that first did them inuent Both armies fit and at the point to fight The French assuring of themselues the day Send to the King of England as in spight To know what he would for his Ransome pay Who with this answere doth their scorne requite âpray thee Herault wish the French to stay And e'r the day be past I hope to see That for their Ransomes they shall send to mee The French which found how little Henry makes âf their vaine boasts as set therewith on fire Whilst each one to his Ensigne him betakes âhe Constable to raise his spleene the hyer âhus speaks Braue frieÌds now for your Grandsires saks âour countrys honor or what may inspire Your souls with courage strain vp all your power To make this day victoriously ours Forward stout French your vallours and aduance ây taking vengeance for our Fathers slaine ând strongly fixe the Diadem of France Which to this day vnsteadâ doth remaine Now with your swords their Traitors bosoms lance ând with their bloods wash out that ancient staine And make our earth drunke with the English gore Which hath of ours oft surfetted before Let not one liue in England once to tell âhat of their King or of the rest became Nor to the English what in France befell But what is bruted by the generall fame But now the Drums began so loud to yell As cut off further what he would declame And Henry seeing them on so fast to make Thus to his Souldiers comfortably spake THinke but vpon the iustnesse of our cause And he 's no man their number that will wâ Thus our great Grandsire purchas'd his applause The more they are the greater is our prey We 'll hand in hand wade into dangers iawes And let report to England this conuey That it for me no ransome e'r shall rayse Either I l'e Conquer or here end my dayes It were no glory for vs to subdue Them then our number were the French no moâ When in one battaile twice our Fathers flew Three times so many as themselues before But to doe something that were strange and new Wherefore I aske you Came we to this shore Vpon these French our Fathers wan renowâ And with their swords we 'l hew yan forrest dâ The meanest Souldier if in fight hee take The greatest Prince in yonder Army knowne Without controule shall him his prisoner make And haue his ransome freely as his owne Now English lyes our honour at the stake And now or neuer be our valour showne God our cause Saint George for England sta ãâ¦ã Now charge them English fortune guide yoâ haâ When hearing one wish all the valiant men At home in England with them present were The King makes answere instantly againe I would not haue one man more then is here ââe subdue lesse should our praise be then âeuer come lesse losse shall England beare And to our numbers we should giue that deed Which must from Gods own powerfull hand proceed The dreadful charge the drums trumpets sound With hearts exalted though with humbled eyes When as the English kneeling on the ground Extend theâr hands vp to the glorious skies Then from the earth as though they did rebound âiue as fire immediatly they rise And such a shrill shoute from their thrâats they sent As made the French to stagger as they went Wherwith they stopt when Erpingham which led ãâ¦ã e Army saw the shout had made them stand ãâ¦ã ting his warder thrice about his head âe cast it vp with his auspitious hand âhich was the signall through the English spread âhat they should charge which as a dread coÌmand Made them rush on yet with a second rore Frighting the French worse then they did before But when they saw the enemy so slowe âhich they expected faster to come on ãâ¦ã e scattering shot they sent out as to showe ãâ¦ã their approach they onely stood vpon âhich with more feruour made their rage âo glow â much disgrace that they had vnder-gone Which to amend with Ensignes let at large Vpon the English furiously they charge At the full Moone looke how th'vnweldy Tyde Shou'd by some Tempest that from Sea doth rise At the full height against the ragged side Of some rough Cliffe of a Giganticke sise Foming with rage impetuously doth ride The angry French in no lesse furious wise Of men at Armes vpon their ready Horse Assayle the English to disperse their force When as those Archers there in ambush layd Hauing their broad side as they came along With their barb'd Arrows the French Horses pay And in their âlankes like cruell Hornets stong They kick and cry of late that proudly nay de And from their seates their Armed riders flong They ranne together flying from the Dike And make their riders one another strike And whilst the front of the French vanguard ma ãâ¦ã Vpon the English thinking them to Route Their Horses runne vpon the Armed stakes And being wounded turne themselues about The bit into his teeth the Courser takes And from his Ranke flyes with his Master out Who either hurts or is hurt of his owne If in the throng not both together throwne Tumbling on heapes some of their Horses cast With their foure feete all vp into the ayre Vnder whose backs their Masters breath their last Soe breake their rains and thence their riders b ãâ¦ã âome with their feete sticke in the stirrups fast ây their fierce Iades and trayled here and there Entangled in their bridles one backe drawes And pluckes the bit out of anothers iawes With showers of shafts yet still the English ply âhe French so fast vpon the poynt of flight âith the mayne Battell yet stood Henry by âor all this while had medled in the fight âpon the Horses as in chase they fly ârowes so thicke in such abundance light âhat their broad buttocks men like buts might see Whereat for pastime bow-men shooting bee When soone De Lannies and Sureres hast âayde their friends put to this shamefull foyle âith two light wings of Horse which had beene plac't âill to supply where any should recoyle ât yet their forces they but vainely waste âr being light into the generall spoyle Great losse De Linnies shortly doth sustaine Yet scapes himselfe but braue Surreres slaine The King who sees how well his Vanguard sped âds his command that instantly it stay âesiring Yorke so brauely that had led ãâ¦ã hold his souldiours in their first array âr it the Conflict very much might sted ãâ¦ã mewhat to fall aside and giue him way Till full vp to him he might bring his power And make the Conquest compleat in an hower Which Yorke obayes and vp King Henry comes When for his guidance he had got him roome The dreadful bellowing of whose straitbracd dru ãâ¦ã To the French sounded like the dreadfull doome And them with such stupidity benummes As though the earth had groaned from her wombe For
come to sway He would put faire as euer man did yet Vpon the height of Fortunes whâele to sit Loue and Ambition spurre hââ in such sort As that alone t' accomplish hââ desire To fall with Phaeton he would thinke it sport Though he should set the Vnlâââsâ on âire Nor recks he what the world of him report He must scorne that who will dare to aspier For through the aire his wings him way shal make Though in his fall the frame of heauen he shake Reyner descended from the Royall stem Of France the Duke of Anâoâ stiled King Of Naples Cicil and Ierusalem Although in them he had not any thing But the poore title of a Diadem Seing by Suffolke greater hopes to spring Puts on his Daughter that great Lord to please Of Englands Counsailes who kept all the keyes But strange encounters strongly him oppose In his first entrance to this great Designe Those men were mighty that against him rose And came vpon him with a Countermine That he must now play cunningly or lose Cunning they were against him that combine Plot aboue plot doth straine aloft to tower The conflict great twixt pollicy and power For Humfrey Duke of Gloster stil'd the good Englands Protector sought a match to make ââth a faire Princesse of as Royal blood The Daughter of the Earle of Arminake And hââ crown'd Nephew but stout Suffolke stood Still for his Mistresse nor will her forsake But make her Henryes Queene in spight of all Or she shall rise or Suffolke sweares to fall By the French faction when she vp is cryde Of all Angellique excellence the Prime Who was so dull that her not Deifide To be the onely Master-piece of time The prayse of her extended is so wide As that thereon a man to heauen might clime All tongues and eares inchanted with delite When they doe talke or heare of Margarite And those whom Poole about his Prince had plac'd And for his purpose taught the tricks of Court To this great King and many a time had grac'd To make his eares more apt for their report âauing the time most diligently trac'd ând saw these things successiuely to sort Strike in a hand and vp together beare To make faire Margarite Musicke in his eare Aniou a Dutchy Mayne a Countrey great Of which the English long had beene possest ând Mauns a city of no small receite âo which the Duke pretended interest âor the conclusion when they came to treate ând things by Poole were to the vtmost prest Are to Duke Reyner reudred vp to hold To buy a Hellen thus a Troy was sold When of an Earle a Marquesse Poole is made âhen of a Marquesse is a Duke created âor he at east in Fortunes lap was layd âo glorious actions wholly consecrated Hard was the thing that he could not perswade ân the Kings fauour he was so instated Without his Suffolke who could not subsist So that he ruled all things as he list This with a strong astonishment doth strike âh'amazed world which knew not what to say What liuing man but did the act mislike âf him it did not vtterly dismay âhat what with blood was bought at push of pike Got in an age giu'n in an houre away Some largely speake and some againe are dumbe WoÌdring what would of this straÌge world become As when some dreadfull Comet doth appeare Athwart thâ hâ aâeÌ thaâ throws his threatning light The peaceful people that at quiet were Stand with wild gâzâs wond'ring at the sight Some War some Plâgues so ãâ¦ã faââin greatly feare Some falls of Kingdomes or of ãâ¦ã of migât The grieued people thus their iudgements spend Of these strange Actions what should be the end When Suffolke Procurator for the King Is sââp'd for France t'âspouse the beautious Bride And fitted to the full of euery thing Followed with Englands Gallantây and pride As fresh as is the brauery of the Spring Comming to Towers there sumptâoâsl affide This one whose like no age had seene before Whose eyes out-shone the Iewels that she wore Her reucrent Parents ready in the place As oneâioy'd this happy day to sâe The King and Queene the Nuptials there to grace On them three Dukes as then attendânts be Seuen Earles ãâ¦ã Barrons in their âquâpace And twenty Bishops whââââ that onely she Like to the Roââ morning towards the rise Cheeres all the Church as it doth cheere the skiââ Tââumphaâl Aâches the glad Towne doth raise And sâlts and Turââys are ãâ¦ã at Court Conceited Masks ãâ¦ã Banqâeâs witty playes ãâ¦ã them many a pretty sport âoâts write Prothalamions in their praise ântill mens eares were cloyd with the report Of either sexe and who doth not delight To weare the Daysie for Queene Margarite The Tryumphs ended he to England goes With this rich Gem allotted him to keepe ãâ¦ã ill entertained with most sumptuous showes ân passing thorough Normandy to Diâpe Where like the Sea the concourse dayly flowes âor her departure whilst sad France doth weepe And that the ships their crooked Anchors waide By which to England she must be conuayd And being fitted both for Winde and Tide Out of the Harbour flyes this goodly Fleet ând for faire Portsmouth their straight course they plyd Where the King stayd his louely Bride to meete âonder she comes when as the people cryd Busie with Rushâs strevâing euery streete The brainelesse Vulgar little vnderstand The Horrid plagues that ready were to Laâd Which but to soone all-seeing heauen foretold For shee was scarsely safely put a Shore âât that the skies ô wondrous to behold Orespred with lightning hideously doth rore The furious winds with one another scold Neuer such Tempests had beene seene before With sudden floods whose villages were drown'd Steeples with earthquaks tumbled to the ground VVHeÌ to their purpose thiÌgs to pass wer broght And these two braueaÌbitious spirits wer me The Queene and Duke now frame their working though Into their haÌdâ the Soueraignty to get For soon they found the King could not be wrought Vp to their ends nature so low had set His humble heart that what they would obtaine T is they must do'â by collour of his Raigne And for they found the grieued commons grutcâ Aâ this which Suffolke desperately had done Who for the Queene had parted with so much Thereby yet nothing to the Realme had wonne And those that spur'd the people on were such As to oppose them openly begunne Therefore by them some great ones down must go Which if they mist of they themselues must so Yorke then which had the Regency in France They force the King ignobly to displace Thereto the Duke of Summerset t' aduance Their friend and one of the Lancastrian Race For they betwixt them turnd the wheele of Chanââ T is they cry vp t is they that doe abase He 's the first man they purpos'd to remoue The onely Minion of the peoples
borne Of Christian Kings the greatest then aliue Now he the Crowne full forty yeeres had worne Doth all his Regall Soueraignety suruiue Of all men liuing and the most forlorne So strange a thing can destiny contriue So many sundry miseries as he No King before had euer liu'd to see To heare all this Queene Margarite must endâ Yet sadly to her fathers Court confin'de And now King Edward held himselfe secure When things fell out so fitly to his minde But when of rest he did himselfe assure Vpon a suddaine rose so rough a wind In his strong hand which shooke his Scepter mo ãâ¦ã Then all the stormes that ere had blowne before For then in minde to league himselfe with Fr ãâ¦ã Which he perceiu'd would be the surest way His questiond Tytle highly to aduance And at his need should serue him for a kay âo open him their policies vvhose chance âas then in casting and the next to play For Margarite still the French King Lewis prest For second aydes nor would she let him rest Wherefore he sends a marri'ge to entreat âith beautious Bona with whose rich report âame was opprest with and a taske too great âhe French Queenes sister and with her in Court âarwicke the man chose foorth to worke the feat âââ is sent thither in such sumptuous sort And in short time so well his businesse plyes That she was like to proue an English prize In the meane while this youthful King by chance âomming to Grafton where the Dutchesse lay âhen stil'd of Bedford his eye haps to glance ãâ¦ã her bright Daughter the faire Widdow Gray ãâ¦ã se beauties did his senses so intrance ãâ¦ã stole his heart so suddainly away That must he lose his Crowne comeweale come woe She must be his though all the world say no Her lookes like Lethe make him to forget âon what businesse he had Warwicke sent ãâ¦ã this Lady he his loue so set ãâ¦ã at should his Crowne from off his head be rent âhis rebellious people rise to let âs choyse of his they should it not preuent For those pure eyes his bosome that had pierc'd Had writ alaw there not to be reuers'd What lesse amends this Lady can I make For her deere husband in my quarrell slaine Then lawfull marri'ge which for iustice sake I must performe quoth hee lest she complaine For a iust Prince so me the world shall take Soothing himselfe vp in this amorous vaine With his affections in this sort doth play Till he a Queene made the faire Lady Gray This Act of Edwards com'n to Warwicks eare And that the sequell show'd it to be true In his sterne eyes it eas'ly might appeare His heart too great for his strait bosome grew He his Commission doth in piece-meale âeare Breakes the broad Seale and on the ground it thâ And prayes blest heau'n may curse him if that â For this disgrace reuenged would not be Haue I quoth hee so lifted thee ãâ¦ã That to thy greatuesse I the scorne am growne Haue I for thee aduentur'd beene so oft In this long Warre as to the world is knowne And now by thee thus basely am I scoft By this disgrace vpon me thou hast throwne If these thy wrongs vnpunish'd slightly passe Hold Warwicke base and falne from what he was Know t w'as the Nevills forthy Title stood Else long e'r this layd lower then the ground And in thy cause my Father shed his blood None of our house for thee but beares a wound And now at last to recompence this good ãâ¦ã for me this Guerdon hast thou âound ãâ¦ã proud head this hâd shal pluck thy crown Or if thou stand then ãâ¦ã Warwick down Yet he to England peaceably repaires And with a smooth browe smotherâ his intent And to the King ãâ¦ã the French affaires ââ what in Court had past there since he went His spleene he for a fitter season spares ãâ¦ã he the same more liberally might vent Calme was his countenance and his language faire But in his brest a deepe revenge he bare MEane while Queene Margarit a poore exile heares How things in England in her absence went ãâ¦ã halfe burst heart which but a little cheeres âââ from her head she felt the Crowne was rent âet though fare off a little glimpse appeares â seeming hope and though it fainâly lent It might hauâ said had not the Fââes said no These stormes at home might her some profit blow ãâ¦ã heares how Warwicke cunningly had wrought ãâ¦ã Duke of Clarence from his brothers side âââ that braue Youth at Callice hauing caught âââ eldest daughter had to him affide How to rebell the Northerne men were brouâ And who by Warwicke poynted was their guide Aâ on the Wâlâh he had a mighty hand By Edward rais'd those rebels to withstand Of new Rebellions at Northampton rais'd And to despight the King what they had done How they at Grafton the Earle Riuers seas'd And Sir Iohn Wooduile his most hopefull Sonne Who with their heads could hardly be appeas d And of the fame by puissant Warwicke wonne Who hauing taken Edward in his Tent His King his prisoner into Yorkâshirâ sent Then heares againe how Edward had escapt And by his friends a greater power had got How he the men of Lincolneshire intrapt Who neere to Stamford pay'd a bloody shot And when the Earle his course for Callice shapt When England lastly grew for him to hot Vaucleere who there his Deputy he put The Ports against his late grand Captaine shut Lastly shee heares that he at Deepe ariues And lately com'n to Amboyes to the Court ââereas King Lewis to his vtmost striues âo entertaine him in most Princely sort When the wise Queene her businesse so contriues That she comes thither small what though her port Yet brings along the sweet yong Prince her sonâe To proue what good with Warwick might be done Wen both in Court and presence of the King Their due respect to both of them that gaue ââ will'd them in so pertinent a thing That they the like should of each other haue The teares began from both their eyes to spring That each from other Pitty seeâ'd to craue In gracefull manner when the grieued Queene Thus to that great Earle gently breaths her spleene Warwicke saith shee how mercilesse a Foe ââst thou beene still to my poore child and mee âhat villaine Yorke which hast aduanced so Which neuer could haue risen but for thee âhat Valour thou on Edward didst bestow â hadst thou show'd for him thou here dost see Our Damaske Roses had adorn'd thy Crest And with their wreathes thy ragged Staues bene drest First at Saine Albans at Northamptoâ then ãâ¦ã fatall Towtân that most fearefull fight ãâ¦ã many nay what multitudes of men ãâ¦ã fierce Warwicke slaine and put to flight O if thy Sword that euer stood for âen Had but beene drawne for Henry and his right He should
haue built thee Trophyes euery whââ Wrought with our Crowne supported by thâ Beââ What glory had it wonne the Neuils name To haue vpheld the right succeeding race Of that fift Henry hee that was of âame The onely Mineon whom thou now dost trace But Salsbury the first against vs came Then Falconbridge and Mountâcute ô base To aduance a âraâtor to his âoueraigne thus But to our Crââne your name is ominous How many a braue Peere thy too-neere Allies Whose losse the Babe that 's yet vnborne shall ââe Haue made themselues a willing Sacrifice In our iust quarrell who it rightly knevv Whose blood gainst Yorke and his adherents crâes Whom many a sad cuâse euer shall pursue O Warwicke Warwicke expiat this gilt By shedding theirâ for whom our blood was ãâ¦ã When in like language this great Earle agaiâ Regreets the Queene and vvoes her to forbeare Of former greeâe one thought to ântertaine Things are not now quoth he as once they were To talke of these past helpe it is in vaine What though it ease your heart please your eaââ This is not it no ât must be our Swords Must right our vvrongs deare Lady not our w ãâ¦ã Madam quoth he by this my vexed heart On Edwards head which oft hath wish'd the Crown ât but Queene Margarit cleaue to VVarwicks part âhis hand that heau'd him vp shall hew him downe ând if from Henry Richard Neuill start Vpon my house let Heauen for euer frowne Of backe the Crown to this yong Prince I le bring Or not be VVarwicke if he be not King When they accord Prince Edward should affye Anne the Earles Daughter to confirme it more By Sacrament themselues they strictly tye By Armes againe King Henry to restore Or in the Quarrell they would liue and dye ãâ¦ã ptising likewise in the oath they swore That th' Earle and Clarence should Protectors be When they King Henry and the Prince should free When soone great VVarwicke into England sends âo warne his friends that they for Warre prepare ââg Henrys Title and to them commends ââat they should take his cause into their care âow is the time that he must try his friends âhen he himselfe gainst Edward must declare And vvhen much strife amongst the coÌmons rose Whom they should ayde and whom they should oppose Furnish'd with all things well be fitting Warre â great King Lewis to Queene Margarite lent âarwicke vvhose name Fame sounded had so far ãâ¦ã t men with Wonder view'd him as he went Of all men liuing the most popular Thought eu'ry houre to be but idely spent On Englands troubled earth vntill he were To view the troupes attending for him there And in his Army tooke with him along Oxford and Penbrooke who had beene destroy'd By Edward sworne now to reuenge their wrong By Burgoyne the French Admirall conuoy'd At whose Aâiue the shores with people throng At sight of Warwicke and so ouerioy'd That eu'ry one a VVarwicke VVarwicke cryes Well may the Red-Rose by great VVarwicke riââ Like some black cloud which houering lately hu ãâ¦ã Thrust on at last by th'windes impetuouspower The groues and fields comes raging in among As though both foules and flockes it would deuoure That those abroad make to the shelters strong To saue themselues from the outragious shower Sofly the Yorkists before VVarwicks Drummes Like a sterne Tempest roaring as he comes When Edward late who wore the costly Crowne Himselfe so high and on his Fortunes bore Then heard himselfe in euery place cry'd downe And made much lesse then he was great before Nor dares he trust himselfe in any Towne For in the In-lands as along the shore Their Proclamations him a Traytor make And each man charg'd against him Armes to takâ For which the VVashes he is forc'd to wade And in much perill lastly gets to Lin To saue himselfe such shift King Edward made For in more danger he had neuer bin Where finding three Dutch Hulkes which lay for trade âhe great'st of them he hires to take him in Richard his brother Hastings his true friend Scarse worth one sword their personâ to defend When VVarwicke now the only Prince of power Edward the fourth out of the Kingdome fled Commands himselfe free entrance to the Tower And sets th' Imperiall wreath on Henrys head Brings him through London to the Bishops bower By the applanding people followed Whose shâill re-ecchoing shouts resounds from far A VVarwicke VVarwicke long liue Lancaster And presently a Parliament they call In which they attaint King Edward in his blood The lands and goods made forfâitures of all That in this quarrell with proud Yorke had stood Their friends in their old honours they install Which they had lost now by an act made good Intayle the Crovvne on Henry and his heyres The next on Clarence should they fayle in theirs Whilst VVarwicke thus King Henry doth aduance âee but the Fate still following the sad Queene âuch Stormes and Tempests in that season chance âefore that time as seldome had bin seene That twice from Sea she was forc'd back to France As angry Heauen had put it selfe betvvene Her and her loyes and would a witnesse be That naughâ but sorrow this sad Queene must see This might haue lent her comfort yet at last So many troubles hauing vndergone And hauing through so many perils past T' haue seene her husband setled on his Throne Yet still the skies with clowds are ouercast Well might shee heare but of this sees she none Which from far off as flying newes doth greet her Naught but mischance when she comes in must meet her But all this while King Edward not disâay'd His brother Charles of Burgondy so plyes That though the subtill Duke on both side play'd Edward and Henry both his neere Allies Vpon the Duke King Edward yet so layd Hauing his sisters furtherance who was wise That Vnderhand his strength he sorestores As that he dar'd t' attempt the English shores With foureteene Ships from th' Easterlings being hir'd And foure Burgonians excellently man'd After some time with stormes and tempests tyr'd He neere the mouth of Humber haps to land Where though the Beacons at his sight were fir'd Yet few or none his entrance doe withstand For that his friends had giuen it out before He sought the Dukedome and he would no more Vpon his march when forward as he came Resolu'd to trye the very worst of Warre He Summons Yorke where of he bare the name To him her Duke her Gates that doth vnbarre And comming next to Rocke-rearâ Nottingham Mountgomery Borough Harrington and Par Bring him their power at Lecester againe Three thousand came to Hastings that retaine To Couentry and keeping on his way Sets downe his Army in the Cities sight Whereas that time the Earle of Warwicke lay To whom he sends to dare him out to fight Which still the Earle deferrs from day to day Perceiuing
well that all things went not right For with his succours Clarence came not in Whom to suspect he greatly doth beginne And not in vaine for that disloyall Lord Taking those forces he had leuied leaues The Earle and with his Brother doth accord Which of all hope braue VVarwicke so bereâueââ âhat now King Edward hopes to be restor'd Which then too late the credulous Earle perceiues Edward towards London with an Army sped To take the Crown once more from Henrys head The Queene in France this woful newes that heard How farre through England Edward thus had past As how by Glarence whom she euer fear'd VVarwicke behind-hand mightily was cast This most vndaunted Queene her hopes yet cheer'd By those great perills she had lately past And from King Lewis doth three thousand prest To ayde her friends in England in distresse Whilst she is busie gathering vp those aydes In so short time as France could her afford Couragious VVarwicke basely thus betray'd By Clarence lewdly falsifying his word The most couragious Earle no whit dismayd But trusting still to his successefull Svvord Follovves the King towards London march'â before Each day his Power increasing more and more But Edward by the Londoners let in Who in their Gates his Army tooke to guard VVarwicke this while that trifling had not bin But with a povver sufficiently prepar'd T' approach the City brauely doth begin To dare the King vvho lately him had dar'd Who then from London his Arm'd forces leades Towards where his march ambitious VVarwicke treadâ From London this that from Saint Albans set These two graÌd souldiers shoulâring for the Crown They in the mid-way are at Barnet met Where then they set their puissant Armies downe VVarwicke as neere as euer hee could get But Edward onely taketh vp the Towne Betwixt whose âents a Heath call'd Gladmore lyes Where they prepare to act this bloody prize With Drums and Trumpets they awake the day âuffled in mists her lowring selfe that showes To stop their madnesse doing all it may âhowing what blood her light was like to lose But hope of slaughter beares so great asway That with the Sunne their rage still higher growes Full were their hands of death so freely dealt That the most mortal wounds the least were felt The aduerse Ensignes to each other waue As t' were to call them forward to the field The King the Earle The Earle the King doth braue Nor cares he for the Leopards in his shield And whilst one friend another striues to saue He 's slaine himselfe if not enforc'd to yeeld In either Army there is not one eye But is spectator of some Tragedy Those wrongs the King had from the Earle receiu'd ââpulst the Kingdome onely by his power ââen to the height his powerfull hand vp heau'd âor full'reuenge in this vnhappy houre And by the King the Earle his hopes bereau'd âheltred by him from many a bloody shower Spurres vp reuenge and with that violent rage That scarsely blood their fury could asswage VVarwicke who sees his Souldiers had the worse And at a neere point to be put to flight Throwing himselfe from oâ his Armed Horse Thrusts in on foote into the deadliest fight Edward againe with an vnusuall force In his owne person in the Armies sight Puts for the Garland which if now he lose Warwicke his Crowne at pleasure would disposâ To Edwards side but fortune doth encline Warwickes high valour then was but in vaine His noble soule there destin'd to resigne Braue Mountacute his valiant Brother slaine Here Sommerset with them that did combine Forced to flye and Excesteâ is faine To saue himselfe by Sanctuary this day Edward's victorious and beares all away THis fatall field vnluckily thus lost That very day so Destiny contriues That the grieu'd Queene at Sea turmoyl'd and tost Neere twenty dayes in Weymouth Road ariues Where scarcely landed but Post after Post Brings her this ill newes vvhich so farre depriues Her of all comfort that shee curst and band Those plaguy winds that suffered her to land Wert thou quoth shee so fortunate in fight O noble VVarwicke when thou wert our foe And now thou stood'st in our indoubted right And should'st for Henry thy high valour show Thus to be slaine what power in our despight Watcheth from heau'n vpon our ouerthrow Th' vnlucky Starres haue certainly made lawes To marke for death the fauourers of our cause O vvhat infernall brought that Edward backe ãâ¦ã late expel'd by VVarwickes powerfull hand Was there no way his rotten Ship to wracke Was there no Rock was there no swallowing sand And too the wretched Subiects were so slacke To suffer him so traiterously to land Surely whole heau'n against vs haue conspir'd Or in our troubles they had else beene tyr'd Was I for this so long detayn'd in France From ragefull Tempests and reseru'd till now That I should land to meete with this mischance ât must needes be the Powers haue made a vowe Vp to that height my sorrowes to aduance That before mine all miseries shall bowe That all the sorrow mortalls can surmise Shall fall far short oâ Margarites miseries These vvords scarse spoke her halfe-slaine heart to ease ât the least breath of comfort to preuent âhe next ill newes in rushing after these âas that King Henry to the Tower was sent As though it selfe euen Destiny should please ãâ¦ã wretched Margarites heauy discontent Thrunging so thick as like themselues to smother Or as one ranne to ouertake another Those scattered Troopes from Barnet that escap'd âearing the Queene thus landed with her power âugh much dismay'd with what had lately hapt ãâ¦ã Gore drown'd Gladmore in that bloody shower And fearing by the foe to be entrapt Through vntrod grounds in many a tedious howâ Flocke to her dayly till that by her ayde Equall with Edwards they her Army made When Somerset and Devonshire came in To the sad Queene and bad her not dispaire Though they of late infortunate had bin Yet there vvas helpe that Ruine to repaire What they had lost they hop'd againe to win And that the way lay open yet and faire For that the West would wholly with her rise Besides from VValles assur'd her of Supplyes And euery day still adding to their Force As on their Host tow'rds Glocester they guide When Edward finding their intended course Againe for Battell strongly doth prouide Both Armies they supply vvith Foote and Horse By both their friends as they affect the side And in their march at Tâwkesbury they met Where they in Order their Battalions set Ill was her choyse of this vneuen ground Lucklesse the place vnlucky vvas the howre The Heauens vpon her so extreamely frownd As on her head their plagues at once to powre As in a Deluge here her hopes were drown'd Here sees she death her faithfull friends deuoure The earth is fil'd with grones the aire with cry ãâ¦ã Horrour on each side
that country e Expressing the pleasantnesse of the scituation of that country lying vpon the French Sea f At lying the fittest to expell or fore warne Inuaââon g Expressâng the delicaây of the Bath their chiefe City h The Armes of the ancient Family of Clare Earle of Gloster borne by the City Stonidge being the first wonder of England standing in Wiltshire An old Emâlâmâ of Bâââcâ or âârkshire i A âadge of the ancient Family of the Staffords Dukes of that place k Queene ãâ¦ã Founder-of the Crosse wife to Constantine and daughter to King Coâll builder of Colches ãâ¦ã Essex l Suffolke the most Easterly of the English shieres m For the brââ prospect to ãâ¦ã Germaine Ocean a Hauing relation to that famous Vniuersity their Shire townes b The Armes of the Townâ somewhat alluding to thâ name c The Armes of the towne of Hunting don first so named of a place where Hunters met d The Armes of the towne e From the aboundance of wool in that tract f A sport more vsed in that shire from ancient time then in any other g For the length that it hath vpon the German Ocean h The Bear and ragged Staffe thâ Ancient Armes of that Earledome i For the abundance of fruite more there then in any other tract k The fine ãâ¦ã of the Wooll of Lemster in that shire l Many Hermites liued there in the woods in ti ãâ¦ã pasâ it being all forrestrie m Expressing the loftinesse of the mountaines in that S ãâ¦ã on which many Hawkes were wont ââ ayây n That famous out law âââed ãâ¦ã ch in that Country and is yet by many places there Celebrated o Aâcâânted oââr the best Archers of England p For their ãâ¦ã with the spâare ãâ¦ã of their Naggâ q Being ready stil in Armes against the Scots r Expressing the sâitâ therâf âuting ouâ into those dangerous Sâââ betwixt England and Ireland Å¿ Their ãâ¦ã conflicts ãâ¦ã with the Scots exprâssâd in the fight between âââ golden ââd Lyon a Milford Hauen in Penbrooke shiâââ one of the ãâ¦ã harbours in the kno ãâ¦ã world therefore not vnaptly so expressed b Partly Dutââ partly English partly Welch c Meâ iâ by whose birth and knowledg that towne ââ maââ fâmous d A watch Tower or pharus hauing the scituation whâââ Seuorâ beginneth toâ widden as when Pirats haue come in to giâe warning to the other Maritine Countryes e For the glory it hath attained to be the Kings birth-place and to ex ãâ¦ã sse his principalities f The Armes of Brecknocke g Lying towards the miâst of Wâlââ ãâ¦ã for abundance of Sheepe liuing on those high mountaines g Lying towards the miâst of Wâlââ ãâ¦ã for abundance of Sheepe liuing on those high mountaines i For the abundance of Gâateâ ãâ¦ã those inacâessible Mountaines h Expressing the scituation ãâ¦ã Shâârâ lying on the Maritine part vpon the Irish Sea k The shiere breeding the best Horses of Wales l As ãâ¦ã it selfe to the great North or Deucalâdonian Sea in Expressing the abundance of Corn and grasse in that little Tract A Simile of the Nauy The braus solemnity of the departing of the âlâet The Nauy Landing in the mouth of Seyne The brâue encouragement of a âoâragious King A charitable Proclamation made by the King The Kings mayne Standard for the pânderousnes thereof euââ borne vpon a Carriage The King makes his aproches on three parts The King summons Harflew Charles de Aâbert and Iohn Boweequalt A Simile of the French power A discription of the siege of Harflewe in the 19 following Stanzaes * Crosbowe Arrowes The King of England entreth Harflew in triumph Hing Henry offereth to decade his right by single combat A fâââd found in the riuer of Soame A counsill held at Roan against the King of England A speech of the Duke Alanzon against the English The Duke of Berrys answere to Alanzon Yong mens counsails oft-times proue the vtter subuersion both of themselues and others The French King sendeth âo dare the King of England to Battaile The King of Englands modest answere A Simily of the rising of the French Dauid Gaâ a great Captaine in that Warre The Duke of Yorke The French scorning the English being so few in respect of their mighty power The ryot in the French Campe the night before the Battell Pondering in hu thoughts hu Fathers comming to the crowne by deposing of the rightfull King Henry the fift caused the body of King Richard to be taken vp where it was meanly buried at Langly and to be layd in Westminster by his first Wife Queene Anne The great are of a wise ând pâlitike aptaine This Sâratâgem the ouerthrow of the French The French mis-interpreâ the flight of Rauens âouering ouer there owre ãâ¦ã ãâ¦ã Marshal ãâ¦ã of the ãâ¦ã ch Arây âontaiââg three ãâ¦ã The Marshal ling of the English Army containing fiue Stanzaes The brauery of King Henryes owâe Person The scornfull message of the French to the King of England The Kings answer to the French The Constables Oration to the French The King of Englands Oration âo the English The high ãâ¦ã of the King of England Sir Thomas Erpingham gaue the signall to the English A Simily of the French charging the English The three hundred Arâhârs lay a in ambush disorder the French men ââ Armes at the first encounter Two wings of French horse defeated The English Vaââard and ãâ¦ã Basââââe charge âhe French ãâ¦ã at ãâ¦ã Charles de ãâ¦ã Constable of F ãâ¦ã The A ãâ¦ã Thâ Aâmiâall flââââ The Constable flaine The ââââagâ of Woodhouse remarkâable A Simily ãâ¦ã the appearance of the Battell The Duke of Burben and âriâance toâââ prisoners ãâ¦ã of some Guisâard the Daulphine of Aâagân The Daulphine of Auerney slaine The Earle ãâ¦ã Ewe taken prisoner The Duke of Yorke slaine The King ãâ¦ã of the Duk of Yorks ãâ¦ã The Kings solution The bloody scuffle betweene the French and English at the ioyning of the two maine Battailes in fiue Sâanzaes Called Clâeâ of Brabant The Earle of Suffolke chargeth the Earle of Huntington with breaâh of promise A desp ãâ¦ã attempt by the Earle of Huntingdon One braue ââ plâieâ begerteth another The Earle of Suffolk ãâ¦ã The English kill she French with their owne Weapons The Duke of Glocester ââ ãâ¦ã by the Duke of Alanzon The King of England in danâeâ to be slanâ by the Duke of Alanzon Alanzon betten downe by the King of England The King kil leâo two Gentlemen that aduenture to âresene the Duke The Duke Alanzon slaine The Duke Neuers taken prisoner Morrisby and Gam aâ contention for the Duke of Neueres Morrisby ââ bâauey ââ Knigh Dauid Gaâ oft mentioned in this P ãâ¦ã The Duke of Excester commeth in with the Reare The Earle of Vandome slaine Sir Thomas Erpingham getteth in with his three hundred Aââhers The Marshal of France slaine Co ãâ¦ã Vadamount The Duke of Brabant a most couragious Prince A bitter exclamation of the Duke of Brabant
against the French Anthony Duke of Brabant sonne to the Duke of Burgundy The valiant Duke of Brabant slaine Many of the French in âhotr flight get ââto an old Fort. The Kings slight answere Woodhouâââeereth at the attempt Braues passe between Gam and Woodhouse Caâtainâ Gam ââaiâe For this seruice done by Woodhouse there was an addition of honour giuen him which was a hand holdingâ club with the word Frappe Fort which is borne by the Family of the Woodhouse of Norfolke to tâââ day A deuisâââ Burbons to giue incouragement to the French A Simily of the French Lewis of Burbon taken prisonâ by a meane souldiour Lewis of Burbon stâbd by a Souldier that tooke him prisoner The Lords Dampier an â Sauesses tataken prisoners Arthur Earle of Richmount taken prisoner The Count du Marle slaine The misery of the French The French forced to beare the wounded English on their backs A ãâ¦ã of rasâal French ãâ¦ã the King Englands ãâ¦ã The ãâ¦ã The English kill ãâ¦ã pââsoners Ex ãâ¦ã ion The French âause of their owne massaâhre A discriptiân of the Massacre in the foure following Stanzaes The family of Yorke soughâ under hand to promoue their title about that time After the second conqueââ of France by Henry the âift The Christian Princes seeke to ãâ¦ã a peace between ãâ¦ã and France A ãâ¦ã 18 moneths Pooâe in this time of âeacââââourâth âââoncludâ a Marââage beââixt thâ Lady Margarire and the King his Master Poole taken with the exâââding ãâ¦ã ây of the Princesse He had only the title of these Kingdomes without any lâââlyhooâ Margarite Duk Reyners Daughter A ãâ¦ã of a ãâ¦ã Amba ãâ¦ã our with ââe ââââ of ãâ¦ã onely daughter The high praises of the Princesse Margarites beauty Pooleâ followers placed about the King to work ââ owne ends The prouinces of France giuen to Duke Reyner for ãâ¦ã Daughter Poole created first from an Earle Marque ãâ¦ã and afteâ Duke of Suffolke The people exceedingly râpinâ for the giuing aâay of the Prouinces A Simily Sâffolke Procurator for the King The marriage solemââzedâââ the city of Towers The great concourse to honour the Solâânization Margaret in French signifââth a Daysâe The Queene brauely enteâtained in passing through Normandy The King stayeth for the ãâ¦ã at Portâmouth Great and fearefull Tempests at the comming in of the Queâne The Duke of Yor ãâ¦ã discharged of hiâ Regency in France and the Duke of Sommerset in hââ place A Charractââ of the Duke of Glocester The greatest persons of the Queenes Faâââââ A Parliamentat Saint Edmunds-Bury The Duke of Gloster aresâed by the high Marshall of England The Duke murthered The pââpââ mutiny The death oâ the Duk was the vtter ãâ¦ã row of the house of Lââcaster The affaires of England fall tâ ruinââpon the death of the Duke The Irish rebell The French âre vp in A ãâ¦ã s. The Norman râuolt Townââ in Normandy yâelded to th ãâ¦ã enemy There had been a formâ contract betwene the King and th ãâ¦ã Earle of Arminacks only Daughter but being by the Duke o ãâ¦ã Suffolke annulled cause ãâ¦ã âhe Earle âââ after to be â vowed ene ãâ¦ã ââ the Englis ãâ¦ã The commons chargââhe Duke of Sommerset with thâ lossâ of Normand Articles of Treason put into the Parliament against the Dukes oâ Sommerset ând Suffolke The Duke of Sufâolkeâanâââea for sine yââres The extreame hate the people had to the Duke This ship was as our hystories report called the Nicholas oâ thâ tower a ship that belongd to the Duke of Excestâr of whom ânâ Water was the Captaine The subââll policie of the Duke of Yorke The character of Iacke Cads Deriuing his title from Phillip the onely Daughter and heire of Lyonel Duke of Clarence the third sonne of Ed the 3 wedded to Edmund Mortimur Earle of March The Staffordâ slaine by thâ Rebels Iacke Cade takes London * The Vulgar The Valiant Talbot slaine Richard Neuill the Father and Richard Neuill the sonne The Duke of Sommerset arested The King reââuired of a dangerous sicknesse The Queene preuailing against the Duke of York The Duke of Yorke ãâ¦ã seth an army in the Marches of Wales The first Battaile at Saâââ Albans Humfrey Earle of Stafford eldest sonne to the Duke of Buckingham The King crept into a poore Cottage The lawlesse âsurpation of the Yorkâstâ Salsbury made Ch ãâ¦ã Warwicke Captaiue of Caâââce Henry Beufoââ Duke of Summerset after the decease of his father Edmond The Duke of Excester taken out of the Sanctuary aâ Westminster The Duke of Yorke the Earles of Salsbury and Warwicke put out of office The Queene had plotted to haue the Duke murthered at Couentry A solemne procession in Pauls by both the factionâ The Queene inwardly gâuching at Warwickes greatnesse Warwick in perill to hauâ bin slaine passing thâ street The men of Cheshire âpanâân the quarreââ The ãâ¦ã A great ãâ¦ã The Lord A ãâ¦ã Eââârd Earl of March eldest sonne to âââ Duke tââ Ea ãâ¦ã and Warwicke A Simily A Parliââent at ãâ¦ã The men of Kent rise with the Torkists The name of Warwicke fearefull to hu enemies A great paââ of the Nobility slaine at Nerthampton The Duke of Yorkeâ insolence The Queeââ impatient â the Dukes pride The Dukes oft ãâ¦ã ruine The Eârle ââ Salsbury bââ headeâ The end of young Rutland The Battaile ââ Mortiâââs Crosse Three sânâey seene at one time Owen Tudorâ end King Henry left before to the keeping of the Duke of Norfolke and the Earle of Warwicke The Queene getteth the day at Saint Albans The Yorkists Army disâomfited at this second Battâll at Saint Albans King Henry of no account The King ââetâ with the Queene and her âââââ ãâ¦ã The cruelty of the Queen King Henry most ãâ¦ã The Londoners deny the Queene victuaile for her Army The Duke of Yorke entreth London with applause of the people Edward mââ King by the suffrage of the Commons King Edward ãâ¦ã from ãâ¦ã to ãâ¦ã The Lord Fitzwater and Bastard Neuill slamâ Warwicke ââwââ to reâsnge his brothers death Warwickes deââeraâe âââ sâlutiââ No quarter âeât at Towton Towton field A miserable defect of the Queenes friends The greateââ slaughter in all that ciuiââ Warre The King and Queen forced to forsake the Land The Earle of Oxford and ââ Sonne attainted Queene Margarit a womaÌ of an ândainted spirit The Queene in euery enterprise most vnforâânate Queene Margarite raiseth â new Army Sâme that âad submitted themselues to King Edward âeâolt at king Henrys comming Kin Edward prouideth to resist Queenâ Margarites comming in The Conflict at Hegly-More The Botâaile of Exhââ Queene Margarites ãâ¦ã goes still âââwrackâ King Henry and the Queane ââââ The Conflict at Hegly-More The Botâaile of Exham Queene Margarites perty goes still to â wracke King Henry and the Queene parâ King Henry comming dis guised into England is discouered and taken prisoner King Henry was borne the greatest of Christian Kings The pollicie of King Edward Warwick sent into France to intreat for a marriage betwixt King Edward and
Prince at Poyters battaile foughâ Short of his Father and himselfe before Her King and Prince that prisoners hither brougâ From forty thousand weltring in their gore That in the worlds opinion it was thought France from that instant could subsist no more The * Marshall and the * Constable there âlaine Vnder the Standard in that battaile ta'ne Nor is this claime for women to succeed Gainst which they would your right to France deâ baâ A thing so new that it so much should need Such opposition as though fetcht from farre By Pepin this is prou'd as by a deed Deposing Cheldricke by a fatall warre By Blythyld dat'd his title to aduance Daughter to Clothar first so nam'd of France Hugh Capet who from Charles of Lorayne tooâ The Crown of France that he in peace might raigâ As heire to Lingard to her title stooke Who was the daughter of King Charlemaine So holy Lowes poring on his booke Whom that Hugh Capet made his heire againe From Ermingard his Graâdaââ claimd the crown Duke Charles his caughter wrongfully put down Nor thinke my Liege a fitter time then this You could haue found your title to aduance ât the full height when now the faction is â'wixt Burgoyne and the house of Orleance Your purpose you not possibly can misse â for my Lord so luckily doth chance That whilst these two in opposition stand You may haue time your Army there to land And if my fancy doe not ouerpresse ây visuall sence me thinkes in euery eye â see such cheere as of our good successe â France hereafter seemes to Prophecie Thinke not my Soueraigne my Alegiance lesse Quoth he my Lords nor doe you misaply My words thus long vpon this subiect spent Who humbly here submit to your assent THis speech of his that powerful Engine prou'd Then e'r our Fathers got which rais'd vs hier The Clergies feare that quietly remou'd And into France transferd our Hostile fier â made the English through the world belou'd âhat durst to those so mighty things aspire And gaue so cleare a luster to our fame That neighboring nations trembled at our name When through the house this rumor scarsely râ That warre with France propounded was againe In all th' assembly there was not a man But put the proiect on with might and maine So great applause it generally wan That else no bus'nesse they would entertaine As though their honour vtterly were lost If this desine should any way be crost So much mens minds now vpon France were sâ That euery one doth with himselfe forecast What might fall out this enterprise to let As what againe might giue it wings of hast And for they knew the French did still abet The Scot against vs which we vs'd to tast It question'd was if it vvere fit or no To conquer them ere we to France should goe Which Raulph then Earle of Westmerland propoâ Quoth he with Scotland let vs first begin By which we are vpon the North inclos'd And lockt with vs one Continent within Then first let Scotland be by vs dispos'd And with more ease yee spatious France may winâ Else of our selues ere we our ships can cleere To land in France they will invade vs here Not so braue Neuill Excester replies For that of one tvvo labours were to make For Scotland wholly vpon France relies First Conquer France and Scotland yee may take âis the French pay the Scot to them that tyes That stopt asunder quickly ye shall shake The French and Scots to France then first say I First first to France then all the commons cry And instantly an Embassy is sent To Charles of France to will him to restore âhose Territories of whose large extent The English Kings were owners of before Which if he did not and incontinent The King would set those English on his shore That in despight of him and all his might Should leaue their liues there or redeeme his right First Normandy in his demaund he makes With Aquitane a Dutchy no lesse great Aniou and Mayne with Gascoyne which he takes Cleerely his owne as many an English seat With these proud France he first of all awakes âor their deliuery giuing power to treat For vvell he knew if Charles should these restore No King of France was euer left so poore The King and Daulphin to his proud demand âat he might see they no such matter ment â a thing sitter for his youthfull hand â Tunne of Paris Tennis Balls him sent âtter himselfe to make him vnderstand âriding his ridiculous intent â And that was all the answere he could get Which more the King doth to this Conquest âheâ That answering the Ambassadour quoth he Thanks for my Bals to Charles your Soueraign giâ And thus Assure him and his sonne from me I 'le sând him Bals and Rackets if I liue That they such Râcâet shall in Paris see When ouer line with Bââdies I shall driue As that before the set be fully done France may perhap into the Hâzzard runne So little doth luxurious France fore see By her disdaine vvhat shee vpon her drew In her most brauâây sâeâing then to bee The punishment that shortly should ensue Which so incenst the English King that he For full reuenge into that fury grew That those three horroâs Famine Sword and Fâ Could not suffice to satisfie his ire In all mens mouthes novv was no word but wâ As though no thing had any other name And folke would aske of them ariu'd from farre What forces were preparing whence they came â Gainst any bus'nesse 't was a lawfull barre To say for France they were and ' t vvas a shame For any man to take in hand to doe Ought but something that did belong theretoâ Old Armours are drest vp and new are madeâ Iacks are in vvorking and strong shirts of Male He scovvers an * old Foxe he a bilbow blade Novv Shields and Targets onely are for sale Who works for waâre now thriueth by his Trade The brown-Bill and the Battle-Axe preuaile The curious Fletcher fits his well-strung Bowe And his barb'd Arrow which he sets to showe Tents and Pauillions in the fields are pitcht ââ full wrought vp their Roomthynesse to try Windowes and Towers with Ensines are inricht With ruffing Banners that doe braue the skie Wherewith the wearied Labourer bewitcht To see them thus hang wauing in his eye His toylsome burthen from his back doth throw And bids them work that wil to France hee 'l go Rich Sadles for the Light-horse and the Bard For to be brau'st ther 's not a man but plyes Plumes Bandroules aâd Caparizons prepar'd Whether of two and men at Armes diuise The Greaues or * Guyses were the surer guard The Vambrasse or the Pouldron they should prize And where a stand of Pikes plac't close or large Which way to take aduantage in the Charge One traynes his Horse another trayles his Pike He with his Pole
loue This opened wide the publike way whereby Ruine rusht in vpon the troubled Land Vnder whose weight it hapned long to lye Quite ouerthrowne with their il-guiding hand For their Ambition looking ouer-hie Could in no measure aptly vnderstand Vpon their heads the danger that they drew Whose force too soone they and their faction knew For whilst this braue Prince was imploid abroad Th' affaires of France his minde vp wholly tooke But being thus disburthen'd of that load Which gaue him leave into himselfe to looke The course he ranne in euidently show'd His late Allegeance that he off had shooke And vnder hand his Title set on foote To plucke their Red-Rose quite vp by the roote Thus hauing made a Regent of their owne By whom they meane great matters to effect For by degrees they will ascend the throane And but their owne all ayde they else neglect As with a tempest he to ground is blowne On whom their rage doth any way reflect Which good Duke Humfrey first of all must taste Whose timelesse death intemperately they haste This Henryes Vncle and his next of blood Was both Protector of the Realme and King Whose meekenesse had instiled him the Good Of most especiall trust in euery thing One to his Country constantly that stood As Time should say I foorth a man will bring So plaine and honest as on him I le rest The age he liu'd in as the onely best This graue Protector who both Realms had sway Whilst the Kings nonage his sound counsels crau'â In his great wisedome when he throughly way'd How this French Lady here her selfe behau'd To make her Game againe how Suffolke play'd The Realmes from ruine hoping to haue sau'd Lost his deare life within a little space Which ouerthrew the whole Lancastrian race This Prince who still dar'd stoutly to oppose Those whom be sawe all but their owne to hate Then found the league o his inueterate soes To come vpon him wiâh the power of Fate And things to that extremitie still rose The certaine signe of the declining State As that their Faction euery day grew strong Perceiu'd his vertues like to suffer wrong Fierce Margarits malice propt with mighty me Her darling Suffolke who her forward drew Proud Sommerset of France the Regent then And Buckingham his power too well that knew The Cardinall Bewfort and with him agen Yorks great Arch-Prelate to make vp the crue By accusations doing all their best From the good Duke all Gouernment to wrest Who then compell the peacefull King to call Parliament their grieuances to heare ãâ¦ã the Duke that to inforce his fall ãâ¦ã y might haue something that might Collour beââ âut then they doubt his answere and withall âhe murmuring people they farre more doe feare As their owne liues who lou'd him therefore they Must cast to make him secretly away And therefore with the Parliament proceed âaint Edmunds-bury the appointed place Whereas they ment to doe the fatall deed Which with much quicknesse should decide the case The cruell manner soone they had deâreed And to the Act they hasten them apace On this good Prince their purpose ro effect Then when the people nothing should suspect No sooner was this great assembly met âut the high Marshall doth the Duke arrest And on his person such a guard they set That they of him were certainely possest His seruants were from their attendance lett And either sent to prison or supprest So that their Lord lefâ in this piteous plight Lay'd in his bed was strangled in the night Then giue they out that of meere griefe he dyde To couer what they cruell had done But this blacke deede when once the day discride The frantique people to his Lodging runne âome rayle some curse yea little children chide Which forc'd that faction the faire streets to shun Some wish proud Suffolke sunke into the ground Somebid a plague the cruell Queene confound Thus their Ambition would not let them see How by his death they hastened their decay Nor let them know that this was only he Who kept the Yorkists euermore at bay But of this man they must the murtherers be Vpon whose life their safety onely lay But his deare blood them nothing could suffice When now began Queene Margarites Miserieâ In either Kingdome all things went to wracke Which they had thought they could haue made to thi ãâ¦ã His noble CouÌsells when they came to lacke Which could them with facility contriue Nor could they stay them in their going backe One mischiese still another doth reuiue As heauen had sent an host of horrors out Which all at once incompast them about Out flie the Irish and with sword and fire Vnmercied hauocke of the English made They discontented here at home conspire To stirre the Scot the borders to inuade The faithlesse French then hauing their desire To see vs thus in Seas of troubles wade In euery place outragiously rebell As out of France the English to expell The sturdy Normans with high pride in flamd Shake off the yoke of theiâ subiâction quite Nor will with patience heare the English nam'd Except of those that speake of them in spight But as their foes them publikely proclaim'd And their Alyes to open Armes excite In euery place thus Englands right goes downe Nor will they leaue the English men a Towne New-castle Constance Maleon and Saint lo With Castel-Galliard Argenton and Roane Pânteu-de-mer with Forts and Cities moe Then which that Country stronger holds had none Set ope their gates and bad the English goe For that the French should then pâsââsse their owne And to the Armies vp the Forts they yeeld And turne the English out into the Field And that great Earle of Arminacke againe A puistant peere and mighty in estate Vpon iust cause who tooke in high disdaine To haue his Daughter so repudiate His countreys bordering vpon Aquitane Pursues the English nation with such hate As that he entred with his Armed powers And from that Dutchy draue all that was oârs Th' inraged commons ready are to rise Vpon the Regent to his charge and layd That from his slacknesse and base cowardize These Townes were lost by his neglect of ayde Then follow Suffolke with confused cryes With Maine and Aniou and doe him âpbrayd And vow his life shall for their losses pay Or at the stake their goods and liues to lay In th' open Session and Articulate Sâuen ââuerall Treasons vrg'd against them both As most p ãâ¦ã tious members of the State Which was confirmed by the commons oath So that the King who sa ãâ¦ã the peoples hate In his owneselfe though he were very loath âo both the houses laââly doth assent To âet on Suffolke fiue yeares banishment His Soueraigne Lady Suffolke thus must leaue And she her seruant to her soule so deare Yet must they both conceale what they conceiue Which they would âot if any hâlpe
my conceipt friend thou didst neuer see A righter Madam then thou hast of mee For now as Elegiacke I bewaile These poore base times then suddainely I le raile And I am Satiricke not that I inforce My selfe to be so but euen as remorse Or hate in the proud fullnesse of their hight Master my fancy iust so doe I write But gentle friend as soone shall I behold That stone of which so many haue vs told Yet neuer any to this day could make The great Elixar or to vndertake The Rose-Crosse knowledge which is much like that A Tarrying-iron for fooles to labour at As euer after I may hope to see A plague vpon this beastly world for mee Wit so respected as it was of yore And if hereafter any it restore It must be those that yet for many a yeere Shall be vnborne that must inhabit here And such in vertue as shall be asham'd Almost to heare their ignorant Grandsires nam'd With whom so many noble spirits then liu'd That were by them of all reward depriu'd My noble friend I would I might haue quit This age of these and that I might haue writ Before aâ other how much the braue pen Had here bin honoured of the English men Goodnesse and knowledge held by them in prise How hatefull to them ignorance and vice But it falls out the contrary is true And so my Ieffereyes for this time adue Vpon the death of Mistris Elianor Fallowfield ACcursed Death what need vvas there at all Of thee or who to councell did thee call The subiect vvhere upon these lines I spend For thee was most vnfit her timelesse end Too soone thou wrought'st too neere her thou didst stand Thou shouldst haue lent thy leane and mâager hand To those who oft the helpe thereof beseech And can be cured by no other Leech In this wide world hovv many thousands be That hauing past fourescore do call for thee The wretched debtor in the Iayle that lyes Yet cannot this his Creditor suffice Doth woe thee oft with many a sigh and teare Yet thou art coy and him thou wilt not heare The Captiue slaue that tuggeth at the Oares And vnderneath the Bulls tough sinewes rores Begs at thy hand in lieu of all his paines That thou vvould'st but release him of his chaines Yet thou a niggard listenest not thereto W ãâ¦ã short gaspe which thou might'st easily do But thou couldst come to her ere there was need And euen at once destroy both flovvre and seede But cruell death if thou so barbarous bee To those so goodly and so young as shee That in their teeming thou wilt shew thy spight Either from marriage thou wilt Maides affright Or in their Wedlocke Widdowes liues to chuse Their husbands bed and vtterly refuse Fearing conception so shalt thou thereby Extirpate mankind by thy cruelty If after direfull Tragedy thou thirst Extinguish Himens Torches at the first Build Funerall pyles and the sad pauement strew With mournful Cypresse and the pale-leau'd Yewe Away with Roses Mirtle and with Bayes Ensignes of mith and iollity as these Neuer at Nuptialls vsed be againe But from the Church the new Bride entertaine With Weeping Nenias euer and among As at departings be sad Requiems song Lucina by th' old Poets that wert sayd Women in Child-birth euermore to ayde Because thine Altars long haue layne neglected Nor as they should thy holy fiers reflected Vpon thy Temples therefore thou doest flye And wilt not helpe them in necessity Thinking vpon thee I doe often muse Whether for thy deare sake I should aâcuse Nature or Fortune Fortune then I blame And doe impute it as her greatest shame To hast thy timelesse end and soone agen I vexe at Nature nay I curse her then That at the time of need she was no stronger That wee by her might haue enioy'd thee longer But whilst of these I with my selfe debate I call to mind how flinty-hearted Fate Seaseth the olde the yong the faire the foule No thing of earth can Destiny controule But yet that Fate which hath of life bereft thee Still to eternall memory hath lefâ thee Which thou enioy'st by the deserued breath That many a great one hath not after death FINIS * The law Salique was that women should noâ iâ herite whâ law Edward the third â his right to â the Crowne by his motâ cancelled wâ his sword so much as at that tiâ made way his clarme though in France thâ law bee inviolable * Henry thâ so named â Town in Lâ colne Shiâ where he borne * Henry the fift borne Munmouâ in Wââââ Dowglas in that battaile âew three in the Kings âoat Aâmoââ Wickliffe a learned Diuine and the greatest Propestant of those times A Parliament at Leicester Henry Chichly succeeding Arundâll late decââsed in that See * So they termed it as unworthy of a better title The Archbishop of Canterburies Oration to tââ Kingâând Parliament at Lecesterâ in the ãâ¦ã following Stanzaes The Crââââ of France descended vpon Edward the third from Isabell âu Mother Daughtar and suâââââing heire to King Philip of France named the faire * Iames Daulpââââ of Viennoies The Dukes of Lââraine Burbon The Earles of Aumerlâ Savoye Mountbilliard Flaunders Nevers ââarcourt King Iohn of France and Philip his son taken by the Blacke Prince at the Battaile of Poyteers brought Prisoners to ââ land Iohn of Cleumount Peter of Burbon Examples of such as haue aduanâd themselues to the Crowne of France against the strict letter of the lawe Salique in two following Stanzaes Ralph Neuill then warden of the Marches betwixt England and Scotland An âââ adagâ He that will France wiâ must with Scotland first beginne The Duke of Excester the Kings owne ââââ The first breaâh with France The Countries demanded by the King of England The King and Daulphine of France dâââdeth the King of England Henry the fist answered for the Tennis Balles The language of Tennis * Blades accounted of the best temâer Armed at all poynts * Armings for the thigh and legge * Armings for the arme and shoulder Great Ordnance then âuâ newly in âââ Halfe thâââââ cutt of the Island from the Spanish to the German Ocean Edward the third * The Soa betwixt France and England ââ called A Catalogue of the Sâps in ââ Stanzaes The names of the Kings 7. Ships of War An Indian Bird so great that she is able to carrie an Elephant The Bay of Portugal â of the high working Sâ that is knowââ * A country ââng vpon âe âast Sea ordering vpon Poland âamous for ââerring fishng âydes to the âing by the âobility a A blazon of the Ensignes of the seueral Shireâ in 14. Stanzas following b Expressing their freedome as still retaining their ancient liberties by surprizing the Conqueror like a mouing wood c An expression of King Harolds deatâ slaine with an Arrow iâ the head at â the Baâtaâââ of Hastings fighting against the Conquerour d The first famous Earle of
vpon his Helmet stay'd For carefull thoughts his eyes long waking kept Great God quoth he withdraw not now thy ayde Nor let my Father HENRIES sinnes be heapt On my transgressions vp the Summe to make For which thou may'st me vtterly forsake King Richards wrongs to mind Lord do not call Nor how for him my Father did offend From vs alone deriue not thou his fall Whose odious life caus'd his vntimely end That by our almes be expiated all Let not that sinne on me his Sonne descend When as his body I translated haue And buried in an honourable graue These things thus pondring sorrow-ceasing sleep From cares to rescue his much troubled mind Vpon his Eye-lids stealingly doth creepe And in soft slumbers euery sense doth blind As vndisturbed euery one to keepe When as that Angell to whom God assign'd The guiding of the English gliding downe The silent campe doth with fresh courage crown His glittering wings he gloriously displayes Ouer the âost as euery way it lyes With âolden Dreames their trauell and repayes This Herault from the Rector of the skies In Vision waânes them not to vse delayes But to the Battell cheerefully to rise And be victorious for that day at hand He would amongst them for the English stand The dawne scarse drew the curtaines of the East But the late wearied Englishmen awake And much refreshed with a little rest Themselues soone ready for the Battaile make Not any one but feeleth in his breast That sprightly fire which courage bids him take For cre the Sunne next rising went to bed The French by them in triumph should be led And from their Cabins ere the French arose Drown'd in the pleasure of the passed night The English cast their Battailes to dispose Fit ' or the ground whereon they were to fight Foorth that braue King couragious Henry goes An hower before that it was fully light To see if there might any place be found To giue his Host aduantage by the ground Where t was his hap a Quickset hedge to view Well growne in heigh and for his purpose thin Yet by the Ditch vpon whose banke it grew He found it to be difficult to winne âspecially if those of his were true âmongst the shrubs that he should set within By which he knew their streÌgth of horse must come If they would euer charge his Vanguard home And of three hundred Archers maketh choice Some to be taken out of euery Band The strongest Bowmen by the generall voyce Such as beside were valiant of their hand And to be so imployed as would reioyce Appointing them behind the hedge to stand To shrowd themselues from sight and to be mute Vntill a signall freely bad them shoote The game some Larke now got vpon her Wing As t were the English early to awake And to wide heauen her cheerefull notes doth sing As she for them would intercession make Nor all the noyse that from below doth spring Her ayrie walke can force her to forsake Of some much noted and of others lesse But yet of all presaging good successe The lazie French their leisure seeme to take And in their Cabins keepe themselues so long Till flocks of Rauens them with noyse awake Ouer the Army like a cloud that hong Which greater hast inforceth them to make When with their croaking all the Country rong Which boaded flaughter as the most doe say But by the French it turned was this way That this diuining Foule well vnderstood Vpon that place much gore was to be spill'd And as those Birds doe much delight in blood With humane flesh would haue their gorges fill'd So waited they vpon their swords for food To feast vpon the English being kil'd Then little thinking that these came indeed On their owne mangled Carkases to feed When soone the French preparing for the Field Their Armed troupes are setting in array Whose wondrous numbers they can hardly weeld The place too little whereupon they lay They therefore to necessity must yeeld And into order put them as they may Whose motion sounded like to Nilus fall That the Vast ayre was deafned therewithall The Constable and admirall of France With the grand Marshall men of great command The Dukes of Burbon and of Orleance Som for their place some for their birth-right stand The Daulphine of Auerney to aduance His worth and honour of a puissant hand The Earle of Ewe in Warre that had bene bred These mighty men the mighty Vauward led The maine brought forward by the Duke of Bar Neuers and Beamont men of speciall name Alan Zon thought not equall'd in this Warre With them Salines Rous and Grandpre came âheir long experience who had fetcht from farre Whom this expected Conquest doth enflame Consisting most of Crosbowes and so great As France her selfe it well might seeme to threat The Duke of Brabant of high valour knowne âhe Earles of Marle and Faconbridge the Reare âo Arthur Earle of Richmount's selfe alone âhey leaue the right wing to be guided there Lewes of Burbon second yet to none âed on the left with him that mighty Peere The Earle of Vandome who of all her men Large France entytled her great Master then The Duke of Yorke the English Vauward guides Of our strong Archers that consisted most Which with our horse was wing'd on both the sides âaffront so great and terrible an host âhere valiant Fanhope and there Beamont rides With Willoughby which scowred had the Coast That morning early and had seene at large How the Foe came that then they were to charge Henry himselfe on the mayne battell brings Nor can these Legions of the French affright This Mars of men this King of earthly Kings Who seem'd to be much pleased with the sight As one ordayn'd t'accompish mighty things Who to the field came in such brau'ry dight As to the English boades succesfull lucke Before one stroke on either side was strucke In Warlike State the Royall Standard borne Before him as in splendrous Armes he road Whilst his coruetting Courser seem'd in scorne To touch the earth whereon he proudly troad Lillyes and Lyons quarterly adorne His shield and his Caparison doe load Vpon his Helme a crowne with Diamonds decâ Which through the field their Radient fires refâeâ The Duke of Glocester neere to him agen T' assist his Brother in that dreadfull day Oxford and Suffolke both true Marshall men Ready to keepe the battell in Array To Excester there was appointed then The Reare on which their second succours lay Which were the youth most of the Noblest bloâ Vnder the Ensignes of their names that stood Then of the stakes he doth the care commend To certaine troupes that actiue were and strong Onely deuis'd the Archers to defend Poynted with Iron and of fiue foote long To be remou'd still which way they should bend Wher the French horse shold thick'st vpoÌ theÌ throâ Which when the host to charge each other went Show'd his great wit
Bona the French Queens sister The Dutchesse of Bedford after Iohn her husbands deceasâ was wâddedââ Sir Richard Wooquile Knight whosâ daughter âââ Lady was Her husband slain at Saint Albans on the âââgâ part ãâ¦ã King ãâ¦ã Warwicke deeply diââââbles his dis ãâ¦ã a George second brother to King Edward and by him ãâ¦ã Duke of Clarence b Warwicke by his Agents had stirred vp this rebellion in the North he himselfe being at Calliââ thâ it might sââââ not to be done by him they had to their Captaines Henry Fitz-Hugh Henry Neuil and Sir Iohn Coniers c The Earâe of Penbroke and hââ brother Richard Herbert ouerthrowne at Banbury field d These Râbâls had to their Captain one whom they termed Robin of Rids dale The Earle Riuers was Father to the Lady Gray then Queene of England f The Earle âaketh the King prisoner at ââlney in Warwickeshirâ entring open this campe ãâ¦ã the ââght g They had to their Captaine Robert Wâlls sonnâ to the Lord Wâlles T ãâ¦ã field h The Lord Vaucleere a Gascoyne borne i A knowne Port Towne of Normandy k A Towne where the French King lay l ãâ¦ã The Queeneâ speech to the Earle in the soure following Stanzaes Barron ââulcoâ bringe was brother to Richard Neââll Earle of Salsbury and Richard Earl of Warwicke Iohn Marquesse Mounâacute were Sonnes to the sayd Earle Warwickes reply in the two following Stanzaes Prince Edward affyed to Anne the Earle of Warwicks daughter Warwicke makes preparation for a ââw Warre Warwicke so famous that he was seene with wonder A Simile Warwick driueth King Edward out of the Kingdome Warwicke takes Kiâ Henry the T ãâ¦ã King Edward and his adherents aiâaiâted by act of Parliament Queene Margarite neuer sees any thing that might giue her comfort The Duke of Burgondy brother in Law to King Edward so was âhe ãâ¦ã King Henry by his Grand mother being the daughter of Iohn of Gaunt Torke yeelded vp to King Edward Succoursâonâââing into Edward King Edward sets downe hâ Army besoâ Couentry daring Warwicke to the field Clarence ãâ¦ã his father in Law the Earle of Warwicke Warwicke followes the King towards London King Edward ââts âââ of London ãâ¦ã The Armies meet at Barât * The Armes of England Warwickes high ãâ¦ã The Earle of Warwicke âis brother Marquesse Mountacute âaine âhat very day âhat Warwick âas slaine the Queene âands âhe Queenes âeech heaâng of Warwicks defeat ãâ¦ã the three âollowing âanzaes Cause of new sorrow to the Queene The remnant of the Army which escaped aâ Barnet resort to the Queene The Queene encouraged by her friends The Armies meete at Tukesbury A place ill ââosen on the Queenes part A bloody battell The Queeneâ Army ouerthrowne Prince Edward taken prisoner Vpon the Kings Proclamation of a great reward to him that could bring him ãâ¦ã As also of the Princes safety Sir Richard Crosts is won to discouer his prisoners Prince Edward stabd to death Queene Margarite gets into a poore Cell Lewis of France Duke Rayner ââdââth himselfe to rans ãâ¦ã his Daughter The Earle of Gloster after Richard the third The Furies fetcha from hell to bring the World to ââd A description of the furies ââe Mooneâlfe beg ât the diuell The prodigious signs that foreran the birth of the Moone-Calfe A description of the Moon Calfe Mother Red-Capâ talâ The moraliây of mother Red-Caps tale The morallity of mother Bumbyes âalâ The morality of mother Howlets tale Gammer Gurtons tale The morallity of Mother Gurtons * The nearest harbour of Spaine An I le for the abundeâ of wine supposed to be the habitaâ on of B ãâ¦ã * An I le for the abândance âf Wine supposed to bee the habitatiân of Bacchus