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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06147	A brief discourse of the most renowned actes and right valiant conquests of those puisant princes, called the nine worthies wherein is declared their seuerall proportions and dispositions, and what armes euerie one gaue, as also in what time ech of them liued, and how at the length they ended their liues. Compiled by Richard Lloyd gentleman.	Lloyd, Richard, gentleman.	1584 (1584)	STC 16634; ESTC S119668	23,584	52

distresse what enuie comes through couetousnesse What rigor wrong and periurie what rauine and what mortall strife What malice and what crueltie and finallie what losse of life Breeds couetousnes to euerie such as loue this worldly mucke too much This noble prince and conquerour a good example well may be Whom couetousnes did quite deuoure beeing drowned in this miserie But Gods iust iudgement hath prepard for euerie sinne a due reward FINIS NON IN 〈…〉 ●VSTVM NEC SEMEN EGENVM THE HISTORIE OF THE conquests of the vertuous and valiant King DAVID I Am Dauid most doughtie of déede the King of Israell By Samuel the prophet great annointed there to dwell A Iew I am in Bethlehem borne and by Gods onelie grace Promoted vp to regall rowme though come but of meane race Next to Saule I ware the crowne I had continually Seuen and thirtie mightie men as captaines vnder me Whose names in the old testament in the bookes of the Kings At large are written and set foorth with manie other things Peruse well the old testament and marke the text aright Then thou shalt find that I am he in whom God did delight Of whom in pleased him to say Behold in euerie part At last I haue found out a man according to my hart No prophet euer raignd on earth more greater than was I To whom the Lord did deigne to giue such spirit of prophesie Nor vnto whom my God vouchsafd so largelie to behight Such ioifull promises nor found more fauour in Gods sight First in my childish yéeres when I a shepheard was I slew a Lion with my hands as he my shéepe did chase And kild a great and vglie Beare which came in rauenous wise Out of the wildernesse to spoile my flocke before mine eies And béeing by my father sent my brothers food to bring Who serued then as soldiours in field with Saule the King I slew the Giant Goliath most lothlie to behold Who was from the Philistines sent on Israelites to scold And proudlie stood betweene the hosts trusting vnto his might And called vpon Israel to send him one to fight This man was captaine of their host which then in Socohe lay He ware a coat of maile which did fiue thousand siccles way And was six cubits large in length and on his legges did weare Boots of brasse and on his brest a brasen shield did beare And in his hand a speare he held whose brasen head also Did wey as scriptures do declare six hundred siccles mo Which thing when Saule the King beheld he highlie estéemed me And brought me home vnto his house his seruant for to be And gaue me his daughter to wife for whom I paid in fight Two hundred foreskins of my foes whom I slew through my might With manie a thousand mo beside whereby my fame so sprung Throughout the land of Israel that women on me sung In all the cities where I past dauncing most ioifullie With fiddles and timbrels well tund to aduaunce my victorie Saieng Dauid hath ten thousand kild and Saule one thousand slaine Wherefore the King was woonderous wroth that I did so attaine To worthie honour and renowne and for this did conspire My death by all the meanes he could in his outragious ire And often times he did attempt when he tormented was And vexed with the euill spirit to slay me in the place But then I plaid vpon my harpe and so I did expell The wicked spirit by Gods grace which in King Saule did dwell And yet as soone as I did cease the spirit would him torment And then to slay me as before againe he would attempt At last to shun his wicked hand by helpe of Ionathas I fled vnto the wildernesse where I in sorrow was And déepe distresse for manie a day opprest with hungers rage Vntill Ahimelech the priest my hunger did asswage And after fled to Achis King thence to the desert caue Of Odolam to Mazphah thence my selfe from Saule to saue To Engedi and Keilah thence to the wildernesse Of Phran thence to Zikelege where I brought to distresse Thousands of Philistiens at last King Saule was slaine And then ouer all Israel I was elect to raigne And ruled as their soueraigne King with famous victorie Subduing great and mightie Kings and nations vnder me As the peruerse Amalakites which Zikelege did burne Whom I pursued so narrowlie that few did backe returne The Syrians and the Edomites the Iebusites likewise The Iesurites and Gersites that did against me rise The Philistines and Moabites the tower of Sion éeke And Isboseth the sonne of Saule who did the kingdome séeke I ouercame Iesby of Nob a Giant fierce and fell Who had six fingers on ech hand as scriptures truely tell And Saphon strong whose fearefull lookes all Israel did dreed The ghastlie Giant I subdued and causd his men to bleed Adadasor the mightie King as prisoner I did hold Bereauing him in battell strong of manie a shield of gold Vnhappie Absalon my sonne who thought ambitiouslie To conquer me although his sire was brought to miserie Yea vnto such a wofull end that others iustlie may Example take and learne by him their parents to obay For as he through the woods did flie my soldiours force to shun Who fiersly him pursued behind the field when they had wun His locks béeing long the trées being low the boughs crauld in his haire And pluckt him from his foming stéed and hangd him in the aire Where finally Ioab him found and piteouslie him slew With manie of his confederates whose death I much did rue This wofull slaughter brought to end I raigned quietly Amongst my people manie a day and found no enemie For God my Lord was on my side whose force than should I feare Thus raigned I in Israel and Hebron fortie yeare And in my crooked extreme age my bodie fell on sleepe And in the citie of Dauid lieth in earth inclosed deepe After the framing of the world two thousand and fiftéene Adding seuen hundreth yeres and ninetie as I weene And one thousand yeeres also ere Iesus Christ was borne One hundreth fiftie yeeres and seuen expired out and worne FINIS ❧ An Example of this former Historie LO here behold a mirrour bright wherein the reader well may find Expressed and set forth aright the vertues of a pacient mind And learne also himselfe thereby both meekenes and humilitie Which vertues being duely waide ech liuing wight ought to imbrace For in the scriptures it is saide and writ at large in manie a place By the old prophets long time since what vertue is in patience By patience saith Salomon a prince may soone be pacified And patience is a iust token whereby mans wisedome is discried The patient man also saith he shall gouerne in prosperitie And Dauid this most vertuous King saith in his Psalms The patient Out of his troubles God shall bring he will not suffer him be shent For patience commeth of the Lord euen as the prophet