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A12650	The triumphs ouer death: or, A consolatorie epistle, for afflicted mindes, in the affects of dying friends. First written for the consolation of one: but now published for the generall good of all, by R.S. the author of S. Peters complaint, and Mœoniæ his other hymnes	Southwell, Robert, Saint, 1561?-1595.	1595 (1595)	STC 22971; ESTC S111055	19,504	40

belong more then to this which hath already giuen you the most vngrateful congee They that are vpon remouing send their furniture before them and you still standing vpon your departure what ornament could you rather wish in your future abode than this that did euer please you God thither sendeth your adamants whither hee would draw your heart and casteth your anchors where your thoughts should lie at rode that seeing your loue taken out of the world and your hopes disanchored from this stormie shoare you might settle your desires where God seemeth to require them If you would haue wished her life for an example to your house assure your selfe shee hath left her friends so inherited with her vertues and so perfit patterns of her best parts that who knoweth the furuiuors may see the deceased and shall finde little difference but in the nūber which before was greater but not better vnlesse it were in one repetition of the same goodnesse wherefore set your selfe at rest in the ordinance of God whose workes are perfit and whose wisedome is infinite The termes of our life are like the seasons of the yere som for sowing some for growing and some for reaping in this only different that as the heauens keepe their prescribed periods so the succession of times haue their appointed changes But in the seasons of our life which are not to the lawe of necessarie causes some are reaped in the seed some in the blade some in the vnripe eare all in the end this haruest depending vpon the reapers wil. Death is too ordinarie a thing to seem any nouelty being a familiar guest in euerie house and sith his comming is expected and his arrant vnknowen neither his presence should be feared nor his effects lamented What wonder is it to see fuell burned spice pownded or snow melted and as little feare it is to see those dead that were borne vpon condition once to die she was such a cōpound as was once to be resolued vnto her simples which is now performed her soule being giuen to God and her body sorted into her first elements it could not dislike you to see your friend remoued out of a ruinous house and the house it selfe destroyed and pulled downe if you knewe it were to build it in a statelier forme to turne the inhabitant with more ioy into a fairer lodging Let then your sisters soule depart without griefe let hir body also be altered into dust withdraw your eyes from the ruine of this cotage cast them vpon the maiestie of the second building which S. Paul saith shall be incorruptible glorious strange spirituall and immortall night and sleep are perpetuall mirours figuring in their darknes silence shutting vp of sences the finall end of our mortal bodies for this some haue entituled sleep the eldest brother of death but with no lesse conueniēce it might be called one of deaths tenants neare vnto him in affinity of condition yea far inferior in right being but tenāt for a time of that which death is the inheritance for by vertue of the conueiance made vnto him in Paradice that dust we were to dust we should returne He hath hitherto shewed his signiorie ouer all exacting of vs not only the yerely but hourely reuenues of time which euer by minuts we defray vnto him So that our very life is not only a memorie but a part of our death sith the longer we haue liued the lesse we haue to liue What is the daily lessening of our life but a continual dying and therfore none is more grieued with the running out of the last sand in an houre glasse then with all the rest so should not the end of the last houre trouble vs any more of so many that went before sith that did but finish course that all the rest were stil ending not the quantity but the quality commendeth our life The ordinarie gaine of long liuers being onely a great burthen of sinne for as in teares so in life the valew is not esteemed by the length but by the fruit and goodnesse which often is more in the least than in the longest What your sister wanted in continuance she supplied in speede and as with her needle shee wrought more in a day than manie Ladies in a yeere hauing both excellent skil and no lesse delight in working so with her diligence doubling her endeuours shee won more vertue in halfe than others in a whole life Her death to time was her birth to eternitie the losse of this worlde an exchange of a better one indowment that she had being impaired but many farre greater added to her store Mardocheus house was too obscure a dwelling for so gracious an Hester shrowding royall partes in the mantle of a meane estate and shadowing immortall benefits vnder earthly vailes It was fitter that shee being a summe of so rare perfections and so well worthy a spouse of our heauenly Ahashuerus should bee carried to his court from her former abode there to be inuested in glorie and to inioy both place and preheminence answerable to her worthines her loue would haue beene lesse able to haue borne hir death than your constancy to brooke her and therefore God mercifully closed her eies before they were punished with so grieuous a sight taking out to you but a newe lesson of patience out of your old booke in which long studie hath made you perfect Though your hearts were equally ballanced with a mutual and most entire affection and the doubt insoluble which of you loued most yet death finding her the weaker though not the weaker vessell laide his weight in her ballance to bring her soonest to her rest let your mind therefore consent to that which your tongue daily craueth that Gods will may bee done as well here in earth of her mortall body and in that little heauen of her purest soule sith his will is the best measure of all euents There is in this worlde continuall enterchange of pleasing and greeting accidence still keeping their succession of times ouertaking ech other in their seuerall courses no picture can be all drawen of the brightest colours nor a harmonie onely conforted onely of trebles shadowes are needefull in expressing of proportions and the base is a principall part in perfect musicke the condition of our exile heere alloweth no vnmedled ioy our whole life is tempered betweene sweete and sowre and wee must all looke for a mixture of both the wise so wish better that they stil thinke of worse accepting the one if it come with liking and bearing the other without impatience being so much maisters of eche others fortunes that neither shall worke them to excesse The dwarse groweth not on the highest hill nor the tall man looseth not his height in the lowest valley and as a base mind though most at ease wil be deiected so a resolute vertue in the deepest distresse is most impregnable They euermore most perfectly enioy their comfortes that

THE Triumphs ouer Death OR A Consolatorie Epistle for afflicted mindes in the affects of dying friends First written for the consolation of one but now published for the generall good of all by R. S. the Author of S. Peters Complaint and Maoni● his other Hymnes LONDON Printed by V. S. for Iohn Busbie and are to be sold at Nicholas Lings shop at the West end of Paules Church 1595 To the Worshipful M. Richard Sackuile Edward Sackuile Cicilie Sackuile and Anne Sackuile the hopeful issue of the honourable Gentleman maister Robert Sackuile Esquire MOst lines do not the best conceit containe Few wordes well coucht may comprehend much matter Then as to vse the first is counted vaine So is't praise-worthy to conceit the latter The grauest wittes that most graue workes expect The qualitie not quantitie respect The smallest sparke will cast a burning heat Base cottages may harbour things of woorth Then though this Volume be nor gay nor great Vnder your protection I set foorth Do not with coy disdainefull ouersight Deny to reade this well meant orphanes mite And since his father in his infancie Prouided patrons to protect his heire But now by death none sparing crueltie Is turnd an orphane to the open aire I his vnworthy foster-sire haue darde To make you patronizers of this warde You glor●eng issues of that glorious dame Whose li●e is made the subiect o● deaths will To you succeeding hopes of mothers fame I dedicate this ●ruit of Southwels quill He for your Vncles com●ort first it writ I for your consolation print and send you it Then daine in kindnesse to accept the worke Which he in kindnesse writ I send to you The which till n●w clouded obscure did lurke But now opposed to ech Readers view May yeelde commodious fruit to euery wight That feeles his cons●ience pri●kt by Parcaes spight But if in aught I haue presumptuous beene My pardon-crauing pen implores your fauour If any fault in print be past vnseene To let it passe the Printer is the ●rauer So shall he thanke you and I by duety bound Pray that in you may all good gifts abound Your Worships humbly deuoted Iohn Trussell R Reade with regarde what here with due regarde O Our second Ciceronian Southwell sent B By whose perswasiue pithy argument E Ech well disposed eie may be preparde R Respectiuely their griefe for friends decease T To moderate without all vaine excesse S Sith then the worke is worthie of your view O Obtract not him which for your good it pend V Vnkinde you are if you it reprehend T That for your profit is presented you H He pend I publish this to pleasure all E Esteeme of both then as we merite shall W Wey his workes woorth accept of my goodwill E Else is his labour lost mine crost both to no end L Lest then you ill des●rue what both intend L Let my goodwill all small defects fulfill He here his talent trebled doth present I my poore mite y●t both with good intent Then take them kindly both as we them ment Iohn Trussell To the Reader CHancing to ●inde with Esopes Cocke a stone Whose worth was more than I knew how to prise And knowing if it should be kept vnknowne T ' would many skathe and pleasure few or none I thought it best the same in publike wise In Print to publish that impartiall ei●s Might reading iudge and iudging praise the wight The which this Triumph ouer Death did w●ite And though the same he did at first compose For ones peculiar consolation Yet will it be commodions vnto those Which for some friends losse prooue their owne selfe-foes And by extremitie of exclamation And their continuate lamentation Seeme to forget that they at length must t●ead The selfe same path which they did that are dead But those as yet whome no friends death doth crosse May by example guide their actions so That when a tempest comes their Barke to tosse Their passions shall not superate their losse And eke this Tr●atise doth ech Reader show That we our breath to Death by duet●e owe And thereby prooues much teares are spent in vaine When teares can not recall the dead againe Yet if perhappes our late sprung sectaries Or for a fashion Bible-bearing hypocrites Whose hollow hearts doe seeme most holy wise Do for the Authors sake the worke despise I wish them weigh the words and not who writes But they that leaue what most the soule delights Because the Preachers no Precisian sure To reade what Southwell writ will not endure But leauing them since no perswades suffice To cause them reade except the spirit mou● I wish all other reade but none despise This little Treatise but if Momus ●i●s Espie Deaths triumph it doth him behoue The writer worke or me for to reproue But let his pitcht speecht mouth defile but one Let that be me let tother two alone For if offence in either merit blame The fault is mine and let me reape the shame Iohn Trussell ❧ The Authour to the Reader IF the Athenians erected an altare to an vnknowne god supposing hee woulde bee pleased with their deuotion t●ough they were ignorant of his name better may I presume that my labour may be gratefull being deuoted to such men whose names I kn●w and whose fames I haue heard though vnacquainted with their persons I intended this comfort to him whom a lamenting sort hath left most comfortlesse by him to his friends who haue equall portions in this sorrow But I thinke the Philosophers rule will be here verefied that it shall be last in execution which was first designed and he last enioy the effect which was first owner of the cause this let Chance be our rule since Choice may not and into which of your hands it shal fortune much honour and happinesse may it carry with it and leaue in their hearts as much ioy as it found sorrow where I borrow the person of a Historian as well touching the dead as the yet suruiuing I build vpon report of such A●thours whose hoary heads challenge credit and whose ●i●s and eares were witnesses of their wordes To craue pardon for my paine were to slander a friendly office and to wrong their courtesies whome nobilitie neuer taught to answere affection with anger or to wage du●ty with dislike and therefore I humbly present vnto them with as many good wishes as good will can measure from a best meaning minde that hath a willingnesse rather to affoorde then to offer due seruices were not the meane as woorthlesse as the minde is willing The Triumphs ouer Death OR A Consolatorie Epistle for troubled mindes in the affects of dying friendes IF it be a blessing of the vertuous to mourne it is the rewarde of this to be comforted and he that pronounced the one promised the other I doubt not but that Spirite whose nature is Loue and whose name Comforter as he knoweth the cause of your grief● so hath he salued it with supplies