The Apprentices Lamentation, TOGETHER, VVith a dolefull Elegie upon the manner of the Death of that Worthy, and Val [...] rous Knight Sr. RICHARD WJSEMAN.
The Apprentices Lamentation for the death of Sir RICHARD WISEMAN.
THus died the
Mirrour of the times; whose
Fate
We dare not murmure at, to expostulate,
And reason with the
Deity, t, were sinne,
Nor dare we wish the act undone againe,
With browes contracted and with moistned eyes
'Tis lawfull to lament his
Obsequies.
And not to praise his Worth were to detract
Here an omission would be thought an
Act
Of base Ingratitude; and yet who knowes
T'expresse his reall worth in Verse or Prose,
Rhethorique's too barren, and all words to few
To shadow forth those
Prayses that are due
To his blest memory, since we cannot praise
Enough his matchlesse Virtue; we will raise
Our meditations, let our thoughts aspire,
And what we cannot praise enough; admire:
And least wee seeme t'envie thy blessed State,
(Blest to eternity) by our too late
Laments. We'ele stop the floudgates of our eyes,
And cease to weep for thy sad
Obsequies.
Stop our teares current, and forbeare to moane,
And turne our griefe to imitation.
ELEGIES on the Death of Sr. RICHARD WISEMAN.
AND shall the
Fates thus uncontrould
Rob us of that which we doe hold
Most sacred, must pure
Ʋirtue bee
The Subject of their crueltie.
Will not their too impious hand
Be swai'd by
Wis
[...]domes counter man'd▪
Curst be the worthlesse man that threw
The fatall stone, sure he well knew
His
Ʋalour, that he durst not trie
A
Combat for the Victory,
But had he knowne his
Wisedome too
He would not then have dar'd to doe,
An
Act so horrid unto one,
Who came so neere
Perfection.
But twas thy
Fate (dece
[...]sed Friend) to be
Th'untimely Subject of his cruelty;
What direfull
Fate soever stops his breath,
Yet see the
Wiseman triumphs in his Death.
P. W.
FINIS.
Printed for WILLIAM LARNAR.