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Abel redevivus

or, The dead yet speaking. The Lives and Deaths of the Moderne Divines. Written by severall able and learned Men (whose names ye shall finde in the Epistle to the Reader.) And now digested into one Volumne, for the benefit and satisfaction of all those that desire to be acquainted with the Paths of Piety and Virtve [by Thomas Fuller]
 

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The life and Death of Urbanus Regius, who died Anno Christi 1541.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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The life and Death of Urbanus Regius, who died Anno Christi 1541.
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The attribution of this poem is questionable.


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Reader, this serious Fathers well-spent dayes
Were fill'd with love, and love was fill'd with praise;
He was abjured by a Noble race
Which made him onely debtor, but not base;
Heav'n was his port, to which he saild through tears,
Steer'd by his faith, blowne by the winde of prayers;
Let his example teach us to invest
Our hearts with wisdome, and we shall be blest,
With him who now enjoyes the life of pleasure,
Whose comforts know no end, whose joyes no measure;

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He that shall choose true vertue for his guide
May march on boldly, and not feare a slide.