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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.

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I.

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

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III.

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

[Like as the sacred oxe that carelesse stands]

[Vnder whose feet, subiected to his grace]

[A deadly gulfe where nought but rubbish growes]

[Your fond preferments are but childrens toyes.]

[What in this life we haue or can desire]

[Let euery one do all the good he can]

[God is best when soonest wrought]

IIII.

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

V.

CHAP. V. Speculum vitæ. A sinners glasse.

VI.

CHAP VI. The union of Mercy and Iustice.

VII.

CHAP. VII. Ingum meum suaue.

X.

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.

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 hope of helpe still comfort giues]

For hope of helpe still comfort giues,
While Mercy still with Iustice liues.