¶ A short Discourse of man's fatal end with an unfeigned, Commendation of the worthiness of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Knight, Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England: Who diseased the xx. day of February. 1578.  ❧ All flesh is grass, 
1. Peter. 1  and all the glory of man is as the flower of grass, 
james. 1.  the grass withereth, and the flower falleth away, but the word of the Lord endureth for ever. 
Sirrah. 14.  ❧ Christ is to us life, 
Philip. 1.  and death to us advantage. 

SInce God hath fixed our days and years, 
Sirrah. 17.  to live and eke to die,  
And takes his choice of us his sheep, 
Ephe. 1  what wight shall him deny?  
But that he may without reiagge his creatures take and save, 
Rom. 8.   
Yea heave them up, 
Mat. 25.  yea throw them down, from life unto the grave:  
Rejoice we then among the rout, 
joh. 5.  which doth this thing confess,  
And pray that God may have his will, 
Rom. 8.  he teacheth us no less.  
And thank him to, 
Sam. 12.  for all his gifts, and seem not for to mourn,  
For that which he hath in himself, 
Phil. 4.  set down ere we were borne.  
All times with him is not one hour, 
Math. 6.  to age no subject is:  
All shall decay, 
Sam. 12.  yea heaven and earth, such power and glory is his,  
Born all to die, 
Eccle. 7.  and die we must, all flesh shall yield to death,  
The promiss made welcome the time, 
Ephe. 1  with faith let go this breath.  
As now of late a worthy man, 
2. Pet. 3.  by God from hence is called,  
Who doth not die, 
Mat. 24  but live for ay, and in the heavens is stalled:  
Whose life on earth so well was known, 
jame. 1.  to those of thankful mind,  
That which he did that justice had, 
Rom. 9  that few like him I find.  
A subject true, 
Cor. 15.  in Council grave, in sentence brief and sure,  
A mind bedecked with equity, whose fame shall ay endure.  
To rich and poor indifferent, respecting justice cause,  
To mitigate extremities, he sought and had the laws:  
The patron of persuasions and enemy to all vice,  
He feared God, 
Pro. 1.  he loud his prince, which shrwde him very wise:  
Not patch of popish mind in him was ever found, 
Rom. 13   
But favoured those and helped them to, 
joh. 3.  which did the truth expound.  
Lo this I think of duty right, of him thus to report,  
To give that thanks which I do own, to all such worthy sort:  
I not deny but greater Clerks, may pen and paint his praise,  
With lofty verse heroical, as was in Ovid's days.  
But tell the troth, and flatter not, but speak as heart doth think  
A rarer man not in our days, nor less at wrong would wink:  
Then would this worthy Bacon Knight, and Lord by Princes will,  
Whose body's dead, 
Colos. 3  whose soul doth live, and fame continewes still:  
And shall at last rise up again, 
Rom. 12  in shape and perfect bliss,  
To take reward with the elect, 
Mat. 25.  which God doth count as his.  
Unto which hap God bring us all, 
Rom. 13  when hence that we shall wend,  
For Gods good fear, 
Deu. 28. 29. 30  and honest life, doth bring a joyful end.   
L. Ramsey.  
FINIS.   

 

   

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