againe And for I should not enter in I made my passage playne And battered them vnto the ground and made the townes men thrall Who yéelded them on trembling knées to be my liege men all Whereas I gouerned in peace and ruled as I would Of Europe all as soueraigne Lord as Mars in battell bould Hauing subdued with my might in Gaule and Germanie Eight hundred statelie townes at least and conquered valiantlie Thrée hundred seuerall nations in lesse than ten yéeres space So highlie I estéemed was in fawning fortunes grace But lo whom millions could not match nor all Europa staine Not Mars himselfe were he aliue the same hath enuie slaine Whose secret traines and hidden traps vnwares preuented mée With sodaine death by foes conspird amid my iolitée For as I in the Senate sat with many other mo By Cassius and Brutus hands there I was murthered tho With bodkins kniues and daggers sharpe when I did déeme no ill They fell vpon me sodainlie and thus they did me kill My carcase after Painims rites in Rome enterred was Lo thus the glorie of the world doth were awaie and passe FINIS ⧠An Example of this former Historie THe hautie and ambitious mind desireth daily to aspire Vaine glorie doth his eies so blind and set his hart on such a fire Till enuie come and plucke him downe and rifle him of his renowne As by example may appeere of this most puissant conquerer Who for his conquests far and neere was in his daies the onlie flower Yet such was his ambition to clime vp to promotion That he enuied at other men who were in rule and dignitie Seeking to suppresse them then for feare of coequalitie For hautinesse doth euer hate the fellowship of any mate And onlie this procured the iar of mortall war and deadlie strife Betweene Pompeius and Caesar which was the losse of manie a life And brought to ruine vtterlie the state of the whole monarchie For Pompei died most miserablie as you haue heard declared before Caesar for all his victorie through enuie also was forlore The measure he to others gaue the same did shape his fatall graue Thus may you see where enuie is what mortall plagues therwith ensue How fickle is the vading blisse of enuious men appeereth true And how vnhappie is the land where enuie hath the vpper hand Through enuie Herod long ago did manie a harmelesse infant kill Enuie procured Saule also to seeke king Dauid for to spill Through enuie eeke was Abel slaine and murdered by wicked Caine. Through enuie Christ our sauior accused was and put to death Through enuie Satan did procure to mortall man the losse of breath What plague on earth is greater then where enuie reigneth amongst men FINIS HONORE MORI QVAM VITAM DEFERE PBRO PRESTAT THE HISTORIE OF THE conquests of the noble conquerour ARTHVR OF Brutus blood in Brittaine borne I Arthur am by name Through christendome heathenes well knowne is my fame In Iesus Christ I do beléeue I am a Christian borne The father sonne and holie ghost one God I do adorne In the foure hundreth ninetie yéere ouer Brittaine I did raigne After Christ my sauiours birth what time I did maintaine The fellowship of the table round so famous in those daies Whereat a hundreth noble knights and fiftie sate alwaies Who for their fame in martiall feats as yet bookes do record Amongst all kind of nations were feared through the world In the castell of Tintagill King Vter me begate On Igrayne the beautifull a Ladie of high estate And when I was fiftéene yéeres old then was I crowned King All Brittaine béeing in vprore I did to quiet bring And draue the Saxons from the realme who did vsurpe the land And conquered through manly mart all Scotland with my hand The Orcades eke I ouercame and Ilands all about Which on the Ocean seas do lie with manie nations stout Ireland Norway and Denmarke these countries wan I all Gutland and Island also and made their Kings my thrall King Bladulfe and King Collegrine both two I slew in fight And forst Cheldrike of Almayne King to take his death by flight And Lot the King of Orkeney I brought to déepe distresse With manie a valiant knight with him which came me to suppresse I conquered all Gallia which now is called Fraunce And slew the hardie Froll in field my honour to aduaunce The ouglie Giant Dinabus so horrible to vew Which in Saint Bernards mount did lie through force of arms I slew And Lucius the Emperour great of Rome I brought to wracke With thousands mo whom feare of death had forst to turne their backe Fiue Kings of Painims I did kill amid that bloodie strife Beside the Emperour himselfe who also lost his life Whose carcase I did send to Rome clad poorelie in a béere And after I did passe Mount loy the next approching yéere I came to Rome where I was met right as a conquerour By all the Senate solemnlie and crowned Emperour One winter there I made abode then word to me was brought How Mordred had vsurpt the crowne what treason he had wrought At home in Brittaine with my Quéene wherefore I came with spéed To Brittaine backe with all my power to quite that traiterous déed And as at Sandwich I did land there Mordred me withstood Yet landed I at length but with effusion of much blood For there my nephew Gawin died béeing wounded on that sore Which Launcelot du lake in fight had giuen him before Thence chased I Mordred away he fled to London right From London to Winchester thence to Cornewal tooke his flight And still I did pursue with spéed till at the last we met Where by accord the day of fight appointed was and set Betwene vs both and at the time we encountred in the field With manie a noble knight to trie it out with speare and shield Where we did fight so mortallie of life ech to depriue That of an hundreth thousand men scarce one was left on liue There all the traitors men were slaine not one escapt away There died all my valiant knights alas the dolefull day There all the noble chiualrie of Brittaine tooke their end Sée how vncertaine is their state which do on fate depend There slew I Mordred with my hands the causer of this strife And there my selfe receiud the wound which tooke away my life But yet I went from thence aliue to be cured againe To the vale of Auillion as Chronicles write plaine And afterwards was neuer séene nor what became of mét Was neuer knowen vnto this day for anie certaintée I raigned two and twentie yéeres in honour and much fame And thus by death am sodainlie depriued of the same FINIS ⧠An Example of this former Historie THe liking of vnlawfull lust whereto this worthie was inclind Depriued him by iudgment iust from life and kingdome as I find And threw him downe most sodainlie amid his fame and victorie Whereby Gods plague and
punishment vpon adulterers is seene Whom sodainly he doth preuent with sharpe correction in his teene The proofe thereof no lesse doth tell of his incest beeing wayed well For Mordred his fatall fo he did beget incestuously Vnto his vtter ouerthrow on his owne sister wickedly And thus the father was forlorne through his sons force in incest borne A good example to bewray the due reward of euerie vice Thy sinnes the scriptures plainly say shal thee condemne before thine eies And likewise he the death shal die who doth commit adulterie Was not the world once ouerflowen for this offence of lauish lust Sodom and Gomor ouerthrowen with fire and brimstone vnto dust Was not Sichem through lust destroide and all his cittie sore annoide Died not Ammon through his incest and was not Absalon eke spilt Through lecherie as is exprest and died not Abner through this gilt And what incestuous seed by Lot vpon his daughters was begot Lewd lust did Hollofernes kil through lust the Iudges lost their life Bicause they might not haue their wil accomplisht on Ioakims wife What plagues did fal on Beniamin onely through lust that filthie sin Thus may you see of lecherie the punishment and due reward Then flie far from such miserie and therevnto take no regard Gods plague is sore if he begin and death is the reward of sin FINIS SPLINDIDA CRVDELEM POST MORTEM FAMA MANEBIT THE HISTORIE OF THE conquests of the mightie conquerour CHARLES the great I Am the Emperour Charlemaine surnamed Charles the great I reigned six and fortie yéeres as King in roiall seat Both King and Emperour also of kingdoms manie one I am a Christian and beléeue in Iesus Christ alone The Father and the holie Ghost one God in Trinitie Which made both heauen and the earth and liueth eternallie My fathers name Pipinus was in Inglehem also In the countie of Palatine my mother bare me tho But little from the citie Meutz My fame and woorthinesse Is knowne well through Christendome and also heathenesse I warred against the Sarracens in Gascoine manie a daie And caused them to yéeld and turne vnto the Christian laie The Saxons fierce I did pursue for thirtie winters space And at the last constrained them on knées to sue for grace And to my Empire to obey and christian faith to take And eke their Painims false beleefe for euer to forsake King Desiderius I subdued with many a Lumbard mo As he was marching towards Rome to worke Italians wo And saued Rome and Italy from danger of the fire Whose spoile this king of Lumbards did malitiouslie conspire And laid him his children and his wife in prison strong At Liege the citie great whereas they all remained long I tooke all Lumbardie by force with famous victorée And placed officers therein to gouerne vnder mée Tassilo Duke of Baiarland I conquered in fight His men of wars I ouerthrew his sonne a noble knight Renowmed through his manlie acts and feats of chiualrie I ouercame with mine owne hands in battell valiantlie The bishop Leo I restord vnto the dignitée Whom Romans had exiled Rome when he fled vnto mée All Italie I brought perforce to my obeisiance Where I slew manie doughtie knights with dent of deadlie launce Eight yéeres I warred in Hungarie against those nations stout And ceased not till finallie I rooted them all out From whence I brought abundance great of gold and siluer bright And therewith highlie did aduance and prefer manie a knight Lecho king of Behemie I vanquished in field Both he and all his subiects did to my subiection yéeld All France I had vnder my power all Germanie was myne And all the countries that doelie vpon the riuer Rhyne In France I held long wars and great against foure kings of fame Who were the Duke of Dordons sonnes at last I did them tame In Rome I was crownd Emperour whereby the monarchie Translated was from Rome vnto my countrey Germanie I was both King and Emperour of all the west empire And brought the same to quiet state what should I more desire All the kings through Christendome I might command at will It laie in me as souereigne Lord to pardon or to spill When I had thus triumphantlie obtained what I would I was content to liue at rest bicause I waxed old And then I led in quietnesse the last part of my life Redressing wrong maintaining peace suppressing euerie strife In which time I did build and found thrée Vniuersities Of fame in Italie and France whose seuerall names be these Bononie and Padua which lie in Italie And Paris the chiefe towne of France these founded were by me In fine as euerie mortall wight to death must yéeld his due At Aken so I changed life I could it not eschue When I had liued seuentéene yeres and two accounted iust My bodie was enterd in earth where it consumes to dust In the yéere after Christ his birth eight hundered and mo By true account of authors old full seuentie and two FINIS ⧠An Example of this former Historie THe blisse and long felicitie which here this worthie did enioie Through palme of famous victory raining most like a princely boy Foresheweth vnto euery wight the vertues of this noble knight The zeale he bare to learnings lore his life also declares the same And God aduanced him therefore with much increase of daily fame And held him vp in his renown that no foes forse could pluck him down For God will alwaies his defend and them direct in euery cause He giues long life and happie end to such as doe obserue his lawes In whom he doth good workes begin he wil continue them therein FINIS QVI FAMAM QVERIT VIGILET 〈…〉 IVVENILIBVS ANNIS THE HISTORIE OF THE conquests of the puissant conquerour GVY. I Am Guy the Barron bold of déede the doughtiest knight That in my daies in England was with shield or speare in fight An English man I am by birth in faith a Christian true The wicked lawes of Infidels I vtterlie eschue Nine hundreth twentie yéeres and one after Christ his birth When King Athelstone ware the crowne I liued vpon earth Sometime I was of Warwicke Earle and for to say the truth A Ladies loue did me constraine to trauell in my youth To win me fame in feats of armes in strange and sundrie lands Where I atchieued for hir sake great conquests with my hands First I said to Normandie and there I wan in fight The Emperours daughter of Almaine from manie a worthie knight Also in Lumbardie my selfe with thrée knights and no more Slew sixtéene Lumbards beeing ambusht to murder me before Through false Duke Ottons trecherie who bare me mortall hate Cause of the wound I gaue to him in Normandie of late Then passed I the seas to Greece to helpe the Emperour right Against the mightie Souldans host of Persia to fight Where I did kill of Sarracens and Painims manie a man And slew the Souldans cousin eke who had
decay and all the places where they dwelt The sword shall pearce through their owne harts which they prepared to others smarts And their vnrighteous seede likewise shall be vnrooted and out worne From of the earth before mens eies as though they neuer had bene born And all that they possesse or ought like chaffe with wind shall weare to nought Wherefore from euerie euill flie abandon vice and wickednesse Do that is good liue vertuouslie and so thou shalt the land possesse In happie state and after thee thy children continually FINIS AGREDIARE NIHIL SVBITO SED PROSPICE FINEM THE HISTORIE OF THE conquests of the mightie Prince and conquerour HECTOR I Am Hector the peerelesse prince king Priamus eldest sonne Manie a land through force of armes and prowesse I haue wonne In Paponie my puissance great I haue approoud in fight In Greece and Phrigia I haue slaine and conquerd many a knight I am that martiall knight of fame which slew so many a Greeke When they were prest for Helens rape to Troie reuenge to seeke Being furnished with eleuen score sailes and fortie for the warre All full of armed soldiours assembled from a farre And threescore noble kings and nine which landed before Troie With minds conspired all in one the Troians to destroie At whose arriuall first on shore I met them in the field Where at one time with my owne hand a thousand men I kild Beside the great and mightie King which Prothefilaus hight Whom I did cleaue vnto the chinne in all the armies sight And six and twentie princes mo during that ten yéeres strife When I did méete them daie by daie I reaud them of their life As Patroclus of Phithia King on Galathee my stéed With deadlie speare through plate and maile his hart bloud I did shéed And Lufor and Boetes kings and King Archilogus And Merion the King of Creete and King Epistrophus And Prothenor of Boece King and King Lepedemon Deipeynor and Phidippus fearce the King of Calcedon Dorius and Polixenus and King Zantippus éeke And Serpedon the famous prince and much renowned Gréeke Leonteus of Larissa King and Polybetes stout And Alphinor a valiant wight amongst the gréekish rout Philete and Letabonis Isideus and Menon Humerus and Maymentus eke with péerelesse Palamon Schedius King of Phocis land in open field I slew Whose suddaine death full manie a Gréeke with bléeding hart did rew King Phillis and King Octamen I strake so mortallie With deadlie speare that therewithall they died presentlie The mightie Agamemnon king I threw vnto the ground And strong Achilles felled oft with manie a mortall wound Proud Diomed and Aiax fierce I met oft in this broile With manie Gréekish captaines more and gaue them all the foile And so continued six yéeres space amongst my mortall foes Most like a valiant conquerour still dealing deadlie bloes And chasing them with bloodie blade vnto the verie strand Where some did leape into the seas to shun my heauie hand And there were drenched in the waues most miserablie Wherefore the Gréeks among themselues complained secretlie What slaughter and occision I made vpon their men And for redresse thereof they held a priuie counsell then Wherein they did conspire my death in this vnknightly wise That when I came into the field against mine enimies Achilles should with manie knights awaite me to oppresse When I were occupied in fight to bring me to distresse Affirming otherwise while I in Troie aliue did raigne Vnpossible it were for them the victorie to attaine Yet serud their treason for a while to small effect or none I did distresse them as before and killed manie a one Till casually vpon a day I marched to the field In former wonted guise to proue my force with speare and shield Although forewarned by my wife who by a dreame did sée That if I that day went to field my life should ended be Where I like mightie Mars himselfe slew downe on euerie side And brake their raies and renges all where I did go or ride And kild anone two mightie kings before Achilles face Who séeking to reuenge their death I wounded in that place And forced him to withdraw himselfe to bind his mortall sore By this the fight with fierce assault increased more and more At last by chaunce I flew a King whose armour for the nones Was richly en brodred and set foorth with pearls and pretious stones The sight whereof did so inflame my hart with couetousnesse That for to spoile him of the same my selfe I did addresse Forecasting naught what might befall nor hauing no regard To shun the traine of my mischaunce which was for me prepard Nor fearing thousands of my foes nor waying anie frend Although the state of their welfare on me did all depend But hent him vp vpon my stéede and rode out of the throng And for my better ease my shield vpon my backe I flong While I did spoile him of his wéedes carelesse of anie wight My naked brest disarmed then Achilles had a sight How I was busied and therefore from couert where he laie Towards me him to reuenge he tooke the readie waie And sodainlie with fatall speare or that I might aduert He came vnwares behind my backe and stroke me to the hart Thus died I through auarice whom thousands could not kill Till mine owne onelie wilfulnesse my selfe did fondlie spill Whereby alas it came to passe my countrie did it rue For shortlie after to them all destruction did ensue My bodie was brought into Troie with wofull showts and cries With piteous plaints gréeuous grones whose eccho pearst the skies And in Apollos temple enterd and closed déepe in claie After the Paynims rites beeing a Paynim in my laie Two thousand and seuen hundreth yéeres adioining fifteene mo Since the creation of the world I raignd as bookes do sho And before Christ Iesus birth one thousand full compleat Two hundreth fortie yeeres and seuen this hapt in Troie the great FINIS ⧠An Example of this former Historie THis historie doth plaine expresse and witnesse vnto euerie wight The wofull end of couetousnesse and such as haue therein delight And sheweth both the harme scath which wicked auarice brings and hath And scriptures truly do record who so at leasure them will scan Nothing to be more deeply abhord nor yet worse than a couetous man Nothing so wicked no vice such as to loue money ouer much For he that loueth gold so well in Ecclesiasticus I find For money hath his soule to sell so auarice the hart doth blind Record of Diues who denied poore Lazarus what time he died Saint Paule writing to Timothie in his epistles doth expresse The wofull end and miserie of such as dwell in couetousnesse Which saith he drowneth manie a one in sorrow and destruction How manie vices do proceed from couetousnesse that wicked crime What Kings and kingdoms do we read to be destroid from time to time What bloody murther what
due to God on hie he attributed to his owne name And in his swelling surquedrie the Lord he robbed of the same Wherefore amid his most renowne God for his folly threw him downe For by the prophet Ieremie the Lord himselfe euen thus doth say I will to none giue my glorie and eke by the prophet Esay The haughtie I will pull downe low and cause the meeke harted to bow To Moises eke in Exodus A ielous God saith he am I The prophet Sophony writeth thus I will visite ech arrogancie In Ecclesiasticus I reede Thy selfe exalt not in thy deede The eight of Iohn doth beare record No man can anie thing receiue But it proceedeth from the Lord who euerie perfect gift doth giue And if ech gift from him proceed to glorie than what haue we need All flesh is hay and as a flower his glorie all away shall passe The prophet saith and in one houre as Iob doth tell consume to grasse All pride as Salomon doth write is abhominable in Gods sight Lucifer once an angell bright for pride was throwen downe to hell Antiochus for all his might Herod who did in pride excell Through pride with plagues most miserably tormented were or they did sdie Nabuchodonozar the King God plucked downe from regall seate And for his pride in euerie thing became a beast and grasse did eate And manie mightie Kings beside the Lord hath plagued for their pride Abandon then this wicked pride which God himselfe doth so abhorre Or els it cannot be denide but God will plague vs heeretofore For euerie gift giue God the fame and honor still his holie name FINIS NON HOMINVM CONSTAT TVRBA SED NVMINE PALMA THE HISTORIE OF THE conquests of the vertuous conquerour IVDAS MACHABEVS I Am Iudas Machabeus in might surpassing all I found not yet in Israell for strength my peregall A Lion fierce I was in field as holie scriptures say And as a raging Lions whelpe that roreth at his pray An enimie to wicked men a frend vnto the good A plague and scourge to euerie such as shed the guiltlesse bloud A Iew I am of noble birth I saw the liuing God For feare of me the heathen fled as children from the rod I am the same which did redeeme all Israell from thrall Euen he whom God the Lord did raise Antiochus pride to appall Who had the land of Israell most cruellie opprest The citie of Ierusalem both sacked and distrest The temples robbed and destroide and thousands piteouslie Murthered and led away into captiuitie And placed wicked officers throughout the land likewise His heathenish lawes to maintaine and Gods lawes to despise As Phillip in Ierusalem a cruell man of mind Andromichus and Menelaus at garrison assignd And Apollonius a prince of Syria also With two and twentie thousand men who wrought the Iewes much wo And murthered them in wilfull wise without desert or cause Compelling such as did remaine to obey his wicked lawes Whose bloodie hand to euitate I was constraind to flie Vnto the woods and wildernesse in desart caues to lie With manie of my brethren mo where we consulted long Amongst our selues what we should do for to redresse this wrong At last with one consent we agréed couragiouslie to stand Against the wicked heathen sort who then possest the land And béeing about six thousand men I tooke the charge on me By one accord chose and elect their captaine chiefe to be To fight it out with manlie hart and after praiers made I marched forward with my folke the heathen to inuade And met with Apolonius and slew him with my hand And all his people more and lesse which then with me did stand His sword I tooke amid the strife perforce from him away And therewith fought during my life in manie a bloodie fray The citie of Ierusalem I wan from them againe And slew the heathen vpon heaps which did therein remaine I tooke the temple and did clense and purifie the same I did destroy the altars which they builded there with shame And since erected altars new as they had béene of yore And offered thereon sacrifice and incense as before I ouercame Seron in fight with thousands of his traine By me eight hundreth of his men were in one battell slaine Gorgias the captaine great I put to shamefull flight And slew there thousands with the sword and by Gods onely might Who sent his angels from aboue armed in glistering gold On horsebacke with a speare in hand most terrible to behold The valiant captaine Lysias of King Antiochus With thréescore thousand in one troupe though it be woonderous I conquered and put to flight and slew fiue thousand tho Yet had I to encounter them ten thousand and no mo In Idumea I did kill of heathens manie a man At Arabathan in like sort great slaughter I began Gazer Maspha and Casbon I did destroy with fire Mageth Bosor for they did gainst Israel conspire The gate of Iamnia I did burne and manie a ship therein And all that dwelt in Ioppa I plagued for their sin Timotheus with his Asia troupe I met and through Gods aide Which he from heauen sent to me my foes were so dismaide And confounded with such darkenesse of lightning on them throwen And fierie darts of present death that therewith they fell downe For feare where twentie thousand men and fiue hundreth were slaine Of footemen and of horsemen more six hundreth on the plaine And Timotheus béeing fled and in a corner found With Cereas his brother hid I slew with manie a wound Ephron and Carnaym eke strong cities I did sacke And euerie male therein with sword did bring to vtter wracke Yea so great a multitude that euerie stréet therein Was couerd with dead carcases so God did plague their sin The citie Hebron in like sort and Azot I did burne With altars idols images which heathen did adorne The puisant King Antiochus I met with all his traine And slew six hundreth of his men as scripture telleth plaine His captaine Nican or also I kild at Bethoron And all his soldiours in one day there scaped neuer a one His head and hand I did cut off béeing of the Iewes abhord His toong I cast vnto the fowles which did blaspheme the Lord. Thus ruled I in Israel with honor and renowne And wan the palme of victorie in countrie field and towne At last it was my fatall lot amid my foes to die Euen as the Lord decréeed had vpon my destinie For secret causes to him knowen which must be accomplished My death was this as you may â—nd in scripture if you reed When King Demetrius vnderstood how Nicanor was slaine He sent his captaine Bachydes to Iuda land againe With two and twentie thousand men well furnished to fight With whom my countrie to defend I met as it was right Accompanied but with a few thrée thousand and no mo Whereof the most part stole away or I to fight did go And left me there
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