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A72235	A ioyfull continuance of the commemoration of the most prosperous and peaceable reigne of our gratious and deare soueraigne lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God of England, Fraunce and Irelande, Queene, &c. nowe newly enlarged with an exhortation applyed to this present tyme / set foorth this xvii day of Nouember beyng the fyrst day of the xxi yeere of Her Maiesties said reigne, by Edw. Hake ... ; hereunto is added a thankesgiuing of the godly, for Her Maiesties prosperitie hitherto, with an earnest desire of the longe continuance of the same to Gods glory and our comfort.	Hake, Edward, fl. 1560-1604.	1578 (1578)	STC 12605.5; ESTC S5243	18,271	54

neuer be satisfied let them at their pleasures blow abroade what they list and holde on in their myslikings vntyll in the vanytie of their purposes and the rage of their enuie they shal at the length be glutted with the fulnesse of rancoure and vnciuill reproches You finally I doubt not wyl take this gyfte as I meane it and deeme of it as a thing not vnnecessarily sent abroad at this instant God graunt vnto it such effect in the harts of all those vnto whom it specially appertayneth that they or rather euery English soule may say in the feruency of a sownde faith Domine quid ego re●●ibuam tibi pro omnibus quae tribuisti mihi What reward shall I geue vnto thee O Lord for all the benefittes that thou hast done vnto me In which prayer I think it conueniēt here to make an ende At Barnards Inne this ioyful Eue of our 17. day of Nouember 1575. with his hande whose hart loueth this instaunt day and you Edward Hake The Authours minde vpon the matter of this his litle Booke A Publicque peace our highe Iehoue hath wrought A priuate warre with hate tweene man and man Doth Sathan breede Good state but life right nought Alas alas what wretches are we than A Vineyard fenst well fenced from decay A State preseru'd but people frowarde ay Ah most vnkinde that neuer wyll obay Prou. 8. b. Deut. 17. 2 ¶ Thorowe me doe Kinges reigne thorowe mee Counsaylours make iust lawes thorowe mee do Princes beare rule and all the Iudges of the earth execute iudgement Prou. 28. a. Leuit. 26. c. ¶ Because of sinne the lande doth oft chaunge her Prince But through men of vnderstandinge and wisedome a Realme endureth longe Prou. 28. c. ¶ Where the Prince is without vnderstanding there is great oppression and wronge But if he be such a one as hateth couetousnes he shal longe raigne A Commemoration of the most prosperous and peaceable Reigne of our gratious and deere Soueraygne Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God of England Fraunce and Ireland Queene c. IEhoua with our ioyned hands and hartes replete with ioye Wée prayse thée for our noble Quéene the shield of our annoye Not wée not wée oh greate Iehoue not wée but thy right hande Hath wrought this calme and quiet state in this our English lande Great Bulles of Basan roare abroad great curse from Balac commes Eache Foreyn eare is fild with fight and sownde of fearfull droommes Woe woe waymenting woes and feare through forein Soyle doth raunge No Coast so clere where face of warre ne makes the cruell chaunge Blood blood is shed in monstrous wise each forein State doth iarre And open Murthers wanting Law in forein Countreies are Fowle fraude faithlesse fawning wordes in forein Coastes do dwell High Seates of sway in forein Soyles of fraude and falshod smell Men Beastes fieldes lawes loue truth there fall from former states Each thing each Sexe vncertaine standes and honest order hates No course kept right no seasons knowne nought there in sauety lyes Each good growth yl each yll growth worse each worse to worste doth rise There Soyles lie sackt there Mountaines quake there loftie Hilles downe sway There pleasant plots yéelde filthy wéede where Fragrant odoures lay The plowed Fields are there layde waste there fertile grounds lye baard Eache Meadow there lieth cleane defaste no plotte of pleasure spaard No lofty Pallace stands vpright no place where vertue dwelt Standth there so sownd which of the dinte of Battaile hath not felt No Seate in sauety nothing helps no dewe Regarde preuailes No right of cause there frees from force no Sexe of sorrow fayles Each noble face ly'th there forlorne each mighty head brought lowe Each valeaunt visage sprente with bloude there through the Streates they throw No law relieues no iustice helpes no truthe from daunger frees None there that liues in godly feare true hope of sauetie sees The aged man there drowpth in woe the younge and lustie Rowte Are there sent foorth to leade their life in pyllage round aboute The armed Knights with treasons trapt the Sages of the land In suspense lodge to liue or die thus each ones case doth stand There wronged wights with silēce smart and there th' opprest want ayde There Lawes wherby the iust shuld liue doe make the iuste afrayde There dwelles no sounde of sacred songes that swéetely sende forth health But there both dowle and double plaints way menting sorowes telth No Fountaine there stands frée from filth no christall Spring runnes cleare In stéede of streaming Flouds of life deepe dampes of Death are there And whilst these woes do wander thus as forein coastes haue tride Thine english People Lord dwell safe with them doth peace abide With them doth liue a louing Quéene who like a Mother raignes And like a chosen sacred Impe immortall glory gaines Her handes shée holdes not foorth to warre her hart doth rest in peace Shée Ioyes to sée her peoples wealth and wayles their harmes increase Thy gospelles sownde shée sendes abroade shée stoppes no wholsome Spring But popishe Puddles dammes shée vp which noysome humours bring A Prince of price most worthy prayse for thée and in thy name Of all that euer Scepter bare of all that euer came From Englishe loynes to royall Seate I say none worthy more Amongst the race of Englishe kings that euer Scepter bore I would conteine my seruent Muse Ah Iemme thy name denyes My prayse nor all the Poetes pennes thy merite can suffise And highest kinge that Welkin wéeldst if hence thy glory come That of a virgin Queene whom thou hast set in sacred Roome Thy peoples peace should be sustainde thy Gospell should be spred Why should my burning Muse lye still why should my penne lye dead Is hand of fleshe her firmest force is frowning face her swaye Doth subtile drifts drawe forth her peace or vaunting glory Nay Of Fleshe the feeblest ▪ Sexe by kinde of face not Iunoes féere But mylde Susanna in her lookes and Hester in her chéere The worke is thine t is thine Iehoue no iote begonne by man Thou fram'dst her onely for thy praise by thee her dayes began All onely thou Iehoua thou hast wrought her for thy praise All onely thou hast made her déedes a wonder to our daies From thée therfore what so shee hath from thee her vertues came And her wee praise as gifte of thine and glory to thy name So planted is her souereigne Seate so fixed is her Throne That thicke and thréefold wronged wights there lay abroade their mone Truth mercy peace and loue possesse her Chayre of royall State No Subiect Soule complaining griefe goes helplesse from her gate And what shée Rules by loue shée Rules No Force where loue may winne First friendly warnings fendes shee forth Eare smarting Lawes beginne Her Subiectes bloud shée séekes to saue as Apple of her eye They lyue and shall saue such as law and Iustice bids to dye They liue

and cannot deuayle in them bearinge rule in earth ouer the children of men what praise is due vnto thée from those vnto whome thou leauest not an Anarchy and headlesse dissolution as to the Cánibals a monstrous and misshapen gouernment and flaminge with fyre and streaminge with bloud and smoking with mist and darknesse of error and ignoraunce as to the Antichrists greased in the browe with the marke of the Image of the great Beast whoor of Babilon not a waste and barbarous perpetuall heathen cōtricion as vnto the Tartarian hoords of cursed Cham vnto the Rusty and wasted with misery th' inhabitants of Meschech or to the Turbulent and rauenous swarmes and hosts of Tubal-Gog or such lyke as those but contrarywise whome thou leadest like a flocke of shéep by the hands of Moyses and Aaron and hast chosen Dauid thy seruaunt whom thou hast loued to feede as the people of thine owne Inheritaunce geuing vnto thē for war peace for inciuilytie socyetie for ignoraunce knowledge for supersticion religion for errour truth for hunger plenty for vnproudiency polycie for dissonancye harmony for myserie felicyty making them to dwell in safetie as vnder the wings of thy defence and shadow of thy protection Now such hath ben thy mercy towards vs that no tongue is able to expresse in geuinge vs in thy gracious plesure thine vnrecountable largesse and liberalitie thy select Seruant Elizabeth Quéene and supreme gouernesse to vs of the liege Nations and peoples of her obeysaunce and regiment that as by a star the light and influence ouer thinges beneth frō thée the first cause and fowntaine of brightnesse not to be attayned vnto and as by a cléere riuer and plentifull brooke the course of the waters from thée the euerlasting head spring euen so the shininge beames and flowing streames of all those thy mercies and good gifts hath ben and are sithence the daies of her happye and gracious gouernment from thée conuaied and devolued vnto vs And we that before were no people not so much in regarde of the state in which wée haled when we were sauadge as wood men cruell as Mendeuourers terrible as spirites brutishe as beastes in the olde age at the first callinge home of our grand Auncestors to human ciuilitye but in these daies in few yeeres degenerate from the true knowledge of thée and thy sonne Iesus Christ vnto the consuminge nakednesse of idolatrie and playinge inordinat before the golden Calfe of our owne making and our priestes now the eightenth sunne most happely enuironeth in the firmamēt sithence by the meanes of a poore vessell of the weaker sex a selly mayden thou perfourming the gloryous delyuerance of thy people out of the thraldome and slauerye of Pharao Egipt dyddest annoynt the Kings daughter with an holy oyle setting a crown of pure golde vpon her head and inuesting her with the purple and Scepter and regal Diademe of this Realme Sithence which time O Father we owe to thée and to her our God and our Moyses the sight of this light the vse of this ayre the ease of our hartes the peace of our consciences the whole worke of our welfare By her inspired by thée spreding her beames at her appearing the bloudy lawnces claunching Murreans and redoublinge shieldes haue ben shattered asunder in shiuers and bated and foyled into mattokes and spades the flames of our furies quenched and put out and the coole of grace flowed ouer the realme the Lion reconciled with the Lambe the wilde Asse set to be pastured with the seely Kyd the abhomynation of desolation remoued from the holy temple and the sun of man exalted and lifte vp on high in his owne kingdom for all that were stonge by the fiery serpēt to looke vpon and be saued In admyrable lenytie Babylon hath put on Syon Egypt is become our owne Rahab the harlot denizoned in Ierusalem wee become of the wilde olyues the true garden plants of Ismael Israell of miscreant christian of paynim protesting and professing of Antichristian Romanest heathen idolaters faithfull euangelycall sincerely beleeuing worshipers of thée in spirit and verytie according to thy holy worde Neither hath cost ben spared nor occasiō fores●owd nor time ouer passed nor trauel intermitted to rayse that was fallen to win that was witholden to call that was strayed to heale that was wurryed to finde that was lost to restore that was ruined to repayre that was decaied to make good and enhable that was abandoned Preachers haue bene sent forth plenteously Lawes haue ben executed mercyfully Orders haue bene set downe polytickly dangers haue ben declyned discretly tumultes haue bene apeased victoryously the whole spacious dominyons of both Iles and the adiacent Landes gouerned triumphantly So as it is harde to finde the man that more orderly hath manedged the charge of any one houshold then the Daughter of thy house with her virginall hands hath welded the weightye scepter of sundry and mighty populous nations Inher time hath béen seen the golden yéeres of the reigne of her Father Dauid and the peacefull kingdome of Salomon to haue ben aduanced The earth not to haue denied her fruitfulnes the sea her encrese the clowdes their drops the heauens their fayrenesse the sun his warmth the yeare her goodnesse But the valleys stand thicke with corne the wyldernesse crowned with gladnesse the furrous watred the mountaines laugh sing the folds full of sheepe our sonnes and daughters grow vp like to the polished corners of the Temple our yongmen sée visions and our olde men prophecy Hierusalē her light shining vnto her and the glory of the Lorde rysen vnto her The Quéene bringing her honor vnto the citie of Dauid and the nations walkinge in the light thereof Great is the honour the thou hast heaped vpon vs and honourable in foreine regions is the work that thou hast wrought by thy chosen Yea and so much the more hath the brightnes of this bewty ben powred abroad that whiles Egipt round about hath bene darkned euen the whole world in a manner besides vs whom thou hast gathered into pastures of this Gosen and the thicke mistes of errour hath blinded the eyes of the earth the cloudy piller hath not departed from vs by the day nor the fiery flame by night Whiles other lands round about haue warred to the destructiō of one another our Moyses hath guided vs in peace whiles other nations lyke Egipt rounde about hath béen plaged by the destroyer from the first borne syttinge vpon the princes trone vnto the slaue grindyng at the handmyll our Moyses hath not deminished of her flocke whiles the firme landes haue bene ouerwhelmed by the rage of the seas and waters our Iland hauing dwelt in peace in peace hath sent her ships into Opher for golde and prepared her nauye against the daunger of the enemie Whiles Athalia hath murdered her owne blood our Ioas hath learned the lawe of the Lord of Iehoiada Whiles Achaz consecrateth his owne sonne in the fier