A Remembravnce of the wel imployed life, & godly end, of George Gaskoigne Esquire who deceased at Stalmford in LincolneShire the 7. of October 1577. The reporte of Geor. Whetstons ... an eye Witnes of his Godly and charitable end in this world |
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An Epitaph, written by G. W. of the death, of M. G. Gaskoygne. |
 | A Remembravnce of the wel imployed life, & godly end, of George Gaskoigne Esquire |  |
An Epitaph, written by G. W. of the death, of M. G. Gaskoygne.
For Gaskoygnes death, leaue of to mone, or morne
You are deceiued, aliue the man is stil:
A liue? O yea, and laugheth death to scorne,
In that, that he, his fleshly lyfe did kil.
You are deceiued, aliue the man is stil:
A liue? O yea, and laugheth death to scorne,
In that, that he, his fleshly lyfe did kil.
For by such death, tvvo lyues he gaines for one,
His Soule in heauen dooth liue in endles ioye
His vvorthy vvoorks, such fame in earth haue sovvne,
As sack nor vvrack, his name can there destroy.
His Soule in heauen dooth liue in endles ioye
His vvorthy vvoorks, such fame in earth haue sovvne,
As sack nor vvrack, his name can there destroy.
But you vvill say, by death he only gaines.
And hovv his life, vvould many stand in stead:
O dain not Freend (to counterchaunge his paynes)
If novv in heauen, he haue his earned meade.
For once in earth, his toyle vvas passing great:
And vve deuourd the svveet of all his svveat.
And hovv his life, vvould many stand in stead:
O dain not Freend (to counterchaunge his paynes)
If novv in heauen, he haue his earned meade.
For once in earth, his toyle vvas passing great:
And vve deuourd the svveet of all his svveat.
FINIS.
Nemo ante obitum beatus.
| A Remembravnce of the wel imployed life, & godly end, of George Gaskoigne Esquire | |