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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

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

stout vnto his enemy but giuen to adultery In martiall acts he did delight and loued euery noble Knight He thirteene crownes did beare also or in asure against his foe CHarles was well proportioned strong and wise and doughtie of deed Of learnings lore a fauourer and very pollitike in warre Mercifull and fortunate and gentle vnto euery estate This king bare the Ierusalem shield paid with the imperiall coat in field GVI was tall and large of limbe none in his dayes were like to him Of good complexion seemely of face and liberall in euery place Valiant strong and venterous godly kind and courteous He or and asure bookes discrie a cheueron ermine bare checkie VTERE IVSTITIA SI VIR VIS IVSTVS HA 〈…〉 THE HISTORIE OF THE conquests of the noble and vertuous Duke IOSVA I Am the worthie conquerour Duke Iosua the great Whom God did ordeine and appoint to raigne in Moises seate To lead his people Israel to the land of behest Which God to Moises promised as scriptures haue exprest When he dwelt in the wildernesse and had miraculouslie Escaped through the great red sea from Pharaos tyrannie Two thousand and two hundreth yéeres with fiue and thirtie more After God had made the world I raigned and before The daie that Iesus Christ was borne in bookes as plaine appeeres One thousand and seauen hundreth and seuen and twentie yeeres A Iewe I am by due discent of such exceeding fame As through the world shall florish ay the honor of my name Much fauour with the Lord I found whose thundering voice full oft Appeared vnto me on earth from scarlet skies aloft Commanding me nothing to dread but boldlie on to fight Assuring me the vpper hand of euerie liuing wight And not to part form me where so I did my armie lead Yea and to giue me all the lands whereon my feete should tread The great floud Iordan he dried vp for me and all my power And brought vs safelie through the same and all within an hower Diuiding with his mightie arme the waues most woonderfullie On either side as we did passe like hils or mountains hie The loftie walles of Ierico fell at my praiers downe Through which I entred valiantly and quite destroid the towne I put ech woman man and child therein vnto the sword As I had incommandement by Gods most holie word No liuing soule escapt awaie out of that bloodie strife But Rahab and hir familie to whom I graunted life For that she in hir house did hide the men I sent to view The Citie and did them conuey from those that did pursue I sackt the citie of Ay eke Bethoron and Bethell And manie mightie cities more which now were long to tell I slew there people more and lesse with famine sword and fire For God appointed me his scourge to accomplish his iust ire The Lord at my request did stay the sun amid the skie While I causd manie hundereths and thousands for to die Whose numbers were so infinite that God did also raine Great stones from heauen on their heads and slue them on the plaine As they did flie before my face euen from Bethoron Vntill they to Esaka came that few escapt or none I chased great and mightie kings to hide them on the earth In caues and there to curse the time of their vnhappie birth And burnt their cities townes and towers vnto the verie ground And they themselues I hangd on trées in place where I them found And after threw their carcases into the caues againe And rouled thereunto great stones where yet their bones remaine And at the water of Merom I killed with my hands Thousands of mine enimies whose number as the sands Were gathered against Israell but God the Lord of might Deliuered them all vnto me not one but died in fight Their horses and their chariots eke I burned and destroide Their countries townes and cities all which latelie they enioide Wherein were one and thirtie kings all which with one accord Were enimies to the liuing Lord and his precepts abhord Whose names in the old testament the scripture plaine doth sho In order written the first was the King of Ierico The kings of Ay and Ierimoth of Lachis and Hebron The kings of Ierusalem of Gaser and Eglon. The kings of Dabir and of Cred of Gader and Horma Of Magedo and Makeda and the King of Libna The kings of Hepher and Bethell the kings of Adolam The kings of Apheck and Thaphnah the King of Iackanam The kings of Laseron and Madam and the King of Gilgall The King of Simron Merom eke Ibrought to vtter thrall The kings of Hasor and of Dot of Cades and Tenach The kings which raigned in Ascaph and the kings of Thersach The Enakites I ouercame which in the mountaines dwelled I put them all to cruell death bicause they then rebelled Neither did I cease continually ech liuing wight to kill Till all the land of Canaan was subiect to my will The confines of which coast doth reach from the wide wildernesse And desert wasts of Libanon to the floud of Euphrates And also vnto the gréeke sea whereas the sun goeth downe These countries all I conquered vnto my high renowne And plast my people in the same who did the land possesse And liued ioifully therein with rest and quietnesse Where I long raigned ouer them by the Lords onely grace In vertue honour and much fame and led a happie race Instructing them in God his lawes and offering sacrifice Vnto the Lord of thankesgiuing for his gifts manie wise At last vnweldie age approcht and dreadfull death béeing prest Did bring my carcasse to my graue where yet my bodie rests In mine owne Citie which I built that Thamnath Sereh hight Béeing fiue score yéeres and ten of age my soule with Angels bright FINIS ❧ An Example of this former Historie BY this renowned prince we see and by his life we vnderstand How vertuous men continuallie prosper in that they take in hand And how the godlie florish still possessing all things at their will For in the scripture is discride the vertues like the planted tree Which groweth by the riuer side shall florish in prosperitie And God his Lord shall him defend in all his dooings to the end The lord the righteous shal vphold for why his waies to him are known God shall him blesse a thousand fold he shall be neuer ouerthrowne He shall for ay the land possesse and liue therein in quietnesse His seede for euer shall endure and their inheritance enioy What so the wicked do procure shall worke the righteous no annoy For in ech perill God will see that he shall not confounded be And by these heathen kings also whom he did conquer and destroie We find as scriptures plainly sho of wicked men the fading ioie Who like a floure shall withered be and blowen quite out of memorie And as the smoke consumes awaie or as the fat of lambes do melt So the vngodlie shall

decay and all the places where they dwelt The sword shall pearce through their owne harts which they prepared to others smarts And their vnrighteous seede likewise shall be vnrooted and out worne From of the earth before mens eies as though they neuer had bene born And all that they possesse or ought like chaffe with wind shall weare to nought Wherefore from euerie euill flie abandon vice and wickednesse Do that is good liue vertuouslie and so thou shalt the land possesse In happie state and after thee thy children continually FINIS AGREDIARE NIHIL SVBITO SED PROSPICE FINEM THE HISTORIE OF THE conquests of the mightie Prince and conquerour HECTOR I Am Hector the peerelesse prince king Priamus eldest sonne Manie a land through force of armes and prowesse I haue wonne In Paponie my puissance great I haue approoud in fight In Greece and Phrigia I haue slaine and conquerd many a knight I am that martiall knight of fame which slew so many a Greeke When they were prest for Helens rape to Troie reuenge to seeke Being furnished with eleuen score sailes and fortie for the warre All full of armed soldiours assembled from a farre And threescore noble kings and nine which landed before Troie With minds conspired all in one the Troians to destroie At whose arriuall first on shore I met them in the field Where at one time with my owne hand a thousand men I kild Beside the great and mightie King which Prothefilaus hight Whom I did cleaue vnto the chinne in all the armies sight And six and twentie princes mo during that ten yéeres strife When I did méete them daie by daie I reaud them of their life As Patroclus of Phithia King on Galathee my stéed With deadlie speare through plate and maile his hart bloud I did shéed And Lufor and Boetes kings and King Archilogus And Merion the King of Creete and King Epistrophus And Prothenor of Boece King and King Lepedemon Deipeynor and Phidippus fearce the King of Calcedon Dorius and Polixenus and King Zantippus éeke And Serpedon the famous prince and much renowned Gréeke Leonteus of Larissa King and Polybetes stout And Alphinor a valiant wight amongst the gréekish rout Philete and Letabonis Isideus and Menon Humerus and Maymentus eke with péerelesse Palamon Schedius King of Phocis land in open field I slew Whose suddaine death full manie a Gréeke with bléeding hart did rew King Phillis and King Octamen I strake so mortallie With deadlie speare that therewithall they died presentlie The mightie Agamemnon king I threw vnto the ground And strong Achilles felled oft with manie a mortall wound Proud Diomed and Aiax fierce I met oft in this broile With manie Gréekish captaines more and gaue them all the foile And so continued six yéeres space amongst my mortall foes Most like a valiant conquerour still dealing deadlie bloes And chasing them with bloodie blade vnto the verie strand Where some did leape into the seas to shun my heauie hand And there were drenched in the waues most miserablie Wherefore the Gréeks among themselues complained secretlie What slaughter and occision I made vpon their men And for redresse thereof they held a priuie counsell then Wherein they did conspire my death in this vnknightly wise That when I came into the field against mine enimies Achilles should with manie knights awaite me to oppresse When I were occupied in fight to bring me to distresse Affirming otherwise while I in Troie aliue did raigne Vnpossible it were for them the victorie to attaine Yet serud their treason for a while to small effect or none I did distresse them as before and killed manie a one Till casually vpon a day I marched to the field In former wonted guise to proue my force with speare and shield Although forewarned by my wife who by a dreame did sée That if I that day went to field my life should ended be Where I like mightie Mars himselfe slew downe on euerie side And brake their raies and renges all where I did go or ride And kild anone two mightie kings before Achilles face Who séeking to reuenge their death I wounded in that place And forced him to withdraw himselfe to bind his mortall sore By this the fight with fierce assault increased more and more At last by chaunce I flew a King whose armour for the nones Was richly en brodred and set foorth with pearls and pretious stones The sight whereof did so inflame my hart with couetousnesse That for to spoile him of the same my selfe I did addresse Forecasting naught what might befall nor hauing no regard To shun the traine of my mischaunce which was for me prepard Nor fearing thousands of my foes nor waying anie frend Although the state of their welfare on me did all depend But hent him vp vpon my stéede and rode out of the throng And for my better ease my shield vpon my backe I flong While I did spoile him of his wéedes carelesse of anie wight My naked brest disarmed then Achilles had a sight How I was busied and therefore from couert where he laie Towards me him to reuenge he tooke the readie waie And sodainlie with fatall speare or that I might aduert He came vnwares behind my backe and stroke me to the hart Thus died I through auarice whom thousands could not kill Till mine owne onelie wilfulnesse my selfe did fondlie spill Whereby alas it came to passe my countrie did it rue For shortlie after to them all destruction did ensue My bodie was brought into Troie with wofull showts and cries With piteous plaints gréeuous grones whose eccho pearst the skies And in Apollos temple enterd and closed déepe in claie After the Paynims rites beeing a Paynim in my laie Two thousand and seuen hundreth yéeres adioining fifteene mo Since the creation of the world I raignd as bookes do sho And before Christ Iesus birth one thousand full compleat Two hundreth fortie yeeres and seuen this hapt in Troie the great FINIS ❧ An Example of this former Historie THis historie doth plaine expresse and witnesse vnto euerie wight The wofull end of couetousnesse and such as haue therein delight And sheweth both the harme scath which wicked auarice brings and hath And scriptures truly do record who so at leasure them will scan Nothing to be more deeply abhord nor yet worse than a couetous man Nothing so wicked no vice such as to loue money ouer much For he that loueth gold so well in Ecclesiasticus I find For money hath his soule to sell so auarice the hart doth blind Record of Diues who denied poore Lazarus what time he died Saint Paule writing to Timothie in his epistles doth expresse The wofull end and miserie of such as dwell in couetousnesse Which saith he drowneth manie a one in sorrow and destruction How manie vices do proceed from couetousnesse that wicked crime What Kings and kingdoms do we read to be destroid from time to time What bloody murther what