Astraea's Teares An Elegie Vpon the death of that Reverend, Learned and Honest Judge, Sir Richard Hutton Knight; Lately one of his Majesties Iustices in his Highnesse Court of Common Plees at Westminster [by Richard Brathwait] |
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UPON THE DEATH OF another Reverend, learned, and judicious Patriot of our Nation;
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UPON THE DEATH OF another Reverend, learned, and judicious Patriot of our Nation;
One no lesse nobly descended, then richly endowed: And One, Whom in the dispensation of Justice, neither price, prayer, nor power could surprize; Passion transport, nor Affection ingage.
Epitaph.
Here lyes a Judge, of whom it may be s'ed,
H'as got more ground then e're he purchased
By this seven foot: for he was well content
To keepe that state was left him by descent.
H'as got more ground then e're he purchased
To keepe that state was left him by descent.
A simple worlding, easily beguil'd
In trusting of his substance with a Child;
A subtile Child, who from his Stygian shore
Had tricks to cosen him and hundreds more.
In trusting of his substance with a Child;
A subtile Child, who from his Stygian shore
Had tricks to cosen him and hundreds more.
A numerous Book-man, who from severall places
Could store his pleadings with a thousand Cases,
Which prov'd his Studies were estrang'd from Sloath,
His Leafes not Spider-wov'n, nor known to Moath;
As I've seene some, who shelv'd large volumes by thē,
But knew not what was in them, should you try them.
These take up Law and Learning upon trust,
And with a Foxes taile brush off the dust
From their rare-visited Authors.—Such as these
Account it their prime Theory to get fees.
Could store his pleadings with a thousand Cases,
Which prov'd his Studies were estrang'd from Sloath,
His Leafes not Spider-wov'n, nor known to Moath;
As I've seene some, who shelv'd large volumes by thē,
But knew not what was in them, should you try them.
These take up Law and Learning upon trust,
And with a Foxes taile brush off the dust
Account it their prime Theory to get fees.
Whereas this Patriot had an higher aime,
Holding a precious name his chiefest gaine.
He knew his Heart triangular to be,
A faire resemblance of the Trinitie,
And that it could no more be fill'd with mould,
Then a tri-angle by a Circle could.
Holding a precious name his chiefest gaine.
He knew his Heart triangular to be,
A faire resemblance of the Trinitie,
And that it could no more be fill'd with mould,
Then a tri-angle by a Circle could.
This, this inlarg'd his intellectuall ayme
To th' place from whence his purest essence came;
Which Contemplation did so much improve him,
While he was Judge, he ey'd a Judge above him.
To th' place from whence his purest essence came;
Which Contemplation did so much improve him,
While he was Judge, he ey'd a Judge above him.
------ Sic judex judicis astat
Subditus arbitrio.—
Subditus arbitrio.—
Mot. VERNANS AREO, ARENS VIREO.
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