Seuen Sobs of a Sorrowful Soule for Sinne Comprehending those seuen Psalmes of the Princelie Prophet David, commonlie called Poenitentiall; framed into a forme of familiar praiers, and reduced into meeter by William Hunnis ... Whereunto are also annexed his Handful of Honisuckles; the Poore Widowes Mite; a Dialog between Christ and a sinner; diuers godlie and pithie ditties, with a Christian confession of and to the Trinitie; newly printed and augmented |
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The Author to his Booke.
Passe foorth my booke into the handsand view of sundry men:
Humble thy selfe, declare thy name
who thee thus clad and when:
And blush not at the frumps of some,
ne feare at others frowne:
More rich thou art in thred bare cote,
then some in silken gowne.
And giue them all to vnderstand,
from whence thou first didst spring,
How thou wast fostred in the brest
and bosome of a king.
And so (perhaps) some woorthie wight
wil shape thee rich arraie,
And set thee foorth as thou deseru'st
with costly iewels gaie.
Behaue thy selfe in such good sort,
if possible maybe,
That euery one may thee embrace,
and wish wel vnto me.
Vale.
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