aridness of their root, the decay of
whose succulency appears in the contra∣ction
and cessation of the Flowre, then
Men and Families do by Time, which
has swept away with its Besome, and car∣ried
down its Current, Kingly, Peery, and
Gentry Families, and set them and their
Honours on shore in that Terra incognita,
wherein they are extinguisht. Yea, in
our own Nation, how has the same Ca∣rere
and fate mortified the quondam be∣ing
and greatness of Name in the Brit∣tish
and Saxon Families; yea, and in the
Families from the Conquest, by name,
Albanay, Fitz-Hugh, Mountacute, Mount∣ford,
Beauchampt, Brewier, Cameis, Bar∣dolf,
Mortimer, Valtort, Botereaux, Chau∣mond,
Curcey, De la Beche, Carminow,
Brewire, Fitz-lewis, Marmion, Deincourt,
Burnell, Plantagenet, all right Noble
and Knightly Families in their times, but
now either wholly eraced, or couched
under Families, who married their
Heirs, and, with their Lands and Blood,
carry their Names only in their Title:
I say, this Vulture, and vehemence, in
time, tells us, that as here there is no Per∣manency,
so here good & brave Men must
expect rather to be deplorable objects
of desertion and poverty, then the Fa∣vourites