A pleasaunte laborinth called Churchyardes chance framed on fancies, vttered with verses, and writte[n] to giue solace to euery well disposed mynde: wherein notwithstanding are many heauie epitaphes, sad and sorowfull discourses and sutche a multitude of other honest pastymes for the season (and passages of witte) that the reader therein maie thinke his tyme well bestowed. All whiche workes for the pleasure of the worlde, and recreation of the worthie, are dedicated to the right honourable sir Thomas Bromley knight, lorde Chancelour of Englande.
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- A pleasaunte laborinth called Churchyardes chance framed on fancies, vttered with verses, and writte[n] to giue solace to euery well disposed mynde: wherein notwithstanding are many heauie epitaphes, sad and sorowfull discourses and sutche a multitude of other honest pastymes for the season (and passages of witte) that the reader therein maie thinke his tyme well bestowed. All whiche workes for the pleasure of the worlde, and recreation of the worthie, are dedicated to the right honourable sir Thomas Bromley knight, lorde Chancelour of Englande.
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- Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604.
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- Imprinted at London :: By Ihon Kyngston,
- 1580.
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"A pleasaunte laborinth called Churchyardes chance framed on fancies, vttered with verses, and writte[n] to giue solace to euery well disposed mynde: wherein notwithstanding are many heauie epitaphes, sad and sorowfull discourses and sutche a multitude of other honest pastymes for the season (and passages of witte) that the reader therein maie thinke his tyme well bestowed. All whiche workes for the pleasure of the worlde, and recreation of the worthie, are dedicated to the right honourable sir Thomas Bromley knight, lorde Chancelour of Englande." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A18760.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
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The weake hath feble knees, to clime the clouds ye knowe,
The strong takes home from the Bees, and seru's his fancie soe.
The strong and mightie flood, swéeps all before hym cleane,
And tourns vp drosse bothe sande and mudde, and kéepes no kinde of meane:
A sillie shallowe streame, can doe but little boote,
It neither breaks doune massie banks, nor tears vp trees by roote.
The weake is vanquisht still, the strong will victor bee,
The strong with weake, nor weake wt strong, will neuer well agree:
When sound and sicke doe like, and colde and heate are one,
Or mosse & mucke for might & maine, maie matche wt marble stone
Then strong and weake shall ioyne, till then saie naie who shall,
The strong will triumphe on the weake, & weake shall goe to wall.
FINIS.