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Excerpt: ...so braue, so actiue, and so free, That such a one who would not wish to bee, Rather then weare a Crowne, by Armes though got, So fast a friend, so true a Patriot. In things concerning both the worlds so wise, Besides so liberall of his faculties, That where he would his industrie bestowe, He would haue done, e're one could think to doe. No more talke of the working of the Starres, 110 For plenty, scarcenesse, or for peace, or Warres: They are impostures, therefore get you hence With all your Planets, and their influence. No more doe I care into them to looke, Then in some idle Chiromantick booke, Shewing the line of life, and Venus mount, Nor yet no more would I of them account, Then what that tells me, since what that so ere Might promise man long life: of care and feare, By nature freed, a conscience cleare, and quiet, 120 His health, his constitution, and his diet; Counting a hundred, fourscore at the least, Propt vp by prayers, yet more to be encreast, All these should faile, and in his fiftieth yeare He should expire, henceforth let none be deare, To me at all, lest for my haplesse sake, Before their time heauen from the world them take, And leaue me wretched to lament their ends As I doe his, who was a thousand friends. Vpon the death of the Lady Olive Stanhope Canst thou depart and be forgotten so, Stanhope thou canst not, no deare Stanhope, no: But in despight of death the world shall see, That Muse which so much graced was by thee Can black Obliuion vtterly out-braue, And set thee vp aboue thy silent Graue. I meruail'd much the Derbian Nimphes were dumbe, Or of those Muses, what should be become, That of all those, the mountaines there among, Pg 117 10 Not one this while thy Epicediumsung; But so it is, when they of thee were reft, They all those hills, and all those Riuers left, And sullen growne, their former seates remoue, Both from cleare Darwin, and from siluer Doue, And for thy losse, they greeued are so sore, That they haue vow'd...
