I Lament the miserable fal of my young child.

A man ought to lament for nothing that may happen vnto mankinde: al thinges should be premeditated before, if they haue not hap∣ned alredie: lament not thy childes fal, but thine owne vnskyl∣fulnesse, & the forgetfulnesse of thine owne condition.

I complaine of the miserable death of my young childe.

There is no death miserable, which the death of the soule doth not folow, from which daunger thy young child is free.

My childe is dead by breaking his necke.

What skylleth it after what sort a man dye, so that he die not dishonourably, & he can not die dishonourably, that dieth without offences.

My chylde is peryshed by breakyng his necke.

But Archemorus by the biting of a serpent, other some by suckyng milke of a nurse being with child, other by sickenesse, the which for the more part happen more commonly then, than in old age.

My young child is perished by breaking his necke.

Sodeyne death is to be wished of the innocent, and to be feared of the guiltie.

My chylde is dead of a fal from an hygh.

Unto them that dye languishingly, death often times seemeth the sharper, & the panges the longer: for al paine, y^e Page  [unnumbered]shorter it is, the more tollerable it is.

My chylde is dead by breakyng his necke.

To stumble and fal, is proper to that age. Thy chylde hath done that which al doo, al∣though al peryshe not by casualtie: but do thou suffer hym to pe∣ryshe, for he must needes peryshe one day, and he is the more happily dealt withal, for that he hath peryshed before he was intangled in the euylles of this lyfe, whiche howe manyfold they be, those that haue prooued, and diligently obserued, can tell. There is none that prooueth not in part, and they that obserue them not, leade foorth their liues as it were in a dreame, whiche so soone as they awake, they haue forgotten: Thyne, infant died an innocent, who perhappes, if he had lyued, had dyed a very hurtful person. Lament not that he is safe, he hath escaped al the threates of fortune, and hath preuented death, whiche being de∣ferred, would haue preuented hym.

A woolfe hath de∣uoured my chylde.

This nowe is the woormes complaynt.

A woolfe hath carried away the bo∣dy of my poore chylde into his denne.

But the an∣gels haue caryed vp his blessed soule into heauen.