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A PROSE TRANSLATION FROM THE FRENCH OF A POEM BY

QUEEN MARGARET OF NAVARRE, MADE IN 1544 BY THE
PRINCESS (AFTERWARDS QUEEN) ELIZABETH,

THEN ELEVEN YEARS OF AGE.

REPRODUCED IN FAC-SIMILE, WITH PORTRAIT, FOR THE

WRoval Society of Literature of the Unitcd tkingdom,

AND EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, BY

PERCY W. AMES, F.S.A.,

LIBRARIAN AND SECRETARY, R.S.4.

ASHER AND CO., LONDON.

1897.
ix
TO

HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY

 

BY THE GRACE OF GOD
QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
AND EMPRESS OF INDIA,
THIS REPRODUCTION
OF THE FIRST LITERARY EFFOR'T OF HER ROYAL PREDECESSOR,
QUEEN ELIZABETH,
Is, IN THE
SIXTIETH YEAR
OF HER MAJESTY’S ILLUSTRIOUS AND BENEFICENT REIGN OVER
A HAPPY PEOPLE,
WITH HER MAJESTY’S GRACIOUS PERMISSION,
DEDICATED
BY HER MOST OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT,

THE EDITOR.
 

BADGE OF ANNE BOLEYN, ADOPTED BY THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH
AND RETAINED BY HER AFTER BECOMING QUEEN,
PREFACE,

Few words are needed in explanation
of this publication. Dr. Furnivall, of
the Early English Text Society, having
called my attention to the original manu-
script which lies at the Bodleian, the
suggestion to reproduce it was considered
by the Council of the Royal Society of
Literature, and the appearance of this
volume is in consequence of their favor-
able decision. If the question of literary
merit alone had been considered, the
publication would scarcely be justified.
The ‘ Miroir’ is not the best of the re-
ligious poems of Margaret of Navarre,
which, withthe exception of the ‘Chansons
Spirituelles,’ are inferior to her secular
4

pieces; and a juvenile translation of a
poem, admittedly not of high rank,
cannot be expected to delight by its
intrinsic merits. But the personality of
the translator and the circumstances of
its production invest the manuscript with
peculiar interest. Until eclipsed by the
still brighter glories of the reign of our
own beloved Sovereign, that of the
hitherto peerless Elizabeth stood con-
spicuously forth as the most splendid
that had ever distinguished this nation,
and it was naturally thought that the
publication of any writing which brought
us into closer touch with the mind of
Glorious Queen Bess, at any period of
her life, would be generally regarded as
of value and importance.

It is evident that the manuscript was
written by the Princess Elizabeth’s own
hand, both from a comparison with other
specimens of her writing at the same
age in the British Museum, notably the
autograph book of prayers presented to
King Henry, and also from what she
5

says in the dedication. After asking
her stepmother to ‘“‘rubbe out, polishe
and mende (or els cause to mende) the
wordes (or rather the order of my writt-
ing) the wich i knowe in many places to
be rude,” &c., she expresses the hope
that ‘‘in the meane whyle no other (but
your highnes only) shal rede it or se it
lesse my fauttes be knowen of many.”

A fac-simile ofa letter fromthe Princess
to her brother is given in this volume
(following the Introduction) as a speci-
men of her beautiful writing at a later
date.

The title of the poem may have been
suggested by ‘Speculum aureum pecca-
torum,”’ which was ‘translated at parice
oute of laten into frenche,’”? and rendered
into English as ‘The Mirroure of Golde
to the Synfull Soule, by Margaret,
“moder to our Soverain lorde Kinge
Henry the VII, and Countess of Rich-
mond and Derby.’’ This translation,
which was imprinted in black letter by
Wynken de Worde in 1522, does not
6

give the impression that the original
could have contributed any ideas other
than the title to Queen Margaret for her
‘Miroir de l’Ame pécheresse.’

The photogravure frontispiece requires
some notice. From the circumstance
that only very few of Queen Elizabeth’s
portraits are dated or signed by the
painter, it is necessary to use much care
in selecting a portrait which may be re-
garded as authentic. For the present
volume an interesting picture was photo-
graphed and printed, but afterwards re-
jected. It had been supposed to be a
portrait of Elizabeth at a very early age,
and indeed bears, on a plate, the descrip-
tion ‘‘Queen Elizabeth, by Holbein,”
and is so described in the catalogue of
St. James’s Palace, where the picture
now hangs in the Queen Anne Room ;
but as the date 1594 appears on the
front near the top, there is an evident
mistake in the official description. The
portrait finally selected and here repro-
duced presents no difficulties, since it
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was described in the Catalogues of Kings
Henry VIII and Edward VI as ‘The
Ladye Elizabeth her grace, with a booke
in her hande, her gowne like crymeson
clothe of golde with workes.”’ It is
also described as ‘‘Queen Elizabeth
when young, by H. Holbein,” in the
Catalogues of Charles I, James I], and
Queen Caroline. The official description
is as follows :—‘‘ Small life-size standing
portrait, half-length to the knees. The
face to her right, the light from her right
side. She has on a red yown cut square
across the bosom, and under it a rich
gold embroidered petticoat, with long
slashed sleeves and small plaited linen
ruffs over the hands. Her hands hang
down holding a book. She has on a
pearl necklace twice round the neck,
from which hangs a jewel with three
pearls, and at her bosom a larger jewel,
on which is a cross of cut stones and
three pearls; her fair hair is covered
with a red head-dress edged with pearls.
Beside her on her right, on a high table,
8

is an open book. Curtains behind the
figure. Size of picture, 2 ft. 3 in. by
3 ft. 12 in., on an oak panel of five pieces
dovetailed together.”

As Holbein died of the plague in 1543,"
when the Princess was ten years of age,
he cannot possibly have painted this
portrait, although it has been attributed
to him for 250 years. It was probably
painted in 1547 by the same talented
but unknown artist who painted the fine
portrait of King Edward VI, which is
also at Windsor Castle. The delicate
hands of Elizabeth, of which she is said
to have been rather vain, are well shown
in this picture. In face she bears some
resemblance to her mother, but she has
a more pleasing appearance than Anne
Boleyn, and also than her half-sister
Mary; but of the children of King Henry
VIII, it is only Edward who really had
the gift of beauty.

The face of Elizabeth in the original

' This fact was established by the late W. H. Black,
F.S.A. See ‘ Archzologia,’ xxxix, 273.
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picture, which is a very fine painting,
looks younger than in the plate, and
quite reconciles the observer to the gene-
rally accepted opinion that the Princess
at the time was not more than 13 or 14
years of age, notwithstanding the diffe-
rent impression at first conveyed by the
costume and head-dress. The serious
expression seems to be the natural effect
of an early acquired habit of self-
restraint.’

The prayer, copied by another hand on
folio 63 of the manuscript, was composed
by Queen Elizabeth for her Navy in
1597, and is the third of ‘‘ Three most
excellent Prayers made by the late
famous Queene Elizabeth,” published in
a quaint volume, 12mo, entitled ‘ Sup-
plications of Saints, by Tho. Sorocold,

1 In‘Archwologia,’ xl, 85, the late Sir G. Schart, F.S.A.,
says, with reference to this picture, ** The colour of the
hair, the set of features, with nose tending to aquiline,
and the very slender fingers, al] accord with the physique
that characterized Elizabeth in after years. Moreover,
traces of writing with the name Elizabeth may be observed
in the upper left-hand corner.”
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London. Printed by I. L. for H.
Overton, and are to bee sold at his
Shop at the entrance in of Pope’s head
Alley out of Lombard Street, 1462’
(probably intended for 1642).

PWe as

20, HANOVER SQUARE, W. ;
March, 1897.
INTRODUCTION.

Tus translation, made by Queen
Elizabeth during her early childhood
(which is in some respects the most
attractive period of her life), constitutes
an interesting illustration of her pre-
cocious ability. It is rather remarkable
that this, her first literary work, should
have received so little attention. It is
not even mentioned by the majority of
her numerous biographers, and in Strick-
land’s ‘Lives of the Queens of England,’
it is incorrectly referred to as ‘her
elegant translation from the Italian.”"

It was ‘“‘imprented in the yeare of our
lorde 1548, in Apryll,” by John Bale, ina
volume 12mo under a title of his own as
‘“A Godly Medytacyon of the Christen
sowle concerninge a love towardes God
and hys Christe.”

Elizabeth herself, curiously enough,

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omits to name the distinguished writer
of the poem, and neither the title nor
the character of the original composi-
tion in the French is noticed by Bale.
English readers are probably little aware
of the fact that the author of the
‘Heptameron’ was a poet. The novels
of the Seven Days, which she partly
collected and partly wrote, have been
translated, but with the exception of a
few lines from the ‘ Miroir, and the
‘Discord de l’esprit et de la chair,’ given
in English verse by Dr. H. White, the
translator of the first three volumes of
the ‘History of the Reformation,’ by
D’Aubigneé, and a few casual references
elsewhere, the poems have been un-
noticed. Queen Margaret’s own country-
men were under the like disadvantage
until quite recently ; for although there
had been some new editions, within the
last half-century, of ‘Les Marguerites,’ a
considerable part of her poetic work re-
mained entirely unknown until last year.’

1 *Les Derniéres poésies de Marguerite de Navarre,
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The translation was undertaken during
one of the many clouded periods of
Elizabeth’s youth. Some time in the year
1543 the little Princess had the misfortune
to fall into disgrace at Court, and her royal
father’s displeasure occasioned her ban-
ishment for an entire year, during which
time, as she mentions herself, she ‘had
not dared to write to him.” In the
summer of 1544 King Henry went to
Boulogne, and Elizabeth, on being in-
formed that her step-mother, Queen
Katherine Parr, had remembered her
every time she had written to the King,
wrote to her one of her earliest letters
thanking the Queen, and beseeching
her to recommend her to His Majesty,
praying for his sweet  benediction.'
Shortly afterwards, in September, the
King intimated his forgiveness in a
general blessing to all his children,
publiées pour la premicre fois, avec une introduction
et des notes par Abel Lefranc, Secrétaire du Collége
de France,’ Paris, 1896.

1 The original letter, written in Italian, is in the
Bodleian.
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and at the close of that year Elizabeth
sent her translation, in all probability
bound with her own hands,’ as a New
Year’s gift to the Queen. It may, there-
fore, be regarded as an offering of
grateful affection.

The translation and the letter naturally
direct attention to her early accomplish-
ments, for even supposing that Cas-
tiglione, her Italian master, may have
been in part responsible for the latter,

‘ In the centre of each cover are the Queen’s initials,
K. P., and in each corner a heart’s-ease. (For instances
of the use of the device of a pansy flower as an orna-
ment about the time, see ‘ Archzeologia,’ xxxix, 270,
271.) The design, which is the same on both sides, is
worked in gold and silver wire on a ground of blue
corded silk. On the back there are four panels with
an embroidered flower in each. The edges are bound
with gold braid, with a narrow line of red silk at the
top and bottom. The Princess also bound and em-
broidered a beautiful autograph book of prayers, now
preserved in the British Museum. It is dedicated as
follows: —“Tlustrissimo Henrico octavo Anglie,Francie,
Hibernieq. regi, fidei defensori,” &c. In the centre of
the cover she has made a monogram of these titles of
the king, with the letter H. at the top and at the
bottom, and in each corner a rose. It appears to be
worked with red silk and gold wire, with green leaves
in silk, (See ‘Early English Embroidered Books,’ by
Cyril James Davenport, London, 1888.)
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yet there exists too much independent
evidence of her easy familiarity with
languages to doubt her linguistic skill.
All contemporary accounts agree in
attributing to her a love of study and
a quickness of apprehension. French,
Italian, Spanish, and Flemish she both
wrote and spoke with facility, and Miss
Strickland says she astonished some of
the most erudite linguists of that age
by the ease and grace with which she
conversed in the Latin tongue.

Heywood thus writes with reference
to Elizabeth and Edward, who for a
very happy period of their youth studied
together :—“ So ingenious were either,
that they desired to looke upon bookes
as soone as the day began to breake,
their ore matutine were so welcome,
that they seemed to prevent the nights
sleeping for the entertainment of the
morrows schooling; .. . . and when hee
was cal’d out to any youthfull exercise
becomming a child of his age, . . . she
in her private Chamber betook herselfe
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to her Lute or violl and (wearied with that)
to practise her needle.””? Hentzner, the
German traveller, mentions having seen
a little volume in the royal library at
Whitehall, written on vellum in French
by Queen Elizabeth when a child. It
was thus inscribed :-—‘‘A tres haut, et tres
puissant, et redoubté prince Henry, VIII
de ce nom, roy d’Angleterre, de France,
et de Irelande, defenseur de la foy,
Elisabeth, sa tres humble fille, rend salut
et obédience.” There are two interest-
ing references to the Princess when she
was six years of age. One is recorded
in “Ellisss Royal Letters,” and states
that ‘‘on the second anniversary of
Edward’s birth, when the Nobles of
England presented gifts of silver and
gold and jewels to the infant heir of
the realm, the lady Elizabeth’s grace
gave the simple offering of a shirt of
cambric, worked by her own _ hands.”
The other is made by Wriothesley, who

' *England’s Elizabeth,’ by Tho. Heywood, London,
1631.
17

visited Elizabeth at Hertford Castle on
December 17th, 1539. He writes, “I
then went to my lady Elizabeth’s grace,
and to the same made His Majesty’s
most hearty commendations, declaring
that his Highness desired to hear of
her health, and sent his blessing ; she
gave humble thanks, inquiring after His
Majesty’s welfare, and that with as great
a gravity as if she had been forty years
old.” It is natural to expect in the
history of her childhood some evidence
of those intellectual gifts which made
her the most learned woman of her age,
and one of its keenest politicians ; but it
is pleasant to find also conclusive proofs
of a sweetness of disposition which made
her beloved by all who knew her, which
elicited expressions of devoted attach-
ment from her brother, and softened the
natural antipathy of the injured Princess
Mary. The latter’s generous champion-
ship of her little sister forms one of
many illustrations of the fine character
and amiable natural disposition of that

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Princess, as displayed in her earlier years.
She deliberately defied the orders of
Council degrading her sister’s rank, by
persistently giving her the title of grace,
and at the time when King Henry had
just disowned the daughter of Anne
Boleyn, Mary courageously recom-
mended her to his favorable notice in
a letter addressed directly to the king.
It is dated from Hunsdon, July 21st
(1536). The concluding paragraph is as
follows :—“ My sister Elizabeth is in good
health (thanks to our Lord), and such
a child toward, as I doubt not but your
Highness shall have cause to rejoice of
in time coming (as knoweth Almighty
God), who send your Grace, with the
Queen my good mother, health, with the
accomplishment of your desires.” Let!
tells us that when Anne of Cleves saw
Elizabeth she was charmed with her
beauty, wit, and endearing caresses, and
conceived the most tender affection for
her; and when the conditions of the

* Quoted by Strickland.
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divorce were arranged she requested as
a great favour that she might be per-
mitted to see her sometimes, adding
“that to have had that young Princess
for her daughter would have been
greater happiness to her than being
Queen.” Lady Bryan, her first governess,
speaks of her docility and gentleness
in a letter to Sir T. Cromwell. Most
agreeable evidence of Elizabeth's affec-
tionate disposition is found in her re-
lations with her brother Edward. It
appears that she undertook the pleasant
task of giving the first lessons to her
infant brother, for, says Heywood, “ shee
was 3 yeares elder then her Brother,
and therefore able in her pretty language
to teach and direct him (even fro the
first of his speech and understanding).”"
The sentiments of the young Prince
are shown in his letters, of which one
written when he was nine years of age
after their separation was as follows :—

! Elizabeth was born on September 7th, 1533, and
Edward on October 12th, 1537. She was therefore four
years older than her brother,
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“ The change of place, most dear sister,
does not so much vex me as your
departure from me. But nothing can
now occur to me more grateful than
your letters. I particularly feel this,
because you first began the correspond-
ence, and challenged me to write to you.
I thank you most cordially both for your
kindness and the quickness of its coming,
and I will at least equal you in regard
and attention. It is a comfort to my
regret, that I hope shortly to see you
again if no accident intervenes.” In the
first letter which he wrote to her after
he became King, in answer to one of
condolence from her on the subject of
their common bereavement, he again
addresses her as his “sweetest sister,”
and refers to her learning and prudence
which enable her to know what to do,
and which relieve him from the necessity
of consoling her ; and after compliment-
ing her upon her elegant sentences, he
observes that she thinks of their father’s
death with a calm mind, This was no
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doubt written in all simplicity, but, con-
sidering the continual terror that cruel
father must have been to his sister, it
can scarcely be regarded as an instance
of fortitude that she bore his removal
calmly. The letter was written in Latin,
and the sentences referred to are as
follows :—‘‘ Minimi opus est mihi te con-
solari, charissima soror, quod eruditione
tua cognoscis quid sit faciendum, pru-
dentia vero et pietate tua quod eruditio
docuit te cognoscere facto prastas. .. .
Preterea literae tucze mihi admodum
arridebant, tum quod in illis elegantes
sententia: continentur, tum quod ex illis
sentio te zquo consuluisse animo mortem
patris nostri.”'

No one can study the early lives of
Mary, Elizabeth, and Edward without
quickly perceiving that they were very
remarkable children. Their qualities
and attainments are attributable partly
to inheritance and partly to the educative

\ “Original Letters Illustrative of English History,’
with notes and illustrations by Henry Ellis, F-.R.S.,
London, 1824.
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influence of the altogether exceptional
circumstances in which they were placed.
Pride, fearlessness, a high spirit, and a
strong will were possessed by all mem-
bers of the House of Tudor, and they
all likewise displayed in different degrees
a prudence and discretion which averted
at the last moment the dangers which
their obstinacy frequently gathered about
them. Their faults as well as their
merits were exhibited by Elizabeth, who
excelled them all, however, in diplomatic
skill and intelligence. Her letters and
her “golden speeches” reveal a style
admirable in temper, dignity, and grace,
and her expressions of the trust and
affection in which she held her people
never failed to touch their hearts and
to arouse their enthusiastic loyalty and
devotion. This was especially notice-
able in those critical conflicts which
occasionally arose between the Crown
and the Commons, when, as Macaulay
says, “she left to her successors a
memorable example of the way in which
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it behoves a ruler to deal with public
movements which he has not the means
of resisting.” An element of creatness
in the character of Elizabeth is that
robust independence of mind which en-
abled her to remain uninfluenced by the
delusive appearances and conventional
distinctions which affect the opinions
and actions of ordinary men and
women. [or many years she succeeded
in suppressing the persecuting spirit and
skilfully held the balance of opposing
creeds. It was this intellectual detach-
ment which enabled her to initiate a
policy so wise, temperate and beneficent,
as to secure her the devotion of her
subjects. ‘‘She saw that to make a
government flourish there must be in-
ternal peace and security, and that its
councillors must be men of ability and
virtue” (Buckle). Her many royal
qualities have at all times inclined men
to ignore her faults, and even those who
suffered from them cannot withhold their
tribute of praise. Neal, in his ‘History of
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the Puritans,’ after censuring the cruelty
with which she treated men of Puritan
opinions, concludes, “ However, notwith-
standing all these blemishes, Queen
Elizabeth stands upon record as a wise
and politic Princess. She was the glory
of the age in which she lived, and will be
the admiration of posterity.”' But the
students of that glorious epoch, and the
admirers of its brilliant central figure,
are unable to include in their laudations
the moral side of that interesting cha-
racter. Even after allowances are justly
made for the peculiarities of the time,
for the general acceptance and recog-
nition of diplomatic mendacity as an
“intellectual means of meeting a diffi-
culty,” there yet remains the conspicuous
absence of the gentler and purer qualities
of womanhood. It was left for a happier
age to experience, ina still more glorious
reign, the felicitous union of a noble
wisdom with a pure morality.

“The History of the Puritans,” by Daniel Neal,
M.A., second edition, corrected, London, 1754, vol. i,
Pp. 403.
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Some examination of the methods of
the education of this great Princess may
be of interest. As was usual at that
time with young students, she was accus-
tomed to long hours and hard reading.
The list of subjects included in the
studies of the royal children astonishes
us by its character and variety. In the
‘Chronicle’ of Crispin it is related that
the Princess Mary studied astronomy,
geography, natural philosophy, and
mathematics ; that she read the orators,
the historians, and the poets of Greece
and Rome in their native languages,
Needlework and music were also assidu-
ously practised.

Hayward gives the following pleasant
description of the boy king Edward :—
“He attained not only commendable
knowledge but speech in the Greeke,
Spanish, and Italian languages having
alwaies great judgement in measuring his
words by his matter; his speech being
alike both fluent and weightie, such as
best beseemeda Prince. As for naturall
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Philosophie, Logicke, Musicke, Astro-
nomie, and other liberall sciences, his
perfections were such that the great
Italian philosopher Cardane, having
tasted him most strongly to encounter
his new devised paradoxes in Philo-
sophie, seemed to be astonished betweene
admiration and delight, . . . . in dispo-
sition he was mild, gracious and pleasant
. in body beautifull, but especially
in his eies which seemed to have a
starrie livelinesse and lustre in them :
generally he seemed to be as Cardane
reported of him, a Miracle of Nature.’’!
Reference has already been made to
the avidity with which Elizabeth and
Edward called for their books “as soon
as theday began to breake,” and Heywood
further records that “the rest of the
forenoon (breakfast-time excepted) they
were instructed in language, or some of
the liberal sciences, or moral learning,
collected out of such authors as did best

‘The Life and Reigne of King Edward the Sixth,’
by Sir John Hayward, London, 1636.
27
conduce to the instruction of princes.”
Of the genuineness of this study the
Queen gave many interesting proofs in
later life, as for instance when, without
hesitation or previous preparation, she
answered in one day three Ambassadors
each in his own language ; and again on
the occasion of her visit to Oxford she
delivered an oration in Latin. We read
of the same long hours and extensive
list of subjects studied, in the early
history of Margaret of Navarre, the
Lady Jane Grey, and others, yet we do
not hear of any of these industrious
students suffering from “ over-pressure.”
The modern system of “working for
examinations,’ with the inevitable in-
troduction of that brain-destructive ele-
ment of avz«xzety into the studies of the
young, was then happily unknown. Free
from this false ambition they were able
to acquire a disinterested love of know-
ledge, and to appreciate the worth and
delight of intellectual effort for its own
sake, with the result that their minds
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attained a degree of clearness, alacrity,
and vigour otherwise unattainable.
There is another point worthy of con-
sideration. There are two theories of
education, based upon principles whose
operations have been exhibited not only
in every special legislative effort to pro-
vide for the instruction of the young,
but also in all the great intellectual
conflicts and controversies out of which
modern civilisation has evolved. In the
one is to be observed the solicitude
of the preceptor to form, control, and
direct the mind of the pupil, to furnish
knowledge of the wisdom of the past,
to develop veneration for constituted
authority, to create mistrust of self in
forming judgments and opinions. In
the other there is to be seen an effort
to remove every obstacle to the natural
expansion of the mind, to promote the
growth and development of all the
faculties, to furnish materials for the
formation of independent judgment, and
to encourage its exercise. These theories
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when thus stated appear to be mutually
opposed, but they should be comple-
mentary to each other. Just as the
well-being of a state depends on the
great principles of order and progress,
so in the development of the human
mind the steadying influence of discip-
line is no less essential than the moving
power of unimpeded growth. The edu-
cation of the Princess Elizabeth, rather
by the force of circumstances than by
the conscious intention of her tutors,
approximated to the latter scheme. The
periods of neglect with which the vicis-
situdes of her youth were marked left
her in freedom to follow the direction
of her natural tastes, and she, no doubt,
interpreted for herself the lessons of
history, her favourite subject. By this
unrestrained study and reflection she
was able to cultivate her intellect to
its loftiest extent, and to develop her
natural strength of character to an as-
tonishing degree of self-reliance.

The omission of the Princess to name
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the author of the ‘Mirror’ when she
mentions that poem in her dedication
to Queen Katherine Parr, conveys the
idea that she probably knew little or
nothing of Marguerite d’Angouléme,
and that there could not have been
any connecting links in their respective
histories. As there are several circum-
stances which should have made the
name of the Queen of Navarre familiar,
if this ignorance is a correct surmise,
the true explanation lies in the pathetic
fact that this bright and lovable child
never knew anything of home-life or
the delight of a mother’s tales of by-
gone times. Anne Boleyn’s unhappy
end came when her daughter was only
three years old, and the history of that
brief period is unrelieved by any accounts
of motherly care and affection. Had
it been otherwise, Elizabeth might have
heard much of the gifted lady whose
poem had attracted her attention and
stirred her childish ambition to render
it into English. For Anne Boleyn, who
31
had accompanied King Henry’s sister,
Mary Tudor, to France after the latter’s
marriage by proxy with Louis XII, re-
mained there when the death of that
monarch terminated the brief union, and
after a short period at the court of
Claude, Queen of Francis J, she entered
the service of Margaret, who was then
Duchesse d’Alencon, and therefore we
may conclude that the copy of ‘ Miroir
de l’dame pécheresse’ in Elizabeth's
possession, had belonged to her mother,
who may have obtained it from her
former friend and mistress. Margaret
might have become much more closely
associated with the English royal house
if certain negotiations had been attended
with success, for after the death of
Elizabeth of York in 1503, at which
time Margaret was 12 years of age,
Henry VII became a suitor for her hand
in marriage. This was not the only
escape she had from the doubtful privilege
of being allied to the House of Tudor,
for when Henry VIII first entertained
32

the idea of divorcing Katherine of
Arragon he also opened negotiations
with Margaret, then the widow of the
Duke of Alencon. It is said, on rather
insufficient authority, that in rejecting
this proposal Margaret made to Wolsey,
who was conducting the matter, the
following spirited reply: ‘‘ Katherine of
Arragon, your injured Queen, was the
friend of my dear and gentle sister
Queen Claude, and for her sake, if for
no other, I should spurn your proposal.
But not for worlds would I be accessory
to an act of injustice like that which
you contemplate ; and certainly I could
never trust my happiness in the hands
ofa man who is stained with such a
crime.”’ Though we have no proof that
Elizabeth when a child knew Margaret,
the latter’s attention must soon have been
drawn to Elizabeth, for the first in the
long series of negotiations for the mar-
riage of our Princess took place when
she was only 13 months old, at which

“Margaret, the Pearl of Navarre,’ Edinburgh, 1868.
a

time her father proposed a union with
Margaret’s nephew, the young Duke of
Angouléme, the third son of Francis I.
Disregarding these externals there
may be found a much more important
and significant connection between the
author and the translator of the ‘Mirror.’
Both were completely in sympathy with
the great movement of that age, that
had for its object to purify and_ spirit-
ualize the Christian Church; Margaret
adopting the principles of her friend
Erasmus, Elizabeth, by throwing off the
external yoke of the Latin Church, may
be regarded as the follower of Luther.
“Erasmus and Luther,”’ says d’ Aubigne,
‘viewed in connexion with the Refor-
mation, are the representatives of two
ereat ideas,—of two great parties in
their age, and indeed in every age. The
one is composed of men of timid prudence,
the other of men of resolution and

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courage.”’! These parties, personified in

1 History of the Reformation, by J. H. M.
dAubigné, Edinburgh, 1846.

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their illustrious chiefs, were represented
also in the witty, satirical, but timid
Margaret, and in the lion-hearted Eliza-
beth. The dread of unknown troubles
following violent changes, which led
Erasmus to recommend putting up with
ungodly princes,’ is reflected in Margaret,
who never ventured to add reproof to
her exhortations to her brother. She
resembled the great ‘Writer of the

>in her methods of exposing

Opposition ’
error by the popular weapon of sarcasm,
but she displayed none of the personal
vanity which excited the scorn of his
enemies; nor does the student of her
life find intermingled with his sympathy
with her sorrows, the sense of advsappoznt-
ment occasioned by the history of
Erasmus. Margaret had neither the
authority nor the personal greatness of
Elizabeth, and her influence was exer-
cised by the example of her life and by
her writings, while she outwardly con-

1 Preestat ferre principes impios, quam novatis rebus
gravius malum accersere.
35

formed to the orthodox church; while
that of our great Queen was enforced by
her army and her navy, and she was the
open and avowed champion of the new
doctrines, and has been justly regarded
as the Nursing Mother of the Reforma-
tion. In this sense Elizabeth’s life was a
continuation and fulfilment of the promise
of Margaret’s, and it was assisted by the
circumstances of the time and by the de-
velopment of events. The two lives
coincided in point of time for sixteen
years, the closing period of Margaret's
career and the opening of Elizabeth’s.
In studying the life of Margaret we
have not to deal with the mighty intellect
and profound sagacity of Elizabeth, nor
do we meet with the strange incongruities
of the latter’s character, nor is the group
of literary men which attended the sa/ozs
of the Queen of Navarre, giving them
the name of the New Parnassus, com-
parable to the bright constellation of
the sons of genius which adorned the
court of the English Queen; yet her
36

history, if less brilliant, is still full of
interest. ‘Marguerite humaine, douce
et sage,’? as contemporary poets sang,
“Je pur élixir des Valois,” as Michelet
described her, was born on the 11th of
April, 1492, two years before the birth
of her brother Francis. Her parents
were Charles, Count of Angouléme,
and Louise of Savoy. Her numerous
titles are rather bewildering. As a
descendant of the royal family of Valois
she was known in her girlhood as
Margaret of Valois; from the place of
her birth and her father’s title she
obtained the name by which she is
best known in history, Marguerite
d’Angouléme ; in her fifteenth year
she married the Duke d’Alencon, and
took the titles of Madame and Duchesse
d’Alencon ; she is also known as Mar-
garet of Orleans, as belonging to the
Orleans branch of the Royal House;
and as Margaret of Navarre, of which
province she was Queen ; finally when
Francis became King he made his sister
37
Madame de France. In 1528 she mar-
ried Henry d’Albret, King of Navarre,
who was 11 years her junior, and she
died at the castle of Odos, December
21st, 1549, her life thus extending over
that of her brother two years at the
beginning and at the end. It is rather
curious that her first funeral verses,
written in Latin, were nominally by
Anne, Margaret, and Jane Seymour,
nieces of the mother of Edward VI.
Margaret’s character, and the high es-
timation in which she was held, are
best shown in the recorded opinions of
her contemporaries, and her letters to
the King, her brother, when he was in
captivity in Madrid, leave no doubt in
the readers mind of the sincerity of
her religious convictions. Her brother
always called her his Darling,’ the Pearl
of Valois, &c., and he is reported to
have said on one occasion, ‘“ My sister
Margaret is the only woman I ever
knew who has every virtue and every

' © Vie des Dames illustrés,’ La Haye, 1740.
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grace without one mixture of vice; and
yet she is never wearisome or insipid
as you good people are apt to be.”
Henry II, the successor of Francis, said,
“Tf it were not for my aunt Margaret
I should doubt the existence of such a
thing as genuine goodness on the earth,
but never have I been disappointed in
her.” Brantéme says, “She chose for
her emblem the marigold, which by its
rays and leaves has a seeming affinity
with the sun, and turns wherever he
goes. She added the device ‘I seek

not things below,’?

as a sign that she
directed all her actions, thoughts, desires,
and affections to that great Sun which
is God ; and hence she was suspected of
being attached to the Lutheran religion.”
He says elsewhere, ‘Every one loved
her, for she was kind to all, gracious,
charitable, and affable, a great almsgiver,
but withal bestowing words and smiles
more precious than gold; despising no
one, and winning all hearts by her excel-

1 Non inferiora secutus,
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lent qualities.” To those who know
Margaret only as the compiler of the
‘Heptameron,’ such descriptions of her
will be very curious as revealing unsus-
pected qualities in that lively satirist ;
and others less fortunate, to whom the
‘Heptameron’ is unknown, might form,
from the foregoing quotations, a very
different picture from the bright, witty,
and vivacious reality. From the fact that
Margaret at least tolerated the vices of
her much-loved brother, and also from
the malicious slanders invented by the
haters of her heresy, and perhaps from
the impressions of careless readers of the
‘F[eptameron,’ a quite erroneous reputa-
tion of moral laxity has been associated
with her name. But ‘“ Un doux nenny
avec un doux sourire” is all that her
lovers received, which Mr. Saintsbury
thinks sufficiently indicates that she was
a virtuous coquette if somewhat coquet-
tishly virtuous.!

' Essay by George Saintsbury, included in the edition

of the ‘ Heptameron’ printed for the Society of English
Bibliophilists, 1894.
40

‘Le Miroir de lame pécheresse’ is
in rhymed decasyllables, and reveals
much of the personal religious history of
its writer. Other poems somewhat similar
are, ‘Oraison de lAme Fidele a son
Seigneur Dieu,’ and ‘Le triomphe de
l’Agneau,’ which is generally considered
to be the best.

The address ‘‘ Au Lecteur,” prefacing
‘Le Miroir,’ is as follows :

‘Si vous lisez ceste ceuvre toute entiere,

Arrestez vous, sans plus, 4 la matiere,

En excusant la rhythme et le language,

Voyant que c’est d’une femme louvrage,

Qui n’a en soy science, ne scavoir,

Fors un desir, que chacun puisse voir

Que fait le don de Dizu le Createur,

Quand il luy plaist justifier un cceur ;

Quel est le cceur d’un homme, quant a soy,

Avant quwil ayt receu le don de Foy,

Par lequel seul homme a la congnoissance

De la Bonté, Sapience et Puissance.

Et aussi tost qu’il congnoit Verité,

Son cceur est plein d’Amour et Charité

Ainsi bruslant, perd toute vaine crainte,

Et fermement espere en Diu sans feinte,

Ainsi le don que liberalement

Le Createur donne au commencement
AI
N’ha nul repos, qu’il n’ayt deifié
Celuy qui s’est par Foy en Dieu fié,
O Vheureux don, qui fait P>homme Dieu estre,
Et posseder son tant desirable Estre.
Helas ! jamais nul ne le peult entendre,
Si par ce don n’a pleu 4 Diu le prendre.
Et grand’ raison ha celuy d’en douter,
Si Dizu au cceur ne luy a fait gouster,
Mais vous, Lecteurs de bonne conscience,
Je vous requiers, prenez la patience
Lire du tout ceste ceuvre qui n’est rien,
Et n’en prenez seulement que le bien.
Mais priez Digv, plein de bonté naive,
Qu’en vostre cceur il plante la Foy vive.

The text begins —

Ou est !Enfer remply entierement

De tout malheur, travail, peine et tourment ?
Ot est le puitz de malediction,

D’ot sans fin sort desesperation ?

Est il de mal nul sy profond abysme

Qui suffisant fust pour punir la disme

De mes pechés, qui sont en sy grand nombre
Qu’infinité rend sy obscure ?ombre

Que les compter ne bien voir je ne puys ?
Car trop avant avecques eux je suis.

‘The plan of these poems,” says Mr.
Saintsbury, “is taken from the long-
winded allegorical erotic poetry of the

4
42
very late thirteenth, the fourteenth, and
the fifteenth centuries,—poetry which is
now the most difficult to read in any litera-
ture.” Beza says, ‘ ‘The Mirror of the
Sinful Soul’ was composed in a strain
very unusual in the Church of Rome,
there being no mention made in it either
of male or female saints, or of merits,
or of any other purgatory than the blood
of Jesus Christ.” That the heretical
tendency of the poem attracted much
attention at the time is shown in many
ways. The students of the College
of Navarre acted a comedy in which
Margaret was represented as a Fury of
Hell; for which, however, they were
afterwards committed to prison. The
University of the Sorbonne condemned
the book as heretical, and ordered the
copies to be burnt, from which fate they
were saved by the express intervention
of the King. Nicolas Cop, rector of
the Sorbonne, expressly disowned the
censure pronounced by the body over
which he presided ; but Noél Bédier,
43
syndic of the faculty of theolovy, who
had been the most ardent promoter of
the attacks on Queen Margaret, died in
confinement at Mont Saint Michel.

At a later time, when Margaret's
power to secure protection for herself
and her friends was much weaker,
Bonaventure Despériers, who was_ in
her service and who had a hand, it is
thought, in producing the ‘Heptameron,’
was driven to suicide by the persecution
he received, in 1544, the same year in
which Elizabeth rendered the suspected
‘Mirror’ into English.

The volume already referred to, ‘Les
Derniéres podsies de Marguerite de
Navarre,’ published in 1896, contains,
as its editor, M. Lefranc, says, ‘together
with a number of the most personal and
characteristic of her works, the history
of the secret of her life. The words
contained in these forgotten pages are
by turns words of sadness and of hope,
but on the whole the sentiment which
inspires the essential parts, and above
44

all the conclusion, is that of a bright
cheerfulness. It is a song of deliverance
and of moral enfranchisement, which is
the keynote of these poems. We thus
perceive the supreme evolution which is
accomplished in that great soul, in the
course of the three or four years which
preceded and followed the death of
Francis I... . No other hand appears
to have turned the leaves of these
precious pages since the day when Jeanne
d’Albret enclosed in an iron casket,
garnished with solid locks, the manu-
script which she wished, by a scruple
easy to understand, to conceal from all
unsympathetic eyes. .. . She always
guarded with a jealous care the collection
which she considered as the literary
testament of her mother, that which con-
tained the cozfesszous of the most lovable
of the women of the Renaissance.”
These poems consist of ten epistles in
verse, two comedies, three lyrics, six
elegies, and two considerable poems,
‘The Prisons of the Queen of Navarre’
45

(her greatest work), and ‘The Ship,’
and they fill 439 pages, 8vo. That these
interesting poems, revealing as they do
so much of the inner life of the gifted
Margaret, should have remained entirely
neglected and unknown for 350 years is
indeed surprising. The thanks of the
world of letters are due to Monsieur
Abel Lefranc for again awakening the
musical voice of the Pearl of Valois.
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g ib ts coniucrient t at my pryde be’ .
fuprefsed and humbly ido confdse oe!
that.as for me,tam mache lefse tha sat \
nothinec - hefore m byrthe, meres: 0b 10
and after. a ete A body recy und. 0

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Moth not tary tyl (li humbly do om
pr ay hym or that Ug ge riyhals =
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ys powcr. Av this. thefeenre vnlznow ‘en
:. fiche, doth brine mie ANEW cdely, YC,
- pores the © good that 1 UE. loste
: by MY. pV. mMne, wiche AS. suc me CBE gs
@ oamce,t} ouch his oract, ana hontic,
pans hat} tn b_ouercomed ul u UI fy Nnyne $e?

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E10 LILY. ood, w hat BYACC ane good

PRE.

Mes_1s this swuch h doth 1 put. On ui jOoz, :
z PDO: Iv mnes . Nowe Nave WEE, .
tthat thow arte full of a ll goods. ¢

Ue. toamalke me uch on honcste
Pes ‘Atas. my A od J dict 99 otser Bs
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land foxfxgarrneefuall. of prude. » be,
“ny te.malice. and” treafan). Dhow
pial ig promes. wiche my jrendey x made:
when twas. baptifed sb
ally: “Ayes os through t thy. papion to.
roms g ycle the mortifrene Of 171) fle he.

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And the thinee wiche muche more :

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‘ bapti/ric us ajc thy loue and pro |

—tngse t-haue forgotten all a lze se)

| What hall fay more. ulbeit that!

wollte ity nes thou witstoudest_ muy

; _vbhapyrcs.geummpe fu ore euinipe f reeves WANA ' pote

Fr : numtoctaby: faythe,and facranpenS, | ee 4

[ edmonifhingt me by preachmee

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anid that at _my. nede tcould | hauc
no_fuccoure of man. sthan didcst fo) actes.
thou ‘epenc _ the waye, -of my Jal ud
cion._O _ O what voodnes. and tenes

i Is there Gniy father to the daugther,

id or_els. bath her to ) the fy ter, cwithe.

. pole, cur do as. he hath done. 2 ;
flor he came¢-in to hell jor lo frac a“ | ahi
comm Joule. wn here against his i
walic fie was wullinee tu peryhe. v4 He
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thow nastoued ther: QO charitte se ote
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them if Meer 1 opences. bit aljo t tu et

er afcife Lfor their faluawon,. | [ier ent

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crofse, trauayle , payne and foul -
fring. Myhan te conpyctere what: bs
iis ie sccafion of thy i ccc wardes,
ezican Je nothingc cls but lou, a
wich inatcth the to gcuc me this j (
Lat & cleruc. THe lny2 4

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done fo muchc Jor me.and yet art
thou not contente to hauc forgiuen
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WN nto_me the rightgracious oyf| tC, cphe.2.

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‘i durst ay)as a mothe r. dauether tg Feeds

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berflfe with the. riche, wile. hoa

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avid ron }
2 rhe rollt of thy fpa Yuc ana holy word.

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thy ornie: beleunoe Fe — Phe ok,

mar IuyOUure. and ulfo thespine a
rors PUN (cr ye ale «formes therjeox € FD,

ge no Vouchélae. to:
: Jeufe anaes Fie

    
  
   

  
 
   

Peace serene 9 cerita mmemmemmmilmeaiaata aaa cumeaais —_eammma
  
  

recta iea
a uc for. thou art My :
Plalzes lt oy NC: /) Sy rthe_that 4
thi y_ fowr c full of deumite, hath talze
the booly of a. man, oe cid. loyne ~ phil pe
: dhivr icles “th Gare Co) ,wi iche th t mine

man cur not a Orit \

fe hath Q (rue pay tn, Lit veath plea
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moll TY TYCO —w30 tO a
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to bec alica man) doe cll hym 2
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itwardes her: Onan y
Bake. before her first dye t (YY rouiding Jor
: ir) thou hast had thy louc inher,

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todo ome Joruce vnto the: “A

than the truth malath her to tof.

om there is truc paternuein the. 4 ti |
-Owhat homnoure, what t cood andl NS

glory. hath the foul. wich doth sy

al ayes remember, that fhe is thy.
claughter. and,in ¢ callinge the father

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rime how thot has: yrely decla. ofa, 4
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‘els. the he with ada lid,
foe her All her. reali no \
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baptifme. thou haddest # ie
ade @ promese to gnu her}

oodes.and riches. Thou dotst. tal be 9
<o r_fyrmes. forge] |

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| ta my. Fail 1S. ad Fite: to be bie
of Juche. ood} or to leaue the plea ~-

, fuire_of. this worlde for thefame wi ith |

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0, b de to tala ven alos
_ math. in the pater noster Put to call me,
a dauchter, hast thou j' iayd, bbe

feche. the tell it me.alas Yes} ‘or with

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, . areut fwittencs)thou ydestcites
| proucr. zz. ther lende me thy arte: O my 4
god, n fledde of len dino.he is redy
to giue hym/elfe wholy vnto the..
Receyue hym, than, and do not.
ne | permite that any body put hym

force frome the: fo that foreuer 7

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luc the. with a dauatherl, loug

Nias my lorde.if thou be my fa
ther, may i thinizeme to be voure
‘that tam thy mother. ffor | Can not ;
OE anata

perceyuc howe 1 fhul Id conc:

the wich hast ceca me. Bui ti

Hides oh , doutte when im. preach,
irctchin e furth, thy handcs) thou

. dest fay: Thofe that fhall | do + mati»:
the wile of my father, a are.z

Iny. brethern and mother. Theleue

than ‘that (hee Wee OF redine Ne

Worcies . that tho u dy ledicl yf cond

es
‘tb st fayd by ty noly proph ietles

thefame. al spb bith gis , by. a
go Ppreac ers} 1 dO toy ly de goun|
aglare ynto men: bel fun , and de! |

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Tyre withouvic aye AY
ttalze ir the narne of Mae
mothers) ay ) Jooite

be yrot om
that j talze yp fuche a titel: Ido | |

nggther Jteale, or pretende an

thinge y ypon’ thy priulege. for »

thou (onely hast abouc all womé

 

reecaue: d foe ereat homourc: that

man can not in hy mcf Ce

C theadc howe he hath ben.

wv ine to tale inthe our Jlcfhe.

ype: thiou art mother,and ie
re. afters and mf

  

. virgin.
| Ye arth. Ih fe diaiet. heaves vee

be Sa
ee
erred c mi with Va ‘hol, SS
Thou duet folowe fain at}

preaching, and alfo avhen-he was
troubled. Nowe am /horte. 4

thou hast with god Jounde the on luke.

ce. that oure ermy (through veliee

and deccyte) had oe adam. and
Ay: ae O Ie ¢. Ihrouc vy FILLE,

and hym hi  {Os7E 4 ie hy rom, 3. ;
th nne, heal hen yelded vntoz. thon
mages hath b ) c -

 

v. Therfore hust thou ben
bechieh Banned full. of grace for taker.
thou lalzest. ney ther. grace. or ¥ CK, 3 cs

ie/yih ow Sa is the besteas
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werswich hath creat: 4 in th

a. ample of all errs Wath b % lded
m the his dwelling . sa Ba Fe’

throush loue)did conforme him|el fc

with the and thou art ral
with hym. sles Y any man -

 
 
 

= uld_thinlze to eeuc the ycater
~ pray/e_ than pod hymey € na
donc, ifwere a blafphemy .

here is. pr pray/€ Last ee

% IS Wis!) comet h frome god. Alfo:
~ hast thou had jo fiedjaste, ands
Ps nstante a fay th. that by ees
fh: hid th. power to male the cod
ly. T herfore twil not tale vpOn »

me to oyuc the greater pray/e.than
the honnoure wich the Jouerayne
lorde hath eyuen ynio the. flores
thou art his corporall mother, and
alfo (through fayth) his Jprrituall —
mother. Than.folowinec thy faith
wath humiltie) am Ays fpirituall —
mother. Alas m » god:of the fratey

nite that thou hast Kwardes mCey
through thy humblenes ,m callinoe
me, fyster, didest thou cucy Jayd 2
any thinge of it i alas yc. for thou

hast brolzen the, lzinrede of myric

zw
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lantic.4.

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1 Sp th that Wes
haue but onc father. Livi not feare!
to call the, my bother orfo hast_

 

thou fayd by falomon. inhis baiict,

jfoyenge. my  fyster, thou hast won

ded _my harte with the witte lolze

of ane of thy eyes anc with one

of thy heercs Alas ood brother.
wifhe Jor or nothings cls, but that |

ondert with thy louc: Ax
Tm le un ae mew

ee = shat tials mee

jan call ME | ( by frac. lou i

 

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o

I eC eC
my douc, ryfe vp my ae Ther canty,2
Jore fhall Jay, with lounge faith.

thou art muyn.and tam thyne. ro)

‘Thou doest call me,louc. and faire

[powfc. Y jo il sine hast. tnou
made y mc Alas oth it pleafe the

{o peuc me Juche Names : they aye

 

bane to brealee @ mans harte.and
to lzimdle hy m by Juche loue when
he thenlzeth vpon the honnource ee " :
with IS greater than he hath defer
ucd... Mother. mother: but what -
childe ts ity cb ts of fuche forme y-
my harte doth brealze Ur loue, icy

My. god ny fonne. O wcfus.whal ’
Sots _fpecher pelo eis this: mother.and

dauother: 0 hapy lanrede _O what

fovittenes doth procede. of thefame 2,
ppaternit. But what daugtherly se
Jouc.and reuerent fea eh 1 to

haue tvardes hym. My fat er: ye 2

pal.zs. and my creatoure. my protectoure

eae and_my conferuatoure to be thy |
4 3
: & - fyster : alas here is a greatc loue: |

Nowe does? thou brealze my hart |

 

   
 
 
 

4m_the middes : malze rowme } Qi
thefame fo fwatte a brothcr-Jogh

me othe r name be writtn mn,
man wil | peue place for ie the

Grudginge, and heyttmer y they
can do vnto me. Kepe my harte-
than. my brother. ancl [ett not thy,
enmy entre mit. O my ather, bro

ther, childe.and Jpowle: with re?

handes 1oyned, humbly vpon my
neces, tyelde the thanlzes,and 2

| raife that ut pleafeth the to turne
thy face twardes me, conuerting

my_hart.and couermmee me with

puch grace, that thou doest fe 4

no more my yuels.an d Jynnes

jo well hast thou hyddex them,

that tt fear
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“hauc cormitted_them for cuth .agnc

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eme to be to_be forgotten ‘of me ah

 

   
 
  
  

pulling, w wholy my. truste in the ea
onely “Than y fer imesthom
na ae croj can
thauc feare m my harte-J confe yfefre

that thaue dor os all the cea hat |

   

 
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A
_bundance of goodes, wich 5
‘cetued of the “for. pouertie oi “re
thered me.euen as hey, and yeldect
my Jpivite decd for hunger, jeleyne
to cate the relicfz of fi ope but 1
founde very lytell Jeuoure much
meats. Than Yeyne my eee
to be fo miferable) did returne ~ schac.
vnto_the, .O father. Alas ‘hie fred
in heauen.and: before the: Fam 2
not worthy (i tell it afore cuery 2
Ke man) to. val may felfe be called thy
igh lide, but. ie. bountidull father
i eC wor evnto me, but us tor

thy howlok fr aunts |

fluke , os

    
 

Tor thy hand.) recenedy st me.. ye
when idid thinlze that thou -wol

dest not Je me: and in stedde to ~

hauc puni{hemente,thou doest af
farce of my faluacion. Where
as he,than, that fhall punt he me
when _my father fhall. denye hymz
my /ynne. _ There is no tudge that
can condemne any man, onlefez
Qod himfelfe. wolde damne hym.

eare not to haue lalzeof ooodes,z

he ihauc Sed 2 mpfotharer

a
ee enn 7.
AR ice 2 , ETE TS oR

 

 

_My cnmy [hall do me no ee ie
for my father [hall vndowe hys 3° :

ai r / thin > if | 4
power. I/1 owe any chal paye « |

 

| it ee [fi haue deferucd death
he(as a Line) fhall geue me era
ce,and pardon and delyuer me 2

 

frame prifon .and hanging, But

here is the worfe: what mothers
haue iben: ffor after that had,
receucd the name of a true mother

than haue tben_to rude vnto_the.|

flor after that I had conceyued , -~

 
e Thi Pier ¢
? sa ie ES

seg |

king. tell a flepe.and_ eaue pl. cto

great cnmy: the wich im then h

    
  
 
 
 

ofignoraunce [i beyng a lepc) did.

f tale the frome me,craftely, and in
the place fhe did pul her childe wie
in eae So did ilefe the by my | |
owne faute wich thinge 15. Q hard | |
remorfe for me. Nowe hauc i loste.

the mene Jautte. by caufe i tolze |

| no hyde to Lzepe the My emmy. my |

enfualite ( beynot in_my beastely =

- jlepe) did fleale le frome me, and 2 4 |

‘gouex mean: other chile We auinge

 

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a by, josie hym She fy r my d

bnew bm to be hers flor as foore
as 1 came to the hoht of the grace
wich thou Fades? geucn me than
1 iznewe my glory to. be. chaungcd
hen ifawe ihe decd: child - nol ie
be mun for thefame wich was a

‘tue (whom fhe had talzen awayo

was mynow ne. Betwene tefus.and

 
  
 

 

 

ynne.ts the _chaunee Jo apparent,

5 to ke
ets olde woman CQu yfeth me ym wth

‘ i hy ayct4 to bese

ep -tene. 0)

ut here ts a firaunge thine » This 4 ;

$ Hie
ee true aude. thou hast herd
this lamentable. procs .and or
dey ned (contenting the parhes) | |
eee my. child fh a uld_be ive

m_two partes. he falfc Yc woman |
greet tfhuld be fo: but ifre, “AA
membrine hym_to be my owne
Jonnc) was. rather contente loz.

I¢fe hym. than to Jc his body par
ted in two peces (forsrue. and i
barfatt louc is neuer_contentc =!

‘with one halfe of this that th fhe,
_ foe but 1 Rolle ener Rees of

 

 

 

 

3) _—eshut one hel My md ha

 
 

mot. be fe atisfied uf rhad recoucred |
onc halle withoute life. Alas geuc
her rather_the childe wiche 1s a

liuc: better itis for me to dye, tha
to fe icfuschrist dyuided. But(o my
lordc) thou didest lolze better to |

it,than t, flor, thou ( cyuge the.

payne that 1 did jue and howe

1did rather Jorfalze my ryohtie

than to fe frche cruclnes) faydest,
—thisas the true mother and cau z.king.z.
fed them to oyue mt my childe
cagaine. O /witte tcfus, hauce te

foundc the:after to hauc proucd i
smeifidid louc the ;r.who had”

 
pus pe inough foxstedefender,

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_loste the. yet didest thou retourne
; ou ee
vnto me. Alas doest’ vouthafe toy,

come againe to her. wiche beyrige: |
let with Jynne, coulde not lzepe the,
oO my f witte childé. my fonne smy
nourrtture, of whom Lam ry he
humble creature, do not permytte
thateuerl do leauc. the; ffori repent
myfel{e of the tyme pajsed. Nowe

come.my fenfualitic. with fymnes of
all qualities, for thou has? not the

ower to malze me receyue ychilde..

wich is dead. Thefame that.ihaud-

 

  

. re.an he fhall not pores es Lot
|
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| Li
;

| |

|
im do: talze hym awaye frome

He ts alredy as ft as firong as any

Iman s- therfore mayc ae and
ltalze reste neere ofhym for he fhal
lzepe me better than i could. lepe
hym. Than(as_ ithinl lee) imaye. |
talze reste. Owhat a foitte resi.
it 18,0 of the mother. and the fonne

to ogyther. re a my.

 

 

 

 

   

 

Ee perceyue, pues it hea okabd | !
he,me_ i than nothing to call

 

  
He | |
ates ge the. more ought. 2 goodnes hauc |
praije for. it. And aljo.r finde my, myself
‘more bounde ynto the, than cuer |
did Jor this that ut pleafeth the to
‘hauc_reteyned me for. thy fy ster. ]
am fyster_ynto the but Jo naughty .
afyster, that_ better it is Jor me to
hyd fuche a name: ffor iforgettinge

eis, the honnourc, and adoption of fo ft
a -omoble kmrecle ; al/o thy Jo, fuattesg # :
brotherly behauorre.t owardes me)
did ryfe against the. and fil )
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things caufel me to hauca great re yy
rfc in my confcience. O Boventichadl
cod. ie ane fruc. mofes.v% vi
doth all thinges with godnes, and
hersice. thaue cstimed thy dedes.
ito be wiclzed, bey nee jo bolde,and -
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me a eras woman: Thad as
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0.7.2. Jpearcd NONE of thre tioufande that
thou ¢ caufed_te to. be flayne. Alo ood

— leauc ys commaundemenic by the
rat we fhuld not marry. f-daus,

ther-of.aflraunger: but thou tolzest 3

thy wie emonec thon. Alas my bro.
ther. ttolde the a grea, many of of fch

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nefite,that i fhrulel _pleaje god to
mitigate hys decmente - The
wiche thinoc thou couldest not
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*_ bycaufe t hat afylze body maye /,
marre them wiche be in helthe. But.

what didest 1 hou rieynec my,
repentaunce ; for thou didest hel
that my penaunc € was Joone ended
By truc louc,thou didest t pray for
me and than did 1 returne 203
what brother, who.in ftcdde to pu
n he hys jolihe jyster wolde ses
cleaue ynto her. for imury grudge
and greate offence, thou cauest hers
grace,and loue in recommperye. Alas
m, brother this ws to moche,thou fhul |
dest not do fuche a good turne vnto ;

fuche a poort woman astam | have. _ hi
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per it. lam thine, and thou di st Jay
that thou art myn. Thyne Lam, and

0 will I he for eucr. care no more /
the orcut Joly/henes of aaron. ffor s
man fhall lofe me frome the. Nowe |

than that we arc brother.and fyster.

done yll and thou ecucst ee y
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togyther, 1 carc but lytell for all other
men. Thy laundes ure my Ownc se pfal 2.6
inheritaunce lett vs than lzepe (i it ! °
pledfeth the) but one hufholele Syth
“at pleafeth the to humble eee

moche. as to loyne thy harte withses

q yp. malzun C thy]elfc a lyucly 4
fe a pry cht Fay | thante ye |

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and as for to do it.asi oucht it licth
not n my power. lalzc my meaning
than. and excufe myne i@rioraunce,
pth that iam of je great a linrede |
as to be thy jyst cv Omy god thaue
good caue to praifc.to louc,andto
Jeruc the vynfaynedly and not to de
jyrc.o rfeare_any thing but the,onely
Kepe me wel, than, for I aflze no -
other brother, or /rende. If any mo
| ther hath talzen any carc for her

Jonne; I any brother hath hyd the
joutic of hys pyster. Incuer awe tts
or clles il was eepte wonders jJecrette)

that any hu/bande wolde fororuc.
Pe meee igs
1 ee i OF
J eres ‘ . “ee! Ts
me it am
iz tn oh
teh

his wife, after that [he had offended .
hym anfdid rcturne vnto hym sev
‘There be inoughe of'them wiche ‘for
to QUENOL their wrongt.did caufe 7
the iudgcs to condemne Hyss to dye
Other Jeynge thew wiues Jy nine, se
did not foudaynely /peare theyre
Owns handes to lzille them. Other
lafoyfey nec thear fauttes to appcarc) |
did_fent them home a ne tO +e]
their owne Fronds (Yornse:
their yll dedes, did /hutte the

prijon ; Nowe. PO :

oral. they r complexions

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Iefec arme that cucr i coulde pers
ceyuc..in pun rifhinge them: thys it

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acayne. Hrslelest-rather Thou |
phuldest. rather: malzc the- Lye y

to: turnc,than to malze the. ¢ ag

ie ment _betwne the hufbande. and
5 . a sbys-wife. whan he ienoweth truly
“ Sthe fautic that if he hath donc. ors
cls hath Jenc. each founde h her ma
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(more than euer i did) 1do confe/sev

that. hecatae brolzen mync othe, and

promdsc. Alas thou haddest cho.

mek thy wc. and diclest fete ofea.z.

ye yp m great. dronitic, and hons
nourc Yor what greater honour
Mes one haue than to be in thes

place of thy wie wich frittely ta |
ome reste nere to the) of all thy seo
goodes, quence maistres and lady
and _alfo in furctie, both of body
and foule. fo. vile a creature, be

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‘Therfore »my harte hath caufe to
Jyghe alwayes , and with habun ny
plas, daunce of teares mynce cycs to come
out afrry head. My mouthe can,
Cc

not malze to many exclamacions,

for. there ts ney ther alde,or newe

wriltinges, that can [hewe Jo pitc.
full a thinge As thdame is wiche i

wall tell, nowe. Shall, or deare1 tell:
it, Maye ¢ pronounce it withoute -

mee. alas. YE. flor. my. confufion,
Is JO rr: to hewce the ereat loue ¢ Of xs)
my hufl ande : shealare cai not. |

for his wor hip. 1 do. declare my !

[hame.. QO mm) of! 1 gtd aed

ae
a ‘s |
| dyed and was crucified on the»
crofse. for my Jy nnes ; thys dede 1S tey
not Juch as to leaue hys ome,and.
as a childe,to offende hys mother: 4
or elles (as a fyster) to grudec,and
chyde agaynst hys brother. Alas,
thys is wore. flor. the offenfe is the 7
cater, where more louc,and lznow
doc is. And ihe more we receyue J
of god familtarue cand benefites: the :
offenfe is the greater to deceyue hym.
~ Lwich was called /pow/e,and loued
i the.as thync owne foulc. Shall iz
‘ ch he truth; ye, Thaue lefte forcot 9

¢ raunne ‘awaye frome the,

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hoyce. an worfe. [did leauc the(o,

pring of a Be, ,and faythfull4
fe I i d lequurthc:; i ae
ieee S ima a pl ace where nothinoe 4
is but curfydnes. Thaue lefte, my 7
trusty frende. and louer worthy to
be loued abouc all other. [ haucss
leofic sag myne owne yl,
will. Lhaue: leftc the foall beauticg 0
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_and the flofhe. or whofe to Ouercome
thou hast Jog te /o fore on the crofse
for to pul me in libertie. whom they gala. 4.
had a longe tyme Izepte prifonnere 4

floue, and./o bounde: that no man;

coulde caufe me to humble m cl{e a

And,as for the loue,and charitic, y -

l huld haue towardes the: they did

quen he it:fo that the name of igus

my hu|bande(wich before thad fo-

Jounde fo fwitte)'was to me, tedious. prouer,s

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wordes doth r flee did [! ce awaye.as
a fether doth. and 1 a neuer to
i church but for maner [alze. '
all my dedes were but yposryy fe
myn aoe was In other pl acts
Iwas cnoyed when herde Jpcalz
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om Daal more ewalnge |
ae oO at my_pleafur ure. Vewe te
[pelce fhorte: all thised |
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yel forall thys that tdid hut for
falze, raune a way and betcayed
the. bycaufe i fhuld ocuc thy’ place
to an other: hast thou Juffered y
ifhuld Bed-molzcd, or elles bea tcl:

tenor Izilled: Llath thou fee me

put me m darlze pryon, or bani.
fhec_fyttyng, nought by MC. 5
Hast thou talzen awaye agay ne -
th BY; tes 6 nd iouycllcs for to pu
mifhe ame of mysvri/< up fal BES
pones.. Hauc i los my 1ointerz,
: Y rich th ou hadyst_promy/ col: me
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be. yet. hast. thou forbiden me, that

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ee that ifhuld ncuer-comc to thy

: houfe 0. truc par/aitte hufbande
4 and fend .the moste lounges
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*Stuke as thou ast’ ¢ done otherwt kp forz

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cnoc. My daughter: harlze.and Ie pjal. 4

an d_bowe thy hea rin ee. towardes |

me. forget, alfo.thdfame maner of
people, with » whom thou didest 3
raunc awaye frome me.and alfo
the houfe of thy ne olde father, where
thou_hast dwelled Jo lonee: than

the Lin o¢ full of godlines Jhal defy re
thy, company But when thou /awcest

that thys fwitte,and racioufe pe
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not ae all thee wordes : forido
ted whether it were thou, or i

ymple wriltmec, that fo fy yd. j ffori i
was fo folifhe that without louc 14

did rede yout worde: I I fawe. and »
ynderfloude well that the compa.

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face. 1 will tell wt. ye.and with ¥

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remy the prophet, confefse that |

1 had_in the read " of it fcare m&

in my harte, and_/hame in my

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attire Theslawe doth confente to put
her 1 in the handes of the wustice or dls,

| dryuc hi her awaye. and neucr [¢ heror
falze her againe, but thouwich | hast
made Jeparacion a my bead: and

did put t thy falfe | ‘OUEYS. mn my places

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thy Jynne hath put the: cuen vpon the
hyohe ways, where thou didest waylte,
land taryed for to beovl them that y

came by. Euenas a thie doth wich
is hyd crim wilderncs. pC
uinge fullfilled thy pleafure) tnou hast
injected (with fornicacion) all the sey
carth wiche was aboute the Thyne oye

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thy Jorched cand thy face whad loste
all e200 maner. flor they were

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: yet thou haddest no fhame of thy 1 j ?
sa fyrmce. And mpi that iercmy. Z
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orthy to be ‘Jor cucr_in the cucrla}

gc pre. Thefame feare (wich |

ahi not procede fine! but. com

of the.and_excedeth all pleafurc) |

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clemency, and goodnes Jo that after 1
! Lenewe the,to be lord, master,and
kee (of whom t ought to haue fear)
than Jounde 1 my Jearc to be quenfhed
beleuinec that thou were Jo gracious
good Jwitte »and piticfull hu bande,
that (wc r rather hyd me than to.
phe we my/elfe) was not a fearé to 90

and feke Jor the. and n fekinge L se

ougdeithe,.Bul.what drdest thou.

thant hast thre refused _me: Alas (my

  

 

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lukes. hwith thy hande but with both

armes, and with a pwzitte und man
ly harte,thou dides? mete with me
by the wayc: and not reprochinog
lm y fauttes embraffed§t_m me TT eataddd
not fi. Sey contenance.

- that cuer thou st_percey uc sey

ne_offence. ffor.. Net: hosttdenc |

‘moche for me. agthous h. Pale

ben od. and hoyteste. Sd abd

%, bl my foutte from cucry, boca

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_the multitude of O yf my fynnes are fo I
hydden, and oucrcome by thy iS
great victory. that thou wilt neucr

echicmber them Jo thou feist nothig

mye but. the ae oft ftes , and ver

tues, wich it. ip fone thy oodnes
to gyuc me. O charitic: ‘: well y i
thy goodnes doth confume my
udnes, and maketh me a godly sz
and" beauticlul l creature. ie lps ts
was. min tf thot hast destroyed ity |
and made me fo parfaittc acreature <
that thou hast done me as mucher
‘eood as any hufband can do ynte

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hope in thy promafes Nowe |

haue(through thy good eracd) reco

ucred: the place of thy hulbande Ss

- swife.O hapy, and deyred placc,

gracious bedde _tronc ryohthono

, ‘rable, f cate of peace test of all lie

ware, hyoh i tc ppe of honnourts
Js arate from the earth : doest thou reccut

_ “thys vnworthy creature, YUE

thyne empire an d@lorious realme.
Who did cucr hearé [peke.of pach &
a thinge. as_to ray/cvp one 0 Ingh:
be ach of h cr cUe-was nothing.and =
met keth_o gre at value.thys. FA

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am i-constrayned to loke down:
and lolzing down iL do fc what 1 1

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n Ss fav Ie rN d cpenes. of my sey

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RD inblencs clofeth 1_myne Cyc. They.
yrable eo ) anes of | the: and yl .

Cae a ey ee :
Figne], and right prare smcrcste. ge
my ryht fragile, and mortal nature
thy gy, tes. cooddes and beatitude,
my malice cand great vinkicl YICS /7
Howe eood thou art vnto mc-and
q e
howe vnkind 1am vnto. the, Thys
that how. wilt: and this that [pur
fi hue. Wich thinecs confidered cau
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feth me to meruayle how it plea
+ jeth the to_loyne th eye vnto me6y
‘ Jevnge that there is NQgomPpayay | 0.
hetwene. vs both: flor thou artes
oe fine god and lam of thy workeses
’ ok. Thou arte my cueatorc, and 1 ani if
thy creative Noweito |peke.fhorig, |
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fers bene m wv felfe to be the lest
thinge that oe mparcd v nto
the. C O louc:thou madest { thys Sa
jorement, wha thou. die t ioyne
ie eden death togyther: | but these

ynion hath viuified death . Life ty

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ith commge outeafepr for
Death is life vnnto. jor through
death tam altue. “This rnortall life

yeddeth me full o ‘care, “ind forowe:

and death yel eth me conte te “

Owhat a soodly’ thinge itis, toy

dye wich cau/cth my foulc to liuc.

nc ly UrINGC hic Ys trough thys mor
i eae

tall death excompt from miferable

death.and cguall vnto god, with

fo mighty a louc. that(onlessfhev
doth dic) J he languifheth alwayes
Is vot.than the joule blameles wich
we oe dye jor to haue fuchr
philip ye : bs aes
fe: i ua iy (f or the ought tom. of
_call the death her welbe loucd sea)

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jorowe -mighty | Kee, dely uring.

from forowe. all thofe. wich truss

ishinge in the .and in thy, pape
pere mortiicd , Byenufeth Cc Ltruste

mt the,and m thy aa for. wiht

anf watte [lepe. thou didest putty,

rome the death wich caufed

om to _lamente . O how hapy 1s
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“ik jr the death is no other thing

m ortblbebeyiiadbeePncl | <
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mae the death wich 15 fearefull to ye wiked
1s pleafante. and aercubic to themy

philip be good. Than is death (throu oh Mh
hebre.z thy. death destroyed . Therfore my
god. yi were rightely thaught .i
fhuld_call the death, life Lende of /

labourc und beoyning of cucrlastig
, ;

lOve. Jor iknowe that the lone”

litle th lett me frome thy fy sht is

Odeath.tome,and breake the oe
obstacle of life. or cls louedo now
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Sandia) TOE
cominge of death. lett medyc that
imaye liuc with hym:for there is
nonc,that can helpe mc,onles at bt
thou oncly. O my Jauiourc.through
fayth.iam plaunted and ioyned) rom.
with the. O what-vnion ts thys.
Jyth(throuch fayth) tam furc of) |

the; and nowel maye call the: 9) thon.t.
| onnc. father. fpow]e : and brother. one.
Father; brother, Jonne ;hufband | -
(O what | iftes thou. docst_oyuc. 1
bythe goodnes of th ofe namcs.//
72m Poor eee! patente.
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Father full of humil:tic : Brothers;

haumee taken our firnilitade Sone
co

_ OF ts i
_ritie hi fl bande lou ing m. all cxtre
mite. But whom does? thou louc

Alas tis fhe. the wich thou hast 7

withdrawen from E the Inare.

wherem.throuch nilice phe was

Cu
bounden. and _gauc her y place
Viet

oJ :
name and office of adaugk ere,

enoendred through Jaith.and cha

  

 

   

      

ister. mother. and wc. Omy fa
wuioure: th efc am fwittencs ts of orcata,
fouourc ,. i Hh t p I. vfaunte, and:ofy

w The y any may fpekeies
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vnto the, or els heare the And cal
linge the withoute any feare) father
childc,and Jpowse: hearing the. heere,2,
ido heare myfelfe to be see

_ mother, fyster,daughicr, and fe canuc.4:
fpow/c. Alas, nowe maye’ foulese
bvich doth finde fuche /wittenes) to

be confumed by louc. Is there any

 
  
  

% ‘OL c_that may be compared vntoa
this. but it hath fome yuell condi
ion Is.there an ye pleafure to bev
estimed Js there any honnoure,/

Sgbut it is accounted Jor fh ame. [sv

Pitec any profitte to be compared

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Fe We ceey : Pi
a CUES
) is there any thinge. that more 1. €@
could loue; alas no: flor. he y loweth
god. doth rep utc all the/c thin ees

philip 2 wore than a donee ge tle
profitte.and honnourc of thys v-

worlde.are but trifles vnto hym
wich hath founde the loue of 7
fc door loue is fo profita

ee, ble honorable , and abundante: 7
Plaltos. thaw. fre onely, contenteth y harte.
and yeldeth hym fo contentc(as i”

deare Jaye) thatthe neuer doy rahe
Or wralde hauc other thine. flare
dwhofocuer hath cod (as Wl Cay

oughtte-hauc hymn) he that afke a

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any other thin cis a uperfluous
man. Nowe,t ranked be god, throuo

<j cD
faith, hauc t rccouered ae gotten

thefam louc: w therfore l ought to
be fatisficd and contente. Nowe tv

haue the,my father. for the defence
of the folifhencs of my lonec youth
Nowe hauc the,my brother.for to
‘Puccoure my Jo rowes wherin t find
noands, | lowe thauc the. my fone,
b for the onely fley of my feble aoe.
Nowe haucithe truc, and ayth MW

ean pag 25 iene, of
tea hole harte.an mynd. Nowe

; fyth that Phaue the..do. LoVpak c
das ! — . ; : :
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them that be in the world. Syth

cant:3. that i holde the: thou fhalt ofcape

td

pyeu 84.

me no more. Syth that i Je the: twill
foke vpon nothing that Jhald kepe

me frome the beholding of thy diui

nite. Syth that 1do heare the-iwill

Kani zs heare nothingc that letteth me from

io

the enioyenge of thy voyce. Syth £1

it pleafeth the ae) put me ‘fo necre the
twill rather dye than to touche an r

other man. Syth that iferuc thei .
will ferue no other master. Syth
that thoti“ioyned thy harte with -
imync.if he doth departe frome it!

, _ lett hymgbe pu nifhed fo y caer for. :

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Bg ts
a A Shee ak

: E Rigas
be io beaten ean e
ad aa i % si °
_the de partingc frome.thy lo UC, IS

wore. than any da MNACION is.‘

[do not feare the payne.of tense
thoufan de helles.as m« che.asido:
to Ice the.one daye of the weke sv.
Alas .my- god, my father ancl cre |
atour :do not ju cr_that the dyuell
inuentour of al “nne) hath Juche i oO
power that_he maketh me to lee thy plal,z
prefense. fforwho-Jocucr_hath.ones

fell the loxte-of thy louc: he fhall Jay

that | wol ic DE bounde for.cuer im 1] ‘
“spell than tofele that hefhall do. by 43

a. a thy loue one moment of type co
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euc eridc dep gilesfrome the. Rut ite!
plcajeth the) put mc in Juche a placcu

that my foul C3 eee wantonncs,or
fynne. be neuer low, ed _frorne thy v

loue. ffor,m this worlde.i can noty
haue perfettely , this my defive. wich

thinecs confidered. maketh me [ery
uently, and with all my hartc,to de

fire the de Bambara this m a
vable ioe not carme the deat

 

nor any” of her. instruments. Os ta

what feare ought ito haue
god wich (through loue) leilie vid

woured © rnfelfe. and fuffred death
ser not bou ik ie oe

ee
cau che huld vndowr the power 2 tumotha
that this mortall death had . Nowe

is icus deed ,in whom we are all

deed: and. through hys death, he =z

caufeth eucry man to luc payne. ey

[meane thofc,wich through fayth. i/

are partakers of ys. pajsion. for. it

cuen_as the death, before the ereale 1:

mystery of the crofse, was hard_vnto cclefiafte 1
cucry body, and there wasno man;
but was feared withall:conjidering |

the copulacion of the body,and fou

| their order. lou, and. agrementese

wher the extreme forowe,was Way

the depart rice one frome another!

; |
I |
~ ae -[yth t hath pleafed to the fort
says | lambe, to oer hire ypon the crofse.
hys greate louc hath kindled a fy Ye.

withme our harte Jo ychemente: Yi
cucry christtaman ought to estime

the pafsace of death ,f Dut apleye, or

pafsctyme: and |o to 1 prouoke onc
an other to dyc. for. cucn as feares

a 2 death did aa VS: en Jo. 1,
>. louc ought 10 gyue vs a dgyre to i
on dye. for. if truc loue be: ynfaynedly:
vil ne. the harte ofa man: he con
te. : ot fele no other thin ibycaufe y :
“ak 3 gs.jo ereate ofp deat hea
pe i ie: eS

 
    
_ bute all other defy res: n ot ft ufring |
g Ech m hym, but oe onely.

; for wherfoc ucr true,ana_ perfy tte
loucis, we do ncyther remember.

fearc,or cls Jorowe If oure pryde,

Yor to get honnoure) maketh ys to

 

fekc Jor death, withlo many mea

nes. Y(for to hauc a folifhe plefure
aman puttcth nym cl{e in icopardy

of his be. Jf amanjforto get riches)
iF doth put hys c m dauger. for the
Bicahit of afhelinge. Juke walle ro,

beyche or to kilic. to beatc,or to beoyle

  
  
   
  

uct h often tumcs the my nde ofa.
nto turnc lo that he kre)
____doth not fe the dauncer ofdeath whe
he will ‘do any yl ,or els auen ¢ hym
Jelfcofany man Tf the ftreng, t of 1
fykenes or the decafe of an melécoly,
caujeth a man to wifhe Jor deathe |
and often tymes (as doth) drowen
hangc. or kille hym|dfe for. fuche
ucll cand defire.1s Jo great, that he
: caujeth ana n to cho yee death. for
- Itbertic_I/ Jo it be. than’ tho greate 1
~paynes full of yuell,and imperfecta
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of acath,andatfemeth vnto them

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ido. What ought the loue of the / -
creatore do fh ulde fi he not ft VTC 1
othe harte of a man that he(beyng
transporte d with fuch affection) huld
fete no other thinge m_ hym Alas.ye
for.death isa pleafaunte. ae to y pfal,.us,
Joule wich isn loue with p and / |

cstim eth the pysacc -cafy. through y ‘ philips

iw ich fhe cometh out ‘ofa prifon. for
the harde way |through the wichey
phe. cometh for to cmbrafsc her huf hee
band) can not wety her. O my fauiour

p good thefame death 1S. through

re ayich we fhall hauc the cride ofa

forex tc, by whom al/o,we [reilles 4

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tee
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ae ‘ ‘ a

 
cnloye of thy Jy eht wand be transfor
med vnto the likenes of thy maicstte
O death {through thy decte)i truste
to hau fo moche honnoure. that
wpon my_ knees (in CrLenge , ( nd,
wepined1 do defire the come quit
kely, and make an endc of my pemne
Phal. tte, and _forowc. O hapy daughters,
‘ right holy foules,royned m tothe |
cutic of therufalem: openc your cycs
and (wath pitic) lokc ypon my de
folacion.4 be cche yc. that mn My ./
name) ye will fay tell vnto my vod
tony frente and kinec ,howe.at.,
_cucry hourc of the ae ido lanv
Soy

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po
guifhe or oe louc. O fwitte death.

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throug uche louc corne to me,and
with louc, bringe me vnto my god]

O death: where ts thy finge.and d t. tconmth,:
alas they are vanifhe frome TN oes
cys, Jor rigour ts chaungcd m.toy "Eels

fwitteneslfyth that my frende aad ff
for death vpon the crofse for my Mf
fake hys death doth Jo encourage my
harte.that thou urt vnders.gentyll
tome.tft mught folowe hym. Ode:

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death 1 beche the befeche the come to

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pul the frende with hys loue. Nowe. ee

Jyth that death is fo pleafarente. arteftde =
that fhe pleafyth me more tha feereth

   

eo,
Nios
“ tJ

 
fee mc: thani ought to feare nothing
but the truc iudocmente PAE: All

labiang

my fynnes., with hys iuste balaur

fhall b be wey d,and lh ewon openly,
thys th that Yi done, alfo my 7 thes)

thought. and worde fi hall be Boa
| a a knowen.than if it ies writ ina
ep ‘ role rolle And we ‘may nol t thinke that

charitie, wold offende justice, and

  

truth for. whofocucr. doth liue.yni,
faythjully., fhall be punifhed. aonthe

cucrlosterie pene) & Goditsilstel i

   

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oufnes : a ee and poore crea lob is.
ture. fori know. that ally works
oftusten men. are fo full of vices, that miche 7

bs ore god, they arc more vlthy, the :
urth.or a ny < other fyi nes What gay. <4.

al he. than, ile lyrmes wich pal 1z9

ido comittc, whcrof't lo Jelc theses cin 27 ae

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burden importable : T can Jaye no i

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So that thou do conucrte_ my worke,

ae ae wich is Is nothinge) in forme good work
ands. Than. O lorde, who fha 2 ondemne
me: cae that he (wach ts ecuen me!

fora tudec) is my hufband, my fa
false ther, ey, ruse. Alas what

tl moth, Es

father, who doth neucr condemnc'
hys chide: but doth alwayes cxcu

aa “ and defende hy m. Than fe to.
"he uc

no other aes but. icfuschrt

twich Is.my. redemetit whole. of

pe

hath ‘yestored vs.ourc inheritaunce

tthonz for he made hymfel{c_oure mana
andi 1m0.E4 awe Is ,

mas oe theretheneei

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reat dette is fo furmonted, that in

ludee se is accorapted for -

nothmec. O redemer, here is ae

ercat loue flor we fynde but fewe

Juch men of lawes. O fwitte icfus 7

yt is vnto the, that. am @ detter: ) Yay 5,
thou docst pray.and fpcke for me hebr.7
And morcouer, when thou docst! roms.
fethat ram poor. thou docst payc, wf
my dette, with the abundance of 4 . ‘
thyteoodes. OQ mcomprchen bite!
Sh coastne O sty jal
gdoestthow.vouchale to MY se

: not willinge: thédcath oly évechasg
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my man a lawe., excufed. a did

ai me, where thou coul ldestn
iustc

_accufe me.! ‘feare nomore _

to a Glen: by any man for the
lawe ts Jatisfied for all. My posite I,

be ¢ hath. made the payne Uf

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ches lawe: :when fhe. will reproche |
- me}ymnes: thou docst fhewe her,

howe. wallmoly m m. thync.o ow wn flcfhe

thou hast taken the charee of them

through the coniunction « of oure!

mariage Alo howe vpon y * crofse,

bhrouoh thy pajsion, fai hast Jatis
fred for it. Morcoucr thy charitit /
hath gyucn mc this y thou. |

hast deerucd Dior dh thong

thy menite if mync owns)
afkcth rrothing of me. ine.

gfrare no more: Sanahnnce
wwith defyre. rather than par
jor Sido tury Jotablis. Yate ‘that
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stale x |Dpnole cmy ee ,and hearc of &

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that thy iudgemente is fo lust, that

 

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vn faithfulnes (S. worthy r to ft bye
the ce 0 of hell ff or. ft 1.d0 only

e confydere m my ia tiy can fe no

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fal elike vnto nie dyacll: thandie

 
payce with uch a rewurde But

a man through contemplacion:

doth holde of the aunoell .vertuc
voodnes : and perfection fo thaty

he doth oplay ric heauen’ wiche 1S |

a place of like “ijerumnge than [hal

the vicioufc be urn hea with h mM fapeenr
to whom he did loyne hyrnfelfe 7

/\na jyth he folowed Jutan he mo

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red for h Mm Nowe. confidering
the bf of hoth the fortes, it
coriforteth my pirite bul lytcll ty

eecun not denye bul tum more,

lke ynto ti dy uel, than to the
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aunoell. Wherorc tfeare.and tre

; ble: for the lain of the aunagell y;

fod tien nthe te
waate_hym {this tdo.confefse), butwy.
as for the other.ram folike vnto »

hym, of malice. in.customc.that o

“we, bys payne.and turmente.co 2ont
tq. Lobe partaker of it_flor.the cruell ‘

| lynne wich hath bound me my
“Shell isfe orcat : and _/y noes | troge
hwichtcHeth nothings: come from
thym and. areth not that onyis/
a an cometh towsayle hym. Hex
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that any man, by merite, ‘ark
payne. oie vainqui c_helle: Cf
jauc onel ty he. wich hat ae fuch si
affautc ihrouobselinitie (he bettie ‘
humbled to the crofse) that he hath phils
bound and Qucrcome. his onmy, bro phi:
‘ken hel and his power. o that. we
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_ nota ftrawe. for. wherof can il

\ermoyt me, onles ut be i to fhewe
how. my god is mercy ft ul [, [tronge.

mighty. and vaio ifher of all thea
vuell wiche is cwithmesmy hart. i

im my fynne oroiucn, 1s the olory of 7
zy Jauoure “ought like wife be helene
that alfo. my | lory IS increajed t there
‘$ he wl th knowledeinee that 1am pla
“ted and 10 weed seh hym.t bly rs.
h — ure.oncly,,.doth + cae all i
s:Abndl hus riches doth’ rep! lerafhe

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villayne. fyyme where Is thy power

oO death “where 1S thy [tine and tcormth.rs
victory wich are Jo muche Jpokcs

of. In } tedde of death, thou geuest

Vs life ‘and fo docst thou “oroue

vnio thy wille. And alfo. thou fine,

wich wolde drawe cuery body ynito |
damnacton:thou doest foruc vs ‘ |

alder, for_to re{he vnto the goodly 7
atte of theruJalem jor.thou.woldest

by thy. curfed mature, that our maker |
fhul de defe hy -s creature. But through 1
foue and grace-thouedocst cauje her roms
Werorn: agaune, anal fubmtte heefelfe
yntoeod more than cucr / he did
Se 2 |
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ls-ercatc goodnies doth make the to
llefe fhepay. cowich thou dorst take;
all the wholesweke, Therfore hel hath
mot had all the: number wich he did.
pretends to hauc:b rcaule: that thew
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per. inches apc a nth
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doth toy ne the humble / ruante vnto
hys ‘maker. I beynoe toyned vritu hy mi

‘ought to haue no feare of trauayle,,

paync.or ah flor whoocuer
Pliny do Juffer any maner of /
deat or Jorowe (as christ did ) he
doth cle in Juche turmentc ercate | |
confo acton jor hys Joule. Knowinog
* that as Jor ny/effe ram weake: and
: swith god. ram gn) Oe } By hus
fs conforic 1 may de thinoes - Hor: philtp,
his lows is Jo ftedfaste and tucrlastiy
fc doth fedfer that [he vavicth for nothicy

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reate he eht of heaven nor thede
agi bell nor the breadc of all. ke

carth, neyther death, or Jenne ( (wichew
doth warrc CUCYY dayc a ainstec a
can) not_fcparate mc one¢ ye fromey
the erat louc and chantiethat.my +,

ee v tfuschriste, hath vntp

ame. Jjor hy ouc i he loucth
cs edi th riot cae JAE: and,
lowe'ko trorenke bp ct Jethot ms
% 7 biel ie louc hym: + bute
yan tysclode: tobe: npn the irate}

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throuoh hys louc, he caufcth, my har
to he im lamed with louc: and throug
fuche louc. he fyndeth hymfel{c Jo wil
beloucd: that hys. owne dede yel ldeth
hym contente. and not mync owne
loue. or flrenght Contentinge hyrmfelf.
hys louc doth mereay € more VE MC //

than tcan dere o iy O trucs
foucr [pr INEC of al harittc. and the

“Onely pure of the heauen! ly treofuxe:

Ought tto thinke dearc 1 to Jayen

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ah gif
ae

a = hee can he ox prefsc it. No furely: flor

the capaatic of no m an can not com!

prehende the yirhefurable aa
wich arc.in the eos i

doth fhewe vs.) ow thercis no coms

paraylon_betwene an ctcrnall, and -
pradauy4 a mortal thingc: but ene
the:

louc the mortall ts ioyned with
«ernall, the mortall thin ve 15 fo full

“@fthectemnall:that fhe canmet Jy nd
the-ondc of it, for’ he: hathtnore ec
| od -withinc her. than [he <a hole:
CIV dtc UA this?

Lou thir that all the worlde 1sse3|

withinghyu. Lucn as we fe that the

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Lalo cla

vs | ®
ume with one on ly } crkell l of 5 |
tah doth bly Yynde the ee o/ a bag |

nid yee. doth h fhe hydde a are

lioht; but. afke to the cye what he

Reiley ye will fe ay that he hack

ica Sieh, vila O ifthe f June; but fr

is a lyc. jjor he = blinded swith weeny
al perk l) oO de not |c theres |
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thelts he (Ss Jo.contente, that it femeth: PB

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fe ke a i of the | louc of goat tha
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doth She fynde thys | fyrc Jo real. and

meruaylous jo fate. and good, that

tis vmposible vnto ie to declares
| lohat thinec | the ame louc spores aly,

te ll that fhe hath clthe,doth ye ido
her my m ynde Jatt ied and ddyrin Ce

Madey hoe of thys wherof he hath ynough
a So dot! 1 he luc ddy-rinec, ond-lan
wy wold hyh The harte,

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eet Suistehothnedcerans
juche. defire, inn. thy sto ‘riicblnd thaty.
ig - be allwaes: defrth ae en

Ae, MCh , he can not} mn

 
ood that he hath alredy to be vnjpe
abl and yet wolde he hauc more /

oft S hevoh he can not Jkille. Fle

can nother ele. or thnke the 00d
wich, ism hy mM. Than. it Wyeth not im

my aie to tell what: thnec ¥loug
of is, Jy that ihauc c
on ae thero) He that
hela to hauc all this | OUC: ay
his harte.can not trucly declare: what

“things itis } lapy is he ‘ich haus
mae abundancc, that he may¢
ly god « t hauc moughe of it: He Oe
| Mh loue ithe hym dar not, ve

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_llet it gofonl cs it be for the Jaluacion of

h s naboure, to ih Kn The mM: |

poi of the declaracion of this | out

than. phall make me to holdc my
ie thercisn rit 0 para ‘ta

ce he wil l fpe ke of the ouc of the nghe
pe sod, of hys ore _fuuttencs, Qrace.

ea the thin hd | wich wee

ynto hym he | lokimoc a lowc
Cpooecd mys. mouthe. | than. worme of *
thee carth lifse than nothin eC: tought
to wis and not to > Ip wale? of y highnes

oO s louc. But to muche vnkimdnes

ppu ould bem me, ifi had written not
A hautinge. thys done Jor to/atishc toa’

  
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wolde hydde the evodnes of fo eood
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