chariot drawne by foure horses trapt in blacke veluet Gentlemen Vshers white rods About it twelue Banner-Rols six on each side caried by 12. noblemen Sixe Earles assistants with them the Footemen A Canapie borne ouer the chariot by foure Noblemen The Earle of VVorcester Maister of the Horse leading the Palfrey of Honour Two Esquiers and a Groome to attend and leade him away Gentlemen Vshers of the Priuie chamber Garter king of Armes Lady Marchionesse of Northamton assisted by the Lord Treasurer Lord Admirall Chiefe Mourner her traine caried by two Countesses and Maister Vicechamberlaine Fourteene Countesses assistants Ladies of Honour Countesses Viscountesses Earles daughters Baronesses Maids of Honor of the priuie chamber Captaine of the Guard with all the Guard following fiue and fiue in a ranke their holberds downeward The twelue Bannerols were caried by twelue Barons beginning at the yongest first The first Banner was of king Henry the second and Elenor of Aquitaine caried by the Lord Norris The second of king Iohn and Isabel of Angolisme caried by the Lord Compton The third of king Henry the third and Elenor of Arragon caried by the Lord Chandoies The fourth of king Edward the first and Elenor of Castile caried by the L. The sift of Edward the second and Isabel of France caried by the Lord Darcie of the South The sixt of king Edward the third and Philippa of Haynolt caried by the L. Cromwel The seuenth of Edmond Langley Duke of Yorke and Isabel of Castile caried by the L. Windsor The eight of Richard Earle of Cambridge and Anne Mortimer caried by the L. Darcie of the North. The ninth of Richard Duke of Yorke and Cicely Neuill caried by the Lord Dudley The tenth of king Edward the fourth Elizabeth Woodnile caried by the Lord Gray The eleuenth of king Henry the seuenth and Elizabeth daughter to king Edward the fourth caried by the Lord Cobham The twelfth of Henry the eight and Anne Bulline father and mother to our late deceased Queene caried by the Lord de la Ware The Shepheards Spring-Song in gratulation of the royall happy and flourishing entrance to the Maiestie of England by the most potent and prudent Soueraigne Iames King of England Scotland France and Ireland Collin THenot and Chloris red lipt Driope Shepheards Nymphs Swaines all that delight in fielde Liuing by harmelesse thrift your fat heards yeelde Why slacke yee now your loued company Vp sluggards learne the larkes do mount and sing Their cheerefull Carrolls to salute our King The Mauis blacke-bird and the little Wren The Nitingale vpon the hawthorne brire And all the wingd Musitions in a Quire Do with their notes rebuke dull lazie men Vp shepeheards vp your slouth breeds al your shames You sleep like beasts while birds salute K. Iames. The gray eyde morning with a blustering cheeke Like Englands Royall Rose mixt red and white Summons all eies to pleasure and delight Behold the euenings deaws doe vpward reeke Drawn by the Sun which now doth gild the skie With his light-giuing and world-cheering eie O that 's well done I see your cause of stay Was to adorne your tempels with fresh flowers And gather beautie to bedecke your powers That they may seeme the cabinets of May Honor this time Sweetest of all sweete Springs That so much good so many pleasures brings For now alone the liuery of the earth Giues not liue comfort to your bleating lambes Nor fils the strouting vdders of their dams It yeeldes another cause of gleesome mirth This ground weares all her best embrodery To entertaine our Soueraignes Maiestie And well she may for neuer English ground Bore such a Soueraigne as this royall Lord Looke vpon all Antiquities Record In no Inrolment such a King is found Beginne with Brute if that of Brute be true As I 'le not doubt but giue old Bards their due He was a Prince vnsetled sought a shore To rest his long tost Troian scattered race And as t is sed found here a resting place Grant this but yeeld he did false gods adore The Nations were not cald to Christ that time Black Pagan clouds darkned this goodly clime So when dissension brought the Romans in No Caesar till the godly Constantine Descended truly from the Brittish line Purg'd this Iles aire from Idoll-hated sinne Yet in care of Rome left Deputies Our Iames maintaines himselfe his dignities The Saxon the Dane scourgd with sharp steele So did the Norman Duke this beauteous land Inuading Lords raigne with an yron hand A gentler ruling in this change we feele Our Lyon comes as meekly as a doue Not conqu'ring vs vs by hurt but hartie loue Euen as a calme to tempest-tossed men As bread to the faint soule with famine vext As a coole spring to those with heate perplext As the Sunnes light into a fearefull denne So comes our King euen in a time of need To saue to shine to comfort and to feed O Shepheards sing his welcome with sweet notes Nymphs strew his way with Roses red and white Prouide all pastimes that may sense delight Offer the fleeces of your flockes white cotes He that now spares doth in that sauing spill Where Worth is little Vertue likes good will Now from the Orchades to the Cornish Iles From thence to Cambria and the Hiberian shore The sound of ciuill warre is heard no more Each countenance is garnished with smiles All in one hymne with sweet contentment sing The praise and power of Iames our onely King Our only King one Lord one Soueraigne O long-desired and perfected good By him the heate of wrath and boiling bloud Is mildly quencht pale Enuy counted vaine One King one people blessed vnitie That ties such mighty Nations to agree Shepheards I le not be tedious in my song For that I see you bent to actiue sport Though I perswade me all time is too short To welcome him whom we haue wisht for long Well done dance on looke how your little lambs Skip as you spring about their fleecie dams Thus were ye wont to trip about the Greene And dance in ringlets like to Fairie Elues Striuing in cunning to exceede your selues In honour of your late-falne summer Queene But now exceede this May excels all springs Which King and Queene and Prince and Princesse brings Showtioyfully ye Nymphs and rurall Swaines Your maister Pan will now protect your folds Your cottages will be as safe as Holds Feare neither Wolues nor subtill Foxes traines A royall king will of your weale take keepe Hee le be your Shepheard you shall be his sheepe He comes in pompe so should a king appeare Gods Deputie should set the world at gaze Yet his milde lookes driue vs from all amaze Clap hands for ioy our Soueraigne draweth neere Sing Io Io shepheards dance and sing Expresse all ioy in welcoming our King The aire the season and the earth accord In Pleasure Order both for sight and sense All things looke fresh to greet his excellence And Collin humbly thus salutes his Lord Dread and beloud liue Englands happy King While seasons last Fresh as the liuely Spring FINIS * Her Royall word or motto was Semper Eadem
ENGLANDS Mourning Garment Worne heere by plaine Shepheards in memorie of their sacred Mistresse ELIZABETH Queene of Vertue while she liued and Theame of Sorrow being dead To the which is added the true manner of her Emperiall Funerall With many new additions being now againe the second time reprinted which was omitted in the first Impression After which followeth the Shepheards Spring-Song for entertainment of King IAMES our most potent Soueraigne Dedicated to all that loued the deceased Queene and honour the liuing KING Imprinted at London for Thomas Millington and are to be sold at the signe of the Crane in Paules Churchyard by Walter Burre 1603. To all true Louers of the right gracious Queene Elizabeth in her life being vndoubtedly those faithfull Subiects that now honour and affect our most potent Lord King Iames after her death MY Epistle to you is like the litle Towne that the Cynicke would haue perswaded the Citizens was readie to runne out at the great gates being scarce so long as the Title In a word the negligence of many better able hath made me bold to write a small Epitomie touching the abūdant vertues of Elizabeth our late sacred Mistris Intreating of her Princely birth chast life royall gouernment and happie death being a Lady borne liuing raigning dying all for Englands good The manner is handled between Shepheards the forme of speech like the persons rude Affection exceedeth Eloquence and I haue not shewne much Art but exprest the dutie of a louing hart Shead some teares in reading our Shepheards sorrow and in that true passion let your loue to our royall Lord be shewne who hateth hypocrites as iust men hell Farewell all of you that giue the dead Queene a sad Farewell and the liuing King a glad Welcome the rest are Time-pleasers and I write not to them Foelicem fuisse infaustum Englands Mourning Garment Worne by plaine Shepheardes for the death of that most excellent Empresse Elizabeth Queene of Vertue while she liued and Theame of Sorrow being dead THENOT COLLIN Thenot. COllin thou lookst as lagging as the day When the Sun setting toward his westerne bed Shewes that like him all glory must decay And frolique life with murkie clouds o re-spred Shall leaue all earthly beautie mongst the dead Such is the habite of thy new aray Why art thou not preparde to welcome May In whose cleare Moone thy younglings shall be fed With nights sweete dewes and open flowers of day Collin I aunswer thee with woe and wel away I am in sable clad sith she cannot be had That me and mine did glad there 's all I 'le say Thenot. Well spoken Swaine let me thy sorrow ken Rich soule though wrong'd by idle Antike men And driuen by falshood to a cloudie den Tell me thy griefe Collin O it is past releefe and which is worst of worst Bayards and beasts accurst with grosest flattery nurst Haue sung her sacred name and prais'd her to their shame Of mayden Queenes who was our last and first Thenot. Deere Collin doe not checke the humblest song The will is euer maister of the worke Those that can sing haue done all Shepheards wrong Like Lozels in their cottages to lurke The ayres the ayre though it be thicke and murke If they to whom true Pastorals belong In needefull layes vse neither pipe nor tong Shall none the vertuous raise Collin Yes those that merit Bayes though teares restraine their layes Some weeping houres or dayes will finde a time To honour Honour still not with a rurall quill But with the soule of skill to blesse their rime Aye me why should I dote on rimes on songs or note Confusion can best quote sacred Elizaes losse Whose praise doth grace all verse that shal the same reherse No gold neede decke her herse to her all gold is drosse With that Collin in discontent brake his pipe and in that passion as if his heart had beene like his pipe parted each peece from the other hee fell without sense on the earth not then insensible of his sorrowe for it yeelded wept and groand at once with his fall his weepings and his sighs Poore Th. showted for help at whose call came some Nymphs full of sorrow for their Soueraigne and no whit amazed to see him lie as dead their hearts were so dead with thinking of that which had astonied his But yet as gathering of companies draw more more to wonder so prooued it among the Shepheards that left none but their curres to attend their flockes themselues flocking about Thenot Collin who now recouered from his trance and all asking the reason of his griefe with teares abounding in his eyes that likewise drew more aboundantly from theirs he distractedly answered Illum nec enim reprehendere fas est Qui fleat hanc cuius fregerunt stamina parcae Solus honor sequitur mortales ille misellos And therewithall making a signe for the Shepheards and Nymphs to sit downe he told them they had lost that sacred Nymph that carefull Shepheardesse ELIZA but if it pleased them to lend attention he would repeate somthing of her worth memorie that should liue in despite of death whereupon a still silence seizd them all sauing only now and then by sighing they exprest their hearts sorrow and Collin thus began Seeing Honor onely followeth mortals and the works of the vertuous die not with their deaths and yet those workes neuerthelesse with the honours and rites due to the departed might be much blemished if there were no gratitude in their successors let vs poore Rurals though no other wayes able to erect Statues for our late dread Soueraigne worthy all memory among our selues repeate part of her excellent Graces and our benefite obtained by her Gouernment for to reckon all were Opus infinitum alabour without end She was the vndoubted issue of two royall Princes Henry of Lancaster and Elizabeth of Yorke In whose vnion the quiet of vs poore Swaines began for till that blessed mariage England was a shambles of slaughtred men so violent was the blood of ambition so potent the factions and so implacable their heads whose eyes were neuer cleard till they were washt in blood euen in the deare blood of their Obiects hearts This King Grandfather to our late Queene was the first Brittish King that manie a hundred yeeres before wore the Emperiall Diademe of England France Ireland in him began the name of Tewther descended from the ancient Brittish King to florish the issue male of royal Plantagenet ending in his beginning his wife Grandmother to our late Elizabeth being the last Plantagenet whose Temples were heere circled with a sphere of gold Which King and Queene liued and loued and now lie intoombed in that most famous Chappell built at his Kingly charge in the Abbey of Westminster King Henry dying in a good age left England rich beautifull and full of peace and so blest with his issue after royally matcht to Scotland France besides his vndoubted heire
a conuicted Deputie was that hee went about by poyson to haue tooke away the life of Feff Mac Hue a Rebell more immane and barbarous than any of the other two the Lord chiefe Iustice of the Common Pleas yet liuing opening at the same time how iust a spirit her Maiestie was possessed with that she hated treason euen to traytors much more then to annointed Kings whose honours and reputations shee so maintained that shee not long since punished by fine and imprisonment a wealthie rayler for vnreuerent words spoken against the person of King Philip her open and professed enemie So faithfull so iust so gracious was she And to make it more plaine that Spaine intended England the first wrong long time before it was muttered but after that memorable battaile of Lepanto wherein Don Iohn of Austria obtained the tryumphant Christian victorie against the Turkes to reward him England was the Kingdome set downe being then in her Maiesties possession but hee had it when they could giue him it that promised the same which was at latter Lammas And I trust his Neece shal haue as good successe with her pretended title For if God strengthened her Maiestie so that against her being a woman they could not preuaile we trust his Almightinesse will be as carefull of our King being alreadie Lord of three such people as haue seldome beene equalled in battel except they haue vnnaturally contended among themselues the sight of which day deere shepheards let vs pray neuer againe to see Besides to expresse her farther intent to preserue faith and league notwithstanding infinite of open wrongs and certaine knowledge that a Nauie for inuasion of this Realme had been preparing more than fifteene yeere yet did she beare vntill against all law of Nations the Ambassador liedger of Spaine honoured with many fauours did notwithstanding plot and confeder with natiue traitors of this land and the matter being apparantly proued hee was by her milde sufferance admitted to depart the Realme without any violence to his perpetuall reproch and her neuer-dying glorie Well I will heere conclude touching this vertue of faith both toward God and man shee was as firme in the one as mortalitie could be and in the other approued glorious among all the Princes of her time For Hope the second diuine vertue shee rather therein abounded than was any way wanting for her Hope was no way wandring shee beleeued and it came to passe her enemies arise but before their arising shee was certaine to see them fall shee hauing by example of things past nothing doubted of things to come And she was not deceiued till the houre of her death For euer her expectation was fulfilled she kept peace within chased the spoyler without and euen as it is sung of Epaminondas that valiant Theban Captaine in his last victorious battaile wherein yet death of him got victorie he thus gloried Herein am I comforted that I dye a conquerour For euen when death laide his last siege to her yet vnvanquished life Tyrone the long disturber of her State besought by agents mercie at her feete O Nymphs and Shepheards doubt not she was full of diuine Hope whose heart obtained euer the thing it faithfully desired and that her desires were all of faith I could adde infinite examples to these alreadie alleadged but that it is needelesse to cast water in the Sea or to make question of that all men knowe and will confesse except some whose hearts are straungers from Truth and the professed Receptacles of falsehood Her Charitie the third and principall diuine Grace to the eye of mortals for that Faith and Hope bend principally their seruice to Heauen and Charities effects are manifested on earth hath beene extended ouer all her Realmes and stretched to the comfort of her oppressed neighbours The multitudes of poore daily releeued from her purse the numbers of sicke persons yeerely visited and by her owne hand their corrupt sores toucht the washing of poore womens feete and releeuing their wants was a signe that shee was humble as well as charitable for Humilitie is Charities sister they are two twins born at one time and as they are borne together in any soule whateuer so do they liue and die together the humble spirit being euer charitable and the charitable euer humble for it is as impossible to haue a proud man charitable as to reconcile fire and water or to make accord betweene any contraries As she was in these particulars exceeding all Ladies of her time giuen to this helpfull vertue so had she generall impositions through all her kingdome for her well able subiects to followe her example and so much did her example preuaile that besides the ordinarie and weekely almes distributed through the Realme there haue beene more particular Almes-houses builded for the reliefe of the aged then in anie sixe Princes Raignes before And as all parts of England haue in this imitation bin very forward so hath the Citie of London exceeded all wherein diuers priuate men haue builded sundrie houses for the poore and allowed them pensions but the Corporations haue beene most bountiful as most able and among all the right Worshipfull the Merchant-Tailors haue exceeded the rest all haue done well that haue done anie thing but they best of any other as I will one day in a song of liberall Shepheards thankfully expresse though for my selfe I knowe him not in the least gift to whom I am in that sort boundē but I ken not Thenot how I may for there is none liuing but may lack As the City so many knights Gentlemen honorable and deuout persons haue followed her example aboue the rest an honorable carefull reuer end and learned watchman as full of mildnesse pietie as he is of yeares and griefes for his good and royall Mistresse losse at Croiden hath builded a worthy Receptacle to the like charitable end As for the poore and decrepit with age her Royall Maiestie had this charitable care so for souldiers and suters she was very prouident The last being opprest in any part of her Realmes by men of much wealth and little conscience shee allowd them counsell and proceedings in Forma pauperis and maintenance weekely in the Termes for some part of their succour if any were delayd and abused it was vtterly against her will For souldiers and men of seruice her decrees of prouision are extant besides it is most cleare no Prince in the world to land or Sea-men was more bountifull or at least willing than her Highnesse out of her Coffers it went but there is an olde Prouerbe Thenot carriage is deere and I haue heard but I will stand to nothing base Ministers and vnder-officers curtall the liberalities of great and potent Maisters Some haue in her time beene taken with the manner and besides bodily punishment and fines displaced as I will remember and cannot omit amid my griefe to tell though somewhat from this subiect it dissent being of a fellow too meane
Shepheardesse who after long life and glory on earth hath obtained a longer and more glorious life in heauen But to proceede As she was constant in faith stedfast in hope cheerfull in giuing prudent in speaking iust in punishing but most mercifull in pardoning so for the third morrall Vertue Temperance there was in no age before a woman so exalted to earthly honour euer read off that so long so grationsly in outward domestick affaires gouerned her kingdom familie person with like moderation First for her kingdome what can be deuised more neare the meane than she hath in all things followed For in religion as in other things there hath beene an extreame erring from the truth which like all vertues being indeede the head of all keepeth place in the midst so hath shee established the true Catholicke and Apostolicall Religion in this Land neither mingled with multitudes of idle superstitions nor yet wanting true honour and reuerence for the Ministerie in laudable and long receiued ceremonies But here I shall be carpt at in that I call the Religion profest in her time true Catholike and Apostolicall considering the Sea of Rome and such English onely as be her sworne Sonnes thinke that seate all one to holde the Apostolicall faith excluding her Maiestie and all other Christian Princes with their subiectes that haue not falne before that Chaire as people woorthie to be cutte off from Christes congregation giuing them names of Protestants Lutherans and I know not what And on another side a selected company that would needs be counted Saints and holy ones when there is nothing but corruption in their hearts they forsooth condemned her sacred gouernment for Antichristian when to the amazement of superstitious Romanes selfe-praysing Sectuaries God approued her faith by his loue towards her And lest I should be taskd of ignorance and termed a Nullifidian in defending neither of these sides and onely of the faith that the Colliar profest which was euer one with the most I say I was borne and brought vp in the Religion profest by that most Christian Princesse Elizabeth who beleeued not that the spirite of God was bound or tyde to any one place no more to Rome than Antioch that the Candlesticke of any Church might be remooued for neglecting their first loue and teaching traditions of men in steade of sacred veritie and no man can truly denie but the church of Rome hath so taught and standeth not in her first estate but if it were in the Primitiue Church perfectly and fully established then hath it receiued many traditions since which our Elizabeth nor any of her faithfull subiects would obay being no way by Gods worde thervnto warranted besides there is apparant proofes that the church of Rome hath many hundred yeares persecuted with great crueltie which is no badge of the true Apostolicall Church For the other sort it is well knowne they are for the most part ignorant and mechanick people ledde by some fewe hotte spirited fellowes that would faine haue all alike These tying themselues to a more strait course outwardly than other men though they be vtterly obiect to the Romanists yet haue they more he Saints and she Saints among them than are in the Romish Kalender where none or at least very fewe are called Saints but holy Virgins Martyrs and Confessors but all the brethren and sisters of the other side are at the first receiuing into their communiō Sainted if it be but Kit Cobler and Kate his wife and both hee and shee presume they haue as sufficient spirites to teach and expound the Scriptures as either Peter or Iohn or Paule for so bluntly they terme the blessed Apostles but their vanitie and pride our Elizabeth hated and therefore brideled their waies and was not mooued with their hypocriticall fastes because they fasted to strife and debate as it is written by the Prophet Esay 58. and to smite with the fist of wickednes Her Highnes therefore taught all her people the vndoubted truth faith in Christ alone the waye the doore and the life not turning either to the right hand or to the left and in this being the best meane her Temperance chiefly appeared this rule she taught her kingdome her familie her selfe at least caused them to be taught by excellent Pastors to whom humbly she gaue publike eare And in this so for apparell manners and diet she made Lawes and gaue example in her owne person to curbe the vanitie of pride in garments by expresse Statutes appointing all men and women to be apparelled in their degree and calling To expresse the excesse of drinking and hated sinne of drunkennesse she hath commaunded no drinke in her Land to be brued aboue an easie price to auoyd gurmandize she hath yearely commaunded the Lent and Fasting-daies to be kept as in times before not for superstition sake but common policie to haue Gods creatures receiued indifferently and also to encrease Marriners for the strength of the I le whose numbers while fish is contemnd by neglect of fishing mightily decay fishers being indeed pretty traind Marriners by reason that they haue experience in most of the Hauens Creekes Shoales Flats other profits and daungers neare the place they vsed But what should I say if they that will onely make the scripture their cloake and yet respect not this part Obey the Magistrate for conscience their sinne fall vpon themselues I trust the Prince is excusable that would his subiects would do wel and so I am certaine was her Excellence True said Thenot but for all her Lawes these courses were little set by I haue seene vpstarts iette it gayer than Lords numbers drinke till they haue seemde dead and multitudes eate flesh euen vpon good Fryday What remedie said Collin they that will breake the Kings Lawe make little account of Gods such subiects are like falfe Ezecutors that performe not the Legacies of the dead her highnes was not the worse for that good Lawes were violated they that dealt so with her dealt worse with God offending him double by breaking his Lawes and hers But in her owne household and person she obserued all these rules and though many abroad by corruption were winkt at yet sometime there were some taken and paid home But her excelling Selfe though her Table were the aboundantliest furnisht of any Princes in the world with all varietie yet fedde shee oftenest of one dish and that not of the daintiest For quaffing as it was vnfitting her Sexe so shee extreamely abhord it hating superfluitie as hell and so farre was shee from all nicenesse that I haue heard it credibly reported and knowe it by many instances to be true that shee neuer could abide to gaze in a mirrour or looking-glasse no not to behold one while her head was tyred and adorned but simply trusted to her attendant Ladies for the comelinesse of her attire and that this is true Thenot I am the rather perswaded for that when I was yong
almost thirtie yeares agoe courting it now and then I haue seene the Ladies make great shift to hide away their looking-glasses if her Maiestie had past by their lodgings O humble Lady how meeke a spirite hadst thou How farre from affecting beautie or vaine pride when thou desiredst not to see that face which all thy subiects longed dayly to behold and sundry Princes came from farre to wonder at As in these things shee kept truely the Meane so likewise in her gifts as I first nored touching her Charitie which was still so tempered notwithstanding her great charge in aiding her distressed neighbours that she was euer truely liberall and no way prodigall as I trust his Royall Maiestie shall by the treasure finde As shee was adorned with all these vertues so was she indued with Fortitude and Princely courage so plentifully that her displeasure shooke euen her stoutest aduersaries and those vnnaturall traytors that came armed sundry times with bloodie resolution to lay violent hands on her sacred Maiestie her very lookes would daunt and their instruments prepared for her death dropt from their trembling hands with terrour of their consciences and amazement to behold her countenance Nay when she knew they came of purpose to kill her she hath singled diuerse of them alone and let some passe from her with milde caueats a farre off whose lenitie rather increasing then diminishing their malice they haue followed destruction which too timely ouertooke them I could in this place name many particular men as Parry and others but I will content yee with one priuate example ouerpassing the generall when Appletree whom I remembred before had hurt her water-man being next to her in the Barge the French Ambassador being amazed and all crying Treason Treason yetshee with an vndaunted spirite came to the open place of the Barge and bade them neuer feare for if the shotte were made at her they durst not shoote againe such maiestie had her presence and such boldnesse her heart that shee despised all feare and was as all Princes are or should be so full of diuine fulnesse that guiltie mortalitie durst not behold her but with dazeled eyes But I wonder saith Thenot she in so many yeares built no goodly Aedifice wherein her memorie might liue So did shee answered Collin the goodliest buildings in the earth such as like fleeting Iles commanded the seas whose outward wal's are dreadfull Engins of brasse sending fearefull thunder among enemies And the inhabitants of those wooden Iles are worthy Seamen such as dread to danger but for her would haue runne euen into destructions mouth I tell thee Thenot I haue seene in a fight some like nimble spirites hanging in the aire by little cords some lading ordinance with deathfull powder some charging Muskets and discharging ruine on their enemies some at the foreship others busie at helme skipping here and there like Roes in lightnesse and Lions in courage that it would haue powred spirite into a sicke man to see their resolutions For such tenants made she many buildings exceeding any Emperours Nauy in the earth whose seruice I doubt not will be acceptable to her most worthy Successor our dread Soueraigne Lord and King Other Pallaces shee had great store of which shee maintained and yearely repaired at least would haue done if those that had care of her suruaying would haue beene as carefull for hers as for their owne What should I say of her the clowdie mantle of the night couers the beautie of the heauen and this euening lookes like those foure days that preceeded the morning of her death The beasts the night that she ended her fate in earth kept an vnwonted bellowing so that I assure thee Thenot being assured of her sickenesse I was troubled being awakened with their cries with imagination of her death that I pittied not my bleating flocke who with their innocent notes kept time with my true teares till the houre of her death was past when immediately a heauy sleepe shut vp the windowes of mine eyes at which time as I haue since heard deaths eternal sleep vtterly benummed all her sences whose soule I doubt not hath already entred endlesse rest whither God will draw her glorified body in his great day Sweete Virgine she was borne on the Eue of that blessed Virgines Natiuitie holy Mary Christs mother shee died on the Eue of the Annunciation of the same most holy Virgin ablessed note of her endlesse blessednesse and her societie in heauen with those wise Virgines that kept Oyle euer in their Lampes to awayte the Bridegroome Shee came vnto the Crowne after her Royall sisters death like a fresh Spring euen in the beginning of Winter and brought vs comforte as the cleare Sunne doeth to storme-dressed Marriners shee left the Crowne likewise in the winter of her Age and the beginning of our Spring as if the Ruler of heauen had ordained her Coronation in our sharpest Winter to bring vs happinesse and vncrowned her in our happiest Spring to leaue vs in more felicitie by her Succeeder O happy beginning and more happy end which notwithstanding as naturall sonnes and subiects let her not goe vnwept for toher graue This euening let vs be like the Euening that drops dewy teares on the earth and while our hindes shut vp the sheepe in their folds sing a Funerall song for the losse of diuine Elizabeth inuocating absent Schollers to bewaile her whom in sundry Schooles shee cherisht and personally in either of their Vniuersities visited let vs bid souldiers lament her toward whom besides many apparant signes of her exceeding loue this is one most worth memorie shee came amongest them mounted at Tilburie being gathered into a royall Armie against the Spanish Inuasion promising to share with them in all fortunes if the enemie durst but shew his face aland Let Citizens likewise shead teares for her losse especially those of London to whome she was euer a kinde Soueraigne and bountifull neighbour I neede not bidde the Courtiers weepe for they can neuer forgette the countenance of their gracious Mistresse till they haue ingrauen in their hearts the fauour of their most Royall Maister For vs poore Shepheards though we are not able to sute our selues in blacke fine inough to adorne so Royall an Enterrement yet Thenot quicken thy inuention Dryope and Chloris shall beare parte and let vs conclude our sorrow for Eliza in a Funerall Hymne that shall haue power to draw from the swelling Clowdes waters to assist our woe The Springs taught by the teares that breake from our eyes already ouerflow their bounds The Birds sit mute to heare our musicke and our harmelesse flocke hearken to our moanes To this they all as gladly as their griefe would suffer them consented Collin for his broken Pipe toooke Cuddyes who could neither sing nor play Hee was so full of passion and sighes The Funerall Song betweene Collin and Thenot Dryope and Chloris vpon the death of the sacred Virgine ELIZABETH Collin YE sacred Muses
dwelling Where Art is euer swelling Your learned Fount forsake Helpe Funerall Songs to make Hang them about her Herse That euer loued Verse Clio writ downe her Story That was the Muses Glory Dryope And ye soft-footed Howers Make ready Cypresse Bowers Insteade of Roses sweete For pleasant Spring-time meete Strew all the pathes with Yeugh Night-shade and bitter Reugh Bid Flora hide her Treasure Say t is no time of pleasure Thenot. And you diuinest Graces Veyle all your sacred faces With your bright shining haire Shew euery signe of care The Hart that was your Phane The cruell Fates haue slaine From earth no powre can raise her Onely our Hymnes may praise her Chloris Muses and Howres and Graces Let all the hallowed places Which the cleere Moone did view Looke with a sable hiew Let not the Sunne be seene But weeping for the Queene That Grace and Muse did cherish O that such worth should perish Collin So turne our verse and on this lofty Pine Each one ingraue for her some Funerall line Thus I beginne Collins Epitaph Eliza Maiden Mirror of this Age Earths true Astraea while she liu'de and raign'de Is throwne by Death from her triumphant Stage But by that fall hath endlesse glorie gain'de And foolish death would faine if he could weepe For killing Her he had no power to keepe Thenots Epitaph Eliza rich and Royall faire and iust Giues heauen her Soule and leaues her Flesh to dust Dryopes Epitaph There is no beautie but it vades No glory but is veyld with shades So is Eliza Queene of Maids stoopt to her Fate Yet Death in this hath little thriu'de For thus her vertues haue atchieu'de She shall by verse liue still reuiu'de in spight of Hate Chloris Epitaph Eliza that astonished her foes Stoopt her rebellious subiects at her feete Whose minde was Still the same in ioy and woes Whose frowne was fearfull and her fauours sweete Swaid all this land but most her selfe she swaide Liu'de a chaste Queene and di'de a Royall Maide These Epitaphs ended the Nymphs and Shepheards led by Collin and Thenot who afore plaide heauy tunes on their oaten Pipes gotte to their seuerall cottages and spent their time till midnight mourning for Eliza But Sleepe the equaller of Kings and captiues banished their sorrowes What humor they are in after rest you shall in the morning heare for commonly as the day is so are our affections disposed ¶ The order and proceeding at the Funerall of the Right High and Mightie Princesse Elizabeth Queene of England France and Ireland from the Pallace of Westminster called White-hall To the Cathedrall Church of Westminster the 28. of April 1603. FIrst the Knight Marshals men to make way Fifteene poore men Next the 260. poore women by foure and foure Then seruants of Gentlemen Esquiers and Knights Two Porters Next foure Trumpetors After them Rose Pursiuant at Armes Two Sergeants at Armes The Standerd of the Dragon borne by Sir George Bourcher Two Querries leading a horse couered in blacke cloth Then the messengers of the Chamber foure and foure Children of the Almondry Children of the Woodyard Children of the Skullery Children and furners of the pastry The Skalding house The Larder After them Groomes being Wheate porters Coopers Wine-porters Conducts in the Bakehouse Bel-ringer Maker of Spice-bags Cart takers chosen by the bord Long Cartes Cart takers Of the Almery Of the Stable Of the Woodyard Skullery Pastrie Skalding house Poultrie Caterie Boyling house Larder Kitchin Laundrie Ewry Confectionary Wafery Chaundry Pitcherhouse Buttrie Seller Pantrie Bakehouse Counting house Then Noblemens and Embassadors seruants and Groomes of the chamber Foure Trumpetters Blewmantle A Sergeant at Armes The Standerd of the Greyhound borne by M. Herbert brother to the Earle of Penbroke Yomen of the Seruitors in the hall foure and foure Yomen Cart-takers Porters Almondrie Herbingers Woodyard Skullerie Pastriē Poultrie and Scalding house Purueyors of the Poultry Purueyors of the Acatrie Stable Boyling house Larder Kitchin Ewrie Confectionarie Waferie Purueyor of the waxe Tallow Chandler Chaundrie Pitcher house Brewers Buttrie Purueyors Seller Pantrie Garneter Bakehouse Counting house Spicerie Chamber Robes Wardrop Earles and Countesses seruants Foure Trompetors Portcullis A Sergeant at Armes The Standerd of the Lyon borne by M. Thomas Somerset Two Quirries leading a horse trapped with blacke veluet Sergeant of the Vestrie Children of the Chappell in surplesses Gentlemen of the Chappel in copes all of them singing Clearks Deputie Clarke of the Market Clarkes extraordinarie Coferer Diet. M. Cooke for the houshold Pastrie Larder Skullerie Woodyard Poultrie Bakehouse Acatrie Stable Sergeants Gent. Herbinger Wood-yard Scullery Pastry Catery Larder Ewry Seller Pantrie Bakehouse Master Cooke of the Kitchin Clarks of the Querrie Second and third clarke of the Chaundrie Second third clark of the Kitchin Superuisors of the Dresser Surueyer of the dresser for the chamber Musitions Apoticaries and Chirurgions Sewers of the hall Marshall of the hall Sewers of the chamber Groome Porter Gentlemen vshers quarter waiters Clarke Marshall and Auenor Chiefe clarke of the wardrop Chiefe clarke of the Kitchin Two clarkes controllers Clarkes of the greene cloth Maister of the houshold Sir Henrie Cocke cofferer Rouge Dragon A Segeant at Armes The Banner of Chester borne by the L. Zouch betweene two Seargeants at Armes Clarks of the councel foure four Clarks of the priuy Seale Clarks of the Signet Clarks of the Parliament Doctors of Phisicke The Queenes Chaplaines Secretaries for the Latine Italian French tongues Rouge Crosse. Betweene two Seargeants at armes The banner of Cornwall borne by the L. Herbert Sonne and heire to the Earle of VVorcester Officers to the Maior of London Aldermen of London Solliciter Atturney and Sergeant at Lawe Maister of Reuels M. of the tents Knights Bachelors Lord chiefe Baron and Lord chiefe Iustice of the common pleas Maister of the Iewell house Knights which haue been Embassadors and Gentlemen Agents Sewers for the Queene Sewers for the bodie Esquiers of the bodie Gentlemen of the priuie chamber Gentlemen Pensioners houlding their Pol-axes heads down wards couered with blacke The Banner of VVales borne by the Viscount Bindon Maister of the Requests Agents for Venice and the Estates Lord Maior of London Sir Iohn Popham Sir Iohn Fortescue Sir Robert Cicell principall Secretary Controller Treasurer of houshold Windsor Banner of Ireland borne by the Earle of Clanricard Barons Bishops Earles eldest sonnes Viscounts Dukes second sons Earles Marqueses Bishop of Chichester Almoner Preacher at the funeral Lord Keeper Archbishop of Cant. The French Embassador Foure Sergeants of Armes The great Embrodered banner of England borne by the Earle of Penbroke and the Lord Haward of Effingham Somerset and Richmond York Helme and Crest Chester Target Norrey king at Armes Sword Clarenceaux king at Armes Coat The liuely picture of her Highnesse whole body crowned in her Parliament Robes with her Scepter in her hand lying on the corps balmed and leaded couered with Purple veluet borne in a