The devil it is! Ye have a great grace To eat GOD and Man in so short a space. #Parson.# And so we make an end, as it lieth in an order. But now the blessed _Mess_ is hated in every border, And railed on, and reviled, with words most blasphemous: But I trust it will be better with the help of _Catechismus_. For though it came forth but even that other day, Yet hath it turned many to their old way: And where they hated _Messe_, and had it in disdain, There have they _Messe_ and _Matins_ in Latin tongue again. Yea, even in London self, JOHN, I tell the truth! They be full glad and merry to hear of this, GOD knoweth! #John.# By my troth! mast[er] Parson, I like full well your talk! But mass me no more _messings_! The right way will I walk. For, though I have no learning, yet I know cheese from chalk, And each can perceive your juggling, as crafty as ye walk! But leave your devilish _Mass_, and the _Communion_ to you take! And then will CHRIST be with you; even for His promise sake! #Parson.# What, art thou such a one, and kept it so close! Well, all is not gold, that hath a fair gloss, But, farewell, JOHN BON! GOD bring thee in better mind! #John.# [Sidenote: _These are cries to the plough horses._] I thank you, sir! for that you seem very kind; But pray not so for me! for I am well enough. Whistle, boy! drive forth! GOD speed us and the plough! Ha! browne done! forth, that horson crab! Reecomomyne, garled! with haight, black hab! Have a gain, bald before! hayght ree who! Cherrily, boy, come off! that homeward we may go. #Finis.# [->] #Imprinted at London, by John Day, and# #William Seres, dwelling in Sepulchres# #Parish, at the sign of the Resurrection,# #a little above Holborn Conduite.# _CUM GRATIA ET PRIVILEGIO AD_ _IMPRIMENDUM SOLUM_. [Illustration] +JOHN FOX+, the Martyrologist. _The Imprisonment of the Princess_ _ELIZABETH._ [_Actes and Monumentes, &c., p. 1710. Ed. 1563._] First, therefore, to begin with her princely birth, being born at Greenwich, _anno_ 1534, of the famous and victorious Prince, King HENRY VIII., and of the noble and most virtuous Lady, Queen ANNE her mother; sufficiently is committed to the story before. Also of the solemn celebration of her baptism in the said town, and Grey Friar's Church, of Greenwich; having to her godfather, THOMAS CRANMER, Archbishop of Canterbury.