The ioyfvll receyuing of the Queens most excellent Maiestie into hir Highnesse Citie of Norvvich: The thing done in the time of hir abode there: and the Dolor of the citie at hir departure. Wherein are set downe diuers orations in Latine, pronounced to hir Highnesse by Sir Robert Wood Knight, now maior of the same citie, and others: and certaine also deliuered to hir Maiestie in vvriting: euery of the[m] turned into English [by Bernard Garter] |
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Then Hester spake. |
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Then Hester spake.
The fretting heads of furious foes haue skill,
As well by fraude as force to finde their pray:
In smiling lookes doth lurke a lot as ill,
As where both sterne and sturdy streames do sway,
Thy selfe oh Queene, a proofe hath seene of this,
So well as I poore Esther haue iwis.
As well by fraude as force to finde their pray:
In smiling lookes doth lurke a lot as ill,
As where both sterne and sturdy streames do sway,
Thy selfe oh Queene, a proofe hath seene of this,
So well as I poore Esther haue iwis.
As Iabins force did Israel perplex,
And Holofernes fierce Bethuliel besiege,
So Hamons slights sought me and mine to vex,
Yet shewde a face a subiect to his liege.
But Force nor Fraude, nor Tyrant strong can trap,
Those whiche the Lorde in his defence doth wrap.
And Holofernes fierce Bethuliel besiege,
So Hamons slights sought me and mine to vex,
Yet shewde a face a subiect to his liege.
But Force nor Fraude, nor Tyrant strong can trap,
Those whiche the Lorde in his defence doth wrap.
The proofes I speake by vs haue erst bin seene,
The proofes I speake, to thee are not vnknowen.
Thy God thou knowest most dread and soueraigne Queen,
A world of foes of thine hath ouerthrowen,
And hither nowe triumphantly doth call
Thy noble Grace, the comforte of vs al.
The proofes I speake, to thee are not vnknowen.
Thy God thou knowest most dread and soueraigne Queen,
A world of foes of thine hath ouerthrowen,
And hither nowe triumphantly doth call
Thy noble Grace, the comforte of vs al.
Doste thou not see the ioy of all this flocke?
Vouchsafe to viewe their passing gladsome cheare,
Be still (good Queene) their refuge and their rocke,
As they are thine to serue in loue and feare:
So Fraude, nor Force, nor foraine Foe may stand
Againste the strength of thy moste puyssaunt hand.
Vouchsafe to viewe their passing gladsome cheare,
Be still (good Queene) their refuge and their rocke,
As they are thine to serue in loue and feare:
So Fraude, nor Force, nor foraine Foe may stand
Againste the strength of thy moste puyssaunt hand.
FINIS.
B. G.
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