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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Flote meos casus.
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 | Phyala Lachrymarum: Or A Few Friendly Teares, shed over the dead Body of Mr Nathaniel Weld Mr of Arts of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge |  |
Flote meos casus.
How can I choose but dolefully complaineUnto each gentle eare, and tender minde
The sorrie accident, that doth constraine
My heart to scald with sighs of strangled wind,
And eyes to drown in their own dreery drain?
Who sees a field, sowne with all sorts of graine,
Some newly springing up, some spindled new,
Some goodly blooming, others in the wane,
Hanging their tydie eares of yellow hewe
Downe to the earth, (from whence at first they grew)
Then sees belive a thriftlesse husbandman
Passe by the aged croppe (which cumbers ground
And hinders that no other prosper can)
While with his corbed sickle hee reapes downe
The fresh young stalkes whose joynts with sap abound;
Such one (comparing this sad uncouth sight)
The root of my complaint, may reade aright.
Tu quibus ista leges incertum est Lector ocellis,
Ipse equidem siccis scribere non potui.
Ipse equidem siccis scribere non potui.
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