Honour and vertue, triumphing over the grave Exemplified in a faire devout life, and death, adorned with the surviving perfections of Edward Lord Stafford, lately deceased; the last baron of that illustrious family: which honour in him ended with as great lustre as the sunne sets within a serene skye. A treatise so written, that it is as well applicative to all of noble extraction, as to him, and wherein are handled all the requisites of honour, together with the greatest morall, and divine vertues, and commended to the practise of the noble prudent reader. By Anth. Stafford his most humble kinsman. This worke is much embelish'd by the addition of many most elegant elegies penned by the most accute wits of these times.
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- Honour and vertue, triumphing over the grave Exemplified in a faire devout life, and death, adorned with the surviving perfections of Edward Lord Stafford, lately deceased; the last baron of that illustrious family: which honour in him ended with as great lustre as the sunne sets within a serene skye. A treatise so written, that it is as well applicative to all of noble extraction, as to him, and wherein are handled all the requisites of honour, together with the greatest morall, and divine vertues, and commended to the practise of the noble prudent reader. By Anth. Stafford his most humble kinsman. This worke is much embelish'd by the addition of many most elegant elegies penned by the most accute wits of these times.
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- Stafford, Anthony.
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- London :: Printed by J. Okes [and Thomas Cotes?], for Henry Seile at the Tigres Head in Fleet-street, over against St. Dunstans Church,
- 1640.
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- Stafford, Henry Stafford, -- Baron, 1621-1637.
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"Honour and vertue, triumphing over the grave Exemplified in a faire devout life, and death, adorned with the surviving perfections of Edward Lord Stafford, lately deceased; the last baron of that illustrious family: which honour in him ended with as great lustre as the sunne sets within a serene skye. A treatise so written, that it is as well applicative to all of noble extraction, as to him, and wherein are handled all the requisites of honour, together with the greatest morall, and divine vertues, and commended to the practise of the noble prudent reader. By Anth. Stafford his most humble kinsman. This worke is much embelish'd by the addition of many most elegant elegies penned by the most accute wits of these times." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A12817.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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Quē equitantē, Alexandrū Bucephalo insidētē crederes
Aut Centaurum in Lapitharum praelia ruentem,
Sonipes ipse tam grato pondere superbiebat,
Gestiens a tanto dirigi.
Exteras hausit linguas, non quasi nostra sordesceret
Sed ne ullū exactissimo Curiali deesset complemē∣tum.
Latinam paenè habuit vernaculam:
Heroïcam Graeci Sermonis majestatem,
Non ex ignorantiâ sed acumine judicii admirabatur,
Musicam didicit, ne tempus, cum ludo vacaret, porde∣ret
Qui tamen ex Oppiduli ruinis
Altam posset Urbem extruere.
Ubi in numerum gressus efformabat,
Ei Perseum talaria commodasse crederes;
Jn choro volanti semper similior, quam pulsanti terram
Vestalibus ipsis castior; at hoc ex virtute natum,
Non corprris intemperie.
Quem tamen adeo castum vixisse lugemus,
Nec Patrē fuisse (quod in aliis detest amur) quindecem jam annos natum;
Tunc alii Staffordiae gentis haeredes superfuissent,
Quam Vestes pullatae, & luctuosum funus.
At ô praeposterae rerum humanarum vices!
Qui in perpetuū vivere meruit, immaturus occubuit,
Maternae priùs haeres Telluris, quàm Paternae.
Disce lector.
Familiae & tituli, aequè ac homines, suos habent occasus.
Guil. Creede, Joan.