Preparement

Whose highness, so far off by distance of place, so endued with felicity which oftentimes might cause oblivion, and continually busied with manifold weighty matters concerning the governance of his realm, yet nevertheless among such exceeding occasions of impediment, hath never suffered the remembrance of your grace to be absent from his heart, as well appeareth by his liberal readiness always in a preparement with diligent succour to condescend unto your necessities, not only in things behoveable to the use of this mortal life, but also with godly advertisement to the increase of your immortal felicity, for the which his highness looketh no further recompense than furtherance of your honour, corresponding to the nobility of your estate, agreeable with God’s laws, which in this life he accounteth his chief glory, delight, and comfort.

To the mount of Cethro, wher Venus doth dwel / The preparement made is so farre exceding / That of such triumphe no storyes doth tel / That is aboue al other so farre transcending / And for the whyle, she had me by copying / Of these complayntes which doth folow / And after that I should know the matter thorow

3. Of which matter the sacred Counsell of Trent entreating determineth & maketh remonstrance, how faith inciteth a person offendant to al such vertuous preparements, as are required to his perfecte iustification, & remission of his sinnes:[…]

His feare in him begets delay, and delay breedes that he feares, danger: the souldier that dares not fight, affoords the Enemie too much aduantage for his preparement;

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better maintenance and preparement

I fly, my Lord—And ere I go wait but to be informed, / That mine preparement may accord with it, / How far may point this destination?

He did not modulate his temper to any of their “soft recorders;” their best agreements sounded harsh and wrangling; chorus, strophe, and antistrophe were alike displeasing; and the full, consentient voices of men, on many subjects, struck his peculiar nerves like the first preparement of an orchestra.