<p><term id="embstma_1667_09401"/>THE Princes greate, and Monarches of the earthe,<lb/> Whoe, while they liu'de, the worlde might not suffice:<lb/> Yet can they claime, by greatnesse of their birthe,<lb/> To beare from hence, when nature life denies,<lb/> Noe more then they, who for releife did pyne,<lb/> Which is but this, a shrouding sheete of twyne.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_09402"/>Thoughe fewe there bee, while they doe flourishe heere,<lb/> That doe regarde the place whereto the muste:<lb/> Yet, thoughe theire pride like <rs>Lucifers</rs> appeere,<lb/> They shalbee sure at lengthe to turne to duste:<lb/> The Prince, the Poore, the Prisoner, and the slaue,<lb/> They all at lengthe, are summon'de to their graue.<lb/> <pb n="embstma_1667_fac087"/> But, hee that printes this deeplie in his minde,<lb/> Althoughe he set in mightie <persName>CAESARS</persName> chaire,<lb/> Within this life, shall contentation finde,<lb/> When carelesse men, ofte die in great dispaire:<lb/> Then, let them blusshe that woulde be Christians thought,<lb/> And faile hereof, Sith Turkes the same haue taught.<lb/> As <persName>SALADINE</persName>, that was a Souldaine greate<lb/> Of <rs>Babilon</rs>, when deathe did him arreste,<lb/> His subiectes charg'd, when he shoulde leaue his seate,<lb/> And life resigne, to tyme, and natures heste:<lb/> They should prepare, his shyrte vppon a speare,<lb/> And all about forthwith the same shoulde beare.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_09403"/>Throughe <rs>ASCHALON</rs>, the place where he deceaste,<lb/> With trumpet Sounde, and Heralte to declare,<lb/> Theise wordes alowde: The Kinge of all the Easte<lb/> Great <persName>SALADINE</persName>, behoulde is stripped bare:<lb/> Of kingdomes large, and lyes in house of claie,<lb/> And this is all, he bare with him awaie.<lb/> <gloss target="embstma_1667_09401" lang="la"><name type="author">Horat.</name> 1. Carm. 4.<lb/> Pallida mors aequo pul-<lb/> sat pede pauperum ta-<lb/> bernas,<lb/> Regúmq. turres, &amp;c.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_09402" lang="la"><name type="author">Propertius</name> 2. 28.<lb/> Haud vllas portabis opes<lb/> Acherontis ad vndas:<lb/> Nudus ab inferna<lb/> stulte vehere rate.<lb/> Victor cum victis pari-<lb/> ter miscebitur vmbris,<lb/> Consule cum <persName>Mario</persName><lb/> capte <persName>Iugurtha</persName> sedes.</gloss> <pb n="embstma_1667_fac087"/> <gloss target="embstma_1667_09403" lang="la">Vrbs Palaestinae.</gloss> </p>

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Ad Reverendum virum Dn. Alexandrum Nowell Paulinae ecclesiae Londini Decanum, doctrina & exemplo clarum

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Saladin's shirt stuck on a lance

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61B2(NOWEL, Alexander)3

61B2(SALADIN [of Egypt, Syria, Yemen and Palestine])3

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A dead man's riches

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