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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02166	The repentance of Robert Greene Maister of Artes. Wherein by himselfe is laid open his loose life, with the manner of his death	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1592 (1592)	STC 12306; ESTC S119749	13,805	32

to do before that time which greatly comforted his welwillers to see how mightily the grace of God did worke in him He confessed himselfe that he was neuer heart sicke but said that al his paine was in his belly And although he continually scowred yet still his belly sweld and neuer left swelling vpward vntill it sweld him at the hart and in his face During the whole time of his sicknes he continually called vpon God and recited these sentences following O Lord forgiue me my manifold offences O Lord haue mercie vpon me O Lord forgiue me my secret sinnes and in thy mercie Lord pardon them all Thy mercie O Lord is aboue thy works And with such like godly sentences hee passed the time euen till he gaue vp the Ghost And this is to bee noted that his sicknesse did not so greatly weaken him but that he walked to his chaire backe againe the night before he departed and then being feeble laying him downe on his bed about nine of the clocke at night a friend of his tolde him that his Wife had sent him commendations and that shee was in good health whereat hee greatly reioiced confessed that he had mightily wronged her and wished that hee might see her before he departed Whereupon feeling his time was but short hee tooke pen and inke wrote her a Letter to this effect SWeet Wife as euer there was any good will or friendship betweene thee and mee see this bearer my Host satisfied of his debt I owe him tenne pound and but for him I had perished in the streetes Forget and forgiue my wronges done vnto thee and Almighty God haue mercie on my soule Farewell till we meet in heauen for on earth thou shalt neuer see me more This 2. of September 1592. VVritten by thy dying Husband Robert Greene. Greenes Prayer in the time of his sicknesse O Lord Iesus Christ my Sauiour and redeemer I humbly beseech thee to looke downe from heauen vpon mee thy seruant that am grieued with thy spirite that I may patiently endure to the end thy rod of chastisement And forasmuch as thou art Lorde of life and death as also of strength health age weakenes and sicknes I do therefore wholy submit my selfe vnto thee to bee dealt withall accor +ding to thy holy will and pleasure And seeing O mercifull Iesu that my sinnes are innumerable like vnto the sandes of the sea and that I haue so often offended thee that I haue worthely deserued death and vtter damnation I humbly pray thee to deale with me according to thy gratious mercie and not agreeable to my wicked deserts And graunt that I may O Lorde through thy spirite with patience suffer and beare this Crosse which thou hast worthily laid vppon mee notwithstanding how greeuous soeuer the burthen thereof be that my faith may be found laudable and glorious in thy sight to the increase of thy glory my euerlasting felicitie For euen thou O Lord most sweete Sauior didst first suffer paine before thou wert crucified Since therefore O meeke Lambe of God that my way to eternall ioy is to suffer with thee worldly greeuances graunt that I may be made like vnto thee by suffering paciently aduersitie trouble and sicknes And lastly forasmuch as the multitude of thy mercies doth put away the sinnes of those which truely repent so as thou remembrest them no more open the eye of thy mercie and behold me a most miserable and wretched sinner who for the same doth most earnestly desire pardon and forgiuenes Renew O Lorde in mee whatsoeuer hath beene decayed by the fraudulent mallice of Sathan or my owne carnall wilfulnes receiue me O Lord into thy fauour consider of my contrition and gather vp my teares into thy heauenly habitation and seeing O Lorde my whole trust and confidence is onely in thy mercie blot out my offences and tread them vnder feet so as they may not be a witnesse against me at the day of wrath Grant this O Lord I humbly beseech thee for thy mercies sake Amen FINIS

my youth who drew mee to trauell into Italy and Spaine in which places I sawe and practizde such villaime as is abhominable to declare Thus by their counsaile I sought to furnish my selfe with coine which I procured by cunning sleights from my Father and my friends and my Mother pampered me so long and secretly helped mee to the oyle of Angels that I grew thereby proue to all mischiefe so that beeing then conuersant with notable Braggarts boon companions and ordinary spend-thrifts that practized sundry superficiall studies I became as a Sien grafted into the same stocke whereby I did absolutely participate of their nature and qualities At my return into England I ruffeled out in my silks in the habit of Malcontent and seemed so discontent that no place would please me to abide in nor no vocation cause mee to stay my selfe in but after I had by degrees proceeded Maister of Arts I left the Uniuersitie and away to London where after I had continued some short time driuen my self out of credit with sundry of my frends I became an Author of Playes and a pennier of Loue Pamphlets so that I soone grew famous in that qualitie that who for that trade growne so ordinary about London as Robin Greene. Yong yet in yeares though olde in wickednes I began to resolue that there was nothing bad that was profitable whereupon I grew so rooted in all mischiefe that I had as great a delight in wickednesse as sundrie hath in godlinesse and as much felicitie I tooke in villainy as others had in honestie Thus was the libertie I got in my youth the cause of my licentious liuing in my age and beeing the first steppe to hell I find it now the first let from heauen But I would wish all my natiue Countrymen that reade this my repentaunce First to feare God in their whole life which I neuer did Secondly to obey their Parents and to listen vnto the wholesome counsaile of their Elders so shall their dayes be multiplied vppon them heere on earth and inherite the crowne of glorie in the kingdome of heauen I exhort them also to leaue the company of lewd and ill liuers for conuersing with such Copes-mates drawes them into sundry dangerous inconueniences nor lette them haunt the company of harlots whose throates are as smooth as oyle but their feet lead the steps vnto death and destruction for they like Syrens with their sweete inchaunting notes soothed me vp in all kind of vngodlines Oh take heede of Harlots I wish you the vnbridled youth of England for they are the Basiliskes that kill with their eyes they are the Syrens that allure with their sweete lookes and they leade their fauorers vnto their destruction as a sheepe is lead vnto the slaughter From whordome I grew to drunkennes from drunkennes to swearing and blasphemiug the name of God hereof grew quarrels frayes and continual controuersies which are now as wormes in my conscience gnawing incessantly And did I not through hearty repentance take hold of Gods mercies euen these detestable sinnes woulde drench me downe into the damnable pit of destruction for Stipendium peccati mors Oh knowe good Countrymen that the horrible sins and intollerable blasphemie I haue vsed against the Maiestie of God is a blocke in my conscience and that so heauy that there were no way with me but desperation if the hope of Christs death and passion did not helpe to ease mee of so intollerable and heauie a burthen I haue long with the deafe Adder stopt mine eares against the voice of Gods Ministers yea my heart was hardened with Pharao against all the motions that the spirit of God did at any time worke in my mind to turn me from my detestable kind of liuing Yet let me confesse a trueth that euen once and yet but once I felt a feare and horrour in my conscience then the terrour of Gods iudgementes did manifestly teach me that my life was had that by sinne I deserued damnation and that such was the greatnes of my sinne that I deserued no redemption And this inward motion I receiued in Saint Andrews Church in the Cittie of Norwich at a Lecture or Sermon then preached by a godly learned man whose doctrine and the maner of whose teaching I liked wonderfull well yea in my conscience such was his singlenes of hart and zeale in his doctrine that hee might haue conuerted the most monster of the world Well at that time whosoeuer was worst I knewe my selfe as bad as he for being new come from Italy where I learned all the villanies vnder the heauens I was drownd in pride whoredome was my daily exercise and gluttony with drunkennes was my onely delight At this Sermon the terrour of Gods iudgementes did manifestly teach me that my exercises were damnable and that I should bee wipte out of the booke of life if I did not speedily repent my loosenes of life and reforme my misdemeanors At this Sermon the said learned man who doubtles was the child of God did beate downe sinne in such pithie and perswasiue manner that I began to call vnto mind the daunger of my soule and the preiudice that at length would befall mee for those grosse sinnes which with greedines I daily committed in so much as sighing I said in my selfe Lord haue mercie vpon mee and send me grace to amend and become a new man But this good motion lasted not long in mee for no sooner had I met with my copesmates but seeing me in such a solemne humour they demaunded the cause of my sadnes to whom when I had discouered that I sorrowed for my wickednesse of life and that the Preachers wordes had taken a deepe impression in my conscience they fell vpon me in ieasting manner calling me Puritane and Presizian and wished I might haue a Pulpit with such other scoffing tearmes that by their foolish perswasion the good and wholesome lesson I had learned went quite out of my remembrance so that I fel againe with the Dog to my olde vomit and put my wicked life in practise and that so throughly as euer I did before Thus although God sent his holy spirit to call mee and though I heard him yet I regarded it no longer than the present time when sodainly forsaking it I went forward obstinately in my misse Neuerthelesse soone after I married a Gentlemans daughter of good account with whom I liued for a while but forasmuch as she would perswade me from my wilfull wickednes after I had a child by her I cast her off hauing spent vp the marriage money which I obtained by her Then left I her at six or seuen who went into Lincolneshire and I to London where in short space I fell into fauor with such as were of honorable and good calling But heere note that though I knew how to get a friend yet I had not the gift or reason how to keepe a friend for hee that was my dearest friend I would bee