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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15143	[A sweet nosgay, or pleasant posye] [contayning a hundred and ten phylosophicall flowers &c.]	Whitney, Isabella.	1573 (1573)	STC 25440; ESTC S119702	22,841	75

To the worshipfull and right vertuous yong Gentylman GEORGE MAINVVARING Esquier IS VV. wissheth happye health with good succsesse in all his godly affayres WHen I good M. MAINVVARING had made this simple Nosegaye I was in minde to bestow the same on some dere frind of which number I haue good occasion to accompt you chiefe But waying with my selfe that although the Flowers bound in the same were good yet so little of my labour was in them that they were not ●●●●● be they should to bee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the least of a great number of benefits which haue frō time to time euen from our Childhoo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 receaued of you yet ●●●●● by me you●●●●●● be occasioned to say as ANTI●ATER s●●●●DEMADES of Athens that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 him with geueing I woulde ●o ●●●●●●y selfe ●●●ffied gratifye your Guifts and also by the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 confessions that by deedes you haue deserued benefits which as DIOGENES saith is ●●●● worth then be ●eu●●● or 〈◊〉 by receauing of many 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 benefits Which to do is not alotted me to accquit your curtesies I come to prefer you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pore 〈◊〉 which hauing no goods ca●● with his hands full of water to meet the Persian Prince withal who respecting the good wyll of the man● did not disdayne his simple Guift euen so I being ●●●●●● to bestow some Present on you by the same thinking to make part of a●onder for the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 merited to perfourme the dutie of a friend 〈◊〉 expresse the good wyll that should rest in Countrie folke not hauyng of mine owne to discharge that I go about like to that poore Fellow which ●●●● into an others ground for his water did shaping anothers garden for these Flowers which I 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 you as DARIVS did to accept and though they be of anothers growing yet considering they be of my owne gathering and making ●●●●spect my labour and regard my good wil and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 them but vouch●●●● to be a protected 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 him from the spightful which perhaps wil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hat leith as presented you or gathered th 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ad done one or both and so might spoyle●●●● Nosegay and not to let it come so happili 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 handes as I wish it mai And though the Garden of your godly mind be full fraught with 〈◊〉 Flowers which I know in your infancie to take roote and which all may see now to florish with an vndoubted hope of their yeelding fruite hereafter yet ordaine to smell so these and when you come into a pestilent aire that might infect your sound minde yet sauour to these SLIPS in which I trust you shal finde safety And yf you take pleasure in them I shal not only be occasioned to endeuour my selfe to make a further viage for a more dayntier thing then Flowers are to present you withall but also haue good hope that you wil accept this my labour for recompence of al that which you are vnrecompenced for as knoweth god who I beseeche geue vnto you a longe and a lucky lyfe with increase of all your vertuous studies From Abchurch Lane the 20 of October 1573. ¶ By your wel willyng Countriwoman IS VV. ¶ The Auctor to the Reader THis Haruesttyme I Haruestlesse and servicelesse also And subiect vnto sicknesse that abrode I could not go Had leasure good though learning lackt some study to apply To reade such Bookes wherby I thought myselfe to edyfye Somtime the Scriptures I perusd but wantyng a Deuine For to resolue mée in such doubts as past this head of mine To vnderstand I layd them by and Histories gan read Wherin I found that follyes earst in people did exceede The which I see doth not decrease in this our present time More pittie it is we folow them in euery wicked crime I straight waxt wery 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 es and many other mo●● As VIRGILL OVID●●●ANTVAN which many wonders ●●●e And to refresh my masede●●●●● and cheare my 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And for to trye if that my limmes had got thier strength agayne I walked out but sodenly a friend of mine mée met And sayd yf you regard your health out of this Lane you get And shift you to some better aire for feare to be infect With noysome smell and sauours yll I wysh on that respect And haue regard vnto your health or els perhaps you may So make a dye and then adieu your wofull friends may say I thankt him for his carefulnes and this for answer gaue I 'le neither shun nor seeke for death yet oft the same I craue By reason at my lucklesse lyfe beléeue mée this is true In that says he you doo a misse than had he mée adieu For he was hastyng out of Towne and could no longer byde And I went home all sole alone good Fortune was my guyde And though sh●●●●er hath denyde to hoyce m●● on her Wheele Yet now she stood me in some steede and made mée pleasures féele For she so Plat his Plot mée brought where fragrant Flowers abound The smell whereof preuents ech harms if yet your selfe be sound Amongst those Beds so brauely deckt with euery goodly Flower And Bankes and Borders finely framde I mée reposde one howre And longer wolde but leasure lackt and businesse had mée hye And come agayne some other time to fill my gasing eye Though loth yet at the last I went but ere I parted thence A slip I tooke to smell vnto which might be my defence In stynking stréetes or lothsome Lanes which els might mée infect And sence that time I ech day once haue viewd that braue prospect And though the Master of the same I yet dyd neuer sée It seemes he is a Gentylman and full of courteisye For none that with good zeale doth come doo any one resist And such as wyll with or●●●● get may gather whilst they ●●●t Then pytite were it to destroy what he with payne did plant The moderate heere may be suffizde and he no whit shall want And for my part I may be bolde to come when as I wyll Yea and to chuse of all his Flowers which may my fancy fill And now I haue a Nosegay got that would be passing rare Yf that to sort the same aright weare lotted to my share But in a bundle as they hée good Reader them accept It is the geuer not the guift thou oughtest to respect And for thy health not for thy eye did I this Posye frame Because my selfe dyd safety finde by smelling to the same But as we are not all alyke nor of complexion one So that which helpeth some we sée to others good doth none I doo not say it dyd mée help I no infection felt But sure I think they kept mée free because to them I smelt And for because I lyke them well and good haue found therby I for good wyll doo gaue them thée fyrst tast and after trye But yf thy mind infected be then these wyll not