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A06890	A godly medytacyon of the christen sowle, concerninge a loue towardes God and hys Christe, compyled in frenche by lady Margarete quene of Nauerre, and aptely translated into Englysh by the ryght vertuouse lady Elyzabeth doughter to our late souerayne Kynge Henri the. viij; Miroir de lâme pécherresse. English	Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre, 1492-1549.; Bale, John, 1495-1563.; Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.	1548 (1548)	STC 17320; ESTC S111990	38,308	98

excelled all other in the dyuerse speches of nacyons specyally in the Latyne Greke and Hebrue She made a boke of the prouydence of God an other of the immortalyte of the sowle with serten Greke poemes epystles and dyuerse other treatyses Constantia her daughter was also a woman of most excellent giftes had she not in the ende declyned to the detestable secte of the Arryanes by serten hypocrytysh prestes Vrsula Cynosura the floryshynge dauter of Sionothus the duke of Cornewale was so nobylly brought vp in all lyberall dyscyplyne that Conanus the kynge of lytle Brytayne desyred her to wyfe and as she went thydrewarde with .xi. thousande Brytaynes wyues more by chaūce of wether and vyolence of see rouer● both she and they peryshed by the waye Anna the syster of Aurelius Ambrosius whych was afterwarde marryed to Lotho the kynge of Pycres Anna the twynne syster of kynge Arthure are of writers magnyfyed for their dyuerse and excellent graces Morganis a woman of incomparable loue towardes her parentes and contraye so secretly and wysely conuayed the body of kynge Arthure the most worthy gouernour of the Brytaynes that the Englysh Saxons coulde neuer come to it to do their vyolēce theron Hermelinda rysynge of the Englysh Saxons bloude for her excellent bewtie and noble behauer became the wyfe of Cunibertus the kynge of Lombardy Hylda a noble woman both godly wyse and lerned not only dysputed in the open Synode at Streneshalce in the North contraye agaynst the prelates concernynge their newly founde out celebracyon of Eastre and their crowne shauynge with other ceremonyes but also wrote a treatyse agaynst byshopp Agilbert a Frenche man the busyest amonge them The thre doughters of kynge Alphrede Elfleda Elfritha and Ethelgora were wonderfully experte in the lyberall scyences Alenor the wyfe of kynge Henry the seconde was lerned also wrote dyuerse epystles to pope Celestyne the thirde also to kynge Iohan her yongest sonne Ioāna the yongest daughter of the seyd kynge Henry so moch delyghted in good letters that before she shulde be marryed to kynge wyllyam of Cycyll she caused her father to sende ouer .ii. lerned men of Englande walther and Rycharde with a French doctour called Petrus Blesensis to instruct hym in them specyally in the arte of versyfyenge And at her cōmynge thydre the one of those Englysh men was made archebyshop of Panorme the other byshop of Siracusa in recompēce of their labours Margarete the noble mother of kynge Henry the .vii. so plenteously mynded the preferment of scyences goynge forewarde of lernynges that she buylded in Cambryge for the same porpose the colleges of Christ of S. Iohan the Euāgelyst and gaue landes for their mayntenaunce as quene Helisabeth ded afore to the quenes college there Longe were it to rehearce the excedynge nombre of noble women whych in thys lande of Brytayne or realme of Englande haue excelled in bewtie wytte wysdome scyence lāguages lyberalyte polycyes heroycall force and soch other notable vertues and by reason of them done feates wonderfull Eyther yet to sort out their Names and regestre them one by one whych haue bene marryed out of the same to Emprours kynges dukes earles worthy captaynes Phylosophers phesycyanes astronomers poetes other of renomed fame and letters only for their most rare graces and gyftes Though non in thys lande haue yet done as ded amonge the Grekes Plutarchꝰ amonge the Latynes Boccatius with other authours afore named that is to saye left behynde them Cataloges or Nomenclatures of famouse and honorable women yet haue it not at any tyme bene barrayne of them No not in the dayes of most popysh darkenesse As apereth by Alenor Cobham the wyfe of good duke Vinfrey of Glocestre brother to kynge Hēry the fift Whom Antichristes grande captaynes the byshoppes than of Englāde in hate of her name and beleue accused of sorcerouse in chauntmentes and experymentes of Necromancy agaynst their holy horned whorysh churche And at the last slewe her noble husbande in a false parlement at Bury by their owne hyred slaughter man Pole as they neuer are without soch If they were worthy prayse whych had these aforenamed vertues syngle or after a bodyly sort only we must of congruence graunt them worthy double honoure whych haue them most plēteously doubled As now sens Christes Gospell hath rysen we haue beholden them yet se them styll to thys daye in many noble women not rysynge of flesh and bloude as in the other but of that myghty lyuynge sprete of hys whych vanquyshed deathe helle and the deuyll Consydre yet how strongly that sprete in Anne Askewe set them all at nought with all their artyllery and mynysters of myschefe both vpon the racke and also in the fyre Whose memory is now in benedyccyon as Iesus Syrach reporteth of Moses and shall neuer be forgotten of the ryghteouse She as Christes myghty membre hath strongly troden downe the head of the serpent and gone hence with most noble vyctory ouer the pestyferouse seede of that vyperouse worme of Rome the gates of helle not preuaylynge agaynst her What other noble women haue it doth now and wyll yet herafter apere more largely by their godly doctryne and dedes of fayth Marke thys present boke for one whose translacyon was the worke of her whych was but a babe at the doynge therof Marke also the graue sentences whych she geueth fourth to the worlde laude that lyuynge father of our lorde Iesus Christ whych hath thus taken hys heauenly wysdome from the great graue senyours that only are wyse in their owne consaytes and geuen it so largely to chyldrē Math. 11. That heauenly lorde graūt her and other noble women longe contynuaūce in the same to hys hygh pleasure That lyke as they are become gloryouse to the worlde by the stody of good letters so maye they also apere gloryouse ī hys syght by dayle exercyse in hys dyuyne scriptures Whose nature is in processe of tyme to kyndle their myndes and inflame their hartes in the loue of Christ their eternall spouse as thys present boke requyreth So be it Thus endeth thys godly Medytacyon of the christen sowle concernynge a loue towardes God and hys Christ aptely translated into Englysh by the ryght vertuouse lady Elyzabeth doughter to our late souerayn● Kynge Henry the .viij. ¶ The .xiii. Psalme of Dauid called Dixit insipiens touched afore of my lady Elizabeth FOoles that true fayth yet neuer had Sayth in their hartes there is no God Fylthy they are in their practyse Of them not one is godly wyse From heauen the lorde on man ded loke The knowe what wayes he vndertoke All they were vayne and went a straye Not one he founde in the ryght waye In harte and tunge haue they deceyte Their lyppes throwe fourth a poysened beyte Their myndes are mad their mouthes are wode And swyft they be in

A Godly Medytacyon of the christen sowle Concerninge a loue towardes God ād hys Christe compyled in frenche by Lady Margarete quene of Nauer● and aptely translated into Englysh by the ryght vertuouse lady Elyzabeth doughter to our late souerayne Kynge Henri the viij Inclita filia serenissimi olim Anglorum Regis Henrici octaui Elizabeta tam Graece quam latine foeliciter in Christo erudita To the ryght vertuouse and christenly lerned yonge lady Elizabeth the noble doughter of our late souerayne kynge Henry the .viij. Iohan Bale wysheth helth with dayly increace of Godly knowledge DIuerse and many most gracyouse lady haue the opynyons bene amonge the prophane philosophers and christen dyuynes concernynge ryght Nobylyte and no fewar stryues and contencyons for the same Some autours haue vaynely boasted it to take orygynall o● the olde Goddes of the Gentyles as euery lāde hath had hys peculyar Saturne Iupiter Hercules yea our Englāde here and all Some hath fatt it from the foure generall monarchyes of the Assyrianes Perseanes Grekes and Romanes Some haue attrybuted it to the bolde battayles and bloudshedynges in Ninus of Babylon the first inuētour of polycyes in warre in our great Albion the Chamesene whych first in thys regyon suppressed the posterite of Iaphet vsurpynge therin the first monarchy in Brute that more than six hondred yeares after defaced of hym the tyrannouse yssue in Ebrāck and Dunwallo in Brenne and Belyne in great Constantyne Artoure Cadwalader Engist Egbert Alphrede wyllyam cōquerour soch other for lyke ●●questes of the Romanes Grekes Galles pyctes Brytaynes Saxons Danc● Irysh●●● and Englyshens The hawty Romanes set not yet a lyttle 〈◊〉 themselues that they haue rysē of 〈◊〉 Romulus of whom the one most sh●mefully betrayed hys owne na●●●● kyndred and contraye and the other most vnnaturally slewe hys owne brother 〈◊〉 worldly domynyō Lyke as our walshe 〈…〉 Englande aduaūcynge their successyon or progeny aboue the Englysh wyll nedes come of Dardanus Bute a fon̄dacyō not all vnlyke to the other These gloryouse champyons for thys farre fatched groūde of their Nobylyte accoūte all other nacyons and peoples ignoble profane and barbarouse as is to be seane in the monumētes of their writers But in the meane season they are not aware that they wndyscretely prefarre cursed Cham to blessed Iaphet by whose posteryte the Iles of the Gentyles were first sorted out in to speches kyndredes and na●yons Gene 10. and not by Chams ofsprynge of whome the Troianes and Romanes had their noble begynnynge That the Chame senes had in those Iles was by cruell vsurpacyon tyrāny as testyfyeth Berosus the Caldeane and therfor that groūde of Nobylyte is not all the best Ouer and besydes all thys some haue applyed it to renomed byrth or successyon of bloude some to the habūdaūce of pleasures worldly some to the mayntenaūce of great famylyes some to the sūptuousnesse of notable buyldynges some to the hygh stomake stature of persone some to valeaūtnesse in marcyall feates some to semely maners of courtesye some to lyberalyte of rewardes and gyftes some to the auncyeninesse of longe coutynuaunce some to wysdome lernynge stody for a cōmē welth with soch lyke And these are not all to be dysalowed for we fynde them in Abraham Dauid with other iust fathers But now foloweth a monstruouse or whether ye wyll a prestygyouse nobylyte The Romysh clergye ymagenynge to exalte themselues aboue the lewde layte as they shame not yet to call the worldly powers haue geuen it in a farre other kynde to mytars masses Cardynall hattes crosers cappes shauen crownes oyled thombes syde gownes furred amyses mōkes cowles and fryres lowsy coates becōmynge therby pōtyfycall lordes spirytuall sirs and ghostly fathers Thys kynde of Nobylyte dygged out of the dongehyll haue I seane gorgyously garnyshed with the retoryckes of Porphyry Aristotle Duns and Raymundus decretals in the bokes of Iohan Stanbery byshopp of herforde De superioritate ecclesiastica De discrimine iurisdictionum and De potestate pōtificia In the bokes also of Walter hūte an ordynary reader sūtyme in Oxforde De precellētia Petri De autoritate ecclesie Yea and amōge thēselues they haue moch contended both by disputacyon writynges whych of their sectes myght other excell in the nobylnesse of christen perfection The monkes in publyque scoles by a dystynccyon of the actyue and contemplatyue lyfe haue aduaunced their ydell mōkery aboue the offyce of a byshopp and the fryres their scalde crauynge beggery aboue the degrees of thē Both. As is largely seane in the brawlynge workes of Rycharde Maydeston Thomas walden Wyllyam Byntre other whych haue written Contra wicleuistas Pro mēdicatione fratrū In the dayes of kynge Edwarde the fourt Iohan Myluerton prouyncyall of the Carmelytes was full thre yeares a prysoner in the castell of Angell at Rome at the sute of the byshoppes of Englande for the same and lost so the byshopryck of saynt Dauids wherunto he was a lyttle afore elected Thys matter haue I hearde vndre the tyttle of Euangelyck perfeccyon most depely reasoned in their ordynary dysputacions at their concourses cōuocacyons aud chapters as they than called them yea by those whome I knewe most corrupt lyuers Herūto for fournyshynge out the same the graye fryres added S. frances paynted woūdes the blacke fryres S. Domynyckes bolde dysputynge with heretykes the whyte fryres our ladyes fraternyte and the Augustyne fryres the great doctryne of their patrone In the vnyuersytees afte moch to and fro hath it bene concluded that the order of a prest haue farre excelled in dygnyte the order of a byshopp And thys haue they left behynde them for a most graue and depe reason therupon Marke their more than lucyferyne presumpcyon therin Soch power hath a prest saye they as hath neyther Angell nor yet Man be he of neuer so great autoryte scyēce or vertu For a prest by worde maye make hym agayne that by worde made heauen earth A prest maye euery daye both byget hym and beare hym where as hys mother Marye bygate hym beare hym they wolde saye but ones These are their very wordes in a boke entytled De origine Nobilitatis ca. 5. with moch more cyrcumstaunce of matter Oblasphemouse bellybeastes most ydell wytted sorcerers How ydolatrously exalte they themselues aboue the eternall lyuynge God hys Christ Iohan Chrisostome a man taught and brought vp in the christen philosophy defyneth the true Nobylyte after a farre other sort than ded the prophane writers He calleth it not with Aristotle a worthynesse of progeny neyther yet with Varro ā opulēcy of ryches but a famouse renome obtayned by lōge exercysed vertu He is pusaunt hygh ād valeaunt sayth he and hath Nobylyte in right course that dysdayneth to geue place to vyces and abhorreth to be ouercomen of them Doctryne greatly adourneth a mā hyghly borne but a godly endeuoure