Wert thou as strong as mighty Hercules, That tamed the huge monsters of the world, Playedst thou as sweet, on the sweet sounding lute, As did the spouse of fair Eurydice, That did enchant the waters with his noise, And made stones, birds, and beasts, to lead a dance, Constrained the hilly trees to follow him, Thou couldst not move the judge of Erebus, Nor move compassion in grim Pluto's heart;For fatal Mors expecteth all the world, And every man must tread the way of death.
Brave Tantalus, the valiant Pelops' sire, Guest to the gods, suffered untimely death, And old Tithonus, husband to the morn, And eke grim Minos, whom just Jupiter Deigned to admit unto his sacrifice.
The thundering trumpets of blood-thirsty Mars, The fearful rage of fell Tisiphone, The boistrous waves of humid Ocean, Are instruments and tools of dismal death.
Then, novel cousin, cease to mourn his chance, Whose age & years were signs that he should die.
It reseth now that we inter his bones, That was a terror to his enemies.
Take up the course, and, princes, hold him dead, Who while he lived, upheld the Trojan state.
Sound drums and trumpets; march to Troinouant, There to provide our chieftain's funeral.
[Exeunt.]
