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A09226	A farewell Entituled to the famous and fortunate generalls of our English forces: Sir Iohn Norris & Syr Frauncis Drake Knights, and all theyr braue and resolute followers. VVhereunto is annexed: a tale of Troy. Doone by George Peele, Maister of Artes in Oxforde.	Peele, George, 1556-1596.	1589 (1589)	STC 19537; ESTC S110377	10,424	22

A Farewell Entituled to the famous and fortunate Generalls of our English forces Sir Iohn Norris Syr Frauncis Drake Knights and all theyr braue and resolute followers ❧ VVhereunto is annexed A tale of Troy AD LECTOREM Parue nec inuidio sine me liber ibis ad arma Hei mihi quod domino non licet ire tuo Doone by George Peele Maister of Artes in Oxforde AT LONDON ¶ Printed by I. C. and are to bee solde by William Wright at his shop adioyning to S. Mildreds Church in the Poultrie Anno. 1589. Gallia victa dedit flores inuicta Leones Anglia ius bellj in flore leone suum O sic O semper ferat Elizabetha triumphos Inclyta Gallorum flore Leone suo ¶ To the most famous Generalles of our English forces by land Sea Sir Iohn Norris and Sir Frauncis Drake Knightes YOur vertues famed by your fortunes and fortunes renowned by your vertues thryce honorable Generalles together with the admiration the worlde hath worth●ly conceiued of your woorthines haue at this time encouraged mee a man not vnknowne to many of your braue and forwarde followers Captaynes and Souldiers to send my short farewell to our English forces VVherevnto I haue annexed an olde Poeme of myne owne The tale of Troy A pleasaunt dysconrse fitly seruing to recreate by the reading the chiualrie of England To whom as to your ingenious iudgements I dedicate the same that good mindes enflamed wyth honorable reports of their auncestry may imitate theyr glory in highest aduentures And my Countrymen famed through the worlde for resolution and fortitude may marche in equipage of honour and Armes wyth theyr glorious and renowned predicessors the Troyans Beseeching God mercifully and miraculously as hetherto he hath doone to defend fayre England that her Souldiours may in theyr departure bee fortunate and in theyr returne tryumphant Geo Peele ❧ A farewell entituled to the famous and fortunate Generalls of our English forces c. HAue doone with care my harts aborde amaine With stretching sayles to plowe the swelling waues Bid Englands shoare and Albions chalkie clyffes Farewell bid statelie Troynouant adiewe Where pleasant Thames from Isis siluer head Begins her quiet glide and ruunes along To that braue Bridge the barre that th'warts her course Neere neighbour to the anncient stonie Towre The glorious hold that Iulius Caesar built Change Loue for Armes gyrt to your blades my boyes Your Rests and Muskets take take Helme and Targe And let God Mars his consort make you mirth The roring Cannon and the brasen Trumpe The angry sounding Drum the whist●ing Fife The shrikes of men the princelie coursers ney Now vaile your bonne●s to your freends at home Bid all the louelie brittish Dames adiewe That vnder many a Standarde well ●duaune'd Haue bid the sweete allarmes and br●ues of loue Bid Theaters and proude Tr●gadi●ns Bid Mahomets Poo and mightie Tamburlaine King Charlemaine Tom Stukeley and the rest Adiewe to Armes to Armes to glorious Armes With noble Norris and victorious Drake Vnder the Sanguine Crosse braue Englands badge To 〈◊〉 religious 〈◊〉 And 〈◊〉 a passage with your conquering 〈◊〉 By 〈◊〉 and Sea where euer Phe●us eye Thetern●ll L●●pe of Heau●n sen●es vs light By 〈◊〉 Tagus or the westerne Inde Or through the spacious Bay of Portugale The w●lthy Ocean maine the Terrhen sea From great Alcides pyllers braunching foorth Euen to the Gulfe that leades to lofti● Roms There to deface the pryde of Antechrist And pull his Paper walles and popery downe A famous enterprise for Englands strength To steel● your swordes on Auarice triple crowne And clense Augeus staules in Italie To Armes my fellow Souldiers Sea and land Lie open to the voyage you intende And sea or land bold Brittons farre or neere Wha● euer 〈◊〉 your matchles vertue shapes Whether to Europes boundes or Asian plaines To Affricks shore or rich America Downe to the shades of deepe Auernus cragges Sayle on pursue your honours to your graues Heauen is a sacred couering for your heads And euery Clyma● vertues Tabernacle To Armes to Armes to honourable Armes Hoyse sayles 〈◊〉 Anckers vp plowe vp the Seas With flying keeles plowe vp the land with swordes In Gods name venture on and let me say To you my Mates as Caesar sayd to his Striuing with Neptunes hils You heare quoth he Caesar and Caesars fortune in your ships You follow them whose swords succesfull are You follow Drake by Sea the scourge of Spayne The dreadfull Dragon terror to your foes Victorius in his 〈◊〉 from Inde In all his high attempts vnuan q●ished 〈◊〉 followe noble Norrice whose renowne Wonne in the f●rtile fieldes of Belgia Spreades by the gates of Europe to the Courts Of Christian Kings and heathen Potentates You fight for Christ and Englands peereles Queene Elizabeth the wonder of the worlde Ouer whose throne th'enemies of God Haue thundred earst their vaine succesles braues O tenne times treble happy men that fight Vnder the Crosse of Christ and Englands Queene And follow such as Drake and Norris are All honours doo this cause accompanie All glory on these endlesse honours waites These honors and this glory shall he sende Whose honour and whose glory you defende Yours G. P. ❧ The beginning accidents and ende of the warre of Troy WHilom in Troy that ancient noble Towne Did dwell a King of honor renowne Of port of puisaunce and mickle fame And Priam was this mighty princes name Whom in regard of his triumphant state The world as then surnamde the fortunate So happy was he for his progenie His Queene his Court his Children and Countrie Yclypped stately Hecuba was shee So faire a creature hardlie might you see So braue and of so comelie personage And long before she tasted fortunes rage With twenty sonnes and daughters wondrous thing This lustie Ladie did enrich her King Fruite not vnlike the Tree wherof they sprong The daughters louely modest wise and yong The sonnes as doth my storie well vnfolde All Knights at Armes gay gallant braue and bolde Of wit and manhood such as might suffice To venter on the highest peece of seruice His Peeres as loyall to their royall Lord As might ne taynted be for deede or worde His Court presenting to our earthlie eyes A skye of starres or shyning Paradise Thus happy Priam didst thou liue of yore That to thy hap could nought be added more Till mong the Gods I wot not what was hee Eouying tho this happines to thee Or Goddesse or accursed fend belowe Conspyring thy Troyes wracke and ouerthrowe Alack th●t happines may not long last That all these braueries beene so breefe a blast Till one I say a venging power or other Buz'd in the brayne of the vnhappy mother A dreadfull Dreame and as it did befall To Priams Troy a dreame deadly and fatall For when the time of Mothers payne drewe nie And now the loade that in her wombe did lie Began to stirre and mooue with propper