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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33971	Par nobile two treatises, the one concerning the excellent woman, evincing a person fearing the Lord to be the most excellent person, discoursed more privately upon occasion of the death of the Right Honourable the Lady Frances Hobart late of Norwich, from Pro. 31, 29, 30, 31 : the other discovering a fountain of comfort and satisfaction to persons walking with God, yet living and dying without sensible consolations , discovered from Psal. 17, 15 at the funerals of the Right Honourable the Lady Katherine Courten, preached at Blicklin in the county of Norfolk, March 27, 1652 : with the narratives of the holy lives and deaths of those two noble sisters / by J.C.	Collinges, John, 1623-1690.; Collinges, John, 1623-1690. Excellent woman.; Collinges, John, 1623-1690. Light in darkness.	1669 (1669)	Wing C5329; ESTC R26441	164,919	320

waters far more sharp than brine With perfect grief fit Victimes for this shrine A Song 's desired my poor Muse complied But ere she sang it out she burst and died Grief set the Cliff so high sorrow so rackt Her tender heart-strings that when toucht they crackt She yet is loth to yield she hopes to groan A shatter'd verse or two o're such a stone Ah! for one doleful shrick to rend the Sky Then would she on this grave lye down and die But dying leave some Legacies to give To any who have yet an heart to live A broken heart within which riven frame I●pr●mis In every chink this Noble Lady's Name A face gutt'red with tears a panting breast Item Which when the tongue gives in may sigh the rest And when the fancy fails a bleeding eye Item To weep a more Pathetick Elegy These her neglected Arms she gave to me That I with them might hug this Prodigy Of Vertue which in a fast Gordian knot I 'le tye and with her reliques let them rot Here lyes extinguished a fallen Star Which fixt in th' spangled frame would very far Out-shine those lesser lights whose beaming would Darken the Sun and turn the Moon to blood How had the Pilgrims flockt about her Tomb Had there been ever such a Saint at Rome Add but her merits to that Churches store And they might sin whole Ages on her score Ah Lord what thing is this the world calls man Whom some few inches of a grave can span Though nere so swell'd with honour nere so vast That Kingdoms cannot hold yet found at last Though now more room more earth more worlds they crave Coopt up within the confines of a grave How did this stately Cedar lately ' expan'd Her high and lovely top with which she fann'd The Air and from it gave a lovely shade Refreshing such as the world weary made Alas she 's faln and in a Vault is sunk All we can say 's Here lyes a goodly Trunk Which in a moment by a sudden turn Is ashes made and fitted for an Urn An Urn on which the Mourner only must Grave this Here lyeth Honourable Dust With this great Lady's see another Herse O're which my breathless Muse cann't sing 2 verse 'T is needless why they were in Vertue blood Honour and Piety what e're is good And to be praised both the very same Repeat what 's said change but the christen name 'T is true of both and thus indeed they were Two Noble Sisters A thrice Noble Pa●r A short Account Of the Holy Life and Death Of the Right Honourable The Lady Frances Hobart the Relict of Sir John Hobart late of Blicklin in the County of Norfolk BARONET SAint John heard a voice from Heaven Rev. 14. 13. saying write to which when he replied What shall I write the answer was Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord from henceforth yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labours and their works do follow them A phrase which implies not any motio● of works but rather the promotion of the person that hath wrought and remuneration for his or her work This reward they have partly in Heaven where Christ rewards his Saints though not for the merit of their works yet according to them Rev. 22. 12. both for nature and degree and they partly have it upon the Rev. 22. 12. Earth whiles the name of the wicked ●otts their memory is blessed and wherever the Gospel is preached what they have done is told in remembrance of them The Widows while they wept for Dorcas shewed the Coats and Garments Acts 9. 39. she had made Solomon commands that the Vertuous Woman should have the fruit of her hands and that her own works should praise her in the Gates This is my present task and the last office I have to perform to that great and noble person whose death hath turned us into an house of mourning I shall begin with her cradle and consider her in the threefold period of her life while a Virgin a Wife and a Widow but I shall lightly pass over the two former knowing nothing but what I gathered from her Ladyships various occasional discourses during the eighteen last years of her life in which I had the honour of a daily converse with her Ladyship as to which I had the advantage of a stricter observation This noble Lady was born in London in the year 1603. being the eldest of eight daughters who all lived to marriageable years with which it pleased God to bless the Right Honourable John late Earl of Bridgewater Vicount Brack●●y and Lord Elsmore Lord President of Wales By his noble Lady the Lady Frances daughter to the Right Honourable Ferdinando Earl of Derby Of this twice noble stock this Excellent Lady was the First-fruit a circumstance possibly not inconsiderable for gaining credit to the following relation of her vertuous life there being something of that in Horace true Fortes creantur fortibus bonis Est in Juvencis est in Equis patrum Virtus nec imbellem feroces Progenerant Aquilae columbam Doctrina sed vim promovet infitam Rectique cultus pectora roborant Such as the Parents such the children be The breed of Horses and Neat beasts we see In Spirit like their damms and Sires prove Fierce Eagles bring not forth a Sable Dove c. It holds not indeed as to infused habits Justus non gignit justum sed gignit hominem said Augustine but as to Moral habits which have their seeds and rudiments in nature there 's much in it Splendid and noble actions are much advantaged by this foundation though education raiseth the building and Grace at last layeth the Corner-stone perfecting what thus is began in nature and improved by instruction and education This Noble Lady had no sooner passed the hands of her Nurse and began to use her tongue but she was in her Fathers house betrusted to the tuition of a French Gentle-woman whom I have often heard her mention with a great deal of honour from her she learned to speak the French tongue before she could distinctly speak English a faculty which she retained to her dying day And having her Organs of speech so early formed to it she so naturally accented it that Natives of that Country would hardly believe her born in England The years of her Nonage were spent in learning things proper for that Age and which might accomplish her for that noble station which she was ere long to take up in the World Now she learned to handle her Lute to sing dance c. things in her maturer Age of which she made little or no use and far less reckoning but they fitted her for the Court which she was to be acquainted with before she could be dismissed into the Ceuntry Now she learned to read to write and cast account nimbly and exactly and to use her Needle and order the affairs of an