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TO THE RIGHT noble and most vertuous Ladie, the Ladie Catharine Howard, all temporall prosperitie in this life, and in the life to come euerlasting happinesse.
RIght worthie and honourable, it is a maruel beyond all maruels, that man, amongest all the creatures of this worlde, in his creation so singular: namely, and onely endued with a reasonable soul, for his safetie atten∣ded with Angels, and aboue al made vnto the image of God: so insensi∣bly reiecting and forsaking him self, doth suffer to be snared & inchaun∣ted with the vaine, transitorie, and counterfet felicitie of this worlde, griping so greedily thereat, as if this carcase, beeing subiect vnto so infi∣nite and manifest calamities, and in