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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01406	The vision and discourse of Henry the seuenth Concerning the vnitie of Great Brittaine. Diuided into foure chapters. 1. Containing an introduction. 2. Inducements to vnitie. 3. The policy, deceit, and mischieuous spite of the vnderminers hereof. 4. The danger of diuision. Related by T.G.	Gainsford, Thomas, d. 1624?; Henry VII, King of England, 1457-1509.	1610 (1610)	STC 11526; ESTC S105669	39,084	72

the King of Kings To sound his praise and to procure his feare And arme th'elect 'gainst serpents poysned stings These haue indur'd the front of spitefull Rome And yet sustain'd strong factions push at home These are the heraulds of the Lord of hoasts Which bring his peace or else denounce his threat These faint not for the Babilonian boasts Nor Schismaticks whose braines on trifles beat Thrise famous was their former constancie Thrise famous be their new ●ntegritie Yee Pilots which doe keepe the middle channell And shunne the shelfes and shores on euery side A saint-like iury doth your iudge impannell Which in their verdict for your weale prouide The Chiefe-chiefe-iustice for you hath decreed That still for you shall stand the royall seed Let hellish Miners hellish sulphur lay To ouer-turne their faithfull steddinesse Let Atheists raue and blasphemies display Let others shew their brainsick headines The heau'ns bright eye sees all and will confound All those which striue to bring them to the ground Some-times his kingly prophecie shall tell Some-times the graue Cecilian Sentinell And oft his foes shall ring th' alarum bell And traiterous tongues shall traiterous plots repell For gainst the right all treasons are accurst Like poisons they their first inuenters burst Long liue my Iames for thy true Churches good Long liue the Church thy true right to maintaine No King no Church no Church no King had stood The one without the other hath a maine And since your loue with Gods loue is vnited With mutuall loue this land shall be requited It neuer greeues me that mine Henries line Is quite expir'd since I in thee doe liue Since greatest families must stoope to thine Which to it selfe doth dayly luster giue Thine Eglets shall this little world inioy Not fearing ought the greater worlds annoy Yet must I not forget Elisa's name The quintessence of all the femall sex Whose vertues did extoll her worthy fame Aboue her proudest foes which did her vex Who often did attempt her life to spill Yet had not powre so good a Prince to kil Like Debora she did the truth maintaine No Prince atchiu'd more warlike acts then shee No Prince so many languages did gaine Who forreiners interpreter could be Her dauntlesse spirit made the stoutest feare Yet to the poorest shee inclin'd her eare Her court was royall yet she did not grieue Her subiect hearts with heauy tax nor tolls Distressed states shee alwayes did releeue Whose Chronicles her great exployts inrouls Meane while all England thriu'd prospred well And now her blisse no earthly tongue can tell That Phoebe long did this horrizon hould And as she far'd so England ebd and flow'd At length her crest the highest sphaeres did fould Whilst Englands subiects in great darknesse row'ld When from the North another light appea'rd Which nights black mantle quickly had casseer'd Once Europes Princes did on scaffolds stand To feed their eyes with Englands tragedie But then they saw t was heau'ns all powerfull hand Which did present a ioyfull Comedie For now the world a three-fold cord doth see Which by no strength nor force may broken bee When Rome enui'd Achaias waxing strength Which to an vniformitie was growne The Senate sat in counsell and at length Decreed that discord must be quickly sowne They thought that first their league they must vntwine Or else that state they could not vndermine To which intent they Commissaries sent To draw each Cittie to her ancient lawes Who told those Greekes t' was bondage to be pent Within the compasse of the Lions pawes That lofty Eagles tooke no note of Flyes Nor great commanders of small families That yearely Praetors were the onely Kings Which soone returnd their suites and writts againe With these the wrong'd expostulates such things As awfull feare with others must refraine Where euery Burgesse is a Senator And each wise Citizen a Monitor Thus stand prouincials of the Romaine state A time they Lord-like liue but at the last The meanest may their cause with them debate Of iniuries which in their time haue pass't Then are they faine to plead as priuate men And fancie-feeders alwayes faile them then For if these petty Kings haue offered wrong Within the yeare in which their powers confin'd That time expir'd each Citizen is strong To right himselfe and to the lawes them binde Then are they sure to haue a due reward As they haue had a right o● wrong regard Those sponges then are forced to repay The liquor which from others they did soake Protection may not course of Iustice stay Nor venale tongues may venale iudgments cloake Thus did Romes conquered countries flourish more Then vnder Tyrants they did earst before And as for Rome the nursse of liberty It Consuls had which yearely it did change Where worthy men had place themselues to trye And had a field where vertue 's life might range Yet if within the yeare they did offend The Tribunes with them shortly would contend Man's chiefe content is freedom to the minde The heauiest doome is bondage to the heart The one delight in all estates doth finde The other griefe and neuer dying smart The sight smell touch the hearing and the taste Are sowre to those which are in bondage plac't The Oxen still the heauie yoake do shunne The Bird the cage the Hawke vnman'd the lure Each beast from man with hasty speed doth runne Least once intrap't it thraldom should indure But men much more yee much more then other Should quit your selues not your freedō smother With this smooth speech these Romans did assay To breake th' Achaians sacred bond of loue For neuer did this state it selfe betray As other Greekes which strangers aid did prooue For ciuill broyles and forrein force or'throw As stormes doe Cedars which alone doe grow Now when th' Achaians heard this sl●e discourse They sounded soone the ground of their intent They knew ●ight well coniunction was the nource Of all their weale which Romans would preuent Then like to Bees they sallyed out in swarmes And would haue slaine them but for law of armes Whilst springs to streames streames to sea did run Whilst hils made shades heau'ns had starrs to shine Th' Achaians concord should not be vndone And all their hearts in one they would combine If Rome by sword their vallor meant to trie Together they would liue together dye So would all th' English if some were not wrongd By selfe conceit and charmes of sorreine foes They would performe what vnto right belong'd And with their wrack not hazard Britains woes Woes will attend on those which woes contriue And such as peace out of the world would driue No other land nor Church doth Babel dread Here is the golden meane twixt two extreames If any land with veri●y do wed T is Albion which display's the brightest beames As in full orbe the Moone giue● greatest light So Britaine now is in her power and might