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A02822	The history of S. Elizabeth daughter of the King of Hungary According to sundry authours who haue authentically written her life, distributed into three bookes. By H.A. Permissu superiorum.	Hawkins, Henry, 1571?-1646.; Picart, Jean, engraver.	1632 (1632)	STC 12957; ESTC S103933	138,159	434

same Territory of Treuers who being blind a whole yeare and praying to Saint Elizabeth and led to her Tomb receiued there the sight of one of her eyes but the other was not restored her vntil shee returned home where the blessed Sainct Elizabeth appeared to her in the night and wished her to goe to the Aultar and desire one to moue the ayre towards her with the silk veyle where the Body of Christ was wont to be placed which being done she receiued the benefit of both her eyes Finally to conclude this relation of the admirable Miracles of this great S. Elizabeth I wil finish the same with one of an other Theoderick in the Diocesse of the said Mentz and because I wil not trouble the Reader with the recital of any more I wil expresse the same more at large as I find it This Theodorick then being lame of both his leggs made a vow to visit S. Elizabeth and ariuing thither partly by creeping and partly through the help of other men not hauing remedy thereof in a whole moneths space returned homewards againe as leysurely as he went thither and being yet in his way and sleeping by the sides of an other as infirme and diseased as himself thought verily in the night some water had bin powred vpon him and waking thereupon complayned of his fellow as one who had cast some water vpon him in his sleepe But he discreetely coniecturing the thing as in truth it happened denyed the same perswading him there was something els in the matter more then he perhapps would imagin and therefore aduised him to arise and try whether happily he could walke or noe When behold a maruellous thing hee who wēt so lame to bed arose very sound whole so as laying aside his crutches whereas before he was wont to beare susteyn himself with them he could now carry them lustily as he did to the Tomb of the Saint which done he returned home to his freinds very ioyful of the benefit receiued nor euer ceased to magnify God in this Great Saint A TABLE COLLECTED of the eminent vertues and perfections of S. Elizabeth concluding with a prayer to the Saint CHAP. X. SVch as could not prayse and magnify the Emperous of Rome enough when they entred in triumph into that stately Citty the Paradice of the delights of the world after they had atcheiued some notable enterprize in conquests of the Enemyes of their Countrey Would strew on their heads whole handfulls of Roses and Lillyes and a deluge of flowers for an amorous testimony of the ioy and good wil they bare them and an iudicatiue argument of the great applauses for their heroicall victoryes obteyned Now after this great Princesse Elizabeth a Saint among the greatest Saints and stil a Princesse amongst Saints hath made her enterance no lesse in triumph into the heauenly and celestial Hierusalem after the taming of those hellish monsters the world the flesh and the Diuell the professed enemyes of that heauenly Countrey I now not better able to expresse my zeale come throwing after her those litle handfulls of the roses of her vertues and Lillyes of perfection which I could picke vp here and there of her own scattering in the world which shee so prodigally hath left behynd her In testimony of the ioy likewise of my hart for the glittering rayes sheenow is darting forth among those starrs of the Emperyal heauens Psaphon hauing got together many litle birds taught them only these few words Psaphon is a God after which affording them the ayre and liberty these litle spirits of birds flying through the Vniuerse repeating the lesson they had learned spread and dilated euery where the glory of their Maister causing the world to hold him as a God All these litle Essayes of prayses which I haue here amassed together with my hand haue learned all the name of S. Elizabeth and can say Elizabeth is a great Saint which being once diuulged spread abroad shall inuite all the braue spirits of the world to acknowledge her as such and to admire and implore her intercession Rash as I am alas what do I attempt I must confesse I am too rash herein to goe about thus to engage my self within this laborinth whence there is no meanes to get forth againe For what apparance is there I should euer once make good what I haue promised here and taken on mee I wil yet venture since I am got in God and his Saint I trust wil assist mee in it and if all faile I shal suffer wrackin a goodly Sea where ship-wrack were no losse but rather to bee wished for while it were no better then to loose ones self in her prayses to shew how boundles immense the Ocean of her vertues and perfections were the thing I principally affect Hitherto I haue gone like a faithful Truchman or Interpretour I may say likwise and say not amisse like an Embassadour who can say no more then what he finds in his Commission wherein he must looke to bee punctual while he puts on the person of such an one after which discharged he is not debarred to speake more freely of his owne Hee may if hee wil fal into his Maisters prayses and speake what of him he ingenuously thinks without impeachment to his charge or office So hitherto haue I been a faithfull Historian of the Life of this Saint wherein I would not exceede the bounds of a modest Relator of the truth what I find precisely deliuered by other Historians and recommended to posterity each one in their wayes But now that I haue discharged it and al this while taken that person on mee not exceeding my Commission in the substance of the matter in ought I know I see not why I may not now take the liberty to speake of my self what I thinke of my Lady and Mistresse in her prayses But where shal I beginne or how proceed but without beginning or any method at al for in this office I hold my self not obliged to any These are but scatterings as I promised you which I find heere and there neglected in the trace of her life which yet require regard and some reflection In the History her Infancy is noted to be a faire Aurora promising a beautyful and goodly day and not without good reason hauing now already seene the happy progresse of her Day which had as faire a Sunne-set as the Morne was promising and the day performed glorious in refulgent rayes of vertuous and religious works til night when euery plow ends his furrow and euery constant labourer goes to rest The Aurora and beginning of which day was wholy spent in the Virginal the Noone and midle season in th●… Coniugal and the rest til the vtmost period in the Vidual state O happy Day the while that knew no night of mortal sinne no heats of concupiscences or clouds of melancholy H●…r flowers in this first season were Lillyes al and Roses in the bud enclosed

to wield it self and did it with such willingnes and alacrity as astonished such as were witnesses thereof and to shew that she did it very freely and willingly indeed when as after notwithstanding the care she had the Child dyed as if she had lost some notable benefit by its death she was not quiet til she had priuily taken to her charge to tend a certayne Mayd wholy destitute and forlorne and sorely infected with a greiuous leaprosy whom she serued with such Charity as she not only dressed her meate made her bed and fetched her water to wash her hands but being so great a personage disdayned not to abase her self euen to the ground to pul off her hose and shooes and the like Which when the venerable Conrad vnderstood considering the loathsommes of that disease and the daintynes of her complexion he gaue on the suddaine expresse order the leaprous Mayd should be remoued thence and the Lady debarred from comming at her prouiding otherwise for the party Though Elizabeth by some might wel be thought to be throughly mortified herein to be so peremptorily barred of her wil as they might imagine in so pious a thing she hauing as it appeared so seriously set her mynd thereon yet in truth it troubled not her awhit for weighing with herself that charitable acts how great soeuer do loose their vertue and efficacy if they be not discreete withal she was satisfyed with the wil of her Superiour whom God had appointed ouer her For she considered indeede that true Charity principally required two things First not to content our selues with the only shadow of Charity which is sweete and tender feeling towards the Neighbour but such an effect alsoe as properly bereaues a man of al self-loue as not to seeke nor mind any thing but the glory of God and to ful-fil his blessed wil And whatsoeuer any wayes befalls him eyther interiourly or exteriourly to accept from the hand of God in doing al to his greater glory and not to seeke what is pleasing to himself but what is most agreeable to the wil of God The second is that howbeyt the Loue of God can not be so great but that stil he is worthy of much greater yet are the exteriour works and practizes thereof to be measured with a certaine moderation of discretion least being neglected they hurt either our owne health or hinder the edification of our neighbour And therefore she wisely considered there was no greater security herein then wholy to stand to the iudgmens of her lawfull Superiour Who if he grant and afford vs to do lesse then wee willingly would do yet shal a supple and plyable mynd herein relinquishing its proper wil bee a great deale more grateful to God then the hardest and most difficult thing that may be enterprized without the same refignation Yet could not Elizabeth forbeare such was her Charity to receiue a Boy into her charge whose head was al become bald by reason of the S●…uruy or Scurfe which had ouergrowne yt whom she out of hand what with washing anoynting and the attendance she gaue him cured or rather with the feruour of her fai●…n procured his recouery from the hands of God 〈◊〉 she had none yet wrought she ma●…y cures no doubt vnder the colour of some manner of skil at least through her charitable diligence doing therewith many admirable things And lastly this excellent Charity of hers was euer accompanied with humility as Sisters hand in hand For besides her ordinary employments in the exercize of al vertues she would often wash the dishes euen out of her tu●…n with the p●…ts and other vessells belonging to the kitchin sending away her Mayds many tymes about other busines that she might more freely attend to her owne humiliatiō so as often they found her busyed eyther in wiping them vp or but newly making an end to their singular edification in beholding the humility of the Seruant of God HOw ELIZABETH DEliuers the soule of the Queene her Mother from Purgatory with her prayers only and likwise procured the vocation of a certaine libertine vnto Religion CHAP. II. AS it is noe ordinary thing but wholy miraculous for soules being departed this life to returne to this world from whence they passed so it cannot be denyed but that sometymes they appeare vnto vs where when and how through diuine dispensation the same is permitted vnto them Now for their owne commodity because thereby they are the more succoured by the lyuing when they are suffered to appeare to them and somtymes for our instruction and profit because that in hearing or in seeing them wee are not only the more confirmed in the faith of the immortallity and resurrection of the dead but do likewise receiue many other benefits withal likely allwayes they giue vs a faithful testimony of the prouidēce which our Lord hath as wel ouer the lyuing as the dead And howbeit al soules which haue left the body haue proper power of their owne nature to moue themselues from one place to an other yet haue not al the licence or liberty to vse the same some for being perpetually condemned to prison in Hel it self others in Purgatory for a tyme in punishmēt for sinne though not against their wil which is wholely conformable to God nor can the one or other come from thence without expresse order from the supreame Iudge of the lyuing and Dead Now then it happened in these dayes in the night tyme while Elizabeth was setled to sleepe that the Soule of one of a suddaine appeared to her in her dreame Which vision how beyt in her sleepe yet appeared it as sensible vnto her imagination as shee had been perfectly awake at noone day and had seene an obiect indeede very subiect to the senses appearing at first in a mourneful guise and not manifesting as yet who it was and after the inuocation of the most holy Trinity with the signe of the holy Cros●…e shee demaunding who it was The Spirit seemed to answeare in her sleepe she was the Queene of Hungary her Mother and falling on her knees besought her most earnestly to haue pitty and compassion on her as soone as might bee Whereupon awaking she immediately offered vp to God her deuout ' prayers not without many teares in behalf of her Mother and so layed her downe to sleepe a second tyme and againe the same very soule appeared to her in a glorious manner and gaue her infinit thanks for her suddaine and speedy deliuerance assuring her besides that her prayers had so great an energy with them in the ears of the diuine Maiesty and were so gratiously efficacious in his sight as they were auaileable as wel for the lyuing as for the dead which shortly she found to bee true by her owne experience For hauing now already shewed how for●…ible efficacious the prayers of Elizabeth haue been for soules departed Let vs see heer how effectual they are in behoofe of the liuing It happened as