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A griefe on the death of Prince Henrie Expressed in a broken elegie, according to the nature of such a sorrow. By Cyril Tourneur.
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Tourneur, Cyril, 1575?-1626.
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A GRIEFE ON THE DEATH OF PRINCE HENRIE EXPRESSED IN A BROKEN Elegie According to the nature of such a sorrow BY CYRIL TOVRNEVR LONDON Printed for WILLIAM WELBIE 1613. To the Reader I Cannot blame thee if thou read'st not right Or vnderstand'st not for I know thy sight VVith weeping is imperfect if not blind And sorrow does almost distract thy mind C. T. TO MY NOBLE MAISTER Mr. GEORGE CARIE SIR It was a season for Elegies of this kind when I wrote this before HIS Funeralls I had no purpose then to haue it published Importunity hath since drawne it from me But my first intent of Dedication is not altered It cannot vnlesse I could change my selfe And besides the subscription of my duety to you you deserue to bee acknowledged in this Argument among HIS true Mourners for you honoured HIM much and faithfully For which no lesse then for any other part of your generous disposition I am and will bee Your Seruant CYRIL TOVRNEVR A GRIEFE ON THE DEATH OF PRINCE HENRIE EXPRESsed in a broken Elegie according to the nature of such a sorrow GOod Vertue wipe thine eyes Looke vp and see And wonder to behold it Some there be That weepe not but are strangely merrie dance And reuell Can the losse of HIM aduance The heart of any man to such a mirth Can HIS graue be the womb from whence the birth Of pleasure riseth Pity them Their woe Distracts'em and they know not what they doe Yet note'em better Be they wicked men Their shew of Ioy is voluntarie then For now the President of vertu's dead Vice hopes to get her courses licenced Dead T' is aboue my knowledge how we liue To speake it Is there any Faith to giue The promises of health or remedy Or any Meane to be preserued by When Temperance and Exercise of breath Those best Physitians could not keepe from death The strength of Nature Was HEE temp'rate whence Then came HEE subiect to the violence Of sicknesse Rather was HEE not inclin'd To pleasures Infinitely still HIS mind Was on them Infinitely For HIS loue No Obiects had but those which were aboue The causes of vexation such as done Repented not the pleasures they begun But made them endlesse Nothing had the might To dis-effect his Actions of delight No nor HIS suffrings For although HEE knew That sicknesse came from earth to claime her due And to depriue HIM of that fortunate Succession to the greatnesse of the State Which HEE was borne to that did likewise please And added nothing vnto HIS disease Of HIS contentments heere that was the best Therefore the last that it might crowne the rest But these are not the pleasures that decay The body How hath death then found a way To ONE so able HEE was yong and strong Vnguiltie ' of al disorder could wrong HIS Constitution Doe no longer hide It t' was to vs a plague whereof HEE died A plague by much more common to vs then The last great sicknesse Many more the men Who suffer in it That which now is gone Was but the Figure of a greater One To follow Since the first that e'er was borne A fuller number was not knowne to mourne For all the old Men of the Kingdomes weepe Since HE that promis'd by HIS strength to keepe Their children free from others violence And by example from their owne offence Is taken from 'em And they would haue died When HE did but for tarying to prouide A second care for that they would haue left To HIM of whose protection th' are bereft If we doe well consider their iust woes We must include our yong men too in those And grieue for euer For our old mens teares Are rather for the time to come then theirs If they that shall not lieu to suffer much Vnder this cause of sorrow vtter such A passion for it more it does belong To vs that now are growing to it yong As if our generations had intent We should be borne to feele the punishment Now let vs willingly giue griefe regard Least we be forc'd to doe it afterward By Heauen 's iust anger Stay a little Why Should yong men thinke the old shall sooner die HIS youths great broken promise wee complaine Yet none was greater And are ours lesse vaine Mistake not As Humanitie now goes HEE liu'd a Man as long as any does For onelie in those Minutes that wee giue To Vertue wee are Trulie said to liue Men and no longer If we recken then HIS good houres with the good of other Men HIS Times whole added numbers will arise To his that tels out foureskore ere he dies To prooue this looke as low as ere you can And heare the words of the deiected Man The Souldier speakes them Honour Now I see There is no hope that any Age will be So good and noble as the ancient were None so Heroique euer shall appeare For if that Fate which cannot be withstood Had not decreed there should be none so good Shee would not haue neglected such a worth As HIS was to haue brought that great worke forth But hauing purpos'd it should neuer be And hearing euery where by Fame that HEE Was making one she kill'd HIM Marke his eye Hee weeps He weeps that can more easilie Weepe Bloud then Water Then I wonder how Or He or anye other Souldier now Can hold his sword vnbroken since HEE was That gaue them Count'nance That 's the Cause alas They doe not breake them and a iust excuse They weare them now to keepe them from abuse For that great fauour now has made an end That their despis'd conditions did defend Artes too are so discourag'd by their harmes In losse of HIM who lou'd both them and Armes That they would all leaue studie and decline From Learning if those Naturall and Diuine Perswading Contemplations did not leade The One to Heauen the other to the dead Betweene whose parts they haue diuided HIS And promise so to bring them where HEE is But I would haue their studies neuer die For preseruation of HIS Memorie How can that perish That will euer keepe Because th' impression of it is so deepe When any Painter to the life that saw HIS presence fullie takes in hand to draw An Alexander or a Caesar ' his best Imaginations will bee so possess 't With HIS Remembrance that as HEE does limme Hee 'l make that Worthie's picture like to HIM And then t' will be a Piece of such a Grace For Height and Sweetnesse as that onely Face Will make another Painter that ne'er knew HIM liuing follow as the other drew How great a Character deserues HEE then Whose Memorie shall but expire with men When a Diuine or Poet sets downe right What other Princes should bee Hee shall write What THIS was That 's HIS Character which beares My sorrow inward to goe forth in teares Yet some of Ioy too mix'd with those of Greefe That flow from apprehension of releefe I see HIS spirit turn'd into a starre Whose influence makes that HIS owne Vertues are Succeeded iustlie otherwise the worst As at HIS Funerall should proceede the first HIS Natiue goodnes followes in HIS Roome Else good Men would be buried in HIS Tombe O! suffer this to be a faithfull verse To liue for euer weeping o'er HIS Herse CYRIL TOVRNEVR ON THE REPRESENTATION OF THE Prince at his Funeralls HE that the Life of this Face euer sawe The Mildnes in it noting and the Awe Will iudge that Peace did either in her Loue So soone aduance HIM to her State aboue Or else in Feare that HE would Warre preferre Concluded with HIM HE should Liue with Her To Both HIS aptnesse fluently appeares In eu'rie Souldiers griefe and Schollars teares C. T. On the Succession THE State of England hath beene oft oppres'd By many great pretenders Fewe posses'd The Kingdomes title safelie but when One Descended and inherited alone Prince HENRIE saw his brother CHARLES was younger Therefore in Loue because Hee might liue longer Gaue way and for the Kingdomes strengthening HEE left but one SONNE to succeed the KING C. T.