A godly ditty or prayer to be song vnto God for the preseruation of his Church, our Queene and realme, against all traytours, rebels, and papisticall enemies Awdelay, John, fl. 1559-1577. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A23539 of text S117260 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 995). 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. 4 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 A23539 STC 995 ESTC S117260 99852475 99852475 17799 2240928949

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A23539) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 17799) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1226:13) A godly ditty or prayer to be song vnto God for the preseruation of his Church, our Queene and realme, against all traytours, rebels, and papisticall enemies Awdelay, John, fl. 1559-1577. 1 sheet ([1] p.) By Iohn Awdely, Imprynted at London : [1569?] At end: Quoth Ioh. Awdely. Publication date suggested by STC. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Poetry -- E. eebo A godly ditty or prayer to be song vnto God for the preseruation of his Church, our Queene and realme, against all traytours, rebels, and papisticall Awdelay, John, 1569 1 545 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. 2006-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2006-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-02 Sampled and proofread 2006-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-04 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
❧ A godly ditty or Prayer to be song vnto God for the preseruation of his Church , our Queene and Realme , against all Traytours , Rebels , and Papisticall Enemies . Preserue thy Seruaunt Lord , Elizabeth our Queene : Be thou her shield and sword , Now let thy power be seene . That this our Quéene annoynted , May vanquish al her foes : And as by thee appoynted , Let her lay sword on those .

Geue Lord true faythful hartes , To vs her Subiectes al : That we play not the partes , Of these Traitours that fal Both from their God and Prince , And from their lawful othes : All such O Lord conuince , And geue them ouerthrowes .

Syng this after the tune of the .cxxxvij. Psalme , which begins When as we sat in Babilon . Or such lyke .

OVr liuyng God to thee we cry , Now tend vnto our playnt : Behold thy Church and family , Which enmies seeke to faynt . And though our syns haue moued thee Iust plagues on vs to poure : Yet let thy Christes death shortly Thy wrath vp cleane deuour . Correct vs Lord by thine own hand , And leaue vs not to those : That do thee and thy truth withstand Like diulysh deadly foes . For better is it for vs Lord Into thy handes to fall : Then vnto them for to accord , Which in hell perish shall . Behold ( O Lord ) thine enmies rage Against thee and thy Christ : Not our syns they seeke to aswage , But thy truth to resist . And shall our syns then be a let For thee them to withstand : Seing against thee they be set ? No Lord , set to thy hand . For thine the glory is , not ours Which they seeke to suppres : Bend therfore Lord thine host of powrs And this thy cause redres . Resist these Rebels and Traytours , With Papistes euery one : Which thy poore people so deuours In euery nacion . Let not the wicked thus preuayle , To vexe thy Church and Sayntes : But stroy them from the head to tayle , Let none bewayle their playntes . Lord heare the cry of Fatherles . And Wyddowes which do mone : The which these enmies do oppres With mischiefes many one . Defend O God our gracious Queene , From Pope Rebel , and all : And as by her thy woorkes be seene , So let thy wrath now fall Vpon all those that vexe thy truth , Our Queene , our Realme and state : And let their vicious prankes of ruth Light vpon their own pace . So shall thy name be magnified , So shall thy power be knowne : So shall our Christ be sanctified , By them that be his owne . Wherefore O Lord graunt our requestes Which here to thee we make : And make vs loue and lyue thy hestes , For thy Christ Iesus sake . FINIS . Quoth Ioh. Awdely .

Imprynted at London by Iohn Awdely .