Compare 1577 edition: 1 In this order they brought the princesse to the Q. chamber, & tarried there a while with the maior & his brethren the aldermen, and at the last the dukes of Norffolke & Suffolke came out frõ the K. thanking them hartilie, who commanded them to giue thanks in his name: which being doone with other courtesies they departed, & so went to their barges. From that time forward (God himselfe vndertaking the tuition of this yoong princesse, hauing predestinated hir to the accomplishment of his diuine purpose) she pro|spered vnder the Lords hand, as a chosen plant of his watering, & after the reuolution of certeine yeares with great felicitie and ioy of all English hearts at|teined to the crowne of this realme, and now reig|neth ouer the same: whose heart the Lord direct in his waies, and long preserue hir in life, to his godlie will and pleasure, and the comfort of all true and faithfull subiects. Of the blessed natiuitie of this most grati|ous virgine quéene, Angl. pra [...]l. as also of hir baptisme and con|firmation in the christian faith, with all the solemni|ties and ceremonies recorded in our English an|nales, hir education, hir knowledge in diuerse lan|guages, hir peaceable gouernement, and manie o|ther trim discourses C. O. in his Ei [...]enarchia, or Elisabetha hath made honorable mention, saieng:
Septembris (Deus hoc voluit) quae septima luxestSeptimo Septem|bris, videlices die Dominico nasci|tur Elisabetha.Consecrata venit Domino voluentibus aennis,Parturijt coniux Henrici principis Anna,Vi dolor increuit, praescripto sedula nutrixPerstat in offici [...], matronáque nobilis instatAuxilium latura suum, cùm pondus in aurasMaturum genitrix enixa puerpera languet,Certa tamen verae salutis signa dabantur.Postquam pulchellae faciei prodijt infansCompositis membris, speciosam vt caera liquescensFingitur in formam, populo mirante, peritiArtificis manibus: tensis adsidera palmisFoemina conclamat senior, Benedicite ChristoPraesentes Domino, ô vos benedicite Christo,Virgo beat matrem, virgo modo nata patrémque,Britannos omnes posthâc haec virg [...] beabit,Haec sola est nostrae spes & solatia gentis.Rex pater inuisit celeri sua gaudia passisMatrem & filiolam, verbis solatus [...]micisLanguidam adhuc illã, partús doloribus aegram, &c.]
This yeere also,
Edw. Hal. Ccxvii [...].
Pauier a con|temner of the gospell, & his shamefull end.
Quam tua verba meo sapiunt incunda palato!Eob. Hess. in psal. 119.Nulla magis fingi dulcia mella queant.Iustitia doctrinae tuae mihi charior auro est,Hac etiam argentum vilius instar habet.]
¶About this time the pope, by lingering sicknes, (whose grée [...]e in the first apprehension was the pains of the stomach, Guic. pag. 1182, &c. which drawing with them to pa [...]ions of a feuer and other accidents, kept him long time vexed and tormented) sometimes séeming to be re|duced to the point of death, and sometimes so eased and reléeued,Death of pope Clement the seuenth. that he gaue to others but not to him|selfe a kind of hope of recouering, being no longer able to make resistance against his maladie, exchan|ged his life the fiue and twentith of September, lea|uing behind him in the castell of saint Angcomanie rich stones and iewels, more than was expected of him, and in the chamber of the sée apostolike infinit offices, contrarie to custome and good order, but in the treasurie a verie small store of monie, wherin he beguiled the opinion of all men. He was raised from base degrée to the place of the popedome with woon|derfull felicitie, but in managing the place he proo|ued a verie great variation of fortune, wherein if both the properties of fortune be euenlie balanced the one with the other, the woorser fortune without all comparison was farre more familiar with him than the better.