nor good workes at all to alleadge before thee But as for euill workes I haue alas to many of them Neuertheles my hope is that I shal be reckned in the number of the righteous by meanes of thy righteteousnes For my sake wast thou borne for my sake didst thou thirst for my sake wast thou huÌ„gry for my sake diddest thou teach for my sake diddest thou Vse gayn of gold and liue in cost So as by death life be not lost ¶ The Marchant Neither craft nor trade Can â—e perswade ¶ The Citizen Of towne and citie I haue no pitie pray for my sake didst thou fast for my sake didst thou perfourme the great number of good works in this life for my sake didst thou suffer so many bitter panges for my sake didst thou geue ouer thy precious life to the death Let the things profite me which thou hast geueÌ„ me of thine own free will thou I say which hast geuen thy self wholy for me Let thy bloud wash away the spots of my sinnes Let thy righteousnes hide mine vnrighteousnes Let thy deseruings commend me to the soueraign Iudge As my greef and disease increase so increase thou thy grace Let not my faith wauer Let not my hope staggar Let not my charity waxe colde Let not my humain infirmitie be cast down with the dread of death But euen when death shall haue cloased ¶ The Printers Leaue setting thy page spent is thine age Pressmen goe play printing must stay We Printers wrote with wisdomes pâ—n She liues for aye we die as men the eyes of my body let the eyes of my minde looke still vpon thee with out wauering aside And when it shal haue bereft me of the vse of my tung let my hart cry stedfastly still vnto thee Into thy hands I commit my spirite O Lord to whom be honor prayse world without end Amen ⧠A Prayer to be sayd in the Plague time IT is no maruail O most righteous Father that the elementes of this world are fearce against vs sometime with earthquakes sometime with tempestes and lightnings sometime with ouerflowing of seas and Riuers sometime with pestilent concourses of the heauenly lights and sometime with corruption of the infected ayre for we doe commonly abuse thy gifts Death takes no bribe of wealth Death forceth not long health ¶ The Riche man Thy siluer nor golde froÌ„ death can theé withhold ¶ The aged man By right I must be bold with theé that liuest so old We acknowledge that euen in this case also the creatures serue and obay their Creator whose coÌ„maundements we neglect so oftentimes Also we acknowledge thy fatherly nurturing of vs wherby thou callest vs back from the trust of this world with gentle correction and drawest vs to the desire of the euerlasting life ¶ The Artificer No compas or arte can cause me depart The Husbandman Labour no more For I haue store No one deuise no arâ— no toyle Could make vs geue to death the foil A Prayer for health both of body and minde DOubtles the only true health is to be found in that part which is cheéfest in vs and lykest vnto theé O Lord that is to say to haue the soul allyed In song in daunce in pipes in play We lost our life now wrapt in â—la◠¶ The Musâ—â—iâ—n Strike vp thy play Daunce with me away and knit vnto theé as neare as is possible by louing and worshipping of theé which art our only welfare But forasmuch as the same is annexed to the body it feéleth the affections therof and is moued by them As for salues and medicines they doe good when thou listest but they be superfluous and to no purpose if thou list not to worke by them Thou I say which art the founder of them and of al naturall things Thine only will is the cause of life and death and of health and sicknes which thou layest vpon vs most commonly to chastise and bridle this body of oures which rusheth forth into vnruly losenes in all things like an vnweldy vnbrideled beast ouerwhelming vs with forgetfulnes of the true health when it groweth to strong and ouerlusty But thou O Father graunt vs so ¶ The Shepeheard Leaue thy shepâ— And with me crepe ¶ The Foole. Of foolish and fonde I breake the bonde The wise the simple and euery degree Are by force compelled to obay vnto me to be hole in body as our minds may also be hole and sound Or if it be not for our benefite to haue health of body at least wise geue vs a healthy minde and lend vs power strength to beare our sicknes that the greéfe and weakenes of the body appaire not the soule Amen A Prayer in affliction or aduersitie MOst mercifull Redeémer which art alwayes full of compassion thou art alwayes our preseruer whether thou send vs aduersitie or prosperitie For great is thy mercy compassion in that thou healest the inward man by outward afflictions as it were by bitter medicines and preparest vs to euerlasting ioyes by temporal troubles And for as much as thou thy selfe hast traced vs out this true way to felicitie Time to liue time to dy God grant vs liue eternally ¶ The Begâ—ar Begging is done For I am come The Roge. Thinke I am best For I bring rest by thine own footesteps graunt that I may paciently and obediently drinke this cup which thou reachest vnto me Greéuous in deéde are these thinges vnto my nature but yet hast thou suffered greéuouser things for me and I haue deserued far greéuouser things for I haue deserued hel fire Notwithstanding thou knowest the frailety of mans state and therfore like the mercifull Samaritane thou pourest wine into our wounds which maketh our vices to smart but yet thou alayest it with the oyle of thy comfort to the end we should indure the things which also would be intollerable If thou thinke meéte to increase our greéfes increase thou also the gift of pacience graunt that these afflictions may turne me to the amendement of my misdeédes Or if thy Fatherly louing kindnes thinke ¶ Youth Young olde Come to my folde ¶ Of Infancy Feare not me though I grisly be Time to liue â— time to dy God grant vs liue eternally this thy chastising of me to be sufficient let this storme passe into calme wether that I may thanke theé in both respects as well for that thou hast amended thine vnprofitable seruant by gentlenes as also for that thou hast put away the bitternes of the affliction by the sweétnes of thy comfort hauing in the one case respect of necessity and in the other being mindfull of our infirmities To theé therfore be prayse and thanks for euer Amen ⧠A Prayer vpon the minding of death WHat doe we dayly all our life long but heape sinne vpon sinne and lode wickednes vpon wickednes so as euery day becomes worse then other by increasing the number of our offences and the wrath that is
deliuer vs. From all blindnes of hart from pride vayn glory and hipocrisie from enuy hatred and malice and all vncharitablenes Good Lord deliuer vs. From fornication and all other deadly sinne and from all the deceites of the world the flesh and the deuill Good Lord deliuer vs ¶ The TruÌ„petor â–ª Trumpet geue sound all must to the ground ¶ The Pursuant Goe suÌ„mon by message to come without baggage All mâ—st needs dye â–ª we need not tell Our message hath bene sounded well From lightnings and tempests from plague pestilence and famine from battayl and murther and from sodayn death Good Lord deliuer vs. From all sedition and priuy conspiracy from all false doctrine and heresie from al hardnes of hart and contempt of thy word and commaundement Good Lord deliuer vs. By the mistery of thy holy incarnatioÌ„ by thy holy natiuitie and circumsition by thy baptisme fasting and temtatioÌ„ Good Lord deliuer vs. By thine agony and bloudy sweat by thy crosse and passion by thy precious death and buryall by thy glorious resurrection and ascention and by the coÌ„ming of the holy Ghost Good Lord deliuer vs. We drum that domes day now at hand Doth call all souldyers to deathes hand ¶ The Dromme Drommer call together al soldyars to my baÌ„ner ¶ The Fife Fâ—fe seé thou play to leade them the way In all time of our tribulation in all time of our welth in the hour of death and in the day of iudgement Good Lord deliuer vs. We sinners â—oe beseéch theé to hear vs O Lord God and that it may please theé to rule and gouern thy holy church vniuersally in the right way We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please theé to keép streÌ„gthen in true worshiping of theé in righteousnes and holynes of life thy seruant Elizabeth our most gracious Queéne and gouernour We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to rule hir hart in thy faith feare loue and that she may euermore haue affiance in theé euer seéke thy honor and glory We beseech thee c. ¶ The Capitaine Captain march with me thy Captayne I must be ¶ The Souldior Soldyar haue a courage to thy long vyage Death only maketh captaines quayl And harty soldyars for to fayl That it may please theé to be her defender and keéper geuing her the victory ouer all her enemies We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to illuminate al Bishops Pastors and Ministers of the church with true knowledge vnderstanding of thy word And that both by their preaching liuing they may set it forth shew it accordingly We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to indue all the Lords of the counsel and all the Nobilitie with grace wisedome and vnderstanding We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to blesse and keépe the Magistrates geuing them grace to execute Iustice and to maintayn truth We beseech thee c. Vse gayn of gold and liâ—e in cost So as by death life be noâ— lost ¶ The Marchant Neither craft nor trade Can â—e perswade ¶ The Citizen Of towne and citie I haue â—o pitie That it may please theé to bles keépe all thy people We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to geue to all Nations vnitie peace and concord We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to geue all thy people increase of grace to heare meékly thy word and to receiue it with pure affection and to bring forth the fruites of the spirite We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to bring into the way of truth al such as haue erred and are deceiued We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to strengthen such as doe stand to comfort and helpe the weak harted to rayse them vp that fall and finally to beate down Sathan vnder our feéte We beseech thee c. ¶ The Printers Leaue setting thy page â–ª spent is thine age Let printing stay and come away We Printers wrote with wisdomes pen She liues for aye we die as men That it may please theé to succor help and comfort all that be in danger necessitie and tribulation We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to preserue all that trauail by land or by water al women labouring with child all sick persons and young children and to shew thy pitie vpon all Prisoners and Captiues We beseech thee c. it may please theé to defend and prouide for the fatherles children and widowes and all that be desolate and oppressed We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to haue mercy vpon all men We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to forgeue our enemies persecutors and slaunderers Death takes no bribe of wealth Death forceth not long health ¶ The Riche man Thy siluer nor golde froÌ„ death can theé withhold ¶ The aged man By right I must be bold â–ª with theé that â—â—â—uest so old and to turne their harts We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to geue and preserue to our vse the kindly fruits of the earth so as in due time we may enioy them We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to giue vs true repentance to forgeue vs all our sins negligences and ignorances and to indue vs with the grace of thy holy spirite to amend our liues according to thy holy word We beseech thee c. Sonne of God we besech theé to heare vs. Sonne of God we c. O Lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world Graunt vs thy peace ¶ The Artificer No compas or arte can cause me depart The Husbandman Labour no more For I â—aue store No one deuise no aâ—t no toyle Could make vs geue to death the foyle O Lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world Haue mercy vpon vs. O Christ heare vs. O Christ heare vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Our father which art in c. And leade vs not into temptation But deliuer vs from euil Amen ¶ The versicle O Lord deale not with vs after our sinnes Answere Neither reward vs after our iniquities Let vs pray In song in daunce in pipes in play We lost our life now wrapt in clay ¶ The Musicâ—oÌ„â— Strike vp thy play Daunce with me away O God mercifull Father that despisest not the sighing of a contrite hart nor the desire of such as be sorrowfull mercifully assist our prayers that we make before theé in all our troubles and aduersities when so euer they oppresse vs And graciously heare vs that those euils which the craft and subtiltie of the deuill or man worketh against vs be brought to naught and by the prouidence of thy goodnes they may be dispersed that we thy seruants being hurt by
haue so butcherly mindes as to deale so outragiously with him Now I bethink my selfe I know him it is Christ. Art thou he that excellest all the children of men in beauty in whose lippes grace was shed most plentifully yea euen with Gods own hand where theÌ„ is that beauty of thine Where is that grace of thy lippes I finde it not I see it not fleshly eyes conceiue not so great a mistery Open thou the eyes of my minde Bring thy diuine light nearer vnto me and giue me power to look more wistly vpon thee I seé it is Iesus the sonne of God the vnspotted lambe without sinne Taste The mouth tasteth the meats Iob. 34. without fault without offence which tooke my wickednesse vpon him to the intent that I being set freé from sinne might be brought again into Gods fauour rise again from my fall returne home agayn from banishment and attayn to the end for which I was created That which I deserued he suffered and that which I could neuer haue attayned vnto he geueth O my Redeémer deliuerer and sauiour draw me to theé that being alwayes mindful of thy death trusting alwayes in thy goodnes and being alwayes thankfull for thine vnspekable benefites I may be made partaker of so great reward and not be separated from thy body through mine own vnthankfulnes so as thou shouldest haue beén born in vayn as in respect of me in vayne haue suffered so many torments yea and euen most bitter death Smelling Geue a swete smell as incense c. Eccle. 39. of thine own accord for my sake AmeÌ„ * Another MY minde beholdeth thy body crucified for my soul O that thou wouldest also crucifie me with thee so as I might liue or rather not I but thou my Lord Christ in me Who will geue me to die with thee that I might rise againe with thee to life euerlasting Thou dyedst for me that I might liue through thee Thy flesh is crucified O Christ crucifie thou the power of sin that raigneth in me that being stripped out of the old Adam I may be transformed into the second Adam to lead a new life by shaking down and dispatching away of all wickednes vnbeleefe and tiranny of Sathan Let thy yoke become sweete and thy burthen lightsom to me through Touching Touch no vncleane thing 2. Cor. 6. thy crosse that I following thee willingly and cherefully may come to the same place where thou art that is to wit to thy most blessed and immortall father from whom nothing may euer separate vs hereafter Amen Another O Most high and singular obedieÌ„ce wherthrough thou didst submitte thy selfe to innumerable torments yea and euen to most bitter and reprochfull death because it lyked thy father to haue it so O noontide of feruent loue and suÌ„shine neuer drawing towards euentide shew vs where thou feedest in the midst of the day and where thou shroudest thy sheep from cold O would to god we might be transformed into that crosse of thine that thou mightest dwell in our harts by fayth rooted and grounded in charitie so Esay 2. 19. Math. 24. Mark. 13. Luke 17 The sun shall be darkned the moone shal losâ— hir light the starres shall fal from heauen as we might with all thy holy ones comprehend the length breadth heigth depth of thy cros which exceed all the strength and wisdome of the world Amen Another I Seé a wonderfull kinde of loue Thy highnes boweth down the head to that intent we should hope to be heard and be heard in deéde Thou offerest the kisse of peace and attonement yea and that of thine own accord being the party greéued and wronged vnto vs that haue done the wrong Two men shall be in the field the one receaued the other shall be refused O father and Lord of oures thou seést the hardnes of our hart and much rather y dulnes of it It is not inough for vs to be allured and called so gently so sweétly and so louingly but thou must be fayn euen to draw vs pull vs hale vs drag vs Create a new and obedient hart in vs for this olde one that we haue already is stony it feéleth no gentlenes it is not moued with any hope of the great good thinges that are promysed Amen Another O Lord Iesu Christ the euerlasting sweétnesse and triumph of them that loue theé exceéding all ioy and all longing thou sauer and louer of repentant sinners which auowest that thy delight is to be among the children of Two women â—hall be grinding at the mill the one shall be receaued the other shall be refused men and therfore in the end of times becamest man for mennes sakes remember all the foretast and greéfe of sorrow which thou didst indure euen from the instant of thy conception in the humain nature forth on but most of all when the time of thy most healthfull passion was at hand according to the eternall ordinance which God had purposd in his mind before al worlds Remember the greéfe and bitternesse which thou feltst in thy hart euen by thine own record when thou saydst my soule is heauy euen vnto the death And at such time as thou gauest thy body and bloud to thy disciples at thy last supper didst wash their feéte and comforting them sweétly toldst them of thy passion that was at hand Remember the sorrow anguish and greéfe which thou didst suffer throughout thy whole tender body before thy The Sea shall swell higher theÌ„ any 〈◊〉 shall fal agayne as low fishes monsters of the Sea shal appere with roaring voyce suffering vpon the crosse at such time as after thrice praying thou diddest sweat water like to bloud wast betrayed by one of thine own disciples apprehended by thine own chosen people accused by false witnesses condemned wrongfully by threé iudges in thy chosen citie at the time of the passouer in the florishing youth of thy body and being vtterly giltlesse wast deliuered to the Gentils bespitted stript out of thy own garment clothed with another bodies apparrail buffeted blinfolded bobbed with fistes tied to a poste whipped and crowned with thornes O most sweéte Iesu I beseéch theé make me mindfull of these thy paynes and sufferings which thou abodest for my sâ—nnes that I might be discharged and set freé from them and mine attonement be made with thy father through thy chastisement Make me to abhorre The sea and all â—â—uddes shall burne trees and herbes shal drop blud Cities and all buildings shall be ouerturned my so detestable cursednesse which could not be put away but by thy so greéuous punishments Make me to be hartely sory for my sinfulnesse and to eschue my offences which draw theé to the suffering of so great tormentes Make me mindfull of thy great loue to me and to all mankind and let the infinitenes thereof kindle an vnfayned loue in me towards theé and my neighbor Let this thy vnmeasurable goodnes breéde in me a willing minde and desire
enioy the feare of thy loue Amen A Prayer for spirituall ioy LOrd Iesu the redeémer and comforter of mankind which hast by thy holy Spirite prepared far greater pleasures then the world knoweth of for such as refuse the false pleasures of this world for thy sake tempering the troubles of this life with inward and ¶ The Mayor Mayor I theé call â–ª to my guild Hall. ¶ The Shirife Shirif for execution I haue a commission Mayors Shirifes do passe with speed And others them in place succeed secret solaces and after a sort renuing from tyme to tyme a certayne forecast of the blessednes to come to the intent that being cheéred and refreshed we should come running to theé with gladder hartes I beseéch theé graunt that the anoynting of thy holy spirit may often driue from me all irksomnes of aduersities and cheére vp my minde with healthful gladnes euen as he anoynted theé with the oyle of gladnes aboue thy felowes in respect of thy humayn nature when thou wast here vpon earth which liuest and raignest with the father and the same holy Spirite for euer and euer Amen A Prayer to be sayd in the time of sicknes MOst mercifull Redeémer thou art alwayes mercifull who art We peace did keep in Princes name Now death doth charge vs with the same ¶ The Baâ—â—ife Come Baylife no bayle with me shal preuayl ¶ The Constable Constable I arrest to my ward be prest alwayes the sauiour whether thou doest send health or sicknes wealth or aduersitie ioy or sorow For it is of great mercy when by outward afflictions as it were by bitter but yet wholesom medicines thou doest heale the inward diseases of the soule and by temporary troubles which doe last but for a short time doest prepare vs to eternal ioyes which indure for euer And thy selfe O gracious sauiour passing into thy glory through the gretest afflictioÌ„s of this world hast troden out to vs by thy steps that way to true perfect felicity in the which no humble and true seruant ought eyther to disdayne or to shrinke to follow after his Lord and master so going before him But for so much as without theé we can doe nothing that good is I beseéch theé to indue me with thy heauenlye grace that I may take vp willingly ¶ The Phisicion By thy water I do seé thou must away with me The Astronomer Looke not so hie low thou must lie No art or medecine can preuayle When death doth purpose to assayle obediently this crosse which thou hast appointed vnto me and follow after theé and that I may drinke of as it were this medicinable cup though bitter vnto the flesh which thou the heauenly phisition doest offer vnto me paciently without grudging or murmuring against theé And that I may with thy faithfull seruant Iob and with vnfayned lips and hart say The Lord hath geuen the Lord hath taken away as it hath pleased the Lord so is it come to passe blessed be the name of the Lord. For if I haue receaued gladly youth health riches honor and ioy at thy hands O Lord why should I refuse paciently to take age sicknes aduersity sorrow at thy hands also These things be in deéd very greuous vnto frayle nature and flesh but thou my Lord though most perfectly innocent Death wines the field all armes must yeald ¶ The Herauâ—d Herald in thy shield beare grasse in green field Sergeant at Armes Zergeant see thou stay al glory must away infinitely hast suffered more greéuous things for me who haue so oft deserued hel But yet thou knowest the frailty of our humane condition nature wherfore I besech theé as thou pourest sharp wine into our wounds to bite away the corruption of our sinnes so after the example of the mercifull Samaritane set forth in thy holy gospell to resemble thy selfe vnto the sharpe wine of thy correction the supplying oyle of thy merciful comfort whereby I may be able to suffer things which otherwise are intollerable vnto me And if it be thy pleasure to increase sorow vpon me increase also thy grace and gift of patience in me and turne these worldly and bodely afflictions to the profite of my soule by my acknowledging of thy iustice in punishyng me worthely and thy mercy in correcting me gratiously euen like as a Father ¶ The TruÌ„petor Trumpet geue sound all muâ—â— to the ground ¶ The â—ursiuant Goe suÌ„mon by message to come without â—agâ—age All must needes diâ— we need not tell Our message hath bin sounded wel hath pitie vpon his children when he beateth them and by my submitting of my own will vnto thy holy will and patiently taking of this thy proouing and trying of me whether I loue theé or no may offer that sacrifice of obedience which is acceptable vnto theé And when thy Fatherly pitie shall be contented with thy meéke chastising of me then I beseéch theé send calme after this tempest quietnes after this trouble and ioy after this sorrow that I may render thanks vnto theé for double causes both that thou hast first corrected and amended me an vnprofitable seruant and afterward hast taken away the bitternes of affliction with the softnes of thy comfort In the one hauing regard of necessitie in the other not forgetting my infirmitie and in both as in all things alwayes remembring thy mercy vnto the which We drum that domes day now at hand Doth call all soldyars to deathes band ¶ The Dromme Drommer call together al soldyars to my baÌ„nâ—r ¶ The Fifâ— â–ª Fife seé thou play to leade them the way I doe commende and betake my selfe both body and soule now and for euer Unto theé with the father and the holy Ghost one God of most excellent maiesty be all praise honor and thanksgeuing for euer and euer Amen Another LOrd Iesu the onely health of theÌ„ that liue the only life of them that dye I yeald and geue ouer my self wholy to thy most holy will whither it please thee that this silly soule shall abide any longer in the lodge of my body to serue the or that thou wilt haue it to depart out of this world For inasmuch as I am sure that the thing wich is committed to thy mercy cannot perish I will willingly put of this fraile and wretched flesh of mine verely in hope of the resurrection ¶ The Capitaine Captain march with me thy Captayne I must be ¶ The Souldior Soldyar haue a courage to thy â—ong vyage Death onely maketh Captaynes quaile And harty souldiers for to fayle which shall render it to mee in farre better plight I beseech thee strengthen my soule with thy grace agaynst all temptations and agaynst all Sathans assaults gard me with the shield of thy mercy whereby thou madest all thy martires inuincible in old tyme agaynst all horrible torments and cruell kinds of death I see there is no defence in my self all my trust is in thy vnspeakable goodnes I haue no desert
due for We that were of highest degree Lye dead here now as ye do see ¶ The Empresse Empresse â—hogh thou be Thou must away with me ¶ The Queene Queene also thou doost see As I am so shalt thou be them But be we once escaped out of the prison of this body and receiued into thy company O Lord God we shal be quite out of doubt of the immortality of our Saluation Sicknes penury and payne shall not come at vs no nor yet the vices of the minde for all those things are farre of from heauen O Father giue vs the light of faith that we may not stumble in the things that are most true Geue vs the loue of theé wherthrough we come thither stablish our fayth with charity increase our charity with hope which vnderproppeth strengtheneth and holdeth vs vp in doing the workes of godlines And forasmuch as our watching and warding here and our warfare which is ordained for great reward are finished by death and we cannot tell when that shall come thou which knowest all things ¶ The princes Princes of hye estate coÌ„teÌ„t you I am your mate ¶ The Duchesse Duches princes Death dayly conuinces We that sate in the highest seate Are layd here now for wormes meate call me hence at such tyme as may be most for my behoof to depart out of this life through Iesus Christ our lord Amen A prayer in danger of death MOst mercifull Sauyor inlighten mine eies that I may neuer fall a sleép in death least mine enemie say I haue preuayled agaynst him They that persecute me wil be glad if I fall but I haue fastened my hope in thy mercy Enter not into iudgement with thy seruant for no man liuing shal be iustified in thy sight I will looke before me at the Lord who is alwayes in my sight for he is at my right hand to keép me that I be not moued My hart is glad my tongue reioiceth more ouer my flesh shall rest in hope A prayer for good successe and for the direction of Christ in all our doyngs Beauty honour and riches auayle no whit For death when he commeth spoyleth it ¶ The Countesse Countesse or what thou art I strike thee with my dart ¶ The Vicountesse Vicountes I â—o not spare For of them I 〈◊〉 no carâ— O God and Lord Iesus Christ thou knowest yea and thou hast taught vs how great mannes weakenes is or rather how vnable he is to doe any thing without theé If he trust to himselfe he must neédes fall hedlong into a thousand mischiefes O deére father pitie thy childes infirmitie be merciful and fouourable vnto me that I may seé the true good things through thine inlightning haue a longing to them through thine incouraging and attayn to them through thy guyding vtterly distrusting my selfe I geue ouer and betake me all wholy vnto theé alone ¶ The Baronnesse Baronnesse braue and hie Prepare thy selfe to dye ¶ The Lady Ladies gay and fayre To you I doe repayre No state no might young nor old To resist death dare be bold Death by his might doth conuince Empresse Queene Dutchesse and Prince â—he â—udges wife â—adame or iustice wife I am come to endethy life The lawyers wife Beware thy husbands gayn Reward theé not with pain The GentlewomaÌ„ Gentles braue fine Daunce after my line Aldermans wife Thou art clothed in skarâ—et· And yet art but my varlet Behold vs here that sometime were gay â—ow now we lye dead all wrapped in clay Geue me grace O God to harken to thy calling and to follow thy guyding For thou leadest vs to store of all good things thou offerest thy self and all thy goods giue vs grace to receiue them Thou shewest vs the way to most singular benefites suffer vs not to turne head vntill we haue taken possession of them Giue vs constancy and stedines of purpose that our thoughtes may not be fleéting fond and vneffectual but that we may performe all things with an vnmouable minde to the glory of thy holy name through Iesus Christ our lord Amen Riches nor treasure auayle nothing For death to earth all doth bring Merchantes wife Braue neuer so nice daunce after my deuice Citisens wife Trick and trim put of your hood I am come to do you good A prayer to be sayd agaynst temptation This weak feéble fortres of ours is assaulted coÌ„tinually with innumerable enemies and engines But yet if it please theé O sauior Christ to fortifie it but with thy onely strength it shall abide inuincible Riche mans wife Though thou haue siluer and golde Yet art thou within my holde Young woman Fine prety in the wast Come with me in hast As death in this world hath the victory So by death we hope to enter Gods glory â–ª Wherfore we beseéch theé goe not from the helme of this brittle ship that is tossed in the waues of the manifolde temptations and afflictions of this world vntill thou haue brought it to the quyet and safe hauen of thine eternall and blessed kingdome in heauen Amen Time to liue â— time to dy God grant vs liue eternally ¶ The Mayde Fresh galant gay All must with me away ¶ The Damosell Fine proper neate And all is but wormes meate * A Prayer to be sayd agaynst the world OH with what sleights this iugling world beguileth our feéble and dim eyes O how gay glitterings of things it sheweth a far of that they might seéme great and worth the hauing wheras in deéde they be but smal empty to be despised that the thinges might seéme terrible which are but trifles that the things might seéme meéte to be shunned which are conuenyent to be sought and attayned to ¶ Farmers wife Cease thy labour and paine For I am thy riches and gaine HusbandmaÌ„s wife Toyle no more I say For heÌ„ce I must away 〈…〉 liue â— time to dy God grant vs liue eternally The wise the simple and euery degree Are by force compelled to obay vnto me Countreywoman Away with butâ—er cheése For thy life thou mâ—st â—eesâ— The Nurse Geue sucke no more For I am at the dore Deliuer vs therfore from vanity O Lord God and geue vs stedfastnes in seéking thy truth and in sticking to it so as we may set our whole minds vpon thy righteousnes ioy in nothing but in theé in thy sonne Iesus Christ our Lord Amen * A Prayer against the flesh O Sauyour of mankind we feéle alas to our great greéfe we feéle that our spirite is clogged with the flesh a reasonable thing with a brutish and filthy thing While man was in innocency reason made the spirit a soueraign but now the sinfulnes that we haue receaued by inheritance from our first Parents hath matched the rebellious flesh against her superior and ruler Shepeheardes wife Be thou young or olde Thou must enter into my folde ¶ Aged woman Be the day neuer so long At last commeth Euensong From
earth we came to earth we shall For sinne by death hath made vs thrall the mind And the more gentlenes that is vsed towards this most vnkind and leud bondseruaÌ„t the body so much the worse and more wicked doth it become If we follow it it caryeth vs into destruction turning vs away from God to it own earthlines and rottennes O how vnseémly an incounter is this wherin the flesh being matched against the Spirite that is to say the bondslaue against his Lord striueth with him for victory and prehemineÌ„ce sometime getting the vpper hand so as his master is not able erewhiles to represse his boldnes malapertnes and lustines because he bare with him to long and to often But thou O Lord Christ to whom all power is geuen both in heauen and earth which camest to vndo the works of the deuill which onlye art able to make the thing cleane which is conceiued The wise the simple and euery degree Are by force compelled to obey vnto me The Creeple Be thou poore or disesed Thou must with me be pleased The poore woman To thou neuer o poore Thou must enter at my â—ore of vncleane seéde Reforme our vnderstanding and will Cleanse our harts Circumcise our mindes Wash our soules Stablish thy freé and mighty spirite in vs Subdue vs wholy to thy good pleasure And restore vs the state by thy goodnes which we haue lost through our own naughtines so as our flesh may be in subiection to the spirite and our affections be made obedient to right and vncorrupted reason Or at least wise that although the flesh rebell and fight against the spirit yet the power of y minde may be so strong â–ª and the strength of our reason so mighty through thy grace as they may get the vpper hand in all incounters and finally ouercome all assaultes to the praise of the working of thy holy spirit Amen ⧠A Prayer to be sayd against the deuill The Infant Loe this little hart I strike with my dart The Foole. Of foolish and fond I break the bond No state no might young nor old To resist death dare be bold IEsus Christ our Lord God our shield our fortres our strong rock our only defence thou knowest and it greeueth vs to feel with how great force and perilous pollicie that olde enemy of oures the wily serpent that beguiled our first parents in paradise the roaring Lyon that goeth about night and day seeking whom he may deuoure That destroyer waster and accuser of the saynts the deuill commeth vpon vs to assayl vs thou knowest how small or rather no power at al we haue of our selues to withstand him so that vnlesse thou succour vs he will easely deceaue vs by his craftynes ouerthrow vs by his mightynes and rend vs in peeces by his cruelty But we know that if thou doe but shew thy selfe to him aloof thou shalt driue him away with thine only looke For thou hast ouercome Emperors and kings we did raigne But now the earth doth vs detayne The Emperor Of Monarch Emperor I am the conqueror ¶ â—he king Keisar or king I must theé bring him by thy death thou hast bound him disarmed him and spoyled his house thou hast bereft him of all lordship and power thou hast crushed his head thou hast cast down hys throne and dispossessed him of hys kingdome thou hast led away captiuity captiue thou hast cancelled the obligation that he had of oures and nayled it to thy crosse and finally thou hast tryumphed ouer him in our nature to our benefite and behoofe We therfore being weake feeble naked vnarmed vnskilfull ignorant and of no forecast but yet thy members through thy grace beseech thee which art strong almighty only wise and prudent vouchsafe to defend maintayn preserue vs continually from that merciles dragon Be thou our eye our eare our hand our loads man guide and captayn Set thy selfe ¶ The Duke Duke though thou be daunce after me ¶ The Marques Marques of state match with thy mate Dukes and Marques we hauâ— bene Nought â—ow but â—oâ—es are to be seen in our defence against this our vnappeasable aduersary disappoynt his practises confound his deuices break his bow knap asunder his speare ouerthrow his holds quench his fiery darts put his armies to flight and geue thy seruants the vpper hand of him and his or rather ouercome thou him and his in vs and by vs. Doe but aduaunce the standard of thy crosse in our harts and thou dryuest him out of the field Vnder this baÌ„ner dare we march boldly against him assuring our selues that by the power thereof thou wilt delyuer vs from the hands of our enemies and of all that hate vs so as we may serue thee in holynes and righteousnes all the dayes of our life Which we beseech thee to graunt vs for thy mercies sake to the euerlasting honor of thy most holy name Amen We Earles and Barons were sometime Now wrapt in lead are turnd to flime ¶ The Baron Barons of nobilitie sweare to me fealty ¶ The Vicount Earle or Vicount geue thy account ⧠A Prayer to be sayd of a woman with Child THy wisedome and power shine forth in all thy workes O Lord but yet much more greater more manifest and more wonderfull are they in the shaping of man Of how small beginning doest thou make so marueilous a liuing thing sheading a soule into it whose originall is from heauen to the intent he should long to returne thether as into his countrey ¶ The Archbishop Archb. Metropolite theé thy Prouince I visite ¶ The Bishop Bishops graue old are sheép of my fold Bishops we haue taught the lore That all must enter deathes dore O most gracious workman let thy pitifulnes amend the thing which our sinfulnes hath marred and eyther abate my payne that I may not haue neéde of so great strength tendance cunning or els increase my strength power and courage that I may be able to ouercome all the payn of my trauell Amen * A Prayer to be sayd of such as be vnder the Crosse. HOw long wilt thou forget me O Lord for euer how long wilt thou hide thy face from me Both sheep and shepheard all must dye We taught the same the same we try ¶ The Doctor Doctor diuine at last thy reading houre is past ¶ â—he Preacher Preach no more â—bout thy glas is run out Unto theé O Lord haue I cryed all the day long haue I stretched out my hands vnto theé Wilt thou worke wonders among the dead or shal the dead arise praise theé shall any man shew thy mercy in the graue or thy truth in destruction Shall thy wonders be knowen in the darck or thy righteousnes in the land of forgetfulnes Why doest thou thrust back my soul O Lord and hide thy face from me no man is mindful of theé in death and who will prayse theé in the graue Be stil before God O my soule for
no persequutions may euermore geue thanks vnto theé in thy holy church through Christ our Lord. O Lord arise help vs and deliuer vs for thy names sake O God we haue heard with our eares and our fathers haue declared vnto vs the noble workes that thou didst in their dayes and in the old time before them O Lord arise help vs and deliuer vs for thy honor ¶ The Shepeheard Leaue thy shepe And with me crepe ¶ The Foole. Of foolish and fond I aÌ„reake the bonde The wise the simple and euery degree Are by force compelled to obay vnto me Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning c. FroÌ„ our enemies defend vs O Christ. Graciously look vpon our afflictions Pitifully behold the sorrowes of our harts Mercifully forgeue the sinnes of thy people Fauourably with mercy heare our Prayers O Sonne of Dauid haue mercy on vs. Both now and euer vouchsafe to heare vs O Christ. Graciously heare vs O Christ graciously heare vs O Lord Christ. O Lord let thy mercy be shewed vpon vs. As we doe put our trust in thee Let vs pray Time to liue time to dy God grant vs liue eternally ¶ The Beggar Begging is done For I am come The Roge. Thinke I am best For I bring rest WE humbly beseéch theé O father mercifully to looke vpon one infirmities for the glory of thy names sake turne from vs all those euils that we most righteouslye haue deserued And graunt that in all our troubles we may put our whol trust and confidence in thy mercy and euermore serue theé in holynes and purenes of liuing to thy honor and glory through our only mediator and aduocate Iesus Christ our Lord Amen ⧠A Prayer for the Queenes Maiestie O Lord our heauenly father high and mighty king of kings Lord of Lords the only Ruler of Princes which doest from thy throane behold al the dwellers vpon the earth most hartely we beseech theé with thy fauour to 〈…〉 Young olde Come to my folde ¶ Of Infancy Feare not me though I grisly be No state no might yâ—ung nor old To resist death dare be hold behold our most graciâ—us us souerain Lady Queéne Elizabeth and so replenish her with the grace of thy holy Spirit that she may alway incline to thy will and walke in thy way Indue her plentifully with heauenly gifts Graunt her in health and wealth long to liue Strength her that she may vanquish and ouercome all her enemies And finally after this life she may attayne euerlasting ioy and felicitie through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen ⧠In the time of any common plague or sicknes O Almightye God which in thy wrath in the time of king Dauid didst slea with the plague of pestilence threéscore and ten thousand and yet remembring thy mercy didst saue the rest Haue pitie vpon vs miserable We that were of highest degree â–ª Lye dead here now as ye do see ¶ The Empresse Empresse thogh thou be Thou must away with me ¶ 〈◊〉 Queene Queene also thou doost see As I am so 〈◊〉 thou be sinners that now are visited with greate sicknes mortalitie that like as thou didst then commaund thine Angell to cease from punishing so it may please theé to withdraw from vs this plague and greéuous sicknes through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen * A Prayer of Chrisostome ALmighty God which hast geuen vs grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications vnto theé and doest promise that wheÌ„ two or threé be gathered together in thy name thou wilt graunt their requestes Fulfill now O Lord the desires and petitions of thy seruants as may be most expedient for them grauÌ„ting vs in this world knowledge of thy truth in the world to come life euerlasting Amen ¶ The princes Princes of hye estate coÌ„teÌ„t you I am your mate ¶ The Duchesse Duches princes Death dayly conuinces We that sate in the highest sâ—ate Are layd here now for wormes meate * A Prayer to be sayd at the visitation of the sick O Almighty and eternal God the God of al mercy many diuers are thy chastisements by which thou callest vs vnto theé thy sonne Christ. Especially it is thy wonted clemency to tame our flesh by sundry and sore diseases to awake and shake of our sleépe by dangerous infirmities to admonish vs of our former wicked life frayl of it selfe by greéuous anguishes and torments the messengers of death Also by this thy crosse thou puttest vs in minde of thy Sonne Christ his crosse of his bloudy sweate and passion of the great and last day of thy iudgement ioyfull to thine elect to the reprobate a iudgement day most horrible O Lord most horrible Beauty honour and riches auayle no whit For death when he commeth â–ª spoyleth it The Countesse Countesse or â—hat thou art I striâ—e thee with my dart ¶ The Vicountesse Vicountes I do not spare For of them I â—aue no care Forasmuch therfore O Lord God as we find this our poore brother weakened with sicknes imprisoned here in his bed sustayning the rigor of thy punishment sharpnes of thy rod whose conscience also the feéling of his sins and feare of death doth terrifie We wretched sinners yet thy creatures members of thy church being flesh and bloud of corruptible flesh as well as he most humbly and most hartely pray beseéch thy goodnes that thou wilt not shew thy rigorous iudgement vpon him as he hath deserued But rather cast thy eyes of mercy vpon him Looke on him as on one whom thou hast redeémed Geue him grace and constancy of courage that he may peaceably and patiently take this thy fatherly correction submitting himselfe with all his hart to thy good pleasure and will who hast visited him ¶ The Baronnesse Baronnesse braue and hie Prepare thy selfe to dye ¶ The Lady Ladies gay and fayre To you I doe repayre No state no might young nor old To resist death dare be â—old Assist him in this his present danger especially if his conscience discouered before his inward sight accuseth him of any inward and secret sinne O our God our good God God of al comfort and consolation set against the same his wounded conscience the greéuous torments and voluntary sacrifice of thy welbeloued Sonne Iesus Christ who bare our infirmities and indured the payn which we had deserued being made sinne for vs wheÌ„ he suffred death for our sinnes and offences which he washed away with his bloud and rising agayn from the dead is made our iustice and present redemption Death by his might doth conuince Empresse Queene Dutchesse and Prince The Iudges wife Madame or iustice wife I am come to ende thy life The Lawyers wife Beware thy husbands gayn Reward thee not with pain The GentlewomaÌ„ Gentles braue fâ—â—e Daunce after my line Aldermans wife Thou art clothed in skarlet And yet art â—ut my varlet