A godly medytacyon of the christen sowle, concerninge a loue towardes God and hys ChristeMarguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre
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A godly medytacyon of the christen sowle, concerninge a loue towardes God and hys Christe
Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre
Devotional literature; Meditations -- Early works to 1800
The hawty Romanes set not yet a lyttle by themselues, that they haue rysē
of Aeneas & Romulus, of whom the one most shamefully betrayed hys owne
natyue kyndred and contraye, and the other most vnnaturally slewe hys
owne brother for worldly domynyō. Lyke as our walshemen here in Englande,
aduaūcynge their successyon or progeny aboue the Englysh wyll nedes
come of Sardanus & Bute, a foūdacyō 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
meaneseason, 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 nacyons, Gene. 10.
and not by Chams ofsprynge, of whome the Troianes and Romanes had their
noble begynnynge. That the Chamesenes 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 auncyentnesse of longe coūtynuaunce, some to wysdome lernynge
& stody for a cōmēwelth with soch lyke. And these are not all to be
dysalowed, for we fynde them in Abraham, & Dauid with other iust fathers.
[Sidenote: Clergy.]
[Sidenote: Stābery.]
[Sidenote: Hunte.]
[Sidenote: Fryres.]
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