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A garden of graue and godlie flowers

Sonets, elegies, and epitaphs. Planted, polished, and perfected: By Mr. Alexander Gardyne

Garden, Alexander (1585?-1634?)

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TO THE MOST NOBLE LORDS OF HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTIE his most honorable Privie Councel, and Colledge of Iustice.

TO THE TRVELIE RELIGIOVS, RIGHT HONORABLE, AND VERIE LEARNED Alexander Gordon of Clunie. S.

TO THE DISCRET READER.

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CERTAINE ENCOMIASTICK POESIES to the Author.

[I seeme like Cynthia while thou shines I sweare]

[As Beautie still desires to be in sight]

[With Pyrameids, of Poliz'd Porphir proud]

[Greene Garden great, and gallant is thy glore]

[In Good or Bad, the worke bewrays the Man]

[Whose pleasure is into his Paradise]

VPON HIS MAJESTIES Armes quartered.

TO HIS SACRED MAIESTIE PROCLAMED KING OF Great Britane.

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Congratvlation FOR HIS MAIESTIES DELIVERIE FROM THE SVLPHVRIOVS Treason in the Parliament house.

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TO THE CITTIE OF ABERDEN at the death of that excellent D. David Bishop of Aberd.

THE OPINION OF THE worldlie estate of the honorable and learned Mr Walter Steward Principall of the Kings Colledge of Aberdon at his death.

Non est mortale quod opto.

VPON THE HONORABLE the Laird of Tolquhon.

To the Countrey where he lyes.

Prosop. to his liuing friends.

Vpon his deare friend Mr A. M.

Vpon the verteous and worthie Virgin Helen Chein.

Vpon the honorable the Laird of Corss.

Upon the honorable I. Irv. of Pet.

DIALOG VPON THE DEATH OF P. F. Baillie of Aberden.

Remors and sorrow for sinne.

Inuocation for seasonable weather.

A PRAYER FOR THE ESTATE of the Church.

Comfort for my innocent afflicted friend.

Fortis est falsam infamiam contemnere.

Ane prayer for the faithfull.

VPON THE REVEREND AND GODLY M. N. H. Commissar of Aber.

DIALOGVE VPON THE VERTVOVS and Right honourable Sir Thomas Gordon of Clunie Knight.

To his louing friends.

A strong Opiniator.

Upon the death of the honorable Ladie D. H. B. L. Essel.

To the same honorable Ladie.

Vpon the honest and vertuous, Ag. Chal.

Vpon the Right honourable A. I. of Drum.

VPON THAT HONORABLE AND worthie Gent. M. Patrik Cheyn of Rainstone.

THE CONTENTS AND SVMME of the Authors his Christian Knight

At the death of the right honourable Sir J. Wisehart of Pettarro Kn.

To his verie louing friend Mr. T. M.

TO A COVRAGIOVS YOVNG MAN William Keith, who for his Countries honour, slew an Englishman and suffered for the same.

To the Cittie Aberden at the death of Jho. Fo. Ba.

To the defunct his spouse.

To his courteous freind, T. B.

VPON THE DEATH OF THE WORSHIPFULL M. Alex. Cheyn Commisser of Aber.

An description of the World.

A desire of an Repentant spirit.

An admonition to the Soule to watch.

Invocation to the Lord Iesus to saue the wounded soule.

A Prayer for apaising of the Plague.

Vpon the Death of a verteous young man. Wm. Ke.

An Confession of sinnes and Incalling of the Lord.

SCOTLAND HER GRIEF AT HIS Majesties going into England

An humble confession of Sinne.

Vpon his louing, deere and Courteous friend, Pa. Q.

Sighs of an sorrowfull soule.

A description of the fragilitie of man.

THE AUTHOR HIS REPENTANCE fro wryting Poesies prophane.

A PROFITABLE ADMONITION, if wiselie followed.

OF THE ESSENCE, WISDOME, and Power of God.

Vpon the certaintie of death and the vncertaintie of the houre.

Man his Immoderate care for transitorious things.

Meanes how to bridle the carnall desires of men.

Comparison betwixt the bed and the Graue.

Of the breuitie and miseries of man his life.

To his Maiesties great Commissioner G. E. Marshall Lo. K. and Altrie.

Alex. Rupeo. Suo, S.

Vpon thee honourable gentleman Iohn Da. and Iohn Sibalds of Kair.

To the Ghost of the most noble Ladie, Ladie Elizabeth Gordon Countesse of Dunbar.

Of changing Fortune and her effects into This age.

TO THE MOST ACCOMPLISHED and most noble Earle George Earle of Anzie. L. G. &c.

EPITAPH VPON THE HONORABLE young Gentleman of singular expectation preuented by death Walter Vrquart apeir. of Cragstoun.

TO THE MOST HONOVRED LADIE, The Ladie Clunie.

Deus vnita protegat Sceptra Mag. Brit.

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Vpon the Death of a verteous young man. Wm. Ke.

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With-hold thy haist, spair Passinger thy pace,
And marke amongs, those Marble Monuments,
This Graue, yet grene, and litle ludge alace,
And thereon spend, some parte of thy complents,
Mourne. mourne with Mee, a Miriad of laments,
And on th'Interr'd streams of thy tears distill,
Whoes want the Wise, both pitties. and repents,
And whill They liue, the Verteous all, they will
Their plaints powre out, disperse, effund and fill.

The Continent her Caverns with their cryes,
For never shall their Sorrows cease; not whill
They deaue the Dead, into those lairs that lyes:
For trust thou me, this terren Tomb contains,
A Relict rare, a godlie Young-mans Bains.

PROSOP OF THE DEFVNCT TO his lamenting friends.

A paise your plaints, since Fortune, Fate, nor Chance,
VVas not the cause, nor framers of my fall,
Bot be a pre-apointed Ordinance,
The Lord hes thus concluded me to call:
For Men are nought one way Attached all,
Nor by one kinde of Death ordaind to die,
No, no, but this Priuation temporall,
Hes different, and divers sorts we see:
From Prison some departe, and some flit free,
And some be force, be butcherie or blood,
Yea, some be everie Element there bee,
That does, we knowe, this corrupt course conclude,
Yet dies thou this, I that, he so and so,
Die wee in Christ, the maner maters no.

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Die ye in Christ, ye die well dying so,
For Fire nor Sword, the Water, Earth nor Air,
They haue no power, nor the Puissance, no,
But speciall permission to impair,
Nor for to harme into thy head an hair,
Vnlesse the Lord, passe, suffer, or permit,
For he hes ay, a kinde, and constant Cair,
And ou'r his chosen still continues it,
His favours are not fragill, fraill, nor flit

This way or that, like worldlings now and than,
No, no, bot with his kindnes kind is knit,
Protection too, each constant Christian:
Then die, depart, or howsoever ye go,
Die ye in Christ, ye die well dying so.