The complete works in verse and prose of Samuel Daniel Edited with memorial-introduction and a glossarial index embracing notes and illustrations. By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart |
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To the Right Reuerend Father in God, Iames Montague, Lord Bishop of Winchester,
Deane of the Chapell, and one of his Maiesties most Honorable Priuy Councell.
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 | The complete works in verse and prose of Samuel Daniel |  |
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To the Right Reuerend Father in God, Iames Montague, Lord Bishop of Winchester, Deane of the Chapell, and one of his Maiesties most Honorable Priuy Councell.
Although you haue out of your proper store
The best munition that may fortifie
A Noble heart as no man may haue more,
Against the batteries of mortality:
Yet reuerend Lord voutsafe me leaue to bring
One weapon more vnto your furnishment;
That you the Assaults of this close vanquishing,
And secret wasting sicknesse may preuent:
For that my selfe haue struggled with it too,
And know the worst of all that it can do;
And let me tell you this you neuer could
Haue found a gentler warring enemy,
And one that with more faire proceeding would
Encounter you without extremity,
Nor giue more time to make resistances
And to repaire your breaches, then will this.
The best munition that may fortifie
A Noble heart as no man may haue more,
Against the batteries of mortality:
Yet reuerend Lord voutsafe me leaue to bring
One weapon more vnto your furnishment;
That you the Assaults of this close vanquishing,
And secret wasting sicknesse may preuent:
For that my selfe haue struggled with it too,
And know the worst of all that it can do;
And let me tell you this you neuer could
Haue found a gentler warring enemy,
And one that with more faire proceeding would
Encounter you without extremity,
Nor giue more time to make resistances
And to repaire your breaches, then will this.
For whereas other sicknesses surprize,
Our spirits at vnawares disweopning sodainely,
All sense of vnderstanding in such wise,
As that they lay vs dead before we die,
Or fire vs out of our inflamed fort,
With rauing Phrensies in a fearefull sort;
Our spirits at vnawares disweopning sodainely,
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As that they lay vs dead before we die,
Or fire vs out of our inflamed fort,
With rauing Phrensies in a fearefull sort;
This comes and steales vs by degrees away;
And yet not that without our priuity
They rap vs hence, as Vultures do their pray;
Confounding vs with tortures instantly.
This fairely kills, they fowly murther vs,
Trippe vp our heeles before we can discerne;
This giues vs time of treaty to discus
Our suffring, and the cause thereof to learne.
And yet not that without our priuity
They rap vs hence, as Vultures do their pray;
Confounding vs with tortures instantly.
This fairely kills, they fowly murther vs,
Trippe vp our heeles before we can discerne;
This giues vs time of treaty to discus
Our suffring, and the cause thereof to learne.
Besides therewith we oftentimes haue truce
For many months, sometimes for many yeares,
And are permitted to inioy the vse
Of study, and although our body weares
Our wit remaines; our speach, our memory
Faile not, or come before our selues to die:
We part together and we take our leaue
Of friends, of kindred; we dispose our state,
And yeeld vp fairely what we did receiue
And all our businesses accomodate:
So that we cannot say we were thrust out,
But we depart from hence in quiet sort:
The foe with whom we haue the battaile fought,
Hath not subdu'd vs but got our Fort,
And this disease is held most incident
To the best natures and most innocent.
For many months, sometimes for many yeares,
And are permitted to inioy the vse
Of study, and although our body weares
Our wit remaines; our speach, our memory
Faile not, or come before our selues to die:
We part together and we take our leaue
Of friends, of kindred; we dispose our state,
And yeeld vp fairely what we did receiue
And all our businesses accomodate:
So that we cannot say we were thrust out,
But we depart from hence in quiet sort:
The foe with whom we haue the battaile fought,
Hath not subdu'd vs but got our Fort,
And this disease is held most incident
To the best natures and most innocent.
And therefore reuerend Lord, there cannot be
A gentler passage then there is hereby,
Vnto that port wherein we shall be free
From all the stormes of worldly misery.
And though it show vs dayly in our glasse,
Our fading leafe turn'd to a yellow hue,
And how it withers as the sap doth passe,
And what we may exspect is to insue.
A gentler passage then there is hereby,
Vnto that port wherein we shall be free
From all the stormes of worldly misery.
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Our fading leafe turn'd to a yellow hue,
And how it withers as the sap doth passe,
And what we may exspect is to insue.
Yet that I know disquiets not your mind,
Who knowes the brittle mettaile of mankind,
And haue all comforts vertue can beget,
And most the conscience of well acted dayes;
Which all those monuments which you haue set
On holy ground to your perpetuall praise,
(As things best set) must euer testifie;
And shew the worth of Noble Montague.
And so long as the Walls of Piety
Stand, so long shall stand the memory of you;
And Bath, and Wells, and Winchester shall show
Their faire repaires to all Posterity;
And how much blest and fortunate they were
That euer Gracious hand did plant you there;
Besides, you haue not only built vp walls
But also (worthier edifices) men;
By whom you shall haue the memorialls
And euerlasting honor of the pen
That whensoeuer you shall come to make
Your Exit from this Scene wherein you haue
Perform'd so noble parts, you then shall take
Your leaue with honor, haue a glorious graue.
“For when can men go better to their rest
“Then when they are esteem'd and loued best?”
Who knowes the brittle mettaile of mankind,
And haue all comforts vertue can beget,
And most the conscience of well acted dayes;
Which all those monuments which you haue set
On holy ground to your perpetuall praise,
(As things best set) must euer testifie;
And shew the worth of Noble Montague.
And so long as the Walls of Piety
Stand, so long shall stand the memory of you;
And Bath, and Wells, and Winchester shall show
Their faire repaires to all Posterity;
And how much blest and fortunate they were
That euer Gracious hand did plant you there;
Besides, you haue not only built vp walls
But also (worthier edifices) men;
By whom you shall haue the memorialls
And euerlasting honor of the pen
That whensoeuer you shall come to make
Your Exit from this Scene wherein you haue
Perform'd so noble parts, you then shall take
Your leaue with honor, haue a glorious graue.
“For when can men go better to their rest
“Then when they are esteem'd and loued best?”
Sam. Daniel.
| The complete works in verse and prose of Samuel Daniel | |