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A musicall consort of heauenly harmonie (compounded out of manie parts of musicke) called Churchyards charitie; Churchyards charitie
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Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604.
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1595
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STC 5245; ESTC S105039
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A MVSICALL CONSORT OF HEAuenly harmonie compounded out of manie parts of Musicke called CHVRCHYARDS CHARITIE Imprinted at London by Ar. Hatfield for William Holn 5. 1595. TO THE RIGHT HONORAble ROBERT DEVEREVX Earle of Essex and Eâ—e Vâ—count of Hereford Lord Ferrer of Chartley Borâ—her and Louâ—ine Master of the Queenes Maiesties horse Knight of the noble order of the garter and one of hir Maiesties honorable priuie Counsell Thomas Churchyard wisheth increase of all wished honor happines of life worlds good will and euerlasting fame A Greater boldnes cannot be committed Right Honorable than to present Pamphlets and Poetrie to noble Counsellors that gouernes a publike state though in all ages reasonable writers that kept an orderly compasse were suffered in verse or prose so their inuentions were not farced ful of vanitie to shew good will in the dedication of some honest labors to such honorable personages as was woorthie of any good volumes or in the woorth of vertue excelled the waight and value of numbers that neither merits laudation nor shew no sufficiency to be saluted with a booke But what I see and the world reports of your Lordship makes me somwhat hardie to offer a present yet simplenes of spirit and want of profound learning hath so muffled my muses that they dare not speake nor I presume to write neuertheles thinking on your twenty fold honorable father my great good Lord matchlesse in our world that caried in his breast the feare of God and wan with his life the loue of men so noble was his minde I stood nothing discouraged bicause a soldier like noble sonne of his is left aliue to follow the steps of so stately a father and to shine aboue and beyond the course of thousands in this time or is likely to come after this age To treate of particulars in that behalfe I should presume too far and vnaduisedly come too short of matter fit for this cause Wherefore I am to leaue those deepe considerations and drop into the shallownes of mine owne studies that brings foorth a booke of the coldnes of charitie bicause a great noble man told me this last wet sommer The weather was too colde for Poets On which fauorable words I bethought me that charitie in court and all the world ouer was become so cold that neither hot sommer feruent fire nor heate of sunne could make warme againe in that comfortable sort as our forefathers haue felt it so my good L. following that onely theame of cold weather being apt to take any theam to write on in as sweete a phrase and termes as I may deuise putting in the praise of Poets withall I smoothly passe ouer without bitter speeches the corruption of this world and disguised maners of men riding by the new fanglenes of a multitude and not dashing any ones infirmitie with blot of disgrace or blemish of credit hoping the best sort shall stand pleased with howsoeuer the woorst happily may be touched do of meere malice wrest awry the honest meaning of a plaine writer For the dutifull regard towards the purchasing of your L. fauor hath so sifted euery word and sentence that no one verse or line shall bee offensiue to a sounde iudgement and good construction And for that now by reason of great age my wits and inuentions are almost wearied with writing of bookes this being one of the last I tooke this taske in hand at large to dilate somewhat of Charitie which would to God I had as great power to reuiue as the world hath occasion to remember Thus ouer-bold to trouble your L. so long with the reading of so simple an Epistle I proceed vnder your honorable supportation to my purposed matter wishing your L. euerlasting fame credit and honor most humbly at commandement THOMAS CHVRCHYARD AN EVERLASTING MEMORIE OF CHRISTIAN comfort to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie O Grashous dame in whose graue iudgment great The heauens hie lies open plaine to sight The earth belowe takes from thy regall seat In darkest daies his hope and cleerest light For at thy feet a world of woorthies fall ELIZABETH a monarke to them all An Empresse heere three kingdoms showes vs plaine On which three realms our Queen may rightly raine O treble Queen the sweete and highest part That we like best and shrillest voice doth sound The onely meane to shew deepe musicks art Where all the skill of well set song is found Grant silly man a grace that meanes to sing Of heaunly loue and of none other thing He sings of peace a song should lull asleepe The fellest feends and fearfull bugs below Peace charms with words the wolfe that wearies sheep That neither lambe nor kid astraie shall goe For as the hen hir chickens keepes from kite So charitie doth saue hir children all From common plagues and wicked worlds despite And all the wrath that from the clouds can fall She spreds hir wings to keepe hir birds from cold And learns poore chicks to picke vp graines of gold This charitie so checkles ore hir broode She scrapes the earth to make hir yoong ones feed And freely from hir selfe doth spare them foode She takes in hart such care for those that neede If charitie were not the onely nurse To nourish vp each thing that life doth beare This backward world would grow from ill to woorse And brutish â—olke would banish loue and feare Warme Christian loue as long as life doth last Doth bide the shocke and brunt of eurie blast And kindled once in any princely hart It burnes and flames as hot as Aethna hill Creepes throw the vains and nerues in euerie parâ— Cannot be quencht with water wit nor skill A heaunly grace maintains a heaunly loue Each thing diuine diuinely is set foorth Planted like rocke that nothing may remoue Garnisht like gold or perle of greatest woorth The charitie I meane is garded so And for hir saith through fire and aire may goe But what is that to him that sings a song â—f twenty parts when he one voice must sound Presumes to tell a tale perchance too long To sacred eares whose iudgement is profound Sing hie or lowe how ere the tune he takes For one small iar the song begins againe No shift may serue for concord musicke makes Most harmonie consists in pricksong plaine Diuision doth but teare in peeces small The minnems long and little crotchets all Full softly blowes a quiet calmie winde A still milde voice doth please the hearers well No note nor ring so much contents the mind As solemne sound of cleere sweet siluer bell O that my muse might get so great a grace As credit win throw any sound it shoes I die to see one fearfull frowne of face VVhere these meeke words and humble verses goes Now mirthles song begin thy new found note As strange a straine as any eare hath hard If world would learne to sing the same by rote Good charitie should grow in more regard Play well thy part so
world cares little for a man Charitie and fortune differ far Fortune fauors many an asse Charitie forgiues and forgets iniuries Charitie hath no end of hir bountie Charitie giues few words but doth many good deeds Charitie is the 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 shall beâ—â—sled Charitie conquers euery where like a victor Bad life would driue charitie in exile Men go transformed now a daâ—s Some people are as greedy as guls Quarrels breeds mischiefe and bloudshed Lust is a theefe and robs vs of life Pride and presumption is bold as blâ—nde bayaâ—d New fanglenes is easily found out Wilful heads hates good counsell Ill custome Breedes abuse Two plagues past thâ—eatens a third Shame followes pride and deartâ— nipped sore Proud painted posts are rotteâ— in the middle Pride alubberly lout lookes like a monarke The woorst with hâ—e hart compares with the best A surly sire swels like a a toad A stately stalke thinks none like himselfe A craftie crue are wilier than the foxe Cunâ—ing lads are â—s quicke aâ— a â—ee Preferments are not got with shooting toe short They hit the white that haue good hap Ech man prefers his seruaâ—ts and friends Hope well can get no money from the mint Serue long spends much and gets little Who makes haste to amend any misse New natures alters good old conditions Not one doth right search and you shall see Artificers and all are light in the ballance Plagues will not cease till bad life be reformed Wild buds brings foorth no good fruit Neither world not weather keeps good course Neither world nor weather keeps good course Cold weather or world pleaseth none Cold aire kils sometime sound and sicke Cold loue quicklie takes leaue Cold fortune kils any man liuing Cold foode is comfortles and hard to digest Cold hungrie baites may kill a horse Cold words makes a man desperate A colder season in all sorts was neuer seene Cold words and workes makes many a heauy hart Cold winter may bring some sommer daies Warme loue 〈◊〉 awaken charitie againe The authorâ— breath is to cold 〈◊〉 do any good Aged yeers showes death 〈◊〉 â—t hand Labor is well â—â— stowed when wise men are 〈◊〉 Amphyon and Orpheus Poets and excellent musitions Liuius Andronicus and Ennius Dant Bocace and Petrarke Marâ—ot Ronsaâ—t and dâ— Baâ—tas Goâ—re Chaufer 〈◊〉 the noble earle of Sâ—â—â—â—e Dauy Lindzey and Buckananus They honor and make much of their â—imers In Wales they call their rimers Bardes Albinus loued poetrie much The rude Indians make much of their rimers The Danes and Saxons had many poets among them In Greece their best philosophers at the first became poets Thales Empedocles and Parmenides Pithagoras and Phosillides Torteus Solon that wrate the fable of the Atlantick Iland Plato a diuine philosopher did stoup to poetrie Herodotus Dominician Vaspasians sonne as Plinie saith was an excellent poet Alexander Caesar and Scipio Alexander Phoreus wept at a tragedy Menenus Agrippa a philosopher made peace among the people in an vprore Simonides and Pyndarius made Hiero a iust king Nathan spake of a lambe vngraciously taken from his bosome Dauid and Salomon deuine poets Platoes dialog called Ion. Lelius a Romane Socrates both were poets Iames the first that was king of Scotland and K. Iames the sixt now raigning great poets The Greeke Socrates put Aesops fables into verse and Aristotle wrate the art of poetrie Emperors kings captains and Senators were poets and favoured the art Adrian and Sophocles great poets â—f our 〈◊〉 me the paâ—â—â— poetry Robert â—ng of Cicâ—ll and 〈◊〉 great Frances â—ng of France Cardinall Berabus and Bibiena Famous teachers and preachers Beza and Melancton Learned philosophers Fracastorius and Scaliger Great and good orators Pontanus and Muretus And beyond all these the hospitall of France being builded on vertue gaue poets a singular commendation Alexander kept the bookes of Homer in 〈◊〉 his Iewel casket Menander the comicke poet being sent for by embassadors of Macedonia and Aegipt preferred the conscience of learning before kinglie fortunes Augustus Caesar wrate familiar epistles vnto Horace which Horace in his life was aduanced to the tribuneship of soldiers and when he died he left Augustus Caesar his heire Virgill entring the colledge of poets in Rome the rest of the poets there did more reuerence to him than to the emperor and when he came into the senate the senators likewise did so Dauid sung the Liricke verses to his harp and those ebrue songs consisted of divers feet and vnequall numbers somtime in Iambikes running other while Insaphicks swelling again in halfe a foote amiably halting Salomon in the gardens of Engadda framed songs to his harpe which then was a heauenly musicke Ieremie wrate his funerall lamentations in saphycks long before Simonides the Greeke poet Isaias wrate sacred Odes holie verses and for remembring the mysteries of god therein a tyrant king caused him to be sawed a sunder The song of Sydrack and his fellowes in the hot flame was in verse Moises by some men is thought the first deuiser of verse and his sister Marie deuised the exaâ—eter and by it to haue glorified Iehoua Ausonius a french man and poet schoolemaster to Gracianus the Emperor was aâ— orator and consul of Rome therfore Homer writes that Achilles sonne of Peleus was a singular liricke poet singing and plaing the noble deeds of cheeftaines Linus of Thebes a most ancient poet he was the sonne of Mercury and wrate the course of the sun moone and spheres in excellent verse Tiberius Nero the Emperor a poet and Lucan his tresorer a poet on a publike theater they shewed â—he tragedie Orpheus Adrianus Augustus Emperor a poet and preferrer of poetrie Iulianus Empeperor and Caius Iulius Caesar. Oppianus of great nobilitie Sextus Aurelius Propertius one of the Dedicie Scenica a spaniâ— knight Neros schoolemaster Sophocles and Pericles â—milius 〈◊〉 a man of noble parentage Anacreon of Theios with Pollucrates king of the Samiana Aâ—atus all his life time liued with Anâ—igâ—nus Lucius Cecilliâ—â— Câ—sar play â—â—loâ—e Cirus the poet treasorer of the Emperor Theodocius and Apatrician Publius and â—aberius companions with Iulius Caesar. Arian the poet of Periander king of Corinth Raâ—ullides with Iulianus the Emperor Claudianâ—s his tombâ—â—â—â—ored bâ—â—â—norâ—â—s and Aâ—cadius Emperors Aeschiron in hiâ— whole militarie expedition â—amiliar with Alexander Masonides honored of Adrian the Emperor Ariosto liked of all good wits Torquator Tasso an Italian knight and poet laureaâ— who departed from obliuion to immortalitie this last Aprill 1595. whose memorie shall neuer vanish Mounsiour Dâ—uereux a yoong Bishop at this day liuing in France accounted now the singular man in Europ for verse and poâ—ticall deuises Sir Phillip Sidney to appology