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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06935	Honour in his perfection or, A treatise in commendations of the vertues and renowned vertuous vndertakings of the illustrious and heroycall princes Henry Earle of Oxenford. Henry Earle of Southampton, Robert Earle of Essex, and the euer praise-worthy and much honoured Lord, Robert Bartue, Lord Willoughby, of Eresby: with a briefe cronology of theirs, and their auncestours actions. And to the eternall memory of all that follow them now, or will imitate them hereafter, especially those three noble instances, the Lord Wriouthesley, the Lord Delaware, and the Lord Montioy.	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.	1624 (1624)	STC 17361; ESTC S112100	25,787	50

praise of them you are my Swannes and I haue Laurell to crowne you to those which shall Register their good actions I haue Chronicles and you shall write them and to those which shall pray for them I haue Pulpets and onely you shall speake in them But vnto those who shall murmure against them to those which mis-interpret disgrace depraue or wish ruine to their proceedings say vnto them they are the bastards of the great Whore and they and their seede haue beene accursed before all Generations say indeed plainly and say truly that they are the sons of the deuill begotten on the Pope nurst vp by the Iesuite which is the eldest sonne of Murther and protected by that Nymrod which hunteth after Kings and thinkes the whole World too little for his backe-Burthen This say vnto them and forsake them spue them out of thy mouth cast them from thy breast and let them only find their portions amongst those Fugitiues which hauing no Vertues to carry along with them are truly wretched truly miserable in euery habitation Giue vnto thy Souldiers of thy wealth of thy riches bring them offerings and oblations of thy store such as may incourage them to goe forward in thy worke and strengthen and support them against all the deadly assaults of Necessitie nor of thy 〈◊〉 and vnworthy store of thy leane Cattell and thy blasted fruit of thy mouldy bread or putrifide water but bring them of the ripest clusters of thy best grapes the fatlings of thy flockes and the best Iewels which adorne thee this will expresse the worthinesse of thy nature and this will make them finde out dores and waies to enter and conquer all impossibilities this will make them so vigilant and watchfull in occasions so carefull and secure in all attemptings and so prouident and valyant in the conquest of euery daunger that as Pericles said to the Athenians so will they say to their followers If no men but we leade you to death you shall be immortall Lastly giue vnto these good ones the full measure of all true Honour and Renowne let them haue Honour in thy Streetes in thy Houses in thy Courts in thy Churches and in all places let their Statues adorne thy best roomes let their Chronicles furnish thy best Lybraries and let their memories keepe thy children awake to the end of all posteritie When thou wilt seeke to erect or build vp a great Spirit in a weake breast when thou wilt vnder-prop the declining or falling Vertue of a misled goodnesse when thou wilt reuiuee a courage that is murtherd by Fortune or Stiffled by Ingratitude when thou wouldst inflame a soule that hath beene quencht with too much Austeritie or dampt and halfe smotherd vp with contempt or indeed when thou wouldst to any great one doe a great a good and a noble office then reade vnto them the Stories of these Noblemens liues and the Stories of their Noble Progenitors for beleeue it if there be in those lost ones any matter whereon to worke if they be not all dead flesh all fleame or all snow water these and their Auncestours are Sunnes whose fires are able to quicken and giue life nay euen to create and giue being to the driest piece of Noble earth that euer was forsaken And first begin with Oxford whose Honour is as old as the Roman Monarchie shew them that when Coesar flourisht then Verus grew and brought forth flowers and fruits as noble as auncient and though in euery degree not so potent and admired yet by the oddes of ambition a thousand times more wholsome and more glorious and what is a blessing aboue all blessings many Ages longer lasting for what is left of Coesar but his name when of that Verus is yet left a Vere and to our fore-fathers many Veres as good as excellent as Coesar but by many degrees much more fortunate for though Coesar were neuer so Noble by his Birth neuer so happy in his Conquests neuer so much beloued for particular Vertues yet by a Iury of two and fiftie of his Peeres he was condemned of Ambition euery one gaue him a wound and euery wound sealed vpon his body the sentence of guiltie so that howsoeuer he fell after an vniust manner yet he iustly fell for the action was vniust to which he aspired neither at this day is there left any of his bloud no not any small sprig or spray of his most extrauagant Braunches the House of Austria though they borrow his name for glory sake yet they cannot begge his pedigree for truth sake they haue much of Coesars Maiestie but not all Coesars vertue Whereas our Vere was with Coesar as noble as good as auncient as he was and is with vs as great as worthy as renowned and as hopefull as euer his Auncestours was and what is the most memorablest and most glorious Sunne which euer gaue light or shine to Nobilitie our Veres from the first houre of Coesar to this present day of King Iames which is aboue a thousand seuen hundred yeares agoe neuer let their feet slip from the path of Nobilitie neuer knew a true ecclipse of glory neuer found declination from Vertue neuer forsooke their Countrie being wounded or their lawfull Kiug distressed neuer were attainted neuer blemisht but in the puritie of their first Garments and with that excellent white and vnspotted innocencie wherewith it pleased the first Maiestie to inuest them they liued gouerned and dyed leauing the memory thereof on their Monuments and in the peoples hearts and the Imitation to all the Princes of the World that either would be accounted good men or would haue good men to speake good things of their actions Witnesse to this amongst the infinite Stories of this noble House the memorable Actions of that high and Illustrious Prince that neuer enough to be praised great one Iohn Earle of Oxford who in the daies of Henry the sixt tooke that deuout and Religious King his Soueraigne and the sonne of Henry the fift his fathers Soueraigne into his armes and protected him against the many fearefull and terrible assaults of the great House of Yorke staid him when he was falling raised him vp when he was fallen reteined him and put new oyle to his lampe when all the first glory was wasted and till the power of all powers would giue him leaue to proceede no further he held vp the poore weake royall barke contrary to all probabilitie against all the waues windes and tempests of misfortunes Insomuch that Edward the fourth amazed at his actions said that Oxford was an Eagle in the Warres and soared aboue the Clouds when he thought to take him but fell suddenly vpon those which held him farther off and shewed them destruction and the Duke of Glocester being asked his opinion of this Earle said He was the best Sword and Buckler that euer defended the House of Lancaster whereas if hee had beene his friend his conscience