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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04564	The nine worthies of London explayning the honourable exercise of armes, the vertues of the valiant, and the memorable attempts of magnanimious minds. Pleasant for gentlemen, not vnseemely for magistrates, and most profitable for prentises. Compiled by Richard Iohnson.	Johnson, Richard, 1573-1659?	1592 (1592)	STC 14686; ESTC S121088	23,709	54

there was I bound to serue My masters name hight Stodie in his time From whom in dutie I did neuer swarue Nor was corrupted with detested crime My education taught me so to liue At by my paines my maisters purse might thrine My fellow seruants lou'd me with their hearts My friends reioyc'd to see me prosper so And kind Doll Stodie though for small deserts On me vouchsaft affection to bestow Whose constancie was such that for her sake No toyle was grieuous I did vndertake Such was my state as I my selfe could wish Deuoid of care not toucht with egr● want My sleepe secure my foode choise bewties dish Onely in this my pleasure seemed scant That I vnable was her state to raise That was the lengthner of my happie dayes Whilst thus I was perplexed owth that thought Behold how Fortune fauourde my desire Of sodaine warres the ioyfull newes was brought And Edward ayde of Souldiers did require Amongst the rest it fell vnto my chaunce That I was prest to follow him to Fraunce My master would haue sewd for my discharge His daughter with her teares gan me assaile On euery side they prayd and promist large But nothing could in that respect preuaile Such thirst of honour spurd my courage on I would to warres although I went alone My forwardnesse perceyu'd my valour knowne Ouer a band of Souldiors I was chiefe Then sproute the seedes that were but lately sowne My longing soule had quickly found reliefe I sparde no cost nor shrunke for any paine Because I ment my Loue should reape the gaine To proue my faith vnto my Countries stay And that a prentice though but small esteemd Vnto the stoutest neuer giueth way If credite may by triall be redeemd At Burdeaux siege when other came too late I was the first made entrance through the gate And when Don Peter driuen out of Spaine By an vsurping Bastard of his line He crau'd some helpe his crowne to reobtaine That in his former glorie he might shine Our king ten thousand seuerd from his host My selfe was one I speake it not in boast With these Don Peter put the Bastard downe Each Citie yeelded at our first approch It was not long ere he had got the crowne And taught his wicked brother to encroch In these affaires so well I shewd my might That for my labour I was made a knight Thus labour neuer looseth his reward And he that seekes for honour sure shall speed What crauen mind was euer in regard Or where consisteth manhood but in deed I speake it that confirmd it by my life And in the end Doll Stodie was my wife This Worthie hauing finished his taske sette downe by Fame to confirme the order of his first honour reposed himselfe amongst the rest where he found a sweete murmuring of priuate and secrete conference what had passed by the seuerall annotations of euerie ones prayse where they beganne contemning the order of enuie to colaude the endeuours of one anothers actions none particularly arrogating in arrogancie the prayse of himselfe to him that did most they gaue most applause and so swéetly concorded in simpathie that all the Elesian harmonie might haue liberally commended their conditions the hushing riuers were caulme without murmur or contempt the leaues stood still to admire these famous enterprises and excellent atchieuements the windes bound themselues vp in the contentation of voluntarie stilnesse that they might be at libertie to hearken to these meritorious men and yeelded them praise condescending to their paines The Goddesse of darknesse for enuie approched not the place so that it was by that meanes continually day whereby the Sunne was euer glorious in the pride of his height without grudging or any shew of declining the bright shining of whose alluring countenance inticed another up called sir Iohn Haukwood or sit Iohn Sharpe from the Italians Iohn Acute and from thence indéed he brought backe into England both his name and his noblenesse The pictures of his renowne for as an emblem of endlesse honour the Venecians wrought vnderneath his stature set vp in the citie Giouanno Acuto Caualiero This Iohn Haukwood knight he liued likewise in the time of Edward the third that Prince of famous memorie when he plesantly looked about him being a man of a most couragious countenance and an ingenious nature thus he beganne to speake as who should say he had wrong to be deferred so long Sir Iohn Haukwood knight WHo knowes my ofspring doth not know my prime Who knowes my birth perhaps will scorne my deedes My valour makes my vertue more then slime For that suruiues though I weare deaths pale weedes Ground doth consume the carkas vnto dust Yet cannot make the valiants armour rust After that eighteene yeares had toucht my head Being a Printice boy in Lumbard streete A Taylor by my trade and I had lead A few wilde yeares for striplings farre vnmeete A Souldior I was prest to serue in Fraunce The Prince of Wales mine honour to inhaunce I serude as priuate souldiour for a while Till courage made me greedie of renowne And causde me giue a noble man the foile That though with sturdie Launce did beare me downe On foot that day my selfe did keepe in chace Some worthie knights that feard to shew their face That day the Prince of Wales surnamde the blacke Did mount me on a gallant English steed Where I bestirde me so vpon his backe That none incountred me that did not bleed It was not I nor Fortune nor my fate His hand it was that seldome helpes to late His be the honour then and his the prayse Yet haue I leaue to speake what Haukwood did When noble Edward had disperst the rayes And by his prowes of the French was rid Three more then If my selfe did make the fourth The gentle Princes then du●● knights of worth His knights he tearmd ●s still amongst the rest And gaue vs honour fitting our estate For England to be bound it seemd him best Because the French had swallowed Edwards baite I tooke my leaue and begged on my knee That I might wander other parts to see The Prince inkindled with my honours heate Discharging me bestowde on me a chaine For still fresh courage on my heart did beate Which made me loue and womens acts refraine Hearing the Duke of Millaine was distrest To Italie my voyage their was prest The Seas I quickly past and came to shore With me were fifteene hundred English men We marcht to Millaine walles where we had more Of other nations to conioyne with them There did the Italians tearme me Iohn Acute Because I had their foes in such pursute Castels and towers I had for my reward And got enough to pay my men withall But I to hired pay had no regarde That prickt me on which climbs the highest wall Honour and Fame whereof they gaue me store Which made me more audacious then before Millaine thus peac'd the Pope oppressed Spaine Then thither was I sent to quell