The Covntrie Agve Or, London her Welcome home to her retired Children. Together With a true Relation of the Warlike Funerall of Captaine Richard Robyns ... By Henry Petowe |
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To all your Rope-tard Nose-gay-Bearers.
S Stand farther off's my subiect, thus I write,
T 'Tis propper thereon, these dayes to endite:
A A man knowes not his friend from any other,
N Nor can he now know his endeered Brother,
D Death hants them so, they know not one from tother
T 'Tis propper thereon, these dayes to endite:
A A man knowes not his friend from any other,
N Nor can he now know his endeered Brother,
D Death hants them so, they know not one from tother
F Farre must thou stand, if thou conuerse with mee,
V Vnlesse thou haue like Nosegay; Dost thou see,
R Rope Tarr'd I haue, it keepes out Pestilence,
T The Diuell as soone, or else thou hast no sence,
H Hee that doth thinke, by that to be Plague-free,
E Euer shall be accompted like to thee,
R Respected not; call'd foole for's Foppery.
V Vnlesse thou haue like Nosegay; Dost thou see,
R Rope Tarr'd I haue, it keepes out Pestilence,
T The Diuell as soone, or else thou hast no sence,
H Hee that doth thinke, by that to be Plague-free,
E Euer shall be accompted like to thee,
R Respected not; call'd foole for's Foppery.
O Omnipotent Ioue bids thee repent and mend,
F For thy great sinne (saith he) this Plague I send,
F Feare thou, repent, and then my Plague shall end.
F For thy great sinne (saith he) this Plague I send,
F Feare thou, repent, and then my Plague shall end.
Amicus Mariscallus Petovve.
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Epitaphium dignissimi Ducis Richardi Robyns.
One of the Twenty Captaines here doth lyeThe rest must follow, for the rest must die,
Nineteene behinde, and he is gone before,
To leade the way to the Elizian shore,
Whilst he did liue, like to the God of Warre,
Hee many Souldiers bred, no'ne e're did marre,
Hee had as many Sonnes, as any man
(Compleat for Souldiers) since the World began
Lieutenants some; others whom Ensignes beare,
The Rest can doe as much, as any dare,
Against the Foe of Englands Soueraigne;
Wee that him follow will the same maintaine.
Hee was a Louer both of Arts and Armes,
Hee taught a present Guard for em'nent harmes:
That now wee lose him, wee his Death deplore,
Hee's dead, yet liues, wee hope for euermore.
Dead though he be, and from vs quite bereauen,
Though dead to vs, yet doth he liue in Heauen.
Viuit post Funera Vertus.
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