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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72050	The First and second part of the history of the famous Euordanus Prince of Denmark With the strange aduentures of Iago Prince of Saxonie: and of both theyr seuerall fortunes in loue.		1605 (1605)	STC 10566.5; ESTC S121626	137,776	203

féet out of the stirrups lightly recouered himselfe againe and adressing his shielde on his arme with his sword in his hand hee marched towards the Castle gate minding séeing that he had procéeded so farre either to enter or die in the pursute But before hee was come fully to the entrance the fiue Knights who were appointed to combat first with him came foorth and all at once assaulted him then beganne there a most fierce and bloody fight very hard and vnequall by reason they béeing fiue and he but one and also before ouerlabored with his former trauell was not able to doe as otherwise he would yet notwithstanding he layd on such cruel blowes that euery one iudged himselfe happiest when as he was farthest from him the lookers on admiring how it was possible for one alone Knight to shewe such prowesse as by defending himselfe against so many but at last being ouer-wearied wounded in many places hauing lost much of his blood was forced through faintnes to fal to the ground hauing before his fall slaine two of them out-right and very sorely wounded the others then béeing no longer able to resistance he was carried prisoner into the Castle where he had his wounds bound vp dressed being pittied of many who had beheld his vallor but béeing cured of his wounds and examined of whence he was hee was committed prisoner into the dungion where the wofull King lay thereby thinking the more to grieue him Who no sooner was let in-the dungion but they one knew the other making the greatest lamentation and sorrow that might be but at length comforting themselues as well as they might they made relation of their fortunes each to other hoping that in time God would send them deliuerance from all theyr troubles Héere will we leaue them to tell a little what hapned in the Kingdome of Denmarke through the mallice of the Gouernours one to another CHAP. XIX How the Archbishop of Maiance the County Hermes the Lord Harding disliking the gouernment went about to make a King amongst them THe Kingdome of Denmarke hauing béene without their King by the space of 17 yeares and vnder the gouernment of a certaine company of States elected as is before declared many beganne to dislike with the gouernment therof amongst whom the chiefe and principall were the Archbishop of Maiance a man very well learned but giuen altogether vnto nouelties and change the County Hermes and the Lord Harding all thrée great men and such as were in a manner the only Authors of that gouernment and the first yeare were themselues chiefe gouernours in that established estate as appeareth in the fourth Chapter of this present Booke Yet notwithstanding al this and their solemne vowes ratified vnder their hands and seales for the continuance and performance of that kind of state and gouernment they were in a manner the first that repined against it séeking by all the meanes they could to ouerthrow and extinguish the same either for the enuy they bare towardes those who were Gouernors or for that themselues had neuer since the first yeare hapned to be of the twelue or else and that which I thinke to be most likeliest beeing stirred vp by the deuill they desired greater superiority then either became them or by any waies they were worthy of yet doubting to agrée within themselues being but thrée hauing the gouernance in their owne hands determined therefore to elect and chuse a King who beeing by them so raised could not chuse likewise but to be rulde by them and that vnder the cullour of the King they might reuenge themselues of their enemies and likewise preferre their friends to honor and dignitie And hauing thus resolued betwéene themselues they solicited the Scottish King to accept of the Diadem promising him by their letters that if he would but send ouer tenne thousand Souldiers vnder the conduct of some expert Leader or Captaine that then they would so ayde him that in lesse then a yeare he should haue all Denmarke in his subiection conditionally that they thrée might continually haue and inioy to themselues the chiefe offices belonging to that Kingdome The Scottish King harkning vnto this iolly proffer at the first made small account thereof but afterwards waying with himselfe the great benefits and proffits which thereby might rise not onely to him but to all his Kingdome and Subiects if he might so easily obtaine the same as in their letters they made showe of and beeing againe by them solicited anew writing vnto him in their letters that vnlesse he accepted thereof they would giue it vnto the King of England or some other Prince whom they knew would more thankefully accept of their kind offer The County Hermes in a priuate letter besides wrote how that if his Maiestie would hauing conquered the Kingdome make him Viceroy or Deputy thereof he would send ouer his eldest sonne to remaine as pledge vntill such time as he had performed whatsoeuer hee made promise of and that then he would render him such tribute as by his Maiestie should be thought fit Now when he had himselfe perused these letters and cast all doubts he could he made them knowne to his priuy Counsell who after long deliberation at length gaue him this answere that they were also of the minde his Maiestie should accept their proffer of the Kingdome a gift well worth the acceptance and farther to graunt them their owne desires in that which they should demaunde till such time as beeing Maister of the Country hee might at his pleasure then alter any thing that he would In the meane time to receaue pledges of their meaning least otherwise he might repent too late Thus hauing determined the King sent ouer secretly vnto them to certifie them of his intent assuring each of them the greatest dignities and honor that the Kingdome would yéeld intreating thē likewise to send ouer their Hostages vpon whose arriuall his forces should be ready to be shipped vnder the conduct of his Cosen the Lord Douglasse a man for his experience and vallor excellent These letters being thus secretly conuaied were most welcome newes vnto those arch Traytors to their Country who foorthwith sent for Hostages the County Hermes his eldest sonne a gallant young youth and one whom in time might haue prooued an honorable man The Lord Harding had but one only daughter and her he sent vnder cullour to be brought vp with the Scottish Princesse for the Arch Traytor Archbishop I would say was sent an Nephew of his an excellent good Scholler a notable Pollitician These being sent into Scotland they appointed the Kings forces to be ready by the tenth of May then next insuing and they in the meane time made all the prouision that might be where we will likewise leaue them CHAP. XX. Of a strange aduenture hapning in the Court of Saxonie and how the Gentleman of the Forrest and Iago were Knighted and how the aduenture was ended THere was in the