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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67127	Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, A collection of lives, letters, poems with characters of sundry personages : and other incomparable pieces of language and art : also additional letters to several persons, not before printed / by the curious pencil of the ever memorable Sir Henry Wottan ...	Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639.	1672 (1672)	Wing W3650; ESTC R34765	338,317	678

all my good is but vain hope of gain The day is past and yet I saw no Sun And now I live and now my life is done 2. The Spring is past and yet it hath not sprung The fruit is dead and yet the leaves are green My youth is gone and yet I am but young I saw the vvorld and yet I vvas not seen My thread is cut and yet it is not spun And now I live and now my life is done 3. I sought my death and found it in my womb I look'd for life and saw it was a shade I trod the earth and knew it was my tomb And now I die and now I am but made The glass is full and now my glass is run And now I live and now my life is done 1. RIse oh my Soul with thy desires to Heaven And with Divinest contemplation use Thy time where times eternity is given buse And let vain thoughts no more thy thoughts a●… But down in darkness let them lie So live thy better let thy worse thoughts die 2. And thou my Soul inspir'd with holy flame View and review with most regardful eye That holy Cross whence thy salvation came On which thy Saviour and thy sin did die For in that Sacred object is much pleasure And in that Saviour is my life my treasure 3. To thee O Jesu I direct my eye To thee my hands to thee my humble knees To thee my heart shall offer sacrifice To thee my thoughts who my thoughts only sees To thee my self my self and all I give To thee I die to thee I only live Ignoto Sir Walter Raleigh the Night before his Death EVen such is time that takes on trust Our youth our joyes our all we have And pays us but with age and dust Who in the dark and silent Grave When we have wandred all our ways Shuts up the story of our days But from this earth this grave this dust My God shall raise me up I trust W. R. The World THe World 's a bubble and the life of man less then a span In his conception wretched from the womb so to the tomb Nurst from his cradle and brought up to years with cares and fears Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns on water or but writes in dust Yet whilst with sorrow here we live opprest what life is best Courts are but only superficial Schools to dandle Fools The rural part is turn'd into a den of savage men And where 's a City from foul vice so free But may be term'd the worst of all the three Domestick cares afflicts the Husbands bed or pains his head Those that live single take it for a curse or do things worse none These would have children those that have them or wish them gone What is it then to have or have no wife But single thraldom or a double strife Our own affections still at home to please is a disease To cross the Seas to any forreign soil peril and toil Wars with their noise affright us when they cease w' are worse in peace What then remains but that we still should cry For being born and being born to die Fra. Lord Bacon De Morte MAns life 's a Tragedy his mothers womb From which he enters is the tyring room This spacious earth the Theater and the Stage That Country which he lives in Passions Rage Folly and Vice are Actors The first cry The Prologue to th' ensuing Tragedy The former act consisteth of dumb shows The second he to more perfection grows I' th third he is a man and doth begin To nurture vice and act the deeds of sin I' th fourth declines i' th fifth diseases clog And trouble him then Death 's his Epilogue Ignoto EPIGRAM IF breath were made for every man to buy The poor man could not live rich would not die John Hoskins to his little Child Benjamin from the Tower SWeet Benjamin since thou art young And hast not yet the use of tongue Make it thy slave while thou art free Imprison it lest it do thee LETTERS TO Sir EDMUND BACON SIR IT is very just since I cannot personally accompany this Gentleman yet that I do it with my Letter wherein if I could transport the Image of mine own mind unto you as lively as we have often represented you unto our selves abroad then I should not think us asunder while you read it But of my longing to see you I am a better feeler then a describer as likewise of my obligations towards you whereof it is not the least that I have been by your mediation and judgement and love furnished with so excellent a Comforter of my absence and so loving and discreet a divider and easer of my Travels after whose separation from me I am ready to say that which I remember the younger Pliny doth utter with much feeling after the loss of his venerable and dearest Friend Cerellius Rufus Vereor saith he ne posthac negligentius vivam But herein my case is bettter then his for I cannot but hope that some good occasion will bring him again nearer me And I must confess unto you I should be glad to see him planted for a while about the King or Prince that so if his own fortune be not mended by the Court yet the Court may be bettered by him in that which it doth more desperately want Now Sir Besides himself there cometh unto you with him an Italian Doctor of Physick by name Gasper●… Despotini a man well practised in his own faculty and very Philosophical and sound in his discourses By birth a Venetian which though it be not Urbs ignobilis as Saint Paul said of his own Mother-City yet is his second birth the more excellent I mean his illumination in Gods saving Truth which was the only cause of his remove and I was glad to be the conductor of him where his conscience may be free though his condition otherwise till he shall be known will be the poorer This Stranger I was desirous to present unto you as my friend in his company whose testimony may more value him then mine own And so committing them both to your love and your self with all that family to Gods blessing hand I rest From my Lodging in Kings-street April 2. 1611. Your poor Friend and Servant H. WOTTON SIR IT is late at night and I am but newly come to the knowledge that my Lord is to send a Messenger unto you to morrow morning yet howsoever I have resolved not to be left out of this dispatch though in truth I had rather be the sootman my self then one of the Writers But here I am tied about mine own business which I have told you like a true Courtier for right Courtiers indeed have no other business but themselves Our Lord Jesus bless you all as you are now together and wheresoever you shall be From Greenwich May 27. 1611. Your Uncle by your own election and your Servant by mine

of the Alps for Winds as well as Waters are tainted in their passage and the consequence which men make in common discourse from the Degree of the place to the Temper is indeed very deceiveable without a due regard to other circumstances The Circuit thereof through divers Creeks is not well determinable but as Astronomers use to measure the Stars vve may account it a City of the first Magnitude as London Paris Gaunt Millain Lisbon c. Hovv they came to be founded in the midst of the Waters I could never meet with any clear Memorial The best and most of their Authors ascribe their first beginnings rather to chance or necessity then counsel which yet in my opinion will amount to no more then a pretty conjecture intenebrated by Antiquity for thus they deliver it They say that among the Tumults of the middle Age vvhen Nations vvent about swarming like Bees Atylas that great Captain of the Hunnes and scourge of the World as he vvas styled lying long vvith a numerous Army at the Siege of Aquileia it struck a mighty affrightment and confusion into all the nearer parts vvhereupon the best sort of the bordering People out of divers Towns agreed either suddenly or by little and little as fear vvill sometimes collect as vvell as distract to convey themselves and their substance into the uttermost bosome of the Adriatick Gulf and there possessed certain desolate Islets by Tradition about seventy in number vvhich afterwards necessity being the Mother of Art were tacked together with Bridges and so the City took a rude form vvhich grevv civilized vvith time and became a great example vvhat the smallest things vvell fomented may prove They glory in this their begining two ways First that surely their Progonitors vvere not of the meanest and basest quality for such having little to lose had as little cause to remove Next that they vvere timely instructed vvith Temperance and Penury the Nurses of Moderation And true it is that as all things savour of their first Principles so doth the said Republick as I shall afterwards shew even at this day for the Rule vvill hold as vvell in Civil as in Natural Causes Caetera desunt An Epistle Dedicatory of the following Discourse Right Honourable and my very good Lord HAving here lately seen the deaths of two and the elections of two other Dukes within the compass of six weeks I have been bold to entertain your Lordship with a little story of these changes and competitions though with small presumption that you can take any pleasure in my simple report thereof unless it win some favour by the freshness or the freedome For the rest the whole Town is here at the present in horror and confusion upon the discovering of a foul and fearful conspiracy of the French against this State whereof no less then thirty have already suffered very condign punishment between men strangled in prison drowned in the silence of the night and hanged in publick view and yet the bottom is invisible If God's mercy had not prevented it I think I might for mine own particular have spared my late supplication to the King about my return home towards next Winter For I cannot hope that in the common Massacre publick Ministers would have been distinguished from other men nay rather we might perchance have had the honour to have our ●…ses thought worthiest the rifling I shall give your Lordship a better account of this in my next having now troubled you beyond excuse with my poor Papers Our blessed God keep your Lordship in his love Venice this 25. of May 1618. Your Lordships vvith all true devotion HENRY WOTTON THE ELECTION OF THE NEW DUKE OF VENICE After the Death of GIOVANNI BEMBO ON Friday being the 16 of March in this year 1618. about an hour before Sun-setting Giovanni Bembo the 91 Duke of Venice ended his dayes in the 75 year of his Age His disease was a Feaver occasioned by some obstruction in his reins that stopped the course of his water Whether the Physicians did hasten his end by taking from him more blood then his years could spare is now too late a question His name is one of the Ancientest among them His Father was a Gentleman almost of the lowest poverty till he matched with a wealthy Citizens Daughter who afterwards proved the Heir of her Father leaving issue male this Duke Giovanni and Philippo his Brother Philippo who only was married being not the Custome of Venice for more Brothers then one to take Wife died some few moneths before the Duke in greater reputation then degree For their Laws do suppress the Brothers of their Dukes The Duke himself did arise by Imployments at Sea His first Action of note was in the Battel of Lepanto where besides some wounds that he received for his own share the success of that great day in such trepidation of the State made every man meritorious He was lastly to omit his middle steps while the. Republick stood under Excommunication by this Pope the King of Spain likewise then arming made General of their Maritime Forces This is the solemnest Title they can confer under the Princedome being indeed a kind of Dictatorship to which they have no Charge equivalent on the Land having been content as it seems in honour of their Situation to give the Prerogative of trust to that Element To the Princedome he was chosen being none of the Competitors then in voice Who unable to make themselves and unwilling to make their Concurrents as he fashion is agreed in a Third He held the Place two years three moneths and twelve dayes with general good liking though indeed his praises were rather Moral then Intellectual as more consisting in goodness of disposition then any other eminent Ability For he was neither eloquent profound nor learned only notable in his splendour and oeconomical magnificence beyond ordinary example and perchance in another nature beyond Permission For these Popularities among them are somewhat hazardous To Ambassadours he gave small satisfaction save with his eyes which were very gracious and kind In his Countenance otherwise there was an invincible weakness alwayes blushing while he spake and glad when he had done Whereby his Answers were the more scant and meager But this did imitate Wisdome For a Duke of Venice that opens himself much will be chidden To conclude he was in his civil course a good Patriot and in his natural a good man They that are willing to censure him further think his whole composition fitter for the quality of the State then the times Now being thus passed away the first publick Care was to order his Funeral till when the Custome doth not suffer that a new can be chosen This was done the Thursday following with all due solemnity and in the mean time was made five Correctors and three Inquisitors The Correctors are to consider what Laws be fit to be added or amended touching the future Election or in the form or