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A09204 Prince Henrie revived Or A poeme vpon the birth, and in honor of the hopefull yong Prince Henrie Frederick, first sonne and heire apparant to the most excellent princes, Frederick Count Palatine of the Rhine, and the mirrour of ladies, Princesse Elizabeth, his wife, only daughter to our Soueraigne Iames King of Great Brittaine, &c. By Henrie Peacham. Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643? 1615 (1615) STC 19514; ESTC S110330 11,565 30

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Prince HENRIE revived OR A POEME VPON THE BIRTH AND In Honor of the Hopefull yong PRINCE HENRIE FREDERICK First Sonne and Heire apparant to the most Excellent Princes FREDERICK Count Palatine of the Rhine And the Mirrour of Ladies Princesse ELIZABETH his Wife only daughter to our Soueraigne IAMES King of Great Brittaine c. By HENRIE PEACHAM LONDON Printed by W. Stansby for Iohn Helme and are to bee sold at his shop in Saint Dunstans Church-yard vnder the Diall 1615. HENRICVS FRED COM. PALAT RHENI ET BAVAR D. FILIVS ET HAERES Diua anima Augustos haud ementita parentes Frontis honore decus Rheni spes una BRITAN̄VM Cresce per immensum● donec uirtutibus annos CAESAR auos titulis● famâ superâris Olympum Henricus Peachamus TO THE MIGHTIE AND MOST MAGNIFICENT PRINCESSE ELIZABETH PRINCESSE PALATINE OF THE RHENE Duchesse of Bauaria c. Most Excellent Ladie SIthence it hath pleased your Highnesse heeretofore to take notice of me and my labours such as they were nothing hath been oftner in my wishes then abilitie to pay the debt I owe to the respect of so peerelesse a Prince and Princely a Patronesse But since the more I striue the more I am entangled by mine owne weaknesse I submit to my Fortune and must rest Captiued in the bands of your gracious mercie Yet so to be bound is sweet libertie and beholding the face of such a Iudge I read my pardon vpon a brow of Iuorie But as Fauour is woont to make offendors bolde so truely I confesse your Fauours haue drawne mee into this and your Bountie hauing watered some flowers hath brought vp I feare moe weedes which perhaps by their ranknesse will rather giue offence then with their smell or beautie breede you delight I now present your Highnesse with a Genethliaque or Birth Poeme done by mee aswell in Latine as English Verse in Honour and the behalfe of young Prince Henrie your sweete and deerest Sonne the most part in my trauailes heere in the Low Countries vpon the way without other helpe then a bad memorie and my Table booke and now ended vnder the aspect of that star of honour and Honourer of your Grace and all vertuous Excellence Sir Iohn Ogle Lord Gouernour of Vtrecht my noble friend If any aske why it came no sooner and had not the beeing with the Princes birth I answere a Poeme is a fruit that had need of a winter to ripen it I could say with Horace ● nine yeares neyther am I one of those who haue their wits au bout des doigts as Du Bartas saith Last of all it is a ioy that can neuer come out of season Yet had these excuses I confesse bin of no force had the way to Heidelberge beene free from danger during eyther Armies lying at Rees and Wesel for so farre I was come on my Pilgrimage with this little lesse then a candle toward your Highnesse the Saint and Soueraigne of my deuote affection whome since it is papistrie to pray vnto I cannot as I am bound but pray for so long as I liue I most humbly take my leaue of your Grace From Vtrecht the of Vnto your Highne●se the most deuoted in all dutie HENRIE PEACHAM To the same most Excellent Princesse DEare Henries losse Eliza's wedding day The last the first I sorrowed and song When laid my reedes for euermore away To sleep in silence Isis shades among Dead to the Muse and many-headed throng Through hard constraint of fruitlesse Hope compell'd And Enuie rife that kills with canckred tongue The sacred Bay so honoured of eld Though left forlorne ne now of Phoebus selfe vpheld Where are the Summers when the righteous Maid With ev'nest hand the heauenly Scale did weild And golden Deed with golden meed repaid When Vertue was in price for Vertue held When Honours daintie but desert did guild And Poesie in graces goodly seene Rais'd her high thought with straines that Nectar still'd Th●y are ascended with that glorious Queene And she alas forgot as she had neuer beene But dearest daughter of the greatest Ile Sole glorious Empresse of the Northren Maine Yet thou her glory Since thou didst erewhile Thy bounteous hand and sweet supportance daigne Vnto my verse and all vnworthie vaine As humblest Iu●e by those armes I creep That gaue me growth and first my entertaine Else lowly buried in Obliuion deep Who heere had heard me sing thy sweetest babe a sleep And him againe to waken with my song Which thousand tunes shall variously diuide As Vahale by thy flowerie bankes along I take my pipe at morne and euentide Hence may it downe thy gentle bosome glide And going on allay th' enraged Rheine Where goodly Nimphes with Muses mild abide Who often in his surplusage of Wine Doe teach him Temperance in songs and layes diuine Now while I shall beside this cradle sing Leaue Venus Queene a time thy siluer spheare And to mine aid thy daintie dearling bring With Mart appeased after death and dreare But from thy pure and peerelesse excellence Eliza mother dreaddest Ladie deere Light life oh lend vnto mine eine and sence For vigor haue I none but what I draw from hence And Royall child who like another Sunne From Rosie bed arised'st in the East When that great light we saw extinct and done Ah Henrie waild of euery gentle brest Dart one sweet smile vpon me early ghest And that my Muse with thine owue heigth may flie A feather shed from thy faire Phoenix nest So may she teach thy Fame to strike the skie And thee a Mirrour ●ake to all Posteritie PRINCE HENRIE REVIVED NOw iocund Muses to an higer string We tune our Lyre a loftie Theame to sing And leaue a while the vale to mounten vp With bolder wing Pernassus heauenly top Where holy Virgin eldest of the nine Whose temples with a seuen-fold crownet shine And glorious mantle guildes the sable night With manie a thousand twinckling Chrysolite Say in what part we find those happie ●tars That keep enrol'd in golden Characters The Fate of Princes and eternall summe Of all that was and euer is to come To after times I may arightly read The hopefull Haruest of this heauenly seed For can the bloud deriued from the veines Of so great Princes such imperiall Raignes Vnhopefull be and Impe of richest root Deceiue our wishes in abundant fruit Or whether this beene that same goodly tree That nigh the fertile Rhine must planted bee Whose fruitfull branch should Europe ouer-spread And check the Heauen with her lofty-head Or one of those braue Worthies ioyn'd in one With the red Lion of old Caledon Foretold by Merlin whose one foot should presse The vnshorne top of that vast wildernesse The other graspe with farre extended power The Pyram of Troie-nouants highest tower Should as so many fatall sunnes appeare To chase the Crescent from our Hemispheare Or that strong arme expected long agoe Should giue the Byzant beast a deadly blow At Collen bathing