A poore mans rest founded vpon motiues, meditations, and prayers. Expressing to the inward man, true consolation. In all kindes and times of afflication. By Io. Norden.

A Prayer of a Maid-seruant.

O My Lord and Sauiour, seeing it hath pleased thee to call mee to this estate and condition, that I must serue to sustaine life, and gaine those benefits necessarily belonging thereto, I submit my selfe willingly to thy pro∣uidence and appointment. For I know thou didst not despise to speake to Abra∣hams seruant, Hagar, and didst likewise prouide good Mistresses for Bilha and Zilpha; therefore, I humbly beseech thy Maiesty, to prouide an honest place for mee, where too much rigour, seuerity, and hard vsage may not be shewed me. Giue me grace also to yeeld vnto them faithfull and true seruice, carrying alwayes a good conscience, and keeping myselfe chaste and honest, with dutifull obedience to my Mistris, and ordering my Masters businesse as it becommeth mee. Blesse all my inde∣nours, that I neither waste, spoile, nor destroy any thing: Set a locke on my lips, that by euill words, I giue no

occasion of st••ife or dissension, but ra∣ther that I may procure peace, so much as lyeth in my power to doe. Thou knowest (O God) much better then my selfe, what is néedfull for me, and thy word teacheth me, that with thé•• there is no respect of persons, but thou hearest the poore and néedy, as well as the great and mighty, when they vn∣fainedly make their prayers vnto thée in the mediation of Christ Jesus, our onely Lord and Sauiour.

Amen.