The canticles or balades of Salomon, phraselyke declared in Englysh metres, by William Baldwin

WHan the Churche hath wel instructed the younglynges and hath still an earnest desier to preache, she consyde∣reth that abrode in the worlde, whiche here is called a fyelde and countrey, there are many that know not Christe, whiche neuertheles thorough good instruccion, woulde soone becum good Christians: wherfore she hath a desier to go preache to them. But because she knoweth that all her endeuoures can profit nothyng without Christe hymself be present, and helpe with the secrete callyng of his grace and spirite, she desyreth hym to goe with her, and declareth what she would haue hym to doe there, syngyng.