"fome life.

XLV.

"Thou, wretched man! of death haft greatest

"need,

"If in true ballaunce thou wilt weigh thy ftate; "For never knight that dared warlike deed, "More luckleis difaventures did amate; "Witnes the dungeon deepe wherein of late "Thy life fhut up for death fo oft did call ; “And though good lucke prolonged hath thy date, "Yet death then would the like mishaps foreftall, "Into the which hereafter thou maieft happen fall.

XLVI.

"Why then doeft thou, O man of fin! defire "To draw thy dayes forth to their last degree? "Is not the measure of thy finfull hire "High heaped up with huge iniquitee, "Again the day of wrath, to burden thee? "Is not enough that to this lady mild "Thou falfed haft thy faith with periuree, "And fold thy felfe to ferve Dueffa vild, "With whom in all abuse thou haft thy felfe defild?

XLVII.

"Is not he iuft, that all this doth behold "F.om highest heven, and beares an equall cie?

And bad him choose what death he would defire, For death was dew to him that had provokt God's

ire.

I.

WHAT man is he that boasts of fleshly might,
And vaine affuraunce of mortality,
Which all fo foone as it doth come to fight
Againft fpirituall foes, yields by and by,
Or from the fielde most cowardly doth fly?
Ne let the man afcribe it to his skill,
That thorough grace hath gained victory:
If any strength we have, it is to ill,

IV.

Dame Cælia men did her call, as thought
From heaven to come, or thether to arise;
The mother of three daughters, well upbrought
In goodly thewes, and godly exercise :
The eldeft two most fober, chaft, and wise,
Fidelia and Speranza, virgins were,

Though fpoufd, yet wanting wedlock's folemnize;
But faire Chariffa to a lovely fere

Then faid the aged Cælia, "Deare Dame,
"And you, good Sir, I wote that of your toyle
"And labors long, through which ye hether came,
"Ye both forwearied be; therefore a whyle
"I read you rest, and to your bowres recoyle."
Then called the a groome, that forth him ledd
Into a goodly lodge, and gan defpoile

Of puiffant armies, and laid in eafie bedd;
His name was Meeke Obedience rightfully aredd.
XVIII.

Now when their wearie limbes with kindly rest,
And bodies were refrefht with dew repast,
Fayre Una gan Fidelia fayre request,
To have her knight into her schoole-hous plaste,
That of her heavenly learning he might tafte,
And heare the wifedom of her wordes divine.
She graunted, and that knight fo much agrafte,
That the him taught celeftial difcipline,
And opened his dull eyes, that light mote in them
thine.

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