Compare 1587 edition: 1 EEBO page image 114 His deſcription.This Earle was a goodly and perſonable noble man, full of honour, which was not one|ly lodged inwardly in his mynde, but alſo hee bare it outwardly in countenaunce. As franke and as liberall as his calling required. A deepe and a farre reaching head. In a good quarell ra|ther ſtout than ſtubborne bearing himſelfe with no leſſe courage, when he reſiſted, than with ho|nourable diſcretion, where he yeelded. A fauou|rer of peace, no furtherer of warre, as one that preferred vnlawfall quietneſſe before vpright troubles, beeing notwithſtanding of as greate wiſedome in the one, as of valour in the other. An earneſt and a zealous vpholder of his coun|trey, in all attemptes rather reſpecting the pub|lique weale, than his priuate gaine. Whereby he bounde his Countrey ſo greatlye vnto him, that Irelande might with good cauſe wiſh that eyther he had neuer beene borne, or elſe that hee had neuer deceaſſed, ſo it were lawfull to craue him to bee immortall, that by courſe of nature was framed mortall. And to giue ſufficient proufe of the entyre affection he bare his Coun|trey, and of the zealous care he did caſt thereon, he betooke in his death bed his ſoule to God, his carkaſſe to Chriſtian buriall, and his heart to his Countrey, declaring thereby, that where his minde was ſetled in his life, his heart ſhoulde be there entombed after his death. Which was ac|cording to his will accompliſhed. For his heart was conueyed to Irelande, and lyeth engraued in the Chore of the Cathedrall Church in Kil|kennie, where his aunceſters for the more part are buried. Vpon which kinde legacie this Epi|taph was deuiſed.

His Epitaph.Cor patriae fixum viuens, iam redditur illi,

Poſt mortem, patriae quae peracerba venit.

Non ſine corde valet mortalis viuere quiſqn,

Vix tua gens vita permanet abſ tua.

Quae licet i [...]foelix extincto corde fruatur,

Attamen optato viuere corde nequit.

Ergo qurd haec faciat? quem re non poſsit amorem

Cordi vt tam charo reddere corde velit.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The effect of which Epitaph is thus Eng|liſhed.