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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09596	Vt hora, sic fugit vita. A commemoration on the life and death of the right Honourable, Sir Christopher Hatton, Knight, late Lord Chauncellor of England Wherin triumphant trueth reuiueth his memorie from the graue: exhorting nobilitie, gentrie, and duetifull subiects, to continue their obedience to God and her Maiestie, and to preuent by pollicie the perilous practises of euery ciuil and forrain enemy. Published by Iohn Phillips.	Phillips, John, fl. 1570-1591.	1591 (1591)	STC 19876; ESTC S110452	7,761	18

Vt hora sic fugit vita A Commemoration on the life and death of the right Honourable Sir Christopher Hatton Knight late Lord Chauncellor of England Wherin triumphant Trueth reuiueth his memorie from the graue exhorting Nobilitie Gentrie and duetifull Subiects to continue their obedience to God and her Maiestie and to preuent by pollicie the perillous practises of euery ciuil and forrain enemy Published by Iohn Phillips Fidenti sperata cedunt LONDON Printed for Edward White 1591. TO THE RIGHT VVORSHIPFVL Sir VVilliam Hatton Knight Sonne adopted and Heire to the right honourable Sir Christopher Hatton late Lord Chaunceller of England Iohn Phillips wisheth the feare of God cōtinuance of helth with increase of worship vertue IT hath beene in all times right worshipfull a princiciple obserued that publick and apparant vertues in persons deceased haue neuer been buried in obliuion but haue alwaies been recorded and left to posterities the end only this that they who still liue by apt imitation might be practisers of like vertues Which in my selfe considered I concluded that great vnkindnes to God and iniurie to remayning Subiects should be offered if the vertuous life and death of this right honorable deceased Lord should not be emblazoned To God vnkind if he as the author should not be acknowledged the cause efficient of all these rich graces wherewith he was inuested iniurie to suruiuing subiects if there should not be commemoration of his more then naturall vertues as by recordation whereof they might walke tread the same way and path My selfe I confesse am the least of others and most vnable to perfourme what I wish yet wil I not be the last that shall vse endeuour to effect what I may With hoping that you would accept I presumed to thrust forth this small Pinnace fraught with simple marchandize into the harbor of your worships protection assuring my selfe that as the purest Emerauld shineth brightest when it hath no oile so Trueth will delight you though basely apparrelled The shortest and most clowdie day is a day as well as the longest and brightest when the sun is in the height of his Horizon Pardon then I beeseech you wherein I haue presumed and accept I most humblie craue what herc I haue presēted which if your worship vouchsafe Trueth concludes her selfe sufficiently graced and my selfe most happy which haue beene her pen-man Of this resting my selfe assured I shall continuallie pray for the increase of your worship that both in this life you may haue your harts desire and in the end fruition of those ioyes that are endlesse Tour worships most duetifull to cmmaund I. Phillips A COMMEMORATION OF THE life and death of Sir Christopher Hatton knight Lord Chancellor of England YOu noble Peeres my natiue Countrimen I need not shew to you my bloud nor birth As dust I was I turne to dust agen I go before but you must to the earth Yet when or how to you it is vnknowne For be you sure the earth doth claime her owne It is not gold nor treasures that are vaine can you preserue when that the time is come Your houses gay wherin you do remaine can you not shield from Gods decreed doome As I am dead so like wise you shall die But learn by death with me to liue on hie Though gaping graue inclose my Corps in clay and silent I rest couered close in mould Yet from my shrine Trueth striues both night and day to you my mind good Lords for to vnfould Whereto if case you vouch to yeeld reg●rd Your selues with right I trust wil me reward Which of you could with Hatton finde a clause or say that he vniust or faithlesse was Did he not liue according to the lawes and on the earth his daies in duetie passe Was not his care set on his God for aye And did not he his soueraigne Queen obay Was not his hart bent for his Countries weale did he not stil euen from his tender youth With rich and poore vpright and iustly deale and cloath himselfe in robes of tried trueth If this be true as no man can denie Fame saith he liues although our Hatton die Where he might help he would be helping still where he might hurt he neuer would do harme His chiefest care was to doe good for ill thus God with grace did gentle Hatton arme No trecherous thought could harbor in his brest The fruites offaith in him were aye exprest The worlde knowes wel Trueth tels a tale most true the heauens aboue of this do witnes beare Though Momus mates and Zoilus do pursue scandals with scorne against the iust to reare But such doe weaue themselues a web of woe For Trueth triumphs who works their ouerthrow In lustie youth he lou'd the barbed steede and Hector-like would breake the manly launce For martiall acts surnamed Mars indeed was Hatton sweete that manhood did aduaunce At tilt the prize and praise he duely wan His might in armes they felt that with him ranne At turney he and barriers did excell some peeres in arms haue borne his battring blowes In court and towne he was beloued well a scourge he was vnto his Soueraignes foes Faith was the shield that worthy Hatton bare Whose like scarce liues his vertues were so rare Should Trueth then dread to spread his vertues out that for his deedes hath wonne deserued praise Her cheareful voice with courage bold and stout throughout the world his lasting laud shall raise And moue thereby the minds of noble men To high attempts to win them honor then Where might the sick the sore the halt and blind reape more reliefe then happy Hatton gaue To suiters poore he euer was most kind he sought dispatch that they with Prince might haue Then Lordings learn his steddy steps to trace With God and Prince you thus shal purchase grace Thus for his loue his faith and tried trueth he of the Guard by our most gratious Queene Was chieftaine made who firmly held his oath from Hattons hart faiths fruites to flow were seene A chieftaine kind he to the Guard was found Whose want with grief their tender harts doth wound He sought all meanes to wish and work their weale to doe them good he took no small delight In their cause he with our good Queen did deale t'augment their wage he did all that he might From sixteen pence to twenty pence a day Whil'st world doth last he did reduce their pay And by the day three moneths in the yeare two shillings he for them obtaind indeed Such feruent loue in him did still appeare that they him found a fort in time of need Their wrongs he sought by skil for to redresse His loue with teares Trueth shows they can expresse In wisdoms bower he did obtayn his seat whose lore to learn he did his time imploy And God from heauen with his graces most great in mercies milde sought to augment his ioy For vertues vse wherein he took delight Our gratious Queen did dub