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The prologue to my lord, my lord [...] of [...]

ROULIN [...]in minde, the [...] estait:
Of mortall men, and infortunitie,
The heuy laubour, trauell and debait,
A mixt to theme, frome their natiuitie.
Spa [...]ring no man, of h [...]e nor lowe degre,
I sand nothing, moir trewlie of to treait:
Than proue man subiect, vnto miserie.
Yet seing that, the worldlie foolishe men,
Can not parsaiue, this sentence to be sure,
I thought it good, for to prepair my pen:
This to discriue, with all my busy cure,
Of sapience: all thoght I be impure,
Yet know I well, that God will grace him leu:
That callis on him, with con [...]idence most sure.
Vpon non other, therefore will I cry:
But onlie, on that Lord celestiall,
Thoght poetis vsed, in there poetry:
On many sindry; goddesses to call,
How far frome wisdome, did those [...]oles fall,
On such a wise: their pennis to applie,
Where help was none, for to be had at all.
O Lord her [...] made [...],
The Sunne, [...], the [...],
All sishe: and [...], herbe and g [...]wing [...]ie,
The starres, rainebow, aire and [...],
O thou that knowest, my minde & whole intent,
[...] me? with thy Spirit of veritie:
To dite, and write, my purpose subsequ [...]t.
It is an Myrour, Lord I muse to make:
Wherein all Christians, may beholde and sie,
Their sinfull liues, they l [...]d with sham [...] and lake,
In to this worlde, and [...]a [...]ll of m [...]serie,
It is a [...] glasse that pa [...]tes ou [...] speciallie,
The sharpe threatning [...], the [...] did o [...] vs take,
Declaring, if we sinned we sh [...]de die.
And how that Aedam: our progenitour,
In Paradice did breck the Lordes command,
Heir may thou (gentle reader) any hour:
That cairfull ca [...]ce, per [...]telie vnderstand,
His enemies all, that held Adam in band,
And how that Christ, became his Sa [...]our
And made vs [...] whom he in bandage fand.
The second part: declares to the plaine,
Of the poore [...]er, an co [...]fessione,
How he hathe spent: his life and tyme in vaine,
And how he doeth [...], his great tr [...]sgress [...]o [...]e,
Which he hathe vsed, a contra [...]e his professione:
And how that Christ, our Lord and souerai [...]e:
Hathe saued him, his sede, and his successione.
And last of all, here [...] thou see:
Now that all they, [...],
Must [...] truble, and [...]
As did oure [...],
And all his Prophetes, frome the beginning,
[...]ere persecute, and [...] patient lie,
As we muste do, if we with Christ wold ring.
And when I had, this volume fabricat:
And put in rime▪ in rude and rurall st [...],
With hart, and hand I did it dedicat,
To you my Lord, then maister of Argile,
Thogh frome your presence, I was many mile:
[...]et hearing of your honour auriat,
Bent to Goddis word, I did the same compile.
And thogh it be, of cloquence de [...]de,
It is no wondir, for when this worke I wroght:
As I do yet, then small I vnderstude,
Of bookes nor autours, to studie had I noght,
Which vnto knowledge, of Scripture should me broght,
For preso [...]er, I was then to conclude:
In the Bastillie, where such could not be boght.
Foure yeres in prison, they held me their expresse,
Foure mo [...]ethes, and foure wekes als certaine,
Foure dayes, foure houres, in nombre and no lesse,
I did into the Bastillie remaine:
For Goddes word, as it is known plaine,
And for no lawes, that I had done transgresse,
Nether to God, nor to my soucraine.
Heirfor [...] it sinell not of [...]
But is of [...] and cade [...], cl [...]ne con [...]
All gentle [...] I pray you h [...]tfull [...]e:
To holde me partlie, in s [...]e ca [...]se crcu [...]
Seing I was then, in presone inclu [...]it,
Where I might no wise, vse my libertie,
Thoght s [...]me disprayse it: I [...]ouet non [...] to ruse [...].

❧ Non est mortale quod [...]to▪ ❧

❧ The Myroure of a [...]e Christiane, Composed, and drawn fourth of the Scripture [...] ▪ by Robe [...] Nor­n [...]ll, men of [...] lord of [...]ams [...], bur [...]g the tyme of his capti­ [...]iti [...] [...] the Bash [...] ­lie, for the [...] of our Sa [...]r [...] ­sus Christ. (⸪)

THR [...] Inimics, had Adam prin­cipall,
[...]. Cor. 3. Rom. [...]. Psal. 14. 1. [...]or. 15
That maid him s [...]laue, to theme after his fall.
The law was one, that did tori­gour leid,
The nixt was sinne, and the thrid so was deid,
The law by right did ruell, and was his guide:
But sin right sone, their vndir did him hide.
First vndir law, sinne sand occasione:
To shawe him selfe, then gaue possessione,
1. Cor. [...]
To Satan, as the law beareth witnes.
After that Adam, knew the will expresse,
Of God, then Satan raging gan to spring,
To tempt mannes fleshe, and theirin to ring:
Where he maid it thrall, to these fois thre,
[...]. [...].
Of sinne, the law and deathes extremite.
The Law to man, did Ceriouslie command:
[...]. 12. [...]al. [...]. 1. [...]or. 15
To obey God, the fleshe did it withstand,
Because it could not, all the Law fulfill:
Maid place to sinne, and leit him work his will.
So sinne to dea [...]h [...] passage by his might,
Then death began to [...] and was most wight,
Those thre didso [...]e, their high power persaue:
[...]. [...]. Heb. [...].
Their great impire, and paussance they did haue.
[...]pon an day, their loude trompettes did blaw,
Exod. 19
On [...] high rock, sinne down to vs did shaw.
The sharpe decretes, and lawes most austear.
Ephe. [...].
With sore threatninges, right horrible to hear,
In wildi [...]nes, which barraume was of frute:
Of herbe or grasse, it was cleue destitute,
Men lost their tyme, to laubour or manure,
Exod. 19
All was but stony rockes, and haddry mu [...]e,
Without moistues, as do oure fathers tell:
Replete with dragons, and with serpents fell.
This mounte was named, in Hebrew Sinay,
And called Agar, in Arrabic I say:
With fearful rockes, so hie was neuer sene,
With mistie clowdes, whose toppes was couerd clene:
His widdered head, bald, bentic black and baire,
Whose hiddious hight, was moutid in the nire.
So that few durst approche, or yet cum nere:
That vglie mont, for terrour and for fere.
On that mont fand the Law a propre place:
For till disclose, and shaw her rigorous face.
In middes of that mont, a [...] seat was wroght,
Right riche and lucent, where their lacked noght,
All rounde a bout that face, an fyre did flow:
Exod. 19
That kest huge lyght, with fyre and birning low,
Like as the hole mont, wold consume and burne:
They thought suddanly, it wold in puldi [...] turne.
One such an wise men thoght, that fyre [...]
Deut. 4.
wold burne the heauen, the earth, and [...]
Which signified, an great puissance amoued,
With yre, and wroth, where al should be reproued:
Such sume, with darknes, A fyre proceding bold
A stonist all, the folk did it behold.
Aboue this fyre, an ouglie cloude astayed,
Whose heauy hew, all regions made affrayed:
None other wayes, these vapours did appere:
Nor when the sonne, is most serene and clere,
As when before, the thundre cumnis one blot,
Likewise abode, this blacke and heauie spot.
With sad and heauy wombe, withouten mirth,
All readie to bring furth, and beir an [...] birth.
Which signified, to euery wight certaine:
Ben. 6.
God readie to distroye, the fleshe humane.
The golden bow, was not sene readie bent:
Nor yet his purpour, co [...]llours consequent,
That God him selfe, of his beniguitie,
Gaue in token, and gage, to signifie:
By his deuine, and royall ordinance,
That he by [...]oudes, nor waters aboundance,
No more againe, the world he wold destroye:
Which leag of loue, he made to father Noye.
And sindry tymes, yet we may see our sell,
Ben. 9.
Now that a cloude, beginnes to grow and swell,
By Goddes might, to molifie the grounde,
Numeditie makes fruites till abounde.
Great differēce is, betuix these Cloudes twane,
The one betokneth grace, the other pa [...]e.
With fyre slaughtis, tumbling and sterilitie,
Exod. 19
With thundering, roring and calamitie.
In middes of this cloude prodigious,
There sat the Lawe, both holde and rigorous:
Rom. 8
With sad and heauie, [...] decreit,
To vex and noye, of man the flesh and spreit.
Col. 2.
O heauie sentence which we can not withstand,
Who shall vs plit, forthe of thy yoke and band?
O hard and cruell, art thou all to giddi [...],
O iudgement sharpe, and fearfull to considdir:
Ephe. 2. Deut. 11, 17, [...] 28. Leuit. 2.
Saying that mercie, ought not to be shawn,
To them that is, with sinne infect and known.
Decerning vs all, wicked and forlorue,
That is of sinfull sede, consauit and borne.
Deut. 12 & 17.
All man is curst, was writtin there intill,
Which did not hole the lawes charge fulfill,
Who then neglectis. they shall without remead:
Condamned be, to suffre double dead,
Curst be his hous, frute, corne and bestiall,
That doeth not kepe, these lawes & preceptes all.
O Israel, considdir consequent?
Deut. 4, & 5. Exod. 3, & 4. Deut. 11, 17, & 18. Leuit. 2.
The lawes of God, in this his parliament,
I am saith he, an God right Ielous,
That doeth beholde, your leuing vitious,
On you shall byde, my indignatione:
Vpon your sede, and generatione.
I am the God, that searches thy offence,
I send both hunger, derth and pestilence:
I moue stronge warres, & cruell battalles saire,
I kill, I slaye, I venge both layt and aire.
He saith not heir, he wold thy father be,
To draw the forthe of: wo and miserie,
He said not heir, thy sinne I wype awaye,
But with great bost, and [...] the did sraye:
His mightie thōdring voyce, [...] thou did heire,
[...] [...].
Then prayed thou, for terrour bread and feire,
He wold not speak, but with thy trew cōductour:
Whom he prepaired, to be thy iuste instructour.
His awfull sight, did Moyses sore molest:
Yet had not bene, his hindir parte celest,
Where he persauit, the humble sueit visage,
Of Goddes Sonne, and the perfite image,
For verraye feare, he had died in that place:
No man on liue, might looke him in the face.
O poore Adam: who haith the [...]astard wroght?
Exod. [...]
Why fled thou him: that haith made the of noght?
Who haith the made: so vyle and so sawaige:
To slie thy makers voyce, and his langaige.
Who made the so: but sinne that rest thy force,
Dishereist the, then shew thy naked corce.
And sine when thou: was made of [...] al bare,
Thou wold not grant, thy fault nor it declare,
Ben. [...].
But thou durst [...], by one carnall way:
Excuse thy fault, and to the Lord did say,
The woman that thou made, marrow vnto me,
She gart me eat, the aple of the tre.
Then sone after, of sinne thou felt the price:
Yet weyed thou not, the burden of thy vice.
Ben. [...]. Ecclesi. [...]. Rom. [...]. [...].
Because that sinne, was first by the committed:
All thy hole raice, with y e same sinot was sinitted,
Before the Law, that sinne was not exprest,
But the Law made it: plane and manifest.
As birning cooles, vndir the ashes ra [...]ked,
In syre do slepe, yet when they ar awaked:
To their owne nature, [...] incline [...]ull right,
[...] their heat, [...] they shaw y e light.
Likewise before the [...], sinne laye as dead,
Rom. 5▪ & 7. Osce 13.
And had no strength, to rise nor lift his head,
But when the Law: with might and force began,
Then sinne vpstart, and he inuadid man,
Rem. 7. Heb. 2. [...]. Cor. 15
When he had wone: the battail and the pryse,
He led man as him list, at his deuise.
And made him thrall, to all iniquitie:
And made him bair, of blesse and dignitie.
Broght him in bōdaige, wher he before was frāck:
For water of life, her filthie dubbis dranck:
Gen. 3.
For odoriferant aire, and frutes gude:
He gat but cankered mist, and scrabs rude:
For constant conscience, and tranquilitie:
2. Esd. 7 Exod. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, & 11.
An trubled sprete, ful of fragillitie:
This sinne, I may compare to Pharo fell:
That neuer wold, permit to Israel:
To part nor pas, furth of that painfull place:
To honour God, nor thank him of his grace.
Sinne that tyrane, to augment their wo:
As sleughound tryed: their traces to and fro,
Following the footsteps, of the Law so nere:
Apoc. 12.
Then subtell Satan, sweftelie can appere:
Them to accuse, with visage [...]ul of scorne,
Sap. 2.
Was neuer sene, an monster so defornie:
His vglie eine howe holked in his hede:
Was like to fyrebrandes, in an furnes rede:
Ane stinking breathe, furth of his breast ran out,
Apoc. [...]0
His [...]ongue the gaullis of dragons furth did spout:
His monstrous mouth, that many had opprest,
Of hydra all the vennom: forthe it [...]est,
His silthie singers foull were fabricat:
With blood of men, they were ouerspred and wat,
Stryse, debait, blasphemie and occisione:
With torment ire: wrothe and derisione,
Inuy pride, furor: and suche an wicked meinze:
war of his court, all vnder an handseinze.
That he might better, his propose fulfill,
Apoc. 6.
Ire frome aboue, did giue him strength at will:
And so persauing his force, great strength & might,
Iob 1, 14.
Then he began, to tempt all kinde of wight.
There he red [...]o [...]the, an storie lamentable,
Sa [...]ing I Satan, gart man hold as fable:
Apoc. [...]
The worde of God, and caused him neglect,
His first command, and hold of none effect.
There was remembred, the tre of saptence,
Gen. [...], [...]
With heauy thoghtes, and grudge of conscience.
There was how Adam, interprised to be,
Esai [...] [...].
Equall with God: his Lord in all degre:
And how that he forsuke, the word deuine,
And for his lust, to Satan did incline.
There was also, marked manifestlie:
Fraude and dissait, proceding gre by grie:
with all abuses, forfaltes and offence:
That man committis, of will or negligence.
How sinne toke roote, in maunis nature humaine
Rom. 3.
Is clearlie sene, and how it dois remaine,
And how foolishe: and ignairs war abused,
That thoght throw ignorance, to be excused:
1. Cori [...]. 14.
A man that is, accused of an crime,
And wold defend his cause, shulde he take syne,
R [...]m [...].
For aduocat, and principal [...]
His accusars companion, day and [...],
Sir Iohne ignor [...]nce, is domesticall:
To thy so, no officer in [...]ernall
That haith their maister, moir seruit nor he
2. Cor. 4
Dar thou take suche an man of Law for the,
Their neuer was man, that to him creddit gaue:
But he lost their cause, & did theme cleine dissaue.
Their is no such so, to that word deuine,
As ignorance, that leadis man to ruine.
1. Corin. 14.
Vnder whose winges, as an bie byke or hyue,
Is bred all vice: in any man on liue,
As Paull doeth write, if thou thyselfe abuse:
Think not thy dotage, shall thy selfe excuse.
Seing ignorance, many haith deuoird,
Who dotis at length, with daffing shall be sinoird.
Who will not ioine them selues, to discipline,
But stil from knowledge, & wisdome wil decline,
Without the Law: and be with vice inflammid,
Rom. 2,
Without the Law, so shall they be condemnid.
Their is some others, wold an folie found,
Because the fleshe, doeth in it felfe abound:
Rom. 8.
And of it selfe, from sinne can not abstene,
Those ignorantes, without reasone maintene,
How all that lieth not: in our fre will,
Shulde not to vs, be holdin vice nor ill.
3. Reg. 8
As who wolde say, that God his creat [...]ure:
Wroght wronge to punishe, the will of nature.
Esa. 54.
Hearken and heir, an lyke similitude,
If in an harbere, among floures goode,
Prouer. 21.
Spra [...]g bryeres or weides, of silth or bittirnesse:
Shulee men them pluck, or lat them still incresse?
By this reason, we shulde tho [...]e euery where,
The wolfe the fox, the wod and bousteous bere,
To kill: all kinde of tender bestiall,
Gal. 5.
And lat all vermine, work their naturall.
Thus when y t the fleshe, doeth in such errour raue,
It fredome seketh, and wolde all pleasures haue.
Deut. 18
The nature of the fleshe, doeth still delite:
To case the selfe, and blame the holie write,
And wolde it wreist, vnto an carnal sence:
Esa. 3.
Whose reasones oft are turned to offence,
Good intentes, without charitie and faith,
Zacha. 1, Rom. 3, & 9.
Prouokes oftymes, Goddes yre and wraith.
Silence to all men, is conuenient,
And not but why, nor wherefore to inuent
Oght of our selues: that can no good considder,
Seing, that it haith pleased him to confidder,
The sinnes of Adam: vpon all his raice,
Esa. 43.
Is no remeid, but call on him for grace.
Then after sinne, come death right doutable,
Say, 1.
With birning brimstone: and oyles horrible,
That no man might behold, for sincke and stinke,
On Adam ran and said: as I do thinke,
Sen thou and all thy raice, haith done rebell.:
I shall the with thy seid, send down to hell.
Apoc. 6.
Thus death in his right hand, one coupe he bair:
Full of cursing, of sorow wo and cair:
With hard, and feirfull execrationes:
And with pestiferent inflammationes,
Death for Sa­tan.
For the desires of death, and his intent▪
He drest him sprinkle, his poisons pestilent,
On Iewe on Greke, [...] other nation.
But where as fell, [...] [...]ation,
[...].
In haist they ware, [...] so appeir,
Where they with tormentes, terrours & with feir:
With double dolour, and with wo tyrannicall,
Apoc. [...].
They harled ware, to the paines infernall.
O poore Adam, take head and now beholde,
How thy owne selfe, hathe the wedsett and solde:
Vnder that hard: and terrible tutoure
Rom. 6.
Before the was set fyre and water pure,
Thou had fre will, to chuse in to that stead,
But thou r [...]fused life, and chosed dead:
Rom. 6.
Thou chosed thy [...]o, for aye ouer the to ring,
That fello [...]e [...]o was ouer the, bothe Lord & King,
To serue him as an sclaue, did the compell:
And for rewarde, [...] prom [...]sse gat b [...]t hell.
Take head, of these thy so [...]s and considder,
How they haue sworne, thy death all thre to gid­der.
All thought a foir, the wordles fundatione,
Before the coupe, of indignatione,
Ephe. 1.
Before the Sunne the Moone, or element,
God the Father, that is ommpotent,
1. Pet. 1.
Disposed and wroght, thinges all and some:
As they haue bene: and as they are to come.
Apoc. 5.
Yet to himselfe, the Lord he hathe reserued,
An certaine chosin: whom he will haue preserued.
Ephe. 2.
For to remaine with him, in endles glore,
Where others shall thole paine, for euermore.
Rom. 9.
His elect people with grace, shall be possest,
where the reprobat: neuer shall haue rest,
In hell, according to his iust iudgemen [...] ▪
[...]
With weping gnashing, and with s [...]ir [...]
Thogh we our selues, can not this [...],
[...]
[...]et must we nedes beleue, it so to be,
Saying also, o maker of heauen and land,
[...] [...].
Who can or may, thy riches vnderstand:
How heigh, how deipe: and how inscrutable
Are thy hid secrettes incomprchensable.
For thou hast thyne [...]lect pred [...]stmat,
Ephe. 1.
With all thy treasures, to be abumbrat,
Frome all dissaitfull, doctrine malignant,
Rom. 8.
Ioyning them, to thy trew Churche melitant,
That hathe not vainlie, taine thy talentes sweit:
But haue broght forthe, thefrutes of the Spreit.
They are thy chosin: by vocatione,
But not with rigour, or with violatione,
Thou hast not suffred: them to be infect,
Nor yet to death, nor hell to be subiect.
But hast preserued: an nombre clene ouer all
[...]. Reg. 19.
That haue not bowed, their bodies vnto Baall▪
To them was made, the promesse infallable:
Of Christ, with miracles inestimable.
To saue them all, from reprehensione,
Rom. 4, 8, 11, & 12
And did d [...]creit, In his intentione:
To cleith them newe, with iudgement and iustice
I meane with faith, their mother and nurice,
Sy [...]e with mercifull eyne, ou them did call,
With ardent loue, and petie paternall,
Act. 1.
And where they war before, with Satan solde,
For to fulfill his promesse then he wolde,
Gal. 4.
Send down h [...]s hol [...] word, in earth vs till,
And with his word, the promesse did fulfill.
Ioh. [...].
And then [...], to make manifest,
Ma [...] ▪ [...].
Where their shuld be, conuened from east to west,
Of all nationes an Churche catholicall:
To prayse and loue, Goddes Name perpetuall.
Col. 3.
And wolde also, that the eterue purpose,
Of the great s [...]bbothe and the great repose,
Shulde be confirmed, for an Testament,
Heb. 2. & 10. Col. 1, 2.
Abyding the ransome, and the digne payment,
Of the lambes oblation, for them all:
And wolde, that the burdenes tyranicall,
Ephe. 2.
The decrettes: of the lawes bannishing,
Shulde die in them selfe, with all manashing:
And wold that the enemies, all and some,
Psal. [...]
Shulde be distroyed, vincust, and ouercome.
For the of the power, that they did obteine,
And wolde all thinges, shulde be pure and cleine,
Act. 5.
All Prophecies, to be fulfilled syne:
Before the comming, of his word deuyne,
This heauenlie word, alwaye victorious,
Heb. 10.
Bothe strong wight, permanent and glorious,
Apoc. 6.
By whiche the worlde, and the heauens all,
Toke their beginning, and originall.
Gen. [...].
This word cled with flesh, made him readie than:
Ioh. 1
To feght for loue, and libertie of man.
Aganes Sinne death and Satan also,
Apoc. 19.
That parsecute mankinde, withoutten ho,
He wold of his goodnes, vnder infirmitie,
Isa. [...]. 6. Phil. 2.
Hyd [...] the greate power, of his diuinitie:
Because that he was hu [...]ble, ouer all whair
Mat. 1.
His glorious [...]o, feared him the mair
For our sak [...] come: that captayne expart,
Psal. 45 Ioh. [...].
That God di [...] che [...]e, after his very hart,
To gyde his people, and be gouernour,
Ioh. 1.
Wish curage came, this hardie conquerour:
Teld with our fleshe, infirme [...]yne manfu [...]le,
Heb. 2.
He faught with fors, againes our fo [...]s thre.
These enemies, about him round arreyed,
Satan to tempt him, haistelie asseyed:
[...] 4.
In their assaultes, thy war also assailled,
All thre ouercome, their puissance not a vailled.
Syne death his dart, at him threw in that stoūd,
Apoc▪ 20
But his dart, him selfe wroght ye greittest woūd,
Death thinking on him to winne an aduantage,
In to that battaill, lost bothe strength & ruraige:
Heb. 1.
So our victorious capitayne, thus he ch [...]sed,
And thogh it best, till lat him self be sesed.
Os [...] 13.
In dying so he raised, his fors agane,
To deathes preiudice, and meikle pane,
Death thou art dead, for all thy strength & might:
1. Cor. 15
Thou art no more, now vailleand nor wight,
Where is thy aufull dart and widdert [...]orce?
Where is become, thy power and thy force?
Where is become, thy puissance and thy glorie?
Death where is thy sting: hell thy victorie.
O Lord of lordes, thou by thy might and strēgth,
Hast done fulfill, to vs thy folke at length,
Deb. [...].
Thy holie promesse: from the altitude,
Saying by the Sprite, of thy Prophete gude:
Rom. 5.
O death with death, when thou shall gar me de,
Os [...] [...].
My death, shall be thy death: and vinques the,
O hart of mae [...], thogh thou war addamant,
Graue in [...]hy self, with an [...] [...]amant,
[...] [...].
[...]ow Chri [...]s dead, hathe [...] & [...]
And [...] to ly [...]e, [...]
[...]
[...]is death [...] the [...] [...] [...]
[...] [...], [...].
And the soore sentence: of the law ha [...]he bro [...]n,
The olde tribu [...] ▪ [...] s [...]e, he did [...]
And haithe y e dra [...]s kingdome, [...] [...]ul Law.
Now Sio [...], sy [...]g with voice melodi [...],
[...] 1 [...].
Syng on bothe [...] and [...] glorio [...].
[...]ow Christ brak thy bo [...]des, and made the srie,
Apoc. 7.
Frome Satans s [...]r [...]it [...]de, and tyra [...]ie.
Prayse thou the Lord, for thy deliuerance,
And lo [...]fe the lambe, for his newe allia [...]ce,
1. [...]or. 2.
Magnifie him, for now and [...]uer more.
To Christ, giue onelie honour prayse and glore,
That hathe so loued the, that for thy sa [...]k,
Hathe all thy foes, subdewed at one straik.
This conqueroure, in s [...]le h [...]roicall,
Spak as hauing: the charge [...]l [...]stiall
[...]say. 43
S [...] I am come, I haue power compleit:
To breke the olde, and make an [...]we decr [...],
And first of all to death, he [...] him neir:
2. [...]or. 5.
And said these wordes, as ye shall after heir.
Death, [...] of man and pest capitall,
That vnder one, wolde gouerne all equall.
[...] 4.
Send downe: to the in [...]er [...]all pitt pla [...]de:
Rom. [...].
Of hell obs [...]re, against the I conclude,
My newe decreit, and law that [...]euer was,
1. [...]or. [...].
Neglect them not: for by them must thou pas,
Take head (o death) note well and vnderstand?
[...] 41.
That in my fathers name, I the command:
[...]hen thou shall call, my cho [...]in and elect,
[...]et haue to them, a [...] [...] and [...] respect.
I charge the, [...] thy [...]ac [...] thou shal them [...]
To [...]raye them [...] Law,
And when thou [...] to [...]
[...] [...].
[...]ead not with the, Sata [...] nor his co [...]t?
N [...]ther temptation, hell nor yet dispair,
[...] nor [...] thoght [...] a [...]air.
I command the, [...]at no [...] to t [...]m [...] app [...]?
Sad [...]es nor wo, d [...], dr [...]do [...]r dread nor [...]ir,
[...]ell nor his [...] shall no wayes be prepai [...]d:
Nor no da [...]at [...]on, shall be one them decla [...]d,
Item.
To my elect, that o [...] me will beleue:
[...]how shall not haue, no p [...]ssance them to greue.
Se [...] that my chosen, w [...]h peace and pati [...]ce,
[...]o [...]des [...] me, I shall be their desence,
Ioh. [...].
With bos [...]g of the Law, come thou no more:
[...]al. [...], [...] 4.
With Goddes wraith, as thou was wo [...]t before.
Come not with dolo [...]s, nor with a [...]ctions,
Come lo [...]inglie, with bene [...]ctions.
Ps [...]l. [...].
Come as my seruand, and portar speciall
Come as my pos [...], and s [...]lie on them call,
Ioh. [...].
And sy [...]e [...] oppen thou my porte,
And say to my [...] in this sorte:
[...]ir is the end, of your trauell be [...]a [...]e,
[...] [...] ▪ [...] [...]
[...]ere is the end, of all your wo and pane.
So thou shall wi [...]e, the teares, from their ey [...],
And prom [...]sse the more i [...]ye, then th [...]y haue [...]
Thou that sometyme, was their [...]
[...] [...].
Shall [...]ow be chainged, in be [...]dictio [...]e.
When thou hast serued of por [...]e, then at last,
[...] [...] throw the [...]t
[...] th [...] [...] shall die:
[...]
[...] the shall [...]
[...]
And sa [...]d to s [...]ne, thou [...]
Sy [...]e [...] o [...] Sa [...] to the se­cond death. Apo. [...].
[...] most [...]
O [...] [...] fo [...] and [...]
[...] o [...] the co [...]able [...]
Of [...] and [...] sulp [...]r,
Con [...]ea [...]ed and bo [...], of the ol [...] ▪ ser [...]e [...]t,
So [...]kar of his lait [...]lie [...]
Thou ca [...]st w [...]ll [...] i [...] vol [...]pt [...]ous place,
To p [...]yso [...]e Adames nature and his▪ [...]ai [...],
With thy corrupt can [...], thou can atto [...]es,
Pollute his harte and g [...]awe his fleshe & bones,
Psal. 14. [...] 2 [...]. Rom. 6.
In so far that his fleshe, force and puissance:
With thy [...]e [...]ome, broght till great gre [...]ce,
Man is the marke, at thou doest da [...]e sh [...]te,
Of his warke [...] day, [...]hou s [...]kes tribu [...].
Thou art in him so [...] and so gra [...]ed,
[...]sa. [...].
That thou hast him [...] and depra [...]ed,
[...]t [...] note well & marke how that my gra [...]
Shall far surm [...], thy [...]the in euery place,
[...]om. [...].
[...]ll thogh fleshe a [...] blood of thy p [...]st redo [...]de,
[...]t muche more, shall my mercie abounde.
Thogh, thou hast with th [...] [...]so [...]e [...] thy [...]
[...] to the heauen: [...] fathers ire pro [...]oke,
[...] I hau [...] done, [...]th [...] ▪ heauen and [...]arth fulfill,
With grace and [...] [...] w [...]oght my fathers wil [...] ▪
[...]. [...]or. 15 [...] [...]. Ph [...]l [...]. [...] [...].
O [...] n [...] more valo [...], thou shall be rep [...]ted,
For I h [...]e all thy power, [...] co [...]ed.
To my elect, thou shall as drop of gall,
[...]e [...]xt, in pyp [...] of ho [...]y [...]
So shall b [...] melted, all thy [...]
[...]
In the [...]
And as an [...] [...] [...] be [...]
So [...] art lesse▪ in [...] vnto me.
1. [...] [...]
[...] the fleshe [...] I do [...]
And [...]all to [...] all to [...]
My [...] shall work, on such [...] [...] a [...] [...]hair,
[...] [...]
That olde [...]am, shall mas [...]r be [...]
We shall [...] make, an sa [...]oth and [...]
[...] [...]
That shall pr [...]a [...]l, againes at [...]
For an space, thou shall in th [...] [...]she [...]
As in thy [...]d o [...] deathe, with [...]o and pai [...]e,
By my grace, the faithfull shall the [...]
In la [...]go [...]r without force, thou shall arri [...]e:
Rom. [...].
Whill that an certaine tyme, be passed by,
[...] [...] ▪
[...]to mannes [...]eshe, thou shall with la [...]g [...]r ly,
When thou hast bred deathe, our cor [...]ptio [...]e,
That death shall be, thy owne di [...]r [...]ctio [...]e.
[...] [...].
When ended was, this mightie parlament,
He said to the Law, these wor [...]es consequ [...],
Thogh thou toke thy beginning, [...]ro [...] [...]he [...]
[...]. [...]
In me is ended, all thy strength [...] and [...]gh [...].
[...] [...] ▪
I haue the made, my subiect euermore,
And [...] the, as neuer did man [...]
Bothe sinne and deathe, was nourest vnder the,
Thou hast not found, one spot of them in me.
[...] [...]
For I haue done, thy pointes all ful [...]ll,
I am first borne, that wroght my fathers will.
[...] [...].
Inqu [...]re thou now no more▪ of Adams [...]all,
[...] [...]
I tak [...] [...] charge, and answers for them all,
Their neuer [...] man, sha [...] [...] by thy way,
2. Cor. 3.
Obteine [...] did [...]
Thou shew [...], hell, [...],
Gal. 3.
Thou not as lambe came: but a [...] wouli [...] [...]o [...],
And therfore I my selfe, is come to take,
Thy heauie burding [...], of my peoples backe,
Id [...]m.
Thoght thou shew sin [...]: y t m [...] not grace expell,
Thou hast no power, to send down to hell,
My owne elect: nor yet againes them pleid,
Thou may considdir, in thy self and reid,
Or thy cōming, how their was frome the heauen:
An promesse of grace, to the fathers geuen.
Thou was ordained, for an testament,
But Adams fragill nature indigent:
Idem.
Could neuer get, of the but woand paine,
Their was no man, content of the nor faine.
In promessing, thou euer hast an sy,
That rather garres man in to langour ly,
Nor to shewe, consolatione or remead.
And in despair, [...]ull o [...]t thou doest them lead,
Idem.
Thou sh [...]wes rather, sorow nor their s [...]ll:
For Ilk offence, thow cryes slay and keill.
Thou bindes all a lyke, vnder thy bandis,
Their is no grace, nor sauour at thy handis.
For Adams sede, alyke thou leades in thrall,
Who failze is in on, they giltie ar in all.
Apoc. 14
T [...]irfor, I do confirme for mannes loue,
An testament eternall, the aboue.
That to all nations, shall be taught and shawne,
And through y t world, shal mak my mercy knawne,
Idem.
From the Orient, vnto the Occident,
It shall be heard, the [...] of my Testament,
And n [...]we alliance, spo [...] by my mouthe,
Which shall remaine, in [...] and trouthe.
For now and aye, my wordes all and some,
Into the worlde of worldes for to come.
To make my promesse, faithfull sure and sirm [...],
[...]ar. [...] Luc. 22. 1. Cor. 11 2. Cor. [...]. Ia [...]. 1▪ 2. Gal. 3, & 4.
I did the same, with my hart blood confirme.
I sware be my owne selfe vnuariable,
It shoulde remaine, for aye perdurable.
So with my death, passion and sore torment.
I haue confirmed, my newe Testament.
Whiche is another: Testament I say,
Nor thy olde fearfull Law, of mont Sinay.
For thou by it, with rigour doest require,
To all sinners: damnation, death and syre,
But my alliance newe, shall rather rinne,
Out through the inwarde man, and pardon sinne.
Deut. 5.
Thou was but for the outwarde man in letter,
Rest now therfore, and mak place to thy better,
Rom. [...].
Thy tyme is runne finished and compleit,
Now mine is come, I frelie powre my spreit,
[...]. Cor. [...]. Gal. 3.
On all fleshe, where they nede no pedagogue,
As thou had wont to be, nor Sinagogue.
These weghtie words, this purpose broght to end,
He said to his elect, and made it kende,
My darrest spouse, for whome my bloode is shed,
[...]phe. 5. Col. [...].
Come is the tyme, I shall you spous and wed,
My spirite aboundantlie, shall in you wirke,
1. Ioh. [...] ▪
Ye are my chosen: and catholike Kirke.
Frostie winter, is with all his surte past,
[...] ilke blossome, shall beir his fru [...] so s [...]st,
Apoc. 19▪ Rom. 1▪
[...] is the tyme, with myrth and ioye compl [...]
[...] I shall spouse you, with [...] spreit.
Thogh ye be many in nombre: a [...]d in force,
Yet shall ye be, but membres of on [...] corce,
L [...]arne at me, to be meke and bening,
[...]ac. 2. Deut. [...]8
And s [...]ne the frutes, of the spreit forthe bring.
Follow my holie worde, and my doctrine,
Nether to right hand, nor to left decline.
My worde and my command, is sufficient,
Isay. 3.
Without additiones, of your owne intent,
I am he, that ye shulde alwaye in [...]ew,
Ioh. 1 [...].
I haue chainged, and done all thinges renew.
If ye in tymes past, were strange and nyce,
2. Cor. 5.
And far exilid, from my Paradice,
Yet but your merite, I shall of my owne grace,
Ephe. 2.
Restore you [...]relie, to the [...]amin place.
Come all ye, with sinne that is vnclene,
Ephe. 1. Col. 1.
I haue, with my owne pretious blood serene,
An holsome bath: and stose prepaird for you,
Where ye shall be, made whyte as ani [...] dow:
Of all my treasures, nothing ye shall want,
Mat. 26. [...]ocl. 2. Exo. 28.
But as my self, thereof participant.
As aboundance of water christalline,
So shall I powre on you my grace deuine,
Right as the oyle, was powred on Aarous head▪
Which made his rayment, all in to that stead,
Leuit, 9.
Smell of that balme, of sauour dulce and sweit:
So shall my grace, be powred in your spreit:
Act. 2.
Which I shall make, so plenteus on you rame,
That in to you, shall not be found an vaine:
[...] ▪ Cor. 2, 3, & 12,
Where as my holie sprite, doeth not abounde:
Heb. [...], [...] [...].
And in my blood, your sinnes shall be [...],
Syne when it shall come to confesse in [...].
From whence, that all your vertue do [...]th proc [...],
Th [...]s [...] that ye confesse in euery place,
Ephe. [...].
Not of your selues, but onelie of [...] grace:
And of your filthie fleshe, proceded noght,
Gal. [...].
That euer was good, in warke word or thoght▪
Rom. 13
Of my goodnes and grace, I you it gaue,
Before the tyme, ye did it aske or craue,
Except by me, ye can nothing posseid,
Ther [...]fore to me▪ and to my word take h [...]id.
Ioh. 5, 6 Act. 4. Luc. 2 [...]. 2. Pet. 2.
Reid bothe the olde and newe law ye shall s [...]?
[...] haue no good, but that which cometh of me.
If some m [...]n wolde, by there inuentione found,
And so to big vpon: an other ground,
Were it in heauen, earth or firmament:
1. Cor. [...].
Oro [...] the sea, then say ye cons [...]qu [...]nt,
That sure building and fundam at their is none.
Except they found, their fortress [...] me vpone.
These gratious wordes, [...]unished a [...] length,
This holie Sauiour, in his might and strength,
Mat. 2 [...]. Act. 1. Apo. 5, 7▪
Propaird him: by his vertue deuine,
For till ascend, where all the heauens syne:
Decoud them selues, with myrth & glaid curage,
To welcome him and mak [...] him due homage,
There lambe, that on the hid s [...]crettes did looke:
And was founde digne, to oppen the holie booke:
That all the Angels, had in suche esteime:
1. Tim. [...] 1. [...]oh. 2. Ioh. 17. Heb. 1 [...].
This lambe, ware on his head one diadeun [...],
Where was writtin, thre stiles singulair:
In [...] letteres, to him peculiar,
1. Ioh. 2. Ioh. 17. Heb. 1 [...].
On [...] [...], did him [...] call,
The s [...]cond s [...]yle, our hie pries [...] principall:
The thrid s [...]l [...] was, the Sauiour of all wight,
That in this worlde, did bring to vs the lig [...]t,
And made his father, who is our soueran [...] Lord:
On vs poor sinners, to haue mis [...]ricord.
This blessed Lord, and Sauiour most hie,
Apo [...]. 21. Exod. 20
Bothe heauen and earth, togidder gartagrie,
In so far as the letter did conteane,
Promesse and, law, so of right shoulde perteane:
Isay. 17.
The Lord shuld promesse kepe, and mercy shawe,
But man ought till obserue, and kepe the Lawe
Heb. [...], & [...]10
So Christ Iesus, to performe his office:
For that promesse to shewe his benefice,
Offred his pretious bloode, his Father till:
And for oursake, hathe done the Lawfulfill.
So dyeinge on croce, that oblatione trewe,
Ended the Law, and toke an stile of newe,
Ephe. 2. 1. Tim. [...] 1. [...]o. 12.
To be himself: our onelie Mediatour,
He is that prince, that with his manlie nature,
Hath vs redemed, where we were dāned to pyne.
Reasone & Scripture, wolde that we shulde syne,
Giue him onelie: the gloir and to none other,
Rom. 4.
He is our Lord, our Sauiour and brother.
In that diademe, may be red in faith,
Heb. 2. 3 7, 8, 9, 10
The lambe did meise, the Lordes ire and wraith,
Where as before: could do no bloode of beist,
He offred his owne bloode, as mightie preist.
But not as offred, the priestes Leuitticall,
That offred for themselues, and syne for all,
Their sacrifice: nor their oblatione,
Could neuer bring vs, to saluatione.
For God the Father, Lord omnipotent:
Was onelie, w t his Sonnes blood content.
So Christ our Lord, was not boūd Priest consid­der,
But Melchisedech: high Priest & King to gidder,
King of all pietie, peace and equitie,
And Priest that teached: the word of verritie.
And entred ones, in to the sanctuair:
By his owne blood, his priesthoode to declair,
Where he offred, his blessed fleshe also:
Sufficient, for an thowssand worldes mo,
Blood of more strength, nor the blood of [...]hell,
Better nor Nabothes blood, the trueth to t [...]ll:
Heb. 1 [...].
That asked vengence, from [...] heauen to that place,
To fall on Iesabell, and I [...]habs race.
In dyeng Christ required, with mightie voyce,
Ma [...]. [...]6
Pardon to them, that did him nai [...]l one croyce:
To death he neideth no more, him self present,
That one oblatione for all: was sufficient.
For death may now, no more that lambe Arr [...]ist,
[...]. 5, [...] 9, [...].
O lambe, o King, o high Bischope and Preist,
Betwix vs, and thy Fathers, furie stand:
Syne blesse vs, with thy right and holie hand.
Gal. 4. A [...]. 4.
(O man) if thou could with thy wit persaue?
The great ioy [...], that thou throw Christ dois haue,
Rom. [...].
Then shulde thy harte, with hope and esperance:
Be more stable, then rocke but variance.
2. Para. 3.
Thou shuld not cair, of mā the threatning bost [...]s:
Nor yet regaird, their strong and awfull hostes.
Thou shulde cure, no punishment nor pyne,
P [...]al. [...]4▪
Nor yet regaird, pest, hunger nor ruine.
Thou wold not seir, fier: death nor helles pane:
Phil. 4.
All earthlie torment, thou wold but repute vane,
If faithfull loue, thou in shy harte doest beir:
To Christ our Lord, and to his word [...] most cleir.
He is our pleader, for vs in to the lawes,
That venqueist Satan, & wan to vs our cawes,
Heb. 9.
Againes his ornate speache, and eloquence:
1. Tim. 1
The heauen nor earth, can make no resistance,
Satan nor death, dar pretend no actione,
Gal. 3.
Where Christ saith I haue made satisfactione.
This diademe, most worthie to aduant,
Is gar [...]eist, with these stiles triumphant:
Isa. 2, 4.
Whiche shulde not be attribute; trust ye sure,
Vnto none other, earthlie creature,
Nether to sainct, nor Angell in the heauen,
Shulde those thre stiles, in any wise be geuen.
Rom. 8, & 11. 1. Pet. 4. Exo. 34.
None ought the stile of intercessione:
But Christ that bought it, with his passione.
As in tymes past, allace it may be seine,
How many haue worne, an wail before their ein [...]
And stopped them, to se the lyght most cleir,
Of the bright Sunne, with eyne of hart inteir.
2. Cor. 3.
As Moyses: ware before an mistie race,
An vaill to hide the bryghtenes of his face,
Right so doeth were this waill: al thē that wolde
Make Christes Law, lyke to the lawes olde.
And may not se, the lambes liberalitie,
That is to say, who makes equalitie:
And wold compair, the warkes of the Law,
Ephes. 2
To Christes death, that grace to vs doeth shaw,
Seking consaittes: and fassions of their owne,
I [...]bic. 1
The lambe to thē, will not be seyne nor knowne
Because at others: they haue soght remeid,
Forgetting Christ, their cheif capitayne and h [...].
Ps [...]l. 1 6
This soule errour, that doeth their consciēce [...],
Os [...]c. 9, & 11. 2. Cor. 4
Procedeth from ignorance: of holie writ
Ferther read forth, persaue and se the rest,
Beholde the vertue of this lambe celest,
The more that is, considered his impire,
The more alway, a man do [...]th him require,
With eye debonair, dulce and petious,
That their was neuer, man so dispitious,
Rom. [...] ▪
Nor tyrane fell, that blood humane did seike,
Beholding him, he shuld [...] come dulce and meike.
Sunne on no day so bright did neuer shyne
Apoc. [...]1▪
Nor in Aurora, bright starre matutyne,
In heauen, nor earth, is found nothing so fair:
[...]a [...]t. 1, 2, 3, & 4▪
That to his golden face, I may compair.
The lyllie whyte consect, in vermeill rose,
Vnto his bewtie, can be no peir nor chose.
To his cleir colour: of brightnes triumphant
No pretious stone, sapheir nor diamant,
Apo [...]. [...]1
Nor the charbonckle, with his lucent strandes,
May be compaird, to the brightnes of his handes.
He is so full, of fragrant an [...]tie,
Sain [...]tes are enamourd, w t his bright bewtie:
Apo [...]. [...], 18, [...] 19.
Men in this earth, left heritage and gude,
To winne his loue, and serue his selcitude.
Rather chosing: to be bri [...]t at an slake:
Nor to renounce, his loue and him forsake
C [...]nt. [...]
His vestament of golde, pure and s [...]reue.
Double [...] [...], with purpur colou [...]
Garnest [...] resplendent,
With [...] [...]nd with diament,
The gold [...] [...]ine, [...] signifie his glorie,
The colour sanguine, his conquest and victo [...],
Cant. [...].
The fair rubies, riche and iuestimable:
Declares his noble giftes incomparable.
Of his excellent, virtues her [...]icall:
Where as no Angell, nor Catholicall,
Heb. 1. Psal. 97
Did arriue, for [...]lke one of them by measure,
Ressaued the holie Sprite, and consolature,
But he, after his owne Sprite at his will,
1. Ioh. 5.
Toke aboundance, and gaue all others till.
He is the fontaine, [...]oode, and springing strande:
Apo. 21.
He holdes lyfe, and death in to his hand.
In that sweit lambe, we haue our hole hauing,
Phil [...]. Gal. 3.
From him doeth al our health: and welfair spring.
Aboue this rob: their was an brawe brodoure,
In golding lettres, conteining this scripture.
Apoc. 19. Rom 14 Esa. 5. Act. 2.
Lord of lordes, King of kings supreme Monarke,
This is his Name, his title stile and marke.
This holie lambe crowned, with gloir & might,
With great triumphe, ascended to the hight,
Psal. 9 [...].
Where as the cloude right riche, and radious
Of his splendour: with Angelles gratious,
On knees they kneled, and sweitlie him adored,
Welcome o lambe, y e whiche hathe death deuor [...]d,
Deb. 1.
Saying to gidder, with admiratione,
What people or cietie, realme or natione?
What conquerour, syn first the wolde began?
Apoc. 5, [...], & 15.
May be compair, to Christ bothe God and man,
That hath done all, his soes ouercome and th [...]
[...] [...]poc. 5, 1 [...], [...] 15.
[...]auing his seruandes by his might and gra [...] ▪
No wight is worthie, this [...] and chariat,
But the victorious lambe, [...].
Welcome said they, o lambe celestiall,
That venquest hes, the dragone infernall.
And fred thy folk, for the of that vglie steid,
That did beleue in the, to haue remeid
Welcome, o lambe, that band with chaine insect,
Apoc. [...] ▪
Fals Satan, [...]o to all thy trwe elect,
O Sonnes of Adam, be ye glaid and sing,
Reioysse whill heauen & earth, redound and ring.
Col. [...].
With lande and prays reioysse with notes new,
Giue all honour onelie: to Christ Ieseu.
And sing how that all louing lait and air,
Parteines to him, for now and euer mair.
Reioyse foutane, and forest amiable,
Reioyse moutane, and valaye delectable.
Apo. [...] ▪
Reioyse feildes sloodes, and christall springes:
Reioyse beastes, and all kume foule that singes,
Before ye were polluted one and all,
And now ye are deliuered out of thrall.
Now all to gidder, laude the lambe in ane,
In eccon langage loude sing and say Amen.
O heauens, we did se and considder:
When ye persauit, the lambe and death to gidder,
Met. 17
Then were ye all, ouer spred and cled with sable,
Luc. 23.
With double doole, and teares lamentable.
The Sunne in habite, obscure did cleith him sell,
And did his christall beames, bright, expell.
When Titan saw, that death had power sick,
His golden face, [...] black as pick.
When he saw tha [...] [...] heill did trampe,
Psal. [...]1.
Then was blaw [...] [...]ut, the lig [...]es and the lampe.
Of the palyce celesi: where [...] i [...] deid,
The heauens, cled in doole and murning weid.
Then for to weip, ye had occasione:
But now since that the Lord, and King of Sione.
Is ascended to you, on life leuand,
[...]. Pet. 3. Act. 3. [...]. 10.
Siti and, on Goddes right and holie hand.
Therefor be glaid: and louinges him prepair,
For now that lambe, may suffred death no mair.
Resaue agane, your colour christalline,
Psal. 68.
For now the Sunne, and lampe of light deuine,
That beres more strength, nor Phebus did before,
Is come to you: and shall yow newe decore,
Though he be cled, with fleshe and blood humane,
Mat. 3.
He is the Sonne of God, and souerane.
Esa. 43.
Holding these faithfull purpose singuleirs,
Amonges the regious, planeites and the speirs.
The lambe commanded, then in speciall,
That throw the whole worlde vniuersall,
His herroldes should proclame, to euery natione,
The glaide tydinges, of the worldles saluatione.
Rom. [...].
Syn suddanlie, the cloud preordinat,
With fyres of ioye, full fair illuminat,
Couered the lambe, with beames christalline,
So he ascended, by his might deuine.
Act 3.
Where as Phebus, kneiled with golden face,
And to his God, right reuerentlie made place.
Saying (o maker) I am right farre eshamed,
Because some men, for God haue me proclamed:
[...] so me, the whole [...] supr [...]me,
[...], be annext, to thy [...].
[...]
Into compair, of the I am farre lesse,
Nor sparke or gleid of syre, I do confesse.
By thy might, to mtotde their ignorance,
Thou hast caused me, oft with great greuance
With paill coloure to hyde my beames bright,
Absenting oft, my seruent force, and might.
But now is come the tyme, where faith & grace,
Shall all such errours, with their felowes chace.
Eph. [...], [...] ▪
Therefore with mirth: I take my cope saconde,
To hang, my golden palice rubiconde.
That I may better bear: forme and figure,
Of the (o lyuelie Sonne) that shall indure
Now I reioyse, to serue the of image,
To that effect, that all leuing lyuage,
Esa 9, [...] 43.
Hold me, but as the lamye etheriall,
And thou, the leuing lyght celestiall.
Thou art the spring, the strength force and valour,
Ioh. [...].
That ruelles all, the regimentes of natour.
That hes done sinne, with hel and death subdewe,
Lord of thy elect, and chosen people [...]rewe,
Lykewise, him honored the celest legions,
1. Cor. 1.
In ordour, him adored the twelue regions:
Apoc. 5, [...], [...] 19. R [...]m. [...] [...]b. [...]. Psal. 12.
Him as their Lord, and God they did confesse,
With Cherubins, and Scraphins expresse,
Of high spreittes, the ordores superuall:
Him magnified, with voice Angelicall.
Saying on high, o Sapience profounde,
That taketh the sinnes, from the earth & ground,
Holie, holie Word, that euer shall remane:
Ly [...]e [...] substance, of the [...].
Esa. [...]. Pra [...]er. [...]. [...]. Cor. 1.
word that hast made, by [...] and by [...],
The [...], the sea, the [...] bread & [...].
Haill [...], and [...]
Haill holie lambe, worthie of all honoure.
Ephes 2. Phil. 2. Esa. 5. Apoc. 21.
Lande, [...], glorie, and adoratione,
Force [...], strength: and dominatione,
For [...], and euer, must to the be geuen
Aswell in earth, as is into the heauen.
Thus being ended, this orisone deuine,
All creatures on knees did incline,
Redring dewe wirshepe, reuerēce lande, & gloire,
Apoc. 19
To that most migthie king, for euer moire.
Kinges of the earth, and Emperours I say,
Your dayes and yeres: shall vanishe sone a way,
The heauen shall passe, & earth I make you sure,
But my trwe word, shall euermore indure.
Psal. 1 [...]2 Heb. 1.
One word thereof, nor iote shall neuer faill,
Tyll euery thing, completed be and haill:
Thogh Babilone, many regiōs drew them till,
And conquest, to that migthie [...]euer Nill,
The first Impire.
Syne feast their force, and power suribound,
Where then succeded, to the Impire secound:
Cyrus whose crown, and sceptre high decored,
[...].
In Asia, for long tyme was adored.
Macedone peirs and Sy­rie.
Syne after them, came the breue seignorie,
Of Macedone, where Peirs and Cyrie:
To be masters, had so great affectione,
That to comfirme, their pryde made directione,
Thinking to lytill, their rowmes and their rent,
Vnto their boundes, sone they did agment
All [...] Inde Egypt: and Arabie,
With [...], that could not satisfie,
To their desires whill [...]yme prefi [...]t said ho:
Then for to rule, and reigne bigen also,
[...].
The great [...]ictie, superbe and glorious,
That some tyme founded, was by Romulus,
Whiche wan and conquest, all the Orient,
And in short space, subdewed all the Occident.
On suche an wise, all landes and langage:
Become their subiectes, and made them homage.
Carthai [...]e, ancient, strong and mightie town,
They brack the walles, and kest the cietie down.
Their gloir, did so increase and multiplie,
Pryde promest, it shuld still remane on hie.
Pry [...] [...].
But whē approched, their propre houre and tyme,
Presixt, and set, by prouidence deuyne,
From their impire, they were ouerthrawn & cast,
They might no longar reigne, for tyme was past.
So toke an end, the high Impire Romane,
That was so long, fordged on blood humane.
The whole world, could not by their great puis­sance,
Them vēques, whill God by his puruiāce:
Sewe in their sinnat, ciuile seditione,
Which sprang and grew, to their confusione.
Cons [...]e in earth, no thing is permanent,
Eccles. [...].
But shall haue end, for God omnipotent,
With dayes & houres, hathe euery thing prefixt,
That shall not be ouer past, nor yet proli [...]t.
Here in this earth, nothing is firme nor stable,
But Christes kingdome, remanes [...],
[...] [...]. [...]. [...].
So biy [...]g seased, [...]ur [...],
Our [...] buocat and [...].
Vpon his Fathers right [...] for man,
1. Tim. 2 Heb. 9.
With [...], his orisone [...].
Praying his Father, God omnipotent,
To grante him these requestes consequent.
Ioh. 17.
O supreme Father, most worthie in aspect,
Since in my bodie, that thou hast elect,
Hathe bene accomplished whole obedience,
Apoc. [...]. Hebr. 2, 9, 10, 12. 2. Cor. 6 Rom. 7.
Therefore I pray the, with de [...]full reuerence.
The inobedience, of the worlde remitte,
That they against the, daylie do committe.
Thogh poysone entred, in by Adames race,
Thou may remead it, with thy might and grace.
For my goodnes, and loue mende that misdead,
Rom. 5.
Since that by Adam, entred sinne and dead.
Grant throw my death, which was superlatyne,
May entre peace, and euerlasting lyue.
I make the, most humble supplicatione,
Since thou hast pleised, the oblatione,
That pietie, hathe caused me to present:
Ioh. 15.
Of my owne naturall, bodie innocent,
That sinne nor death, pretend no actione,
Heb. 10.
But take my fleshe, and blood for satisfactione,
Ephes. 1.
Of them that will, with heart intrincicall:
Pray in my Name, to the continuall.
Holding the, as the Father eterne tutorne,
Ioh. 14.
And me as brother, iudge and gouernoure.
Matt. 6.
That hopes in me, and in none other wight,
For them (o Father) I pray the day and night
The ardent loue, and pietie paternall,
Ioh. 17.
That thou hast borne, to me contenuall,
Must cause the, lykewise them to loue so weill:
That in their heartes, they may pers [...]ne and feill,
Ioh. 1 [...].
How for my sake, thou hast them all resaued,
As thy owne children, Gotten and consaued.
When they by waiknes, in temptatione fall,
1. Cor. 10
O Father then, haue mercy on them all.
Considder of themselues, they haue no goode,
But imperfite, and borne of fleshe and bloode.
Ioh. 14, & 16.
Without our helpe, they fall and may not stand,
To thy goodnes, them all I recommand.
I know full well, what may to them betyde,
So Sata [...] me assailled, with his pryde
Thus may I not, alway in their vexatione,
Mat. 4.
Contemple them, without I haue compassione,
Heb. 2.
Their cau [...]e and maters, touches me so neir,
They are my blood, elect and brethren deir.
Thy are my membres, and my holie Kirke,
I must be their defence, for them to wirke.
Ephes. 1, & 2.
I may not suffre, that one of them be shent,
To ansuer for them all, I me present,
By thy bontie eternall, they are thyne,
1. Cor. 3. Mat. 21. Ioh. 16, 17.
Yet by reasone I boght them, they are myne.
Thou hast them put, vnder my gouernance:
And promesed me, to be their assurance.
Their aide their helpar, and protectour propice,
Father I pray the, for my Sacrifice:
Idem.
That thou wilt in their mindes, and hartes pour,
Our odoriferrant balme, and sweit licour:
With the feruent flambe, and zeale of Charitie,
The liuelie Spirit condigne: of our deitie,
And the sweit vnctiō, y t doeth from bothe proceid,
Mus [...] be [...] their solace and remeid.
Again [...],
As well [...] [...]iabolicall,
Ioh. 14.
For their most [...] and stro [...] [...],
Their most persite, and principall instructour,
The holie Gost, for witnes and for gaige,
Ephes. 1. & 2.
For [...] and arles of our heritage.
Lat them with vs reignes (o Father [...])
When they offend, impute to me their crime.
Ioh. 17.
And ended so this supplicatione,
He said to me, for thy oblatione:
Heb. 9. Rom. 4, & 5.
My dear beloued Sonne celestiall,
For the offence, of men terrestriall:
Then payed for all, au ransome most condigne,
Heb. 10.
And I at thy request, to them benigne,
My Sonne delice: and substance of my sell,
Esa. 9. Heb. 5. Pro [...]or. 8. 2. Cor. 4 Ma [...]. 28.
Resaue all powere, in heauen, earth: and hell.
Till damne, till bind, till Lousse and till releue,
Till saue them all, that shall on the beleue.
Take all the treasures, of the heauen celest,
Dispone and parte them, where thou pleses best.
Sith I haue all, this power to the geuen,
Psal. [...]. Act. 2. Heb. 1,
The earth, the hell, the Angelles of the heauen.
A geue the likewise, in thy holy hand,
An rod of yron to strike who doeth ganestand.
If thou shall plese, that rod without regaird,
Shall brecke & breisse them, as an pottars shaird.
Apo. 19.
Our holie lambe, ressaning all this charge,
To shewe him selfe, bothe liberall and large,
The heauens oppened in haist with reuerence:
Mat. 18.
Where he departed, with magnificence.
[...] [...]asure, and the holie gifte [...],
[...] [...]he worlde, plane and [...]
And [...] of all, his promesse to fullfill,
Act. 2.
The great conforteur, come his, [...].
With diuerse, tongues, and leides solatious:
And with zeraphricall, windes gratious.
Ilke on of them, in science newe did sleit,
With diuerse giftes, of the sammyn Spreit.
1. Cor. 2 [...]
Where their was men, of Mede and Parthians:
Of Pontus, Pamphill and Cerene [...]us,
Of Capado [...]e, and Mesopotamia,
Of Asia Egypt, Libia and Phrigia,
Act. 21.
Their was Arab, Iewe, Greik and Proseleit,
Strangers of Rome, of Candy and of Creit,
These nations all, maruelled and was on sloght,
To here & se, what was by the Apostles wroght.
By verie vertue, of their high doctrine,
Idem.
When all these nationes, were before theme syne,
In their maternall tongues, and propre leid,
Ilk one of them, heard Christ preached in deid.
Fontaines of grace, from them did slowe & spring
Throw Chrisis prom [...]sse, where his Spirit benig,
To Idiot men, vnlearned hece on ground,
[...]n. 10.
Their simplenes, did prudent men consound.
Christ promised, to leawe when he did ascend,
Mat. [...]8. Isa. 9. Gal. 4. Isa. 45. & 4. 1. [...]oh. 1, 1. Cor. 15 1. Thes. 4.
That Spirite with vs, vnto the worldles end.
This lambe sitting on his throne eternall,
Subdewer of death, and feyndes infernall,
Sauiour of all, that in him will conside,
Where his elect, with fai [...]h and hope abide.
His comming, when the last trompet shall sound,
Wherethey in him, shal. rise forthe of the ground.

[...] these. coud [...] the Myr [...] [...], in forme and ma [...] of an [...] [...]m­posed by the sade Noruell.

ALL the dolores, from the originall,
All wo distress, and paines surious:
[...] me imbrace: sith I diserue thē all,
2. Cor. 7
All dishonour, y e ilk man doeth resuse,
Come vnto me, & do me clene confuse. thy dart,
Come teares, come terrours, come death now [...]
And plant these doloures, many wofull hart.
It is my conscience, in my hart full depe,
Which conse [...]nce, doeth me da [...]ke curse and ban,
That maketh me, like one womā sigh and wepe:
Rom. 2.
Come all the wo, since first the world began,
That euer had, or yet suffred any man.
Come attones, my stony harte so wound,
That trwe repentance, with teares may abound.
Because that I haue bene, so proud and bolde,
So full of sinne, and euery wickednes:
As Christess brother, me to name and holde,
I haue abused, my self I do confesse.
Mat. 12.
For Christ doeth, say in his Gospell expresse,
Who workes my Fathers wil, and his command:
He is my brother sister and seruand.
But I vnworthie, wretche, bent full of ire,
[...]. [...].
How darre I him, my master call for shame,
To birke his will, since I haue no desire,
Therfore I am not [...], to beir th [...] Name,
Of Christes brother as an trew Christiane.
For I haue not: Gobbes holie word [...],
Luc. [...].
But done the contrare, h [...]w can I be excused.
Now I persaue it better my tongue to holde,
Nor as one hypocrite, to go about,
And say as I was wont, with visage bolde,
Brother holde vp thy eye and kneill and lout,
Matt. 7.
That I may forth thereof an mo [...]e pull out,
When I my self do others thus disprayse:
And yet will not, persaue in any wayse.
The greate beame, that is my own eye vithin,
Proceding from the faultes, of my mother,
Ecce. 25.
I will correct, and yet I bo but slune,
The sault whereof, I do reproue my brother:
I do commit the same, with many other.
My heart doeth nothing, with my lippes agrie:
Rom. 14.
I am so full, of blinde hypocrisie.
My darkenes is full great, I do considder,
Wherein I spent my tyme, bothe night and daye,
Mat. 6.
Synce that my light, is darknes all togidder,
I do confesse, I haue gone long astraye
From Christ which is the light, the lyfe and waye,
Doing my sinnes, dailie still agment:
As maine sworne mā, ouer lait hathe done repent.
Per [...]ured I am, because that I did sweare,
Whē they with water, of Baptisme did me weshe,
Rom. 6. Col. 2. Ephe. 4
To Loue God onelie, and his Lawe [...],
Whiche from my heart, alwayes, I [...].
Seruing the beastlie, pleasures of my fleshe:
Geuing the same, vnto the owne delyte,
Gal. 3
That now my conscience, doeth my selfe dispite.
O sy sals lust, had thou in me suche strengthe,
Hast thy pleasures, so gart me dote and [...]aue?
Gal. 5.
To bind me in that snare, where I at lengthe,
Can not my selfe, forthe of thy handes haue,
R [...]m. 8.
Hes thy vaue pleasures, done me thus deceaue?
[...]. Cor. 15
Hes thou me led, to Goddes ire full deipe?
Bringing on me, of sinne the slouthfull sleip [...].
To walken at the porte, of blak dispair,
After so shorte an ioye, to gar me quaike,
Gal. 6.
At lengthe thy seruandes, gettes of the na mair▪
Rom. 6.
When that delyte, hathe, led them in that la [...]e,
At last I se, thou doeth them clene forsaike.
Till me had better bene, the till forsakin:
Before, or that I had thy pleasure Stakin.
Thou art the poysone, that my heart hath soght,
Thy wicked vennome, is endles but remeid,
Ioh. 5.
I haue the sound, thou hast broght me to noght,
Except that grace, and mercye do preceid,
Ephes. 1.
From Christ, that for my sinnes on croce did bleid:
Now help me Lord, for Christes sake I call,
Ioh. 16.
And driue from me, aff [...]ctiones sensuall.
Comm [...]nd my heart, from lus [...]es till abssene,
Sith it is [...] [...]hy power, gene thou [...],
If thou wilt no [...], with them I perishe clene,
By daye nor night, I wait not what till cheife,
[...]
Nor yet I se nothing, that may the ci [...]e.
When I on death, and iudgement think e [...]presse:
Then doeth, my [...] more [...].
Eccl. 41.
Wherefore, o dea [...]h, forthe of this world me driue,
Sith I am so tormented, euery sake,
Rom. 7.
I do but leue, in langour here on [...],
To strike me with thy darte, since thou art slake,
Against the worlde, wha [...] armies shall I take?
Eccles. 1.
Shall I confesse, my owne abusione?
And sinfull life whiche is my owne confusione.
Prepare the, o my harte, and arme the streght,
Be not assrayed, in no man [...]r of [...]
Gal. 5.
Against the worlde, for to comb [...] and feght,
Be hardie, vailliant in euery place,
Syne do the world, with his pleasures chace,
Arte thou not strong, from the for till dispeshe?
And als ouercome, the world the deuill and fleshe.
O Lord I grant, my sayinges vndisereit,
Esa. 59.
Wherewith I thoght: to haue parted the pelf,
They me forthe shawe, to be an hypocreit.
For how darre I, presume ( [...] else)
To steall thy gloire, and take it to my self,
Seyng the iustest? that euer yet was found,
Phil. 2.
Doeth dailie sinne, that reignes on the ground.
We but thy grace, coulde neuer yet with [...],
[...]. [...]. 2. Cor. [...]. 2. [...]et. 11.
Nor cou [...] [...], the vane consaities mandane,
The deuill [...], as I haue [...]ane on hand,
What [...]ais [...] [...] now, [...], [...]?
Num. 16 2. Para. [...].
What caust thou think or say, but wordes vane?
Yet fear the [...] of the Lord almight,
Thogh he the dampne, he doeth the [...].
Where shall I go: allas vnto the Law?
Rom. [...].
And blenck, in to that spectakle profound,
Naye naye, for it doeth all my vices shaw,
2. Cor. 3.
Whiche are so foull, so filthie and immound,
The leist of them by right, may me confound,
Heb. [...]2.
It is my sinnes (allas) that doeth me duell,
And dampnes me, with Satan for to duell
Gal. 3.
My filthie fleshe, dailie I fele it steir,
Resisting still, the motiones of my spreit,
[...]. [...]. 7
With ardent battaill, strife and mortall we [...]e,
Adam greit was the sinne thou did commit,
Thou sell not shine allone, in to the pit:
Aswell as thou, we that are of thy seid,
Are partenars, of thy curst and wicked deid.
Lord seing thou did sonne Adam of claye,
And made him lyke to the, with all his kinne,
Why made thou nor▪ his heart the to obaye,
Esa. 6 [...].
And why did thou, not plant his breist withinne?
Suche giftes of grace, that he shuld neuer sinne.
Thou knowest, their is no man on earth leuand:
Tha [...] can or may, against thy will with stand.
Rom. 9.
Sith thou art God, our Lord & Fath [...]r [...],
[...]
Why holdes thou vs, in wo and miserie?
Why hast thou hardned, thus our hearts min [...],
And syld our [...]yne, we shuld not cleirlie s [...],
The thing that may, thy will and pleasure be,
Why doest thou not, of thy beneuolence:
Excuse our sa [...]tes, we do throw negligence?
4. Es. [...].
Sith man is made of sinne bothe crope [...],
And can not drug, but as thou lettes him drawe,
Why doest thou then, that sinne to him impu [...]e?
The heart that shuld the fear, and stand in awe:
Esa. 54.
Why doeth it worke, against thy will and Lawe?
But as the iuste, so hes thou made [...],
The murtherare, for to distroye and [...]eill.
Euen as the potter, with an lompe of lame,
Doeth after his owne santasie direct,
Some pott to honour, and other some to shame,
So hes thou lykwyse, creat and elect,
Some to thy gloire, and some to be deiect,
Rom. [...].
So of our s [...]lues, we neuer haue s [...]e will:
For to do good, but all mischeif and ill.
O sinsull wretche, that doest thy self abuse,
Now damnable, is thy frewoll argument?
Rom. 45.
Will thou thy sinnes on the Lord excuse?
To dispute, how dar thou thy self present?
With the deip wisdome, of God omnipotent.
Esa. 45.
Sith ignorance, hathe the dissaued plane,
Cry mercie for thy argumentes [...]
[...] Consesse the [...]ord, the Lord of veritie,
Esa. [...]3. 1. Ioh. [...]. [...]. [...]hes. [...]. [...]it. [...]. 2. Tim. 2. Ioh. 1 [...]. Rom. [...].
[...]nd do not [...] sence pleid,
His iudgemente [...] [...] of equitie,
His [...]nne, is [...] and remeid,
For all the sinnes, that came of Adames seid:
Confesse at Baptisme, how thow [...],
And sware, the faithfull spouse to Iesus Christe.
Allas I fornicator, full of cair,
All are spiritual fornica­tours that wirshoppes not one God al­lauerhe. Deut. 31 [...]di [...]. 2, 8. Fornicatione for infideli­tie and murmuratione against God. Nūb. 14
Following the apperite, of lustes raige,
Dat not for shame, my filthines declair,
For worldlie lust, I lose my heritage,
I haue a pultered, my whole mariage,
And followed hath my sensualitie:
I set at noght, the word of veritie.
I grant my luste, hathe me rep [...]o [...]a [...],
And hathe me caused, to forsake allace,
My Sauiour Christ, and spouse immaculate,
How day I me present, before his face?
Or how dar I [...] my spous [...] require for grace?
Sith I my self, made separatione,
Commiting filthie fornicatione.
To follow my lustes, I did neuer blinne,
Rom, 3.
Nor neuer wold against them contest
I am broght vp, and nourest in to sinne,
Pro. 20.
With dolour now, why am I not opprest?
Sith I haue done, forsake my spouse cel [...]st?
O vile [...] hast thou no shame?
Mat. 10.
Christ to renunce, of whom thou beares the name.
For ignorance, for pleasure and delite,
For fals doctrine, that doeth all men confuse,
1. Cor. 14
For gluttonnie, and beastlie appetite,
For them, why hast thou done thy self abuse,
Note how ignorance, doeth no man excuse,
Ther is no way, since thou art so infect:
[...]hes. 1.
But onelie Christ, the spouse of his elect.
An spouse, and that full of benignitie
Not looking, on my lyfe luxurious,
Psal. 45.
That for my luf [...] hathe suffred death for me,
His dead, hathe venquest death most furious,
Ephe. 5.
And shewn him self, an louer curious,
His grace: and mercie most misericord:
Gal. 4.
Hathe made my peace, & pointemēt with y e Lord.
Right as thou art, my loue and Lord of blisse,
1. Cor. 1.
My Sauiour and God omnipotent,
Let thy sweit mercie, me imbrace and kisse,
Ep [...]e. 2.
On such an wise: that in my heart thou prent,
Thy holie spreit, thy Law and Testament,
Ioh. 14.
And pardone me, where I haue done rebell:
Eccle. [...].
I come for loue, and not for fear of hell.
Dulce Lord sweit spouse, take on me thoght and
Shewe me y e waye, y t leades me most euen, (cure,
Iacob. [...].
Giue me the knawledge, of thy trwe Scripture,
In sie dispair, my sinnes hathe me dreuen:
That but thy grace, I can not come to heauen.
Arme me with faith, the springing streame & well
R [...]m. 18
That I may venques the fleshe, the Deuill & hell.
Or thou do faill, to them that thou doest loue,
Where faith is great, as gra [...] of mustard se [...]d,
Mat. [...].
The earth shall faill, so shall the heauen aboue,
Rom. 5.
I knowe thy mercie, doeth right farre erce [...]d:
All my offence, my sinne and wick [...]d d [...]id.
And since thou hast, thy loue vpon me set,
Ioh. 1 [...].
O Lord, I knowe, thou will not me forget
Which maketh me, cry on hight away despair,
Ephes. 2
That so long tyme, haith done molest my minde,
Sith Christ is so benigne, bothe late and aire:
Col. 1.
Moued with pretie, he will not be vnkinde,
1. Ioh. 4 Ioh. 5.
For to forgeue, his nature is inclinde.
For his great mercie, as wrytes cunning clerkes,
Doeth farre transcend, aboue his godlie werkes.
Esa. 34
For our sinnes, Lord, we grant thy celsitude
Ephe. 2.
Of thy mere mercie. and speciall grace,
Frelie thou wishe awaye, with thy sweit bloode,
Heb. 9, & 1 [...].
The whole iniquitie, that came of Adames race,
And meased thy Fathers wrathe, in to that cace:
Rom. 5.
Where he stude, right glaidlie well content,
With that one offring, that thou did him present.
Col. 1.
Because we could not wirke, the Fathers will,
Gal. 3.
We were subdewed, to dampnatione,
Of death and hell, whill Christ did it fulfill,
Ephe. 1.
And shed his pretious blood, for our saluatione,
Which is our health, our lyfe and our purgatione,
1 [...] [...]. H [...]b. 9.
We knewe their is, no clen [...]eing to conclude,
But our purgatione, by Christes death & bloode.
No purgatione, is named euen nor od,
In holie Scripture, Goddes word of veritie,
But onelie Iesus Christ, the Sonne of God,
Hathe pur [...]ed vs, of our iniquitie,
Heb. 1.
Where we were boūd, y e Lord hathe made vs fre,
From hell, from deathe and euerlasting pane:
Sapt. 7.
And vs restored haith, to lyfe agane.
It is no meruell, thogh our hearttes befo [...]ie,
Sith we haue through our slouth, and negligēce,
[...] libro senten­ [...].
Beleued to haue, an other purgatorie,
When from this vaill of wo, that we shall hence,
As writtey is, in the booke of Sentence,
That we shall to, an certane tyre returne:
And many hundreth yeres, theirin till burne.
And shall not come to blesse, uers the heauen,
But their till cry, till fry, till glour▪ and gaip,
Whil for iche sume, we haue burnt y [...]res seua [...],
Idem [...] [...].
And no maner of waye, for [...]ll e [...]chaip,
But by the Mess [...], and pa [...]ous of the paip,
If this be trwe, as they [...] preached plane,
Thē Christ hathe shed: his pr [...]tion [...] blood in vane.
The Father doeth, no satisfactione knawe,
Psal 4 [...]
Nor no sie vaue, consautes [...] rea [...],
But by his Sonne, that [...]ath fulfilled the Lawe,
And satisf [...]ed, the Father ones for all,
Heb. 9. & 1 [...].
By off [...]ing of his bodie na [...]urall.
Vpon the [...]oce, for vs sinner [...] to die:
Whose death and passione, made vs captiues fre.
Ephe. 5,
Where we were dead in sinne, and did remane,
Rom. [...].
And was condempned, after Moyses Law,
Gal. [...].
[...]et hathe his death, vs broght on liue agane,
And shewes to vs y e yock, that we should drawe,
Heb. 2, 9
The word of God, y e which doeth planelie shawe,
1. Cor. 15 1. Tim. 2
Now we are onelie, by Christ all iustified.
And by his rising are also glorified.
Wherefore great cause we haue, to be content,
Thogh for thy sake, we suffre wo and p [...]ne,
Sith we are perteners, of thy Testament,
Of thy promesse, and of thy word deyune,
Esa. 4 [...].
As Isai saith, in the fourtie and nyne,
May any mother, suffre hir eyes beforne?
Hir sonne to pereshe, of hir bodie borne.
And thogh she do, forget hir childe so deir,
Yet all the slock, that will on me depend,
Idem.
I shall not them forget, I to you sweir,
And when my people, haue done me offend,
By the contrair, I [...] them to amend.
Come saith Christ, who will their sinnes cōsidder:
Ezec. [...].
That I may giue them, life and health to gidder.
Come with innocence, thogh ye shuld be slaine,
Come to me, for I am ane rightious iudge;
Gen. 4, 7, 1 [...], 22.
I am iust Abell, I am not wicked Came,
Come to my arke, and seke at me refuge,
For I am Noye, and the second deluge,
Come to me in faith, as did Abraham,
And Isaac, that signified the lam.
Come all sinners, for your owne be [...]oue,
[...]
Come not as the Scribes, with hypocrisie,
Come vnto me, for kindnes and for loue,
Come as Naaman, for I am [...],
Come on and I shall [...] your leprosie.
[...]
I am Moses: and I os [...]e that wan,
To you, the frutefull [...] of Canaa [...].
Come till me, I am faithfull I osias,
[...] [...]g. 23. 1 Sam. [...]. [...] [...]5. [...]. [...].
I present Dauid, Scripture makes mentione,
I [...]lewe your olde enemie Golias,
For your defence, I am migthie Samsone,
Sicke my [...], for I am Salomon:
Come with faith, as the Fathers and Propheites,
Come with repentance, as the [...].
Ionas [...]
Come all that are liper: Lazere and deif,
Mat. 12.
Come all that are, with maladie molest,
Come brigand, [...], and come theif,
[...]ar, [...].
Come s [...]ke at me [...], and [...]e in rest,
[...]e that are mad, and with the deuill [...],
Come to me, ye that lo [...]g tyme blinde haue be [...]e,
Lu [...]. [...].
That I maye oppen your mindes, & inward [...].
Come ye that walk, in darknes night and daye,
So that ye will▪ so my [...]x. take regand,
[...] [...].
Come vnto me, for I cast none awaye,
That will repent, with heart and minde inward,
Knock on your [...], and [...] shall be [...],
[...], 2▪
Be not [...]educed by [...] doctrine nor [...],
Come [...] at me, [...] and ye shall [...].
Eternall lyfe, that euer shall remane,
[...] not on the paines corporall,
Ioh. [...].
[...] ye were dead, yet shall [...]e liue aga [...],
Come all sinners, that will for mercie call,
Come vnto me, and I shall saue you all,
That bound and settred is in sinnes barge:
Come vnto me, I shall you cleue discharge.
Ma [...]. [...].
Come to me, vs [...]tairs a [...]aritious,
Come all, that wrang [...]slie haue boght and solde,
Come gredie worines, on earth so couettous,
Luc. 19.
Climme vp the treis, of your conscience colde,
Climme as did Zacheus, me to beholde,
That restoird foure folde, for ilk [...]:
Syne of his goodes, the half gaue to the pure.
Come with an liuelie faith, firme and stable,
As did the Cananian, in the Gospell:
That required as dog, vnder the table,
Mat. [...]3.
To gadder crōmes, from Goddes word that fell,
To heall hir doghter, and to saue hir sell,
Come also ye women, of lyfe prophane,
Come with repentance, as did the Magdalane.
The death of an sinner, I do not desire,
All thogh he haue bene, long tyme deafe and dum,
Ezec. 19.
But rather that he shuld, life at me require,
O Lord, these are sweit sayinges all and sum
Yet without the, I can not to the cum.
Conuert thou me, then shall I be conuerted,
[...]. [...].
[...] thou me, then shall I be d [...]uerted.
From sinne, o [...], that doeth me soir moles [...],
Since thou to me, [...] so fair an tri [...]ie,
without the, Lord, my co [...]ence hes no rest,
Strengthen my spirit, and to thy selse it tiste,
Ioh. 1 [...]
I pray the in the Name: of Iesus Christ,
Which hathe vs said, what thing ye aske & [...]ra [...]:
My father in my Name, ye shall it half.
In Christes Name, we should onelie demand,
Sith he hathe [...]led him self, with our natoure,
And at none other, him selfe did so command,
For that [...] Christ, is our Mediatoure,
For our offence, to God the plasmatoure.
[...]. Ioh. [...].
Our aduocar our freynd, and [...] our iudge:
Our asperance, our comfort and refuge.
Now will I no more, stand [...],
To entre in thy holie house, and temple,
Psal. [...]
My Lord, my God, to come and drawe the nei [...],
For consolation, in heart I shall contemple,
Thy holie parable and godlie sweit exemple,
As in sainct Lukes Gospell, is written plane:
Their was an certane man, had sonnes twane.
Luc. 15.
The yongest sonne, before his father stude,
And him be [...]oght, of his [...],
That he might haue, his [...] parte of gude,
Idem.
Whiche his father, deuided equallie,
[...] he went forthe, in till an strainge cuntrie,
Where his parte, [...]sum din one while,
In prodigalitie, and [...] pleasures vile.
Sy [...]e after hav suche honger and suche ne [...],
Eriled from his father: and his kinne,
That with the swyne, he was compeld to s [...],
Idem.
But when that he, bet [...]oght him of his sinne,
How many are, my Fathers house withine:
Of [...]ryed seruandes, that hes bread at will,
And I his Sonne, for falt is like to spill.
I will, vnto my my father and confesse,
How I am worthie, for to be reproued,
I will him grant, my sinne and wickednesse,
But the father, before with pietie moued,
Idem. [...] ▪ [...].
Ranne till his sonne, and said my dear beloued,
Thou art welcome, and cled him from the colde,
Syne on his finger, put a [...]ring of golde.
And siewe the [...]at calf, that was holden deir,
Thogh the eldest sonne their on wold not feid,
To welcome his yongest sonne & make good cheir,
Idem.
Then said the father, let all blithnes pro [...]eiti,
My [...] is to [...] o [...] luse, that before was deid:
Lord here I se [...] thy great beatitude:
And do constdder my owne [...]ngratitude.
It is I wretche, from the father exild,
It is I, my conscience hathe me accused,
Rom. 2.
I [...] is I, Lord, that is the wandring child,
The giftes thou me gaue, I haue abused,
And contrare thy command haue them parused,
And them consumed, in prodigalitie:
Luc. 19.
Following my lust and sensualitie.
So now great hongare, reignes in this l [...]b,
That all kinne people, in parrell is to tyne,
For falt of Goddes worde and his command,
And I compeld till ear with mekill pyne,
Amos 8.
That whiche is meiter for dogs and for swine,
Haue I not cause, for to be sad and wo?
When I think on the house that I came sro.
Where their is an aboūdāce, of y e heauēlie bread,
But I allas, haue done my self misgyde,
That my sinnes, theiron will not let me feid,
What shall I do? or where shall I me hyde?
Rom. 7.
Or shall I still into my sinne abyde?
With repentance is better that I murne,
And yet agane, to my father returne.
Perchance, he mercie will vpon me haue,
I trust he will me souccour, in my n [...]id,
When with repentance, I it aske and craue,
Then shall I pray him that he take no heid,
Ezec. 18.
To my folie, nor to my wicked deid,
And to my sinnes past, haue no regaird:
Nor after my deseruinges, me rewaird.
Ioh. 17.
That his iustice, to me haue no respect,
Where I haue walked, long tyme vndiscre [...]e,
Rom. [...].
But that his mercie, make me his elect,
And as I thoght these wordes, in my spre [...]e,
Their did appeir, to me an father sweit,
That notwithstanding, my sinne did me imbrace:
And from my fa [...]ltes; he did remoue his fate.
Esa. 44.
Syne did command, [...]
That in the booke of life I [...] rol [...],
And cled me with an robe, of innocence,
And on my finger, put an ring of gold,
Whiche is the liuelie faith, that I should hold.
Luc. 15.
And with that hand, where the ring did repose:
He gaue me bread to eat, more sweit nor rose.
Syne for my loue, the best fed calf was keild:
That worldlie wisdome on an croice gart bleid,
Act. 3.
Which calf was Christ, our onelie stay and beild,
Heb. 9.
Who said to me, my owne brother take heid,
Who trustes in me, shall neuer see the deid,
And thoght they were in [...]i [...]me dead, man & wyse
Ioh. 11.
Yet shall they liue, and haue eternall lyfe.
My liuelie dead I tholed for thy behoue,
Hathe Adās ofspring, frō Satans bādes driued,
Col. 2.
Thou mon bel [...]ue, with hope to reigne aboue,
O death in lyfe, by Christes death arriued,
Heb. 2.
We that were dead, are by his death reuiued,
Gal. 2.
We are all dead, as concerning the Law,
Rom. 7.
And yet we liue, throw Christes death we knaw.
O Lord my God, Christ my Mediatour,
1. Ioh. 2.
That tholed death, for my saluatione,
W [...]she, clenge: and purge, my poysoned natoure,
Ephe. 5.
With liuelie water, of regeneratione,
Tit. 3.
That I se no more, the separatione,
Of the and me, my Lord, my God: and King,
Ioh. 14.
But in the heauen, with the that I may ring.
But giue me knowledge, of the holie Worde,
And cause it, shrow my inward p [...]s rinne,
Heb. 4.
Perce y u my heart, with that two edged smorde,
And that it still remaine, my harte withinne,
Whil thou this spirit take, from this corps of sinne,
Then thy right waye, shall I parsaue and finde:
Rom. 7.
And walk no more, stumbling as I were blinde.
To vnderstand that word, shall giue me plane,
Deut. 4.
If I with mekenes do it humblie reid,
What is the trwe meate, of an Christiane?
Allanerlie since no man leues on breid,
But by the worde: which doeth of God proceid,
Mat. 4.
Lord thou art high brade, lenth and latitude,
Stloth serene, the pure and plesand slude.
I come to the, to weshe me in that place,
Thou knowes well, I am the blinde man borne,
Refuse me not, but grant me of thy grace,
Since for my sake thou beatten was and torne,
Ioh. 9.
Suffre me not, o Lord, to be forlorne,
Nor led with blinde, thogh I blindnes desire,
To go and trampe, in euerie dub and myre.
Oppen my inward eyne, and giue me sight,
O Lord, and make me one of thy appointed,
[...]. Ioh▪ 2, & 4. Ephe. 2. Heb. 2, 9 & 10.
That I may iudge, the darknes by the light:
And say that it is Iesus, Godes oynted,
That with his precious▪ blood hath me anointed.
And me redemed hathe from captiuitie:
And hathe me geuen the Spirit of libertie.
The [...] for the of [...] chace,
With [...] [...] and [...]
That I [...] and it [...]
Esa. 15. Luc. 1.
Louse thou [...] that I may [...] expre [...],
That holie worde, and dailie it confes.
Sen th [...] hast said, let not my yocke the greue,
[...] [...] ▪
For if thou will, [...]my promesse beleue.
Thou shall dwell in me, and I in the remane,
If thou byde constant, withoutten balt or hink
To comfort the, in thy trauell and pane,
In thy drouthe, thou shall haue my blood to drink,
Ioh. 6.
And in thy heart, if that trwe faith can sink,
My bodie thou shall haue, and fleshe to [...]it:
To fede the inward man, the lyfe and spreit.
Remembring thereby, my death and passione,
Vntill I come, kepe the same in memorie,
1. Cor. 11
For they receaue their ownr damnatione,
That eattes this Sacrament, vnworthelie,
Making no difference, of the Lordes bodie,
Therefore let one man iudge him selfe and s [...]ne,
Let him come [...]at the bread, and drink the wyne.
2. Cor. [...]
Right many are with maladi [...]s confused,
And do perish [...] at length, without remeid,
B [...]cause they haue▪ [...] Sa [...]a [...]t abused:
1. [...] 11.
And many slepes, to the [...]
Because, they haue not thereof taken he [...]d:
Lord [...]locken me, with drink celestiall.
That no dregges, nor poysone papisticall.
Haue puissance, to entre my heart withinne,
Whose dregges hath done, y e whole world delude,
Which is but draffe, and satlinges full of sinne:
Ioh. 6.
The Lordes word and promesse, is my fude,
He hath me fed, in faith with fleshe and blude.
He is the bread of life, the which shall geue,
Pardon of sinne, to all that will beleue.
He is the Sacrament: and lambe Paschall,
That oues for all, hath made ane offring:
Leuit. 18 Deu [...]. 21. Psal. 4 [...] Heb. 1. Gal. 3.
His precious bloode, hath ransoued vs all,
He was for vs curst: and on an ecoce did hing:
That curse till vs, he chainged in blessing.
And to saue his elect, for verye loue,
He gaue him selfe, to death for their behoue.
And from the dead▪ to life he roise againe,
In to his naturall bodie sensible,
Ioh. 21.
Syne to his Apostles appeared plaine,
Mar. 16.
That they might all see, his bodie visible,
Syne to his Father, that is inuisible,
He ascended from them, thogh they did murne:
Act. 1.
And promest, at the last daye for to returne.
In that same bodie, that he rose from deid,
Which bodie, doeth remane in heauen alwaye,
And sitteth on Godds right hand, as saith y e creid,
Heb. 1 [...] ▪
And shall not steir, nor moue, as Paull doeth saye,
Whill the last trompet sound, at domesdaye,
If it so be, fleshe nor eye corruptable?
May not himse, which is vncorruptable.
Nor yet their is no mouth, nor hand mortall
Nor y t marchantes, thereof thoght they be wraith,
May [...]at or touch [...] his bodie naturall,
But all the faithfull, as the Scripture saith,
Do [...]at his [...]l [...]she, and drink his blood in faith,
And till he come, hath left that ordinance:
In s [...]gne of his death, and our deliuerance.
As for the obla [...]ion [...], and sacrifice▪
Malac. 1.
Offred by Chānons, Mōckes, Priestes: & Freris,
For quick, and dead, founded on auarice,
[...]see. 5.
Their Sacrifice, in Godd [...]s sight apperis,
As clothe polluted, cum menstruo mul [...]eris.
W [...]o will not couf [...]ss [...] ▪ all readie that Christ:
Is come in fleshe he is, ane A [...]techrist.
[...]. Ioh. 4
They dèny Christ, those fals Prophetes prophane,
S [...]ice he is come, bothe d [...]ad and buried,
Heb. 9.
That will h [...]n newlinges, slay and kill agane,
[...]al. 2.
The Sacrifice of the olde Law pacified:
Th [...] father, whill his Sonne was sacrified.
[...]om. [...].
Which is come, and off [...]d ons for all,
[...]b. 10.
But [...]ce that he is com [...], as saith samet Paull:
And for our sinnes, hath su [...]red passione,
S [...]ing that he, is rissin and gloufied,
Idem.
The fath [...]r, will no n [...]we oblatione.
He will be no [...] adored, and ma [...]nifie [...]
Christ will no more, for [...]innes b [...] sacrified,
He will now be lou [...]d feard s [...]rued and dred:
And will no more, with Sacrifice be fed.
It is onelie thou, o Iesu Christ my Lord,
It is thou, o sweit Lambe immaculat,
1. Ioh. 2.
I pray the Lord, to be misericord:
1. Tim. 2
And thogh, that I shuld be vituperat,
Of all my freindes, and excommunicat:
[...]oh. 16. Rom. 7.
Scorged, scorned: imprisoned and blamed,
Yet of thy worde shall I not be eschamed.
But I shall boldlie say, in euerie steid,
And confesse before men, bothe morne and euen,
Act. 4.
That their is none other, can giue remeid,
Nor yet none other name, in earth nor heauen:
Luc. 20.
That for saluatione, is to mankinde geuen,
1. Pet. 2.
Nor grace, nor life, that can till vs inswe,
But onelie, in the name of Christ Ieswe.
Act. 4.
And yet til al them, that his word doeth mock,
And dailie do, their owne traditiones houlde
Mat. 21.
He his an stumbling stone, and snapring block,
Psal. 118
To all that wold entre, in his shepe foulde,
By an other way, nor him selfe hathe toulde,
Ioh. 10.
To them that s [...]kes, by inuentions subtiles:
Esa. [...]8.
To saue them, by their workes inutiles.
Ye that your owne good, intentes estemes,
Idem.
To seke the word of God, that is so sweir,
Arise and walk, forthe of your sliprie dremes,
In slepe ye are charged, and may not steir,
Ephes. 5
With heauie burdinges, impossible to beir:
Mat. 23.
So that an greate f [...]bure, moued with heit,
Hath sur [...]mont [...]d, your senses and yur spreit.
Esa. 16.
Which makes you raif, & saye ye wait not what,
Os [...]c [...], & [...].
That Goddes worde, & holie Scripture blames,
An thousand thinges, againes y e trueth God wat,
A walk, [...]orthe of your [...]ilthie dr [...]ames uifames,
And vse the counsell, of the Apostle Iames:
[...]ho that hathe faute, of sapi [...]nce saith he,
[...]acob. 1.
Let aske of God, which geueth aboundantke.
To euerie man, and doeth none decea [...]e,
Nor yet no kinde of natione, will he lack,
[...]oh. 10.
What thing ye ask in faith ye shall it haue,
Come all that will repent, and be not slak,
Mat. 9.
That he may take the burdinges of your back:
He is our Lord, our Sauiour and Maister,
He makes the wound, syne setteth on the plaister▪
At his owne pleasure, and not at our will,
None of vs, are found iuste, afore his face,
Rom. [...].
Our owne nature, can wirke no good but ill
If we haue goodnes, it is not of our race:
Ephe. [...].
Nor yet of our selues, but by Goddes grace,
By his grace, I which was an oliue wilde:
Is grafted in faith, and become his childe.
Rom. 11.
Participant of the free oliue faire,
Where I was before, bastard and none other,
Idem.
He ha [...]he me made, his lauchfull sonne and aire:
And [...]ik partaker, with my eld [...]st brother,
Luc. 15.
Where I had but an concubine to mother,
And come last to laubour, in the wyne,
Yet with the first, I gat my iuste propyne.
Mat. 2 [...].
[...]
[...]
[...]
That blindes the worlde, with hi [...]: [...]:
[...] [...]
Be mercifull to him, and let him se,
And persaue, his owne preuarication [...]:
Where with he blindeth, all bind of nationes.
I lose my tyme, for so he will not with,
For that vngodlie beast, is no renieid,
Is he not cheif? of his vnknowne kirk:
1. Ioh. [...]
Sainct Iohn in his epistle, biddeth me take heid,
Their is saith he, an certaine sinne to deid,
For the which sinne I wishe no man to praye:
The beast cōmitteth y e sinne, bothe night & daye.
I meine the sinne, against the holie [...]pr [...]it,
Heb. 6, & 10.
With that sinne no man ought to play nor bou [...]d,
To pray for Goddes [...]oo, it is not meit,
He is his [...]oo, that [...]oo is till his word,
Rom. 11.
That ouer al where, with paines fyre and sword,
Prouer. 2 [...].
Doeth seke to slay, and persecute expresse:
All them that will, trwelie that word confesse.
Lord frie vs, from his constitutiones,
And do not suf [...]re, thine elect to fall,
Ioh. 17. Esa. 3. Os [...] 12.
In the pit, of his deuilishe traditiones,
Which holdē hathe so long, thy Churche in thrall,
By his inuentiones Diabolicall:
Eiect him forthe and all his, euen and od,
2. Tes. 2.
The forlorue sonne, that in the temple of God.
[...] him self h [...]h rong, east west & South,
And [...] world, after his solie [...],
Thou [...], with the spirit of thy mouth,
For till [...], and kill that Antechrist:
2. Tes. [...].
For his presuming equalitie with Christ,
The refulgent splendour, of thy comming:
Shall sone to darknes driue that beast maling.
Then shall the heauie burdinges importables,
Of mennes doctrines and their vaine command,
Alleged in their lawes deceiueables,
Mat. 2 [...].
That none but them selues, could vnderstand,
Luc. 11.
Where with the consciēce, of simple mē they band,
Then shall their superstitiones in an stound,
With mekil shame: be broght vnto the ground,
Apoc. 20
Then shal the word of God: be shawn compleit,
Apoc. 7.
Which shall darken, the doctrine of the hure
Ioh. 4.
And God him self, adored in saith and Spirit,
But not in images nor painted portrature:
Which are against the Law, and the Scripture,
To make any kind of similitude:
Deut. 4.
In heauen nor earth, in water sea nor slude.
Nor till worship the werk, of mennes handes,
But to set all idolatrie asyde:
As thow may planelie read, in the commandes:
Exod. 20
Who maketh them, or in them doeth confide,
Shall with them all in Goddes wrath abide,
Who worsheppes images, it is no bourd,
Let them allone, and follow Goddes word.
Psal. 11 [...].
[...] worsheppes idoles [...],
[...].
[...], nor ca [...] he [...] with [...]:
And in God [...]e [...] sight, no [...] he,
By this, ye may plainelie [...] [...]
All doctrine vaine, that sounded is by men,
Luc. 15.
Come saith Christ, all ye my aduersairs,
Mat. 11.
To my trew worde and seke your necessairs.
Come seke your health, & als the Lords renoū,
Deut. 5, & 17.
And vse no more, the folie of your braue:
As is written, in Deuteronomium,
If the wicked in vice, will still remane:
Then shall I still agment, his wo and pane,
But he that loueth me, him shall I defend,
Eccle. 19
Against all them, that darre him vilipend.
Againes kinges, realmes and gouernoures,
That of their power, and their puissa [...]ce bos [...]s,
Iosu [...] 1.
Againes strengthes, castelles, townes & toures,
I shall them curage, in all contries & cos [...]es,
That they shall fear, none but the Lord of h [...]s,
They shall be my belouittes euerie whair,
Apoc. 21.
And I shall be their God, for euer mair.
They shal build on me, & I shall be there groūd,
I am the stable rock, that will not steir▪
1. Cor. 2.
Then may they say, with feruent faith profound,
Esa. 52.
Sen God is my defence, I do not feir,
That man can wirk me wo, or do me deir,
Psal. 117
Who can then be againes vs, late or air:
Rom. 8,
Sen God hath done him selfe for vs declair.
[...] hath brokē for vs, [...]he [...] h [...]ld,
[...] 3.
And [...] hurl [...]d, [...]
[...]
[...] [...]0
Agan [...]s [...]he Lordes [...] or them cond [...]mpne:
For his chosen are saued, by the lambe:
Which lambe is he, that doeth vs iusti [...]ie
Rom. [...].
And his iustice, ou [...] fleshe doeth mortifio.
Their is nothing, but goodnes with the Lord,
In him their is, no condempnatione,
Idem.
But all charite, and misericord:
And if we chance, to fall in vexatione,
1. Cor. 10
The end shalbe good, of our temptatione:
How can ye [...]xcuse your monstoures infect?
That to the death deliu [...]res his elect.
Eccle. 41
The pit t [...]t ye do, for vs dig and delu [...],
[...]s did fal [...] [...]man for Mordoch [...]us::
Is that same pit, where ye shall fall your selue,
Wicked Haman, s [...]p [...]r be and glorious:
Esor. 7.
Did sig [...]ifie, olde Satan venemous,
Esther and onelie, Christes trwe elect,
King assuerus, God that wold them not elect.
It is well known, how ye haue done misgide,
Iere 32.
What through your ignorāce, & what through ire,
The blind world, that in you doeth conside,
Ezec. 34▪ Z [...]ch. 10.
For all is but blindnes, that ye require:
Who sekes the light, ye do them burne with fyre,
What? for the fleshe the mater is but small,
M [...]t. 20.
Ye haue no puissance, ouer the Spirit nor saull.
The [...] of [...]k one, ye do oppresse,
That [...]or the Gospelles sake is dreuen to deid:
To Goddes glorie▪ one thousand doeth incress [...],
Gamaliell in the Actes ye may reid,
Act. 5.
Gaue you wise counsell, if you wolde take held:
When that they preached, at Ierusalem,
Saying, if that their doctrine be of men.
Their doctrine can not laste, I you assure,
But in short tyme, shall vanishe as an bourd:
And if it be of God, It shall indure,
Iden.
The Apostles doctrine was Goddes wourd,
But your doctrine, is fagott fyre and swourd:
For till distroy, and put all to confutione,
Iere. 10.
Who will not draw, the yock of your abusione.
Thogh ye vs persecut, withoutten pietie,
Mat. 10.
Yet Iesus Christ, hathe by his prouidence:
Commanded vs to slie, from towne to c [...]ti [...]
To void your furie, and your negligence:
Apoc. 17
Whill tyme approche, of Goddes prescience,
For your abusione, beginnes now to appeir,
1. Ioh. 2.
Before all them that haue, the lantern cleir.
Of Goddes worde, how ye wilde asses rude,
With wholsome heirbes, y t n [...]er was acqu [...]nted,
Esa. [...]2.
Hathe now vsurped, the pastures and the f [...]de,
Of the good s [...]ock, of Goddes owne anointed:
Whill the tyme be runne, that is appointed,
O holie Spirit, p [...]yssant consolatore:
Ioh. 14.
Come, be gouernour and cike translatore:
Of the poore world, that leueth in ignorance,
Deut. 1 [...]
And is onelie, on their owne mindes mused:
Esa. 6.
That ignorance, be not there esperance,
Thogh they haue bene, these manye yeres cō [...]used,
Mar. 6.
And with sals doctrine, this long tyme abused:
Yet let thy electione, alway [...] [...]btene,
Psal. 6.
That which thy iustice, may no way preuene.
Rom. 11.
And rather make it, to all nationes plane,
That they may knowe, their blindnes and arrise:
Psal. 60. 1▪ Cor. 1, & [...].
How worldlie wit, and wisdome is but vane,
Sen God hath said, the poore that ye dispryse,
Yet shall their foolishnes, confound the wise,
Not with highnes, nor gloir as writeth Paull,
Nor with no or [...]at speche rhetoricall.
But in the puissance, of Christ crucified,
Idem.
And not by mannes witt: nor his prudence,
For mannes wisdome, hathe not vs purisied:
Sain [...]t Paull preched, none other sapience,
But the high mysteries, of Goddes prescience,
Vnknowen to pr [...]lattes, that for auarice:
Gal. 3.
Of gold or siluer, giftes or benefice:
Wold the ignorant world, to them draw,
Malach. 2, & 3.
And doeth thereof, the whole riches posseid,
And with that strength, defendes their rite & law,
They will ouer princes reigne, in euery steid,
And will not to the worde of Paull take held,
Phil. 3.
Saying, in compair of the worde deuine:
I do esteme the rest, but filthe and slime.
I haue not whereof, to boist I grant,
But of the manye stripes, that I haue wonn▪
[...]al. 6.
O God forbid, that I my self do vant
But in Christes croce, as first I haue begonne,
To preache his word, whil that my glas be gonne
I haue no gloir, nor none I will me take,
But where as I haue thoild for Christes sake.
Who that is persecute, for Christes Loy [...],
God, that the heartes of the faithfull tryes,
Ma [...]. 10.
Shall their persute, tourne till eternall ioye:
For who will be (saith Paul) discreit or wyse
Muste at all tyme, their owne wisdome dispryse.
Praying to God, cont [...]nuall all and some:
1. Cor. 3.
That they may fooles and idiottes become.
For worldlie wisdome, will neuer be content,
Nor neuer will, the fleshe persuade nor tiste:
Mat. 16.
To thoill the earthlie wo, and paines present,
To them that trweli [...] hes made, an faithfull triste,
1. Ioh. 2.
To walk after the will: of Iesus Christe,
For they muste, or they entre in the gloir,
[...]. Tim. 3 Ma [...]. 10.
Pas through that pathe, their master past befoir.
Paull writand, as the holie Spirit him taught,
Of the diuine nature supernaturall,
Vnto the Romains in the theptour aught,
How God the Father, frome the originall,
[...] [...].
Hath knawne the faithfull: and elect them all,
To be like the form, and image euer mair:
Of Iesus Christ, the Sonne of God preclair.
Faithfull Christians, what demand ye more,
Since God hathe giuen to you suche conforting:
1. Ioh. 3.
Is their more gre [...]ter honour, land and gloir:
As to be portrait, in euerie kinde of thing,
To Iesus Christ, the Sonne of God our King,
Col. 3.
At the last day, with Christ our Master deir,
Like to him self (saith Iohn) we shall appeir.
Christ saith, who that wold my disciple be,
Forsake him self, againes the worlde stryue:
Luc. 9.
Take vp my croce, and beir it after me,
I grant ther is no creature, on lyue,
But they wold all be saued, man and wyfe,
Mat. 10.
I confesse, all wold reigne with Christ in blis
But sewe are like, the Sonne of God in this.
The Sonne of God, our Master or he rang,
Receaued humilitie, and abhorred pryde:
Mat. 2. Luc. 22.
Was crucified, and tholed paines strang,
And durst not long, in to no place abyde,
Baneist, and had no hole, his heid to hide:
Ioh. 8.
He was blasphemed, they said say we not weill,
Away Samaritane possessed with the deill.
For who wold be like, the Sonne of God,
Like him must shape, their cleathing & their weid,
Col. 3.
Syne bear his croce, through euerie pathe & rod:
Mat. 16.
If we wold reigne, vncrucified in deid,
We are not like to Christ, our cheffe and heid,
Mar. 8.
God haith ordained, all that with Christ shal ring:
Luc. 9.
For to be like to Christ, in euerie thing.
Their is no waye, to entre in to gloir,
Rom. [...].
Their is no helpe, their is none other choise:
[...]uc. 9.
But as the Sonne of God, hathe gone be [...]oir,
He is the waye, his shepe they hear his voise,
Ioh. 10.
They follow him, thy bear his marke and croise:
Esa. 50.
God the Father, in his counsell deuine,
Determined, by suff [...]ing woo and pine:
That Iesu Christ, shoulde entre in repose,
Since the diuinitie, did so decreit,
Esa. 62.
So it behoued, this blessed heauenlie rose:
Shoulde suffre death, to make the worke cōpleit,
As God the Father, had ordained in Spreit,
Some saith y t the Scripture: & Prophettes trwe,
Luc. 9.
Spake and meined, but onelie of Christ Iesu.
I answer, the prouidence eternall,
Ephes. 1.
Before the worlde, as now it sees and saw,
Comprehending, all thinges vniuersall:
1. Cor. 11.
The cermonicall, Scriptures ye knaw,
Col. 1.
Are finished in Christ, end of the Law.
But yet the Scriptures, follow vpon vs:
Rom. 8.
That are membres of his Sonne Christ Iesus.
The holie Spirit (of God) saith Paull expresse,
That wirketh daye and night, for our behoue,
To our spirit, beareth record and witnesse,
That we are children, of the Lord aboue,
Also coheritoures, with Christ throw loue,
(Saith Paull) if we suffre with him in deid:
We shall be also, with him glorifeid.
Except we suffre, and our selues dant,
The holie Spirit, maketh narratione,
Mat. 20.
We shall no wayes, be participant,
Mar. 10.
Of Iesus Christes death, and passione.
Except we bear, the croce of tribulatione,
2. Tim. 2
If we think shame, his croce to bear and take:
Likewise saith Paull, he will vs clene forsake.
In to the Leuitt Law, God gaue cōmand,
Leuit. 2.
To all Israell, that they should neuer tyre,
To salt all sacrifice, and all offrand,
But in the nynt of marke, Christ doeth require,
His seruandes, to be seasoned with fyre,
Mar. 9.
If they will be, of his religione:
To salt them selues, with persecutione.
Prepair you, o vnfeinzeid Christians,
To passe, se that ye be all readie drest,
1. Cor. 3.
This purgatore, to the Corrinthians,
That Paull in to, the thrid theptour exprest,
Where euerie work, shall be manifest,
In the daye of temptatione, and of yre:
The croce of tribula [...]ione, is that fyre.
That fyre shall trie, our work [...]s euen and od,
Id [...]m.
To riche nor poore, it will haue no respect,
Their shall be sene, who is like y e Sonne of God,
Ioh. 16.
It is neidefull, that all the faithfull Sect,
2. Tim. 3
Be tryed by fyre, that are his trwe el [...]ct:
As were all they, that loued Christes Impyre:
Iud. 8.
Proued and tryed, by that fellone fyre.
Abell the iuste, by his owne brother Cain,
Gen. 4, & 7.
Thogh he offended him, in to no caice,
Was he not put to death, by him and slaine?
Noye with all kind of soules, and beastes raice,
Was closed on the sea, an yeres spaice,
Abraham, father of all fidelitie,
Rom. 4.
Had he not dailie, great aduersitie?
When sundrie tymes, for dreddour of his life,
Gen. 12, 14, 20, 22 & 23.
For hongare, famine, and tribulatione,
Behoued to denie, his propre wise,
Loth in Sodome, had great v [...]xatione,
Isaac, had he not great temptatione?
When his father, obeying Goddes' commande,
Vpon an altar, lyke one lambe him band,
To cut his neck, all readie was an knyfe,
Whill that his fa [...]her, persaued well and saw,
That Goddes Angell, came to saue his lyfe,
Twentie yeres, durst not Iacob, ye knaw,
Gen. 27. & 17.
Come to Canaan, for feir of Esaw,
Iosephes owne brethren, put him in an caue:
And syne him solde, in Egypt for an slaue.
Where his masters, accused him in dispite,
And into prisone impetiouslie was donne,
Gen. 39.
For not fulfilling: of her appetite,
Moyses walde rather, with Godds people wōne,
Exod. 12
Nor to be called, king Pharoes daughters sonne.
Heb. 11.
Moyses, thy Spirit before did clearlie se:
Where Salomon said, it were better be.
With the humble, in paines and distresse,
Nor with the glorious, bothe night and daye,
Prouer. 16.
To parte bushelles of gold, and great richesse▪
Iossue, that still did the Lord obaye,
At whose request, the Soune for him did staye,
What tribulatione, had he, or he wan?
Iosu. 10.
The land of promesse, called Canaan.
Godlie Debora, what she tholed in eard,
Iud. 4.
When vnderneth, y e palme trie was her luges,
Beholde and read, in Iudicum the feard,
Iud. 7.
What Gideou suffred, with smale refuges,
I do report me: to the book of Iudges,
What petious paines, had Iephteth Gilead [...]it?
When he: his onelie daughter sacrifest.
Iud. 11.
Samsone, blessed of God omnipotent,
Iudi. 13, & 14.
Nazarien, that oynted was with oyle:
And for his strength, Messias did present,
Had he not, persecutione paine and dule?
They brest his eyne, and vsed him as an fule,
Idem 16
Dauid prince of Prophettes, in Spirit exparte:
That God did chese, after his verie hart.
Againes Saull, the moste part of his lyfe,
1. Sam. 19, 22, 23.
In woddes, in willdernes: and great exile,
He had but persecutione, paine and strife,
After Saull, Absolou within a [...] while,
His father chaist, and did his bed defile,
Dauid su [...]fred, all these probationes,
2. Sam. 15.
Without murmour, or exclamationes.
Welcome he said, welcome thy holie will,
Thy pleasure mot all waye, in me be planted,
1. Sam. 26.
I haue su [...]fred, and readie to su [...]fre still,
O worde deuine, o outward man well danted,
O faith and hope, in till an heart well hanted.
When Samuell, by prophecie deuine:
Declared till Eli, his great ruine.
Eli said, is he not master principall?
2. Sam. 3
His wayes are iust, and full of equitie,
His will mot be fulfilled, on vs all,
Iob. 3.
Tobie for afflictione, nor miserie:
He neuer left, the waye of veritie.
Patient Iob: to thy booke I me reporte,
Iob▪ 23.
If thou hast past, this fyre in double sorte.
What shall I saye, what Prophet now let see?
What righteous man, that to the trueth is geuen?
Hathe shawn the worde of God, and scapit free,
In the actes, for witnes I take sainet Steuen,
Act. 7.
Saying these wordes, in the cheptour seuen,
Which of the Prophettes, that ye in writt of reid?
Hathe not your Fathers persecute till d [...]id.
Like as they did, none of the Prophets spair,
But for to slay them, thoght it sport and bourde,
M [...]t. 4▪ [...] 17.
So did they Iohn, that Prophet was and mait,
Euen as the eunemies, of Goddes holie wourd,
From the beginning, with knife fyre and swourd,
As they his seruandes vsed, with death and Rod:
So haue they done, the verie Sonne of God.
1. T [...]s. [...].
Since God the Father, in his proper persone,
Hath not forborne, but thoght it right and skill,
Rom. 8.
That Iesus Christ, his dear and onelie so [...]e,
Shoulde suffre death, the Scriptures to fulfill,
Ma [...]. 15.
That wicked mē, might wirk on him their will,
Thus if we start, for punishment vntrue:
Mat. 10.
We are not like our master Christ Iesu.
No seruand should, disdane nor yet abhore,
When with licence, at table set he is,
Ibem.
To drink such drink: as drank his Lord before,
Ioh. 15.
For no disciple, nor no seruand I wis,
Is greater nor his Lord, and Master is:
Mat. 12.
If Belzebub, they did the master call,
How mekill more, his houshold seruandes all.
Luc. 11.
The enemies, of Goddes word are borne,
2. Cor. 11
For till rewarde, with croce and double hire,
The postles as, the Prophettes was beforne,
To be like Christ, Paull thou had great desire,
Thou was oft purged, and cleuged in that fyre,
When thou receaued, with stoūdes and distresse:
Act. 14.
Two hundreth woūdes, sauing one wound lesse.
They scourged thy bodie thre tymes attones,
2. Cor. 11
Thy spirit in patience, still it did abound,
Thou was left for dead, & stoned was w t stones,
Act. 16, 14, & 21.
And was thre tymes, in daingere to be dround,
Thou was at List rasnapped, whil thou swound,
In dangere of th [...]ues molestatione:
And in great trouble, with those of thy natione.
With false brethren, in daingers many solde,
[...]. Cor. 11
Be land be sea, in ceties not a few,
Act. 27.
With nakednes, in hongare thrist and colde,
For all these paines, thou said o postle trew,
I gloir, in to the croce of Christ Iesu,
And still thou bair, that croce preaching y e worde:
Gal. 6.
Whill for the same, thy life lost by the sworde.
From age to age, the faithfull lost their liues,
From reigne till reigne, such mercie did them len,
1. T [...]ss. 2.
And gat such grace, as did the prematiues,
Vnto to this daye, was persecute ye ken,
How many trwe and faithfull Christiane men?
Of Scotland borne good men and well leuand,
Had then this croce, vpon their backes bearand.
Scatered, with greuous tribulationes,
And hated, for the worde of lucent light,
Throw all cuntrees, realmes and nationes,
1. Cor. 4.
With patience, louing the Lord of might:
With faith and hope lik one as Christes knight,
Feghting with force againes their foes fell:
Gal. 5.
I meine, the fleshe, the worlde, the deuill and hell.
Thy flesh, may not these soir assaultes gainstād,
For it is filthie, fragill and indiscreit,
Except it be well armed, fote and hand,
Proceding, from the inward man and spreit:
Ephe. 6.
With godlie armour, for mannes saull most meit,
Who wold right arme, a knight y e price to winne:
At his solretz for seuthe he should beginne.
Thy s [...]e must be prepaired, and readie shood,
And [...] no shame, before [...]inces nor kin [...],
For till [...], the trwe Gospell of God,
Rom. [...].
Which is the Euāgell, of peace & glaid tythinges:
That health and life, vnto the faithfull bringes.
Ephe. 6.
Thy brest muste bear, the plate of righteousnes:
And tarie by the trueth, for all distres.
The Spirit of God, shall the make narratione,
Rom. 8. 1. Tess. 5. Esa. 59. Ephe. 6. Heb. 4. Apoc. 19.
When that thy helme, hath biddin the fyre & past,
That it shall shine vnto saluatione,
At all tymes thou must bind thy bodie fast,
With belt of trueth, that euer more shall last,
Thy two edged sworde, that no Papist may bide,
Shall be Goddes word, that sheres on ether side.
For thy defence, against all ire and wraith,
To kep [...] the dartes, of the deuill vntrewe,
Ephe. 6.
Bear hie on high, the targe and sheild of faith,
Where must be written, w t lettres freshe of hewe,
1. Tess. 5.
The Testamentes, the olde bu [...] and the newe,
To quenche and slocken, the fyrie dartes fell,
Of Satanas the olde seigneoure of h [...]ll.
About thy targe, must written be also,
Ephe. 2.
I meine at the foure corners seuerall,
Per fidem saluabitur omnis caro.
With charitie, the mother of vertues all,
That suremonteth hope, and faith perpetuall,
Throw this armoure, I make the sure and plane,
Their can no man, be murdrest hurte nor slane.
1. Cor. 13
To the last daye, and houre thou may not tire
Mat. 20. Marc. 8. Luk. 6. [...]. Collo. [...].
To bear the croce, and follow Christ Iesu,
To pas and repas, throw this fellone fire,
The olde and outward man, for till subdew,
And aye rub of his roust, to make him new,
Do diligence, to fordge him fote and hand,
To be obeying, at the spreittes command.
When thou hast foghen, w t him on sindrie wyse,
And he rebell, yet whil he all be worne,
Phill. [...].
Beginne a newe to feght, and winne the pryse,
Which is the crowne of lyfe, is the be forne:
Prepaird for the (o knight) or thou wast borne.
Apo. 1. Collo. 1.
If thou contenew constant to the end,
This armoure shall from Satan the defend.
I am assured, that mine eyes shall see,
Amanges the Sainctes, and Angel les glorious,
Thy bodie cled, with immortalitie,
Phill. 2.
And on thy head an crowne victorious,
In newe Ierusalem before the Lord thy spous,
Where thou shall reigne, in liknes euer maire:
To Iesus Christ, the Sonne of God and aire.

Non est mortale quod opto.

FINIS.

❧ The Lord [...] [...].

O [...] father God, which [...] in heauēs [...]
Thy holie Name be blest, for euermoir.
Thy kingdome come, thy will perpetuallie,
Be done in earth, as is in heauen with the.
Be gratious to vs, good Lord at neid:
Giue vs this day, our foode and dailie breid.
Forgiue our sinnes, and our wickednes,
As we do them, that doeth vs oppres.
Let vs not fall, into temptatione,
But vs defend, for Christis passione.
And saue vs Lord, from all maner of ill,
According to thy pleasure, and thy will.
For strength and might, perteneth onelie to th [...].
To whom be gloir, and prais eternallie.

So be it.

❧ The 12. articles of our beleū.

I Trow in God, the Father, Lord of all,
That made the earth, and heauen celestiall.
And in Christ Iesu, his onelie Sonne most sweit,
Our Lord, consaued by the holie Spreit.
And of the blissed, virgin Marie borne,
By Pilat falslie iudged, rent and torne.
Crucified dead, syne laid in buriall,
Descended to the helles, infernall.
From death to lyfe, he rose on the thrid day,
Ascended to the heauen, where he alway.
Doeth sit on the right hand, of God celest,
Where bodilie he doeth, [...]emane and rest.
[...]t the last day from thence, shal come with speid,
Iustlie to iudge, the leuing and the deid.
I beleue in the holie Spre [...]t,
Their is, an Church of God discreit.
Of holie sainctes communione,
And of our sinnes, remissione.
The rising, of the fleshe mortall,
And after, lyfe perpetual [...].
In this faith, I for euermore,
Will trust thogh I should die theirfore.

So be it.

❧ The ten Commandementes.

LIft vp your heartes, oppen your eares.
Hard harted people, for till heir,
The word of God, that now appeares,
And his, Commandementes leir.
I am thy God, celestiall,
From seruitude, deliuered the.
Thou shall not haue, therefore at all,
No other goddes, but onelie me.
No image to the, make thou shall,
Painted nor carued, curious.
Nor on thy knees, before them fall,
For I thy Lord, am ielious.
His Holie name, most venerable,
Take not in vaine, nor it dispryse
For God will [...], [...] culp [...],
That him bl [...]sph [...]mes, in any wyse
Sex dayes wirk, but on the seuen,
Rest thou, thy seruand, and thy beast.
For that ylk day, the God of heauen,
Reposed▪ and his workes blest.
Father and mother, honour aye,
That thou may, long the earth posses
And so the ground, to the alway,
Her frutes shall yeild, w t great Incres.
In couatice, desire thou noght,
Frome thy nighbour, by thoght nor stryfe.
That which is his, or he hath boght,
His beast, his seruand, nor his wyfe.
Be no man killer, nor homicid,
Adulterar, nor witnes fals.
Be not an these, in thoght nor deid,
No sclanderare, nor lier als.
O Lord: thy wordes, of efficace,
Are clearer, nor the somers day.
Intill our heartes, Imprint thy grace,
After this law, the to obay.

So be it

❧ Grace before dynner.

O Souerane, Lord, Pastour and heid
Loke and behold, this compangnie.
Of thy goodes, suffre vs to feid,
And vse our selues, soberlie.
Without excesse, or glouttonie,
For who that doeth, the fear and dreid.
Thou takes thought, on them dailie,
Their bodies, for to cleith and feid.

So be it.

❧ Grace after dynner▪

O Lord that gaue, vs in command,
To take no thoght, for the nixt daye.
For this, that we do vnderstand,
Thou feidis vs, we prayse, the aye.
Since it hath pleased, the alwaye,
With meat and drinke, to feid our fleshe.
So with the bread of lyfe, we praye,
Thou will our sinfull, soules refreshe.

So be it.

❧ The Pellicane [...]iguring Iesus Christ.

THe Pellicane, of the forest celest,
Amonges his workes, notable and new,
After the heauen, the Angelles, and the rest.
He made his birdes, of diuers sindrie hew.
Allone them left, and sine awaye he flewe,
And gaue them, their [...]rewill and libertie,
In to the forest of Parradice to be.
Where that the tre of lyfe, it grew and stude,
Set by the Pellicane, of humilitie.
To saue his birdes, that spared not his blud.
But as they sang, sweit and melodious,
Into that wood, as plesand nightingailles,
An fouler false: vgsume and odious.
Their with his nettes and girnes soir assailles.
Syne baneist them, the gairdings & the vailles,
Because till ouer high frute, they did pretend,
To wilsome vailles & dailles, thē were they send,
Where they remaned, long in seruitude,
Abiding the Pellicane their mis for till amend.
To saue his birdes, that spared not his blude.
Down from the wood of Angelles bright & cleir,
This Pellicane for loue, did swiftlie flie,
Where he [...]and Rawens, did his smal birdes, deir.
And shed his blood, in streimes [...]rwellie.
Withoutten reuth, this Pellicane, they gart die,
Denud of mercie, they did him rug and ryue,
With patience to death, he thoild them driue.
His faltles fleshe, because their was no [...]ude,
Nor medicicine, could saue his birdes lyue.
Whill from his tendre heart, they re [...]t his blud.
The Rauens, at the Iewes full of feid,
Vniustlie put, this Pellicane to deid.
Which doeth betoken, Christ both God and man,
The birdes, are the creatures humane.
The fals fouler, the laithlie serpent rude,
That gart misknow, the heauenlie Pellicane.
To saue his birdes, that spared not his blude.
O Iesu Christ, my Lord so sweit,
That for me, vile sinner indigne,
Thou suffred, from the heid to feit.
Thy bodie, for till scorge and ding.
Thy face ouerspred, with foull spitting,
In to deris [...]one, with great skorne,
Syne on thy head, did thrust and thring.
An kene and crwell, pricking thorne.
To saue me sinner, full of vice,
Thou was, the obligatione,
Thou made the contract, and the price.
That thou should, suffce passione.
To saue me, frome dampnatione,
That was prepared, for Adames seid,
Frome hell, vnto saluatione.
Thou boght me, with thy pretious deid.
I know, Iesus thy patience,
Hath borne, my great fragilitie,
My sinnes, eik and my offence.
Thou bure them, to the death with the.
Since thou hes borne suche loue to me,
and su [...]fred hast such paines fell,
To saly, ray death and miserie,
That spared not, to die thy sell
Lord I the pray, with heart and minde,
Lay not to me, my sinfulnes,
Sith thou hast ben [...], to me so kinde.
And tholid h [...]s, so great distresse.
The vinagre, and bitterues,
The scourges, skornes, and the strife,
Mot fil me, with the great sweitnesse.
Of peace, and euerlasting lyfe.
Thy holie death, surmount and slaye,
The dolent dead, now of my saull,
Thy pretious blood, mot weshe awaye,
My vncleinnes, and vices all.
The sufflettes, suffred in the haull:
The bandes, that band thy handes and feit,
Mot breck now and perpetuall:
That bandes of sinne, that hurtes my spreit.
The nailles and the crown of thorne,
The spitting: the strokes and the speir,
The noddes, the shamefull death and skorne:
The wicked wordes, that thou did heir,
The heauie croce, that thou did beir.
The tormentes, of thy death crewell,
Mot draw my soule, to the full neir:
And saue me, frome the paines of hell.
Lord, thy glorificatione,
Mot clenge, my soule and my bodie,
And in the resurrectione:
Reforme my great iniquitie,
Sen I am figurat to the,
That aye shall regne perpetuum,
An leuand God, in persones thre:
In world of worldles for to cum.

❧ Ane Ballad of the spirituall: and carnall vnderstanding of Christes wordes, This is my bodie and blood, &c. Iohn. 6.

ALlone musing, as I forthe went,
An suddane slepe, did me assaye,
I thoght my spirit, was frome me rent:
Vpon the ground, where as I laye.
I heard an voyce breck forthe and saye:
Take holie Scripture spirituall,
The letter leadeth to dekaye,
The fleshe profytetes nothing at all.
In the sext of Iohne, Christ doeth saye,
The verray bread, of lyf am I:
I came frome heauen, I am the waye,
Mankind to saue, throw faith onelie,
Ye can not come to me trwelie,
Except my father do you call,
I am in him, and he in me:
The fleshe profytetes nothing at all.
Your fathers, in the wildernes,
They eat Manna, and yet are deid,
After an other kinde expres:
For [...]uthe I am the leuing breid,
Come down from heauen in to shissteid,
A am the bread celestiall
My word throw faith, it doeth you feid,
The fleshe prosfeites nothing at all.
Except ye eat, beleue and trow,
August. in sermone ad in­ [...]uttes.
In my bodie, and drink my blude,
I say ye haue, no lyfe in yow,
For my bodie, is verray fude:
Right so is drink, I you conclude,
My bloode, and take it spirituall,
For carnallie, no man can dude:
The fleshe prosfeites nothing at all.
Except ye eat, ye haue no lyfe,
My fleshe, and drink my blood he said▪
But then amonges them, grew such stryfe,
That some went back, and was affraid:
And carnallie, his wordes wraid,
Vntill their mindes sensuall:
And frome the faith, they still dekaid,
The fleshe prosfeites nothing at all.
The Disciples murmurred amang,
Now can this man, his fleshe vs giue,
But Christ knowing, their thoghtes wrang:
Saying, wherefore should this you greiue,
All thogh the Sonne of man, should meiue:
To his glorie celestiall,
The spirit quickneth, throw trwe beleue,
The fleshe prosfeitz nothing at all.
Sain [...]t Augustine, writing full plane,
Against Adamant trwelie,
How the Lord douted not to saue.
This is my blood, and my bodie,
August. contra Adaman [...]im.
When that he gaue, to his meinzie:
The signe of his bodie corporall,
To kepe his death in memorie:
The fleshe prosfeites nothing at all.
Als in an preface, doeth he saye,
Where Christ, did him self admit:
To his mandie on thuresdaye,
Saying, take you, now all and eat:
The holie sigure, of me compleit,
And of my death memoriall,
My token trwe and promesse sweit,
The fleshe prosfeites nothing at all.
This fleshe ye se, ye shall not eat▪
Nor drinck the blood, shed forth of me,
My Sacrament, is drinck and meat,
That siedes, the inwarde man trwelie,
Not for thy teith, nor thy bellie:
I am no meat materiall,
Beleue and thou hes eatten me,
The fleshe prosfeites nothing at all.
Most gratious God illumiu [...],
Our wittes waik and imp [...]ent,
Incresse our saith, so satigat:
Make worde and deid equiualent,
Our sinnes vyle, for to repent:
And lead our liues more spirituall,
According to thy testament,
Which is the fleshe, that profeites all.

❧ An [...] Ballade, vpon the prayer or orisque of [...]nasses King of Iuda, when he was led presouer [...] and captiue in Babilone▪ 2. Cron. 33.

VIth teares great, I sigh and Sob,
Bewaling my natiuitie,
O God of Abram, and Iacob,
I make my wofull plainte to the:
Bound foote and hand, with an cheinze,
As an slaue, mocked and dispist:
In presoue and captiuitie,
Soulzeit with the vncircumcist.
Thou Lord that made: the heauen on hight,
The earth, with all her instrumentes,
Thou made also, the daye and night,
The Sunne, the Monne resplendisentes,
The fyre, the aire, the elementes,
Thy worde, o Lord, and thy command:
Hath gart the heauenlie ornamentes,
In till their curse, and ordour stand.
The [...] sea, depe and prosound,
By thy vertue, which d [...]th excell,
[...]hose welicring walles, su [...]bound,
Dare not attoure, their brymmes swell▪
Their bodumis furius and fell,
Of whirling waters, stif and stark:
The Lord hath closed vp himsell,
And seald them, with his seall and mark
O fearfull God, who may withstand,
Thy feruent Ire, in any case
No sinner on the earth leuand:
Thy furie, may abide allace,
for none are iust, before thy face,
But all are sinners yong and old:
All are denude, and bare of grace,
And to the deuill: and hell are sold
I grant thou art, the Lord abone,
Of Iacob, Abram and Isac
that sinned not, as I haue done:
Nor thy commandementes brak,
But I sinner, sleuthfull and slack,
For breking thy law: and command,
[...]es heaped mo sinnes on my back:
Nor is in nombre, all the sand.
I haue prouoked thy Ire allace,
My pride and my Iniquite▪
[...]es wroght great ill before thy face:
I know their is no health in me,
I grant I [...],
And wor [...]h [...] of th [...] [...] and rod:
Because in my [...],
I wold not know, the Lord my God.
My great abhominatione,
That day and night hath done incres,
Hes bene the iust occasione,
Of all my wo and heauines,
I haue sinned I do confes:
Right greuouslie aganes the Lord,
Let not my sinne and wickednes:
Stop the to be misericord.
Yet thou hast in remembrance,
Thy promesse, and thy holie aith:
The man, that is of repentance,
To punishe him, thou art right laith,
Though thou be angrie in thy wraith:
Thou art sone pacified we ken,
When that we call, to the in faith,
For all, the wickednes of me [...].
Thogh we sinners deserue iustlie,
Dampnatione death and helles fyre,
Yet for rewarde, thy great mercie,
Hes pacified thy wraith and ire:
And promest hes thy high impire,
Frelie, to all that will conuart,
For thou doest not of vs require:
Except an trwe and faithfull hart.
For thy goodnes, no more considder,
My silthie sinnes, night nor daye,
But wipe them, all awaye to gidder:
Sith that I do, repent and praye,
I know thou castes not awaye,
No wight that will on the depend,
Nor willis nor their death no waye:
But wold that they should leaue and mend.
With knees of my heart contreit,
I kneill full law, before thy grace.
With teares distilling, that I greit,
I weshe my bailfull blaickned face,
O Good Lord, hear me in this caice,
And grant me my petitione:
And for my sinnes, not me chaice,
But gif me full remissione.
Now saue me Lord, since that I praye,
Saue me, o God, omnipotent:
And I shall loif the, night and daye,
Wh [...]ll that my lyfe, away be spent:
For all the vertues parmanent,
Of heauen, the Angelles all and some:
They prayse the, as most excellent,
In world of worldles for to come.

❧ An Ballade, against the foull and d [...]t [...]stable vice of dron [...] ­kinnesse.

ALl for douered, [...] in after drinck:
In an [...] I laye [...]
Appeared suddamlie, as I did shl [...]k,
Ould father Noye, cled in an nyce arraye:
Shaikand his beird, with asteirne voyce did saye
Of all sinnes [...]xcesse, is principall:
And bringes the bodie sonest to dekaye,
Pro. 31.
Throw droncknes, the mother of vices all.
I was the first, that wine did plant or presse,
Thinking to be, his master and his gyde,
But he deceaued me, I the confesse:
Gen. 9.
And of my Sonne, was scorned in that tyde,
Because I could not, my own secreittes hyde,
I cursed Cham my sonne, and made him thrall:
Tyll his two brethren, seruand till abyde,
Throw droncknes, the mother of vices all.
What thogh I was be gild, it was no woder,
I had no counsell, nor experience:
Ecle. 31.
But thou hast red, of many skoir and hunder,
That vine hes broght till inconuenience:
Thou can not the excuse, of ignorance,
Thou knowes their beastlie end, and brutall fall,
And yet thou followes still, the same offence:
Of droncknes, the roote of vices all.
I planted wine, for recreatione,
Of mannes heart and not him to confuse,
To drincke at tymes, with moderatione,
Ephe. 5.
The wine is good, and not for to refuse:
But not as some, hes surfetlie done vse,
Away to waught, their wittes naturall:
And with the wyne their braines till abuse,
Throw droncknes, the mother of vices all.
Thogh wyne in cupe, with cullour christalline▪
Appear right cleir, with taist melluf [...]ent,
Syne pleasa [...]dlie, down to thy breist incline,
Pro [...]. 2 [...].
I counsell the, bewar and take good tent:
His stong is worse, nor eddir or serpent,
And chaisses forth, thy secreittes cordiall,
Where wine beareth reull, all reason is absent,
Throw droncknes, the roote of vices all.
The wine, did Lot on suche an way molest,
That with his daughters twane to him vnknown
With child them gat, and did commit incest,
Throw beast lines, he did abuse his own,
Gen. 1 [...]
And of that wicked se [...]d, the which was sown,
Sprang vp an people diabolicall,
The Moabittes, and the Ammonites thrown,
Throw droncknes, the ground of vices all.
The mightie King of Assyrie Banadab:
Came in battaill with two and threttie Kinges
Accontrare Israell, and als the king Achab
But two hundreth and threttie Vnderlinges:
O [...] Israell their seruandes, and their dringes,
Assailzeit them, in their exces brutall:
Ouercame them all, and wan their great britin
In droncknes, the nouris of vices all.
E [...]ath sometime great King of Israell:
By [...]ambry his seruand, thow may reid,
The king ouercome w t wyne that tratour fell:
His maister slew▪ syne he rang in his steid,
1. Samuel. 13.
Ammon kyng Dauidis sonne, of royall seid,
At one shepeshearing bancket estuall:
By Absolon his brother was broght till deid,
In droncknes, the mother of vices all:
Of all vices, y t vice is till abhore:
So might say Holifernus lieutenand,
To the awfull king. Nabuchodonosore,
Iud [...]. 13.
After his great conquestes in euerie land:
Suche pleasure on an tyme in wine he fand,
That Iudith in his tent, with power small,
Strake of his heid & left him still bledand:
In droncknes the mother of vices all.
Right as an roustie canker; will not blin:
[...]. Cor. 6.
Whill it consume the steill, all round about,
So doeth exces, an dronckard dig within,
And delwes all reasone, clene forth of his snout:
So when this cankre, y t steill hath eattin out,
The roust is readye, to flite chide & to brall,
Then will he feght thogh he be nothing stout:
In droncknes the mother of vices all.
Exces is regent, of the sinnes sewen:
1. Cor. 6.
She is the poole, wherein they row and fleit,
No dronckard, shall haue portioune in y e heauen,
Ephe. 5.
But perishe shall, with bellie indiscreit:
Thou shuld be rather, filled with the spreit,
Gall. 5.
Vsand the doctryne, of the postle paull:
Leif sobirlie, vpone thy browes sweit,
For droncknes is mother of vices all.
Stories humane, I could an thousand shaw,
To what effect, for why we haue a new?
Of exemples in Goddes word and law,
The whiche are iust, and faithfull stories trew:
1. Cor. 6.
Into the testamentes twane boith old and new,
To shaw to the whole world vniuersall:
The great mischeif, that daylie doeth insew,
Through droncknes, the mother of vices all.
Saying these wordes, then he approched narre:
I grant thy youth, hes had sompart of wite,
But thou art happie, yf thou can be warre,
And leif that foull, and beastlie appetite:
In times past, where thou was imperfite,
For pennance thou shall haue perpetuall,
First to forbeir, and syne alwaye to write.
Aganes droncknes, the mother of vices all.
As I awoik, he lap awaye full light
For werray fear, I fell in such an trance,
That all the heares of my heid stude vp right,
When I ouercome, syne had remembrance:
How Noye, had me iniuned suche pennance:
Streght way for ink & paper did I call,
And wrait this ryme, denude of eloquence,
Aganes droncknes, the mother of vices all.
Who maid this sang, for suith I shall you tell:
Somtime an brother of Bacchus beastlie band,
[...]f ye wold know, my name is Noruell,
That serued bacchus boith by sea and land:
Whill in his seruice, so litill frute I fand,
That now I am becom [...], his foo mortall,
And shall gar abstnence bind boith foot and hand
Of droncken bacchus, the father of vices all.
Finis

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

BLindit people, fallin in fantaseis,
Seduced [...]drouned, in doctrines humane,
Why make ye me, suche pomp and obsiqueis?
Sith y t your mouthes, still exicrattes my name.
Ye curse and warie when I your freindes clame:
But when it confines, the diriges to sing,
The pridfull papistes, they do me nothing blame,
Cause gold and monie, to them I do inbring.
So by this maner, my pompes ordinair,
Amendeth moir, the leuing nor the deid,
For paynted tombes, torches doole nor cair,
They can not clenge, the soull, nor help at neid:
Their is but Christes blode, can make remeid,
By liuelie faith, which purgeth man and wyfe,
And yet but me. whom ye bear still at feid:
Ye can not entre, intil Eternall lyfe.
Thogh I be vglie, vyle and vndesyred:
Yet am I ordained, by God celestiall,
And of the faithfull, rather is requyred,
Nor this inconstant lyfe, terrestriall:
Appering sweit, is more bitter then gall,
The longer lyfe, the mo thy sinnes esteme,
It is for lack, of knowledge spirituall:
Since I the loue, that doeth me thus blaspheme.
How shall I lufe the, thou loues not thy sell:
That wold alway, into this world be sene,
And frome the gloir, so long thy self expell,
That Goddes word, hes promest fair and clene,
Thogh thou posses the earth, and sea screne:
Beautie, witt, strength, and rest wout mischeif,
Trusting the second lyfe, for tyll obteine:
Thou wold me wyshe, yf thou did so beleif.
The postle Paull: and prophettes cheritable,
Augustine Ambros, and many holie wight,
Whose liues to Goddes word, was agreable:
They thrusted after me, both day and night,
Althogh thy flesh, do striue aganst my might,
Yet for the loue, of thy Father celest
I shall the shew, how thou shall folow right,
Them that my dart, did neuer yet molest.
Pray God onelie, of his grace the to geue,
That liuelie faith, that Paull hath preched trew,
Thy lyfe syne after theme, confirme and leue:
Do de ligence, the outward man subdew,
Syne glaidlie die, to leue with Christ Iesw
Where thou shall regne, with him in ioye cōtent:
So this faith, shall the inward man renew,
Althogh thy fleshe theirto, will not consent.
Th [...] soule is fire, the bodie an tison:
Tis [...] is called an [...]yeror [...] r. [...].
The soule is heau [...]nlie, the bodie inutill,
And is but an obscure, or law preson,
Where as in laugour, lyeth the soule gentill:
Of that prison, I haue key subtill,
Which is my dart, that for the soule is geuen,
To louse it out, of that soull preson vile
Where I it send, with mekle ioy to heauen.
Holde f [...]irme thy faith, on an God vndefild,
And for thy father take him, and him call:
Ys he be so, then art thou sure his child,
Mat. 6.
And aire of his kingdome Celestiall,
Yf he hath fred the, frome death perpetuall:
Befoir or euer, thou had tyll him regaird,
Rom. 5.
Dout not, but and thou loue him cordiall,
With mekell better, he shall thy selfe rewaird.
And as concerning, the fleshes actione:
It can not liue, without sinne and delite,
Nor yet, it can not make satisfactione,
Rom. 6.
For sinne to God, wherof it had the wyte:
But right as Iesus, vpon an croce perfite;
Died for our sinnes, so most our fleshe expire,
And die with Christ, yf that we wold be quyte:
Of endles death sinne, and of Hellis fire.
Who striketh this stroke, but death thou knowest weill
So I am to all christians, man and wyfe:
The end of sinne, beginning of their seill,
The end of cair and thoght, most pungetyfe,
And the beginning, of euerlasting lyfe:
Why wold thou Aig [...]: returne to youth againe,
To pas the vaill, of woo and mortall stryfe,
Which thou hast scaped, with so mekell paine.
Yf thou will say. when I come the arreist:
That I the do great wrong, and violence,
Saying thou hast no paine, but ioy and f [...]ist,
With all delite, withoutten indigence,
I say that pleasure, turnes to impatience:
When it at length, leadeth to dampnatione,
My death is pleasure, to all hath sapience,
When ye from death, turne to saluation.
What displeasure: haue I here to the named,
To fear my dart, nay nay (I say) not so:
But for Christis sake, to suffer and be blamed,
To take in patience, truble paine and wo,
The losse of goodes: and dignities also,
Wanting pleasurs, that somtime thou had ryfe:
So dyeng vnder my dart, to pas them fio.
In place of them, shall haue Eternall lyfe
For fear of me, be not contrist nor wo:
But haue firme hope, and faith for till conforme,
The will of God, and syne let gladlie go,
Ryches and friendes, with all thesaures enorme,
For an cleir sky, betoknes that the storme:,
Will sone throw the Aire, make seperatione
Suche faith in persones, departing doeth perfor­me
Sure signes and tokens, of their trew saluatiōe.
To this effect, thou shuld not fear at length:
Iesus for vs, would first the death assay,
His death hath venquest, [...] might & stren­gth
Theirfore thinke not to dye, thogh I y e slay:
He me ouercame, to s [...]ue the frome d [...]ay,
So I am but port: and passage manifest,
That thou shuld gladlie [...]ine, throw night & day.
Frome this fals world,, to heauenlie gloir celest:
Somtyme in figure, as Scripture declair can
An brasin serpent, Moyses did raise on hight,
Which serpent to behold, did heall an man:
That had bene stonged, by [...]yrie serpents slight,
Lykewyse all they, that by trwe faith hes sight,
Of Christ is death, is heiled of my band,
As of the secound death, I haue no might,
Christ hath that pouer, rest forthe of my hand.
Great folie is, in the custome humane:
To mourne for men, when I them lay on sleip,
Yf thou beleues, he shall with God remane,
W [...]y doest thou then, lament with sighing depe:
Orwould thou here, alway on lyfe him kepe,
Will thou him frome his great profit defend:
Since it is Goddes will, thou shuld not wepe,
In doing so, I know thou doest offend.
Let pagains rore, let turkes take terrours,
That hope to haue, none other habitatione:
The lake of faith, is cause of all theare Errours,
Like Eath [...]qu [...]s ignorant, of their saluatione,
As to the black doo [...]es frequentation,
Ipocricie did shaipe, that feyned sorow,
Some for their father maketh dooll ád deplora­tione
That for their mother, wold it, weire the morrow
Messess of Requ [...], [...] excellis:
To the great profite of [...] and [...]
With rou [...]ing roring, and [...] of bellis,
Their gredines forth sheweth their wicked wa [...] ▪
For yf ye had no vailzeand to your [...]kes,
Be ye assured, that after youre deceirs,
None of the rabill, that wearres the markes:
Wyll for you ringe, or singe or say an veirs.
For the prepair, no suche solemniteis,
Nor for thy buriall, b [...] thou no wayes trist:
In Goddes sight, they are but vaniteis,
Sauitie, doeth not in earth nor tombe cōsist
An Faithfull man, shall in the heauen be blist
Where euer his fleshe or bodie buried be,
The wickits soull, shall in the hell [...]e thrist:
Thogh he were buried, whith all solemnitie.
At short to end, now with my first purpose:
Fear not me death, nor ban me I the pray,
For who wold in the heauenlie Hous repose.
Must first beleue, goddes promese I saye:
Vho wold be with his angelles, nyght & daye
Vho wold the face of God, behold and se:
And who wold dwell in paradice for aye.
Yet before all I death must gar him die.
Confesse me to be good and gratious,
For whill I come: thou art with sinne repleit,
Confesse thy lyfe bitter and Eigerous:
Confesse my dart, plesand holsome & sweit,
Also confesse and grant althogh thy spreit.
Ware mortall, as thy filthie [...] immound:
Yet shuld thou hold me as thy freiud discrte,
That [...] the, from thir wor [...]li [...] [...] pro [...]ound
FINIS

Where followeth The Iudgment of Minos. Vpon the preser­ment of Alexander the great Conque­rout. Hanniball of Carthage, and Scipion the Romain, surn­amed Affrican. [...] forth of Fray [...]ce in sco [...] ­tes by the saide Noruell.

My vailȝeant heart, full of honor & gloire
May not suffre Hāniball to pas before
Me, intill armes and dedes martiall:
For suthe I thinke no man y t is equall,
Ought in dedes of armes, for to compair:
There worthynes or actis vnto myne.
Hanniball.
I will defende, and manteyne the contrair,
Reporting me, vntill God Mynos syne:
Iudge infernall, and Lord of wo and pyite,
The aufull sworde of iustice, to mantyne:
Where ryght and reason alway shalbe seyne,
For euerie man alike bothe freind and sone,
Mynos.
That I may heare fyrst, tell to me anone,
What are ye that disputis, heare alone?
Of high honours, to haue the aduantage.
Alexandre.
This is the Duke Hanniball, of Carthag [...],
And I Alexandre the great Empriour,
Of all the world Kyng and Conquerour,
That wan, and s [...]bdwed euery Natione.
Mynos.
Your names are of great existunatione,
Worthie of honour, glorie and land supreyme:
With lawreir crowned is your diadeyme,
I meruell ye shuld, haue debaite togidder▪
Alexandre.
Bot Mynos I thinke ye shuld consider.
My birth for [...]u [...], silicitie and werde,
And how I wold, suffer no man in erde:
To be my compagnion, nor perregall,
But as the Eigle, that suremountis all.
Other foules, most highest in the aire,
So may no man, himselfe to me compaire:
In high curage, and furour bellicall:
Wherefore I will not, that this Hanniball,
Compair him self to me, in were or peace
Mynos.
It is conuenient, an of you seife:
Whill the other, haue layser and season,
In my presence, to declair his reasone.
Hanniball.
O Mynos, forsuthe, I hold the worthie,
Of high renoune, of honour land and glorie:
That is of law degree, and small puyssence,
Syne by there vertue, and there excellence.
To conques, honour and name victorious,
In dedes of armes laborious.
As I haue done, with small pouer and charge,
When that I first, departed frome Carthage:
And in Cycell went, with baners braide displaid,
Whire I toke with feirs battell, arayde
An Cietie that had, Sarrogosse to name
In the which was many an seirse Romaine
Dreuin to death: with many deadlie wounde
And maid their Cietie, equall with the ground
In feirse combat, and battell furious
I gart them stoup, thogh they were glorious.
It is known, how my notable puyssance,
Broght lawe the gloir, and great army of france.
And slewe of them many an hundreth scoir,
Of me shall be remembrance euer moir.
Not onelie for venquissinge the Gallicains,
But for my ryuing, of the great mountains:
The high-Ilpes, and rockes I rent asundour,
And their great craigges, massdned by natour.
Which is the ramfort, of all Italye:
And when I entred, with my great armye,
I gart many an stronde and many an floud,
Runne read aspait, full of the Romaine bloud:
O Mynos yf ye thinke that this be fals,
For witnes take the Pow and Tyber als:
That oft tymes I chainged, as men may reid,
Their Christa [...] waters, intill collour reid:
Syne attoure their high castellis triumphantes,
I passed, with my myghtie Elephantes.
To the walles of Rome the narrest way,
It is reason, I compt the great assaye.
The harde battailles, and chockes martians,
With my vailzeand dedes done befoir Cans,
Where I distroyed: [...]hudge quantitie,
Of Romains, and [...] their chief nobiliti [...],
In recorde of my two armes vailzeant,
And in signe, of high honour triumphant,
Of their dead finge [...]s, I gart take syne:
Thre punsions full, of gay gold ringes fyne.
And send till Carthage, in witnes of my myght,
With the feirse Romains, y t to dead was dight:
I couered the ground, and earth humeid,
With the carions, and corps of the deid:
On suche an wise, that I maid air and lait,
Brigges to pas their reuers, rede aspait.
The whole worlde, me fearde & was agast,
Moir nor for tempest: haill or thundir blast.
I gart all shaike, & trimble where I went:
All nationes in the world were content,
The title of high honor, me to resinge,
Yet in my heart, vaingloir did neuer ringe,
As this Alexander, that for occatione,
Of an vncredable, and vaine visione,
That in the night, appered to his mother,
Say and that he had, Iupiter to father,
And shuld ruell all the world with an rod:
In earth he wold be worshept as an God.
O Mynos, I am frome an sinall souldioure,
Throw vailzeandise become an conqueroure:
Carthagien, that for hap or mischance,
That paissed all alyke in an ballance.
As it is known, to the lande of Afrique,
Durand my dayes, for the weill publique:
Obeysant at all tymes, I randred me,
For their common welth, both by land & se:
With all my host for an s [...]ple commande,
Con [...]luded suddainlie, an toke on hande,
[...] waid Italie the n [...]t [...] waye:
Of my ardent curage, what shall I say?
My great tryumphe, my fame and hardines,
By my wertue, ingyne and hygh proues.
I broght till end, many an harde battaill:
Aganest the myghtiest, I did preuaill,
With my standardes, & guydons marcyens:
I neuer went aganes the Armyniens.
Nor them of Meid, for they randred them sell:
For all their armes, fairges and speres fell.
They trymbled, dredand my han [...] wictorious.
The most suparbe, was Rome the orgulous,
With hardye souldartes feirs & well feghtand,
Without in feare the best in all that land:
Had of me, an heauie mortall deluge,
Bot Mynos, as thou art an ryghtious iuge:
The eyes of Alexander, thou should considder,
When his father dyed, the realm all to gidder:
Fell in his handis, by ryght of heriditage:
Macidon him receaued, with hygh curage.
Wrapped in fauore, of amiable fortune.
That neuer was, in his actes importune.
I confesse, he put many fro there ringes:
And vinquest Darius: with many other kynges:
So was he vinquest, in his own delytes,
Be immoderat, & foulsome appetytes.
Yf that his father, followed and went:
After God Bacchus, in cheris vinolent:
So did he all, his dayes and neuer ceist,
Not like an man, bot dronckin as an beist.
Slew he not when he was dronckin, at his table?
Calesthines, phelosophre notable:
Because he said, that they shuld not exceirs:
The lawes nor cleathing, of the lande of Peirs,
In me suche vices foull and detestable:
Myght well be compted, halfe excusable,
That neuer knewe, the humain disciplynes:
Of Arrestotle, nor wholsum doctrynes.
His maister that in youthead him conduct,
Andaboue all otheres daylie him instruct:
Arrestotle him neuer left, as ye may reid,
Whill that he put, the Crown vpone his heid▪
Wherefore no man, shuld an Duke dispryse:
That hath him self, exalted on this wyse.
Regairding moir▪ honour and high proues:
Nor of all this world the whole ryches:
Mynos.
Decored are thy workes, of excellence:
Alexandre, what sayest thou forthy defence?
Alexandre.
It is not meit, to hold purpose or langage,
Aganest an man, that is full of outrage.
For my tryumph and gloir, and actis are knowne▪
With all nations, and throw the world blowne,
Who will testifie, by informatione,
That he shuld not haue reputatione,
Aboue me, for to vant or yet compair:
I may not suffre, but will defend the contrair.
For knowye Mynos: iudge full of prudence?
That in my youthead, and adolescence,
On my head, I bair an crowne inuinsible,
And w t the sherand sword, toke vēgance terrible,
On the traytours, that did my father sla:
And punished euill doers, many ma.
And not content, of the Realine that was myne,
But till conques honour, toke me wo and pyne.
Then with standards, banners & harnes cleir:
First all my nighbours, I gart quaik and feir.
In my furie, I toke the auncient towne,
Of Thebes, and to the earth, I kest it downe.
And subdwed, by my puyssance royall:
All the cieties, of Achaye and Thessall.
The Illyriens, in the feild feghtand,
Their cragges knew my sword was well sherad:
With aufull terrours, all Grece to me obayed,
By my great puissance, was Asia inwayed,
And Lybie taken, then ouer the Phais I past,
Where euer was seyne, my standardes at y e last:
On suche an wyse, thay doubted my puyssance,
That they come trymbling, whole to my obeysa­nce
My vailzeand dedes whiche I did exceirs,
I maid them known, to Darius king of Peirs.
Whiche come aganes me, with all his fors.
Of Peirsiens, an hundreth thousand hors:
And contrare me, come vnder his standardes,
Thre hūdreth thousād, foote mē hardie souldart­es
What shall I say? when we come to straikis fell,
Old Charon: that great saypper is of hell.
Had muche ado y e daye, to gyde his rother,
To ferrye them fro the one syde to the other:
I meyne y e spiretes, that I doune to him send,
Of them that did, aganes me contend.
In aufull battaill I ouercome their fors:
For all their chariottes, and bardid hors.
Aye in the hardest prese feghtand my sell,
That daye of them I send doune to the hell:
Foure skoir a thousande soules, in an stounde,
And left their bloodie bodyes, on the ground,
Their great ruyne, and woundes corporall:
Are recordes, of my victoures tryumphall.
I will not let, to compt how in myne yre,
I besieged the vailzeand town of Tyre,
With soir assaultes, both by sea and land,
Becaus aganes me, they did withstand.
I put them all to sack, and did the cietie rais,
Syne I passed, the myghtie mount Caucais,
Till at the last, I danted all the world so,
Was none theirin, that durst declair him so.
But randred whole vnto my will and mynd,
In witnes Porrus, the mightie kyng of [...]nd,
How that againes him, I did preuaill:
And maid him presoner, in strong battaill.
I venquest him, for all his gloir and myght:
And maid him thrall, to me boith day and night.
Till at the last, I conquessed so longe,
And cut the hard piller, that Hercules the stronge.
Maid in vaine, thinkinge it could not be out past,
But breuelie to conclude, you at the last.
I rayssed and conquest, all without repose,
Vnto the tyme, that crewell Atropose,
Ennemie to euery man, on lyfe leuand:
My large power, syne toke forth of my hand,
Among the mundaine people terrestriall,
I was holden, as an God celestiall.
My martiall dedes, that was till allowe,
Caused all them, fortill beleue and trowe,
That I was of God Iupiter beget,
My vailzeande heart, was prefixt and set,
To see the whole worlde and it imbrace:
If crewell death, had left me tyme and space.
But yet O Mynos I pray the demande,
Of Hanniball, sith he doeth me vilipande.
If he thinkes on his sensuall delytes:
At Capue, where his amorous appetyttes.
Was moir to Venus, and her sonne affixt:
Nor euer he was with martiall dedes myxt,
He thoght suche shame, to leue heir meserable
That he maid his death, foull and detestable:
Willinglie he dranke, the furious poyson sell,
He was homicide, and hangman of him sell,
Of high honour, forsuthe he was neuer dig [...]e,
Aske of Prusias, that is of Birthin king:
When Hanniball, was in his glorie maist,
That samyng kyng, forth of the field him cha ist,
All the world knowes, how he was thrall,
And subiect, to his filthie pleasures all.
By many faint, and many fals treasoune,
He vsurped this name, of high renoune.
His actes in sindr [...] landes I confes:
But what are they, to speike of my proues?
To all the world, it is plane euident
That I thoght all Ytalie, and Occident,
To be of lesse valour, nor Tassallie:
Or els I had conquest all Ytalie,
Without occicion, strife debait, or prese:
Vnto the myghtie pillers of Herculese,
I wold not deinze me for to dissender,
Allanerlie this high name Alexander.
Maid them all my subiectis, for fear and dread,
Wherfore Mynos, beware and take good head:
And not prefarre, his honour before myne.
Scipion.
Haue respect O Mynos who is worthy, syne,
Mynos.
What art thou, declair to me thy name?
Scipion.
I am Scipion, surnamed Affricain,
An Romaine, of notable experience.
Mynos.
Spacke hardelie, I geue the audience.
Scipion
My hear [...] [...]oeth nether, think nor saye y e shing,
For to be harde, nor yet till haue lowing:
Throw my actes, myself for to decoire,
Aboue thir vailzeand knyghtes, to haue gloire,
For it is not vningloir, that I desyre:
But hear my life Mynos, I the requyre.
When I was young, & lustie in my floures,
I detested vice, at all tyme and houres.
My heart & mynde, was set without daliance,
To seke the honour, that vertue doeth auance.
And compted science, to be of valor noght:
Except it were with ardent mynd & thoght,
Inclyued till vertew, and Ciuilite,
Where with I conquest, all my nobilite.
But Mynos to conclude, & saye the treuth,
I followed so vertwe, in my youthe:
That I was called, in my adolessance,
And named, of Romains the Esperance.
When sindry Senates, had maid an band,
And concluded, for fear to leaf the land,
They were not willing to menteyne the weires,
But I with hygh curage, and yonge of yeires:
Come in the Senat where they all did stand,
And said these wordes, w t drawn sword in hand.
The noble name, y e hygh tryumphe & gloir,
That Romanis wan, of all nationes b [...]foir:
By their hygh prowes, vertwe & Renoune,
Shall it thus shamefullie, be castin doune:
Who will on that waye, y e sentence declair▪
Shall be my ennemye, for euer mair.
Then thay tuke my, wordes for an sang:
Sayand that the Goddes, for an abuant [...],
For their common wealth, that I was to thēs [...]:
Aganest their ennemyes them to des [...]nd.
They all maruelled, of my audacitie,
In my yonge aige, my high capacitie,
[...]as cause that ouer the great army Romaine,
I was elect and chossen chief Captaine.
Then with my b [...]elie bauners, tryumphalt,
I preissed fast, after this Hanniball,
With litill helpe, small company or myght:
I gart him turne, with shame & take the flyght.
At length, I maid Carthage the opulent,
Serue bound and thrall: to Rome the excellent:
Not withstanding, all my victoryes,
The Romains fand me, in their consistoryes:
Als courtes and readie, at their command,
As before, or that I toke the sword in hand:
For worldlie riches, I cared nothing:
The loue of the people, was my lyking.
To shew my vertue, and my ciuilitie,
To yong princes, borne of nobilitie:
When Carthage was wonne, vp & doune I soght,
For all prisoners, and gart them be broght:
Before me, saife and sound without dyrence,
At that tyme. I toke the poete Tyrence:
And captiue to Rome, him broght w t many mo,
Till at the last, I pleased the Romains so:
That in plasne Senat, for an conquerour.
They cheissed me, and maid me chief Censour.
That gart Asie, and Libie haue remors,
As for Egipt, and Grece, I wan by fors,
Aganest them, into my quarr [...]ell iust:
They knew, [...] was robust.
I maid the [...] [...]omains tryumphall,
For to be feard, [...] [...]red vniuersall.
Or els they had, with shame taken y e s [...]ight:
And forsaken the land, for all their myght,
I raised the name of Romains, to auance,
In Spaynge an fair cictie, named Nunance.
It were to long, O▪ Mynos to rehearse,
My noble actes, that are put in veirse,
My ennimies sand me, neuer agast,
Nor yet my freindes: but humble and shamfast.
I know sence thou hast y e electtione.
Thy indgement, to be without asfectione.
Yet I aduertise the in peace nor weir,
I neuer miised me, to conques geir,
At all tymes, my hand was so liberall,
That I neuer hurded treasure pecuniall.
As was geuin, the Romains to vnderstand,
After my death no worldlie good they fand.
Of gold nor treasure within my boundes,
Except of siluer foureskoir of poundes:
For the myghtie Goddes, that are immortall,
With grate me indewed, supernaturall:
In my weirs, I hated vice and creweltie,
I set vp iustice, and ciuilitie.
The furse of Bacchus, I did refuse,
With all the dulce pleasures, of soo [...]it Venuse▪
Who are ennimyes, at all tymes and hours,
To all vailzeand, and noble Conquerours.
I say not this, my self for to promote:
And wold be laith, their honour for till blote,
But will defend, vnto the day of dome,
The honour, and the worthynes of Rome.
Mynos ye knowe. the Romains do excell,
All nations, better then my tongue can tell.
The sentence of Mynos.
Your martiall dedes, with paines night & daye,
Are broght to ende, with many hard assay.
I say that all conquestes vnder the sonne,
Oght with reasone, and vertue to be wonne,
So Scipion is worthie, that did eschewe,
All kynd of vice, and followed vertue:
The high tytle, of honour pretious,
Before you two, that were so vitious,
Wherefore we iudge, Scipion to proceid,
And Alexandre: Hanniball to exceid,
And yf ye thinke, our sentence importune,
It is to you two, to aske of fortune,
That fand her at all tymes, so fauourable,
To fulfill your lustes, insaciable:
That still without repose, ye thoght it good,
To shed and spill, the innocentes blood:
Without propose, the world to molest,
Where vertue failes, reason may not rest.
FINIS
BY ME, ROBERT NORVEL
‘Non est mortale quod opto’

Psalm 5
Psalmus 5

‘❧ werba mea auribus percipe’
Vnto the wordes, that I shall say,
If it may pleis the, len thy care,
To know the sore sighes and fear:
Of my poore hart, boith nyght and day,
Lord I the pray.
To hear the voce, and zeill ardent,
Of my distres, my God and King:
My supplicatione, I resing.
Onlie to the, and my intent
I do present.
Befoir the day, in euerie place:
To hear me, yf thy plesure be,
Ilk morning, pray and ryght airlie.
To heauen heuand, vp my face,
A bydand grace.
Thou art the, ryghteous God bening,
Thou louest not, an double man,
For euill doers, neuer can:
Haue residence into thy ring.
Nor abiding.
Who folehardie and wicked bene,
That pleasure takes, for till offend,
Ar odius, that will not amend:
For such befoir the Lordis eine,
Dar not be seine.
Thy fearfull yre, shall make agast,
Liears, trumpours, and homicides,
All suche wirkers, of wicked dedes.
The Lord that reules all, at last:
Shall them out cast.
But all shy, lawes I shall leir,
Both heart and mynd, I shall prepair,
Till honour the, for euer mair:
Into thy house, with heart inteir,
Vnder thy feaer.
Lord my God, guyde me and conuoye,
For thy goodnes, I the demand,
Forth of my ennimies hand:
And me conduct, boith night and day,
In thy right way.
No trueth is in their mouth, nor halse,
Their heart, is couerd vnder cure,
Their throt, an oppen sepulchure:
Full of falshead, and flattrie false,
Their tonge is alse.
Lord, let them be put vnto sack,
That whatsoeuer, they take on hand,
Be them aganis, and them gainstand.
For contrair the, they vndertak,
Put them abak
Thy chosen, with magnificence,
Shall aye reioyse, and hope in the,
For they, shall euer blissed be:
That takes thy shield, for their defence,
With patience.
The giftes of the Lord, are large,
Vnto the iust: O Sauiour,
Thou couers them, with thy fauour.
For who, will them assaill or charge,
Thou art their targe.
Finis

❧ The excusation of the maker, to the maker, to Iidder with the makero direction to his goo [...] Lord and maister, my Lord Earle of Argyle.

‘❧ Nou est mortale quod opto.’
NOw art thou lytle volume, broght to end,
Thogh thou be voyd, of eloquence and bare,
Thy suithfast sētence, on Goddis word doisdepēd
As thy cotations, right clearlie dois declaire,
Go searche the scriptures, ād ye shall fid all their,
That I haue written, it may be trid and kend:
For welfair, of the commoun populair.
If I had treated, of facttes bellicall,
Of heauenlie motions, or of Astronimie,
Or how that men in loue, bene bound & thrall,
And subiect, to his soueraine fair laidie:
I could haue showne, many trim storeis,
That wolde haue pleased, persons mundiall,
Hauing delite, into suche vanities.
But thou small work, cōcernes not the fleshe,
For I the wroght, for till instruct mannes spreit:
With diligence theirfore, se thou dispeshe,
To spirituall men, of conceince discreit.
For carnall men, thou art not for them meit,
To gostlie men, thou shalbe found right freshe:
And in their mouthes, right delicat and sweit.
Hast the theirfore, with detfull deligence,
To euerie person thou findes spirituall,
And homage make, to them and reuerence,
But I command the, thou pas first of all:
[...]o the Erle of [...]ple, in speciall,
For whose c [...]e, I wrote this sure sen [...]ence:
Throw hearing, of his Godlie gouernall.
Submit my humble seruice, day and night,
Vntill his Lordshipe, whill my lyfe may dure,
With all my force, my power strength & might.
At foote and hand, with heart and besy cure:
By sea or land, where euer he list to sure,
As it becommes, my symplenes of right,
Shew him, that I shall die his seruiture.
And now farewell, ye gentill readeris all:
Farewell all ye, that be professours trwe,
Of God, the Fatheres word celestiall.
And of his Sonne, our soueraine Christ Ieswe:
In whome all grace, till vs poore seruādes grwe.
And saued vs, from death perpetuall,
Farewell all faithfull, I say no moir adew.

¶ Noruelles Newyeres gyft, to the Archeris of the gard, when he was presoner at Paris [...] the bastillie. 1555.

TO all the Archeris, of the scottis gard,
I wyshe health: honour and prosperitie,
If that I shuld seke them, trewlie to reward:
Throw Scotland, Englande, France, & Ytalie:
Spayne, Portugaill, Yrelande, & Almanie,
Turkie, Trace, Medois, and the Moirs of Ynde:
Syne rake hell, and the bodum of theste,
I could not find so many, so vnkynde.
Finis quod Noruell.
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