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A00982	The nine English worthies: or, Famous and worthy princes of England being all of one name; beginning with King Henrie the first, and concluding with Prince Henry, eldest sonne to our Soueraigne Lord the King.	Fletcher, Robert, purveyor of carriages to Queen Elizabeth.	1606 (1606)	STC 11087; ESTC S118024	29,385	76

Flesh the Deuill Thomas Binwin Gent. vpon his worthy yong Master the ninth Worthy I Fall the Worthies should on earth appeare The ancient Worthies nine in Ranke and place Three from Iudaea three from other where And Christians three our Britaine 's hopefull Grace Our sweet yong Prince thereby could take smal staine Though they from graues were raised vp againe Now for those Kings which HENRY had to name May they compare with HENRY Britaines Prince These Worthies though of farre renoumed fame Haue sought and fought long time agoe and since In vaine for to conioyne their neighbour land To this their owne continuing warre and strife Vntill it pleas'd Iehouas mighty hand From hence to giue King IAMES the fourth a wife HENRY seuenths sister Lady Margaret faire Of whom descends our Liege and gracious King And braue Prince HENRY his thrice worthy heire Magnifie God and Nature for this thing Which sole succession hath brought such accord That he of both may once rest Soueraigne Lord. This then may make our Worthy principall Of later nine His future power and strength Yea more herein exceeding Worthies all They being dead are now entumbd at length This Worthy liues God graunt him long to liue Graunt long good Lord the King his father reigne And to his princely sonne thy graces giue Great God that both may Britains wealth maintaine The Authors excuse of an Escape in the Title following NExt Title some small error may containe Which doth auerre HENRIES nine English Kings Yet to my Booke why should it seeme a staine Sith to Great Britaine it great comfort brings The hopefull Prince and Heire apparant He With the eight Kings well may consorted be Twice scap't by Pen and Presse I fear'd to raze His future Stile at whom euen Kings may gaze The nine English Worthies or famous and worthie Kings of England being all of one name beginning with King HENRY the first and concluding with HENRY now Prince of Great Britaine King Henry the First KIng Henry the first was the sonne of William the Brother to William Rufus that was immediately before King of England which worthy King for his wisdom learning iudgement and honourable policy was surnamed Henry Beuclarke or the faire Writer and good Scholler He began his raigne the fift day of August Anno Domini 1100. He was crowned at Westminster raigned 35. yeares and 4. moneths lacking 4. dayes he was strong of body comely of stature blacke haired large and faire eyes a Princely and a pleasant countenance excelling in thrée vertues most commendable and comfortable to the subiects of his time viz Wisedome Eloquence and Ualour His Epitaphe HENRY the first a King a Princes sonne Excellent wise well learn'd of valiant minde His gouernement recorded this hath wonne For euerlasting praise to him assign'd First worthy Then take place O mighty Prince That with these vertues didst thy foes conuince King Henry the Second of that name HE was a Frenchman borne the second sonne of Ieffrey Plantaginet Earle of Aniow begotten of Mawde the Empresse daughter to King Henry the first he began his raigne ouer this noble Kealme of England the 25 day of October in the yeare after the incarnation of our Sauiour Christ 1154. and departed this life in An. 1189. in the 61. yeare of his age after he had raigned 34. yeares 9. moneths and two dayes And heere may be thought sayth the Historiographer that the raigne of the Frenchmen and the names tooke an end after they had borne sway 122. yeares after the comming in of King William the Conqueror For those Kings which raigned after this Henry the second may rightly be called Englishmen because they were borne in England and vsed the English tongue custome and manners according to the nature and quality of the Country His body was buried at Fountverand which is an Abby situate not far from the Eagle within the Dutchy of Almucon His Description HE was a man of good stature and very wel formed of comely conntenance partly red hayred grey eyes of wit quicke and perfect good memory so that he could remember long al things of any moment which he had eyther heard or séene of body somewhat fleshy and strong and could abide very patiently the displeasures both of colde and heate he had a large head a broad breast and very spare of dyet the rather because he would not be too fat therefore when he was at leasure and free from warres his exercise was hunting and progresse trauels He was a Prince of stout stomacke and inuincible courage more resolute and constant in time of aduersitie then in prosperitie liberall to all men but chiefely vnto souldiers Pittifull to the poore an excellent vertue and nature in a Prince For proofe whereof in a time of dearth which happened in Aniow and Mayne hee did at his owne cost and Princely pitty feede ten thousand poore people euery day with good victuals from the first of Aprill till the last of Iuly An. Dom. 1176. And aboue his Princely and most magnificent house-keeping he stored garners cellars and store-howses religious persons and their howses Tributes and Taxes he tooke verie seldome and those not great Hee was very expect in feates of warre and no lesse fortunate therin He would praise his Captaines and men of warre after their deaths to encourage those that liued hee was well learned as those Princes aforesayde and excéeding wise His care to haue Iustice duly administred in his Realme was excéeding great in so much that finding that the Sheriffs in his time were rather inclined to seek their owne gaine then to deale vprightly with his subiects hee appointed Sapranisors ouer them to ouer sée their doings as if they had béen Controllers so as an awfull regard made them circumspect and wary in their doings He ordained also punishment for Hunters in Forrestes and groundes of warren either by fines or byimprisonment He ordained that murtherers should be hanged other offences he punished with losse of limmes and otherwise as the qualitie of the offence required Most carefull hee was to haue iustice administred without corruption He tryed men of sundry sorts to execute iustice with iustice but in fine hee referred it to the Bishops and Clergy men hoping in that profession to finde the most integritie and yet he little regarded the Bishop of Rome or feared his censures as is manifest by the history of Thomas Becket in this Kings time and sundry others I find two Latine Epitaphes translated into rude English by the Writer of this whole Historie the effect wherof somewhat reformed is as followeth KIng Henry was of late my famous name A Conqueror of many a Princely land Small Epitaph shall need to aduance my fame What done by me was done by powerfull hand And in my dayes I passed not a pin For Pope of Rome he nought of me could win Warre Lawe and Iustice as a princes word I held them alwaies of the great'st regard Where peace would not preuaile

of this your tender youth may be found meete Gentlemen to attend so worthy a Prince Remember I beseech you the Poesies borne in some of your honourable Ensignes Vero nihil verius Virtutis comes Inuidia Serò sed seriò And neuer forget the most worthy saying of that thrice honourable late Senatour Corvnum via vna These Mottoes well imprinted in youth will bring honour to olde age Which the God of heauen and earth make you all partakers of in the present and possessors in the future and the same after many yeeres to be permanent in the heauens for euer Your Honours in all humility euer to be commanded ROBERT FLETCHER To his friend M. Ro. Fletcher vpon his Subiect of the nine Worthies WHo dreads the fume of euery froathy spirit And begs th' applause of ech fantastick braine Frighting with causelesse feares industrious merit Too much deiects exalted Poesies straine Let blind distrust insinuate approbation A princely Subiect scornes base deprecation Vino vendibili non opus est suspensa bedera φιλαρετὴ R. Fenne Thomas Lord Windsor his humble congratulation of the ninth Worthy WHo-euer shall a vertuous mind imbrace Present renowne and glory shall him grace Long after life as in these Worthies nine It doth appeare For they long since are dead Their Vertues liue in Chronicles they shine Their Corps consum'd to dust yea euen the Lead That clos'd their earthly bodies in the graue Can not be seene no signe thereof we haue Their names nor fames their deeds will neuer die Their Acts their Monuments their worthy praise These registred doe liue perpetually There is no end or period of their dayes Liue so Great Britaines Prince as they haue donne Ninth Worthy hopeful HENRY great Kings Sonne Sir William Whorewood Knight in honour of the ninth Worthy WHen Siluius Post-humus did seeke this soile And therin thought to raigne to rule to rest Trauailes he found and stormes with bitter broile But little space in quiet he possest Since when what alterations and what change By Conquest and by Tyrants bloody hand To write at large it would be true but strange To count the troubles of now happy land Yet by eight HENRIES settled in it selfe Lastly vnited to one Kingdome more What needeth it to care for Indian pelse Gold Plate and Pearle it now possesseth store And more then all a King a Queene a Plant A Royall Issue Parents chiefest ioy A Captaine that in time will those supplant That dare attempt Great Britains least annoy Ninth Worthy worthiest next our Soueraigne be God grant long Raigne of both may Britaine see Iohn Widevp the elder Gent. vpon the Worthies but with most humble dueties to the Worthiest of them all NIne Worthies were described long agone And as forgotten are intumbed dead No Monument remaines of any one Though they were Shrined better then in Lead But Iosua Dauid Macchabeus be In Bible booked for first Worthies three Next in that Ranke and so the number nine Were Iulius Alexander Macedon Hector of Troy and Godfrey-de-Boloigne Arthur of Britaine Charles King Pepins sonne In other bookes their Stories written are With whom eight HENRIES welnigh may cōpare The ninth in hope more worthy then the eight Vpon whose shoulders wisest heads haue hurld Of future honour a farre greater weight Applauded of Europa and the World Besides all these one Worthy more I sing The worthiest of Worthies IAMES our King Jo Guilliams Gent. vpon the ancient nine Worthies THe drift and scope of princely Subiect this Is bent to very perfect honest end The Writer thought he could not write amisse In writing that which formerly was pend Nine former Worthies Stories theirs extend Some of them vp to heauen with endlesse praise All of them liv'd most worthy in their dayes But all were not of one nor oneselfe sort Three excellents of God ordaind before Three other valiant famous by report The first three Kings one Prophet valour store All three commended heauenly vertues lore Three other were profane but valiant men Three Christian Kings that vsed pike for pen. Paul Peart Gent. vpon the later nine Worthies TO make those Worthies liue againe Which long agoe were lapt in Lead Is worthy praise for taken paine To him that raiseth from the dead Such Princes as in time possest The Regal Scepter Crowne and Globe And in their Tumbs haue taken rest That once did weare a kingly Robe Now to appeare on princely Stage And to resigne a princely power Vnto a Prince whose tender age IEHOVA blesse and grant each hower Him to attend the royall hest And follow after true renowne He then from heauen shall be blest Nor dare proud Fortune euer frowne On him that vertuously doth liue To whom eight HENRIES honour giue Iohn Widevp the yonger Gent. of the nine Worthies THe primier Worthies which we Worthies cal Were worthy three for godly exhortation Iosua Dauid Macchabeus and all The other sixe for valours imitation Nine worthies more behold eight Kings a Prince Yong Tender Sweete Great Britaines hopefull Ioy Who will in time his fathers Foes conuince And worthy prooue as Hector was of Troy Then eighteen Worthies with the Prince of Britain This booke doth note Loe here their stories written Thomas Webber seruant to the Kings Maiestie vpon the sixt Worthy King HENRY the sixt THe King was left an infant most vnfit To Raigne by age but not to rule till when He should attaine in time to riper wit Thereby to iudge the differences of men Yet Crownd in Paris King of mighty France In tender yeeres almost an infant still His vncles and his Nobles did aduance His Regal power as did his father will They should But yet this King a tender childe Was rul'd and ouer-rul'd by Tutors head For de-la-Poole his nonage then beguil'd And brought King Rayners daughter to his bed Yet during nonage or his kingly youth The valiant Dukes of Bedford Glocester thoe Salisbury Shrewsbury Earles these bent their truth T'vphold him King of France in spite of foe In whose time Talbot was a terror great To all the French For as his dubbing drums With armed souldiers did their walles downe beat So women fear'd their children TALBOT comes Thus whil'st these Nobles liv'd this Worthy thriues They being dead then all was lost againe Salisbury Talbot both did lose their liues Bedford likewise Now both these valiants slaine This King at home drencht in domesticke strife Fierce factions set his Nobles at debate Some followed him and some his head-strong wife Till Richard Duke of Yorke disturbd their State Who claimd the Crowne yet neuer could attaine The same but Edward fourth his valiant sonne Rose into Armes though first his father slaine At Wakefield where the Queene a battell wonne With these and thousands moe this worthy King Tost and turmoyled spent his Mortall time Till Tyrant Gloster in the Tower did bring To death this worthy Prince deuoide of crime In all his life who euer shunned euill Conquering Sinne the World the