First Exam (pt 1)

Question 1

A haples kynde of lyfe is this I weare,
Moch watche I dure, and weary toilings daier

Answer 1

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 2

I serve the route, and all their follies beare;
I suffer pryde, and suppe full hard assaise;

Answer 2

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 3

To others will, my life is all addrest
and no ware so, as might content me best

Answer 3

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 4

The dowbt off future foes exiles my present joye
and wytte me warnes to shunne suche snares as threaten mine anoye

Answer 4

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 5

For falshode nowe dothe flowe and subjects faithe dothe ebbe
which shuld not be yf reason rulde or wisdome weaved the webbe

Answer 5

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 6

but clowdes of joyes untryed do cloke aspirynge mynds
which turnes to raigne of late repent bi chaunged course of windes

Answer 6

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 7

the toppe of hope supprest the roote upreard shalbe
and fruictles all there grafted guile, as shortlye you shall see

Answer 7

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 8

the dayseled eyes with pride, which greate ambition blyndes
shalbe unseelde bi worthie wyghts, whose foresight falshode finds

Answer 8

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 9

the dawghter off debatte, that discord aye doth sowe
shall reape no gayne, where former rule styll peace hathe tawght to know

Answer 9

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 10

no Forrene banished wight shall ancore in this port
our realme brokes not seditious sects, lett them els where resort

Answer 10

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 11

my rustye sword throwghe rest shall first his eydge imploye
to poule there toppes that sekes such dhaunge or gape for future joye

Answer 11

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 12

Ah silly pugge wert thou so sore afraid,
mourne not (my Wat) nor be thou so dismaid,
it passeth fickle fortunes powere and skill,
to force my harte to thinke thee any ill.

Answer 12

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 13

No fortune base thou saiest shall alter thee,
and may so blinde a Witche so conquere me?
No no my pugg, thoughe fortune were not blinde,
assure thyself she could not rule my mynde.

Answer 13

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 14

fortune I knowe somtimes doth conquere kinges,
and rules and raignes on earth and earthly thinges
but never thinke fortune can beare the sway
if vertue watche and will her not obay

Answer 14

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 15

Ne chose I thee by fickle fortunes rede,
ne she shall force me alter with suche spede
But if to try this mistres jest with thee,…
Pull up thy harte suppresse thy brakishe tears
torment thee not, but put away thy feares

Answer 15

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 16

Dead to all joyes and livinge unto woe
slaine quite by her that here gave wiseman blowe
revive againe and live without all drede
the lesse afraid the better thou shalt spede

Answer 16

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 17

The dread of future foes exyle my present joy
and wit mee warns to shunne soche snares as thretten myne annoy

Answer 17

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 18

ffor fallshood now doth flow and subjects fayth doth ebbe
which should not be yf reason rewld or wysdome wove the webbe

Answer 18

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 19

but clowdes of joyes untried, doth cloke aspiring minds
which turne to rage of late report, by chaunged course of minds

Answer 19

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 20

the topps of hope suppose, the roote of Rue shalbee
and fruteles of their graffed guile as the shortlie yow shall see

Answer 20

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 21

The dazeled eyes with pride, with great ambition blynde
shalbe unsealled by worthie wights, whose foresight falshood fyndes

Answer 21

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 22

the daughter of debate, that discord ay doth sow
shall reape no gaine where former rule, still peace hath taught to know

Answer 22

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 23

no fforain banisht wight, shall ankor in this Port
our realm brooks no seditous sects, let them elswhere resort

Answer 23

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 24

my rustie sword through rest, shall first his edge imploy
to poll the topps that seekes such chaunge or gapes for further joy

Answer 24

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 25

your song is welcome, melissus, a most welcome gift yet more welcome is the sweet image of your soul but how great a cause moves you, what impulse urges that, though free-born, you want to be a slave?

Answer 25

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 26

it is hardly our custom to keep poets in narrow confines or to restrict their rights even in the smallest degree.

Answer 26

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 27

rather you would be made free, your mistress would loose your chains, if you had been in a servile state.

Answer 27

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 28

but you are prince of poets; i am the poet's subject, when you make me the amtter of your lofty verse what king would be ashamed to cherish such a poet who turns us from heroes into gods

Answer 28

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 29

lok an bowe downe thyne care o Lorde from thy bryght spheare behould and see thy hand maide and thy handy worke amoungest thy pristes offeringe to thee zeale for incesne reachinge the skyes my selfe and septer sacryifisc

Answer 29

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 30

My sowle assende this holy place ascribe him strengthe and singe his prayse for he refraynethe peryures spyrite and hathe done wonders in my daies he made the wynds and waters rise to scatter all myne enemyes

Answer 30

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 31

this josephes lorde and israells god the gyry piller and dayes clowde that saved his sainctws from wiched men and drenchet the honor of the prowde and hathe preservud in tender love the spirit of his turtle dove

Answer 31

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 32

come over the born bessy, come over the born bessy swete bessy come over to me and I shall the take and my dere lady make before all other that ever I see

Answer 32

William Birch

Question 33

my thinke i hear a voice, at whom i do rejoyce and aunswer the now I shall tel me I say what art thou that biddes me com away and so earnestly doost me call

Answer 33

William Birch

Question 34

I am thy lover faire hath chose the to mine heir and my name is mery englande therefore come away and make no more delaye swete bessie give me thy hande

Answer 34

William Birch

Question 35

here is my hand my dere lover englande I am thine both with mind and hart for ever to endure, thou maiest be sure untill death us two depart

Answer 35

William Birch

Question 36

lady this long space have I loved thy grace more then I durste well saye hoping at the last when all stormes were past for to see this joyfull daye

Answer 36

William Birch

Question 37

yet my lover England ye shall understand how fortune on me did lowre I was tombled and tost from pillar to post and prisoner in the towre

Answer 37

William Birch

Question 38

dere lady we do know how that tirauntes not a fewe went about for to seke thy bloude and contrarie to right they did what they might that now bare two faces in one hood

Answer 38

William Birch

Question 39

then was I caried to wodstock and kept close under locke that no man mighte with me speake and agaisnt all reason they accuded me of treason and tirably thei did me threate

Answer 39

William Birch

Question 40

oh my lover faire my dearlinge and mine heire full sore for the i did lament but no man durst speak but thei would him threat and quickly make him repent

Answer 40

William Birch

Question 41

then was I delivered their hands but was faine to put in bands and good suerties for my forth comminge not from my house to departe nor no where els to sterte as though i had ben away runninge

Answer 41

William Birch

Question 42

why dere lady i trow those mad men did not knowe that ye were doughter unto kinge hary and a princesse of birth one of the noblest on earth and sister unto quene mary

Answer 42

William Birch

Question 43

yes yet i must forgeve al such as do live if they wil hereafter amend and for those that are gone god forgeve them every one and his mercy on them extend

Answer 43

William Birch

Question 44

oh swete virgin pure longe may ye endure to reigne over us in this lande for your workes to accord ye are the handmaid of the lord for he hath blessed you with his hand

Answer 44

William Birch

Question 45

my swete realme be obedient to gods holy commaundement and my procedings embrace and for that that is abused shalbe better used and that within shorte space

Answer 45

William Birch

Question 46

can the lines be read from top to bottom and bottom to top

Answer 46

George Puttenham

Question 47

So him at first De nance commanded was to kill but he most stoutlie did refuse this guiltlesse blood to spill

Answer 47

Anne Dowriche

Question 48

Shall I said he consent to doo this fearfull thing to shed this blood because I am commanded by the king

Answer 48

Anne Dowriche

Question 49

no god forbid I know I have a soule to save so bloodie spot to save my life my name shall never have

Answer 49

Anne Dowriche

Question 50

I know there is a day, a day that saints desire when of our deeds the king above a reckoning will require

Answer 50

Anne Dowriche

Question 51

obaie the king thats true in things that honhest be when I obey in whicked hests wo worth the time to me

Answer 51

Anne Dowriche

Question 52

a murder to be done the king doth now request my god commands the contrary now which to chuse were best

Answer 52

Anne Dowriche

Question 53

the king doth threaten death and god doth threaten hell if for the king i should forsake my god should I do well

Answer 53

Anne Dowriche

Question 54

praisd be dianas faire and harmles light praisd be the dewes wherwith she moists the ground praisd be hir beames the glorie of the night praisd be hir powre by which all powres abound

Answer 54

Sir Walter Ralegh

Question 55

Praisd be hir nimphs whith whom she decks the woods praisd be hir knights in whom true honor lives praisd be that force by which she moves the floods let that diana shine which all these gives

Answer 55

Sir Walter Ralegh

Question 56

in heaven queene she is among the speares in ay she mistres like makes all things pure eternitie in hir oft chaunge she bears she beautie is by hir the faire endure

Answer 56

Sir Walter Ralegh

Question 57

time weares hir not she doth his chariot guide mortalitie belowe hir orbe is plaste by hir the vertue of the starrs downe slide in hir is vertues perfect image caste

Answer 57

Sir Walter Ralegh

Question 58

a knowlege pure it is hir worth to kno with circes let them dwell that thinke not so

Answer 58

Sir Walter Ralegh

Question 59

Disswasion hearing her assigne my helpe and seeing that consent I did detect did many remoraes to me propose as dulnesse and my memories defect the difficultie of attaining lore my time and sex with many others more

Answer 59

Rachel Speght

Question 60

Which when I heard my minde was much perplext and as a horse new come into the field who with a harquebuz at first doth start so did this shot make me recoyle and yeeld but of my feare when some did notice take in my behalfe they this reply did make

Answer 60

Rachel Speght

Question 61

first quoth desire disswasion hold thy peace these oppositions come not from above quoth truth they cannot spring from reasons roote and therefore now thou shalt no victor prove no quoth industrie be assured this her friends shall make thee of thy purpose misse

Answer 61

Rachel Speght

Question 62

for with my sickle i will cut away all obstacles that in her way can grow and by the issue of her owne attempt I'le make thee labor omnia vincet know quoth truth and sith her sex thou do'st object thy folly i by reason will detect

Answer 62

Rachel Speght

Question 63

both man and woman of three parts consist which paul doth bodie soul and spirit call and from the soule three faculties arise the mind the will the power then wherefore shall a woman have her intellect in vaine or not endevour knowledge to attaine

Answer 63

Rachel Speght

Question 64

the talent god doth give must be imploy'd his owne with vantage he must have againe all parts and faculties were made for use the god of knowledge nothing gave in vaine twas maries choyce our saviour did approve because that she the better part did love

Answer 64

Rachel Speght

Question 65

cleobulina and demophila with telesilla as historians tell whose fame doth live though they have long bin dead did all of them in poetrie excell a roman matron that cornelia hight an eloquent and learned style did write

Answer 65

Rachel Speght

Question 66

hypatia in astronomie had skill aspatia was rheth'ricke so expert as that duke pericles of her did learne areta did devote her selfe to art and by consent (which shewes she was no foole) she did succeed her father in his schoole

Answer 66

Rachel Speght

Question 67

and many others here i could produce who were in science counted excellent but these examples which i have rehearst to shew they error are sufficient thus having sayd she turn'd her speech to mee that in my purpose i might constant bee

Answer 67

Rachel Speght

Question 68

my friend quoth she regard not vulgar talke for dung-hill cocks as tprecious stones will spurne and swine-like natures prize not cristall streams contemned mire and mud will serve thier turne good purpose seldome oppositions want but constant mindes disswasion cannot daunt

Answer 68

Rachel Speght

Question 69

shall every blast disturbe the saylors peace or boughes and bushes travellers affright true valour doth not start at every noyse shall combates must instruct for greater fight disdaine to bee with every dart dismayd tis childish to be suddenly affrayd

Answer 69

Rachel Speght

Question 70

as close as you your weding kept yet now the trueth i here which you (yer now) might me have told hwat nede you nay to swere

Answer 70

Isabella Whitney

Question 71

you know I always wisht you well so wyll i during lyfe but sith you shal a husband be god sent you a good wyfe

Answer 71

Isabella Whitney

Question 72

nd this(where so you shal become) full boldly may you boast that once you hada s true a love as dwelt in any coast

Answer 72

Isabella Whitney

Question 73

and this(where so you shal become) full boldly may you boast that once you hada s true a love as dwelt in any coast

Answer 73

Isabella Whitney

Question 74

whose constantnesse had never quaild if you had not begonne and yet iti is not so far past but might agayne be wonne

Answer 74

Isabella Whitney

Question 75

if you so would yea and not change so long as lyfe should last but yf that needes you marry must then farewell hope is past

Answer 75

Isabella Whitney

Question 76

and if you cannot be content to lead a single lyf (although the same right quiet be) then take me to your wife

Answer 76

Isabella Whitney

Question 77

so shall the promises be kept that you so firmly made now chuse whether ye wyll be true or be of sinons trade

Answer 77

Isabella Whitney

Question 78

whose trade if that you long shal use it shal your kindred stayne example take by many a one whose falshood now is playne

Answer 78

Isabella Whitney

Question 79

as by eneas first of all who dyd poor dido leave causing the queen by his untrueth with sword her hart to cleave

Answer 79

Isabella Whitney

Question 80

also i finde that theseus did his faithfull love forsake stealing away within the night before she dyd awake

Answer 80

Isabella Whitney

Question 81

jason that came of noble race two ladies did beguile i muse how he durst shew his face to them that new his wile

Answer 81

Isabella Whitney

Question 82

for when he by medeas arte had got the fleece of gold and also had of her that time al kynd of things he would

Answer 82

Isabella Whitney

Question 83

he toke his ship and fled away regarding not the vowes that he dyd make so faithfully unto his loving spowes

Answer 83

Isabella Whitney

Question 84

how durst he trust the suging seas knowing himselfe forsworne why dyd he scape safe to the land before the ship was torne

Answer 84

Isabella Whitney

Question 85

I think king aeolus styad the winds and neptune ruld the sea then might he boldly passe the waves no perils could him slea

Answer 85

Isabella Whitney

Question 86

but if his falsehed had to them bin manifest before they would have rent the ship as soone as he had gon from shore

Answer 86

Isabella Whitney

Question 87

now may you heare how falsenes is made manyfest in time although they that commit the same think it a veniall crime

Answer 87

Isabella Whitney

Question 88

for they for thier unfaithfulnes did get perpetuall fame fame wherefore dyd i terme it so i shoudl have cald it shame

Answer 88

Isabella Whitney

Question 89

t hteseus be let jason passe let paris also scape that brought destruction unto troy all through the grecian rape

Answer 89

Isabella Whitney

Question 90

and unto me a troylus be if not you may compare with any of these parsons that above expressed are

Answer 90

Isabella Whitney

Question 91

but if i can not please your minde for wants that rest in me wed whom you list I am content your refuse for to be

Answer 91

Isabella Whitney

Question 92

it shall suffise me simple soule of thee to be forsaken and it may chance although not yet you wish you had me taken

Answer 92

Isabella Whitney

Question 93

but rather then you should have cause to wish this throuhg your wyfe i wysh to her ere you her have no more but losse of lyfe

Answer 93

Isabella Whitney

Question 94

e that shall so happy be of thee to be elect I wish her vertues to be such she nede not be suspect

Answer 94

Isabella Whitney

Question 95

i rather wish her helens face then one of helens trade with chastness of penelope the which did never fade

Answer 95

Isabella Whitney

Question 96

a lucres for her constancy and thisbie for her trueth if such thou have then peto be not paris that were rueth

Answer 96

Isabella Whitney

Question 97

perchance ye will think this thing rare in on woman to fynd save helens beauty al the rest the gods have me assignd

Answer 97

Isabella Whitney

Question 98

these words i do not spek thinking from thy new love to turne thee thou knowst by prof what i deserve i nede not to inform thee

Answer 98

Isabella Whitney

Question 99

but let that passe would god i had cassandraes gift me lent then either thy yll cchaunce or mine my foresight might prevent

Answer 99

Isabella Whitney

Question 100

but all in vayne for this i seeke wishes may not attaine it therefore may hap to me what shall and i cannot refraine it

Answer 100

Isabella Whitney

Question 101

wherefore i pray god be my guide and also thee defenc no worser thne i wish my selfe untill thy lyfe shal end

Answer 101

Isabella Whitney

Question 102

which life i pray god may agayne king nestors lyfe renew and after that your soule may rest amongst the heavenly crew

Answer 102

Isabella Whitney

Question 103

therto i wish king xerxis wealth or els king cressus gould with as much rest and quietnesse as man may have on mould

Answer 103

Isabella Whitney

Question 104

and when you shall this letter have let it be kept in store for she that sent the same hath sworn as yet to send no more

Answer 104

Isabella Whitney

Question 105

and now farewel for why at large my mind is here exprest the which you may perceive if that you do peruse the rest

Answer 105

Isabella Whitney