Genesis.

IEhouah heere, of nothing, all things makes,

And man be­fore all things his. God forsakes.

Yet by th'al­mighties mercy, twas decreed,

Heau'ns Heire should satisfie for mans misdeed.

Mans age is long, and all are great, not good,

And all (saue eight) are drow­ned in the floud.

Old Noah, se­cond Sire to worst and best.

Of Cham the curst, Japhet and Sem the blest.

Of Abrams starre-like num­berlesse encrease

Of of-springs of-springs, and his rest in peace.

Of Israels go­ing into Egypt, and

Of their abode and liuing in that land.

Of I [...]sephs bre­thren, faithlesse, and vnkinde,

Of his firme faith, and euer constant minde.

He pardons thē that did his death deuise

Hes [...]es his chil­drens children, and he dies.

Exodus.

Th'encrease of Iacobs stocke is grown past nūber,

And feare of them, th' Egyptian king doth cumber

Who giuing credit to th'in­chanters tales,

Commands to kill all infant He­brew males.

But Moses is pre­serued in the ri­uer,

To be a Cap­taine Israel to de­liuer.

Sterne Pharaohs Ciuel adamantine heart

Will not per­mit Gods People to depart.

Ten plagues frō heau'n are on th Egyptians powrde, Bloud, frogs, lice, flies, beasts scabs, haile thundring showrd, [Page]Grashopers, dark­nesse, death of first borne men.

These were th'E­gyptian plagues, in number ten.

The Isr'alites are freed, and Pharohs host

In chasing them, are in the Red sea lost.

A clowde doth shrowd them from the burning day,

By night a firie piller guides their way.

The murm'ring people, fearing fa­mine, railes, God raines down Manna from the heau'n & quailes.

The Law is writ in stone, (to Moses giuen)

By Gods owne hand to guid men vnto heau'n.

The Ceremoni­all sacrifice is taught,

As ripes of whō our brest redemp­tion's wrought.

Leuiticus

Heere man is shewd, it is the al­mighties will,

To guard the good, and to cor­rect the ill.

The truest ser­uice of the high­est stands

In no mans fan­cie but as he com­mands.

And cause men are so apt, from grace to swerue.

He shewes them here, their maker how to serue.

The Leuite are appointed by the Lord

To preach vnto his chosen flocke, the word.

Numbers

Old Iacobs bles­sed ofspring num­bred are,

Their valient captaines & their men of warre.

Curst Korah, with his kinsman desp'rate Dathan,

And bold Abi­ram, (three sworne sonnes of Sathan)

Rebell gainst Moses, with their tongs vnhalowed And by the earth, by heau'ns iust vengance swal­lowed.

The Isralites to fell confusion brings

Great Og, and Sibon, misbelee­uing kings.

Where Balaam thought to curse, of force he blest,

And by his Asse was told how hee transgrest.

Fiue Midian Monarchs, Iudaes host doth slay,

And all their spoile diuided at a pray,

The land of Ca­naan, measur'd is, and found,

That in it all things plenteous doth abound.

Deuteronomy

This booke a­gaine the Law of God repeates,

With blessings, cursings techings and with threats. [Page]Meeke Moses dies, lies in an vnknown toome,

And Nunns son (Iosuah) doth sup­ply his roome.

Joshua

Great captaine Joshua, great in faith and courage

Through grea­test dangers vali­antly doth forrage

He passeth Ior­den with his migh­tie host,

And to the Tribes diuideth coast from coast.

The harlot (Ra­bab) doth preserue the spies,

Shee knowes the Lord that raignes aboue the skies.

They all passe Iorden, which is parted drie,

Whilst they se­curely march in­uasiuely.

The feare of Cananites doth much encrease,

Iericoes rane, & Manna here doth cease.

Vise Achan clos­ly steales the cur­sed prey.

And Isr'els bea­ten from the wals of Ai.

Fiue Kings are hangd, and Phebus standeth still

At Iosuah's prai'r whilst hee his foes did kill.

Iust one & thir­tie mighty kings were slaine,

Ere Is [...]el could in peace the land attaine.

Which beeing done, the bloody warres doth cease

Their faithfull captaine (Ioshua) dies in peace.

Iudges

Iuda is captaine Anaks sonnes are slaine,

The Cananite, as vassais doth re­maine:

The Israelites rebell and serue strange gods, And are al plagu'd with heauens cor­recting rods.

The men of M [...] ­dea, Is [...]el much doth greeue,

Stout Gideon comes, their sor­rowes to releeue.

And as Gods spirit doth his ser­uant moue,

He ouerthrows Baals altar and his groue.

A womans hand King Iabins hoste doth quaile,

And ki [...]de his Captaine Si [...]'ra, with a naile.

Ahimel [...]ch (by wrong) the king­lome gaines,

A woman dasht out his ambitious braines.

Victorious Iph­tah, rashly sweares (not good)

And endes his conquest in his daughters blood,

Great Samson's borne, whose euer matchles strēgth

Orethrowes the Philistims, in breadth & length.

Faire flattering Delilah, her Lord deceiues,

Hee's tane him­selfe, himselfe of life bereaues.

The Beniamites abusde a Leuites wife,

For which all (but six hundred) lost their life.

Ruth

(According to the flesh) this wo­man Ruth

Was ancient Grandam to th'e­ternall truth:

And though she from the Moabites doth come,

It shewes th'al­mighty in al lands hathsome.

1 Samuel

The Prophet Samuel's borne, & Elies sonnes

To sinne and flat confusion head­long runnes,

The Isralites, are by the Lord for­saken.

And by the Phi­listines the Arke is taken,

The figur'd pre­sence of this All in All,

Doth make the Diu [...]is inuention Dagon fall.

God takes his people to his loue againe,

The Ark's broght backe, the Phili­stines are slaine.

The sons of Sa­m'uel, wrong their Fathers trust,

By partial iudge­ments, and with bribes vniust.

Saul seeking straying Asses, findes a crowne,

And is anoin [...]ed King in Raman towne.

The fel Phili­stines, Is'rel doth oppresse,

King Saul doth proudly gainst the Lord transgresse

God bids kill Agag, Saul will haue him spar'd,

His will, more then his Gods, hee doth regard.

Goliah armed leades an host from Gath,

Defies the Lord of Hosts, prouoks his wrath.

Young Dauid comes, and in his hand a fling,

And with a stone the giant downe doth ding.

Old Ishay: son, before the king's preferd,

And Dauid hath Sauls daughter for reward.

Th'ingratefull king seekes Dauids causelesse death,

True hearted Jonathan preserus his breath.

Saul leaues his God, and to a Witch doth goe,

And so himselfe, himselfe doth o­uerthroe.

The Philistines his childrens blud did spill,

And with his sword king Saul, king Saul did kill.

2 Samuel

King Dauids roi­all heart is fild with woe,

For Ionathan & Saul his friend, and foe.

In Regall state he liues and flou­risheth,

And loues Sauls Grandchild [...]ame Mephibosheth.

Affection blinds him on Vrias wife,

T'accomplish which, her hus­band lost his life.

The king's re­prou'd by Nathan, and repents,

And by repen­ting, heau'ns high wrath preuents.

Incestuous Am­nen, Absolon doth kill,

For forcing Ta mar gainst her virgin will.

Hee's recōcilde vnto his louing fire,

And pr [...]udly to the kingdome doth aspire.

The old king flees and ouer Ior­dan hies,

The sonne pur­suing and the Fa­ther flies.

Achitophel him­selfe hangs in di­spaire,

And Ab [...]olom dies hanged by the hai [...]e.

The King for his rebellious son doth mourne,

His people num­bred are at his re­turne,

The Lord is warth, the pesti­lence encreast,

That seuenty thousand dies, & then it ceast.

1 Kings

The kingly Pro­phet (valient Da­uid dies,

His throne is left to Salomon the wise.

Falfe Adoniah, Ioab, Shimei kild.

By his cōmand, as erst his father wild.

With speed hee sends for workmē from farre coasts,

To build a tem­ple to the Lord of hoasts,

Before or after him was neuer such

That had of wisdome or of wealth so much.

A thousand wo­men, some wed, some vnwed,

This wise king to Idolatry mis­led.

He dies, and's buried by his fa­thers toome,

And Rehoboam doth succeed his roome.

Now Israel from Iuda is diui­ded,

Both kingdoms by bad kings are badly guided.

Yet God to Ia­cobs seede doth promise keepe,

And raises faith­full pastors for his sheepe.

2 Kings

Eliah worketh wonders with his word,

By inspiration of the liuing Lord.

Hee's taken vp aliue, and his blest spirit,

Doth doubly in E [...]shaes breast inherit.

Some Kings do gouerne wel, most gouerne ill,

And what the good reformes, the bad doth spil.

Till Isrel, Iuda, King, and king­domes lost,

To great Nabu­chadnezzar and his host.

1 Chronicles

H [...]ere euery tribe is numbred by their names,

To their memo­rial, and immor­tall fames.

And Dauids Acts t'instruct misgui­ded men,

Are briefly here recorded all agen.

2 Chronicles

The state of Is­rel, Iuda and their kings,

This booke a­gaine, againe re­cordance brings,

Their plagues of plague of famine, slau'ry, sword,

For their con­temning heau'ns Al-sauing word.

Manassehs praier.

Manasseh almost drownd in blacke dispaire,

Gaines mercie by repentance, & by praier.

Ezra

The Persian Mo­nach (Cirus) gran­teth leaue,

The Iewes once more their free­dom shold receiue

When at Ierusa­lem they make a­bode.

They all with zeale repaire the house of God.

Malitious men (with poysnous malice fild)

Makes Artax­erxes hinder those that build.

Yet God so workes, that Is­rels loue & zeale,

Resumes againe their Church and Common weale.

Nehemiah

The booke of Ezra doth concord with this,

Commanding good, forbidding what's amisse.

And godly Ne­hemiah heere re­formd

What sinne and sathan had long time deform [...]d

Ester

Heere he that dwels in heauen doth deride

Queene Vshty's and ambitious Hamans pride.

The Iewes are sau'd by Esters suit from death,

And Heman and his sons, hangd, lose their breath.

Poore Mordecay is held in high ac­count,

And to great greatnesse humbly he doth mount

Thus God doth raise all those his lawes that seeke,

Hee laies the lofty low, exalts the meeke.

Iob

No losse of sons and daughters, goods and all,

Makes not this man into impati­ence fall.

Assailing sathan tempting wife, false friends.

With perfect pa­tience he all woes defends.

I naked came (quoth hee) into this world,

And naked hence againe I shall bee hurld.

God giues and takes, according to his word,

And blessed e­uer be the liuing Lord.

Psalmes

The blessed king­ly Prophet sweet­ly sings

Eternall praises to the King of Kings.

Gods power, iu­stice, mercy, fauor, looke

For they are cō ­prehended in this booke.

Prouerbs

The wisest man that euer man be­got,

In heau'nly Pro­uerbs shews whats good, what not.

Ecclesiastes

Health, strength, wit, valour, wordly wisdome, pelfe.

Al's nought, & worse then vanity it selfe.

Salomons song

This song may well bee cald the song of songs,

It to the hea­uenly Bride, and Groome belongs.

It truely shewes Christs loue vnto his loue,

His Church, his wife, his virgin spouse, his doue.

Isayah

This worthy Prophet truly doth foretell,

How Christ shal come to conquer death and hell.

Rewards vnto the godlie hee repeates,

And to the god­lesse hee denoun­ceth threats.

Ieremy

This man of God long time before foreshoes

Ierusalems Captiuity and woes.

Lamentations

He wishes here his head a foun­taine deepe

That he might weepe, weepe, no­thing else but weepe.

That hee might gush forth flowing streames of teares

For Iuda's thral­dome, miserie, and feares.

Ezechiel.

In Babylon this Prophet captiue is,

And there hee prophesies of bale and blisse.

How all must come to passe the Lord hath said,

How iudgement surely comes, al­though delaid.

Daniel

The Kings dark dreame the Pro­phet doth expoūd

For which hee's highly honor'd & [...]nownd.

Nabuchadnezar doth an image frame,

Commands al, pain of death t'a­dore the same.

Three godly Iews by no meanes will fall downe,

And for con­tempt are in the furnace throwne.

Where midst the flames vnhurt they sweetly sing,

Which wonder doth conuert the tyrant King.

Here Daniel pro­phecies of Christ to come,

Of Babel, Persia, Gracia, and Rome.

Hosea

He tels misgo­uern'd Isrdel their sinnes,

And how the losse of grace de­struction winnes.

Ioel

This Prophet tels the stubborne hearted Iewes,

How heau'ns consuming wrath apace ensues.

Hee therefore doth perswade thē to contrition,

And by contri­tion they shal haue remission.

Amos

Mans thankelesse heart, and gods vnmeasurd loue,

This Prophet doth to Isrels faces proue.

Obadiah

He comforts Iu­dah (ouerprest with woes,

And prophesies destruction of their foes.

Ionah

Heere Ionah tels the Niniuites, except

Repentance, wrath of heau'n doth intercept,

In forty daies, high, low, rich poore, great, smal

The Lords hot fury shal consume them all.

With hearts vnfaign'd, the sinne­full City mournes

The Lord grants mercy, Ionah back returnes.

Micah

He speakes of Isrels and of Iuda's crimes,

And tels them their confusion comes betimes.

Nabum

The Niniuites (a­gaine forsake the Lord,

And are subdude by the Assirian sword.

This Prophet comforts those that are opprest,

And tels the godly they shall be releast.

Habakkuk

He doth bewaile th'oppression of the poore,

For mercy hum­bly, he doth God implore.

To keepe the captiu'd Iewes frō fell dispaire,

He teaches them a heauenly forme of Praier.

Zephaniah

He fils the good with hope, the bad with feare,

And tels the Iews their thraldome draweth neere.

Haggay

H'exhorteth thē to patience in their paine,

And bids them build the temple once againe.

Zechariah

He tels the Iews why they haue plagued been,

Hee bids them shun Idolatry and sinne.

Malachi

For sin he doth reprooue both Prince and Priest,

And shewes the comming both of Iohn and Christ

Malachy

Which Christ shall be a Sauiour vnto al,

That with true faith obeyes his heau'nly call.

Apocrypha

These bookes doe all in generall intimate,

The state of good men and the reprobate.

In many places they doe seeme to vary,

And beare a sense from Scripture quite contrary.

In Tobit, and dame Iudith disa­grees

From text, and Razes, in the Ma­thabees.

For which the Church hath euer, held it fit

To place them [...] themselues from holy writ.

S. Matthew.

LO here the blessed Sonne of God and man (New borne) who was before all worlds began,

Of heau'nly seed th'eternall liuing Rocke

Of humane race, of kingly Da­uids stocke.

Our blest Re­deemer, whom the Prophets old

In their true preachings hadso oft foretold

In figures, cere­monies, types and trops,

He here fulfils their words, con­firms their hopes.

The worlds sal­uations sole and totall sum.

Poore mankinds Sauiour, lesus Christ is come.

From maried Mary, wife & vir­gin springs

This heauenly, earthly, supreme King of Kings.

Hee's naked born, & in a man­ger laid,

Where he and's mother (blessed wife and maid

Are by the Wise men sought, and seeking found,

And hauing found, their ioyes doe all abound.

Where they their loue, their zeale, their faith vnfold,

And offer in­ense, mirre, and purest gold.

False hearted Herod seeketh to destroy

This newborne infant, our eter­nall ioy.

But Ioseph by a dreame is warn'd by night

T'ward Egypt with the Babe to take his flight. [Page]Amongst th' Egyp­tians he not long soiournes,

But backe to Naz'reth he again returnes.

To end the law the Babe was cir­cumcis'd,

And then by Iohn in Iorden was baptiz'd,

When loe the Father from his glorious throne

Sends down the Holy ghost vpon his Sonne,

In likenes of a pure vnspotted Doue,

Which did his birth and baptism both approue. [Page] [...] [Page] [...]

Now subtill Sathans he attempt [...] and tempts him,

And fasting, to the wildernesse exempts him.

But Iesus power the foule fiends power destroi'd,

Commanding Sathan hence, Auoid, auoid.

The fearful diuel doth flee, Christ goes & preaches, And in the moun­taine multitudes he teaches:

He said, Repen­tance wipes away transgressings,

And to the god­ly be pronounced blessings.

He makes the lame to goe, the blinde to see,

Deafe heare, dumbe speake, the leapers clensed be.

The diuels from the possessed out he draue,

The dead are rais'd, the poore the Gospell haue.

Such things he doth, as none but God can doe.

And al's to bring his flocke his fold vnto.

All that are la­den, come to mee (quoth he)

And I will ease you, therefore come to me.

You of your hea­uie sins I doe ac­quit,

My yoke is easie and my burden's light.

Vpon Mount Ta­bor, there our blest Messias

Doth shew him­selfe, with Moses and Elias.

Yet all these mighty wonders that he wrought:

Nor al the hea­u'nly teachings that he taught.

The stiffeneck'd stubborne Iewes could not conuert But they Remain obdurate, hard of heart.

The man (quoth som) by whō these things are done,

It is the Car­penters, poore Io­sephs sonne.

Some said how he these things to passe did bring

By power of Bel­zebub th'infernal king.

Thus with the poyson of their enuious tongues,

They guerdon good with ill, and right with wrongs

His owne not knowes him, Iudas doth betray him.

To Annas and to Caiphas they conuey him.

From Caiphan back to Annas, & from thence

Is sent this euer­lasting blessed Prince.

Thus is this death, this sin, this Sathan killer,

Mongst sinfull wretches tost frō post to piller.

Hee's flouted, spitted on, deri­ded, stript,

Hee's most vnmer­cifully scourg'd, and whipt,

By impious peo­ple hee's blas­phem'd and raild,

And of the Iewes (in scorne) as king is hail'd.

He like a lambe vnto his death is led,

Nail'd on the Crosse for man, his heart-bloud shed.

He (after three daies) glorious doth arise;

He leaues the sinfull earth, and mounts the skies.

But first to his Disciples hee ap­peares,

Where he their drooping halfe ded spirits cheers

S. Marke.

S. Marke declares how blest bapti­ [...]ing Iohn,

Forerunner was of Gods eternall Sonne.

Which Iohn in wildernesse bap­tises, teaches,

And of contri­tion and remission preaches.

Our Sauiour [...]alles no Phari­ses or Scribes,

Or princely peo­ple out of Iudah [...] Tribes:

But Simon, An­drew, Iames and Iohn are those

Poore toiling Fishermen which Iesus chose

To shew that with the humblest smallest things

God greatest matters to perfe­ction brings.

By sundry won­drous works our Sauiour Iesus

From sin and Sa­than lab'reth to release vs.

And in requi­tall the vngrate­full Iewes

Deuise their blest Redeemer to abuse.

Some inwardly doe hate him, some belye him,

His seruants all forsake him, or deny him.

But Peter thou wast blest in thy deniall,

Of thy presu­ming thou hast found the triall.

Repentance washt away thy frailties crimes,

And thou a pat­terne art to after­times.

The sonne and heire of neuer fa­ding heau'n

Into the hands of sinful men is gi­uen.

Hee dies, hee's buried, & in glo­rie rises,

Triumphing o­uer all his foes de­uices.

S. Luke.

Heere Marie, and old Zacharias sings

In ioyfull man­ner to the King of Kings.

And aged Sime­on in his armes doth take

The Lord of life, and doth reioy­cings make.

Christ teaches, preaches mercy vnto all,

That by amend­ment will for mer­cie call.

Hee's tane, and by false witnesses accus'd.

Hee's beaten, scoffed, scorned, and abus'd.

Hee's hang'd vp­on the Crosse be­twixt two theeues

The one doth raile on him, and one beleeues.

He dies, hee's buried; rising he doth quell

And conquer al [...]is foes, sin, death and hell.

S. Iohn.

In the beginning was th'eternall word,

The word with God was, and that word the Lord.

In the begin­ning the same word with God

Was; and for e­uer hath with him aboad.

With it was al things made and made was nough [...] ▪ Without this word the which was made or wrought

Here Christs di­uinitie is told by Iohn,

The blessed Tri­nity, one three, three one.

How God had now perform'd the oth he swore

To Abram, and to Israel long be­fore.

How Christ should come, to ransome Adams losse,

And satisfie Gods iustice on the Crosse.

Though times and places far in sunder be,

Yet Prophets, and Euangelists agree.

In Iesus birth, his doctrine, life and death,

Whereby our dy­ing soules gaines liuing breath.

If all things should be writ which erst was don

By Iesus Christ (Gods euerlasting Sonne.)

From Cratch to Crosse, frō cradle to his tombe

To hold the books the world would scarce be roome.

Acts.

Th' Apostles praising God, and singing songs,

The holy Ghost in firy clouen tongues,

Descends vpon them, who are all inspir'd

With learned lāguages, adorn'd admir'd.

Saint Peter prea­ching, telles the people plaine,

How they the li­uing Lord of life had slaine:

Some flout and mocke, remaining stubborne harted.

And many soules peruerted, are cō ­uerted.

The Church en­creases, daily nū ­bers comes,

And to the Gos­pels furthring [...]iues great sums.

False Ananias and his faithlesse wife,

In dreadful ma­ner lost their wretched life.

The enui [...]us peo­ple stone the mar­tyr Steuen,

He praying for his foes; leaues earth for heauen.

The Churches archfoe, persecu­ting Saul,

Is made a con­uert, and a prea­ching Paul.

He's clapt in pri­son, manacled, & fetter'd,

And through his troubles, stil his zeale is better'd.

Th' Apostle Iames by Herod's put to death,

And Herod eat with lice, lost hatefull breath.

Th'increasing Church amongst the Gentiles spreds

By Nero, Paul & Peter lost their heads.

Romans

Th'apostle Pau [...] from Corinth writ to Rome,

To strength the [...] faith, & tel the [...] Christ is come,

He shewes how high and low, both Iew and Greeke

Are one with God, who faith­fully him seeke.

He tels how si [...] in mortall bodie [...] lurks,

How wee ar [...] sau'd by faith, & not by works.

In louing terms [...]he people he [...]oth moue,

To faith, to [...]ope, to charitie [...]d loue.

1. Corinths.

Paul to Corinthus from Phillippy sends,

Their zeale, & faith hee louingly commends.

Hee tels them [...] Gods seruice [...]ey regard,

Th'eternall [...]owne of life is [...]eir reward.

2. Corinthians

In this saint Paul sends the Corin­thians word,

Afflictions are the blessings of the Lord.

He doth desire their faith may still increase,

He wishes their prosperitie and peace.

Galathians

Hee tels them that their whole saluations cause

Is all in Christ, and not in Moses [...]awes.

The law's a glasse where men their sinnes doe see,

And that by Christ wee onely saued be.

Ephesians

Paul bids, Cast off the old man with his vice,

And put on Christ, our blest re­demptions price.

Philippians

Hee bids them of false Teachers to beware,

He telles them that humilitie is rare.

And though they liue here, in a vaile of striffe,

Yet for them is laid vp the crown of life.

Collossians.

Th'Apostle doth reioice, and prai­seth God,

That these Col­lossians in true faith abode.

Hee praiseth them, he bids thē watch and pray.

That sinne and Satan worke not their decay.

1 Thessalonians.

Hee thanketh God his labour's not in vaine,

So stedfast in the faith, these men remaine

That they to o­thers are a bles­sed light,

By their exam­ple how to liue spright.

2. Thessalonians.

Againe to them hee louingly doth write:

Hee bids them pray, the Gospell prosper might.

He wishes them prosperitie and wealth,

And in the end soules euerlasting health.

1. & 2. to Timothy

Paul shewes to Timothy, a Bishop must

In life and do­ctrine bee sincere and iust.

And how the Scriptures, power haue to perswade

Whereby the man of God is perfect made.

Titus.

To Titus (mongst the Creetans) Paul doth send,

And warns him what t'allow, or reprehend.

Philemon

Paul earnestly the master doth request

To pardon his poore man that had transgrest

Hebrewes.

Although this booke doth beare no Authors name, It shews the lews how they their liues shuld frame.

And that the Ceremoniall law is ended

In Christ, in whom all grace is comprehended.

S. Iame [...].

Heare, speake, and doe well, the Apostle saith,

For by thy works, a man may see thy faith.

1. & 2. to Peter.

He counsels vs, be sober, watch, and pray.

And still be rea­die for the Iudge­ment day.

1, 2 & 3. of Iohn

He shewes Christ di'de, and from the graue arose.

To saue his friends, & to con­found his foes

S. Iude.

Iude bids them in all godlinesse proceede,

And of deceiuing teachers to take heede.

Reuelation.

Diuine S. Iohn to Pathmos Ile eu­ilde,

This heauenly work, t'instruct vs, he compilde.

Hee tels the godly, God shall be their gaines.

He threats the godlesse with e­ternal paines.

He shewes how Antichrist should raigne and rage,

And how our Sauiour should his pride asswage.

How Christ in glory shall to iudgement come

And how a [...] people must abid [...] his doome.

Praier.

Oh thou whose name is greatest of all names

Preserue and keepe the Race of Roiall Iamet,

That Britaines throne for euer may besure

Of one of them whilst Sunne and Moone endure.

Amen.