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A15310	Here begynnethe the glorious lyfe and passion of seint Albon prothomartyr of Englande, and also the lyfe and passion of saint Amphabel whicheconuerted saint Albon to the fayth of Christe.; Life of Saint Alban and Saint Amphibal	Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?	1534 (1534)	STC 256; ESTC S108894	67,790	178

confirmed to that place For loue of saint Albon with many especial grace By auctoritie as ye haue hard deuysed He had his askynge by power spirituall And for his part to be more auctorised He hath annexed his power in especyall with all liberties and fraunchies full ryall Perpetually bound yt in brede and in lenght In honour of saint Albō to stonde in his strenght O Verolamy as I haue tolde beforne O Famous olde citie amonge all nations whiche in thy boundes hadst suche a prince borne Notable in knyghthode with all conditions Of hygh prowes by manyfold reasons wordy by vertu and by ryall lyen To be in degre aboue all the worthies nyen He that whylom was busy to compyle This noble historie trewly of entent In latyn tonge to directe his style Ryght as he sawe so was he diligent It to conuey bicause he was present yet lyst he not I suppose of mekenes Tell what he was nor his name expresse To hym selfe he gaue none other name After the story as I reherse can Excepte he wrote of drede and of honest shame He wolde be called as he wrote than Of all wretches the symplest man Of other name as by his wrytyng To vs he lefte no maner knowlegyng Saue he of trust and good confydence whiche that abode in his opinion There shulde come in great reuerence Tyme commyng folke of religion Specially to Verolamy towne whiche that shulde do theyr busy payne The fayth of Christe for to preache in Britayne Than shall the trouthe be openly knawe whan the errour is loused and vnbounde Of paynyms and Christis worde be sawe Thorowe all the londe false ydols to confounde Than to theyr hartes gladnes shall rebounde That vseth our fayth whan Iesu lyst by grace Of his infinite mercy a tyme to purchase This same man of full trewe intent whiche busy was this story to endue Vnto the see of Rome with the boke he went By great aduise his purpose to acquite And fynally lyke as he doth playnly wryte All false goddes and ydols to forsake Baptisme to receyue and Christis fayth to take And as I haue tolde this boke w t hym he brought To be sene ouer with meke and lowe subiection To all that courte and humbly he besought Our lorde Christe Iesu with deuoute intention After theyr dewe and full examynation Called to recorde this story made of newe Lyke as he wrote that euery worde was trewe This boke accomplysshed notable and famous Of hym that was in Brutis Albion Called prothomartyr most vertuous That for Christ suffered passion That yere accompted of his translation Fro Christis byrthe and his natiuite Fully seuen hundreth nynty yere and thre Nowe perfyte reders that dyuers stories hath sene Marke well the tymes of this here expressed whan that saynt Albon by the paynyms kene For Christis fayth from this lyfe was suppressed The cōmyng of saynt Germayn for errours to be After all these the tyme of his inuention Done by kynge Offa w t his holy translation CC. lxxxx.iii yeres of our lorde Christ Iesu The reigne of Dioclesyon the .xix. yere Christis holy fayth to reuyue and renewe Suffred saynt Albon the story doth appere Maximiane Asclipiodot both his iuges were It was in the seconde yere of the pope Gaius That holy saynt Albon was martyred thus Than one hundreth one yere after his passion Began fyrst theresies of false pelagyane which was CCCC iiii yeres by iust computation After that Christ had take our nature humayne The .xiiii. yere of the Brittisshe kynge Graciane In the .iii. yere of the fyrst Anastacious And the .xvi. yere of themperour Theodosius Foure hundred and forty of our lorde .ix. yeres mo And in the fyrst yere of Vortigern the kynge And the fyfte yere of the fyrst pope Leo Theodose the seconde emperour than beinge In his .xxi. yere after iust rekenynge Saynt Germayn come fyrst and lupus also To distroye theresies that were begon tho C.xliii yeres by iuste computation After his passion thus come saynt Germayn And forty and two yere without variation After the fyrst tyme of the falce pelagian yet within fyue yeres saynt Germayn come agayn As is shewed before with holy Seuerus All former heresies by grace to discus CCC.xliii yeres after saynt Germayne whiche was seuen hundreth lxxx .xiii. yere Of our lorde Iesu as stories doth determyne That thangell at Bath to kyng Offa dyd appere To translate saynt Albon w t all heuenly chere The fyrst Adrian pope the .vi. Constantine thēperour whā this translation was done w t all honour Perceyue nowe good reders gyue true iugemēt Betwene the monkes of Colen of blessed Albon The Coloners wryteth after theyr entent To cause the pylgryms to w tdrawe theyr deuotion From Verolamy to folowe theyr affection Sayinge that they haue the very body To theyr shame and rebuke detendyng suche foly And to proue theyr intent playnely they say That these heresyes of false pelagiane Began in the reigne of noble kynke Offa And also in the tyme of pope Adrian Affyrmyng that than shuld come in Germayne And with hym Lupus a clerke of great substance And all theresyes were brought than to vttrance And so by Germayn were brought vnto Rauenus The body of saynt Albon and there themperour Valentiniane he was nobly receyued than And also the body with all godly honour where Germayn sore vexed w t a mortall dolour Departed this lyfe and vale of all misery To theternall lyfe in the celestiall glory After whose deth themperours mother Placida by name as Coloners doth say To Rome brought this body she with many other with all dewe reuerence there abode many a day Tyll Otto themperour w t his mother Theophana Brought it to Colen to tharchebysshop Brunon In to the monastery of holy Panthaleon Also at the tyme of this translation in dede Adrian was pope and that they confesse And whan Valentiniane to thempyre dyd procede Liberious was pope in his .xii. yere doutlesse As diuerse Historiographers playnly do expresse So that of the sees spirituall nor temporall Agreeth w t theyr accomptes after theyr memoriall They say also the body is yet incorrupt From the thyes vpwarde they haue in possession whiche saiynge me semeth of trouthe be interrupte Onles they wyll graunt any vnsemyng diuision Of a corporall body to be cut in perticion yet I can not knowe what parte they shulde haue For kynge Offa founde nothyng but the bones in his graue They say also that kyng Offa saynt Germayne was bothe at one tyme at this translation whan therisies was destroyde of false pelagian In whose tymes is a great alteration who lust accompt by iust compotation Shall fynde CCC yeres .xliiii. also That kynge Offa came after saynt Germayn was go They say also that themperour Valentiniane Shulde mete s Germain whā he came to Rauene whiche can not be trewe but all spoken in vayne For CCC.lxvi was the yeres of our lorde than whan Valentiniane

serche hem out but in no manere They were nat caught but than cam to y e thought Of Dioclecian to worke as ye shall here Them of Britaine to make them to appere Vpon a morow when Phebus shone full bright They of his hande to take order of knight Of antiquitie as put is in memory when themperour shulde knightes make They dyd assemble beside an oratory That reised was and bylt for martis sake In whose worshyp all night they shulde wake The next morow after the maner At Phebus vprist they shulde appere The oratory in compas rounde and large Beside a temple of Bellona the goddesse where Dioclecian shulde giue first the charge Of hole assuraunce to auoide all doublenes First to kepe theyr bodies in clennesse For life or death bothe in peace and werre The comon profite of thempire to preferre Next this charge themperour anon right In all his moost imperiall maiestie Like theyr rightes girt them with swordes bright So as they weren of state and of degree Obseruaunces kept of authoritie First chargynge them that they shulde entende Chiefly theyr goddes to worship and defende Of theyr temples to saue the liberties Prestes of that law in right to make stronge wydowes maidens pore folke in cities Suffre in no wise no man to do them wronge Appease debates that haue endured longe For comun profite as moost soueraine good In theyr defence redy to spende theyr blood withdraw theyr hande from lucre and couetise Specially to eschewen idlenes Pursue armes for knightly excercise In causes knowen grounded on rightwisnes Gyue theyr Eaptaines suche trouthe and stablenes And in suche case rather knightly dye Than theyr statutes to breke or disobey Of comon profite deuised an ymage Called Knighthood an arme of theyr defence To holde vp trouthe suffre non outrage Cherishe the pore do no violence After theyr wages gouerne theyr expence Full assuraunce made with mouth and hande Susteine trouthe bothe on see and lande Make prouidence that no derision Fall vnwarely on high or low estate whiche caused hath great dissolution Made many a region to be infortunate For where as a strife continueth or debate By experience of many great citie The light is eclipsed of theyr felicitie Of olde custome knighthood toke non hede Vnto theyr owne singuler auaile withdrew theyr hande from guerdon and fro mede wrought nothyng but by wyse counsaile The hed of maters peysed with the taile This is to saine there shulde no Romaine knight Begyn no quarell nor ende against right For the Romaines in theyr election Chose to that order folke iust and stable Manly of hert and of condition Sober nat hasty feithfull honourable For comon profite preued profitable Benigne of porte not proude but debonaire That worde and worke for nothynge be contratre Take no quarell grounded on falshed Specially the pore not to oppresse Flee Tiranny eschew blood to shed Of innocentes by wilfull sturdynesse Blood cryeth vengeaunce to god of rightwisnesse Fals homicides contrary to nature God suffreth them no while for to endure All thyng odible to euery gentill knight Hatefull murder not support nor mainteine Theyr office is as they are bounde of right Maidens widowes and pore folke to susteine Fraude and extorcion anon while it it is grene In knightly wise to serche out the offence And chastice it by marciall violence Then tonge and hert by one accorde shall draw On theyr promesse stedfastly to abide Of antiquitie Romains set a law To punisshe periury spare non homicide Represse of Tirauntes the vengeable pride If nede fall theyr life and blood to spende The right of goddes and temples to defende In token wherof who toke thorder of knight This was the vsage of olde antiquitie He shulde first be shaue of very right Token to auoide all superfluitie Of vicious lyuynge all dishonestie Shauen away by vertuous diligence All olde outrages out of theyr consciences They had of custome also this maner Romaine knightes of yeres yonge and grene To entre a bath of water cristall clere Frō all ordures to wasshe theyr bodies clene whiche bath plainly it dyd mene As bokes olde notably don expresse Vnto knighthode longeth all clennesse First specially by attemperaunce Voide all surfettes lyue in sobernesse By prudence and vertuouse gouernaunce Mainteine trouthe chastise all falsnesse Restreine theyr courage from riotous excesse Dishonest speche and ribaudry to flee Eschew auoutry liue chaste like theyr degree Clennesse longeth to euery gentill knight As theyr bathyng dothe plainly specifie Thrugh theyr ꝑfectiō was made to Mars aright whilom Romains by prudent policie Had in custome theyr bodies to applie To serue Diana that was the cast goddesse That Venus had with them non intraunce Venus to vertues contrarious Causeth in youth flesshely insolence Giueth great occasion to folkes couragious Of theyr nature loueth riot and exspence withdraweth in knighthode marciall diligence For whiche the bathe was made for a figure To wasshe away of Venus all ordure If they be wedded holde them to theyr wyues If they be syngle no woman to opresse For in suche case began the blody striues Betwene Troy Grekes the story berith witnesse Caused many a knight to dye in distresse For by thauoutry of Paris and Eleine Grekes Troyans theyr mischiefes dyd cōplaine After this bath tokened by chastite Fully made faire and voide of vnclennesse with a white shirte he shulde clothed be To signifie the chefe founderesse Of all vertues that called is mekenes Clene of entent without whom certaine All other vertues stande but bareine For who so lyst in bokes for to rede Chaste in vertue expert for to be Moost redy way is his purpose for to spede Set his foundacion vpon humilitie She berith vp all and hath the souereynte whose buildyng euer the grounde if it be sought Goeth euer vpwarde and descendeth nought As a shirt the body next doeth touche with whose touche the body is nat offended So mekenes on authors I me auouche Among vertues is souereinly commended She and pacience of one stocke be discendyd yet in som case reken nigh ferre Peace hath conqueryd more than hath the werre By prudent writyng humble pacience Kynge Dindinus was nat recheles To notifie the surquidrous science Of Alisaunder thrugh mekenes doubtles To Brigmannus mekenes brought in peas Meke language appeasyd the rygour Of this forsayd famous conquerour whiche considered the Romains vnderstode This noble vertue of humilitie was in some case nedefull to knighthode Moost expedient to euery comontie Them to preserue longe in prosperitie Very mekenes vsed in prudent wyse Is nat atwited with no cowardise As to knighthode longeth gentilnes Thyng appropried to his religion Voide of surfettes founded on mekenes As a lambe in chambre in bataile a lion where place and tyme gaue iust occasion By manly suffraunce benigne of face chere And play the lyon when tyme dothe require By the processe of theyr obseruaunces Next the shirt of mekenes for more spede They had a