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england_n	earl_n	lord_n	winchester_n	2,904	5	11.9178	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17025	A briefe discourse of the lyfe and death of the late right high and honorable Sir VVilliam Pawlet Knight Lord Seint Iohn, Erle of Wilshire, Marques of Winchester, knight of the honorable order of the garter, one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie counsel, and Lorde highe treasourer of Englande. VVhich deceased the tenth day of Marche. Anno. 1571. and was buried at Basing the. 28. day of Aprill. Anno. M. D. LXXII.	Broughton, Rowlande.	1572 (1572)	STC 3901; ESTC S116573	8,070	34

¶ A briefe discourse of the lyfe and death of the late right high and honorable Sir VVilliam Pawlet Knight Lord Seint Iohn Erle of Wilshire Marques of Winchester Knight of the honorable order of the Garter one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie Counsel and Lorde highe Treasourer of Englande VVhich deceased the tenth day of Marche ANNO. 1571. And vvas buried at Basing the. 28. day of Aprill ANNO. M.D.LXXII Printed at London by Richarde Iohnes Anno. 1572. To the Reader IT is not vnknowen Gentle Reader what diuers and sūdrie commodities the diligēt perusing serching and reading of Histories I meane the life and death of those that before vs good or ill haue ben written off bring to effecte in those that eyther in the good reioyce as of God or seing the euill abhor it as of Sathan As some reading of the vnsatiable greedie aspiring myndes of immodest persons moste loose dessolute in lyfe vsing in authoritie tyrannie highest in Princes opinions moste obstinate in Rebellion yea in their highest pomp and pryde seeing them by the leaste winke of the ryghteous Iudge come to ruinous lamentable and extreame myserie abhorring the same forecast wyth themselues the lyke extreamities So agayne others carefully noting the honest good and godly lyfe of learned wise and graue men in mynde meeke in heart merciful in office clement the more Noble the more gentle the more in authoritie the more obedient seeing howe they by the vnspeakable goodnesse of God are preserued and vpholden against their ennimies persuade them selues also to imitate the lyke Yet some to the contrarie will happily saye Histories are Fables many of smal authoritie therefore doutfull and some verie strange and so far hence done that scarse credible Therefore good Reader I haue pende for thee a little piece of the blessings of God to a Noble man no strāger but a neyghboure a moste faythful trustie and true subiect that thou reading the same maist imitate the lyke obedience too thy Prince the like regarde to thy Countrie and the lyke reuenge to thy ennimie that God maye blesse thee in thy vocation This in parte discharging my duetie towardes my Lorde and remembring hym whome a numbre shal misse I wish thee health and happinesse to Gods pleasure Thy friende Rovvlande Broughton Gentleman The Author to carpers THou carping carle thou thou that glad wouldst catche A faut wheron to fret thy foming fangs Thou Momus thou thou mayst go peak a patche And Zoylus too for al thy pāting pangs He liues by fame whome thou wouldest gladly bite And shal for ay maugre thy cursed spite And if so be my iust report thou blame Truth is my shielde and thyne shall be the shame Swythen Thorpe in prayse of the Author THe force of death eache simple creature knovves Sage Cato gone graue Tullie buried lies In vayne alas O England are thy vvoes For Paulets death cease of thy carefull cryes Though death by fate his aged corps haue slayne In spite of death he liuing still shal rayne His vvorthies such O happy he the vvhile But by vvhat meanes heare Broughton he dothe tell My Muse too base too slēder is my stile In tearmes more apte he shevves it passing vvell Thanke him therfore for thāks he ought to haue VVho makes men lyue vvhen they lye dead in graue 〈…〉 am obitum Clarissimi Viri D.W. LIteris tinctus teneris ab annis Dedidit sese studio Britanni Iuris tandem fuit ad beatos Vectus honores Stemma si spectes genus atque stirpem Siue maiores atauosue claros Ex domo exiuit celebri locoue Ortus equestri Iste compleuit grauidatus annis Lustra viginti repetes Vnum Atque sex annes ferè si notaris Tempora recte Qui piè viuit sequitur senectus I onga nec tristis neque talis aetas Integris vsquâm videatur acris Sine molesta Plurimos annos liceat videre Qui pie viuit liceatue prolem Plurimam stirpem numerare longo Ordine natam Ad bonum summum vehit alma virtus Gloriam ▪ famam decus honorem Lenitas semper parit atque prudens Actio rerum Funus effertur lachcrymis coortis Corpus in terrae gremio quiescit Suauiter dormit Deus ipse donec Suscitet ossa Attamen coeli spatiosa tecta Occupat mens pars melior magisue Pura congaudet simul atque gestit Visere Diuos ¶ A BRIEFE DISCOVRSE OF THE lyfe and death of the late Lorde Marques of Winchester Lorde hie Treasourer of England c. AS season serue so men applie to frame their factes aright As day doth serue for exercise so rest belonges to night The Sommers sweate in tyme bestowed the Winter frost defendes And Winter doth for Sommers toyle with restyng make amendes That fertyll Sommers sweat by care right fruitfull doth extende That same the barrayne Winter doth geue tyme to waste and spende Then Lent as all tymes els I wish to fast and pray men hie To purge their leperus consciences and Sathan to defie To graunt and with the Prophet sing that all flesh is but grasse And euery trée is rightly knowen by the fruite from him doth passe As I the twelfe of Marche last past these places did vnfould Loe in my Closet where I sate came in a mightie could That troubled all my sprites weake and did their vse bereaue My sight my voyce my memorie all in a maze tooke leaue ALECTO or MEGERA fell or els MEDVSA shée Or other suche from furious place mée thought appéerd to mée But that of mylder speche farre muche this whyle I mazed staid Mée thought he opened wide his mouth and this to mee he said Canst thou quoth he with clownish cluche bée numbde forget thy pen Wilt thou vntyll so idle state transforme thy fingers ten What hath bée witched late thy powers whiche thou wast wont to vse Or where is now becom the fruite of thy acquainted Muze Helpe now in dririe dole now helpe to wayle a wofull case His want I meane whome all the heauens allotted to the place If so that thou IGNARVS be of that whiche is befall As rudely as I can expresse beholde thou shalt know all And whilst he drest hym selfe to speake no sound he could arise But all maugre his hart he made two Cundits of his eyes And in a ruefull sorte he sayes my Lorde my Maister deare Is sommoned before the Throane of mightie IOVE t' appeare And as he lyuyng styll increast By mightie IOVE his bownt So now to IOVE agayne he is to render his account Whom or who or whence he is and of his pryme dissent Because all dumbe amazde thou sitste to tell I am content Aboute the time from Christes birth one thousand .iiij. hūdreth sixtie fyue The fifte of EDVVARD eke the fourth that tyme in England Kyng alyue At Fisherton hight DALAMER this Subiect true was borne Of worthy Parentes as the stocke had long tyme ben beforne And at his byrth the golden Giftes