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A09129	The worthie hystorie of the most noble and valiaunt knight Plasidas, otherwise called Eustas, who was martyred for the profession of Iesus Christ. Gathered in English verse by Iohn Partridge, in the yere of our Lord. 1566	Partridge, John, fl. 1566-1573.	1566 (1566)	STC 19438; ESTC S110300	16,791	70

and of prayse Which to atchicue the noble hearts indeuour still alwayes They spende their tyme with ioy and blesse their labour they imploy According to their parentes mindes their hope and perfect ioy Such bookes these babes did learn to reade as present tyme did giue Which might their tender yeares trade by in Mametrie to liue Thus they in whom all tendernesse of age did still remaine Were taught the labour tedious of study to stustaine The parentes eke imploy their dayes good learning to attaine And now and then they finde pastime their griefes for to restraine Sometime on hunting he doth ride sometyme to Chesse they goe Sometime great doutes they do decide that in the Realme might growe This was the vse of Plasidas his minde to recreate This vsed eke his children deare O blessed happy fate The stormy winter dayes hath left with misty cloudes to swell And Phoebus bright appointed is more nearer vs to dwell And Eolus no pleasure takes to dim the ayre with cloudes And Phoebus nowe is quite deudide of fogges his beames that shrowdes Then doth Aurora leaue the bed of Titan and doth bring Some ioyes to men the wished day beholding once to spring And trées and hearbes with ioyfull heart do shew their pleasaunt hew And Knights in Forrests bende their force the Bucke for to subdew Then Plasidas with comely traine of knightes of royall kinde Do enter now the gréene Forestes a Bucke foorth for to finde At lēgth he came where bucks great store did stande confusedly And ech man now doth bend him selfe his lusty Stede to try Now here and there the harmelesse Buck assayeth for to runne And Plasidas at one faire Bucke to ryde he hath begonne The other knightes amongst the Buckes in fieldes abrode do raunge But Plasidas followeth hard this Bucke and will not chaunge At length in thickst of woods I say the Bucke doth enter in And then more fiercely hir to sew this knight doth straight beginne Till at the last the Bucke had tooke a Mountaine huge and hye And there the huge and lofty Bucke Plasidas did discry But as he was addicted sore the Bucke with force to take The mighty God in Skyes aboue his seruaunt did him make And out from cloudes he called to him his Idolles to detest Which by and by fel in a swoune and so he left the beast Then there he layde his sprangling corps almost deuoyde of breath I am thy God then sayd the Lord which bought thée with my death My very bloud doth iustifie in me thou hast thy life Go wende in hast the Lorde can say conuert thy Heathen wife Thy children eke let them be taught one God to honour pure Then thou my kingdome shalt possesse hereof thou mayst be sure Where thou shalt liue eternally if thou this life detest And shalt if thou fight manfully for aye with me be blest Arise therfore go wende in hast this life is but as grasse To day full faire hir glistring hew to morow quite is past Those stocks stones the which thou doest as Coddes adorne with prayse Are in my sight Idolatrous therefore eschewe those wayes Arise I say and get thée hence make hast thee to baptise And sée thou do conuert thy wife I say in any wise Apalled sore with feare and dreade the Knight straight wayes did say Haue mercy Lord and me forgiue I hartly do thée pray Stand vp thou knight then sayd the Lord thy sinnes remitted be Do thou not feare for Sathan will thee plague with misery Then downe he sat with stretched handes to God he gaue the prayse And sayde to thee that sittes on hye be honour due alwayes That hast vouchsafe this day to call thy seruaunt gone astray Euen as a shéepe by fortune strayed out of the herde away I do confesse thou onely arte my comfort and my trust And eke my God and thy promyse thou kepest true and lust No part thereof thou violatest thou art both God and man These stockes these stones be Diuels yil do vs no good they can Thée therefore I do worship still thou madest the worlde of naught And I the Image of thy grace that thou of earth hast wrought I do confesse my heauenly king that no good is in me But that the goodnesse which I haue doth all discende from thee Without thy grace and goodnesse I no day at all can say But that I should be ouerthrowen and brought to deathes decay But thou O God art my defence my aide my hope and trust Thou art my king my God my Lord my sauiour true and iust O Lord I know that Sathan will with cares my soule molest But thou O Lord in pacience defende my carefull brest Let me with pacience still abide thy gracious laysure good And graunt also to me full hope in thy most precious bloud That what so euer illes do hap vnto thy seruaunt here With willing minde the burden huge with pacience I may bere Graunt also that dispayre do not molest my quiet state Ne that I should in any wise incurre thy heauy hate But giue me Lord a minde alwayes obedient for to bée Unto thy hest and to submit my will alwayes to thée So shall I be a most fitte braunch ingraffed in the trée Of liuing dayes and at the last shall euer raigne with thée To whome be prayse eternally both now and euer more One onely God though persons thrée as I haue sayd before Then at the last this noble knight from Forrest made returne And thought within his hunting race no longer to soiourne But home he commes in posting wise The knightes they after hye And some the chase will follow on the ende thereof to trye The mighty Buckes lye dead on launde the Palfrayes they do sweate And from their frothy mouthes they breath the inward partching heate Now here now there with launce in hand the marshall knightes do runne And at the last they haue espyed how Plasidas did come From out the groues so gréene which was beset with many a trée With heauy chere much like vnto a man in miserie When they perceyued well that he with sorrow was infect They mused much yet of that hapte they nothing did suspect Then home they go and some doe lade the pray that they haue slaine And other some for their repastes in Forcestes do remaine At length Plasidas doth ariue before his Castle gate His wife to welcome home hir Loue is ready sone thereat From gate to Hall they do ascende and there the bourdes be spred The sunne is downe and time it is for men to goe to bed The chamberlaynes the bed downe lay and fier in chamber make And nowe Plasidas he is come his corporall rest to take When he in bed had layne a while great griefes he did sustayne And se at length his minde to breake he purposeth certaine At length his wife perceyning that no rest her Mate could finde She did procure him for to shewe what dreade was in

his minde At length he sayde oh louing mate the cause sith thou wouldest know Of these my cares so huge and fell to thée them I will showe This day quoth he as I abrode in Forrest thicke did runne A mighty Burke his race to take before me hath begunne At whom I sued with all my might and force that I could make At length the Bucke for his defence the densid woodes doth take And there the Bucke I do pursue on loftie stéede amaine Till that the toppe of one great hill he seketh to attaine And there from out the skyes did breake a voyce like thunders cry For feare wherof almost my breath to Skyes away did fly Quoth he I am thy very God ne made but being still Both heauen and earth yea Skyes and al obeyes vnto my will I made them all and thée O man as Lorde of earth to bée The fishe the foules the birdes the beast shall all obey to thée And for the loue which I thée bare my Image I thée made A liuing soule the life wherof away shall neuer fade Thus art thou now my Image pure and I thy Lorde and king Thou art the shepe whom I do loue aboue all earthly thing By this my loue I did declare when thou wast vtterly Condemned for thy wickednesse eternally to dye I loued thée so that I did take a seruaunts shape on me For to be slaine euen as a shéepe at Sacrifice we sée And thou vnkinde forgetting quite what I for thée haue done Hast made thée Goddes and of vile earth a God is now become Yet I bicause I tender thée And rewe thy heauy fall Uouchsafe againe thée to the folde once more from sinne to call Repent therefore and learne to knowe thy God thy Lord and King So shalt thou with him eterne liue where Angels holy sing Forsake thy Idolles and become a Christian now at last And Ile remitte and quite forgiue thy wickednesse forepaste Arise therefore go wende in hast make speede for to conuert Thy gentle wife that honour shée may me with all hir heart O Lord quoth I if Sathan do with care my corps molest Be thou my ayde let pacience still abide within my brest Do thou defende our sinfull corps O Lorde we thée desire That by thy death vnto the crowne of life we may asspire Then sayd the Lorde with troubles great Sathan shall thee anoye By fraude in frendship such as erst with thée were wont to toye And speake thée faire with cap and knée at euery worde do make Now in thy fall and miserie their flattering leaues shall take And not content with rayling voice reprochfull wordes to say But eke are bent to spoyle thy Tent thy goodes to beare away Which thou shalt by my grace diuine with pacience beare thy losse And at the length when I sée tune Ile take away this crosse And will againe in former state thée place with ioy and blesse With double folde and shalt againe possesse thy lost rychesse Then downe I fell in swouning there and loud and shirle I cryed Oh Lord thy seruaunt will I be hap me what will betide These were the wordes when sacred tops of mountaines great and tall He left O Plasidas go home thy wife sée that thou call Then sayd his wife my louing Lord O Plasidas so true He is the God of heauen and earth that did appeare to you For yester night as I did lye in bed with heauy minde Me thought before me one most faire in chamber I did finde Appalled sore twixt feare and dreade at length to me he spake And sayd O Theapis from slepe and brousinesse awake To morrow shall thy husbande dere what I am well perceaue I am thy Christ and went his way and thus he tooke his leaue This for to shewe my louing Lord I durst no whit to thée Least happely thou mightst haue thought in me some iniury But now I knowe and well perceyue that that was Christ in deede He is of God coequall mate and eke of Dauids séede To him therfore with thankes giuing on Flutes and Pypes full shrill Our Sacrifices vnto him on Aultars will we kill This is the Prophet which to vs full long was prophecied This is the very sonne of him who Starres in Skyes doth guide Therefore my Lord if that thée please of baptisme let vs take The sacrament and then let vs our Country soyle forsake Then sayd the knight faire dame at hand doth rest a clarke of fame A Minister of sacred rightes who Buno hath to name A comely man of fayth most pure to him straight we will wende For rightes of Baptisme to receyue I verily do pretend Our children eke he baptise shall according vnto right And thus to him they went in hast in middest of the night And when they baptisme had receyued as now the maner is Plasidas Eustas had to name his wise is Theapis His children eke whom nature made of beauty passing faire Were tender ones thone Agapite Theospite was the heyre Thus baptisme done vnto their house agayne they do repaire And there in peace a while they liue both honestly and faire At length the sturdy boystrous blastes of Sathan gins to rore Euen as the water from a hyll or as a myghty Bore Which of some wight receyued hath a wound both huge and great Or as the flashing waues of floudes that craggie rockes doth beate With hurling here and there hir streames indeuoring for to weare The ragged bankes which of their floudes the crabbyd rage doth beare Much like vnto a battayle made a Citie for to get And munition with burning strokes to sacke the walles is set And breach is made and houses burne and souldiers nowe beginne For ioy of spoyle by vitall breath not for to set a pinne Or else when as a Lion great doth range with angry moode With hungrie chawes amid the woods doth séeke to haue his foode And he that first within his sight appeares that he may sée With gasping mouth on him he runnes deuoured for to bée So Sathan now in roring wise on Plasidas doth runne His shéepe and cattell for to slay already hath begunne Then Plasidas to pouertie is brought the ready way And eke when that his fayned friendes perceyued his decay They runne his house to spoyle and sacke his goodes they beare away Euen those whome he had feasted earst before his great decay These pampered churles that sit all day at tables dayntie fed Who by all mischieuous crabbed guiles with stinking heart is led Whome neyther loue ne hate can driue from out the Castell dore They learned haue so for to rowe with the Athenien oare I may such persones well compare vnto a pype or tonne That hath good wine to outwarde sight in which there is poyson For they themselues so beautifie their wordes in inwarde showe But poyson much is hyd therein as afterwardes we knowe Thus Plasidas from great renoume to pouertie is brought And where he was a