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A09227	The honour of the garter Displaied in a poeme gratulatorie: entitled to the worthie and renowned Earle of Northumberland. Created Knight of that order, and installd at VVindsore. Anno Regni Elizabethæ. 35. die Iunij. 26. By George Peele, Maister of Artes in Oxenforde.	Peele, George, 1556-1596.	1593 (1593)	STC 19539; ESTC S110386	7,934	24

their great artillarie for warre And weary Atlas had let fall his load Enough to wake Endymion from his traunce Yet was the welkin cleare nor smoke nor dust Anoyd myne eyes I gazd and as I looked Me thought this hoste of ayrie armed men Girt VVindsore Castle rounde Anon I saw Vnder a Canapie of Crymson bysse Spangled with gold and set with siluer bels That sweetlie chimed and luld me halfe a sleepe A goodly king in robes most richly dight The vpper like a Romaine Palliament In deede a Chapperon for such it was And looking neerer loe vpon his legge An auncient badge of honour I espyed A Garter brightly glistring in mine eye A worthy ornament Then I cald to minde What Princely Edward of that name the third King Edward for his great atchiuements famed What he began The order of S. George That at this day is honoured through the world The order of the Garter so ycleepd A great effect grown of a slender cause Graced by a King and fauoured of his feeres Famed by his followers worthy Kings and Queenes That to this day are Soueraignes of the same The manner how this matter grew at first Was thus The King disposed on a time To reuell after he had shaken Fraunce O had he brauely helde it to the last And deckt his Lyons with their flowre de Lyce Disposed to reuell Some say otherwise Found on the ground by Fortune as he went A Ladies Garter But the Queenes I troe Lost in a daunce and tooke it vp himselfe It was a silken Ribban weaued of blewe His Lords and standers by seeing the King Stoope for this Garter smiled as who would say Our office that had beene or somwhat els King Edward vvistlie looking on them all With Princely hands hauing that Garter ceazd From harmelesle hart vvhere honour was engraued Bespake in French a could the language well And rife was French those dayes with Englishmen They went to schoole to put together Townes And spell in Fraunce with Feskues made of Pikes Honi Soit Qui mal y pense quoth he Wherewith vpon aduizement though the cause Were small his pleasure and his purpose was T'aduance that Garter and to institute A noble order sacred to S. George And Knights to make whom he would haue be tearmed Knights of the Garter This beginning had This honourable order of our time Heereon I thought when I beheld the King But swifter then my thought by that I saw And words I heard or seemed to heare at least I was instructed in the circumstance And found it was King Edward that did march In robes like those he ware when with his Lords He held S. Gorges royall Feast on earth His eldest sonne surnamed the Blacke Prince Though black of hue that surname yet in Fraunce He wan For terror to the Frenchmens harts His countenance was his Sword an Iron scourge He one a cole-black Coorser mounted was And in his hand a battel-axe he hent His Beuer vp his Corslet was of Steele Varnisht as black as Iett his bases blacke And black fro head to foote yea horse and hoofe As black as night but in a twinck me thought A chaungd at once his habite and his Steede And had a Garter as his father had Right rich and costly with embroyderie Of Pearle and Gold I could on it discerne The Poesie whereof I spake of yore And well I wot since this King Edwards dayes Our Kings and Queenes about theyr royall Armes Haue in a Garter borne this Poesie Still as I lay I gazd and gest at once What was this trayne and whether it did bend I found at last King Edward was the man Accompanyed with Kings and Conquerours That from the spacious aerie house of Fame Set forward royally to solemnize Th'installment of some newe created knights For loe I saw in strange accutrements Like to King Edwards and the Prince of VVales Full foure and twentie Knights nor more nor lesse In robes with precious collors of S. George And Garters all they had buckled with Gold Fame in a Stoale of purple set vvith eyes And eares and tongues carryed a golden Booke Vpon the couer this I sawe engraued Pauci quos aequus amauit Iupiter aut ardens euexit ad aethera virtus Dijs geniti Me thought this saying could not but import They should be noble men of golden mindes And great account fauoured of Prince and Peeres Whose names should in that Register be writ Consecrate to S. Georges chosen Knights Heerewith the golden booke did open fayre And eathly I might read their names that next Went to the King They were no common men For to my seeming each one had a Page That bare a faire Eschuchion after him Whereon his armes were drawne I haue forgot Their seuerall coates but vvell I vvot theyr names And first I savve enrold vvithin this booke King Edwards name he was the Soueraigne Their Register was Fame Renowne before That sounded shrill was officer at armes And Vsher to the trayne His office badge Was a black rod whereof he tooke his name Honour went King at armes next to the Knights Halfe armed like Pallas shaped for armes and arts Rich in abilliments of peace and warre Auncient and graue he was and sage to see Neere him went Tyme well pleazd and well content As if he ioyed t'accompany this trayne And in his hand a Royall standerd bare Wherein S. George was drawne and limnde in golde Vnder the Verge as tytle to the booke Was writ Knights of the order of S. George Knights of the Garter Edward Prince of Wales Was first Then Henry Duke of Lancaster And Nicholas Earle of VVarwicke made the third Captaine de Bouche was next renowned for armes Then the braue Earles of Stafford and South-hampton To whose successors for his sake that liues And now suruiues in honour of that name To whom my thoughts are humble and deuote Gentle VVriothesley South-hamptons starre I wish all fortune that in Cynthias eye Cynthia the glory of the Westerne world With all the starres in her faire firmament Bright may he rise and shine immortally And Mortimer a gentle trustie Lord More loyall than that cruell Mortimer That plotted Edwards death at Killingworth Edward the second father to this King Whose tragicke cry euen now me thinkes I heare When gracelesse wretches murthered him by night Then Lisle and Burwash Beuchamp and Mahun Gray Courtney and the Hollands worthy Knights Fitzsimon VVale and Sir Hugh VVoortesley Neale Lording Chandos Sir Miles Stapelton VValter Pagannell Eme and Dandley last Was the good Knight Sir Haunchet Dambricourte These names I read for they were written fayre And as it seemde to me these were the first Created of that order by the King And man by man they marched in equipage A many moe there were than I could note And sooth to say I thinke the booke was full And in the traine a number infinite True Knights of all the orders in the world Christians and Heathens that accompanied