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The contrite heart is tormented by Grief and Fear, but secured by Faith and Hope, while Love wounds it with one hand and soothes it with another; above, the Tetragrammaton, and below, the portrait of John Hayward in a roundel. Engraving by T. Cecill, 1636, after W. Hole.

Annals of the first four years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth / By Sir John Hayward. Ed. from a MS. in the Harleian Collection, by John Bruce.

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The contrite heart is tormented by Grief and Fear, but secured by Faith and Hope, while Love wounds it with one hand and soothes it with another; above, the Tetragrammaton, and below, the portrait of John Hayward in a roundel. Engraving by T. Cecill, 1636, after W. Hole.

Annals of the first four years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth / By Sir John Hayward. Ed. from a MS. in the Harleian Collection, by John Bruce.