Faith Faiths fruites selfe-aptly shonne When such a faith is but the faith of that faith-fruitles Deuill That cited Scripture vnto Christ applying good to euill Tell whether that the Leuite or Samaritane did better Tell wherein Diues liu'd and dide to Lazarus a Debter Vnknot sententious Salomon his Parable which is Full Cloudes will rayne vpon the Earth How thus is meant by this Rich meÌ„ by Cloudes poore men by Earth els Clerks expound amis Tell how some Cloudes but misell Rayne that is if so they giue A peny Almes or twaine a yeare they thinke they much releeue Som Clouds flash down their Shewres that is som set vp two or three And begger so themselues and theirs say such are foolish free Some Clouds hayle downe their Raine beate flat hurt helpe not y e ground That is vpbraid whoÌ„ they releeue hold theÌ„ seruile bound Some Cloudes giue Snow that lights and lies a moysture moystles so Doe those that say alas God helpe and nothing els bestoe Some Cloudes doe shewre into the Seas say such do giue to such Whom Almes make idle or belike to recompence as much Som Clouds with lightning thunder lowd winds drip down their raine That is giue sildom almes those proclam'd seene ere â—ayne Some Clouds retayne but forme of clouds with figure black as Coale That is looke bigge Examine long but Scriptum est their doale Some gracious Clouds shed temprate Shewres on thirstie earth indeed That is the Orphant Widow Thrall succour protect and feed Say also whatsoere wee giue to whosoere it bee Though giuen in sight of men if not because that men should see But with Deuotion as a worke from Faith that cannot seuer God for such cheerfull Almes wil be our bounteous Almner euer Say make not as it weare a Quest of quere ere Yee giue But giue yee Almes as men be poore not as poore men to liue Prouided common Beggers nor disordered Lossels who Men know prouided for or can but labour none will doe Than whom doe say for so is sooth no Creatures worse desatue Take you no Orators for them but that they hang or statue And thus for this Our Ouerture to it reduceth mee The Vncles ofthis Orphant King so long as they agree Vphild Religion King themselues and Realme in happie state Which then began to ruinate when they begun debate CHAP. XL. SOme say their falling out was through two haughtie womens strife The Admiralls Queene Bigama Lord Protectors wife These for what glorie enuies not one woman in an other Began a brawle that ended in the blood of either Brother T is thought the Earle of VVarwick threw close fewell to this fire And nourisht it to cut off them that so he might aspire For when the one had lost his head he forthwith tooke in hand To forge the Lord Protector false vnto the King and Land Who though he tryed by his Peeres of treason was acquited Yeat also of a Statute new he being then indighted Was hardly found a Felon and too stricktly sentenc'st so For meanest fault is high offence vrg'd of a mightie Foe The King thus lost his Vncles both to his no little woe Now VVarwick was become a Duke feared of high and lowe Full little thinking that himselfe the next to Blocke should goe The two Prince-loyall Semers erst made let vnto his lust But now remayned none whose faith or force he did mistrust The Orphant King fell sicke but here suspend what some suspect The new Duke of Northumberland meane while did all direct It was contriu'd King Edward from his Sisters gaue the Crowne Their Fathers Former Act and Will by wrested law put downe The Sisters Daughters Daughter of Eight Henry Ladie Iane Was publisht heire apparant and that right from Mary tane And from Elizabeth though both collatrally preceed her And when by ful Confedracie the Crowne-right was decreed her And Gylford Dudly fourth-borne Sonne vnto Northumberland Had married her and nothing seem'd the Plot-forme to withstand King Edward entred seauenteene yeares of age seauen of Raigne Departed to that endles rest his vertuous life did gaine The Councel then conuent But who wil think perhaps that one Should alter All to alter true Discents vnto a Throne â—ane Suffolks Daughter Gylfords wife One worthie such estate For righteous and religious life who nerethelesse should wate Her Intrest after others Two The younger of which twaine Did match yea Mate her vertues was proclamed Queene to raigne And in the tower of London hild Estate and princely Traine Meane while fled Mary doubting lesse her Scepters losse than life But sildome fayles a rightfull cause that comes to open strife The Commons knew our either Law prefer'd a Sisters Right Before a Cosens and fot it did many fadge to fight Northumberland with Armes pursu'd the Ladie Mary and Obseru'd directions from the Peeres who when they vnderstand Of Maries strength of flocking Friends on sudden came to pas That they proclamed Mary Queene and Iane her Prisner was And well was he that late did seeme a Foe might first salute The Queene and all vnto the Duke did their Amis impute For soothly more the Peeres did feare than fauour alway Who though he seem'd as forward now in Maries cause as thay Yeat was he taken and in-towr'd and lost his head for this A Warrior braue But than his Sier himselfe one Sonne of his Like rare Politians seldome liu'de who in three seuerall Raignes Successiuely did shew them such though losse did proue their gaines THe Duke thus dead Suffolke Lord Gray Lord Gylford Lady Iane Weare executed But we blanch the rest excepting twaine That is Lord Gylford and his wife yong and lesse worthy blame Because the Dukes their Fathers all the Councell all of name Yea and King Edwards Pattents seald for them not they did frame What so was done in this yeat they must perish for the same Who higher then this Couple late and who more wretched now Of more then much remayned nought nor law did life allow Vnhappie Youths not for they die but for the mutuall greefe Of him for her of her for him which tortur'd them in cheefe Come was the day the tragicke day wherein they both should die When Either passing to their end ech other did espie Shee in her lodging waiting death prepared her that day And he in being lead thereto he Lodging in his way Assending and dissending Signes then fly and fall apace And each bemones the other more than mindes their priuate cace Their Eâ—es that looked Loue ere while now looke their last adew And staine their faces faultles ere this dismall enter-vew Their Eares earst listning ioies are deafe vnles to sighes profound Their tongs earst talking ioies those looks sighes did now coÌ„found What parts soere of them had felt or tasted ioyes ere this Wheare senceles now of any ioy saue hope of heauenly blis Whilst Either thus for Earthly Pompe no longer time did looke He passeth
we commend Well wotring Acts heroick and great Accidents not few Occurre this happie Raigne here-hence of purpose blanched vew Nor Perpetuitie my Muse can hope vnlesse in this That thy sweet Name Elizabeth herein remembred is And this hope I doth bode me good that very day wherein Was finish't This did of thy Raigne yeare Thirtith nine begin May Muse arte-graced more than mine in Numbers like supply What in thine Highnes Praise my Pen too poore hath passed-by A larger Field a Subiect more illustrious None can aske That with thy Scepter and thy selfe his Poesie to taske Thy Peoples Prolocutor be my Prayer and I pray That vs thy blessed Life and Raigne long blesse as at this day An Addition in Proese to the second Booke of ALBIONS ENGLAND contayning a Breuiate of the true Historie of Aeneas ACcept him friendly Reader where he is not where he ought and as he speaketh not as he should Misapplied he is not for Matter precedent howsoeuer the penning or misplacing may like or mislike for the English or Order Rather hath my Remisnes borrowed of Decorum and your Patience than that a Patriarke of our Brutons should be abruptly estranged Of Aeneas therefore it thus followeth Aeneidos WHen the reuengefull Flames of Trâ—y properly called Ilion then the principall Citie of all Asia had perfected the more than Teâ—ne yeares Siege of the Grecians expugning of the same then Aeneas howsoeuer by some authorities noted of disloyaltie towards Priam in this not vnworthily surnamed vertuous burthening his armed shoulders with his feeble and most aged Father Anchises that laboured also vnder his loade of the Troian Gods and sacred Reliques Aeneas as I say with such his Burthen leading by the hand his Sonne Ascanius of the age of twelue yeres followed not only of the beautifull Creusa his wife the Daughter of King Priam but also of a many Troians participating that common calamitie brake through the wastfull Flames mauger the wrathful Foes into the fields of Phrigia Theare the Aire emptied of down-burnt Turrets and filled with smoake of fired Buildings assured froÌ„ their hearts more teares to their eyes than the benefit of their present Escape could promise them comfort Trâ—y therefore not to be rescued or Creusa in this businesse lost and perishing to be recouered Aeneas and his Followers imbarking themselues in Simois after long weary Sea-faring arriued in a part of Thrace called Cressa bounding on Mygdonia Here Aeneas purposing an end of his tedious Saylings and not meanly furnished of Treasure conuayed from Troy laied Foundation of a Citie after the Founder called Aenea This Citie going forward lesse effectually than was expected Aeneas supposing the Gods to bee yet opposite to the Troians knocking downe a milke-white Bull pitched an Altar to doe Sacrifice Neere at hand were growing diuers shrubbed Trees the Boughes whereof for the greater reuerence and exornation of the present Solemnitie he cutting and sliuing downe perceiued blood in great abundance issuing from the broken Branches whereat long admiring and with great terror and deuotion intercessing the Gods to reueale the meaning of that miraculous Accident at the length he heard a pitiful feeble voice for diuessly in those daies did the Diuels answere and giue Oracles thus answering Reason were it Aeneas that the Graues of the dead shuld priuiledge their bodies from the tyrannie of the liuing but by so much the lesse doe I esteeme my preiudice by how much the more I know thee vnwittingly iniurious Thou Aeneas in these Braunches thou tearest the bodie of thy vnfortunate brother-in-Brother-in-law Polydor Sonne to the likestarred Priamus Troy as yet was only threatned not besieged when my Father as thou knowest deliuered me with a world of Treasure to Polymnâ—stor the barbarous King of this Countrie here daungerles as he pretended to abide as the Conseruor and Restauration of his House and Empyre whatsoeuer should betide of him his other Issue or the Warres then beginning but the Greekes preuailing Auarice and the declining State of Phrigia imboldned my Gardein fearles of Reuengers to the murthering of me which he traytrously accomplishing on this Shore secretly raked me vp in these Sands without honor of better Sepulcher and of my body so hath it pleased the Gods and Nature are sprong these Branches in tearing of which thou tormeÌ„test me Howbeit in respect of my desire to profit thee by foretelling of thy Destinie I account mee happily harmed For know Aeneas that in vaine thou doest build where the Gods deny thine abode leaue therefore these defamed Coasts and prosperously plant the Remaine of Troy and thy Posteritie in the fertill Italian Clime The voyce thus ceased to speake and Aeneas without further touch of the forbidden Shrubs continuing his feare finished the Sacrifice after the Phrigian fashion solemnlie held an Obit to the Ghost of his murthered Kinsman THen by this admonishment he and his Troians leauing the new reared Citie disanker from Thrace in quest of behighted Italie But no sooner had they put to Sea theÌ„ that the windes and the waues sollicited a Poeticall fiction by the wife of Iupiter so tossed and turmoyled the disparkled Nauie that the horror of the circuÌ„stances coÌ„tinually threatning their liues left onely hoped-for death as the remaine of all comfort At length these instruments of their long wandrings and the causes of Anchises of many noble personages there perishing couÌ„terpleaded as is fabled by Venus tossed their distackled Fleet to the Shore of Libya Neere to the place of their arriual stood the beautifull Citie of Carthage which Elisa whom the Phaenicians for her magnanimious dying did afterwards name Dido had newly builded Aeneas by safe-coÌ„duct receiued froÌ„ her repayring thether found such royal entertainemeÌ„t that in respect of the present solace he had forgotteÌ„ al passed sorrowes his hart-spent Troians found bountifull supplies to all their late endured scarsities In the meane while Aeneas for personage the Iouilist for wel-spokeÌ„ the Mercuxilist no lesse fortunate vnder Venus her constellatioÌ„ with his comelines so intised the eyes with his speeches so inchaunted the eares and with his vertues so enflamed the heart of the amorous Cathagenian Queene that hardly modesty discented that her tongue affirmed not the loue which her eyes outwardly blabbed and her heart inwardly nourished In the end not able longer to containe such extraordinary Passions in this order she vented the same to the Lady Anna her Sister My trusty Sister quoth she then sighing out a pause how many great Princes since the decease of my late husband Sichaeus and our departure from Tyrus haue in vaine laboured a marriage with me hath been vnto thee no lesse apparant than of me hitherto vnapproued but now haled on I know not by what destinie our new-come Guest Aeneas the Troian whose matchlesse personage and knightly prowesse I partially commend not all confirming of him no lesse than I can affirme the same euen the same hath supplanted my chast determinations of continual
conclude by Combacy to winne or loose the Game Within a little Island neare round which the Armies stand The Kingly Champions trie their Force by fighting hand to hand They spur their Horses breake their Speares beat at Barriars long And then dismounting did renew a Battell braue and strong Whil'st eyther King thus Martially defends and did offend They breathing King Canutus said we both I see shall end Eâ—e Empire shall begin to one then be it at thy choyce To fight or part With it their Knights crie out with common voyce Deuide most valiant Kings deuide enough ye haue of Fight And so the Champions did embrace forgetting malice quite Partition equally was made betwixt these Princes twaine And Brother-like they liue and loue till by a deu'lish traine Earle Edricus a Traytor to the Father and the Sonne Did murther Edmund and his head supposing to haue wonne The fauour of Canutus so presenting sayd O King For loue of thee I thus haue done Amazed at the thing Canutus sayd and for that thou hast headed him for me Thy head aboue all English heads exalted it shall be The Earle was headed and his head poold vp for all to see Of England Danske Norway then Canut was perfect Lord And in this triple Regiment all with vertue did accord Harold Hardi-knought his sonnes each th' other did succeede Of either which small certaine Fame of well or ill we reede Saue by their Raigns to Englâ—sh-men did grieuous thraldoÌ„ breede But after Hardt-knought his death the Danes were chased hence Not intermedling with the state of England euersince CHAP. XXII OF foresaid Egelred his Sonnes Alured and his brother Was Edward King for Goodwins guile had made away that other Religious chaste wise fortunate stout francke and milde was hee And from all Taxes wrongs and Foes did set his Kingdome free By ouer-ruling of his Lords intreating long the same Least dying Issuelesse he leaue succession out of frame He tooke to Queene a Damsell faire howbeit by consent In vowes of secret chastitie their louing liues they spent The Father of this maiden-wife he sitting by the King And seeing one that stumbled but not falling vp to spring Did laughing say the brother theare the brother well hath eas'd His meaning was the Stumblers feete And haddest thou so pleas'd So had my Brother quoth the King bin easing vnto me The traitrous Earle tooke bread and sayd so this digested be As I am guiltlesse of his death these words he scarcely spoke But that in presence of the King the bread did Goodwyn choke His sonne Harold by Hardi-knoghts late daughter him suruiues He crossed by contrary winds in Normandie ariues Where Goodwins sonne did take an oth Duke VVilliam vrging so To keepe vnto the Duke his vse when Edward hence should go The Crowne of England claimed by Adoption and by blood But Harold after Edwards death not to his promise stood And for he was in wealth in friends in blood and Armor strong And title had his Mothers right he forced not the wrong But arming him against the Duke so vrged vnto wroth Did seaze the Crowne vnto himselfe contrary to his oth Whil'st VVilliam therfore works for war King Harold had not rest For Harold Hare-foote King of Danes and Norwaies much opprest The English with his puissant Bands But Harold him assailes And after fearce and doubtfull fight most valiantly preuailes And with the Norgaine Prince he slew his people almost all When for deuision of the spoyle did much contention fall Betwixt the King and English-men and many a noble Knight Not onely murmur and maligne but did forsake him quight Such malice growing VVilliam with his Normanes taking land Found hot hot spur Harold prest in Armes his puissance to withstand And either Battell Marshalled as either Captaine wild The King of England eagerly the Normane Oste behild And with his cheerefull speeches thus his men with courage fild See valiant War-friends yonder be the first the last and all The Agentes of our Enemies they hencefoorth cannot call Supplies for weedes at Normandie by this in Porches groe Then Conquer these would Conquer you and dread no further Foe They are no stouter than the Brutes whom we did hence exile Nor stronger than the sturdy Danes or victory er while Not Saxoâ—â—e could once containe or scarce the world beside Our Fathers who did sway by sword where listed them to bide Then doe not ye degenerate take courage by discent And by their burialles not abode their force and flight preuent Ye haue in hand your Countries cause a Conquest they pretend Which were ye not the same ye be euen Cowards would defend I graunt that part of vs are fled and linked to the Foe And glad I am our Armie is of Traytours cleered so Yea pardon hath he to depart that stayeth Mal-content I prize the minde aboue the man like zeale hath like euent Yeat troth it is no well or ill this Iland euer had But through the well or ill Support of Subiects good or bad Not Caesar Hengest Swayn or now which neretheles shall fayle The Normane Bastard Albion true did could or can preuaile But to be selfe-false in this Isle a selfe-Foe euer is Yeat wot I neuer Traytour did his Treasons Sâ—ipend mis. Shrinke who wil shrinke let Armor's wayte presse downe the burdned earth My Foes with wondring eyes shal see I ouer prize my death But since ye all for all I hope a like affected bee Your Wiues your Children liues and Land from sâ—â—uitude to free Are Armed both in shew and zeale then gloriously contend To winne and weare the home brought Spoyles of Victorie the end Let not the Skinners daughters Sonne possesse what he pretends He liues to die a noble death that life for freedome spendes As Harold hartned thus his men so did the Normane his And looking wishly on the earth Duke William speaketh this To liue vpon or lie within this is my Ground or Graue My louing Souldiers one of twaine your Duke resolues to haue Nor be ye Normanes now to seeke in what you should be stout Ye come amidst the English Pikes to hewe your honors out Ye come to winne the same by Launce that is your owne by law Ye come I say in righteous warre reuenging swords to draw Howbeit of more hardie Foes no passed Fight hath spead ye Since Rollo to your now-Abode with Bands victorious lead ye Or Turchus Sonne of Troylus in Scythian Fazo bread ye Then worthy your Progenitors ye Seede of Pryams sonne Exployt this businesse Rollons do that which ye wish be done Three People haue as many times got and forgone this shore It resteth now ye Conquer it not to be Conqured more Fot Normane and the Saxon Blood conioyning as it may From that consorted Seede the Crowne shall neuer passe away â—efore vs are our armed Foes behind vs are the Seas On either side the Foe hath Holdes of succour and for ease But that Aduantage
shall returne their Disaduantage thus If ye obserue no shore is left the which may shelter vs And so hold out amidst the Rough whil'st they hale in for Lee Whereas whil'st men securely sayle not seldome shipwracks bee What should I cite your passed Acts or tediously incence To present Armes your faces shewe your hearts conceiue offence Yea euen your courages deuine a Conquest not to faile Hope then your Duke doth prophecie and in that hope preuaile A People braue a terren Heauen both Obiects wroth your warres Shall be the Prizes of your Prow's and mount your fame to Starres Let not a Traytors periur'd Sonne exâ—rude vs from our right He dyes to liue a famous life that doth for Conquest fight By this the furious Battels ioyne a bloody day to eyther And long they fight the victory inclining vnto neyther At length the English had the ods who keeping close aray Vnto the Duchie Forces gaue no entraunce any way Who fayning feare and Martially retyring as opprest The English so became secure and follow on disperst To which aduantage furiously the Normanes did returne And got a bloody victorie In vayne the English spurne Amidst the Pikes against the pricke King Harold then was slayne From whom began the Normanes sole but soone conioyned rayne For second Henry Mawd her Sonne freed Englands blood agayne Since when and euer may they so that Of-spring ruled vs Of whose Coniunction in the Crowne the Genalogue is thus King Edmund Irn-side Issue had Edward the Out-law he Had Margaret Mawd by Malcolme theÌ„ the King of Scots had she Mawd to the Conqueror his Sonne first Henry Mawd did beiâ—e This second Mawd the Angeos wife had second Henry heire EDward King Harolds Preregnant of the same Change foretold Who present and succeeding times thus dying did vnfold It is a world to note quoth he the wayes that men adore And how Hypocrisie hath bred of Godlike Deuils store That speake to seeme that seeme to shift that shift to spoyle by guile That smooth sooth yeat deceiue with Scriptum est meane while But let them heaue their hands to Heauen they haue their hier in Hell That seeme deuout to cloake deceit and say but doe not well The Rich are retchles in their willes their liking is for law The Poore repine and Goods not theirs by idle shiftings claw The Lords and Landed ouer-rent and cunningly the same The Parasite doth ouer-reach and beares away the game One riseth by anothers fall and some doe clime so fast That in the Clowdes they doe forget what Climates they haue past But Eagle-winged mindes that fly to nestle in the Sunne Their lofty heads haue leaden heeles and end where they begun It is a common point on which the aged grossely ronne Once to haue dared sayd and seene more then was euer done The Youth are foolish-hardie or lesse hardie then they ought Effeminate phantasticall in few not few are nought At Cyprus not the wanton Saint nor yeat her wylie Sonne Did want her Orgies nor at Rome did Vesta lacke her Nonne The Lampsacens gaue Pryapus his filthie Rites and Create To Ioue his Bulles and Siâ—ilie to Ceres tithed Wheat The Thracians with their Bacchanales did Lybers Temple fill And Italie did blood of Babes on Saturnes Altars spill And fatall wreathes of Myrâ—ill boughes were sacred vnto Dys In fewe there was no Pagane God his Sacrifice did mis. But English-men nay Christian men not onely seeme prophane But Man to Man as Beast to Beast holds ciuill dueties vayne Yea Pulpits some like Pedlers packs yeeld forth as men affect And what a Synode shall conclude a Sowter will correct The rude thus boasting Litrature one Schisme begets another And grossely though a Sehisâ—â—e yeat hath cach Schismatike his Soother Meane while the learned want their Meed none with profit heares The tedious Doult whose artles tongue doth preach to weary eares Here could I enter in a Field of matter more than much But gesse that all is out of frame and long time hath bin such And what shall be let time disclose This onely will I touch A Greene Tree cut from withered Stock deuided Furlongs three From proper Roote it shall reioyne and after fruitfull bee Thus sayd the King And thus doe some expound that Prophesee The Tree this Land the Stock and Roote the thralled English line King Harâ—ld and the VVilliams twaine the Furlongs some define Henry the Normane that begot on Mawde his English Queene Mawde second Henries Mother was the Trees Returne to greene King Stephen first though not so firme did in this Turne proceede But second Henrie perfectly restalled VVodens Seede THE FIFTH BOOKE OF ALBIONS ENGLAND CHAP. XXIII ASsisted by the former Bowne persist my Muse and tell How by the Normane Conquest here an other world befell New lawes not Labyrinths as now through wrested Quirkes came in New Lords also at whom for most our auncient Crests begin The English sinke the Normanes swimme all topsie turute was Vntill the Conquerour had brought his whole command to pas Then was one Edgar sonne vnto the out-law Edward he To holy Edward had been heire had not King Harold be And VVilliam pleading too by sword admits no milder law So Edgar in his soonest flight his safest issue saw Who with his mother daughter to the King of Hungarie And Sisters did attempt into his Grandsiers Realme to flie Thus Englands hope with Englands heir in one same Barke did sayl When desprate from their villanage was English blood of baile 〈◊〉 God that to the hopeles is not helples if he please Did driue the storm-beate English ship into the Scottish seas Wheare cast a shore King Malcolme soone had notice of the wracke And did become a gracious Lord vnto their present lacke And Agatha a Votarisse tooke Margaret to Queene Protects her brother euen by Armes against King Williams teene Vntill by warre and wise conuay he so to passe did bring That Edgar reconciled was vnto the English King In credit though withheld his Crowne and thus at least did good His flight Scotch-queen'd his Sister she regraded Englands blood For let we Edgar gainst the haer preserued as exprest And either VVilliam luckie Knight at armes interred rest And set first VVilliams yongest sonne first Henry on the Throne Through him the royall English and the Normane bloods grew one On Mawd Scotch Malcomes daughter by the foresaid Margaret he Had Mawd that solie did suruiue her drowned brothers three Her Empresse to the Emperour then newly being ded Did Geffrey Plantaganet the Earle of Anioy wed And she vnto Plantaganet did second Henry beire Of England Angeo Gascoyne and of Normandie the heire Yeat Stephen first VVilliams daughters son whoÌ„ th' Earle of Bloys did marrie Did with the Empresse and her son now King now Captiue varrie But lastly tyred and inter'd all England by his death Was quietly second Henries who was lawfulst heire by birth With Hengests blood our droupen Muse it
did expect like deaths as had their brother And as they feare did he affect which for the troubles then Was vneffected now behou'd to winne him loue of men Yeat casts he how he might conuay to him his Neeces right Soone compassing his Wifes dispatch whose life stood in his light Then plyes he his amazed Neece to his inâ—â—â—tious bead Of her abhor'd Shee in conceite by faith fore-plighted spead This marrage motion gawles her more than any former griefe Her selfe Friends Realme Conspiracie all it toucht in breefe And therefore death late feared now she fantaseth in cheefe Meane while did Henry land incampe fight and subdewe his Foe And marrying her long ciuill warres in England ended so CHAP. XXXV SEauenth Henries forraine busenes had succesfull honor heere Three schol'd Dâ—dalien Icarists whose mounting cost them deere Did interrupt the peace The first a Priests bace Puple he By his Complottors was pretenst'e Duke Clarence sonne to bee A many of our natiue Peeres some forraine Princes too Submissiuly behight him aide in all that they might doo The Lad was lofty for himselfe he harrollized well At full he could his lessons and a formale lie would tell For him was fought a bloody field the Victory the Kinges Lambert the forged Yorkest and the Priest that fram'd his winges Weare taken For minority the Icarus was quit The Dedalâ—s for cleargie tites was but intowr'd for it Thus scapte the Priest The mother Queene to her that now was Queene Found harder sentence for a crime more venale as I weene Shee that did forward Henry with her friends her purse her wit That had conspir'd conceil'd concur'd for him the Crowne to git And had him now her sonne in law vnchauncy Queene fore-went Her whole reuenewes and her age as if in durance spent Because against her heart good Soule for bootles to withstand See yeelded all her daughters to the late Vsurpers hand Whereby the Vnion might haue quaild and for it might she must Indure such law strict law to her of mallice not vniust THan good old Queene Elizabeth our next young Phaeton Had gentlier Iudgement He till then froÌ„ Realm to Realm had gone And now in Ireland hoping no such honor was at Corke Saluted by some Rebels theare for Richard Duke of Yorke Fourth Edwards second son Those Stiles to him were strange but thay Did feofe them on the bace-borne Muffe and him as King obay The Yorkesh Faction though they knew the error let not slip Occasion that they now might haue Lancastrians on the hip Margret fourth Edwards sisters heart for ioy hereof did skip Shee had him soone to Burgone and informes him cuery thing That might concerne Yorks pettegree or apted for a King Maliciously repining still at Lancasters successe And often would thus or thus-like her heart with tongue expresse God hath forgot our house of Yorke nay Yorke it selfe forgot To my late Brother Richards soule cleaue euermore this blot He made away our friends to make a way vnto our Foe To Lancaster proud Lancaster I thence these teares doc floe Had he stock't vp that hated stocke had he raâ—'st out that Race Python had ceast and he had bene Apollo in that cace That Henry was Lancastrian and that Henry was aliue And where he liu'd that he should not liue if we would thrâ—â— He knew ywis yeat knew he not his death how to contriue The Duke of Brutaine is no God then how the diuell y'ste That both my brothers laboring him for whome they 〈◊〉 Their Sinons weare too simple and their bribes but petite geere WheÌ„ had they bought him with their souls they had not bought him deere The heire of Lancaster fie how it loathes to sound that name Enioyes the Crowne nay worse enioyes to wife a Yorkesh Dame Worser the name Plantâ—genet is buryed in the same And worst of all their Title such as law bids vs disclame Who would haue lookt such change to chaunce oh howe I feed like will As Aeâ—as daughter Aesons house with tragedies to fill Who can endure to see their friends decline their Foes ascend I see it and for seeing so doe wish my life had end When that her darling had his looer she left him to his wings Who flead not to worse company or at lesse game than Kings He lighteth in the French Kings Court wheare honord as the same From whom he falsely would contriue a Crowne by forged name He had Supplies and English ayds and Irish troupes also With which he lands in England where King Henry met the Foe On either part the Battell was right bloodie but at length The King subdues and Perkeâ— flead the land dispoyld of strength Then as the French the Scotch King did repute of him whereby He wyu'd a Lady passing fayre and of the Kings Allie The Earle of Huntlies daughter of the scotch-blood-royall bread Shee both before and after that her low-pris'd Mate was dead When well she knew his parentage and felt his ebbed state In onely sorrow did abound in loue no whit abate Howbeit in the English Court prefer'd to high estate Theare for she was of comely parts and vncompeered face Shee often brauely courted yeelds no Courtier labor'd grace To one among'st the rest that most admierd her aunswers chaste She sayd besides the sinne and that I so might liue disgrac'ste A Presedent of wrong and woe did make me long since vow Chastly to liue the Loue of him whom Fates should me allow I knew quoth she a Knight a Knight he was in each respecte I knew a Ladie fayre she was but fouly to be chect They loued long if that to loue and leaue may loue be sayd Till lastly she conceyued loue wheare loue should be denayd Then he whose Sowles Soule goddiz'd her perceiuing her vntruth Became vnlike himselfe and mou'd saue her each one to ruth At last he runs'distraught about and what his moods conceited He did confusedly he wept askt answerd and intreated Ah many a time for though his words lackt methode yeat they moued He had these speeches arguments how earnestly he loued CHAP. XXXVI MY Mistresse is a Paragon the fayrest fayre aliue Atrides and Aeacides for faire lesse faire did striue Her colour fresh as Damaske Rose her breath as Violet Her bodie white as Iuorie as smooth as polisht Iet As soft as Downe were she down Ioue might come down kisse A Loue so fresh so sweet so white so smooth so soft as this The Cleonâ—an Lions spoyles for her I would redresse I would the Lernan Hydras heads with sword and fire suppresse My force the Erymantheon Bore should brauely ouermatch The swift-foote golden horned Stag I running would orâ—catch My bow the Birds of Stymphalus from wastfull prayes should chace Of her proud Baldricke would I spoyle the Amazon at Thrace Augeas washed Stables should my seauenth Labour end I with the Bull of Calidon victorious would contend On horse-deuoured Diomede like honour should be wonne 〈◊〉 Spanish Robber