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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06202	Ecclesiastes, othervvise called The preacher Containing Salomons sermons or commentaries (as it may probably be collected) vpon the 49. Psalme of Dauid his father. Compendiously abridged, and also paraphrastically dilated in English poesie, according to the analogie of Scripture, and consent of the most approued writer thereof. Composed by H.L. Gentleman. Whereunto are annexed sundrie sonets of Christian passions heretofore printed, and now corrected and augmented, with other affectionate sonets of a feeling conscience of the same authors.	Lok, Henry.; Lok, Henry. Sundry Christian passions contained in two hundred sonnets.	1597 (1597)	STC 16696; ESTC S104588	172,130	348

grace ere he proceed too farre Your count'nance may his progresse mend or marre Because as of you first his life did grow So must his course be guided by your starre Which him first hope of heauenly light did show Vouchsafe then to bestow one reading more To welcome him or thrust him out of dore To the graue and learned Sir Iohn Popham Knight Lord chiefe Iustice of England O Would I might without my hearts deepe griefe For common crosses following men opprest Record your worth whence many find reliefe Which makes you iustly chiefe of all the rest Your carefull thought and bodies paine addrest To reconcilement of contentious mind Your vniuersall loue to truth profest By which the desolate do fauour find Doth as me seemes in common dutie bind My pen to chalenge you truths true defence Though dull my Poem be my sight not blind That sought to take his priuiledge from thence You chiefe of Iudges best of truth can treat To you therefore I truth of truths repeat To Sir Edmond Anderson Knight Lord chiefe Iustice of the Common pleas YOur eares so daily exercisd to heare The plaints and the petitions sutors make Make you most fit of many to appeare My selfe and workes protection both to take Not for my selfe but for the Commons sake I presse it thus into your presence now Whose theame may hap some drowsie heads awake To chalenge if I dare this worke auow But if that you whose wisedome best knowes how That lawfull make to speake what Scripture taught I know the common sort dare but allow My publishing what from wise king I brought Then you the common shield to guiltlesse wight Vouchsafe this worke find fauour in your sight To Sir William Perriam Knight Lord chiefe Barron of the Exchequor THou kind accorder of the dreamt discord Twixt law and conscience Gods and mans decree By whom oppression'and brib'rie are abhord The common poysons of lands peace that bee I not vnfitly do direct to thee These monuments of wisest kings experience Them to allow if you them worthy see Me to reproue if I haue made offence I no man craue to stand in wrongs defence I may as all men do some weaknesse show If great my fault spare not if small dispence Because it did not of meere malice grow This will you do vncrau'd that done I pleasd Both God and man submission hath appeasd To the valorous Knight Sir William Russell Lord Deputie of Ireland IF iustly Dauid did by law ordaine That they an equall part of spoyle should haue Who when he fought behind did still remaine The carriage from the spoyle of foes to saue Doth not your merits by more reason craue To be recorded in my Kalender By whose blest worke God of his goodnesse gaue Part of our peace amidst such threatned warre In worthy vertues most mens peere you are In true religious zeale by none exceld Your noble house like to a blazing starre Hath showne wherein true honour euer dweld Then share with worthies all in blessed fame And reade this worke which treateth of the same To the valorous Knight Sir Walter Rawleigh Lord Warden of the Stannerie and Captaine of the Guard OF happinesse when as I hapt to write Me thoughts did make a period Sir in you Who being sworne to Mars and Pallas knight They both with equall honor did endew And therefore might become a censurer trew Of greatest blessings men propound or find Vouchsafe you then this tract thereof to vew As if that Salomon had it assignd Whose interest in you expects your kind And grate acceptance of his graue aduise From whom though many other men were blind He chalengeth a doome right godly and wise But as for me his messenger suffiseth The prayse too truly speake what he deuiseth To the valorous Knight Sir Iohn Norris Lord Generall of her Maiesties forces in Ireland AMong the blessed worthies of our time Your flickering fame aloft I do espy Whose toylesome trauell such a pitch doth clime As euery auncient worthy came not ny The moderne Marses did your vertues try Whilst you the proud Iberian forces quayld In Britany and in Netherland whereby With equall armes they seldome haue preuayld The trecherous practise wherewith they assayld Th' inconstant humors of the Irish foes Your pollicies haue stayd when force hath fayld Whereby your merits measure daily growes So that I must of due make roome for you Though twise nine worthies shold be coynd anew To the valorous Knight Sir Francis Veare MY pen was stayd but purpose chang'd anew So soone as I amidst the noble traine Of worthy knights did cast a thought on you Who yet vnsu'd to did for grace remaine If you I win I shall not litle gaine Because both much you can and much you will For wisedome vertue honor sure sustaine Which haue bene your supporters hereto still I need not then perswasiue lines to fill The matter will suffise to moue your mind If that my hand the beauty of it spill Then let my loue of good your fauour find Whose wisedome can whose goodnes may excuse The faults which want not malice made me muse To the worthy Knight Sir Iohn Stanhop Treasurer of the Chamber to her Maiestie NO common thing it is to find I graunt Humilitie and honour both in one Who loueth vertue of them both may vaunt True honor still hath mild and vertuous showne Then since this worke of vertue treats alone For sure true wisedome doth pure vertue teach It shall offensiue be I trust to none Their words of fauour for truths shield to reach Much lesse a shame what mighty king did preach The same to suffer passe them vncontrold But now adayes men euery worke appeach As barren borrow'd base or ouer bold This makes me craue by you wise noble good My wrong deprauers malice be withstood To the worthy knight Sir Edward Dyer Chauncellor of the most Honorable order of the Garter NOt last nor least for common good desarts I you repute though fortune point your place Your loue to vertue winneth many harts And vertues followers do your loue imbrace I know my argument requires no grace Because grace it doth send it brings delight For both all sue all loue their pleasing face Yet vainely world for both of them doth fight To make more plaine the way for euery wight This princely moderator paines did take Which to your equals men of learned sight A full accord if well iudg'd worke will make You then kind Courtier sound scholler knowne Accept reade and protect these as your owne To the worthy Knight Sir Henry Killegrew THe natiue dutie which of right I owe To you good Knight for many fauours past To me and mine do will me now bestow Some token of my thankfull mind at last Which I more fitly no way yet can show Then by presenting of this volume small Which from repentant heart of king did flow And may a warning be vnto vs all Who daily into new