The prologue to my lord, my lord 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉  

ROULIN ●in mind, the 〈…〉 estait:  
Of mortal men, and infortunity,  
The heavy labour, travel and debate,  
A mixed to theme, from their nativity.  
Sparring no man, of h●e nor low degree,  
I sand nothing, moir truely of to treait:  
Than prove man subject, unto misery.   

Yet seeing that, the worldly foolish men,  
Can not parsaive, this sentence to be sure,  
I thought it good, for to prepair my pen:  
This to descrive, with all my busy cure,  
Of sapience: all thought I be impure,  
Yet know I well, that God will grace him leu:  
That calais on him, with con●idence most sure.   

Upon non other, therefore will I cry:  
But only, on that Lord celestial,  
thought poetis used, in there poetry:  
On many sindry; goddesses to call,  
How far from wisdom, did those ●oles fall,  
On such a wise: their pennis to apply,  
Where help was none, for to be had at all.   

O Lord her 〈…〉 made 〈…〉,  
The Sun, 〈…〉, the 〈…〉,  
All sishe: and 〈…〉, herb and g●●wing ●●ie,  
The stars, rainbow, air and 〈◊〉,  
O thou that knowest, my mind & whole intent,  
〈◊〉 me? with thy Spirit of verity:  
To dite, and write, my purpose subsequent.   

It is an mirror, Lord I muse to make:  
Wherein all Christians, may behold and sie,  
Their sinful lives, they l●●d with sham● and lake,  
In to this world, and ●a●ll of m●serie,  
It is a● glass that pa●●tes ou● specially,  
The sharp threatening, the ●●● did o● us take,  
Declaring, if we sinned we sh●●de die.   

And how that Aedam: our progenitor,  
In Paradise did breck the lords command,  
Heir may thou (gentle reader) any hour:  
That carefulll ca●ce, per●●telie understand,  
His enemies all, that held Adam in band,  
And how that Christ, became his Sa●●our  
And made us 〈◊〉 whom he in bandage found.   

The second part: declares to the plain,  
Of the poor ●●●●er, an co●fessione,  
How he hath spent: his life and time in vain,  
And how he doth 〈◊〉, his great tr●sgress●o●e,  
Which he hath used, a contra●●e his professione:  
And how that Christ, our Lord and sovereign:  
Hath saved him, his seed, and his successione.   

And last of all, here 〈…〉 thou see:  
Now that all they, 〈…〉,  
Must 〈◊〉 truble, and 〈…〉  
As did our 〈…〉,  
And all his Prophets, from the beginning,  
●ere persecute, and 〈◊〉 patiented lie,  
As we must do, if we with Christ would ring.   

And when I had, this volume fabricat:  
And put in rhyme▪ in rude and rural st●●●,  
With heart, and hand I did it dedicat,  
To you my Lord, than master of Argile,  
Though from your presence, I was many mile:  
●et hearing of your honour auriat,  
Bend to god's word, I did the same compile.   

And though it be, of eloquence de●●de,  
It is no wonder, for when this work I wrought:  
As I do yet, then small I understand,  
Of books nor authors, to study had I nought,  
Which unto knowledge, of Scripture should me brought,  
For preso●er, I was then to conclude:  
In the Bastillie, where such could not be bought.   

Four years in prison, they held me their express,  
Four months, and four weeks als certain,  
Four days, four hours, in number and no less,  
I did into the Bastillie remain:  
For God's word, as it is known plain,  
And for no laws, that I had done transgress,  
Nether to God, nor to my soucraine.   

Heirfor 〈◊〉 it sinell not of 〈◊〉  
But is of 〈◊〉 and cade●●●, cl●●ne con●●●●●  
All gentle 〈◊〉 I pray you h●●●tfull●e:  
To hold me partly, in s●●e ca●se crcu●●●  
 I was then, in presone inclu●it,  
Where I might no wise, use my liberty,  
Thought s●me dispraise it: I ●ouet non● to ruse●●.   
❧ Non est mortale quod ●●to▪ ❧   

❧ The mirror of a●e Christian, Composed, and drawn fourth of the Scripture●▪ by Robe●● Norn●ll, men of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lord of ●●●ams 〈◊〉, bur●●g the time of his capti●iti● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Bash●lie, for the 〈◊〉 of our Sa●●●●r ●●sus Christ. (⸪)  

THR● Inimics, had Adam principal, 
●. Cor. 3. Rom. ●. Psal. 14. 1. ●or. 15   
That maid him sclave, to theme after his fall.  
The law was one, that did torigour leid,  
The next was sin, and the third so was died,  
The law by right did rule, and was his guide:  
But sin right soon, their under did him hide.   

First under law, sin sand occasione:  
To shaw himself, than gave possessione, 
1. Cor. ●●   
To Satan, as the law beareth witness.  
After that Adam, knew the will express,  
Of God, than Satan raging 'gan to spring,  
To tempt man's flesh, and theirin to ring:  
Where he maid it thrall, to these fois three, 
〈◊〉. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.   
Of sin, the law and deaths extremity.   

The Law to man, did Ceriouslie command: 
〈◊〉. 12. ●al. ●. 1. ●or. 15   
To obey God, the flesh did it withstand,  
Because it could not, all the Law fulfil:  
Maid place to sin, and leit him work his will.   

So sin to death 〈…〉 passage by his might,  
Then death began to 〈…〉 and was most wight,  
Those three didso●e, their high power persave: 
〈◊〉. ●. Heb. ●.   
Their great empire, and paussance they did have.   

●pon an day, their loud trumpets did blaw, 
Exod. 19   
On ●● high rock, sin down to us did shaw.  
The sharp decretes, and laws most austear. 
Ephe. ●.   
With sore threatenings, right horrible to hear,  
In wildi●nes, which barraume was of fruit:  
Of herb or grass, it was cleave destitute,  
Men lost their time, to laubour or manure, 
Exod. 19   
All was but stony rocks, and haddry mu●e,  
Without moistues, as do our fathers tell:  
Replete with dragons, and with serpents fell.   

This mount was named, in Hebrew Sinai,  
And called Agar, in Arrabic I say:  
With fearful rocks, so high was never seen,  
With misty clouds, whose tops was covered clean:  
His widdered head, bald, bentic black and baire,  
Whose hideous height, was moutid in the nire.  
So that few durst approach, or yet cum near:  
That ugly mont, for terror and for fere.   

On that mont found the Law a proper place:  
For till disclose, and shaw her rigorous face.   

In mids of that mont, a● seat was wrought,  
Right rich and lucent, where their lacked nought,  
All round a bout that face, an fire did flow: 
Exod. 19   
That kest huge light, with fire and birning low,  
Like as the hole mont, would consume and burn:  
They thought suddanly, it would in puldi● turn.   

One such an wise men thought, that fire 〈◊〉 
Deut. 4.   
would burn the heaven, the earth, and 〈◊〉  
Which signified, an great puissance amoved,  
With ire, and wroth, where all should be reproved:  
Such sum, with darkness, A fire proceeding bold  
A stonist all, the folk did it behold.   

Above this fire, an ugly cloud astayed,  
Whose heavy hue, all regions made afraid:  
None other ways, these vapours did appear:  
Nor when the son, is most serene and clear,  
As when before, the thunder cumnis one blot,  
Likewise abode, this black and heavy spot.  
With sad and heavy womb, withouten mirth,  
All ready to bring forth, and beir an● birth.  
Which signified, to every wight certain: 
Ben. 6.   
God ready to destroy, the flesh human.   

The golden bow, was not seen ready bend:  
Nor yet his purpour, colours consequent,  
That God himself, of his beniguitie,  
Gave in token, and gage, to signify:  
By his divine, and royal ordinance,  
That he by ●●oudes, nor waters abundance,  
No more again, the world he would destroy:  
Which league of love, he made to father Noye.   

And sindry times, yet we may see our cell, 
Ben. 9   
Now that a cloud, begins to grow and swell,  
By God's might, to mollify the ground,  
Numeditie makes fruits till abound.   

Great difference is, betuix these Clouds twane,  
The one betokeneth grace, the other pa●e.  
With fire slaughtis, tumbling and sterility, 
Exod. 19   
With thundering, roaring and calamity.   

In mids of this cloud prodigious,  
There sat the Law, both hold and rigorous: 
Rom. 8   
With sad and heavy, 〈◊〉 decreit,  
To vex and noye, of man the flesh and spreit. 
Col. 2.   
O heavy sentence which we can not withstand,  
Who shall us plit, forth of thy yoke and band?  
O hard and cruel, art thou all to giddy,  
O judgement sharp, and fearful to considdir: 
Ephe. 2. Deut. 11, 17, ● 28. levit. 2.   
Saying that mercy, ought not to be shawn,  
To them that is, with sin infect and known.  
Decerning us all, wicked and forlorue,  
That is of sinful seed, consavit and borne. 
Deut. 12 & 17.    

All man is cursed, was writtin there until,  
Which did not hole the laws charge fulfil,  
Who then neglectis. they shall without remead:  
Condamned be, to suffer double dead,  
Cursed be his house, fruit, corn and bestial,  
That doth not keep, these laws & precepts all.   

O Israel, considdir consequent? 
Deut. 4, & 5. Exod. 3, & 4. Deut. 11, 17, & 18. levit. 2.   
The laws of God, in this his parliament,  
I am saith he, an God right jealous,  
That doth behold, your leving vicious,  
On you shall bide, my indignatione:  
Upon your seed, and generatione.   

I am the God, that searches thy offence,  
I send both hunger, dearth and pestilence:  
I move strong wars, & cruel battles saire,  
I kill, I slay, I venge both layt and air.   

He saith not heir, he would thy father be,  
To draw the forth of: woe and misery,  
He said not heir, thy sin I wipe away,  
But with great boast, and 〈◊〉 the did sraye:  
His mighty thundering voice, 〈◊〉 thou did heir, 
〈◊〉 ●●.   
Then prayed thou, for terror bread and feire,  
He would not speak, but with thy true conductor:  
Whom he prepared, to be thy just instructor.  
His awful sight, did Moses sore molest:  
Yet had not been, his hindir part celest,  
Where he persavit, the humble sueit visage,  
Of God's Son, and the perfit image,  
For verraye fear, he had died in that place:  
No man on live, might look him in the face.   

O poor Adam: who haveth the ●astard wrought? 
Exod. ●●   
Why fled thou him: that haith made the of nought?  
Who haveth the made: so vile and so sawaige:  
To sly thy maker's voice, and his langaige.  
Who made the so: but sin that rest thy force,  
Dishereist thee, then show thy naked corce.  
And sine when thou: was made of 〈◊〉 all bare,  
Thou would not grant, thy fault nor it declare, 
Ben. ●.   
But thou durst 〈◊〉, by one carnal way:  
Excuse thy fault, and to the Lord did say,  
The woman that thou made, marrow unto me,  
She gart me eat, the apple of the tree.  
Then soon after, of sin thou felt the price:  
Yet weighed thou not, the burden of thy vice. 
Ben. ●. Ecclesi. ●●. Rom. ●. ●●.   
Because that sin, was first by the committed:  
All thy hole raice, with the same sinot was sinitted,  
Before the Law, that sin was not expressed,  
But the Law made it: plane and manifest.   

As birning cools, under the ashes ra●ked,  
In sire do sleep, yet when they are awaked:  
To their own nature, 〈◊〉 incline ●ull right,  
〈◊〉 their heat, 〈◊〉 they shaw the light.   

Likewise before the 〈◊〉, sin lay as dead, 
Rom. 5▪ & 7. Osce 13.   
And had no strength, to rise nor lift his head,  
But when the Law: with might and force began,  
Then sin upstart, and he invadid man, 
Rem. 7. Heb. 2. ●. Cor. 15   
When he had won: the battle and the prise,  
He led man as him list, at his devise.  
And made him thrall, to all iniquity:  
And made him bair, of bless and dignity.  
Brought him in bondaige, where he before was frank:  
For water of life, her filthy dubbiss dranck: 
Gen. 3.   
For odoriferant air, and fruits good:  
He got but cankered mist, and scrabs rude:  
For constant conscience, and tranquillity: 
2. Esd. 7 Exod. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, & 11.   
An troubled spirit, full of fragility:  
This sin, I may compare to Pharo fell:  
That never would, permit to Israel:  
To part nor pass, forth of that painful place:  
To honour God, nor thank him of his grace.  
Sin that tyrane, to augment their woe:  
As sleughound tried: their traces to and fro,  
Following the footsteps, of the Law so near: 
Apoc. 12.   
Then subtle Satan, sweftelie can appear:  
Them to accuse, with visage ●ul of scorn, 
Sap. 2.   
Was never seen, an monster so defornie:  
His ugly eine how holked in his heed:  
Was like to firebrands, in an furnes read:  
Ane stinking breath, forth of his breast ran out, 
Apoc. ●0   
His ●ongue the gaullis of dragons forth did spout:  
His monstrous mouth, that many had oppressed,  
Of hydra all the vennom: forth it ●est,  
His filthy singers foul were fabricat:  
With blood of men, they were overspread and wat,  
Stryse, debait, blasphemy and occisione:  
With torment ire: wroth and derisione,  
Inuy pride, furor: and such an wicked meinze:  
war of his court, all under an handseinze.  
That he might better, his propose fulfil, 
Apoc. 6.   
Ire from above, did give him strength at will:  
And so perceiving his force, great strength & might, 
job 1, 14.   
Then he began, to tempt all kind of wight.  
There he red ●o●the, an story lamentable,  
Sa●ing I Satan, gart man hold as fable: 
Apoc. ●●   
The word of God, and caused him neglect,  
His first command, and hold of none effect.  
There was remembered, the tree of saptence, 
Gen. ●, ●   
With heavy thoughts, and grudge of conscience.  
There was how Adam, enterprised to be, 
Esai●●.   
Equal with God: his Lord in all degree:  
And how that he forsuke, the word divine,  
And for his lust, to Satan did incline.  
There was also, marked manifestly:  
Fraud and dissait, proceeding 'gree by grie:  
with all abuses, forfaltes and offence:  
That man committis, of will or negligence.  
How sin took root, in maunis nature humane 
Rom. 3.   
Is clearly seen, and how it dois remain,  
And how foolish: and ignairs war abused,  
That thought throw ignorance, to be excused: 
1. Cori●. 14.   
A man that is, accused of an crime,  
And would defend his cause, should he take sign, 
R●m ●.   
For advocate, and principal 〈◊〉  
His accusers' companion, day and 〈◊〉,   

Sir John ignorance, is domestical:  
To thy so, no officer in●ernall  
That haveth their master, moir seruit nor he 
2. Cor. 4   
Dar thou take such an man of Law for thee,  
Their never was man, that to him credit gave:  
But he lost their cause, & did theme cleine deceive.  
Their is no such so, to that word divine,  
As ignorance, that leadis man to ruin. 
1. Corin. 14.   
Under whose wings, as an buy byke or hive,  
Is bred all vice: in any man on live,  
As Paul doth write, if thou thyself abuse:  
Think not thy dotage, shall thyself excuse.   

 ignorance, many haith devoird,  
Who dotis at length, with daffing shall be sinoird.  
Who will not join themselves, to discipline,  
But still from knowledge, & wisdom will decline,  
Without the Law: and be with vice inflammid, 
Rom. 2,   
Without the Law, so shall they be condemned.  
Their is some others, would an folly found,  
Because the flesh, doth in it self abound: 
Rom. 8.   
And of itself, from sin can not abstain,  
Those ignorantes, without reason maintain,  
How all that lieth not: in our free will,  
Should not to us, be holdin vice nor ill. 
3. Reg. 8    

As who would say, that God his creat●ure:  
wrought wrong to punish, the will of nature. 
Esa. 54.   
Hearken and heir, an like similitude,  
If in an harbere, among flowers good, 
prover. 21.   
Spra●g bryeres or weides, of filth or bittirnesse:  
Shulee men them pluck, or let them still increase?  
By this reason, we should tho●e every where,  
The wolf the fox, the wood and bousteous bear,  
To kill: all kind of tender bestial, 
Gal. 5.   
And let all vermin, work their natural.  
Thus when that the flesh, doth in such error rave,  
It freedom seeketh, and would all pleasures have. 
Deut. 18   
The nature of the flesh, doth still delight:  
To ease the self, and blame the holy write,  
And would it wreist, unto an carnal sense: 
Esa. 3.   
Whose reasons oft are turned to offence,  
Good intentes, without charity and faith, 
Zacha. 1, Rom. 3, & 9   
Provokes oft-times, God's ire and wraith.  
Silence to all men, is convenient,  
And not but why, nor wherefore to invent  
ought of ourselves: that can no good considder,  
, that it haveth pleased him to confidder,  
The sins of Adam: upon all his raice, 
Esa. 43.   
Is no remeid, but call on him for grace.   

Then after sin, come death right doutable, 
Say, 1.   
With birning brimstone: and oils horrible,  
That no man might behold, for sink and stink,  
On Adam ran and said: as I do think,  
Sen thou and all thy raice, haveth done rebel.:  
I shall the with thy said, send down to hell. 
Apoc. 6.    

Thus death in his right hand, one coupe he bair:  
Full of cursing, of sorrow woe and cair:  
With hard, and fearful execrationes:  
And with pestiferent inflammationes, 
Death for Satan.   
For the desires of death, and his intent▪  
He dressed him sprinkle, his poisons pestilent,  
On jew on Greek, 〈◊〉 other nation.  
But where as fell, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●ation, 
〈◊〉.   
In haist they ware, 〈◊〉 so appeir,  
Where they with torments, terrors & with feir:  
With double dolour, and with woe tyrannical, 
Apoc. ●.   
They harled ware, to the pains infernal.  
O poor Adam, take head and now behold,  
How thy own self, hath the wedsett and sold:  
Under that hard: and terrible tutor 
Rom. 6.   
Before the was set fire and water pure,  
Thou had free will, to choose in to that stead,  
But thou refused life, and choosed dead: 
Rom. 6.   
Thou choosed thy ●o, for aye over the to ring,  
That fello●e ●o was over thee, both Lord & King,  
To serve him as an slave, did the compel:  
And for reward, ●● promise got b●t hell.   

Take head, of these thy so●s and considder,  
How they have sworn, thy death all three together.  
All thought a foir, the wordless fundatione,  
Before the coupe, of indignatione, 
Ephe. 1.   
Before the Sun the Moon, or element,  
God the Father, that is ommpotent, 
1. Pet. 1.   
Disposed and wrought, things all and some:  
As they have been: and as they are to come. 
Apoc. 5.   
Yet to himself, the Lord he hath reserved,  
An certain chosin: whom he will have preserved. 
Ephe. 2.   
For to remain with him, in endless glore,  
Where others shall thole pain, for evermore. 
Rom. 9   
His elect people with grace, shall be possessed,  
where the reprobat: never shall have rest,  
In hell, according to his just judgement▪ 
〈◊〉   
With weeping gnashing, and with s●ir 〈◊〉   

Though we ourselves, can not this 〈◊〉, 
〈◊〉   
●et must we needs believe, it so to be,  
Saying also, o maker of heaven and land, 
〈◊〉 ●.   
Who can or may, thy riches understand:  
How heigh, how deipe: and how inscrutable  
Are thy hid secrettes incomprchensable.  
For thou hast thine ●lect pred●stmat, 
Ephe. 1.   
With all thy treasures, to be abumbrat,  
from all dissaitfull, doctrine malignant, 
Rom. 8.   
joining them, to thy true Church melitant,  
That hath not vainly, ta'en thy talentes sweit:  
But have brought forth, thefrutes of the Spreit.  
They are thy chosin: by vocatione,  
But not with rigour, or with violation,  
Thou hast not suffered: them to be infect,  
Nor yet to death, nor hell to be subject.  
But hast preserved: an number clean over all 
●. Reg. 19   
That have not bowed, their bodies unto Baal▪  
To them was made, the promise infallible:  
Of Christ, with miracles inestimable.  
To save them all, from reprehensione, 
Rom. 4, 8, 11, & 12   
And did d●creit, In his intention:  
To cleith them new, with judgement and justice  
I mean with faith, their mother and nurice,  
Sy●e with merciful eyen, ou them did call,  
With ardent love, and petty paternal, 
Act. 1.   
And where they war before, with Satan sold,  
For to fulfil his promise than he would, 
Gal. 4.   
Send down h●s hol● word, in earth us till,  
And with his word, the promise did fulfil. 
joh. ●.   
And then 〈◊〉, to make manifest, 
Ma●▪ ●●.   
Where their should be, convened from east to west,  
Of all nationes an Church catholical:  
To praise and love, Gods Name perpetual. 
Col. 3.   
And would also, that the eterue purpose,  
Of the great s●bbothe and the great repose,  
Should be confirmed, for an Testament, 
Heb. 2. & 10. Col. 1, 2.   
Abiding the ransom, and the dign payment,  
Of the lambs oblation, for them all:  
And would, that the burdenes tyrannical, 
Ephe. 2.   
The decrettes: of the laws banishing,  
Should die in themself, with all manashing:  
And would that the enemies, all and some, 
Psal. ●●●   
Should be destroyed, vincust, and overcome.  
For the of the power, that they did obtain,  
And would all things, should be pure and cleine, 
Act. 5.   
All Prophecies, to be fulfilled sign:  
Before the coming, of his word divine,  
This heavenly word, alway victorious, 
Heb. 10.   
Both strong wight, permanent and glorious, 
Apoc. 6.   
By which the world, and the heavens all,  
Took their beginning, and original. 
Gen. ●.   
This word clad with flesh, made him ready than: 
joh. 1   
To feght for love, and liberty of man.  
Aganes Sin death and Satan also, 
Apoc. 19   
That parsecute mankind, withouten ho,  
He would of his goodness, under infirmity, 
Isa. ●. 6. Phil. 2.   
Hyd● the great power, of his divinity:  
Because that he was hu●ble, over all whair 
Mat. 1.   
His glorious ●o, feared him the mair  
For our sak●● come: that captain expart, 
Psal. 45 joh. ●●.   
That God di● che●●e, after his very heart,  
To guide his people, and be governor, 
joh. 1.   
Wish courage came, this hardy conqueror:  
Teld with our flesh, infirm ●yne manfu●le, 
Heb. 2.   
He fought with for'rs, against our fo●s three.  
These enemies, about him round arreyed,  
Satan to tempt him, hastily asseyed: 
〈◊〉 4.   
In their assaults, thy war also assailled,  
All three overcome, their puissance not a vailled.  
Sign death his dart, at him threw in that stound, 
Apoc▪ 20   
But his dart, himself wrought ye greittest wound,  
Death thinking on him to win an advantage,  
In to that battle, lost both strength & ruraige: 
Heb. 1.   
So our victorious captain, thus he ch●sed,  
And though it best, till let himself be seized. 
Os●● 13.   
In dying so he raised, his for'rs again,  
To deaths prejudice, and meikle pane,  
Death thou art dead, for all thy strength & might: 
1. Cor. 15   
Thou art no more, now vailleand nor wight,  
Where is thy aufull dart and widdert ●orce?  
Where is become, thy power and thy force?  
Where is become, thy puissance and thy glory?  
Death where is thy sting: hell thy victory.  
O Lord of lords, thou by thy might and strength,  
Hast done fulfil, to us thy folk at length, 
Deb. ●.   
Thy holy promise: from the altitude,  
Saying by the Spirit, of thy Prophet good: 
Rom. 5.   
O death with death, when thou shall gar me de, 
Os●●●●.   
My death, shall be thy death: and vinques the,  
O heart of mae●, though thou war adamant,  
Grave in ●hy self, with an 〈…〉 ●●amant, 
〈◊〉 ●.   
●ow Chri●●s dead, hath 〈…〉 & 〈◊〉  
And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to ly●e, 〈…〉 
〈…〉   
●is death 〈…〉 the 〈◊〉 〈…〉 〈◊〉 
〈◊〉 ●, ●.   
And the sore sentence: of the law ha●●he bro●●n,  
The old tribu●●▪ 〈◊〉 s●●●e, he did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  
And haithe the dra●●●s kingdom, 〈◊〉 ●ul Law.  
Now Sio●, sing with voice melodi●●●, 
〈◊〉 1●.   
Sing on both 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 glorio●●.  
●ow Christ brak thy boards, and made the srie, 
Apoc. 7.   
from Satan's servitude, and tyranny.  
Praise thou the Lord, for thy deliverance,  
And loffe the lamb, for his new alliance, 
1. ●or. 2.   
Magnify him, for now and ●uer more.  
To Christ, give only honour praise and glore,  
That hath so loved thee, that for thy sa●k,  
Hath all thy foes, subdued at one straik.   

This conqueror, in s●●le heroical,  
Spoke as having: the charge celestial 
●say. 43   
S●● I am come, I have power complete:  
To break the old, and make an ●●we decr●●●,  
And first of all to death, he 〈◊〉 him near: 
2. ●or. 5.   
And said these words, as ye shall after heir.   

Death, 〈◊〉 of man and pest capital,  
That under one, would govern all equal. 
〈◊〉 4.   
Send down: to the in●er●all pit pla●de: 
Rom. ●.   
Of hell obscure, against the I conclude,  
My new decreit, and law that ●euer was, 
1. ●or. ●●.   
Neglect them not: for by them must thou pass,  
Take head (o death) note well and understand? 
〈◊〉 41.   
That in my father's name, I the command:  
●hen thou shall call, my cho●in and elect,  
●et have to them, a● 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 respect.  
I charge thee, 〈◊〉 thy ●ac● thou shall them 〈◊〉  
To ●raye them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Law,  
And when thou 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 
〈◊〉 ●.   
●ead not with thee, Sata● nor his co●●●●t?  
N●ther temptation, hell nor yet despair,  
〈◊〉 nor 〈◊〉 thought 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a●●air.  
I command thee, ●at no● to t●●m● app●●●?  
Sad●es nor woe, d●●●, dredour dread nor ●●ir,  
●ell nor his 〈◊〉 shall no ways be prepai●d:  
Nor no damnation, shall be one them declared, 
Item.   
To my elect, that o● me will believe:  
●how shall not have, no puissance them to grieve.  
Se● that my chosen, w●●h peace and patience,  
●o●●●des ●● me, I shall be their defence, 
joh. ●●.   
With bossing of the Law, come thou no more: 
●al. ●, ● 4.   
With God's wraith, as thou was wo●t before.  
Come not with dolo●●s, nor with affection's,  
Come lo●inglie, with bene●●ctions. 
psal ●●.   
Come as my seruand, and portar special  
Come as my pos●, and s●●●●lie on them call, 
joh. ●.   
And sy●e 〈◊〉 open thou my port,  
And say to my 〈◊〉 in this sort:  
●●ir is the end, of your travel be ●a●e, 
〈◊〉 ●▪ 〈◊〉 ●●   
●ere is the end, of all your woe and pane.  
So thou shall wi●e, the tears, from their ey●●,  
And promise the more i●ye, then th●y have 〈◊〉  
Thou that sometime, was their 〈◊〉 
〈◊〉 ●.   
Shall ●ow be changed, in be●●dictio●e.  
When thou hast served of por●e, then at last,  
〈…〉 〈◊〉 throw the ●●●t  
〈…〉 th● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall die: 
〈◊〉   
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the shall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉   

 
And sa●d to s●●ne, thou 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 
Sy●●e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 o● Sa 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the second death. Apo. ●●.   
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 most 〈◊〉  
O● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fo●●● and 〈◊〉  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 o● the co●●●●able 〈◊〉  
Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sulphur,  
Con●ea●ed and bo●●●, of the ol●●▪ ser●e●t,  
So●kar of his lait●lie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  
Thou canst w●ll 〈◊〉 i● vol●pt●ous place,  
To p●yso●e Adames nature and his▪ ●ai●●,  
With thy corrupt can●●●, thou can atto●es,  
Pollute his heart and g●awe his flesh & bones, 
Psal. 14. 〈◊〉 2●. Rom. 6.   
In so far that his flesh, force and puissance:  
With thy ●e●●ome, brought till great grevance,  
Man is the mark, at thou dost da●●●e sh●te,  
Of his work 〈◊〉 day, ●hou s●kes tribu●●.  
Thou art in him so 〈◊〉 and so gra●ed, 
●sa. ●●.   
That thou hast him 〈◊〉 and depraved,  
●●t 〈◊〉 note well & mark how that my gra●●  
Shall far surm●●●, thy ●●●the in every place, 
●om. ●.   
●ll though flesh a●● blood of thy p●st redound,  
●●t much more, shall my mercy abound.  
Though, thou hast with th●●●●so●e ● thy 〈◊〉  
〈◊〉 to the heaven: 〈◊〉 father's ire provoke,  
〈◊〉 I hau● done, ●●th●▪ heaven and ●arth fulfil,  
With grace and 〈◊〉 ● wrought my father's wil●▪ 
●. ●or. 15 〈◊〉 ●. Ph●l ●. 〈◊〉 ●.   
O● n● more valo●●, thou shall be reputed,  
For I h●●e all thy power, 〈◊〉 co●●●●ed.  
To my elect, thou shall as drop of gall,  
●e ●●xt, in pipe of ho●y 〈◊〉  
So shall b● melted, all thy 〈◊〉 
〈◊〉   
In the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  
And as an 〈◊〉 ●● 〈◊〉 be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  
So 〈◊〉 art less▪ in 〈◊〉 unto me. 
1. 〈◊〉 ●●   
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the flesh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I do 〈◊〉  
And ●●●all to 〈◊〉 all to 〈◊〉  
My 〈◊〉 shall work, on such ●● 〈◊〉 a●●hair, 
〈◊〉 ●   
That old ●●am, shall mas●●r be 〈◊〉  
We shall 〈◊〉 make, an sabaoth and 〈◊〉 
〈◊〉 ●   
That shall pr●●a●●l, against at 〈◊〉  
For an space, thou shall in th●●●●●●she 〈◊〉  
As in thy ●●d o● death, with ●o and pai●e,  
By my grace, the faithful shall the 〈◊〉  
In la●go●r without force, thou shall arri●e: 
Rom. ●.   
while that an certain time, be passed by, 
〈◊〉 ●.   
●●to man's ●●eshe, thou shall with la●g●●r lie,  
When thou hast bred death, our corruption,  
That death shall be, thy own di●●r●ctio●e. 
〈◊〉 ●●.    

When ended was, this mighty parliament,  
He said to the Law, these wor●es consequent,  
Though thou took thy beginning, crootche 〈◊〉 
●. 〈◊〉   
In me is ended, all thy strength● and ●●gh●. 
〈◊〉 ●.   
I have the made, my subject evermore,  
And 〈◊〉 the, as never did man 〈◊〉  
Both sin and death, was nourest under thee,  
Thou hast not found, one spot of them in me. 
〈◊〉 ●   
For I have done, thy points all ful●●ll,  
I am first borne, that wrought my father's will. 
〈◊〉 ●.   
Inquire thou now no more▪ of adam's ●all, 
〈◊〉 ●   
I tak● 〈◊〉 charge, and answers for them all,  
Their never 〈◊〉 man, sha● 〈◊〉 by thy way, 
2. Cor. 3.   
Obtain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 did 〈…〉  
Thou show 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, hell, 〈…〉, 
Gal. 3.   
Thou not as lamb came: but a● wouli●●o bite,  
And therefore I myself, is come to take,  
Thy heavy burding●●, of my people's back, 
Id●m.   
Thought thou show sin●●: that m●● not grace expel,  
Thou hast no power, to send down to hell,  
My own elect: nor yet against them pleid,  
Thou may considdir, in thyself and reid,  
Or thy coming, how their was from the heaven:  
An promise of grace, to the fathers given.  
Thou was ordained, for an testament,  
But Adam's fragile nature indigent: 
Idem.   
Can never get, of the but woand pain,  
Their was no man, content of the nor feign.  
In promessing, thou ever hast an sy,  
That rather garres man in to languor lie,  
Nor to show, consolation or remead.  
And in despair, ●ull o●t thou dost them lead, 
Idem.   
Thou shows rather, sorrow nor their s●●ll:  
For Ilk offence, thou cries slay and keill.  
Thou binds all a like, under thy bandis,  
Their is no grace, nor savour at thy handis.  
For Adam's seed, alike thou leads in thrall,  
Who failze is in on, they guilty are in all. 
Apoc. 14   
T●●irfor, I do confirm for man's love,  
An testament eternal, the above.  
That to all nations, shall be taught and shawne,  
And through that world, shall make my mercy knawne, 
Idem.   
From the Orient, unto the Occident,  
It shall be heard, the 〈◊〉 of my Testament,  
And n●we alliance, spo●●● by my mouth,  
Which shall remain, in 〈◊〉 and truth.  
For now and aye, my words all and some,  
Into the world of worlds for to come.  
To make my promise, faithful sure and sirm●, 
●ar. ●● Luc. 22. 1. Cor. 11 2. Cor. ●. Ia●. 1▪ 2. Gal. 3, & 4.   
I did the same, with my heart blood confirm.  
I swore be my own self unvariable,  
It should remain, for aye perdurable.  
So with my death, passion and sore torment.  
I have confirmed, my new Testament.  
Which is another: Testament I say,  
Nor thy old fearful Law, of mont Sinai.  
For thou by it, with rigour dost require,  
To all sinners: damnation, death and sire,  
But my alliance new, shall rather rinne,  
Out through the inward man, and pardon sin. 
Deut. 5.   
Thou was but for the outward man in letter,  
Rest now therefore, and make place to thy better, 
Rom. ●.   
Thy time is run finished and compleit,  
Now mine is come, I freely power my spreit, 
●. Cor. ●. Gal. 3.   
On all flesh, where they need no pedagogue,  
As thou had wont to be, nor Synagogue.   

These weighty words, this purpose brought to end,  
He said to his elect, and made it kende,  
My darest spouse, for whom my blood is shed, 
●phe. 5. Col. ●.   
Come is the time, I shall you spous and wed,  
My spirit abundantly, shall in you wirke, 
1. joh. ●.   
Ye are my chosen: and catholic Kirke.  
Frosty winter, is with all his surte past,  
〈◊〉 ilke blossom, shall beir his fru●● so s●st, 
Apoc. 19▪ Rom. 1.   
〈◊〉 is the time, with mirth and joy compl●  
〈◊〉 I shall spouse you, with 〈◊〉 spreit.  
Though ye be many in number: a●d in force,  
Yet shall ye be, but membres of on● corce,  
Learn at me, to be meek and bening, 
●ac. 2. Deut. ●8   
And s●ne the fruits, of the spreit forth bring.  
Fellow my holy word, and my doctrine,  
Nether to right hand, nor to left decline.  
My word and my command, is sufficient, 
isaiah. 3.   
Without additiones, of your own intent,  
I am he, that ye should alway in●ew, 
joh. 1●.   
I have changed, and done all things renew.  
If ye in times past, were strange and nice, 
2. Cor. 5.   
And far exilid, from my Paradise,  
Yet but your merit, I shall of my own grace, 
Ephe. 2.   
Restore you ●relie, to the ●amin place.   

Come all ye, with sin that is unclean, 
Ephe. 1. Col. 1.   
I have, with my own precious blood serene,  
An wholesome bath: and stose prepaird for you,  
Where ye shall be, made white as ani● dow:  
Of all my treasures, nothing ye shall want, 
Mat. 26. ●ocl. 2. Exo. 28.   
But as myself, thereof participant.  
As abundance of water crystalline,  
So shall I power on you my grace divine,  
Right as the oil, was powered on Aarous head▪  
Which made his raiment, all in to that stead, 
Levit, 9   
Smell of that balm, of savour dulce and sweit:  
So shall my grace, be powered in your spreit: 
Act. 2.   
Which I shall make, so plenteus on you rame,  
That in to you, shall not be found an vain: 
●▪ Cor. 2, 3, & 12,   
Where as my holy spirit, doth not abound: 
Heb. ●, ●●●.   
And in my blood, your sins shall be 〈◊〉,  
Sign when it shall come to confess in 〈◊〉.  
From whence, that all your virtue do●th proc●●●,  
Th●●s● that ye confess in every place, 
Ephe. ●.   
Not of yourselves, but only of ●● grace:  
And of your filthy flesh, proceeded nought, 
Gal. ●.   
That ever was good, in work word or thought▪ 
Rom. 13   
Of my goodness and grace, I you it gave,  
Before the time, ye did it ask or crave,  
Except by me, ye can nothing posseid,  
Therefore to me▪ and to my word take h●id. 
joh. 5, 6 Act. 4. Luc. 2●. 2. Pet. 2.   
Reid both the old and new law ye shall s●?  
●● have no good, but that which cometh of me.  
If some m●n would, by there inuentione found,  
And so to big upon: an other ground,  
Were it in heaven, earth or firmament: 
1. Cor. ●.   
Oro● the sea, then say ye consequent,  
That sure building and fundam at their is none.  
Except they found, their fortress me upon.   

These gracious words, punished a● length,  
This holy Saviour, in his might and strength, 
Mat. 2●. Act. 1. Apo. 5, 7.   
Propaird him: by his virtue divine,  
For till ascend, where all the heavens sign:  
Decoud themselves, with mirth & glaid courage,  
To welcome him and mak● him due homage,  
There lamb, that on the hid s●crettes did look:  
And was found dign, to open the holy book:  
That all the Angels, had in such esteime: 
1. Tim. ● 1. ●oh. 2. joh. 17. Heb. 1●.   
This lamb, ware on his head one diadeun●,  
Where was writtin, three styles singulair:  
In 〈◊〉 letteres, to him peculiar, 
1. joh. 2. joh. 17. Heb. 1●.   
On● 〈◊〉, did him 〈◊〉 call,  
The s●cond s●yle, our high pries● principal:  
The third s●●l● was, the Saviour of all wight,  
That in this world, did bring to us the light,  
And made his father, who is our soueran● Lord:  
On us poor sinners, to have misericord.  
This blessed Lord, and Saviour most high, 
Apo●. 21. Exod. 20   
Both heaven and earth, togidder gartagrie,  
In so far as the letter did conteane,  
Promise and, law, so of right should perteane: 
isaiah. 17.   
The Lord should promise keep, and mercy shaw,  
But man ought till observe, and keep the Law 
Heb. ●, & ●10   
So Christ jesus, to perform his office:  
For that promise to show his benefice,  
Offered his precious blood, his Father till:  
And for oursake, hath done the Lawfulfill.  
So dyeinge on croce, that oblation true,  
Ended the Law, and took an style of new, 
Ephe. 2. 1. Tim. ● 1. ●o. 12.   
To be himself: our only Mediator,  
He is that prince, that with his manly nature,  
Hath us redeemed, where we were damned to pine.  
Reason & Scripture, would that we should sign,  
Give him only: the gloir and to none other, 
Rom. 4.   
He is our Lord, our Saviour and brother.  
In that diadem, may be red in faith, 
Heb. 2. 3 7, 8, 9, 10   
The lamb did meise, the lords ire and wraith,  
Where as before: could do no blood of beast,  
He offered his own blood, as mighty priest.  
But not as offered, the priests Levitical,  
That offered for themselves, and sign for all,  
Their sacrifice: nor their oblation,  
Can never bring us, to salvation.  
For God the Father, Lord omnipotent:  
Was only, with his sons blood content.  
So Christ our Lord, was not bound Priest considder,  
But Melchisedech: high Priest & King to gidder,  
King of all piety, peace and equity,  
And Priest that teached: the word of verritie.  
And entered ones, in to the sanctuair:  
By his own blood, his priesthood to declair,  
Where he offered, his blessed flesh also:  
Sufficient, for an thowssand worlds more,  
Blood of more strength, nor the blood of ●hell,  
Better nor Nabothes blood, the truth to t●ll: 
Heb. 1●.   
That asked vengeance, from● heaven to that place,  
To fall on jesabel, and I●habs race.  
In dying Christ required, with mighty voice, 
Ma●. ●6   
Pardon to them, that did him naill one croyce:  
To death he neideth no more, himself present,  
That one oblation for all: was sufficient.  
For death may now, no more that lamb Arr●ist, 
●●●. 5, ● 9, ●●.   
O lamb, o King, o high Bischope and Priest,  
Betwixt us, and thy Fathers, fury stand:  
Sign bless us, with thy right and holy hand. 
Gal. 4. A●●. 4.    

(O man) if thou could with thy wit persave?  
The great ioy●, that thou throw Christ dois have, 
Rom. ●.   
Then should thy heart, with hope and esperance:  
Be more stable, than rock but variance. 
2. Para. 3.   
Thou should not cair, of man the threatening boasts:  
Nor yet regaird, their strong and awful hosts.  
Thou should cure, no punishment nor pine, 
P●al. ●4.   
Nor yet regaird, pest, hunger nor ruin.  
Thou would not seir, fire: death nor hells pane: 
Phil. 4.   
All earthly torment, thou would but repute vane,  
If faithful love, thou in shy heart dost beir:  
To Christ our Lord, and to his word● most cleir.  
He is our pleader, for us in to the laws,  
That vanquished Satan, & won to us our cawes, 
Heb. 9   
against his ornate speech, and eloquence: 
1. Tim. 1   
The heaven nor earth, can make no resistance,  
Satan nor death, dare pretend no actione, 
Gal. 3.   
Where Christ saith I have made satisfactione.  
This diadem, most worthy to advant,  
Is gar●eist, with these styles triumphant: 
Isa. 2, 4.   
Which should not be attribute; trust ye sure,  
Unto none other, earthly creature,  
Nether to saint, nor Angel in the heaven,  
Should those three styles, in any wise be given. 
Rom. 8, & 11. 1. Pet. 4. Exo. 34.   
None ought the style of intercessione:  
But Christ that bought it, with his passione.  
As in times past, alas it may be seine,  
How many have worn, an wail before their ein●  
And stopped them, to see the light most clear,  
Of the bright Sun, with eyen of heart inteir. 
2. Cor. 3.   
As Moses: ware before an misty race,  
An vale to hide the brightness of his face,  
Right so doth were this wail: all them that would  
Make Christ's Law, like to the laws old.  
And may not see, the lambs liberality,  
That is to say, who makes equality:  
And would compair, the work of the Law, 
Ephes. 2   
To Christ's death, that grace to us doth shaw,  
Seeking consaittes: and fashions of their own, 
I●bic. 1   
The lamb to them, will not be sayen nor known  
Because at others: they have sought remeid,  
Forgetting Christ, their chief captain and h●●●. 
Ps●l. 1 6   
This soul error, that doth their conscience 〈◊〉, 
Os●c. 9, & 11. 2. Cor. 4   
proceedeth from ignorance: of holy writ  
Ferther read forth, persave and see the rest,  
Behold the virtue of this lamb celest,  
The more that is, considered his empire,  
The more always, a man do●th him require,  
With eye debonair, dulce and petious,  
That their was never, man so dispitious, 
Rom. ●.   
Nor tyrane fell, that blood human did seike,  
Beholding him, he shuld● come dulce and meike.  
Sun on no day so bright did never shine 
Apoc. ●1.   
Nor in Aurora, bright star matutyne,  
In heaven, nor earth, is found nothing so fair: 
●a●t. 1, 2, 3, & 4.   
That to his golden face, I may compair.  
The lily white consect, in vermeill rose,  
Unto his beauty, can be no peir nor choose.  
To his clear colour: of brightness triumphant  
No precious stone, sapphire nor diamant, 
Apo●. ●1   
Nor the charbonckle, with his lucent strands,  
May be compaird, to the brightness of his hands.  
He is so full, of fragrant an●tie,  
Saints are enamoured, with his bright beauty: 
Apo●. ●, 18, ● 19   
Men in this earth, left heritage and good,  
To win his love, and serve his selcitude.  
Rather choosing: to be bri●t at an slake:  
Nor to renounce, his love and him forsake 
C●nt. ●   
His vestament of gold, pure and shreve.  
Double● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, with purpur colou●●●  
Garnest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 resplendent,  
With 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●nd with diament,  
The gold ●●●ine, 〈◊〉 signify his glory,  
The colour sanguine, his conquest and victo●●●, 
Cant. ●.   
The fair rubies, rich and ivestimable:  
Declares his noble gifts incomparable.  
Of his excellent, virtues heroical:  
Where as no Angel, nor Catholical, 
Heb. 1. Psal. 97   
Did arrive, for ●lke one of them by measure,  
Ressaved the holy Spirit, and consolature,  
But he, after his own Spirit at his will, 
1. joh. 5.   
Took abundance, and gave all others till.  
He is the fountain, brood, and springing strand: 
Apo. 21.   
He holds life, and death in to his hand.  
In that sweit lamb, we have our hole having, 
Phil ●. Gal. 3.   
From him doth all our health: and welfair spring.   

Above this rob: their was an brawe brodoure,  
In golding letters, containing this scripture. 
Apoc. 19 Rom 14 Esa. 5. Act. 2.   
Lord of lords, King of kings supreme Monarch,  
This is his Name, his title style and mark.   

This holy lamb crowned, with gloir & might,  
With great triumph, ascended to the height, 
Psal. 9●.   
Where as the cloud right rich, and radious  
Of his splendour: with Angels gracious,  
On knees they kneeled, and sweitlie him adored,  
Welcome o lamb, the which hath death deuor●d, 
Deb. 1.   
Saying to gidder, with admiratione,  
What people or cietie, realm or natione?  
What conqueror, sin first the would began? 
Apoc. 5, ●●, & 15.   
May be compair, to Christ both God and man,  
That hath done all, his so's overcome and th● 
●●poc. 5, 1●, ● 15.   
●auing his servants by his might and gra●●▪  
No wight is worthy, this 〈◊〉 and chariat,  
But the victorious lamb, 〈◊〉.   

Welcome said they, o lamb celestial,  
That vanquished hes, the dragon infernal.  
And fred thy folk, for the of that ugly steid,  
That did believe in thee, to have remeid  
Welcome, o lamb, that band with chain insect, 
Apoc. ●.   
Falls Satan, ●o to all thy true elect,  
O Sons of Adam, be ye glaid and sing,  
rejoice while heaven & earth, redound and ring. 
Col. ●.   
With land and prays rejoice with notes new,  
Give all honour only: to Christ jeseu.  
And sing how that all loving lait and air,  
Parteines to him, for now and ever mair.  
Rejoice foutane, and forest amiable,  
Rejoice moutane, and valaye delectable. 
Apo. ●●.   
Rejoice fields sloodes, and crystal springs:  
Rejoice beasts, and all kume foul that singes,  
Before ye were polluted one and all,  
And now ye are delivered out of thrall.  
Now all to gidder, laud the lamb in one,  
In eccon language loud sing and say Amen.   

O heavens, we did see and considder:  
When ye persavit, the lamb and death to gidder, 
Met. 17   
Then were ye all, over spread and clad with sable, 
Luc. 23.   
With double doole, and tears lamentable.  
The Sun in habit, obscure did cleith him sell,  
And did his crystal beams, bright, expel.  
When Titan saw, that death had power sick,  
His golden face, 〈…〉 black as pick.  
When he saw tha● 〈…〉 heil did tramp, 
Psal. ●1.   
Then was blaw●●ut, the lig●●es and the lamp.  
Of the palace celesi: where 〈◊〉 i● died,  
The heavens, clad in doole and murning weighed.  
Then for to weep, ye had occasione:  
But now since that the Lord, and King of Sione.  
Is ascended to you, on life levand, 
●. Pet. 3. Act. 3. ●●●. 10.   
Siti and, on God's right and holy hand.  
therefore be glaid: and lovings him prepair,  
For now that lamb, may suffered death no mair.   

receive again, your colour crystalline, 
Psal. 68   
For now the Sun, and lamp of light divine,  
That bears more strength, nor Phoebus did before,  
Is come to you: and shall you new decore,  
Though he be clad, with flesh and blood human, 
Mat. 3.   
He is the Son of God, and sovereign. 
Esa. 43.   
Holding these faithful purpose singuleirs,  
amongs the regious, planeites and the speirs.  
The lamb commanded, then in special,  
That throw the whole world universal,  
His heralds should proclaim, to every natione,  
The glaide tidings, of the worldles salvation. 
Rom. ●.   
Sin suddenly, the cloud preordinat,  
With fires of joy, full fair illuminat,  
Covered the lamb, with beams crystalline,  
So he ascended, by his might divine. 
Act 3.   
Where as Phoebus, kneiled with golden face,  
And to his God, right reverently made place.  
Saying (o maker) I am right far eshamed,  
Because some men, for God have me proclaimed:  
〈◊〉 so me, the whole 〈◊〉 supreme,  
〈◊〉, be annexed, to thy 〈◊〉. 
  
Into compair, of the I am far less,  
Nor spark or gleid of sire, I do confess.  
By thy might, to mtotde their ignorance,  
Thou hast caused me, oft with great grievance  
With pail colour to hide my beams bright,  
Absenting oft, my servant force, and might.  
But now is come the time, where faith & grace,  
Shall all such errors, with their fellows chase. 
Eph. ●, ●.   
Therefore with mirth: I take my cope saconde,  
To hang, my golden palace rubiconde.  
That I may better bear: form and figure,  
Of thee (o lively Son) that shall endure  
Now I rejoice, to serve the of image,  
To that effect, that all leving lyvage, 
Esa 9, ● 43.   
Hold me, but as the lamye aetherial,  
And thou, the leving light celestial.  
Thou art the spring, the strength force and valour, 
joh. ●●.   
That rules all, the regiments of natour.  
That hes done sin, with hell and death subdue,  
Lord of thy elect, and chosen people ●rewe,  
Likewise, him honoured the celest legions, 
1. Cor. 1.   
In ordure, him adored the twelve regions: 
Apoc. 5, ●●, ● 19 R●m. ●●●●b. ●. Psal. 12.   
Him as their Lord, and God they did confess,  
With Cherubins, and Scraphins express,  
Of high spreittes, the ordores superuall:  
Him magnified, with voice Angelical.  
Saying on high, o Sapience profound,  
That taketh the sins, from the earth & ground,  
Holy, holy Word, that ever shall remane:  
Ly●e ●●●● substance, of the 〈◊〉. 
Esa. ●. Pra●er. ●. ●. Cor. 1.   
word that hast made, by 〈◊〉 and by 〈◊〉,  
The 〈◊〉, the sea, the 〈◊〉 bread & 〈◊〉.  
Hail 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  
Hail holy lamb, worthy of all honour. 
Ephes' 2. Phil. 2. Esa. 5. Apoc. 21.   
Land, 〈◊〉, glory, and adoratione,  
Force 〈◊〉, strength: and dominatione,  
For 〈◊〉, and ever, must to the be given  
Aswell in earth, as is into the heaven.   

Thus being ended, this orison divine,  
All creatures on knees did incline,  
Redring dew wirshepe, reverence land, & gloire, 
Apoc. 19   
To that most migthie king, for ever moire.  
Kings of the earth, and Emperors I say,  
Your days and years: shall vanish soon a way,  
The heaven shall pass, & earth I make you sure,  
But my true word, shall evermore endure. 
Psal. 1●2 Heb. 1.   
One word thereof, nor jot shall never fail,  
Till every thing, completed be and hail:   

Though Babilone, many regions drew them till,  
And conquest, to that migthie ●euer Nill, 
The first empire.   
Sign feast their force, and power suribound,  
Where then succeeded, to the empire second:  
Cyrus whose crown, and sceptre high decored, 
〈◊〉.   
In Asia, for long time was adored. 
Macedon peirs and Syrie.   
Sign after them, came the breve signory,  
Of Macedon, where Peirs and Cyrie:  
To be masters, had so great affectione,  
That to comfirme, their pride made direction,  
Thinking to lytill, their rooms and their rent,  
Unto their bounds, soon they did agment  
All 〈◊〉 Ind Egypt: and Arabia,  
With 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, that could not satisfy,  
To their desires while ●yme prefixed said ho:  
Then for to rule, and reign bigen also, 
〈…〉.   
The great ●ictie, superb and glorious,  
That some time founded, was by Romulus,  
Which won and conquest, all the Orient,  
And in short space, subdued all the Occident.  
On such an wise, all lands and language:  
Become their subjects, and made them homage.  
Carthai●e, ancient, strong and mighty town,  
They brack the walls, and kest the cietie down.  
Their gloir, did so increase and multiply,  
Pride promised, it should still remane on high. 
Pry●●.   
But when approached, their proper hour and time,  
Prefixed, and set, by providence divine,  
From their empire, they were overthrawn & cast,  
They might no longer reign, for time was passed.  
So took an end, the high empire Roman,  
That was so long, forged on blood human.  
The whole world, could not by their great puissance,  
Them venques, while God by his puruiance:  
Sew in their sinnat, civil seditione,  
Which sprang and grew, to their confusione.   

Cons●●e in earth, no thing is permanent, 
Eccles. ●.   
But shall have end, for God omnipotent,  
With days & hours, hath every thing prefixed,  
That shall not be over past, nor yet prolixt.  
Here in this earth, nothing is firm nor stable,  
But Christ's kingdom, remanes 〈◊〉, 
●●●●. ●. 〈◊〉.    

So biy●g seized, ●ur 〈◊〉,  
Our ● buocat and 〈…〉.  
Upon his Father's right 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for man, 
1. Tim. 2 Heb. 9   
With 〈◊〉, his orison 〈◊〉.  
Praying his Father, God omnipotent,  
To grant him these requests consequent. 
joh. 17.    

O supreme Father, most worthy in aspect,  
Since in my body, that thou hast elect,  
Hath been accomplished whole obedience, 
Apoc. ●. Hebr. 2, 9, 10, 12. 2. Cor. 6 Rom. 7.   
Therefore I pray thee, with de●full reverence.  
The inobedience, of the world remit,  
That they against thee, daily do commit.  
Though poison entered, in by Adames race,  
Thou may remead it, with thy might and grace.  
For my goodness, and love mend that misdead, 
Rom. 5.   
Since that by Adam, entered sin and dead.  
Grant throw my death, which was superlatyne,  
May entre peace, and everlasting live.   

I make thee, most humble supplication,  
Since thou hast pleised, the oblation,  
That piety, hath caused me to present: 
joh. 15.   
Of my own natural, body innocent,  
That sin nor death, pretend no actione, 
Heb. 10.   
But take my flesh, and blood for satisfactione, 
Ephes. 1.   
Of them that will, with heart intrincicall:  
Pray in my Name, to the continual.  
Holding thee, as the Father eterne tutorne, 
joh. 14.   
And me as brother, judge and governor. 
Matt. 6.   
That hopes in me, and in none other wight,  
For them (o Father) I pray the day and night  
The ardent love, and piety paternal, 
joh. 17.   
That thou hast borne, to me contenuall,  
Must cause thee, likewise them to love so weill:  
That in their hearts, they may person and feill, 
joh. 1●.   
How for my sake, thou hast them all resaved,  
As thy own children, Gotten and consaved.  
When they by weakness, in temptatione fall, 
1. Cor. 10   
O Father then, have mercy on them all.  
Considder of themselves, they have no good,  
But imperfect, and borne of flesh and blood. 
joh. 14, & 16.   
Without our help, they fall and may not stand,  
To thy goodness, them all I recommand.  
I know full well, what may to them betide,  
So Sata● me assailled, with his pride  
Thus may I not, always in their vexation, 
Mat. 4.   
Contemple them, without I have compassione, 
Heb. 2.   
Their cau●e and matters, touches me so near,  
They are my blood, elect and brethren deir.  
Thy are my membres, and my holy Kirke,  
I must be their defence, for them to wirke. 
Ephes. 1, & 2.   
I may not suffer, that one of them be shent,  
To answer for them all, I me present,  
By thy bontie eternal, they are thine, 
1. Cor. 3. Mat. 21. joh. 16, 17.   
Yet by reason I bought them, they are mine.  
Thou hast them put, under my governance:  
And promesed me, to be their assurance.  
Their aid their helpar, and protector propice,  
Father I pray thee, for my Sacrifice: 
Idem.   
That thou wilt in their minds, and hearts pour,  
Our odoriferrant balm, and sweit liquor:  
With the fervent flame, and zeal of Charity,  
The lively Spirit condign: of our deity,  
And the sweit unction, that doth from both proceeded,  
Mus● be 〈◊〉 their solace and remeid.  
Again 〈…〉,  
As well 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 diabolical, 
joh. 14.   
For their most 〈◊〉 and stro●● 〈◊〉,  
Their most perfect, and principal instructor,  
The holy Ghost, for witness and for gaige, 
Ephes. 1. & 2.   
For 〈◊〉 and arles of our heritage.  
At them with us reigns (o Father 〈◊〉)  
When they offend, impute to me their crime. 
joh. 17.    

And ended so this supplication,  
He said to me, for thy oblation: 
Heb. 9 Rom. 4, & 5.   
My dear beloved Son celestial,  
For the offence, of men terrestrial:  
Then paid for all, au ransom most condign, 
Heb. 10.   
And I at thy request, to them benign,  
My Son delice: and substance of my cell, 
Esa. 9 Heb. 5. Pro●or. 8. 2. Cor. 4 Ma●. 28.   
receive all power, in heaven, earth: and hell.  
Till damn, till bind, till Lousse and till relieve,  
Till save them all, that shall on the believe.  
Take all the treasures, of the heaven celest,  
Dispone and part them, where thou plese best.  
Sith I have all, this power to the given, 
Psal. ●●. Act. 2. Heb. 1,   
The earth, the hell, the Angels of the heaven.  
A give the likewise, in thy holy hand,  
An rod of iron to strike who doth ganestand.  
If thou shall please, that rod without regaird,  
Shall brecke & breisse them, as an pottars shaird. 
Apo. 19    

Our holy lamb, ressaning all this charge,  
To show himself, both liberal and large,  
The heavens oppened in haist with reverence: 
Mat. 18.   
Where he departed, with magnificence.  
〈◊〉 ●●●asure, and the holy gift 〈◊〉,  
〈◊〉 ●he world, plane and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  
And 〈◊〉 of all, his promise to fulfil, 
Act. 2.   
The great conforteur, come his, 〈◊〉.  
With diverse, tongues, and leides solatious:  
And with Seraphical, winds gracious.  
Ilke on of them, in science new did sleit,  
With diverse gifts, of the sammyn Spreit. 
1. Cor. 2●   
Where their was men, of Mede and Parthians:  
Of Pontus, Pamphill and Cerene●us,  
Of Capado●e, and Mesopotamia,  
Of Asia Egypt, Libya and Phrigia, 
Act. 21.   
Their was Arab, jew, Greik and Proseleit,  
Strangers of Rome, of Candy and of Creit,  
These nations all, marveled and was on sloght,  
To here & see, what was by the Apostles wrought.  
By very virtue, of their high doctrine, 
Idem.   
When all these nationes, were before theme sign,  
In their maternal tongues, and proper leid,  
Ilk one of them, heard Christ preached in died.  
Fontaines of grace, from them did slow & spring  
Throw Chrisis' promise, where his Spirit benig,  
To Idiot men, unlearned hence on ground, 
●●n. 10.   
Their simpleness, did prudent men confound.  
Christ promised, to leawe when he did ascend, 
Mat. ●8. Isa. 9 Gal. 4. Isa. 45. & 4. 1. ●oh. 1, 1. Cor. 15 1. Thes. 4.   
That Spirit with us, unto the worldles end.   

This lamb sitting on his throne eternal,  
Subdewer of death, and feyndes infernal,  
Saviour of all, that in him will conside,  
Where his elect, with faith and hope abide.  
His coming, when the last trumpet shall sound,  
Wherethey in him, shall. rise forth of the ground.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 these. could 〈◊〉 the Myr●●● 〈◊〉, in form and ma●●● of an 〈…〉 composed by the sade Noruell.  

ALL the dolores, from the original,  
All woe distress, and pains surious:  
●●● me embrace: sith I deserve them all, 
2. Cor. 7   
All dishonour, the ilk man doth refuse,  
Come unto me, & do me clean confuse. thy dart,  
Come tears, come terrors, come death now ●  
And plant these dolors, many woeful heart.   

It is my conscience, in my heart full deep,  
Which conse●●nce, doth me da●ke curse and ban,  
That maketh me, like one woman sigh and weep: 
Rom. 2.   
Come all the woe, since first the world began,  
That ever had, or yet suffered any man.  
Come at once, my stony heart so wound,  
That true repentance, with tears may abound.   

Because that I have been, so proud and bold,  
So full of sin, and every wickedness:  
As Christess brother, me to name and hold,  
I have abused, myself I do confess. 
Mat. 12.   
For Christ doth, say in his Gospel express,  
Who works my Father's will, and his command:  
He is my brother sister and seruand.   

But I unworthy, wretch, bend full of ire, 
〈◊〉. ●.   
How dare I him, my master call for shame,  
To birke his will, since I have no desire,  
Therefore I am not 〈◊〉, to beir th●● Name,  
Of Christ's brother as an true Christian.  
For I have not: Gobbes holy word 〈◊〉, 
Luc. ●.   
But done the contrary, h●w can I be excused.   

Now I perceive it better my tongue to hold,  
Nor as one hypocrite, to go about,  
And say as I was wont, with visage bold,  
Brother hold up thy eye and kneill and lout, 
Matt. 7.   
That I may forth thereof an mo●e pull out,  
When I myself do others thus dispraise:  
And yet will not, persave in any way.   

The great beam, that is my own eye vithin,  
proceeding from the faults, of my mother, 
Ecce. 25.   
I will correct, and yet I bo but slune,  
The salt whereof, I do reprove my brother:  
I do commit the same, with many other.  
My heart doth nothing, with my lips agrie: 
Rom. 14.   
I am so full, of blind hypocrisy.   

My darkness is full great, I do considder,  
Wherein I spent my time, both night and day, 
Mat. 6.   
Since that my light, is darkness all togidder,  
I do confess, I have gone long astray  
From Christ which is the light, the life and way,  
Doing my sins, daily still agment:  
As main sworn man, over lait hath done repent.   

Perjured I am, because that I did swear,  
When they with water, of Baptism did me weshe, 
Rom. 6. Col. 2. Ephe. 4   
To Love God only, and his Law 〈◊〉,  
Which from my heart, always, I 〈…〉.  
Serving the beastly, pleasures of my flesh:  
giving the same, unto the own delight, 
Gal. 3   
That now my conscience, doth myself despite.   

O sy sals lust, had thou in me such strength,  
Hast thy pleasures, so gart me dote and ●aue? 
Gal. 5.   
To bind me in that snare, where I at length,  
Can not myself, forth of thy hands have, 
R●m. 8.   
Hes thy vave pleasures, done me thus deceive? 
●. Cor. 15   
Hes thou me led, to God's ire full deipe?  
Bringing on me, of sin the slothful sleip●.   

To walken at the port, of black despair,  
After so short an joy, to gar me quaike, 
Gal. 6.   
At length thy servants, gets of the na mair▪ 
Rom. 6.   
When that delight, hath, led them in that la●●e,  
At last I see, thou doth them clean forsaike.  
Till me had better been, the till forsakin:  
Before, or that I had thy pleasure Stakin.   

Thou art the poison, that my heart hath sought,  
Thy wicked venom, is endless but remeid, 
joh. 5.   
I have the sound, thou hast brought me to nought,  
Except that grace, and mercy do preceid, 
Ephes. 1.   
From Christ, that for my sins on croce did bleid:  
Now help me Lord, for Christ's sake I call, 
joh. 16.   
And drive from me, aff●ctiones sensual.   

Comm●nd my heart, from lusts till abssene,  
Sith it is ●●●hy power, gone thou 〈◊〉,  
If thou wilt no●, with them I perish clean,  
By day nor night, I wait not what till chief, 
  
Nor yet I see nothing, that may the ci●e.  
When I on death, and judgement think empress:  
Then doth, my 〈◊〉 more 〈◊〉. 
Eccl. 41.    

Wherefore, o death, forth of this world me drive,  
Sith I am so tormented, every sake, 
Rom. 7.   
I do but leave, in languor here on 〈◊〉,  
To strike me with thy dart, since thou art slake,  
Against the world, wha● armies shall I take? 
Eccles. 1.   
Shall I confess, my own abusion?  
And sinful life which is my own confusione.   

Prepare thee, o my heart, and arm the straightly,  
Be not assrayed, in no man●●r of 〈◊〉 
Gal. 5.   
Against the world, for to comb●●● and feght,  
Be hardy, vailliant in every place,  
Sign do the world, with his pleasures chase,  
Art thou not strong, from the for till dispeshe?  
And als overcome, the world the devil and flesh.   

O Lord I grant, my sayings undisereit, 
Esa. 59   
Wherewith I thought: to have parted the pelf,  
They me forth shaw, to be an hypocreit.  
For how dare I, presume (〈◊〉 else)  
To steal thy gloire, and take it to myself,  
Seeing the justest? that ever yet was found, 
Phil. 2.   
Doth daily sin, that reigns on the ground.   

We but thy grace, could never yet with 〈◊〉, 
〈◊〉. ●●. 2. Cor. ●. 2. ●et. 11.   
Nor cou●●● 〈◊〉, the vane consaities mandane,  
The devil 〈◊〉, as I have ●ane on hand,  
What ●ais● 〈◊〉 now, 〈◊〉, 〈…〉? 
Num. 16 2. Para. ●●.   
What caused thou think or say, but words vane?  
Yet fear the 〈◊〉 of the Lord almight,  
Though he the damn, he doth the 〈◊〉.   

Where shall I go: alas unto the Law? 
Rom. ●.   
And blenck, in to that spectacle profound,  
Nay nay, for it doth all my vices shaw, 
2. Cor. 3.   
Which are so foul, so filthy and immound,  
The leist of them by right, may me confound, 
Heb. ●2.   
It is my sins (alas) that doth me duel,  
And dampnes me, with Satan for to duel 
Gal. 3.    

My filthy flesh, daily I feel it steir,  
Resisting still, the motiones of my spreit, 
〈◊〉. 〈◊〉. 7   
With ardent battle, strife and mortal we●e,  
Adam greit was the sin thou did commit,  
Thou sell not shine alone, in to the pit:  
Aswell as thou, we that are of thy said,  
Are partenars, of thy cursed and wicked died.   

Lord seeing thou did son Adam of clay,  
And made him like to thee, with all his kin,  
Why made thou nor▪ his heart the to obey, 
Esa. 6●.   
And why did thou, not plant his breist within?  
Such gifts of grace, that he should never sin.  
Thou knowest, their is no man on earth levand:  
Tha● can or may, against thy will with stand. 
Rom. 9    

Sith thou art God, our Lord & Father 〈◊〉, 
  
Why holds thou us, in woe and misery?  
Why hast thou hardened, thus our heart's min●●,  
And syld our ●yne, we should not clearly s●,  
The thing that may, thy will and pleasure be,  
Why dost thou not, of thy benevolence:  
Excuse our sa●tes, we do throw negligence? 
4. Es. ●.    

Sith man is made of sin both crope 〈◊〉,  
And can not drug, but as thou lets him draw,  
Why dost thou then, that sin to him impu●e?  
The heart that should the fear, and stand in awe: 
Esa. 54.   
Why doth it work, against thy will and Law?  
But as the just, so hes thou made 〈◊〉,  
The murtherare, for to destroy and ●eill.   

Even as the potter, with an lump of lame,  
Doth after his own santasie direct,  
Some pot to honour, and other some to shame,  
So hes thou likewise, create and elect,  
Some to thy gloire, and some to be deject, 
Rom. ●●.   
So of our s●lues, we never have s●e will:  
For to do good, but all mischief and ill.   

O sinful wretch, that dost thyself abuse,  
Now damnable, is thy frewoll argument? 
Rom. 45.   
Will thou thy sins on the Lord excuse?  
To dispute, how dare thou thyself present?  
With the deip wisdom, of God omnipotent. 
Esa. 45.   
Sith ignorance, hath the dissaved plane,  
Cry mercy for thy arguments 〈◊〉   

〈…〉 Confess the ●ord, the Lord of verity, 
Esa. ●3. 1. joh. ●. ●●. ●hes. ●. ●it. ●. 2. Tim. 2. joh. 1●. Rom. ●.   
●nd do not 〈…〉 sense pleid,  
His judgements 〈…〉 of equity,  
His ●●nne, is 〈◊〉 and remeid,  
For all the sins, that came of Adames said:  
Confess at Baptism, how thou 〈◊〉 〈◊〉,  
And swore, the faithful spouse to jesus Christ.   

Alas I fornicator, full of cair, 
All are spiritual fornicators that wirshoppes not one God allaverhe. Deut. 31 ●●di●. 2, 8. Fornication for infidelity and murmuratione against God. Numb. 14   
Following the apperite, of lusts rage,  
Dat not for shame, my filthiness declair,  
For worldly lust, I lose my heritage,  
I have a pultered, my whole marriage,  
And followed hath my sensuality:  
I set at nought, the word of verity.   

I grant my lust, hath me rep●●o●a●,  
And hath me caused, to forsake alas,  
My Saviour Christ, and spouse immaculate,  
How day I me present, before his face?  
Or how dare I● my spouse require for grace?  
Sith I myself, made separatione,  
committing filthy fornication.   

To follow my lusts, I did never blinne, 
Rom, 3.   
Nor never would against them contest  
I am brought up, and nourest in to sin, 
Pro. 20.   
With dolour now, why am I not oppressed?  
Sith I have done, forsake my spouse celest?  
O vile 〈◊〉 hast thou no shame? 
Mat. 10.   
Christ to renunce, of whom thou bears the name.   

For ignorance, for pleasure and delight,  
For false doctrine, that doth all men confuse, 
1. Cor. 14   
For gluttonnie, and beastly appetite,  
For them, why hast thou done thyself abuse,  
Note how ignorance, doth no man excuse,  
There is no way, since thou art so infect: 
●●hes. 1.   
But only Christ, the spouse of his elect.   

An spouse, and that full of benignity  
Not looking, on my life luxurious, 
Psal. 45.   
That for my luf● hath suffered death for me,  
His dead, hath vanquished death most furious, 
Ephe. 5.   
And shown himself, an lover curious,  
His grace: and mercy most misericord: 
Gal. 4.   
Hath made my peace, & pointement with the Lord.   

Right as thou art, my love and Lord of bliss, 
1. Cor. 1.   
My Saviour and God omnipotent,  
Let thy sweit mercy, me embrace and kiss, 
Ep●e. 2.   
On such an wise: that in my heart thou prent,  
Thy holy spreit, thy Law and Testament, 
joh. 14.   
And pardon me, where I have done rebel: 
Eccle. ●.   
I come for love, and not for fear of hell.   

Dulce Lord sweit spouse, take on me thought and  
Show me the way, that leads me most even, (cure, 
jacob. ●.   
Give me the knowledge, of thy true Scripture,  
In sie despair, my sins hath me dreven:  
That but thy grace, I can not come to heaven.  
Arm me with faith, the springing stream & well 
R●m. 18   
That I may venques the flesh, the Devil & hell.   

Or thou do fail, to them that thou dost love,  
Where faith is great, as gra●● of mustard se●d, 
Mat. ●●.   
The earth shall fail, so shall the heaven above, 
Rom. 5.   
I know thy mercy, doth right far erce●d:  
All my offence, my sin and wick●d d●id.  
And since thou hast, thy love upon me set, 
joh. 1●.   
O Lord, I know, thou will not me forget   

Which maketh me, cry on hight away despair, 
Ephes. 2   
That so long time, haveth done molest my mind,  
Sith Christ is so benign, both late and air: 
Col. 1.   
Moved with pretty, he will not be unkind, 
1. joh. 4 joh. 5.   
For to forgive, his nature is inclined.  
For his great mercy, as writeth cunning clerks,  
Doth far transcend, above his godly works. 
Esa. 34    

For our sins, Lord, we grant thy celsitude 
Ephe. 2.   
Of thy mere mercy. and special grace,  
freely thou wish away, with thy sweit blood, 
Heb. 9, & 1●.   
The whole iniquity, that came of Adames race,  
And meased thy Father's wrath, in to that case: 
Rom. 5.   
Where he stude, right glaidlie well content,  
With that one offering, that thou did him present. 
Col. 1.    

Because we could not wirke, the Father's will, 
Gal. 3.   
We were subdued, to dampnatione,  
Of death and hell, while Christ did it fulfil, 
Ephe. 1.   
And shed his precious blood, for our salvation,  
Which is our health, our life and our purgatione, 
1 ●●●●. H●b. 9   
We knew their is, no clen ●eing to conclude,  
But our purgatione, by Christ's death & blood.   

No purgatione, is named even nor odd,  
In holy Scripture, God's word of verity,  
But only jesus Christ, the Son of God,  
Hath pur●ed us, of our iniquity, 
Heb. 1.   
Where we were bound, the Lord hath made us free,  
From hell, from death and everlasting pane: 
Sapped. 7.   
And us restored haith, to life again.   

It is no marvel, though our hearttes' befo●ie,  
Sith we have through our sloth, and negligence, 
●● libro sententially.   
believed to have, an other purgatory,  
When from this vale of woe, that we shall hence,  
As writtey is, in the book of Sentence,  
That we shall to, an certain tire return:  
And many hundredth years, theirin till burne.   

And shall not come to bless, verse the heaven,  
But their till cry, till fry, till glour▪ and gaip,  
While for iche sum, we have burnt years seua●●, 
Idem ● 〈◊〉.   
And no manner of way, for●●ll e●chaip,  
But by the Mess●, and pa●●●ous of the paip,  
If this be true, as they 〈◊〉 preached plane,  
Then Christ hath shed: his pr●tion● blood in vane.   

The Father doth, no satisfactione gnaw, 
Psal 4●   
Nor no sie vave, consautes 〈◊〉 rea●,  
But by his Son, that ●ath fulfilled the Law,  
And satisfied, the Father once for all, 
Heb. 9 & 1●.   
By offering of his body natural.  
Upon the ●●oce, for us sinners to die:  
Whose death and passione, made us captives fire. 
Ephe. 5,    

Where we were dead in sin, and did remane, 
Rom. ●.   
And was condemned, after Moses' Law, 
Gal. ●.   
●et hath his death, us brought on live again,  
And shows to us the yock, that we should draw, 
Heb. 2, 9   
The word of God, the which doth plainly shaw, 
1. Cor. 15 1. Tim. 2   
Now we are only, by Christ all justified.  
And by his rising are also glorified.   

Wherefore great cause we have, to be content,  
Though for thy sake, we suffer woe and p●ne,  
Sith we are perteners, of thy Testament,  
Of thy promise, and of thy word deyune, 
Esa. 4●.   
As Isai saith, in the forty and nine,  
May any mother, suffer her eyes before?  
Her son to pereshe, of her body borne.   

And though she do, forget her child so deir,  
Yet all the flock, that will on me depend, 
Idem.   
I shall not them forget, I to you sweir,  
And when my people, have done me offend,  
By the contrary, I 〈◊〉 them to amend.  
Come saith Christ, who will their sins considder: 
Ezec. ●●.   
That I may give them, life and health together.   

Come with innocence, though ye should be slain,  
Come to me, for I am one rightious judge; 
Gen. 4, 7, 1●, 22.   
I am just Abel, I am not wicked Came,  
Come to my ark, and seek at me refuge,  
For I am Noye, and the second deluge,  
Come to me in faith, as did Abraham,  
And Isaac, that signified the lamb.   

Come all sinners, for your own be●oue, 
〈…〉   
Come not as the Scribes, with hypocrisy,  
Come unto me, for kindness and for love,  
Come as Naaman, for I am 〈◊〉,  
Come on and I shall 〈◊〉 your leprosy. 
  
I am Moses: and I os●e that wan,  
To you, the fruitful 〈◊〉 of Canaa●.   

Come till me, I am faithful I osias, 
●●●g. 23. 1 Sam. ●●. 〈◊〉 ●5. 〈◊〉. ●.   
I present David, Scripture makes mentione,  
I clue your old enemy Golias,  
For your defence, I am migthie Samsone,  
Sick my 〈◊〉, for I am Solomon:  
Come with faith, as the Fathers and prophets,  
Come with repentance, as the 〈◊〉. 
jonas ●    

Come all that are liper: Lazere and deif, 
Mat. 12.   
Come all that are, with malady molest,  
Come brigand, 〈◊〉, and come thief, 
●ar, ●.   
Come s●ke at me 〈◊〉, and ●●●e in rest,  
●e that are mad, and with the devil 〈◊〉,  
Come to me, ye that lo●g time blind have be●●e, 
Lu●. ●.   
That I may open your minds, & inward 〈◊〉.   

Come ye that walk, in darkness night and day,  
So that ye will▪ so my ●●x. take regand, 
〈◊〉 ●.   
Come unto me, for I cast none away,  
That will repent, with heart and mind inward,  
Knock on your 〈◊〉, and ●● shall be 〈◊〉, 
〈◊〉, 2.   
Be not ●educed by 〈◊〉 doctrine nor 〈◊〉,  
Come 〈◊〉 at me, 〈◊〉 and ye shall 〈◊〉.   

Eternal life, that ever shall remane,  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not on the pains corporal, 
joh. ●.   
〈◊〉 ye were dead, yet shall ●e live aga●●,  
Come all sinners, that will for mercy call,  
Come unto me, and I shall save you all,  
That bound and settred is in sins barge:  
Come unto me, I shall you cleave discharge. 
Ma●●. ●●.    

Come to me, vs●tairs avaricious,  
Come all, that wrang●slie have bought and sold,  
Come greedy worines, on earth so covettous, 
Luc. 19   
Climme up the treis', of your conscience cold,  
Climme as did Zacheus, me to behold,  
That restoird four fold, for ilk 〈◊〉:  
Sign of his goods, the half gave to the pure.   

Come with an lively faith, firm and stable,  
As did the Cananian, in the Gospel:  
That required as dog, under the table, 
Mat. ●3.   
To gadder crumbs, from God's word that fell,  
To heal her daughter, and to save her sell,  
Come also ye women, of life profane,  
Come with repentance, as did the Magdalane.   

The death of an sinner, I do not desire,  
All though he have been, long time deaf and dumb, 
Ezec. 19   
But rather that he should, life at me require,  
O Lord, these are sweit sayings all and sum  
Yet without thee, I can not to the cum.  
Convert thou me, then shall I be converted, 
〈◊〉. ●.   
〈◊〉 thou me, then shall I be diverted.   

From sin, o 〈◊〉, that doth me soir molest,  
Since thou to me, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so fair an trixie,  
without thee, Lord, my co●●●ence hes no rest,  
Strengthen my spirit, and to thy self it tiste, 
joh. 1●   
I pray the in the Name: of jesus Christ,  
Which hath us said, what thing ye ask & ●ra●●:  
My father in my Name, ye shall it half.   

In Christ's Name, we should only demand,  
Sith he hath ●led himself, with our natoure,  
And at none other, himself did so command,  
For that 〈◊〉 Christ, is our mediator,  
For our offence, to God the plasmatoure. 
●. joh. ●.   
Our advocar our freynd, and 〈◊〉 our judge:  
Our asperance, our comfort and refuge.   

Now will I no more, stand 〈◊〉 〈◊〉,  
To enter in thy holy house, and temple, 
Psal. ●●   
My Lord, my God, to come and draw the nei●,  
For consolation, in heart I shall contemple,  
Thy holy parable and godly sweit example,  
As in saint Luke's Gospel, is written plane:  
Their was an certain man, had sons twane. 
Luc. 15.    

The youngest son, before his father stude,  
And him be●oght, of his 〈◊〉,  
That he might have, his 〈◊〉 part of good, 
Idem.   
Which his father, divided equally,  
〈◊〉 he went forth, in till an straying country,  
Where his part, ●●sum din one while,  
In prodigality, and ●● pleasures vile.   

Sy●●e after have such hunger and such ne●●,  
Eriled from his father: and his kin,  
That with the swine, he was compelled to s●●●, 
Idem.   
But when that he, bet●oght him of his sin,  
How many are, my Father's house within:  
Of wried servants, that hes bread at will,  
And I his Son, for fault is like to spill.   

I will, unto my my father and confess,  
How I am worthy, for to be reproved,  
I will him grant, my sin and wickedness,  
But the father, before with piety moved, 
Idem. ●▪ ●●●.   
Ran till his son, and said my dear beloved,  
Thou art welcome, and clad him from the cold,  
Sign on his finger, put a●●ring of gold.   

And siewe the ●at calf, that was holden deir,  
Though the eldest son their on would not feid,  
To welcome his youngest son & make good cheir, 
Idem.   
Then said the father, let all blithness pro●eiti,  
My 〈◊〉 is to●●●● o● lose, that before was died:  
Lord here I se● thy great beatitude:  
And do constdder my own ●ngratitude.   

It is I wretch, from the father exiled,  
It is I, my conscience hath me accused, 
Rom. 2.   
I● is I, Lord, that is the wandering child,  
The gifts thou me gave, I have abused,  
And contrary thy command have them parused,  
And them consumed, in prodigality: 
Luc. 19   
Following my lust and sensuality.   

So now great hongare, reigns in this l●●b,  
That all kin people, in apparel is to tyne,  
For fault of God's word and his command,  
And I compelled till ear with mekill pine, 
Amos 8.   
That which is meiter for dogs and for swine,  
Have I not cause, for to be sad and woe?  
When I think on the house that I came sro.   

Where their is an abundance, of the heavenly bread,  
But I alas, have done myself misgyde,  
That my sins, theiron will not let me feid,  
What shall I do? or where shall I me hide? 
Rom. 7.   
Or shall I still into my sin abide?  
With repentance is better that I mourn,  
And yet again, to my father return.   

Perchance, he mercy will upon me have,  
I trust he will me succour, in my n●id,  
When with repentance, I it ask and crave,  
Then shall I pray him that he take no heid, 
Ezec. 18.   
To my folly, nor to my wicked died,  
And to my sins past, have no regaird:  
Nor after my deservings, me reward. 
joh. 17.    

That his justice, to me have no respect,  
Where I have walked, long time undiscrete, 
Rom. ●●.   
But that his mercy, make me his elect,  
And as I thought these words, in my spre●e,  
Their did appeir, to me an father sweit,  
That notwithstanding, my sin did me embrace:  
And from my fa●ltes; he did remove his fate. 
Esa. 44.    

Sign did command, 〈…〉  
That in the book of life I 〈◊〉 rol●,  
And clad me with an rob, of innocence,  
And on my finger, put an ring of gold,  
Which is the lively faith, that I should hold. 
Luc. 15.   
And with that hand, where the ring did repose:  
He gave me bread to eat, more sweit nor rose.   

Sign for my love, the best fed calf was keild:  
That worldly wisdom on an croice gart bleid, 
Act. 3.   
Which calf was Christ, our only stay and beild, 
Heb. 9   
Who said to me, my own brother take heid,  
Who trusts in me, shall never see the died,  
And thought they were infirm dead, man & wise 
joh. 11.   
Yet shall they live, and have eternal life.   

My lively dead I tholed for thy behove,  
Hath adam's offspring, from Satan's bands drived, 
Col. 2.   
Thou mon bellue, with hope to reign above,  
O death in life, by Christ's death arrived, 
Heb. 2.   
We that were dead, are by his death revived, 
Gal. 2.   
We are all dead, as concerning the Law, 
Rom. 7.   
And yet we live, throw Christ's death we knaw.   

O Lord my God, Christ my Mediator, 
1. joh. 2.   
That tholed death, for my salvation,  
W●she, clang: and purge, my poisoned natoure, 
Ephe. 5.   
With lively water, of regeneratione, 
Tit. 3.   
That I see no more, the separatione,  
Of the and me, my Lord, my God: and King, 
joh. 14.   
But in the heaven, with the that I may ring.   

But give me knowledge, of the holy word,  
And cause it, shrew my inward p●●●●s rinne, 
Heb. 4.   
Perce thou my heart, with that two edged smorde,  
And that it still remain, my heart within,  
While thou this spirit take, from this corpse of sin,  
Then thy right way, shall I parsave and find: 
Rom. 7.   
And walk no more, stumbling as I were blind.   

To understand that word, shall give me plane, 
Deut. 4.   
If I with meekness do it humbly reid,  
What is the true meat, of an Christian?  
Allanerlie since no man leaves on breid,  
But by the word: which doth of God proceeded, 
Mat. 4.   
Lord thou art high brade, length and latitude,  
Stloth serene, the pure and plesand slude.   

I come to thee, to wash me in that place,  
Thou knows well, I am the blind man borne,  
Refuse me not, but grant me of thy grace,  
Since for my sake thou beaten was and torn, 
joh. 9   
Suffer me not, o Lord, to be forlorn,  
Nor led with blind, though I blindness desire,  
To go and tramp, in every dub and mire.   

Open my inward eyen, and give me sight,  
O Lord, and make me one of thy appointed, 
●. Ioh.▪ 2, & 4. Ephe. 2. Heb. 2, 9 & 10.   
That I may judge, the darkness by the light:  
And say that it is jesus, Gods ointed,  
That with his precious▪ blood hath me anointed.  
And me redeemed hath from captivity:  
And hath me given the Spirit of liberty.   

The 〈…〉 for the of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 chase,  
With 〈…〉 ● and 〈◊〉  
That I 〈…〉 and it 〈◊〉 
Esa. 15. Luc. 1.   
Louse thou 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that I may 〈◊〉 express,  
That holy word, and daily it confess.  
Sen th●● hast said, let not my yoke the grieve, 
〈◊〉 ●.   
For if thou will, ●●my promise believe.   

Thou shall dwell in me, and I in the remane,  
If thou bide constant, withouten balt or hink  
To comfort thee, in thy travel and pane,  
In thy drought, thou shall have my blood to drink, 
joh. 6.   
And in thy heart, if that true faith can sink,  
My body thou shall have, and flesh to ●it:  
To feed the inward man, the life and spreit.   

Remembering thereby, my death and passione,  
Until I come, keep the same in memory, 
1. Cor. 11   
For they receive their ownr damnatione,  
That eattes this Sacrament, unworthily,  
Making no difference, of the lords body,  
Therefore let one man judge himself and s●ne,  
Let him come ●at the bread, and drink the wine. 
2. Cor. ●●    

Right many are with maladies confused,  
And do perish at length, without remeid,  
B●cause they have▪ 〈◊〉 Sa●●a●●●t abused: 
1. 〈◊〉 11.   
And many sleeps, to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  
Because, they have not thereof taken he●d:  
Lord slocken me, with drink celestial.  
That no dregs, nor poison papistical.   

Have puissance, to entre my heart within,  
Whose dregs hath done, the whole world delude,  
Which is but draff, and satlinges full of sin: 
joh. 6.   
The lords word and promise, is my fude,  
He hath me fed, in faith with flesh and blood.  
He is the bread of life, the which shall give,  
Pardon of sin, to all that will believe.   

He is the Sacrament: and lamb paschal,  
That oves for all, hath made one offering: 
levit. 18 Deu●. 21. Psal. 4● Heb. 1. Gal. 3.   
His precious blood, hath ransoved us all,  
He was for us cursed: and on an ecoce did hang:  
That curse till us, he changed in blessing.  
And to save his elect, for very love,  
He gave himself, to death for their behove.   

And from the dead▪ to life he roise again,  
In to his natural body sensible, 
joh. 21.   
Sign to his Apostles appeared plain, 
Mar. 16.   
That they might all see, his body visible,  
Sign to his Father, that is invisible,  
He ascended from them, though they did murne: 
Act. 1.   
And promised, at the last day for to return.   

In that same body, that he rose from died,  
Which body, doth remane in heaven alway,  
And sitteth on Gods right hand, as saith the creid, 
Heb. 1●.   
And shall not steir, nor move, as Paul doth say,  
while the last trumpet sound, at domesdaye,  
If it so be, flesh nor eye corruptible?  
May not himse, which is uncorruptable.   

Nor yet their is no mouth, nor hand mortal  
Nor that merchants, thereof thought they be wraith,  
May ●at or touch● his body natural,  
But all the faithful, as the Scripture saith,  
Do ●at his ●l●she, and drink his blood in faith,  
And till he come, hath left that ordinance:  
In s●gne of his death, and our deliverance.   

As for the obla●ion●, and sacrifice▪ 
Malac. 1.   
Offered by cannons, monks, Priests: & Freris,  
For quick, and dead, founded on avarice, 
●see. 5.   
Their Sacrifice, in Goddis' sight apperis,  
As cloth polluted, cum menstruo mul●eris.  
Who will not couf●ss●▪ all ready that Christ:  
Is come in flesh he is, one A●techrist. 
●. joh. 4    

They dèny Christ, those false Prophets profane,  
S●ice he is come, both dead and buried, 
Heb. 9   
That will h●n newlinges, slay and kill again, 
●al. 2.   
The Sacrifice of the old Law pacified:  
Th● father, while his Son was sacrified. 
●om. ●.   
Which is come, and off●●d on's for all, 
●●b. 10.   
But ●●●ce that he is com●, as saith samet Paul:   

And for our sins, hath su●●red passione,  
S●ing that he, is rissin and gloufied, 
Idem.   
The father, will no n●we oblation.  
He will be no● adored, and ma●nifie●  
Christ will no more, for ●innes b● sacrified,  
He will now be lou●d feared s●rued and dread:  
And will no more, with Sacrifice be fed.   

It is only thou, o jesus Christ my Lord,  
It is thou, o sweit Lamb immaculate, 
1. joh. 2.   
I pray the Lord, to be misericord: 
1. Tim. 2   
And though, that I should be vituperat,  
Of all my friends, and excommunicate: 
●oh. 16. Rom. 7.   
scourged, scorned: imprisoned and blamed,  
Yet of thy word shall I not be eschamed.   

But I shall boldly say, in every steid,  
And confess before men, both morn and even, 
Act. 4.   
That their is none other, can give remeid,  
Nor yet none other name, in earth nor heaven: 
Luc. 20.   
That for salvation, is to mankind given, 
1. Pet. 2.   
Nor grace, nor life, that can till us inswe,  
But only, in the name of Christ jeswe. 
Act. 4.    

And yet till all them, that his word doth mock,  
And daily do, their own traditiones hold 
Mat. 21.   
He his an stumbling stone, and snapring block, 
Psal. 118   
To all that would entre, in his sheep fold,  
By an other way, nor himself hath told, 
joh. 10.   
To them that s●kes, by inventions subtiles: 
Esa. ●8.   
To save them, by their works inutiles.   

Ye that your own good, intentes esteems, 
Idem.   
To seek the word of God, that is so sweir,  
Arise and walk, forth of your sliprie dreams,  
In sleep ye are charged, and may not steir, 
Ephes. 5   
With heavy burdinges, impossible to beir: 
Mat. 23.   
So that an great f●bure, moved with heit,  
Hath sur●mont●d, your senses and yur spreit. 
Esa. 16.    

Which makes you raif, & say ye wait not what, 
Os●c ●, & ●.   
That God's word, & holy Scripture blames,  
An thousand things, against the truth God wat,  
A walk, forth of your ●ilthie dreams vifames,  
And use the counsel, of the Apostle james:  
●ho that hath fault, of sapience saith he, 
●acob. 1.   
Let ask of God, which giveth aboundantke.   

To every man, and doth none decea●e,  
Nor yet no kind of natione, will he lack, 
●oh. 10.   
What thing ye ask in faith ye shall it have,  
Come all that will repent, and be not slack, 
Mat. 9   
That he may take the burdinges of your back:  
He is our Lord, our Saviour and Master,  
He makes the wound, sign setteth on the plaster▪   

At his own pleasure, and not at our will,  
None of us, are found just, afore his face, 
Rom. ●.   
Our own nature, can wirke no good but ill  
If we have goodness, it is not of our race: 
Ephe. ●.   
Nor yet of ourselves, but by God's grace,  
By his grace, I which was an olive wild:  
Is grafted in faith, and become his child. 
Rom. 11.    

Participant of the free olive fair,  
Where I was before, bastard and none other, 
Idem.   
He hache me made, his lauchfull son and air:  
And ●ik partaker, with my elder brother, 
Luc. 15.   
Where I had but an concubine to mother,  
And come last to labour, in the wine,  
Yet with the first, I got my just propyne. 
Mat. 2●.    

 
 
 
That blinds the world, with hi●: 〈◊〉: 
〈◊〉 ●   
Be merciful to him, and let him see,  
And perceive, his own preuarication●●:  
Where with he blindeth, all bind of nationes.   

I lose my time, for so he will not with,  
For that ungodly beast, is no renieid,  
Is he not chief? of his unknown church: 
1. joh. ●●   
Saint john in his epistle, biddeth me take heid,  
Their is saith he, an certain sin to died,  
For the which sin I wish no man to pray:  
The beast committeth the sin, both night & day.   

I mien the sin, against the holy ●pr●it, 
Heb. 6, & 10.   
With that sin no man ought to play nor bou●d,  
To pray for Gods ●oo, it is not meit,  
He is his ●oo, that ●oo is till his word, 
Rom. 11.   
That over all where, with pains fire and sword, 
prover. 2●.   
Doth seek to slay, and persecute express:  
All them that will, trwelie that word confess.   

Lord fry us, from his constitutiones,  
And do not suffer, thine elect to fall, 
joh. 17. Esa. 3. Os●● 12.   
In the pit, of his devilish traditiones,  
Which held hath so long, thy Church in thrall,  
By his inventions Diabolical:  
eject him forth and all his, even and odd, 
2. Tes. 2.   
The forlorue son, that in the temple of God.   

〈…〉 himself h●●h rung, east west & South,  
And 〈◊〉 world, after his solely 〈◊〉,  
Thou 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, with the spirit of thy mouth,  
For till 〈◊〉, and kill that Antichrist: 
2. Tes. ●.   
For his presuming equality with Christ,  
The refulgent splendour, of thy coming:  
Shall soon to darkness drive that beast maling.   

Then shall the heavy burdinges importables,  
Of men's doctrines and their vain command,  
Alleged in their laws deceiveables, 
Mat. 2●.   
That none but themselves, could understand, 
Luc. 11.   
Where with the conscience, of simple men they band,  
Then shall their superstitiones in an stound,  
With mekil shame: be brought unto the ground, 
Apoc. 20    

Then shall the word of God: be shawn complete, 
Apoc. 7.   
Which shall darken, the doctrine of the hure 
joh. 4.   
And God himself, adored in saith and Spirit,  
But not in images nor painted portraiture:  
Which are against the Law, and the Scripture,  
To make any kind of similitude: 
Deut. 4.   
In heaven nor earth, in water sea nor slude.   

Nor till worship the work, of men's hands,  
But to set all idolatry aside:  
As thou may plainly read, in the commands: 
Exod. 20   
Who maketh them, or in them doth confide,  
Shall with them all in God's wrath abide,  
Who worsheppes images, it is no board,  
Let them alone, and follow God's word. 
Psal. 11●.    

〈◊〉 worsheppes idols 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, 
.   
〈◊〉 〈◊〉, nor ca● he 〈◊〉 with 〈◊〉:  
And in God●e● sight, no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he,  
By this, ye may plainly ● 〈…〉  
All doctrine vain, that sounded is by men, 
Luc. 15.   
Come saith Christ, all ye my adversairs, 
Mat. 11.   
To my true word and seek your necessairs.   

Come seek your health, & als the Lord's renown, 
Deut. 5, & 17.   
And use no more, the folly of your brave:  
As is written, in Deuteronomium,  
If the wicked in vice, will still remane:  
Then shall I still agment, his woe and pane,  
But he that loveth me, him shall I defend, 
Eccle. 19   
Against all them, that dare him vilipend.   

against kings, realms and governors,  
That of their power, and their puissance bos●●s, 
Iosu● 1.   
against strengths, castles, towns & towers,  
I shall them courage, in all countries & costs,  
That they shall fear, none but the Lord of h●●●●s,  
They shall be my belovittes every whair, 
Apoc. 21.   
And I shall be their God, for ever mair.   

They shall build on me, & I shall be there ground,  
I am the stable rock, that will not steir▪ 
1. Cor. 2.   
Then may they say, with fervent faith profound, 
Esa. 52.   
Sen God is my defence, I do not feir,  
That man can work me woe, or do me deir, 
Psal. 117   
Who can then be against us, late or air: 
Rom. 8,   
Sen God hath done himself for us declair.   

〈…〉 hath broken for us, ●he 〈◊〉 h●ld, 
〈◊〉 3.   
And 〈…〉 hurled, 〈…〉  

〈◊〉 ●0   
Agan●s ●he lords 〈◊〉 or them condemn:  
For his chosen are saved, by the lamb:  
Which lamb is he, that doth us iusti●ie 
Rom. ●.   
And his justice, ou● flesh doth mortifio.   

Their is nothing, but goodness with the Lord,  
In him their is, no condempnatione, 
Idem.   
But all charity, and misericord:  
And if we chance, to fall in vexation, 
1. Cor. 10   
The end shallbe good, of our temptatione:  
How can ye excuse your monstoures infect?  
That to the death deliu●res his elect. 
Eccle. 41    

The pit t●●t ye do, for us dig and deluz,  
●s did falterman for Mordoch●us::  
Is that same pit, where ye shall fall your selue,  
Wicked Haman, s●p●r be and glorious: 
Esor. 7.   
Did signify, old Satan venomous,  
Esther and only, Christ's true elect,  
King assuerus, God that would them not elect.   

It is well known, how ye have done misgide, 
jere 32.   
What through your ignorance, & what through ire,  
The blind world, that in you doth conside, 
Ezec. 34▪ Z●ch. 10.   
For all is but blindness, that ye require:  
Who seeks the light, ye do them burn with fire,  
What? for the flesh the matter is but small, 
M●t. 20.   
Ye have no puissance, over the Spirit nor saul.   

The 〈◊〉 of ●●k one, ye do oppress,  
That ●or the Gospels sake is driven to died:  
To God's glory▪ one thousand doth incress●,  
gamaliel in the Acts ye may reid, 
Act. 5.   
Gave you wise counsel, if you would take held:  
When that they preached, at jerusalem,  
Saying, if that their doctrine be of men.   

Their doctrine can not last, I you assure,  
But in short time, shall vanish as an board:  
And if it be of God, It shall endure, 
Iden.   
The Apostles doctrine was Gods wourd,  
But your doctrine, is fagott fire and swourd:  
For till destroy, and put all to confutione, 
jere. 10.   
Who will not draw, the yock of your abusion.   

Though ye us persecute, withouten piety, 
Mat. 10.   
Yet jesus Christ, hath by his providence:  
Commanded us to sly, from town to c●●ti●  
To void your fury, and your negligence: 
Apoc. 17   
while time approach, of God's prescience,  
For your abusion, begins now to appeir, 
1. joh. 2.   
Before all them that have, the lantern clear.   

Of God's word, how ye wild asses rude,  
With wholesome heirbes, that n●●er was acqu●nted, 
Esa. ●2.   
Hath now usurped, the pastures and the f●de,  
Of the good s●ock, of Gods own anointed:  
while the time be run, that is appointed,  
O holy Spirit, p●yssant consolatore: 
joh. 14.   
Come, be governor and cike translatore:   

Of the poor world, that leaveth in ignorance, 
Deut. 1●   
And is only, on their own minds mused: 
Esa. 6.   
That ignorance, be not there esperance,  
Though they have been, these many years con●used, 
Mar. 6.   
And with sals doctrine, this long time abused:  
Yet let thy electione, alway●●btene, 
Psal. 6.   
That which thy justice, may no way prevene. 
Rom. 11.    

And rather make it, to all nationes plane,  
That they may know, their blindness and arise: 
Psal. 60. 1▪ Cor. 1, & ●.   
How worldly wit, and wisdom is but vane,  
Sen God hath said, the poor that ye dispryse,  
Yet shall their foolishness, confound the wise,  
Not with highness, nor gloir as writeth Paul,  
Nor with no or●at speech rhetorical.   

But in the puissance, of Christ crucified, 
Idem.   
And not by man's wit: nor his prudence,  
For man's wisdom, hath not us purified:  
Saint Paul preached, none other sapience,  
But the high mysteries, of God's prescience,  
Unknown to pr●lattes, that for avarice: 
Gal. 3.   
Of gold or silver, gifts or benefice:   

Would the ignorant world, to them draw, 
Malach. 2, & 3.   
And doth thereof, the whole riches posseid,  
And with that strength, defends their rite & law,  
They will over prince's reign, in every steid,  
And will not to the word of Paul take held, 
Phil. 3.   
Saying, in compair of the word divine:  
I do esteem the rest, but filth and slime.   

I have not whereof, to boist I grant,  
But of the many stripes, that I have won▪ 
●al. 6.   
O God forbidden, that I myself do vaunt  
But in Christ's croce, as first I have begun,  
To preach his word, while that my glass be gone  
I have no gloir, nor none I will me take,  
But where as I have thoild for Christ's sake.   

Who that is persecute, for Christ's Loy●,  
God, that the hearts of the faithful tries, 
Ma●. 10.   
Shall their pursuit, turn till eternal joy:  
For who will be (saith Paul) discreit or wise  
Must at all time, their own wisdom dispryse.  
Praying to God, continual all and some: 
1. Cor. 3.   
That they may fools and idiottes become.   

For worldly wisdom, will never be content,  
Nor never will, the flesh persuade nor tiste: 
Mat. 16.   
To th'oil the earthly woe, and pains present,  
To them that trweli● hes made, an faithful triste, 
1. joh. 2.   
To walk after the will: of jesus Christ,  
For they must, or they enter in the gloir, 
●. Tim. 3 Ma●. 10.   
Pas through that path, their master past befoir.   

Paul writand, as the holy Spirit him taught,  
Of the divine nature supernatural,  
Unto the Romans in the theptour aught,  
How God the Father, from the original, 
〈◊〉 ●.   
Hath knawne the faithful: and elect them all,  
To be like the form, and image ever mair:  
Of jesus Christ, the Son of God preclair.   

Faithful Christians, what demand ye more,  
Since God hath given to you such comforting: 
1. joh. 3.   
Is their more gre●ter honour, land and gloir:  
As to be portrait, in every kind of thing,  
To jesus Christ, the Son of God our King, 
Col. 3.   
At the last day, with Christ our Master deir,  
Like to himself (saith john) we shall appeir.   

Christ saith, who that would my disciple be,  
Forsake himself, against the world strive: 
Luc. 9   
Take up my croce, and beir it after me,  
I grant there is no creature, on live,  
But they would all be saved, man and wife, 
Mat. 10.   
I confess, all would reign with Christ in bliss  
But sew are like, the Son of God in this.   

The Son of God, our Master or he rang,  
Received humility, and abhorred pride: 
Mat. 2. Luc. 22.   
Was crucified, and tholed pains strange,  
And durst not long, in to no place abide,  
Baneist, and had no hole, his heid to hide: 
joh. 8.   
He was blasphemed, they said say we not weill,  
Away Samaritane possessed with the deill.   

For who would be like, the Son of God,  
Like him must shape, their cleathing & their weighed, 
Col. 3.   
Sign bear his croce, through every path & rod: 
Mat. 16.   
If we would reign, uncrucified in died,  
We are not like to Christ, our chief and heid, 
Mar. 8.   
God haveth ordained, all that with Christ shall ring: 
Luc. 9   
For to be like to Christ, in every thing.   

Their is no way, to enter in to gloir, 
Rom. ●.   
Their is no help, their is none other choice: 
●uc. 9   
But as the Son of God, hath gone be●oir,  
He is the way, his sheep they hear his voice, 
joh. 10.   
They follow him, thy bear his mark and croise: 
Esa. 50.   
God the Father, in his counsel divine,  
Determined, by suffling woe and pine:   

That jesus Christ, should enter in repose,  
Since the divinity, did so decreit, 
Esa. 62.   
So it behoved, this blessed heavenly rose:  
Should suffer death, to make the work compleit,  
As God the Father, had ordained in Spreit,  
Some saith that the Scripture: & Prophets true, 
Luc. 9   
Spoke and meined, but only of Christ jesus.   

I answer, the providence eternal, 
Ephes. 1.   
Before the world, as now it sees and saw,  
Comprehending, all things universal: 
1. Cor. 11.   
The cermonicall, Scriptures ye knaw, 
Col. 1.   
Are finished in Christ, end of the Law.  
But yet the Scriptures, follow upon us: 
Rom. 8.   
That are membres of his Son Christ jesus.   

The holy Spirit (of God) saith Paul express,  
That wirketh day and night, for our behove,  
To our spirit, beareth record and witness,  
That we are children, of the Lord above,  
Also coheritoures, with Christ throw love,  
(Saith Paul) if we suffer with him in died:  
We shall be also, with him glorifeid.   

Except we suffer, and ourselves daunt,  
The holy Spirit, maketh narratione, 
Mat. 20.   
We shall no ways, be participant, 
Mar. 10.   
Of jesus Christ's death, and passione.  
Except we bear, the croce of tribulatione, 
2. Tim. 2   
If we think shame, his croce to bear and take:  
Likewise saith Paul, he will us clean forsake.   

In to the Levitt Law, God gave command, 
levit. 2.   
To all Israel, that they should never tire,  
To salt all sacrifice, and all offrand,  
But in the nynt of mark, Christ doth require,  
His servants, to be seasoned with fire, 
Mar. 9   
If they will be, of his religione:  
To salt themselves, with persecutione.   

Prepair you, o unfeinzeid Christians,  
To pass, see that ye be all ready dressed, 
1. Cor. 3.   
This purgatore, to the Corrinthians,  
That Paul in to, the third theptour expressed,  
Where every work, shall be manifest,  
In the day of temptatione, and of ire:  
The croce of tribula●ione, is that fire.   

That fire shall try, our work ●s even and odd, 
Id●m.   
To rich nor poor, it will have no respect,  
Their shall be seen, who is like the Son of God, 
joh. 16.   
It is neidefull, that all the faithful Sect, 
2. Tim. 3   
Be tried by fire, that are his true elect:  
As were all they, that loved Christ's Empire: 
jud. 8.   
Proved and tried, by that felon fire.   

Abel the just, by his own brother Cain, 
Gen. 4, & 7.   
Though he offended him, in to no case,  
Was he not put to death, by him and slain?  
Noye with all kind of souls, and beasts raice,  
Was closed on the sea, an years spaice,  
Abraham, father of all fidelity, 
Rom. 4.   
Had he not daily, great adversity?   

When sundry times, for dreddour of his life, 
Gen. 12, 14, 20, 22 & 23.   
For hongare, famine, and tribulatione,  
Behoved to deny, his proper wise,  
Loath in Sodom, had great v●xatione,  
Isaac, had he not great temptatione?  
When his father, obeying Gods ' command,  
Upon an altar, like one lamb him band,   

To cut his neck, all ready was an knife,  
while that his father, persaved well and saw,  
That God's Angel, came to save his life,  
Twenty years, durst not jacob, ye knaw, 
Gen. 27. & 17.   
Come to Canaan, for feir of Esaw,  
josephes' own brethren, put him in an cave:  
And sign him sold, in Egypt for an slave.   

Where his masters, accused him in despite,  
And into prison impetiouslie was done, 
Gen. 39   
For not fulfilling: of her appetite,  
Moses' walled rather, with Gods people won, 
Exod. 12   
Nor to be called, king Pharaoh's daughter's son. 
Heb. 11.   
Moses, thy Spirit before did clearly see:  
Where Solomon said, it were better be.   

With the humble, in pains and distress,  
Nor with the glorious, both night and day, 
prover. 16.   
To part bushels of gold, and great richesses▪  
jossue, that still did the Lord obey,  
At whose request, the Son for him did stay,  
What tribulatione, had he, or he wan? 
josu. 10.   
The land of promise, called Canaan.   

Godly Deborah, what she tholed in eared, 
jud. 4.   
When underneath, the palm try was her luges,  
Behold and read, in judicum the feared, 
jud. 7.   
What Gideou suffered, with small refuges,  
I do report me: to the book of judges,  
What petious pains, had jephteth Gilead●it?  
When he: his only daughter sacrifest. 
jud. 11.    

Samsone, blessed of God omnipotent, 
judi. 13, & 14.   
Nazarien, that ointed was with oil:  
And for his strength, Messiah did present,  
Had he not, persecutione pain and dole?  
They breast his eyen, and used him as an fool, 
Idem 16   
David prince of Prophets, in Spirit exparte:  
That God did cheese, after his very heart.   

against saul, the most part of his life, 
1. Sam. 19, 22, 23.   
In woods, in willdernes: and great exile,  
He had but persecutione, pain and strife,  
After saul, Absolou within a● while,  
His father chaste, and did his bed defile,  
David suffered, all these probationes, 
2. Sam. 15.   
Without mumur, or exclamationes.   

Welcome he said, welcome thy holy will,  
Thy pleasure mote all way, in me be planted, 
1. Sam. 26.   
I have suffered, and ready to suffer still,  
O word divine, o outward man well daunted,  
O faith and hope, in till an heart well haunted.  
When Samuel, by prophecy divine:  
Declared till Eli, his great ruin.   

Eli said, is he not master principal? 
2. Sam. 3   
His ways are just, and full of equity,  
His will mote be fulfilled, on us all, 
job. 3.   
Toby for afflictione, nor misery:  
He never left, the way of verity.  
Patiented job: to thy book I me report, 
job▪ 23.   
If thou hast passed, this fire in double sort.   

What shall I say, what Prophet now let see?  
What righteous man, that to the truth is given?  
Hath shawn the word of God, and scapit free,  
In the acts, for witness I take saint Steven, 
Act. 7.   
Saying these words, in the chapter seven,  
Which of the Prophets, that ye in writ of reid?  
Hath not your Fathers persecute till d●id.   

Like as they did, none of the Prophet's spair,  
But for to slay them, thought it sport and board, 
M●t. 4▪ 〈◊〉 17.   
So did they john, that Prophet was and may't,  
Even as the eunemies, of God's holy wourd,  
From the beginning, with knife fire and swourd,  
As they his servants used, with death and Rod:  
So have they done, the very Son of God. 
1. T●s. ●.    

Since God the Father, in his proper person,  
Hath not forborn, but thought it right and skill, 
Rom. 8.   
That jesus Christ, his dear and only so●e,  
Should suffer death, the Scriptures to fulfil, 
Ma●. 15.   
That wicked men, might work on him their will,  
Thus if we start, for punishment untrue: 
Mat. 10.   
We are not like our master Christ jesus.   

No seruand should, disdain nor yet abhor,  
When with licence, at table set he is, 
Ibem.   
To drink such drink: as drank his Lord before, 
joh. 15.   
For no disciple, nor no seruand I wis,  
Is greater nor his Lord, and Master is: 
Mat. 12.   
If Belzebub, they did the master call,  
How mekill more, his household servants all. 
Luc. 11.    

The enemies, of God's word are borne, 
2. Cor. 11   
For till reward, with croce and double hire,  
The postles as, the Prophets was before,  
To be like Christ, Paul thou had great desire,  
Thou was oft purged, and cleuged in that fire,  
When thou received, with stoundes and distress: 
Act. 14.   
Two hundredth wounds, saving one wound less.   

They scourged thy body three times at once, 
2. Cor. 11   
Thy spirit in patience, still it did abound,  
Thou was left for dead, & stoned was with stones, 
Act. 16, 14, & 21.   
And was three times, in daingere to be drowned,  
Thou was at List rasnapped, while thou swoon,  
In danger of thiefs molestation:  
And in great trouble, with those of thy natione.   

With false brethren, in daingers many sold, 
●. Cor. 11   
Be land be sea, in ceties not a few, 
Act. 27.   
With nakedness, in hongare thirst and cold,  
For all these pains, thou said o postle true,  
I gloir, in to the croce of Christ jesus,  
And still thou bair, that croce preaching the word: 
Gal. 6.   
while for the same, thy life lost by the sword.   

From age to age, the faithful lost their lives,  
From reign till reign, such mercy did them len, 
1. T●ss. 2.   
And got such grace, as did the prematives,  
Unto to this day, was persecute ye ken,  
How many true and faithful Christian men?  
Of Scotland borne good men and well levand,  
Had then this croce, upon their backs bearand.   

Scattered, with grievous tribulationes,  
And hated, for the word of lucent light,  
Throw all countries, realms and nationes, 
1. Cor. 4.   
With patience, loving the Lord of might:  
With faith and hope like one as Christ's knight,  
Feghting with force against their foes fell: 
Gal. 5.   
I meine, the flesh, the world, the devil and hell.   

Thy flesh, may not these soir assaults gainstand,  
For it is filthy, fragile and indiscreit,  
Except it be well armed, foot and hand,  
proceeding, from the inward man and spreit: 
Ephe. 6.   
With godly armour, for man's saul most meit,  
Who would right arm, a knight the price to win:  
At his solretz for seuthe he should begin.   

Thy s●●e must be prepared, and ready should,  
And 〈◊〉 no shame, before ●●inces nor kin●●●,  
For till 〈◊〉, the true Gospel of God, 
Rom. ●.   
Which is the evangel, of peace & glaid tythinges:  
That health and life, unto the faithful brings. 
Ephe. 6.   
Thy breast must bear, the plate of righteousness:  
And tarry by the truth, for all distress.   

The Spirit of God, shall the make narratione, 
Rom. 8. 1. Tess. 5. Esa. 59 Ephe. 6. Heb. 4. Apoc. 19   
When that thy helm, hath biddin the fire & past,  
That it shall shine unto salvation,  
At all times thou must bind thy body fast,  
With belt of truth, that ever more shall last,  
Thy two edged sword, that no Papist may bide,  
Shall be God's word, that shears on either side.   

For thy defence, against all ire and wraith,  
To kep● the darts, of the devil untrue, 
Ephe. 6.   
Bear high on high, the targe and shield of faith,  
Where must be written, with letters fresh of hew, 
1. Tess. 5.   
The Testaments, the old bu● and the new,  
To quench and slocken, the fiery darts fell,  
Of Satanas' the old seigneoure of h●ll.   

About thy targe, must written be also, 
Ephe. 2.   
I mien at the four corners several,  
Per fidem saluabitur omnis caro.  
With charity, the mother of virtues all,  
That suremonteth hope, and faith perpetual,  
Throw this armour, I make the sure and plane,  
Their can no man, be murder'st hurt nor slain. 
1. Cor. 13    

To the last day, and hour thou may not tire 
Mat. 20. Marc. 8. Luk. 6. ●. Collo. ●.   
To bear the croce, and follow Christ jesus,  
To pass and repas, throw this felon fire,  
The old and outward man, for till subdue,  
And aye rub of his roost, to make him new,  
Do diligence, to forge him foot and hand,  
To be obeying, at the spreittes command.   

When thou hast foghen, with him on sundry wise,  
And he rebel, yet while he all be worn, 
Phill. ●.   
Begin a new to feght, and win the prise,  
Which is the crown of life, is the before:  
Prepaird for thee (o knight) or thou wast borne. 
Apo. 1. Collo. 1.   
If thou contenew constant to the end,  
This armour shall from Satan the defend.   

I am assured, that mine eyes shall see,  
Amanges the Saints, and Angel les glorious,  
Thy body clad, with immortality, 
Phill. 2.   
And on thy head an crown victorious,  
In new jerusalem before the Lord thy spous,  
Where thou shall reign, in likeness ever maire:  
To jesus Christ, the Son of God and air.   
Non est mortale quod opto.   
FINIS.   


❧ The Lord● 〈◊〉.  

O●●● father God, which ●●● in heavens 〈◊〉  
Thy holy Name be blessed, for evermoir.  
Thy kingdom come, thy will perpetually,  
Be done in earth, as is in heaven with the.  
Be gracious to us, good Lord at neid:  
Give us this day, our food and daily breid.  
Forgive our sins, and our wickedness,  
As we do them, that doth us oppress.  
Let us not fall, into temptatione,  
But us defend, for Christis passione.  
And save us Lord, from all manner of ill,  
According to thy pleasure, and thy will.  
For strength and might, perteneth only to th●.  
To whom be gloir, and prais eternally.   
So be it.   

❧ The 12. articles of our beleun.  

I Trow in God, the Father, Lord of all,  
That made the earth, and heaven celestial.  
And in Christ jesus, his only Son most sweit,  
Our Lord, consaved by the holy Spreit.  
And of the blessed, virgin Marie borne,  
By Pilate falsely judged, rend and torn.  
Crucified dead, sign laid in burial,  
Descended to the hells, infernal.  
From death to life, he rose on the third day,  
Ascended to the heaven, where he always.  
Doth sit on the right hand, of God celest,  
Where bodily he doth, demane and rest.  
●t the last day from thence, shall come with speid,  
justly to judge, the leving and the died.   

I believe in the holy Spre●t,  
Their is, an Church of God discreit.  
Of holy saints communione,  
And of our sins, remissione.  
The rising, of the flesh mortal,  
And after, life perpetual.  
In this faith, I for evermore,  
Will trust though I should die theirfore.   
So be it.   

❧ The ten commandements.  

LIft up your hearts, open your ears.  
Hard hearted people, for till heir,  
The word of God, that now appears,  
And his, commandements leir.   

I am thy God, celestial,  
From servitude, delivered the.  
Thou shall not have, therefore at all,  
No other gods, but only me.   

No image to thee, make thou shall,  
Painted nor carved, curious.  
Nor on thy knees, before them fall,  
For I thy Lord, am jealous.   

His Holy name, most venerable,  
Take not in vain, nor it dispryse  
For God will 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 culp●●●●,  
That him blasphemes, in any wise   

Sex days work, but on the seven,  
Rest thou, thy seruand, and thy beast.  
For that ilk day, the God of heaven,  
Reposed▪ and his works blessed.   

Father and mother, honour aye,  
That thou may, long the earth possess  
And so the ground, to the always,  
Her fruits shall yield, with great Increase.   

In covatice, desire thou nought,  
from thy nighbour, by thought nor strife.  
That which is his, or he hath bought,  
His beast, his seruand, nor his wife.   

Be no man killer, nor homicide,  
Adulterar, nor witness falls.  
Be not an these, in thought nor died,  
No sclanderare, nor liar als.   

O Lord: thy words, of efficace,  
Are clearer, nor the summer's day.  
Until our hearts, Imprint thy grace,  
After this law, the to obey.   
So be it   

❧ Grace before dinner.  

O Soverane, Lord, Pastor and heid  
Look and behold, this compangnie.  
Of thy goods, suffer us to feid,  
And use ourselves, soberly.  
Without excess, or gluttony,  
For who that doth, the fear and dreid.  
Thou takes thought, on them daily,  
Their bodies, for to cleith and feid.   
So be it.   

❧ Grace after dinner▪  

O Lord that gave, us in command,  
To take no thought, for the next day.  
For this, that we do understand,  
Thou feidis us, we praise, the aye.  
Since it hath pleased, the alway,  
With meat and drink, to feid our flesh.  
So with the bread of life, we pray,  
Thou will our sinful, souls refresh.   
So be it.   

❧ The Pelican figuring jesus Christ.  

THe Pelican, of the forest celest,  
amongs his works, notable and new,  
After the heaven, the Angels, and the rest.  
He made his birds, of divers sundry hue.  
alone them left, and sine away he flew,  
And gave them, their ●rewill and liberty,  
In to the forest of Paradise to be.  
Where that the tree of life, it grew and stude,  
Set by the Pelican, of humility.  
To save his birds, that spared not his blood.   

But as they sang, sweit and melodious,  
Into that wood, as plesand nightingailles,  
An fouler false: ugsume and odious.  
Their with his nets and girns soir assailles.  
Sign baneist them, the gairdings & the vailles,  
Because till over high fruit, they did pretend,  
To wilsome vailles & dailles, them were they send,  
Where they remaned, long in servitude,  
Abiding the Pelican their miss for till amend.  
To save his birds, that spared not his blood.   

Down from the wood of Angels bright & clear,  
This Pelican for love, did swiftly fly,  
Where he ●and Rawens, did his small birds, deir.  
And shed his blood, in streimes ●rwellie.  
Withouten ruth, this Pelican, they gart die,  
Denud of mercy, they did him rug and rive,  
With patience to death, he thoild them drive.  
His faltles flesh, because their was no ●ude,  
Nor medicicine, could save his birds live.  
while from his tender heart, they re●t his blood.   

The Ravens, at the jews full of feid,  
Unjustly put, this Pelican to died.  
Which doth betoken, Christ both God and man,  
The birds, are the creatures human.  
The falls fouler, the laithlie serpent rude,  
That gart misknow, the heavenly Pelican.  
To save his birds, that spared not his blood.   


O jesus Christ, my Lord so sweit,  
That for me, vile sinner indign,  
Thou suffered, from the heid to feit.  
Thy body, for till scourge and ding.  
Thy face overspread, with foul spitting,  
In to deris●one, with great scorn,  
Sign on thy head, did thrust and thring.  
An keen and crwell, pricking thorn.   

To save me sinner, full of vice,  
Thou was, the obligatione,  
Thou made the contract, and the price.  
That thou should, suffce passione.  
To save me, from dampnatione,  
That was prepared, for Adames said,  
from hell, unto salvation.  
Thou bought me, with thy precious died.   

I know, jesus thy patience,  
Hath borne, my great fragility,  
My sins, eik and my offence.  
Thou bure them, to the death with the.  
Since thou hes borne such love to me,  
and suffered hast such pains fell,  
To sally, ray death and misery,  
That spared not, to die thy cell   

Lord I the pray, with heart and mind,  
Lay not to me, my sinfulness,  
Sith thou hast ben●, to me so kind.  
And tholid h●s, so great distress.  
The vinegar, and bitterues,  
The scourges, scorns, and the strife,  
Mot fill me, with the great sweitnesse.  
Of peace, and everlasting life.   

Thy holy death, surmount and slay,  
The dolent dead, now of my saul,  
Thy precious blood, mote wash away,  
My uncleinnes, and vices all.  
The sufflettes, suffered in the haul:  
The bands, that band thy hands and feit,  
Mot breck now and perpetual:  
That bands of sin, that hurts my spreit.   

The nailles and the crown of thorn,  
The spitting: the strokes and the spear,  
The nods, the shameful death and scorn:  
The wicked words, that thou did heir,  
The heavy croce, that thou did beir.  
The torments, of thy death cruel,  
Mot draw my soul, to the full near:  
And save me, from the pains of hell.  
Lord, thy glorification,  
Mot clang, my soul and my body,  
And in the resurrectione:  
Reform my great iniquity,  
Sen I am figurat to thee,  
That aye shall regne perpetuum,  
An levand God, in persons three:  
In world of worldles for to cum.     

❧ Ane Ballad of the spiritual: and carnal understanding of Christ's words, This is my body and blood, etc. john. 6.  

alone musing, as I forth went,  
An sudden sleep, did me assay,  
I thought my spirit, was from me rend:  
Upon the ground, where as I lay.  
I heard an voice breck forth and say:  
Take holy Scripture spiritual,  
The letter leadeth to decay,  
The flesh profytetes nothing at all.   

In the sixth of John, Christ doth say,  
The verray bread, of life am I:  
I came from heaven, I am the way,  
Mankind to save, throw faith only,  
Ye can not come to me trwelie,  
Except my father do you call,  
I am in him, and he in me:  
The flesh profytetes nothing at all.   

Your fathers, in the wilderness,  
They eat Manna, and yet are died,  
After an other kind express:  
For●uthe I am the leving breid,  
Come down from heaven in to shissteid,  
I am the bread celestial  
My word throw faith, it doth you feid,  
The flesh prosfeites nothing at all.   

Except ye eat, believe and trow, 
August. in sermone ad in●uttes.   
In my body, and drink my blood,  
I say ye have, no life in you,  
For my body, is verray fude:  
Right so is drink, I you conclude,  
My blood, and take it spiritual,  
For carnally, no man can dude:  
The flesh prosfeites nothing at all.   

Except ye eat, ye have no life,  
My flesh, and drink my blood he said▪  
But then amongs them, grew such strife,  
That some went back, and was afraid:  
And carnally, his words wrayed,  
Until their minds sensual:  
And from the faith, they still dekaid,  
The flesh prosfeites nothing at all.   

The Disciples murmurred among,  
Now can this man, his flesh us give,  
But Christ knowing, their thoughts wrong:  
Saying, wherefore should this you grieve,  
All though the Son of man, should meive:  
To his glory celestial,  
The spirit quickeneth, throw true believe,  
The flesh prosfeitz nothing at all.   

Saint Augustine, writing full plane,  
Against Adamant trwelie,  
How the Lord doubted not to save.  
This is my blood, and my body, 
August. contra Adaman ●im.   
When that he gave, to his meinzie:  
The sign of his body corporal,  
To keep his death in memory:  
The flesh prosfeites nothing at all.   

Als in an preface, doth he say,  
Where Christ, did himself admit:  
To his mandie on thuresdaye,  
Saying, take you, now all and eat:  
The holy figure, of me complete,  
And of my death memorial,  
My token true and promise sweit,  
The flesh prosfeites nothing at all.   

This flesh ye see, ye shall not eat▪  
Nor drink the blood, shed forth of me,  
My Sacrament, is drink and meat,  
That siedes, the inward man trwelie,  
Not for thy teith, nor thy belly:  
I am no meat material,  
Believe and thou hes eatten me,  
The flesh prosfeites nothing at all.   

Most gracious God illumiu●,  
Our wits waik and imp●●ent,  
Incresse our saith, so satigat:  
Make word and died equivalent,  
Our sins vile, for to repent:  
And lead our lives more spiritual,  
According to thy testament,  
Which is the flesh, that profeites all.    

❧ An● Ballad, upon the prayer or orisque of ●●nasses King of juda, when he was led presouer● and captive in Babilone▪ 2. Cron. 33.  

VIth tears great, I sigh and Sob,  
Bewaling my nativity,  
O God of Abram, and jacob,  
I make my woeful plaint to thee:  
Bond foot and hand, with an cheinze,  
As an slave, mocked and dispist:  
In presove and captivity,  
Soulzeit with the uncircumcist.   

Thou Lord that made: the heaven on height,  
The earth, with all her instruments,  
Thou made also, the day and night,  
The Sun, the moon resplendisentes,  
The fire, the air, the elements,  
Thy word, o Lord, and thy command:  
Hath gart the heavenly ornaments,  
In till their curse, and ordure stand.   

The 〈◊〉 sea, deep and prosound,  
By thy virtue, which d●●th excel,  
●hose welicring walls, su●●bound,  
Dare not attoure, their brims swell▪  
Their bodumis furious and fell,  
Of whirling waters, stiff and stark:  
The Lord hath closed up himself,  
And sealed them, with his seal and mark   

O fearful God, who may withstand,  
Thy fervent Ire, in any case  
No sinner on the earth levand:  
Thy fury, may abide alas,  
for none are just, before thy face,  
But all are sinners young and old:  
All are denude, and bare of grace,  
And to the devil: and hell are sold   

I grant thou art, the Lord abone,  
Of jacob, Abram and Isac  
that sinned not, as I have done:  
Nor thy commandements brak,  
But I sinner, slothful and slack,  
For breaking thy law: and command,  
●es heaped more sins on my back:  
Nor is in number, all the sand.   

I have provoked thy Ire alas,  
My pride and my iniquity▪  
●es wrought great ill before thy face:  
I know their is no health in me,  
I grant I 〈…〉,  
And wor●h●● of th● 〈◊〉 and rod:  
Because in my 〈◊〉,  
I would not know, the Lord my God.   

My great abhominatione,  
That day and night hath done increase,  
Hes been the just occasione,  
Of all my woe and heaviness,  
I have sinned I do confess:  
Right grievously aganes the Lord,  
Let not my sin and wickedness:  
Stop the to be misericord.   

Yet thou hast in remembrance,  
Thy promise, and thy holy aith:  
The man, that is of repentance,  
To punish him, thou art right laith,  
Though thou be angry in thy wraith:  
Thou art soon pacified we ken,  
When that we call, to the in faith,  
For all, the wickedness of me●.   

Though we sinners deserve justly,  
Dampnatione death and hells fire,  
Yet for reward, thy great mercy,  
Hes pacified thy wraith and ire:  
And promest hes thy high empire,  
freely, to all that will convert,  
For thou dost not of us require:  
Except an true and faithful heart.   

For thy goodness, no more considder,  
My filthy sins, night nor day,  
But wipe them, all away to gidder:  
Sith that I do, repent and pray,  
I know thou casts not away,  
No wight that will on the depend,  
Nor willis nor their death no way:  
But would that they should leave and mend.   

With knees of my heart contreit,  
I kneill full law, before thy grace.  
With tears distilling, that I greit,  
I weshe my bailfull blaickned face,  
O Good Lord, hear me in this case,  
And grant me my petitione:  
And for my sins, not me chaice,  
But give me full remissione.   

Now save me Lord, since that I pray,  
Save me, o God, omnipotent:  
And I shall loif thee, night and day,  
Wh●ll that my life, away be spent:  
For all the virtues permanent,  
Of heaven, the Angels all and some:  
They praise thee, as most excellent,  
In world of worldles for to come.    

❧ An Ballad, against the foul and detestable vice of dron●kinnesse.  

ALl for dovered, 〈◊〉 in after drink:  
In an 〈…〉 I laye●  
Appeared suddamlie, as I did shl●k,  
Old father Noye, clad in an nice array:  
Shaikand his beird, with asteirne voice did say  
Of all sins excess, is principal:  
And brings the body soonest to decay, 
Pro. 31.   
Throw drunkenness, the mother of vices all.   

I was the first, that wine did plant or press,  
Thinking to be, his master and his guide,  
But he deceived me, I the confess: 
Gen. 9   
And of my Son, was scorned in that tide,  
Because I could not, my own secreittes hide,  
I cursed Cham my son, and made him thrall:  
Till his two brethren, seruand till abide,  
Throw drunkenness, the mother of vices all.   

What though I was be gild, it was no woder,  
I had no counsel, nor experience: 
Ecle. 31.   
But thou hast red, of many skoir and hunger,  
That vine hes brought till inconvenience:  
Thou can not the excuse, of ignorance,  
Thou knows their beastly end, and brutal fall,  
And yet thou follows still, the same offence:  
Of drunkenness, the root of vices all.   

I planted wine, for recreation,  
Of man's heart and not him to confuse,  
To drink at times, with moderatione, 
Ephe. 5.   
The wine is good, and not for to refuse:  
But not as some, hes surfetlie done use,  
Away to waught, their wits natural:  
And with the wine their brains till abuse,  
Throw drunkenness, the mother of vices all.   

Though wine in cup, with colour crystalline▪  
Appear right clear, with taste melluf●●ent,  
Sign pleasa●dlie, down to thy breist incline, 
Pro●. 2●.   
I counsel thee, beware and take good tent:  
His stung is worse, nor eddir or serpent,  
And chaisses forth, thy secreittes cordial,  
Where wine beareth rule, all reason is absent,  
Throw drunkenness, the root of vices all.   

The wine, did Lot on such an way molest,  
That with his daughters twane to him unknown  
With child them got, and did commit incest,  
Throw beast lines, he did abuse his own, 
Gen. 1●   
And of that wicked se●d, the which was sown,  
Sprang up an people diabolical,  
The Moabittes, and the Ammonites thrown,  
Throw drunkenness, the ground of vices all.   

The mighty King of Assyrie Banadab:  
Came in battle with two and threttie Kings  
Accontrare Israel, and als the king Achab  
But two hundredth and threttie Vnderlinges:  
O● Israel their servants, and their dringes,  
Assailzeit them, in their excess brutal:  
Overcame them all, and won their great britin  
In drunkenness, the nouris of vices all.   

E●ath sometime great King of Israel:  
By ●ambry his seruand, thou may reid,  
The king overcome with wine that traitor fell:  
His master slew▪ sign he rang in his steid, 
1. Samuel. 13.   
Ammon king Davidis son, of royal said,  
At one shepeshearing banquet estuall:  
By Absalon his brother was brought till died,  
In drunkenness, the mother of vices all:   

Of all vices, that vice is till abhor:  
So might say Holifernus lieutenand,  
To the awful king. Nabuchodonosore, 
Iud●. 13.   
After his great conquests in every land:  
Such pleasure on an time in wine he found,  
That judith in his tent, with power small,  
Strake of his heid & left him still bledand:  
In drunkenness the mother of vices all.   

Right as an roustie canker; will not blind: 
●. Cor. 6.   
while it consume the steill, all round about,  
So doth excess, an dronckard dig within,  
And delwes all reason, clean forth of his snout:  
So when this canker, that steill hath eattin out,  
The roost is ready, to flit chide & to brawl,  
Then will he feght though he be nothing stout:  
In drunkenness the mother of vices all.   

Excess is regent, of the sins sewen: 
1. Cor. 6.   
She is the pool, wherein they row and fleit,  
No dronckard, shall have portioune in the heaven, 
Ephe. 5.   
But perish shall, with belly indiscreit:  
Thou should be rather, filled with the spreit, 
Gall. 5.   
Vsand the doctrine, of the postle paul:  
Leif sobirlie, upon thy brows sweit,  
For drunkenness is mother of vices all.   

Stories human, I could an thousand shaw,  
To what effect, for why we have a new?  
Of exemples in God's word and law,  
The which are just, and faithful stories true: 
1. Cor. 6.   
Into the testaments twane boith old and new,  
To shaw to the whole world universal:  
The great mischief, that daily doth ensue,  
Through drunkenness, the mother of vices all.   

Saying these words, than he approached nar:  
I grant thy youth, hes had sompart of wit,  
But thou art happy, if thou can be war,  
And leif that foul, and beastly appetite:  
In times past, where thou was imperfect,  
For penance thou shall have perpetual,  
First to forbear, and sign alway to write.  
Aganes drunkenness, the mother of vices all.   

As I awoik, he lap away full light  
For werray fear, I fell in such an trance,  
That all the hears of my heid stude up right,  
When I overcome, sign had remembrance:  
How Noye, had me iniuned such penance:  
Streght way for ink & paper did I call,  
And wrait this rhyme, denude of eloquence,  
Aganes drunkenness, the mother of vices all.   

Who maid this sang, for sueth I shall you tell:  
Sometime an brother of Bacchus' beastly band,  
●f ye would know, my name is Noruell,  
That served bacchus boith by sea and land:  
while in his service, so little fruit I found,  
That now I am become, his foo mortal,  
And shall gar abstnence bind boith foot and hand  
Of drunken bacchus, the father of vices all.   
Finis    

How death doth answer maike and send: to them that do him vilipend. Translated forth of frainshe, by the said Noruell.  

BLindit people, fallin in fantaseiss,  
Seduced ●drouned, in doctrines human,  
Why make ye me, such pomp and obsiqueis?  
Sith that your mouths, still exicrattes my name.  
Ye curse and wary when I your friends claim:  
But when it confines, the diriges to sing,  
The pridfull papists, they do me nothing blame,  
Cause gold and money, to them I do inbring.   

So by this manner, my pomps ordinair,  
Amendeth moir, the leving nor the died,  
For painted tombs, torches doole nor cair,  
They can not clang, the soul, nor help at neid:  
Their is but Christ's blood, can make remeid,  
By lively faith, which purgeth man and wife,  
And yet but me. whom ye bear still at feid:  
Ye can not enter, intil Eternal life.   

Though I be ugly, vile and undesyred:  
Yet am I ordained, by God celestial,  
And of the faithful, rather is required,  
Nor this inconstant life, terrestrial:  
Appearing sweit, is more bitter than gall,  
The longer life, the more thy sins esteem,  
It is for lack, of knowledge spiritual:  
Since I the love, that doth me thus blaspheme.   

How shall I lufe thee, thou loves not thy cell:  
That would always, into this world be seen,  
And from the gloir, so long thyself expel,  
That God's word, hes promised fair and clean,  
Though thou possess the earth, and sea screne:  
Beauty, wit, strength, and rest wout mischief,  
Trusting the second life, for till obtain:  
Thou would me wish, if thou did so belief.   

The postle Paul: and prophets cheritable,  
Augustine Ambros, and many holy wight,  
Whose lives to God's word, was agreeable:  
They thrusted after me, both day and night,  
Although thy flesh, do strive against my might,  
Yet for the love, of thy Father celest  
I shall the show, how thou shall follow right,  
Them that my dart, did never yet molest.   

Pray God only, of his grace the to give,  
That lively faith, that Paul hath preached true,  
Thy life sign after theme, confirm and leave:  
Do deligence, the outward man subdue,  
Sign gladly die, to leave with Christ jesw  
Where thou shall regne, with him in joy content:  
So this faith, shall the inward man renew,  
Although thy flesh theirto, will not consent.   

Th● soul is fire, the body an tison: 
Tis●● is called an ●yeror● r. ●.   
The soul is heavenly, the body inutill,  
And is but an obscure, or law preson,  
Where as in laugour, lieth the soul gentle:  
Of that prison, I have key subtle,  
Which is my dart, that for the soul is given,  
To louse it out, of that soul preson vile  
Where I it send, with mickle joy to heaven.   

Hold f●irme thy faith, on an God undefiled,  
And for thy father take him, and him call:  
Is he be so, then art thou sure his child, 
Mat. 6.   
And air of his kingdom Celestial,  
If he hath fred thee, from death perpetual:  
Befoir or ever, thou had till him regaird, 
Rom. 5.   
Doubt not, but and thou love him cordial,  
With mekell better, he shall thyself reward.   

And as concerning, the flesh's actione:  
It can not live, without sin and delight,  
Nor yet, it can not make satisfactione, 
Rom. 6.   
For sin to God, whereof it had the wite:  
But right as jesus, upon an croce perfit;  
Died for our sins, so most our flesh expire,  
And die with Christ, if that we would be quite:  
Of endless death sin, and of Hellis fire.   

Who striketh this stroke, but death thou knowest weill  
So I am to all christians, man and wife:  
The end of sin, beginning of their seil,  
The end of cair and thought, most pungetyfe,  
And the beginning, of everlasting life:  
Why would thou Aig●: return to youth again,  
To pass the vale, of woe and mortal strife,  
Which thou hast scaped, with so mickle pain.   

If thou will say. when I come the arreist:  
That I the do great wrong, and violence,  
Saying thou hast no pain, but joy and f●ist,  
With all delight, withouten indigence,  
I say that pleasure, turns to impatience:  
When it at length, leadeth to dampnatione,  
My death is pleasure, to all hath sapience,  
When ye from death, turn to salvation.   

What displeasure: have I here to the named,  
To fear my dart, nay nay (I say) not so:  
But for Christis sake, to suffer and be blamed,  
To take in patience, truble pain and woe,  
The loss of goods: and dignities also,  
Wanting pleasures, that sometime thou had rife:  
So dying under my dart, to pass them fio.  
In place of them, shall have Eternal life   

For fear of me, be not contrist nor woe:  
But have firm hope, and faith for till conform,  
The will of God, and sign let gladly go,  
riches and friends, with all thesaures enorm,  
For an clear sky, betoknes that the storm:,  
Will soon throw the Air, make seperatione  
Such faith in persons, departing doth perform  
Sure signs and tokens, of their true saluatione.   

To this effect, thou should not fear at length:  
jesus for us, would first the death assay,  
His death hath vanquished, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 might & strength  
Theirfore think not to die, though I the slay:  
He me overcame, to s●ue the from d●●ay,  
So I am but port: and passage manifest,  
That thou should gladly ●ine, throw night & day.  
from this false world,, to heavenly gloir celest:   

Sometime in figure, as Scripture declair can  
An brasin serpent, Moses did raise on height,  
Which serpent to behold, did heal an man:  
That had been stonged, by ●yrie serpents slight,  
Likewise all they, that by true faith hes sight,  
Of Christ is death, is heiled of my band,  
As of the second death, I have no might,  
Christ hath that power, rest forth of my hand.   

Great folly is, in the custom human:  
To mourn for men, when I them lay on sleep,  
If thou believes, he shall with God remane,  
W●y dost thou then, lament with sighing deep:  
Orwould thou here, always on life him keep,  
Will thou him from his great profit defend:  
Since it is God's will, thou should not weep,  
In doing so, I know thou dost offend.   

Let pagains roar, let turks take terrors,  
That hope to have, none other habitation:  
The lake of faith, is cause of all there Errors,  
Like Eath●●qu●s ignorant, of their salvation,  
As to the black doo●es frequentation,  
Ipocricie did shaipe, that feigned sorrow,  
Some for their father maketh dooll ád deploratione  
That for their mother, would it, weire the morrow   

Messess of Requ●●●, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 excellis:  
To the great profit of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉  
With rou●ing roaring, and 〈◊〉 of bellis,  
Their greediness forth showeth their wicked wa●●▪  
For if ye had no vailzeand to your ●●kes,  
Be ye assured, that after your deceirs,  
None of the rabill, that wearres the marks:  
Will for you ring, or sing or say an veirs.   

For the prepair, no such solemniteis,  
Nor for thy burial, b● thou no ways trist:  
In God's sight, they are but vaniteis,  
Savitie, doth not in earth nor tomb consist  
An Faithful man, shall in the heaven be blessed  
Where ever his flesh or body buried be,  
The wickits soul, shall in the hell ●e thirst:  
Though he were buried,  all solemnity.   

At short to end, now with my first purpose:  
Fear not me death, nor ban me I the pray,  
For who would in the heavenly House repose.  
Must first believe, god's promise I say:  
Who would be with his angels, night & day  
Who would the face of God, behold and see:  
And who would dwell in paradise for aye.  
Yet before all I death must gar him die.   

Confess me to be good and gracious,  
For while I come: thou art with sin repleit,  
Confess thy life bitter and Eigerous:  
Confess my dart, plesand wholesome & sweit,  
Also confess and grant although thy spreit.  
Ware mortal, as thy filthy 〈◊〉 immound:  
Yet should thou hold me as thy freiud discrte,  
That 〈◊〉 the, from their worldly 〈◊〉 pro ●ound   
FINIS   

Where followeth The judgement of Minos. Upon the preferment of Alexander the great Conquerout. Hannibal of Carthage, and Scipion the Roman, surnamed African. 〈◊〉 forth of Fray●ce in sco●tes by the said Noruell.  

My vailʒeant heart, full of honour & gloire  
May not suffer Hamniball to pass before  
Me, until arms and deeds martial:  
For such I think no man that is equal,  
Ought in deeds of arms, for to compair:  
There worthiness or acts unto mine.   Hannibal. 

I will defend, and maintain the contrary,  
Reporting me, until God Minos sign:  
judge infernal, and Lord of woe and pyite,  
The aufull sword of justice, to mantyne:  
Where right and reason always shallbe say,  
For every man alike both friend and soon,   Minos. 

That I may hear first, tell to me anon,  
What are ye that disputis', hear alone?  
Of high honours, to have the advantage.   Alexandre. 

This is the Duke Hannibal, of Carthag●,  
And I Alexandre the great Empriour,  
Of all the world King and Conqueror,  
That wan, and s●bdwed every Natione.   Minos. 

Your names are of great existunatione,  
Worthy of honour, glory and land supreyme:  
With lawreir crowned is your diadeyme,  
I marvel ye should, have debaite togidder▪   Alexandre. 

Bot Minos I think ye should consider.  
My birth for●u●●, silicitie and werde,  
And how I would, suffer no man in erred:  
To be my companion, nor perregall,  
But as the Eigle, that suremountiss all.  
Other fowls, most highest in the air,  
So may no man, himself to me compare:  
In high courage, and furor bellicall:  
Wherefore I will not, that this Hannibal,  
Compair himself to me, in were or peace   Minos. 

It is convenient, an of you seife:  
while the other, have leisure and season,  
In my presence, to declair his reason.   Hannibal. 

O Minos, forsuthe, I hold the worthy,  
Of high renown, of honour land and glory:  
That is of law degree, and small puyssence,  
Sign by there virtue, and there excellence.  
To conques, honour and name victorious,  
In deeds of arms laborious.  
As I have done, with small power and charge,  
When that I first, departed from Carthage:  
And in Cycell went, with banners braid displayed,  
Whire I took with feirs battle, arrayed  
An Cietie that had, Sarrogosse to name  
In the which was many an seirse Roman  
Drevin to death: with many deadly wound  
And maid their Cietie, equal with the ground  
In feirse combat, and battle furious  
I gart them stoup, though they were glorious.  
It is known, how my notable puissance,  
Brought law the gloir, and great army of france.  
And slew of them many an hundredth scoir,  
Of me shall be remembrance ever moir.  
Not only for venquissinge the Gallicains,  
But for my ryving, of the great mountains:  
The high-Ilpes, and rocks I rend asundour,  
And their great craigges, massdned by natour.  
Which is the ramfort, of all italy:  
And when I entered, with my great army,  
I gart many an strand and many an flood,  
Run read aspait, full of the Roman blood:  
O Minos if ye think that this be false,  
For witness take the Pow and Tiber als:  
That oft times I changed, as men may reid,  
Their Christa●● waters, until colour reid:  
Sign attoure their high castellis triumphantes,  
I passed, with my mighty Elephants.  
To the walls of Rome the narrest way,  
It is reason, I count the great assay.  
The hard battles, and chockes martians,  
With my vailzeand deeds done befoir Cans,  
Where I destroyed: ●hudge quantity,  
Of Romans, and 〈◊〉 their chief nobility,  
In record of my two arms vailzeant,  
And in sign, of high honour triumphant,  
Of their dead finger's, I gart take sign:  
Three punsions full, of gay gold rings fine.  
And send till Carthage, in witness of my might,  
With the feirse Romans, that to dead was dight:  
I covered the ground, and earth humeid,  
With the carrions, and corpse of the died:  
On such an wise, that I maid air and lait,  
Brigges to pass their reverses, read aspait.   

The whole world, me feared & was aghast,  
Moir nor for tempest: hail or thundir blast.  
I gart all shaike, & trimble where I went:  
All nationes in the world were content,  
The title of high honour, me to resinge,  
Yet in my heart, vaingloir did never ring,  
As this Alexander, that for occatione,  
Of an uncredable, and vain visione,  
That in the night, appeared to his mother,  
Say and that he had, jupiter to father,  
And should rule all the world with an rod:  
In earth he would be worshept as an God.  
O Minos, I am from an sinal souldioure,  
Throw vailzeandise become an conqueror:  
Carthagien, that for hap or mischance,  
That paissed all alike in an balance.  
As it is known, to the land of afric,  
Durand my days, for the weill public:  
Obeisant at all times, I randred me,  
For their common wealth, both by land & see:  
With all my host for an s●●ple command,  
Concluded suddenly, an took on hand,  
〈◊〉 weighed Italy the n●●t●● way:  
Of my ardent courage, what shall I say?  
My great triumph, my fame and hardiness,  
By my wertue, engine and high proofs.  
I brought till end, many an hard battle:  
Aganest the mightiest, I did prevail,  
With my standards, & guydons marcyens:  
I never went aganes the Armyniens.  
Nor them of Meid, for they randred them sell:  
For all their arms, fairges and spears fell.  
They trymbled, dredand my han●● wictorious.  
The most suparbe, was Rome the orgulous,  
With hardy souldartes feirs & well feghtand,  
Without in fear the best in all that land:  
Had of me, an heavy mortal deluge,  
Bot Minos, as thou art an ryghtious judge:  
The eyes of Alexander, thou should considder,  
When his father died, the realm all to gidder:  
Fallen in his handis, by right of heriditage:  
Macidon him received, with high courage.  
Wrapped in favore, of amiable fortune.  
That never was, in his acts importune.  
I confess, he put many fro there rings:  
And vinquest Darius: with many other kings:  
So was he vinquest, in his own delights,  
Be immoderate, & foulsome appetites.  
If that his father, followed and went:  
After God Bacchus, in cheris vinolent:  
So did he all, his days and never ceist,  
Not like an man, bot dronckin as an beast.  
Slew he not when he was dronckin, at his table?  
Calesthines, phelosophre notable:  
Because he said, that they should not exceirs:  
The laws nor cleathing, of the land of Peirs,  
In me such vices foul and detestable:  
Might well be counted, half excusable,  
That never knew, the human disciplynes:  
Of Arrestotle, nor wholsum doctrines.  
His master that in youthead him conduct,  
Andabove all otheres daily him instruct:  
Arrestotle him never left, as ye may reid,  
while that he put, the Crown upon his heid▪  
Wherefore no man, should an Duke dispryse:  
That hath himself, exalted on this wise.  
Regairding moir▪ honour and high proofs:  
Nor of all this world the whole riches:   Minos. 

Decored are thy works, of excellence:  
Alexandre, what sayest thou forty defence?   Alexandre. 

It is not meit, to hold purpose or language,  
Aganest an man, that is full of outrage.  
For my triumph and gloir, and acts are known▪  
With all nations, and throw the world blown,  
Who will testify, by informatione,  
That he should not have reputation,  
Above me, for to vaunt or yet compair:  
I may not suffer, but will defend the contrary.  
For knowye Minos: judge full of prudence?  
That in my youthead, and adolescence,  
On my head, I bair an crown invincible,  
And with the sherand sword, took vengeance terrible,  
On the traitors, that did my father sla:  
And punished evil doers, many ma.  
And not content, of the Realine that was mine,  
But till conques honour, took me woe and pine.  
Then with standards, banners & harness cleir:  
First all my neighbours, I gart quaik and feir.  
In my fury, I took the ancient town,  
Of Thebes, and to the earth, I kest it down.  
And subdwed, by my puissance royal:  
All the cieties, of Achaye and thessal  
The illyrians, in the field feghtand,  
Their crags knew my sword was well sherad:   

With aufull terrors, all Grece to me obeyed,  
By my great puissance, was Asia inwayed,  
And Lybie taken, then over the Phais I passed,  
Where ever was say, my standards at the last:  
On such an wise, they doubted my puissance,  
That they come trymbling, whole to my obeisance  
My vailzeand deeds which I did exceirs,  
I maid them known, to Darius' king of Peirs.  
Which come aganes me, with all his force.  
Of Peirsiens', an hundredth thousand horse:  
And contrary me, come under his standards,  
Three hundredth thousand, foot men hardy souldartes  
What shall I say? when we come to straikis fell,  
Old Charon: that great saypper is of hell.  
Had much ado the day, to guide his rother,  
To ferry them fro the one side to the other:  
I main the spiretes, that I down to him send,  
Of them that did, aganes me contend.  
In aufull battle I overcome their for'rs:  
For all their chariots, and bardid horse.  
Ay in the hardest press feghtand my sell,  
That day of them I send down to the hell:  
Four skoir a thousand souls, in an stound,  
And left their bloody bodies, on the ground,  
Their great ruin, and wounds corporal:  
Are records, of my victoures triumphal.  
I will not let, to count how in mine ire,  
I besieged the vailzeand town of tire,  
With soir assaults, both by sea and land,  
Because aganes me, they did withstand.  
I put them all to sack, and did the cietie raise,  
Sign I passed, the mighty mount Caucais,  
Till at the last, I daunted all the world so,  
Was none theirin, that durst declair him so.  
But randred whole unto my will and mind,  
In witness Porrus, the mighty king of ●nd,  
How that against him, I did prevail:  
And maid him prisoner, in strong battle.  
I vanquished him, for all his gloir and might:  
And maid him thrall, to me boith day and night.  
Till at the last, I conquessed so long,  
And cut the hard pillar, that Hercules the strong.  
Maid in vain, thinking it could not be out past,  
But brevelie to conclude, you at the last.  
I rayssed and conquest, all without repose,  
Unto the time, that cruel Atropose,  
Enemy to every man, on life levand:  
My large power, sign took forth of my hand,  
Among the mundaine people terrestrial,  
I was holden, as an God celestial.  
My martial deeds, that was till allow,  
Caused all them, fortill believe and trow,  
That I was of God jupiter beget,  
My vailzeande heart, was prefixed and set,  
To see the whole world and it embrace:  
If cruel death, had left me time and space.  
But yet O Minos I pray the demand,  
Of Hannibal, sith he doth me vilipande.  
If he thinks on his sensual delights:  
At Capue, where his amorous appetyttes.  
Was moir to Venus, and her son affixed:  
Nor ever he was with martial deeds mixed,  
He thought such shame, to leave heir meserable  
That he maid his death, foul and detestable:  
Willingly he drank, the furious poison sell,  
He was homicide, and hangman of him sell,  
Of high honour, forsuthe he was never diggle,  
Ask of Prusias, that is of Birthin king:  
When Hannibal, was in his glory mayst,  
That saming king, forth of the field him chased,  
All the world knows, how he was thrall,  
And subject, to his filthy pleasures all.  
By many faint, and many falls treasoune,  
He usurped this name, of high renown.  
His acts in sindris lands I confess:  
But what are they, to speike of my proofs?  
To all the world, it is plane evident  
That I thought all Ytalie, and Occident,  
To be of less valour, nor Tassallie:  
Or else I had conquest all Ytalie,  
Without occition, strife debate, or press:  
Unto the mighty pillars of Herculese,  
I would not deinze me for to dissender,  
Allanerlie this high name Alexander.  
Maid them all my subiectis, for fear and dread,  
Wherefore Minos, beware and take good head:  
And not prefer, his honour before mine.   Scipion. 

Have respect O Minos who is worthy, sign,   Minos. 

What art thou, declair to me thy name?   Scipion. 

I am Scipion, surnamed Affricain,  
An Roman, of notable experience.   Minos. 

Spacke hardly, I give the audience.   Scipion 

My hear●●oeth neither, think nor say the shing,  
For to be hard, nor yet till have lowing:  
Throw my acts, myself for to decoire,  
Above their vailzeand knights, to have gloire,  
For it is not uningloir, that I desire:  
But hear my life Minos, I the require.  
When I was young, & lusty in my flowers,  
I detested vice, at all time and hours.  
My heart & mind, was set without dalliance,  
To seek the honour, that virtue doth advance.  
And counted science, to be of valour nought:  
Except it were with ardent mind & thought,  
Inclyved till virtue, and civility,  
Where with I conquest, all my nobility.  
But Minos to conclude, & say the truth,  
I followed so vertwe, in my youth:  
That I was called, in my adolessance,  
And named, of Romans the Esperance.  
When sindry Senates, had maid an band,  
And concluded, for fear to leaf the land,  
They were not willing to maintain the weires,  
But I with high courage, and young of yeires:  
Come in the Senate where they all did stand,  
And said these words, with drawn sword in hand.  
The noble name, the high triumph & gloir,  
That romans won, of all nationes b●foir:  
By their high prows, vertwe & Renown,  
Shall it thus shamefully, be castin down:  
Who will on that way, the sentence declair▪  
Shall be my enemy, for ever mair.  
Then they took my, words for an sang:  
Sayand that the Gods, for an abuant●●●,  
For their common wealth, that I was to themselves:  
Aganest their enemies them to descend.  
They all marveled, of my audacity,  
In my young age, my high capacity,  
●as cause that over the great army Roman,  
I was elect and chossen chief Captain.  
Then with my b●●elie bauners, tryumphalt,  
I preissed fast, after this Hannibal,  
With little help, small company or might:  
I gart him turn, with shame & take the flight.  
At length, I maid Carthage the opulent,  
Serve bound and thrall: to Rome the excellent:  
Not withstanding, all my victories,  
The Romans found me, in their consistoryes:  
Als courts and ready, at their command,  
As before, or that I took the sword in hand:  
For worldly riches, I cared nothing:  
The love of the people, was my liking.  
To show my virtue, and my civility,  
To young princes, borne of nobility:  
When Carthage was won, up & down I sought,  
For all prisoners, and gart them be brought:  
Before me, saife and sound without dyrence,  
At that tyme. I took the poet Tyrence:  
And captive to Rome, him brought with many more,  
Till at the last, I pleased the Romans so:  
That in plasne Senat, for an conqueror.  
They cheissed me, and maid me chief Censor.  
That gart asia, and Libie have remorse,  
As for Egypt, and Grece, I won by for'rs,  
Aganest them, into my quarr●ell just:  
They knew, 〈…〉 was robust.  
I maid the 〈…〉 ●omains triumphal,  
For to be feared, 〈◊〉 ●red universal.  
Or else they had, with shame taken the s●ight:  
And forsaken the land, for all their might,  
I raised the name of Romans, to advance,  
In Spaing an fair cictie, named Nunance.  
It were to long, O▪ Minos to rehearse,  
My noble acts, that are put in veirse,  
My enemies sand me, never aghast,  
Nor yet my friends: but humble and shamefast.  
I know sense thou hast the electtione.  
Thy judgement, to be without asfectione.  
Yet I advertise the in peace nor weir,  
I never miised me, to conques geir,  
At all times, my hand was so liberal,  
That I never hurded treasure pecuniall.  
As was given, the Romans to understand,  
After my death no worldly good they found.  
Of gold nor treasure within my bounds,  
Except of silver foureskoir of pounds:  
For the mighty Gods, that are immortal,  
With grate me endued, supernatural:  
In my weirs, I hated vice and cruelty,  
I set up justice, and civility.  
The furs of Bacchus, I did refuse,  
With all the dulce pleasures, of soo●it Venuse▪  
Who are enemies, at all times and hours,  
To all vailzeand, and noble Conquerors.  
I say not this, myself for to promote:  
And would be laith, their honour for till bloat,  
But will defend, unto the day of doom,  
The honour, and the worthiness of Rome.  
Minos ye know. the Romans do excel,  
All nations, better than my tongue can tell.   


The sentence of Minos.  
Your martial deeds, with pains night & day,  
Are brought to end, with many hard assay.  
I say that all conquests under the son,  
ought with reason, and virtue to be won,  
So Scipion is worthy, that did eschew,  
All kind of vice, and followed virtue:  
The high title, of honour precious,  
Before you two, that were so vicious,  
Wherefore we judge, Scipion to proceeded,  
And Alexandre: Hannibal to exceid,  
And if ye think, our sentence importune,  
It is to you two, to ask of fortune,  
That found her at all times, so favourable,  
To fulfil your lusts, insatiable:  
That still without repose, ye thought it good,  
To shed and spill, the innocentes blood:  
Without propose, the world to molest,  
Where virtue fails, reason may not rest.    
FINIS  BY ME, ROBERT NORVEL Non est mortale quod opto  

Psalm 5  ❧ werba mea auribus percipe 
Psalmus 5  

Unto the words, that I shall say,  
If it may pleis thee, len thy care,  
To know the sore sighs and fear:  
Of my poor heart, boith night and day,   

Lord I the pray.  
To hear the voce, and zeill ardent,  
Of my distress, my God and King:  
My supplication, I resing.  
Only to thee, and my intent   

I do present.  
Befoir the day, in every place:  
To hear me, if thy pleasure be,  
Ilk morning, pray and right airlie.  
To heaven hevand, up my face,   

A bydand grace.  
Thou art thee, righteous God bening,  
Thou lovest not, an double man,  
For evil doers, never can:  
Have residence into thy ring.   

Nor abiding.  
Who folehardie and wicked been,  
That pleasure takes, for till offend,  
Are odious, that will not amend:  
For such befoir the Lordis eine,   

Dar not be seine.  
Thy fearful ire, shall make aghast,  
Liears, trumpours, and homicides,  
All such wirkers, of wicked deeds.  
The Lord that reules all, at last:  
Shall them out cast.   

But all shy, laws I shall leir,  
Both heart and mind, I shall prepair,  
Till honour thee, for ever mair:  
Into thy house, with heart inteir,  
Under thy feaer.   

Lord my God, guide me and convoy,  
For thy goodness, I the demand,  
Forth of my enemies hand:  
And me conduct, boith night and day,  
In thy right way.   

No truth is in their mouth, nor halse,  
Their heart, is covered under cure,  
Their throt, an open sepulchure:  
Full of falsehood, and flattery false,  
Their tongue is also.   

Lord, let them be put unto sack,  
That whatsoever, they take on hand,  
Be them aganis, and them gainstand.  
For contrary thee, they undertak,  
Put them abak   

Thy chosen, with magnificence,  
Shall aye rejoice, and hope in thee,  
For they, shall ever blessed be:  
That takes thy shield, for their defence,  
With patience.   

The gifts of the Lord, are large,  
Unto the just: O Saviour,  
Thou covers them, with thy favour.  
For who, will them assail or charge,  
Thou art their targe.   
Finis   

❧ The excusation of the maker, to the maker, to jidder with the makero direction to his goo● Lord and master, my Lord Earl of Argyle.  ❧ Now est mortale quod opto. 

NOw art thou little volume, brought to end,  
Though thou be void, of eloquence and bare,  
Thy suithfast sentence, on god's word doisdepend  
As thy cotations, right clearly dois declare,  
Go search the scriptures, and ye shall fid all their,  
That I have written, it may be tried and kend:  
For welfair, of the commoun populair.   

If I had treated, of facttes bellicall,  
Of heavenly motions, or of Astronimie,  
Or how that men in love, been bound & thrall,  
And subject, to his sovereign fair laidie:  
I could have shown, many trim storeiss,  
That would have pleased, persons mundiall,  
Having delight, into such vanities.   

But thou small work, concerns not the flesh,  
For I the wrought, for till instruct man's spreit:  
With diligence theirfore, see thou dispeshe,  
To spiritual men, of conceince discreit.  
For carnal men, thou art not for them meit,  
To ghostly men, thou shallbe found right fresh:  
And in their mouths, right delicate and sweit.   

Hast the theirfore, with detfull diligence,  
To every person thou finds spiritual,  
And homage make, to them and reverence,  
But I command thee, thou pass first of all:  
●o the Earl of ●●●ple, in special,  
For whose c●●●e, I wrote this sure sentence:  
Throw hearing, of his Godly governal.   

Submit my humble service, day and night,  
Until his lordship, while my life may dure,  
With all my force, my power strength & might.  
At foot and hand, with heart and busy cure:  
By sea or land, where ever he list to sure,  
As it becomes, my simpleness of right,  
Show him, that I shall die his serviture.   

And now farewell, ye gentle readeriss all:  
Farewell all ye, that be professors true,  
Of God, the Fathers' word celestial.  
And of his Son, our sovereign Christ jeswe:  
In whom all grace, till us poor seruamdes grwe.  
And saved us, from death perpetual,  
Farewell all faithful, I say no moir adieu.    

¶ Noruelles' Newyeres gift, to the Archeris of the guard, when he was prisoner at Paris ●● the bastillie. 1555.  

TO all the Archeris, of the scots guard,  
I wish health: honour and prosperity,  
If that I should seek them, truely to reward:  
Throw Scotland, England, France, & Ytalie:  
Spain, Portugaill, Yrelande, & Almanie,  
Turkey, Trace, Medois, and the Moirs of Ynde:  
Sign rake hell, and the bodum of theste,  
I could not find so many, so unkind.   
Finis quod Noruell.