A MOORNING DITI UPON THE DECEAS OF THE MOST NOBL
Prins HENRY EARL of ARUNDEL, The auncient & Primer Coounte of England, and right honorabl Baron Mautravers &
Clun: one of Oour most gracious Queen ELIZABETHS Majesteez most honorabl privy Coounsel, and of the right nobl Order of
the Garter the eldest Knight: that departed in the Lord at hiz Place by Toour hil ny London, on Thurzday Saint Matthiez
day the latter xxiiii. of February in the xxii. yeer of her highnes most prosperoous Rein. 1579.
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CArez & complaints that ruful moornings may purport,
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Proceding from a minde with woez opprest:
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A heavy hart dooun sunk within the brest,
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A damped coountenauns devoid of all comfort,
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May best beseem the state of woful wight:
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And so may sorroz smart, us rightfully compell
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With sighs profoound bewail in careful plight,
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The late deceas of him whooz honor did excell,
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HENRI that nobl Prins the EARL of ARUNDELL.
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Born & allyed in Line long & Heroicall,
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Coomly in foorm of features & personage,
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Matched in hy & equall mariage,
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Parent to one woorthy Lord & Ladyz twoo, withall:
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For the rare bloomz of tru Nobilitee
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That first oout budded in hiz tender spring,
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The Earl hiz Father yet alive, & hee
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But Lord Mautravers: Oour late most famoous King
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Of Callis too him gave the trust & gooverning.
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His first
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Wife Mary
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the Lord
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Marques
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Dorsets
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daughter.
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Lady Jane
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maried to
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John Lord
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Lumley.
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Lady Mary
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maried to
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Thomas
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Duke of
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Norfolk.
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The weighty charge whearof when he had underfong,
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He ransakld the orderz olld & nu,
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The good he held in execution du,
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The bad he brake, and ay by Justis righted wrong:
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With the fine French he tempred in such sort
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Az for hiz Proowes great & Pollecyz agen,
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For Fame to Prins & safety to the Fort,
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Both far & neer it waz pronoounced of all men.
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That Callis never had like Capitain az then.
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Oour King him made upon this five yeerz nobl say,
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At Bullen seege hy Marshall of hiz host:
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Wheraz hiz peinz his daungerz with the most,
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Hiz valiauns by hart & hand waz prompt all way.
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And though a molehil to a moount be small,
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For certein truth yet this the writer bringz to minde,
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Whoo served him thear at theez most actionz all:
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And for the grace enteer that ever he did finde,
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May most deplore hiz death, but honor all his kinde.
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Lord Mar-
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shall at the
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seege of
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Bullen.
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An. xxxv.
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Henry viii.
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The Prins benign anon soon az the tooun he wan,
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For servis hy doon by this nobl Peer,
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Chaz him too be one of hiz Coounsel neer,
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Lord Chamberlain allso: which Honorz after than
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King Edward gave him: but Queen Mary made,
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Him Prezident of Coounsel and Lord Stuard too be:
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Of our Queen eak that dignitee he hade.
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So az a thing it iz right evident to se,
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In hoow great grace With all hiz Sooverainz waz he.
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Anno .i.
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Regine
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Elizabeth.
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The higher karged ship, and deepar it dooth draw,
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The daunger more of storm of rok & sand,
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And blasts may blo that no state can withstand.
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At anker holld of Fortitude when roze a flaw,
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He lay, with honor till he cam to port.
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And az he thought none praized vertu as they ow,
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Onles their deeds tru vertu did reaport,
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He surely for hiz part, commended vertu so,
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Az waz hiz Embleam, LAUS VIRTUTUS ACTIO.
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For woorthy pleazurz ells: hiz Hors & Armour sitch,
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Hiz skil profoound in both, his solem Queer
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By vois & Instruments so sweet to heer,
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Hiz Jewelz, Antiquiteez, so many rare & ritch,
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Hiz Tablz, Cloks, & his symmetricall
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Billdingz, so sumptuoously adoournd in every part:
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For eend, his exquizit appointments all
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So excellent for cost, for hy devise & art,
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Az might be signz certain of hiz so nobl hart.
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For servis then, for honor, or for hiz Princez pleazure,
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Hoow mooch ioyd he thear too be liberall?
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Of hart sy neeer toward the Nobiz all,
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Too State of life he made his Birthdegree his meazure,
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Ootherz merit small, mooch he wolld avauns
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Boounteous, benign, releeving many greevous gronez,
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In freendship firm for ony chaunge or chauns.
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But ah for wo: dear death not moovabl by monez,
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All theez hiz shining lights quite quenched hath at onez.
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Descended-
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from Caro-
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lus magnus
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who died.
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at Aix 815.
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Twise Em-
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bassadour
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to King
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Phillip in
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Flaunderz
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and cheef
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Commisioner
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in Queene
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Maryes
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dayes.
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Obscuring orgulioously by dark & deadly blast,
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The lustr of Jewell, the more inestimabl,
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Az iz the loss so far irreperabl:
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An Earl, a Peer, a Prins, the only & the last
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Of that so hy FITZ ALLENZ name & blood,
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But why so sharp O Memory doost thoou declare
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Theez groundz of greevez? more meer wear for thy mood
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Sum Opium for sleep or ells white Nenuphare,
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A sooup of Lethes lake for to forget thy care.
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But noow, az wants a cheef one amoong the States hy,
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So Nobl youth, & all of gentl hart:
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The Herallds sage, the wize & learnd in Art,
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This forlorn skath alas bewail may rufully
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And thoou infaust day, dismoll, bisextill,
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Not hallf by Charlsez birth & coronation sight
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So good, az too the Earl of Flaunders ill
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And too French Frauncis eak. O cruell in thy spight
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Wo woorth the time that noow so soon that camst too light.
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Captain of
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Calles v.
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yeeres.
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Borne at
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Gaunt 1500
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Croound
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Emperoor
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at Bolloni
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1530.
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Charlez
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slain by Con
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spiratoours
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at Burgis
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1127.3.Ti
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The french
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Kings poou[?]
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slain and be
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taken at Pavi
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1525.30.
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But sins that, heavy sprite dooth freat the minde to nought,
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Driez up the bonez & gallz the hart so sore,
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Healps not the case (God wot) a whit the more,
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By wizdoom then bethink we, heerin as we ought,
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First that this Peer (hoow ever wear the case)
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With loove of all Estatz in harts sinceer enrolld,
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In honor pure did run hiz nobl rase,
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Then saw his Childerz Children (a crooun to hiz yeerz olld
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Az Graundsire (to their glory) eak him they did behold.
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Whoo wear so vertuous all of minde & inclination
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As God took them, the sooner to be blest:
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Yet heer left one to coountervail the rest,
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Of whooz encreasing honor such iz the expectation
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That in Avirall State & Dignitee
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Az he succeedz & luckily enjoyz the same.
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So hope iz that through Gods benignitee:
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By him shall glister long in honor & in fame,
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The bright shine of the magnific ARUNDELLI name.
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Bethink we eak hoow well he dispozed thingz eachon,
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What tender woords our Queen untoo him sent:
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Wherat his hart did earn, hiz eiz relent,
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Reizd up hiz febl Sprite, that then by him anon
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Intoo the Lords handz recommended is.
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In Fame & in Succession sins heer he liveth ay,
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In Soul allso too everlasting blis
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Let us by solas suppl oour sorroz az we may,
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And hope in Christe to have a joyful meeting day,
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