The good vvife: or, A rare one amongst women VVhereto is annexed an exquisite discourse of epitaphs: including the choisest thereof, ancient or moderne. Musophilus.
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- The good vvife: or, A rare one amongst women VVhereto is annexed an exquisite discourse of epitaphs: including the choisest thereof, ancient or moderne. Musophilus.
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- Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
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- At London :: Printed [by John Beale] for Richard Redmer, and are to be sold at his shop at the west end of St Pauls Church,
- 1618.
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Contents
- title page
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¶ The distinct Sections in
this Booke contained. - To the Reader.
- The Argument.
- poems
- title page
- TO THE READER.
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OBSERVATIONS VPON
Epitaphs: their Antiquitie and vse; with Authoritie from approued Authors of their deriuations; with diuers other memorable oc∣currences. -
poems
- ¶ A Description of Death.
-
Epitaphs vpon sudden and
pre∣mature deaths: occasioned vpon some occur∣rents lately and vnhappily arising. - Another Epitaph vpon the same subiect.
- An Epitaph of the same.
- ¶ Vpon a vertuous young Lady dying in child-birth.
- ¶ Vpon a Souldier, for resolutiō worthily affected and aduanced by his Country, yet interred and by (vnworthy Fate) obscurely.
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Vpon a Drunkard buried in a ruinous fort in
Dunkerke, was this Inscription engrauen, which by the ancientnesse of Time was well neare defaced. -
¶ An Epigram vpon
Alphonso Prince ofNaples, and vpon his Crest, whereon was engrauen a Pellican with this Impressa;Alios seruans meipsum perdo. - ¶ An Epitaph vpon one who died confined.
- ¶ Vpon a Iustice worthily deseruing of his Countrey.
- ¶ Vpon a Iustice of lesse demerite.
- ¶ Vpon a bragging Souldier.
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Vpon
Peter see me - ¶Vpon a Captaine which in the Low Coun∣tries was hanged, and afterwards taken vp againe.
- ¶ Vpon a Turner or Thrower that died in his throwing.
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¶ Vpon one
Span. -
¶ Vpon one
Flower a hopefull yong Student. - ¶ Vpon a Reuerend and honourable Iudge of this land, was this Epitaph inscribed.
- ¶ Distiction funebre in obit: princip. ob exi∣miam & corporis & mentis temperi∣em: qua licet, nos reliquit, altiora petit.
- ¶ An Epitaph vpon the Sonne buried in his Fathers graue.
- ¶ Vpon one who louing ho∣nour, died ere hee possest it.
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¶ Vpon Master
Laurence Death, an Epicede ac∣commodate to his Name. -
¶ Vpon one
Merie. -
¶ Vpon one
Hogge. -
¶ Vpon a vaine-glorious Student that would needes be called
Aristarchus. - Vpon two Twins that died together
- ¶ Vpon an ancient Tombe was this inscription found.
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¶ Vpon my Lady
Woodbee. - ¶ Vpon the same Subiect extracted.
- ¶ Vpon an Adulterer extracted.
- ¶ Vpon a Sexton an Epitaph.
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¶ Vpon
Kempe and his morice, with his Epitaph. -
¶ Vpon one
Skelton. -
¶ Vpon one
Babylon. - ¶ Vpon a spare Patron.
- ¶ Vpon a cashered Souldier.
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¶ Vpon the death of one
Thete who died, and was cast in a great tempest vpon the Sea, into a straite of that part of the Sea which diuidesM fromsia Hellespont. -
¶ Vpon
Synon that villaine which sackedTroy. -
¶ Vpon
Argus. - Another.
- ¶ Vpon Gold a dissolute Hackster.
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¶ Vpon a Quackesaluer Doctors graue in
Venice, by Transcription we reade this In∣scription as followeth. -
¶ Vpon
Croesus andIr s. -
¶ Vpon
Delia. - In Mydam.
-
In
Veprem Iuridicum. - ¶ Vpon a Broaker.
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¶ Vpon
Tacitus. -
¶ Vpon one
Holofornus an vnconscio∣nable Vsurer. -
¶ Vpon one
Gnat. -
¶ Vpon an Actor now of late deceased: and vpon his Action
Tu quo{que}: and first vpon his Trauell. - Vpon his Creditors.
- Vnto his fellow Actors.
- ¶ Vpon Loues champion.
- ¶ Amor viuat & crescat honor, inuitis fatis resurgat virtus, au∣geatur pietas, & foueatur sancti∣tas: altera harum miserijs sub∣uenimus, altera Reip. saluti prouide∣mus.
- Epitaph.
- ¶ A funerall Ode.
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¶ Vpon the death of the
ver∣tuously affected S Thomas Boin∣ton, a Knight so wel-meriting, asr his vertues farre aboue all Titles, enstiled him worthy theloue of his Coun∣trey. -
¶ Vpon that memorable Act atchieued by an Auncestour of the
Cogniers in the discom∣fiture of aWinged-worme orSnake, Whose approach was no lesse obuious then mortally dangerous to the distressed Passenger; His Monument remaineth in the body of the church atSockburn, where hee lieth crosse-legged, (which inferreth his being be∣fore theConquest ) hauing his Fauchion by his side, his Dogge at his feete, Grasping with theSnake, theSnake with theDogge: the renowmed me∣morie of which Act addeth no lesse glory to the houses Antiquitie, then the worthy Knight who now possesseth it, gaineth harts by his affability. - Paraphrastically translated.
- Vpon his Tombe.
-
¶ Epitaphs vpon diuerse of the
Sages ofGreece, translated, omittingThales andSolon, and beginning with the rest, original∣ly traduced fromLa∣ertius. VponChylo. - This Inscription also was engrauen on his Tombe.
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¶ Vpon
Pittucus, whose Tombe was erected by the CitieLesbos wherein he liued; beauti∣fied with this inscription to per∣petuate his memory. -
¶ Vpon
Bias whomPriene with all solemnitie and magnificence, at their owne proper cost in∣terred: Engrauing these verses vpon his Tombe, for the continuance of his Name. -
¶ Vpon
Cleobulus, who was buried inLyndus, which boundeth on the Sea-cliffe; the situ∣ation whereof is shadowed in this inscription vpon his Tombe. -
¶ Vpon
Periander of Corinth was this Epitaph ensuing found to be engrauen, which through the iniuie of time, and want of Art in the impressure, was so defaced, as by the testimonie of Laertius it could scarce be reduced toSence: yet now ac∣cording to the Originall faithfully translated, in∣cluding a Christian resolution in a Pagans dissolu∣tion reposing a more true happines in his end then in his Birth, hisexit or passage, then hisintrat to this Theatre or transitorie Pilgrimage: making hisdiem fatalem, hisdiem natalem, the day of hisdeath the day of hisbirth; whereMan by an imputa∣tiue goodnesse, deduced from God not inherent in himselfe, may in hisdeath be rather said to be translated then departed. -
Continued by
Laertius by way of anEpigram, -
¶ Vpon the much lamented death of the truly ho∣nourable (eminent patterne of vnblemished Iu∣stice) Sir
Augustine Nicholls one of our Iudges of the Northerne Circuit, who died atKendall the third day of August,Anno 1616. -
Another Dialogue-wise:
Eubaeus andTymaeus. -
¶ An Epitaph reduced to the forme of a Dialogue; consisting of two Per∣sons and two Parts, representing in the Persons,
Affection andInstruction; in the Parts Passion and Consolation: prepared at first for the memory of his neuer-sufficient∣ly remembredFather by theAuthour, emphatically shadowed vnder the name ofPhi∣lopater. - ¶ A Diuine composition, stiled The Pilgrimes Petition.
- ¶ The Sinners Cymball.
-
¶ In obitum
Thomae Brathwaite op∣timae spei, indolis generosissimae, vitae probatissimae, fidei integerrimae, omni ex parte parati peri∣ti{que}R. B. Memoriae eius studiosissimus lugubria ista Poe∣mata grati animi pignora diu meditata & iam serò sed seriò in publicam lu∣cem prolata (Dialogi mo∣re) composuit. -
¶ In Anagramma quod sibi ipsi compo∣suit & Annulo inscripsit.
Brathwaite - Vita vt herba.
-
¶ Vpon the late decease of his much lamented friend and kinsman,
Allen Nicholson, a zea∣lous & industrious member both in Church and Com∣mon-weale. -
¶ In obitum generosissimi viri
L. P. genio quàm ingenio minus faelici,Franciscus Ridgeway eius memoriae studiosissimus hosce threneticos modos com∣posuit. -
¶ A Funerall Poeme vpon the death of the hope∣full yong Gentleman Mast.
Will. Horsey, who deceased the 24. ofAprill, Ann. Dom. 1615. - His Epitaph.
-
¶ The Author vpon his selected and euer to be remembred
E. C. Parragon for beautie and vertue: who died the 5. ofDe∣cemb. Ann. Dom. 1615. -
¶ Vpon the much lamented
Death of the vertu∣ous virgineA. T. inScarborough, lately de∣ceased, and of her sorrowfull Parents incessantly moned. - Vpon her Tombe.
- ¶ Vpon the Tombe of ..... lately erected.
- ¶ Vpon a late deceased Pinch-gut.
- ¶ This the Authour wrote vpon an excel∣lent Bowler and his Friend, aptly re∣sembling Mans life to a game at Bowles.
- ¶ Vpon a singular Irishman.
-
¶ Vpon the death of one
Cookes wife, an Inscrip∣tion allusiue to her name. - ¶ In Actorem Mimicum cui vix parem cerni∣mus superstitem;
- ¶ In vultum incredibili lepore respersum.
- Vita vt mimus.
- ¶ Vpon a Traueller, who taking Inne in a vil∣lage at the signe of the Boore was la∣mentably murdered by his Hoast.
- Ibidem.
- Englished.
- ¶ Vpon certaine Bones found of late buried in the ground, supposed to be some murder commit∣ted by the Hoast, in whose yard these Bones were found; but as yet only suspition is groun∣ded, no apparancie of Fact discouered.
- Vpon murder.
- Another.
- ¶ Vpon a Gentlewoman who died in Child-birth.
- Vpon an Infant (his fathers first borne) was this written:
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¶ Vpon one
Gray. -
¶ Vpon one
Graue. - Another.
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¶ Vpon one
Winde towards the North-bor∣ders is this written; - ¶ Another.
-
¶ Vpon old
Mammon. -
¶ On a Cobler at
Cambridge. - ¶ Vpon an Eminent STATESMAN in this Land, absolute for his generall suruey in all know∣ledge, his approued iudgement in all Learning.
-
¶ In the memory of that famous Professour of Physicke, M
r Butler, generally renowmed for his approued practice. -
¶ On one
More. -
¶ On one
Pricke. - ¶ Vpon Sir Ignorance.
- ¶ Vpon Gregorie Cade.