Celestiall Elegies of the Goddesses and the Muses, deploring the death of the right honourable and vertuous Ladie the Ladie Fravnces Countesse of Hertford late wife vnto the right honorable Edvvard Seymor Vicount Beauchamp and Earle of Hertford. Wherevnto are annexed some funerall verses touching the death of Mathevv Evvens Esquire, late one of the Barons of her Maiesties Court of Eschequer, vnto whome the author hereof was allyed ... By Thomas Rogers |
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 | FVNERALL LAMENTACIONS VPON THE DEATH OF his most worthy and reuerend vnckle
Maister Mathew Ewens Esquire one of her Maiesties Barons of her Highnes
Court of Eschequer. |
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FVNERALL LAMENTACIONS VPON THE DEATH OF his most worthy and reuerend vnckle Maister Mathew Ewens Esquire one of her Maiesties Barons of her Highnes Court of Eschequer.
Est honor, & tumulis animas placare paternas.
Paruaque in extructas munera ferre pyras.
Ouid. lib. 2. Fasto.
Paruaque in extructas munera ferre pyras.
Ouid. lib. 2. Fasto.
[Let Numas death be still deplorde in Rome]
Let Numas death be still deplorde in Rome,Licurgus end let famous Sparta waile,
Let Athens weepe on Aristides toombe,
For there religion lawes and Iustice faile,
But let faire Cinthias Troynouant lament,
This Barons death whose flesh returnes to dust,
Whose soule is fled aboue the firmament,
Who liu'd on earth religious, true, and iust.
Now ioye O heauen t'enioy th'earths ornament,
Whose heauenly part to the third heauen is fled
His earthly part to earth doth now relent
Both heauen and earth loue him aliue and dead,
His flesh to Elements resolu'd doth dye,
His soule aboue the Element doth flye.
QVATORZAIN. 2.
[I know not whether I should ioy or weepe]
I know not whether I should ioy or weepeHis louing soule doth triumph in the skie,
But his dead corps in dust a while doth sleepe,
Till heauen shall rayse it from mortalitie,
He lost his olde life and hath gaind a newe
Loosing his care he gainde a glorious crowne,
The world lost him, therefore the world doth rue.
He lost the world yet wins for aye renowne,
I lost a friende and therefore I lament,
My friend lost me and I haue lost my selfe
Sith I for his losse liue in discontent
He loues heauens ioyes and leaues all worldly pelfe,
O England now bewaile this fatall crosse,
He lost this world, we gainde a world of losse.
QVATORZAIN. 3
[He that did seeke the poore mens wrongs to right]
He that did seeke the poore mens wrongs to rightHe that maintain'd his natiue countries lawes,
He that in trueth and iustice did delight
Is now consum'd by deaths deuouring iawes,
Was it by heauens high court of Parliament,
Decreed that his lifes date so soone should ende,
Oh then let vs vpon the earth lament
That we haue lost in him a publique friend
The ioy of many in his graue now lieth,
And he in heauen enioyes immortall blisse,
His care is vanisht and in him now dieth,
And liues in others that his life doe misse
Thus death strooke many with this fatall stroke
And keeping natures lawes, our lawes he broke.
QVATORZAIN. 4.
[Let not the world thinke I doe partialize]
Let not the world thinke I doe partialize,In that I doe extoll my vncles fame,
And striue his glorie to immortalize
By these sad accents which my muse doth frame,
But let men know that he deserues more praise,
Then my poore muse is able to bestow,
Though she doth crown his death with glorious baies
And through the world the breath of fame doth blow
Which breath by multiplying the sweete ayre
May mount the sacred Throne of heauenly powers,
And cause the winged Cherubins repayre,
To mourne his death from their celestiall bowres,
His vertues merit Homers golden pen
To print his praise with teares of Gods and men.
QVATORZAIN. 5
[Let all men iudge how iust a Iudge he was]
Let all men iudge how iust a Iudge he was,That late was iudged by heauen sacred doome,
To suffer death, that when this life should passe
He might obtaine in heauen a glorious roome,
For he among the blessed saints must dwell
Where Patriarches and the Apostles sit,
Which shall iudge the twelue Tribes of Israel
According as to their deserts is fit
As here on earth this Iudge was magnifide
Aboue the vulgar sort in high degree,
In heauen he shalbe much more glorifide,
And shall enioy the full felicitie,
And all such Iudges as here iudge aright,
Shall haue their place in heauē with Angels bright.
QVATORZAIN. 6
[The sacred word doth say thou shalt not kill]
The sacred word doth say thou shalt not killYet Death thou here doest kill a magistrate;
Dost thou not then infringe Gods holy will
Nor yet the lawes of Moses violate?
And wheras mightie kings establish lawes
Thou by thine owne lawe mighty Kings doest slay,
And taking thus away th'efficient cause,
Th'effect, which is the Lawe must needs decay,
Thus now thou takest away a publique guide,
That did maintaine all equitie and right
Wherefore heauen shall correct thee for thy pride
And shall subdue thy all-flesh-killing might,
And thou that dost all creatures ouercome,
Shalt be at last destroyed by heauens iust doome.
QVATORZAIN. 7
[If that the soule (as some supposed) might goe]
If that the soule (as some supposed) might goe,Out of one bodie to an others brest,
Would that meeke spirit which from him did flow,
In euery Lawyers heart were now imprest
His lifes integritie and zeale was such
He more esteemd of honestie then gold
Which many now a daies doe loue too much
For loue is oft with money bought and sold,
This rightly may be termde a golden age,
With gold is fame and reputation bought
Yet Salomon that was most wise and sage,
For wisedome praide, esteeming gold as nought,
Gold vnto drosse and flesh to dust must turne,
For this mans losse let the Eschequer mourne,
Aurea munc vere sunt secula plurimus amor.
Venit horos, auro conciliatur amor.
Venit horos, auro conciliatur amor.
FINIS.
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