O LORD! Almighty and everlasting GOD! I give Thee most hearty thanks, that as Thou hast been so merciful unto me, as to spare me to behold this joyful day! And I acknowledge that Thou hast dealt as wonderfully and mercifully with me, as Thou didst with thy true and faithful servant DANIEL, the prophet; whom thou deliveredst out of the den, from the cruelty of the greedy and raging lions: even so, was I overwhelmed, and only by Thee! delivered. To Thee! therefore, only, be thanks, honour, and praise for ever! Amen. The second was, the receiving of the _Bible_, at the Little Conduit, in Cheap. For when Her Grace had learned that the _Bible_ in English, should there be offered; she thanked the City therefore, promised the reading thereof most diligently, and incontinent commanded that it should be brought. At the receipt whereof, how reverently, she did, with both her hands, take it! kiss it! and lay it on her breast! to the great comfort of the lookers on! GOD will undoubtedly preserve so worthy a Prince; which, at His honour, so reverently taketh her beginning. For this saying is true, and written in the Book of Truth: "He that first seeketh the Kingdom of GOD, shall have all other things cast unto him." Now, therefore, all English hearts, and her natural people must needs praise GOD's mercy, which hath sent them so worthy a Prince; and pray for Her Grace's long continuance amongst us. #Imprinted at London in Fleet Street# #within Temple Bar, at the sign of the# #Hand and Star, by Richard Tottill,# #the .rriii. day of January.# [1559] Rev. +WILLIAM HARRISON+, B.D. Canon of Windsor, and Rector of Radwinter. _ELIZABETH arms England, which MARY_ _had left defenceless._ [Book II., Chap. 16 of _Description of England_, in HOLINSHED's _Chronicle_. Ed. 1587[-8]. Reprinted by F. J. FURNIVALL, M.A., for _New Shakspere Society_, _p._ 278, Ed. 1877.] How well, and how strongly our country hath been furnished, in times past, with armour and artillery, it lieth not in me, as of myself to make rehearsal. Yet that it lacked both, in the late time of Queen MARY; not only the experience of mine elders, but also the talk of certain Spaniards, not yet forgotten, did leave some manifest notice. Upon the first, I need not stand: for few will deny it. For the second, I have heard that when one of the greatest Peers of Spain [_evidently in Queen MARY's reign_] espied our nakedness in this behalf, and did solemnly utter in no obscure place, that "It should be an easy matter, in short time, to conquer England; because it wanted armour!" his words were then not so rashly uttered, as they were politicly noted.