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S1621 IF euer Realme had cause to rue / The death and losse of any one Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 1 An Epytaphe upon the Death / of M. Rycharde Goodricke Esquier An Epitaph upon the Death of M. Richard Goodrich Esquire M., R. ?-?

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YF ever Realme had cause to rue The death and losse of anyone Then hath this realme just cause and true This worthy dead man, to bemone By whom suche treasure theyr is loste As scant the lyke, in Englandes coste. A heade where learned Pallas sate And settled wysdome dwelte lykewyse And grounded skyll, for common state That with forecaste, coulde well devyse Where learnynge syttes, with skyll & wyt Suche one to rule, who thynkes not fyt. A tonge that prudently coulde saye What myght be sayde, and that with spede A wyt that knewe, no stoppe nor staye To gyve advyse, in tyme of need A fytter matche, there coulde not be Then tonge and wyll, thus to agree. A hearte moste earnest to mayntayne Goddes trueth and his unspotted lawe No hope of mede, no feare of payne From care of that, coulde hym withdrawe O blessed realme, whose rulers be So zelous in that thinge as he A man moste redy to defende A ryght, and here a poore mans cause No threatnynge foe, no fawnynge frende Coulde make hym do, agaynste the lawe As Lawes defende, a trueth and right So Lawyers shulde, with all theyr might Thus then the poore, his helpe doth mys And Pallas lackes, her learned knyght The Lawe doth lacke, a lyght of his The Realme hath loste, a worthy wyght And that whiche is the greatest gryefe Goddes worde hath lost, a membre chiefe. And yet not lost, whom Christ hath founde And placed in heaven, I doubte it not Thus he that lackte his legges on grounde Before us all, to heaven is got. To heaven we se, the nearest waye Is vertue then, there is no naye.
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