Auspicante Iehoua Maries exercise.
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- Title
- Auspicante Iehoua Maries exercise.
- Author
- Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?
- Publication
- At London :: Printed by Thomas Este,
- 1597.
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- Subject terms
- Pembroke, Mary Sidney Herbert, -- Countess of, 1561-1621 -- Early works to 1800.
- Prayers -- Early works to 1800.
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"Auspicante Iehoua Maries exercise." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16730.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 31, 2025.
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TO THE RIGHT Honorable and vertuous Lady, the Lady MARY Countesse of Penbrooke, Health, Happinesse, and Heauen.
RIght Honorable, my bounden Seruice in all duety remembred, I haue often red, and heard, which I vere∣lye beeleeue, that in the Nature of Man, there is no greater blot of disgrace, then the vile note of ingratitude, with which wicked humor, fearing my long forgetfullnesse of your fauoure, may make my heart in some suspition vnhappily to bee touched, I haue presumed humbly to present vnto the faire eye of your discreete vertue a little fruite of my late, and best labours; VVherein your Ladyship may vouch∣safe to see, that, although I cannot as I would finde meanes, to discharge the care of my duty, yet in my best thoughts
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I haue not forgotten you, when in my daiely praiers vnto God, I doe remem∣ber you: and, as I daiely and hourelye, doe hartely pray vnto his holy Maiesty, for his blessings to light vpon you; so haue I set downe a few historicall pray∣ers for you: VVhich, I hope, you will so finde applyed to your comfort, as shall giue you no discontentment, in the pre∣sumption of my paines: and so though I haue soncke my fortune in the worlde, hauing only the light of vertue to leade my hope vnto Heauen, with humble thancks for your as yet vndeserued fa∣uour, in continuall prayers to the God of all comfort, for his prosperous preserua∣tion, of my good L. your Ladyship, & all yours, with increase of honour on earth, and eternall happinesse in Heauen: I humbly take my leaue in bounden duty.
Your La: sometime vnworthy Poet, and now, and euer poore Beadman. Nich. Breton.