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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01406	The vision and discourse of Henry the seuenth Concerning the vnitie of Great Brittaine. Diuided into foure chapters. 1. Containing an introduction. 2. Inducements to vnitie. 3. The policy, deceit, and mischieuous spite of the vnderminers hereof. 4. The danger of diuision. Related by T.G.	Gainsford, Thomas, d. 1624?; Henry VII, King of England, 1457-1509.	1610 (1610)	STC 11526; ESTC S105669	39,084	72

to bloud it feeds the bodies soyle As Aegipts fields are cheer'd by Nilus riuer For from the hollow veine small veines are fed As from a spring are many Conduicts led The fift reason from the experience of Nations SLie Nymrod first did follow Natures lawe And did comprise a body politick Who stragling families to his charge did draw Which long had beene of ciuill discord sick Then soone they ioyn'd in loue and left their bowres To build for Nimrod Babilons high towres But proud Ambition like a dropsie fares The more it drinkes the more it doth desire As Nimrod by that ayerie towre declares For which he had confusion for his hyre This heape of Ants was by diuision broken Which of each state the ruine doth betoken He thought all future deluge to preuent And on this towre amongst the clowds to walke He scorn'd in earths low cellars to be pent And of the highest did prophanely talke But where he thought his honour to aduance There was the tragedie of his mischance When publike shewes at priuate ends do ayme Those proiects faile and haue the like euent But who with care preuents each publike maime The publike-weale shall crowne his calme intent Thus holy writ thus former times haue taught Though now the world be with new figmēts fraught Some factions are in loue with nouelties And different mindes their different fancies follow They shunne the meane and seeke extremities They straine at Gnats and Elephants do swallow In some mistaking of conceited ill The Gordion knot of concord they would spill But as thy Clergie Iames thou didst relieue Esteeming all their wrongs as done to thee Whom stormes aloft and rocks below did grieue From shipwracks danger thy great care set free That seas waxe calme and rocks are now discried Which shew of zeale so long did closely hide So shall the rest of Britaine be vnited By the rights champion which vndaunted art Which smil'st to heare what passions haue indited 'Gainst reasons force which humors would peruert A comprimise each party must offend Which to the center of the right doth tend When Theseus founded the Athenian state Which long for Arts and Vallour wonne the price He first asswag'd the Atticans debate And for their concord gaue so sound aduice That if the Greekes had so vnited beene They had not yet their head long downfall seene When Romulus had built his seau'n-hild Rome Which afterward all countries did subdue The Sabines first he brought vnto his home Which did with armes their womens losse pursue But so the Romaine policie preuail'd That they conioyn'd and Romaine sons assail'd Then Numa Publicola and the rest Which in the Romaine gouernment succeeded By all faire meanes their borderers did inuest Within their state and in all loue proceeded For still they gaue them equall priuiledge Which was of faithfull loue the truest pledge This was their course th' Italians to bring vnder Of weale and woe they were partakers still So that no force this frame could breake a sunder Till they of conquests did the stories fill But when from forraine warres their armes did rest Ambitious Hydra rais'd her various Crest The Greekes likewise when strangers did inuade They flourish'd most by force of Vnitie For then they were one corporation made And bent their vallour 'gainst their enemie If they had yearly ●ear'd the Persian warre To ciuill slaughters it had beene a barre None but great Philip and his warlike sonne Could curbe the Greekes from shedding Greekish bloud And then by them great Alexander wone The worlds great globe no strēgth his power withstood As Britains twins conioyn'd on Belgias plaine Their fronting foes to flight they still constraine Th' Arabian Agarims of Ismaels race Which Sarazins by Mahomet were named They were a people abiect meane and base Till Mahomet to vnion had them framed Which done in warres and peace they so agreed That soone themselues from Romain thral they freed Then Africk Aegypt Syria they subdued And so conioyn'd disioynted lands did seaze That dayly they their strength and power renew'd And vanquished their borderers at ease So farre they raung'd that lands farre of did feare And gaue them fees that armes they would forbeare The Turkes likewise which with them did remaine Which did increase when Sarazins were imploy'd By their great vnitie such power did gaine That Europe Affrick and Asia they cloy'd For in the flowre of these three they are plac'd And haue the glory of them all defac'd From Buda to the great Constantines seate And from the Euxine sea to Savus bankes The Christians may their losse with griefe repeat For Turkes thus farre haue led their Moonye rancks Bulgaria Seruia Greece and Hungarie And other lands within this tract do lye In Asia and in Affrick they doe hold The land from Velez t' Alexanders towne From Bugia to Guergula they 're bold T' aduance the ensignes of their great renowne Their warres are but their Ianisaries breathing And Christian gifts their swords keep frō vnsheathing But they for Vnitie do take such care And are so warie discord to preuent That they their Emperours brethren will not spare Nor cease from bloud till all that line be spent One warlike sproute they do maintaine aliue And by that meanes their hearts in one contriue Meane while they breake both heau'ns natures lawes Their Empires power and greatnesse to maintaine But nice conceits demurre and long do pawse The heau'ns and natures gift to intertaine Such is the frailtie of all humaine witte That restlesse folly best the turne doth fitte O giddie thoughts and groundlesse feares of men Which do preuent all rest vnto the minde Ill guided passion is much like a wenne Which to the body we disgracefull finde Feare hope loue hate contempt desire griefe ioy Do cloud the minde and thrall it with annoy And as their ciuill discord ouerthrow All sound content in any priuate bower So in a state much more where humors flow Each blast doth raise huge billowes euery hower Such stormes of discord kingdomes ouer-whelme That warily their Kings must hold the helme My great Grand-sonne doth hold no other course Then that which vertuous Kings did still intend They alwayes held that Concord was the source Of endlesse peace for this all strife doth end Though many yeares this land all meanes did trye Yet heau'ns till now this proffer did denie Eight hundred yeares two heires did not affoord Of Britaines kingdoms which might match together Yet in Prince Edwards time no sound accord Could be obtain'd that Mary might come hither And when all humaine plots and proiects fail'd By IAMES Iehouahs firme decree preuail'd Nine hundred yeares likewise the truth was seal'd And barr'd from sight of this and other lands Vnto some few heau'ns mysteries were reueal'd Which did discard them-selues from Romish bands For which they many tortures did indure To prooue the truth and their election sure Of

aduise That publike peace doth priuate weale comprise The Grecians oft the Romans did procure To land their forces on the Grecian plaine This made the Romane victories most sure When Greekes did helpe their conquests to obtaine The Easterne Emperour did this fault commit When gainst his nobles Turkes his turn● did fit For thus the Turkes came armed into Greece At his request which should haue kept them out Then did they winne from him this golden fleece Which onely Discord had thus brought about Thus Isabel the queene of Hungarie With late repentance Iurkish aide did trie The decay of the Romane Empire AS th' Empire of the East was quickly lost By strife to Turkes which now do all deuoure So was the westerne Empire alwaies crost By Popes which did through broyles increase their power For like the Tribunes they did animate Each rebell which the Emperour did hate The Lumbards Vandals Sweuians and the Gothes This auncient Empire often did annoy For to the same they were like fretting mothes But Papal practise did it quite destroy By them the Empire lost all Italie Which since hath beene confin'd in Germany As Romans thriu'd by linking petty States Till Italie was to their power vnited Then shunning ciuill quarels and debates To forraine conquests they were soone incited Till they vnto such force and strength were growne That all the world by them was ouerthrowne So in the end their greatnesse did decline And all their sodered kingdomes fall asunder For ciuill discord made them soone resigne And at their vanishing the world did wonder For now in Italy such sharers are As all her hope of future greatnesse marre The Sarazins were to the world awhile Like swelling tides which all did ouerflow They did themselues the Lords of Africk style And said the earth did homage to them owe But when diuision did their forces sunder The Turks conioyn'd did quickly bring them vnder Thus was th● Eg●p●ian Souldan ouerthrowne Gainst whome his Generall Caythbie was in field Which iarre was to the bloudie ●elim knowne And on that discord he his hopes did build For Mameluckes diuided are defeated And in great Caire were Ianisaries seated What will become of wasted Barbarie Whose miseries Diuision onely wrought Those onely may by circumstance deserie Which haue the Muleis wofull storie sought Mars so hath ballanced their powers ●s yet That it is doubtfull who the crowne should get What in Moscouy Iesuits will effect What they in Europe closely will attempt If heau'n do not their purposes detect And bring their names and practise to contempt Time will hereafter such euents declare That Britaine of Diuision shall beware Meane while My Iames thy blood and vitall spirits Haue ioyn'd in one the kingdomes of this I le Succeeding ages shall extoll thy merits No muddie censure may this act defile Who storme hereat shew but an idle froth Who are luke-warme shew but a carelesse sloth True concord in a state should alwayes be Like to the compasse in a ship at sea W●thout the same a state cannot be free From danger this is held a certaine plea The Mariners by that their course do learne By this a state her ill or good doth learne Diuided Germany to many sects Yet doth it ioyne against the Turkish power Their forraine feare their ciuill broyles corrects Else would diuision all that land deuoure So Britaine should to Vnitie consent All forreine foes the better to preuent When Marriners are in a tempest toss'd They soone forget all quarrels that haue pass'd They know discention then their liues will cost And euery one about his taske doth hast So in this age when Iesuits stormes do raise All must conioyne in these disioynted dayes The Turke abroad the Iesuit at home By which the Christian weale is still disturbed One like an Hauke the other like a Mome By concord onely may be safely curbed For none of these dare euer giue assault Where factions weakenesse haue not made default Both these are like the spleene with humors full Which alwayes make the body leane and bare From their adherents they all wealth do pull The Turkes are Lions Iesuits Foxes are The one by force the other by slie shifts Square all their plots by selfe-aduancing drifts Now if the Persians Turkes do vndertake If wronged Papists Iesuits do casseere The Turkes shall not such sudden conquests make Nor shall the Spanish faction domineere Then Christian lands may happily be quiet Which haue beene fed with selfe deuouring dyet Then treacheries which Pagans did detest And breach of othes which Christians once did hate These wanting patrons shall with Pluto rest All such delusions shall be out of date Then subiects shall to Caesar pay their due And Christians name shall Christian loue renew That Hel-borne policie shall then surcease To foster euery countries male-content That viperous brood should not so much increase Which do their natiue soile for strangers rent All should their furie spend in Turkish warres And onely triumph of thence gotten scarres The gold which th' Indies yearely do affoord Should not to rebels yearely pensions giue Which in the end doth fade like Ionas gourde And failes them most when most it should releeue These haue their pensions at the dearest rate Which for the same their liues must ante-date If policie and treasures were imploy'd To driue the Turkes out of the Christian land If in each kingdome Kings were not annoy'd If Christians would gainst Mahomet ioyne their bands As by their strife he got his lawlesse powre So now their concord should his strength deuoure But as the Romaine Emperour was obay'd Of all the world yet souldiers were his maisters So Christian lands are by their Princes swaid Yet Iesuits in their games will be the casters For these proud vpstarts dayly tyrannize And for their ends do shape each enterprize This watchfull land hath these imposters knowne They haue not much as yet deceau'd her sight Vnto their pits themselues they first haue throwne Before they could preuaile against the right In many countries they haue gamesters beene But their base cheating England best hath seene So Britaine knowes the scourge of ciuil warre By Brutus fault which did diuide the same This act did roule the stone which ranne so farre That it did breake this strong-compacted frame Thus Romans Saxons Danes and French did spoile This most vnhappie dis-united soile For Brutus to his sonnes this Ile had shar'd To Locrin England and to Camber Wales To Albanack he Scotland did award VVhich is so strong by mountaines hils and dales That Valour ioyned with her situation Hath kept her people in their natiue station To passe the broyles twixt Locrin and his Queene In which the wronged Guend'lin got the field To passe the middle iarres which oft were seene When th' English did to Cunidagis yeeld Ferrex and Porrex were from Brute the l●st Which did themselues with ciuill discord wast When Brutus line sixe hundred yeares