to the Countesse of Salisburie And proues our acts of Parlement vniust In the next Parlement after Richards resignation of the Crowne Henry caused to be annihilated all the lawes made in the Parlament called the wicked Parlement helde in the twenty yeere of king Richards raigne FINIS Queene Katherine to Owen Tudor The Argument After the death of that victorious Henry the fift Queene Katherine the dowager of England and Fraunce daughter to Charles the French King holding her estate with Henrie her sonne then the sixt of that name falleth in loue with Owen Tuder a VVelshman a braue and gallant Gentleman of the VVardrope to the young King her son yet greatlie fearing if her loue shoulde bee discouered the Nobilitie would crosse her purposed marriage or fearing that if her faire princely promises should not assure his good successe this high and great attempt might perhaps daunt the forwardnesse of his modest and shamefast youth wherefore to breake the Ice to her intent shee writeth vnto him this Epistle following IVdge not a Princesse worth impeach'd heereby That loue thus tryumphs ouer maiestie Nor thinke lesse vertue in this royall hand vvhich now intreats that wonted to commaund For in this sort though humbly now it wooe The day hath beene thou would'st haue kneeld vnto Nor thinke that this submission of my state Proceedes from frailty rather iudge it fate Alcides nere more fit for wars sterne shock Then when for loue sate spinning at the rock Neuer lesse clowdes did Phoebus glory dim Then in a clownes shape when he couered him â—oues great commaund was neuer more obey'd Then when a Satyres anticke parts he plai'd He was thy King that sued for loue to mee Shee is thy Queene that sues for loue to thee VVhen Henry was what 's Tudors now was his vvhilst vet thou art what 's Henries Tudors is My loue to Owen him my Henry giueth My loue to Henry in my Owen liueth Henry woo'd me whilst wars did yet increase I wooe my Tudor in sweet calmes of peace To force affection he did conquest proue I fight with gentle arguments of loue Incampt at Melans In warres hote alarmes First saw I Henry clad in princely Armes At pleasant VVindsore first these eyes of mine My Tudor iudg'd for wit and shape diuine Henry abroade with puissance and with force Tudor at home with courtship and discourse He then thou now I hardly can iudge whether Did like me best Plantaginet or Tether A march a measure battell or a daunce A courtly rapier or a conquering Launce His princely bed hath strengthned my renowne And on my temples set a double crowne vvhich glorious wreath as Henries lawfull heire Henry the sixt vpon his brow doth beare At Troy in Champaine he did first enioy My bridal-rites to England brought from Troy In England now that honour thou shalt haue vvhich once in Champaine famous Henry gaueâ— I seeke not wealth three kingdoms in my power If these suffise not where shall be my dower Sad discontent may euer follow her vvhich doth base pelfe before true loue prefer If â—itles still could our affections tie vvhat is so great but maiestie might buy As I seeke thee so Kings doe me desire To what they would thou easily mai'st aspire That sacred fire once warm'd my hart before The fuell fit the flame is now the more And meanes to quench it I in vaine doe proue vve may hide treasure but not hide our loue And since it is thy fortune thus to gaine it It were too late nor will I now restraine it Nor these great titles vainely will I bring vvife daughter mother sister to a King Of grandsire father husband sonne brother More thou alone to me then all the other Nor feare my Tudor that this loue of mine Should wrong the Gaunt-borne great Lancastrian linâ— Nor stir the English blood the Sunne and Moone T'repine at Loraine Burbon Alansoon Nor doe I thinke there is such different ods They should alone be numbred with the Gods Of Cadmus earthly issue reckoning vs And they from â—oue Mars Neptune Eolus Of great Latonas of-spring onely they And we the brats of wofull Niobe Our famous Grandsires as theyr owne bestrid That horse of fame that God-begotten steed vvhose bounding hoofe plow'd that Boetian spring vvhere those sweet maides of memory doe sing Not onely Henries Queene but boast as well To be the childe of Charles and Isabell. Nor doe I know from whence their griefe should grow They by this match should be disparag'd so vvhen Iohn and Longshanks issue both affied And to the Kings of VVales in wedlocke tyed Showing the greatnes of your blood thereby Your race and royall consanguinitie And VVales as well as haughty England boasts Of Camilot and all her Penticosts A nephewes roome in great Pondragons race At Arthurs table held a princely place If by the often conquest of your land They boast the spoyles of theyr victorious hand If these our auncient Chronicles be true They altogether are not free from you VVhen bloody Rufus fought your vtter sack Twice entring VVales yet twice was beaten back VVhen famous Cambria wash'd her in the flood Made by th' effusion of the English blood And oft return'd with glorious victorie From VVorster Herford Chester Shrowesbury vvhose power in euery conquest so preuailes As once expuls'd the English out of VVales Although my beautie made my Countries peace And at my bridall former broyles did cease Yet more then power had not his person beene I had not come to England as a Queene Nor tooke I Henry to supply my want Because in Fraunce that time my choise was scant vvhen we had robd all Christendome of men And Englands flower remain'd amongst vs then Gloster whose counsels Nestor-like assist Couragious Bedford that great martiallist Clarence for vertue honoured of his foes And Yorke whose fame yet daily greater growes VVarwicke the pride of Neuels haughtie race Great Salisburie so fear'd in euery place That valiant Poole whom no atchiuement dares And Vere so famous in the Irish warres vvho though my selfe so great a Prince were borne The worst of these my equall neede not scorne But Henries rare perfections and his parts As conquering kingdoms so he conquer'd harts As chast was I to him as Queene might bee But freed from him my chast loue vow'd to thee Beautie doth fetch all fauour from thy face All perfect courtship resteth in thy grace If thou discourse thy lips such accents breake As loue a spirit foorth of thee seem'd to speake The Brittish language which our vowels wants And iarrs so much vpon harsh consonants Comes with such grace from thy mellifluous tongâ—e As doe the sweet notes of a well set song And runnes as smoothly from those lips of thine As the pure Thuskan from the Florantine Leauing such seasoned sweetnes in the eare As the voyce past yet still the found is there In Nisus Tower as when Apollo lay And on his golden viall vs'd to play vvhere
on to draw them vp the hill That by his strength they might get power to rise Thus they in all things are before him still This perfect steersman of their policies Hath cast to walke whilst Edward beares the light And take that ayme that must direct his sight 66 And by th'alowance of his liberall will Supposd his safety furthering their intent Stands as a rest to iustifie their ill Made sound and currant by this late euent And what yet wanting lastly to fulfill Things in theyr course to fall in true consent Giues full assurance of that happy end On which they now laboriously attend 67 Nor finding reason longer to protract Or in suspence their home-left friends to hold By beeing now so absolutely back'd And thereby waxing confident and bold By their proceedings publishing their act vvhen as their power was ripened as they would Now with an armed and erected hand To abet their faction absolutely stand 68 VVhen now the fearefull fainting Exceter A man experienc'd in their counsels long vvhether himselfe thought his way to prefer Or mou'd in conscience with King Edwards wrong Or t' was his frailty forc'd him thus to erre Or other fatall accident among The onely first that backe to England flew And knowing all discouered all he knew 69 The plot of treason lastly thus disclos'd And Torletons drift by circumstances found vvith what conueyance things had beene dispos'd The cunning vsd in casting of the ground The meanes and apt aduantages he chos'd vvhen better counsell coldly comes to sound Awakes the King to see his owne estate vvhen the preuention comes too vaine and late 70 And whilst the time she daily doth adiourne Charles as a brother by perswasions deales Edward with threats to hasten her returne And Iohn of Rome with papall curse assailes T is but in vaine against her will to spurne Perswasions threats nor curses ought preuailes Charles Edward Iohn doe th' vtmost of your worst The Queene fares best when she the most is curst 71 The subtile Spensers which French humors felt And with their Soueraigne had deuisd the draught vvith Prince and Peeres now vnderhand had delt vvith golden bayts that craftily were caught vvhose flexed temper soone begins to melt On which they now by flights so throughly wrought As with great summes now lastly ouer-way'd The wretched Queene is desperate of ayde 72 Nor can all this amaze this mighty Queene vvith all th'affliction neuer yet contrould Neuer such courage in her sexe was seene Nor was she cast in other womens mould Nor can rebate the edge of her hie spleene But can endure warre trauaile want and cold Strugling with fortune ne're with greefe opprest Most cheerfull still when she was most distrest 73 And thus resolu'd to leaue ingratefull Fraunce And in the world her fortune yet to try Changing the ayre hopes time may alter chance As one whose thoughts were eleuate more hie Her weakned state still seeking to aduaunce Her mighty mind so scorneth misery Yet ere she went her grieued hart to ease Thus to the King this grieued Lady saies 74 Is this a King and Brothers part quoth she And to this end did I my griefe vnfold Came I to heale my wounded hart to thee vvhere slaine outright I now the same behold Proue these thy vowes thy promises to me In all this heate thy faith become so cold To leaue me thus forsaken at the worst My state more wretched then it was at first 75 My frailty vrging what my want requires To thy deere mercy should my teares haue ty'd Our bloods maintained by the selfe-same fires And by our fortunes as our birth aly'd My sute supported by my iust desires All arguments I should not be deny'd The grieuous wrongs that in my bosome be Should be as neere thy care as I to thee 76 Nature that easly wrought vpon my sex To thy vile pleasure thus mine honour leaues And vnder colour of thy due respects My setled trust disâ—oially deceaues That me and mine thus carelesly neglects And of all comfort wholy me bereaues Twixt recreant basenes and disord'nate will To expose my fortunes to the worst of ill 77 But for my farwell this I prophecie That from my wombe thaâ— glorious fruit doth spring vvhich shall deiect thy neere posteritie And lead a captiue thy succeeding King That shall reuenge this wretched iniury To fatall Fraunce I as a Sybel sing Her Cittie 's sack'd the slaughter of her men vvhen of the English one shall conquer ten 78 Bewmount in Fraunce that had this shuffling seene vvhose soule by kindnes Isabell had wonne For Henault now perswades the greeued Queene By full assurance what might there be done Now in the anguish of this tumerous spleene Offring his faire Neece to the Prince her sonne The surest way to gaine his brothers might To back young Edward and vphold her right 79 This gallant Lord whose name euen fild report To whom the souldiers of that time did throng A man that fashion'd others of his sort As that knew all to honour did belong And in his youth traynd vp with her in Court And fully now confirmed in her wrong Crost by the faction of th'emperiall part In things that sat too neerly to his hart 80 Sufficient motiues to inuite destresse To apprehend the least and poorest meane Against those mischiefes that so strongly presse vvhereon their low deiected state to leane And at this season though it were the lesse That might awhile their sickly power sustaine Till prosperous times by mild and temperate dayes Their drooping hopes to former height might raise 81 VVhere finding cause to breathe their restlesse state vvhere welcome look'd with a more milder face From those dishonours she receau'd of late vvhere now she wants no due officious grace Vnder the guidance of a gentler fate vvhere bountious offers mutually embrace And to conclude all ceremonies past The Prince affies faire Pâ—illip at the last 82 All cou'nants sign'd with wedlocks sacred seale A lasting league eternally to bind And all proceeding of religious zeale And suting right with Henaults mighty mind That to his thoughts much honor doth reueale vvhat ease the Queene is like thereby to find The sweet contentment of the louely bride Young Edward pleasd and ioy on eu'ry side The end of the third Canto The fourth Booke of the Barrons warres The Argument The Queene in Henault mightie power doth wiâ—â— In Harwich hauen safely is arriu'd Great troubles now in England new begin The King of friends and safety is depriu'd Flieth to VVales at Neath receiued in Many strange acts and outrages contriu'd Edward betray'd deliu'red vp at Neath The Spensers and his friends are put to death 1 NOw seanen times Phoebus had his welked waine Vpon the top of all the Torpick set And seauen times discending downe againe His fiery wheeles had with the fishes wet In the accurrents of this haplesse raigne Since treason first these troubles did beget vvhich through more strange varieties hath runne Then
felt as comming from a swoune And that his powers a little gan awake Fortune quoth he thou doost not alwaies frowne I see thou giu'st aswell as thou doost take That wanting naturall couert for my braine For that defect thou lend'st me this againe 38 To whom ô heauen should I my griefes complainâ— Since thou art iust and prouident in all How should this body naturall strength retaine To suffer things so much innaturall My cogitations labour but in vaine Except thou be partaker in my fall And when at once so many mischiefes meet By change of sorrow mak'st my torment sweet 39 VVherefore my fate I should but fondly grutch T is vaine contention when with heauen we striue vvhich preordaines my miseries for such That by one woe another should suruiue To shew how it mortalitie can â—uch My wretchednes so strangely to contriue That all my comfort in mishaps should rest And else in nothing but misfortune blest 40 To Berckley thus they lead this wretched King The place of horror that was long fore-thought vvhat power should suffer so defil'd a thing Or can behold this murther to be wrought That might the Nation into question bring But that your wayes with iudgment still are fraught Thus art thou hap'd into thy earthly hell Now take thy leaue and bid the world farewell 41 Berckley whose faire seate hath beene famous long Let thy faire buildings shreeke a deadly sound And to the ayre complaine thy grieuous wrong Keeping the figure of King Edwards wound That as thou waxest old theyr shame still yong Their wretched footsteps printed on the ground That when report shall lend their vile act breath All tongues may ad damnation to their death 42 The omenous Rauen with a dismall cheere Through his hoarce beake of following horror tells Begetting strange imaginary feare vvith heauy eccho's like to passing Bells The howling dogge a dolefull part doth beare As though they chym'd his latest burying knells Vnder his eaue th buzzing shreechowle sings Beating his windowes with her fatall wings 43 And still affrighted in his fearefull dreames with raging fiends and goblins that he meets Of falling downe from steepe Rocks into streames Of tombes of burialls and of winding sheets Of wandring helplesse in farre forraine Realmes Of strong temptations by seducing sprites VVherewith awak'd and calling out for ayde His hollow voyce doth make himselfe afraid 44 Next comes the vision of his bloody raine Masking along with Lancasters steme ghost Of Barrons twenty eyght or hang'd or slaine Attended with the rufull mangled host That vnreueng'd yet all this while remaine At Borough battell and at Burton lost Threatning with frownes and trembling eu'ry lim As through in peeces they would torture him 45 And if it chaunce that from the troubled skies The least small starre through any chincke giue light Straightwaies on heapes the thronging cloudes arise As though the heauen were angry with the night That it should lend that comfort to his eyes Deformed shadowes glimpsing in his sight As darknes for it would more darkned be Through those poore crannies forc'd it selfe to see 46 VVhen all th'affliction that they could impose Euen to the full and vtmost of their hate Aboue his torment yet his strength arose As nature made a couenaunt with fate vvhen now his watchfull and two wary foes That cease not still his woes to aggrauate All further helps suspected to preuent To take his life to Berckley closely sent 47 And subtilly a letter fashioning vvhich in the words a double sence doth beare vvhich seemes to bid them not to touch the King Shewing withall how vile a thing it were But by false poynting is another thing And to dispatch him bids them not to feare vvhich taught to finde these murtherers neede no more For which they stood too ready long before 48 VVhere as he haps a Chronicle to finde Of former Kings their raignes their deaths and deedes vvhich some their lodg'd forgotten had behind On which to passe the howers he falls to reede Thinking thereby to recreate his mind But in his breast this greater woe doth breed For when deepe sorrow on the fansie seaseth vvhat ere we see our misery increaseth 49 First of great VVilliam conqueror of this I le From whom hee 's tenth that in succession lies vvhose power inforc'd the Saxon to exile Planting new lawes and forraine subtilties Force and subiection so to reconcile The punishment of Harolds tyrannies vvhich he applies with arguments so strong To the due course of his just punish'd wrong 50 Rufus his sonne Duke Robert farre abroad Receaues the rule in weakeinfeebled state His fathers steps that euidently troad Depressing those who had beene conquer'd late vvishing release of this theyr grieuous load Vnder the guidance of their former fate The place for men that did to beasts intend A bestiall life had last a beastly end 51 Henry the yong'st his brother VVilliam dead Taketh the crowne from his vsurpfull hand Due to the eldest good Duke Roberts head Bearing our Red-crosse in the Holy Land vvhose force farre off so much diminished That his returne disabled to withstand vvhen those for whom th' vnnaturall warre was done The sea deuours he left without a sonne 52 To Maude the Empresse he the scepter leaues His onely daughter which by false pretext Stephen Earle of Bullaine forcibly bereaues Henries false nephew in succession next By which the Land a stranger warre receaues vvherewith it grew so miserably vext Till Stephen fayling and his issue reft T 'the heyres of Maude the regall scepter left 53 The second Henry Maude the Empresse sonne Of th' English line Plantaginet the first By Stephens death a glorious raigne begunne vvhose youth prolong'd to make his age accurst By his sonne Henries corronation vvhich to his dayes much woe and sorrow nurst vvhen those for whom he conquer'd to make great Abroade his townes at home vsurp'd his seate 54 Richard his sonne that after him succeedes vvho not content with what was safely ours A man lift vp to great and glorious deedes Into the East transports our valiant powers vvhere with his sword whilst many a Pagan bleedes Relentlesse fate hasts on vntimely howres And makes a period to this hopefull story Euen in the spring and blossome of his glory 55 VVhen him succeedes his faithlesse brother Iohn Murth'ring young Arthur by oppresfull might Climing by force to his vsurped throne Iustly with poyson was repay'd his spight His life to all men is so hatefull growne vvho greeues his wrongs that nere did any right That on the Cleargie tyrannously fed vvas by the Cleargie iustly punished 56 Henry his sonne now crowned very yong vvho for the hate they to his Father bare His state of raigning stood in question long Or to be left vnto a strangers care vvith whom the Barrons insolent and strong For the old Charter in commotion are vvhich his long raine so carefully attends Granting his dayes in peace securely ends 57 From him proceedes a Prince
this place vnseeming of the rest vvhere onely sacred solitude is blest 67 Her presence frees th' offender of his ill And as the Essence makes the place diuine VVhat strong Decree can countermaund the will That gaue to thee the power that now is thine And in her armes preseru'd in safety still As the most pure inviolable shrine Though thou thus irreligiously despise And daâ—'st prophane these hallowed liberties 68 But as when Illion fatally surpriz'd The Grecians issuing from the woodden horse Their rage and fury proudly exercis'd Opening the wide gates letting in their force Putting in act what was before deuis'd vvithout all sence of pitty or remorce vvith cryes shreekes rumors in confused sound vvords are broke of complaints abruptly drown'd 69 Dissolu'd to drops she followes him ô teares Elixar like turne all to pearle you touch To weepe with her the building scarse forbeares The sorrowes that she vttereth are such Able to wound th'impenitrabl'st eares Her plaints so piercing and her woes so much VVhen with th' abundance words would hardly come Her eyes in silence spake when lips were dumbe 70 Sweetsonne quoth she let not that blood be spilt Once priz'd so deare as did redeeme thy Crowne vvhose purity if taynted now with guilt The cause thereof efficiently thine owne That from the ruines of thy country built Raz'd with dissentions thy substanciall throne And broke those bounds thy kingdoms once confind Into large France to exercise thy mind 71 For the deere portion of that naturall blood vvhich lends thee heate and nutriment of life Be not a niggard of so small a good vvhere bounty should be plentifully rife Beg'd on those knees at which thou oft hast stood In those armes cercles might coniure this strife O God that breath from such a bosome sent Should thus in vaine be prodigally spent 72 VVhen in this vprore with the suddaine fright vvhilst eu'ry one for safety seekes about And none regarding to preserue the light vvhich beeing wasted sadly goeth out Now in the mid'st and terror of the night At the departutre of this Armed rout The Queene alone at least if any neâ—re Her wretched women yet halfe dead with feare 73 VVhen horror darknes and her present woe Begin to worke on her afflicted mind And eu'ry one his tyranny doth show Euen in the fulnes of his proper kind In such excesse her accusations flow This liberty vnto their power assignd Racking her conscience by this torture due It selfe t' accuse with what so ere it knew 74 O God to thinke that not an howre yet past Her greatnes freedome and her hopes so hie The sweet content wherein her thoughts were plac'd Her great respect in eu'ry humbled eye How now she is abused how disgrac'd Her present shame her after misery VVhen eu'ry woe could by dispaire be brought Presents his forme to her distracted thought 75 To London now a wretched prisner led London where oft he tryumph'd with the Queene And but for spight of no man followed Scarcely thought on who had for many beene Of all regard and state impoâ—'rished VVhere in excesse he often had beene seene vvhich at his fall doth make them wonder more vvho saw the pompe wherein he liu'd before 76 O misery where once thou doost infest How soone thy vile contagion alters kind That like a Circe meta morphisest The former habite of the humane mind That euen from vs doo'st seeme our selues to wrest Striking our fraile and fading glories blind And with thy vicious presence in a breath Chain'st vs as slaues vnto pale fainting death 77 At VVestminster a Parliment decreed To th'establishing the safety of the crowne vvhere to his end they finally proceede All laying hand to dig this Mountaine downe To which time wills they haue especiall heede Now whilst the Fates thus angerly doe frowne The blood of Edward and the Spensers fall For their iust vengeance hastily doe call 78 The death of Kent that foule and lothsome blot Th'assuming of the wards and liueries vvith Ione the Princesse maried to the Scot The summes oft seazed to his treasuries And that by this might well haue beene forgot The signe at Stanhope to the enemies Or what else rip'd from the records of time That any way might agrâ—uate his crime 79 O dire Reuenge when thou in time art rak'd From the rude ashes which preseru'd thee long In the dry cindars where it seem'd as slak'd Matter to feed it forc'd with breath of wrong How soone his hideous fury is awak'd From the small sparks what flames are quickly sprong And to that top doth naturally aspire vvhose weight and greatnes once represt his fire 80 And what auailes his aunswere in this case vvhich now the time doth generally distast vvhere iudgement lookes with so seuere a face And all his actions vtterly disgrac'd vvhat fainting bosome giues him any place From out the faire seate of opinion cast VVith pen and incke his sorowes to deceaue Thus of the fayre Queene takes his latest leaue 81 Most mighty Empresse s'daine not to peruse The Swan-like dirges of a dying man Vnlike those raptures of the fluent Muse In that sweet season when our ioyes began That did my youth with glorious fire infuse vvhen for thy gloue at tylt I proudly ran VVhereas my startling Courser strongly seâ— Made fire to flie from Hartfords-Burgonet 82 The King your sonne which hastneth on my death Madam you know I tendred as myne owne And when I might haue grasped out his breath I set him gently on his Fathers throne vvhich now his power too quickly witnesseth vvhich to this height and maiestie is growne But our desert forgot and he forgiuen As after death we wish to liue in heauen 83 And for the sole rule whereon thus he stands Came bastard VVilliam but himselfe on shore Or borrowed not our fathers conqu'ring hands vvhich in the field our auncient Ensignes bore Guarded about with our well-ordred bands vvhich his proud Leopards for their safety wore Raging at Hastings like that omenous Lake From whose dread waues our glorious name we take 84 Had I beene charg'd vpon mine Armed horse As when I came vnto the walls of Gaunt Before the Belgick and Burgonian force There challenging my Countries Combattant Borne from my seate in some robustious course That of my spoiles the enemy might vaunt Or had I falne vnder my battered shield And lent mine honor to some conquered field 85 I haue not followed fortune like a slaue To make her bounty any whit the lesse By my desart her iudgement to depraue Nor lent me ought I freely not confesse And haue return'd with intrest what shee gaue A minde that suted with her mightinesse He twice offends which sinne in flattry beares Yet eu'ry howre he dies that euer feares 86 I cannot feare what forceth others quake The times and I haue tug'd together so vvonting my way through sword and fire to make So oft constrain'd against the streame to row To doubt with death a couenant to
vaward led Heere Talbot charg'd and heere the Frenchmen fled Heere with our Archers valiant Scales did lie Heere stood the Tents of famous VVilloughbie Heere Mountacute rang'd his vnconquered band Heere forth we march'd and heere we made a stand VVhat should we stand to mourne and grieue all day For that which time doth easily take away VVhat fortune hurts let patience onely heale No wisedome with extremities to deale To know our selues to come of humane birth These sad afflictions crosse vs heere on earth A taxe imposd by heauens eternall law To keepe our rude rebellious will in awe In vaine we prise that at so deere a rate vvhose best assurance is a fickle state And needlesse we examine our intent vvhen with preuention we cannot preuent vvhen we our selues fore-seeing cannot shun That which before with destinie doth run Henry hath power and may my life depose Mine honour mine that none hath power to lose Then be as cheerefull beautious royall Queene As in the Court of Fraunce we erst haue beene As when arriu'd in Porchesters faire roade vvhere for our comming Henry made aboad vvhen in mine armes I brought thee safe to land And gaue my louâ— to Henries royal hand The happy houres we passed with the King At faire South-hampton long in banquetting vvith such content as lodg'd in Henries brest vvhen he to London brought thee from the VVest Through golden Cheape when he in pompe did ride To VVestminster to entertaine his Bride Notes of the Chronicle Historie Our Faeulcons kinde cannot the Cage indure HE alludes in these verses to the Faulcon which was the ancient deuice of the Poles comparing the greatnes and hautines of his spirit to the nature of this bird This was the meane proud Warwickâ— did inuent To my disgrace c. The Commons at this Parliament through Warwickâ— meanes accused Suffolk of treason and vrged the accusation so vehemently that the king was forced to exile him for fiue yeares That onely my base yeelding vp of Maine Should be the losse of fertile Aquitaine The Duke of Suffolke being sent into France to conclude a peace chose Duke Rainers daughter the Ladie Margaret whom he espoused for Henry the sixt deliuering for her to her Father the Countries of Aniou and Maine and the Citie of Mauns Wherevpon the Earle of Arminach whose daughter was before promised to the King seeing himselfe to be deluded caused all the Englishmen to be expulsed Aquitaine Gascoyne and Guyen With the base vulgar sort to win him fame To be the heire of good Duke Humfreys name This Richard that was called the great Earle of Warwicke when Duke Humfrey was dead grew into exceeding great fauour with the Commons With Salisbury his vile ambitious Sire In Yorks sterne breast kindling long hidden fire By Clarence title working to supplant The Eagle Ayrie of great Iohn of Gaunt Richard Plantaginet Duke of Yorke in the time of Henry the sixt claimed the Crowne being assisted by this Richard Neuell Earle of Salisburie and father to the great Earle of Warwicke who fauoured exceedingly the house of Yorke in open Parliament as heire to Lionell Duke of Clarence the third Sonne of Edward the third making his title by Anne his Mother wife to Richard Earle of Cambridge Sonne to Edmund of Langley Duke of Yorke which Anne was daughter to Roger Mortimer Earle of March which Roger was sonne and heire to Edmund Mortimer that married the Lady Phillip daughter and heire to Lionell Duke of Clarence the third sonne of King Edward to whom the Crowne after Richard the seconds death lineally descended he dying without issue And not to the heires of the Duke of Lancaster that was younger brother to the Duke of Clarence Hall cap. 1. Tit. Yor. Lanc. Vrg'd by these enuious Lords to spend their breath Calling reuenge on the Protectors death Humfrey Duke of Glocester and Lord Protector in the 25. yeere of Henry the sixt by the meanes of the Queene and the Duke of Suffolke was arrested by the Lord Beumond at the Parliament holden at Berrie and the same night after murthered in his bed If they would know who robd him c. To this verse To know how Humfrey died and who shall raigne In these verses he iestes at the Protectors wife who being accused and conuicted of treason because with Iohn Hun a Priest Roger Bullenbrooke a Negromancer and Margerie Iordane called the Witch of Eye shee had consulted by sorcâ—rie to kill the King was adiudged to perpetuall prison in the I le of Man to do penance openly in three publique places in London For twentie yeeres and haue I seru'd in Fraunce In the sixt yeere of Henry the sixt the Duke of Bedford being deceased then Lieuetenant generell and Regent of Fraunce this Duke of Suffolke was promoted to that dignitie hauing the Lord Talbot Lord Scales and the Lord Mountacute to assist him Against great Charles and bastard Orleance This was Charles the seauenth that after the death of Henry the fifth obtained the crowne of Fraunce and recouered againe much of that his father had lost Bastard Orleance was sonne to the Duke of Orleance begotten of the Lord Cawnies wife preferred highly to many notable offices because he being a most valiant Captaine was continuall enemie to the Englishmen daily infesting them with diuers incursions And haue I seene Vernoyla's batfull fields Vernoyle is that noted place in Fraunce where the great battell was fought in the beginning of Henry the sixt his raigne where the most of the French Cheualry were ouercome by the Duke of Bedford And from Aumerle with-drew my warlike powers Aumerle is that strong defenced towne in Fraunce which the Duke of Suffolke got after 24. great assaults giuen vnto it And came my selfe in person first to Towers Th'Embassadours for truâ—e to entertaine From Belgia Denmarke Hungary and Spaine Towers is a Citie in Fraunce built by Brutus as he came into Brittaine where in the twentie and one yeere of the raigne of Henry the sixt was appointed a great diet to be kept whether came the Embassadours of the Empire Spaine Hungary and Denmarke to intreat for a perpetuall peace to be made betweene the two Kings of England and France By true descent to weare the Diadem Of Naples Cicile and Ierusalem Rayner Duke of Aniou Father to Queene Margaret called himselfe King of Naples Cicily and Ierusalem hauing the title alone of King of those Countries A fifteenes taxe in Fraunce I freely spent The Duke of Suffolke after the marriage concluded twixt King Henry and Margarit daughter to Duke Rayner asked in open Parliament a whole fifteenth to fetch her into England Seene thee for England but imbaqu'd at Deepe Deepe is a Towne in Fraunce bordering vpon the Sea where the Duke of Suffolk with Queene Margaret tooke ship for England As when arriu'd in Porchesters faire Roadel Porchester a Hauen Towne in the South-west part of England where the King tarried expecting the Queenes arriuall whom from thence