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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14918	The mirror of martyrs, or The life and death of that thrice valiant capitaine, and most godly martyre Sir Iohn Old-castle knight Lord Cobham	Weever, John, 1576-1632.	1601 (1601)	STC 25226; ESTC S111646	22,568	94

we seen Fore-running kings nor kingdomes ouerthrow And kings with kingdomes vanquished haue been When neuer Comet in the Aire did show To prophesie from Comets or deuine T is foolerie they neither cause nor signe If euer sheild-shapt Comet was portent Of Criticke day foule and pernitious Then to the Frenchmen this assigne was sent Disaster fatall inauspitious Whose bloudie tresses tilting did foreshow At Agincourt their blooddie ouerthrow Or else it was would it had neuer been But the fore-runner of my Tragedie And heauens saw oh had they neuer seen I should sollicite nimble Mercurie To ingraue my words vpon the hardest mettle Whose Characters in harts of steele may setle Which when heauens saw what doth not heauens see With raine of teares she seemes my case to weepe Vsing all meanes but all meanes would not bee From death insuing danger me to keepe But hard it is for heauens to preuent When destinies for death giue once consent My Destinies are set in parlament Aboue their heades a curious frame of stone Marble below and during Adamant On each side flint and softer object none Saue that in chaires of hardest oake they sate In steede of wooll-packes neere the barred gate In scarlet vestments winter-coloured tresses Iron their wands of brasse their writing table Pens made of tinne for inke strong aqua fortis Their paper steele their carpet Indian sable Their countenance like Caiphas mou'd to ruth For god religion valour age nor youth In Paules thus sate this vniuersall Sinode The cheife Archbishop Thomas Arundell More sterne then Minos Eacus or Herode Like Rhadamanth the grim-fac'd iudge of hell In the first yeare of Henries happy raigne Last of my ioy and midle of my paine First the forsworne Inquisitours sent to them Of Wickleues as they tearm'd them villanies Ouf of whose bookes they did collect to shoe them Two hundred sixtie and six heresies All stricken dumbe they star'd as if their eies Should for an answere then intreate the skies To stop the worlds talkatiue wide mouth Wherefore they sate vpon this conuocation They hired men to blazon for a much It was all for the churches reformation Thus mischeife will her vice in vertue mother Blearing mens eyes with one deceit or other For first the sun dissolue might with his beames The icie bulke of way lesse Caucasus On whose snowie mantled top it neuer gleames Then these frost-bitten prelates sembled thus Would otherwise haue all their causes ended But as before the Sinode they pretended Nay Mercurie if with thy charming wand Thou had'st descended from the' Olimpique spheares To plead for pittie at their feete to stand With both thine eyelids full of swelling teares This sense-beguiling action had but ended My iudgement as before it was pretended Before these deepe-braind all-fore-seeing Doctours These reuerent fathers purgatorie teachers I was complain'd of by the generall proctours To be a great maintainer of good preachers O times vntaught men scorners of sound teaching Louers of playes and loathers of good preaching That Richard Henries both I had enformed Of the clergies great and manifold abuses That popish bulls and ceremonies scorned Roomes dignitie her rites and sacred vses And that I wisht the popes dominion Might stretch no surr then Callis O●●an That I had caused W●ckleues bookes be sent Faire writ to Boheme France and Germanie Whereof two hundred openly were brent By Prages Archbishops great authoritie That I pre●erd vp Bills in Parliament Where to the King and Lords gaue all consent Of all the Cleargies villainous abusion Which I put vp in open Pa●lement Writ in a briefe-containing sharpe conclusion These verses were the summarie content Whose soules with sin empoisning hate did anguish That they ne're left me till th●y law me languish Plangunt Auglorum Gentes crimen Sodomorum Paulus fert horum sunt idola causa malorum Surgunt ingrati Grezite symone nati N●m●ne pr●lati hoc def●nsare parati Qui reges esti● populis quicunque praestis Qualiter hijs estis gladios prohibere potestis Bewaile may England sinne of Sodomites For Idoles and they are ground of all their wo Of Symon Magus a sect of hypocrites Surnamed Prelates are vp with them to go And to vphold them in all that they may do You that be rulers peculiarly selected How can you suffer such mischiefes vncorrected Now least delay bred danger they were prest For to proclaime me for an heretike But one of more experience than the rest Such hazard rash proceedings did not like Because I was in fauour with the King T was best he thought to haue his councelling My life-surmising Bishops swolne in rage Ambitiously high Prelates lowlines As if th 'ad vow'd sin-pard'ning pilgrimage With tapers to Saint Peters holines Went to the king made great complaints and lies Blemisht my name with grieuious blasphemies Which when he heard kings then too much would heare them Then he desir'd why should not kings cōmand In mild-perswading words and deedes to beare them To mee the chiefest pillar of his land Vnto the church to bring me without rigour Respecting knighthood prowesie stocke and vigour And promis'd them vpon his excellence If in pursute they tooke deliberation In smoother-edge-rebating eloquence To conquer me by might of sweete perswasion The clergie gone Henry for Cobham sent I came and shew'd my selfe obedient Looke how some tender bleeding-harted father When 's son hath vow'd a vertue-gaining voyage Flint-rock-relenting arguments will gather All to diswade him from this pilgrimage And prayes intreates intreates and prayers vaine At length considers t is for vertues gaine Yet bout his necke he vseth kissing charmes And downe his bosome raines a shower of teares Hugges culles and clippes him in his aged armes This thing he doubts another thing he feares Takes leaue turnes backe returnes intreates anew Giues ouer weepes and last bids him a dew Euen so the king to stay my voyage tended My vowed voyage to the holy land Ten thousand reasons both begunne and ended That gainst the Pope I should in no wise stand Then vowes prayes treates vowes treates and praiers vaine From prayers treates and vowes he doth refraine To whom I answerd in humilitie Because I knew kings were the Lords annoynted To him I yeelded all supremacie As Gods sword-bearing minister appointed My body goods my life my loue my land Were his to vse distribute or command Then in a sorrow-sighing extasie Seeing my zealous burning true affection Denying to the Pope supremacie Yeelding to him foote-treading low subjection Henry tooke leaue turn'd backe entreated new Gaue ouer wept and last bade me adew If tyrants will vsurpt authoritie Must be obey'd what reuerence me behoued To giue this king this tyrants enemie Feared for loue and for his vertues loued Whose honours ensigne o're the world had spred him In warres and peace if church men had not led him And tyrants tended on with injurie With murders rapes lou'd only but for feare Whose sword and scepter gards iniquitie Ought t' haue