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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.

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

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

[For what's the life of man, but euen a tragedie]

[Our frailties dome, is written in the flowers]

[Death is the salue that ceaseth all annoy.]

[Life is a bubble blowen vp with a breath]

[O who would liue, so many deaths to trie]

CHAP. V. Speculum vitæ. A sinners glasse.

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CHAP VI. The union of Mercy and Iustice.

VII.

CHAP. VII. Ingum meum suaue.

CHAP. X. A theme to think on.

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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.

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CHAP. XII.

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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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[Life is a bubble blowen vp with a breath]

Life is a bubble blowen vp with a breath,
Whose wit is weaknesse, and whose wage is death,
Whose way is wildnesse, and whose inne is penance,
Stooping to crooked age the host of grieuance.