Pageant featly playd Meane while the Royals and the Peeres they Practise to betray Some in the bloodie Massacre at Paris made away But what offend I Christian Eares with horror of that deede From Sarazens nor Sauages did euer like proceede Let that black Marrage-Feast when were so many Thousands slaine Oâ— Saints at peace with God and men be neuer nam'd againe Let be a Law in euery Land to punish such as speake That ChristiaÌ„s should like Hel-houÌ„ds so with God Nature breake Farre be it that Posterities should heare that Charles the King For such â—oule Murthers bon-fiers bod and caused Bels to ring Yeat tell the Popes Procession and his Iubilee for this For Popes be impudent and bads their blessings neuer mis To haue them Fathers of those Acts no Newes at all it is But more than twise sixe yeares ere this the ciuill Warres begun When on the Lambes of Vassie did the Guizian Butchers run 〈◊〉 when the Edict had giuen Peace vnto the Church reform'd And odious to the Papists seem'd that Peace who therefore storm'd And then the Duke of Guize who earst had figur'd for the Crowne Hence calculating hopes did set his bad Designements downe Alonly quarrelling till then the Princes of the blood Who partly quail'd were yet vnkild and to their tackling stood So with the Papists band 's the Duke himselfe not for Deuotion But aduantagious seem'd that Meane for blood-Drifts Promotion This Faction thus had Heart and Head the Other yet vnborne Till to the Prince of Condie flockt the Hugenotz forlorne And tolde the sauage Butcheries at Vassie newly made By ruthles and seditious Guize on Thousands whilst they prayde Like skathed Sheepe escaped from blood-sucking Dogs they quake Imploring his Protection which he then did vndertake Thus through Necessitie this Part had also Heart and Head Euen after hundreds thousands such good Christians so were dead This knowne to him from euery Part the Persecuted flie So was the Prince of vertuous Troopes possessed by and by CHAP. LVIII NOt Spayne this while that held for France great Signories did sleepe But through the Fingers into It with lusting Eyes did peepe At least by nourishing those Broyles all got She hopes to keepe For It whose Scituation so Spayns scattred Realmes disioynes Her Teeth had watred long and now to weaken France her Loynes Gainst France she France doth streÌ„gtheÌ„ with the Soother of her gold And for that Purchace to the Diuell is fear'd her Soule is sold. Directions also came from Rome that setteth all on fier That by what Right or wrong so ere the Guize should still aspier To send the royall Bloods to Heauen or Hell it skils not how Were Pardons sent for Murthers Buls to clear Alleageance vow That on Damnation none perswade much lesse of Peace allow And not alone gainst France this League was halowed but gainst all That worke the Gospell to erect whereby the Pope might fall Was more than time troe we to goe should not the Church vs call But call did they and come did we and to their labors fall When weare their Townes demolished with Slaughters thear not small This busie Head of that bad League for yet the monstrous Beath Of Sextus Quintus and the Diuell the grand League had not breath This Guize bereft vs Calice and in France our Peeces all Then fell in hand with Scotland thence with vs in hand to fall This in his Neece the Scottish Queene her Claime did all he might To dispossesse Elizabeth our Queene of regall right This on the infant-Person of his naturall King had seazde And prosecuted now in France what Violence him pleasde The Popes sworne Butcher and proud Spayns fore-Runner to prepare Her waies for France England which their Owners cannot spare This with the blood of Innocents made Channels ouer-floe Against this Cham and his Beau-Peeres inuited English goe Els saue that God can all was feard Religion should haue quaild And Spanyards nestling ouer neere had easlier vs assaild For on the Theator of France the Tragedie was ment Of England too Wherefore our Queene her Interruptors sent How Ambrose Earle of VVarwick did in FraÌ„ce high Feates not few How bloodie Claudie Duke of Guize a common Souldier slew How Francis sonne of that Guize did ciuill Broyles renew The persecuting Francis Charles and Henries hence a-dew Which Kings as said to work themselues French Monarchs Atheists playd Or doting ouermuch on Rome their Realme selues betrayd The skarlet Borbone whom the Guize a painted French King made Salcedo fayling Monsiurs Death which did the League conspier The Prince of Orenge murthred through Farnesian Parmas hier Renoumed Condie poysned in his time the Leaguers feare How Pope-sent Saunders gainst our Queene in Ireland Armes did beare For Leaguers then in Pollicie preuented Lettes each-wheare By Armies or Armadas or their scattred Iesuists who Haue had small cause to brag that they with England had to doe The often sworne and for-sworne Peace that hapned in the while Queene-Mother Phillip Pope and Guise the French Kings did begile Queene-Mother for Ambition of imployment King of Spayne To make his Vsurpations sure yea France it selfe to gaine The Pope to keepe his pompe in plight Guise for the regall Ring How all though drifting dâ—ffringly at length to ende did bring The House Valoys of Capets Stocke which Stocke had quite decaide But that it pleaseth God the Crowne in Bâ—rbons House is staide How till the Barricados Feast when Guise vn-vizard was Vnder Religions Cloake the Routes in wasted France did pas And after then both Hugenote and Papist too if frend Vnto Valoys or Burbon sound like Enmitie or end Of Sauoy hoping France his Aydes and â—ll successe in all How Guise and Lorraine in the Pit for Henrâ—e dig'd did fall How Frier Iames Pope-blest and brib'd of Mayâ—e did Henrie kill How vnto Mayne pursewing Broyles it wrought not to his will The Massacres and Stratagems did in these Tumults chance How God in all his Warres did blesse Nauar now King of France And how next God that FraÌ„ce is French our Queene is Author cheef All These thus blanch't we leaue and shall of Belgick be as breefe But be it first remembred how euen for the Parents sinne God plagueth in Posteritie as came to passe I winne In second Henries of the Church reform'd a bloudie Foe Though otherwise a worthie Prince nor tache we him but so And Katherine de Medâ—â—â—s whose Athisme wrought much woe These had sowre Sonnes not one of which did die a naturall death All 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Males none extant on the Earth No maruell euen to Dauids Seede for Dauid sinne hap't such And though the holy Writ containes that Storie yeat to tuch This Purpose let vs heare it here Example vrgeth much CHAP. LIX OF holy Dauid and his House the Man approu'd to be By Gods owne Mouth to Gods owne heart the â—y Troubles see His Soule was euer godly firme though fraile in flesh as Man For who
ALBIONS England A Continued Historie of the same Kingdome from the Originals of the first Inhabitants thereof And most the chiefe Alterations and Accidents there hapning vnto and in the happie Raigne of our now most gracious Soueraigne Queene ELIZABETH VVith varietie of inuentiue and historicall Intermixtures First penned and published by VVilliam VVarner and now reuised and newly inlarged by the same Author BY WISDOME·PEACE BY PEACE PLENTY LONDON Printed by the Widow Orwin for I. B. and are to be sold at her shop in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Bible 1597. To the right Honorable my very good Lord and Maister Henrie Carey Baron of Hunsdon Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter Lord Chamberlaine of her Maiesties most Honorable Houshold Lord Gouernour of Barwick Lord Warden of the East Marches for and anenst Scotland Lord Lieftenant of Suffolke and Norfolke Captaine of her Maiesties Gentlemen Pencioners and one of her Highnes most Honorable Priuie Counsell THis our whole Iland anciently called Brutaine but more aunciently Albion presently containing two Kingdomes England and Scotland is cause right Honorable that to distinguish the former whose only Occurrents I abridge from the other remote from our Historie I intitle this my Booke ALBIONS ENGLAND A subiect in troth without vaine-glory be it spokeÌ„ worthy your Honorable Patronage had it passed froÌ„ the Pen of a more countenaunced Author But for great Personages gratefully to entertaine the good wils of meane workemen is answerable to themselues and animating to feeble Artists I therefore secure of your Honors Clemencie herein not vnlike to Phaëton who at the first did fearefully admire eueÌ„ the Pallace of Phoebus but anon feareles aduenture euen the presence of Phoebus hauing dedicated a former Booke to him that from your Honor deriueth his Birth now also present the like to your Lordship with so much the lesse doubt and so much the more duty by how much the more I esteeme this my latter laboure of more Valew I owe your Lordship expecteth especiall dutie at the hands of your Seruant And thus right Honorable hoping better than I may offend desirous to please desperate of praise destitute of a better Present I make Tender onely of good will more I haue not for your Honors good word lesse I hope not Your Lordships most humble and dutifull Seruant W. Warner To the Reader WEl know I that Pearls low-prised in India are precious in England that euen Homer was slightly authorised in Greece but singularly admired elswhere and that for the most part the best Authors find at home their worst Auditors howbeit whatsoeuer VVriter is most famous the same is therefore indebted to his natiue Language Neither preferre I aboue three speeches before ours for more sententious VVritten haue I alreadie in Proese allowed of some and now friendly Reader offer I Uerse attending thine indifferent ensure In which if grosely I faile as not greatly I so feare in Ueritie Breuitie Inuention and Uarietie profitable patheticall pithie and pleasant so farre off shall I be from being opinionate of mine owne Labours that my selfe will also subscribe to prescribe the same for absurd and erronious But in Uaine is it either to intreat or feare the Courteous or Captious the one will not cauill nor the other be reconciled My labour is past and your liking to come and things hardly founded may easily be confounded Arrogancie is Linx-eyed into aduantages Enuie and selfe-conceited Readers capable of the least errour But such are good Mindes and the Contraries of these Men in reading of Books as were the Paganes in reuerencing their Gods sacrificing as deuoutly to a woodden Iupiter as to a golden Iupiter to an Oxe a at or vnreuerent Priapus as to the Sunne the Starres or amiable Venus deuotion and discretion being euermore senceles in detraction Of the latter sorte therefore I craue pardon presupposing their patience to the former presupposing impatience I offer pardon resting to either and to you all in good will such as I should Yours W. W. A Table for euery of the seuerall Bookes to find out the speciall Stories and matters directing from their Chapters and Pages The first Booke OF the deuision of the World after the generall Flood And of the confusion of Tongues chap. 1. pag. 1 How and vnder whome the first Monarchie began pag. 2 Of the debate betwixt Titan and Saturne for the kingdome of Crete and of their conditionall Attonement pag. 2 How Iupiter at his birth by commaundement of Saturne his Father should haue been put to death and how he was preserued chap. 2. pag. 4. Of the crueltie of Lycaon and how hee was driuen out of his kingdome by Iupiter chap. 3. pag. 7 How Iupiter deliuered his Parents being imprisoned by Titan. pa. 7 Of Aesculapius and of his death pag. 8 How Saturne wilfully enforcing his Sonne Iupiter to Armes was chaced out of Crete and Ganimaedes taken prisoner pag. 9 How Iupiter on the Sea ouercame the cruell Gyant and Pyrat Aegaeon pag. 10 How Iuno pretending the death of Hercules and hismother being in trauaile of him was preuented chap. 4. pag. 11 How Hercules vanquishing the Gyant Philoctes fetched a bootie out of the Isle of Hespera pag. 12 How Hercules rescued fayre Hesione King Laomedons Daughter from death and of Laomedons treachery towards him pag. 13 How Hercules sacked Troy and put Laomedon to flight pag. 15 How dangerously Hercules ouercame three fierce Lyons in the Forrest of Nemea chap. 5. pag. 16 How Hercules in Agypt subdued and sacrificed the Gyant Busiris pag. 17. How Hercules rescued Hippodame the Bride of Pirithous from the Centaures that would haue rauished her pag. 18 How Proserpinc was rapted by Pluto her deliuerie attempted first by Orpheus then by Theseus and Pirithous and how she was at the length rescued by Hercules chap. 6. pag. 19. How Androdamus ouercame Philoctes spoyled Thaebes slew King Creon How Lycus vsurped in Thaebes imprisoned Megara the wife of Hercules and how hee and Megara were lastly slaine of Hercules pag. 23 How King Laomedon was slaine by Hercules and Troy by him the second time spoyled c. pag. 25 The second Booke OF the warre and fierce Combat betwixt Hercules and Antaeus and of King Atlas chap. 7. pag. 26 How two Amazonian Ladies challenged the Combat of Hercules and Theseus and of the braue performance thereof pag. 29 Of the warre contention and Combat betwixt Hercules and Achelous for the loue of Deianira pag. 30 How the Centaure Nessus would haue rauished Deianira of his death and malitious treacherie towards Hercules chap. 8. pag. 32 How Hercules slew the subtile and cruell Monster Hydra pag 34 Of Gerion subdued and slaine by Hercules pag. 35 How the Tyrant Cacus driuen out of his kingdome by Hercules liued in a Caue with three Ladies Daughters to King Piâ—us pag. 36 The tragicall Storie of Queene Daphles and Doracles chap. 9 p 37 The Tale of the old woman and Battus
a great Rebellion in England occasioned by a Priest Of Queene Elizabeth wife to Edward the Fourth chap. 35. pag. 168 Of Perken Warbeck and his rebellious Complottors Of the malicious Duchesse of Burgoine Of the great Constancie of a chast Ladie wise vnto the same Perkin pag. 169 Of a Scottish Knight distraught through his Ladies disloyaltie Of his mad passions and speeches of his Death and of her euill ending chap. 36. pag. 171 A Tale of the Bat and the Moole c. chap. 37. pag. 179 Of the Cuckooe and the Owle part of the former Tale. pag. 185 Of Perken Warbecks End Of a Third rebellion pag. 187 Of Empson and Sutton aliàs Dudley pag. 188 The Eight Booke OF King Henry the Eight Of his Sister Mary the French Queen and Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk chap. 38. pag. 190 Of Queene Katherine Dowager c. pag. 191 Of King Edward the sixt his vertuous Raigne c. chap. 39. pag. 192 Of Edward Seimer and Lord Protector Duke of Somerset chap. 40 pag. 195 Of Iohn Dudley Duke of Northumberland pag. 195 Of the Lord Gilford Dudley and Lady Iane his wife pag. 196 Of Queene Mary chap. 41. pag. 198 Of fayre Rosamund and King Henrie the second pag. 199 Of a Ladie who by patience and quiet policie reclaimed her Lord from wantonnes chap. 42. pag. 202 A Catalogue or Epitomie of all the most valiant and famous Kings of this Land and of their Acts from Brute to her now Maiesties most blessed Raigne chap. 42. pag. 206 An obseruation touching the letter H. pag. 208 The ninth Booke A Fiction alluded to our now most gratious Soueraigne Queene Elizabeth her Persecutors Persecution and her passage thereout chap. 44. pag. 212 More of her Maiesties Troubles wonderful deliuerie pa. 212. c. Of the vntimely Ends of most our English Dukes since the Conquest by way of Caueat to Parasites Rebels and Conspirators chap. 45. pag. 214 The Tale of Narcissus and Eccho chap. 46. pag. 216 A Fiction of their Authoritie from Hell Their present corrupting of Mankind and wherein pag. 218 Of the Chat passed betwixt two old Widowes concerning new Fangles now vsed by women chap. 47. pag. 220 More of their Chat. chap. 47. pag. 222 Of Spaynes ambitious affecting Kingdomes chap. 48 What the Spanyards in Councell cōcluded touching English Papists at their pretended Inuasion of England and of the small securitie wherein Spayne standeth pag. 225. c. The ouerthrow of the Spanish Armada that anno Dom. 1588. threatned the Conquest of England chap. 49. pag. 227 How Sathan by the only sinne of Pride hath euer preuailed cap. 50. pag. 229 The Legend of S. Christofer Of the Popes Drifts and Infirmities pag. 230. and 231 Of the Spanish Inquisition chap. 51. pag. 232 Of the beginning of Iesuists An admonition to such of them as bee our Natiues Of chiefe poynts wherein the Papists dissent from vs in Opinion pag. 233. and 234 Of the Combat betwixt the Flesh and the Spirit chap. 52. pag. 235 How our Religion is autenticall Of the chiefe poynts wherein we dissent from the Papists pag. 236. c. A Commendation of our prosent Gouernment With a remembrance of somewhat that in some Persons faulteth cap. 53. p. 239 Of the Hypocrites of our time pag. 240. c. The Tenth Booke HOw the King of Spayne and Pope first quarrelled vs receiued armed abetted our Rebels and Fugitiues Of the Popes arrogant Bull and of the Scottish Queene c. pag. 242. c. Of the Scottish Queene he Pretexts and intemperate affecting the Crowne of England Her many and most daungerous Conspiracies with a Catalogue of most her trayterous Complottors c. chap. 55. pag. 245. c. Of her lawfull and orderly Triall Of the most deliberate and mercifull handling of her cause c. chap. 56. pag. 248. c. Of her Death c. pag. 250. c. Of what Councell the ciuill warres in France had Originall chap. 57 The beginning of the same ciuill warres By whom and against whom pag. 253. c. How the Spanyard in those Tumults drifted for France The Popes incharitable acting therein Of our Queene her charitable and necessarie succours to the oppressed French and the Progresse of those ciuill warres c. chap. 58. pag. 255 The tragicall historie of King Dauids Children applied c. chap. 59 pag. 256 More of the same Historie chap. 60. pag. 263. c. Of the warres in the Low Countries c. chap. 61. pag. 265. c. The Eleuenth Booke OF Sir Iohn Mandeuil and faire Elenors loue his Prowesse for her sake performed and his departure to trauell strange Countries pag. 296. c. Of Sir Hugh Willough by his Voyage and death Of Chancelor performing the same Voyage pag. 273 Of Discoueries by Chancelor his stately Intertainment and succesfull dispatch of affayres in Russia pag. 274 More of Mandeuil and Elenor and of his Letter sent vnto her c. pag. 275. c. A description of Russia Somewhat of their Manners Religion and Policie c. chap. 65. pag. 278 More of Chancelors laudable Actions and of his death pag. 279 Of Elenor her speeches to one Stafford in answer of Mandeuils Letter c. chap. 66. pag. 281 Of Burrough his Discoueries c. chap. 67. pag. 283 Of Ienkinson his Discoueries and succesfull imployments pag. 284 More of the same pag. 285 Of Mandeuil offered a great Marriage in Aegypt Of Women and Marriage and a Censure of Either chap. 68. pag. 286 More of Ienkinson labouring our affaires in Persia c. chap. 69. pag. 289 The Twelfth Booke OF the meanes whereby Elenor thereof before ignorant had notice that Mandeuil was her Knight beloued cap. 70. p. 292 Of East South Southeast Discouerers and Discoueries c. chap. 71. pag. 295. c. A Woman simply deliuering the Soothe concerning her owne Sexe c. chap. 72. pag. 297 Of the Seuenteene Kingdomes in Tymes by-passed whereof her Maiestie is now sole Monarch c. chap. 73. pag. 300. c. Old Rome discribed in her Ruines chap. 74. pag. 302 Of Romes politicke Gouernement from the Originals vnto Constantines Donation c. pag. 304 Of the Gouernors and Gouernment of Rome since the Papacie chap. 75. pag. 305 Of the free-States in Italie pag. 306. c. A new Reuiuer of an olde Merriment of one crossed in his amorous drifting chap. 76 pag. 307. c. Of Mandeuil and Stafford met at Rome c. pag. 309. c. The residue of the former Merriment chap. 77 pag. 312 Mandeuil and Elenor met and of their loues Euent c. pa. 304 c Aeneidos in Prose pag. 317. c. FINIS ALBIONS ENGLAND THE FIRST BOOKE OF ALBIONS ENGLAND CHAP. I. I Tell of things done long agoe of many things in few And chiefly of this Clyme of ours the Accidents pursue Thou high Director of the same assist mine artlesse pen To write the gests of Brutons stout and actes of English
the other Succeeded but in life and death moretragicke than his brother IN Scotland Fraunce Ireland and VVales he warred wearied lesse Than by the Pope and English Priests wronged without redresse Nor was saue from their Soueraignes death their malice out of date Yeat Iohn faine they hut they felt Iohn did trouble Church and state When for as Gaylers with Conuicts so Popes deale with a faulter Their sin-salue like the setting loose from Shackles to the haulter When Masse and all the Sacraments were Strangers many a day And that so farreforth as it in the triple Myter lay Euen God himselfe was barred hence and that prostrate before His Vassall Bishop Langtons feete the King did grace implore When Peter pence were graunted and the English Crowne to hold By rent and Homage of the Pope and that for sums of gold The French Kings son was cursed hēce who els had wore y e Crowne And that the reconciled King did seeme on surest ground Then he whil'st he in progresse did at Swinshed Abbey lye Was poysned by a Monke that baend himselfe that Iohn might dye The Monke more solemnely inter'd and song for than the King Was cause that diuers diuersly did consture of the thing Some charg'd the Popes of Auarice for that when Rings offend They sell them peace of pride for that to them euen Monarks bend Of meere incharitie for that to wreake their priuate spight Gainst Kingdomes Kingdomes they incense and worser do acquite Euen subiects to allegiance sworne against their Lords to fight Of Treason for that to intrap such as from them discent With othes and al things they dispence Some bid vs thus preuent Their sinnes and sleights doe not as they not deale with them for why Who doth must liue their Vassal or their Victorie must die A merrie mate amongst the rest of cloysterers thus told THis cloystring and fat feeding of Religious is not old Quoth he Not long since was a man that did his deuoire giue To kill the passions of his flesh and did in penance liue And though beloued of the King he liued by his sweat Affirming men that would not worke vnworthy for to eate He told the erring their amisse and taught them to amend He counselled the comfortlesse and all his daies did spend In prayer and in pouertie Amongst his doings well High-waies he mended doing which this Accident befell A dosen Theeues to haue beene hang'd were lead this Hermite by To whom he went exhotting them as Christian-men to dye So penitent they were and he so pitifull good man As to the King for pardon of the Prisoners he ran Which got he gaue it them But this Prouiso did he add That they should euer worke as he They graunt poore soules glad He got them gownes of countrey gray and hoods for raine and cold And hempen girdles which besides themselues might burthens hold Pick axe and Spade and hard to worke the Couent sell together With Roabes Ropes eu'rie toole for eu'rie worke wheather So did they toyle as thereabout no Causie was vnwrought Wherefore new labours for his men the holie Hermite sought But at departure prayed them to fast to watch and pray And liue remote from worldly men and goeth so his way The holy Theeues for now in them had custome wrought contēt Could much of Scripture and indeede did hartely repent But when the countrey folke did heare of these same men deuout Religiously they haunt their Celles and lastly brought about That frō the woods to Buildings braue they wound the Hermits crew Who was from found-out worke returnde and their Aposta knew He going to their stately place did finde in euery dish Fat beefe and brewis and great store of daintie fowle and fish Who seeing their saturitie and practising to winne His Puples thence Excesse he sayd doth worke accesse to sinne Who fareth finest doth but feeed and ouer-feedeth oft Who sleepeth softest doth but sleepe and sometimes ouer soft Who clads him trimmest is but clad the fairest is but faire And all but liue yea if so long yeat not with lesser care Than formes backs boanes bellies that more hōely cherisht are Learne freedome and felicitie Hawkes flying where they list Be kindlier and more sound than Hawkes best tended on the fist Thus preacht he promist abstinence and bids them come away No hast but good well weare they and so wel as they would stay The godly Hermit when all meanes in vaine he did perceiue Departing sayd I found you knaues and knaues I doe you leaue Hence sayd this merrie fellowe if the merriment be trew That Cloystring Friers cloathing and a Couents number grew This heard a simple Northerne-man no friend to Monke or Frier Or preaching Lymmer for his speach disclosed thus his yre AFowle ill on their weazens for the Carles garre syke a dinne That more we member of their iapes than mend vs of our sinne At Ewle we wonten gambole daunce to carrole and to sing To haue gud spiced Sewe and Roste and plum-pies for a King At Fasts-eue pan puffes Gang tide gaites did alie Masses bring At Paske begun our Morrise and ere Penticost our May Tho Roben hood liell Iohn Frier Tucke and Marian deftly play And Lard and Ladie gang till Kirke with Lads and Lasses gay Fra Masse and Eensong sa gud cheere and glee on ery Greene As saue our wakes twixt Eames and Sibbes like gam was neuer seene At Baptis-day with Ale and cakes bout bon-fires neighbors stood At Martelmasse wa turnd a crabbe thilke told of Roben hood Till after long time myrke whē blest were windowes dares lights And pails were fild hathes were swept gainst Fairie-elues sprits Rock plow Mōdaies gams sal gāg with saint-feasts kirk-sights Iis tell yee Clearkes earst racked not of purpoe ne of pall Ylke yeoman fed moe poore tume wambes than Gentiles now in Hall Yea ledge they nere sa hally Writ thilke tide was greater wrang Than heretoforne tho words had sooth na writing now so strāg Iis na Wizard yet I drad it will be warse ere lang Belyue doone lyther Kirk-men reaue the crop and we the tythe And mykell bukish ben they gif they tache our lakines blithe Some egge vs sla the Prince and shewe a Bullocke fra the Pape Whilke gif it guds the sawle Iis sure the cragge gangs till the rape Syke votion gyles the people sa but sylde gud Princes scape Sa teend our King his life and song is Requiem for the Monke Gud King God rest thy sawle but Feēds reaue him bath sawle trōke Such talke was long on foote and still was quittance tale for tale Dunstone quod one made Edgar earst an English Monarke quale For matter of lesse moment euen for wedding of a Nunne Whom in her Cell the King espi'de lou'de wooed and thus wonne THe same quod he that rules this Land the same intreateth thee Thou maist sweet Wench vnto thy selfe deriue a Queene
list No like immortall she-Egge Chucke of Tyndarus his wife The wracke of Dardane walles shal mooue to vs like costly strife Thy husband no Atrides is or were it he were such The Idane ball Iudge did not more but I would doo as much For why thy selfe a richer cause of warre art worthy so Whome to continue euer frend I carelesse am of foe My Kingdome shall containe thee that containest me and it Yea though we be condemned Loue or armour shall vs quit Loues lawe at least adiudgeth barres cleere bookes to pleade in breefe Prescription to obiections how his passions bee our cheefe For none doth liue not passionate of loue ire mirth or greese I waite thee in the neerest woods and thether watching watch Doe waite escape of all things els my selfe doe care dispatch Let onely Loue sweete Loue perswade if more remaine to wowe I hope I wish not more be done than what you meane to doo This read and red her cheekes and to his reede alreadie bent Not casting further doubts vnto her Paramour she went Conueyed into Leynister Not many weekes ensewe When Morice King of Meth returnes and what had hapned knew A whitle-winde in a wâ—irle poole roost that paire of doues quoth he The single state is double sweet at price too decre I see How wowe we woe and won how loth we fowle doubt we faire And onely then lacke women faults when men their faultes forbeare The diuell goe with her so that I with credite might forgoe her But such doth sinne with sauour he is flouted that doth owe her I may not put it vp vnlesse I put vp many a mocke Fowle fall that Hâ—rrolde causing that my Gâ—itrone is the smocke He worth and wronged and his wrong a common quarrel made Assisted by the Irish Kings did Leynister inuade King â—â—rmâ—te whom his subiects then and long ere then did hate Was left defencelesse desprate of his life depriu'd his State And fled to England wheare the Pope imbulled had of late England for Irelands Conquest So the Exile welcome was As aptest Instrument to bring that Stratageme to passe For but to be reseated was the Fugitiues request And then to tribute part and leaue to English men the rest King Henry yeat in warre else-where did freely license any To make aduenture for themselues so Dermot sped of many Earle Strangâ—ome the Geraldines Fitz Stephans Reymonde and Moe worth Knights of Wales for most did take the taske in hand And to the Crowne of Englands vse made Conquest of that Land But should you aske how Dermot sped Father he sped too well And nothing else the Irish bookes doo of his Leiman tell Alone obserue what changes heere through onely lust befell And note our England surfetteth in greater sinnes than it The onely cause that I am Earle an Exile heere doo sit The County thus concluded and the Hermite answered this CHAP. XXVII TO lose an Earldome and to liue an exile what it is I cannot tell but not to haue what may bee lost were blis I will not speake of Coiture nor of Conception naither It fits I should for neuer made I Grandsier of my Father But mine experience at our birth begins it birth I speake How than doe we no creature worlds lesse helpefull or more weake From birth our Infancy throughout we liue as not aliue To others diuersly a care we sencelesse how we thriue No sooner we vncradell be we females be we boyes But we affect so many and God wot such foolish toyes And are so apt for daungers and vnapt to shift the same As aptly vanities by terme of childishnes we blame Thence growe we to more strength and sence still senceles howbeit Of vice or vertue bettring by correction not by wit Gamesome not caring who takes care nor can we saue or git Next but demies nor boyes nor men our daungerous times succeede For vanities erst aymed at we shortly act in deede Wilde roysting wanton loue or else vnthriftie shots and game Doe cuppell ere we finde our fault distresse vnto defame Perhaps experience beating vs doth bid vs lay to thriue The first degree to which say some is warely to wiue But wiued if our Sainct become as not vnlike a Shroe Then is that first degree to thrift the third degree in woe Or be it she be constant wie well intertayning faire Doe graunt her silence patience and what vertues els be rare Yeat by how much more shee deserues so much more we desire To please and profite such an one for whom on hers we tire Our selues and sences yea perchance labour the most we may Much labour is too little that should houshould charge defray We aged carke to liue and leaue an ouerplus in store Perhaps for Spendals so amidst abundance liue we poore Our heires waxe sickishe of our health too long our here abod Meane while the neerer to our graues the further wee from God Grippell in workes testy in words lothsome for most at length And such at fourescore as at foure for manners witte and strength Thus Infancie is feeble and our lustie youth vnstayde Our manhood carking and our age more lothed than obayde And thus from first to last our liues be fruiteles and vnqueate But you perhaps expect I should of nouelties intreate I haue no tales of Robin Hood though mal-content was he In better daies first Richards daies and liu'd in woods as wee A Tymon of the world but not deuoutly was he soe And therefore praise I not the man But for from him did groe Words worth the note a word or twaine of him ere hence we go Those daies begot some mal-contents the Principall of whome A County was that with a troope of Yomandry did rome Braue Archers and deliuer men since nor before so good Those took from rich to giue the poore and manned Robin Hood He fed them well and lodg'd them safe in pleasant Caues and bowers Oft saying to his merry men what iuster life than ours Here vse we Tallents that abroad the Churles abuse or hide Their Coffers excrements and yeat for common wants deuide We might haue sterued for their store they haue dyest our bones Whose tongues driftes harts intice meane melt as Syrens Foxes stones Yea eueÌ„ the best that betterd theÌ„ heard but aloofe our mones And redily the Churles could prie and prate of our amis Forgetfull of their owne when their reproofes had proofe as this * It was at midnight when a Nonne in trauell of a childe Was checked of her fellow Nonnes for being so defilde The Lady Prioresse heard a stirre and starting out of bed Did taunt the Nouasse bitterly Who lifting vp her hed Sayd Madame mend your hood for why so hastely she rose That on her head mistooke for hood she donde a Channons hose * I did amis not missing friends that wisht mee to amend I did amend but missed friends when mine amis had end My friends therefore shall finde me true but I will
to the fatall Blocke she praying on her booke Wence hauing made a godly end he was return'd whilst Shee Prepard for like and of her Lord the senceles Tronke did see A sight more deathful than her death that should consort him straite And for the which her feareles eies did euery moment waite She vnabashed mounting now the Skaffold theare attends The fatall Stroke-and vnto God her better parte commends And as she liu'd a vertuous life so vertuously she ends CHAP. XLI OMitting Knights three Dukes three Lords also a Queene elect Then perisht thus and somewhat some of Edwards death suspect All which fell out a Stratagem in God his secre Dome That should induce a Tragedie to England meant by Rome For when these mighty Protestants through Ones Ambition fell Queene Mary seem'd to shut vp Heauen and set wide open Hell Whence swarmed papish Tyrants that false doctrine did erect Whilst that seduced Mary did Gods threatned cause neglect Blamelesse she was not for a Crowne that could her Foes ore-goe Nor all too blame for mightie States do and haue erred so To Whome the Scriptures weare obscur'd by Christs Italian Foe Her courage was not common yeat abused ouer much By Papists cheefly She her selfe too naturally such Heere hence she is reprooued of a moste tyrannous Raigne And of a thriftles Mariage with the trustles King of Spaine But when rich Brabants supreame Faire the Bakers daughter staide The King in dalliance and the Queene had newes that false he plaide T is thought his tarriance greeu'd told that one should counsel this Haue patience Madam so it was and wil be as it is Fourth Edward did the like yeat lou'd his Queene no whit the lesse Nor did the like vnpatient her that knew him to transgresse As guiltie of a Leash of Loues Shores wife and other twaine She knew as Streams if stopt surrownd so Kings wil shew they raign As did our second Henry whome his Queene oft crost in vain◠Which and one other Story if it please you that I tell I shall Yea doc quoth she Then thus quoth he it once befell NOt knowen of Rosamund his eie had stoed her in his heart Faire Maide quoth he beleeue me faire and all so faire thou art That weare I Henry Englāds King thou shouldst be Englāds Queene But so must fayle for Elenour already is betweene He bod me buy thy loue if so it might be bought with Golde If not he bod me sweare he loues in fayth he loues be bolde He bod me aske if so he came what should his welcome be And if perhaps he lated weare if he should lodge with thee Protesting secreasie thereof to all vnlesse to me With promise to performe at full each promise as I make it I promise Loue Wealth Secresie then promise thou to take it Content you Sir quoth Ro amund you aime your markes amis I am not for his Highnes nor for me his Highnes is And should he know I shame he should of this your Brokage bace He would acquaint you what it weare your Soueraigne to disgrace Whoso you be be still the same or better if you may Think not Lord Cliffords daughter will vn-maiden her for pay But know if Henryes selfe were heere himselfe should haue a nay Then know quoth he which being knowen well maist thou know I loue thee I am the King and for I am the rather let it moue thee In sooth sweet Wench thou saiest nay thou knowest not whereto For weare my wish at work lesse good wy wish than work would do What fearst thou shame no shame to be beloued of a King Or dread'st thou sinne The Pope for pay absolueth euery thing Or doubt'st thou iealous Elenour I will remoue that doubt At Woodstock shall she finde thy bower but neuer finde thee out Theare shalt thou passe a pleasant life commanding me and mine Then loue beloued Rosamund a King subiects him thine He kist She blusht and long it was ere loue from her he wroung For whilst vp played in her heart it paused on her toung Not Sibils Caue at Cuma nor the Labyrinth in Creat Was like the Bower of Rosamund for intricate and great The Pellicane theare neasts his Bird and sporteth oft with her Conducted by a Clew of thread els could he not but err Besides her Maydes a Knight of trust attended on her theare Who suffred for her Beautie long concealing it for feare At length at full and formally he courted her for grace But all in vaine nought booted him to haue both time and place Henry quoth she begonne and he shall end my thoughts vnchast Nor peach't she him nor he dismist did hold himselfe disgrac'st The Kings three Sonnes had notice of their Fathers Leiman now So had the Queene and the yof such coriuing disallowe Came I from France Queene Dowager quoth she to pay so deere For bringing him so great a wealth as to be Cuckquean'd heere Am I so old a woman he so young a wanton growen As that I may not please that pleas'd and still might with his owen What is the Drab or tempting Diuell or wherefore doteth he The French King once himselfe euen now for faire preferred me And hath he toyled vp his Game and settels he to loue her Nor Heauen nor hell shall crosse my course but that I will remoue her Like Phrogne seeking Philomel she seeketh for and found The Bower that lodg'd her Husbands Loue built partly vnder ground She entred but so intricate weare Turnings to and fro That welneere she had lost her selfe but could not finde her Foe Yeat out she got and backe she goes with her Attendants who Admire their furious Mistresse and mislike what she would doe With her Confedrates oft she went preuented of her will Howbeit lastly did preuaile For hap did hit so ill That whilst the Knight did issue out suspecting no assaut He was assailed from his giding Clewe they caught So wonne they vnto Rosamund Whom when the Queene did vew Most brauely clad in rich Attire her selfe more rich of hew The beautie and the brauenes of the Person and the place Amazed her and hers who stoode at gaze a certaine space No maruell quoth the Queene that oft the Court did mis the King Soone such an Hebe hither such a Iupiter might bring Now trust me weare she not a Whoore or anies Whoore but his She should be pardon'd But in faith I must not pardon this A Queane coriuall with a Queene Nay kept at Racke Manger A Husband to his honest bed through her become a Stranger Abide who list abye she shall how so I buy the daunger Faire Rosamund surprised thus eare thus she did suspect Fell on her humble Knees and did her fearefull hands erect She blush't out beauty whilst the tears did wash her pleasing face And begged Pardon meriting no lesse of common grace So farforth as it lay in me I did quoth she withstand But what may not so great a
Throne NOr superstitiously I speake but H. the letter still Might be obserued ominous to Englands good or ill First Hercules Hesione and Hellen were the cause Of warre to Troy Aeneas Seede becomming so Out lawes Humbar the Huâ—n with forren Armes did first the Brutes inuaide Hellen to Romes Emperiall Throne the Brittish Crowne conuaide Hengest and Horsus first did plant the Saxons in this I le Hungar and Hubba first brought Danes that swayed heere long while At Harold had the Saxon ende at Hardiknought the Dane Henries the first and second did restore the English Raine Fourth Henrie first to Lancaster did Englands Crowne obtaine Henry litigious Lancaster and Yorke vnites in peace Henrie the Eight did happelie Romes Irreligion cease The Father of our Mother Nurse our common Ioyes increase Which double H. and H. H. heere our homely Poemes Lee He saue that salueth all our sinnes And God voutsafe thou me A prosperous Course in sayling through the Ocean deepe and large Of her now-Highnes Scepter for I heere assume that Charge TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE LORD SIR GEORGE CAREY Knight Baron of Hunsdon c. THough late I wright too soone I wot I heere Occasion take May this to none wish I but me Retreate to Sorowe make Both to remember Hiâ— We meant our Penn-Lee tore-use As to trans-patronize from him to you mine orphant Muse. Not one aliue that shall not die thrise happie then the same That as your Noble Father shael suruiue them selues in Fame Both Epitaphes and Elegies his Ghoste hath many an one Alas what can I say not sayde or more than moend him mone Not matter more than much nor more for â—ruth than matter skante Or lesse of Glorie than of both would to his Poet want But were a Non-plus of his Praise all were but this in grosse His Good to his owne Soule is Good his Death to vs is Losse What should I adde his auncient Creasts and noble Petegrae Such as that Henrie Primer of you Hunsdon Barons bee Your Lordshippe to your Countrie Prince and such in high Degree And such as you when you are not succeed the Careys blood In stiil-Descents and than this wish how may I wish more good My Syrinx sounded first to you and may eare long anewe Bâ— you Mecaenas also to this Poesie doth ensewe His had it been had he yet been that had the rest which now Yeelds humblie yours if it for yours your Lordshippe shall alowe Most humblie your Honors William Warner THE NINTH BOOKE OF ALBIONS ENGLAND CHAP. XLIIII AVert your eyes and eares all yee that enuie her the fame Of more renowmed Regment than our fluent Thoughts can name Yee that conceite such Poemes as more learned not conceaue Reade not the rest but silently euen at this line doe leaue Ridled Poesies and those significantly flowe Differ in eares as doe in mouths the Apricock and Slowe Phisitians bylles not Patients but Apothecaries know Some moderne Poets with themselues be hardly inward so Not intellectiuely to write is learnedly they troe Whereby they hit Capacities as blind-man hits the Croe. Nor Those not These feare thou my Muse but mildly sing the prayes Of these our present times lesse grosse than those of elder daies Our world hath made it course that as the Moone doth wax waine From gold to siluer then to iron and now to golde againe Of whose faire-cured Leaprosie from former twaine to golde For in a Quintessence was all eare Gods worlds-curse of olde The vndeluding Alcumist is that Elizabeth Whom English yea and Alients hold a Goddesse on the Earth Elizabeth by Peace by warre for Maiestie for Milde Inriched feared honor'd Lou'd at wel meant Toyes hath smilde Let then Mnemosines controule as well they may our Muse We shall such grace wheare we transgresse for Supersedias vse Phoebus thine humbled Phaeton this second boone doth aske ' That thou wouldst giue and ioyntly guide to with me thy Taske Infuse Apollo too into thy selfe thy selfe in me Yeat then our mightie Subiect threats will much omission be But what implore I Fictions that I well imploye my penne Eternall God say thou which thou all-only canste Amen When Iupiter and Arcas yong the Sier and Sonne had clos'de Saturnus in Italian Hell not to be baylde suppos'de Then Proserpin blacke Dis his wife inlargd the Wrangler thence To vex her Sister crosse her Siers and Brothers sownd pretence Then she euen she whom Cynthia some and some doe Pallas call Yt skils not whether Eithers lawdes doe aptly her befal By Saturne Dis and Proserpin giltles molested longe Vnto the God y'clip't I-Am thus motioneth her wronge O mightiest Mightie that of nought createdst all that is And gauste to Man thy noblest Worke him selfe and all for his And saue Obedience didst impose on him no other Fine And disobaying didst redeeme his Losse with decrest Thyne Which selfe same Thyne and still same-Oures I also intercesse For thee professing being wrong'd to haue at length redresse Scarce this was sayd when thus ensewd the Three weare rapted hence Saturne and Dis confinde their Hells Proserpin her offence Growen through Mis-Guides Veniall perhaps we censure in suspence And faire lou'd feard Elizabeth heere Goddiz'd euer sence For me to wreste from Hercules his Club as easie weare As in the Ocean of her fame with choysest sayles to beare That fraight y t with the IndiaÌ„ wealth may more then much coÌ„pare Yeat how th' Italian Feends did freat and hetherto inuaye Against thy glory gracious Saincte weare ouerlong to saye But he that of a Prisnor thee so great a Prince did frame Thy louing and beloued God to thee is still the same King Phillips-selfe so doting on his Pope-created Crewe That he it suffring his owne Son and heire those Locusts slewe Because they feared he would proue vnto the Gospell trewe Euen Phillip now that raketh hell for rascall brybed Skomes To ridde thee hence indignities that badly him becomes Once had thee then not hauing power to doe thee any harme It is the worke of God let Rome vncursse let Spaine vn-arme That thou art Queene to plant his word when we could hope it least When Ours all the Kings had cast their Crownes before the beast When greedely the Preists of Baal did for thy ruine gape Thou didst vnharmde the Lyons denne and firie Ouen escape Euen theÌ„ when Tryumphs were in hand bells ronge bonfires made Because Queene Mary of a sonne deliuered was said Euen then I say God mortifide that womb to bring to passe That vnto thee his Queene-elect no Issue letting was That soone Religion and our Realme might welcome wished peace Maiest thou the Cause thereof suruiue long after my decease But if it be his will to whom are all Euents fore-knowne That Papistrie shall in our Land againe erect her Throne Let Spaniards or what Tyrants els be Masters heere so thay Take also with our Land our Liues and rid vs out the way For not they only die but die in
our pollicie wear small That they should florish nay should liue could we procure their fall Theare be they great alreadie wheare we only great must be Whom should they equall woe to vs when we shall disagree Now that therefore which we cannot with honestie contriue Our Foes shall finish if of them they leaue not one aliue Thus said he not gaine-saide for hang who shall so they may thriue This Maxime hath hild and good wheare they haue ouerthrone By trecherous Agents of the same they haue not trusted one Adde than the Spaniard prouder and more cruell People none Euen Cortes that with cost and payne rich India did subdew And gaue to Spayne his Conquest found false Meede for Seruice trew So they that wonne them Portugale and Naples spead in few And too imperiously doe they oppresse their Conquests new Yeat boast not perpetuitie but Spayne this Patterne vew Caldea priz'd Assiria and Assiria priz'd the same The Medes and Persians both and them the Macedons orecame The Romaines theÌ„ that Empier next had France the Germaines now Which onely Title hardly doe the Spanyards them alowe Spayne hath Nauarre that once had Spayne wheare once crown'd wee their King And once did Spanish-Irish-Scots vs to subiection bring We Scots French Irish too and fro thus often Scepters flye Yea to Posterities old names of Lands and Peoples dye Sicambries Gawles Picts Vandels Gothes Astrogothes known late In Europ by these names haue chang'd those names Europs State And with the Spanyards part of those may alter in like rate Each Birde shall then remaunde her Plumes and naked leaue your Iaye At least when Phillip shall decease and why not eare that daye For power and prowse lacke Turnus Peere yeat when his Fates withstoode Iturna no not Iunos-selfe could doe him any good But Godhoode none in Indian Golde pope-buld hopes shall mis Nor Macedonian Phillips Sonne Castilian Phillip is But one who whil'st he warres for ours hath lost euen part of his Not onely Spayne thinke destinate in Pompe not to impaier Our liued long that breathes enuied not els but odious Ayer And which is monstrously too trew Religion is pretext Where through the Spanyard and the Pope all Christendome haue vext Witnes their Powers by Land and Seas that threatned vs er'while Of it a word and note how God did patronize our Ile CHAP. XLIX THe Spanyards long time Care Coste inuincible surnam'd Was now a flote whilst Parma to froÌ„ Flanders hither aim'd Like Fleete of eightscore Ships od the Ocean neuer bore So huge so strong and so compleate in euery Strength and Store Carikes Gallions Argosies and Galliasses such That seem'd so many Castels and their tops the cloudes to tuch These on the Lizardes shewe themselues threaten Englands fall But theare with Fistie Shippes of ours that Fleete was fought withall Howbeit of a greater sorte our Nauie did consist But parte kept Dyet in the Porte that might of health haue miste Had Spayns Armada of our wants in Plimmouths Hauen wiste The rest had eye on Parma that from Flanders armour threates Meane while Lord Charles our Admiral and Drake did worthy Feats Whose feareles fiftie Moole-hils bod their trypeld Mountaines bace And euen at first so pleas'd it God pursewde as if in chace By this for ouer-idle seemd to English hearts the Shore Our Gallants did imbarke each-wheare and made our Forces more But in such warlike Order then their Shippes at Anker laye That we vnles we them disperse on bootles labor staye Not lacked Pollicie that to that purpose made vs waye Ours fyred diuers Shippes that downe the Currant sent so skaerd That Cables cut and Ankers lost the Spanyards badly faerd Dispersed thus we spare not shot and part of them we sinke And part we boord the rest did flye not fast enough they thinke Well guided little Axes so force tallest Oakes to fall So numbrous Heards of stately Hearts flye Beagles few and smal Nine dayes together cha'ste we them not actious saue in flight About Eight thowsands perished by famine sea and fight For Treasure Shippes and Carrages lost Honor Prisners tayne The Spaniards hardly scaping hence scapt not rebukes in Spaine Well might thus much as much it did cheere England but much more Concurrancie from one to all to stop that common Sore Euen Chatholiques that erred name doth please the Papists waer As forward in this Quarrell as the formost Armes to bear Recusants and Suspects of noote Of others was caer And had not our God-guided Fight on Seas preuailed yet The Spaniards land whereso they could had with our Armies met Our common Courage wisht no lesse so lightly feard we Foes Such hope in God such hate of them such hearts to barâ—er bloes Heere flam'd the Cyclops Forges Mars his Armorie was heere Himselfe he sheads in vs and with our Cause our selues we cheere But which had scarâ—â—fide our wounds if wounded with the Balme Of her sweete Presence so applaus'd as in Sea-stormes a Calme Her royall-selfe Elizabeth our Soueraigne lawfull Queene In magnanimious Maiestie amidst her Troupes was seene Which made vs weepe for ioy nor was her kindnes lesse to vs. Thinke nothing letting then that might the common Cause discus Wheare Prince and People haue in Loue a Sympathie as thus Howbeit Force nor Policie but Gods sole Prouidence Did cleare fore-bosted Conquest and behighted Thraldome hence He in Saneherib his nose did put his hooke and brought Him backe againe the way he came without performing ought He fought for vs Alonely we did shout and Trumpets sound When as the Walles of â—â—rico fell flat vnto the ground Yâ—a least for earst did neuer heere like strong Supplies befall Like loyall hearts in euerie one like warlike mindes in all Lesse spaer of Purses more Fore-sight and valiant Guides to act As shewde our hardie littell Fleet that battell neuer slackt Leaste these I say might haue been sayd the cause that we subdew'de Euen God to Glorifie himselfe our gayned Cause pursew'de Without our losse of Man or Mast or Foe once touching Shore Saue such as wrackt weaâ—e Prisnors or but landing liu'd not more And as in publique Praiers we did his defence implore So being Victors publiquely we yeelded thanks therefore Her Highnes selfe good cause she had in viewe of euerie Eie On humbled Knees did giue him thanks that gaue her Victorie Remaineth what she wonne what Spaine Rome did lose in fame Remaineth Popes vse Potentates but to retriue their Game CHAP. L. IF not with minds preiudicate but holding in suspence A while the Papacie that takes and giues so much Offence With single hearts and Eies and Eares al christian Princes would Peruse the sacred Scriptures as in verie deede they should Then might they iustly censure how in â—owlines or Pryde In Charitie or Crueltie how straite to God or wide In Doctrine and in Discipline Rome hath and now doth guide With still Prouisoes from the Laie the Scriptures light
gadde But better course than either weare secure at home to staye And theare with loyall hearts attend what Subiects should obaye Wheare no tyrannizing is ore the Conscience though it straye And Men of ciuill Carriage though in bodies not imployde Win good Report they shiftles shame that wish their Home distroyde Young English Fooles for cause too trew we pittie you in deede First for ye are our Countriemen then for that ye proceede Gainst Scripture Lawe and Nature and Fooles palpable in that Ye note not how your Follies make our English Foxes fat Allen at Rome Others els-wheare that liue hand-ouer-heade By tasking you to broach those Faultes for which themselues be feade Whilst these lie burrowed safe froÌ„ skath mongst you adoptiue Cubs They doe obserue the pregnanst witte whom Discontentment rubs Of Atheist factious desprate or vaine-glorious him they schoole And then transport to England thear to play the dangerous Foole Seduciugly insisting on performance of their vow That doth Rebellion Regecide and breach of Othes allow Though Dauid knew his Soueraigne Saul disfauored of God And might haue kild and then bin crownd such sin his soule for-bod Which of the Paâ—riarks Prophets or Gods People whilst they saru'd Euen Ethnicks traytrously vnto their owne Affections caru'd But thus do ye nay worser for your Darnell giddeth so As Gods Annoynted and Belou'd ye censure for his Foe But woorst of all by murthring her to merite Heauen ye troe Put case the diulish Act were done to scape yeat lacks your Charter And dead with TormeÌ„ts not the pain but cause doth make the Marter Say that the Pope lacks Malice Say your selues doe loue the State Too grosly yeat your Doctrine faults in things of greatest wate Which your Absurdities do our Diuines confute I wot Ye say his Popeship cannot erre We proue ye erre in Not. Nor in the Sacrament that Christ is really we hold Your Transubstantiation we iustly haue controld Yours for the Liuing and Deceast Propitiatorie Masses And Purgatorie should we graunt ye might conclude vs Asses Your Worshipping of Images and Inuocating Saints And Supererogation vs with your Defects acquaints Besides the Supper of our Lord and Baptisme we reiect Moe Sacraments Howbeit ye Fiue other doe erect As Confirmation Penance with Priest-Order Marrage too And extreame Vnction Ouer more too much applause ye doe Works Meritorious Of the Cup the Laye ye do bereaue And of translated Scriptures so vnspied to deceaue Dâ—â—ges Vowes Indulgences Confession in the eare Dissoluing Subiects from the Faith they should their Princes beare Dispensing with the Scriptures for Reuenge to please or gaine Your Pardons Pilgrimages and your halowed Paltries vaine Pope and what-so is Papistrie well may we call profaine Ambitious Rome that for thy Pompe not sparest Soules to baine Once weart thou truly Catholique corrupted fouly now Not outed quite the Church A Sparke in her we thee allow And wish thou weart as then thou weart when as the Fathers good As touching Anti-christ and whence in both mis-vnderstood No Maruell euen to Daniels-selfe in Mysterie it was And dye did those good Fathers ere that Scripture came to pas But now who-so can Anti-christ but etymologize And knowes the Pope and Rome the Place and Man of sinne descries Sheep-clothed Wolues Christs Pro-contra the Popes haue bin be No place but Rome for Anti-christ none but the Pope is he CHAP. LII BVt humaine Purenes none is such but it to errâ— is knowne Thinke not we labour here your Faults and oâ—uer-leape our Owne For in the best of men the Flesh and Spirit combat still One thing the Spirit and the Flesh the contrarie doth will We Vertue praise but practise Vice possessed weale we flye And tract off woe At Heauen we ayme but with a worldly Eye Our selues we loue yeat than our selues we haue no crosser Foe For peace we warre a peruerse warre that doth our selues ore-throe At once we burne and are key-cold We seeme to stand that fall To heale that hutt We brag of bad We dye ere death doth call We triumph while we are subdude We blisse our proper baine We gladly doe subiect our selues vnto each giddie Vaine Our gadding Thoughts conceite the Cloudes our selues meane while for got Our Nay is Yea our Yea is Nay we will and then will not Our Soules like this our Flesh lusts that As Proteus changeth so Doe our Affections and our Thoughts be shifting too and fro Euen Hydra-like we flesh our Faults our Mindes doe wauer still Our selfe-Conceits be winged and we flie from good to ill Our Peace with Discorde breedes our woe the Contrarie our Ease We neuer doe but plague our selues whilste that our selues we please We would be we as if not we Vs Plentie maketh poore We partiall blame inable and disable vs eremore All these and wilfull Sinnes besides to vs with you and all Too common we confesse But of our Doctrine speake we shall Propitious be to vs O God that Faith haue practise too Which we omit as Publicanes as Pharisies ye doe Our Doctrine though is Gospell yours Traditions but of Men Enough of Yours Examine Ours by Touch of Scripture then VPon the onely Scriptures doth our Church Foundation lay Let Patriarchs Prophets Gospell and th'Apostles for vs say For Soule and Body we affirme are all sufficient thay Yeat ye adde Canons part corrupt some Bookes ye quite denaye We by the Hebrew and the Greeke their primer Pennes expounde Each Scripture by the eldest Clarks wheÌ„ doubtful Textes be found Not by the Latin onely as ye would that all weare bounde So farforth yeat the Fathers and the Councels we approue As doe their Expositions tende to sincere Faith and Loue. Els fully Scriptures in themselues explaine themselues say we Iâ— searched with that humble Spirit by which they written be Through which is ofte from literall speech a spirituall sense set free Vpon which sense the Catholique Church did doth and must agree Nor doth our Church admit at least allow of those in her That teach not Faith sincerely winne to Heauen from Hell deter That with new Glozes tainte the Text or such as be vnreade In that sweete Promise of the Seede should broose the Serpents head The Alpha and Omega of all Scriptures and whereby Of grace through faith in Christ our Soules reuiue and Sin doth die Our Church affects how so effects such pure Theologie And Guides and to our Naturall Prince graunts sole Supremacie Gods Cou'nant with the Patriarchs and extending to the Seede Vs Gentiles to coequall is a Primate in our Creede And Christ we know the ende of it In Circumcisions place Is Baptisme And intirely we the Tables Two imbrace Which God himselfe in Synai wrote and gaue to Moses then To publish to the people Two Commandements in Ten Scriptures Idea couched in our Loue to God and men Th'Apostles Athanasian Nice and Bizain Creeds we hold Autentick by the holy Spirit in sacred Writ inrowld One Godhead of three Persons in
default that might his health impaer And Damsell quoth she for it seemes this houshold is but three And for thy Parents Age that this shall chiefely rest on thee Doe me that good else would to God he hither come no more So tooke she horse and ere she went bestowed gould good store Full little thought the Countie that his Countesse had done so Who now return'd from farre affaires did to his sweet-Heart go No sooner set he foote within the late deformed Cote But that the formall change of things his woondring Eies did Note But when he knew those goods to be his proper goods though late Scarce taking leaue he home returnes the Matter to debate The Countesse was a bed and he with her his lodging tooke Sir welcome home quoth she this Night for you I did not looke Then did he question her of such his Stuffe bestowed so Forsooth quoth she because I did your Loue and Lodging knoe Your Loue to be a proper Wench your Lodging nothing lesse I hild it for your health the house more decently to dresse Well wot I notwithstanding her your Lordship loueth me And greater hope to hold you such by queat then brawles I see Then for my duetie your delight and to retaine your fauour All done I did and patiently expect your better Hauour Her Patience Witte Aunswere wrought his gentle teares to fall When kissing her a score of times Amend sweete wise I shall He said and did it And your Grace may Phillip so recall But he whoso he was that thus had dubled Tales to cease Queene Maries griefe for Phillips guile as well had hild his peace Her no perswading might disswade from peâ—siuenes of hart Vntill that his Vnkindnes in her Deaths-Scene acts it part But howsoere or whatsoere her cause of death might seeme Her death did many a good mans life from Tyrannie redeeme For as in Passion so was she in Papistrie extreame And were not the abodement bad at her to end our Theame Our Cattell vnto stronger draughts we should and would vnteame But to the Head land shall our Plough vnles we breake our Beame Yeat ere we eare to it for it shall be our Holly-day Of somwhat sayd and somwhat scapt rests thus much by the way CHAP. XLIIII BEFORE we toucht little els what Courses hapt at home But now in few at forren Acts of Natiue Kings we rome Of Briâ—tish and of English Kings more famous than the rest This sparing Catalogue ensewes whose deedes we thus digest * Aeâ—eas Off-spring famous Brute did set from Greekish thrall Sixe thousand Phrygâ—an Knights by him did Guyan Guffer fall He conquering this Ile his Name vnto his Conquest gaue And of his Cornish Cambries men couragious yet we haue * Torkes Builder Ebranke that subdu'de the â—imbrians and the Gawles And built the best of Scottish Townes next in our Nomber falls * When Brennus and Belynus had Eight spacious Kingdomes wonne Had slaine two Consulls sacked Rome and matchles Armes had done And built ten Cities best that be in Italie this day Those Kinglie Brothers as must all their debt to Nature pay * Gâ—rgâ—â—nus slew the Dactan King wonne Tribute and the same Gaue Spanish Exiles Ireland whence our Scottish Nation came * Câ—ssiâ—â—lane did twice beate backe from Brittish Seas and Shore The worthie Coesar that but then was victor euermore And thirdly had preuailed but for Luds reuolted Sonne When as braue Nennius hand to hand of Caesar honor wonne * Guydar and Aruiragus wonne of Claudius Caesar spoyle The former in a second Field did sâ—out Vaspasian foyle * When as the wandring Scots and Pichts King Marâ—us had subdude He gaue the Liuers dwellings lesse than where they since intru'de * Constantiâ—s wedding Coyls heyre was Monarke of the West Who with this Ilands Scepter of Romes Empire was possest * Great Constantine that worthely a Worthie might be said The Brittish Romaine Emperour throughout the world obayd He made his Siege Bizantium that retaines his name ere since And made but so vnwitting marde the Priest of Rome a Prince * Maximian as Emperiall and as valerous as any With Brittish armour did subdue both Kings and Kingdomes many * What speake we of great Arthur of his Chiualrie or Court Precelling all sole President of vertue prow's and port A King of many Kings his Knights in all Exploits were seene He was in deede a Worthie and the Worthiest of the Neene * Fiue Crownes King Malgo prized * And in Battells fiftie fiue Against the Misâ—reants valiantly did King Alured thriue â—ollo whose Seede should conquer vs he hence did brauely beate That maâ—ger Fraunce in Normandie his Scythian Troopes did seate * He that re-monarchiz'd our Ile King Athelstone did slay Sixe Kings twelue Dukes and countlesse tale of Heathen in one day The one of Nyne his Knight Sir Guy we touch but by the way Omitting other Kings and Knights too long in few to say Of Brittish race a many and of Saxon Princes some Whose blood by Normaine Mixture now is tripartite become Oâ— For perhaps from such Consort the Brutes casseerd will be Three blended blouds of Nations three hath giuen vs Natures three The Saxon prowesse Danâ—sh pompes and Normaine Pollicee And of the Romanes and the Picâ—ts we are no portion small Foure of which Nations Scythia bred we thriuing in them all * KIng VVilliam Englands Conquerour from Rollo sixt with pray Of twice fiue hundred Townes in Fraunce vn-â—o-met sayld away * Henry the second vpon whom the Scotch-King tendant was Which Scots their often ouerthrowes we henceforth ouerpasse Who to our Kings Lords Parramounts not warres but vprores bring Spoylde Frauncè wonne Ireland and deceast of Iuda chosen King * Next Lyon-harted Richard he wonne Cypris Siria and Ierusalem debelling quite the Sowldan from his Land He skalde the strong Aegyptian Oste and king'd his Sisters sonne And plagued Fraunce and Austrich for the wrongs they had him don * First Edward made the Turks Sauoies the French Flemings treÌ„ble * The third so nam'd to them and moe did Mars himselfe resemble Whose Knights in 2. Richards dayes so tickeld France and Spaine And parts Lugdinian that no King but Richard seem'd to raine Ten thousand were his housholde Scotch digests we here disdayne * The fourth and * fifth of Henries were as actious as the rest Especially the latter was the formost with the best * Not yeat Fourth Edwards honor from his Ancestors digrest On these doo vulgar Eares and Eyes so brimlie waite and gaze As they distaske our priuate Penne notorious Laudes to blaze Our Catalogue omitteth some for Artes and Iustice good Some natur'de well aduised ill some worthie Laethe flood Not one fore-cited but deserues at least an Homers Muse Although with Agamemnons Vaile Apelles shift I vse But colours to that Painter Art vnto that Poet none So good to paint and prayse at ful our following Crowns saue one Since Tuders Seede Henry the Seauenth ariued Englands