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A treatise co[n]teining certain meditatio[n]s of true & perfect consolatio[n], ... Written in the…A treatice co[n]teining certain meditatio[n]s of trew & perfect consolatio[n], ... Written in the…
A treatise co[n]teining certain meditatio[n]s of true & perfect consolatio[n], ... Written in the French tongue, and translated in to English by Robert FillsA treatice co[n]teining certain meditatio[n]s of trew & perfect consolatio[n], ... Written in the Frenche tung, and translated in to Englishe by Robert Fills
London : J. Alde, 1564
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
TO THE RIGHT •norable & my singular good •de, the Lord Robert •ley, Master of the Queens sties Horse, Knight of the most no•dre of the Garter, and one of the ones Majesties privy Council, Robert Fills wisheth increase of Honour long to endure.
TO THE RIGHT •norable & my singuler good •de, the Lorde Roberte •ley, Mayster of the Queenes •sties Horse, Knight of the moste no•dre of the Garter, and one of the •nes Maiesties priuy Councel, Robert Filles wisheth increace of Honoure longe to indute.
IN reading over divers books in the time of the late persecution, there came one little treatise too my hands written in the French tongue wherein (above the rest) I toke most pleasure and found chiefest comfort in that miserable time, and being not fully satisfied with the often reading thereof: I took in hand for to translate it into the English tongue, for mine own use only, thinking thereby to imprint it the more lively in ⟨image 3⟩my mind, being not determined to have published it abroad until a certain friend by chance found it among other of my books, willed me, and as it were urged me not to keep back so excellent a treasure from the people of God. At last (being overcome) I condescended to set it forth in print, devising with my self to choose a patron whose honourable name & renown might be an occasion somewhat to stop the mouth of the sycophant & privy biter, I could not devise one more meeter, and to whom this work more aptlier doth agree nor whose estate is more livelier painted for thee: then is in this little volume, wherefore taking courage of your accustomable benevolent kindness towards me, I have per formed my device, desiring your honour to accept my meaning and to be are with my rudeness.