Pro Vere, autumni lachrymæ. Inscribed to the immortal memorie of the most pious and incomparable souldier, Sir Horatio Vere, Knight: besieged, and distrest in Mainhem. By Geo: Chapman. Chapman, George, 1559?-1634. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A18420 of text S107715 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 4988). 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. 9 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 9 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A18420 STC 4988 ESTC S107715 99843411 99843411 8143 2240937332

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A18420) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 8143) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1342:13) Pro Vere, autumni lachrymæ. Inscribed to the immortal memorie of the most pious and incomparable souldier, Sir Horatio Vere, Knight: besieged, and distrest in Mainhem. By Geo: Chapman. Chapman, George, 1559?-1634. [18] p. Printed by B. Alsop for Th. Walkley, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Eagle and Child in Britaines Burse, London : 1622. In verse. Signatures: A-B⁴ C² (-C2). Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. eng Vere of Tilbury, Horace Vere, -- Baron, 1565-1635 -- Poetry. eebo Pro Vere, autumni lachrymæ. Inscribed to the immortal memorie of the most pious and incomparable souldier, Sir Horatio Vere, Knight: besieged, and dis Chapman, George 1622 18 1429 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2002-08 Assigned for keying and markup 2002-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2002-10 Sampled and proofread 2002-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-12 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

PRO VERE , AVTVMNI LACHRYMAE . INSCRIBED TO THE IMMORTAL Memorie of the most Pious and Incomparable Souldier , Sir HORATIO VERE , Knight : Besieged , and distrest in MAINHEM . Pers: Sat: IV. — da verba & decipe neruos By GEO : CHAPMAN .

LONDON , Printed by B. Alsop for Th. Walkley , and are to be sold at his shop at the Signe of the Eagle and Child in Britaines Burse . 1622.

TO THE MOST WORTHILY HONORED and Iudicially-Noble Louer and Fautor of all Goodnesse and Vertue , ROBERT , Earle of SOMERSET , &c. ALL lest Good ; That but onely aymes at Great , I know ( best Earle ) may boldly make retreat To your Retreat , from this Worlds open Ill. Of Goodnesse therefore , The Prime part ( the Will ) Enflam'd my Pow'rs , to celebrate as farre As their force reacht , This Thunderbolt of Warre . His wisht Good , and the true Note of his Worth , ( Yet neuer , to his full Desert , set forth ) Being Root , and Top , to this his Plant of Fame . Which cannot furnish with an Anagram Of iust Offence , any Desire to wrest All the free Letters here ; by such a Test To any Blame : for equall Heauen auert , It should returne Reproach , to prayse Desert ; How haplesse , and peruerse , soeuer bee The Enuies , and Infortunes following Mee : Whose true , and simple-onely-ayme at Merit , Makes your acceptiue , and still-bettering Spirit My Wane view , as at Full still ; and sustaine A Life , that other subtler Lords disdaine : Being Suttlers more , to Braggart-written Men , ( Though still deceiu'd ) then any truest Pen. Yet Hee 's as wise , that to Impostors giues , As Children , that hang Counters on their sleeues : Or ( to pare all his Wisedome to the Quick ) That , for th' Elixar , hugges the Dust of Brick . Goe then your owne Way still ; and God with you Will goe , till his state all your steppes auow . The World still in such impious Error strayes , That all wayes fearefull are , but Pious wayes . Your best Lordships euer most worthily bounden , GEO : CHAPMAN .
PRO VERE , AVTVMNI LACHRYMAE . ALL my yeeres comforts , fall in Showres of Teares , That this full Spring of Man , This VERE of VERES , Famine should barre my Fruites , whose Bountie breedes them , The faithlesse World loue to deuoure who feedes them . Now can th' Exempt I le from the World , no more ( With all her arm'd Fires ) such a Spring restore . The dull Earth thinkes not This ; Though should I summe The Master-Martiall Spirits of Christendome , In his few Nerues ; My Summe ( t' a thought ) were true . But who liues now , that giues true Worth his due ? 'T is so diuine a Sparke , and loues to liue So close in Men ; that hardly it will giue The Owner notice of his Pow'r or Being . Nought glories to be seene , that 's worth the seeing . God , and all good Spirits , shunne all Earthy sight , And all true Worth , abhorres the guilty Light , Infus'de to few , to make it choice and deare , And yet how cheape the Chiefe of all is VERE ? As if his want , wee could with Ease supply . When should from Heauen fall His Illustrious Eye , We might a Bon-Fire thinke would fill his Sphere , As well as any other , make vp VERE . Too much this : why ? All know , that some one Houre Hath sent a Soule downe , with richer Dowre . Then many Ages after , had the Graces , To Equall in the Reach of all their Races . As when the Sunne in his Aequator shines , Creating Gold , and precious Minerall Mines In some one Soyle of Earth , and chosen Veine ; When , not 'twixt Gades and Ganges ▪ Hee againe Will daine t' enrich so , any other Mould . Nor did great Heauens free Finger , ( That extold The Race of bright ELIZA'S blessed Raigne , Past all fore-Races , for all sorts of Men , Schollers , and Souldiers , Courtiers , Counsellors ) Of all Those , chuse but Three ( as Successors ) Eyther to other , in the Rule of Warre ; Whose Each , was All , his three-Forckt-Fire and Starre : Their last , This VERE ; being no lesse Circular In guard of our engag'd Ile ( were he here ) Then Neptunes Marble Rampier : But ( being There Circled with Danger ( Danger to vs All ; As Round , as Wrackfull , and Reciprocall . Must all our Hopes in Warre then ▪ Safeties All ; In Thee ( O VERE ) confound their Spring and Fall ? And thy Spirit ( Fetcht off , Not to be confinde In lesse Bounds , then the broad wings of the Winde ) In a Dutch Cytadell , dye pinn'd , and pin'de ? O England , Let not thy old constant Tye To Vertue , and thy English Valour lye Ballanc't ( like Fortunes faithlesse Leuitie ) Twixt two light wings : Nor leaue Eternall VERE In this vndue plight . But much rather beare Armes in his Rescue , And resemble her , Whom long time thou hast seru'd ( The PAPHIAN Queene ) When ( all asham'd of her still-giglet Spleene ) She cast away her Glasses , and her Fannes , And Habites of th' Effeminate Persians , Her Ceston , and her paintings ▪ and in grace Of great LYCVRGVS , tooke to her Embrace , Cask , Launce , and Shield , and swum the Spartan Flood ( EVROTAS ) to his ayde , to saue the blood Of so much Iustice , as in him had feare To wracke his Kingdome . Be ( I say ) like her , In what is chaste , and vertuous , as well As what is loose , and wanton ; and repell This Plague of Famine , from thy fullest Man : For , to thy Fame , 't will be a blasting Ban , To let him perish . Battailes haue beene lay'd In Ballance oft , with Kingdomes ; and hee weigh'd , With Victorie , in Battailes . Muster then ( Onely for him vp ) all thy Armed Men , And in thy well-rigg'd Nymphs Maritimall , Ship them , and plough vp all the Seas of Gall , Of all thy Enemies , in their Armed Prease ; And ( past Remission ) flye to his Release . 'T is done , as sure as counsail'd : For who can Resist God , in the Right of such a Man ? And , with such Men , to be his Instruments , As hee hath made to liue in Forts and Tents , And not in soft SARDANAPALIAN Sties Of Swinish Ease , and Goatish Veneries . And know ( Great Queene of Iles ) That Men that are In Heauens Endowments , so Diuinely rare , No Earthy Powre should too securely dare To hazard with Neglect , since as much 't is , As if the Worlds begetting Faculties Should suffer ruine ; with whose losse would lye The World it selfe , and all Posteritie . For worthy men the breeders are of Worth , And Heauens broode in them ( cast as Offall forth ) Will quite discourage Heauen to yeeld vs more : Worths onely want , makes all Earths plenty , poore . But thou hast now a kind and Pious King , That will not suffer his immortall Spring To die vntimely ; if in him it lye , To lend him Rescue : Nor will therefore I Let one Teare fall more from my Muses Eye , That else ha's vow'd to pine with him , and dye . But neuer was ( in best Times most Abuses ) A Peace so wretched , as to sterue the Muses . FINIS .