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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07728	A lamentation in vvhiche is shevved what ruyne and destruction cometh of seditious rebellyon	Morison, Richard, Sir, d. 1556.; Cheke, John, Sir, 1514-1557, attributed name.	1536 (1536)	STC 18113.3; ESTC S109322	10,957	24

A LAMENTATION IN VVHICHE IS SHEVVED what Ruyne and destruction cometh of seditious rebellyon ANNO. M.D.XXXVI A LAMENTATION IF STVDY HAD GOTEN me as moch eloquence as true and vnfeyned loue of my countrey gyueth me cause to lament thē durst I boldely say that there is none so wycked none so vnnaturall none so farre vnder all the senses of humanitie but I coude fully perswade hym nothynge so moche to be eschewed as sedition none soo worthy all punyshement as they whyche trayterously make of one nation two of them that euen now were frendes sodaynly to be vtter ennemies But seing min eloquence whiche I muste nedes graunte to be very smalle can not so serue me as I desyre in so weighty a mattier I wyll see what loue sorowe and pitie can do whiche if they coulde as ernestly worke as they be greatte in me I wolde truste to make all honeste stomackes to deteste and abhorre sedicious traytours Take awaye the commaundementes of god destroye all the lawes of nature and of man may not eyther the hygh commodyties that come of mutuall concorde betwene all the kynges subiectes and the kynges grace or the excedynge damages that ensue open sedition kepe any honest harte in maynteynynge the one and fleinge the other But in so shamefull an act why do I speke of honest hartes For who is he that can thynke him selfe to haue any veyne of an honeste man that feareth not god that loueth not his countrey that obeyeth not his prince that fynally dothe as moche as he can to pulle away nature honesty and al good lawes What is he that can say he is an englyshe man and that he careth not though the welth of Englande be troden vnder the foote A beast he is a man he can neuer be iudged that passeth but on his owne welth plesure Alas how vnworthy is he to be shaped after the fourme of a manne howe vnmete to dwell amonge men whiche seeth what foloweth sedition and yet woll endeuour hym selfe to styrre the quiette and obedient hartes of the people to sedition He that with hym selfe ernestly ymagineth howe moche bloode muste nedes be shedde what a nomber muste nedes be slayne howe many good townes shall be robbed and spoyled howe many fermours and honeste howseholders shall be vtterly vndone howe many gentyll men for lacke of their rentes shal be fayn to lay their landes to morgage or vtterly to selle them away howe many honeste women shall be defiled howe many virgins rauished He that setteth the blody feld before his eies here legges there heedes these deadly wounded those vtterly deed is it possible that any man can so cast of humanitie so hate men that he had leauer haue so many deed as nedes must die in suche cruel diuision than to haue them aliue his frendes If our mooste gratious prince god saue his lyfe and theyrs that so wyshe had giuen you some great occasiou to haue gone from hym yet to go agaynst hym and his trewe subiectes good cause you can haue none Howe can ye saye you fyghte in a good cause which in one acte offende so many of goddis commandementes Who is he that very nature hath not taught to be obeysaunt to his soueraygne lorde the kynge Peter Paule Christ fynally all say that say well Obeye thy prince I am sory that Turkes hethen creatures men caste away if Trouthe say truthe I am sory that they shoulde so farre excelle vs in a thynge that onely perteyneth vnto vs and lytell or nothing to them Obedience is the badge of a trewe christen man And be not we ashamed that the Turke shal sende for the greattest mans heed in his countreye and byd hym leaue the body at home and fynde theym here in this so vnreasonable a requeste obediente and are we not ashamed that we beinge demaunded a lyttell money to come with clubbes bylles and bowes to oppresse hym in whose defence we ought all to shede our beste blode Loke howe Dauyd whiche was chosen of god to succede Saul kynge of Israel trembleth howe sory he is that he had cut a pece of Sauls garment whiche nowe ful of iniquitie sought al the wayes that he coude to kyll Dauid Loke vpon the circumstances Dauids harte was innocent pure and cleane whiche dyd cutte his vesture for none other intente but to shewe his fidelitie vnto hym and to declare that he had oportunitie and myght haue slayne Saul if he had lysted so to do There was no denne soo derke no rocke so vnclymable no mountayne so hygh but kyng Saul wold vp to it and seke the dethe of Dauid An other tyme Saul was a slepe in his tente Dauyd commeth in he myght haue kylled hym what dothe he nothynge but take away a spere that was at his heed and a vessell of water whiche stode besyde hym This is the texte Dauid cut the typpe of the skirte of Sauls cloke and by and by he repented hym that he had cutte the kynges vesture and began to crye Our lorde be mercyfull vnto me that I do no suche thing to my soueraygne lorde Our lorde kepe me that I neuer lay handes on hym bycause god hath anointed hym What is he that canne extende his hande towarde a kynge and be innocent Rede farther Thou shalt se that he which sayd he kylled Saul and brought the crowne vnto Dauid was slayne by Dauids commaundement Yet here is more to be marked Saul felle on his owne swerde and wolde in any case be deed After this came the son of Amalachites and feyned that he had holpe the kynge to dye layinge for his excuse the kynge was halfe deade and more before and desyred hym to ryd hym out of his peyne Not withstandyng Dauid thought hym worthy to dye which layd no violent handes vppon he kynge but holpe a kynge to dye And whan Dauid harde that Saul was deade what lamentation maketh he how renteth he is vestures howe fasteth he and causeth al his to faste frome mornynge to nyghte And doo we thynke theym not worthye mooste cruelle deathe that thus haynouslye robbe and spoyle the kynges trewe subiectes and farther mooste bloodely bent ayenst his hyghnes comme with a huge and a riottous army agaynst his capitaynes to the distruction of his lawes and common welth Alas what vnkyndnes may so kynde and so louynge a prince recken in these traytours for whose sakes and sauegarde of lyues I dare well say his grace wolde haue shedde his bloudde what vnnatural hartes That they shulde for none or smalle cause runne into suche outragious malyce ageynste his grace and foolyshely pretende to hate them onely whiche his highnes beste loueth and nedes muste beste loue as longe as suche their vertues qualities fidelitie so compelleth his grace to do Who can iustely blame hym for makynge them greate that in dede haue al those thinges which at the begynnynge of nobilitie only made them noble But what meruayle if suche vile abhominable traytours highly hate

all those in whome vertue shyneth whiche in dede can promote none but suche as honestie gyueth reputation vnto It farre passeth Coblers crafte to discusse what lordes what byshops what counsaylours what actes statutes and lawes are mooste mete for a common welthe and whose iudgement shuld be beste or worst concernynge matters of relygion Good lorde is it possible that suche a nombre of men shulde caste them selfe away there where a Cobler shal be coūted a capitayne If England coude speake might it not say thus I am one why doo you make me twayne Ye are all myne howe canne any of you where none ought so to do seke the distruction of me my mooste noble and prudente prynce kynge HENRY the VIII and his trewe subiectes It is a shrewde hande that scratcheth out the eyen a shreude fote that for his faute putttih the necke in ieoperdy Lyncolneshire thou art a mēbre of myn I thought if nede had ben if myne ennemies had infested me to haue founde helpe and succour at thy hand and thou thus traiterously settest vpon me whan meate whiche shulde kepe the body lusty sleeth what meruayle if hungre kylle many a one If thy weapon whiche shoulde defende the fyght ayenst the what wonder to see an other mās dagger busy with thy bosome If Lyncolneshyre seke to distroye Englande what wonder is hit yf Fraunce and Scotlande sometime haue soughte to offende me Alas who canne blame me if I be woo whiche fynde none I thanke the prudence of my prynce and his counsayllours that seeketh my sorowe but suche as I haue to longe nourysshed and pampered vp Lyncolnshire I toke the for my frende so dyd the kynge also and I truste he woll do ageyne if thou pourged of these traytours hereafter do as thou shalt wyshe thou haddest nowe done Thus Englande myght say and moche more which I wyl say for her If the feare of god the loue of the common welth and loyall obeysance to our moost gratious prince had moued the reste of his subiectes no more thanne they dyd you myght not we haue feared least it shuld haue chanced vnto vs as it dyd to them that came of the serpentes tethe The fable is not longe nother feyned without good cause Cadmus by the consent of the poetis kylled a great serpent whose teth he was commaunded to sowe in the ground of the which sodeynely arose harneist men a rowe on the one syde an nother on the other whiche streight fell to gether by the eares in soo moche that they were almooste deed er they were fullye borne The poetes wolde declare that where as is dissention bothe the parties go to wracke But what nedeth me to vse a fable whan I maye confirme this thynge with so many histories Fyrste what brought downe the grekes or to begynne somewhat farther what was the cause that some tyme the Lacedemoniens were vnder the Atheniens sometyme contrarye Loke the histories you shall euermore for the most parte fynde that neuer great realme or common welth hath ben distroyed without sedition at home Dissention dissention hath bene the ruyne the venome the poyson of all great estates In so moche that the discorde of capitaynes onely ofte tymes put the grekes to moche calamitie How oft was Athens vexed by reason of the priuate hatrede betwyxte Aristides and Themistocles Cimon and Pericles Nicias and Alcibiades their capitaynes Surely the diuision of Grece that is to saye the Lacedemonyens ageynste the Atheniens the Corinthians and Thebans indifferent frende to nere nother made the Romayns lordes of Grece Nowe what broughte downe the Romayns which were conquerours of al the hole world wel nygh Doth not Silla Marius Cinna Pompeius and Cesar seditious citisins make almost the ende of the reigne of the Romaynes You se in other landes sedition hath ben euermore the bringer in of al sorowe and mischief Hath sedition doone no hurte in Englande haue we hadde no experience before nowe I wolde we had not howe be it I truste the kynges grace will so prudently and gratiously order this that here after Englande shall haue lytel feare of insurrections Is there any in Englande that hathe not harde of Palme sonday filde Blacke hethe felde and many other whiche bycause they are almoste forgoten I wold no body shuld at any time speke of theym I am of Platos mynde I wolde haue no histories to make mention of theym that haue fought ayenste their countrey I wolde no sedition shulde be wrytten of no nor spoken of I wold haue men beleue that there was neuer none so vnnatural as to ryse ayenst his prince and countrey But seinge it is to farre past and the hurt to gret to be so soone forgotten lette vs take in all thynges some fruite For what is so yuell but somme good commeth of it These two feldes how many wydowes made they howe many fatherles chylderne what bloode they coste vs fewe be but they knowe I lette passe howe all that euer came into Englande to infeste vs neuer dyd hurte excepte we were diuided Iulius Cesar the best capitayne that euer the Romaynes hadde and peraduenture that euer was at his fyrste settynge vpon vs dyd no man hurte but hym selfe I praye you see what opinion he hadde of vs. Rede Paulus Orosius where at the fyrst he came but with .lxxx. shyppes at his retourninge he came with no lesse than syxe hūdred shippes furnished with piked souldiours And as Cesar hym selfe writeth Mandubratius sonne of the kynge of London called Imanuentius stale out of Englande and folowed hym beinge than at variance with Casseuelaunus kynge of Kent And so Cesar cam in holpen by this sedition O cruel sedition O venomus hatred O vnlucky debate O pernitious dissention O spiteful rancour O blynde euer hurtfull enuy O seldom wel endyng malice why dost thou in one houre oft tymes marre more than in an hūdred yeres can be restored agayn What foly what madnes is this to make an hole in the shyppe that thou saylest in what wylful frowardnes is this to lese both thyn eyes that thyn ennemie may lese one I pray god the Cobbler be chief captayne I pray god there be no polshorne pedlers I had almost called them by their name that put the Cobbler out of his roume Who wil think but it was gret pitie to put out suche good religioꝰ mē y t now haue turned their coules in to iackes their portessis beadis into billes bowes twenty other praty thynges and comme nowe harneist into the feld ayenst god their king and bothe their lawes Is it not verye lyke that they liued vertuously in their cloisters where they myght do al mischiefe and no man see them whiche now in the face of the worlde are not ashamed to be the ryngleaders of these trayterous rebelles Is it nat pitie that these shulde lacke whiche wyll sooner vndo as farre as they may an hole countrey thā not haue for their harlottes as they haue had in

tyme past Theyr pope their puppet their idole their romayn god wyll not out of their hartis They can not abyde scripture to com in place and beare the rule of religion as it was wont and euer ought to do But god shal fyght for the kinge in this behalfe vnto whom for the settynge out of his moste holy worde I dare boldly saye god is more bound if god may be bound to man than he is to al the priestes monkes friers cardinals and popes that haue ben this fyue hundred yeres It was no lesse than a lerned kynges act to sende the popes bulles into their owne pastures To make of a pope a byshop whiche is in dede as well both as one well sought nouther of bothe It was a princis dede to dryue out him ayenste whose abusions no man coude open his mouth peyn of losse of goodes lyfe and honeste fame thanke be to their tyrannous decrees and abomynable lawes whiche I might calle lustis but that I am vnderstande well ynoughe He is gone but to many of his lyuerey tarieth styll I dare say if it be proued this sedition to come of them they wyll not tarye euer I speake neuer ayenste the good bycause I knowe not where they dwelle This I knowe well the kynges grace for a fewe good hath suffered an abhomynable sorte of the yuelle raygne to longe But I wyll retourne to my purpose If the kynge shulde aske you as somtyme the Romayne ambassadours asked theirs why they had lefte the Senatours and were so seditiousely departed Haue you any more to say than they had Naye you haue moche lesse For they lacked noo matter to haue layed for theym but they lacked a man to vtter it I pray you what can you say if the kynges grace laye but vnkyndenes to you where the lawe condempneth you of treson I am sure in so great a cryme there muste nedes be some greatte occasion Lyncolneshire brynge forth your Cobbler what can you lay for your excuse Howe can you say it is lawful nay that it is not most abhominable thus traiterously to inuade robbe spoile kyl the true subiectis of your most gratious louyng prince Wil you lay the putting down of abbeys for you First why may not the kynges grace by the counsail of the lordes spiritual and temporall and the commons assembled to gither in parliament of the which many are among your rout do that that all these and the better parte of you than thought best to be done And what cruel and blynde malyce is this to lay in one or two mennes neckes as yuell done that whiche was thoughte by the hole counsayle and consent of the thre estates of Englande to be moste to the honour of god dyscharge of the kynge and weale of this his realme and subiectes of the same What an inconstancie reygneth in fooles Howe longe haue you cried monkes priestes haue to moch Howe long haue we al praied god sende the kynge such counsaile that one daye he maye see goodes that were yuell spente tourned into a better vse Howe can he tourne them into better vse except he fyrste take them awaye from these that you your owne selfe by act of parlyament publyshed to haue ben misvsed and spent in the mayntenaunce of vyces and oppressynge of vertues Fyrste you wolde in any case that the abbeys shulde downe that the spiritualtie shoulde haue lesse So in dede these spirituall traytours that are in harneys ayenste theyr countrey call theym selfe whiche haue none other spirite than their father the dyuelle hath inspired into them If these be spiritual put a coule on Catilms backe is not he than a religious mōke and a good spirituall man If these be religious and spirituall men whiche doo all that they can to distroy bothe the lawes of god and of man to bryng this realme in desolation why maye not Iacke Cade Iacke Strawe Wyll Wawe Wat Tyler Iacke Shepeherde Tomme Myllar and Hob Carter a barbour sent for be shorne into religion If they be spirituall that consume the day eyther in ydelnes or in an other thynge worse then that sowynge sede in other mens forowes whom shall we call carnall It were not honest to vtter al that the vysitours in their inquysitions brynge home that these holy hooded religious haue theym selfe confessed and confirmed with the subscription of theyr owne handes What thynges can they be ashamed of that confesse suche crimes as no honest man can well reherse nor good man abyde to here They shall pardone my shamefastnes I am content that I lacke boldnes to wryte that which they are not ashamed to do They haue fautes inowe thoughe I lay not this to theyr charge They nede none to accuse them except they chaunge their apparayle The worlde hath spyed theym I wolde scarce beleue that men coude teche nature a newe waye excepte it hadde ben proued to their teethe and vttered by theyr owne selfes They that be lerned knowe what I meane and what they are Paule layd the same faut to the Romayns They that be vnlerned wyl moche meruayle except they haue ben brought vppe with monkes and friers howe yonge nouyces maye stand in stede of yong wyues I haue sayd ynough It stynketh to sore to de sturred to moche Is it possible that menne shulde meruayle such to be put out of theyr houses and not sooner wonder that they be not raked in the coles I wol not agrauate thynges I am glad that they haue greatter cause to say that the kynges grace sheweth mercy out of his place thā to thynke them selfe hardely delte withall whiche lese but theyr dwellynge places where they ought to lese theyr lyues The ciuile lawe puttethe suche not out of theyr house but with the swerd putteth them to deth And howe strayte the acte of the parlyament is they shulde haue founde if it had ben put in execution If the kynges grace had done as the lawe wolde and not as his most gracious nature prouoketh hym coude any man haue sayde such detestable vices to deserue lesse punishment The kynges grace foloweth suche processe as god doth vse lyghtly for the moste parte God doth not punysshe all that are synners nother the kynge hath punished all monkes all be not put downe that bothe the lawe and the iudgemente of good men thynke vnworthy to stande but such which had neyther preyse of good lyfe nor of hospitalitie before they were suppreste Wherfore I canne not thynke that the puttinge downe of abbeyes that is to saye the puttinge away of maynteyned lecherie buggery and hypocrisie shuld be the cause of this rebellious insurrection There was some other wylde worme that wolde not suffre madde braynes to be at rest You wolde fayne and haue soughte to fynde some honest colour to shadowe your execrable and moste cruell intended robbery spoylynges rauyshementes burnynges exilyng of all honest and quiete persones and settynge vp of theues murderers and manquellers Thynke you that