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A04560	The most pleasant history of Tom a Lincolne that renowned souldier, the Red-rose Knight, who for his valour and chivalry, was surnamed the boast of England. Shewing his honourable victories in forraigne countries, with his strange fortunes in the Fayrie land: and how he married the faire Anglitora, daughter to Prester Iohn, that renowned monarke of the world. Together with the lives and deathes of his two famous sonnes, the Blacke Knight, and the Fayrie Knight, with divers other memorable accidents, full of delight.; Tom a Lincoln	Johnson, Richard, 1573-1659?	1631 (1631)	STC 14684; ESTC S105584	66,530	98

where euery one as well Strangers as others were most royally feasted The Portingale King séeing his kind entertainement in the English Court where he was vsed more like a Friend then an Enemie had small care to returne home but ●rolik'd many a day amongst the English Lords whose loues vnto strangers be euermore most honourable But so great were the courtesies that the Noble King Arthur bestowed vpon the Portingales who for their proffered disgraces requited them liberally with honour and not onely sent them home ransomlesse but promised to lend them ayde and succour from England if occasion required So bearing them company to the Sea side hee most friendly committed them to the mercy of the winds and waues which were so fauourable that in short time they arriued safe in their owne Country where many a day after they remembred the honourable kindnesse of the English-men and caused the Chronicles of Portingale to record the renowne of King Arthur and hi●●●●●●ts of the Round Table CHAP. IIII. How the Red-rose Knight trauelled from the King of Englands Court and how he arriued in the fayerie-Fayerie-land where he was entertained by a Mayden Queene and what happened to him in the same Country NOw after the Portingales were thus conquered and sent home with great honour the English King and his Lordes rested themselues many a day in the Bowers of Peace leau●ng their Armours rusting and their pampered Steedes standing in their Sca●les forgetting their vsuall manner of wrathfull warre which idle ease greatly discontented the magnanimious Red-rose Knight who thought it a staine to his passed glory and a scandall to his Princely mind to entertaine such base thoughts and considering with himselfe how ignorant hee was of his true Parents and from whence hee was descended hee could not imagine therefore hee purposed to begin a new enterprise and to trauaile vp and downe the World till hee had either found his Father and Mother or else yéelded his life to Natures courle in that pretended Journey so going to the King full little thinking that he was sprung from so Noble a stock crauing at his Graces hand to graunt him such liberty for to try his Knight-hood in forraine Countries whereas yet did neuer Englishman make his aduenture and so eternize his name to all posterity rather then to spend his life in such home-bred practises To this his honourable request the King though loath to forgoe his company yet because it belonged to Knightly Attempts hee gaue him leaue and withall furnished him a Shippe at his owne proper cost and charges giuing free Licence to all Knights whatsoeuer to beare him company amongst which number Sir Launcelor du Lake was the chiefest that proferred himselfe to that Uoyage who protested such loue to the Red-rose Knight that they plighted their Faiths like sworne Brothers and to liue and die together in all extreamities So these two English Knights with the number of a hundred more all resolute Gentlemen tooke leaue of the King and with all spéede went a Ship-boord wherein being no s●●ner entred but the Pylot hoysed Sayle and di●an●hored and so committed their liues and Fortunes to the pleasure of Neptunes mercie vpon whose 〈◊〉 Kingdome the 〈◊〉 many dayes sayled but Ae●●us brazen gates ●u●st open and the Windes so violently troubled the swelling waues that euery minute they were in danger to end their liues in the bottome of the Seas Thrée moneths the winde and the waters stroue together for supremacie during which time they sawe no land but were driuen vp and downe to what place the euer-changing Destenies listed so at last they sayled beyond the Sunne directed only by the light of the Starres not knowing which way to trauell towards land but in such extrenity for want of Uictuall that they were forced to land at a certaine Iland in the Westerne parts of the world inhabited onely by women where being no sooner on land and giuing God thanks for deliuering them from that mortall perill but the Red-rose Knight cast vp his eyes towards the higher parts of the Countrey and espied more then two thousand women comming foorth at a Citie gate all most richly armed with Breast-plates of Siluer marching in trim aray like an Army of well approoued Souldiers the which number comming néere to the Sea side they sent two of their Damsels as Messengers to the English Knights willing them as they loued their liues presently to retire againe back to the Seas for that was no Countrey for their abode But when the Red-rose Knight of England had vnderstoode the hold message of the two Damsels he was sore abashed considering the number of armed women he saw before him and the great dangers they had suffered before on the Sea for want of v●●●uals that he knew not in what manner he were best to answere them but hauing a good courage hee at last spake to the two Damsels in this sort Right Noble Ladies I haue well vnderstood your spéeches therefore I desire you for to shew such fauour vnto wandering Trauailers as to tell vs in what Country Fortune hath brought vs to and for what cause we are commanded by you to returne to the Sea Surely Sir Knight answered one of the Damsels this Countrey whereon you are ariued it is not very bigge but yet most fertile and commodious and is called by the name of the Fayrie-Land And now to shew you the cause why you are commaunded to returne this it is Not many yeares agoe there raigned in this Countrey a King which had to name Larmos for wisedome and prowesse not his equall was found in any of these parts of the world This King had such continuall warre against the bordering Ilanders that vpon a time he was constrained to muster for the same warre all the men both young old which were found in his Kingdome whereby the whole Countrey was left destitute of men to the great disconten●ment of the Ladies and Damsels that here inhabited whereupon they finding themselues so highly wronged liuing without the company of men they generally assembled themselues together with the Daughter of King Larmos which is called Caelia no lesse in Beautie then in Uertue and Wisedome These Ladyes and Damosels beeing gathered together with a generall consent dispatched certaine Messengers to the King and to their Husbands willing them to returne into their Countrey and not to leaue their wiues and children in such extremity without the comfort and company of man Upon which the King answered that hee had besieged his Enemies in their Townes of Warre and before one man should returne home till he came with Conquest his Country should bee lost and made desolate and the Women giuen ouer to the spoyle of his Enemies Which answere when the Ladies had receiued they tooke it in such euill part that they conspired against their King and Husbands and put to death all the men children that were in the Countrey and after determined when their Husbands Fathers and Friends

consideration I doubt not but shall bring vnto thee much pleasure and delight being for the quantitie thereof nothing inferiour to the best that hath beene written of the like Subiect I meane of Knights aduentures and Ladyes beloued I therefore dedicate this to thy reason knowing that this old Prouerbe may confirme my expectation which is That good Wine needs no Bush nor a pleasing Historie craues no shelter Farewell R. I. The second part of the famous History of Tom a Lincolne the Red-rose Knight c. CHAP. I. How Tom a Lincolne knew not his Mother till forty yeares of his age nor whose Sonne he was Of King Arthurs death and his dying speeches and of what hapned thereupon WHen Arthur that renowned King of England being one of the nine Worthies of the World had by twelue seuerall set Battailes conquered the third part of the Earth and being wearied with the exploytes of Marti all aduentures in his olde dayes betooke himselfe to a quiet course of life turning his Warlkie habiliaments to diuine Bookes of celestiall meditations that as the one had made him famous in this World so might the other make him blessed in the World to come Seauen yeares continued quiet thoughts in his breast seauen yeares neuer heard he the sound of delightfull Drums nor in seuen yeares beheld hee his thrice worthy Knights of the Round Table flourishing in his Court by which meanes his Pallace grew disfurnished of those Martiall troupes that drew commendations from all forraigne Kingdomes In this time most of those renowned Champions had yéelded their liues to the conquering Tiranny of pale Death and in the bowels of the Earth lay sléeping their eternall sléepes the royall King himselfe laden with the honour of many yeeres and hauing now according to nature the burthen of death lying heauie vpon his shoulders and the stroke lifted vp to diuide his body from his soule he called before him all the chiefen of his Court but especially his own Quéene the Red-rose Knight and his Lady Anglitora with the faire Angellica the Nunne of Lincolne whom hee had so many yéeres secretly loued and being at the poynt to bid a wafull farewell to the world with Countenance as Maiestical as King Priam of Troy he spake as followeth First to thée my loued Queene must I vtter the secrets of my very soule and what wanton escapes I haue made from any nuptiall Bedde otherwise cannot this my labouring life depart from my fading body in quiet Long haue I liued in the delightfull sinne of Adulterie and polluted our mariage Bed with that vile pleasure pardon I beseech thee and with that forgiuenesse which I hope will proceed from thy gentle heart wash away this long bred euill the Celestaill powers haue grauated me rem●ssion Then turning to Angellica the Nunne of Lincolne hee said Oh thou my youths delight thou whose loue hath bereaued my Quéene of much mariage pleasure thou and but onely thou haue I offended withall therefore diuine Angellica forgiue me I like a rauisher spotted thy Uirginitie I ●r●pt thy sweet budde of Chastitie I with flattery won thy heart and ledde thee from thy Fathers house that good Earle of London to feede my wanton desires by thee had I a Sonne of whom both then and I take glory of for in his worthynesse remaine the true Image of a Martialist and this renowned Knight of the Red-rose is he He liues the fruit of our wanton pleasures borne at Lincolne and there by a Shepherd brought vp few knowing till now his true Parente Ma●●aile not deere Sonne thinke not amisse sweete Queene for thou my louely Angellica Be not dismayde you honourable States heere attending my dying houre for as I hope presently to enter into Elizium Paradise and weare the Crowne of disertfull Glory I haue reuealed the long secrets of my heart and truely brought to light those things that the darknesse of obliuion hath couered Now the Mother knowes her Sonne the Sonne the Mother Now may this valiant Knight boast of his Pedegrée and a quiet content satisfie all your doubts Thus haue I spoke my minde thus quieted my soule bids the world farwell Adue faire Quéene adue déere son farwell louely Angellica Lords and Ladyes adue vnto you all you haue seene my life so now behold my death as Kings doe liue so Kings must die These were the last of Kings Arthurs words And being dead his death not halfe so amazed the standers by as the strange spéeches at his liues farwell The Quéene in a raging ielousie fretted at her Marriage wrongs protesting in heart to be reuenged vpon the Nunne of Lincolne The Nunne of Lincolne séeing her wantonnesse discouered tooke more griefe thereat then ioy in the finding of her long lost Son supposing now that the King being gone she should be made a scandall to the world The Red-rose Knight knowing himselfe to be begot in wantonnesse and borne a Bastard tooke small ioy in the knowledge of his Mother Anglitora Tom a Lincolnes Wife excéeded all the rest in sorrow bitterly sobbing to her selfe and in heart making great lamentation in that she had forsaken Father Mother Friends Acquaintance and Countrey all for the loue of a Bastard bred in the wombe of a shamelesse Strumpet therefore she purposed to giue him the slip and with her owne Sonne a young gallant Knight named the Blacke Knight in courage like his Father to trauaile towards the Kingdome of Prester Iohn where she first breathed life and her Father reigned In this melancholy humour spent they many dayes troubling their braines with diuers imaginations The Court which before rung with Delights and flourished in gallant sort now thundred with Complaints euery one disliking his owne estate Discontent as a proud Commaunder gouerned ouer them and their Attendants were idle Fancies and disquiet Thoughts and to speake troth such a confused Court was seldome séene in the Land for no sooner was Kings Arthurs Funerall solemnized but the whole troupes of Lords Knights and Gentlemen Ladyes and others were like to a splitted Shippe torne by the Tempest of the Sea seuered euery one departed whither his Fancie best pleased The Red-rose Knight conducted his Mother Angellica to a Cloyster in Lincolne which place she had so often polluted with her shame there to spend the remnant of her life in repentance and with her true Lamentations to wash away her blacke spottes of sinne that so grieuously stayneth her Soule and from a pure Uirgine made her selfe a desolute Strumpet Likewise King Arthurs widdowed Quéene like to irefull Hecuba or the tealous Iuno kept her Chamber for many dayes pondering in her minde what reuenge shee might take vpon Angellica her Husbands late fauorite On the other side Anglitora Lady and Wife to the Red-rose Knight with her Sonne the Blacke Knight made prouision for their departure towards the Land of Prester Iohn where shée was borne so vpon a night when neither Moone nor Star-light appeared they secretly departed the Court