Kaina kai palaia Things new and old, or, A store-house of similies, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adagies, apologues, divine, morall, politicall, &c. : with their severall applications / collected and observed from the writings and sayings of the learned in all ages to this present by John Spencer ...

Dead Men soon forgotten. [ 1829]

IT is a memorable Example,* 1.1 amongst many others that we have, of William the Conquerour's Successor, who being unhappily kill'd, as he was hunting in New-Forrest, all his Nobles and Courtiers forsook him, onely some few that remained, laid his body in a Collyer's-Cart, which being drawn with one silly lean beast through very foul and filthy way, the Cart broke, and there lay the spectacle of Worldly glory, both pitifully goared and all to bemired. Now if this were the portion of so mighty a Prince, whom immediately before so glo∣rious a troop attended;* 1.2 What then must others of meaner rank expect and look for, but onely with Death's closing up of their eyes to have all their Friends ex∣cluded, * 1.3 and no sooner gone, but to be as sodainly forgotten; Hence is it, that Obli∣vion and neglect are the two Hand-maids of Death, and her Kingdom where she principally tyrannizeth, is Terra oblivionis, the Land of Forgetfulnesse, Psalm 87. 8.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Matth. Paris hist.
• * 1.2

  Tym. Old∣m••yn ut an∣teà.
• * 1.3

  Mortu••s e••iem gr••t•• sermones d••serunt. Menand.