Evgenia Or Trve Nobilities Trance; For The Most Memorable Death, of The Thrice Noble And Religiovs; William Lord Rvssel, &c. Divided into foure Vigils of the Night. By Geo. Chapman |
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Uigiliæ Secundæ.
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Uigiliæ Secundæ.
Inductio,
Now
to the Nestfull woods, the Broode of Flight
Had on their black wings brought, the zealous Night,
When Fames friends, op't the windowes they shut in,
To barre Daies worldly light; and Mens rude Din.
In Tumults raisd about their fierce affairs,
That deafen heauen to their distracted prairs,
With all the vertues; Graue Religion
That slept with them all day, to ope begun
Her Eares, and red Eyes; hearing euery way
The clocks, and knells of Cities, and the Bay
Of Countrie Dogs, that mock mens daily Carck,
And after them, all night, at shadowes barke.
Had on their black wings brought, the zealous Night,
When Fames friends, op't the windowes they shut in,
To barre Daies worldly light; and Mens rude Din.
That deafen heauen to their distracted prairs,
With all the vertues; Graue Religion
That slept with them all day, to ope begun
Her Eares, and red Eyes; hearing euery way
The clocks, and knells of Cities, and the Bay
Of Countrie Dogs, that mock mens daily Carck,
And after them, all night, at shadowes barke.
Though all Fames brazen Gates, and windowes stoode
Ope day and night, yet had her tenderd broode
Close in their priuate chambers, their owne fashion,
Silence, and Night, doe best fit Contemplation.
And as Fame said of old, that peacefull night
The Gods chiefe day was, since their chiefe delight
In fixt callure stood; Themselues in quiet still,
Earths cares to pursue, to skale their high hill;
So these poore labourers for the second life
(Diuine powres imitating) all their strife.
Spend for hereafter, and thereafter thriue:
This vantage yet; These haue of men aliue,
(These liuing dead to this life,) That as they
Studying this world in chiefe, on this world prey
When they haue praid; more then these fed with prayrs;
So these that studie here, to be heauens heyrs.
(Vertue and skill pursuing, in chiefe end).
More thriftie therein are; and their oiles spend
More chearfully; and finde Truth more with ease;
For these are in the way: The couetous Prease
Of Truths Professors, (in by-waies perplext)
March like those marginall Notes that spoile the Text.
Ope day and night, yet had her tenderd broode
Close in their priuate chambers, their owne fashion,
Silence, and Night, doe best fit Contemplation.
And as Fame said of old, that peacefull night
The Gods chiefe day was, since their chiefe delight
In fixt callure stood; Themselues in quiet still,
Earths cares to pursue, to skale their high hill;
So these poore labourers for the second life
(Diuine powres imitating) all their strife.
Spend for hereafter, and thereafter thriue:
This vantage yet; These haue of men aliue,
(These liuing dead to this life,) That as they
Studying this world in chiefe, on this world prey
When they haue praid; more then these fed with prayrs;
So these that studie here, to be heauens heyrs.
(Vertue and skill pursuing, in chiefe end).
More thriftie therein are; and their oiles spend
More chearfully; and finde Truth more with ease;
For these are in the way: The couetous Prease
Of Truths Professors, (in by-waies perplext)
March like those marginall Notes that spoile the Text.
These thirsting Fames report of this Lords death,
The curious Dame, that weighs and locks vp breath,
Formd in fit words (as God doth euen our thoughts
That nothing of good men, may come to noughts)
Addrest her to be ecchoe to his words
Which (though not many) yet may teach all Lords;
And neither strange, nor eloquent, nor new,
Doctrine that toucheth soules, or saues, or kils,
A good man dying, vtters Oracles.
The curious Dame, that weighs and locks vp breath,
That nothing of good men, may come to noughts)
Addrest her to be ecchoe to his words
Which (though not many) yet may teach all Lords;
And neither strange, nor eloquent, nor new,
Doctrine that toucheth soules, or saues, or kils,
A good man dying, vtters Oracles.
And now was fame, aduanc't past sight vpon
A hill of brasse, that farre the sunne outshone;
Day, and night shining; neuer going downe:
Her browes encompast, with a triple crowne.
Each ac't with Iewels, vallewd past mens liues:
Her trumpet then she sounded, that reuiues
Men long since buried: to whose clanges sing
All the afflicted virtues, conquering
All their afflicters, her triumphe brauer bore
The arts (for armes) of all mens worth before;
Disparag'd worths, shew'd there, the perfect things;
And beggers worthy arts were blasd with kings:
Desert findes meanes to vtter: Fame to holde
Both arts, and words, most secret, and most olde:
Nor doe they euer their existence leaue
Nor any that their virtues loue, deceaue.
A hill of brasse, that farre the sunne outshone;
Day, and night shining; neuer going downe:
Her browes encompast, with a triple crowne.
Each ac't with Iewels, vallewd past mens liues:
Her trumpet then she sounded, that reuiues
Men long since buried: to whose clanges sing
All the afflicted virtues, conquering
All their afflicters, her triumphe brauer bore
The arts (for armes) of all mens worth before;
Disparag'd worths, shew'd there, the perfect things;
And beggers worthy arts were blasd with kings:
Desert findes meanes to vtter: Fame to holde
Both arts, and words, most secret, and most olde:
Nor doe they euer their existence leaue
Nor any that their virtues loue, deceaue.
Fame hauing summond fit attention:
And all her guests into expectance blowne:
Like the morne's trumpe: when day is neere inflam'd,
She clapt her goulden wings, and thus proclaimd.
And all her guests into expectance blowne:
Like the morne's trumpe: when day is neere inflam'd,
She clapt her goulden wings, and thus proclaimd.
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