Abel redevivus or, The dead yet speaking. The Lives and Deaths of the Moderne Divines. Written by severall able and learned Men (whose names ye shall finde in the Epistle to the Reader.) And now digested into one Volumne, for the benefit and satisfaction of all those that desire to be acquainted with the Paths of Piety and Virtve [by Thomas Fuller] |
The Life and Death of Mathew Parker.
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The Life and Death of Mathew Parker.
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Patience in want, and bounty in weale
Were the chiefe flowers in that Crown
Which gave this Man of men Renowne:
The Crosiar did not supersede
His Cure of souls, nor did he pleade
Affaires at Court: His past'rall heate
Grew nere the lesse as he grew great:
Five Kings and Queenes, his dayes did see
Enthron'd and septer'd: The first three
Did view his merit, and enhaunc'd him,
The fourth destroy'd, the fift advanc'd him
To Lambech Chayre, where he the Church did guide
In Peace; and full of age and honor dyed.
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