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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.
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Peele, George, 1556-1596.
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This worthy King in his Procession Caesar himselfe was there I saw him ride Tryumphing in his three and twentie wounds Because they shewed the malyce of the world Pompey was there the riuall of his fame That dyed a death as base and vyolent Leaue I this theame The mightiest that haue liued haue fallen and headlong to In miserie It is some comfort to haue companie Hector of Troy and Kings ere Troy was built Or Thrace was Thrace were there Olde Dardanus And Ilus and Assaracus came along For in the house of Fame what famous man What Prince but hath his Trophie and his place There Iosua Dauid and great Machabee Last Anker-hold and stay of Iacobs race Did march and Macedonian Alexander Victorious Charles the great the flowre of Fraunce Godfrey of Bullen whom the Christian Kings Created King of great Ierusalem And Arthur glorie of the Westerne world And all his Kinghts were in this royall traine Iason was there Knight of the golden Fleece Knights of the Tosson and of S. Iago Knights of the Rhodes Knights of the Sepulchre Were there the ayre was pestered to my thought Among them all a worthy man of marke A Prince of famous memorie I sawe Henry the eight that led a warlik band Of English Earles and Lordes and lustie Knightes That ware the Garter sacred to S. George Who was not there I thinke the Court of Fame Was naked and vnpeopled in this trayne There was so many Emperors Lords and Kings Knights errant and aduenturous In the booke That on a Desk lay open before Fame For in a sumptuous Charriot did he ride Of Christall set with leaues of glittering Golde And faire tralucent stones that ouer all It did reflect Within that glorious booke I sawe a name reioyced me to see Fraunces of Bedford I could read it plaine And glad I was that in that precious booke That name I found for now me thought I sayd Heere vertue dooth outliue th'arest of death For dead is Bedford vertuous and renownd For armes for honour and religions loue And yet aliue his name in Fames records That held this Garter deere and ware it well Some worthy wight let blazon his deserts Onely a tale I thought on by the way As I obserued his honourable name I heard it was his chaunce ore-tane with sleepe To take a nap neere to a Farmers lodge Trusted a little with himselfe belike This aged Earle in his apparell plaine Wrapt in his russet Cloake lay downe to rest His badge of honour buckled to his legge Bare and vnhid There came a pilfring swad And would haue prayd vpon this ornament And saied t'vnbuckle it thinking him a sleepe The noble gentleman feeling what he meant Hold foolish ladde quoth he a better pray Thys Garter is not fitte for euery legge And I account it better then my purse The varlet ranne away The Earle awaked And told his freends and smyling said withall A would not had a vnderstood the french Writ on my Garter dared t'haue stolne the same Thys tale I thought vpon told me for trueth The rather for it praisde the poesie Ryght graue and honourable that importeth much Ill be to him it sayth that euill thinkes O sacred loyaltie in purest harts Thou buildst thy bowre thy weedes of spotlesse white Like those that stoode for Romes great offices Makes thee renownd glorious in innocencie Why sticke I heare The traine cast in a ring About the Castle making melody Vnder the glorious spreading wings of Fame I sawe a Virgin Queene attyrde in white Leading with her a sort of goodly Knights With Garters and with Collers of S. George Elizabeth on a compartiment Of gold in Bysse was writ and hunge a skue Vpon her head vnder an imperiall crowne She was the Soueraigne of the Knights she led Her face me thought I knewe as if the same The same great Empresse that we here enioy Had clymed the clowdes and been in person there To whom the earth the sea and elements Auspicious are A many that I knew Knighted in my remembrance I beheld And all their names were in that Register And yet I might perceiue some so set downe That how so ere it hapt I cannot tell The Carle Obliuion stolne from Laethes lake Or Enuy stept from out the deepe Auerne Had raced or blemisht or obsured at least What haue those Fiends to doo in Fames faire Court Yet in the house of Fame and Courtes of Kings Enuy will bite or snarle and barke at least As dogs against the Moone that yelpe in vayne Say Frustra to those Curs and shake thy coate And all the Kings since that King Edwards daies Were with their Knights and companies in that trayne When all were whist King Edward thus bespake Haile VVindsore where I sometimes tooke delight To hawke and hunt and backe the proudest Horse And where in Princely pleasure I reposde In my returne fro Fraunce A little sigh I heard him fetch withall His reason why I cannot gesse I thinke it was for this That England had giuen ore their traffique there And twentie tymes hayle VVindsore quoth the King Where I haue stalled so many hardy Knights And turnaments and royall Iusts performed Behold in honour of mine auncient throne In honour of faire England and S. George To whom this order of the Garter first I sacred held in honour of my Knights Before this day created and installed But specially in honour of those fiue That at this day this honour haue receiued Vnder Elizabeth Englands great Soueraigne Northumberland VVorcester noble Earles Boroughe Sheffeilde Lords of liuely hope And honourable olde Knowles famed for his sonnes And for his seruice gracious and renownde Loe from the house of Fame with Princely traynes Accompanied and Kings and Conquerers And Knights of proofe loyall and valorous I resalute thee heere and gratulate To those new Knights created by a Queene Peerelesse for wisedome and for Maiestie The honour of the Garter May they long Weare them as notes of true Nobilitie And vertues ornaments Young Northumberland Mounted on Fortunes whele by vertues ayme Become thy badge as it becommeth thee That Europes eyes thy worthinesse may see And VVorcester what pure honour hath put on With chast and spotlesse hands in honour weare Answere the noblest of thyne auncestry In deedes to fame and vertue consecrate Borough brought vp in learning and in Armes Patrone of Musicke and of Chiualrie Brandish thy sword in right and spend thy wits In Common welth affaires It shall become Thy forwardnes to follow vertues cause And great designes of noble consequence And Sheffeilde shape thy course no otherwise Then loyaltie the loade-starre of renowne Directs that as thine auncestors haue done Thyne earthly race in honour thou maist run To thee old man with kindnes quoth the King That reapest this honour in thy waning age See what a Trophey Queene Elizabeth Prepares before thy herce long maist thou liue And dye in fame That hast well neere atchiued The Noble Norris honour in thy sonnes Thrice noble Lord as happy for his fewe As was the King of Troy for many moe With that he ceased and to the formost Earle For why me thought I see them euery man Stalld in their places and their ornaments Percy quoth he thou and thy Lordly Peeres Your names are in this Register of Fame Written in leaues and characters of golde So liue as with a many moe you may Suruiue and triumph in eternitie Out of Obliuions reach or Enuies shot And that your names immortally may shine In these records not earthly but diuine Then Shalmes and Shakebutts sounded in the ayre But shrilst of all the Trumpet of Renowne And by and by a loud rertaite he runge The trayne retyred as swift as starres don shoote Frome whence they came And day began to breake And with the noyse and Thunder in the sky When Fames great double doores fell to and shutt And this tryumphant trayne was vanisht quite The gaudy morne out of her golden sleepe Awaked and little Birds vncagde gan sing To welcome home the Bridgrome of the Sea Epilogus WHerewith I rouzd recounting what I sawe And then thought I were it as once it was But long agoe when learning was in price And Poesie with Princes gracious I would aduenture to set downe my dreame In honour of these newe aduaunced Lords S. Georges Knights I was encouraged And did as I haue doone VVhich humbly heere I yeeld as firstlings of my Schollers crop Consecrated purely to your noble name To gratulate to you this honours heigth As little boyes with flinging vp their cappes Congratulate great Kings and Conquerours Take it en gree faire Lord Procul hinc turba inuidiosa Stirps rudis vrtica est Stirps generosa rosa. G. P. FINIS
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