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cause_n	good_a	great_a	true_a	2,848	5	3.8360	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05711	The trauayled pylgrime bringing newes from all partes of the worlde, such like scarce harde of before. Seene and allowed according to the order appointed.; Chevalier délibéré. English	La Marche, Olivier de, ca. 1426-1502.; Batman, Stephen, d. 1584.	1569 (1569)	STC 1585; ESTC S104517	56,463	106

The trauayled Pylgrime bringing newes from all partes of the worlde such like scarce harde of before Seene and allowed according to the order appointed Anno Domini 1569. Eccle. 10. The glorie of the riche of the honorable and of the poore is the feare of God Prouerbes 2● The riche and poore are together the Lorde is the maker of them all TO THE RIGHT WORshipfull Sir William Damsell knight receyuer generall of the Queenes Maiesties Court of VVardes and Lyueries S. B. wysheth most prosperous health and endlesse felicitie AMONG DIuers benefits receyued Right worshypfull considering wyth my selfe in what order or by what meanes I mought deuyse to show some part of recōpence thoughfar to acquite that which I haue receiued I forthwith called to mind these wordes Non solum gratis esse debet qui accepit benificium verum etiam is cui potestas accipiendi fuit he ought not onely to be thankefull which hath receyued a benefit but also he to whom hath bene power of receyuing a benefite so I confesse who haue not onely receyued so many benefits at your worships handes so often as I haue required but also on your part haue augmented your friendly beneuolence more then as yet I haue deserued In consideration hereof and thinking with my selfe by what means to gratefie some part of your deserued labours towardes me I thought good to dedicate this my simple and vnlearned trauaile who hauing nothing else on your worship to bestow called the trauailed Pilgrim wherin I haue painted foorth the fonde deuise of man and the straunge Combats that he is daylie forced vnto by meanes of this oure feeble nature showing also howe euery degree shoulde or at the least wayes ought to frame themselues and so aduisedly to watch that we be found vigilāt watchmen aspecting the great second cōming of our lord Iesus Christ that at what houre the theefe breake in vpon vs wee be readie armed to withstand the same reporting also that the sayde Pilgrime bringeth newes out of all partes of the world by which newes is signified the straunge inuentions of man which at no time contynueth in one estate 〈◊〉 staye so long as the vitall breath remaineth within this wretched corps of oures Furthermore to consider of this my foresayde enterprise not that I write this to the intent to correct or amend any fault or faults in other men but only by way of friendly exhortation exhorting euery faythfull Christian to haue such regarde to this their Pilgrimage here on earth that in the lyfe to come they may enioy the happie gaine of endlesse felicitie So right worshipfull the effect of this my simple and vnlearned enterprise being drawne I mused with my selfe to whome I best might bestowe the same and knowing none other more fit then your worship considering the benefits as well present as past thought good to present the same beseeching your worshyp to except more my good will then otherwise the effect of this my simple trauaile and in so doing I shall not think my labor herein vneffectually bestowed thus I ende beseeching the Almightie God to preserue you both now and euer Amen Your humble Orator S. B. ¶ To the Reader THough the matter gentle Reader conteined in this my simple treatise be not altogither fruitlesse but that manye things therein might verye vvell be amended yet notvvithstanding so farre I presume of thy indifferent iudgement that thou vvilt not be according to the common sort of curious quarellers a captious or a malipert correctour of the labours or diligent studie of anye to hinder although in some poyntes thou bee able to correct but fauourably consider the good vvill of the wryter and then if anye thing chaunce contrarie to thy mind show foorth thy friendly commendations with such ordred corrections as may not onely encourage the Author but also get to thy selfe in lyke effect lyke cōmendation or praise It is hard for one to please many therfore in fewe wordes I haue thought good to knit togither this my simple vvorke called the trauayled Pilgrime wherein is set foorth the state of man and the innumerable assaultes that he is daylie and hourely enuironed withall not onely with outward or bodily enimies as losse of goodes or lyfe of wyfe children or familier friends which eftsones happens as the losse of goodes by theft or fyre the death of thy friende or familye by slaunder and murther these and suche lyke distu●bances still eyther in the one or other man is alwayes subiect vnto yet better to be auoyded then the inwarde cogitations or thoughts which daylie by Sathan man is vexed and moued for the one may by pacience in suffering vvrongful dealing oftentimes escape the doings which otherwise myght else happen to his or there great payne and grieuance the other must not onely be ouercome with pacience in suffering but also fayth and good workes must proceede vvhich be tvvo chiefe causes that God by his sonne Iesus Christe beyng oure Mediator doth continuallye heare not the outvvard prayers only but also our invvard thoughts so long as true hope vvyth these three doth remayne that is to say pacience in suffring fayth in beleeuing that God in Christ Iesus is able vvill forgiue the sinnes offences of all true obedient harts good vvorks doth and shall receyue hir revvard vvhich is euerlasting life And hope then is brought from calamities vvhich she long desired vnto iocundity triumphant glory Thus much gentle Reader I haue thought good to vvrite concerning the state of man but vvhatsoeuer I haue left vnvvritten in this my base and simple Epistle although not altogither it chaunce to please some frovvarde braynes yet as much as I haue thought conuenient so much haue I vvritten not that I knovve in my selfe but that by the vvise and learned many things may be amended impute therfore the lacke of any thing which may chaunce to discontent Tyme not to ignorance but only the full minde and effect hereof to the vvriter vvho thinkes this done sufficient Read but deride not at merie things laugh not After mirth cometh sorow for Momus I care not Farevvell in the Lorde S. B. M. ¶ The childe signifieth good Infancie the rod Correction the auncient or aged man Reason the booke Truth the armed Knyght youthfull Courage the speare good Gouernment the shielde Hope the sword Courage standing in the fielde called Time Here the Author beginnes his voyage being ready armed bidding Infancie farewell and now growing by Reason to further possibilitie and strength THe mightye Ioue celestiall when first he tooke in hand That Chaos huge he made to fall and formed so a land Wherein he set and created all things as now we sée First beasts then mā which he prepard their gouernor to bée And named him in Eden grounde Adam that name he gaue Where nothing then could him confound till he a Mate did c●aue She Eua hight a woman kinde when he awakte hir sawe As Innocents no sinne