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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13842	A funerall poeme. Vpon the death of the most vvorthie and true souldier; Sir Francis Vere, Knight. Captaine of Portsmouth, &c. L. Gouernour of his Maiesties cautionarie towne of Briell in Holland, &c.	Tourneur, Cyril, 1575?-1626.	1609 (1609)	STC 24148; ESTC S118514	8,547	29

A Funerall Poeme VPON THE DEATH OF THE MOST WORTHIE AND TRVE SOVLDIER Sir Francis Vere Knight Captaine of Portsmouth c. L. Gouernour of his Maiesties Cautionarie Towne of Briell in HOLLAND c. LONDON Printed for Eleazar Edgar 1609. DEDICATED TO HIS LIVING MEMORIE WHICH ASCENDS TO THE INHERENT HONOVR OF THE HEROYQVE HOPE OF NOBILITIE THE EARLE OF OXFORD c. FROM WHOSE NOBLE FAMILIE THIS IMMORTALL WORTHIE HATH THE HONOVR TO BE Descended A Funerall Poeme VPON THE DEATH O● THE MOST WORTHY AND TRVE SOVLDIER SIR FRANCIS VERH Knight Captaine of Portsmouth c. Lord Gouernour of his Maiesties Cautionarie Towne of Briell in HOLLAND c. THy Earth's return'd to Earth from whence it came But from thy Spirit rizze thy worthy Fame Immortall Vere and that shall neuer dye But with it liue to all Posteritie How can the Memory of such a Spirit VVhose Actions eu'n of Enuie got his Merit Acknowledgement Subscription Approbation And made it clearely shine through Emulation VVhich with Contracted Cloudes did interpose Betweene the world and him to darken those ●lustr●ous honours of his noble worth Which his eff●ntiall Souldiership brought forth ●e euer ruin'd Nor can Death or Fate Confine his Fame to an expiring date ●ince all they can doe is to kill his Earth Whose Dust wip'd of his Soule a second Birth Regenerates the honour of his Acts ●nto Eternity He that detracts The dead Mans good defames his owne intent ●nd makes obscured vertues eminent ●ut Noble Vere this Monument I raise With vncorrupted purpose to thy praise ●ll that I speake is vnexacted true and free ●rawne clearely from vnalter'd certaintee For heere I doe ingenuously professe ●he nature of this Subiect would oppresse ●nd trouble my reposed state of Soule With contemplating that which should contruleo Our Licences of Conscience if the due Of this I attribute thee were vntrue And you the worthies of our present daies ●hose ludgements and experience knew his waies ●nuersed with his Actions and Intents 〈◊〉 priuate and in publique managements ●o your true vnderstandings it is knowne ●hat he might claime ●ese honours for his owne His Minde was like an Empire rich and strong In all defensiue pow'r against the wrong That ciuill tumult or inuasiue Hate Might raise against the peace of her estate It was a plentifull and fertile ground Wherin all needfull riches did abound Labour increas'd what natiuely was bred No part was bairen or ill husbanded And with the paines of Industrie and witt In little time He made such Benefit Of Conuersation the Commerce of Mindes That what his hable obseruation findes In other knowledges of vse and good Which in his owne was yet not vnderstood Through this rich trade wherby al good is known Conuerts them home and plantes them in his owne Which was so sweet and temperate a seate Without th'extremities of cold or heate That it could easily it selfe apply To eu'ry vsefull Nature properlie And so did yeeld such prosperous increase Of vertues qualifi'd for warreand peace That not a Mind wherewith He did conferre Could vtter speech of that particular Though in the waies which other men profess'd Where with his vnderstanding was not bless'd And whatsoeuer He deliuer'd forth Inserious things was of a Solide worth Commodiously materiall Full of vse And free from ostentation and abuse And as that Empire of his minde was good So was her state as strong wherein she stood Her scituation most entirely lay Within it selfe admitting not a way Nor any open place infirme or weake By which offensiue purposes might breake Into her gouernment or haue accesse Thorough the most familiar passages That led vpon him vnder faire pretence Without discouering they ment offence Before it was too late to giue retreate To their proceedings Nor could any heate Or violence of such inuasion make His passions mutin ' or his pow'rs forsake Their proper places Nothing could disband The strength and order of his minds commaund For neuer mind her nature better knew Or could obserue a discipline more due To such a Nature or was fortified With workes were more ingentously applied To answere all attempts and iniuries In their owne kinde and seu'rall qualities And in that scope offences to auoide The vse of all those forces was employ'de Within his Natures lines it might be read He was a Souldier borne aswell as bred And out of his owne morall Character He might haue learn'd his Mysterie of Warre Warre was the Spheare wherein his life did mooue And in that course his actions did approoue How well his worth did his employment fit Th' vnited prouinces can witnesse it And will acknowledge gratefully that Fate VVas graciously propicious to their state VVhen their most happie Genius gauetheir voic And did direct their wisedomes to make choice Of one so hable and so fit in in all To be that worthy Nations Generall On the sufficiencie of whose commaund The chiefest hopes of their Successe did stand And Noble Willough by thy ludgement knew And he hath reallie confirm'd it true That in his life thy memorie should liue For the iudicious fauours thou didst giue To his beginnings VVhich did still produce Some Action promising of what high vse His generous courage wit and Industrie Pract●z'd with Iudgement and dexteritie Should be vnto that State In whose braue Warre When he had brought his seruices so'farre That they deseru'd the chiefest English charge His spirit with his fortune did enlarge It selfe according to his place For as His former carriages did duely passe Through those right waies by which he should obey Now he did prooue he knew as right a way How to commaund And suited all his Course With correspondent order life and force He put not on those popular aspects Which Greatnes oft obsequiously affectes To winne the vulgar fancie For he knew That bum our would distract him from the true And faithfull Course wherein he should attend The publique seruice to a priuate ende And with too easie and familiar sense Make Fauour apprehended And dispence With such neglect of dutie as proceedes From that presumption which remissnes breedes But gaue himselfe vnto the publique cause And in the due performance of her Lawes His fauours had their constant residence To th' end he might attract mens diligence Directly to their dueties and aduance The Armies seruice For his Countenance Respected men with a Reseruednesse Refer'd to that where with he did expresse His exemplarie actions So that none Could gather from him any Signe whereon To raise themselues a promise or a hope Of their preferment but within the scope Of their peeuliar merites And the waies And manner by the which he vs'd to raise Deseruing men and did his fauours spread Were with as much discretion managed And nourish'd industrie no lesse For whan He did bestow preferment on a man The gift descended from no second hand That might diuide a generall commaund But from himselfe as a proprietie Reseru'd vnto his owne authoritie And often