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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09832	The hystories of the most famous and worthy cronographer Polybius discoursing of the warres betwixt the Romanes [and] Carthaginenses, a riche and goodly worke, conteining holsome counsels [and] wonderfull deuises against the incombrances of fickle fortune. Englished by C.W. Wherevnto is annexed an abstract, compendiously coarcted out of the life & worthy acts, perpetuate by our puissaunt prince king Henry the fift.; Historiae. English	Polybius.; Watson, Christopher, d. 1581.	1568 (1568)	STC 20097; ESTC S114792	81,252	276

bold Britains as their owne neighbours extracte of one propre parente and descended of one progenie For the auaricious Albanacts otherwise called the false fraudulent snatching Scottes and the carelesse Cambers otherwise denominate vnstable wauering Welshmen falsified their faith not only by withdrawing their fealtie denying their homage refusing their allegiance due to their soueraignes the Kings of this realm but also made continual warre and destroyed their townes and slew the friendes of their neighbours the Britains For whiche cause diuers of your hautie progenitors haue not only made warre and subdued the faythlesse Scots for denying of their homage and reaping of rebellion but also haue deposed their Kyngs and Princes inthronising settyng vp other in their estates and dignities Was not Scater their king slaine and extincted for hys rebellion by your noble predecessour Dunwallo Moluncius Arthur also the glory of the Britains directed Angosile to the scepter of Scotlande and receyued of hym homage and fealtie If I shold recken how many of their kings haue done homage to youre auncient predecessors or reherse what numbre of Scottish Kings they haue corrected and punished for disobedience and denying their dueties or if I should declare what Kyngs they as superioure lordes and high Emperours ouer the vnder kings of Scotlande haue elected and made rulers to the intent that all people mighte manifestely perceyue that it was more glorious more honourable and more famous a Kyng to make a King than to be a King by naturall descent I assure you that your eares woulde be more wearie of hearing than my tongue fatigate with telling the truth Your noble progenitour Kyng Edwarde the first coueting to be superiour to surmount in honor or at the least to be equiualēt in fame with his noble ancesters and famous progenitours studied dayly hourely compassed howe to associate together and tourne the whole I le of Britaine which was diuided by Brute into thrée seuerall partes to the pristinate Monarchial state and one dominion After long study and greate consultation hée victoriously subdued Wales tamed their wildenesse and bridlyng them with sharpe bittes turned them to their olde home and aunciente degrée whiche thyng done he semblably inuaded Scotlande and conquered the countrey to the towne of Pearche uent with the serpentine policie to auoid and eschue al things which might either be impedimentes to their progression and setting forwarde or occasions of their returne and losse of their enterprise least they leauing behinde them a noysom neighbor a continuall aduersarie and a secrete ennimie may as soone come to leese their owne patrimonie as conquere or gaine the dominions of other Wherefore the trite and common adage sayth Better one birde in hande than tenne in the woodde Leaue not the certain for the vncertaine for whiche consideration it is expedient and nedeful that I enūciate or declare vnto you certaine articles contained in the ancient league and amitie continued betwixt the realmes of France Scotland wherof the wordes be these The warres and iniuries moued or done by the Englishe nation to either of the sayd countreys to be as cōmon wrong to bothe If the English mē make warre on the french nation then the Scottes at the costes charges of the French king shal minister to them succoures Semblably if the Scottes be molested by the English warres the Frenchmen hauing their costes allowed shall be to them as aiders and assisters And that none of both nations shall either contract or make peace with the Realme of England without consent or agréemente of the other And to the intente that this league and amitie should be kept vnuiolate Robert le Bruse the vsurper of Scotlande willed by his testament two things especially to be obserued the one neuer to breake the treatie cōcluded with France the other neuer to kepe peace or paction made with Englishemen longer than the obseruing thereof were to them commodious or profitable Yet Mare and other Scottish writers colour thys cause saying that he would haue no treatie or peace concluded wyth Englande aboue thrée yeares But what so euer writers write or talkers tel they be to him most faithful executers haue neuer yet falsified or broken his testament but continually performed hys commaundement Yea for the verificatiō of Bruses brutish bidding and for the performaunce of this his wycked will and to kéepe and preserue thys league vnuiolate none of your auncesters euer inuaded Fraunce but incontinently the Scots troubled and vexed Englande none of your progenitors euer passed the seas in a iust quarel against the French nation but that Scots in their absence entred your realme spoyled your townes burned and destroyed youre villages sacked youre houses pilled and forraged your countrey afflicted your subiects slew your people taking and distributing booties innumerable and thus continually abandoning your countrey the caitifes are and haue bene accustomed couertly to kepe themselues in wooddes and secrete places that they myght there fight and with sodaine assaults and at vnwares inuade the defēders of your frontiers and all these deceipts were and are practised to prouoke then your auncesters and now you to desist and returne from the inuading of Fraunce If I should vnbuckle to you their com mon breakyng of leagues if I should vncaste theyr craftie and subtill dissimulation if I should drawe the vaile of their falsified faire promises often sworne and neuer kepte if I shoulde vnsheath all their shamefull shifts if I should shew open the pestiferous pack of their peuishnesse I doubte not but you would ten times more abhorre to heare of their detestable dealing than I should be ashamed of the truthe telling Therfore I will not only persist in aduouching my assertion but also affirme and proue that of necessitie and constrainte to swéepe all corners of priuate enimies shall be néedefull suffering no lurking moates behynde your backe which may proue mischenous lettes when you go to conquere aduersaries before your face Moreouer beside all these if you consider the quotidian charges the inconstant chāces which may happen I thinke yea and litle doubte but Scotlande shall be tamed before your iourney can be framed to Fraunce for if you intende to inuade it accompte what numbre of ships must bée prepared to the transportation of your armie recōpt what a charge of ankers forcast what a com panie of cables and what other innumerable necessaries appertaine to a nauie After your nauigation and safe arriuall as I truste God will prosper your iourney if your men chaunce to decay by sicknesse or to be extincte by sworde if victuals faile if money wax scant if the windes turne contrary or hoistyng tempestes make the sea to outrage with belchyng dashes when these necessaries shold be transuehate to your armie then shall you be destitute of aide prouision and treasure which in a foraine region are the confusion and defacing of an armie On the contrary part if you inuade Scotlande your men be hard at hand