A sad and deplorable loving elegy consecrated to the living memory of his best assured friend, the generally beloved, M. Richard Wyan deceased, late his Majesties proctor for the high court of the Admiralty. Who departed this life at his house at Bryl in Buckinhamshire, on Thursday the 16. of August last. 1638.

A sad and deplorable loving elegy consecrated to the living memory of his best assured friend, the generally beloved, M. Richard Wyan deceased, late his Majesties proctor for the high court of the Admiralty. Who departed this life at his house at Bryl in Buckinhamshire, on Thursday the 16. of August last. 1638.

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A sad and deplorable loving Elegy consecrated to the living memory of his best assured friend, the generally beloved, M. Richard Wyan deceased, late his Majesties Proctor for the high Court of the Admiralty. Who departed this life at his house at Bryl in Buckinhamshire, on thursday the 16. of August last. 1638.

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A sad and deplorable loving Elegy consecrated to the living memory of his best assured friend, the generally beloved, M. Richard Wyan deceased, late his Majesties Proctor for the high Court of the Admiralty. Who departed this life at his house at Bryl in Buckinhamshire, on thursday the 16. of August last. 1638.

IT may be good to live, but well to live

Is such a Good, as few men can Achieve:

The more we live, the more we do offend,

The way to Heav'n's a good and speedy end:

Th' Almighty Landlord (who doth all things sway,

Doth let mans Soule a Tenement of clay,

And Man is no Free-holder, but is still

A Tenant only at the Landlords will.

They are but Leases, till our Lives expire,

And thankes is all the Rent God doth require.

And such a one was He, of whom I write,

Who liv'd as ever in His makers sight:

Who day and night did humbly pay his rent

Of thankes and praise for his fraile Tenement.

Not only words, but reall deedes declar'd

His love, His zeale, obedience and regard

He ow'd to God and Man, to each degree

His Heart, his Hand, his pen and purse were free.

The poore mans Patron in distressed state,

The rich mans patterne, how to imitate.

Religion was His Pilot, and did steere

His course of life, and all his actions here.

With courage daily he did Death defie,

His heart was fix'd on immortality;

And one good precept, never he forgot,

To use the World, as if hee us'd it not.

Wherefore th' Almighty (in His gracious Doome,)

Hath pluck'd him hence, from ills that are to come.

The poore have greatest losse, they weeping know,

He would not say God helpe, but help'd their woe.

The State hath lost a Servant of great Trust,

His friends have lost a friend assured, just.

His vertuous wife and children, great and small,

Brother and sisters, Kin, in generall

Have all receiv'd a losse, so great that we

Can never hope that it repair'd shalbe.

But I have lost a friend, beyond a brother,

For I nere had, nor shall have such another.

But here's our comfort, though grim Death assail'd him,

His Faith, his trust, and confidence nere fail'd him:

And though we all have lost him, God hath found him,

And with eternall happinesse hath crown'd him.

Iohn Taylor.

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A sad and deplorable loving elegy consecrated to the living memory of his best assured friend, the generally beloved, M. Richard Wyan deceased, late his Majesties proctor for the high court of the Admiralty. Who departed this life at his house at Bryl in Buckinhamshire, on Thursday the 16. of August last. 1638.

Taylor, John, 1580-1653.

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1638

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A13492

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STC 23790

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ESTC S102631

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99838403

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99838403

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2779

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— A sad and deplorable loving elegy consecrated to the living memory of his best assured friend, the generally beloved, M. Richard Wyan deceased, late his Majesties proctor for the high court of the Admiralty. Who departed this life at his house at Bryl in Buckinhamshire, on Thursday the 16. of August last. 1638., Taylor, John, 1580-1653..

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