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A15041 A remembraunce, of the woorthie and well imployed life, of the right honorable Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight, Lorde keper of the greate Seale of Englande, and one of the Queenes Maiesties most honorable Priuie Counsell, who deceased, the 20 daye of Februarie 1578 VVith an exhortation necessarie for euery estate. The woorke of George VVhetstones Gentleman. Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587? 1579 (1579) STC 25343; ESTC S111692 7,428 24

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to passions could not moue Euen in the place where long he liu'de in peace By Natures course he happie did decease His blessed Soule his breathlesse corse thus lefte His counterfet the vewe deserueth yeat But his good deedes by Death which are not refte In Iudges hartēs are worthie to be writte A house for them as golde for Diamonds fitte And on his tombe for euery eye to see his fame to shewe this sweete recorde would be An Epitaphe aunswerable his honourable vertues HEre vnder lies sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lorde keper late but not of Iustice spare VVhose office was to giue wrong'd men their right A right to vse whiche charge was all his care Bribes coyn'd no grace whereas the cause was bare He liu'd belou'd and is lamented deade In mens good will his giftes this liking breade Exhortatio VNto the worlde where he was well belou'd I sende this worke not philed like his fame VVhiche with the test of true reporte approu'd I wishe the best but liued by the same But soft faire woordes for feare I purchase blame Ne vltra crepidam suter be wise Moste men praise or blame but feawe can aduise The Prouerbe goes he hath a Crowe to pull VVhiche takes a taske the learned rules to showe Neither his wit nor iudgement must be dull Least that the leaude his lessons ouerthrowe But what of this the wise that sience knowe Euen as the Bee winns Honie from a weede In worthlesse bookes morallitie will reade The wise and mightie Kyng of Macedon Gaue charge a childe should wake him with his crie Phillip Phillip thy mortall state thinke on A morrall note for suche as looke so hye As if foresight were alwaie in their eye VVhen on mans wit saue one hath yet been suche But small aduise might sometyme aide hym muche Kyng Ptolomi the greate Astronomer Tooke greate delight with Shepherds oft to sitte VVhose notes he likte of fowle and faire weather Rude milo taught the Romaine Senate witte That clemencie for conquered men was fitte Euen so my muse perchaunce maie hit the marke That will content or teache the learned clarke Firste since my penne in hande did take a taste To shewe his praise that liu'de and died well The which performde not as his worth doeth aske But euen as farre as my good will could tell VVhere self conceight sends many vnto hell I wishe all men by his example learne To vse the worlde as thei maie heauen yearne To trust the worlde is to deceiue our Soule To loue his luste woorkes losse vnto our healthe His youthfull ioyes lades crooked age with dole To take his prais is to good fame a stealthe To sothe his Pride consumeth all our wealthe His quaffyng cuppes of vaine delight to taste Vpon the mynde doeth straight a Dropsie caste But if that man did neuer taste his sowre A slender tyme his sweete indures God wotte The fairest Rose semes freshe not halfe an howre The life of man is lickned to whiche lotte VVhen Death doeth come all pleasures goe to potte And then the leaude to thinke vpon their synne That neuer endes doe feele their paines beginne Stout Sampsons strength king Alexanders might Salomons wit Azaels runnyng swift Riche Craesus wealth bould Hectors force in fight Haniballes wyles Ackilles subtill drift Prothew that could his shape at pleasure shift Homers sweete tonge nor Tullies learned arte Could ward the dent of Atropos his darte The brightest sonne with beate a substaunce makes That dims his light and clads with cloudes the aire So pride a corse much like the sonne that takes VVoorkes of him selfe what doeth his state impaire Proude Absalon was strangled in his heare But wheather course or kinde doeth stop his breath At first or last the prowdest vayle to death Let Midas mone to mysers be a leache To gase on golde who star●'d for lacke of meate But what neede I them by examples teache Their care to get their care to keepe more greate VVith hellishe greefes doeth make the gredy sweate And all his care tends to no other ende But goods to saue for other men to spende Let Cesars faule that laied the world a longe Fore warne hie mindes how thei with Enuie swell VVormes profer force against vnkindly wronge Then man that beares of creatures all the bell Disdaines to be disdainde in doyng well And he whose praise by enuie is forestoode VVill seeke reuenge vppon his enimies blood The wrathfull man is sildome free from woe A prouerbe olde but daiely proued true The eger Cocke this furie right doeth showe The whiche till death doeth still his fight pursue Like fortune wrath for angrie men doeth brewe And yet reuenge a passion is so sweete As wit must staie or will his foe will meete Of Sodome and Gommorha the ruine warnes All sorts of men from wantonnesse to flye Poore Troie still for Paris whoredome yernes Stronge poysons close in golden cuppes doe lye Crocodyles teares intrappeth passers bye The like of lust with loue it lulls the fleashe Till from the bones it doeth the marrowe threashe The headlesse corse of Hollofernes wills Dronkennesse and Gluttonie to forbare The belchyng beast that naught but belly fils Of honest men is bauked euery where And of excesse thus Plato doeth declare In peace more men by surfet catche their bane Then in the wars by sworde and shot are slaine The last but not of worldly euels the least VVhen wee haue fed of vaine delights our fill Death commes in fine and doeth desolue the feast The sight of sinne then many a soule doeth kill Caule Iudas forthe and thousandes if you will And will them warne vs wretches by their faule That worldly ioyes at death doe tourne to gaule Epilogus Se heare the ioyes that worldlynges so desire Se how thei haste the death we faine would shunne Se here saunce Grace fagots for Sathans fire Se here with all the race this Lord did runne Se what a meane from these extreames he wonne Se se at death his consience well prepared And see the rest through sinne with sickenes scared FINIS His Pocey He was Soliciter of the augmentation corte He was speaker of the parlament Signes of a worthie Magistrate He was in Religion a good protestant The Queenes Magisty made hym Lorde keper and of her honorable priuie Counsell A necessarie Iudge in causes of contience Licurgus kyng of the Lacedemonians Platos opinion of an angrie Iudge A sweete blessyng A necessarie note for ould men Sommons vsed for sickenes Longe before he died he caused his tombe to bee made Senecas opinion of a good mans ende Phillip kyng of macedon Sallomon ●ryde ●ouetousnes Enuy. Wrath. Whoredom Gluttonie drunkenes Desperation