The Scourge of Folly Consisting of satyricall Epigrams, And others in honour of many noble Persons and worthy friends, together, with a pleasant (though discordant) Descant upon most English Proverbs and others [by John Davies] |
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Epi. 126. An Epitaph vpon the death of the most noble Knight Sr. Thomas Gorge. decesing in March Anno salutis. 1610.
Whome Nature, Arte, and Fates conspird to raise,Vnconstant Fates haue now abridg'd his daies:
Yet, Arte and Nature still his part doth take,
And rues his marring whome they erst did make.
Nature, in Seas of reares, still sinkes his Hearse;
While Arte to heauen would raise the same in Verse:
For, what is said of largest WORTHINES,
But may be said of his, that was no lesse?
His Spirit, all flame (which doth by nature mount)
Betterd his Nature and his Worths account,
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The Sunne to touch the Tropickes in his course:
So, though his Nature were refining-fire,
Yet (staid with grace, which made it long respire)
It nere impeacht himselfe, nor ought beside
That Vertue should regard, vntill he dide.
Then, by his want, he did the World impeach,
Though well his life and death the World did teach.
Then though the Earth his Corps hath in her Gorge,
Men keepe the Fame, and God the Soule of Gorge.
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