A loyal subiects looking-glasse, or A good subiects direction necessary and requisite for euery good Christian, liuing within any ciuill regiment or politique state, to view, behold, and examine himselfe in, that he may the better frame the course of his life, according to the true grounds of the duties of an honest and obedient subiect to his king, and to arme himselfe against all future syren songs, and alluring intisements of subtill, disloyall, dissembling, and vnnaturall conspirators, traitors, and rebels. Collected for the most part out of both olde and later writers, whose names are in the next page set downe. Wherevnto are brieflie added sixe speciall causes of vndutifull subiects disloyaltie. By William Willymat.

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Title: A loyal subiects looking-glasse, or A good subiects direction necessary and requisite for euery good Christian, liuing within any ciuill regiment or politique state, to view, behold, and examine himselfe in, that he may the better frame the course of his life, according to the true grounds of the duties of an honest and obedient subiect to his king, and to arme himselfe against all future syren songs, and alluring intisements of subtill, disloyall, dissembling, and vnnaturall conspirators, traitors, and rebels. Collected for the most part out of both olde and later writers, whose names are in the next page set downe. Wherevnto are brieflie added sixe speciall causes of vndutifull subiects disloyaltie. By William Willymat.
Author: Willymat, William, d. 1615.
Publication: At London :: Printed by G. Elde for Robert Boulton, and are to be sould at his shop at Chancerie lane end neere Holborne,; [1604]
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TO THE CHRISTIAN reading Subiect.

IT is not to be doubted, nay there is nothing more sure (good Christian subiect) then that Sathan as he hath beene vsed to do euer of old, so he will still hold on, and busie himselfe to withdraw thee from the regarde of some, or of euery of these my before handled loyall subiects duties, and to trumpe in thy way by casting before thee many stumbling blocks, and causes of vndutifulnesse, thereby to cause thee to forget, or else to neglect, and omit these before noted sixe duties. Of the which causes of vndutifulnesse by that our mortall and deadly foe, very much and oftentimes suggested and vrged, I haue thought it good for thy learning and warning, to giue thee heere a taste of sixe of thē in this little Pamphlet following, whereby thou maiest take a scantling of the residue, and so be thereby the better awaked and more excited, to beware of them all in time.

W.W.