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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02935	The first booke of the preseruation of King Henry the vij. when he was but Earle of Richmond, grandfather to the Queenes maiesty compiled in English rythmicall hexameters.		1599 (1599)	STC 13076; ESTC S116380	30,171	107

his soule to the ioyes that ar euer abiding Therewithal he faynting in a swoune grewe straight to be speachlesse Gasping breath who did yeald with a pale face and body senselesse Whose soule imparadiz'd I belieue is with the Creator Our Lord Emmanuell our Christ and sole mediator Who when he had regaliz'd 3. yeares and credibly twenty Tomb'd in a faire monument at Windsore lies in an abbey How that he dy'd many men did doubt For he dy'd on a suddayn Sundry by surfet afirm'd which no body knew to be certayn But many thought that he was put away by the vile priuy treason Of tyranus Richard by the meanes of some sory poyson As Sir Thomas More in his owne book skilfuly penned Thought by the speach that he learn'd that he was sure priuily poysned And not a thing vnlyke For he spared no body whose life Might dominire as a King whose life might work him a mischiefe He was a vile Machauile and still tooke time at a vauntage To work such stratagemes his lew'd mind gaue him a courage Similie As wax is molify'd and clay made hard by the sun-shine So to the word of God good mens hearts daily wil enclyne But lewd are hardned by the word Such obstinat error Permaneth in reprobates whose end is damnable horror Description of Edward the fowerth This valiaunt Edward was a Prince of a beawtiful aspect Whose face shyn'd with a faire sanguine complexion indeckt Whose yelo burnished haire did shyne like glorius amber Similies Whose gray eyes twinkling like starres did cheerefuly glister Comelines of person very tall of bodily stature Exquisit euery part was featured and of a nature Merciful and liberal whose stout hart bouldly by wisedom And politick valiaunce of right did atayn to the kingdom He was a Prince patient in great prosperity pleasant And not at all arogant in great aduersity constant Not timorus wauering to steadfast friend very faithfull To fra'dulent enemyes se●ere implacabel hatefull Fortunat in warfare but somewhat gi-uen in excesse To womanish daliaunce as his hystorie plainly doth expresse This stout king Edward many times would say that he lov'd well Three speciall paragons in seu'ral gifts who did excell First was wily by kind but an other seem'd to be godly Shores wife was meriest as a woman void of al enuy The iust and lawfull title that Richard Duke of Yorke father to king Edward made to the Crowne of England RIchard Plantagenet Duke of Yorke rightly the garland Sought by law to regaine his right to the Crowne then of England And he preferred a byll to the nobil common asembly Grafton fo 757. et 758. Held at Westminster Where after merciful Henry Namely the sixth his death they all there iointly together Graunted by parliament Gaue this Realme to the Duke his right heires in the remainder But this stout Richards stout lucklesse mynd was vnabel For to prolong so long but in end was slaine in a battell Neare to the towne Wakefield and left here these many children Edward George Richard all three well knowne to be brethren And yet he sware many times by solemne othes Stow. fol. 944. fol. 972. that he neuer Would any treason atempt or against him raise any power His three sonnes whom I nam'd were like three Martial Hectors All of a stoutnes alike on anothers glory detractors This foresaid Richard to the foresaid fortunat Edward Was father vndubitate sonne and heire namely to Richard Stout Earle of Cambridge Who maried Dame Anne sole heire and daughter of Edmund Mortimer Earle of March Richards neece namely the second So that he was by the lawes right lawfull heire to the Kingdome Which Edward did ataine by force and partly by wisdome Henry the fourth did vsurpe and put downe wrongfuly Richard Second King by name at Pomfort slaine by the coward Sir Pierce of Exton who strake him downe as a butcher Striketh an ox on his heade Wo worth so shameful a monster This trecherus bludy Duke did bring eight tal men in harnesse Grafton fol. 412. Henry 4. Each man a bill in his hand like thieues to murder his Highnesse Who with a bill that he got by force did manfuly withstand Those Machauile hypocrites for he kild foure men with his owne hand Till that he was struck downe by the Knight who leapt in a chay-er Like crauenus coward to repose him selfe from a daunger The Second booke of the tyranny and vsurpation of king Richard and how king Henry the seauenth when he was Earle of Richmond was preserued in his time A praier I He that here doth a peale to the sacred seate of a Kingly Kingly tribunall throne of a King celestial only Only the King of Kings the triumphant Lord God imortall Three persons one God deifi'd with glory coequall Humbly before thee my God that King Lord God of heauen Wholly my selfe prostrate giue eare O Lord to me listen Ephe. 2.5 8. Sanctify me by thy grace and iustify me by thy mercy For by the grace of God comes our saluation only Graunt that I may paraphrase stout Henries glory to publish And to promulgat abroad King Richards tyrrany diuelish I He that only before in Romane rythmery verses Did modulate with a thinne oten pype fortunat Henries Flight that he made to the Duke with his vncle there in a safety Both to remaine for a time till time should prooue to be friendly Which was a worke of thanks But now now murtherus horror And Machauile stratagemes I record of a lewde malefactor That did vsurpe as a king that killed his owne very brethren Murdered his Nephues wife and many ●●ores or a sudden Mournefuly Muse manifest the detested deedes of a tyrrant Monster of all mankinde whose sinnes to the world ar aparant With salt watery teares this wofull tragedy pensill Teares from a sabel penne of direfull Ebony distill I to the clowdes seeke not to mount like Icarus in sky Ouid. poeticè Nor like proud Phaëton with a minde presume to be lofty Witty Thales maiden that saw him looke vp on heauen And in a ditch to decline he is wel seru'd quoth the maiden For that he looked aloft when he should haue lookt on his owne feete Looke not aloft sily Muse but shew thy selfe to be discreet Here I do meane to declare O Queene how shamefuly Richard That Duke of Gloster but a younger brother of Edward Lately the King did ataine to the Crowne and dignity regal Trewly my minde doth abhorre that I should here make the recitall What Machauile policies what shifts what crafty deuises What tyranus stratagemes he deuis'd to crucifie Princes First of al here to beginne he stab'd and kill'd with a dagger Grafton fol. 713. Edw 4. Henry the sixt when he was safe kept as a prisoner in Tower For that he considered King Henries life was an hind'rance Both to the King and him by the which they wanted asurance Therefore he did this fact