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. emaieal » fs - Thatis,Lord Gy/fordand bis wife,yong and lefle worthy blame, _ Becaufe the Dukes their Fathers,all the Councell,all of name, _ Yea and King Edwards Pattents feald for them,not they,did frame ~ What fo was done in this, yeat they mutt perith for the fame, | Who higher then this Couple late 2 and who more wretched now ? _ Of more then muchremayned nought,nor law did life allow. _ Vohappie Youths,not for they die,but for the mutuall greefe, _ Of hin for her,of her for him, which tortur’d them in cheefe. _ Come was the day,the tragicke day,wherein they both fhould die _ When Either,paffing to their end,ech other did efpie, , _ Shee in her lodging waiting death, prepared her that day, _ And he in being lead thereto,her Lodging in his way. - Affending and diffending Signes then fy and fall apace, _ Andeach bemones the other more than mindes their priuate cace. _ Their Etes,thatlooked Loue ere wile,now looke their laft adew, | And ftaine their faces,faultles ere this difimall enter-vew : _ Their Eares,earft liftning ioies, are deafe,vnles to fighes profound:, _ Their tongs,earit talking ~ What parts foere of them had felt or tafted ioyes ere this, ~ Weare fenceles now of any ioy,faue hope of heauenly blis. . . } ‘NN | i] 5 be AM aa BAS Se ' ' ‘ z P * * . r ; a : He paflethto the fatall Blocke,fhe praying on her booke: “a hence(hauing nrade a godly end)he was return’d,whilft Shee Prepard for like, and of her Lord the fenceles Tronke didfee. _ _A fight more deathful than her death that thould confort him ftraite, And for the which her feareles cies did euery moment waite, . _ She vaabafhed mounting now the Skaffold,theare attends - The fatall Stroke, and ynto God her better parte commends, - Andas fhe liu’d a vertuous life fo vertuoufly the ends, » @ ws y ty 2 ioies,thofe looks & fighes did now cdfounde | Whilft Either thus for Earthly Pompe no longer time didlooke, — CHAP. bOOKS. COI