_Peruse with patience, I thee pray!_ _My simple style, and metre base._ _The works of GOD, with wisdom weigh!_ _The force of Love, the strength of Grace._ _Love causèd GOD, His grace to give,_ _To such as should for Him be slain._ _Grace wrought in them, while they did live,_ _For love, to love their CHRIST again._ _Now Grace is of such strength and might,_ _That nothing may the same withstand._ _Grace putteth death and hell to flight,_ _And guides us to the Living Land._ _The force of Love also is such,_ _That fear and pain it doth expel;_ _Love thinketh nothing over much;_ _Love doth all earthly things excel._ _Thus Love and Grace of GOD began_ _To work in them, to do His will:_ _These virtues' force wrought Love in man,_ _That fear was past, their blood to spill._ +_FINIS._+ The Register of the Martyrs. [Never before did such doggerel verse carry so fearful a story as this. It is thought to have been useful to JOHN FOX, when at work on his _Actes and Monumentes &c._, 1563. The following entries in the _Stationers' Registers_ show that there were two simultaneous editions of this work, both surreptitiously produced in 1559. RYCHARD ADAMS [_see p._ 172] for pryntinge _The Regester of all them that ware burned_ without lycense was fined at vs. [= £2 10_s. now_]. OWYN ROGERS for printinge without lycense _The Regester of all them that were burned_ was fyned at xxd.] [_Transcript &c._, 1. _p._ 101, _Ed. 1875_.] 1555. FEBRUARY When raging reign of tyrants stout, Causeless, did cruelly conspire To rend and root the Simple out, With furious force of sword and fire; When man and wife were put to death: We wished for our Queen ELIZABETH. FEBRUARY 4 When ROGERS ruefully was brent; 8 When SAUNDERS did the like sustain; When faithful FARRAR forth was sent His life to lose, with grievous pain; 22 When constant HOOPER died the death: We wished for our ELIZABETH. FEBRUARY 9 When ROWLAND TAYLOR, that Divine, At Hadley, left this loathsome light; 24 When simple LAWRENCE, they did pine, 22 With HUNTER, HIGBY, PIGOT, and KNIGHT; 23 When CAUSUN, constantly, died the death: We wished for our ELIZABETH. MARCH 5 When TOMKINS, tyranny did abide, Having his hand, with torchlight brent; 7 When LAWRENCE, WHITE, and DIGGELL died, With earnest zeal and good intent; 14 When WILLIAM FLOWER was put to death: We wished for our ELIZABETH.