hath flamde The lad the Phoenix might be calld the virgin Pallas namde Meane time with crooked age effeebled Henry yeldes the ghost whose death as hartes of Brutes it rent and mindes perplexing tost So doth his heyre apparant then with ioyes their brestes comfort Incensing them to solempne mirth and ioyes and pleasant sport Elizabeth reuenewes large takes by her fathers hest which her of yearely rentes beseeming her degree possest Of Princelike houses stately built and massie heapes of gold wherfore far from the royall Court in countrie she doth hold Herselfe alone accompanied with her most carefull guide A woman of great maiestie of noble bloud beside which alwayes in societie to this yong Impe was tide Admonishing with councell good and exhortations wise UUhat as conuenient she should brooke and what agayne despise Of twise seuen yeares the tender age she scarse had fully tract When that mature the virgin might for spousall rites exact when as behold with portlike trayne one vnkle to the king Himselfe vnto her Princely house in pompous sort did bring And doth the tender Lady bright with much ambition woe Forthwith through shame with blushing he we her eares did burning gloe ' Attending not what Hymen ment nor what this wooing Peere With earnest sute did pray Wherefore he parteth nothing neere But he insistes againe and vrgeth more his sute to winne Till from the princely Nimphe he had that finall answeare gin Declared by her gouernesse he labour lost in vayne More that it better were from his attemptes soone to abstayne That fixt it sute in royall brest of the high Lady bright Not to be linkt in wedlocke bandes to any Britaine wight Of Lordes estate forgetting not her father famous king And from what mightie auncestours she by discent did spring UUho would not here admire the noble courage of hâ—… minde Yet soft through tender yeares of roiall kinges the gentle kinde UUho would not wonder at her stomacke haue far from the lure Of Cupids how which offered bandes of wedlocke might procure Hereto accept wherefore she seelde out from her stately houres Proceedes or ruling Brother greetes or Londons pompous toures Doth ride to see lesse called forth on matters of great waight Unto the Prince his maiestie she then declming straight Th' almightie king of kinges doth pray for to preserue his grace Forthwith with swift course backe retiring to her dwelling place On pleasaunt hill erect which champion fieldes of Flora Queene Adiacent doth behold neere fountaines bright and riuers greene Beset with trembling Aspe and Beech and Okes of wondrous hight There Nightingales with chirping tunes melodious breede delight And whistling Throssell which frequentes the brierie shrubby thorne Hereunto studies such addict as chiefly might adorne The daughter of so geat a Prince with loue and laud of all UUere they estates of hye degree or meaner Fortunes thrall The royall Nimphe the sliding tract of her life doth contere UUhen sacred rites of funerall performde to Henry were UUhilell Phoebe thou with thy furious steedes whose nostrels sparkling Out blastes in heauenly pole sixt times the signes thou ouertakes flakes Sometimes she greeuous plaintes doth make of valiant Sire bereft Her selfe all left alone the ftckle worldes collusions left UUhich of the greatest part are wondered at and high extold In ciuill broiles and combrous toiles which doe themselues infold UUhereas from such vexations free they may at home remayne Sometime her spirits reuiues her brothers prosperous state againe Her future Destinie witting not procurde by powers deuine That she a regall port should beare and great in glory shine Amidst the troupes of Britaine Peeres though noâ—… she frequence hate In the seuenth yeare that royall Prince did yeeld to drierie Fate The vertuous Edward Britaines stay and comfort of their land The raynes of regall gouernment straight Mary takes in hund And popish trompery dregges establisht sets againe aloofe By Parliament confirming lawes new for the Popes behoofe Such as her famous brother had set downe extincted cleane Here straight a rablement of priestes with oile annointed gleene Throughout the land like Bacchanalles and fiers with red bloud feed If any godly were and Iesu lou'de he had for meed His bowels braild with scorching brandes and bones consumde to nought But some by warning sent from God for so beleue we ought And harkening to the powers deuine by fight their safegard sought Their natiue country Parentes deare and frendes forsaken quite UUhich chaunge succeeding Edwardes death a number did incite UUith heartes estraungd from Britaine soile to liue in forraine landes He fled in externe nations sâ—…rates he hating blouddy hands And rage of that massacring crue seekes meanes those euils to shunne UUhen here out out for shame a great comâ—…otion was begunne The deadliest rage and sharpest scourge that can on kingdomes fall Now these now those the quest attainted doth of treason call In prisons strong a wondrous rout of Brutus race were pent But manie more to glomy streames of Stigie lake were sent UUithin the mighty Tower as soone as Courtney Earle vp closde UUas to his certaine day of triall to descend reposde The glorious Prelate proud outragious wroth did fretting chaufe UUith troublous conscience vext subuersion dreading of thinges saufe UUhich were not to be feard Yea bitter Hatreds poysned sting Thee and thy state Elizabeth did in suspicion bring Of craced faith towardes the Crowne That thou deuoyd of criâ—…e Hast liu'd whose brightnesse of the minde did so coâ—…uscant shine That Enuies eies with radiant beames it dazeled till this time At h swoln with venâ—…bd malice fell the holy sort forgettes UUhich vile impatient crue with wrathfull anger furious frettes Till that the sielie lambe howbeit her keepers courteous were For God the wolues had driuen away ydrencht in deepe dispaire In prison close was kept all liberties freedome tane away That light affliction and this gentle penaunce did display The better knowledge of the Lord that so she might attaine UUisedome more deepe which trace of time to mortall men doth gaine Such like affliction mixt with griping cares thy graundsier olde To wondrous wisedome rare renowmed Henry seuenth extolde which of an other Salomon the noble name doth hold Euen as a date tree downe depres'd doth loftier lift her top And how much more with boistrous blastes Sir Aeol sturres to â—…op Her perching groth by so much more in hight she liftes her bowes So through backbiting viperous tongues the Lady nobler growes And whome pernitious Enuies peise downe keepes her Vertues light Through constant minde extolles to starrie region shining brigt Howbeit the vile masse mungring crue lamented at their hart That th' end expected had not tane their false and trecherous part Wherefore new guiles they do deferre vntill a time more fit And to themselues this kingdome vowe in hope if that it hit That in their secret trappes now laid the Britaine heire doe fall Mrane time their
at 〈◊〉 Let euery one forth girde the trembling speare with courage 〈◊〉 UUhy stay I now 〈◊〉 good euent I tookens feele nâ—…â—…out UUherfore goe 〈◊〉 our ensignes spred and â—…ers in the 〈◊〉 UUith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 assault 〈◊〉 foes yplungâ—… in deepe 〈◊〉 Thus hauing sayd Prince Edward mightie Peere doth make 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 UUhen straight the English campe with clamour loude the skies doth 〈◊〉 Redoubling still amaine ours ours the virtorie is hye loue His haly sprite doth breath on vs and sendes he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Meane time the army large is 〈◊〉 strong 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 UUith bowes and arrowes good which swiftliâ—… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 string The threefold mayled coate of proufe with squared head 〈◊〉 pearce And now with blast of sounding trompe the warning gin forth fierce UUith eger mindes the onset first the valiaunt Britaynes giues The shiuering shaftes doe dymme the ayre so thicke erh 〈◊〉 driues And as glommy shower with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The light with â—…sh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which sodainely 〈◊〉 All trembling makes mens myndes and pleasaâ—… fieldes to 〈◊〉 compells Eth mortall wight and to returne for succour where he dwells None otherwise the shaftes thicke shâ—…e â—…lose the â—…are day light UUhilst Britayne bold the bended bow doth pull with manly might The salt sweat 〈◊〉 through labring haâ—… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 UUhilst peaceing arrow through the ayre by force 〈◊〉 passage seekes Both armyes bustling meete and man to man 〈◊〉 in that 〈◊〉 Not so with gastly Cyclops strokes mount Aetna did resounde Nor Vulcan fiery God in dungeon deepe such noyce did make UUhilst that his monstrous mates by turnes the massie fledge did shake UUith twhick twhack thuÌ„pe thump bouÌ„cing fast as thuÌ„deringlike did roare UUith clattering classing loude of swourdes the trampled Barwicke shoare And all the mountayne Halindane Some take into their brayne The whurling shaft and strugling knocke the earth in deepe disdayne He fighting farre aloof is fiercely through the shoulders pusht He dyes on poynt of mawrish pike his thigh most greiflie crusht The most part yeld their faintyng breath destroyed with gastly wound Euen through the bulke their brest plates torne where natures skill hath Unto the trembling lunges the liuer full of liuely heat bound The battayle yet hanges doutfull none hath gotten vantage great But after the assault more hott and vehement gan to ware The noble Prince Plantagenet his foes with pursute backes The gorye bloud the flesh ygasht with drierie dint of swourde Spins through amayne as fluent floudes doe scoure the gurtie foorde Or as the blustring Southwind blacke the fieldes doth moyst with showres In winter season cold from duskie cloudes which forth he powres Who can declare the slaughters fell and labours of that day Who can with floudes of trickling teares the sorrowes iustly way Of slaughtered bodies who the number great and names can tell How many thousandes eke the swourde in Plutoes pitt made dwell What grones were heard what sobbing sighes euen from the hart rootes UUhilst out of dying corps the flying ghostes their passage sought brought O ruthfull shape of thinges with breathles bodies couered is The earth on plumpes which lye and honour of sepulture misse And as the greedy woulfe which rauine hunger forth imboldes UUhen be by shoouing long hath brust a way into the foldes The seelie sheepe by teares eke rauening hott bloud streames out suckes And halfe deuoured carkasses oerhippes and more downe pluckes UUhich are aliue proceeding fast with blouddy iawes to spoyle None otherwise the Brytaine sterne with trampling feete doth soyle His sloughtred foes and hott pursues the quicke in fight to foyle Downe dinging some with speares and poles to Lethe riuers brinkes UUho so dare once resist The Scott this seyng backwardes shrinkes And shiuering seekes to turne his backe and saue himselfe by flight Agayne the progenie of Brute strikes loftie skies with shright Still following fast in chase the starting foe to quell by might And floct in troupes as often as the aduerse enemies crue Starke mad in mynde begins agayne the battaile to renewe So oft vnto the conquerours might it waxing feeble bendes At length the glummy shadowye night the blouddy battaile endes Then sounding trumpet shrill retires the weried Britaines fast By Princes hest and from the field aloud Retrait doth blast The enemy quayled thus free vncontrolde reioyse at will The souldiour might and take of rest and quiet sleepe his fill It glads them for to thinke of bitter toyles and turmoiles past And then God Bacchus froothing boules and Ceres giftes they tast To animate their hartes no eye for pure toy winkes that night But shewing his exploites and hard aduentures in the fight Ech one vnto his mate of daungers past takes then delight Meane space for nothing can be found more swift then fleeting time The morne is come and Titan cleare begins aloft to clime And with his beames the fayre broode fieldes doth set wide ope in sight Then myndefull of the succour sent and power from God almight The godly Prince on bended knees commaundes his campe throughout That euery soule with reuerence and prayer most deuout Should serue the Lord and on his name high solempne prayse bestow The mightie God which for our sakes the enemy brought full low That in the starrie firmament thrise holy raignes for aye The Lord of Sabaoth eke which condigne honour beares away Most worthelie be celebrate and feared without end In ages all all nations eke let to his Godhead vend Of thundring Ioue the most redoubted might who can abide UUho can his force withstand which roaring floudes with beck doth guide And earth rough ragd with baulkes and ayrie region running round His glory great therfore with solemne tunes let Britaynes sound All victory comes from him and from hye heauen to men discendes These thinges thus done his tentes he leaues and course directly bendes Renowned Prince vnto the place wherein the field was fought And there he learnes of such as were tane captiue to him brought The names of those redoubted Peeres that there had gott their bale UUhich some resemblaunce had in face of former lookes though pale Through want of bloud they were that scarse you might their countnance But when vntoucht he did the race of warlike Brute espy try And lackt but onely thirtene wightes of all his mighty trayne Those which were hurt were shortly healde by medicines helpe agayne Ertolling both his armes aloft to glittering starrie skie He thus exclaimes amaine and to the Lord of hostes doth try O Lord thrise mightie in thy deedes how much doe I thee owe What fauour great vpon this realme of myne doest thou bestowe Meane time one of his Captaines had the whole brood field survued And Carkasses with clottes of dirt bedaubd which would haue rued Ones hart to haue beheld their mestiue lookes with teares imbrued And findes full xx thousand Scottes and fiue to be by flight Safe home returnde so that
vertue rare with ardent loue in souldiours hartes had bound The third companion to them knit bold Dacres Lordling went whom doughtie ladds of Cumberland to blouddy skirmage bent Their Captaine would elect and after him in warfare trace To Dacres faythfull Cumberland the nurse of gentle race The vulgar sort their natiue Lordes most ardenâ—… do imbrace A number of the Britaine Peers to these warres put their name And martiall knightes of auncient rite of golden Garter came Amongst the which Lord Gray of mighty lâ—…ynes and stomacke bold Of th'armed horsemen troupes did for his skill chief guidance hold A wondrous 〈◊〉 rout of common souldiours flockt beside Howbeit before within the bankes of Scotts they once did stride By Legates letters were foresent their cause expressing plaine That to their former plighted troth they stedfast would remaine By fayre meanes they were prayd that Britaines caÌ„pâ—… no force should showe If promise vowed to Henry king they would not now forgoe In vayne are admonitions gin if no man them regard In vayne the deafe are counceled right when councell is not hard The Scot doth wars require he will contend and end by blowes He desperate nought respectes where well or ill his quarrell goes The Britaines equall cause committed to Ioues power almight Their stomackes boldned on all trembling terrour put to flight Therfore the Duke of Somerset his mates and warlike bandes Insuing pitcht their tentes and armde remainde on Scottish landes Howbeit nor sparkling brands they slong nor with iniurious deedes Did hurt or damage any wight fresh pasturing for their steedes They onely tooke all other thing from scath preserued sure Lest troublous causes more to wars the fierce Scotts should procure Meane time the Earle of Arreine with furious anger stong Which of the kingdome rulâ—…de the raines til that the Princesse yong Were comne to riper yeares chose thirtie thousand warlike wightes UUith weapons armed strong gainst Britaines power to bend their mights By chaunce the day which shulde before the fatall battaile fought The puissant Warwicke Earle on trampling palfray milke white broughe Into an â—…nple plaine the foe to bickering calleth out Here scoures the Scott here Britaine rides the Carreer round about And staggering tronch of poysoned launce doth gird with courage stout He bloud out belking lyes with goary blade through th'bowells pusht His flickering ghost out flies with point of sharpe speare greisly crusht The courser furious sterce his sitter cast doth by pathes tracke An other topsey turnde a while stickes dead on palfrays backe At length downe tuÌ„bling gaiust the groud his skull doth battring knack But chiefly and aboue the rest of auncient Brutus race With mighty puissance Dudley Peere did Scotts downe hurling chase The trampling feete a misty fog and duskie cloud vp read Much like as when a glomy â—…ure from aierie region teard At length our horsemenâ—…ging on the Scotts to flie constraine And to the campe with spoyles addrn'd returnes backe agayne Now scarfe the fourth part of the day remaind and Phoebus lampe In chariot swift conueyde did hast to th'westerne Ocean campe Behold from Scottish marlike cences an â—…erause comne doth pray That vncouorolde vnto the Dulie a message he might say Wherfore vnto his royall cent with frequence great conuapde He was permitted for to speake who thus distincklie sayd what is the cause that thus you striâ—…e one realme to wast by might Irruption making fierce vnto our land what is your right Is this the part of nation ioynt vp vicine borders knit The sielie people batcring downe with drierie blade to hit But armour layd aside forthwith depart and leaue our land Or of your bold inuasion looke reuengement out of hand For of the valiant Scotts collected is a mighty band A blouddy sckirmage on to morrow nert for to succeede I do denounce if to your coastes you hast not backe with speede Alacke that without losse of bloud us battaile may be fought With what abondant purple streames shall conquest chief be sought How many mestiue wiues their husbandes fall shall wailing mone Destroyde by cruell death constraind to lye in bed alone How many parentes of their sonnes and ofspring deare berest All comfortlesse in grief to lead their old age shall be left I tremble to expresse nor you vnpunisht shall depart wherfore the Scottish guide with wondrous pitie mou'de in hart Towardes his countrey soyle me bids this message to declare Unto the Duke of Somerset since both haue cane the care And guidance great of kyngdomes large let both the common cause Of kingdomes safetie moue of legall truce he offreth lawes Of that the Britaines will their tooles and armour layd aside All glorylesse forthwith retire in cause inferiour tride Unlesse you doe theu slaughter dire in wars without remorse Expect the Scottish weapons fell fall with such weightie force Moreouer puissant Huntley Earle these wordes me vtter had To th'mighty Duke of Somerset lest Christian bloud be shad And great effusion made that the contention may be tride Betweene them two and armies both disseuered stand beside So losse of little bloud of all these sarres and end may make And headlong prone dissensions rage a souder may be brake By one mans death and warres vpsturde a finall end may take These wordes he vttered when the Duke replyde thus backe agayne Determinate into your coastes this army I did traine Conditions not take but graunt of peace that aunswere tell When Scotts had time these daungers prest they might haue voyded well Now to to Iâ—…e to deale by vayne colluding craft they tend That Huntley Earle with natiue pride puft vp doth to me send with him in combat for to loyne through glory vayne extold According to his nations guise he prou'de aduencreth bold He as a priuate souldiour serues nor beareth impery If I were so I would him make his challenge dearely bye Here warlike Dudley with this speach the Dukes Oration takes And faithles Scotts with wordes more sharpe be reprehending shakes Your slipperie faith and fickle troth your periude glauncing tong Us Britaines though vnwilling eggs to scoure your coastes along Ioues anger iust prouokes vs to reuenge such haynous sinne He our attemptes shall prop and force maintaine to striue therein Howbeit if promise plightd you keepe then foes vs not esteeme we nothing will commit but faithfull frendes it shall beseeme But is with armes prepard you meane in martiall campes to trie Your selues with weights of puissance stout to warre you shall espie UUho will not laugh to scorne such boastings vayne such Scottish crakes Thinke you that bugges or prochant wordes vs Brutes afrighted makes You erre the scope of heauen and raunging rouine beside the way Let boyes and girles of tender age such vayne illusions fray That here your minde aboadment giues great slaughters to insue And dire destruction of your men you prophesying tue The holy ghost offended with such false periured wightes Doth it foreshew
fortrest Castels braue Abondes ybuilt with hugie stones out of the hard rocke claue And euery side with Cities fayre is garnisht wondrous gay where towardes Spanish coastes she lookes or clouddy Alpes alway UUith slakes of snow bespred or rising of the Sunne beholdes Fraunce rightly may be proude of mighty townes which walls infoldes Here is a famous Citie that of Quintines name doth beare which doth in fruitefull plot of ground her buildings stately reare Most plentifull of corne and wine within that ample field King Phillip pitcht his tentes when thus the towne besiegd beheild Herselfe with th' enemies tankes about she stoinde with terrour stayes And to to late the French kinges ayde she craues the siege to rayse For some the earth deepe trenching downe to teare indeuored fast Some for defence of rubble vp a bulwarke bancke did tast Some scaling ladders framde and firebrandes flang to turretts tops The strong stone walls with ingines fell some other shogging pepps But see here none this secret guile and subtile sleight espide For when the glomy darke night shades mens eyes with soft sleepe tyed A Celtane Captaine with a band of Frenchmen close did slide Into the towne with poulder stuft great baggs ech souldiour brought These things did luckly fay whilst entraunce he by stealth had cought But like successe to thee did not O Memorancy fall whilst eighteene thousand souldiours stout he after him 〈◊〉 call Through wouddy bypathes blind 〈◊〉 hiâ—… mountaines neare to stray Till that the duskie night into the towne might fourd a way Amongst thy hardie borsemen troupes Renowmed Duke he light The best part of his army slayne the remnant put to flight But Brunsweik Duke the Captiues safe in prison strong vp closde Forthwith before king Phillip was the Captaine taâ—…e reposde Then hurly burly sturre and wondrous ioy through euery tent was spred abroad the noyse vpreard the aierie region rent This good beginning all of like successe aboadment takes The souldiours fierce with cannon shat the hard walls battring shakes The diches are with rubble filde and now the plaistring pusht And losened with the vehement shot three hugie partes downe rusht And seuerall places three into the towne gaue entraunce new Then out of euery band the king did take a chosen crue In plated harnish white them arming all and bad inuade The enemies towne where passage free the walls downe ransact made The clamoring Ioude of warriours then the hye heauens coastes doth fill The dubling dromme resoundes the rattling trompetts clanging shrill Confused mixt with noyse of men makes deafe the souldiours eares Here egar Almaines fight the Italian there him doughtie beares On this side Spaniardes presse by force through gaping wall to pearce On that side garded strong in steele thrung thicke the Britaines fierce But first before the rest did hardie Henry Dudley tend With course vnbrideled swift the walles downe shogde for to transcend So do his Brethren twaine of puissance like and courage found Howbeit of Henry whilst he stoopt declining to the ground I know not what to reare or rip anyron bullet brust His scalp broad scattering brused braines and corps dead layd in dust He gentle spirite out gaspt euen in his fresh and bloming yeares Whom backe vnto the tentes his mates conuayd with blubbring teares His body clad in lincloth shroude as Christian rite requeres His brethren furious woode burne in desire of deepe reuenge As euery foe them meetes with sharpe sword pusht his necke he bendes Dissolu'd in quaking death with raging ire and bitter sting The Britaine stout in armes like thunder dint his foes doth ding On euery side th'assant gainst wretched Citizens wareth grim A thousand grudging ghost are sent to gastlie shadowes dimme Pale death their hartes afrightes whom ransackt walls in compassd round He of the Celtanes happy is whom goarie gaping wound Hath groueling layâ—… along â—…o be reâ—…de by 〈◊〉 skill with shriking plaintes vp liftâ—… their ruthfull houses weomen fil And trembling in their armes their tendâ—… sucklings do imbrace Distract of minde through feare and wandring stray from place to place Yong boyes do wailings make of armes such gastly horrour growes And suppliant both their hauds with plaintâ—… to heauens extending throwes with humble voyce beseeching Ioue some mercy downe to cast But they whose naturall moisture of their braine vpdried was past And could not weepe whom crooked age from death had shrowded free Their countries fatall fall and ruine of their towne to see They from the bottome of their hartes do greeuous grones out powre Till midst of day more fiercer still and vehement duâ—…s the stoute Through courage haut and mightie force of Phillips souldiours stout But not without great streames of bloud of the enemy powred out The Citizens inclosd suppose at hand the finall day Of the subuersion of their towne and houre of their decay And now the army through the gates wide doopt had passage wonne The Frenchmen strâ—…ke with chillie feare in plumpes do backward runne Some shroud themselues in cellars blind some beames in houses cops clime A combrous rout to temples fled themselues from death to shrine And wretched wightes in armes the alters clasping fast infoldes The victor with his armed bandes the walls and strong fort holdes The martiall troupes in stately buildings fayre do beate the sway Which thee Redoubted Phillip seru'd 〈◊〉 Lordes driuen away The Celtane pompe is ouerthrowne both pretious robes and gold And massie bolls by goldsmithes act 〈◊〉 of siluer mold The Spanyard souldiour sckipping takes the 〈◊〉 sides vp torne And precious Arras curious wrought by Germaines out was borne Bed tikes the feathers powred forth along the wayes were sprad Set out to sayle to byers such as ready money had Fine linnen Garmentes wollen eke in 〈◊〉 did scattred lye And pannes and caldrons huge which were preseru'd neede to supplie In seething meat and instruments which kitchin ought to hold A brasen pot with platters large of pewtet fine was sold For two grotes prise the cryer loude proclaiming first the same what pretious houshold stuffe in all the town remaind that came UUith Iewels rich attire and Orient gemmes in coffers found Unto the victors pray King Phillips laude hye heauens resound Which to his mightie Sier in warlike honour they compare Meane time the common people floct to sacred temples ware And to the Sanctuaries of the Gods themselues in heapes had bare Expecting all with trembling hart their finall gasp to breath No sparke of hope to them remaines them to preserue from death which trying brunces of warres in open broyles are ouerthrone But God the affectes of hartes doth moue and in his handes alone Are dispositions eke of earthly Princes euery one What way his mightie hest directeth forth that way they take He softneth he their brestes and prone to good workes harts doth make As mollified waxe to euery forme is subiect brought And stamps or tipes impression takes â—…o formers
furious rage doth roame and tortures vseth all Aboundant streames of Christian bloud most ruthfull moistes the land And goarie flouds alacke in pooles of hit reieeted stand Ay me and waile a day young childrens corpes fire brandes deuoures And difference none put twixt their sexe both men and weomen scoures For he gainst Ioue almightie is a foe outragious thought If anie man his enemie the Romish bishop cought Out of the word of God which takes away Christes honor due And falsely white that thing affirmes which is of duskish hue Yea so his heynous trecheries with gloses couered beene As at no time our graundsiers olde in elder age haue seene That both the sense of touching and of tast doe fading fayle If that ye take that priuiledge from bodies what auayle Can th' eare or twinckling eie vnto what vse shall fingers stand Aa haa in deepe Charibdis gulfe uplung'd the Britaine land For very grief doth grone and ginnes of safetie to dispaire Howbeit the ghost diuine of Ioue her pitying vnaware which with his becâ—…e the heauens and seas and earthly regions shakes For the afflicted English state a gratefull plaiâ—…er makes For from their hie vsurped seates proud potentates are drawne Downe headlong to the ground which reuerent worship to be showne Bad vnto Idols wrought in woode or forgd of moulten brasse The Prince with deepe perseuerance scelected of the best Of Britaine states a fewe which long vse had with wisedome frought And learning eke Parnassus Nimphes to deck their wits had brought By which proppes of eternall Fame vnder a mayden Queene Renowmed England through the world is bright blazed to beseene First of her Counsayle Bacon was a wise and prudent Knight Of polisht wit who Britaine lawes by iudgement scand aright Whose sweete and sugred eloquence in midst of Counsaile sage Hath such his endles Fame atchiu'de that though Fates headlong rage Him hath destroide he liues and after death his vertues blaze Lord Chauncelour he of England and the Brodeseales keeper was Whose honourable seat Sir Thomas Bromeley doth beseeme Thought worthie of that dignitie by censure of the Queene The prudent troupe of Senatours their suffrage yealding like UUhich lawes in equall ballance weyes and cancelling out doth strike UUhich ouer ponderous to him seemes that which is good and right May thereof spring and middle place possest may Vertue bright Next thy Lord Marques Winchester his worthie seat did take Renowmed whom the title high of Treasurer did make A man of wondrous grauitie whilst that he ran his race On earth but crookt through age at last to destinie he gaue place Before all these came forth blacke frowning Fortune spurning back UUhose faith in danger dire at hand from sincere heart extract The Prince had tried Lord Cicill and of all the Counsaile sage By Princesse verdict chiefe assignd now stroke with drowping age And worne in yeares with study leane and sickly on his feat For great affaires white hoary heares and crooked age to fleet Doe cause before their time which then scarse fortie yeares had rought Seldome to sleepe addict from slender diett seldome brought Still graue and modest found at no time giuen to dallying play UUhere that he talkt or musing sate it earnest was alway A fuutor of religion true of right he studious was In this our age thinges of great waight borne for to bring to passe UUhose loue towardes his natiue soile and faith towardes his Queene UUhose wisedome busied still about his countries causes seene Beyond Europa borders hath achiu'd him endles Fame Nor here he first to aid his Prince with learned counsell came For in king Edwardes noble Court he wondrous credite wanne And Counsellour to his leich to be in bloming youth began UUhen mongst the Britaine Peeres he hurlie hurlie tumultes wrought By prudent circumspection to quaile and bring to nought And whil'st some others furrowes deepe in gurtie channels cast Their hollow hulls tos'd and turmoild with Aeolls whurling blast And sometime downe with headlong fall the infernall pitts do see He both his honour and his seat and name preserueth free How wary in Queene Maryes dates he did himselfe behaue And sailes which hung aloft at Mast to windes relenting gaue Because it better is to yeeld to rough and mightie force Of raging floud then stand against and to resist his course which doth a deadly perill prest and certaine harme procure By iudgement plaine apparant doth expresse his wisedome sure That for sixe yeares amidst his foes vnhurt he vpright stoode Though persecuted with the hate of Cayphas wicked broode In euerie way in euery streete in London royall mart To all mens dew proceeding forth when as the greatest part In forreine nations bannisht straide him Ioue preseru'd at hand Forth honour of our noble Queene and profite of our land He externe Princes Legates heard attentiue whilest the hest They of their Lordes declarde and aunswere prompt againe express In counsell graue a Nestor which now noble Burghley hight Of woodes and auncient farmes and Castles strong adiacent pight which doth the common Treasurie of goods confiscate keepe He being full aduertised of waightie causes deepe It worth rehearsall is forthwith with what industrious care He doth disside the strife and right ascribes by iudgement rare Not aboue two daies space deferring it or three at most Unlesse of pointes so intricate the matter stand composde That without longer trackt of time it may not be vnfold which laud as chiefest veriest eke let this high Lordling hold The mightie Earle of Arundel is in this order tide The Penbrooke prudent Peere insuing ioyntly by his side Both Stewardes of the royall house of their renowmed guide The warlike Mauy of the Queene came Clinton to thy care whereof full thirtie yeares agoe thou hast tuition bare Nor to thy little honour it redoundes three Princes strong That thou hast seru'd thy selfe of bloud of auncient Peeres esprong Atchiuing many hard exploites a shipborde and on shore Lincolne this warlike Earle hath with title due vphore Next of the Princes Chamber was Lord Haward chiefe assignd A man to anger prone howbeit of gentle courteous minde Whose vncle title high of Duke and Nephew erst did binde Whome dead in like degree the Earle of Sussex did succeede A most redoubted Peere of courage haut and bold indeed Thy royall Parsons gardon strong and faithfull tride alwaies Elizabeth prest to attempt the brunt at all assayes In fearfull Mauors bickering iars through minde vnconquered haut Who oftentimes the saluage Rerne subdued hath in assaut Whom noble victorie did adorne in blouddy warres atchiu'de Yet from a righteous Iusticer he chiefest laud deriu'de UUhen Mary did her flickering sp'rite out breath the Britaine guide By chaunce at Hatfield with her troupe of Ladyes did abide Her noble parson with a true of yeomen garded strong Lord Dudley on a palfray sterce vp mounted swift along Doth thither post his colour
Arithmetricians Art both cunning Clarkes whome vertue gaind By long vse hath extold and wisedome in most thinges attainde They both in Senate house perswade and Counsaile graue downe lay Chroftes in his royall mistresse house controller now doth slay And with his valiant burly corps adornes the Princes hall UUhich erst in campes of dreadfull Mars did force the foe to fall In Englandes chief affaires one Secretarie to the Queene Is Walsingham who Legate then of Britayne Prince was seene At Paris when the slaughter great and dire destruction was And such effusion vast was made of Christian bloud alas A godly man of courage high with bribe not to be bought Nor by corrupting chraft from path of Iustice to be brought Most happy sure which suppliant doth talke with the heauenly king But secreatly as soone as clad 〈◊〉 srâ—… his bed doth spring And of ech day by vowes deuout â—…oth good abodements take O would that many such great kings would of their Counsaile make Then should no doubt ech common weale in blessed state remaine And old Saturnus golden age would be renewde againe Commended eke with sondry vertues rare the other was Willson whose flickering ghost of late to aierie coastes did passe These doth the Princesse vse these Counsailours hath she vsde of yore For what to happy end with good successe may well be bore If that with wauering minde you holesome counsaile do despise Ech state into subuersion runnes deuoyde of good aduise And shall I hope triumph as long as Debora did raigne Whose tracte of life whose thoughts whose crowne almighty Ioue main For many yeares blessâ—…nd preserue in calme peace to remaine taine And after mortall life these worldly thoughtes and crowne forlorne UUith endlesse life diuine affectes and heauenly crowne adorne FINIS Virgil 〈◊〉 neth the 〈◊〉 deeds of Aeâ—…â—…s â—…er blaâ—… seth the acâ—… of Achilles 〈◊〉 sonn to Thâ—… tia Cherâ—… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—…y kiâ—… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Synâ—…tes 〈◊〉 poore 〈◊〉 Phillippâ—… 〈◊〉 â—…oble 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 Mars God of battaile Iul us Caesar. Caesars Commentaâ—…s Gradiuus one of the names of Mars from whom Romulus first kyng of the Romaines disâ—…ded Britaines paid tribute and did homage to the Emperours of Rome Ciuilâ—… diffention present destruction of a câ—…ntry or coÌ„mon weale Erinnis a fury breeding dissention I atines of Latini people in Italiâ—… Galles of thâ—… the people Galls in Frauâ—… Semyramis wife to kyng Ninus of Pertia gouerned the first Monarchie Nylus a great riuer in Aegipt by whose inundation with the heat of the sunne is the country adiacoÌ„t made frutefull Alexander Magnus king of Macedonia the second Monarch The Romains vnder Romulus had the third Monarchy but rather vnder Iulius Caesar. The prayse of all the natioÌ„s in Europa The Scithian and those coâ—…tryes whiche lye neare the North Pole at the people Getae and Saâ—…uromatae and others The Authorâ—…â—…uocation Bdâ—…rd the third began to â—…gne Au. 1520. in the xv yeare of his age Edward a godly Prince VVherof this was one Longbeardes haâ—…â—…eile paus ted houdes â—…else Gay coates gâ—…celesse ma nes England thâ—…stleus The Scottes entring into â—…ngland as faire as Stanhop parke were compast rosd by kyng Edward who thought to subdue there but by â—…eason of sâ—…e of his host they 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the king by â—…n self of Sir Edward Mortimer who the bare great sway in England deliuered vp those Charters and Patentes But more scillict to spite the kyng of England Edward Baliol kyng of Scotts dâ—…uen out of his coâ—… trie comes into England The Oration of Baliol to kyng Edward od present at faythfull prayers The aunswere of kyng Eid ward 〈◊〉 one sillable take for the Suâ—… two sillables for the Moâ—… Preparation for warre agaynst Scotland Gold and â—…luer borne on carres to pay the souldiours Twede a mighty riuer runnyng by Barwicke Barwicke bâ—…sieged DescriptioÌ„ of Barwicke Flora the Goddesse of flowers and greene 〈◊〉 â—…tan the unne The assaulting of Barwicke Vulcanus God â—…ers Iubâ—…s smith The Britaines gaue so hot assault that the Scottes drew all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 walles and piâ—…es drye to quench the fired places of their towne The Scottes like to sa 〈◊〉 hâ—… The Oratiâ—… of the liuetenaunt of Barwicke to his souldiours Eight dayâ—… truce Pledges taken â—…he Scottâ—… 〈◊〉 their â—…ce 〈◊〉 Dacâ—…tt with a fewe other enters Barwicke in the â—…ight The Scottes truce breakers The pledges hanged Famine oppresâ—…eth the Barwicke souldiâ—…urs inhabitantes One sorrow and calamitie mittigateth an other Truce the second tyme. An army of Scottes sent to remoue the fiâ—…ge The of Scottish Nobles The Scottes deuide their army into three battailes The English army By reason of the reflexe of the sunne The exhortation of the king of England to his souldiours The prayer of the kyng of England A pollicie to animate his souldiours Vulcane as Poetes sayne had his smithey in mount Lemnos in Cicilie where he with his mates wrought A great scath by the Eng. Archers done to the Scotts Lethe a riuer in â—…al The Scottes slaine and puâ—… to flight The Retraiâ—… soâ—…nded Bacchus God of wine Ceres Goddesse of corne and such like prouision Edward the next morning after the battaile fought with all his army doe prayse the Lord. The number of the Scottes slayne in the battaile was xxxv thousand fiue huÌ„dred Thirten Englishmen onely lost Barwicke â—…elded Baliol restored to his kingdome King Edward returnes to London Edward Baliol comes to Newcastell â—…e doth homage to king Edward He scillicâ—… the king of England speaketh comfortable wourdâ—… to Baliol. Edward say led into 〈◊〉 Pillip de Valloys kyng of Fraunce threatneth England Edward summoneth the French kyng and beareth the armes of France intermixt with th' English Claimyng Fraunce to be his by inheritaunce Preparation foâ—… warres Gold at that tyâ—…e made in England by art Edward sayleth into FlauÌ„ ders A great battaile on the sea neare â—…ude Thetis goddeâ—…se of the sea The fight induced from XII a clocke at noone till day breake neâ—… morning Thirtis thousand slayne of the Frenchmen Edward victor Edward returning into England goes to VVindles Castell 〈◊〉 George is feast Bacchus God of wine vsed for wine it selfe The first institution of the golden Garter King Edwâ—…â—…yning to him the â—…ar of VVarwicâ—… 〈◊〉 â—…arl more wasteâ—… the VVesterâ—…â—…stes of Fraunce The kyng 〈◊〉 turned noâ—… calleth a Pa liâ—…t whâ—… in he sheâ—… 〈◊〉 Crownâ—… of Fraunce be his by 〈◊〉 heritance Vessell coiâ—… to make mâ—… ney Preparatioâ—… for warre The Britaâ—… 〈◊〉 arriâ—… at 〈◊〉 die Aâ—…ol Goâ—… the windâ—… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 them theâ—… selues 〈◊〉 â—…ranne â—…he assauling and subâ—…uyng of â—…ane â—…rchery doth â—…uch preâ—…ayle Celtane of Celtaea peoâ—…le in Fraunce The Hâ—…rle of Tancaâ—… 〈◊〉 â—…rom Cane the army proceedes further into Nor â—…die and 〈◊〉 breaâ—…th ray â—…alloys gaâ—…hereth an arâ—…y â—…ridges of â—…ome broken â—…owne to â—…eepe backe 〈◊〉 English â—…my â—…ridges of â—…ome broken â—…owne neare Paris by the 〈◊〉 â—…f