Phyala Lachrymarum: Or A Few Friendly Teares, shed over the dead Body of Mr Nathaniel Weld Mr of Arts of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge who in the short journey of his life, died betweene the five and sixe and twentieth yeare of his youth, 1633. Together with sundry choyce Meditations of Mortalitie [by William Lathum] |
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Il medico al anima e Dio, & al Corpo un Buon Compagno.
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Il medico al anima e Dio, & al Corpo un Buon Compagno.
VVoe to the man alone (saith the wise man)
If chance him fall, who him releeven can?
But where two beene, if one in need doe stand,
The other still is readie helpe at hand:
The Great Creator so intended it,
When hee for man fram'd a companion fit,
In Paradice: so helpe in company,
And comfort doth in friendly helpe relie.
The soule and body als' he tack'd together,
To be companions either unto either:
Yea God himselfe, who is but one alone,
And to that onehood will admit of none,
Yet joyes to have the Blessed Unitie
Accompan'd with the sacred Trinitie.
If chance him fall, who him releeven can?
But where two beene, if one in need doe stand,
The other still is readie helpe at hand:
The Great Creator so intended it,
When hee for man fram'd a companion fit,
In Paradice: so helpe in company,
And comfort doth in friendly helpe relie.
The soule and body als' he tack'd together,
To be companions either unto either:
Yea God himselfe, who is but one alone,
And to that onehood will admit of none,
Yet joyes to have the Blessed Unitie
Accompan'd with the sacred Trinitie.
Who therefore doon admire lonelinesse
Do rob themselves of wondrous happinesse,
And wilfully to many mischiefes run,
Which men in company do fairly shun.
When did th'ill spirit choose our Lord to tempt,
But when from company hee was exempt?
And ever since hee doth himselfe intrude
To vacuitie, and lonely solitude.
Als' privacie begets melancholie,
Which mother is and nurse of lunacie.
Do rob themselves of wondrous happinesse,
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Which men in company do fairly shun.
When did th'ill spirit choose our Lord to tempt,
But when from company hee was exempt?
And ever since hee doth himselfe intrude
To vacuitie, and lonely solitude.
Als' privacie begets melancholie,
Which mother is and nurse of lunacie.
But in all states, in povertie, in wealth,
In peace, in warre, in sicknesse, and in health,
In age, in youth, bondage and libertie,
Sweet is the comfort of companionrie:
For, as the soule in all extremities
Onely to God her lonely selfe applyes,
Whose sweet Communion if it can but gaine,
It takes her off from thinking on her paine:
And with his presence, and kind conference
Hee workes such indolence upon her sense,
That ere shee wist, the time and paine at one
With passing pleasure's slipt away and gone.
Such to the body is a hearty frend,
The griefe thereof and maladies to mend:
Whose very presence, though hee speake no word,
Is physicke of it selfe, and doth afford
(Like Jonas Gourd) coole shadow from the heat
Of strong distempers, which the bodie beat.
In peace, in warre, in sicknesse, and in health,
In age, in youth, bondage and libertie,
Sweet is the comfort of companionrie:
For, as the soule in all extremities
Onely to God her lonely selfe applyes,
Whose sweet Communion if it can but gaine,
It takes her off from thinking on her paine:
And with his presence, and kind conference
Hee workes such indolence upon her sense,
That ere shee wist, the time and paine at one
With passing pleasure's slipt away and gone.
Such to the body is a hearty frend,
The griefe thereof and maladies to mend:
Whose very presence, though hee speake no word,
Is physicke of it selfe, and doth afford
(Like Jonas Gourd) coole shadow from the heat
Of strong distempers, which the bodie beat.
Blest is that soule, that sicknesse, and that man
Who still have God for their Physician:
And happy manifold I him areed,
Who such companion hath, such frend at need.
Who (free from scurvie trickes) is right and straight,
With whom a man may dare deliberate,
And freely to his bosome can impart
The neerest secrets of his very heart:
As knowing in his breast he may them save
Safe as the dead mans ashes in his grave.
Who still have God for their Physician:
And happy manifold I him areed,
Who such companion hath, such frend at need.
Who (free from scurvie trickes) is right and straight,
With whom a man may dare deliberate,
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The neerest secrets of his very heart:
As knowing in his breast he may them save
Safe as the dead mans ashes in his grave.
Hee in discourse can yeeld unto his friend
'Gainst his owne knowledge (rather than contend)
Hee mannerly can jest, ne captious is,
Ne yet exceptious, apt to take amisse,
Or peevishly in evill manner wrest
What's meerly spoken merrily in jest;
No babler, ne no criticke in a house,
Unmanly-humerous, nor mutinous.
'Gainst his owne knowledge (rather than contend)
Hee mannerly can jest, ne captious is,
Ne yet exceptious, apt to take amisse,
Or peevishly in evill manner wrest
What's meerly spoken merrily in jest;
No babler, ne no criticke in a house,
Unmanly-humerous, nor mutinous.
To him all one the kennill and the wall;
Nathlesse, (all be hee affable to all)
To all hee'll not be fellow, but doth ken
To difference himselfe from other men,
Lest whilst humilitie he doe professe,
He fall into the taxe of fillinesse.
Nathlesse, (all be hee affable to all)
To all hee'll not be fellow, but doth ken
To difference himselfe from other men,
Lest whilst humilitie he doe professe,
He fall into the taxe of fillinesse.
Hee knowes his good to all, and how to bowe,
And to his greaters due respect allow;
Ne doth it hold disparage, or disgrace
His friends (even meanest) favours to imbrace
With thankfulnesse; which is a vertue full
Of strong Attraction, and doth pull,
And draw (like loadstone) every heart and mind
With grace and bountie to us be inclin'd.
And to his greaters due respect allow;
Ne doth it hold disparage, or disgrace
His friends (even meanest) favours to imbrace
With thankfulnesse; which is a vertue full
Of strong Attraction, and doth pull,
And draw (like loadstone) every heart and mind
With grace and bountie to us be inclin'd.
All his owne actuall kindnesse he forgets,
But passive favours puts amongst the dets,
Which by recognizance hee at a day
Upon great penaltie is bound to pay:
So faire condition'd every way, and good,
That by his outside well is understood,
How ever hee beene of worldly fortune sped,
That hee is doubtlesse Gentle borne, and bred.
But passive favours puts amongst the dets,
Which by recognizance hee at a day
Upon great penaltie is bound to pay:
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That by his outside well is understood,
How ever hee beene of worldly fortune sped,
That hee is doubtlesse Gentle borne, and bred.
Lo here a friend, well worth his weight in gold,
Though in this durty age his gold prove drosse,
And this rare Jewell, every one do hold
(Not set in gold) contemptible as mosse.
Though in this durty age his gold prove drosse,
And this rare Jewell, every one do hold
(Not set in gold) contemptible as mosse.
What can him want now, who for each disease
Such Physicke, and Physicians hath as these?
Who have a salve for every sort of sore,
And Cordialls for all griefes and paines in store?
In health who soule and body then will save,
Let still in store these two Physicians have.
Such Physicke, and Physicians hath as these?
Who have a salve for every sort of sore,
And Cordialls for all griefes and paines in store?
In health who soule and body then will save,
Let still in store these two Physicians have.
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