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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05387	Queene Elizabeths teares: or, Her resolute bearing the Christian crosse inflicted on her by the persecuting hands of Steuen Gardner Bishop of Winchester, in the bloodie time of Queene Marie. Written by Christopher Leuer.	Lever, Christopher, fl. 1627.	1607 (1607)	STC 15540; ESTC S109416	21,498	58

Queene Elizabeths Teares OR Her resolute bearing the Christian Crosse inflicted on her by the persecuting hands of Steuen Gardner Bishop of Winchester in the bloodie time of Queene Marie Written By Christopher Leuer Nocet indulgentia nobis Printed at London by V. S. for Mathew Lownes dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of 〈…〉 To the right honorable Lord Robert Erle of Salisburie Vicount Cranborne Baron of Essingdon principall Secretarie to the Kings most excellent Maiestie Maister of the Courtes of Wardes and Liueries Chancellor of the most famous Vniuersitie of Cambridge Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter and one of his Maiesties most honourable priuie Counsell RIght Honourable Lorde The gratious and well deseruing when they die leaue behind them a reputation that can neuer die I instance this in Queene Elizabeth of blessed memory A Lady beyond example beautifyed with the ornaments of Grace and Nature the twoo handes of God whose name like the aire is spread ouer all the earth whereby this our little world the English nation is made famous to all posteritie And because I my selfe haue seene many the admirations of her time haue with many others shared in participation of those blessings which God did giue her most gratious and fortunate gouernement I haue therefore willingly forced my endeuours to this demonstration of thankes hauing euer vowed my selfe a seruant to her Honourable remembrance The reasons my good L. of dedication are these First your Lordships honorable deseruing in being a principall Supporter of the leaning State of learning the Moecenas and Patron of the learned in what deseruing qualitie soeuer wherein though I be but meanely profest yet your Lordeships zealous regard to the profession I beare shal euer binde me in the most assured bonds of dutie and thankefull seruice Againe that honorable testimony of your Lordships regarde euen to the very name of your late Soueraigne approued by the generall applause and acclamation of all good people by which act your Lordship hath proceeded to the highest degree of good opinion and by giuing Honour to her that best deserued it deseruedly made your selfe much honoured And therefore my good Lord haue I ventured on your Lordships gratious acceptance humbly requesting your Honor that my particular howsoeuer vnworthy to trauaile in so honorable an Argument may notwithstanding haue gratious acceptation being presented in the name of Queene Elizabeth to whose honorable remembraunce your Lordeship is so much deuoted and to whose name I haue principally dedicated this seruice beseeching Almightie God to deriue vppon your Name and House a perpetuall Succession of Honour and good Fortune Your Honours in all duetie and humble seruice Christopher Leuer ❧ To the Reader THe name of Queene Elizabeth is sufficient Argument to perswade a friendly acceptation and from the better disposed whome I couet principally to please I shall doubtlesse receiue that reasonable and honest construction As for those who haue their tongues dipt in the poyson of Enuie I write not to please them who wil neuer be pleasd with that which is most deseruing It being the nature of Enuie to depraue that which dooth deserue the highest fauour of loue and good opinion I may example this in the wrong offered to the name of Queene Elizabeth who though shee were the most admired of her time hauing extraordinary induments and a gouernment much more in the degrees of honour and prosperitie than any her Predecessours yet want there not malitious and base deprauers who like dogges that barke against the Sunne couet to bite her honourable name whome God hath made more glorious than the Sunne giuing her a place of glorie in fellowship with his holy Angelles and Saints For this double respect haue I therefore taken these paines First to please the well affected in honouring her whome all that haue honesty will honour Next in giuing Enuie and her sonnes a morsell to bite vpon wishing that all the deprauers of her princely name may either reduce themselues some degree of honestie or else perish with their enuious and euill breath Accept then I pray thee these my voluntarie trauells and honour her remembraunce whome all the best in the world do honour with admiration which thou also wilt doe if thou beest either honest or truely English ¶ Ad foelicem huius Elizabethae progressum LIber in lautam liber ibis vrbem Liber in latum liber ibis orbem Liber in laetas liber ibis vlnas vrbis orbis Paruus est hinc non liber est libellus Bellus est hinc non liber est libellus Duplici prodis titulo Libellus belle libelle Parue spem magni retinens honoris Belle rem magni retinens decoris Vade par natae cerebro Mineruae nate cerebro I. C. Musa crucem cecinit dudum quae carmine Christi AELIZAE varias iam canit illa cruces Aelizae qúe cruces crucifixi nomine passas O quam te memorem Virgo virago dea O nullus laceret liuor LEVERE labores Pergat at in studijs casta Minerua pijs The generous Reader whose free honest soule Did loue the honor'd subiect of thy Booke Will for her sake whose loue liues in the roule Of datelesse Memorie lend a friendly looke As others Gardens haue bestowed floures To decke her Garlands and to strew her herse So thy graue Muse doth tell her grieued houres And sings her sorrowes in a sollemne verse That though deuouring Time did to bereaue her Of Palme and Pittie with her foes conspire Yet thy loue Leuer lets not Honor leaue her But by the heate of kinde Poetike fire Reuiu'd giu'st virtue her deserued hire R. K. ❧ My loue to the Argument and the Author THe times are now maleuolent to Verse To verse that trauells in graue Argument Yet thy graue Muse adornes the sable Herse Of her whose glories were most eminent In this thy Art hath well deseru'd of Fame That thou Elizaes glories dost commend And that in Verse she hath a liuing name And that her Teares in verse by thee are pen'd O the depraued pleasures of vilde men That haue no pleasure in this moouing Arte And O those spirits whose licentious Pen Haue made these trauells of so small desert When men were better then the times were so And Verse had then their high deseruing praise Now Time is old he doth in weakenesse goe All things in worth doe alter as their Daies Let not the faults of men and euill Time Dis-heart thy spirite from Poetike fire Thy Verse is free from all dishonest Rhyme And from the tract of Cupids idle fire This is the glorie that thy Muse doth sing The holie secrets of the holie Crosse And of this Saint and of her suffering In which expence of time there is no lesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that thus thy trauells doe indeuour I doe not see but Leuer may liue euer Robert 〈◊〉 Queene Elizabeths Teares Or Her resolute bearing the Christian Crosse. 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