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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00649	Fennors descriptions, or A true relation of certaine and diuers speeches spoken before the King and Queenes most excellent Maiestie, the Prince his highnesse, and the Lady Elizabeth's Grace. By William Fennor, His Maiesties seruant.	Fennor, William.	1616 (1616)	STC 10784; ESTC S102016	14,787	46

it Clapping or hissing is the onely meane That tries and searches out a well writ Sceane So is it thought by Ignoramus crew But that good wits acknowledge's vntrue The stinckards oft will hisse without a cause And for a baudy ieast will giue applause Let one but aske the reason why they roare They 'l answere cause the rest did so before But leauing these who for their iust reward Shall gape and gaze amongst the fooles in th'yard Now to our Poets they are much like mothers That loue their owne babes farre aboue all others Though harder fauor'd so a Poets quill With his owne labours best doth please his will The reasons this because he knowes the paines He tooke in the Composing from whose braines A Poets worth takes birth at first ti 's weake Till by the life of Action it doth speake In a square Theator yet vnderstand The Actor speakes but at the second hand The Poet scans and knowes what best befits His birth whom he adornes with Epethites Congruus accents but I heere strike saile That haue iust cause my weakenesse to bewaile That am no Poet rather a poore pleader For friendly sentence from the iudging Reader As you allow the best forgiue what 's ill Though harshly wrote accept of my good will FINIS A description of the Palsgraues Countrey as it was deliuered in a speech before the King the Prince the Lady ELIZABETH at White-Hall By W. F. THe mornings Bridegroome with his Rosie cheeke inuites chaste Cynthia to a Royall feast Long for her welcome presence did he seeke to grace his Princely region in the East Faire Phebes light he doth esteeme diuine to make his splendor mongst the Germaines shine High Princely Palsgraue Protestants Protector loud sounding fames report Germaines rich treasure Arch-shewer of the Empire chiefe Elector whose yea or nay sets vp or puts downe Caesar O! let it not in me be thought ambition To shew the Countries worth and Thy condition On the right side of Pals the riuer Rhyne runnes swimming by the bankes of pleasant vines Vpon whose tops bright Sol so warme doth shine that from the flintie rockes flow Rennish wines And on the left side glides the gentle maine there are few Lands haue two such flouds againe These riuers meet at Mence and are vnited like Gemeni to swim towards Belgicke Seas But vpward these sweet waters are diuided for Pals-Lands comfort and the people ease The Rhyne brings boats vnto each South-ward Towne but in the North the maine brings treasure downe From Brandenburgh and High-borne Saxons Land great Chamberlaine and Lord high Martiall Mence Triurs and Cullen for the Popes right stand if either side in choice be partiall Bohemiaes King he is indifferent betwixt the Papist and the Protestant These are the seuen pillars of the Land on which great Europe Empire standeth fast Pals Brandenburgh and Saxony in one hand vnite their strength which makes their powers last The Popish Prelates at these Princes frowne yet these three Protestants vphold the Crowne To second them ther 's Brund-swickes valiant Duke Hessons great Landsgraue worthy of renowne And for the Popes right ther 's the Prince of Luke the Citie Cullen and great Ausburge Towne But Franckfords force with Protestants doth hold which by the Palsgraues power make Papists cold In this faire Franckford Caesar was instal'd this Citie borders on the Palsgraues Land T is richly furnisht and most strongly wal'd well stor'd with all prouision stoutly man'd But leauing Frankford seated on the maine the bridge hath brought me into Pals againe Betwixt the Riuers that are nam'd before the Palsgraues Land stands like a Paradice The ground is fruitfull yeelding vine-yards store and mightie woods for hunting exercise Stand on the hills inuironing the plaines these Forrests brings the Palsgraue trebble gaines First they inrich his Countrey large with wood secondly they afford him venison store Thirdly for hunting pleasures they are good to rouze the Stagge or chase the tusked Bore If man on earth would chuse a place of pleasure His Country yeelds it in exceeding measure On rocky clifts his stately Castles stand like to mount Sion built of Marble stone With turrets out of which he viewes his Land such worthy prospects heere are few or none Their aire it is so wholesome kinde and sweet they seldome die till death and age doe meete At Bachrade stands a Castle on a clift and vnderneath a Citty of some state Which euer is his eldest sonnes by gift it would seeme tedious if I should relate Each seuerall Castle but let mee report the state of Hedelberge his Princely Court Palace of pleasure and a house of State his winters White-Hall and his summers Hampton A Riuer glideth vnderneath the gate which brings him plentie nothing hath he lack on There stands a vessell which shall neare want wine so long as earth beares fruit or sunne doth shine Braue Knights and Barons on his grace attend His Countries ordered by a Martiall All strangers doe his gouernment commend because in nothing he is partiall But deales withall according to desert which makes all people honour him in heart His Court is pleasant and his person Royall his Councell graue his Officers care true His Gentry faithfull and his Commons loyall his lands are fruitfull what can then ensue Nothing but his Religion which is grounded vpon the Gospell that hath Rome confounded In him there flowes the best of Art and Nature himselfe like Dauid and his Court like Sion Of louely visage and of comely stature yet full of maiesty as is a Lion For with seueritie his grace is kinde Iustice and pittie in his heart are ioyn'd What may be in a Prince in him their flowes excepting Vice for that he euer hated What should be in a Prince in him their growes for Englands good this good Prince was created His Lawes are iust his gouernment is ciuill he doth pursue good and escheweth euill Many braue Castles his faire Land doth yeeld and toll houses vpon the riuer Rhyne Which vnderneath his Castles he doth build to store his Cofers with all Countrey coyne Each passage boate before they passe away vnto these Toll-houses must custome pay Fiue Princes in this iron age suruiue which makes it seeme the siluer world againe To match them hardly shall we finde out fiue yet wee ll forbeare to speake of France or Spaine Fiue heires fiue youths fiue kinsmen and fiue Princes Of one Religion though in fiue Prouinces Yong Prince of Hesson is the first must enter to act his vertues on the worlds Theater T is hard to finde a yong man on earth's center that is a vertue louer and vice hater Old Landsgraues glasse hath many houres to runne whil'st all his vertues liueth in his Sonne Yong Prince of Brundswicke craues the second place whose vertues with him brings a noble spirit Hee 's milde and courteous mixt with maiesticke grace his praise is not so much as he doth merit A Prince a Schollar and