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[A1] |
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ΒΆPathose, or an inward passion of the pope for the losse of hys daughter the Masse. |
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WHat hatefull hap |
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What carefull clap |
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What rattellyng rap |
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Is light in my lap |
| 5 |
Whiche weareth the cap |
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Of myghti mayntenaunce |
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And greatest gouernaunce |
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Whose only ordinaunce |
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And prudent puysance |
| 10 |
Brought to obeysaunce |
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All princely power |
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Me to adoure |
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With high honoure |
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And towne and towre |
| 15 |
To lowt and lowre |
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At my comaundement |
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Yelding to myne intent |
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And were beniuolent |
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To such as I haue sent |
| 20 |
To passe in perliament |
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Or councells generall |
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Or matters speciall |
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I was the capitall |
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And ruled ouer all |
| 25 |
But yet nowe heare ye shal |
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Of maruailles late befall |
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A2 |
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| A, C misnumber as A.iii. |
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And of the greate displeasure |
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And myscheffe out of measure |
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Betid my greatist treasure |
| 30 |
In whome I had moste pleasure |
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As ye may here at leasure |
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 My daughter and myne heire |
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Most beautifull and fayre |
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That sat most cheiffe in chaire |
| 35 |
And on the supreme stayre |
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Alasse doth sore appayre |
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My glory and my goste |
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My braggyng and my boste |
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Whome I haue loued moste |
| 40 |
And ruled all the roste |
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In country and in cooste |
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And now, alasse, is tost |
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From pillar vnto post |
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I feare me she be lost |
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| 45 |
 Ah that my daughter messe
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Shuld be in suche a sickenes |
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And brought in such weakenes |
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That by all maner of lykenes |
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She loseth life and quiknes |
| 50 |
And therfore wo is me |
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This doleful day to se |
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That my darling shulde be |
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[A2v] |
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In this infirmytye |
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And great calamytye |
| 55 |
For poysoned is she |
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 A_lasse sum Edomite |
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Some Iewe or Iacobite |
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Some turke or thraconite |
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Hath gyuen hir aconite |
| 60 |
In-steade of arthanite |
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Wherfore I must of right |
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With all my mayne and might |
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A messenger forth dight |
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That is both quike and light |
| 65 |
To labor day and night |
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And seke that cursed wight |
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That did me this dispyte |
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And well he muste hym quite |
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Till he cum in the sight |
| 70 |
Of mighty mahomyte
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And tell hym that his nese |
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The messe that prope[r] piece
proper] prope A, C
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In deadly danger is |
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And that he may not mysse |
| 75 |
But send some arabies |
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That worthie be and wise |
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In phisike and in phisnomyes |
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But O most Ientill Iupiter
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[A3] |
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| C breaks off here |
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That named art Diespiter Diespiter: a name for Jupiter, a contraction of Diovis pater
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| 80 |
Be thou oure holy helper |
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And send vs soone a messenger |
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That is a perfyt passenger. |
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I call to the O Iuno
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And also to Neptuno
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| 85 |
To Phebe and to Phebus
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That nowe ye wolde not leue vs. |
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O most faye[r] venus
fayer] faye A
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On whom we chiefly leane vs |
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We serue the night and day |
| 90 |
Let vs not nowe decaye |
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And helpe vs nowe Mercurius
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Against this feuer furious |
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Thi godly disposition |
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Is all in expedition |
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| 95 |
O excellent king
Aeolus
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Be not thou maleuolous |
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Nor cast vs not behinde |
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But temper well the wynde |
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And cause it to be kynde |
| 100 |
The soner shall we fynde |
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The meanes to haue our mynde |
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Concernyng the redresse |
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Of this oure great distresse |
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And woofull heauynesse |
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[A3v] |
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| 105 |
So shall my daughter messe
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The goodly yong goddesse |
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Recouer her sicknes |
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To you I call and crye |
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That are the goddes on hie |
| 110 |
That ye will all applie |
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To send some remedye |
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For sure I am that you |
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Will sone enclyne and bowe |
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To them that maketh vowe |
| 115 |
As I doo to you nowe |
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To offer sacrifice |
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For that in any wyse |
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Ye neuer wolde dispise |
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It hath not ben your guise |
| 120 |
I offer here therfore |
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Of oxen thre scoore |
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Of Ramys as many more |
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And got[e]s no small store gotes] gots A
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With pige and sowe and bore |
| 125 |
Of euery birde a brode |
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And washe them in their bloude |
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To mytygate your moode |
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And that ye shulde be good |
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And helpe vs in oure nede |
| 130 |
For sore I am in dreede |
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Excepte you help in-dede |
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[A4] |
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We shal but euel spede |
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O ceres goddes of grayne |
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Which doth the worlde sustayne |
| 135 |
Let vs not cal in vayne |
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But rid vs from this payn |
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We knowe it for certayne |
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That of thi great humylity |
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Thou geuyst vs fertility |
| 140 |
Of corne for our vtility |
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And we for our hability |
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Haue daily offered |
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A sacrifice of breade |
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To the for quicke and deade |
| 145 |
Did we not worship the |
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That all the worlde might se |
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When high and lowe degre |
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Did bend and bowe the kne |
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In tyme of ministracion |
| 150 |
When we did make oblacion |
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To the when messe my daughter |
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Should do as I had taught her |
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To offer breade of wheate |
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Why shouldest thou vs forget |
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| 155 |
O Bacchus god of wyne |
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Who gouern[est] grape and vine gouernest] gouernteh A
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And sendest liquor fine |
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Thyn earis (to heare) inclyne |
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[A4v] |
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My daughters mone and myne |
| 160 |
Thou myghtest well behold |
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How willingly we woulde |
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The worship as we shoulde |
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Wyth wyne in cuppes of golde |
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Offering to the, thyn owne |
| 165 |
Which by thi grace hath growne |
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And nowe compelled are we |
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By greate necessitye |
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To you our goddes to fle |
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To seke a remedye |
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| 170 |
For Christ in euery place |
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Away hath turned his face |
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And woulde nothing embrace |
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Oure sacrifice with grace |
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I passe not of an ase |
| 175 |
Though I do him forsake |
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Yet dare I vnder_take |
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(At pleasure) him to make |
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And vse him as me listis |
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Betwene my holy fistis |
| 180 |
I can not be debarde |
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To handle hym softe or harde |
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But if he be frowarde |
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He shall fynde me waywarde |
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I get no-thing hym by |
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[A5] |
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| 185 |
I Recke not of him I |
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For if my daughter lyue |
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I will dwell by his sleue sleue? sieue?
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With-out his loue or leaue |
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Yea and he shall not chose |
| 190 |
But what I bynde and lose |
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In earth as I will proue |
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He muste it graunt aboue |
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Well well if he me moue |
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I will do I wot what |
| 195 |
And tell hym this and that |
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How barely here he sate |
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He scarsly had a brat |
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His carkas for to hide |
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Or no good thing beside |
| 200 |
Howe porely dide he ride |
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Vpon a pore asse |
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Was he a lorde, alasse |
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On that fation to passe |
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Into a noble cytie? |
| 205 |
Alacke alacke for pitie. |
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That I thus longe haue bene |
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So lewdly ouersene |
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To put so much my triste |
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In these beggerly Christ |
| 210 |
But if I had it wist |
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[A5v] |
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Some-what he shulde haue myst |
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Of that that he hath had |
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I was a_curst or mad |
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So blyndly to be lad |
| 215 |
For well I do perceiue |
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That he will not receiue |
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Such thinges as I him send |
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Wherfore I nowe intend |
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No more my tyme to spende |
| 220 |
Or wast to suche an ende |
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Well wel it shal amende |
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For synce he doth neglect |
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And my good-will reiect |
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And sacrifice despect |
| 225 |
I will my ways direct |
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To them that haue respect |
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And will my workes affect |
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For I am none abiecte |
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For Bacchus and Ceres clere |
| 230 |
Disdayne not to drawe nere |
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And take with godly chere |
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Such as I offer here |
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And this I knowe certayne |
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Venus will not disdayne |
| 235 |
Such thinges as they retayne |
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For without them twayne |
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[A6] |
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Full sone she waxeth colde |
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Leane, witherd and olde. |
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Wherfore I dare be bolde |
| 240 |
To say she wilbe pleased |
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To se my daughter eased |
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And euen so wil Priapus
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With gentil Fauna and Fa[u]nus
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Now Dromo that arte swyft |
| 245 |
Apply the and make shift |
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To helpe me at a lifte |
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And golde shalbe thi gift |
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The goddes appoynted the |
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My messenger to be |
| 250 |
Be nymble and make haste |
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For messe begynnyth to wast |
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She hath cleane lost hir tast |
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Hir body swelleth so fast |
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That it is like to brast |
| 255 |
Wherfore I am a_gast |
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Hir life is almost past |
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Yet shall she not away be cast |
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As long as euer life wil last |
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A iournay moste industrious |
| 260 |
To Appollo thou must make for vs |
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And to his son Aesculapius
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That Raised from death androgeus
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[A6v] |
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As wi[t]nesseth Propertius
witnesseth] winesseth A
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He dwellith at Epidau[r]us
Epidaurus] Epidauus A
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| 265 |
Go to Chiron_Centaurus
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Machon and Podalirius
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That lerned medicyne precious |
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Of their father Aesculapius
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But come not at Archagathus
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| 270 |
And conninge men of Egypt
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In no wise may be ouer_hipt |
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The wise men
asclepiades
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Of whom chiefe was hipocrates
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Must say their minde in this disease |
| 275 |
Forget not Dioscorides
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No nor doctor
Galenus
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Whom some call Pergamenus
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Full well he will demeane vs |
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In Rome longe did he dwell |
| 280 |
And their-in phisicke mell |
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Maruaill it were to tel |
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How much he did excell |
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All that were hym before |
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Syx hundreth yere and more |
| 285 |
I dare lay all my landes |
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If it lye in his handes |
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Upon hym will he take |
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Euen for the contreiths sake contreiths: see OED, s.v. country
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[A7] |
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| C resumes here |
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My daughter hole to make |
| 290 |
But harke gentill Dromo
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Remembre that ye go |
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To the learned woman Areta
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And to Paulus_aginita
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To doctores of vienna
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| 295 |
And also to rauenna
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And then to auicenna
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To Rasis and to Mesue
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The learned men of Arabie
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And like-wise to all other |
| 300 |
That worshippeth my brother |
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Machomet the stronge |
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Declare them amonge |
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All the whole matter |
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And let them se hir water |
| 305 |
And tidinges loke thou bring |
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How they do like the thing |
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And whether by their connyng |
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They hope of hir amending |
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For vntill thou retorne |
| 310 |
I shall but mone and morne |
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And inwardly shall burne |
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With the most feruent fyre |
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And depnes of desyre |
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Wherfore I the require |
| 315 |
Right quickly to retyre |
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[A7v] |
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Oh what inwarde passion |
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Doth torment on this fassion |
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Who wold not take compassion |
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To heare my Lamentacion |
| 320 |
For who can me blame |
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Synce I take such shame |
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That bare the great name |
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They count but a game |
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My messe to defame |
| 325 |
Oh so I inflame |
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My hart with heate |
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Doth bolke and beate |
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I swell and sweate |
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I can not eate |
| 330 |
My sorowes great |
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Do me replete |
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My papall seate |
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They will defeate |
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And put me by |
| 335 |
My papasye |
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If my glorye |
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My daughter dye |
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For if she faile |
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It will not auaile |
| 340 |
To wepe or to waile |
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To rage or to Rayle |
| sig:
[A8] |
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I shal not preuaile |
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In cootis of maile |
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To make battaile |
| 345 |
Or them to assayll |
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If she be once gone |
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Comfort get I none |
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But lefte post a_lone |
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To mourne and make mone |
| 350 |
With hert as colde as stone |
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Yet may I haue some hope |
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Though she be slyd a_slope |
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Some frendes to fele and grope |
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In Affrike and Europe
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| 355 |
How they will with me cope |
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Bicause I am the pope |
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They will my part take |
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Euen for my daughters sake |
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I trowe they will awake |
| 360 |
Thes Rigors to aslake |
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And cause them all to quake |
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That did this mischefe make |
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And thos that poyson gaue hir |
|
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Alasse I quake and quauer |
| 365 |
And also swarue and swauer |
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I quiuer and I wauer |
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I stacker and I stauer |
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[A8v] |
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For feare I shall not haue hir |
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To lyue here wyth me styll |
| 370 |
According to my will |
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Hir sicknes doth me spill |
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But hir death should me kyll |
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My sorows do me fyll |
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And will encreace vntill |
| 375 |
Some tidinges I may gete |
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That Dromo fare hath fete |
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Alacke I feare me yet |
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The man hath had some let |
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Or with our enimyes met |
| 380 |
The which hath him beset |
|
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Beholde he cometh I trowe |
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Some news now shall I knowe |
|
Which way the wynde wil blow |
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Me-thinke he is not slowe |
| 385 |
As by his pace doth showe |
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Dromo, welcum thou art |
|
For synce thou did depart |
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Full heauy was my hert |
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And still in payne and smart |
| 390 |
But now thou art retorned |
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My care shalbe adiourned |
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For mycle haue I mourned |
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And in desire bourned |
| sig:
B1 |
|
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But nowe I thinke it best |
| 395 |
That thou go take thi rest |
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For I haue made beheste |
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No meate within my breste |
|
Nor body to be drest |
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Tyl I haue sene and sought |
| 400 |
The writinge that thou brought |
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Full longe therfore I thought |
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I gyue the thankes in-dede |
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For thy greate hast and spede |
|
Haue golde here for thy meede |
| 405 |
And I wyl go to reede |
|
These letters missiue, |
|
No longer wil I driue |
|
The tyme labefactiue |
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While messe is yet a_lyue |
| 410 |
And lyeth in payne passiue |
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I truste she shal reuiue |
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Though some against hir striue |
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And woulde hir life depriue |
|
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Halasse what find I here? |
| 415 |
Nowe doth it playne a_pere |
|
That sure my daughter dere |
|
Which dwelt in churche and quere |
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And euery mans chapel |
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With candell boke and bel |
| sig:
[B1v] |
|
| 420 |
No longer here maye dwel |
|
As these phisicions tel |
|
For they gyue their iudgemente |
|
That hir nature is spent |
|
Hir reynes be al to_Rente |
| 425 |
This answere haue they sent |
|
To me wyth one consent |
|
Affirminge that by nature |
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She shoulde be grosse of stature |
|
Wherfore she must corrupt |
| 430 |
Since she was interrupt |
|
From hir pristine volupt |
|
And since she brake hir diete |
|
She coulde neuer be quiete |
|
Nor like to be none other |
| 435 |
But grosse by father and mother |
|
So shewe they plaine to vs |
|
To be morbus hereditarius
|
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But this venum pestiferus
|
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Doeth make it mortiferus
|
| 440 |
And thus they sey that sure |
|
She is without recure |
|
|
O worlde vnstable |
|
And most variable |
|
O man miserable |
| 445 |
And infortunable |
| sig:
B2 |
|
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Which was honorable |
|
Nowe I am not abel |
|
Longe to perseuer |
|
Wyth al mine endeuer |
| 450 |
I am loste for euer |
|
My daughter decayed |
|
That was my chiefest aide |
|
My pompe is allayed |
|
Wheron I most stayed |
| 455 |
I am a_frayede |
|
And so sore dismayde |
|
I knowe not which way |
|
Nowe turne me I may |
|
Nor what I shal say |
| 460 |
I may not delay |
|
Nor tyme protraye |
|
But applie me lyg[h]tly lyghtly] lygtly A, C
|
|
And gyue hir aquauite |
|
Or sum-thynge that is mighty |
| 465 |
As vinum absinthite
|
|
Or vinum apitie
|
|
Or eles abrotonite
|
|
Uinum chamedryte
|
|
Or eles aromatite
aromatite] amorite C
|
| 470 |
To comfort with hir herte |
|
Oh that she myght reuert Oh] C omits
|
| sig:
[B2v] |
|
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And turne agayne to sanitye |
|
I swere by myne humanitye |
|
I speake it not in vanitie |
| 475 |
They that hir death conspired |
|
And hath it m[o]st disired most] must A, C
|
|
As fast as time required |
|
With faggottes shalbe fired |
|
|
O wher is my Gardnerus
|
| 480 |
That his good hert doth beare vs, |
|
And more did and fisherus? |
|
I feare he do not wel |
|
Because we heare not tel |
|
How he hath done his parte |
| 485 |
I know I haue his herte |
|
And also of many more |
|
There is no smal store |
|
That yet wyll sing and rore |
|
Dayely my messe before |
| 490 |
Though she be sicke and sore |
|
But sore I am adred |
|
Sum hath not wel sped |
|
Or sume of them be dead |
|
Or eles to prison led |
| 495 |
For were they in prosperitie |
|
I knowe it for a veritie |
|
Sum-what they woulde haue prouid |
| sig:
[B3] |
|
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These thinges to haue remoued |
|
The whiche they neuer loued |
| 500 |
That wrought were by lutherus
|
|
With helping of Bucerus
|
|
Zuingle and Bullingerus
|
|
Melancthon and Althamerus
|
|
Uitus, Theodor and musculus
|
| 505 |
And subtile Spaugelbergius
|
|
And by Urbanus_regius
|
|
Alesius and Brentius
|
|
And by Otho_Brumfelsius
|
|
By fagius and Pistorius
|
| 510 |
Petrus_martir and sarcerius
|
|
And by Oecolampadius
|
|
And also Carolstadius
|
|
By cursed Uadianus
|
|
And also Pomeranus
|
| 515 |
And perilous Pellicanus
|
|
Lykewyse by Iohn_cauinus
|
|
And spitfull Spalatinus
|
|
Coruinus and Epinus
|
|
And barkinge Bernardinus
|
| 520 |
Also by Osiander
|
|
Crucinger and Megander
|
|
And bablinge Bibliander
|
|
By Ionas and Capito
|
| sig:
[B3v] |
|
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And by that heritike Hedio
|
|
| 525 |
And then by Latymers
Latymers] laytymers C
|
|
By bilnie and Turners
|
|
By bayle and by Tailers
|
|
And other of their faction |
|
Beyond dinumeracion |
| 530 |
That sprange in euery nacion |
|
To put m[e] to thys passion me] mo A, C
|
|
|
 But where is my cochleus
|
|
Iohn_Faber and Emserus
Emserus] Euserus C
|
|
My champion Hofmisterus
|
| 535 |
Wher is my seruant Ecchius
|
|
And welbeloued Bilikius?
Bilikius] Bilicius C
|
|
Where is my maluelda
|
|
With my most trusty Nausea
Nausea] Naufea C
|
|
My Catharinus fyne |
| 540 |
And Alfonsus my diuine |
|
Al you wyth Sadoletus
Sadoletus] Sandoletus C
|
|
Beholde how they entrate vs |
|
Ech of you is a lim |
|
To helpe vs interim This and the preceeding line are transposed in C
|
| 545 |
Ech of you is by right |
|
My champion and my knight |
|
For me and myn to fyght |
|
As fast as ye may wright |
|
For my knightes of England
|
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[B4] |
|
| 550 |
As I may vnderstand |
|
Ar far behinde the hande |
|
And like to byde in bande |
|
Ye knowe that for certaine |
|
My daughter messe in peyne |
| 555 |
And weaknes doeth remayne |
|
Alasse she is but slayne |
|
No medicine can I get |
|
That wil amend hir yet |
|
Wherfore ye may not let |
| 560 |
Some comforting to fet |
|
In England them amonge |
|
That hath me serued long |
|
Phisicians that ther be |
|
I haue a skore and thre |
| 565 |
That still doth worship me |
|
And also my daughter |
|
For stil haue they sought
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er |
|
And glad when they cought
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er |
|
As for communion |
| 570 |
They set not an onion |
|
But holde theyr opinion |
|
My messe to be better |
|
Eche one is hir detter |
|
Agayne vp to sett
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er |
| 575 |
I neade not them name |
| sig:
[B4v] |
|
|
For men can wel ame |
|
That thei be the same |
|
The which I do meane |
|
Though I make no deane |
| 580 |
For they wil not leane |
|
But al one my syde |
|
And so to a_bide |
|
What-so-euer betide |
|
Wythin the worlde wide |
|
| 585 |
Ye thes be they that are |
|
For messe so full of care |
|
That nothynge wyll they spare |
|
To make their purses bare |
|
So they myght her repare |
| 590 |
Wherefore it is lyke |
|
That they wil not stike |
|
To minister phisicke. |
|
As muche as may be founde |
|
Or sought aboue the grounde |
| 595 |
To make hir hole and sounde |
|
Nowe hie ye fast thyther |
|
That you and they together |
|
May bring some-thinge hither |
|
Hir life for to length |
| 600 |
And q[u]iken hir strenght |
|
|
Yet am I in feare |
| sig:
[B5] |
|
|
Nothinge to be there |
|
That hir stomach wil beare |
|
I thinke that she wil weare |
| 605 |
A_waye for al this geare |
|
Beholde she doeth teare |
|
And rende her golden heare |
|
|
Oh so my herte doeth pricke |
|
To se my chi[l]de so sycke childe] chide A, C
|
| 610 |
For she is frenticke |
|
Distraught and lunaticke |
|
Wo worth that heretyke |
|
That firste beganne |
|
To shewe any man |
| 615 |
Hir nature to scan |
|
For before than |
|
No creature knewe |
|
But that she was true |
|
For whan she was newe |
| 620 |
I did her endue |
|
Wyth clothynge of Gospel |
|
And of the Epistel |
|
And nowe they be gon |
|
She semeth as one |
| 625 |
That is but skin and bon |
|
As leane as a rake |
|
As flat as a cake |
| sig:
[B5v] |
|
|
As stife as a stake |
|
Hir lippes be pale |
| 630 |
Hir eyes wexe smale |
|
Hir checkes thyne |
|
With a yealowe skine |
|
And nought wythin |
|
Hir nose is sharpe |
| 635 |
And a_wrye doeth warpe |
|
As heauy as leade |
|
She is neare deade |
|
Or eles in swo[u]ne |
|
I am but vndone |
|
| 640 |
Thou son and thou mone |
|
And the plannetes seuen
|
|
That ruleth in heauen |
|
And also beneth |
|
My daughter I bequeth |
| 645 |
In-to your holy handes |
|
To louse hir from these bandes |
|
And from the cruel death |
|
That sone wyll stoppe hir breth |
|
And shortly deuoure |
| 650 |
Thys beautiful flowre |
|
Except by your powre |
|
Ye send hir succoure |
|
And that spedily |
| sig:
[B6] |
|
|
Or eles she must dye |
|
| 655 |
Iupiter_ceraunus
Iupiter_ceraunus] Iupiter_ceranus C
|
|
Send doune vulcanus
|
|
And fire doune-cast |
|
Al suche to deuast |
|
As causeth this carke |
| 660 |
By theyr woful warcke |
|
O Mars_Mauors
|
|
With strength and force |
|
Reuenge wyth war |
|
Both nere and far |
| 665 |
Thys tresspasse cruell |
|
Done to my Iuell |
|
For well I espye |
|
They set not a flye |
|
By my greate cursse |
| 670 |
They be not the wors |
|
For mine interdiction |
|
It is none affection |
|
My strenght doth decrease |
|
My doctrine doth cease |
| 675 |
My daughter doth perishe |
|
Nothinge wyll cherishe |
|
Yet hath she good keping |
|
Boeth waking and slepinge |
|
But I wyth much wepinge |
| sig:
[B6v] |
|
| 680 |
Wyth crouchinge and creping |
|
Wyth bassing and kissing |
|
Wil gyue hir my blessing |
|
O pulchra proles
|
|
Miranda moles
|
| 685 |
Infandum doles
|
|
Hactenus que soles
|
|
Quidquid ad nutum
|
|
Habere tutum
|
|
Corpus imbutum
|
| 690 |
Mollibus indutum
|
|
Heu stat exutum
|
|
Descis[c]unt gentes
Desciscunt] Descistunt A, C
|
|
T[e] deridentes
Te] To A, C
|
|
Meque abnuentes
|
| 695 |
Minime credentes
|
|
Te fore veracem
|
|
Asserunt mendacem
|
|
Garrulam loquacem
|
|
Esse et Rapacem
|
| 700 |
Te dicunt vagam
|
|
Ueneficam sagam
|
|
Heu michi quid agam
|
|
Nunc peribis filia
|
|
Olim dans vtilia
|
| 705 |
Supra mille millia
|
| sig:
[B7] |
|
|
En sequar et ego
|
|
Quique reges rego
|
|
Uiuere sed nego
|
|
Tu quum defungeris
|
| 710 |
Sacro que vngeris
|
|
Oleo papali
|
|
Hoc genus sed mali
|
|
Ingruit infestans
|
|
Nostraque detestans
|
| 715 |
Ecce scripture
|
|
Predicantur pure
|
|
Quo perit (audito)
|
|
Lex mea quam cito,
|
|
|
O darlynge dere |
| 720 |
I leaue the heare |
|
With heauy chere |
|
Holde here take this |
|
A careful kysse |
|
I wil the blisse |
| 725 |
That thou maist the rather |
|
Cum to thy grandfather |
|
Pluto the king |
|
Of whose ofspring |
|
You cum by dissent |
| 730 |
Wyth you shalbe sent |
|
A godly conuent |
| sig:
[B7v] |
|
|
To wayte on ye than |
|
Lyke a noble-woman |
|
Lent and gange_dayes
|
| 735 |
Shal shewe ye the wayes |
|
Wyth the dayes_embringe
|
|
To kepe ye remembringe |
|
Of your Iournay |
|
For going astraye |
| 740 |
And pilgrimage
|
|
In your voiage |
|
Shalbe your page |
|
Auricular_confession
|
|
And popishe_procession
|
| 745 |
A_boute ye shal ride shal] C omits
|
|
On euery syde |
|
The colettes by kynde |
|
Before and behinde |
|
Your fote-men shalbe |
| 750 |
Ful comly to se |
|
The cannone playne |
|
Your chamberlay[n]e |
|
Shalbe at your hande |
|
When ye do commaund |
| 755 |
The post-communion |
| sig:
[B8] |
|
|
Shalbe your minion |
|
To shewe you sporte |
|
For your comforte |
|
Thus shall ye not trauile |
| 760 |
Lyke beggar nor Iauel |
|
But passe like a quene |
|
Right comly besene |
|
To Stix and Acheron
|
|
Ye shall cume a_none |
| 765 |
And when they be past |
|
Ye shal cum at the last |
|
To the po[r]ter Cerb[e]rus
porter] potter A, C; Cerberus] Cerbrus A, C
|
|
Whiche though he be barbarus |
|
Ye shal hym intreate |
| 770 |
Quickly in to get |
|
Then shall ye se the Emperoure |
|
Sitting stout and stoure |
|
Hym shall ye honoure |
|
Then open your coffer |
| 775 |
And vnto him offer him] hi C
|
|
Holy breade and water |
|
And then strewe and scatter |
|
About hys vgly fete |
|
Some of your palmes swete |
| sig:
[B8v] |
|
| 780 |
Then shal ye lowly |
|
Offer ashes holy |
|
Beades and sacring-belles |
|
And al other Iuelles |
|
Then shal he take you |
| 785 |
And his heire make you |
|
Nowe wyl I forsake you |
|
And gyue you my blessing |
|
I wyl not be missing |
|
But wyth expedience |
| 790 |
Shewe myne obedience |
|
To the prince infernal |
|
In derknes eternal |
|
Who gaue to me my name |
|
And did to you the same |
| 795 |
For both did come him fro |
|
An[d] to hym must they go And] An A, C
|
|
And there wyth fende[s] fendes] fende A, C
|
|
To make ther endes endes] endes s A, CThe dislocated "s" has dropped down from the previous line |
|
The dislocated "s" has dropped down from the previous line
|
As felowes and frendes |
| 800 |
Thus Pope and messe |
|
I must confesse |
|
To be no lesse |
|
Then deuelishnes |
|
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