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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06147	A brief discourse of the most renowned actes and right valiant conquests of those puisant princes, called the nine worthies wherein is declared their seuerall proportions and dispositions, and what armes euerie one gaue, as also in what time ech of them liued, and how at the length they ended their liues. Compiled by Richard Lloyd gentleman.	Lloyd, Richard, gentleman.	1584 (1584)	STC 16634; ESTC S119668	23,584	52

to name Coldran And Eskeldart a famous knight to death I did pursew And Elman King of Tire also most horrible to vew I went vnto the Souldans host vpon ambassage sent And brought his head away with me hauing kild him in his tent There was a Dragon in that land which also I did slay As he a Lion did pursue most fiercely by the way To Almaine thence I did retire and thence to Loraine right Where I the Duke of Painie kild his treason to requight Then into England I did saile to wed Phelis the bright For loue of whom I trauelled so far to trie my might And when I had espoused hir I staide but fortie daies Vntill I left the Ladie faire and went from hir my waies Vnto the seas in pilgrime sort my voyage for to take Euen vnto the holie land for Iesus Christ his sake Where I Earle Ionas did redéeme and all his sonnes fiftéene Who with the cruell Sarisins in prison long had béene I slew the Giant Amerant in battell hand to hand And doughtie Barnard killed eke and Duke of Painie land And sithens came into England and there with Colbrand fought An vglie Giant whom the Danes had for their champion sought And ouercame him in the field and siue him valiantlie And thereby did release the land from tribute vtterlie And afterwards did offer vp the weapon solemnlie In Winchester wherewith I fought in sight of manie an eie In Windsor forrest I did kill a Bore of passing strength Whose like in England neuer was for highnes breadth and length Some of his bones in Warwicke yet within the castle lie One of his shields vnto this daie doth hang in Couentrie I slew also in Dunsmore heath a monsterous wild beast Cald the Dun cow of Dunsmore which manie men opprest Hir bones also in Warwicke lie yet for a monument Which vnto euerie looker on a woonder may present And in Northumberland I did a Dragon fell destroie Which did both men and beasts oppresse and countrey sore annoie And then to Warwicke came againe but there I was not knowne Wherefore I led an Hermits life a mile out of the towne Where with my hands I hewed a house out of a rocke of stone And liued as a Palmer poore within that caue alone And dailie came to seeke my food vnto my castell gate Not knowne of my louing wife which mourned for hir mate Till at the last I fell sore sicke and found that I must die I sent to hir a ring by which she knew me presentlie And so repairing to the caue before I gaue the ghost She closed vp my dieng eies whom once I loued most Thus dreadfull death did me arrest and laid my corps in graue Thus as a Pilgrime died I and all my soule to saue My bodie in Warwicke lieth yet though now consumed to mould My stature there engrand in stone this day you may behould FINIS ❧ An Example of this former Historie THe affection of impatient loue procurd this knight to take His manlie forse might to proue in many a strang forren land Whereby it came to passe that he aduanced was exceedinglie For through his warlike feates of fame and marshall magnanimitie He wan to wife a passing dame being borne of high nobilitie With Earledoms two which by hir right descended to this noble knight But see in him example rare when he the ladie wedded had With hir the storie doth declare but fortie daies his life he lad Till leauing all in poore araie on pilgrimage he tooke the waie Towards Ierusalem to obtaine remission for his sinfull life Bicause he had so manie slaine for loue of hir which was his wife And not for Iesus Christ his sake for which he thoght amends to make With punishing his bodie so as then it was the wonted vse Which of repentance plain doth sho a token thogh through great abuse For want of knowledge of the truth of holie scriptures the more ruth And afterwards at his returne all worldly pleasures he defied In pouertie he did bemourne his youthfull daies and so he died All these declare a contrite hart which God accepted in good part Finis huius libri

stout vnto his enemy but giuen to adultery In martiall acts he did delight and loued euery noble Knight He thirteene crownes did beare also or in asure against his foe CHarles was well proportioned strong and wise and doughtie of deed Of learnings lore a fauourer and very pollitike in warre Mercifull and fortunate and gentle vnto euery estate This king bare the Ierusalem shield paid with the imperiall coat in field GVI was tall and large of limbe none in his dayes were like to him Of good complexion seemely of face and liberall in euery place Valiant strong and venterous godly kind and courteous He or and asure bookes discrie a cheueron ermine bare checkie VTERE IVSTITIA SI VIR VIS IVSTVS HA 〈…〉 THE HISTORIE OF THE conquests of the noble and vertuous Duke IOSVA I Am the worthie conquerour Duke Iosua the great Whom God did ordeine and appoint to raigne in Moises seate To lead his people Israel to the land of behest Which God to Moises promised as scriptures haue exprest When he dwelt in the wildernesse and had miraculouslie Escaped through the great red sea from Pharaos tyrannie Two thousand and two hundreth yéeres with fiue and thirtie more After God had made the world I raigned and before The daie that Iesus Christ was borne in bookes as plaine appeeres One thousand and seauen hundreth and seuen and twentie yeeres A Iewe I am by due discent of such exceeding fame As through the world shall florish ay the honor of my name Much fauour with the Lord I found whose thundering voice full oft Appeared vnto me on earth from scarlet skies aloft Commanding me nothing to dread but boldlie on to fight Assuring me the vpper hand of euerie liuing wight And not to part form me where so I did my armie lead Yea and to giue me all the lands whereon my feete should tread The great floud Iordan he dried vp for me and all my power And brought vs safelie through the same and all within an hower Diuiding with his mightie arme the waues most woonderfullie On either side as we did passe like hils or mountains hie The loftie walles of Ierico fell at my praiers downe Through which I entred valiantly and quite destroid the towne I put ech woman man and child therein vnto the sword As I had incommandement by Gods most holie word No liuing soule escapt awaie out of that bloodie strife But Rahab and hir familie to whom I graunted life For that she in hir house did hide the men I sent to view The Citie and did them conuey from those that did pursue I sackt the citie of Ay eke Bethoron and Bethell And manie mightie cities more which now were long to tell I slew there people more and lesse with famine sword and fire For God appointed me his scourge to accomplish his iust ire The Lord at my request did stay the sun amid the skie While I causd manie hundereths and thousands for to die Whose numbers were so infinite that God did also raine Great stones from heauen on their heads and slue them on the plaine As they did flie before my face euen from Bethoron Vntill they to Esaka came that few escapt or none I chased great and mightie kings to hide them on the earth In caues and there to curse the time of their vnhappie birth And burnt their cities townes and towers vnto the verie ground And they themselues I hangd on trées in place where I them found And after threw their carcases into the caues againe And rouled thereunto great stones where yet their bones remaine And at the water of Merom I killed with my hands Thousands of mine enimies whose number as the sands Were gathered against Israell but God the Lord of might Deliuered them all vnto me not one but died in fight Their horses and their chariots eke I burned and destroide Their countries townes and cities all which latelie they enioide Wherein were one and thirtie kings all which with one accord Were enimies to the liuing Lord and his precepts abhord Whose names in the old testament the scripture plaine doth sho In order written the first was the King of Ierico The kings of Ay and Ierimoth of Lachis and Hebron The kings of Ierusalem of Gaser and Eglon. The kings of Dabir and of Cred of Gader and Horma Of Magedo and Makeda and the King of Libna The kings of Hepher and Bethell the kings of Adolam The kings of Apheck and Thaphnah the King of Iackanam The kings of Laseron and Madam and the King of Gilgall The King of Simron Merom eke Ibrought to vtter thrall The kings of Hasor and of Dot of Cades and Tenach The kings which raigned in Ascaph and the kings of Thersach The Enakites I ouercame which in the mountaines dwelled I put them all to cruell death bicause they then rebelled Neither did I cease continually ech liuing wight to kill Till all the land of Canaan was subiect to my will The confines of which coast doth reach from the wide wildernesse And desert wasts of Libanon to the floud of Euphrates And also vnto the gréeke sea whereas the sun goeth downe These countries all I conquered vnto my high renowne And plast my people in the same who did the land possesse And liued ioifully therein with rest and quietnesse Where I long raigned ouer them by the Lords onely grace In vertue honour and much fame and led a happie race Instructing them in God his lawes and offering sacrifice Vnto the Lord of thankesgiuing for his gifts manie wise At last vnweldie age approcht and dreadfull death béeing prest Did bring my carcasse to my graue where yet my bodie rests In mine owne Citie which I built that Thamnath Sereh hight Béeing fiue score yéeres and ten of age my soule with Angels bright FINIS ❧ An Example of this former Historie BY this renowned prince we see and by his life we vnderstand How vertuous men continuallie prosper in that they take in hand And how the godlie florish still possessing all things at their will For in the scripture is discride the vertues like the planted tree Which groweth by the riuer side shall florish in prosperitie And God his Lord shall him defend in all his dooings to the end The lord the righteous shal vphold for why his waies to him are known God shall him blesse a thousand fold he shall be neuer ouerthrowne He shall for ay the land possesse and liue therein in quietnesse His seede for euer shall endure and their inheritance enioy What so the wicked do procure shall worke the righteous no annoy For in ech perill God will see that he shall not confounded be And by these heathen kings also whom he did conquer and destroie We find as scriptures plainly sho of wicked men the fading ioie Who like a floure shall withered be and blowen quite out of memorie And as the smoke consumes awaie or as the fat of lambes do melt So the vngodlie shall