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A51781	A short view of the lives of those illustrious princes, Henry Duke of Glovcester, and Mary Princess of Orange deceased, late brother and sister of His Majesty the King of Great Brittain collected by T.M. Esq., to whome the same will serve a rule & pattern.	Manley, Thomas, 1628-1690.	1661 (1661)	Wing M446; ESTC R8035	34,733	124

on good ground he would be divorced from them his temperance was great his diet sparing sleep moderate not to pamper nature but keep it in repair pleasures he rather did but tast or sip then greedily drink off and that sometimes more to content others then please himself Of a quicker apprehension Eloquent tongue and what was worthy of most repute he was very religious well skilled in several Languages and extraordinarily seen in divine Sciences To conclude his soul was enriched with many Vertues but the most Orient of all was his humility which took all mens love and affections without resistance and made his death the more lamented by which means we doubt not his Everlasting blisse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now rais'd to Heaven he from his body free A Death-lesse Saint no more shall mortall be I shall only give you a few of his observations which while he lived he was known to have made whereby his wisdome may be the better discerned for if ex pede Herculem as by the bigness of Hercules foot we may guesse at the vast dimensions of the other parts of his body so the judgement of mens abilities are to be learned by their sayings as a touch whereof I shall in the way of a Corollory add only these few of this most pious Prince as hereafter they sufficiently follow 1. It was an observation noted by him That Good Great men may secure themselves from guilt but not from Envy for the greatest in trust of publick Affairs are still shot at by the aspiring of those that think themselves lesse in imployment then they are in merit 2. That oftentimes it is seen that mens Consciences convincing them of another mans desert and merit they suspect opposition in them whereby their greatnesse may be Eclipsed and therefore strive by all means to put disgrace on his person and parts thereby to hinder his rising for whilst a man is out of imployment and finding that he cannot so publickly expresse his worth they still labour to keep him in obscurity to the end that themselves may appear more glorious 3. It was the practise of Constantine the Emperor when his Enemy Licimus began his Warrs with Exorcismes and Charmes he undertook all with prayer and holy Meditations and therefore the Lord of Heaven made him Lord of the Field and he found such comfort by prayer that he stamped upon his coin the image of himselfe praying to God The Duke inferred from thence this Conclusion How necessary this duty of prayer is for setling our affairs my soul I am sure is experimentally sensible if we settle our Affairs right with God he will settle our business with man is it not his own promise Ask and it shall be given to you 4. This also was a similitude used by him As a pot full of Water in the heat of Summer is troubled and polluted with many flies but if it be boyled upon the fire they neither would nor durst come neer it so saith he while our soules in prayer are cold and livelesse we are still perplexed and have no reliefe from our troubles whereas if our minds were inflamed with zeal all Vanities would be abandoned and our prayers so rectifyed that we should not offer the Sacrifice of Fools 5. That there is no better mark of a true generous spirit then to attempt things which are hard to be atchieved 'T is in vulgar and adulterate spirits that the soul of motion is wholy derived from the livelyhood of action Noble spirits court dangers Avida est periculi virtus Nec juvat ex facili lecta Corona jugo 6. He tooke great delight in that saying of Aristippus the Philosopher who was wont to affirm that it was better to be a Beggar then unlearned because the Beggars penury was onely want of Money but he that was unlearn'd was destitute of humanity 7. He was wont to Note that the Ladder of Jacob mentioned in Genesis is but a Figure of Christ which by his humane Nature touched Earth and by his Divinity Heaven therefore if we or our prayers passe by this Ladder we have the Father at the top of the Ladder ready to receive us and our prayers 8. He used to say That it is familiar with fortune to do more harm in one day then she doth good in many years using in delight to raise up vain Men for her glory and on a sudden suffering them to fall with the weight of their proper vanity and want of Government 9. When he had read the Story of Archelaus King of Macedonia who being requested by a Minion of his Court to give him a certain cup of Gold delivered it to his Page commanding him to beare and give it to one Euripides who was there present and then said to the other As for thee thou art worthy to aske and to be denied also but Euripides is worthy of gifts though he ask nothing Surely said the Duke this was an excellent reward for an insinuating Parasite and a rare pattern for other Princes who thereby may learn that a deserving Subject ought to be rewarded though his owne modesty withhold him from asking 10. He alwayes argued that Faith and Obedience are to be perswaded not wrought by compulsion our minds like unto generous and Noble horses being best ruled with an easie bit howbeit it is necessary not altogether to relye on words for two things do Establish a Kingdome viz. Force and Vertue which between them produce that sinew of Warre Money according to that saying of Themistocles going in Embassy to the Isle of Andros for Money he told them that he came accompanyed with two Goddesses viz. Perswasion and Force 11. He constantly affirmed that they are much mistaken in their ayme who think to make a man infamous by Death for there is no Life so odious that ending in publick with constancy and modesty changeth not hatred into pity pity into favor and leaveth not some favourable opinion of innocence behind it 12. Another observation was That a man should not derogate from himself there being two many ready enough for that office at least to believe him as one that best knows what he most wants and certainly he that doth censure himselfe hath no colour for an appeal nor person to appeale to unlesse it be from his Words to his Deeds which then must be very remarkable Howsoever he must acknowledge it to be great folly to have denyed that ability in himselfe which he desires to be much known for thereby he is become a distroyer of his own fame 13. And other times he noted That there is nothing more unjust then to Condemne those things which our selves do not or see not especially when whole Nations agree in it for when only time makes them please us it is apparent that in that they first displeased us it was not their fault but our ignorance And it is to be thought that all Countries have both

nos de pace belloque censet sed qui juventutem exhortatur qui in tanta bonorum praeceptorum inopia virtute instruit animos etsi nihil aliud certe in privato dublicum negotium agit FINIS AN ELEGIE On the Death of the most Illustrious PRINCE HENRY DVKE of GLOVCESTER SOme Princes lives such cold affections bred That we do scarce repent their being dead And such indifferent griefes attend their rights As they were not their Funerals but our sights Herse Scutchins darkness the pale tapers blaze All that invites our first or after gaze The Nobles Heraulds Mourners sable-clad These make a solemne pompe but not a sad But to your Obsequies deer Prince we come As they that would beg tenements in your tomb And by your genuine sorrows seek to prove Those Indians wise that die with those they love And no less penance can these Nations shrive Which make thee dead so long while yet alive And by as cruel method as unjust Bury thee first in Exile then in Dust Thy sufferings Inventary rose so high There scarce was other left thee but to die And this was that in all his rage and storme Though Cromwel wisht he trembled to perform When pawzing here after thy slaughter'd Sire He seem'd to fear this was to murder High'r And bathing his black soul i th' sacred flood He durst gorge Royal but not tender blood Where then shall innocence in safety sit When a disease it selfe doth Cromwell it If a distemper our complaints may bear And we may fix a reverent quarrel there Nere to be reconcil'd pursue we still Thy fate that did with more then slaughter kill The sharp disquiets of an aking brain A heart in sunder torne yet whole to pain Eyes darting forth dimme fires instead of sight At once made see and injur'd by the light Faint pulse and tongue to thirsty cinders dry'd When the relief of thirst must be denyd the bowels parcht limbs in tormenting throws To coole their heat while heat from cooling Slumbers which wandring phansies keep awake And sense not lead by objects but mistake Most feavers Limbecks though with these they burn ●hey leave the featur'd carcass to the urn But thine was born of that offensive race Arm'd to destroy she first strove to deface And then to close her cruel tragick part She slew against the augury of Art No adversary could worse spight display Since it is lesse to Kill then to betray 'T was savage beyond fate for others lie Dead of disease you of revovery All shipwracks horrid are but yet none more Then that which for its witness takes the shore Affronts plots scandals false friends cold Allys Exiles wants tempests battails rebels spies Restraints temptations strange aires in all these Was there no Feaver no malignine disease The Royal line England this brand must wear Suffer abroad but perish only here So to the Sun the Phoenix doth repaire Through each distemper'd Region of the Aire Through swarms of Deaths she there victorious flies But in her cruel Nest she burns and dies Had you resign'd your late afflicted breath When life it self lesse lovely was then death When the kind graves did but receive our care And the survivers only wretched were Our greedy interests might tempted be To cal thy vertues back but hardly thee But now when Vines drop Wine from every trunk To chear their owners not make rapine drunk Our goods find out our unfrequented hands And crimes make persons guilty and not lands When Widdowes houses are no more a meale And Churches spoiles are sacriledge not zeal When our beloved yet dread Soveraigne Head Is Crown and Guard to all but to the Dead What Niobe can waile our mournful fate Snatcht from the best of Kings happiest state The publick peace and your own large content In your just Brothers equal Government Had rais'd so rich an odour to your sense That growing time had tane you sated hence But to depart under four Months return To land in England to prevent your Urne Seems their disaster who a bliss might shape But loose their deer enjoyments by a Rape And now most wretched we who state our woe By thy afflictions and thy vertues too Thy Infancy our cruelty forbore Made thee an early Captive and no more Kisses that had from Princely parents fell From servile lips seem'd then supply'd as well Nor could thy suffrings then excite thy moane Since sufferings are no sufferings when unknown Thy childhood that their nobler cares protect Who strive to show but are forbid respect While rude ones seek by a misbred resort To rase out all thy lines of birth or Court. That tutor'd out of Prince you might be sent Into a common-people banishment But thrift reclames that project eyes the heap Of thy expence and bids thee perish cheap Posts thee ere least debasement could appear A Gemme to Forreign states a burden here So the rude wayes fraught with a costly piece Of rich but Sea neglected amber-greece Do rowling drive that fragant billow thence A perfume to the ravisht finders sence Abroad the wide improvement of thy parts Drew in so fast the dewes of tongues and arts That both in thy accomplishments were spent Arts were thy fortress Tongues thy ornament Learn'd latine graceful speech high of Spain The courtly French the clean Italian vain The uncouth Dutch these langages were known Indenizon'd as Natives with thy own Those arts where least advantages are found Ev'n those you did descry but would not sound Historians who record the life of Fame And register each good or vicious Name You from their sacred annals did resume Great past examples for your life to come Wise Navigators that disclose each creek And in the more known world the unknown seek In their discoveries you imbark your Oares Because the seas do most concern these shores By your severer choice selecting thus What was most useful not most Curious Amid'st your bright Imbellishments beside If truth or education were your guide Became a sifting Quaere a dispute That will Afflict the world but ne're confute Some to their climes beliefe their faith do owe Which is to be perswaded but not know You at fifteen this evidence did advance Religion was your Judgment not your chance Ere eighteen to Compagnes your courage view And Dunkirks fight so fam'd for York and you 'Bout one and twenty we arrived see Others at Age You at Eternity FINIS AN ELEGIE On the Death of the PRINCESSE of AURANGE SAd Heav'n of late has pail'd its smiling brow Wept much foreseeing this loss which hapen'd now The clouds so big with tears bewept the fate To come as well as that we suffer'd late Strong were heav'ns swelling sighs and forraign shores Heard it 's Tempestuous groans as well as ours When Nature suffers thus the wandring Age With expectation big waites the praesage And here it falls within this fatall Isle Adding fresh tears to those we shed e're while Hither great Aurange came great dangers past To see her Royal brother Crown'd at last To give him joy and in his joyes to share To lighten with her presence Crowned care But here she finds great Henry fled the stage Of sinfull Earth the wonder of our Age She stayes to see her Kingly brother fast To see Heav'n all new plots and dangers blast And fully now of Heav'ns care satisfy'd Took leave of him to see great Henry dy'd Such is her kindnesse such her constant love She goes to give him joy of 's Crown above VVhat raging Seas of dangers and what storms VVhat foaming billows of Tempestuous harmes The Royal issue has escap'd then ar ' The Fates more cruel in their Peace than War Come they but here to pay a debt to Fate Their lives in peace and rest to terminate Not to triumph for all their travels past And crown their paines with Olive boughs at last This late receiv'd as if content they yeild A willing conquest gain a greater field Content and all her wishes answer'd now This Princess hasts to Heav'n to pay her Vow FINIS