The History of Grisild the Second: a Narrative, in Verse, of the Divorce of Queen Katharine of Arragon
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[/■ 53] " Thus byd I thee (Doughter) for eauer farewell ! Farewell ! farewell ! in forowes furely pight ! Farewell I bydde thee ! Deathes panges dothe compell, The daye dyfpayrethe, fafte drawethe vnto nyght, the Seconde. 1 1 3 Yeat after dymme clowdys I hoape the Sunne bright, That fhynethe vnclypfed eauerlaftingely ; Hee make thee partyner of that heauynlye light That is . . . . the Father of endeles mercye ! ^ A 77{ d *' To Whome I befeache thee, {Mary) deere Chylde, To praye that Hee pleafe... my fynnes to forgeeue, That from His Prefence I bee not exilde, Throughe tendre pytee that maye Hym fo meeue, For that in Hym I dooe only beleeue And eauer haue doone, Hee wotethe it trulye ; Thus, fayntynge for breathe, I neadys mufle bee breeue, Commendinge the (Doughter) to Goddys mercye ! " % Of Gryfildis godly departynge this life ; Her trobles heere ended, euerlajlinge reft enfued. Wheare awe of God is not, what myferyes enfuethe. An Elucidation vpon this texte, In Domo Patris mei Manfiones multas funt, approuynge, whoe feruethe highelye {as did this Gryfilde) is of 'God highely rewarded.
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