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A chaine of pearle. Or A memoriall of the peerles graces, and heroick vertues of Queene Elizabeth, of glorious memory. Composed by the noble lady, Diana Primrose
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Primrose, Diana.
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1630
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STC 20388; ESTC S101193
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A Chaine of Pearle OR A Memoriall of the peerles Graces and Heroick Vertues of Queene Elizabeth of Glorious Memory Composed by the Noble Lady Diana Primrose Dat ROSA mel apibus quâ sugit ARANEA virus LONDON Printed for Thomas Paine and are to be sold by Philip Waterhouse at his shop at the signe of St. Pauls-head in Canning-street neere London-stone 1630. TO ALL NOBLE LADIES and GENTLE-WOMEN TO You the Honour of our Noble Sex I send this CHAINE with all my best Respects Which if you please to weare for her sweet sake For whom I did this slender POEM make You shall erect a Trophie to her Name And crowne your selues with neuer-fading Fame Devoted to your Vertues DIANA P. TO THE EXCELLENT LADY the Composer of this Worke. SHine forth Diana dart thy Golden Raies On Her blest Life and Raigne whose Noble Praise Deserues a Quill pluckt from an Angels wing And none to write it but a Crowned King Shee Shee it was that gaue vs Golden Daies And did the English Name to Heauen raise Blest be her Name blest be her Memory That England crown'd with such Felicity And Thou the Prime-Rose of the Muses nine In whose sweete Verse ELIZA'S Fame doth shine Like some resplendent Star in frosty night Hast made thy Natiue Splendor far more bright Since all thy PEARLES are peerles-orient And to thy selfe a precious Ornament This is my censure of thy ROYALL CHAINE Which a far better Censure well may claime DOROTHY BERRY THE INDVCTION AS Golden Phaebus with his radiant face Enthron'd in his Triumphant Chaire of State The twinkling Stars and Asterismes doth chafe With his Imperiall Scepter and doth hate All Consorts in his Starry Monarchy As preiudiciall to his Soveraignty So Great ELIZA Englands brightest Sun The Worlds Renowne and everlasting Lampe Admits not here the least Comparison Whose Glories doe the Greatest Princes dampe That ever Scepter swai'd or Crowne did weare Within the Verge of either Hemispheare Thou English Goddesse Empresse of our Sex O Thou whose Name still raignes in all our hearts To whom are due our ever-vowd Respects How shall I blazon thy most Royall parts Which in all Parts did so divinely shine As they deserue Apollo's Quili not mine Yet since the GODS accept the humble Vowes Of Mortalls daigne O Thou Star-crowned Queene T' accept these ill-composed Pearly-Rowes Wherein thy Glory chieflty shall be seene For by these Lines so blacke and impolite Thy Swan-like Lustre shall appeare more white Thy Emperiall Majesties eternall Votary DIANA A CHAINE OF PEARLE OR A Memoriall of Q. Elizabeth The first Pearle RELIGION THE goodliest Pearle in faire Eliza's Chaine Is true Religion which did chiefly gaine A Royall Lustre to the rest and ti'de The Hearts of ALL to her when Mary di'de And though Shee found the Realme infected much With Superstition and Abuses such As in all humane Iudgement could not be Reform'd without domesticke Mutiny And great Hostility from Spaine and France Yet SHEE vndaunted brauely did advance Christs Glorious Ensigne maugre all the Feares Or Dangers which appear'd and for ten yeares SHEE swaid the Scepter with a Ladies hand Not vrging any Romist in the Land By sharpe Edicts the Temple to frequent Or to partake the holy Sacrament But factious Romanists not thus content Their Agents to their holy Fathersent Desiring him by sollemne Bull proclaime ELIZABETH an Heretike and name Some other Soveraigne which might erect Their masking Masse and hence forthwith eject The Evangelicall Profession Which flourisht vnder her Protection The Pope to this Petition condescends And soone his Leaden Bull to England sends Which by one FELTON on the Bishops Gate Of London was affixed But the STATE For that high Treason punisht him with death That would dethrone his Queene ELIZABETH Yet was this Ball of Wild-fire working still In many Romanists which had a will The present State and Governement to change That they in all Idolatrie might range And hence it came that Great Northumberland Associate with Earle of Westmerland And many moe their Banners did display In open Field hoping to win the Day Against these Rebells Noble SVSSEX went And soone their bloudy Purpose did prevent Westmerland fled Northumberland did die For that soule Crime and deepe disloyalty Having engaged Thousands in that Cause After which time the QVEENE made stricter Lawes Against Recusants and with Lyons heart Shee bang'd the Pope and tooke the Gospells part The Pope perceiving that his Bull was baited In such rude sort and all his hopes defeated Cries out to Spaine for helpe who takes occasion Thereby t' attempt the Conquest of this Nation But such Sage Counsellers ELIZA had As though both Spaine * In vltimam rabiem fureremque conversi and Rome were almost mad For griefe and anger yet they still did faile And against England never could prevaile The second Pearle CHASTITY THE next faire Pearle that comes in order here Is Chastity wherein SHEE had no peere Mongst all the Noble Princesses which then In Europe were the Royall Anadem And though for Beauty SHEE an Angell was And all our Sex did there in farre surpasse Yet did her pure vnspotted Chastitie Her heavenly Beautie rarely beautifie How many Kings and Princes did aspire To win her Loue In whom that Vestall Fire Still flaming never would Shee condescend To Hymen's Rihtes though much Shee did commend That braue French MONSIEVR who did hope to carry The Golden fleece and faire ELIZA marry Yea Spanish PHILIP Husband to her Sister Was her first Sutor and the first that mist her And though he promis'd that the Pope by Bull Should license it SHEE held it but a Gull For how can Pope * Yet his Canonists say Benè dispensal Dominus Papa contra Apostolum Extrae de Renunc Ca. post translationem with Gods owne Law dispence Was it not time such Popes to cudgell hence Thus Her impregnable Virginity Throughout the World Her Fame did dignify And this may be a Document to all The Pearle of Chastity not to let fall Into the filthy durt of foule Desires Which Satan kindles with his Hell-bred fires For whether it be termed Virginall In Virgins or in Wiues stil'd Conjugall Or Viduall in Widdowes God respects All equally and all a like affects And here I may not silent overpasse That Noble Lady of the Court which was Sollicited by TAXIS that great DON Embassador for Spaine when SHEE was gone Who to obtaine his will Primo Iacobi gaue her a Chaine Of most rare Orient Pearle hoping to gaine That Worthy Lady to his Lust Related by thehonotable Kt. and Baronet SIR Richard Hoūghton of Houghton Tower But Shee That well perceiu'd his Spanish Policy His faire Chaine kept but his foule Offer scorn'd That sought thereby her Husband to haue horn'd TAXIS repulst sent to Her for his Chaine But as a Trophie Shee did it retaine Which Noble President may all excite To keepe this Pearle which is so Orient bright The third