weep with Ioy.  
A Lamentation, for the loss of our late sovereign Lady queen ELIZABETH, with ioy and exultation for our High and mighty Prince, King james, her lineal and lawful Successor.  
THe Thracians ever wept when any were born; Heraclitus always wept while he lived; Hezekiah began to weep when he should die: so that it may be said of all worldly joys, They are mixed with weeping, as it was said of the Iewes, Their wine was mixed with water, Isay. 1. 23.  
He that weeps in measure, is like a Christian, he that weeps without measure, is like an Heathen; he that cannot weep at all, is like a ston; the very heauens are said to weep when men cannot: and if the godly weep for the miseries of this life, the wicked had need to weep for the miseries to come, Iam. 5. 1.  
To weep for com-miseration, as job did, to behold the miseries of others, job 30. 25. is fraternal. To weep of contrition, as Peter did for his own sins, is penitential. To weep for love, as david did for the loss of jonathan: or for grief, as Rachel did for the death of her children, Math. 2. 18. or for ioy, as joseph did at the sight of jacob, Gen. 46. 29. is natural: but to weep for ostentation, as many Mourners did, jer. 9. 18. or for dissimulation, as Delilah did, judge. 16. or for desperation, as Iudas did, is hypocritical.  

weep.  
WHen Nero died, it is reported, the people reioyced: but when Moses died, it is said, that all the children of Israel wept, Deut. 34. 8. and no marvell: for the one was a cruel and tyrannicall Ruler, and the other was a mild and merciful governor: and men do commonly weep for those they love, and not for those they hate: therefore when Christ wept for LaZarus, lo( saith the Iewes) how he loved him, John 11. 36.  
Who can call to mind the life of our late sovereign Lady queen Elizabeth, that cannot lament the loss of so virtuous a Prince; the Vine bleedeth when the Branch is cut, the Turtle mourneth when she is left alone: then what shall the body do when the head is gone? Such as did love and honour her life, cannot but weep and deplore her death; her Actions being so glorious when she lived, her dissolution must needs be grievous when she died.  
This most gracious Prince, which lived a Woman, virgin, and queen, to the wonder of all the world, which was a president of piety and humility to all Princes, which was a pattern of lenity and mercy to all her people, which was an Example of love and patience to all her enemies: who can not but lament the loss of so loyal a Lady?  
This most royal and godly Prince, which succeeded the crown after queen Mary, as Hezekiah did after Ahaz, 2. Kings 16. did not onely suppress all superstition, but planted true religion in her Land, showing herself more merciful to malefactors to reclaim them to the word of God, then her predecessor did to the martyrs that suffered for professing the word: and therefore who cannot weep for the loss of so religious a Lady?  
This most loyal and prosperous Prince, which possessed peace in England longer then Salomon did in Israel: had her Land fenced, not onely with walls of wood, as Gretia was against Zerxes, Herodotus in Polymnia, but with walls of brass and iron against all outward hostility, that it might be said of Englishmen as of the Israelites, every one dwelled without fear under his own vine, 1. Kings 4. 25. For our Nation, under her Regiment, did flourish in peace and plenty, as the land of Canaan flowed with milk and hony: and therefore who cannot weep for the loss of so peaceable a Prince?  
When the people wept for Christ, he willed them to weep for themselves, Luke 23. And so, though we mourn for her majesty, let us weep for ourselves, considering the cause of alteration of Princes is imputed to the sins of the subiects, according to that saying of Salomon, For the transgression of the people there are many Princes, proverbs 28. 2. For what hath this precious word and peace effected in us, seeing for the most part, we are content to be but Christians in our tongues, though we be Atheists in our hearts, and far worse then Heathens in our lives?   

Ioy.  
THe Iewes at their funerals did use melody, Math. 9. 23. because they took Death to be an end of misery, and therefore as marshal observeth in the swan, Cantatur cygnus funeris ipse sui, he singeth a little before he death; even so it is noted in the children of God, they rejoice when they are ready to die, Acts 5. 41. because indeed, all people, yea all Princes are but pilgrims vpon earth, and their best habitation is in heaven. The departure of our godly Prince, though it be dolorous, in respect of her subiects, it ought to be joyful, in regard of herself: for she hath left an earthly kingdom, to possess an heavenly kingdom; and instead of a crown of Gold she hath put on a crown of Glory: then what cause haue we to weep, seeing she is partaker of so unspeakable Ioy, but rather, as the scripture teacheth us, to rejoice with those that rejoice, Rom. 12. 15. Let this suffice for our comfort, Though death hath seized of her Highnesse Body, the Angels received her blessed soul, and the world possesseth her glorious Name.  
If we read the scriptures, we shall find, that amongst all the Kings of Israel, King Salomon reigned longest; and if you read the Chronicles, you shall find, that amongst all the Kings and Princes of England, queen Elizabeth reigned longest, saving one: yet was there never Prince more maliciously beset with treason then her majesty, nor any Prince more miraculously protected by Gods mercy: for he did, not onely protect her from untimely dangers and deaths, but he did protract her dayes to the natural course of declining, for shee died( as it was said of david, 1. Chro. 29. 28.) in a good age, full of dayes, riches, and honor; for which we haue great cause to ioy.  
God for our sins might justly haue made the heauens brass over our heads, and the earth iron under our feet, and so haue constrained us, as the people of Samaria did in extremity, not onely to eat dung, but their children, 2. Kings 6. But see how mercifully God hath dealt by us; he hath taken away our Prince in a time of plenty, to take away all occasions of murmuring and mutinies amongst us, whereunto many are subject, if they be but pressed with a little scarcity: and though the Israelites lived disorderly when their Gouernours were gone, judge. 17. 6. yet, contrary to the expectation of many, our people haue lived very orderly and civilly since the taking away of our queen, for which we haue great cause to ioy.  
To conclude, when God took away jehoshaphat from the Throne, and jehoram came to the crown, there was great cause of calamity, because he maintained Idolatry, 2. Chro. 21. but when david died and Salomon was installed, there was continuance of ioy, because he continued true religion as his fathers did before. And so, though God hath taken away queen Elizabeth our late and loving Nurce-mother, yet the succeeding of that mighty and godly Prince, King james, our new and renowned Nurce-father, doth give us exceeding cause of ioy: insomuch, as the succession of the latter, is a mitigation of sorrow for the former. And as the Proclamation was red and received with great applause of the people, so his Coronation will be as joyful as ever was Salomons, when the earth rang with the sound of the subiects, in sign of exultation and exceeding Ioy, 1. Kings 1. 40. God make us thankful for so worthy a Prince; and himself joyful of so unworthy a People.    

Printed at London by V. S. for edmond Mutton, dwelling in Pater-noster-Row, at the sign of the Hunts-man. 1603.