The monument of matrones conteining seuen seuerall lamps of virginitie, or distinct treatises; whereof the first fiue concerne praier and meditation: the other two last, precepts and examples, as the woorthie works partlie of men, partlie of women; compiled for the necessarie vse of both sexes out of the sacred Scriptures, and other approoued authors, by Thomas Bentley of Graies Inne student.

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The monument of matrones conteining seuen seuerall lamps of virginitie, or distinct treatises; whereof the first fiue concerne praier and meditation: the other two last, precepts and examples, as the woorthie works partlie of men, partlie of women; compiled for the necessarie vse of both sexes out of the sacred Scriptures, and other approoued authors, by Thomas Bentley of Graies Inne student.
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[1582]
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"The monument of matrones conteining seuen seuerall lamps of virginitie, or distinct treatises; whereof the first fiue concerne praier and meditation: the other two last, precepts and examples, as the woorthie works partlie of men, partlie of women; compiled for the necessarie vse of both sexes out of the sacred Scriptures, and other approoued authors, by Thomas Bentley of Graies Inne student." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A08610.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2025.

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THE SECOND LAMPE OF VIRGINITIE: Conteining diuers godlie Medita∣tions, and Christian Praiers made by sundrie vertuous Queenes, and other deuout and godlie wo∣men in our time: and first, A Godlie MEDITATION of the in∣ward loue of the soule towards Christ our LORD: composed first in French by the vertuous Ladie Margaret Queene of NAVARRE: aptlie, exactlie, and fruitfullie translated by our most gratious Souereigne Ladie Queene ELIZABETH, in the tender and maidenlie yeeres of hir youth and virgi∣nitie, to the great benefit of Gods Church, and comfort of the godlie.

¶ Imprinted at London by Henrie Denham, dwelling in Pater noster Rowe, at the signe of the Starre.

1582 Cum priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis.

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