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A08298	A pensiue soules delight The contents whereof, is shewen in these verses following. I. The pensiue soule recounteth in this place, Elizaes troubles, and Elizaes grace. 2. Here are expressed the stratagems of foes, Elizaes conquests, and their falls that rose. 3. Here is set forth Elizaes lenitie, and locust-Catholickes superbitie. By Iohn Norden.	Norden, John, 1548-1625?	1603 (1603)	STC 18627; ESTC S113318	15,454	48

do well no perill can befall No perill falles on them of true accord That do accord with Truth not gorgd with gall They gorgd vngorge and with the fume infect Elizaes Liege-men who againe reflect The same on those that truly loyall be And wrest the wils of many by degree To couer Treason which they should detect Who then beleeues these monsters come to saue Or can forgiue If they seduce from loue Though they haue titles as the Angels haue And be in show as is the Turtle Doue They are but spyes or Spiders to compact The webbe of mischiefe which some else must act In eighty eight the yeare of greatest hope Of Englands ouerthrow aduance of Pope The Spaniard hoped to be English backt But was kept backe Iehouah curbd his rage Reuerts his matter to another end He by his power his fury did asswage And his Armado did both breake and bend It brake by force it bended with desire To turne againe they saw it best retire Some did retire Against their wills some saw And felt Elizae forces and Ioues Law Who still inhabites wrongers to aspire Yet sure Romes Locusts had enuenomed Some gyddie heads hote weary of their weale And wonne them to consent but blindly led To their inchants and gaue their vowes for seale To ioyne their forces to Elizaes foes Yet would they haue Eliza to suppose These Romish witches to be tollerable In her Kingdomes indeed most execrable Couertly contriuing Elizaes woes Elizaes woes woe worth their trecheries Oh high Iehouah blinde their hatefull eyes Confound their wits driue them to extacies Daunt their desires draw them to obliquies And leaue them not till thou haue throwne them downe That ayme at thee and at Elizaes crowne At thee Iehouah to put out thy light At her Truthes prop the foe to dismall night Wherein they walke as deadly Wolues vnknowne Vnknowne to her her innocencie beares No dread of ill they yet creepe couertly Into mens hearts with counterfaited teares Perswade disswade coniure and hold it piety To wrest poore soules from true obedience Vnto Eliza vnder false pretence Of liberty and true religion When all their wiles tend to confusion Of Queene and Realme this Romes beneficence Woe worth these Wolues that dally with the sheepe As Cat with Mouse till they worke heards-man gone Eliza gone these Wolues will haue the keepe Of all the flocke in false suggestion Oh liue Eliza great Ioue let her liue And lead her swarme to thy all sacred hiue Where thy poore Bees may shelter haue from those That sucke truthes hony from theit harts with glosse That thy truthes life and light do fanckly giue Where loe they giue the fruite of poison'd tree That eaten please as honie doth the taste In first but second and in third degree Infects and killes though 't first a sweete repast But when digested and the Conscience Pertakes at full their confluence Then are the workings of this potion found Deadly deuouring and all parts confound These Vipers yet pretend great recompence They haue their recompence but farre from blisse No Traitors or Seducers can expect Reward aboue where sacred dutie is That yeeld no dutie to high Ioues elect Annointed here They blinded seeke to blinde And drawe from dutie bound do seeke to binde The silly soules that sue and seeke for light Their Duties loue they binde by their dispight And yet pretend they haue a sacred minde A sacrilegious minde for loe they steale Mens hearts and rob them of obedience They breede sedition in the publique weale And worke the weake to stand on Conscience Conscience must not perunt the silly flies Falne in their webbe to seeke the meanes to rise To ope their eyes to moue their foote or hand To shun their snares to heare or vnderstand They must not doubt or reason of their lies Oh silly soules bewitched with this crew Why will you follow their enchaunted wayes Wayle and vnwrap you of this deadly clew Wherein these Spiders do intrap their prayes Heare and beleeue truth will this snare vntye And set your Consciences at liberty And free you from these miscrean Cananites Infernall dogges that vomit out despights Against Messiahs truth and sanctity Come out from them ye captiu'd soules and flye Their deadly charmes and let Elizaes grace Preuaile with you and do no longer lye In that darke denne whence issues all that race That raunge the mountaynes of traditions Full they pretend of true deuotions Beleeue them not truth is not in their ken A mystie cloud hangs on them witched men Depriu'd of grace guides to seditions Ye see the fruites of all the Locusts sent From that proude beast that fits a God in show Haue they not drawne you to be discontent With your sweete liberty and loue you owe Haue they not wrought you to be obstinate To kicke against Eliza and her state Haue they not woode you to betray the land Wherein you liue wherein your comforts stand Do you not see their loues pretence is hate Hate them that hale you to that dismall way Loue her that lends you true protection Your selues detect these couert wolues bewray And bring to light these Locusts of infection That lurke with you and leaue their sting in you Come you to light learne truth and liue anew Liue as good subiects loue as Christians Imbrace the faithfull leaue these Miscreans And you shall see great blessings will ensue A Pensuiue soules delight Here is set forth Elizaes lenitie And Locust-Catholiques superbitie THe world throughou admires Elizaes loue Her mercy patience and great lenitie Her Princely vertues do at full approue Her sacred louing free from tyrannie Her hearts affections spring of clemencie Dispearse the Riuers of her flowing grace Throughout the vallies of true Duties soyle Her subiects dutifull she doth imbrace Her foes she fauours whom her lawes might spoyle Her sacred heart possessed with desire That all might liue and liuing loue expresse Doth show her mercy yet restraines her Ire In hope her loue might winne her foes redresse And spares their blood deseruing nothing lesse When Iustice wills and Pollicie findes fit The quicke dispatch and cutting off of those That ayme her ruine though they neuer hit Her lawes seuere are not seuere to foes Her Princely heart still bent to Amitie Aymes all her acts to quallifie the rage Of vndeserued foes by lenitie She doth forbeare them hoping to asswage Their hearts despight and to pull downe the stage Whereon they act their enuies stratagemes And that the prompter of their practises Might see the firmenesse of her diademes Not mou'd by weapons or by pollicies Yet he that steres the helme of Enmitie And would addresse his barke vnto her strand Linnes not to send his Pylots to espie What way he might securely make the land They sound mens hearts and heaue their enuies hand To hit the best but high Iehouah swayes Their hatefull powres and wythers their desires Elizaes watchmen winke not at their wayes But lets them runne on breathlesse in aspires But in midway when they are neare the marke Whereat they ayme vnseene they do surmise For all their soundings and deuises are in the darke The powres diuine do ope Elizaes eyes And she their soundings and deuises spies And well considers that her lenitie Workes not effects of reformation Of their attempts but their superbitie Increasing still their cursed faction They haue forgotten lawes inflictions Formerly imposde the rod now laide aside They thinke and feare not interdictions Lawes letter cannot countercheck their pride The sword put vp it must be erst redide The weather calme they thinke no storme can rise To beate them backe in their strong impudence Ambitious thoughts bemysteth so their eyes To see Elizaes grace they haue no sence They haue no sence or make no vse of eyes They may of both by both they wrong the state By plots and complots of conspiracies Peruerting subiects stirring them to hate Their owne sweete peace And then to perpetrate High treasons ougly spight and deadly Ire Against Eliza for a recompence Of her loues fauours where indeed their hire By lawe is death grace workes no penitence Penitence nay pride props vp their hope And hope to haue the glorie of a day Past feare they florish in pretence of scope Freely to worke they dreame of no say nay Their hearts of gall they deeme can haue no stay Till Peace consume in their infernall flame And Truth deuour'd in that combustion Till they confound their natiue countries name Faire Englands glory by sedition But loe while my sad Muse recounts the things I did bewayle the daungers imminent A happie herauld constituted brings And doth proclaime a sweete infraunchesment Of doubtfull thoughts the Locusts banishment My pensiue thoughts reuiued yeeldeth prayse For our Eliza whose diuine respects And whose true watch their enuies fruits bewraies Yeeld her regards great Ioue their true affects And driue their Droanes and Spiders from her hiue That sucke the hony and do feede with gall Her subiects hearts and loyall loue depriue High Ioue depriue their powre and sting withall Cut downe the tree let all the branches fall That spreade their venim to her preiudice Prolong her dayes and maltiply her ioyes In earth with peace and sacred benedice Be her pauilion shield her from annoyes FINIS 〈…〉 Nouem 1558.

A PENSIVE soules delight The Contents whereof is shewen in these Verses following 1. The Pensiue soule recounteth in this place Elizaes troubles and Elizaes grace 2. Here are expressed the stratagems of foes Elizaes conquests and their falls that rose 3. Here is set forth Elizaes lenitie And Locust-Catholickes superbitie By Iohn Norden LONDON Printed by T.C. for William Lugger and are to be sold at the signe of the blinde Knight ouer against S. Andrewes Church in Holborne 1603. TO THE RIGHT Honourable and vertuous Ladie the Countesse of Warwicke IF I were demanded Right Honourable I could yeeld a reason why I giue your Lady-ship this little plaine Poeme vnder the tytle of a Pensiue Soules delight but that your Ladiship is not altogether vnacquainted with some causes that may right well worke me pensiue The cause is noted and obserued of many but felt of my selfe and mine only The cause of my delight is publique common and knowne to all but felt with effect of the faithfull and loyall onely Can any faithfull soule but sigh my good Ladie to see and consider the sundry daungers that haue bene and are daily plotted and practised against her highnesse most innocent person and Royall state And againe can any but reioyce and delight to see her still blessed defended and the practizers still found out censured and condemned And who seeth without pensiuenesse and sorrow her Maiesties natiue subiects our owne country-men brethren and kindred to become Traytors to their and our most gratious Queene treacherous to vs their country-men allyes And againe reioyceth not to see obserue how all their deuises come to nought her Maiestie preserued our selues deliuered And again who greeueth not to consider from whom these practises and the grounds of these treasons proceed From a man pretending to be the high and sole Vicar of Christ in earth who cannot erre in his purposes and proceedings because they are all couered euen murthers of innocent men yea Princes raising warre within and between kingdomes with the pretence of religion and glorifying God the highest point of blasphemy But who reioyceth not to see him discouered Antichrist the man of sinne and his vndermining and treasonable messengers Locustes And who reioyceth not to see them in some measure abandoned sith they will not be reclaimed But more who reioyceth not to see and consider her Maiesties immoueable constancie in louing in imbracing and in maintaining the infallable trueth and our selues vnder her and by her to enioy the same A subiect worthie of a more serious labour But because many worthie workes are extāt of their discouery some too great of price for poore men and some too learned for the simple And such serious Treatises oftē neglected because they delight not all humours I thought it not vnfit to put the inferiour multitude in minde in this kinde of writing what causes they haue to sighe and to sing to grieue and reioyce And that with mee they may haue all will as they haue cause to pray for the continuance of the true causes of our reioycing the maintenance of Religion and preseruation of her highnesse The length of dayes vouchsafe her length of dayes the Lyon of Iudah rent her enemies in peeces And high Iehouah graunt that vnder her we may all liue in true loue towards her that loueth him who in his loue gaue her to vs. That we in her might rather sorrow to see the falles of traytors in charitie then traytors to tryumph in the successe of their attempts in insolencie Your Ladiships in all seruice Iohn Norden A Pensiue Soules delight 1. The Pensiue Soule recounteth in this place Elizaes troubles and Elizaes grace MY Pensiue Soule recounting heauenly loue which did bestow that sacred hidden treasure Truthes light to shine to vs here from aboue Cannot but ioy to see Ioues mercies measure Passing in greatnes all this earthly frame It fills our hearts with science of his name Which is we loue we liue as he requires He sends his word to worke in vs inspires of his true light Looke vp from whence it came Came it from man came it from wisedomes skill Came it by art came it from multitude No no it came from his all sacred will That will'd our wealth and true beatitude Long long shut vp in darke obliuions den And fetter'd long through ignorance of men Darke Ignorance syre of Deuotion Blinde zeale blinde loue both malediction As is discouer'd by Truthes sacred pen. How so the pennes of men not lightned write Bewitcht with false inspires inspirde in those That follow fancie all depriu'd of light Despightfull hearts that kill and seeme no foes Like friends in fawnes foes vnder faithlesse smiles Whose gracelesse guise seemes gracefull yet but wiles That win affection to perdition And seeme yet sacred and of fowle condition Without all-haile within mortall reuiles I wayle these wightes that wander in the darke Led by the beast that traynes great troupes to hell And seekes to sinke sacred Religions Barke By his inchantes charmed in his hidious cell But he fowle feend and faithlesse to great Ioue Hath long breathd bannings gainst Messiahs loue Eliza Queene the prop of verity That still stands vp a Queene of victory Whome all his wiles and curses cannot moue They cannot moue the mountaynes of our Peace Elizaes truth whose sacred hearts desire Desirde and wrought that heau'nly Truthes release That lay forlorne long languishing in briers She brought to light the load starre of our light And loosde the bands of Enuy by her might Her might made mightie by Ioues mighty hand That heau'd her vp triumphant in this land Fearefull to foes reioycing to the right Reioyce ye righteous and resound her prayse Prayse great Iehouah for her Maiestie He he receiu'd her in her pensiue dayes Not farre from death held in captiuity A captiue Lady of a free-full minde Free and in fauour nought can true loue binde Her Loue was Truth her truth and loue were right Ioue rightly saw her and her loues delight Truth and Loues light were sacredly combinde All sacred Vertues did combine in one One Grace diuine was guide vnto them all In her all working when she was alone Alone in company Angelicall Heauens Angels spred their still protecting tent And guard her sacred person innocent Graces diuine administred true ioy In her deemd ioylesse state nought could annoy Her blessed patience in imprisonment But oh true Lady how could griefes retire When she recounted why she was restraind And eke by whome by her sole sisters ire What heart could hold so innocent disdaynd Disdaynd to liue her life obscurde in hate Was hatefull to vnhappy hearts where Enuy sate But sacred Loue gaue life and light to her And brought her life to light and did transferre Deaths dreadfull sting vnto the obstinate And on their Queene whome our Eliza lou'd Her life as loue her loue assurance set On high Iehouah's loue he her approu'd And gaue her light to