Humours Heau'n on Earth With The Ciuile Warres of Death and Fortune. As also The Triumph of Death: Or, The Picture of the Plague, according to the Life, as it was in Anno Domini. 1603. By Iohn Dauies of Hereford |
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To the good Knight, and my much honored Scholler, Sir Philip Carey.
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To the good Knight, and my much honored Scholler, Sir Philip Carey.
Sith Death (deere Sir) hath lately beene so fell,To reaue that life, than deere life deerer farre;
This record of his greater rage may quell
The lesse (perhaps) in your particular.
Faine would I (if I could) beguile your griefe,
With telling you of others heauie harmes:
But (ah) such guile giues Griefe too true reliefe,
In your true humane heart, that Pitty warmes.
Life is a Plague: for, who doth liue, must die;
Yet some that haue the Plague, doe scape aliue,
So life's more mortall than Mortalitie:
Then sith that life (like death) doth life depriue,
You may reioyce, sith your Adolphus liu'd,
True Vertues life, which cannot be depriu'd.
Uiuat post funera virtus.
As much grieu'd for your losse, as glad any way to shew his loue. Iohn Dauies.
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