Ballads from Manuscripts ... Ballads on the condition of England in Henry VIII's and Edward VI's reigns, (including the state of the clergy, monks and friars,) on Wolsey, Anne Boleyn, Somerset, and Lady Jane Grey; With Wynkyn de Worde's Treatise of a Galaunt (AB.1520 A.D.): Edited by Frederick J. Furnivall |
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At the pageaunte representing the progenie of Saint Anne, exhibited at Cornehill, besides leadenhall, wer pronounced vnto the quenes grace these wordes folowing, by a child:—
Vdallus.
Moste excellente quene, and bounteous ladie!
Here now, to see your gracious goodnes
With suche honour entreing this Citie,
What ioye we take, what hartie gladnes,
Noo penne may write, nor any tongue expresse!
ffor of you, depende the sure felicitee,
And hope, bothe of vs and our posteritee.
Here now, to see your gracious goodnes
With suche honour entreing this Citie,
What ioye we take, what hartie gladnes,
Noo penne may write, nor any tongue expresse!
ffor of you, depende the sure felicitee,
And hope, bothe of vs and our posteritee.
ffor like as from this deuout Saint Anne
Issued this holy generacion,
ffirst Christ, to redeme the soll of man,
Then James thapostle, and theuangelist Jhon,
With these others, whiche in suche fascion,
by teaching and good lif, our faithe confirmed,
That from that tyme yetto it hathe not failed,
Issued this holy generacion,
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Then James thapostle, and theuangelist Jhon,
With these others, whiche in suche fascion,
by teaching and good lif, our faithe confirmed,
That from that tyme yetto it hathe not failed,
Right soo, dere ladie, our quene moste excellente,
highly endued with all giftes of grace,—
As by your living is well apparente,—
Wee the Citizens, by you in shorte space
hope suche issue and descente to purchace,
Whereby the same faith shalbee defended,
And this Citie from all daungers preserued.
highly endued with all giftes of grace,—
As by your living is well apparente,—
Wee the Citizens, by you in shorte space
hope suche issue and descente to purchace,
Whereby the same faith shalbee defended,
And this Citie from all daungers preserued.
Whiche tyme that wee maye right shortely see,
to our great coumforte, ioye, and solace,
Graunte the moste high and blissed Trynytee!
Moste humbly beseching your noble grace,
our rude symplenes shewed in this place
To pardon, and, the breef tyme considering,
to esteme our good myndes, and not the thing.
to our great coumforte, ioye, and solace,
Graunte the moste high and blissed Trynytee!
Moste humbly beseching your noble grace,
our rude symplenes shewed in this place
To pardon, and, the breef tyme considering,
to esteme our good myndes, and not the thing.
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