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In mortem serenissimæ Reginæ Elizabethæ. Nænia consolans.
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Mulcaster, Richard, 1530?-1611.
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STC 18251; ESTC S112930
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of princely mind then beam'd abroad When hauing got her fathers crowne on head She did shew forth the treasures of her heart When she first tooke the Scepter in her hand Euen then professing here the heauenly truth How quietly entred she and with what peace All the Romish rout which swarming here With open throats did thirst to see her fall Though all our neighbour lands then priestly slaues Though forrein Kings and princes threw out threats Bicause they were bewitcht with Romish rags Yet she with hope in God and checke to feare What truth did teach that she did still desend And England of it selfe now free from feare Of forrein princes yoake was glad of her Who being staid in throne and princely seat How mightie things how borne to liue did she Still constant still the same still in one course Directing all the time that she did raigne What she enacted once she held it fast Aswell what toucht the Church as ciuill state No change of hands from right vnto the left Was she acquainted with but still forth right Her gratious God so sauoured this her raigne Which she religiously maintained thus As if she did not quite surpasse all those Which heretofore had raigned in this land At least she matcht the brauest of them all In all her great attempts victorious still If she with armed hand bar'd forrein foes If with the like she daunted stirs at home If with assisting aid she sought to free Her neighbours crauing helpe from seruile yoke The God of heauen did guide her still to gaine Oft times assail'd by false and treacherous meane Wherewith the Iesuites sought to sucke her blood She felt her God to saue her with his sheeld Which taking edge from sword and charge from dagge From poyson strength to doe her any harme Bad her goe on bad her abandon feare That he would be both guide and guard to his But were it not a mightie fault to hide The royall gifts wherewith she was endow'd Her knowledge and her skill the only meane Which doth adornea noble royall wit Her learning did surmount her sex and kind She had obtain'd the chiefe and learned tongues Whereby she knew what things were to be knowne Vpon these grounds and learning of her owne She fauour'd so all people that were learn'd As both th' Vniuersities felt by Royall graunt The benefits wherewith she priuiledged them As euerie shire so warranted from her Found many a schoole well founded for their youth To bring them vp at first whom afterward The Vniuersities were to feed with stronger meats These qualities of hers so rare in woman kind She did not hide but shew'd them to the sunne In all her time so gouerning her estate As all the world did wonder at her wit Which kind of gouernment and blessed course Great potentates abroad in forrein parts Did so admire as they forthwith did send Their Embassies to her with true desire To craue and haue her friendship and her loue Whose answere was return'd in sort so wise And in that tongue which they themselues did vse A thing for wonder rare beyond beleefe To find in that weake sex so strong a gift But that her selfe past wonder past beleefe As they were all amaz'd and comming home Reported to their Lords the thing they scant beleeu'd So strange a prince had God giuen to this world Truth to maintaine and falshood for to mate Besides all these great troups of noble men Rapt with the fame and honour of her name Desiring to see whereof they heard so much With gladsome hearts repaired to this Realme And as they came with gladnesse for to see So they departed glad when they had seen Her entertainment was in such a sort For majestie of state and princely cheere As in all points she did content them all Nay diuers noble Dames whom like desire Enflamed for to see the object of their eares Did vndertake the way though nere so long By sea by land to see that they did seeke What honour were these things to this our Isle What glorie to all those of that her sex That forraine lands should send both Ladies and Lords To heare our princes voice to see her face To kisse her faire and tender royall hand This was her publicke course in case of state Whereof the world each where eye witnesse was Now as she was addicted still to heare Or priuatly to read some learned booke She neuer brook't nor could with patience beare What she perceiu'd vnseeming for a Prince But as her choice was euer of the best And chiefest that did write in any tongue So what she found to be sincere and pure That did she note and laid it vp in store VVhat was not such as sorie she had red That she exil'd both from her eie and eare If ought came by the way while she did read VVhich smelt of blood or cruell tyrants hand Her selfe rejected straight and willed him That red with her to read the same alone And after tell it her in milder phrase Nay farther if the lawes by force of right Condemned any one for crime to die None was more loath to yeeld to such a death None more desired to respit time for life Her nature was so mild her heart so kind As paine or death deseru'd could hardly winne Though law and justice both did bid her strike Besides when any of her priuate traine Did painfully perfourme his charge in truth How would she cherish him with courteous termes Alluring euerie heart to yeeld her loue Of which her gentle course well fitting her This may be brought for proofe that being sicke No Ladie of her suit refused paines By night by day to saue their princes health But euerie one with danger of their owne Did seeke to saue her life whom they so lou'd And as the women did so did the men VVith earnest care in dutie to perfourme That sorrowfull seruice with losse of prince to liue By nature such she was by vertue such As none deny'd her loue where she did like To knit the last with least whatsoeuer thing She vndertooke to daunce to play to sing Or what so else a modest Queene might doe That she perfourm'd with majestie and grace That it became the place that it beseem'd a Queene Now drawing neere to death she stay'd on still The faith she held in life she kept in death That though they which were neere her when she dyed VVere for her death in paine and extreame griefe And could haue wisht her longer time to liue Yet they rejoic'd to see her so depart As in her death they saw a present life For at her death she did remember well Both what concern'd her soule her heauenly state And how she must depart without delay As when her soule her mortall bodie left VVith triumph she did mount straight into heauen Nor when she died she did forget hers here As many mothers doe forget their babes But left vs such a King whose