The Castell of Courtesie Whereunto is adioyned The Holde of Humilitie: With the Chariot of Chastitie thereunto annexed. Also a Dialogue betweene Age and Youth, and other matters herein conteined. By Iames Yates |
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In the Commendation of a Godly and Vertuous Matron.
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In the Commendation of a Godly and Vertuous Matron.
As I alone did walke in fieldes,I heard a thundering voyce:
Which did descend from loftie skyes
whereof I stood in choyse,
For to coniecture with my selfe
what voyce should be the same:
It answered me as I it heard,
I am the flying fame.
Which farther said, take pen in hand
and proue thy simple skill:
To blaze abroad a Matrons life
whose minde doth meane no ill.
Her Vertuous life adorned is
with Godly zeale and grace:
Lucrese if she were aliue
she could it not deface.
No day doth passe this Matrons handes
in any idle sporte:
She to the Church to serue her God
in due time doth resorte.
If any wight shall purchase heauen
for Godly life well spent:
Fame told me that should be she,
high Ioue did so assent.
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doe growe in any wight:
Then in the Hinde you may be bolde
they shine with vertue bright.
Thus much as Fame commanded me
I haue heere put in vre:
With heartie prayers to the Lorde
her life may long indure.
Heauenly Happinesse is Due to the Hinde.
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