TO
THE
RIGHT
WORSHIPFVL
,
MISTRES
ANNE
PHILIPS
OF
PICTON
,
R.
H.
wisheth
increase
of
worship
,
continuance
of
godlinesse
,
and
health
in
Christ
Iesus
.
AS
the
highest
tides
haue
their
falles
and
ebbes
,
&
after
greatest
tempests
and
darkest
dayes
,
the
sunne
shineth
:
so
fareth
it
with
me
,
(
right
Worshipfull
)
it
pleased
God
the
author
of
all
goodnesse
(
when
I
had
bene
foure
yeares
or
more
tossed
with
sundrie
troubles
&
aduersities
able
euerie
way
to
oppresse
me
,
had
not
the
same
mightie
Iehouah
,
Iacobs
God
,
●u
.
3.19
.
that
he
correcteth
whom
he
loueth
:
and
that
the
race
of
my
youth
was
so
vnaduisedly
run
,
that
I
haue
merited
much
more
grieuous
punishment
for
it
.
In
which
time
of
rest
(
if
I
may
terme
it
a
rest
that
we
enioy
while
we
remaine
here
in
this
world
)
I
haue
bestowed
such
vacant
time
as
my
necessarie
businesse
letted
not
,
in
penning
the
whole
history
of
Christ
our
Sauiour
plainly
&
as
I
could
,
according
to
my
simple
capacitie
and
knowledge
in
English
me●ter
,
to
be
applied
to
the
tunes
of
sundrie
of
Dauids
Psalmes
:
following
therein
the
foure
Euangelists
,
dissenting
from
them
in
nothing
,
though
in
the
disposing
of
Christ
his
acts
and
doctrins
(
as
neare
as
I
could
)
to
their
proper
places
,
and
as
they
were
done
in
order
of
time
,
I
follow
other
directions
.
Which
worke
(
howsoeuer
)
to
Gods
glorie
I
hope
,
I
haue
finished
,
and
for
two
especiall
causes
haue
determined
(
though
the
workmanship
be
but
as
it
were
rough
hewen
,
yet
in
respect
of
the
matter
that
is
so
worthie
)
to
dedicate
the
first
fruits
of
my
labors
vnder
your
worships
name
.
The
first
is
,
your
godly
zeale
and
forward
affection
to
the
hearing
&
reading
of
Gods
word
,
much
like
that
noble
Romane
Caecilia
,
which
let
no
day
passe
without
reading
some
parte
of
Gods
booke
,
and
euer
caried
about
her
,
whither
soeuer
she
went
(
the
[
*
](A03472-e230-b)
*
Rom.
10.17
.
Deut.
6.6
.
Cap.
11.18
.
Luc.
1●
.
26
.
Io●
.
5.39
.
Act.
17.11
.
touchstone
of
our
faith
)
the
new
Testament
,
which
rare
vertues
of
her
minde
much
more
adorned
and
beautified
her
,
then
either
her
birth
,
though
borne
of
honorable
parentage
,
or
her
attire
how
costly
so
euer
.
The
booke
of
God
is
in
deed
to
be
esteemed
of
greater
value
then
all
other
iewels
:
in
it
is
the
heauenly
manna
,
that
[
*
](A03472-e300-b)
*
Ioh.
6.48
.
Cap.
4.14
.
Cap
7.38
.
bread
of
life
,
and
the
waters
whereof
whosoeuer
drinketh
shall
neuer
thirst
,
offred
vs
:
in
it
is
the
[
*
](A03472-e340-b)
*
Ioh.
14.6
.
way
,
the
truth
,
and
the
life
taught
vs
,
and
by
this
way
onely
haue
we
accesse
vnto
the
Father
.
12.
The
Poets
faigne
that
Vlysses
sayling
betweene
Italie
and
Sicilie
,
was
driuen
to
stop
the
eares
of
his
companie
with
wax
,
and
to
be
bound
him selfe
to
the
mast
of
his
ship
,
least
by
hearing
the
songs
and
sweete
melodie
of
the
Syren
that
lay
in
his
way
,
he
and
his
should
f●ll
into
their
danger
:
but
whosoeuer
sa●leth
in
this
ship
,
may
safely
vnbound
,
and
with
open
eares
,
passe
by
all
the
Syrens
of
Italie
at
this
day
,
which
exceed
(
I
dare
auouch
it
)
for
number
and
craft
,
an
hundred
to
one
that
all
Italie
and
Sicilie
affoorded
in
the
dayes
of
Vlyss●s
.
In
the
booke
of
God
is
the
true
and
best
triacle
found
,
which
deliuereth
the
receauer
from
the
poysoned
cup
of
that
great
Circe
the
Bishop
of
Rome
,
Reuel
.
17
3.
with
seuen
heads
&
ten
hornes
,
notably
described
:
from
whose
fornications
the
Lord
deliuer
vs
.
While
your
Worship
doth
(
as
that
kingly
prophet
Dauid
did
)
exercise
your selfe
in
the
same
booke
of
the
lawe
of
the
Lord
day
and
night
,
Psal
▪
119.
Ioshua
1.8
.
you
shall
easily
perceiue
that
vaine
and
wicked
are
the
trash
and
trumperies
that
Rome
doth
offer
vs
,
the
which
I
know
and
can
iustly
report
,
that
with
all
your
heart
you
vtterly
abhorre
them
:
which
gift
of
grace
as
God
hath
begun
in
you
for
your
good
,
so
I
beseech
him
to
continue
the
same
to
his
glorie
.
In
the
booke
of
God
you
shall
see
that
[
*
](A03472-e550-b)
*
Psal.
97.7
.
Exod
20.3
.
Iohn
14.13
.
Cap.
16.23
.
Matth.
7.7
.
Reu.
19.10
.
Cap.
22.9
.
to
pray
to
Angels
or
Saints
,
or
for
the
dead
(
which
they
make
no
small
point
of
their
religion
)
is
plaine
superstition
,
and
their
counterfet
holinesse
hypocrisie
.
Nouelties
in
these
dayes
delight
daintie
eares
,
and
fine
filed
phrases
so
fit
some
fantacies
,
that
no
booke
except
it
abound
with
the
one
or
th'
other
,
or
both
of
these
,
is
brookt
of
them
.
Some
reade
Gascoine
,
some
Gueuar●
,
some
praise
the
Pallace
of
pleasure
,
and
the
like
whereon
they
bestow
whole
dayes
,
yea
some
whole
moneths
and
yeares
,
that
scarce
bestow
one
minute
on
the
Bible
,
albeit
the
booke
of
God
.
And
no
maruell
though
hypocritical
Papists
delight
in
anie
other
booke
rather
then
the
Bible
,
seeing
that
this
(
as
the
Sunne
scorcheth
the
naked
Ethiopians
skin
)
so
grieueth
the
galled
consciences
of
some
that
when
it
discouereth
their
dissembling
,
they
neuer
leaue
kicking
while
any
Christian
is
in
their
company
.
Other
there
be
that
are
more
mild
,
who
for
feare
their
offices
should
flie
,
or
their
liuings
be
lost
,
haue
learned
such
conformitie
,
that
they
can
dissemble
with
deare
friends
in
deepe
points
of
religion
,
and
seeme
outwardly
that
which
inwardly
in
heart
they
vtterly
abhor
:
these
snakes
are
most
venimous
when
they
cast
their
old
skins
.
Are
not
they
grosse
,
&
drunke
with
the
dregges
of
their
superstition
,
that
dare
vtter
this
blasphemie
against
God
and
his
word
(
to
terrifie
and
withdraw
as
much
as
they
may
,
the
well
meaning
man
from
so
godly
and
comfortable
an
exercise
)
that
it
is
dangerous
for
the
vnlearned
to
reade
the
Bible
?
If
they
would
consideratiuely
wai●h
what
great
and
grieuous
punishment
the
Lord
layd
on
Sennacherib
king
or
Assyria
,
King
.
18.30
.
Esay
.
37.1
.
1.
Mac.
7.43
.
Leuit.
24.11
.
Nicanor
and
others
,
for
blaspheming
his
name
,
they
would
not
so
rashly
do
the
like
.
If
their
forefathers
had
considered
that
the
word
of
God
is
a
sea
,
Garragantua
,
Huon
of
Burdeaux
,
&
the
like
.
Whosoeuer
will
(
as
Isaac
)
continually
meditate
on
Gods
booke
,
Dauid
,
that
being
(
as
S.
Paule
aduiseth
all
men
)
filled
with
the
spirit
of
God
,
you
may
stil
be
speaking
vnto
your self
in
Psalmes
&
hymnes
and
spiritual
songs
,
The
second
reason
that
moued
me
to
take
this
worke
in
hand
(
besides
the
hope
that
I
haue
thereby
to
benefit
many
,
and
especially
such
as
haue
delight
to
be
reading
and
singing
of
Ballades
and
other
English
meeters
,
by
giuing
them
better
matter
to
reade
and
sing
,
then
such
commonly
do
yeeld
vnto
them
)
is
to
signifie
in
some
part
,
my
gratefulnesse
to
God
and
your
Worship
,
for
the
manifold
benefites
and
fauours
that
I
and
mine
haue
receiued
at
your
hands
:
to
God
(
I
say
)
first
,
as
the
author
,
and
your selfe
the
instrument
that
he
hath
vsed
to
do
me
much
good
.
For
if
God
had
not
opened
your
heart
,
Paule
,
you
had
not
regarded
my
miserie
.
And
therfore
with
Dauid
I
will
as
long
as
I
liue
receiue
the
cup
of
saluation
,
●sal
.
116.12
.
and
call
vpon
the
name
of
the
Lord
:
for
as
nothing
pleaseth
God
more
then
thankfulnesse
,
so
nothing
can
displease
God
and
man
more
then
vngratefulnesse
.
But
lest
some
Sicophant
should
(
seeking
to
deface
my
good
meaning
)
note
or
charge
me
with
adulation
,
I
will
rather
passe
ouer
the
sundrie
and
daily
benefites
I
haue
and
do
receiue
by
your
Worships
meanes
,
with
this
slight
remembrance
of
them
,
them
giue
him
anie
such-aduantage
,
or
the
least
occasion
to
carpe
at
the
same
.
But
if
any
of
Momus
mates
mislike
with
my
doings
,
either
in
this
or
the
rest
of
my
booke
,
(
so
that
the
godly
&
well
disposed
,
&
of
them
chiefly
your
Worship
,
to
whom
I
offer
my
book
and
my selfe
to
be
patronized
and
defended
,
do
like
and
allow
of
it
)
I
esteeme
not
his
detractions
but
as
trifles
,
and
his
floutes
as
follies
,
and
therefore
let
him
content
himself
with
this
answer
,
I
tooke
not
this
trauel
for
his
sake
.
And
thus
desiring
your
Worship
to
accept
in
good
part
this
my
humble
dutie
and
remembrance
of
you
,
as
glad
by
this
meanes
to
impart
the
effect
of
my
affection
towards
you
,
as
the
widow
was
by
two
mites
to
manifest
her
good
meaning
to
the
treasurie
,
I
beseech
Almightie
God
to
blesse
you
and
all
yours
with
continuall
and
daily
increase
of
the
riches
of
his
graces
&
gifts
,
that
you
may
euer
go
forward
from
faith
to
faith
,
readie
with
all
your
endeuours
to
maintaine
the
quarell
of
Christ
and
his
Church
,
vntill
you
bee
summoned
to
raigne
with
him
in
glorie
without
end
.
Amen
.
From
Prendergast
the
first
day
of
August
,
1594.
Your
Worships
in
all
dutie
,
Robert
Holland
.
TO
THE
GODLY
and
Christian
Reader
.
GEntle
Reader
,
I
thinke
my
labour
well
bestowed
if
the
same
may
benefite
any
,
and
my
reward
sufficient
,
if
the
godly
like
and
allowe
of
my
booke
.
I
must
confesse
,
and
do
,
that
this
worke
would
haue
required
one
of
greater
reading
and
of
farre
deeper
iudgement
then
my selfe
to
vndertake
it
:
neither
can
I
any
way
make
thee
amends
for
my
rashnesse
herein
,
vnlesse
thou
accept
of
my
good
will
,
for
the
recompence
.
Many
will
mislike
with
it
,
because
it
is
in
meeter
(
[
*
](A03472-e1030-b)
*
Beza
.
Georg.
Fabr●
hist.
de
nat.
pa●
&
resur
.
Chr●
carmina
.
Barthol
.
Freu●
celij
od
.
sacra●
lib.
3.
de
inca●
reb.
gestis
,
&
〈◊〉
Christi
.
Witt●berg
.
an.
159●
1.
Cor.
2.2
.
though
sundrie
haue
done
the
like
in
Latine
verse
:
)
and
many
with
the
meeter
,
because
it
is
rudely
handled
.
The
first
I
hope
will
excuse
me
,
if
they
consider
that
I
seeke
not
herein
to
set
foorth
my selfe
to
the
shew
,
but
as
much
as
I
may
to
win
if
not
many
,
yet
some
,
to
know
Christ
Iesus
crucified
.
Although
this
historie
is
so
briefe
and
plaine
in
the
writings
of
the
foure
Euangelistes
,
as
no
mortall
man
may
presume
to
amend
it
:
and
that
many
worthy
and
famous
men
,
both
for
their
learning
and
knowledge
,
haue
in
sundrie
languages
commented
at
large
,
and
made
verie
godly
and
profitable
expositions
vpon
the
same
:
yet
hath
it
not
wonne
all
men
to
such
liking
thereof
,
that
they
can
affoord
much
time
to
reade
the
one
or
the
other
.
If
I
may
any
way
satisfie
such
,
and
hereby
draw
them
to
sauour
of
the
Sauiour
,
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
,
I
shall
thinke
my
time
well
spent
,
and
my selfe
not
deceiued
of
my
desire
.
Which
reckening
of
mine
if
it
be
allowed
for
good
payment
of
my
godly
hostesse
,
I
meane
the
Christian
congregation
and
church
of
God
:
there
shall
none
of
the
children
of
Belial
,
the
brood
of
darknesse
,
driue
me
to
anie
new
accompts
.
I
care
not
who
carpe
at
it
,
so
that
Christ
may
be
glorified
by
it
,
and
the
Christian
and
godly
Reader
satisfied
with
it
:
to
whose
censure
I
submit
it
and
my selfe
,
humbly
desiring
the
learned
with
fauour
to
find
out
all
faults
,
&
charitably
to
amend
where
I
haue
mist
.
Farewell
.
Thine
in
the
Lord
Iesus
,
R.
Holland
.