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A06890 A godly medytacyon of the christen sowle, concerninge a loue towardes God and hys Christe, compyled in frenche by lady Margarete quene of Nauerre, and aptely translated into Englysh by the ryght vertuouse lady Elyzabeth doughter to our late souerayne Kynge Henri the. viij; Miroir de lâme pécherresse. English Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre, 1492-1549.; Bale, John, 1495-1563.; Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603. 1548 (1548) STC 17320; ESTC S111990 38,308 98

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excelled all other in the dyuerse speches of nacyons specyally in the Latyne Greke and Hebrue She made a boke of the prouydence of God an other of the immortalyte of the sowle with serten Greke poemes epystles and dyuerse other treatyses Constantia her daughter was also a woman of most excellent giftes had she not in the ende declyned to the detestable secte of the Arryanes by serten hypocrytysh prestes Vrsula Cynosura the floryshynge dauter of Sionothus the duke of Cornewale was so nobylly brought vp in all lyberall dyscyplyne that Conanus the kynge of lytle Brytayne desyred her to wyfe and as she went thydrewarde with .xi. thousande Brytaynes wyues more by chaūce of wether and vyolence of see rouer● both she and they peryshed by the waye Anna the syster of Aurelius Ambrosius whych was afterwarde marryed to Lotho the kynge of Pycres Anna the twynne syster of kynge Arthure are of writers magnyfyed for their dyuerse and excellent graces Morganis a woman of incomparable loue towardes her parentes and contraye so secretly and wysely conuayed the body of kynge Arthure the most worthy gouernour of the Brytaynes that the Englysh Saxons coulde neuer come to it to do their vyolēce theron Hermelinda rysynge of the Englysh Saxons bloude for her excellent bewtie and noble behauer became the wyfe of Cunibertus the kynge of Lombardy Hylda a noble woman both godly wyse and lerned not only dysputed in the open Synode at Streneshalce in the North contraye agaynst the prelates concernynge their newly founde out celebracyon of Eastre and their crowne shauynge with other ceremonyes but also wrote a treatyse agaynst byshopp Agilbert a Frenche man the busyest amonge them The thre doughters of kynge Alphrede Elfleda Elfritha and Ethelgora were wonderfully experte in the lyberall scyences Alenor the wyfe of kynge Henry the seconde was lerned also wrote dyuerse epystles to pope Celestyne the thirde also to kynge Iohan her yongest sonne Ioāna the yongest daughter of the seyd kynge Henry so moch delyghted in good letters that before she shulde be marryed to kynge wyllyam of Cycyll she caused her father to sende ouer .ii. lerned men of Englande walther and Rycharde with a French doctour called Petrus Blesensis to instruct hym in them specyally in the arte of versyfyenge And at her cōmynge thydre the one of those Englysh men was made archebyshop of Panorme the other byshop of Siracusa in recompēce of their labours Margarete the noble mother of kynge Henry the .vii. so plenteously mynded the preferment of scyences goynge forewarde of lernynges that she buylded in Cambryge for the same porpose the colleges of Christ of S. Iohan the Euāgelyst and gaue landes for their mayntenaunce as quene Helisabeth ded afore to the quenes college there Longe were it to rehearce the excedynge nombre of noble women whych in thys lande of Brytayne or realme of Englande haue excelled in bewtie wytte wysdome scyence lāguages lyberalyte polycyes heroycall force and soch other notable vertues and by reason of them done feates wonderfull Eyther yet to sort out their Names and regestre them one by one whych haue bene marryed out of the same to Emprours kynges dukes earles worthy captaynes Phylosophers phesycyanes astronomers poetes other of renomed fame and letters only for their most rare graces and gyftes Though non in thys lande haue yet done as ded amonge the Grekes Plutarchꝰ amonge the Latynes Boccatius with other authours afore named that is to saye left behynde them Cataloges or Nomenclatures of famouse and honorable women yet haue it not at any tyme bene barrayne of them No not in the dayes of most popysh darkenesse As apereth by Alenor Cobham the wyfe of good duke Vinfrey of Glocestre brother to kynge Hēry the fift Whom Antichristes grande captaynes the byshoppes than of Englāde in hate of her name and beleue accused of sorcerouse in chauntmentes and experymentes of Necromancy agaynst their holy horned whorysh churche And at the last slewe her noble husbande in a false parlement at Bury by their owne hyred slaughter man Pole as they neuer are without soch If they were worthy prayse whych had these aforenamed vertues syngle or after a bodyly sort only we must of congruence graunt them worthy double honoure whych haue them most plēteously doubled As now sens Christes Gospell hath rysen we haue beholden them yet se them styll to thys daye in many noble women not rysynge of flesh and bloude as in the other but of that myghty lyuynge sprete of hys whych vanquyshed deathe helle and the deuyll Consydre yet how strongly that sprete in Anne Askewe set them all at nought with all their artyllery and mynysters of myschefe both vpon the racke and also in the fyre Whose memory is now in benedyccyon as Iesus Syrach reporteth of Moses and shall neuer be forgotten of the ryghteouse She as Christes myghty membre hath strongly troden downe the head of the serpent and gone hence with most noble vyctory ouer the pestyferouse seede of that vyperouse worme of Rome the gates of helle not preuaylynge agaynst her What other noble women haue it doth now and wyll yet herafter apere more largely by their godly doctryne and dedes of fayth Marke thys present boke for one whose translacyon was the worke of her whych was but a babe at the doynge therof Marke also the graue sentences whych she geueth fourth to the worlde laude that lyuynge father of our lorde Iesus Christ whych hath thus taken hys heauenly wysdome from the great graue senyours that only are wyse in their owne consaytes and geuen it so largely to chyldrē Math. 11. That heauenly lorde graūt her and other noble women longe contynuaūce in the same to hys hygh pleasure That lyke as they are become gloryouse to the worlde by the stody of good letters so maye they also apere gloryouse ī hys syght by dayle exercyse in hys dyuyne scriptures Whose nature is in processe of tyme to kyndle their myndes and inflame their hartes in the loue of Christ their eternall spouse as thys present boke requyreth So be it Thus endeth thys godly Medytacyon of the christen sowle concernynge a loue towardes God and hys Christ aptely translated into Englysh by the ryght vertuouse lady Elyzabeth doughter to our late souerayn● Kynge Henry the .viij. ¶ The .xiii. Psalme of Dauid called Dixit insipiens touched afore of my lady Elizabeth FOoles that true fayth yet neuer had Sayth in their hartes there is no God Fylthy they are in their practyse Of them not one is godly wyse From heauen the lorde on man ded loke The knowe what wayes he vndertoke All they were vayne and went a straye Not one he founde in the ryght waye In harte and tunge haue they deceyte Their lyppes throwe fourth a poysened beyte Their myndes are mad their mouthes are wode And swyft they be in
in corde suo non est Deus Illi corrupti sunt abhominabiles in sua impietate nullus est qui aliquid boni facit Le foldisoit en sō coeur il n'anul Dieu Ilae sont corumpus sont abhominables en leur impiete il n'a nul qui faic● bien Is stulto disse uel suo core non v●e alcuno Dio. Corrutti sono abhominabile nella loro impietà nissuno ē buono Ton thean ●phoboū tous de goneis tima tous de Philous aeschynou The first clause in thre lāguages latyne● Frenche and Italyane comprehēdeth thys only sentence as I shewed afore in the Epystle dedycatory The fole sayth in hys harte there is no God Corrupt they are and abhominable in their wyckednesse or blasphemyes agaynst God not one of them doth good The Greke clause is thus to be Englyshed Feare God honoure thy parentes and reuerence thy fryndes Thus haue she geuen vs coūsell both to go and to come to leaue and to take To declyne from the euyll and to do that is good Psal. 36. To flee from the Antichrist hys great body of synne or blasphemouse cruell clergy to returne to God by a perfyght feare honoure and loue So lyuely Apothegmes or brene and quycek sētences respectynge christyanyte haue seldom come from women I haue serched Pintarchus Boccatius Bergomas Textor Lander of Bonony whych all wrote of the vertues and worthy acres of womē But amonge them all haue I founde no counsels so necessary to the cōmen welthe of our christyanyte I denye it not but excellent thynges they vttered and matters of wysdome wonderfull concernynge morall vertues But these most hyghly respecteth the kyngedome of fayth and regymēt of the sowle whych Iesus Christ the eternall sonne of God from heauen by hys doctryne and death so busyly sought to clere Many graue sentences had they concernynge pryuate causes But vnyuersally these are for all sortes of people hygh lowe hayle sycke ryche poore lerned vnlerned that myndeth to haue fredome by Christes deadly sufferynges or to be delyuered frō helle synne deathe the deuyll by the pryce of hys precyouse bloude No realme vndre the s●ye hath had more noble women nor of more excellent graces than haue thys realme of Englande both in the dayes of the Brytaynes and sens the Englysh Saxons obtayned it by valeaunt conquest Guendolena the wyfe of Locrinus the seconde kynge of Brytayne beynge vnlaufully dyuorced from hym for the pleasure of an whore whom he longe afore had kepte tryed it with hym by dynte of the swerde had the vyctory and reigned after hym askynge the space of .xv. yeares tyll her sonne Maddan come to laufull age Cordilla the doughter of kynge Leyer and least of all her systers as her father was deposed exyled out of hys lande she receyued conforted and restored hym agayne to hys princely honou●re and reigned alone after hys deathe for the space of .v. yeares Cambra the doughter of kynge Belyne and wyfe to Antenes than Kynge of France ded not only excede in bewtie but also in wysdome In so moch that she first instructed the noble men how to buylde cyties castels and other stronge holdes the cōmē people more comely maners and the womē a most semely deckynge of their heades She made their cyuyle lawes whych vpon her name were called Leges S●cambrorum She taught them to sowe flaxe and hempe to watter it drye it dresse it spynne it weaue it whyten it and fashyon it to all maner of vse for the bodye Martia the wyfe of kynge Guythelyne a lady excedyngly fayre wyse lerned in all the lyberall scyences inuented thynges wonderfull by the hygh practyse of her wytt After the death of her husbāde she reigned .vij. yeares as kynge tyll Sicilius her sonne came to age She reredressed the commen welthe refourmed the grosse maners of the people and made most honest lawes called of her name Leges Martiane So delyghted the Frenche kynge Nicanor in the wysdome lernynge and comely maners of hys wyfe Constantia the doughter of kynge Eliodorus that he not only holpe her brother Geruntius in see battayle agaynst the kynge of Orchades but also sent hys most dere sonne Priamus into Brytayne to haue the same selfe bryngynge vp The Scottysh kynge Finnanus thought hys pryncely honour most gloryously increased as he had obtayned Agasia the doughter of kynge Blegabridus to be coupled in maryage with Sorstus hys sonne for the manyfolde graces that he behelde in her What though the seyd vngracyouse Sorstus in spyght of the Brytaynes ded afterwarde vse her most wyckedly Bundwyca a womā both hygh of stature and stomacke also of myst noble lynage amonge the Brytaynes perceyuynge the hauoke whych the Romanes dayly made in the lande with great pusaunce of worthy warryours she inuaded them slewe them hynge vp their captaynes and folowed the remnaunt of them to the very Alpes of Italy Where at the lattre by reason of dayly labours she syckened and so dyed euen the uery glory of women sayth Ponticus Virunnius Voada the first wyfe of kynge Aruiragus a woman of wonderfull force hart strongly armed her selfe her .ij. doughters and .v. thousande women more of the Britannysh bloude in battayle agaynst the furyouse fearce Romanes to suppresse their tyranny and execrable fylthynesse in abusynge maydes wyues and wydowes But as she behelde the vyctory vpon their sydes bycause she wolde not come vndre their captyuyte she poysened her selfe so dyed Voadicia her yonger doughter afterwarde escapynge the handes of the seyd Romanes with a myghty power of the Brytanes entered into the yle of Maene and in a nyght battayle there slewe thē in a wonderfull nombre destroyenge their fortalyces and holdes Notwithstandynge at the latire beynge taken she was byheaded her eldar syster beynge maryed to kynge Marius Athildis the doughter of the seyd kynge Marius was also a most noble woman whom the Frenche kynge Marcomerus marryed for the only naturall gyftes and seyences whych she had aboue other women and had .vii. sonnes by her Claudia Rufina a noble Brytayne wyttye and lerned both in Greke and Latyne hanynge to husbande one Aulus Rufus a lerned knyght a poete of Bonony a phylosopher of the Stoycall sort is moch cōmēded of Martialis the poete for the Epygrammes and poemes whych she than compyled in both those dunges Emerita the syster of kynge Lucius whych is called the first christened kynge a lady most vertuouse and faythfull for cōstauntly affermynge the veryte of Christ suffered most tyrannouse death and was brent in the fyre Helena Faluia the doughter of kynge Coelus and mother to great Constantyne the Emprour was a woman of incomparable bewtie and lernynge Non coulde be founde lyke her in the artes lyberall neyther yet in the fyne handelynge of all instrumentes of musyke She