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A02618	A happy husband or, Directions for a maide to choose her mate As also, a wiues behauiour towards her husband after marriage. By Patricke Hannay, Gent. To which is adioyned the Good wife, together with an exquisite discourse of epitaphs, including the choysest thereof, ancient or moderne. By R.B. Gent.	Hannay, Patrick, d. 1629?; Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673. Good wife. aut	1619 (1619)	STC 12747; ESTC S103737	79,392	200

c●…rnimus superstitem Quaecunque orta sunt occidunt Salust Ver vireat quod te peperit viridissima proles Quaeque tegit cineres ipsa virescat humus Transis ab exiguis n●…quam periture theatris Vt repetas sacri pulchra Theatra Iouis ¶ In vultum incredibili lepore respersum O facies mutata nimis spectacula praebes Vermibus ingenuis saepe probata viris Quo muta●…a tuae magis est Pr●…stantia form●… Integra nunc r●…manet quae peritura fuit Vita vt mimus Exit vt ex●…git soboles lepidissima partem Praemia fert hominum sed meliora Deûm ¶ Vpon a Traueller who taking Inne in a village at the signe of the Boore was lamentably murdered by his Hoast The brutish-brisled Bore that was my Signe Where th' Hoast Bore-like shed this poore bloud of mine Ibidem An crudelis Aper magis an crudelior Hospes Nescio saeuus Aper saeuus Hospes erat At sae●…s magis Hospes erat nam conuenit vrsis Inter se saeuis non Hospes ab Hospite tutus Englished Whether the Bore or Hoast more cruell be Cruell the Bor●… ●…he Hoast as fierce as He I know not but the Hoast's the cruellest Beares do agree while the Hoast betraies his Guest ¶ Vpon certaine Bones found of late buried in the ground supposed to be some murder committed by the Hoast in whose yard these Bones were found but as yet only suspition is grounded no apparancie of Fact discouered Brew'd be thy hands in bloud although Thou be Free to the world thy Conscience is not free For these drie Bones lie mouldred now in Dust Will manifest thy guilt for God is iust Vpon murder Murder may seeme to sleepe but cannot sleepe For Feare and Horrour do her eie-lids keepe Another Murder sometime to slumber will betake her Till furie wrath and vengeance do awake her ¶ Vpon a Gentlewoman who died in Child-birth One and my onely one lies buried heere Who in the Birth she bore was borne on Beere To him ask●…s more this for excuse appeares Ioy can find words b●…t words are drown'd in teares Vpon an Infant his fathers first borne was this written By this auouch I may right sure I am That meagre Death 's an vniust Tithingman This was my First not Tenth and we do say With Tenth not First we vse our Tithe to pay ¶ Vpon one Gray Gray was my name gray were my haires of hue And Gray to graue return'd payes Natures due ¶ Vpon one Grau●… Graue I was where now you see Graue is all is granted ●…e Yet with me my name I haue Since in graue d●…th lodge a Graue Another Iesu Christ my soule he saue Ere my Met-wand tuch my graue ¶ Vpon one Winds towards the North-borders is this written Winde●…'se ●…'se can'd an now I find A●… mans life is but a wind Whilke an I had winde at will I had yet bene liuing still But I's wele though wind be ga●… Siker I's wind feele I na●…e ¶ Another Miseremini mei my Friends all For now the World hath enformed me to fall I must no lon●…er endure Pray for my Soule For the World is transi●…ory and terrestriall Hoc Epitaphium ●…re insculptum vidimus cathedrali templo Ebo●…acensi pulcherrimo more in aerea quadam lamina consitum sed ●…rbarie temporis magis excusanda aut ineptia Auto●…is non satis 〈◊〉 parum condite dispositum in Orientali fa●… prope me●…iam partem Are●… erigitur ¶ Vpon old Mammon Here lies experienc'd Prouidence whose care Hath well enrich'd himself made others bare And yet when Nature did denie Him breath Wormes had their Legacie by meanes of Death Pray for his Soule who prai'd on many a Soule And houle amaine when as the Bell doth toule The reason is if you doe aske me why Howling should supply mourning when Dogs die Animae m●…ae propitietur Deus ¶ On a Cobler at Cambridge M●… not much though death in doubt did stand H●… fou●…d ●…im alwayes on the mending hand Ye●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a●…d by change of weather D●…th ript his Soule quite from the vpper le●…ther ¶ Vpon an Eminent STATESMAN in this Land absolute for his generall suruey in all knowledge his approued iudgement in all Learning Reade STATESMAN here thy owne mortalitie O meditate of Death before thy death Be not tra●…sport'd with Honour for if we Ere can shew vertue it is while we breath Raising our hopes ' boue Earths felicity To crown our Temples with Fames glorious wreath Behold I was and being was admir'd Elected STATESMAN and esteemed fit At all assaies of STATE to manage it So all that Frame which was so much desir'd Ends in this Chest where STATE retires expir'd ¶ In the memory of that famous Professour of Physicke Mr Butler generally renowmed for his approued practice Death might dissolue thy forme but not thy fa●…e For shee hath reared on thee such a frame As shall preserue thy mem'rie sure I am So long as Age shall neede Physician Cease Criticke then for to traduce his worth Whose Oyle though it be spent his Light 's not forth To sundry States our sundry Fates vs call Some for the Soule some bodie few for all Yet we in way of Charity should know He had receits for Soule and Bodie too ¶ On one Mor●… Here lies More and no more but h●… More and no more how can that be ¶ On one Pricke Cupid and Death they both their arrowes nicke Cupid shot short but Death he hit the Pricke ¶ Vpon Sir Ignorance Here lies the body of Sir Ignorance Who liued in a mist died in atrance And may he so long sleepe where he is laine Till he forget to come to vs againe ¶ Vpon Gregorie Cade Sib my wife did promise me Shee wo●…ld die when I did die But no trust's in Her I see And you see'●… as well as I For my shr●…wde was scantly rotte●… Till my Sib had me forgotten FINIS ¶ The Prodigals Glasse FLie me delights Content on Earth fare well My mind is aiming at an higher Sphere Though I on Earth seeme to remaine and dwell My perfect rest cannot b●… seated here Sith no delight there is not match'd with fear●… But when my mansion is where I would ●…e No feare on Earth can after trouble me This life what is it but a liuing death And in that death no rest vnto the mind Can worldlings haue Flie hence my soule and breath In that eternall Kingdome that 's assign'd For faithfull Pilgrims whose content's be●…ind After Earths losse to reape a treble gain●… 'Mongst those blest Saints that euermore remaine O that my Glasse were run that I might go●… From this low Centre and transported be From Earths allur●…ments instances of woe To dwell with my Redeemer cheerefullie O then should I forget my miserie By present ioyes enioy'd so much the more In that I liu'd that seem'd to die before W●…o would desire to liue when he may die And liue for euer Death

great Citie Damascus and in stead of a Banner take this sheete this shrowde which thou shalt wa●…e in the ayre and crie This is all that the victorious Saladine hath left him of all his Conquests Thirdly ●…for the infelicitie of this life diuers Ethnickes haue spoken worthily as Thales who affirmed no difference to be at all betwixt Life and Death and Crates reply who being asked what was the greatest happinesse could befall man answered Either not to be borne or to die soo●…e where the entrance to life is Shriking the middle Sorrowing and the end Sighing and better is it to haue no Being then to be miserable by Being confirmed by that sentence of Cneus Dentatus I had rather be dead then liue as o●…e dead vacancie from affaires being the graue of a liuing Soule With especiall reason may I seeme to approoue which a spirituall man approues in himselfe of that diuine Oracle The houre of our death is better then the houre of our birth since at the best we are but here in the state of Grace and that is only a glorie inchoate but after in the state of Glorie and that is a grace consummate It might seeme that the Cusani had some superficiall taste of this in bemoning their childrens birth and reioycing at their death but the experience of worldly griefs made them so desi●…edly approach their ends for certaine it is Mori velle non tantùm fortis aut miser aut prudens sed etiam fastidiosus potest where our liues louing falles to a loathing and the sacietie of delights being externall and therefore farre from reall breedes a d●…staste The consideration of these and many more anxieties whi●…h attend man in his Soiorne of Flesh hath no question moued sundry of those diuine Fathers to contemne this life reioycing much in the remembrance of their Dissolution but more especially that ardent and vnfained Loue which they bore to their Redeemer whose glorie that it might be promoted and furthered death seemed to them a singular fauour confirming their loue by the testimony of their faith and such to illustrate our Discourse by instance appeared the affec●…ion of blessed Hierome when he publiquely protested That if his mother should hang about him his father lie in his way to stoppe him his wife and children weepe about him he would throw off his mother neglect his father contemne the lamentation of his wife and children to meete his Sauiour Christ Iesus The like appeared the loue of all those glorious and victorious Martyrs during the Ten Persecutions shewing euident proofe of sanctitie in their liues of constancie in their deaths where neyther promise of preferment could allure nor extremest punishment deterre remaining to vse the words of Cyprian as an impregnable rocke amiddest all violent assaults assailed indeede but not surprized threatned but not dismayed besieged but not discomfited appearing like starres in the darke night like greene Baies in the midst of hoarie winter and like liuely fresh fountaines in the sandie Desert I could amplifie this Discourse by instancing the exercise of that Monasticall and Eremeticall life in former time professed and by an austeritie too rigorous for flesh and bloud continued abiding sequestred not onely from all mundane pleasures but euen enemies to humane societie so as rightly might Damascene terme it a kinde of Martyrdome being dead as well to men as to the world but I intend to be short speaking rather by way of admonition then discourse to caution such whose Desires seeme planted on this globe of frailtie accounting death the greatest infelicit incident to man as men incredulous of future good These haue their treasures on earth where they haue indiuidually fixed their hearts for where their treasure is there is their heart also Like I si●… Asse idolatrizing their owne gainesse ignorant poore makes how soone they shall b●… stript of their imaginarie glorie but these are those filij deperditi sencelesse of Sinne in the Desert of Sinne little knowing how mans securitie is the diuells opportunitie but crying with the Horse-leech More More are not to be satissted till their mouth be filled with grauell whose speedy Conu●…rsion I wish before their Dissolution lest Desolation second their Dissolution Yea may this effect worke in them before the day of forgetfulnesse receiue them Moriatur Paulus persecutor Viuat Apo●…tolus Praedicator Moriatur Magdalena pe●…cans viuat poenitentiam agen●… Moriatur Matthaeus Publicanus viuat fidelis Dei seruus So shall Death be a passage to a life subiect to no death so entire consolation shall receiue them where their sincere conuersion reclaimed them euer applying this as a chearefull receit to an afflicted Consciēce 〈◊〉 est hominis errare nullius nisi insipientis perseuerare in errore True it is that neither Homers vnde●…standing though he could reduce what memorable thing soeuer he had read into a golden verse Platoes●…it ●…it Aeschynes art of Oratory nor Ciceroes tongue shall preuaile when wee become 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a breathlesse Corps then the hearts sincerity not the excellency of any outward faculty shall bring vs to the inheritance of glory which Saint Augustine compare●… to the Sun Pascuntur omnes non minuitur Whence it is that Plato in ●…is Timaeus saith If a man lose his eyes or feete or hands or wealth wee may say of such an one hee loseth something but He who loseth his Heart and Reason loseth all for in the wombe of our Mother the first thing that is engendred or participates forme is the Heart and the last which dieth is the ●…ame Heart and the gift which God craueth of Man is his heart But we haue too farre digressed let vs now returne to those zealous Professors of true Mortification those who laboured in the Spirituall Uineyard and fainted not were persecuted yet failed not were put to Death yet desist●…d not from glorifying their Master in their Death All which may appeare by those pregnant places of Scripture I desire to be d ssolued saith Paul and to be with Christ Phil. 1. 23. 24. Neu●…rthelesse for me to abide in the flesh were better for yo Neither doth He desire to bee dissolued as weary of suffering vnder the Cr●…sse of Christ but ●…or the feruent desire he hath to see God in his glorie Againe the faithfull crie euer for the approach of Gods Kin●…dome the reward of immortality which with assurance in Gods mercies and his Sonnes passion they vndoubtedly hope to obtain with vehemency of spirit inuoking and inuiting their Mediatour Come Lord Iesus come quickely Reuel 22. 20. Nor doe they ground on a weake Fo●…ndation Knowing how they that die in the Lord shall rest from their Labour Iohn 5. 24. Re●…el 14. 15. O that Man would consider s●…ith a religious Father what a sinner loseth to wit Heauen what he getteth to wit Hell whom he offendeth Gods Iustice what he incurreth his vengeance for vengeance is his and he●… will repay it Briefly Magna est

●…bis indicta necess●…as saith Boaetius to correct and rectifie our liues least our owne prau●…tie depriue vs li●…e so by auoiding Sin ma●… w●…e auoide the pun●…shment of Death due vnto Sinne possessing the reward of eternall life summarily comprized in these two To liue in his feare and die in his fa●…our Now wormeling let mee speake to thee that so much lamentest the losse of thy friend as if he were gone from his home to a strange Countrey Doest Thou weepe that thou hast lost him or that he hath left thee here behind him Too incredulous thou if thou weepe for the first lost he cannot be for thy losse is his aduantage if for the last prepare thy selfe so in thy life that thou may ●…nioy thy Friend aft●…r Death meane time beare with patience thy friends d●…parture beleeuing that he hath purchased rest from his labour Neither doth this life which moueth and acteth with all her sensitiue operations proue that wee are aliue but dead if the Spirit o●… Grace did not quicken vs which Christ seemes to con●…irme saying Let the dead bury the dead implying such as bee dead in Sin for if the vitall motions were dead and extinguished in vs it were impossible we should burie or doe any such offices to the deceased Hence may Thou be comforted whosoeuer thou art that conceiuest immoderate sorrow in the Death of a Friend seeing him liue worthy thy friendship here and translated hence to bee ioyned in the Vnion and Communion of the Saints elsewhere To be short if hee were of approued conuersation his happie passage may occasion in thee ioy rather then griefe being exempted from this vale of teares this Surplusage of sorrow and translated to the Port of rest the Harbour of tranquility bringing his sheaues with him If he were euill why doest thou call him Friend for no true friendship saith the Ethnicke can be amongst naughty men But suppose him a friend yet being of a vicious life ciuill societie is well rid of him being so apt of himselfe to depraue them for true is that axi●… as well in Minds Physicke as the Bodies Initium morbiest aegris Sana miscere Mans nature being euer prone Medaea-like to haue free ●…lection of the best but to follow the worst Let this then serue as a Position to limit thy affection If wor●…hy the stile of Friend bee sorry not so much for that Death hath taken him as that thou art left here behind him If vnworthy grieue not that thou hast left him but that so much precious time should be lost by him But in these extrem●…ies there is no receite more soueraigne then recourse to Him who disposeth of vs liuing and dying euer meditating how 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Honor Dei bonum maximum and to r●…commend withall the whole course of our Actions to his gracious Dispensation that can bring light out of darkenesse and turne our bed of sorrow to the soule solacing repose of eternall rest Receiue therefore this Resolution which I for some yeeres haue to my selfe proposed and by the Almighties helpe may continue it I haue no friend too deare for my dear●…st friend nor will I grieue at my friends departure being as my hope assures mee gone to his Sauiour at least if natural affection force me weepe af●…er a while shall my faith renew my ioy for sorrow may la●…t for a night butioy commeth in the mor●…ing A restraint wee reade of amongst the Romans in their Funerall Solemuities for immoderate Mourning so many dayes being limited after the end whereof the Blacke habits were left expressing all other friendly offices in the erection of their Statues curiously engrauen in Marble Iuory artificially carued with many Thracian Lydian Ionian and Paphian workes diuersly beautified with Inscriptions and Impresses to preserue their memory which seemed a ●…ruitlesse vanity to many of the grauer Consuls who reposed more trust in the vertues of the mind hoping thereby to become more memorable then in the exteriour beauty of Tombes which were oft times the natiue Emblemes of them they couered being those Rotten S●…pulchers I meane Ex●…rius nitida interius faetida Handsome without but noysome within whereas those eminent vertues made their Possessors truly memorable hauing Acts and valiant Exploits insteade of Statues to recommend them in succeeding times whence it was that the Poet in the person of Cato said ●…armor virtus erit 〈◊〉 vi●…itur ebore Cato For true Honour as it is essentiall to man that merits it so must it haue an internall monument to preserue it for these corruptible things are subiect to decay which Honour if deseruedly purchased ●…annot admit though many haue merited it who liuing could neuer enioy it which if time would suffer might be instanced in the renowned Asdrubal an●… many other who to pre●…ent the malice and fury of the people fled to his Fa●…hers Sepulcher and ●…illed himselfe with Poyson whence so violent is passion i●… once ●…xcited they dragged out his carkasse and cutting off his head put it vpon a speares point and bare it about the City Plenty of like examples will Histories affoord as Bysi●… the Graecian Osyg●…s the Lac●…demonian Bracaras the Theban Scipio th●… Roman with many others but I hast to an end purposing to weaue vp the body of this Discourse with a prescrib●…d forme of sorrow yet not so as if Stoically-affected through the obd●…acy of my nature I could not weepe with those th●…t weepe or so experienst in Mortalitie as to seeme incapable of ●…umane ●…assions nor such a disciplinarie Heraclytus as to teach men how to make a sorrowful face but by a Christian instruction the singular motiue to the zealously affected to perswade such immoderate Mourners as exceede in passion to more Temperance telling them withall how farre they decline from that godly sorrow which appeared in the faithfull Saints and Seruants of God who were not grieued at the Handie worke of the Lord but referred themselues to his disposing who vsed now and then to trie them by aduerfities losse of friends and other afflictions that by these exteriour trialls which Seneca termeth Exercises they might like pure gold be purged and refined to shine afterwards like polished corners in Gods Temple like Oliue-braunches round about his Table We may reade kinde Christian brother that Christ approued of ●…eeping for he wept ouer ●…erusalem and Peter his beloued wept bitterly and Samuel the Prophet wept for King Saul yea there is a Blessing pronounced to those that weep and we are expresly inioyned to weepe Briefly we may reade of many holy men that wept but this their weeping was for their sins it was a religious sorrow for Peter wept for denying his Maister regaining that place by w●…ping that he had lost by denying Christ wept in the consideration of Ierusalems Fall and her miserable blindnes not to see her fall Likewise ouer his dead friend Laz●…rus shewing friendly compassion before his miraculous restauration