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Miscelanea

Meditations. Memoratiues. By Elizabeth Grymeston

Grymeston, Elizabeth

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To her louing sonne Bernye Grymeston.

Simon Grahame to the Authour.

MISCELANEA

CHAP. II. A mortified mans melancholy expressed in the person of Heraclitus, who alwaies wept.

[A dolefull case desires a dolefull song]

[A wretched world, the den of wretchednesse.]

[Which did in former time Gods image beare?]

[Since haruest neuer failes, but euer must]

[For when the soule findes here no true content]

III.

CHAP. III. A Patheticall speech of the person of Diues in the torments of hell.

IIII.

CHAP. IIII. Who liues most honestly, will die most willingly.

CHAP. V. Speculum vitæ. A sinners glasse.

VI.

CHAP VI. The union of Mercy and Iustice.

VII.

CHAP. VII. Ingum meum suaue.

CHAP. X. A theme to think on.

XI.

CHAP. XI. Morning Meditation, with sixteene sobs of a sorowfull spirit, which she used for ment all prayer, as also an addition of sixteene staues of uerse taken out of Peters complaint; which she usually sung and played on the winde instrument.

XII.

CHAP. XII.

XIII.

CHAP. XIII. Euening Meditation. Odes in imitation of the seuen pœnitentiall Psalmes, in seuen seuerall kinde of verse.

THE BALLAD, OR; Some Scurrilous Reflections In Verse, On the PROCEEDINGS of the Honourable HOUSE of COMMONS:

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[For when the soule findes here no true content]

For when the soule findes here no true content,
And like Noahs Doue can no sure footing take:
She doth returne from whence she first was sent,
And flies to him that first hir wings did make.