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A05801	The valiant VVelshman, or The true chronicle history of the life and valiant deedes of Caradoc the Great, King of Cambria, now called Wales As it hath beene sundry times acted by the Prince of Wales his seruants. Written by R.A. Gent.; Valiant Welshman.	R. A., Gent.; Armin, Robert, fl. 1610, attributed name.; Anton, Robert, b. 1584 or 5, attributed name.; Aylett, Robert, 1583-1655?, attributed name.	1615 (1615)	STC 16; ESTC S104360	35,542	72

THE VALIANT VVELSHMAN OR THE TRVE CHRONIcle History of the life and valiant deedes of CARADOC the Great King of Cambria now called WALES AS it hath beene sundry times Acted by the Prince of Wales his seruants Written by R. A. Gent. LONDON Imprinted by George Furslowe for Robert Lownes and are to be solde at his shoppe at the Little North dore of Paules 1615. TO THE INGENVOVS READER AS it hath been a custome of long continuance as well in Rome the Capitall City as in diuers other renowned Cities of the world to haue the liues of Princes and worthy men acted in their Theatres and especially the conquests victories which their owne Princes and Captains had obtained thereby to incourage their youths to follow the steps of their ancesters which custome euen for the same purpose is tolerated in our Age although some peeuish people seeme to dislike of it Amongst so many valiant Princes of our English Nation vvhose liues haue already euen cloyed the Stage I searched the Chronicles of elder ages vvherein I found amongst diuers renovvned persons one Brittish Prince who of his enemies receiued the title of Valiant Brittaine his name was Caradoc he was King of Siluria Ordonica and March which Countries are now called South-Wales North-Wales and the Marches and therefore being borne in Wales and King of Wales I called him the valiant Welshman he liued about the yere of our Lord 70. Cornelius Tacitus in his 12. booke sayth that hee held warres 9. years against all the Romane puissance but in the end hee was betrayed by Cartismanda Queene of Brigance and so conuayed to Rome in triumph so that the name of Caradoc was famous in Rome at that time wherefore finding him so highly commended amongst the Romans who were then Lords of all the world and his enemies I thought it fit amongst so many Worthies whose liues haue already been both acted and printed his life hauing already bin acted with good applause to be likewise worthy the printing Hoping that you will censure indifferently of it and so I bid you farevvell The Actors names Fortune Bardh Octauian King of North-Wales Guiniuer his daughter Codigune his base sonne The Duke of Cornewall The Earle of Gloster Morgan Earle of Anglesey Pheander his sonne the Fayry champion Ratsbane his man A Iugler Cadallan Prince of March with his three sons and his daughter Voada Caradoc Mauron and Constantine Monmouth an vsurper Gederus King of Brittaine Gald his brother Venusius Duke of Yorke Cartismanda his wife Claudius Cesar the Emperour Ostorius Scapula the Romane Lieutenant Marcus Gallicus his sonne Manlius Valens and Cessius Nasica 2. Tribunes of the Romanes A Witch and her sonne Bluso The Clowne with a company of Rustickes A Shepheard An olde man THE VALIANT WELSHMAN ACTVS 1. SCENA 1. Fortune descends downe from heauen to the Stage and then shee cals foorth foure Harpers that by the sound of their Musicke they might awake the ancient Bardh a kind of Welsh Post who long agoe was there intoombed Fortune THus from the high Imperiall Seate of Ioue Romes awfull Goddesse Chaunce descends to view This Stage and Theater of mortall men Whose acts and scenes diuisible by me Sometime present a swelling Tragedy Of discontented men sometimes againe My smiles can mould him to a Comicke vayne Sometimes like Niobe in teares I drowne This Microcosme of man and to conclude I seale the Lease of mans beatitude Amongst the seuerall obiects of my frownes Amongst the sundry subiects of my smiles Amongst so many Kings housde vp in clay Behold I bring a King of Cambria To whom great Pyrrhus Hector poysde in scales Of dauntlesse valour weighes not this Prince of Wales Be dumbe you scornefull English whose blacke mouthes Haue dim'd the glorious splendor of those men Whose resolution merites Homers penne And you the types of the harmonious spheares Call with your siluer tones that reuerend Bardh That long hath slept within his quiet vrne And let his tongue this Welshmans Crest adorne The Harpers play and the Bardh riseth from his Tombe Bardh Who 's this disturbs my rest Fortune None Poet Laureat but a kind request Fortune prefers vnto thy ayry shape That once thou wouldst in well-tunde meeter sing The high-swolne fortunes of a worthy King That valiant Welshman Caradoc by name That foylde the haughty Romanes crackt their fame Bardh I well remember powerfull Deity Arch-gouernesse of this terrestriall Globe Goddesse of all mutation man affords That in the raigne of Romes great Emperour Ycleped Claudian when the Bryttish Ile Was tributary to that conquering See This worthy Prince suruiued whose puissant might Was not inferiour to that sonne of Ioue Who in his cradle chokte two hideous Snakes Which since my Fortune is to speake his worth My vtmost skill aliue shall paint him forth Fort. Then to thy taske graue Bardh tell to mens eare Fame plac't the valiant Welshman in the spheare Exit Bardh Then since I needs must tell the high designes Of this braue Welshman that succeeding times In leaues of gold may register his name And reare a Pyramys vnto his fame This onely doe I craue that in my song Attention guyde your eares silence your tongue Then know all you whose knowing faculties Of your diuiner parts scorne to insist On sensuall obiects or on naked sense But on mans highest Alpes Intelligence For to plebeyan wits it is as good As to be silent as not vnder stood Before faire Wales her happy Vnion had Blest Vnion that such happinesse did bring Like to the azure roofe of heauen full packt With those great golden Tapers of the night Whose spheares sweat with their numbers infinite So was it with the spacious bounds of Wales Whose firmament contaynd two glorious sonnes Two Kings both mighty in their arch-cōmands Though both not lawfull in their gouernement The one Octauian was to whom was left By lineall descent each gouernment But that proud Earle of Munmouth stealing fire Of high ambition did one throne aspire Which by base vsurpation he detaines Of lawfull right vnlawfull treason gaines Twise in two haughty set Battalions The base vsurper Munmouth got the day And now Octauian spurde with griefe and rage Conducted by a more propitious starre Himselfe in person comes to Shrewsbury Where the great Earle of March great in his age But greater in the circuit of his power Yet greatest in the fortunes of his sonnes The Father of our valiant Welshman calld Himselfe his warlike sonnes and all doth bring To supplant Treason and to plant their King No more I le speake but this olde Barde intreats To keepe your vnderstanding and your seates ACTVS 1. SCENA 2. Enter Octauian King of Northwales Gloster Codigunes base sonne Morgan Earle of Anglesey and his foolish sonne with souldiers Octauian Gloster Lord Codigune And Noble Morgan Earle of Anglesey Can the vsurping name of Monmouth liue VVithin the ayry confines of your soules And not infect the purest temprature Of loyalty and sworne

darkely cleare Lend me thy face good Ianus let mee looke Iust on Times fashion with a double face And clad my purpose in a Foxes case Exit ACTVS 2. SCENA 1. Sound Musicke Enter Octauian Caradoc Guiniuer Gloster Cornewall and Codigune vnto the Banket Octa. Sit Princes and let each man as befits This solemne Festiuall tune his sullen senses To merry Carols and delightsome thoughts Comicke inuentions and such pleasant straines As may decypher time to be well pleased All things distinguisht are into their times And Iouiall howres vnfit for graue designes A health vnto the Bride and Bridegroome Lords Let it goe round They drinke round Octa. How fares our princely Daughter Me thinks your looks are too composde for such a holiday Gui. Oh my good Lord to put your Highnes out of your suspect Which your weak argument draws frō my looks T is true that heathen Sages haue affirmed That Natures Tablet fixt within our looke Giues scope to reade our hearts as in a booke Yet this affirmative not alwayes holds For sometimes as the vrine that foretels The constitution of each temperature It falsely wrongs the iudgement makes our wit Turne Mountybanke in falsely iudging it And like the outward parts of some fayre whore Deceiues euen in the obiect we adore My Lord my soule 's so rapte In contemplation of my happy choyce That inward silence makes it more complete By how much more it is remote From custome of a superficiall ioy That 's meerely incorporeall a meere dreame To that essentiall ioy my thoughts conceyue Octa. How learnedly hath thy perswasiue toung Discouered a new passage vnto ioy In mentall reseruation True ioy is strung Best with the heart-strings sounds onely in the tongue But where 's Sir Morgan Earle of Anglesey He promised vs some pleasant masking sight To crowne these Nuptials with their due delight Enter Morgans foolish sonne Morion Morion Oh my Lord my father is comming to your Grace with such a many of Damsons and shee Shittle-cockes They smell of nothing in the world but Rozin and Coblers waxe such a many lights in their heeles lungs in their hands aboue all cry yfaith Enter the Maske of the Fayry Qu●ene with foure Harpers before they daunce one of them singeth a Welsh song they daunce and then the foole Earle Morgans sonne falleth in loue with the Fayry Queene Morion By my troth my stomacke rumbleth at the very conceit of this Iamall loue euen from the sole of my head to the crowne of the foote Surely I will haue more acquaintance of that Gentlewoman me thinks she daunceth like a Hobby-horse After the daunce a Trumpet within Octa. Thanks Cousin Morgan But soft what Trumpets this Constan. A messenger my Lord from King Gederus King of Brytayne desires accesse vnto your Maiesty Octa. Admit him to our presence Enter Ambassadour Ambass Health to this princely presence and specially to great Octauian for vnto him I must direct my speech Octa. To vs then freely speake the tenor of thy speech And wee as freely will reply to it Thy Master is a Prince whom wee affect For honourable causes knowne to vs Then speake as if the power we haue to graunt Were tied to his desire Amb. Then know great King that now Gederus stands As in a Labyrinth of hope and feare Vncertaine eyther of his life and Crowne The Romane Claudius Cesar with an hoste Of matchlesse numbers bold and resolute Are marching towards Brittayn armd with rage For the denying Tribute vnto Rome By force and bloudy warre to conquer it And eyther winne Brittayne with the sword Or make her stoope vnder the Romane yoke Now mighty King since Brittayne through the world Is counted famous for a generous I le Scorning to yeeld to forraine seruitude Gederus humbly doth desire your ayde To backe him 'gainst the pride of Romane Cesar And force his Forces from the Brittish shores Which being done with speede he vowes to tye Himselfe to Wales in bonds of amity Oct. Legate this news hath pleasd Octauian wel The Bryttaynes are a Nation free and bold And scorne the bonds of any forrayne foe A Nation that by force was ne're subdude But by base Treasons politikely forst Claudius forgets that when the Bryttish Ile Scarce knew the meaning of a strangers march Great Iulius Cesar fortunate in armes Suffred three baserepulses from the Cliffes Of chalky Douer And had not Bryttayne to her selfe prou'd false Cesar and all his Army had beene toombde In the vast bosome of the angry sea Sonne Caradoc how thinke you of this worthy enterprise Yet t is vnfit that on this sudden warning You leaue your fayre wife to the Theoricke Of matrimoniall pleasure and delight Cara. Oh my good Lord this honourable cause Is able to inflame the coward brest Of base Thersites to transforme a man That 's Planet-strooke with Saturne into Mars To turne the Caucasus of peasant thoughts Into the burning Aetna of reuenge And manly Execution of the foe What man is he if Reason speake him man Or honour spurs on that immortall fame May canonize his Acts to after times And Kingly Homers in their Swanlike tunes Of sphearelike Musicke of sweet Poesie May tell their memorable acts in verse But at the name of Romanes is all warre All courage all compact of manly vigour Totally magnanimious fit to cope Euen with a band of Centaures or a hoast Of Cretan Minotaures Then let not me be bard The way to honour 's craggy rough and hard Octa. Go on prosper braue resolued Prince Car. Faire Princesse be not you dismaid at this T is honour bids me leaue you for a while 'T will not long be absent All the world Except this honourable accident Could not intreat what now I must performe Being ingadgde by honour Let it suffice That ioy that liues with thee without thee dies Guin Sweet Lord ech howre whilst you return I le pray Honour may crowne you with a glorious day Cara. Then here I le take my leaue He kisses his hand First as my duty binds of you great King Next of you fayre Princesse He kisses her Come brothers and Lord Morgan I must intreat Your company along Mor. Fare you well great King our Cousin ap Caradoc and I will make Cesars with all her Romanes runne to the Teuils arse a peake I warrant her Exeunt I pray you looke vnto her sonne there bee Cad hee hath no more wit in his pa●es then the arrantest Cander at Coose fayre Exit Octa. Come daughter now let 's in He that loues honour must his honour winne Exeunt ACTVS 2. SCENA 2. Enter the Bardh or Welsh Poet. Bard. Thus haue you seen the vali●nt Caradoc Mounting the Chariot of eternall fame Whom mighty Fortune Regent of this Globe Which Nauigators call terrestriall Attends vpon and like a careful Nurse That sings sweet Lullabies vnto her babe Crowns her beloued Minion with content And sets him on the highest Spire of Fame Now to Gederus King