❀ A morning DITI UPON THE DECEAS OF THE MOST noble Prins HENRY EARL of ARUNDEL, The ancient & Primer Coounte of England, and right honourable Baron Mautravers & Clun one of Gour most gracious Queen ELIZABETH'S Maiesteezes most honourable privy Coounsel, and of the right noble Order of the Garter the eloeu Knight: that departed in the Lord at hiz Place by Toour hill ny London, on Thurzday Saint Matthiez day the latter xxiiii. of February in the xxii. year of her highness most prosperoous Rein. 1579.  

CArez & complaints that rueful moornings may purport,  
proceeding from a mind with woezes oppressed:  
A heavy heart down sunk within the breast,  
A damped coountenauns devoid of all comfort,  
May best beseem the state of woeful wight:  
And so may sorroz smart, us rightfully compel  
With sighs profoound bewail in careful plight,  
The late deceas of him whooz honour did excel,  
HENRI that noble Prins the EARL of ARUNDEL. 
Descended-from Carolus magnus w bodied. at Aix 815.    

Born & allied in Line long & Heroical,  
Coomly in form of featurez & parsonage,  
Matched in hy & equal marriage, 
His first Wife Mary the Lord Marquis Dorsets daughter.   
Parent to one Worthy Lord & Ladyz two, withal: 
Henry lord Matravers   
For the rare bloomz of true nobility  
That first out budded in his tender spring, 
Lady jane married to john Lord Lumley. Lady Mary married to Thomas Duke of Norfolk.   
The Earl his Father yet alive, 
William  & he  
But Lord Mautravers: 
Anno xxx Hen. viii.  our late most famoous King  
Of Calais too him gave the trust & gooverning.   

The weighty charge whereof when he had underfong,  
He ransakld the orderz old & nu,  
The good he held in execution du,  
The bad he broke, and ay by justis righted wrong:  
With the tine French he tempered in such sort  
Az for his Proowes great & Pollecyz again,  
For feign to Prins & safety to the Fort,  
Both far & near it was pronoounced of all men.  
That Calais never had like Captain as then.   

our King him made upon this five years noble say, 
Captain of cales v. years.   
At Bullen siege by Marshal of hiz host: 
Lord Marshal at the siege of Bullen. An xxxv Henry viii.   
Wheraz hiz peinz his daungerz with the most,  
his valiauns by heart & hand was prompt all way.  
And though a molehill to a mooknt be small,  
For certain truth yet this the writer bringz to mind,  
Who served him there at these most actionz all:  
And for the grace enteet that ever he did find,  
May most deplore his death, but honour all his kind.   

The Prins benign anon soon as the tooun he won. 
xxxv. Hen. viii.  
Prou. 17.   
For servis hy ooon by this noble Peer,  
Chaz him too be one of hiz Coounsel near,  
Lord Chamberlain also: which Honorz after than  
King Edward gave him: but Queen Mary made,  
Him Prezident of Coounsel and Lord Stuard too be:  
Of our Queen eak that dignity he had. 
Anno i Regine Elizabeth.  
Prou. Ibidem.   
So as a thing it is right evident to see,  
In how great grace With all his Sooverainz was he.   

The higher karged ship, and deepar it doth draw,  
The danger more of storm of rock & sand,  
And blasts may blo that no state can withstand.  
At anchor holld of Fortitude when roze a flaw,  
He lay, with honour till he came to port.  
And as he thought none praized virtue as they owe,  
Unless their deedz true virtue did reaport,  
He surely for his part, commended virtue so,  
Az was his Embleam, LAUS VIRTUTIS ACTIO.   

For worthy pleazurz else: his Horse & Armour sitch.  
Hiz skill profoound in both, his  Queer  
By vois & Instruments so sweet to here,  
Hiz jewelz, Antiquiteezes, so many rare & rich,  
Hiz Tablz, Cloks, & his symmetrical  
Billdingz, so lumptuoously adoournd in every part:  
For end, his exquizit appointments all  
So excellent for cost, for hy devise & art,  
Az might be signz certain of his so noble heart.   

For servis then, for honour, or for hiz Princez pleasure, 
Twice Ambassador to King Philip in Flaunderz and chief Commisione: in Queen mary's days.   
How much joyed he there too be liberal?  
Of heart synceer toward the Noblz all,  
Too State of life he made his Birthdegree his measure,  
Ootherz merit small, much he would avauns  
Boounteous, benign, relieving many grievous gronez,  
In friendship firm for  change or chauns.  
But ah for woe: dear death not moovabl by monez,  
All these hiz shining lights quite quenched hath at onez.   

Obscuring orgulioously by dark & deadly blast,  
The lustr of jewel, the more inestimabl,  
Az is the loss so far irreperabl:  
An Earl, a Peer, a Prins, the only & the last  
Of that so by FITZ ALLENZ name & blood,  
But why so sharp O Memory dost thou declare  
Theez groudz of greevez: more meet wear for thy mood  
Sum Opium for sleep or else white Nenupbare,  
A sooup of Lethe's lake for to forget thy care.   

But now, az wants a chief one amoong the States high,  
So noble youth, & all of gentl heart:  
The Herallds sage, the wise & learned in Art, 
Born at Gaunt 1500 Croound Emperoor at Bonon● 1530.   
This forlorn scathe alas be wail may ruefully  
And thou infaust day, dismal, bisextill,  
Not hallt by Charliez birth & coronation sight  
So good, 
Charlez slain by conspiratoour● at Burges 1127. I. 〈◊〉 The french Kings poour 〈…〉 slain and he 〈…〉 takeat Pau● 〈…〉 1525. Io.  as too the Earl of Flaunders ill  
And too French Francis eak. O cruel in thy spite  
Woe worth the tune that now so soon the camest too light.   

But sins that, heavy spirit doth fret the mind to nought,  
Driez up the bonez & gallz the heart so sore,  
Healps not the case (God wots) a whit the more,  
By wizdoom than bethink we, herein as we ought,  
First that this Peer (hoow ever wear the case)  
With love of all Estatz in hearts sinceer enrolld,  
In honour pure did run his noble race,  
Then saw his Childerz Children (a crown to his years old  
Az Graundstre (to their glory) eak him they did behold.   

Who wear so virtuous all of mind & inclination  
As God took them, the sooner to be blest:  
Yet here left one to coountervail the rest,  
Of whooz increasing honour such is the expectation  
That in Avitall State & dignity  
Az he succeedz & luckily enjoyz the same,  
So hope is that through God's benignity:  
By him shall glister long in honour & in fame,  
The bright shine of the magnific ARUNDELLI name.   

Bethink we eak hoow well he dispozed thingz eachon,  
What tender words our Queen unto him sent:  
Whereat his heart did earn, his eiz relent,  
Reizd up his febl Spirit, that then by him anon  
into the Lords handz recommended is.  
In Fame & in Succession sins here he liveth ay,  
In Soul also too everlasting bits  
Let us by solas suppl oour sorroz az we may,  
And hope in Christ to have a joyful meeting day,   
Devinctissimò (pro facultate) Arundelius. Guil. P. G.  
¶ Born on Saint Georgez day 1512. Lived a Coounseller and in great Officez 43. year. Buried at Arundel in Sussex Tuisday the 22. of March An. R. R. E. 22.   

¶ Imprinted at London by john Allde.