiusdem eximiae obitum ERgò Caballinos laticas mihi Musa propinat Torpentem reuocans ad sua pensa sequor Par est vt celebrem Par hoc tàm nobile vinctus Sermo vinxêrunt quos ita fata decet Par est vt metro Par includatur in vno Cui fuit in seros vnio tracta dies Vndique par video nec par tamen vndique dispar Gaudet inaequali tendere Musa gradu Eccè palàm numeris subsidit clauda secundis Nunc laxum fundit nunc breue cogit iter Ecquid inamoenis Elegëia Consona bustis Ecquid ad moestos ire parata rogo An quia Par sexu constabat dispare carmen Iure suum vir habet foemina iure suum Praecedit passu subl mior ille virili Foemineos comitans contrahit illa pedes Fortunati ambo fatis aequalibus ambo Vita pares vidit vidit vrna pares Sic quos cepir amor vitae dum viuere fas est Hos vno cepit tempore mortis amor E Coll. Regis In obitum clarissimi viri Edwardi Lewknêri Equitis illustriss Susannae coniugis Feminae lectissimae QVî fit inaequali vos quae sine lege sorores Ducitis instabili stamina nostra manu Quî fit vt indigni superâ qua v●scimur aura Annis tot vestra saepè fruantur ope Cùm tamen intereá si quis virtute vel vnus Prae reliquis clarus protinus ille perit Ah! quid non potiùs vestras conuertitis iras Ah! quid non illos mors homicida petis Abstulit vna dies funere mersit acerbo Nobile par restant vix pietate pares Scilicet eximium clarâ cum coniuge morti Lewknêrum nobis funera bina dedit Funera bina quid an non tristis funere luctus Vel satis est vno plus satis idque Viri At si Nobilitas quicquam si stemma valeret Priscum aliquid potuit stemma valere tuum Si quid relligio virtus pietasque fidesque Relligione fide quis pietate prior Sed neque relligio pietasue auertere mortem Nec virtus quicquam flectere tanta potest Crudelis
must And well I am content To leaue this thanklesse office what you men Account worst ill let be my punishment Soone let me die Crie lowder yet Amen But Sirs you must go first no remedy Whil'st any one of you's aliue Death cannot die Come then Who shall be first which to dispatch That Hangman Death through his owne noble hart To stabbe the Traitor will this dagger snatch Or with this halter lesse to feele the smart Will helpe to hang the Fellon speedily Or with himselfe empoison him more cunningly Thou hast deseru'd to die Take here this knife Do some iust thing aliue with edge or point And thou in this disgrace what boots thee life From yonder Tower thou mayst thy necke disioynt Thou know'st not how to liue why draw'st thou breath Needs must thou die chuse while thou maist some fairer death Thy dearest friend thy loue thy life is gone Vnfaithfull senselesse blocke why stai'st behinde Thy goods be lost why mak'st thou bootlesse mone Till beggerie or famine do thee finde O Coward wilt thou take this iniurie Without reuenge Or die or kill And kill and die Old man I know thou hast of life thy fill Die Die poore babe thy life begins with teares Die wretched men you call vpon me still You happie die whilest yet no ill appeares Die all that once the feare of Death were past T 's but a minutes while As good at first as last A REIOINDER TO Death O Subtill Death that would'st enmoue my minde To loath this life and from my pensiue brest Dislodge it selfe The stronger law of kinde A secret bond which can not be exprest Enchaines that with this body still to dwell I hate thee Death suppose that why I can not tell Yet if from God from whom none ill may be This life doe come 'ts good if that be ill Which good depriues for all thy Sophistry I know thee well The worke of Sathans will The wracke of Nature The first borne of Sinne Gods curse The wretchednesse we men be wrapped in Thou plead'st thou art an Officer No lesse Is Sathans selfe the cruell fiend of Hell Thy wicked words thy murthering mind expresse That would'st perswade weake men themselues to quell Traitour thou giuest no warning that we know Not thou that none thee trust but wisedome warneth so A threefold thiefe thou are which takest away Soule from the body body from the soule Both from the world And that which thou dost say To scuse thy coueteise I can controule By text of holy writ Three other moe To thee there beene whose greedinesse neuer saith ho. Art thou not partiall which alike do'st take Vnequals all why staies thy fatall blow From traiterous wretches first why do'st thou make The best thy marke God mercy would it so The best be fit for heauen the worst may mend So would his Iustice all our liues came to one end No thanke to thee well yet thou freest our life From many miseries So greater ill Secures the lesse As where the Plague is rise It ceaseth other sicknesse wilt thou still Vaunt from sinnes bondage how thou set'st vs free That honour's Christs vaine boaster 'ts no thanke to thee What Do the damned Ghosts from sinne surcease Or see they Christ or rest in heauenly blisse As true it is that these which now in peace Haue left this world which knew they should not misse Of better-changed life were friends to thee O no they wish't and longed for eternity And dar'st thou mention Christ with caytiue tongue Thine enemy thy conquerour thy death Or promise Paradise o filth and dung Which nigh infectest with thy noysome breath Those heauenly ioies So vaunted once the Flie She rais'd the dust whilest on the waine she pearch't on hie Thou lik'st Death well No wonder that at all Fooles loue themselues though riuals be away That passeth yet where thou do'st sadly call To helpe dispatch thee men themselues to slay Thy worth 's not such Nor we such fooles to die O subtile folly soone the feare of death to flie I can a better way than that I trow I will despise and scorne thy hurtlesse hisse Alas poore worme thy sting is gone I know Doe then thy worst Thy worst shal be my blisse I haue deseru'd to die And so I shall I must when God is pleas'd I am content withall Yet shall it not be vengance for my sinne Christ is my boot that neuer made offence His death or rather life shall enterance winne For me to Heauen when thou debar'd from thence Shalt headlong into lowest Hell be cast Go now and vaunt to giue the thing thou neuer hast As to the rest if in disgrace I be The more I 'le scorne thee If my state be base I 'le liue in spite of Death more bold more free Let them feare Death that stand in Fortunes grace Needs must I die what skils it when or how One life I haue let Tyrants take of that inough My friends are gone Their happinesse is more I 'le loue them in their issue left aliue O might I lead them their high steps t' adore Though far before and to their Fame suruiue My faith should well appeare though left behind If not their Death with griefe shall oftner come to minde My goods are lost No goods or els not mine I had not lost them had they beene mine owne Ill mote I thriue if for such losse I pine My patience left my state 's not ouerthrowne If I be wrong'd I 'le wreake me at my will I 'le take a noble vengeance and do good for ill What sayest thou Death Put on thy dreadfulst face And arme thy murthering hand with bloudy dart From vertues path I will not step a pace With God to friend all should it sticke my hart Thus liu'd this paire whose bodies dead here lie Thus di'd O Christ so let me liue so let me die Loe heere I meeke me to thy gouernance Lord of my life and death welcome thy will Thy souereigne wisdomes gracious purueyance Shall be my wish please thee to spare or spill If thy offence as greatest ill I flie That while I neither care nor feare to liue or die FINIS ERRATA Pag. 1. lin 2. vneath to p. 3. l. 4. bites the graue p. 12. l. 10. defletura p. 12. l. 17. supremos p. 13. l. 18. tantu'st p. 14. l. 11. it chorus p. 14. l. 18. mensis p. 15. l. 13. R. Theob p. 16. l. 3. vndique vos p. 16. l. 4. vndique deflent