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A20849	The second part, or a continuance of Poly-Olbion from the eighteenth song Containing all the tracts, riuers, mountaines, and forrests: intermixed with the most remarkable stories, antiquities, wonders, rarities, pleasures, and commodities of the east, and northerne parts of this isle, lying betwixt the two famous riuers of Thames, and Tweed. By Michael Drayton, Esq.; Poly-Olbion. Part 2	Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631.	1622 (1622)	STC 7229; ESTC S121634	140,318	213

night Appeare the dreadfull ghosts of Henry and his sonne Of his owne brother George and his two nephewes done Most cruelly to death and of his wife and friend Lord Hastings with pale hands prepar'd as they would rend Him peece-meale at which oft he roreth in his sleepe No sooner gan the dawne out of the East to peepe But Drummes and Trumpets chide the Souldiers to their Armes And all the neighboring fields are couered with the swarmes Of those that came to fight as those that came to see Contending for a Crowne whose that great day should be First Richmond rang'd his fights on Oxford and bestowes The leading with a Band of strong and Sinewy Bowes Out of the Army pick'd the Front of all the field Sir Gilbert Talbot next he wisely tooke to weeld The right Wing with his strengths most Northern men that were And Sir Iohn Sauage with the power of Lancashire And Chesshire Chiefe of men was for the left Wing plac'd The Middle Battell he in his faire person grac'd With him the noble Earle of Pembroke who commands Their Countrey-men the VVelsh of whom it mainly stands For their great numbers found to be of greatest force Which but his guard of Gleaues consisted all of Horse Into two seuerall fights the King contriu'd his strength And his first Battell cast into a wondrous length In fashion of a wedge in poynt of which he set His Archery thereof and to the guidance let Of Iohn the noble Duke of Norfolke and his sonne Braue Surrey he himselfe the second bringing on Which was a perfect square and on the other side His Horsemen had for wings which by extending wide The aduerse seem'd to threat with an vnequall power The vtmost poynt ariu'd of this expected hower He to Lord Stanley sends to bring away his ayd And 〈◊〉 him by an Oath if longer he delayd His eldest sonne young Strange imediatly should die To whom stout Stanley thus doth carelessely reply Tell thou the King I le come when I fit time shall see I loue the Boy but yet I haue more sonnes then he The angry Armies meet when the thin ayre was rent With such re-ecchoing shouts from eithers Souldiers sent That flying o'r the field the Birds downe trembling dropt As some old building long that hath been vnderpropt When as the Timber fayles by the vnweldy fall Euen into powder beats the Roofe and rotten wall And with confused clouds of smouldring dust doth choke The streets and places neere so through the mistie smoke By Shot and Ordnance made a thundring noyse was heard VVhen Stanley that this while his succours had deferd Both to the cruell King and to the Earle his sonne When once he doth perceiue the Battell was begun Brings on his valiant Troups three thousand fully strong Which like a cloud farre off that tempest threatned long Falls on the Tyrants host which him with terrour strooke As also when he sees he doth but vainly looke For succours from the great Northumberland this while That from the Battell scarce three quarters of a mile Stood with his power of Horse nor once was seene to stirre VVhen Richard that th' euent no longer would deferre The two maine Battels mix'd and that with wearied breath Some laboured to their life some laboured to their death There for the better fought euen with a Spirit elate As one that inly scorn'd the very worst that Fate Could possibly impose his Launce set in his Rest Into the thick'st of Death through threatning perill prest To where he had perceiu'd the Earle in person drew Whose Standard 〈◊〉 he Sir William Brandon slew The pile of his strong staffe into his arme-pit sent VVhen at a second shocke downe Sir Iohn Cheney went Which scarce a Launces length before the Earle was plac'd Vntill by Richmonds Guard inuironed at last VVith many a cruell wound was through the body gride Vpon this fatall field Iohn Duke of Norfolke dide The stout Lord Ferrers fell and Ratcliffe that had long Of Richards counsels been found in the field among A thousand Souldiers that on both sides were slaine O Red-more it then seem'd thy name was not in vaine When with a thousands blood the earth was coloured red Whereas th' Emperiall Crowne was set on Henries head Being found in Richards Tent as he it there did winne The cruell Tyrant stript to the bare naked skin Behind a Herauld truss'd was backe to Le'ster sent From whence the day before he to the Battell went The Battell then at Stoke so fortunatly strucke Vpon King Henries part with so successefull lucke As neuer till that day he felt his Crowne to cleaue Vnto his temples close when Mars began to leaue His fury and at last to sit him downe was brought I come at last to sing twixt that seuenth Henry fought With whom to this braue Field the Duke of Bedford came With Oxford his great friend whose praise did him inflame To all Atchieuements great that fortunate had bin In euery doubtfull fight since Henries comming in With th' Earle of Shresbury a man of great command And his braue sonne Lord George for him that firmly stand And on the other side Iohn Duke of Suffolks sonne Iohn Earle of Lincolne cald who this sterne warre begun Subborning a lewd Boy a false Imposter who By Simonds a worse Priest instructed what to doe Vpon him tooke the name of th' Earle of Warwicke heire To George the murthered Duke of Clarence who for feare Lest some that fauoured Yorke might vnder hand maintaine King Henry in the Tower did at that time detaine * Which practise set on foot this Earle of Lincolne sayld To Burgundy where he with Margaret preuayld Wife to that warlike Charles and his most loued Aunt Who vexed that a proud Lancastrian should supplant The lawfull Line of Yorke whence she her blood deriu'd Wherefore for Lincolnes sake shee speedily contriu'd And Louell that braue Lord before him sent to land Vpon the same pretence to furnish them a Band Of Almanes and to them for their stout Captaine gaue The valiant Martin Swart the man thought scarce to haue His match for Martiall feats and sent them with a Fleet For Ireland where shee had appoynted them to meet With Simonds that lewd Clerke and Lambert whom they there The Earle of Warwicke cald and publish'd euery where His title to the Crowne in Diuelin and proclaime Him Englands lawfull King by the fift Edwards name Then ioyning with the Lord Fitz-Gerald to their ayd Who many Irish brought they vp their Ankres wayd And at the rocky Pyle of * Fowdray put to shore In Lancashire their power increasing more and more By Souldiers sent them in from Broughton for supply A Knight that long had been of their confederacy Who making thence direct their marches to the South When Henry saw himselfe to farre in dangers mouth From Couentry he came still gathering vp his Host Made greater on his way and doth the

Warwicke in that warre who set them all at worke And Falkonbridge with him not much vnlike the other A Neuill nobly borne his puisant fathers brother Who to the Yorkists claime had euermore been true And valiant Bourcher Earle of Essex and of Eau. The King from out the towne who drew his Foot and Horse As willingly to giue full field-roomth to his Force Doth passe the Riuer Nen neere where it downe doth runne From his first fountaines head is neere to Harsington Aduised of a place by Nature strongly wrought Doth there encampe his power the Earle of March who sought To prooue by dint of sword who should obtaine the day From Tawcester traynd on his powers in good aray The Vaward Warwicke led whom no attempt could feare The Middle March himselfe and Falkonbridge the Reare Now Iuly entred was and ere the restlesse Sunne Three houres ascent had got the dreadfull fight begun By Warwicke who a straight from Vicount Beaumont tooke Defeating him at first by which hee quickly brooke In on th' Emperiall host which with a furious charge He forc'd vpon the field it selfe more to enlarge Now English Bowes and Bills and Battle-axes walke Death vp and downe the field in gastly sort doth stalke March in the flower of Youth like Mars himselfe doth beare But Warwicke as the man whom Fortune seem'd to feare Did for him what he would that wheresoere he goes Downe like a furious storme before him all he throwes So Shrewsbury againe of Talbots valiant straine That fatall Scourge of France as stoutly doth maintaine The party of the King so princely Somerset Whom th' others knightly deeds more eagerly doth whet Beares vp with them againe by Somerset opposd At last King Henries host being on three parts enclosd Aud ayds still comming in vpon the Yorkists side The Summer being then at height of all her pride The Husbandman then hard vpon his Haruest was But yet the cocks of Hay nor swaths of new-shorne grasse Strew'd not the Meads so thick as mangled bodies there When nothing could be seene but horror euery where So that vpon the bancks and in the streame of * Nen Ten thousand well resolu'd stout natiue English men Left breathlesse with the rest great Buckingham is slaine And Shrewsbury whose losse those times did much complaine Egremont and Beaumont both found dead vpon the Field The miserable King inforc'd againe to yeeld Then VVakefield Battell next we in our Bedroule bring Fought by Prince Edward sonne to that oft-conquered King And Richard Duke of Yorke still strugling for the Crowne Whom Salsbury assists the man with whose renowne The mouth of Fame seem'd fild there hauing with them then Some few selected Welsh and Southerne Gentlemen A handfull to those powers with which Prince Edward came Of which amongst the rest the men of noblest name Were those two great-borne Dukes which still his right preferre His cosen Somerset and princely Excester The Earle of Wiltshire still that on his part stucke close With those two valiant Peeres Lord Clifford and Lord Rosse Who made their March from Yorke to VVakefield on their way To meet the Duke who then at Sandall Castle lay Whom at his very gate into the Field they dar'd Whose long expected powers not fully then prepar'd That March his valiant sonne should to his succours bring Wherefore that puissant Lord by speedy mustring His Tenants and such friends as he that time could get Fiue thousand in fiue dayes in his Battalion set Gainst their twice doubled strength nor could the Duke be stayd Till he might from the South be seconded with ayd As in his martiall pride disdaining his poore foes So often vs'd to winne he neuer thought to lose The Prince which still prouok'd th' incensed Duke to fight His maine Battalion rang'd in Sandals loftie sight In which he and the Dukes were seene in all their pride And as Yorkes powers should passe he had on either side Two wings in ambush laid which at the place assign'd His Rereward should inclose which as a thing diuin'd Iust caught as he forecast for scarse his armie comes From the descending banks and that his ratling Drummes Excites his men to charge but Wiltshire with his force Which were of light-arm'd Foot and Rosse with his light Horse Came in vpon their backes as from a mountaine throwne In number to the Dukes by being foure to one Euen as a Rout of wolues when they by chance haue caught A Beast out of the Heard which long time they haue sought Vpon him all at once couragiously doe set Him by the Dewlaps some some by the flanke doe get Some climbing to his eares doe neuer leaue their hold Till falling on the ground they haue him as they would With many of his kind which when he vs'd to wend VVhat with their hornes hoofes could then themselues defend Thus on their foes they fell and downe the Yorkists fall Red Slaughter in her armes encompasseth them all The first of all the fights in this vnnaturall warre In which blind Fortune smild on wofull Lancaster Heere Richard Duke of Yorke downe beaten breath'd his last And Salsbury so long with conquest still that past Inforced was to yeeld Rutland a younger sonne To the deceased Duke as he away would runne A child scarse twelue yeares old by Clifford there surpriz'd Who whilst he thought with teares his rage to haue suffiz'd By him was answered thus Thy father hath slaine mine And for his blood young Boy I le haue this blood of thine And stab'd him to the heart thus the Lancastrians raigne The Yorkist in the field on heaps together slaine The Battell at that Crosse which to this day doth beare The great and ancient name of th' English Mortimer The next shall heare haue place betwixt that Edward fought Entitled Earle of March reuengefully that sought To wreake his fathers blood at Wakefield lately shed But then he Duke of Yorke his father being dead And Iasper Tudor Earle of Pembroke in this warre That stood to vnderprop the House of Lancaster Halfe brother to the King that stroue to hold his Crowne With Wiltshire whose high prowesse had brauely beaten downe The Yorkists swelling pride in that successefull warre At Wakefield whose greatst power of Welsh and Irish are The Dukes were Marchers most which still stucke to him close And meeting on the plaine by that forenamed Crosse As either Generall there for his aduantage found For wisely they surueyd the fashion of the ground They into one maine sight their either Forces make When to the Duke of Yorke his spirits as to awake Three sonnes at once appear'd all seuerally that shone Which in a little space were ioyned all in one Auspicious to the Duke as after it fell out Who with the weaker power of which he seem'd to doubt The proud Lancastrian part had quickly put to chase Where plainly it should seeme the Genius of the place The very name of March should greatly

And trumpets euery way sound to the dreadfull charge Vpon the Yorkists part there flew the irefull Beare On the Lancastrian side the Cressant wauing there The Southerne on this side for Yorke a Warwicke crie A Percy for the right the Northerne men reply The two maine Battels ioyne the foure large Wings doe meet What with the shouts of men and noyse of horses feet Hell through the troubled earth her horrour seem'd to breath A thunder heard aboue an earth-quake felt beneath As when the Euening is with darknesse ouerspread Her Star-befreckled face with Clouds inuelloped You oftentimes behold the trembling lightning flie VVhich suddenly againe but turning of your eye Is vanished away or doth so swiftly glide That with a trice it touch t'Horizons either side So through the smoke of dust from wayes and fallowes raisd And breath of horse and men that both together ceasd The ayre one euery part sent by the glimmering Sunne The splendor of their Armes doth by reflection runne Till heapes of dying men and those already dead Much hindred them would charge and letted them that fled Beyond all wonted bounds their rage so farre extends That sullen night begins before their fury ends Ten howers this fight endur'd whilst still with murthering hands Expecting the next morne the weak'st vnconquered stands Which was no sooner come but both begin againe To wrecke their friends deare blood the former euening slaine New Battels are begun new fights that newly wound Till the Lancastrian part by their much lesning found Their long expected hopes were vtterly forlorne When lastly to the foe their recreant backs they turne Thy Channell then O * Cock was fild vp with the dead Of the Lancastrian side that from the Yorkists fled That those of Edwards part that had the Reare in chase As though vpon a Bridge did on their bodies passe That Wharfe to whose large banks thou contribut'st thy store Had her more Christall face discoloured with the gore Of fortie thousand men that vp the number made Northumberland the great and Westmerland there layd Their bodies valiant Wels and Dacres there doe leaue Their carkases whose hope too long did them deceiue Trolop and Neuill found massacred in the field The Earle of VViltshire forc'd to the sterne foe to yeeld King Henry from fayre Yorke vpon this sad mischance To Scotland fled the Queene sayld ouer into France The Duke of Somerset and Excester doe flie The rest vpon the earth together breathlesse lie Muse turne thee now to tell the Field at Hexam struck Vpon the Yorkists part with the most prosp'rous luck Of any yet before where to themselues they gain'd Most safetie yet their powers least damage there sustain'd Twixt Iohn Lord Mountacute that Neuill who to stand For Edward gathered had out of Northumber land A sort of valiant men consisting most of Horse Which were againe suppli'd with a most puisant force Sent thither from the South and by King Edward brought In person downe to Yorke to ayd if that in ought His Generall should haue need for that he durst not trust The Northerne which so oft to him had been vniust Whilst he himselfe at Yorke a second power doth hold To heare in this rough warre what the Lancastrians would And Henry with his Queene who to their powers had got The liuely daring French and the light hardy Scot To enter with them here and to their part doe get Their faithfull lou'd Allie the Duke of Somerset And Sir Ralfe Percie then most powerfull in those parts Who had beene reconcil'd to Edward but their hearts Still with King Henry stay'd to him and euer true To whom by this reuolt they many Northerne drew Sir William T aylboys cald of most the Earle of Kime With Hungerford and Rosse and Mullins of that time Barons of high account with Neuill T unstall Gray Hussy and Finderne Knights men bearing mighty sway As forward with his force braue Mountacute was set It hap'd vpon his way at Hegly More he met With Hungerford and Rosse and Sir Ralph Percy where In signe of good successe as certainly it were They and their vtmost force were quickly put to slight Yet Percy as he was a most couragious Knight Ne'r boudg'd till his last breath but in the field was slaine Proud of this first defeat then marching forth againe Towards Liuells a large Waste which other plaines out-braues Whose Verge fresh * Dowell still is watring with her waues Whereas his posting Scouts King Henries power discri'd Tow'rds whom with speedy march this valiant Generall hied Whose haste there likewise had such prosperous euent That lucklesse Henry yet had scarcely cleer'd his Tent His Captaines hardly set his Battels nor enlarg'd Their Squadrons on the field but this great Neuill charg'd Long was this doubtfull fight on either side maintain'd That rising whilst this falls this loosing whilst that gain'd The ground which this part got and there as Conquerors stood The other quickly gaine and firmely make it good To either as blind Chance her fauors will dispose So to this part it eb'd and to that side it flowes At last till whether 't were that sad and horrid sight At Saxton that yet did their fainting spirits affright With doubt of second losse and slaughter or the ayd That Mountacute receau'd King Henries power dismayd And giuing vp the day dishonourably fled Whom with so violent speed the Yorkists followed That had not Henry spur'd and had a Courser swift Besides a skilfull guide through woods and hilles to shift He sure had been surpriz'd as they his Hench-men tooke With whom they found his Helme with most disastrous lucke To saue themselues by flight ne'r more did any striue And yet so many men ne'r taken were aliue Now Banbury we come thy Battell to report And show th' efficient cause as in what wondrous sort Great VVarmicke was wrought in to the Lancastrian part When as that wanton King so vex'd his mightie heart Whilst in the Court of France that Warriour he bestow'd As potent here at home as powerfull else abroad A marriage to intreat with Bona bright and sheene Of the Sauoyan Blood and sister to the Queene Which whilst this noble Earle negotiated there The widdow Lady Gray the King espoused here By which the noble Earle in France who was disgrac'd In England his reuenge doth but too quickly hast T' excite the Northerne men doth secretly begin With whom he powerfull was to rile that comming in He might put in his hand which onely he desir'd Which rising before Yorke were likely to haue fierd The Citie but repuls'd and Holdorn them that led Being taken for the cause made shorter by the head Yet would not they disist but to their Captaines drew Henry the valiant sonne of Iohn the Lord Fitz-Hugh With Coniers that braue Knight whose valour they preferre With Henry Neuill sonne to the Lord Latimer By whose Allies and friends they euery day grew strong And so in

proud aray tow'rds London march along Which when King Edward saw the world began to side With Warwicke till himselfe he might of power prouide To noble Pembroke sends those Rebels to withstand Six thousand valiant We sh who mustring out of hand By Richard 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his brother them doth bring And for their greater strength appointed by the King Th'Lord Stafford of his house of Powick named then Eight hundred Archers brought the most selected men The Marches could make out these hauing Seuerne crost And vp to Cotswould clome they heard the Northern host Being at Northampton then it selfe tow'rds Warwicke wayd When with a speedy march the Harberts that forlayd Their passage charg'd their Reare with neere two thousand horse That the Lancastrian part suipecting all their force Had followed them againe their armie bring about Both with such speed and skill that 〈◊〉 the Welsh got out By hauing charg'd too farre some of their Vaward lost Beat to their 〈◊〉 backe thus as these Legions coast On Danemore they are met indifferent for this warre Whereas three easie hils that stand Trianguler Small Edgcoat ouerlooke on that vpon the West The Welsh encampe themselues the Northerne them possest Of that vpon the South whilst by warres strange euent Yong Neuill who would braue the Harberts in their Tent Leading a troupe of Youth vpon that fatall plaine Was taken by the VVelsh and miserably slaine Of whose vntimely death his friends the next day tooke A terrible reuenge when Stafford there forsooke The army of the Welsh and with his Archers bad Them fight that would for him for that proud Pembroke had Displac'd him of his Inne in Banbury where he His Paramore had lodg'd where since he might not be He back ward shapes his course and leaues the Harberts there T' abide the brunt of all with outcries euery where The clamorous Drummes Fifes to the rough charge do sound Together horse and man come tumbling to the ground Then limbs like boughs were lop'd from shoulders armes doe flie They fight as none could scape yet scape as none could die The ruffling Northern Lads and the stout Welshmen tri'd it Then Head-pieces hold out or braines must sore abide it The Northern men Saint George for Lancaster doe crie A Pembroke for the King the lustie VVelsh replie When many a gallant youth doth desperatly assay To doe some thing that might be worthy of the day Where Richard Harbert beares into the Northern prease And with his Poleaxe makes his way with such successe That breaking through the Rankes he their maine Battell past And quit it so againe that many stood aghast That from the higher ground beheld him wade the crowd As often ye behold in tempests rough and proud O'rtaken with a storme some Shell or little Crea Hard labouring for the land on the high-working Sea Seemes now as swallowed vp then floating light and free O' th top of some high waue then thinke that you it see Quite sunke beneath that waste of waters yet doth cleere The Maine and safely gets some Creeke or Harbor neere So Harbert cleer'd their Host but see th' euent of warre Some Spialls on the hill discerned had from farre Another Armie come to ayd the Northerne side When they which Claphams craft so quickly not espide Who with fiue hundred men about Northampton raisd All discontented spirits with Edwards rule displeasd Displaying in the field great 〈◊〉 dreaded Beare The Welsh who thought the Earle in person had been there Leading a greater power disheartened turne the backe Before the Northerne host that quickly goe to wracke Fiue thousand valiant VVelsh are in chase o'rthrowne Which but an houre before had thought the day their owne Their Leaders in the flight the high-borne Harberts t'ane At Banbury must pay for Henry Neuill slaine Now Stamford in due course the Muse doth come to tell Of thine owne named field what in the fight befell Betwixt braue youthfull Wells from Lincolnshire that led Neere twentie thousand men tow'rd London making head Against the Yorkists power great VVarwicke to abet Who with a puisant force prepared forth to set To ioyne with him in Armes and ioyntly take their chance And Edward with his friends who likewise doe aduance His forces to refell that desperate daring foe Who for he durst himselfe in open Armes to show Nor at his dread command them downe againe would lay His father the Lord Wells who he suppos'd might sway His so outragious sonne with his lou'd law-made brother Sir Thomas Dymock thought too much to rule the other He strangely did to die which so incens'd the spleene Of this couragious youth that he to wreake his teene Vpon the cruell King doth euery way excite Him to an equall field that com'n where they might smite The Battell on this plaine it chanc'd their Armies met They rang'd their seuerall fights which once in order set The loudly-brawling Drummes which seemed to haue feard The trembling ayre at first soone after were not heard For out-cries shreekes and showts whilst noyse doth noyse confound No accents touch the eare but such as death doe sound In thirsting for reuenge whilst fury them doth guide As slaughter seemes by turnes to sease on either side The Southerne expert were in all to warre belong And exercise their skill the Marchmen stout and strong Which to the Battell sticke and if they make retreat Yet comming on againe the foe they backe doe beat And Wels for Warwicke crie and for the rightfull Crowne The other call a Yorke to beat the Rebels downe The worst that warre could doe on either side she showes Or by the force of Bils or by the strength of Bowes But still by fresh supplies the Yorkists power encrease And Wels who sees his troups so ouerborne with prease By hazarding too farre into the boystrous throng Incouraging his men the aduerse troupes among With many a mortall wound his wearied breath expir'd Which sooner knowne to his then his first hopes desir'd Ten thousand on the earth before them lying slaine No hope left to repaire their ruin'd state againe Cast off their Countries coats to hast their speed away Of them which Loose-coat field is cald euen to this day Since needsly I must sticke vpon my former text The bloody Battell fought at Barnet followeth next Twixt Edward who before he setled was to raigne By VVarwicke hence expuls'd but here ariu'd againe From Burgundy brought in munition men and pay And all things fit for warre expecting yet a day Whose brother * George came in with VVarwicke that had stood Whom nature wrought at length t' adhere to his owne blood His brother Richard Duke of Gloster and his friend Lord Hastings who to him their vtmost powers extend And VVarwick whose great heart so mortall hatred bore To Edward that by all the Sacraments he swore Not to lay downe his Armes vntill his sword had rac'd That proud King from his Seat that so had him disgrac'd

memory shall bee Of holy Thomas there most reuerently interd Who sometime to the See of Hereford preferd Thence trauailing to Rome in his returne bereft His life by sicknesse there to thee his body left Yet Italy gaue not these honors all to them That visited her Rome but from Ierusalem Some comming back through thee and yeelding vp their spirits On thy rich earth receiu'd their most deserued merits O Naples as thine owne in thy large Territory Though to our Countries praise yet to thy greater glory Euen to this day the Shrines religiously dost keepe Of many a blessed Saint which in thy lap doth sleepe As Eleutherius com'n from visiting the Tombe Thougau'st to him at Arke in thy Apulia roome To set his holy Cell where he an Hermite dy'd Canonized her Saint so hast thou glorifide Saint Gerrard one of ours aboue the former grac'd In such a sumptuous Shrine at Galinaro plac'd At Sancto Padre so Saint Fulke hath euer fame Which from that reuerent man't should seeme deriu'd the name His Reliques there reseru'd so holy Ardwins Shrine Is at Ceprano kept and honoured as diuine For Myracles that there by his strong faith were wrought Mongst these selected men the Sepulchre that sought And in thy Realme arriu'd their blessed soules resign'd Our Bernards body yet at Arpine we may find Vntill this present time her patronizing Saint So Countries more remote with ours we did acquaint As Richard for the fame his holinesse had wonne And for the wondrous things that through his Prayers were done From this his natiue home into Calabria cald And of Saint Andrewes there the Bishop was instauld For whom shee hath profest much reuerence to this land Saint William with this man a paralell may stand Through all the Christian world accounted so diuine That trauelling from hence to holy Pálestine Desirous that most blest Ierusalem to see In which the Sauiours selfe so oft vouchsaft to be Priour of that holy house by Suffrages related To th' Sepulchre of Christ which there was dedicated To Tyre in Syria thence remou'd in little space And in lesse time ordain'd Archbishop of that place That God inspired man with heauenly goodnesse fild A Saint amongst the rest deseruedly is held Yet Italy nor France nor Germany those times Imployd not all our men but into colder Clymes They wandred through the world their Countries that forsooke So Sigfrid sent fromhence deuoutly vndertooke Those Pagans wild and rude of Gothia to conuert Who hauing laboured long with danger oft ingirt Was in his reuerent age for his deserued fee By Olaus King of Goths set on Vexouia's See To Norway and to those great North-East Countries farre So Gotebald gaue himselfe holding a Christian warre With Paynims nothing else but Heathenish Rites that knew As Suethia to her selfe these men most reuerent drew Saint Vlfrid of our Saints as famous there as any Nor scarcely find we one conuerting there so many And Henry in those dayes of Oxsto Bishop made The first that Swethen King which cuer did perswade On Finland to make warre to force them by the sword When nothing else could serue to heare the powerfull word With Eskill thither sent to teach that barbarous Nation Who on the Passion day there preaching on the Passion T' expresse the Sauiours loue to mankind taking paine By cruell Paynims hands was in the Pulpit slaine Vpon that blessed day Christ dyed for sinfull man Vpon that day for Christ his Martyrs Crowne he wan So Dauid drawne from hence into those farther parts By preaching who to pearce those Paynims hardned hearts Incessantly proclaim'd Christ Iesus with a crie Against their Heathen gods and blind Idolatry Into those colder Clymes to people beastly rude So others that were ours couragiously pursude The planting of the Truth in zeale three most profound The relish of whose names by likelinesse of sound Both in their liues and deaths a likelinesse might show As Vnaman we name and Shunaman that goe With Wynaman their friend which martyred gladly were In Gothland whilst they taught with Christian patience there Nor those from vs that went nor those that hither came From the remotest parts were greater yet in name Then those residing here on many a goodly See Great Bishops in account now greater Saints that be Some such selected ones for pietie and zeale As to the wretched world more clearely could reueale How much there might of God in mortall man be found In charitable workes or such as did abound Which by their good successe in aftertimes were blest Were then related Saints as worthier then the rest Of Canterbury here with those I will begin That first Archbishops See on which there long hath bin So many men deuout as rais'd that Church so high Much reuerence and haue wonne their holy Hierarchy Of which he first that did with goodnesse so inflame The hearts of the deuout that from his proper name As one euen sent from God the soules of men to saue The title vnto him of Deodat they gaue The Bishops Brightwald next and Tatwin in we take Whom time may say that Saints it worthily did make Succeeding in that See directly euen as they Here by the Muse are plac'd who spent both night and day By doctrine or by deeds instructing doing good In raising them were falne or strengthening them that stood Then Odo the Seuere who highly did adorne That See yet being of vnchristened parents borne Whose Country Denmarke was but in East England dwelt He being but a child in his cleere bosome felt The most vndoubted truth and yet vnbaptiz'd long But as he grew in yeares in spirit so growing strong And as the Christian faith this holy man had taught He likewise for that Faith in Sundry bartels fought So Dunstan as the rest arose through many Sees To this Arch-type at last ascending by degrees There by his power confirm'd and strongly credit wonne To many wondrous things which he before had done To whom when as they say the Deuill once appear'd This man so full of faith not once at all afeard Strong conflicts with him had in myracles most great As Egelnoth againe much grac'd that sacred seat Who for his godly deeds surnamed was the Good Not boasting of his birth though com'n of Royall blood For that nor at the first a Monkes meane Cowle despis'd With winning men to God who neuer was suffic'd These men before exprest so Eadsine next ensues To propagate the truth no toyle that did refuse In Haralds time who liu'd when William Conqueror came For holinesse of life attain'd vnto that fame That Souldiers fierce and rude that pitty neuer knew Were suddenly made mild as changed in his view This man with those before most worthily related Arch-saints as in their Sees Arch-bishops consecrated Saint Thomas Becket then which Rome so much did hery As to his Christned name it added Canterbury There to whose sumptuous Shrine the neere succeeding ages So mighty offrings sent and made such