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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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