%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> A short Discourse of mans fatall / end with an vnfaygned, Commendation of the worthinesse / of Syr Nicholas Bacon, Knight, Lord Keeper of the great Seale of / England: Who disceased the xx. day of February. 1578. Ramsay, Laurence University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1578-1578 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/30/2012 32482

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S121831 Since God hath fyxt our dayes and yeares, to liue and eke to dye, / And takes his choice of vs his sheepe, what wight shal him deny? Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 18332 A short Discourse of mans fatall / end with an vnfaygned, Commendation of the worthinesse / of Syr Nicholas Bacon, Knight, Lord Keeper of the great Seale of / England: Who disceased the xx. day of February. 1578. A short Discourse of mans fatall end with an vnfaygned, Commendation of the worthinesse of Syr Nicholas Bacon, Knight, Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England: Who disceased the xx. day of February. 1578. 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 deceased the xx. day of February. 1578. Ramsay, Laurence 1578-1578 Timothy Ryder

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SInce God hath fyxt our dayes and yeares, to live and eke to dye, And takes his choice of us his sheepe, what wight shal him deny? But that he may without reiagge his creatures take and save, Yea heave them up, yea throw them down, from life unto the grave: Rejoice we then among the route, which doth this thing confesse, And pray that God may have his will, he teacheth us no lesse. And thanke him to, for all his giftes, and seeme not for to mourne, For that which he hath in himselfe, set downe ere we were borne. All tymes with him is not one houre, to age no subject is: All shall decay, yea heaven and earth, such power and glory is his, Borne all to dye, and dye we must, all flesh shall yeelde to death, The promisse made welcome the tyme, with fayth let go this breath. As now of late a worthy man, by God from hence is calde, Who doth not dye, but lyve for aye, and in the heavens is stalde: Whose lyfe on earth so well was knowne, to those of thankfull mynde, That which he did that justice had, that few lyke him I fynde. A subject true, in Councell grave, in sentence briefe and sure, A mynde bedect with equity, whose fame shall aye indure. To ritch and poore indifferent, respecting justice cause, To mitigate extremities, he sought and had the lawes: The patron of perswasions and enemy to all vice, He feared God, he lovd his prince, which shewde him very wise: No patch of popish mynde in him was ever found, But favoured those and helpt them to, which did the trueth expound. Lo this I thinke of duty right, of him thus to reporte, To give that thankes which I do owe, to all such worthy sorte: I not deny but greater Clarkes, may pen and paynte his prayse, With lofty verse heroicall, as was in Ovids dayes. But tell the troth, and flatter not, but speake as hart doth thinke A rarer man not in our dayes, nor lesse at wrong would winke: Then would this worthy Bacon Knight, and Lord by Princes will, Whose bodyes dead, whose soule doth lyve, and fame continewes still: And shall at last ryse up againe, in shape and perfect blisse, To take rewarde with the elect, which God doth count as his. Unto which hap God bring us all, when hence that we shall wend, For Gods good feare, and honest lyfe, doth bring a joyfull end. Sira. 17. Ephe. 1. Rom. 8. Mat. 25. Joh. 5. Rom. 8. Sam. 12. Phil. 4. Math. 6. Sam. 12. Eccle. 7 Ephe. 1. 2. Pet. 3. Mat. 24 Jame. 1. Rom. 9. Cor. 15. Pro. 1. Rom. 13 Joh. 3. Colos. 3 Rom. 12 Mat. 25. Rom. 13 Deu. 28. 29.30
FINIS. L. Ramsey. Imprinted at London for Timothy Ryder.