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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

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

in corde suo non est Deus Illi corrupti sunt abhominabiles in sua impietate nullus est qui aliquid boni facit Le foldisoit en sō coeur il n'anul Dieu Ilae sont corumpus sont abhominables en leur impiete il n'a nul qui faic● bien Is stulto disse uel suo core non v●e alcuno Dio. Corrutti sono abhominabile nella loro impietà nissuno ē buono Ton thean ●phoboū tous de goneis tima tous de Philous aeschynou The first clause in thre lāguages latyne● Frenche and Italyane comprehēdeth thys only sentence as I shewed afore in the Epystle dedycatory The fole sayth in hys harte there is no God Corrupt they are and abhominable in their wyckednesse or blasphemyes agaynst God not one of them doth good The Greke clause is thus to be Englyshed Feare God honoure thy parentes and reuerence thy fryndes Thus haue she geuen vs coūsell both to go and to come to leaue and to take To declyne from the euyll and to do that is good Psal. 36. To flee from the Antichrist hys great body of synne or blasphemouse cruell clergy to returne to God by a perfyght feare honoure and loue So lyuely Apothegmes or brene and quycek sētences respectynge christyanyte haue seldom come from women I haue serched Pintarchus Boccatius Bergomas Textor Lander of Bonony whych all wrote of the vertues and worthy acres of womē But amonge them all haue I founde no counsels so necessary to the cōmen welthe of our christyanyte I denye it not but excellent thynges they vttered and matters of wysdome wonderfull concernynge morall vertues But these most hyghly respecteth the kyngedome of fayth and regymēt of the sowle whych Iesus Christ the eternall sonne of God from heauen by hys doctryne and death so busyly sought to clere Many graue sentences had they concernynge pryuate causes But vnyuersally these are for all sortes of people hygh lowe hayle sycke ryche poore lerned vnlerned that myndeth to haue fredome by Christes deadly sufferynges or to be delyuered frō helle synne deathe the deuyll by the pryce of hys precyouse bloude No realme vndre the s●ye hath had more noble women nor of more excellent graces than haue thys realme of Englande both in the dayes of the Brytaynes and sens the Englysh Saxons obtayned it by valeaunt conquest Guendolena the wyfe of Locrinus the seconde kynge of Brytayne beynge vnlaufully dyuorced from hym for the pleasure of an whore whom he longe afore had kepte tryed it with hym by dynte of the swerde had the vyctory and reigned after hym askynge the space of .xv. yeares tyll her sonne Maddan come to laufull age Cordilla the doughter of kynge Leyer and least of all her systers as her father was deposed exyled out of hys lande she receyued conforted and restored hym agayne to hys princely honou●re and reigned alone after hys deathe for the space of .v. yeares Cambra the doughter of kynge Belyne and wyfe to Antenes than Kynge of France ded not only excede in bewtie but also in wysdome In so moch that she first instructed the noble men how to buylde cyties castels and other stronge holdes the cōmē people more comely maners and the womē a most semely deckynge of their heades She made their cyuyle lawes whych vpon her name were called Leges S●cambrorum She taught them to sowe flaxe and hempe to watter it drye it dresse it spynne it weaue it whyten it and fashyon it to all maner of vse for the bodye Martia the wyfe of kynge Guythelyne a lady excedyngly fayre wyse lerned in all the lyberall scyences inuented thynges wonderfull by the hygh practyse of her wytt After the death of her husbāde she reigned .vij. yeares as kynge tyll Sicilius her sonne came to age She reredressed the commen welthe refourmed the grosse maners of the people and made most honest lawes called of her name Leges Martiane So delyghted the Frenche kynge Nicanor in the wysdome lernynge and comely maners of hys wyfe Constantia the doughter of kynge Eliodorus that he not only holpe her brother Geruntius in see battayle agaynst the kynge of Orchades but also sent hys most dere sonne Priamus into Brytayne to haue the same selfe bryngynge vp The Scottysh kynge Finnanus thought hys pryncely honour most gloryously increased as he had obtayned Agasia the doughter of kynge Blegabridus to be coupled in maryage with Sorstus hys sonne for the manyfolde graces that he behelde in her What though the seyd vngracyouse Sorstus in spyght of the Brytaynes ded afterwarde vse her most wyckedly Bundwyca a womā both hygh of stature and stomacke also of myst noble lynage amonge the Brytaynes perceyuynge the hauoke whych the Romanes dayly made in the lande with great pusaunce of worthy warryours she inuaded them slewe them hynge vp their captaynes and folowed the remnaunt of them to the very Alpes of Italy Where at the lattre by reason of dayly labours she syckened and so dyed euen the uery glory of women sayth Ponticus Virunnius Voada the first wyfe of kynge Aruiragus a woman of wonderfull force hart strongly armed her selfe her .ij. doughters and .v. thousande women more of the Britannysh bloude in battayle agaynst the furyouse fearce Romanes to suppresse their tyranny and execrable fylthynesse in abusynge maydes wyues and wydowes But as she behelde the vyctory vpon their sydes bycause she wolde not come vndre their captyuyte she poysened her selfe so dyed Voadicia her yonger doughter afterwarde escapynge the handes of the seyd Romanes with a myghty power of the Brytanes entered into the yle of Maene and in a nyght battayle there slewe thē in a wonderfull nombre destroyenge their fortalyces and holdes Notwithstandynge at the latire beynge taken she was byheaded her eldar syster beynge maryed to kynge Marius Athildis the doughter of the seyd kynge Marius was also a most noble woman whom the Frenche kynge Marcomerus marryed for the only naturall gyftes and seyences whych she had aboue other women and had .vii. sonnes by her Claudia Rufina a noble Brytayne wyttye and lerned both in Greke and Latyne hanynge to husbande one Aulus Rufus a lerned knyght a poete of Bonony a phylosopher of the Stoycall sort is moch cōmēded of Martialis the poete for the Epygrammes and poemes whych she than compyled in both those dunges Emerita the syster of kynge Lucius whych is called the first christened kynge a lady most vertuouse and faythfull for cōstauntly affermynge the veryte of Christ suffered most tyrannouse death and was brent in the fyre Helena Faluia the doughter of kynge Coelus and mother to great Constantyne the Emprour was a woman of incomparable bewtie and lernynge Non coulde be founde lyke her in the artes lyberall neyther yet in the fyne handelynge of all instrumentes of musyke She