Clara Ducum soboles, superis nova sedibus hospes,
Clausit in offenso tramite pura diem;
Dotibus ornavit, superavit moribus ortum,
Omnibus una prior, par fuit una sibi:
Lux genus ingenio generi lux inclita virtus,
Virtutisque fuit mens generosa decus.
Mors muta at properata dies orbemque relinquit,
Prolem matre verum conjuge flore genus,
Occidit a se alium tulit hic occasus in ortum,
Vivat, ad occiduas non reditura vices.
OF Howard's stem a glorious branch is dead,
Sweet lights eclipsed were at her decease:
In Buckhurst line she gracious issue spread,
She heaven with two, with four did earth increase:
Fame, honour, grace, gave air unto her breath;
Rest, glory, joys, were sequels of her death.
Death aim'd too high, he hit too choice a wight,
Renown'd for birth, for life, for lively parts;
He kill'd her cares, he brought her worths to light;
He robb'd our eyes, but hath enrich'd our hearts :
Lot let out of her ark a Noah's dove;
But many hearts were arks unto her love.
Grace, Nature, Fortune did in her conspire,
To shew a proof of their united skill;
Sly Fortune, ever false, did soon retire,
But double grace supplied false Fortune's ill:
And though she raught not to Fortune's pitch,
In grace and virtue few were found so rich.
Heaven of this heavenly pearl is now possest,
In whose lustre was the blaze of honour's light:
Whose substance pure, of every good the best,
Whose price the crown of highest right,
Whose praise to be herself, whose greatest bliss
To live to love, to be where now she is.
From the Private Press of
LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN.
Printed by T. DAVISON, Whitefriars, London.
ESSAYS, MORAL AND DIVINE.
FROM THE EDITION OF 1615.
FROM THE EDITION OF 1616.
LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN.
PRINTED BY T. DAVISON, WHITEFRIARS.
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