The Belides or Eulogie and elegie, of that truly honourable John Lord Harrington Baron of Exton, who was elevated hence the 27th of Febr. 1613. vvanting then tvvo moneths of 22. yeares old. By G.T.
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- The Belides or Eulogie and elegie, of that truly honourable John Lord Harrington Baron of Exton, who was elevated hence the 27th of Febr. 1613. vvanting then tvvo moneths of 22. yeares old. By G.T.
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- G. T. (George Tooke), 1595-1675.
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- London :: [s.n.],
- printed 1647.
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- Harington of Exton, John Harington, -- Baron, d. 1613 -- Early works to 1800.
- Fairfax, William, d. 1621 -- Early works to 1800.
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"The Belides or Eulogie and elegie, of that truly honourable John Lord Harrington Baron of Exton, who was elevated hence the 27th of Febr. 1613. vvanting then tvvo moneths of 22. yeares old. By G.T." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A62938.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.
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Page 27
The Souldiers Character.
A Souldier must his enemy prevent
As well by stratagem, as open Mart:
Nestor and Ajax, have the selfe-same Tent;
The Foxes head, march with the Lions heart.
He must be a Senaca with Burrhus, reading
As well as action: these united, fashion
The reall Caesar; when if single, breeding
But Marius, or some idle speculation.
He must be borne of such a happy starre,
That when both strength, and artifice may faile:
(As puzled oft, in the crosse-wayes of warre,)
Yet heaven relieve him, lead him to prevaile.
He must have such a sanctifi'd desire,
A soule so firmly to his Saviour plighted;
That he may meet with death, in bloud and fire,
And all his grimmest postures, unaffrighted.
And if in war to dye, yet so decease,
For justice; that his end, in war be peace.
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These had the disciplining of Nero, in his first five years. The one in Arts, the other in Armes.