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A03784	The historie of Edward the Second, surnamed Carnarvan, one of our English kings together with the fatall down-fall of his two vnfortunate favorites Gaveston and Spencer : now published by the author thereof, according to the true originall copie, and purged from those foule errors and corruptions, wherewith that spurious and surreptitious peece, which lately came forth vnder the same tytle, was too much defiled and deformed : with the addition of some other observations both of vse and ornament / by F.H. knight.	Hubert, Francis, Sir, d. 1629.	1629 (1629)	STC 13901; ESTC S122596	77,301	183

still in streighter bands By praising that wherwith my sense was pleased Affirming that our liues were to be eased Of many cumbers which the curious wise Had layd on men the more to tyrannize 55 For what are Lawes but seruile obseruations Of this or that what pleas'd the Makers mind The selfe-conceited-sowen Imaginations Of working braines which did in freedome find Our humaine state which they forsooth would bind To what they lik't what lik't not was forbidden So Horse and Mule with bitt and spur are ridden 56 Which well inuented scar-Crowes though they serue For m●d-borne men to keepe them in some awe Yet Princes are not borne so to obserue The strict precisenesse of th' incombring Law Which their high state to base cōtempt doth draw Kings made those lawes Ks. may break thē now That pleas'd them then this now pleaseth you 57 No no sweet Prince saith he There is no law Can bind a King but onely his desire And that full well Th' Assyrians Monarcks saw Who had before them borne consuming Fire Embleme of Regall power which all admire But none must touch for feare of following harms For Fire we know consumes as well as wormes 58 The Spiders web holds fast the silly Fly The Hornet breakes It like a mighty Lord That* King of Kings when he could not vntye The Gordian knot d●uides it with his Sword That Act of his fit matter doth afford For President were I as thou shalt bee No Law at all should giue a law to mee 59 Except it were the golden law of Nature Sweet Nature sweetest Mother of vs all Who hath infus'd thus much into each Creature To loue the Honey and to loath the Gall To serue delight not to be Sorrow's thrall For pleasure doth with Nature so agree As Bees with hiue as Honey with the Bee 60 For in the Prologue of our Infant play Eu'n in our Cradle wee doe cry and yell For Nurses breast why so For food you 'l say 'T is true and food say I doth please vs well As Hunger seemes to bee a second Hell So that in truth The motiue of our Cry Is to bee fed and to bee pleas'd thereby 61 As in our Prologue so in our next Act I meane in Childish yeares who doth not see That euery thought of ours and word and fact Doe ayme at Sport at Pastime and at glee Which daily cares and nightly studies bee Witnes the checks the Rods the blowes we take The many blowes and all for Pleasures sake 62 But when our Youth doth step vpon the Stage The sweetest part that any man can play Then pleasing Loue hope loues pleasing page And Courage hops Attendant night and day And fortune seldome saying Courage Nay With full-sayl'd course doth carry vs amaine To seek the Coast where ful content doth raigne 63 Not staying here still Nature drawes vs on To new delights but of a diuers kind For middle Age to Armes will needs be gone With honours sweets to feed his hungry mind And what is Honour but a pleasing wind Remember what the famous * Graecian sayes The sweetest Musicke is a Man 's owne praise 64 Next elder-Age and Siluer-seeming hayres By Nature run full chase still after pleasure For O the solace of the waning yeeres To view their Rudducks their heaps of treasur● To weigh and tell their gold at euery leasure How great it is speake they that rather choo●● Gold should loose them then they their gold would loos● 65 The Epilogue of all our former time More hunts for joy then any of the rest Decrepit Age doth pray before the prime VVith weeping eyes and knocks vpon his Bre●● And giues his Almes to them that are distrest And what 's his end that he might Heau'n obtai● And what is Heau'n but pleasure void of pain 66 And as the mind hath motions to affect So haue we meanes to satisfie the mind Our little world is made with much respect Our Mother Nature hath bin wise and kind By whom we haue apt Organons assign'd To execute what so our thoughts intend And all our thoughts ayme at some pleasing 〈◊〉 67 Is not the Head the store-house of conceit Plotting the meanes to compasse our delight Our Eyes Attendants that doe daily waite Vpon such objects as may please the sight Witnesse the cherry-cheeke brow milk-white Witnesse no other witnesse but my wish How sight and Soule both likes and longs for this 68 What mind what man what man of any mind That is not touch'd mou'd with Musicks sound Whose deepe Impressions worke in bruitish kind As Dolphynes Else Arion had bin drown'd The saluage beasts that would not Orpheus wound The sencelesse stones whō Phoebus harp did moue Doe witnesse all how all doe Musicke loue 69 The bubling murmur of a sliding Spring That seemes to runne with sweet yet ●ullen mind By which the winged Quiers in Consort sing VVith faire-fac't Eunuches the defects of kind VVhose Notes are answer'd by a soft still wind Some dear lou'd Dame bearing her part w th kisses Who would not thinke that place a heau'n of blisses 70 As head and eares and Eyes So are our hands ●lesh-hookes to draw and gather all vnto vs That with our pleasure or our profit stands Thrusting aside what euer may vndoe-vs For which Imployments are allotted to vs Two hands two feet The Agents of our wills To follow rest and flye from restlesse Ills. 71 So likewise in the structure of this frame What is not made with admirable Art So likewise in the guidance of the same What is deny'd vs that may please the heart Most sencelesse man what man so e're thou art That in the very fulnesse of such store By wilfull wants wilt make thy selfe most poore 72 In heate of Summer when the burning Sunne Doth crust the Earth are there not shadie bowers Are there not Riuers that doe mildly runne And now and then some cooling dewie showers To keepe the beautie of the blooming flowers Wherwith our mother Earth so fairely drest Seemes to Invite her sonnes to pleasures feast 73 I will not speake of euery dayes delight They are so various full of Ratities But are there not sweet pleasures for the night Maskes Revels Banquets mirthfull Comedies Night-Sunnes kind Natures dearest Prodigies Which worke in men with powerfull Influence As hauing their first life best motion thence 74 O glorious Peeces the best guifts of Heau'n Fairer thē those faire lights that make Earth fair● Why were you vnto wretched mortals giu'n But to bee Cordials 'gainst heart-eating Care B' Imparting vnto vs your beauties rare You are the Starres which when the Sun is se● Both heate and light and life in vs beget 75 Hath then the Mouer of this glorious round So wisely fitted euery thing to pleasure And seemes hee not his Order to confound That to delight doth limit sparing measure And makes him-selfe vnworthy of such treasure Is 't euer like He would haue made

of me My Body they command my Soule is free 208 Cease cease my Pierce thy tongue doth wound my heart I grieue to see because I see thy griefe Farewell and yet me thinks we should not part And yet we must VVell this be thy reliefe Thou bear'st a fi●ld of gold A King in chiefe Thou shalt be Irelands Gouernour for me VVould'st thou might stay or I might goe with thee 209 At Parting thus with wanton griefe we play'd He went to Sea and I to Sorrow went And yet my heate of lust was not allay'd My treasure that to Ireland was sent And there by Gaveston in triumphes spent VVho now seem'd greater then he was before So vines being cut increase and thriue the more 210 And heere my Peeres did in true Iudgment faile So to remoue not take him quite away VVho once returning needs must seeke to quaile The aduerse part that labour'd his decay Dead Dogs can neither barke nor bite men say But angred Curres more fiercely still returne And wronged mind● with greater fury burne 211 Better It is still to dissemble hate Then first to enter into discontent And leaue him great whom thou did'st wrong of late VVho hauing meanes and sharp'ned in Intent May easily worke some dangerous euent Either strike not or else besure strike so That thou thy selfe need feare no after blow 212 Besides they did the more exasperate By opposition my inraged ire And as for Gaveston whom they did hate They did inflame me with a greater fire His absence setting edge on my desire For Princes kept from what they doe affect Doe hurry to their ends without respect 213 VVhat euer stops the Current of a Streame Is swept away with furious violence Force is effectlesse 'gainst a strong extreame But if one will with labor and expence Diuert the course and turne the Channell thence 'T is possible that he in time peuailes For Art doth compasse when resistance failes 214 Philosophers doe hold and truely too That lightning oft the sheath vntouch'd y● blade Consumes The reason why it doth so doe Is by the one ther 's small resistance made Being full of Pores Th' other hard to Inuade Doth set it selfe against that heau'nly shot VVhich quite consumes because it pierceth not 215 I cannot fit the awfull wrath of Kings More properly then to this wondrous fire Which once inflam'd consumes resisting things Breakes vp the bounds that limit their desire And by depressing downe still mounteth higher Whereas strong passion borne with patience Spends on It selfe and dyes without offence 216 My Peeres soone saw which way the Hare did run And therefore gaue consent to his repeale Not Caesar when Pharsalia field he won Did triumph more then I when they did Seale And did subscribe the ruine of our weale Then all was well whil'st all did well agree But All prou'd Ill for all and worst for mee 217 For Gaveston after he did returne Of all my former fauors once possest His full-sayl'd Fortunes held my Peeres in scorne Nor could he any equall well digest Though I was King in shew in him did rest The Kingly power all was at his Command And nothing done that did not passe his hand 218 Such over-swelling greatnesse was the Cause That made my Peeres report His cursed Dam To bee a Witch And that by force of Lawes Shee suffring for't was burned for the same And that her Sonne like practises did frame Vpon my selfe and by such hellish Art Had skrew'd him selfe so farre into my heart 219 It is too true my dotage was extreame And I did prize him at so high a Rate That he my Crowne my life weigh'd at a beame Aboue them both I him did estimate Which was indeed my follie and his fate But that the same was wrought by Magick Spell Is such a Tale as old wiues vse to tell 220 Witch-craft may worke vpon the Body much But there 's no fascination of the mind The Soule is free from any M●gicke touch Nor can inchanting charmes or loose or bind The powers and ●aculties thereto assign'd Spirits may suggest they may perswade to ill But all their power cannot compell the will 221 It is the sole Prerogatiue of Heau'n 'T is Gods peculiar to command the heart That damn'd Imposter had his power giu'n From the most high e're he with all his Art Could worke on him in whom he had most part Seduced Ahab falls by his perswasion But It is God that first graunts the Commission 222 The Prince of Darkenesse may corrupt the braine And so worke strongly vpon th' Imagination Which being abused oft becomes most vaine In the conceiting a strange transmutation Of It 's owne selfe into some wolvish fashion Which is no other As our Doctors say Then the disease call'd Lycantropia 223 Hee may and doth oft times delude the sight By offring strange Phantasmaes to our Eyes And then the Iudgement is peruerted quite When 't is seduc'd by such erronious Spies As brings vs no Intelligence but lyes A thousand like deuises hee hath got To make vs thinke hee doth what he doth not 224 Besides when any Errour is committed Whereby wee may Incurre or losse or shame That wee our selues thereof may be acquitted Wee are too ready to transferre the blame Vpon some Witch That made vs doe the same It is the vulgar Plea that weake-ones vse I was bewitch'd I could nor will nor chuse 225 But my affection was not caus'd by Art The witch that wrought on mee was in my brest My Gaveston wholly possest my heart And that did make him swell aboue the rest But 't is not safe so high to build ones nest For bubbles fullest blowne doe soonest breake And Trees are euer at the top most weake 226 Content doth seat It selfe in lowly dales Out of the dint of winds and stormy showers There sit sing melodious Nightingales There run fresh cooling streams there grow sweet flowers There heat and cold are fenc'd by shady bowers And there is wealth at will But this we know The grasse is short that on the hill doth grow 227 O Gaveston why do'st thou then aspire To bee so Great when greatnesse stands on yee If thou should'st slip as now thy place is higher So will thy fall bee greater In a trice Hee 's downe that stands on Pinacles Bee wise Stand low stand sure But oh I speak in vaine For men will mount though sure to stoope againe 228 How Gaveston the third time banished Did liue in Dutch-land where hee found no rest How hee return'd How I as famished Did feed on him as on some dainty feast How ill my Peeres his presence did disgest I doe but touch at Now my Muse vnfold How till his fall hee bare him proud and bold 229 Suppose him spleenfull melancholie sad And mee in my affections passionate Thinke him reuengefull thinke mee doting-mad Thinke how I lou'd and thinke how he did hate And thinke him then thus to expostulate Grieu'd with precedent

were still attendant Though at my birth Ioue smil'd with sweet aspect Yet froward Saturne did my life direct 274 For though distasted Gaveston was dead Yet Edward liu'd and liu'd to farther Ill For still I was by my affections led I will'd no Law yet vs'd no Law but will My Peeres disgrac'd my people grieued still The Spencers hey succeeded Gaveston Ill chang'd to worse and worst two Ills for one 275 These Spencers now the Subject of my Song Discended of a Race of great esteeme The elder Hugh the Father liued long A man of worth and happie dayes had seene Till his ambitious Sonne did over-weene Whose greatnesse caus'd the Father to aspire And at the last did wracke both Sonne and Sire 276 O what hast thou Old man to doe with Court Thy Bookes and Beads had better beene for thee Liue still retyr'd and doe not now resort To stormie tempest Age doth Ill agree With great Concourses and vulgar mutinee It rather craues Immunitie and rest And peacefull ease with tumults not distrest 277 Whose joynts being rack't and tortur'd with the Gout Can scarce endure the stirring of a straw Who being vnweildie must be borne about Whose golden Ewre is crack't with many a flaw Who hath no grinders left in either jaw Whose strong men bow whose keepers shake tremble Whose meager lookes pale death doth most resemble 278 But this Ambition is a boyling Ill. Honour doth make dead Cinders glow againe What aged One so great but by his will Would faine grow greater Age doth still retaine Two Humours Hope of Life Desire of Gaine And this was that which made Old Spencer clime When he was past the Autumne of his time 279 The younger Hugh the Sonne of this old man Was of an actiue Spirit and able braine Who with the Barrons at the first began To side himselfe They fauouring him againe For Gaveston made him Lord Chamberlaine That he in place so neare about the King Might giue them notice still of euery thing 280 Thinking because he was by them preferr'd He still would cleaue to them in their designes But vnjudiciall men herein they er●'d A swelling Spirit hates him by whom he climes As Iuie kils the tree whereon It twines So rising men when they are mounted high Spurne at the means that first they mounted by 281 Because they thinke such fauours challenge still An equall correspondencie of Loue. Which tyes them to be plyant to their will And as the lower Spheares by those aboue Are whirl'd about so they by them must moue And doe what they insultingly obtrude Or else be censur'd for Ingratitude 282 And such well mettled men cannot disgest To be obsequious to anothers mind Their haughtie Spirits will not let them rest Till those precedent bands which did them bind By open opposition are vntwin'd And such a publike rupture doth restore Their libertie which was lngag'd before 283 And greatnesse holds it needfull policie To rid his hands of them that did it raise By entring into open Enmitie And so to cut them off without delayes These were and are the Courses of our dayes Who list obserue both old and moderne times Shall find I write no fables though some Rimes 284 I will not touch particulars at all I play the ball let others marke the chase The Spencers doe my wandring muse recall Who being neare the King in chiefest place Did heape vp much and that in little space For all things had from them their passage then Who turn'd to gold all matters and all men 285 The chiefest Peeres were vnderhand kept downe The Minions of the King got euery place Though Edward had yet Spencers rul'd the Crown And being both made Earles in highest grace Did heape vp much and that in little space They wrong'd they car'd not whō such was their lust And sodaine greatnes growes too soone vniust 286 Especially If like a mole it workes Only in Earth how greedy's such a Man How slyly he in close advantage lurkes To compasse a whole Country if he can Still griping all that Comes within his span What wealth wit friends force can doe good or Ill Shall must be practis'd for to please his will 287 The Princes fauours doe for Pulleys serue To draw on men to be at his command Eu'n Seats of Iudgement shall from Iustice swerue If they may bring a Title to his hand And if some Reverend Fathers shall with-stand Then weed them out They will not serue a turn Such men are fit for Marryres Let them burne 288 His Agents must bee of another mould Sharpe-sighted into other mens estate Plyant to doe what their great Master would Close cunning to dissemble loue or hate VVell-spoken powerfull to Insinuate Seemingly honest out wardly precise By which they may their close complots disguise 289 These are the Pipes of lead that doe Conuey Those practices that from their head doe spring And so these seconds come to beare great sway Are legg'd and crouch'd vnto for feare they sting These buy and build and beg and raise wring Farmer Esquire Knight and Baron too And Prince and all with whom they haue to do 290 And this Indeed was the most dangerous Rocke VVhereon I split and so at last did drowne This was my Error This the stumbling blocke At which I fell and cast my Fortunes downe This lost my peoples hearts and that the Crown My Minions rapine and vniust oppression And my too much Indulgent Indiscretion 291 My Peeres were male-content being vnrespected My Souldiers mutinous for want of Pay My Court with all Licentiousnesse infected My People poore with Taxes par'd away And apt for Innouation euery day All out of joynt deiected and dismay'd Onely the Spencers and their Consort sway'd 292 I sold they bought I wasted they did thriue They had abundance I was Indigent Their's was the honey mine the ransack'd hiue Which made them grow bold tart and insolent And thereby caus'd a Common discontent Of all whose Crimes I did Incurre the blame Because my heate gaue life vnto the same 293 Princes attend for I doe speake in Zeale 'T is not enough that you your selues bee just But you must Looke into the Common-weale And see that those whom you doe put in trust Doe gouerne by the Law not by their Lust. For hee indeed the wrong doth perpetrate That may redres●e yet doth It tollerate 294 And so you make their wickednesse your owne By suffring them to sinne without Controule But let not Widowes teares bedew your Throne Nor poore mens sighes sent from a grieued Soule Nor Orphans prayers which heau'n doth still enroll Nor common curses caus'd by publick grieuance Draw Iudgements down on you for their mischieuance 295 Kings must vse some And may chuse of the best But let them still remember what men are Let not all Lawes bee lock'd vp in one brest Let not ones onely Censure make or marre For men haue passions which oft strain them farre The most sees least few