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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09583	A commemoration of the right noble and vertuous ladye, Margrit Duglasis good grace, Countis of Lennox daughter to the renowmed and most excellent Princesse Margrit, Queene of Scotland, espowsed to King Iames the fourth, of that name ... wherin is rehearsed hir godly life, her constancy and perfit pacience, in time of infortune her godly end, [and] last farewel, taken of al noble estates at the howre of her death. The ninth day of March. 1577. At her house of Hackney in the countie of Midlesex: and now lyeth enterred the thyrd of April, in the chappel of King Henry the seauenth her worthy grandfather. 1578. And anno. 20. of our soueraigne lady Quéene Elizabeth, by Gods permission of England, Fraunce and Irelande Quéene, [and]c.	Phillips, John, fl. 1570-1591.	1578 (1578)	STC 19864; ESTC S110448	15,671	36

A COMMEMOration of the Right Noble and vertuous Ladye Margrit Duglasis good grace Countis of Lennox Daughter to the renowmed and most excellent Princesse Margrit Quéene of Scotland espowsed to King Iames the fourth of that name In the daies of her most puissaunt and magnificent Father Henry the seauenth of England Fraunce and Ireland King Wherin is rehearsed hir godly life her constancy and perfit pacience in time of infortune her Godly end last farewel taken of al Noble estates at the howre of her death The ninth day of March. 1577. At her house of Hackney in the Countie of Midlesex And now lyeth enterred the thyrd of April in the Chappel of King Henry the seaueth her worthy Grandfather 1578. And Anno. 20. of our Soueraigne Lady Quéene Elizabeth by Gods permission of England Fraunce and Irelande Queene c. ¶ To all Right Noble Honorable Godlye and Worshipfull Ladyes Iohn Phillip wisheth the feare of God prosperitie and peace in Iesus Christ. RIght Honorable and vertuous Ladyes when florishing Ver had banished the bytter stormes of Hyems and geuen Flora liberty with her gallant mantle of greene to garnishe the whole face of the earth I was drawne by desire throughly to consider the sundry pleasures and diuerse commodityes that she most curtuouslye presented to worldly inhabitauntes and finding occasion fyt for my purpose I tooke my waye for my repast into the fieldes where I found the barren ground fruitfull proffering foorth plentifullye her increase and the naked trees fullye pollished and couered with leaues in the braunches wherof the chrping birdes the more to augment my solace rendred foorth their well tuned concords the sillye Larke mounting aloft towardes the fyrmamente r●ndred foorth his ratling noates of ioye the Thrustle coake the Mauice and euery byrde in his kinde obserued his proper and ●omely harmonye And thus as on rapt or rauished with ioye Syr Phaebus with his trampling steedes rainging through the Christaline skies in the Charit of Phaaeton making his asendent to the top of the hiest Spyhre I was constrained partly through wearinesse and partly the heate of the daye increasing to sit me down vnder a Betch tree the braunches wherof semed a Fortresse to shielde me from the partching gleames of tryumphing Tytan But as my glauncing eyes beganne to suruaye the nature and effectes of gallaunt Aestas so also did I call to memory how Boreas bustering blastes and Hyems hoarye froastes conuerted those present pleasures that Ver brought foorth to nothing and in fine defaced them as though they had not bene ▪ so that both those seasons I gathered did presayg vnto me the ficklenesse of our courssing tyme and the shortnesse of our transitory dayes the flowrishing flowers which long had bin shrowded in the bowels of the earth beganne not onelye to prognosticate to me our estates lyuing her in ●ollitie But also set foorth aptlye in theyr kindes howe and whereto we were subiected the pollished trees serued as a scoolemayster to publishe vnto mee our hard and heauy hazardes in this terrestriall vale of mysery and immortalitye the lesson that by them I learned was worthye to be considered For the marke they bad me ame at was Death and yet after Death as they through the sweete deawes and sauory showers did florish and prosper againe after they were wythered away so also gaue they intelligence to me that disspight of death and graue by the myghty prouidence of GOD all creatures should arise from theyr slumber and come before the trybunall seate of the almighty where the faythful should be rewarded with eternall lyfe and the vnbeleeuing recompenced with endlesse torments But as I sat discoursing these causes Sol hasting with speedinesse towardes the Occident Tyme gaue me charge to repayre towardes my lodging whiche attayned I entred into my former Muse and tooke my penne in hand mynding to haue written some Pamphlet in these my former discourses But loe contrary to my expectation Mercury the messinger of Iubiter arested myne eyes with Sopor In which season Morpheius as it were in a vision set before myne eyes to my thinking a very p●ttifull spectacle ▪ For there appeared vnto me a Noble Lady compassed with care pursued by dolour shoared vp with perfyte patience amidst her extremities and lastly so supported with trueth that paysing her infortunes which seemed in shoe incredible and therewithall her constancye in sufferinge calamities I could not but wonder on while I lamented her estate another while I tryumphed in her ▪ Whose patience as a Bulwarke was readye to beare the brunts of fickle Fortune thus one while drowned in griefe and e●t againe comforted by hoape at laste I waked and looking behinde me ▪ I beheld me thought the personages present with whome in my slumber before I had beene acquainted and therewith all the trueth began to speake vnto me perswading me first to set aside all feare and to marke sith I had purposed to writ some matter conserning the mutabilities of the tyme what that Noble Ladye woulde di●course vnto me For that she had felte in this lyfe the fulnesse of Fortunes fallaces to 〈◊〉 heastes I gaue my selfe willinglye rather encour●●ed good Ladyes by the trueth then settling vpon 〈◊〉 owne skill to take so waighty an attempt in 〈…〉 thus she began her tale as followeth which 〈…〉 freendlye and faythfull farewel is rendred into your hands that feare GOD lead your lyues loyally and are louers of virtue whose reward in this lyfe is honor and after the graue to the vtter foyle of Death eternall fame and the ritch and glorious kingdome purchased by Christ at the last day The which place God of his infinite bounty and goodnesse for his anointed Sons sake graunt you Vestrae salutis dignitatisque studiosissimus I. Phillippus Reginij Cantabrigiensis Collegi● Alumnus Faultes escaped in the Printing The fourth Page the third stafe the forth line for the eight Henrye of fame reade a Prince of fame The sixt page the first stafe the third linne our substance is death reade our substance is earth The sixteene page the third line and third staf● for to coast for vnitie reade no coast for vniti● The nineteene page the last verse fourth line for were born● him to obay read were bound him to oba● ¶ A freendly Farewell geuen to Honorable and vertuouse Ladyes GOod Ladies al your listning eares I ●raue Til time my tale be fully brought to end Though y my corps be subiect to the graue Yet vouch awhile to heare your faythful freend To you these lines for my farewell I sende Accept them then and reade them for my sake And of my name a new memoriall make I néede not shew to you my bloud and byrth Nor parentage de●eruing high renowne That thing was knowne whilst I enioyd y earth though now of late Parchas hath cut me downe Henry the seauenth that ware the royall crowne Of England was my Grandfather most deare As plaine by proofe Historians witnesse beare My Grandam hight