The remains of Sir Fulk Grevill Lord Brooke being poems of monarchy and religion : never before printed.
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- The remains of Sir Fulk Grevill Lord Brooke being poems of monarchy and religion : never before printed.
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- Greville, Fulke, Baron Brooke, 1554-1628.
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- London :: Printed by T.N. for Henry Herringman ...,
- 1670.
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"The remains of Sir Fulk Grevill Lord Brooke being poems of monarchy and religion : never before printed." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A29659.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2024.
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AN ADVERTISEMENT.
THe Author having de∣dicated all his Mo∣numents to the Me∣mory of Sir Philip Sidney, whose Life he did write as an intended Preface to these; it will not be fit to add any other then a brief Ad∣vertisement to acquaint the Reader, he was that Sir Fulk Grevill whose Noble Line by Matches with the Honourable Families of Nevil, Beauchamp, and
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Willoughby Lord Brooke make good the observation of Hereditary advanta∣ges, of Mind as well as Body, by De∣scents purely derived from Noble An∣cestors; the Excellency of his Qualities rendring him an eminent Courtier in Queen Elizabeths Raign, and in King James's time, under whom he had the Honourable emploiments of Chancellour of the Exchequer and Privy Councel∣ler, and was by Letters Patent of that King, in consideration of services done to the Crown, made Lord Brooke; to the Title of which Barony by Descent from Willoughby he had right: and having always lived a Batchelor (which was no small advantage to the free∣dom of his mind) He died in the Seventy fourth year of his Age, Ann. Dom. 1628. having been also Counsellor of State for about Three years to King CHARLES the First.
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When he grew old he revised the Poems and Treatises he had writ long be∣fore, and at his death committed them to his friend Mr. Michael Malet an aged Gentleman in whom he most confided, who intended, what the Author purpo∣sed, to have had them Printed altogether; but by Copies of some parts of them which happened into other hands, some of them came first abroad, each of his Works having had their fate, as they singly merit particular esteem; so to come into the World at several times: he to whom they were first delivered being dead, the trust of these remain∣ing pieces devolved on Sir J. M. who hath given me the Licensed Coppy of them: and that the Reader may be more fully informed of the Author and his Writings, and how they are re∣lated to each other, we must refer
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to that wherein, besides his friend Sidneys Life, he gives account of his own and of what he had written.
H. H.