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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Un huomo d' ogni hora.
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Un huomo d' ogni hora.
Homo omnium horarum.
Oh where's the man that is so truly train'd,
And hath to purpose so his howers spent,
That (if all companie were him restrain'd)
True solace by himselfe he can invent,
And with his friend (to whatsoere intent)
Can him adapt, whether in learn'd discourse,
Facetious wit, and sportive merriment,
Of Hawkes, of Hounds, or long Dogs for the Course?
Be the Theme light, or of grave consequent
Hee for all turnes hath money in his purse:
This thus conpleat-accomplisht every way,
The man of all houres is, and for all day.
And hath to purpose so his howers spent,
That (if all companie were him restrain'd)
True solace by himselfe he can invent,
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Can him adapt, whether in learn'd discourse,
Facetious wit, and sportive merriment,
Of Hawkes, of Hounds, or long Dogs for the Course?
Be the Theme light, or of grave consequent
Hee for all turnes hath money in his purse:
This thus conpleat-accomplisht every way,
The man of all houres is, and for all day.
I had a friend (I have I late could say)
Ah but the primest flowres soonest fade,
Who fitted was and furnisht every way
In depths and shallows both to swimme and wade:
Not like mechanicks, in one onely trade,
But sooth he multum could in singulis,
And aliquid in omnibus have said;
No subject on the sudden came amisse,
But he to all, with profit and delight
An able Artist could himselfe acquite:
Thine be this Embleme (by thy just desert)
For thou (thrice worthy Weld) this man of all howr's wert.
Ah but the primest flowres soonest fade,
Who fitted was and furnisht every way
In depths and shallows both to swimme and wade:
Not like mechanicks, in one onely trade,
But sooth he multum could in singulis,
And aliquid in omnibus have said;
No subject on the sudden came amisse,
But he to all, with profit and delight
An able Artist could himselfe acquite:
Thine be this Embleme (by thy just desert)
For thou (thrice worthy Weld) this man of all howr's wert.
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