my hope is in him because he is my rock and my sauiour and I shall not be remoued In God is my welfare my glory the rock of my strength and my hope is in God. ¶ The lord Come lordings all daunce at my call ¶ The Knight Goe hence sir knight t is almost night We Lordes and Knightes of late Nyw lye in low estate Quicken me O Lord for thy names sake and for thy righteousnesse sake rid my soule out of trouble For I O Lord am thy seruaunt I am thy seruaunt and the sonne of thy handmayd I will offer vnto theé the sacrifice of prayse and pay my vowes vnto theé in the sight of all the people Amen ¶ A Prayer for Gods goodnes and for continuance of the same I Yeald theé thanks and prayse O Lord my God for creating me after thine own Image and likenes For redeming me with thy precious bloud For admitting me into the number of thy children by adoption through the washing of holy baptisme and for feéding me with the sacrament of thy body and bloud Behold the Squire as in a glas For as thou art so he was ¶ The Esquire Esquire the braue It bootes not to craue ¶ The Gentleman Lusty or sad Thou must be 〈◊〉 Also I geue theé prayse and thanks for that thou of thine infinite gracious goodnes hast paciently wayted for my amendement euen from the time of mine ignorant childhoode vnto this houre notwithstanding that I ran losely into innumerable vices I glorifie theé and praise theé for thy often ridding of me from a number of troubles distresses calamities and miseries and for sauing me hetherto froÌ„ the often deserued euerlasting punishments and torments both of body and soule I prayse theé and glorifie theé for thy mercifull geuing of me health of body soundnes of limmes quyetnes of times and working of good things with many other vertues ¶ The Iudge Come on iudge With me to trudge ¶ The iustice Sir Iustice arise â–ª come to my assâ—se Iudge and Iustice sentence haue To ly as Captiues in the graue Dispose and order thou all my thoughts words and deédes according to thy will. Keépe me at all times and in all places wheresoeuer I goe whether it be in prosperitie or aduersitie And in the end bring me to the desired ioyes of the present beholding of theé Amen A generall thanksgeuing O God which excellest in all goodnes and wisdome O heauenly Father which art full of mercy and clemency when I cal to minde the works of thy hands I cannot but wonder at thy great wisdome and infinite goodnes which thou hast shewed towards No law no plea no drift From death can make a shift ¶ Sergeant at law Leaue the Lawes heare my cause ¶ The Attâ—rney 〈◊〉 lead as thou â—ust With me thou must all thy creatures especially towards me Not only in that thou hast geuen me being mouing and life but also in that besides thine other infinite benefites which thou hast distributed in general to all men in the world thou hast bestowed so many particular benefites vpon me as it is vnpossible for me to rehearce them yea or to conceiue theÌ„ Thou hast vouchsafed to deliuer me by the light of thy gospel from the darcknes of error and ignorance or rather to draw me out of the horrible dungeons of death and damnation wherto I was condemned in respect of the corruptnes of my nature and so conueyed me into the kingdome of thy welbeloued sonne who hath geuen him self for my sinnes according to thy good pleasure and euerlasting ordinance Also thou hast receaued me into thy Church among the number of thy childreÌ„ thou ¶ The Mayor Mayor I theé call to my guild Hall. ¶ The Shirife Shirif for execuâ—ion I haue a commission Mayors Shirifes do passe with speed And others them in place succeed hast elected and chosen me through thy wonderfull prouidence to be to the glory of thy mercy And thou hast inhonored me with the copartnership of the euerlasting inheritance of thy deér beloued sonne to beé of that royall priesthoode which shall offer the sacrifices of eternall prayse and thanksgeuing to thy holy name in thy heauenly temple now therfore according to dauids saying what shall I reÌ„der to the Lord for all his benefites towardes me I know that al my life ought to be consecrated to continuall thankes geuing to shew forth with his holy people and purchased possession the mighty workes of him that hath called vs out of darckenes to his wonderfull light The cup of deliueraÌ„ce ought not to depart out of my handes nor the new songs therof out of my mouth But Lord graunt me the grace wh c We peace did keep in princes name Now death doth charge vs with the same ¶ The Bailife Come Baylife no bayle with me shal preuayl ¶ The Constable Constable I arrest to my ward be prest thou didst shew heretofore to Dauid a maÌ„ according to thine own hart Who treating of the same matter and rehersing the recordes of thy goodnes sayd of a truth Lord I am thy seruant and the sonne of thy haÌ„dmaid thou hast broken my boÌ„ds a sunder I will offer vnto theé the sacrifice of thankesgeuing call vpon thy name Euen so say I lord of my selfe and that by thy grace I am thy seruaunt I am thy seruant Thou hast broken my bonds and preserued me and set me in safety Unto theé O king of eternitie immortall and inuisible euen vnto theé O God who only art good and onely wise be honor and glory for euer through Iesus Christ thy sonne our Lord and only Sauiour So be it ¶ The Phisicion By thy wateâ— I do seé thou mâ—st away with me The 〈◊〉 Looke not so hie low thou must lie No arte or medicine can preuayl When death doth purpose â—o assayl ⧠Here beginneth the Letany and Suffrages O God the Father of heauen haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O God the father of heauen haue mercy c. O God the Sonne Redeémer of the world haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O God the Sonne redeemer c. O God the holy Ghost proceéding froÌ„ the Father and the Sonne haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O God the holy Ghost c. O holy blessed and glorious Trinity threé persons and one God haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious c. Remember not Lord our offences nor the Death winnes the field â—ll armâ—s must yeeld ¶ The Herauld Herald in thy â—hield beare grasse in greenfield Sergeant at Armes Sergeant see thou sâ—ay â—l glory must away offences of our forefathers neither take thou vengeance of our sinnes Spare vs good Lord spare thy people whoÌ„ thou hast redeémed with thy most precious bloud and be not angry with vs for euer Spare vs good Lord. From all euil and mischief from sinne from the crafts and assaultes of the deuill from thy wrath and from euerlasting damnation Good Lord
morrow Moreouer because this life hath not one houre certayne whensoeuer the eâ—entide therof commeth the long sleepe of the body groweth vpon me from which we shall not wake till the dead rise agayn at the sound He was transfigured before them and his face did shine as the sunne and his clothes were as white as the light And beholde there appeared vnto them Moses and Elias c. Math. 17. Abraham said Lord if I haue now found fauor in thy sight c â–ª Gen. â—1 Nâ—buchadneser aÌ„swered Lo I seâ— foure men loose walking in the midst of the fire Dan. 3 of thine Angels Trumpet I beseech thee lighten thou then the eyes of my minde so as I may not sleepe in euerlasting death by the quenching of my faith but rest in thee to whom euen the dead are aliue Which lyuest and raignest with the Father and the holy Ghost one God world without end Amen ¶ A prayer to be sayd when we vnclothe our selues to bedward THis body which is become vnhaÌ„some and vnwealdy through sin shal be consumed by litle and litle and deliuered agayne to the earth from whence it was taken There shall the end be of this vanitie which we haue purchased to our selues by our owne folly Now therfore thou O most louing Father which hast set me together Dauid sayd to Nathan I haue sinned agaynst the lord c. 2. Sam. 12. Aaron looked vpon Myriam and behold she was leprous Num. 12. Iesus sayd Many sinnes are forgeuen her for she loued much To whom a little is forgeuen he doth loue a litle And he said vnto her Thy sinnes are forgeuen thee c. Luke 7 dissolue me in such wise as I may feéle my selfe to be dissolued and remeÌ„ber of whom I am ouercome and consider whether I must goe Take me not vnwares and vnprouyded to thy iudgement seat but like as we be willing to put of our clothes which we shall put on agayne when the night is past so let vs not be loth to put of this body which we shall receiue agayn after that the night of this world hath run out his full race Amen ⧠A Prayer to be sayd at our going into bed WHen the day is ended we geue our selues to rest in the night so when this life is ended we rest in deth Nothing resembleth our life more theÌ„ the day nor death more then sleépe nor the graue more then the bed Uouchsafe therfore O Lord our gouernour When Christ came nere Ierusalem he beheld the citie and wept for it saying O if thou hadst euen knowen at the lest in this thy day those thinges which belong vnto thy peace c. Luke 19. Who shall haue pity then vâ—on thee O Ierusalem or who c. Iere. 15. Their feasts are turned into lamentation their Alars c. 1. Michâ— 1. defender both to shield vs now lying vnable to help our selues from the craftines assaults of our cruell enemy also to call vs then vnto theé when we shal be yet more vnable at the finishing of the race of this life not for our own deserts but for thy own mercy sake that we may liue walk with theé for euer And now let vs so fall a sleép in theé as thou only those exceding great incredible good thinges may in such wise be preseÌ„t alway before vs by the insight of our minds as we may not be absent from theé no not euen in sleép that such dreames may both keép our beds and bodies pure vndefiled and also chere our harts with that blessed ioy of thine In trust wherof I wil fall on sleép and take my rest through our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ Amen A Prayer when we be redy to sleep The women sang by course in their play and said c. 1. Sam. 2â— The children of the prophetes came to meete Helisha c. 4. Reg. 2. Christ riding to Ierusalem many spred their gâ—â—â—entes in â—he way other cut downe branches of the trees strawed them in the way And they that went before and they that folowed c Mark. â—â— â–ª TAke me into thy protection O Lord Iesu Christ our defender and graunt that while my body slepeth my soul may wake in thee and cheérefully and ioyfully behold the happy gladsome heauenly life wherein thou art soueraine with the Father and the holy Ghost and the Angels and holy soules of men are most blessed fellow Citizens for euer and euer Amen * A preparation or preface to Publick Prayer ALmighty God and heauenly Father I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy and in thy feare will I worshippe toward thy holy Temple I haue loued the habitation of thine house and willingly am I present in the congregation of thy Saints praysing and confessing thy holy name Iesus went into the temple and began to cast out them that sold and bought saying vnto them it is written Myne house is the house of prayer but ye haue made it a deâ— of theues Luke 10 Is this house become a den of theeues wherupon c. Jere. 7. Mine house shall be called a house of prayer for all people c. Esay 56 Come let vs fall and bow down before the Lord who hath made vs because he is the Lord our God and we the sheep of his pasture Exalt the Lord our God fall down before his footstoole for he is holy Lord I make my prayer vnto thee in an acceptable time euen in the multitude of thy mercies O God heare me in the truth of thy saluation I will offer to thee a sacrifice of praise and will call vpon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vowes vnto the Lord euen now in the presence of all his people in the courts of the Lords house euen in the middest of thee O Ierusalem I will run in the way of thy commaundementes when thou shalt inlarge mine hart Teach me O Lord the way of thy statutes Open mine eyes that I may see the wonders of thy lawe When Iosephes brethren saw him a farr of c. Gen. 3 Absolon rose vp early and stode hard by the c. 2. Sam. 15. Behold a woman a Cananite came out of the sea coastes â–ª and cried saying vnto him Haue mercy on me O Lord c. Math. 1â— Then will I take the cup of saluation and call vpon the name of the Lord. Lord open thou my lips and my mouth shall shew forth thy prayse I will sing with the Spirite and in vnderstanding and say Amen * A short speech before the Lords Proyer O Heauenly Father O most merciful God I most wretched sinner am vnworthy to lift vp my hands and eyes vnto thee or to trouble thee with my prayers Neuerthelesse forasmuch as thou hast commaunded all men to pray promised that thou wilt heare vs And moreouer prescribed vs a forme of Prayer in expresse wordes by thy welbeloued Sonne Iesus Christ being
other shall be refused Another O Souerain creator of al things when I consider what maner of maiestie I haue offended with my sins I doe euen shudder at mine own rashnes When I bethink me how gracious and bountifull a father I haue forsakeÌ„ I abhorre mine own vnkindnes When I perceue from how blessed freédome of minde into how miserable thraldome I haue cast my selfe I condemn mine own madnes and I vtterly mislike of my self and my conscience is put in such terror by thine vneschuable iustice as I seé nothing before me but helfire and disparre The Sea shall swell higher theÌ„ any hill shall fal agayne as low fishes monsters of the Sea shal appere with roaring voyce Again how redy thou art to pardon such as amend thine own only begotteÌ„ sonne doth beat into our heads by many parables as of the lost groate and the finding thereof again of the shepherds bringing home of his stray sheép vpon his shoulders but most euidently of the prodigall sonne whose Image I seé plainly in my selfe The sea and all fluddes shall burne trees and herbes shal drop bludâ— Cities and all buildings shall be ouerturned O let thy mercy receiue him now submitting himself whom thou hast he therto borne withall so gentely in his straying from theé I am vnworthy to lift vp mine eyes to theé or to call theé by the name of father Neuerthelesse vouchsafe I beseéch theé to cast thine eye vpon me For thy loking towardes the sinner maketh him to reuiue when he is dead and to returne home again when he is lost Stoneâ— shall tuÌ„ble together and make a huge none Tirrâ—ble earthquakes shall make meÌ„ hide theÌ„selues Valyâ—s shall be 〈◊〉 and hils broght low Slaue that I am and worthy of all maner of punishment I seeke not that thou shouldst imbrace me and kisse me I craue not the long robe and the ring which are the badges of the former dignity that I did hold scorne of I sue not to be receiued to the honor of thy children It shall be a benefite great inough for me if thou admit me but into the number of thy basest seruantes euen of such as are bronded brought again from roging that I may at least wise be some hanger on vnto theé for in thy house there are many roumthes They that hid theÌ„selues shall runne forth like mad meÌ„ â–ª The bones of the dead shall appere aboue the Sepulcres The powers of heauen shall be shaken It shall not greéue me to be counted among the abiects in this life and to be racked with repentance and to be sullied with mourning so I may not be separated from theé for euer I pray theé and I beseéch theé by the death of thy dearly beloued and only begotten sonne impart thy spirit vnto me to cleanse my hart and to strengthen it with his grace that I slide not thether again through ouersight from whence I was called back by thy mercy Amen * Another I Haue gone astray like a lost sheep seeke out thy seruant O Lord for I haue not been vnmindfull of thy coÌ„maundements The offences ouersightes of my youth remember not O lord Be mindfull on me according to thy mercy For thy goodnes sake Euery one liuing shall dye presently Heauen earth all elementes shall burne The dead shall rise O Lord keepe my soule and deliuer me so shall I not be ashamed of putting my trust in thee Turne my mourning into ioy Rend my sackcloth asunder and compasse me about with gladnes that my tongue may sing to thee without prick or sting of conscience Amen * Another IF thou looke straitly to our sinnes O Lord Lord who shall abide it But forasmuch as there is mercy with thee I haue waited vpon thee for thy lawes sake O lord My soule hath held out in thy word my soule hath trusted in thee O lord For with thee there is mercy and plenteous redemption and thou redemest Israell from all his iniquities Amen Another Knowledge of God in Iesus Christ is life Mahomet and his Alcoron is perdition THou hast chastised me O Lord I am brokeÌ„ as an vntamed youÌ„g bullock Turne me I shal be turned for thou art the Lord my God for wheÌ„ thou hadst once turned me I amended and when thou hadst shewed me my faults I strake my thigh I was ashamed and blushed because I abode the reproch of my youth Another O Good Iesu O sweét Iesu y soÌ„ne of the virgine Mary full of mercie and truth O sweét Iesu haue pitie vpoÌ„ me according to thy great mercy O louing Iesu I beseéch theé by that precious bloud of thine which thou didst vouchsafe to shed for vs wretched sinners vpon the altar of the crosse put away all my sinnes and despise me not in myne humble sute calling vpon this thy most holy name of Iesus This Loue of God is in spirite and truth Idolatry is Spirituall adultery name Iesus is a swet name this name Iesus is a healthfull name For what els is Iesus but Sauior O good Iesu which hast created me redeémed me with thine own bloud suffer me not to be damned whom thou hast created O good Iesu let not my wickednesse destroy me whom thy almighty goodnes hath made O good Iesu consider what is thyne in me whatsoeuer is otherwise wipe it away O good Iesu haue mercy vpon me while the tyme serues to haue mercy least thou destroy me in the tyme of thy dreadful doome O good Iesu although I myserable sinner haue iustly deserued euerlasting punishment for my most greéuous sinnes by thy rightful iustice yet do I appeal from thy rightfull iustice to thyne vnspeakable mercie therfore pity thou me as a louing Father and mercifull lord O good Iesu what profit is ther Fayth apprehendeth Christ Iesus Cayne dispaireth of mercy Aboue al take the shield of fayth Ephe. 6. Behold thou hast cast me out Genesis 4. in my bloud that I should go down into euerlasting corruptioÌ„ For the dead shall not prayse theé O Lord nor yet they that goe downe into hell O most mercifull Iesu haue mercy vpon me O most sweét Iesu set me at liberty O louing Iesu be fauorable to me sinner O Iesu admit me wretched sinner into the number of thy chosen O Iesu the health of theÌ„ that trust in theé O Iesu the welfare of them that beleue in theé haue pity vpon me O Iesu the sweéte remission of all my sinnes O Iesu the sonne of the virgine Mary poure thy grace wisedome louingnes charity and humility into me and in all mine aduersityes geue me holy patience that I may be able to beare thy crosse with theé to loue theé to glory delight in theé for euer and euer Amen Another Hope maketh not ashamed Iudas ashamed anâ— hanged him selfe MOst righteous and mercifull god remember that thou art pitiful and that thou art my redeemer As thou art a iudge to condemne offenders so art
thou also God to acquite thy seruantes and a creator to saue thine own worke and a Sauyour to saue him that beleueth in thee and is baptized Wherfore O Lord mind not thy iustice only as agaynst a sinner but be mindfull of thy goodnesse as towards thy creature minde not thy wrath as agaynst an offender but be mindfull of thy compassion as towards a poore wretch of thine Spare me O Lord which art my saluation and desirest not the death of a sinner Spare my sinfull soul. My God in thee doe I trust and vnto thee doe I commit my soule O merciful God haue pitie vpon me haue pitie vpon thy humble creature Deale with me according to thy mercy O thou that art blessed for euer Amen Patience ouercōmeth all thinges Wrath deuoureth it selfe Looking vnto Iesus the Author c. Heb. 12. Let al bitternes and anger and wrath Eph. 4. Another O Most mercifull Lord how can I be good which haue bin euil euen in the good I sinned thou winkedst at it I continued long time in my wickednes and thou continuedst as long in thy louing kindnesse of purpose to bring me to repentance and to shew me fauor Thou therfore that hast born so long with my offences geue mercy to me miserable wretch For I beleue that whatsoeuer thou determinest to forgeue me it shal be as if it had neuer beéne done My whole life O my God maketh me afrayd because that when I sift it thorowly there appeareth welnere nothing but sinne or barrainnesse in it and if there be any fruit in it it is ether so thin and slender or so vnperfect and corrupted by some mean or other that Be not high minded but make your selues c Rom. 12. Woe to the crown of pride c. Esay 28. Humilitie is tender harted Pride despiseth his neighbour it may well either vtterly displease theé or at least wise not like theé Therfore being abashed at the multitude of my sinnes but yet trusting to thy gracious goodnes I acknowledge and cōfesse to theé my maker and Redeémer which hast promised forgeuenes to offenders that in sinne I was conceued in sinne haue I beén brought vp and in sinne haue I liued all the time of my life vnto this day I find not any sinne wherewith I am not defited by some meanes or other Thus is my soule filled with misery according to the desert of my sinnes Thus is my soule brought euen to the gate of hell O my God if thou deliuer me I haue cause to thanke theé if thou deliuer me not yet haue I no cause to blame theé for thou art righteous Alas how haue I liued what a nūber of euill things haue I sayd done Mercy beareth with infirmities Cruelty seeketh reuenge Be curteous and tender harted c. Ephe. 4. Auenge not your selues but geue place c. Rom. 12. I am ashamed that I haue liued so my conscience telleth me I haue deserued damnation but I am sure that thy mercy wipeth away all offence Wipe away mine iniquities therfore O Lord with the multitude of thy mercies and by the desert of thy most bitter passion and death Amen Another WOe is me wretch that I am how often haue I fallen in rising and lien still when I was fallen I haue heaped sinne vpon sinne often promising amendement but neuer perfourming it I haue alwayes returned agayn to my vomit and to my former offences I haue added new and worse Behold O most mercifull God I hide not my sinnes but I bewray them I doe not excuse but accuse my selfe for I know mine iniquitie well inough Surely I might well inough despayre in respect Three things reioyce me the vnitie c. Ecclesiasticus 25. The strife of the proud is bloudshed Ecclesi 27. Concord supporteth one another Discord destroyeth one another of my outragious sinnes vices and infinit ouersights which I haue committed and dayly doe committe without ceasing in thought word and deede and by all other meanes wherin mans frailty may offend were it not that thy word O Lord is become flesh and dwelleth among vs But now I dare not dispayre because that he submitting himselfe vnto thee to the very death yea euen to the death of the crosse hath taken away the handwriting of our sinnes and nayled it to his crosse crucifiyng the same and death both at once Therfore I beseech thee for thine only begotten sonnes death sake wipe away all my iniquities and be mercifull to me the miserablest of all sinners to the intent that being set free from sinne and iustified before thee through the righteousnes of thy sonne I may sing prayse to thy name and glorifie thee together with Loue nourisheth with ioy Herod murthereth infants the same thy sonne and the holy Ghost from this time forth for euermore Amē Another MY soul is weary of her life I will speake in the bitternes of my hart I am sick my life is brought weake with misery my bones are bruzed as in a mortar and therfore I flie to thee Lord as to my phisition Heal me O Lord and I shall be wholl saue thou me and I shal be safe And because I trust in theé I shall not be put to shame But who am I O gracious God that dare speak thus boldly vnto theé I am a sinner wholy bred born and brought vp in sinne a rotten caryon a filthy vessel wormes meat Woe is me Spare me O lord What victory were it if thou shouldest fight with me and ouercome me which am lesse then the stubble before the wind Pardon Put on the whole armore c. Ephe. 6. Stand fast in the faith c. 1. Cor. 16. Chastitie is secrete and clean Vncleanes is like a Goate me all my sinnes and lift me poore soule out of the mire Surely Lord if thou wilt geue me leaue thou shouldst not shun him that commeth running to theé For thou O Lord Iesu art my God and yet art thou flesh of my flesh and bone of my bones ioyning thy self to my humain nature without leauing the right hand of thy father and being both God and man in one person and yet contynuing still that which thou wast before And to what end hast thou done this so high and vnconceiuable thing but that I should come running boldly vnto theé as to my brother and thou mercifully impart thy Godhead vnto me Wherfore vp Lord and help me vp I say and put me not back for euer Like as the hart seéketh after the fountaines of water so doth my thirsty soul long after theé the liuing spring to Wisedome is better then gold Sardanapalus an imprudent king draw water of comfort out of the Sauiours welles that it may no more be a thirst when it commeth to appeare before thy face Come the ioy of my hart that I may take pleasure of theé Shew thy mercy to me to glad my hart with all Let me find theé for whom I long Let my sute enter
side with his spear so as there remayned not one drop more in thy body But finally thou wast as a bundle of mirhe hanged vp aloft thy tender flesh shrunke the moysture of thy bowels dried vp the marow of thy bones wasted away I beseéch theé O most sweéte Iesu by this most bitter death of thine and by the sheading of thy most precious bloud wound my hart with such repentance ¶ The lord Come lordings all daunce at my call ¶ The Knight Goe hence sir Knight t is almost night We Lordes and Knightes of late Now lye in low estate of my sinnes and ioy of thy loue as my teares may be my foode day and night Turne thou me wholy vnto theé that my hart may dwell with theé continually and my conuersation be acceptable vnto theé And let my life be such through thy goodnes as I may prayse theé for euer with al thy Saints in the life to come Amen Another O Lord Iesu Christ the sonne of the liuing God who for the saluation of the world drankest eyzell and Gall vpon the cros like as at the geuing vp of the Ghost when thou hadst finished all things didst commit thy soule into thy Fathers hāds so do I betake my soul into thy mercifull hands beseeching thee both to preserue it here frō all sinne and in the end to receaue it in peace into the company of thy chosen that are departed that I may Behold the Squire as in a glas For as thou art so he was ¶ The Esquire Esquire the braue It bootes nor to craue ¶ The Gentleman Lusty or sad Thou must be had with thē prayse thee euerlastingly which liuest raignest c. Amen * A prayer vpon the minding of Christes resurrection and ascention O Lord Iesu O good Iesu which diddest vouchsafe to die for my sinnnes and rosest agayn for my iustification I beseéch theé by thy glorious resurrection raise me vp from the graue of al my vices and sinnes and geue me part daily in the first resurrection that I may be made partaker of the second resurrection also O most sweét Iesu which art gone vp into heauē with glorious triumph and sittest at the right hand of thy Father like a most mighty king draw me vp to theé make me to runne after theé for the sweét sent of thine oyntmentes ¶ The Iudge Come on iudge With me to trudge ¶ The iustice Sir Iustice arise come to my assise Iudge and Iustice sentence haue To ly as captiues in the craue make me to run without tyring by thy drawing and pulling of me forward Draw the soul that thirsteth after theé to the riuers of euerlasting suffifanze which are aboue yea verely draw me to thy selfe which art the liuing fountayn that I may so drink of theé according to my capacitie as I may liue for euer My God my life thou welspring of life fill my minde with the streames of thy pleasures ▪ make my hart loue-sick with the sober drunkennes of thy loue that I may forget the things that are vain and earthly and haue theé only in my mind continually Geue me thy holy spirite which is betokened by those waters which thou hast promysed to geue to them that are a thirst Graunt I beseéch theé that I may long with all my hart and labour with all my indeuor to attayne to the place whether we beleéue that thou didst ascend No law no plea ▪ no drift From death can make a shift ¶ Sergeant at law Leaue the Lawes heare my cause ¶ The Attorney Plead as thou lust With me thou must the fortith day after thy resurrection so as I may be conuersant in this vale of misery but with my body and alwayes in heauen with my hart so as my minde may be where thou art euen where thou my incomparable and deér beloued treasure art that I may sing prayses to thy name from this time forth for euermore Amen Another O Brother of oures O naturall sonne of that father whose sōnes thou makest vs by adoption O head of our body we seé that thou art king of heauē forget not thou thy earth wherinto thine inestimable loue of vs did bring theé down Thou frō out of that place geuest hope to vs thy members that we may come thether as thou art exalted already O gard and defence of vs what can now hurt vs so long as ¶ The Mayor Mayor I theé call to my guild Hall. ¶ The Shirife Shirif for execution I haue a commission The Mayors and Shirifes doe pas with speed And others them in place succeed we trust in theé Most wretched are they that know theé not and most happy are they that doe euer behold theé Blessed are they that knew theé here in the dayes of the mortalitie of thy flesh But more blessed are they that seé theé in heauen and shall seé theé raigning in the chief goods of thy father O loue and delight of mankind O only hope of vs imbrace vs with thy fauour kisse vs shead thy spirite into our harts and make our minds to run continually vpon theé to our exceéding great comfort Lift vs vp lying flatte vpon the ground open our eyes and lift them vp vnto theé Open thy mouth to call vs and open our eares to heare theé that we setting theé alone before vs for our marck to direct our life by may square out all our doeings words thoughts by theé Amen We peace did keep in Princes name Now death doth charge vs with the same ¶ The Bailife Come Baylife no bayle with me shal preuayl ¶ The Constable Constable I arrest to my ward be prest ⧠A Prayer to Christ ascending and raigning in glory OH good Christ our first begotten brother and tender harted Ioseph Oh natural sonne of that Father to whom we are made children of adoption through theé Oh our head raigning on high in glory forget not vs thy poore members here on earth wher into abasing thy selfe thou camst down and sufferedst for vs most cruell death Out of this thy throne of maiesty and glory thou putst vs in assured hope and confidence that we also shall attayn to that blessed place whether thou art gon before to take possessiō for vs Oh our strong tower of defence succor what can hurt vs now trusting in theé Most vnhappy are they which are ignorāt of theé Most happy are they which alwayes behold theé ¶ The Phisicion By thy water I do seé thou must away with me The Astronomer Looke not so hie low thou must lie No arte or medicine can preuayle When death doth purpose to assayle Blessed are they which haue known theé here in the dayes of their mortalitie but more blessed are they which seé theé in the heauens and shall seé theé raigning with thy Father in ioyes incomparable Oh Lord the only ioy and comfort of our soules shew vs thy louing countenance imbrace vs with the armes of thy mercy receiue vs O good
for vs. ¶ The Artificer No compas or arte can cause me depart The Husbandman Labour no more For I haue store No one deuise no arte no toyle Could make vs geue to death the foil Wherfore I beseéch theé let thy spirite cleanse my hart that I may not come vnworthely to that heaueÌ„ly feast and to the table whereat euen the very Angels doe tremble But that by thy sheading of thy selfe into my bowels I may grow manly in theé and become the lustyer by spirituall increasements so as I may continue to the end in the blessed fellowship of thy misticall body whom it is thy will to haue all one with theé in such wise as thou art all one with the Father by the knitting of the holy Ghost To whom be prayse thanks for euermore Amen In song â–ª in daunce in pipes in play We lost our life now wrapt in clay ¶ 〈◊〉 Musicion Strike vp thy play Daunce with me away Another I yelde thee harty thanks O Lord Iesu Christ for thine vnutterable loue in vouchsafing to redeeme man kind by thine own death and I beseech thee suffer not thy most holy bloud to haue been shed in vaine for me that I growing vp in thee by coÌ„tynual increase of heauenly strength may beâ—ome a fit member of thy misticall body which is the church and neuer swarue from that most holy couenant which thou madest with thy chosen discyples in thy last supper by distributing the bread vnto them by reaching them the cup and by theÌ„ with all those that are graffed into thy company by faith in Baptisme Amen * Another ¶ The Shepeheard Leaue thy shep And with me crepe ¶ The Foole. Of foolish and fonde I breakâ— the bonde The wise the simple and euery degree Are by force compelled to obey vnto thee MY Lord Iesu Christ who am I that thou shouldest vouchsafe to come vnder my roofe Can a sinfull man deserue such grace Certes Lord I am not worthy Am I better then all my Fathers were Thou wouldest not shew thy selfe to Moyses one twinckling of an eye and how hapneth that thou humblest thy selfe so much as to come down to a man that is a publican and sinner And thou vouchsafest not only to eate with him but also to geue thy self to be eaten of him Hayl O bred of life which camest down from heauen which giuest life to as many as receiue thee worthely Surely who so receiueth thee worthely although his soule be seuered from his body by temporall death yet shall he not dye for euer because that that separatioÌ„ is not a deth but a passing from death to life by reason wherof he that eateth thee worthely beginneth to liue with thee for euer when Time to liue time to dy God granÌ„t vs liue eternally ¶ The â—eggar Begging is done For I am come The Roge. Thinke I am best For I bring rest he dyeth in this world Thou art the bread of the angels the very sight of thee refresheth and gloryfieth the Angels Thou art foode for the soule and not for the body Thou nourishest the minde and not the maw He that eateth thee is turned into thee that by partaking of thee he may become God and yet art thou not changed into his substance as other bodily meates be But woe be to them that receaue thee vnworthely O most holy food by the eating whereof aright a man becommeth God is set free from all euil is filled with all goodnes and is vndoubtedly made immortall O sacred pittance of our pilgrimage wherby we passe out of this naughty world to the company of heauen Goe to therfore thou beleeuing soule be mery and make good cheare for thou shalt not dye Feede vpon these daintyes and stick not Take thy fill of this feaste ¶ Of Youth Young olde Come to my folde ¶ Of Infancy Feare not me though I grisly be Time to liue time to dy God granÌ„t vs liue eternally wherin the body of thy Sauyour is set before thee to feede on Man fell from God by eating the foode of the forbidden tree But by this foode he is releeued agayn to endles glory * A Thankesgeuing after the receauing of the holy Communyon MOst mercyfull Father we render vnto thee al praise thanks honor and glory for that it hath plesed theé of thy great mercies to graunt vs miserable sinners so excellent a gifte and treasure as to receaue vs into the fellowship and company of thy deare sonne Iesus Christ our Lord whom thou hast delyuered to death for vs and hast geuen him vnto vs as a necessary food and nourishment vnto euerlasting life And now we beseéch theé also O We that were of highest degree Lye dead here now as ye do see ¶ The Empresse Empresse thogh thou be Thou must away with me ¶ The Queene Queene also thou doost see As I am so shalt thou be heauenly father to graunt vs this request that thou neuer suffer vs to become so vnkind as to forget so worthy benefites but rather imprint and fasteÌ„ them sure in our hartes that we may grow and increase dayly more more in true fayth which continually is exercised in all manner of good workes so much the rather O Lord confirme vs in these perilous dayes and rages of SathaÌ„ that we may constantly staÌ„d and continue in the confession of the same to the aduauncement of thy glory which art God ouer all things blessed for euer So be it A prayer for Gods grace It is sorrowful to be sayd how great a wound our nature which is frayle and weak of it selfe hath receiued by sinne and how much ability strength ¶ The princes â–ª Princes of hye estate coÌ„teÌ„t you I am your mate ¶ The Duchesse Duches princes Death dayly conuinces We that sate in the highest seate Are layd here now for wormes meate it hath forgone It is not able to lift vp it selfe nor to stand nor to go without thy help and ayd Whatsoeuer y mind of man thinketh or deuiseth it is vtterly vneffectuall and to no purpose if it be not grounded vpon thy fauor Nothing is strong except it be vphild by thy goodnesse all things without that do fall by and by to the ground That is it which cleanseth and scoureth vs from our filthines that is it y strengtheneth our weaknes that is it that maketh vs cunning workmen in al vertues Graunt we besech theé O Lord that this grace of thine may alwayes accompany vs then the which ther can no greater gyft be deuised neither is there any thing which thou bestowest more readily and willingly therfore also more often Let the same so worke in vs as we acknowledging how much neéd we haue thereof may both applye Beauty honour and riches auayle no whit For death when he commeth spoyleth it ¶ The Countesse Countesse or what thou art I strike thee with my dart ¶ The Vicountesse Vicountes I do not spare For of them I
no persequutions may euermore geue thanks vnto theé in thy holy church through Christ our Lord. O Lord arise help vs and deliuer vs for thy names sake O God we haue heard with our eares and our fathers haue declared vnto vs the noble workes that thou didst in their dayes and in the old time before them O Lord arise help vs and deliuer vs for thy honor ¶ The Shepeheard Leaue thy shepe And with me crepe ¶ The Foole. Of foolish and fond I aÌ„reake the bonde The wise the simple and euery degree Are by force compelled to obay vnto me Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning c. FroÌ„ our enemies defend vs O Christ. Graciously look vpon our afflictions Pitifully behold the sorrowes of our harts Mercifully forgeue the sinnes of thy people Fauourably with mercy heare our Prayers O Sonne of Dauid haue mercy on vs. Both now and euer vouchsafe to heare vs O Christ. Graciously heare vs O Christ graciously heare vs O Lord Christ. O Lord let thy mercy be shewed vpon vs. As we doe put our trust in thee Let vs pray Time to liue time to dy God grant vs liue eternally ¶ The Beggar Begging is done For I am come The Roge. Thinke I am best For I bring rest WE humbly beseéch theé O father mercifully to looke vpon one infirmities for the glory of thy names sake turne from vs all those euils that we most righteouslye haue deserued And graunt that in all our troubles we may put our whol trust and confidence in thy mercy and euermore serue theé in holynes and purenes of liuing to thy honor and glory through our only mediator and aduocate Iesus Christ our Lord Amen ⧠A Prayer for the Queenes Maiestie O Lord our heauenly father high and mighty king of kings Lord of Lords the only Ruler of Princes which doest from thy throane behold al the dwellers vpon the earth most hartely we beseech theé with thy fauour to 〈…〉 Young olde Come to my folde ¶ Of Infancy Feare not me though I grisly be No state no might yâ—ung nor old To resist death dare be hold behold our most graciâ—us us souerain Lady Queéne Elizabeth and so replenish her with the grace of thy holy Spirit that she may alway incline to thy will and walke in thy way Indue her plentifully with heauenly gifts Graunt her in health and wealth long to liue Strength her that she may vanquish and ouercome all her enemies And finally after this life she may attayne euerlasting ioy and felicitie through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen ⧠In the time of any common plague or sicknes O Almightye God which in thy wrath in the time of king Dauid didst slea with the plague of pestilence threéscore and ten thousand and yet remembring thy mercy didst saue the rest Haue pitie vpon vs miserable We that were of highest degree â–ª Lye dead here now as ye do see ¶ The Empresse Empresse thogh thou be Thou must away with me ¶ 〈◊〉 Queene Queene also thou doost see As I am so 〈◊〉 thou be sinners that now are visited with greate sicknes mortalitie that like as thou didst then commaund thine Angell to cease from punishing so it may please theé to withdraw from vs this plague and greéuous sicknes through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen * A Prayer of Chrisostome ALmighty God which hast geuen vs grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications vnto theé and doest promise that wheÌ„ two or threé be gathered together in thy name thou wilt graunt their requestes Fulfill now O Lord the desires and petitions of thy seruants as may be most expedient for them grauÌ„ting vs in this world knowledge of thy truth in the world to come life euerlasting Amen ¶ The princes Princes of hye estate coÌ„teÌ„t you I am your mate ¶ The Duchesse Duches princes Death dayly conuinces We that sate in the highest sâ—ate Are layd here now for wormes meate * A Prayer to be sayd at the visitation of the sick O Almighty and eternal God the God of al mercy many diuers are thy chastisements by which thou callest vs vnto theé thy sonne Christ. Especially it is thy wonted clemency to tame our flesh by sundry and sore diseases to awake and shake of our sleépe by dangerous infirmities to admonish vs of our former wicked life frayl of it selfe by greéuous anguishes and torments the messengers of death Also by this thy crosse thou puttest vs in minde of thy Sonne Christ his crosse of his bloudy sweate and passion of the great and last day of thy iudgement ioyfull to thine elect to the reprobate a iudgement day most horrible O Lord most horrible Beauty honour and riches auayle no whit For death when he commeth â–ª spoyleth it The Countesse Countesse or â—hat thou art I striâ—e thee with my dart ¶ The Vicountesse Vicountes I do not spare For of them I â—aue no care Forasmuch therfore O Lord God as we find this our poore brother weakened with sicknes imprisoned here in his bed sustayning the rigor of thy punishment sharpnes of thy rod whose conscience also the feéling of his sins and feare of death doth terrifie We wretched sinners yet thy creatures members of thy church being flesh and bloud of corruptible flesh as well as he most humbly and most hartely pray beseéch thy goodnes that thou wilt not shew thy rigorous iudgement vpon him as he hath deserued But rather cast thy eyes of mercy vpon him Looke on him as on one whom thou hast redeémed Geue him grace and constancy of courage that he may peaceably and patiently take this thy fatherly correction submitting himselfe with all his hart to thy good pleasure and will who hast visited him ¶ The Baronnesse Baronnesse braue and hie Prepare thy selfe to dye ¶ The Lady Ladies gay and fayre To you I doe repayre No state no might young nor old To resist death dare be â—old Assist him in this his present danger especially if his conscience discouered before his inward sight accuseth him of any inward and secret sinne O our God our good God God of al comfort and consolation set against the same his wounded conscience the greéuous torments and voluntary sacrifice of thy welbeloued Sonne Iesus Christ who bare our infirmities and indured the payn which we had deserued being made sinne for vs wheÌ„ he suffred death for our sinnes and offences which he washed away with his bloud and rising agayn from the dead is made our iustice and present redemption Death by his might doth conuince Empresse Queene Dutchesse and Prince The Iudges wife Madame or iustice wife I am come to ende thy life The Lawyers wife Beware thy husbands gayn Reward thee not with pain The GentlewomaÌ„ Gentles braue fâ—â—e Daunce after my line Aldermans wife Thou art clothed in skarlet And yet art â—ut my varlet