And vndoubtedly (beloued) there is no nation vnder the cope of Heauen hath had greater occasion to praise God in this kind then England, the preseruation of the most illustrious princesse the Lady _Elizabeth_ vnder the fiery triall of her vnkind sister Queene _Marie_ was a _noble act_, and the seminary of much happinesse vnto this kingdome for many yeares after, and so much the more noble because _Philip_ King of Spaine hath often confessed that he spared her life (when wildy _Winchester_ and bloodie _Bonner_ had brought her into the snare) not out of any pietie or pittie, but onely out of policie. Her exaltation to the Crowne was another _noble act_, so noble that some [do]Popish Prelats in their enuie burst a sunder and dyed for very griefe of heart. Well might that good Lady sing and say with the blessed Virgine, _He that is mightie hath magnified me, and holy is his name, he hath put downe the mightie from their seat and hath exalted the humble and meeke_: her flourishing in health, wealth, and godlinesse, more then 44. yeares (in despite of all her foes abroad, at home, schismaticall, hereticall, open, intestine) was another _noble act_: for after once the Bull of Pope _Pius Quintus_ had roared, and his fat Calues had begunne to bellow in this Island: there passed neuer a yeare, neuer a moneth, neuer a weeke (I thinke I might say) neuer a day, neuer an houre, but some mischiefe was intended either against her person or her people: the resisting of the rebellion in the Northerne parts of England, was _a noble act_: the discouering and so consequently the defeating of _Campians_ treason _a noble act_: of _Parris_ treason _a noble act_: of the _Lupus Lopus_ his treason, _a noble act_: of _Squires_ treason, _a noble act_. Her glorious victories against her fell and insolent enemies the _Spaniards_ in _Ireland_, in _Flanders_, in _France_, in their owne dominions of _Portugal_, _Indies_, and _Spaine_ were _noble acts_. It was a wonder of wonders, that a _Mayden Queene_ should at one time be both a staffe to _Flanders_, and a stay to _France_, a terror to _Pope_, a mirror to _Turke_, feared abroad, loued at home, Mistresse of the Sea, wonder of the world. Shee might truely bee called a _Prince of Peace_, for shee was Crowned in Peace, shee liued in Peace, she dyed in Peace, she was buried in Peace: and when shee had slept with her Fathers, it was another _noble act_ of the Lord to send vs in the midst of all our feare so learned, so meeke, so pious a Prince as King _Iames_, in such exceeding sweet peace, that neuer a sword was drawn, happily neuer a word spoken against him. All these were _noble acts_, and ought to be had in a perpetuall remembrance. But of all other noble preseruations, _Our deliuerance from that intended mercilesse and matchlesse Massacre both in fact and fiction, the fifth of Nouember, in the yeare 1605._ is most _noblie noble_. King _Iames_ on this day might haue said with King