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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18731	The epitaph of Sir Phillip Sidney Knight, lately Lord Gouernour of Floshing	Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604.	1586 (1586)	STC 5228; ESTC S104978	4,034	10

THE Epitaph of Sir Phillip Sidney Knight lately Lord Gouernour of Floshing ¶ Imprinted at London by George Robinson for Thomas Cadman and are to be sold at his Shop at the greate North-doore of S. Paules Church at the signe of the Bible To the right Worshipfull and vertuous Ladie the Ladie Sidney that was wife of Sir Phillip Sidney now deceased GOod Madame as my boldnes may be rebuked for this wilfull presumption in setting forth Verses of so vertuous a Knight whose value my knowledge cannot vtter So y e forwardnes of my goodwill if any offence happen may be pardonable make a free passage to the wofull Epitaph of your Ladishippes worthie Husband But so excellent a Personage beautified with such noblenesse and learning ought not to bee described and handled with the ignorant pen of so simple a writer For who should speake of Achilles praise but Homer yet good Ladie in the bare plaine phrase of a meane writer true things may be couched and from weake and base words some stately and hie matter may be gathered For as out of Chaffe good Corne is sifted and fine golde is drawne from the grosest Drosse so out of little Flint stones men strike out great sparkes of Fire and from many a small trifle great wealth treasure doth arise What needeth this Florish to bring in good liking and credite my sillie knowledge or to what end serues these drie discourses in so flowing a world where the sweete Fountaine and moysture of the Muses in this most fruitfull tyme findes Tydes and seasons so replenished with water springs that no soyle nor peece of ground in our land but hath taisted felt the gracious dewe of the Heauens I meane the bountie of this age touching the quicknesse of sharpe sperites is so beneficiall to thousands who haue reaped the chiefest Corne that there is left no Seede nor Graine to no such an infortunate Gleaner as my selfe Their workes their Bookes their learned arguments in sondrie maners doth shewe they haue happely gotten and gathered y e first crop of knowledge into their Barne so that they which shall come after must either lose their labour or bee driuen to walke peaking about the feelde to picke vp such forgotten eares of Corne as the Reapers haue unwillingly left or the ouersight of the world did carelesly looke vnto The consait of these causes hath almost astonyed my muse For the matter I treate on hath bene before both learnedly and sententiously spoken of What course then can I holde or compasse can I keepe for both our speeches attends but to one purpose which is but to shewe the life and death of one onely Parragon and renowmed Knight of England When the substance of a true tale is at the first throughly conceiued I can find no inuention to perswade a beleef of a second trueth to bee vnderstood And when an other man hath tolde as much as I can imagine my silence were as seemely as my further dispute of the matter But yet by the way vnder fauour be it spoken though at one present instant two seuerall Mothers haue brought into the world two sondrie Children yet neither in nature shape nor cōdition the one proueth like the other it may so fall out of these two Epitaphes written on Sir Phillip Sidney whose varietie and inuentions by strangenes of style may moue many Readers to consider the better of the matter penned This my worke presented to your good Ladiship craueth that credit that as it may bee looked on So it may passe as a memoriall of such a worthie man as it maketh mention of I write not to renue any sorrowe where there is to much sadnes alreadie but to reuiue the heart with hope and gladnes when it shall call to remembraunce the generall loue and affection of the people towardes this rare Gentleman whose noble inclination and forme of life is as well seene heard by the common report of the world as though we sawe him aliue againe amongst vs. What greater ioye can a good wife haue then the hearing of the honorable report of so worthie an Husband What Picture or Image can set forth any such presentatiō to please either the mynd or eye as true penned Uerses both voyde of flattry or any vaine respect Or what can touch so nere the worthinesse of man as the Pen that searcheth the secretes of nature gropes the inward motions of the mind and sets forth the hidden giftes of grace If Appelles were aliue he could but with his Pensell paint out the fauour and proportion of your Ladiships most well beloued but an honest true Writer with his Pen explayneth and setteth open al the vertues belonging to a noble Personage So as farre as my poore knowledge and cunning may reach I haue stretched my iudgement and opinion of one in deede of the worthiest that euer I knewe borne in our tyme. Trusting that your Ladiship will giue good countenance to my labor and doubting no whit but the world enbraseth my trauaile For the generall consent of many multitudes procured my Pen to set forth this work as knoweth God who possesse your Ladishipp with peace rest and blessednesse At humble commaundment Thomas Churchyard The vvorthie Sir Phillip Sidney Knight his Epitaph that was of late Lord Gouernour of Floshnig A Greater losse then world well waies ‖ or may be toucht with pen No lacke so much in these our daies as want of worthie men Whē wealth is gon yet wit or hap ‖ may quicklie get more good But when the Tree hath lost his Sap ‖ farewell both braunch and bud What sighes or sobbes shall now suffice ‖ to counterpaise the paine What floods of teares or weeping eyes ‖ may bring our losse againe No sorrowe serues we wayle to late ‖ our Jewell gay is gon A speciall member of our state ‖ had Natures course held on For kind did lay a liuely plot ‖ that farre surpass our skill To long at large to tell God wot ‖ her cunning worke at will But I may shew how from a Child ‖ she fostred vp this man And fraught him full of maners mild ‖ when he this world began First knowledge ripe in Schoole he caught ‖ to whet his noble spréete As he had bin by Tully taught ‖ to flowe in sentence swéet Both pen and tongue did aunswer mind ‖ as water-streames had r●n From Fountaine head by course of kind ‖ from whēce great floods be gon A wit that could conceiue as fast ‖ as went quick view of eye A sence that swift as Swallow past ‖ through matters rare and hye His eare no sooner heard the sound ‖ of voyce or déepe foresight But straight way iudgemēt passage found ‖ to bring dark words to light His bountie blased like Torch by night ‖ and dimde their Candles all And ●●aynd both Lampe and Lanterne light ‖ where sparkes from flame did fall His life with chast desires was deckt ‖ where euer he