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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10956	Celestiall elegies of the goddesses and the Muses de-deploring [sic] the death of the right honourable and vertuous ladie the Ladie Fraunces Countesse of Hertford, late wife vnto the right honorable Edvvard Seymor Vicount Beauchamp and Earle of Hertford. Whereunto are annexed some funerall verses touching the death of Mathevv Evvens Esquire, late one of the barons of her Maiesties Court of Eschequer, vnto whome the author hereof was allyed. By Thomas Rogers Esqui[r]e.	Rogers, Thomas, 1573 or 4-1609 or 10.	1598 (1598)	STC 21225; ESTC S110691	14,159	64

her wit skill chiefely in Histories and recording the actes monumēts of worthie persons Melpomine in Tragedies and lamentable Elegies Thalia in Comedies comely gestures and sweete speeches Euterpe in the pipe such like instruments Terpsichore in the Citterne or Lute Erato in Geometrie or Chosmographie Calliope in heroicke verses Vrania in Astrologie and contemplation of the starres and Polihimnia in Rhetorick and Eloquence Deuine sonnets dedicated to the said Lady not long before her decease by the said Author Of Gods holy name Iehouah or Tetragrammaton THat name which Moses on his forehead bare I in my heart doe worship and adore That name which Iewes to name did seldome dare May I presume for mercie to implore That name which Salomon vppon his breast In his diuine Pentaculum did weare With great Iehouah Characters imprest That name I loue I reuerence and feare That name which Aron wore vpon his head Grau'd in his holy Miter made of Golde That name which Angels laude and furies dreade Whose praise no tongue can worthily vnfolde That name which flesh is to impure to name My sinfull soule with sacred zeale inflame Of the Starre which the Magi did worship at Christes Natiuitie and of his death I blaze that starre which was no blazing starre But the true figure of eternall life The prince of peace was borne then ceased warre His birthes beginning ended mortall strife This glorious starre did lead the aged wise To worship th' Infants Godhead in the East Which came with gladsome heart ioyfull eyes To see that Babe that made all Israell blest O light of Heauen thou wast extinct on earth Yet to our soules Celestiall life doth giue Thy death our life thy rising our new birth Thou three daies dead didst make vs euer liue Yet at thy death obscur'd was th' earth and skie Because he that was God as man did die FOuntaine of grace from whom doth only runne Water of life to saue our soules from death O sauiour of the world pure virgins sonne That in red earth infus'd first vitall breath Oh thou whose name was calde Emmanuel Ioyning thy Godhead with humanitie Thou that for our sakes didst descend to hell And ouer death did'st get the victorie Oh womans seede that didst from God proceede By Prophets said to breake the Serpents head Thou that in grace and vertue doest exceede Content to die that thou mightest quicken deade Thou that didst rayse the dead men frō the tombe Earths kingdoms passe oh let thy kingdome come ANtient of daies and yet still young in yeares Oh God on earthe Oh man yet most deuine Poore in this world yet chiefe of heauenly Peeres Whose glorie in th' infernall pit did shine Borne since old Abrahams daies yet long before For Abraham reioyc'd to see thy daies He saw by faith whom now all powers adore The Cerubins doe daily sing thy praise O God of tymes and yet in time a man Before all times thy time of being was And yet in time thy humaine birth beganne Least we should fade vntimely like the grasse Oh thou that doest all times beginne and ende Graunt all our workes may to thy glory tende Of the instabilitie of Fortune and worldlie prosperitie VVHere liues the man that neuer felt a crosse Whō Fortunes wheel did neuer tumble down Where liues the man that neuer suffred losse On whome the starres of heauen did neuer frowne Where liues the man that is in all pointes blest Wise valiant mightie wealthy fayre and strong If such a one vpon the earth doth rest His date of life Heauen doth abridge ere long Such was King Edward in his youthfull prime Who might by Phoebus Oracle be deemd One of the wisest Princes of his time For wit and learning excellent esteemde But cruell death maligning his great praise That in fewe yeares so highly did aspyre With yron dart infring'd his golden daies Whom nations farre away did then admyre Weedslong time growe the fayrest flowres do fade The ripest wits grow rotten at the last All these faire things which God and Nature made In this huge Chaos shall at length lye waste Where is king Salomon the wisest wight Of mortall men that liu'd vpon the grounde Doth he not wander in the shades of night Whose wisdome through the world was so renound What difference betwixt the rich and poore Irus with Cresus boldly may compare Both equall are when death standes at the doore That maketh proudest kings like beggars bare Then let the wealthy men respect their end Not counting themselues happy vntyll death Sith heauen to them this wealth doth only lende Which they must pay with losse of vitall breath This made that king of Lidia to crye When he was by king Cyrus ouercome O Solon now thy saying true I trie No man is happie till his day of dome That Monarch now is dead that did possesse The golden sands of bright Pactolus waues And Tamberlaine whom Fortune so did blesse That he a Shepheard made great kings his slaues Dead is that mightie king of Macedon That wept whē of more worlds he hard some talke Sith his victorious sword as then had wonne Scarce this one world where we like pilgrims walk Who being wounded fell vpon one knee Fighting against an hoast of barbarous foes Said I am mortall by these wounds I see For no such bloode from powers Celestiall flowes In beautie Absalon did farre excell Most part of men that sprung of humaine seede But when against his Sire he did rebell Then heauen did power downe vengeance on his head The sacred scripture truely doth expresse That Sampson did surpasse all men in strength But he that did thowsands in fight distresse Was by a womans wiles subdu'd at length Beautie is like a faire but fading flower Riches are like a bubble in a streame Great strength is like a fortefied Towre Houour is like a vaine but pleasing dreame Wee see the fayrest flowers soone fade away Bubbles doe quickly vanish like the winde Strong Towers are rent and doe in tyme decay And dreames are but iliusions of the minde Let none puft vp with insolence deride My Fortunes Autumne in my prime of yeares Sith many dismall chances do betide To royall princes and State-ruling peeres I am content with my disaster chance To follow fate sith princes lead the daunce Ludit in Humanis diuina potentia rebus Et certam praesens vix habet hora fidem FVNERALL LAMENTACIONS VPON THE DEATH OF his most worthy and reuerend vnckle Maister MATHEW EWENS Esquire one of her Maiesties Barons of her Highnes Court of Eschequer * ⁎ * PERIIT ET INVENTA EST LONDON Printed by RICHARD BRADOCKE for I B. 1598. Ouid. lib. 2. Fasti. Est honor tumulis animas placare paternas Paruaque in extructas munera ferre pyras Funerall lamentations vpon the death M. MATHEVV EVVENS Esquire c. LET Numas death be still deplorde in Rome Licurgus end let famous Sparta waile Let Athens weepe on Aristides toombe