Certayne versis, writtene by Thomas Brooke Ge[n]tleman, in the tyme of his impryso[n]ment, the daye before his deathe, who sufferyd at Norwich, the. 30. of August. 1570 Brooke, Thomas, d. 1570. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A16942 of text S109420 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 3835). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A16942 STC 3835 ESTC S109420 99845067 99845067 9943 2240892429

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A16942) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 9943) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 180:03) Certayne versis, writtene by Thomas Brooke Ge[n]tleman, in the tyme of his impryso[n]ment, the daye before his deathe, who sufferyd at Norwich, the. 30. of August. 1570 Brooke, Thomas, d. 1570. 1 sheet ([1] p.) In the paryshe of Saynct Andrewe by Anthony de Solempne, Imprynted at Norwich : 1570. Verse - "I languishe, as I lye,". Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library. eng eebo Certayne versis, writtene by Thomas Brooke Ge[n]tleman, in the tyme of his impryso[n]ment, the daye before his deathe, who sufferyd at Norwich, the. 3 Brooke, Thomas, 1570 1 296 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2006-05 Assigned for keying and markup 2006-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-09 Sampled and proofread 2006-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2007-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Certayne versis / writtene by Thomas Brooke Gentleman / in the tyme of his imprysōment / the daye before his deathe / who sufferyd at Norwich / the. 30. of August . 1570. I Languishe / as I lye / And death doth make me thrall / To cares which death shall sone cut of / And sett me quyt / of all . yett feble fleshe would faynt / To feale so sharpe a fyght / Saue Fayth in Christ / doth comfort me / And sleithe such fancy quyght . For fyndyng forth howe frayle / Eache wordly state doth stande / I hould him blyst / that fearyng God / Is redd of such a band . For he that longest lyues / And Nestors yeares doth gayne / Hath so much more accompte to make / And fyndyth Lyfe but vayne . What cawse ys then to quayle / I am called before / To tast the Ioyes which Christis bloode / Hath bowght and layde in store . No no / no greter Ioye / Can eny hart posses / Then throwgh the death to gayne a lyfe / Wyth hym in blyssednes . Who sende the Quene long lyfe / Much Ioye and contries peace / Her Cowncell health / hyr fryndes good lucke / To all ther Ioyes increase . Thus puttyng vppe my greaues / I grownde my lyfe on God / And thanke hym with most humble hart / And mekelye kysse his rodde . Finis / qd Thomas Brooke . ☞ Seane / and allowyd / accordynge to the Quenes Maiestyes Iniunction . God saue the Quene

☞ Imprynted at Norwich in the Paryshe of Saynct Andrewe / by Anthony de Solempne . 1570.