The Furies With Vertues Encomium. Or, The Image of Honour. In two Bookes of Epigrammes, Satyricall and Encomiasticke. By R.N. [i.e. Richard Niccols] |
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Epig. XXVIII.
In obitum benignissimi omnique gratiarum genere cumulatissimi viri Francisci Clere Militis, &c.
If't
be a vertue, speaking vertues prayse,
The sleeping vertues of the dead to raise,
(Vertues deadliuing mirror) leaue I craue
To ope the entrance to thy honor'd graue.
Cleros his name was giuen at his birth;
For liuing, he was vertues heire on earth.
Cleros his name to him still dead is giuen;
For heere though dead, he liues an heire in Heauen.
On earth his vertue's cleere from enuies blame:
In heauen he shines a starre Clere as his name.
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