A sinfull mans solace most sweete and comfortable, for the sicke and sorowful soule: contriued, into seuen seuerall daies conference, betweene Christ and a carelesse sinner. Wherin, euerie man, from the highest, to the lowest: from the richest, to the poorest: and aboue all, the sorowfull sinner: maye take such sweet repaste of resolution, to amendment of lyfe, and confirmation of fayth: that (in respect of the heauenlie solace, therin faithfully remembered:) all the pompes and pleasures of this wicked worlde, shall be plainely perceiued to be meere miserie. Writcen [sic], by Iohn Norden.

A farewell to the Booke.

I If thou (oh sillie Booke) doe chaunce to light into the hand O Of any, such as takes delight, ech others worke to scand: H Heare with good will what they will say: take not in greefe, disdaine. N No Booke so good, but gets reproofe, and trifeling toyes the gaine. N No praise exspect, way not dispraise: ech man will verdict giue O Of thee and me, but haue regarde how he or they doe liue. R Rash iudgement doth vnstayed mindes, in ech degree bewray: D Disdaine thou not the deadly doomes, therefore of such as they. E Euen so, farewell, in ragged shewe, thou must depart from mee: N Not pullisht as some pleasaunt Bookes, that profite lesse then thee.

Si Deus nobiscum quis contra nos.

FINIS.