[1] Now bicause I might rather saie much than suffi|cientlie inough in praise of this noble quéene, as well for hir singular wit and other excellent qualities of mind, as also for hir fauouring of learned men, zeale of religion, and liberalitie in distributing almes in reliefe of the poore, I will refer the reader vnto ma|ster Fox his volume of Acts and Monuments,I. For in mai|tyrologio. where he commendeth hir mild nature in taking admoni|tion, prooueth hir marriage lawfull, defendeth hir suc|cession, ouerthroweth the sinister iudgements, opini|ons and obiections of backebiters against that ver|tuous quéene, sheweth hir faith and trust in Christ at hir death, and finallie how the protestants of Ger|manie forsooke king Henrie for the death of so good a princesse. ¶Anglorum praelia saith, Ang. praelia that this good quéene was forwarned of hir death in a dreame, wherein Morpheus the god of sléepe (in the likenesse of hir grandfather) appéered vnto hir, and after a long narration of the vanities of this world (how enuie reigneth in the courts of princes, maligning the for|tunate estate of the vertuous, how king Henrie the eight and his issue should be the vtter ouerthrow and expulsion of poperie out of England, and that the go|uernment of quéene Elizabeth should be established in tranquillitie & peace) he saith vnto hir in conclu|sion by waie of prophesie, as our poet hath recorded:

Forti sis animo, tristis si nuncius adsum,Ann [...] [...] prae|dicitur. Pla. in Phe. Socratis tale quiddam somnia [...]i [...].

Insperata tuae velox necis aduenit hora,

Intra triginta spacium moriere dierum:

Hoc magnum mortis solamen habeto futurae,

Elizabetha suis praeclarè filia gestis

Nomen ad astraferet patris, matrísque, suúmque.]