Threnodia in obitum D. Edouardi Lewkenor Equitis, & D. Susannae coniugis charissimæ. = Funerall verses vpon the death of the right worshipfull Sir Edvvard Levvkenor Knight, and Madame Susan his Lady. With Deaths apologie, and a reioynder to the same.

The same in English, verse for verse.

VVHen Virtue lately did behold Sir Edward Lewkenor die, And hence depart in his religious Ladies companie; Others from danger whiles to saue, his owne he doth neglect, That only shunnes in virtuous deed to shew the least defect: She wept, And ah for such deserts this recompence (quoth she) O highest God? Thus thus alas! reward'st thou pietie? To whom Religion thus. Death is this wretched lifes last date, And to the godly Death the same is life-eternals gate. Why wailest thou men? To whom to die once it is destinie; Or why the godly? 'Tis their gaine. And more if speedily That one cause of complaint remaines; together these be gone: But this was euermore their wish; neither would liue alone.