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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07484	The legend of Humphrey Duke of Glocester. By Chr: Middleton	Middleton, Christopher, 1560?-1628.	1600 (1600)	STC 17868; ESTC S120082	18,980	48

earth lay sadly mantelled Pluckes in their pale heads as asham'd and sorry He should so farre exceede themselues in glory 14 So did the world wherein this worthy was Admire the more then common gifts he had Wondring how such a worke should come to passe And with aboundant mellancholie sad Frets out their liues in enuy and dispaire For with his life no life could ere compare 15 And had he not been royall in his birth Yet had his matchlesse learning and his wit From meanor rootes as fayre a branch brought foorth For King-borne blouds to shrowd them vnder it For Wit and Learning are two Angels wings By which meane men soares vp to mighty things 16 Ah woe the while our age neglects that same Would our great men would immitate his course Then should their vertues adde vnto their name More noblenesse and after death inforce A new liues date whose lymits should extend Beyond all ages after time shall end 17 His youth not vainely spent in idle sports Such as be-witches young mens fantasies But seriously attending the resorts Of learned Councellors men of great degrees Made him an Atlas abler to sustaine The heauy burden of his Cousens Raigne 18 By how much straighter springs the new-set Pine By so much hope men of a fayre encrease But way-ward plants that crookedly decline That they should prooue good trees all men surcease The hope they haue of any further good And lets them dye regardlesse in the wood 19 So when the impes that springs from Royall stockes Keepes a straight passage through their vertuous youth O how that shew all mens desires prouokes That should increase still to a fairer growth Vntill it prooue a goodly broad-spred tree To shade poore shrubs from wrongs and iniury 20 So had mens hopes in him their full effect His godly youth sprung to a vertuous age Whose matchfull care was spent in the respect Of Countries welfare and he did ingage His substance and himselfe to doe much good To th' poore and such as most in daunger stood 21 And happy was the King whose infancy Was guided by so good a mans direction Whose care was not his owne commodity Nor for to satisfie priuate affection But to performe the charge he had in hand Protect the King for th'quiet of the land 22 Then was not iustice collour'd with deceipt Kept downe by might wrought vnto great mens wils Nor was her Schooles peis'd down with golden waights And shee that should correct colour mens ills But who did well by him were well regarded And wicked men with their deserts rewarded 23 Then Ruffling pride as light as vanity Rouz'd from her soft secure luxurious bed Banisht from hence liu'd in obscurity As on exilde from whence she first was bred And what sinnes else were great were all defac't And in their steeds religious vertues plac't 24 But see to what a ftaylty we are borne When as our best estate is sooh'st declyn'd Fayre dayes haue end and their delights out-worne Succeeeds darke nights cold stormes blustring wind Few men there were that had or ere shal haue Fortune continue constant to their graue 25 As stormes of hayle fal's on the rypen'd corne All vnexpected to the husbandman And shakes the full-fraught eares that had out-worne Colde heate drought wet and what soeuer can Decay the earths increase and now did stand Expecting but the gladsome Reapers hand 26 So fares it with this Duke whose young dayes spent In vertuous studies and true holines Sets downe himselfe now with a full intent To spend his weary age in quietnesse Thinking his holy life should this haue found Peace tending on his body to the ground 27 But ô sad times where nought but misery Stands ready to make pray on each estate Sometime she tends them from their infancy Vntill she sees their whole life ruinate Other men lets she grow to th' top of all Intending so to worke their greater fall 28 So Pompey in the midst of victory All vnexpected hapned on his end And Caesar in his greatest maiesty Vntimely murthred by his neerest friend Such are mens best estates more wretched they In greatest pompe most subiect to decay 29 And did the troubles of this world but tend On wicked men it were a iuster doome But soonest doe their iniuries extend To holy liues that hindering too soone The course of vertue fore it grew too great They may themselues establish in her seate 30 And had it not been so with this great man In what a glorious current had he runne Euen from the Royall spring where he began Downe to the Sea of honour nor there doone Had turn'd the strong tydes by his vertues force And made them striue to follow on his course 31 Why doth my labouring Muse so far proceede Exemplyfying of his worthy life And numbring his good gifts because indeed She 's loath to enter into such a strife As she must doe comparing but the ruth Of his sad age with th'onor of his youth 23 These were the younger sort but grauer men Whose plots and drifts sorts not to their effect With false surmizes slyly settles them To draw the Kings minde into some neglect Of the Dukes rule and by that enterprise Intise his youth to follow their aduise 33 And since the worlds first age what age was seen Wherein some fury rowz'd from th'deepest hell Possest not mens conceipts and still hath been Ready to plot and practise any ill Nor euer shall there be an age so cleare But in her smooth face shall some faults appeare 34 For as the brightest flame hath darkest smoake Bodyes their shadowes clearest springs theyr mud Whose enuious quallityes oft times prouoke Them to be ill who else would still be good Mud spoiles the spring smoake oft obscures the flame And vitious men enxies at vertues name 35 And which is more admir'd euen twixt two friends Rises sad discord I and such as were Link'd in the bonds of blood whose deedes should tend To mutuall friendship and should eleaue as neere As twin-borne bretheren whil'st they are intoombe Within the compasse of their mothers wombe 36 Great Henry Bewfoord Bishop of Winchester Neerely ally'd both to the Duke and King A man ambitious haughty not sincere And hollily affected seekes to bring By bad deuises vnderneath his hand The King the Nobles th'commons of the land 37 And hauing now inricht himselfe with store Of what was needfull for his great attempt As money friends authority and power Of men that nothing could his will preuent His great intendments what so ere they were But Glosters fore-sight in his dayly care 38 Kindles the first fire of that wofull age Whose flames coupling themselues with new allyes Which many after times could not aswage But still fresh fewell brought it new supplyes Till this poore country spent with ciuill iarres Want brings at length a weake end to their warres 39 Now Lyon-like he forrages the land And being Lord Chaunc'ler practizes his will Keeps lawes