Lachrimæ lachrimarum. or The distillation of teares shede for the vntymely death of the incomparable prince Panaretus. by Iosuah Syluester Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A13274 of text S118065 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 23576). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 17 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 20 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A13274 STC 23576 ESTC S118065 99853274 99853274 18644 2240906681

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A13274) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 18644) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1293:20) Lachrimæ lachrimarum. or The distillation of teares shede for the vntymely death of the incomparable prince Panaretus. by Iosuah Syluester Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618. Quin, Walter. [32] p. : ill. (woodcuts) Printed by Humfrey Lownes, [London : 1612] Panaretus = Prince Henry Frederick. In verse. Includes poems in English, French, Latin, and Italian by Walter Quin. Title is xylographic (white-line). Imprint from colophon, which is printed in a border of woodcuts on D4r. Sheets A and B are often mixed with other editions, or may exist in reimpositions which have not yet been adequately studied. Signatures: A-D⁴. Text printed on rectos only; versos are mourning pages. Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. eng Henry Frederick, -- Prince of Wales, 1594-1612 -- Death and burial -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. eebo Lachrimæ lachrimarum. or The distillation of teares shede for the vntymely death of the incomparable prince Panaretus. by Iosuah Syluester. Sylvester, Josuah, 1612 40 2768 8 0 0 0 1 0 65.03 D The rate of 65.03 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2011-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2011-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2011-08 Sampled and proofread 2011-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2012-05 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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Sylvester ( Joshua ) Lachrimae Lachrimarum , on the Distillation of Teares shede for the untymely death of the incomparable Prince Panaretus , FIRST EDITION , calf extra 1612 ORIGINAL AND MOST RARE EDITION , and not to be confounded with the comparatively common reprint of 1613 , when it was accompanied by other productions . The only other copy of the present editio princeps which has occurred during the last forty years is that in the Huth library . ( See Collier's " Rarest Books in the English Language , " 1865 , ii . 410-11 , for some account of Sylvester . ) The volume is curiously printed on one side of the leaves , the reverse being in black with the royal arms gartered and crowned in white relief at the top , and the printed pages having at head and foot a mourning band , with emblems of mortality at the sides . Sylvester's poem ends on B4 ; on C1 begins , and continues to the end , a series of verses on the same subject in English , French , Latin , and Italian , by Walter Quin of Dublin , who is styled the Prince's servant .

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LACHRIMAE LACHRIMARVM . or

The Distillation of Teares Shede For the vntymely Death of The incomparable Prince PANARETVS .

by Iosuah Syluester .

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LACHRIMAE LACHRIMARVM . A funerall Elegie vpon the All - lamented Death of the All-admired ( late ) PRINCE .

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How-euer , short of Others Art and Witt , I knowe my powers for such a Part vnfitt ; And shall but light my Candle in the Sunne , To doe a Work shal be so better Donne : Could Teares and Feares giue my Distractions leaue , Of sobbing words a Sable Webbe to weaue ; Could Sorrowes Fulnes giue my voice a vent , How would ! how should my saddest Verse lament ( In deepest Sighes , instead of sweetest Songs ) This Losse ( alas ! ) which vnto All belongs : To all the Godly now , and future , farr : To all the WORLD ( except S P. Q. R. ) :

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To All together , and to Each a-part That liues , and loues Religion , Armes , or Art : To all abroad , but to vs most of all That neerest stood to my High Cedars fall : But more then most , to Mee , that had no Prop But HENRY's Hand , and but in Him , no Hope . O Deerest HENRY ; Heav'n and Earths Delight ! O cleerest Beame of Vertues , Rising bright ! O purest Spark of Pious Princely Zeale ! O surest Ark of Iustice sacred weale ! O grauest Presage of a Prudent kinde ! O brauest Message of a Valiant Mynde O All-admird , Benign and Bountious ! O All-desired ( right ) PANARETVS ! ( PANARETVS ( All-vertuous ) was thy Name Thy Nature such : such euer bee thy Fame ) . O deerest ! cleerest ! purest ! surest Prop ! O grauest ! bravest ! Highest ! nighest Hope ! O how vntymelie is this Sunne gonne downe ! This Spark put out , This Ark ( as ) ouerthrowne !

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This Presage crost ! This Message lost and left ! This Prop displac't ! This Hope of All , bereft ! O! How vnkinde ! How , gracelesse ! How , ingrate ! Haue Wee cutt-off Thy likely longer Date ! For , were This Stroak from Heav'ns immediat hand ; Or ( by Heav'ns leaue ) from Hells suborned Band : How c'r it were , Wee were the Mouing Cause That sweet Prince HENRY breath no longer drawes . Wee All ( alas ) haue had our hands herein : And Each of vs hath by some cord of Sinne Hal'd downe from Heaven , from Iustice awfull Seat This Heauie Iudgement ( which yet more doth Threat ) Wee Clergie first , who too too oft haue stood More for the Church-goods then the Churches good : Wee Nobles next , whose Title , euer strong , Can hardly offer Right , or suffer Wrong : Wee Magistrates , who mostly , weake of sight , Are rather faine to feele then see the Right : Wee Gentles then , who rack and sack , and sell , To swimme like Sea-Crabs , in a foure-wheeld Shell :

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Wee Courtiers next , who French-Italianate , Fashion our Faith after the forme of State : Wee Lawyers then , who in the forme of Law , Dis-claiming Conscience like the Horse-leach drawe : Wee Cittizens , who seeming Pure and Plaine , Beguile our Brother , make our God our Gaine : Wee Countrey-men , who slander Heav'n and Earth As Authors of Our Artificiall Dearth : All , briefly All ; all Ages , Sexes , Sorts , In Countries , Citties , Benches , Churches , Courts , ( All Epicures , Witt-Wantons , Atheists , Mach'-Aretines , Momes , Tap-To-Bacchonists , Bats , Harpies , Sirens , Centanres , Bib-all , nights , Sice-sinckap Asses , Hags Hermaphrodites ) And Wee , poore Nothings ( fixed in no Spheare , Right Wandring Tapers , Erring euery-where ) Scorne of the Vulgar , scandall of the Gowne , Haue pull'd this Waight of Wrath , This Vengeance down : All , All are guiltie , in a high Degree , Of This High Treason and Conspiracie ,

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More brute then Brutus , stabbing more then CAESAR , With Two-hand-SINNES of Profit and of Pleasure . For , for the Peoples Sinnes , for Subiects crymes , God takes-away good Princes oftentymes : So good IOSIAH ( HENRY's parallel ) Was ( yong ) bereft from Sinfull Izrael : So our good EDWARD ( HENRY's Pre-cedent ) For ENGLAND's Sinnes was hence vntimely hent . So heer , good HENRY is newe taken hence , For now Great-BRITAN'S great Sinnes Confluence . Wee see th' Effect , wee haue the Cause confest : O! Turne wee then , with speed , to Saue the rest : O! Turne vs , Lord ; turne to vs , turne away Thy Frownes , our Feares , with humblest Teares wee pray . O! saue our Souverain ; save his Royall seed ; That still his Owne may on his Throne succeed . Let Each of vs make priuie Search within ; And hauing found , bring forth the Traitor SINNE To Execution , with all Execration Henceforth renouncing such In-Sin-newation .

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Let Each of vs ( as Each hath thrown a Dart , A Dart of Synne , at HENRY 's princely hart ) Send-vp in Sighes our Soules devoutest breath , To Shield our IAMES , ANNE , CHARLES , ELIZA'BETH And HIM , whose Loue shall render HER her Brother , And make Her soone a happie Princes Mother . Let Each of vs cease to lament ( in vain ) Prince HENRY 's Losse . Death is to HIM a Gaine For Sauoy's Dukelings , or the Florentine He Wedds his Sauiour ( of a Regal Ligne ) Glorie , for Gold ; for Hope , Possession ( there ) Of Crownes so Rich as neuer entred Eare , Eye neuer sawe , nor euer Hart conceav'd ; So strong Assur'd , as cannot be bereav'd . Waile not his death : His Vertues cannot Dye ( Immortall Issue of ETERNITIE ) His Soule in Blisse beholds her Makers Eyes : His goodlie Body shall more glorious Rise . Weepe not for HIM : weepe for our selues ( alas ) ( Not for our Priuate , or Peculiar case :

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As for our Sonn 's , Brother's , or Master's lack , Or Prince's losse ( our Expectations wrack ) Our Places , Graces , Profits , Pensions lost , Our present Fortunes cast , our future crost ) Weepe for our Sinnes , our Wicked-Prouocations , Our haynous , horrid , high ABHOMINATIONS , Both seen and secret ; both in High and Lowe : Weep , weep for Theis ; and stript from Top to Toe , Of guiddie-Gaudes , Top-gallant Tires and Towers , Of Face-pride , Case-pride , Shin-pride , Shoo-pride , ours ( Like NINIVITES , so neer Their threatned Fall ) In blackest Sack and Cinders shrowded All , With bended Knees , but more with broken harts , And th' inward rest of right Repentant Parts , Prostrate our Soules in Fasting and in Praier , Before the Foot-stool of th' Empyreal CHAIRE : That So , What-euer bloodie Deluge float From th' old Red Dragons wide-wide-yawning Throat , Wee , Humbled MOVRNERS , may be Heau'nly Markt , In MERCIE 's Vessell to be All imb Arkt.
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THE PRINCES EPITAPH , WRITTEN BY HIS HIGHN . seruant , WALTER QVIN .

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LO here intomb'd a peereless Prince doth lie , In flowre & strength of age surpris'd by death , On whom , while he on earth drew vitall breath , The hope of many Kingdoms did relie ; Not without cause : for heauens most liberally To him all Princely vertues did bequeath , Which to the worthiest Princes here beneath Before had been allotted seuerally . But when the world of all his vertues rare The wished fruit to gather did expect , And that he should such glorious workes effect , As with the worthiest fame might him compare : Vntimely death then from vs did him take ; Our losse , and griefe , heauens gaine , and ioy to make .
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Idem in obitum eiusdem Serenissimi Principis .

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OCcidit ante diem iuuenum flos , gloria stirpis Regalis , Patriae spes , columenque suae . Occidit ante diem , patri populisque Britannis Flendus , & his iunctis foedere , amore , sacris . Occidit ante diem , gesturus Principe digna , Accelerasset ei ni fera Parca necem . Occidit ante diem , virtutis & vbere fructu , Et mundum exemplo funere destituens . Occidit ante diem , si vota & commoda spectes Publica , vel vitam si breuitate notes . Sin vitam spectes partam illi morte perennem , Haud iam , par Superis , occidit ante diem .
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Stances du mesme Anthour sur le mesme sujet .

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TAnt plus qu'vn bien est grand , & rare en excellence , Et que la iouissance en a plus de plaisir ; Tant plus aussi la perte en a de desplaisir , Et se fait regretter auec impatience . Ceci se monstre assez en la fruition , Qu'auons eu d'vn grand Prince , en tous biens admirable ; Et en sa triste mort , d'autant plus deplorable , Que rare de tout point fut sa perfection . Tant l'eurent la Nature , & la vertu ensemble , Et la fortune aussi de leurs dons enrichj , Que de quelle des trois il fut le plus cherj , De pouuoir bien iuger malaisè il me semble . De l'estoc plus ancien d'entre les Roys extrait , Il fut si bien douè des dons de la Nature En corps , & en esprit , que iamais creature N'a estè de son Art chef d'aeuure plus parfait .

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D' elle il eut la beautè , la grace , & bienseance , Force , addresse , esprit vif , & inuincible caeur , Grandeur & Maiestè meslee auec douceur , Que reluire on voioit voire en sa contenance . La vertu se voyant par Nature apprestè Vn si riche sujet , l'enrichit dauantage En le rendant pieux , temperè , preux , & sage , Iuste , clement , & plein de largesse & bontè . Ceste mesme vertu luy feit les Arts apprendre , Par lesquelz vn grand Prince a bien regir en paix , Et a bien soustenir de la guetre le faix ; Quand il en est besoing , capable se peut rendre . La fortune enuers luy fauorable aussi fut Sur ses plus chers mignons luy donnant l'auuantage : Car thresors & grandeurs & le riche heritage De maint païs & Roiaume , & mainte ville il eut . Il sembloit que ces trois auec telle largesse L'ayans de tous leurs dons a l'enui estrenè , Parla faueur du Ciol il fut au monde nè , Pour viure vn siecle entier en gloire , heur , & liesse ;

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Et pour faire jouir aux siens l'exemple & fruit Dos ses faits vertueux & en paix , & en guerre ; Et estendre son loz aux bornes de la terre , Ou nostre hyuer esté , nostre jour se fait nuit . O que le monde auoit bien besoin de sa vie ? Car il seruoit d'espec , & bouclier aux amis ; De terreur , & de fleau contre les ennemis ; De rempart asseurè , & d'ancre a sa Patrie ; D'appui , & de defence a son Pere Royal ; A sa Mere d'honneur ; de miroir a son frere ; D'ornement a sa saeur ; aux Princes d'exemplaire ; De merueille , & de ioye a tout peuple loial . Mais , helas , ce grand Prince en la fleur de son age , Et de nostre esperance ( O triste coup du Ciel ) Nous a esté rauí : dont en fiel nostre miel Se change , & nostre ioye en dueil , regret , & rage . O Ciel a quelle fin nous prestás tu ce bien , Ce joyau non-pareil , ce miroir de Noblesse , Pour nous l'oster si tost ? he que ce coup nous blesse , Nous foudroie , & fracasse , & reduit presqu'en rien ?

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A quelle fin ie voj : c' est pour prendre vengeance De noz meschancetez , & horrible meffaits , Que si cruellement tu descoches tes traits Sur nous pauures chetife , & miserable engeance . Trop bon pour nous il fut : reprendre il t'aura pleu Ton cher gage , duquel auons ioui nagueres , Affin d'en embellir tes plus belles lumieres , Et de le reunir a son celeste feu . Mais enuers toy , cher Prince , ô quel deuoir nous reste ? Auec toy nous faut il nous es●ouir du soit , Qui t'est escheu au Ciel , des bienheureux le port ? Ou regretter ta mort aux tiens par trop funeste ? L'un , & l'autre ferons : t'applaudiril conuient En ce que tu jouas si bien ton roole au monde , Et la viens a reuiure ou tout bonheur abonde , Et ou tout dueil en joye a conuertir se vient . Mais tant pius que nons fut ta vie douce & chere , Et qu'en fleur d'ans la mort nous te vint arracher ; Les resnes d'autant plus nous conuient il lacher Au dueil , en regrettant nostre perte , & misere .
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De. medesimo sopra il medesimo Suggetto SONETTO .

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IL fior' de Prencipi nel fior' de gl'anni , Et delle nostre speranze , ora è colto Della spietata morte ( ahi lasso ) e tolto A noi dol n●ì e miseri Britanni . A nessun' popol' mai diè tanti affanni Morendo alcun' gran Prencipe , per molto Ch' ●i fosse amato quanti il nostro sciolto Dal corpo cì lascia e dolarì , e danni . Dal Ciel pareu● ch' cì c● fosse dato , Pe●che del Padr é successor nel Regno Fosse , eselio● , e chi●ro e'n pace , e'n guerra . Ma cì vien tolto ( ohime ) dal Ciel irato A danni nostrì per che disedegno Stimollo , e indegna esser' dì luì la terro
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LONDON , Printed by Humfrey Lownes . 1612.

ICH DIEN printer's device: coronet of the Prince of Wales adorned with three ostrich feathers