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Vertues due: or, A true modell of the life of the right Honourable Katharine Howard, late Countesse of Nottingham, deceased. By T.P. Gentleman
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Powell, Thomas, 1572?-1635?
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1603
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STC 20169; ESTC S110533
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Vertues due or A true modell of the life of the right Honourable Katharine Howard late Countesse of Nottingham deceased By T. P. Gentleman Printed at London by Simon Stafford dwelling in Hosier lane neere Smith-field 1603. ⧠To the right Honorable Charles Howard Earle of Nottingham Baron of Effingham Lord high Admirall of England of her Maiesties most Honorable priuie Counsayle and of the Noble Order of the Garter c. RIght Noble Lord my resolue was aduised to make immoration vpon the nicest circumstances of your present hauiour in plentifull and honorable sorrow whose animall motion might bee admou'd to the violence hereof This gaue leaue to the greater obseruance which wee owe to the deceased that is in protection and contestation Besides that warrant of the antentique Censoriall rites whose example I haue here quoted for most Honorable Heraldrie in disposing her funerall torch by due reference into your suruiuing hand neither infeebling the courtesie of the liuing nor promising mine owne aduantage vpon your Noble and innated goodnesse neither to actuate refâ—icate molestias but in mine owne affectation to be conformed with that Romane solemnity of dedication And as she was I write for president More of succession than griefs argument Your Honours in all the nerues of my ability Thomas Powell To the Reader TO prepare ye to what is writ I know my smoothest composure would be too boy sterous vpon the rigall nakednesse of your impatience A long preface were a sicke fether vpon your winged Mercury And yet to expose me to vninstructed censure whose proofe is too much in seuerity I should release the bond of our recoÌ„ciliation seeme to suspect approbation to be more of fortunes almes than our owne deseruing I imply to your freer spirits all customary requisites and to my selfe reserue this onely obiter of opinion That I write more of duty to the dead than reputation of liuing Poesie In both which I am wilfully confident to be confidently willing T. P. Resumptio Cum tonat Ocyus Ilex Sulphure discutitur sacro quam tuque domusque T. P. Vertues due THe Sunne but now began to gather fire And lay a sharper edge vpon his beames Abated to the fulnesse of the yeere As fretted with the salt of Neptunes steames When blacke solemnity enuide anew And soyld his face with a more precious dewe Dew'd with the most religion of affection Made soft in nature and in Heraldry The one accusing fate for his election The other weeping his seuerity Both from their Cyprus altars offring teares Ynowe to make him aged in yong yeares It was not for the gods Arcadian theft When he drew dry their vdders milch-excesse Nor for his mother Pthias when she wept His rage that earth malign'd his murrinesse But loe affections law of like for like It is our natures freedome to requite For he had lustre on his infant rayes To blandish out the glory of his Spring Reft from the falling Load-starre of our dayes Whose motion was the musike which I sing The measure of consent to all her sphere Indeed she was the best in Cynthia's quiere She was and so are loosers still in leesing When they recount the worth of what is lost And is not Cold remembrance euer freezinâ— When it shall reade the story of what 's past Yet as she was repeate for president More of succession then griefs argument Was of her trayne Eternities decreeing Did dedicate her in her parentage Whose neere alliance askt as neere a beeing And gently seal'd it on her virgin waxe And so for nature and election Would Cynthia's self endeere her as her own She gaue her ranke respect and full accesse Agnizing her affinity and merit With fauours graces after graciousnesse Wherein she seem'd as if she did inherit The trust and dignities which long before Her Honourable Ancestors did store Her parents honours did she extraduce Into her very disposition As if the generall Carcy were infusde And had no other formes of his diuision Their ancient vnattainted loyalty Broad blow'ne and flush vpon her infancy Yet beauty was not onely of her blood Her birth-day Solstice height vnto perfection The Cantharis enuies a verdant bud And birth does only counsaile to prosection So learnd she with the chaÌ„ge of euery spring To saue her blood with heedfull dyeting Her youth preseru'd it chaste with continence A virgin diet for the hote intention Which might vnglosse his colour adde expeÌ„ce Both of the length bredth of their dimeÌ„sion But the example of her mariage bed Were Oratory to perswade to wed For after she had blest so many moones As had Astrea when she was transfixt With more austerity than that which crownes The Romane chastity did she commixe Her birth her blood Nobility and name To flowe more lofty in as rich veyne In Howards ample veynes a Family Of eminence deryu'd without distent From the first shield of all their Auncestry To this of Charles the latest Eminent Whose fayth and fortunes may they ne're expire But in a melting firmament of fire She wedded yet she was a Votary To minister-in consecrated flame And weare Dianaes bow vpon her thigh Till on a day of sanctified name To store eche Nymph with shafts the goddesse bids To fill her quiuers all with Poplar twigs That grew vpon a leuin which the sea Had season'd thriftily within the shore There Neptune fell in loue with 〈◊〉 That till this day ne're sawe the Nymph before Ne're had his brest improou'd or softened But like the temper of his Corall bed From which he lately risse to lay her in And plac'd his Aggot wreath vpon her browes Whose potent charmes Diana pardon'd him And gaue her back the freedome of her vowes So she might still be of her fayrie trayne He war with Saturnes sonnes vpon the mayne And now Eliza with her wedlocke fate Did wed her to a higher dignity She kept the chayre that did suborne her state And grac'd it like the blue-eyde Cassiope She ne're surcharg'd ability with grace But still her owne dimensions fild the place Wherein this noble Lady Katherine seemd T' anticipate her Mistris bounteous hand As if her offices were but redeemd From vnder meriting and she did stand Alone and vnencountred in her worth One whom inheritance had called forth Or rather prouidence for what she was She was to others through her selfe intended Like to some interiected leafe of glasse That breaks yet heats when neerer rayes offended She was all Organs euen to the mind Whereby God did insinuate with mankind Her whole mortality had this extent She had affections of immortall sense For she would pity much and much relent But the affect of greatest presidence Ouer her nature held no sinne to this To leaue apt good vndone or doo 't amisse The more they misse of her that are imbayd And fortune fixt for want of sea and scope Their burden with their sayle being ouerlayd Vnlesse they Anchor all their after-hope They misse alas