[Sound a retrait, ye common souldiers sound]
Epig. 3 In obitum fortissimi ducis Io: Vpcheri.
Sound a retrait, ye common souldiers sound,
When captains thus imperious death dare woūd,
And steale to steele in powders smoakie maske,
Where Valour lockt was in his plumed caske:
Nay, spite of Death (like him) yet weeping come,
And set this Verse on his heroicke Tombe:
Here Upcher lies, who striuing Death resist,
Di'de with the fawchon in his manly fist.
Epigramma
The wise Gramarian reprehends my Muse,
Which In for praisefull Epigrams doth vse
This Rule; In pro erga, contra & ad,
Will proue your good wise gramarisine bad.
