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Queene Elizabeths teares: or, Her resolute bearing the Christian crosse inflicted on her by the persecuting hands of Steuen Gardner Bishop of Winchester, in the bloodie time of Queene Marie. Written by Christopher Leuer.
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Lever, Christopher, fl. 1627.
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makes them foolish that are iudged wise And Winchester we instance this in thee Whose houres in studious care were euer spent To bring this Ladie her extreamitie Yet for that God did see thy hearts intent He blunts thy edge O bloudie instrument And belows-like he make thy enuious breath To make hir liue thou woldst haue blowne to death Thus God can mocke the subtilties of men Letting them runne the passage they propose Seeming regardlesse yet regardfull then His eie their hidden secrets can disclose For Prouidence in euery passage goes That howsoere mens pollicies doe plot They haue had issue if God fauour not So God was pleasd with prouidence and care This vertuous holy Lady to defend To binde their force and breake their hidden snare That euill men for euill did intend And now the Queene doth for her Sister send Where when she was presented on her knee She thus protesteth her integrity Dread Soueraigne I your seruant here present My selfe as true vnto your life and state As is the spirite of an innocent And so let God my griefe extenuate As I doe wish you to be fortunate And let the heauens their benefits denie To all that enuy at your Maiestie The Queene with angry maiestie then saith You stand too much vpon your innocence Too confident in your suspected faith It would be better to cast off pretence And plainely to acknowledge your offence The Princesse saide The guiltie should confesse And so would I if I had guiltinesse But God that sees the very secret thought Knowes in my heart there is no guiltines That there was neuer any treason wrought Or any thought of such vnworthines If then I should against my selfe confesse I bring my selfe an euerlasting shame To brand the reputation of my name O let it please your Princely maiestie That I your seruant may receiue this grace That Law it selfe my innocence may trie That Law may be impartiall in this case And if that Law doe quit me of disgrace Then let your seruant haue a gratious eie If not let Lawe and Iustice make me die If you be then so righteous saith the Queene Belike you 'l say that we vnrighteous are And that your troubles haue vnrighteous beene And so the guilt on vs you doe transferre And make them righteous that vnrighteous are And so to make your owne purgation You lay on vs the imputation The Ladie then let not my Soueraigne Haue that construction of my duteous heart Long may your reputation God maintaine And much may he inlarge your high desart And if I may my secret heart impart I do protest it doth my spirit good To see such honour in my neerest blood And for the sorrowes that I doe indure I know the cause is not your owne desire But that some other did the hurt procure And stirr'd your anger with their enuious fire Against your Grace and me they doe conspire That would the neerenesse of our loue diuide Whome God and Nature haue so neerely tide Nature euen in the Queene was powrefull strong And makes her spirit haue a feeling sense And now she thinkes her Sister hath had wrong And in her heart she blames their diligence That causlesse thus did cause this great offence And to her selfe she saith I doe offend Are we not Sisters why should we contend Yet would she not expresse her inward heart Nor then giue demonstration of her loue Nor did she then to any one impart What she in her intention did approue But sure she had a purpose to remoue The fire of indignation from her breast Which Steuen had kindl'd with so much vnrest The sequele did approue the good intent For now the beames of mercie doe appeare The Queene doth free her long imprisonment Remoues her Gailer whome she most did feare And now she giues her licence to repaire Vnto her home where when she did arriue A peacefull quiet doth her griefe depriue Now I haue runne the passage I intended I do not know how fortunate I runne My verse is done now that her griefe is ended And she at rest my busie care is done The cloudes do vanish that be dimm'd this Sunne And God that in her sorrowes did protect her Now in her rise he labours to erect her Gardner the worst of all her enemies The heauens cut short his ill-attempting breath And made him perish with his subtilties But when that Time had giu'n Queene Mary death The heauens then smiled on Elizabeth And now those great ones that enui'd hir Grace Haue left to her the greatnesse of their place Where like the Sunne she was most glorious bright Casting her beames of mercie euery where And euery where she giues a glorious light All other lights to her but little were So matchlesse was she and so wondrous rare As for to verse her glories I refuse Leauing that Labour for a better Muse. I neuer toucht Parnassus with my sight Nor did the Muses euer teach me rhyme Only in humble verse I take delight Nor doe I loue the higher straines to clime This plainenesse makes me t'vnfit the time But if that Arte vnto my verse were giuen She then should liue in verse that liue's in heauen FINIS
Queene Elizabeths Teares OR Her resolute bearing the Christian Crosse inflicted on her by the persecuting hands of Steuen Gardner Bishop of Winchester in the bloodie time of Queene Marie Written By Christopher Leuer Nocet indulgentia nobis Printed at London by V. S. for Mathew Lownes dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of 〈…〉 To the right honorable Lord Robert Erle of Salisburie Vicount Cranborne Baron of Essingdon principall Secretarie to the Kings most excellent Maiestie Maister of the Courtes of Wardes and Liueries Chancellor of the most famous Vniuersitie of Cambridge Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter and one of his Maiesties most honourable priuie Counsell RIght Honourable Lorde The gratious and well deseruing when they die leaue behind them a reputation that can neuer die I instance this in Queene Elizabeth of blessed memory A Lady beyond example beautifyed with the ornaments of Grace and Nature the twoo handes of God whose name like the aire is spread ouer all the earth whereby this our little world the English nation is made famous to all posteritie And because I my selfe haue seene many the admirations of her time haue with many others shared in participation of those blessings which God did giue her most gratious and fortunate gouernement I haue therefore willingly forced my endeuours to this demonstration of thankes hauing euer vowed my selfe a seruant to her Honourable remembrance The reasons my good L. of dedication are these First your Lordships honorable deseruing in being a principall Supporter of the leaning State of learning the Moecenas and Patron of the learned in what deseruing qualitie soeuer wherein though I be but meanely profest yet your Lordeships zealous regard to the profession I beare shal euer binde me in the most assured bonds of dutie and thankefull seruice Againe that honorable testimony of your Lordships regarde euen to the very name of your late Soueraigne approued by the generall applause and acclamation of all good people by which act your Lordship hath proceeded to the highest degree of good opinion and by giuing Honour to her that best deserued it deseruedly made your selfe much honoured And therefore my good Lord haue I ventured on your Lordships gratious acceptance humbly requesting your Honor that my particular howsoeuer vnworthy to trauaile in so honorable an Argument may notwithstanding haue gratious acceptation being presented in the name of Queene Elizabeth to whose honorable remembraunce your Lordeship is so much deuoted and to whose name I haue principally dedicated this seruice beseeching Almightie God to deriue vppon your Name and House a perpetuall Succession of Honour and good Fortune Your Honours in all duetie and humble seruice Christopher Leuer ⧠To the Reader THe name of Queene Elizabeth is sufficient Argument to perswade a friendly acceptation and from the better disposed whome I couet principally to please I shall doubtlesse receiue that reasonable and honest construction As for those who haue their tongues dipt in the poyson of Enuie I write not to please them who wil neuer be pleasd with that which is most deseruing It being the nature of Enuie to depraue that which dooth deserue the highest fauour of loue and good opinion I may example this in the wrong offered to the name of Queene Elizabeth who though shee were the most admired of her time hauing extraordinary induments and a gouernment much more in the degrees of honour and prosperitie than any her Predecessours yet want there not malitious and base deprauers who like dogges that barke against the Sunne couet to bite her honourable name whome God hath made more glorious than the Sunne giuing her a place of glorie in fellowship with his holy Angelles and Saints For this double respect haue I therefore taken these paines First to please the well affected in honouring her whome all that haue honesty will honour Next in giuing Enuie and her sonnes a morsell to bite vpon wishing that all the deprauers of her princely name may either reduce themselues some degree of honestie or else perish with their enuious and euill breath Accept then I pray thee these my voluntarie trauells and honour her remembraunce whome all the best in the world do honour with admiration which thou also wilt doe if thou beest either honest or truely English ¶ Ad foelicem huius Elizabethae progressum LIber in lautam liber ibis vrbem Liber in latum liber ibis orbem Liber in laetas liber ibis vlnas vrbis orbis Paruus est hinc non liber est libellus Bellus est hinc non liber est libellus Duplici prodis titulo Libellus belle libelle Parue spem magni retinens honoris Belle rem magni retinens decoris Vade par natae cerebro Mineruae nate cerebro I. C. Musa crucem cecinit dudum quae carmine Christi AELIZAE varias iam canit illa cruces Aelizae qúe cruces crucifixi nomine passas O quam te memorem Virgo virago dea O nullus laceret liuor LEVERE labores Pergat at in studijs casta Minerua pijs The generous Reader whose free honest soule Did loue the honor'd subiect of thy Booke Will for her sake whose loue liues in the roule Of datelesse Memorie lend a friendly looke As others Gardens haue bestowed floures To decke her Garlands and to strew her herse So thy graue Muse doth tell her grieued houres And sings her sorrowes in a sollemne verse That though deuouring Time did to bereaue her Of Palme and Pittie with her foes conspire Yet thy loue Leuer lets not Honor leaue her But by the heate of kinde Poetike fire Reuiu'd giu'st virtue her deserued hire R. K. ⧠My loue to the Argument and the Author THe times are now maleuolent to Verse To verse that trauells in graue Argument Yet thy graue Muse adornes the sable Herse Of her whose glories were most eminent In this thy Art hath well deseru'd of Fame That thou Elizaes glories dost commend And that in Verse she hath a liuing name And that her Teares in verse by thee are pen'd O the depraued pleasures of vilde men That haue no pleasure in this moouing Arte And O those spirits whose licentious Pen Haue made these trauells of so small desert When men were better then the times were so And Verse had then their high deseruing praise Now Time is old he doth in weakenesse goe All things in worth doe alter as their Daies Let not the faults of men and euill Time Dis-heart thy spirite from Poetike fire Thy Verse is free from all dishonest Rhyme And from the tract of Cupids idle fire This is the glorie that thy Muse doth sing The holie secrets of the holie Crosse And of this Saint and of her suffering In which expence of time there is no lesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that thus thy trauells doe indeuour I doe not see but Leuer may liue euer Robert 〈◊〉 Queene Elizabeths Teares Or Her resolute bearing the Christian Crosse. 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