A New Yeares Gifte, dedicated to the Popes Holinesse and all Catholikes addicted to the Sea of Rome: preferred the first day of Ianuarie, in the yeare of our Lorde God, after the course and computation of the Romanistes, one thousand, fiue hundreth, seauentie and nine, by B. G. [i.e. Bernard Garter]... In recompence of diuers singular and inestimable Reliques, of late sent by the said Popes Holinesse into England, the true figures and representations whereof, are heereafter in their places dilated |
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Vrbanus the fifth, sendeth to the Emperor of the Gretians, three Agnus Dei: with the verses that folowe. |
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Vrbanus the fifth, sendeth to the Emperor of the Gretians, three Agnus Dei: with the verses that folowe.
Balme, waxe & water of the Chrisme an Agnus Dei makeWhich worthy Iem of my free gift, to thee I do betake.
For as it is of water made, and sanctified by speach,
So in effecte, as Christes bloude, the vertues thereof reache,
Eche lightning to suppresse, and driue away eche sinne,
It helps the childwife, & doth yeeld hir child succes therin:
It giueth to the worthy man rewarde, and quencheth fire,
It saues the wight that bears the same, frō waters rage & ire.
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On the backe side of whiche Latine verses, (whiche were lost from an Archpapist) I finde these conclusions written: viz.
From lightning and thunder,
From fire and water,
A woman in trauell,
From all euill spirits.
From fire and water,
A woman in trauell,
From all euill spirits.
And also these two verses are written vppon the backe side thereof, whiche I thinke not incident to that matter, for that heretofore I haue hearde them properly alluded in an other sense. The verses are these, and concerne Mariages I suppose.
Prima dies grata est, secunda & aduena grata,Tertia grata parum, quatridiana setat.
They may be thus Englished:
The firste day is honourable, the second commendable,
The thirde tollerable, the fourth abhominable.
The thirde tollerable, the fourth abhominable.
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