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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

and Ioye her Foes and all full many kept from Death No ease to her but griefe of minde is losse of Subiectes breath Her Subiects goodes shée neuer séekes none lyues whom shée hath spoyld Her very Foes are frée from force no Foe with force is foyld Yea foes and all they sow and reape they plant and eate the fruit They build and buye no losse they take vnlesse by lawfull suite Each wight within her royall Realme possesseth as his owne Such substaunce as by lotte he hath and vnto him is growne With quiet course in equall sorte each man in his degree Draw'th forth his daies and spend'th his time full orderly to see Wrong resteth no mannes right by might wher Princes ayde is crau'de The poore with ritche contend a like by Law their Rights bee sau'de No Law lockt vp no Iustice stopt no one through her takes wrong O noble Prince and hast thou liu'de a vertuous Quéene so longe And hath thy name Elyzabeth so many yeares sustainde The cause of Trueth and runne that race that vertue hath ordeinde Now blessed be those daies of thine Thrise blessed be our God By whom our Quéene Elyzabeth those vertuous steppes hath trod Not force of Fleshe hath held her vp not sharpe deuise of man Not crafte not skill not worldly shifte her blessed state beganne Before her raigne bereaft of peace bereaft of outwarde Ioy Pursude to death by Romishe beastes still séeking her annoy Whose foamy frothye murthrous Iawes with stomackes stuft with guile Each day deuisde her graces death and sacred state to foyle Whome high Iehoue preserued hath in spite of Sathans rage To liue a Quéene in blessed peace to lyue an happye age Oh graunt her God an hart to prayse and magnifie thy name And as thou hast preseru'de her life so still preserue the same Let dewe remembraunce neuer slippe from forth her royall brest But let her alwayes beare in minde how thou hast wrought her rest Full seauentéene yeares this day her grace hath raign'de with vs a Quéene No Treasons force hath yet preuaild that euer could be séene No drift deuise no deuils déede no falshod fetchte from hell Hath yet tane place in sauetie yet her noble grace doth dwell Thyne hand Iehoue hath founde them out thine owne right hand hath broughte Each darke deuise to open viewe and treasons guile to nought Thine hand hath held her kingdome faste thine owne right hand hath stayde The running rage of rancour bent and made her foes afrayde Of wisdome hast thou lent her stoare to guide thy folcke aright What giftes of grace haue Princes more obtayned in thy sight Graue counsaile guiding all by Truth thou Lorde with her hast plaste Whose careful works for common wealth can neuer be defaste Whose mindes to rigoure they ne bende no hartes they haue to harme No woe they worke to any wight to none they cry Al arme No lawe they wrest to worke their willes no sleightes they doe impose No burthen on her Subiectes backes obtruded is by those They enuy not her peoples good no trappes they laye to traine Nor subtile baytes by pinching lawes at any time ordeyne Their Princes wrath they whet not on no wayte they lay for blood Oh noble wightes and haue you liu'de to worke your Countreyes good Haue all your Foes fownde endlesse bale that sought your honors spoyle And stande you yet in Countreys sight to séeke fowle Treasons foyle With teares we hold our hands to heauen and from our hartes we crie Lyue liue you noble Counsayllers liue liue and neuer dye Let Princes loue remayne on you and loue you her againe So shall no treasons drifte disioynte our englishe peace in twaine So shall you gaine a guerdon iuste for your so noble déedes And so shall wee poore Subiecte sortes still sticke to you at néedes Lorde blessed be thy name alwaies thrise blessed by thy name That guyd'st to good their graue attemptes dyrecting still the same These giftes for thine we doo proclame euen all these giftes for thine A gratious Quéene with Counsayle graue that to thy will encline A noble race of royall wittes a Senate surely knit A prudent sort of polishte heads who neuer haplesse yet Attempted ought that might redownd to wealth of Englishe soyle Who neuer yet emprised ought wherein they tooke the foyle By thée wée still enioy her grace by thée this Counsayle so By thée the same doe plant good lawes all vice to ouerthrow And for those lawes such Iudges set as Iustice well maintayne Such Iudges some as doubtlesse yet no former times could gayne Not moody sorte of wandring heades not hartes corrupt with guyle Not wrangling wittes not bribinge hands our Iudgementes Seates defile But séemely sortes of sacred heads but Sages sownde and graue But goodly viewe of learned wittes our Iudgement places haue Where looke what Lawe and Iustice wil that Iudges doo pronounce Where looke what lawe and Iustice nill that Iudges doo renounce Where hée my Lorde amongs the rest whose handes regard no méede Whose harte Dyes no deceyte at all with honour doth procéede As others eke in soundest sort to Ioyne together aye With Mercy Truth with Iustice Peace in firme and perfecte staye Ah hawtie Hall with honours deckt ah Roofes of royall viewe Ah Seates possest with Iustice self with peace and Iudgements trewe Sith laude sith thankes sith endlesse praise be dewe vnto thy name Swéet lord swéet Christ for these thy gifts we magnifie the same Lord blesse therfore these benefittes Lord giue them large increase Lord let thy mercies still endure Lord let them neuer cease Lord blesse our Quéene Lord prosper her Lord leade her with thine hand Lord teach her aye thy will to know and worde to vnderstand Lord graunt that shée in harte maye loue thy law and thy decrée That shée may knowe how all these giftes procéede good Lord from thée And for thy works of wonder done let her extoll thy praise Let her in truth and holy lyfe continewe all her dayes Let Lorde her graces eyes so pearce into thy Churches state That she with Iudgement sound and pure remooue from thence debate And let her Lorde so loue to heare thy godly Preachers voyce That shée reiecte not what they teache but take the best in choyse Let pompous state be vnto her no stoppe of dew regarde Ne let the faults of faythlesse mates at any time be sparde Let all her royall howsholde so reformed be from sinne That they to all the worlde may showe what vertue is therein That shée may bring a lasting praise and glory to thy name That life and doctrine fownde alike her foes may suffer shame Lorde giue her Iudgement to discerne and that with Counsayle graue Shée may finde out what sownde redresse our common wealth should haue To cut of crafte from wholsome lawes and chiefly to supplant From place of Rule and Iustice such as sownde profession want Whose handes how hurtfull they shall be in times of troublous

are nothing els but iudgementes forerunnyng the approchyng dayes of desolation I would God therefore the wayes of English people were once called to accompt O I woulde to God we coulde once set before vs on the one side a single view of these mightie marueylous things which the Lord the Iehouah hath wrought and brought to passe for our Prince and vs and on the other side what we haue done or rather what like wretches we haue left vndone of that which mere duetie in common thankefulnes hath requyred at our handes Touching the one besides the miraculous preseruation of our Prince euen in those dayes wherein Antichrists tyrannie swylled vp the blood of Saintes sparyng neither sexe age condition nor degree It is also set farre beyonde the reache and reason of man that her Maiestie beyng euer since placed as it were in a Goshen enuironed about with Egyptians malitious aspyring blooddy her royal person her Religion and Peace should neuertheles styl be preserued from the impeachments of those aduersaries that in such degree as the enemies them selues haue bene rather tyred in their practises then the one or other of these benefites weakned by theyr attemptes The Rebellion of Absolon and his complices hath bene suppressed at home The trayterous counsailes of Achitophel haue bene confounded both abroad and at home Dauid hath had an Husay yea the annoynted our Elizabeth hath had and alwayes shall haue a Sobi a Machir and a Berselai which wyl laye both goods and lyues at her feete As for the thundring rage and terrours of Antichrist and his Champions what better or greater issue hath there ben of them then of the crackling of thornes flaming vnder a potte And touchyng the Enchauntments of Egypt some cursed practisers whereof haue bene lately surprised the true myracles of Moses and Aaron haue from tyme to tyme stil deuoured them Briefly the enemies haue wearyed them selues in the wayes of trecherie treason and haue not yet preuayled They haue grasped at vnhappie conquests and haue bene alwayes yet confounded their glory hath bene no better yet then the glory of grasse vpon the house toppe whereof the wycked reapers neuer hytherto fylled their handes muche lesse haue layd vp fruits thereof in their impious barnes O that men would therefore prayse the Lord for his goodnes declare the wonders that he hath done for the children of men That they would exalt him also in the congregation of the people and loue him in the Seate of the Elders Now touching the other part what hath procéeded from vs towards our God as the Argument thereof more fitly apperteyneth to be handled by men of greater gyftes so the time beyng nowe short and the matter large the Printer also enfourming me that euery Page hath his proportion I must for this tyme giue ouer all further discourse thereof These thinges are onely added to my former small tranayles that I might thereby the better procure a due and true Commemoration of the matter which we nowe celebrate The God of glory peace who hath created redéemed and continually kept vs vnder the shadowe of his mercifull protection bring to passe that those his mercies may worke the spéedy amendement of our lyues to the establishing of our peace and to the euerlastyng honour of his name Amen ❧ The Printer to the Reader BY following of the old copy gentle Reader of Anno. 18. of her M. raigne there is a fault escaped in the accompt of this present 21. yeere which with thy pen I pray thee amende v3 in the fift L cafe for 17. reade 20. and for 18. in the margent of that leafe reade 21. ¶ To the worshipfull his verie louing Cowsen M. Edwarde Eliotte Esquier the Queenes Maiesties Surueyour of all her Honours Manours Landes and possessions vvithin her highnes County of Essex BEinge entred worshipfull and my beeloued Cowsen into the meditacion of the rare gouernment of our renowmed Queene Elizabeth so high and so aboundaunte matter of admyration offered it selfe to the view of mine vnderstanding that I felt my thoughts in such sorte surprised with the consideration thereof that for the solace of my minde I yeelded my selfe a ioyfull man to set downe in wrytynge some sup●rfitiall discourse vpon the same such as at the least within mine owne soule might styre vp and procure the prayses of God and draw forwards a dewe thankfulnes vnto his maiesty for the wonderfull benefites that largely thereby haue accrewed to the whole body and to euery particuler member of this our Englishe Nacion And loe no sooner had I accomplished this mocion of my mind in such sorte as you may see it heere set downe in printe but another Cogitacion began with importunitie to assayle me a freshe for beholdinge with the feruencye of my harte the truthe of that matter which I had already compyled and seeing yet farther so gloryous and so plentifull a treasourie remayning to be discouered and that In perpetuam rei memoriam I could not choose but so farre mistike with the sclendernes of that which I had alreadye done as I wished and not slightly that it woulde please almighty God to the eternall praises of his holy name to stirre vp the zeale of some learned and well approued member to geue abroade for an vniuersall view to all Countreies and Nacions of Christendome in the hereyicall garnishment of learning and truth an exact historye and declaration of the same And in this cogitaciō repairing vnto your house for the comforte of your friendlye conference it was the good will of God that I shuld disclose mine affections that way vnto you as also that I shoulde offer vnto you the hearing of this matter as it was at that time thus vnlearnedly penned where findyng by the like good fauour of god your learned friendly neighbour it was recokned for Gods diuine prouidence that I should require him also to be a hearer of the same Which learned man as you know vpon the hearinge thereof so largely dispensed with al those wantes that by learning might peraduenture haue binne supplyed in this booke as that by fauoryng chiefly regarding the vndoubted truth of the matter he perswaded that it wold grow no blemysh at all vnto my credit neither in respect of the breuitie of the woorke nor yet for the playnesse and rudenes of the stile yf I should agree to the publishing of the same in prynt whervnto on the one parte the admyrable works of God so exceedingly aboue humane reason shininge forth vnto the world in the royal person regiment of our most louing gracious Queene and on the other parte the silence of the learned sort silence I may terme it in respect of that vehemency which the woorthines of the cause requireth the more then stoical colde consideraciō of al our english people who are for the greatest part so far from thanking that they haue no thinking of the same these motions I say together with

the fauorable cēsure encouragemēts of your said learned neighbor at one instant concurringe I was zealously bold to cast abroad into the view of the world this my smalle treatise as it were to prouoke the pen of some renowmed Homer to prepare the harts of al her highnes subiects to a further deper consideratiō of Gods exceeding superaboundaunt mercies that in the thankfulnes and sinceritie of their hartes they might not for one day supersticiously but for euer kepe holy vnto the Lord the cōmemoratiō of the most prosperous peaceable raigne of the same our gracious dere soueraigne lady queen Elizabeth And now my worshipful cowsen bicause the forces of these my priuate motions haue in this sort effected that nedes they must breake forth I trust to the honor of the highest and the same not meanely by occasion of the encouragemēts which I receiued in your house I cānot resist but coactedly as it were by loue I must confer that dedication thereof digested into this litle boke as you see vpon you before aboue the rest of my beloued friends assuring you that in the great ioy of my hart I haue founde you so equall vnto mine affections in the fauouring of this cause and in the comfort that you take by beholdyng the blisful daies of our sanctified DEBORA as also so Ialous for the Regestryng of her highnesse prayses or rather the prayses of our God vnto posteritie that if I knew by what other meane more acceptably then thus by the first view of these my trauayles employed to the glory of god I might manifest vnto you the sincerity of mine affection vndoubtedly you shuld finde me so for ward to accomplishe the same that the deede it self to the vtmost limit of my poore degree shuld be enough to make knowne what vnfayned loue I do beare you And wheras the dedication of all other bookes for the most part doe seeme to craue countinaunce and defence at the hands of the patron this my small booke assure your self for the dignitie of the personage of whom it treateth as also for the truth of the matter that it conteineth shal be able enough besides the defence of it selfe to geue both countinaunce and commendation to your person being indeede the verye man amongst men of your place and calling whose loyall harte and religious minde besides the consideracion of priuate duties of loue may challenge frō me such affection as best of al becōmeth a christian louer to his friend so wel approued And though the booke be but litle yet the personage of whō it treateth is great and so great as that the Booke may sooner be countenaunced with the royaltie of her highnesse name than be able by the thowsande parte to show foorth the number of her princely vertues much lesse of the large benefites that infinitely arise vnto our common wealth of England and to euery member of the same by the goodnesse of her rarest gouernment Some particuler partes whereof are as before is declared in these Quaires though brieflye yet truely discoursed But nowe that you may some way answere the name of a Patron of this my Booke although the matter of the same hath defence sufficient in it selfe in the truth thereof is able enough to stand against the faces of al the enimies of truth Yet because there is a sorte of people which I feare me more of enuy then of any true zeale or care of my well doynge as hauyng an awstere regard vnto my vocation which in deede resteth in the Study or rather in a meane place of practise of the cōmon lawes of this Realme will recken it a matter more then ordinary that I should after this sorte so transcende the limits of my sayd vocation as spendyng my time or at the least some parte of the same in thyngs by semblaunce so far discrepaunte from my profession let my defense be so made I beseeche you that it may in equall sort be considered or at the least wise by you enforced not only how muche and how largely loue and zeale are hable to woorke and brynge to passe in men otherwhyles conuersaunt in the consideration of thynges high and precious but also how seemely a thyng it is and how well agreeable with euery vocation to aduaunce and set foorth the high prayses of vertue and vertuous personages as also to batter beate downe the enforcementes of vyce and vicious monsters And for my selfe I haue boldly to affirme vnto all suche discontented myndes especially vnto those that haue the common lawes for theyr profession that the matter of this my littel booke is not so voyde of excuse but that by view of the substaunce ful scope therof it may yeelde foorth a stronge and ryghtfull defense agaynst these nice and ouer curious reprouers for as it concerneth the speciall prayse of God in the Commemoration of the Queenes Maiesties most prosperous and peaceable gouernment So it is not vnknowne that touchinge the Regiment of Princes the nature of Lawes the office of Counsaylers and the authorytie of Iudges the volumes of our Lawes are not so barrein but that they may and do minister matter aboundantlye to the professors and students of the same whereby to discerne and to deeme indifferently of them all for whether we would consider the good and godly gouernment of a Prince by often pardoning of offences in mercye or by sharplie punishing of offenders in iustice by planting of good wholesome lawes or by repealyng of euill and vnnecessary Statutes Not onely Bracton but also the worthy and worshipfull Knight master Forescue in sundrye places of his litle Commentary verie copiously geue foorth matter for the furtherynge of studious wittes in the consideracion thereof And no lesse may be gathered touthyng a difference and sownd censure of honourable Counsayllers but especially of Iudges of lawes Wherupon I trust I may inferre that to praise and extolle the admirable gouernment of our renowmed Soueraigne or to commende the sowndnes of her lawes or to aduaunce and set forth the wonderfull vertues of her highnes counsayllers or to acknowledge the rare learning holynesse of her reuerende Iudges so farforth as they be matters though but superfitially to be discerned and descyphred by the Bookes of our Lawes so farre they are not to be thought discrepaunt or impertinent for a student of the lawes to treat or to write of But wherfore should I thus carefully seeke to defend that which I suppose nedeth no reprehension why shuld I not rather challenge that liberty that is graunted to euery vocation of learninge yea to the lawyer himself namely to intermingle with painful trauayles of the minde the pleasures of some exercise more plausible and milde especially where the same may be practised to the glory of god to the profit of our brethren as I trust this is or at the least wyse was intended Well if all this notwithstanding these curious carpers wil

and Samaria eateth her owne children on the wals our Eliza directeth the children of the prophets in their offices Whiles Iezabel setteth vp Baal and embreweth Achab with the blood of the Prophetes and of Naboth our Elias gathereth the people of God to mounte Carmell to beholde the wonder of the fire of God lighting from Heauen vpon the sacrifices and replenishing the harts with ioy and toungs with giftes of languages This is then so worthy an instrument of thy goodnesse and expresse Image of thy Maiestie and the ample matter of this daies celebritie And now what doth thy people desire at thine handes but that first O Lorde thou geue vs thankfull hartes make vs al the dayes of our liues mindfull of this thy fatherly and gracious bountifulnes Then as presētly the Quéens highnes hath gloriously atchieued the trauayll of full seuentéene yéeres and now the annuell celebritie of our voluntary sacrifice of praise and thanksgeuing therefore returneth so it may by thy benefit full often returne not once or twise but yéere by yeere and yeere heaped vpon yéere we and our ofspring may behold this felycity vntill wée and she satisfied in aboundance the time draw alonge which thou hast appoynted for the veling of her Crowne at the féete of thy sun Iesus and the course of this earthly pilgrimage ouerrunne we and she at our determined seasons he takē to raigne in the euerlasting kyngdome of thy glory Agayne where much is the mischief of man great and enormous the rage of Sathā suttle the practises of Antichrist euyll our desertes lamentable the state of thinges whiles open colouring hideth priuie conspiring poysoned lippes geue sugered words the breath of Cocatrices the embrasings of Scorpions the roringe of Buls the raging of Rabsake the sworde of Herod the destructiō of Abbadon hath ben séene in our stréets hath bene hard on our walles hath multiplyed before the gates of our cities that thou destroy vs not in the midest of thy workes of thy mercy to leaue vs headlesse and make vs a scorne and prouerbe to the enemye but rather to beholde the number of the faithful subiectes in the dread of their souls and iust ielosye of thyr common interest bowinge the knées of their harts for the long safetie of Quéene Elizabeths sacred Princely person rather then in thy iust fury for auenging of our sins to suffer the deuill with the wicked to preuaile in the vniust zelousnesse of their preposterous vowes gracelesly swearing the death of thy Saints and thine annoynted Lastly that what remaineth of the happye building of thy Church by the hands of thy deare daughter thou plentyfully powre of thy principall spirit vpon her and rauishe her hart with the flame of the loue of thée and thy house with Moyses to lead with Iosue to bring in to the land of promise with Debora to fight thy battaile with Iahel to knock Sisera of Rome in the temples of his vsurped headship to his vtter destruction with Dauid to bring home the Ark with Salomon to finish consecrate to eternity thy Temple amongest thy people on the earth for the time to géeue largelye her fostermilke to Hierusalem in Heauen at the time in the purenesse of her virginitie to be presented to the Lambe and sing the song of her weddinge day with thy Angels and thy Saintes to the praise of thy glorious Maiesty the father the sonne and the holy Ghost in one eternall Deitie for euer and euer Amen ¶ FINIS A.j. Psal. 118. Psal. 116. Psal. 37. 37 Psal. 107. Psal. 116. 17. Nouemb an ▪ 18. Elizabeth R.