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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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