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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09129	The worthie hystorie of the most noble and valiaunt knight Plasidas, otherwise called Eustas, who was martyred for the profession of Iesus Christ. Gathered in English verse by Iohn Partridge, in the yere of our Lord. 1566	Partridge, John, fl. 1566-1573.	1566 (1566)	STC 19438; ESTC S110300	16,791	70

and of prayse Which to atchicue the noble hearts indeuour still alwayes They spende their tyme with ioy and blesse their labour they imploy According to their parentes mindes their hope and perfect ioy Such bookes these babes did learn to reade as present tyme did giue Which might their tender yeares trade by in Mametrie to liue Thus they in whom all tendernesse of age did still remaine Were taught the labour tedious of study to stustaine The parentes eke imploy their dayes good learning to attaine And now and then they finde pastime their griefes for to restraine Sometime on hunting he doth ride sometyme to Chesse they goe Sometime great doutes they do decide that in the Realme might growe This was the vse of Plasidas his minde to recreate This vsed eke his children deare O blessed happy fate The stormy winter dayes hath left with misty cloudes to swell And Phoebus bright appointed is more nearer vs to dwell And Eolus no pleasure takes to dim the ayre with cloudes And Phoebus nowe is quite deudide of fogges his beames that shrowdes Then doth Aurora leaue the bed of Titan and doth bring Some ioyes to men the wished day beholding once to spring And trées and hearbes with ioyfull heart do shew their pleasaunt hew And Knights in Forrests bende their force the Bucke for to subdew Then Plasidas with comely traine of knightes of royall kinde Do enter now the gréene Forestes a Bucke foorth for to finde At lēgth he came where bucks great store did stande confusedly And ech man now doth bend him selfe his lusty Stede to try Now here and there the harmelesse Buck assayeth for to runne And Plasidas at one faire Bucke to ryde he hath begonne The other knightes amongst the Buckes in fieldes abrode do raunge But Plasidas followeth hard this Bucke and will not chaunge At length in thickst of woods I say the Bucke doth enter in And then more fiercely hir to sew this knight doth straight beginne Till at the last the Bucke had tooke a Mountaine huge and hye And there the huge and lofty Bucke Plasidas did discry But as he was addicted sore the Bucke with force to take The mighty God in Skyes aboue his seruaunt did him make And out from cloudes he called to him his Idolles to detest Which by and by fel in a swoune and so he left the beast Then there he layde his sprangling corps almost deuoyde of breath I am thy God then sayd the Lord which bought thée with my death My very bloud doth iustifie in me thou hast thy life Go wende in hast the Lorde can say conuert thy Heathen wife Thy children eke let them be taught one God to honour pure Then thou my kingdome shalt possesse hereof thou mayst be sure Where thou shalt liue eternally if thou this life detest And shalt if thou fight manfully for aye with me be blest Arise therfore go wende in hast this life is but as grasse To day full faire hir glistring hew to morow quite is past Those stocks stones the which thou doest as Coddes adorne with prayse Are in my sight Idolatrous therefore eschewe those wayes Arise I say and get thée hence make hast thee to baptise And sée thou do conuert thy wife I say in any wise Apalled sore with feare and dreade the Knight straight wayes did say Haue mercy Lord and me forgiue I hartly do thée pray Stand vp thou knight then sayd the Lord thy sinnes remitted be Do thou not feare for Sathan will thee plague with misery Then downe he sat with stretched handes to God he gaue the prayse And sayde to thee that sittes on hye be honour due alwayes That hast vouchsafe this day to call thy seruaunt gone astray Euen as a shéepe by fortune strayed out of the herde away I do confesse thou onely arte my comfort and my trust And eke my God and thy promyse thou kepest true and lust No part thereof thou violatest thou art both God and man These stockes these stones be Diuels yil do vs no good they can Thée therefore I do worship still thou madest the worlde of naught And I the Image of thy grace that thou of earth hast wrought I do confesse my heauenly king that no good is in me But that the goodnesse which I haue doth all discende from thee Without thy grace and goodnesse I no day at all can say But that I should be ouerthrowen and brought to deathes decay But thou O God art my defence my aide my hope and trust Thou art my king my God my Lord my sauiour true and iust O Lord I know that Sathan will with cares my soule molest But thou O Lord in pacience defende my carefull brest Let me with pacience still abide thy gracious laysure good And graunt also to me full hope in thy most precious bloud That what so euer illes do hap vnto thy seruaunt here With willing minde the burden huge with pacience I may bere Graunt also that dispayre do not molest my quiet state Ne that I should in any wise incurre thy heauy hate But giue me Lord a minde alwayes obedient for to bée Unto thy hest and to submit my will alwayes to thée So shall I be a most fitte braunch ingraffed in the trée Of liuing dayes and at the last shall euer raigne with thée To whome be prayse eternally both now and euer more One onely God though persons thrée as I haue sayd before Then at the last this noble knight from Forrest made returne And thought within his hunting race no longer to soiourne But home he commes in posting wise The knightes they after hye And some the chase will follow on the ende thereof to trye The mighty Buckes lye dead on launde the Palfrayes they do sweate And from their frothy mouthes they breath the inward partching heate Now here now there with launce in hand the marshall knightes do runne And at the last they haue espyed how Plasidas did come From out the groues so gréene which was beset with many a trée With heauy chere much like vnto a man in miserie When they perceyued well that he with sorrow was infect They mused much yet of that hapte they nothing did suspect Then home they go and some doe lade the pray that they haue slaine And other some for their repastes in Forcestes do remaine At length Plasidas doth ariue before his Castle gate His wife to welcome home hir Loue is ready sone thereat From gate to Hall they do ascende and there the bourdes be spred The sunne is downe and time it is for men to goe to bed The chamberlaynes the bed downe lay and fier in chamber make And nowe Plasidas he is come his corporall rest to take When he in bed had layne a while great griefes he did sustayne And se at length his minde to breake he purposeth certaine At length his wife perceyning that no rest her Mate could finde She did procure him for to shewe what dreade was in