Deo iuvante, nil nocet liver malus;
Et non iuvante, nil iuvat labor gravis;
Post tenebras spiro lucem.
Lady Jane Grey 1537-1554
(Nine days queen of England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Jane_Grey)
My version of this is:
If God should help, no harm shall bruise;
Without Him, we will only lose:
After the dark, I hope for light.
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My name was Martha, Martha took much pain
Our Saviour Christ her guest to entertain;
God give me grace my inward house to dight
That He with me may sup, and stay the night.
(Dight is "made ready")
Martha Moulsworth Widdowe (1577-after 1632)
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Moulsworth
