Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester Volume 90, PT. 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...hath done. NOTE. On this poem, mis-assigned to Dyer, see our Introdudion. G. In obitum Elizabethen Crofte nuper uxoris Caroli Crofte Armigeri: B: hoc memories pignuspofuit. GENTLE beholder of thes dolefull Lynes, Wtb carefull Mutes and mournefull Accentes foundinge; Refolve to teares, veiwinge thes fad defignes Off dryry forrowe, and hartes deepeft wooundinge: Confuminge tyme, abridginge worlde's defire, Infultinge death, fearefull, p'digious, ftraunge, Eclipfinge, waxinge heate of nature's fyer, Wth wayninge, forc't and neceffary chaunge; Since you haue done yor worft to date her dayes, Whilome the worlde's, nowe heaven's abortive gueft, (I) this fadd memorie of her live's prayfe, P'fume to write, in fkillfull Artes the leafte. Shee was defcended of right gentle blood, Kynde, Corteous, affable and mylde by nature; Modeft her thoughtes, her difpoficon good, her mynde, Exchequer's ftore to every creature; her Confcience fpotles, her Religon pure, her life finceare, her ftuddie contemplacon; her hope was Heauen w life aye to indure her faithe was conftant, in her Soule's falvacon; her vertuous care, her children to directe Conforme to reafon, in her hufbande's will, her bountie to her fervantes, freindes refpecte, defire to helpe and wifhe noe neighbor ill: Thrice happie then breathles in Tombe that lyeft, earth hath but earth, thy better pte furvives. Aye live thy vertues to fucceedinge tyme, Thy death from lyfe, a fecond life derives. Death life confirmes, Heauen earthe vnite in one, Thy life in death and bliffe when worlde is done. In obitum generofijfimce Merialis Crompton nuper Vxoris Thome Crompton genoss . . hoc memoria pigniis pojfuit: Obijt: i y Maij Anno Dni. 1600. STEARNE death, the abridger of ye worlde's defire, Nature's..