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A13473 The needles excellency a new booke wherin are diuers admirable workes wrought with the needle ; newly inuented and cut in copper for the pleasure and profit of the industrious. Taylor, John, 1580-1653. 1631 (1631) STC 23775.5; ESTC S2918 4,202 68

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can nere deface By these comparisons comparing fit The noble worth of Needle-workes high grace Then learne faire Damsels learne your times to spend In this which such high praisings doth commend 2 Katharine first married to Arthur Prince of Wales and afterward to Henry the 8. King of England I Read that in the seauenth King Henries Raigne Faire Katherine Daughter to the Castile King Came into England with a pompous traine Of Spanish Ladies which she thence did bring She to the eight King Henry married was And afterwards diuorc'd where vertuously Although a Queene yet shee her dayes did pas In working with the Needle curiously As in the Tower and places more beside Her excellent memorials may be seene Whereby the Needles praise is dignifide By her faire Ladyes and her selfe a Queene Thus for her paynes here her reward is iust Her workes proclaime her praise though she be dust 3 Mary Queene of England and wife to Philip King of Spaine HEr Daughter Mary here the Scepter swaide And though she were a Queene of mighty power Her memorie will neuer be decaide Which by her workes are likewise in the Tower In Windsor Castle and in Hampton Court In that most pompous roome cal'd Paradice Who-euer pleaseth thither to resort May see some workes of hers of wondrous price Her Greatnesse held it no dis-reputation To take the Needle in her Royall hand Which was a good example to our Nation To banish idlenesse from out her Land And thus this Queene in wisedome thought it fit The Needles worke pleas'd her and she grac'd it 4 Elizabeth Queene of England and Daughter to King Henry the eight VVHen this great Queene whose memory shall not By any tearme of time be ouercast For when the world and all therein shall rot Yet shall her glorious fame for euer laft When she a Maide had many troubles past From Iayleto Iayle by Maries angry spleene And Wood-stocke and the Tower in prison fast And after all was Englands Peerelesse Queene Yet howsoeuer sorrow came or went She made the Needle her companion still And in that exercise her time she spent As many liuing yet doth know her skill Thus was she still a Captiue or else Crown'd A Needle-woman Royall and renown'd 5 The Right Honourable Vertuous and learned Lady Mary late Countesse of Pembrooke A Patterne and a Patronesse she was Of vertuous industry and studious learning And she her earthly Pilgrimage did passe In Acts which were high honour most concerning Braue Wilton-house in Wiltshire well can show Her admirable workes in Arras fram'd Where men and beasts seeme like trees seeme to grow And Art surpass'd by Nature seemes asham'd Thus this renowned Honourable Dame Her happy time most happily did spend Whose worth recorded in the mouth of fame Vntill the world shall end shall neuer end She wrought so well in Needle-worke that she Nor yet her workes shall ere forgotten be 6 The Right Honourable and religious Lady Elizabeth Dormer Wife to the late Right Honourable the Lord Robert Dormer deceased THis Noble Lady imitates time past Directs time present teacheth time to come And longer then her life her laud shall last Workes shewes her worth though all the world were dumbe And though her Reuerend selfe with many dayes Of honourable age is loaden deepe Yet with her Needle to her worthy praise Shee 's working often ere the Sunne doth peepe And many times when Phoebus in the West Declined is and Luna shewes her head This antient honour'd Lady rests from Rest And workes when idle sloath goes soone to bed Thus she the Needle makes her recreation Whose well-spent paines are others imitation To all degrees of both sexes that loue or liue by the laudable imployment of the Needle IF any aske to whom these lines are writ I answere vnto them that doe inquire For since the worlds creation none was yet Whose wants did not the Needles helpe desire And therefore not to him or her or thee Or them or they I doe not write at all Nor to particulars of hee or shee But generally to all in generall Then let not Pride looke scuruily a-scewe Without the Needle Pride would naked goe Nor yet let Scorne cry pish and tush and mew Scorne is forgetfull much in doing so Nor yet let any one presume to prate And call these lines poore trifles by me pend Let not opinion be preiudicate But mend it ere they dare to discommend So fare-thou-well my wel-deseruing Booke I meane the workes deserts and not my lines I much presume that all that on it looke Will like and laude the workemans good designes Fooles play the fooles but 't is through want of wit Whilst I to wisedomes censure doe submit FINIS Iohn Taylor LXVII XXXVII VI XXX XXXVIIII XXIII XXX XXXXIII XXXXIII XXXXI XXXXI XXXXV XXXXV XXXXV XXXXI LXXXI XXII XII LX XXXV VIII XXVI Gen. 3.7 Embroydery antient Exod. 26.1 Chap. 28.2 3 4 5 6. I say here are the grounds and directions for many more workes then are in this Booke Psal. 45.