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A dyall of dayly Contemplacion, or deuine exercise of the mind

instructing vs to liue vnto God, and to dye vnto the vvorld. First colected & published in Latin, at the request of a godly Bishop, and Reuerent Father, Richard, sometime Byshop of Dirham, and Lorde Priuie Seale. Novv nevvly Translated into Englishe, by Richard Robinson
Robinson, Richard
 
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THE AVCTHORS Commemoration for MVNDAY.
 
[Behold this worldly wretchednesse]
 
The Translators Application.
 
[This day therfore darknesse mundame]
 
[This volume breefe of sclender quantitie]
 
[These sentences before resemble by figure]
 
[Eche sentence here of foresayd Scripture]
 
[O wicked world wrapped in wretchednesse]
 
[O polisant graue and donghill clad with snawe]
 
[That prudent prince, and wyse kyng Salomon]
 
[Some are so choked with worldly businesse]
 
[O strong tyrant, traytour right treasonable]
 
[That morall man, and famous Philosopher]
 
[In weyghty matters geue personall presence]
 
[So dyd Cambises, which of Persia was kyng]
 
[VVere in a kyng such disposition kend]
 
[Nowe then would Princes to Churchly promotion]
 
[And as a Prince hath cheefe correction]
 
[Then should God in eche state honoured bee]
 
[Thus sythen in earth amongst men mortall]
 
[But where some Princes and leaders of the lawe]
 
[As Iustice is cause of peace and policie]
 
[In England then, trueth shewe thy stately style]
 
[Farre from vs, O God, expell corrupt iustice]
 
[To Kyng without colour that lyst to keepe Iustice]
 
[Nowe Princes, Lordes, and Nobles of renowne]
 
[Our hope, our happe, we set in worldlines]
 
[There is no reason our misrule can arrest]
 
[Therefore I counsell eache christian creature]
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THE AVCTORS Commemoration for TVESDAY.
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THE AVCTORS Commemoration for VVENSDAY.
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THE AVCTORS Commemoration for THVRSDAY.
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THE AVCTORS Commemoration for FRYDAY.
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THE AVCTORS Commemoration for SATVRSDAY.
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THE AVCTORS Commemoration for SONDAY.

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[In England then, trueth shewe thy stately style]

In England then, trueth shewe thy stately style,
And Iustice thou thy Baner brode display,
All leagerdy maynes from hence quite exile,
Graunt God that good meaning mainteined be may
All subtyll shiftes to conuince and bewray,
VVherewith the couetous encombred bee,
Least that the great flee the small eatyng alway,
Doo the same deuoure by lawles libertee,
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