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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

A briefe 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 ¶ Imprinted at London by R. Warde dwelling at the signe of the Talbot neere vnto Holburne Conduit 1584. THOMAS BROMLE To God giue honour due feare him aboue all things He is the Lord of Lords and onelie King of Kings Obey the Princes lawes the poore do not denie Make peace where discord is remember you must die Auoyde vnruled wrath iudge iustlie to ech wight Set naught by worldly pelfe in the respect of right Be stout vnto the proud and gentle to the meeke Reproue the wicked sorte reuengement do not seeke Of flattering toongs beware let none your secrets kno Manie seeme a freend yet proue a verie fo Looke you attempt nothing but wey the end before Eschue ech vice and loue ech vertue euermore TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND MY GOOD LORD and Maister Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chauncellour of England and one of hir highnes priuie counsell PErusing ouer sundry bookes of volumes large and great Which of the worthy feates of Fame Martial actes intreat Of mightie Princes of the world accomplished of yore In diuers kingdomes vpon earth and countreis heretofore I finde in auncient Histories by learned men laid downe The conquestes of the Worthies nyne to be of most renowne Who are by famous Register enrowled in record The greatest and mightiest conquerers and Worthies of the world As well for their couragiousnes as magnanimities Their valiantnes their wisdomes rare and Princely pollicies As for the wonders maruelous and miracles also In their exploytes and their affaires which God for them did show How God exalted them on hie to earthly dignitie And gaue them Kings and kingdomes by tryumphant victorie Appointing them to be his scourge the wicked to confound And their vnrighteous seede vnroote with sword from of the ground How God remained to the end with them that godly weare And prospered all their attempts which him did loue and feare How other were amid their pryde in highest roome of all For that they had forgotten God brought to a sodaine fall As for example Iosua the Iudge of Israell The first of all these conquerers in vertue did excell And doughtie Dauid in like sort in whom God did delight From shepheard being made a King was righteous in Gods sight And noble Iudas Machabeus these three Iewes by byrth And feared God continually while they did liue on earth Wherfore the Lord wrought miracles vpon their enemies As shalbe afterwardes discust heere in these Histories Then Hector fearce the Phrigian Prince and Alexander great And Iulius Caesar painyms all their God they did forgeat For which amid their most estate when they were highest of all Ambicion Pride and Auarice gaue each of them a fall Then Arthur Charle-mayne and Guy were christians as I gesse The one was plagde in his most pompe for his lasciuiousnesse The other two were godly men wherfore they dyed well As in their seuerall Histories the Sequell plaine doth tell A briefe of all whose liues I haue in meeter with my pen Compiled out of sundry bookes of famous learned men And as I read of them also according to my skill I haue all their proportions depainted with my quill And drawne the armes and cognisaunce in euery seuerall shield Which when they liued vpon the earth they bare vnto the field The yeare time where they did raigne and when where they died And what they were enclined too I haue herein discried Beseeching that your honour wil accept in gentle part This litle booke which I present to shew my faithfull hart And when your leasure so shall serue vouchsafe I humbly craue To read it ouer once or twise and where I erred haue That crime or fault committed so let ignorance excuse Blame not the man that meaneth well but blame his simple Muse Record the matter in your minde although this style be base Then shall your Lordship plainly see before your present face A myrror of mans mortall life by them compared right Which well may be a looking glasse to euery liuing wight And chiefly to the higher sort whom God shall please t'aduance In any wise here vpon earth to rule or gouernaunce To learne therby to know the Lord who liues eternally Not to forget their owne estates through pride nor surquedry To abandon wicked vice away and vertue to embrace That to their latter end they may run out a happy race Thus humbly I do take my leaue and hartily do pray That God will graunt you Nestors yeares in vertues honour ay Your humble Seruant Richard Lloyd ❧ A description of the bodily proportion of the Nine worthies with what Armes euerie one of them gaue IOsua was of good stature strong and hardy to endure In iudgement iust godly and wise and cruell to his enemies Right fortunate and happy in fight in vertue was his whole delight He bare sables into fielde a Batte displayed in his shield HEctor was indifferent tall well compact and strong withall Courteous quicke and deliuere of might in armes a very goodly Knight His head was white and curld I finde his beard was white he was sandblinde And somewhat he did lispe also a gentler wight no man might know He bare two Lyons combatand or in asure I vnderstand DAuid was but little of bone in courage stout as any one Of his complexion browne was he addicted vnto venerie With goodly eyes the scripture tell this man in wisedome did excell And was both godly and fortunate and courteous to euery estate He bare a harpe for his ensine or in asure as bookes define ALexander as I reade of person was not tall in deed But made after the middle sort and of a very princely port Quicke and nimble swift and light valiant fearce and happy in fight Of his complexion white and redde on the left side bowing his head Very proud and liberall and giuen much to wine withall This puisant prince and conqueror bare in his shield a Lyon or Which sitting in a chaire hent a battel axe in his paw argent IVdas Machabeus was strong bigge of limbes square and long Of noble courage godly and wise forward against his enemies Fortunate and happie in fight meeke and gentle to each wight In field two Rauens he did beare in pale proper which sables were IVlius Caesar sklender was and leane likewise of body and face Pale and megre to beholde wise and learned stout and bolde Ambitious and hauty of minde of nature courteous and kinde Displayed an Eagle he did beare sables in or as may appeare ARthur was of body square of visage grim and full of haire Strong and bold and liberall of nature gentle ouer all And