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A02624	A prophesie of Cadvvallader, last king of the Britaines containing a comparison of the English kings, with many worthy Romanes, from William Rufus, till Henry the fift. Henry the fift, his life and death. Foure battels betweene the two houses of Yorke and Lancaster. The field of Banbery. The losse of Elizabeth. The praise of King Iames. And lastly a poeme to the yong Prince.	Herbert, William, fl. 1604.; Cadwaladr, Vendigaid, d. 664?	1604 (1604)	STC 12752; ESTC S103828	31,064	72

Th' omnipotent and all-commanding Ioue VVhich doth on Nactar and Ambrosia feed Iuno Apollo and Cythereis loue VVith all the Gods that rules the sphere aboue Entreats cōmands of you faire sisters three To end his life though not his dignitie Atlas you know is old Alcides dead You know the waight of Heauens massy throne The Planets houses couered all with lead Ioues pallace varnisht with rich Rubies stone The gates of Iuory and Indian bone He that doth heauens heauiest waight sustaine Must patience haue to tollerate his paine Therefore quoth he this is my Fathers will For Ioue his Father was or Fame doth lye That you which power haue great kings to kill Would shorten Henries life that he might dye A heauenly thought deserues aeternitie Atlas is old and Atlas must haue aide All feare the heft Henry was nere afraide The Sisters stood amazde at his request Each looke at others eyes as in a glasse Whereat sterne Clotho eldest of the rest Brother quoth shee for Ioue their Father was Shall Fates be rulde by Gods ahlas ahlas They reuell still but we poore wretches worke We labour they in Caues of pleasure lurke The worlds poore Impes may iustly now complaine Of humane sorrow mans still growing griefe How birds and beasts a longer life do gaine Then man poore man And mans commaunding chiefe If you deny them helpe where is reliefe Men say that Fates are certaine now they see Ioue made vs constant in inconstancy The angry God invelloped with ire Wrath in his face and fury in his lookes His eyes more redde then was the reddest fire Shewes auncient Monuments of sacred bookes Which earst he wrote by the Idalian brookes There might you see what Act the Gods did frame Amongst the rest Ioue might the Sisters blame Out of this place he drawes his argument And doth confute their sugred Sophistry Then reades another Act of Parliament Which did confirme Ioues royall Empery His great prerogatiue and dignity Then doth he powre forth sacred Eloquence Selected flowers of learnings Quintessence What if proud Terras issue Briareus VVould combat with your great aetheriall Sire Fntring Castalia where the sacred Muse Liues still inspirde with yong Apollos fire VVhat if the Giants could so high aspire VVould not they touch the christalized sky Vntuning heauens sweetest harmony VVhat God should then the heauens waight sustaine VVhilst Bacchus in his Indian Tygers Carre VVould shake the Orbes and that celestiall plaine VVhen faire Victoria conquering Queene of warre Brighter then Venus or the brightest starre Doth giue to Ioue a Crowne bedeckt with gold Could Atlas then heauens heauiest waight vphold His age is great and yeares will strength remoue Therefore faire Sisters well aduised bee To answere loue and all the Gods aboue Though loth they were yet all did well agree To cut his thred for meere necessitie Then Atlantiades did soone depart And Atropos did stabbe great Henries hart Thus dide the Phaenix of the vastie round Whose worth my Muse should euer memorize And Eccho-like his martiall deeds resound Put that he did his Country scandalize In following Henry which did tyranize She gaue thee breath to liue and men to fight Yet thou depriu'st her of her cleerest light When noble Henry ended hath his daies Bedford with conquering swords Vernoi shal fill And spend his blood to gaine immortall praise Beauford and Beaumount shall good Humfrey kill And Warwicke gaine the popular good will Poole is exilde from wofull Margaret And Yorke malignes the Duke of Somerset Mars mounts his Ensigns on our highest towers And decks our helmets with Ambitions plumes Reuenge sad massacres and scarlet showres Distills Cities are burnt whose dankish fumes Contaminates the Ayre now Yorke presumes VVith Sarums Earle and Warwickes willing hand To gaine the Crowne and with the Crowne the land The Ciuill Warres PLutonian Princesse sacred Proserpine Licence Megaera and C●esiphone VVhich neuer saw the Sunnes all-pleasing shine Enter this vale of humane misery And consecrate to endles memory These Ciuill broyles in Characters of brasse Set forth these warres which did all warres surpasse Heer 's Mars pauilion there Bellonas tent The Lanciers here there the Carbines stands The Bilmen strikes the Archers bowes are bent Here raging Fury flies with burning brands Distorted limmes are pilde on purple sands Here Gassamores are cract there helmets crazd Here Gorgets cut there Vaines of Azure razd Now doth the Courser neigh the Clarions sound And wrath mounted on a flaming steed Doth both the Legions fortitude confound The moistlesse earth for very griefe doth bleed To see the Gardner spoyle the sowen seed Heere might you see what age could neuer tell Whilst Lyons fought the forests Barons fell Heere Ambuscadoes watch the sallying Scout There Hanniball entraps Marcellus traine Here wings are plac't and squadrons round about Scipiades must leaue disloyall Spaine And like Anebises clippe the Elizian plaine Nature hath digd for men more kind of graues Then Indian Ganges hath translucent waues No valiant Martius stout Coriolaene Did now the raging multitude withstand Tumultuous windes haue left the rocky lane Where sterne Hypoaates with Mace in hand Their lawlesse force by force doth countermaund Eurus will blowe and shake the Islands King Rebells will rise and belles of discord ring Vnworthy I to mount that sacred hill And Clodius-like see female sacrifice Virgill sang this and none but Virgill will Aduenture valures worth to memorice Thrice glorious obiect fit for Princely eyes Pardon great Homer my all-daring muse Let Cherills folly Cherills fault excuse The lesser starres makes Phoebe shine more bright So may my infant Muse comparde to thine Make thy heroicke Poems splendant light Seeme fairer farre in mens iuditious eyne Comparison makes Vertue seeme diuine Yet giue me leaue with my vnworthy pen To blazon forth the Acts of worthy men Cease mournfull Rome thy sad enlangoring Those fatall Fields neere to Campania sought Wherein the very prime of Marius spring The spring of griefe which Carbo deerly bought Ambitious Conquest rulde great Syllas thought Speake not of these proud Rome nor make thy mone Or if thou speak'st make not comparison What of stout Varro and Affranius lost Massilias ruine Scaeuas pierced shield Home by Brundusium Caesars shippes were tost Euer renowm'd Pharsalias bloody field How Iuba fell and Diator did yeeld Pompey in Egipt by Pothinius slaine And endles shame which Ptolomy did gaine Caesar is stabd and Albas doth lament Antonius doth the Tyrants plea refute Irefull Octauius to reuenge is bent Cascas and Cassius Cicero and Brute For Countreys freedome frame a faithlesse suite Lawes silent are when armies rule the towne Who conquered Kings by Kings are tumbled downe Enuious desire of honor loue to raigne Seuers their mindes whome nature did combine Two Romaine nauyes cut the Ocean maine One brothers losse doth cause anothers gaine Nothing is worse then Potentates disdaine Rome simild with ioy when ciuill warres did cease England

admired more at perfect peace In thirteen battells Englands strength was tryde Gauntes issue striues with Clarence progenie Through euery place destructions steed did ryde Making debate and endles enmitie Twixt subiects loue and Princely soueraigntie The Lords conspire and at Saint Atbons meete Here 's Warwickes tent there Yorke doth man the streete Vnder the Castell Somerset is slaine Here Clsfford falls and there Northumberland Great Buckingham renewes the fight againe In vaine the Lion doth the Beare withstand Where Warwicke leades his all subduing band The Rose doth wither and the Daysie spring The Queene escapt but Warwicke hath the king O whither shall she fly whose ay de expect Who is encombred with a thousand woes VVhat peasant boore will princes griefes respect By flight she scapes the furie of her foes Thus to the North this Amazonian goes Griefe flies to those who are opprest with griefe Societie in woe is some reliefe VVhen Romes two Scipios fell two glorious starres In Andeluzia or illuding Spaine None durst but Scipio vndertake those warres Euen so when Clifford was for England slaine And Percies pride lay breathlesse on the plaine None durst the Ragged Staffe and Beare withstand But Cliffords sonne and great Northumberland The Trumpets wake the Champions to the field VVho rode in tryumph through Epaeons towne To VVestmerland and Margaret must yeeld VVhose vertues did deserue a golden Crowne His browes are circulizde with paper browne Themistocles doth yeeld to Xerxes might Yorke ouermatcht giues place to Heuries right Penthisilea bends her course to Troy Shewing the spoiles of Larisseas King And Henry like to Priam smiles with ioy Seeing his Queene such Tropheys home to bring And all the Phrigian Virgins Io sing Like vnto this or like a brauer wight Couragious Margret doth returne from sight Neuer discouragde Warwicks royall Peere Vnconstant Clarence constant Montacute Seeing the Southerne coast of Albion cleere Did Essex Suffolke Surrey resalute Norfolke doth Mowbray Captaine constitute Both Armies ioyne and to Saint Albons came They flye their foes where first they ouercame Mowbray to Suffolke Warwicke with the rest In haste poste haste to Cambrias borders flye New rising March doth rowse his spangled Crest And vnderstanding by a sallying spye His Fathers friends and fauourites were nigh With decent gesture doth them entertaine Imploring aide his right to reobtaine Warwicke who was the speaker for them all In modest sort as well became his age Not Duke of Yorke but doth him Soueraigne call A name so great doth vertue equipage Now each to other doth his honour gage Like Caesar now he ioynes with Anthony And like to him doth foster enmitie When Brutus hand had stabd great Caesars hart Octauius honour euery where did finde Antonius takes the stout Caesareans part But when reuenge had satisfide her minde Whome mariage chaste with friendship had combinde Ambition makes them striue for endlesse raigne And with their bloud to dye the crimson mayne So Edward and renowned Sarums sonne Ioyne to reuenge dead Richards iniury But when that Gaunts great issue was vndone Warwicke doth enuy Yorkes prosperitie And much disdaines his peerlsse Soueraigntie Witnesse when Edward durst not here abide And Barnet field where noble Warwicke dide Henries faire Queene great Neapolitane Blinded with masked fate vnconstant chance Did neuer feare her future fatall bane Like a sierce coult this Iennet proud did prance Smiling with ioy to see her smiling chance Harke how the Drumme doth summon to the field See how she takes her ill beseeming shield Stay Naples pride Sicilian Empresse stay Will France for euer showres of vengeance raigne Thy first approch presage this fatall day Fire flew from heauen and made our Turrets plaine When thy Armados cut the Ocean maine Had Caesar read that which the poore man gaue Egypt had neuer beene Antonins gratre Had but great Henry great in Maiestie Ioynd with that match which Bedford first did make He had not tasted base seruilitie But when his minion Suffolke did forsake That Nimph of ioy great heire to Arminake Then Yorkes depressed issue gan to rise An abiect Prince each Subiect will despise Clifford and Percy proppes of Henries state Seeing the Southerne Lords entend to fight Doth the fierce Tygers anger instigate Proposing arguments of Henries right How her decayd augmented Edwards might In Hampton first she did our woe begin Two Hamptons cannot end her endlesse sin Fury awakes the murthred Lions whelpe And like poore Hector his deceased sire Craues of his kinsemen their supporting helpe Their smotherd hate hath kindled murthers fire Which none can quench till they haue quencht desire Where Nemssis of late did murther end There she begins heroicke bloud to spend Like the worlds Monarch Yorkes apparant heire Ioynes with his Fathers friend great Neuils race They to Northampton with their troupes repaire VVhere Aniowes Tamiris with martiall grace Cliffords triumphant Armes did embrace Clifford whose name as Taibot did in France Made Warwicke feare his Colours to aduance Octauius now and chaste Octauias Bride Conspire the death of tyranizing Brute Clifford must fall in top of all his pride Who did by Armes great Muusters plea refute Doth pleade his cause but Warwicke gaines the suite A headlesse arrow piercst his armed throate Who in his youth did saile in Conquests boate If Homer liu'd and dwelt in Castalie And daily tasted of Parnassus Well Inspirde with furious sacred Poesie Yet would he not our Virgils worth excell Whose Paeans did these fierce massacres tell Delia is praisd with thy all-praysing hand No wonder for thou dweltst in Delos land Eight seuerall Battels shall escape my Muse Least pride it selfe should me esteeme as proud Let Maros quill that sacred path peruse Couer my temples with a sable cloud Cimerian wreathes my head of sorrow shrowd Giue me a brazen Pensill not a Pen Some drops of blood to portraiture these men The Field of Banbery NOw warre is mounted on rebellions Steede And discontent perswadeth willing Pride His crest to raise and wears an Iron weede Long smothred Enuy doth the Army guide Which made firme loue from true obedience slide 'T was that great Neuill made proud George rebell Whose haughty spirits Warwicke knew too well Warwicke that raisde the race of Mortimer Whose eyes did see too soone thy death saies so The downfall of immortall Lancaster 'T was he that did what could not Warwicke doo Make Kings and Queenes to loue and feare him too 'T was that great Peere who with one warlike hand Crown'd and vncrown'd two kings who rulde the land Thus while these Royall but disloyall Peeres Maugre reuenge to him that knew not feare Vnnumbred bands of men and swarmes appeares In North and South East West yea euery where They throw away their Coats and Corslets weare Wiues maides and Orphants eyes are stuft with teares And cannot see the Spades transform'd to Speares The Shepheards hooke is made a souldiers pike Whose weather-beaten hands must learne