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A11433	Fortunes fashion pourtrayed in the troubles of the Ladie Elizabeth Gray, wife to Edward the fourth. Written by Tho. Sampson.	Sampson, Thomas, poet.	1613 (1613)	STC 21686; ESTC S104563	18,630	48

What should I do or whither should I flie But still in danger of my mortall foe To wish for death the end of earthly woe Two yeares he reign'd in feare and bloudie strife In which meane time in Sanctuarie I Did shroud my selfe to saue my wretched life And linger out my dayes in miserie Though death farre better was in such a case My womans heart could hardly death embrace His breach of faith his odious cruelties First caused Buckingham to leuie armes And in the North it caused mutinies Men sought to ' venge the many grieuous harmes That wrongfully they saw him dayly do To all estates as well to friend as foe This made Earle Richmond find so many friends When he layd claime vnto the English Crowne Who doth not wish all tyrants speedie ends Who will not helpe to cast a tyrant downe The King of Kings that all mens acts doth see Will neuer let such men vnpunisht be Not long before Earle Richmond came to shore King Richard sent to me perswading men To make excuse for what was done before With promises of gracious proffers then They layd long siege vnto my weake defence With vowes and oaths to cleare him from offence With kindest promises of future good To me or any one that I could name I well considering in what case I stood Grew milder and at last did seeme to frame My selfe as pliant to their masters will Yet was my heart free from one thought of ill The Eagle towring in the loftie skie If he vnto his prey do kindnesse vse Vnder whose stroake their life or death doth lie Were it not madnesse in them to refuse His profferd fauour since they must obay His will because they cannot scape away Such was my case although not so considered He was the Eagle that was mounted hie I and my friends the prey discomforted Stood at his will to liue or else to die Our safeties he did proffer gold and loue I was content our better haps to proue He did desire but that I would conceiue A good opinion of his deeds to come And not my selfe so fondly to deceiue Mistaking things that then were past and done Alas I knew it was then in his power To date our liues one day or but an hower My secret foes if any such there were They knew or at the least they might haue knowne I wisht Earle Richmond well and ioyd to heare That Richards state should soone be ouerthrowne I did procure my friends with power and will To aide the Earle King Richards bloud to spill Which though in secret to my friends I said I durst not but seeme pleased to forgiue All former faults although in heart I praid That cruell Richard might no longer liue To bathe in bloud full oft on bended knee With teares I praid that I his death might see What should I hold you in a long discourse Faire words preuaild and I did giue consent Knowing our fortunes hardly could be worse I with my daughters to his pallace went Where he did giue cōmand and straightly charge Our welcome should be great our freedome large I knew the time was neare and then at hand That Henry Earle of Richmond meant to trie In warlike battell with a valiant band Either to winne the Crowne or else to die I knew what Noble men would take his part I gaind him friends and gaue to his my heart I ioyd to heare that Richard lost the field Who did not pray to see his ouerthrow He being slaine who did not freely yeeld Each man was glad and wisht it might be so Of Yorke and Lancaster then grew the vnion Whose former strife wrought many mens cōfusion The conquering King according to his oath Was married to my daughter presently Which to helpe forward no man seemed loth But all were aiders as fidelitie Did bind them to performe this being done I ioyd once more to haue a King my sonne Foole that I was to glorie in the thing Which prou'd to me vnpleasant in the end I like the swan before my death did sing As litle knowing what they did intend That secretly conspir'd to worke my fall And sodainly did turne my sweete to gall Henry the 7. The second yeare of this King Henries raigne The Councell did decree that wretched I The more to aggrauate my griefe and paine Should lose my lands and liue in penurie Because I did accept in outward show Of Richards kindnesse They did litle know How easily a captiuated man Will yeeld to him that is his conqueror And gladly please in any thing he can The fury of a sauage tormenter Especially in such a case as this Where wil might hurt but could not help my wish I had too lately knowne his bloudy mind I was vnable to withstand his force I knew no place of safetie where to find My state was like to grow from bad to worse Which made me willingly accept the good That he did vow to me and to my blood Alas what could a silly woman do My female frailtie might haue colourd this I feard to taste the furie of my foe Because my strength was all too weake for his I timorously did feare the bloudie slaughters That he might do to me and to my daughters What hurt or danger to Earle Richmonds plot Could my dissembled peace with Richard be What face so faire but that a fault or spot A partiall Iudge will say he there doth see It 's better die and not to liue at all Then be so weake with euery blast to fall When I was grac'd with fauour of my King Whilst he did liue that did support and stay Those whom I pleasde into his grace to bring All then was iust that I would do or say He being gone and that I was declining At my estate how many were repining Had I bene cruell couetous or strange When poore distressed suters to me cride From good conceit to bad then might they change Had I the needy naked soule denide Of any helpe that then was in my power Then had I liu'd too long if but an hower But if my heart did pitie widowes teares The fatherlesse if I did helpe to right And set the needie free from many feares Wherewith they were opprest by men of might To all estates since I was then a friend Why should their gratefulnesse so quickly end And more then so not onely to forget Good turnes once done but to requite them ill That well deseru'd of all in each respect So farre so blindly to be led by will Or vile ingratitude the filthiest sinne That euer humane creatures liued in If this had hapned in a land vnknowne Where I had neuer liued as a Queene Had this bene done by any but my owne My griefes should lesse in all respects haue beene What made the mightie Caesar wish to die The griefe that Brutus was his enemie I thought all stormes of misery were past My daughter being married to the King I thought my pleasures then would euer last I neuer lookt for any change of thing My innocencie would not let me feare The grieuous censure that was then so neare Bermondsey Abbey in Southwarke neare London With wounded heart the remnant of my dayes In th'Abbey of Bermondsey in teares I spent Still death I wisht and hated those delayes That fearfull frailtie did to me present I cald for death and weary was to liue For well I knew life could no pleasures giue And when the end of all my griefes drew nie And that my date of life was neare expired With willing heart I was content to die And Atropos I earnestly desired To cut the threed that did prolong my life Because in me all sorrowes were so rife My corps being dead to Windsor was conuaid And there interred fitting my degree Euen in that place where my deare Lord was laid There at this day the tombe is yet to see Vnto which place now I my griefes haue told I must returne and shroud my selfe in mold Then did this Queene returne vnto her rest And vanisht leauing to my memorie Here to relate what she to me rehearst In which recitall if infirmitie Cause me forget that which I should haue spoken Imagine that which I haue now forgotten If such the world in former times hath beene That highest states most subiect were to fall How true said she that late was Englands Queene When she her selfe at that time was in thrall Loe yonder milk-maid liues more merrily It was the saying of Queene Elizabeth when she was prisoner in the time of Queen Mary Then I that am of noble progenie Not to be great is therefore to be sure From fortunes wracke for this we dayly see The highest trees do sharpest stormes endure When those that planted in the valley be Do seldome feare and neuer feele the frowne Of boisterous stormes that others doth cast downe A vertuous life suruiues when cruell death Hath soule from earthly body seuered And hath bereft vs of our vitall breath Yet worthy deeds should be remembered Succeeding ages should them deifie Whose liues and deaths were full of pietie But what auaileth it to haue bene great Or what to haue bene friendly vnto many When they shall come to sit in sorrowes seate Themselues shall seldome be relieu'd by any For misery hath many lookers on And some that pitie but adiutors none This Queene was by descent of noble blood Of vertuous life yet in obliuions graue How long hath she in darke obscurenesse stood Shall good deserts such cold requitall haue Vngratefull minds that were by dutie bound Her name and fame vnto the world to sound Queenes Colledge which of her did take the name In Cambridge as a monument doth stand A worthy deed deseruing endlesse fame VVhich to maintaine she gaue sufficient land And some which in that Colledge haue bene bred Might wel haue raisd her fame though she be dead Thus haue you heard although abruptly pend The fortunes of this Queene and of her friends Princes as well as beggers do depend On the Almighties will what ere he sends None can preuent or alter his decree So firme so sure his secret iudgements be FINIS

of ill Cursed and odious let such traitors be That howsoeuer to effect their will Regardlesse of all wrong against all right Dares to take armes against their King to fight So long too long with small or no regard I in that sanctuary did remaine Vntill at length for certaine truth I heard That princely Edward with a martiall traine At Rauensprugh neare Humber head was landed With many a gallant warlikly attended Which how it ioyd my soule no tongue can tell Then vnto God I did deuoutly pray To cast all Edwards foes as low as hell And giue to him a safe victorious day That he in triumph with hearts ioy might see His litle sonne presented him by me Whether my prayers were effectuall Or Edwards valor which the world renown'd But all his foes got such a heauie fall That he with victory againe was crown'd And many slaine the rest that reattempted Rebellious factions they such faults repented Warwicke and others of that traiterous faction Being slaine and ouerthrowne a iust reward For them that dealt in such rebellious action Their peacocks plumes were pluckt their brauerie mard Victorious Edward by the helpe of heauen Reign'd after this of yeares iust eleuen But then ô then for seldome good things last Fates enuious of earthly creatures good With swiftest speed and with a heedlesse haste Cruell in action glut themselues in bloud Of any one that cometh next to hand All men perforce within their furie stand But Atropos the cruelst of the three That spins and winds and cuts our threed of life As one inchanted seeing did not see When she did cut the threed that bred such strife For by his too soone death my woes began And tragicke fall of many a mightie man My forepast sorrowes might be termed ioyes And all my griefes were ioyes compard to this King Edward dide with him dide all my ioyes And I was banisht from all earthly blisse To the sad tortures of an earthly hell The least of all my woes no tongue can tell Seuen royall children to this King I bare Edward the fift by treason murthered Richard his brother had a deadly share For they were both together smothered Fiue daughters by this King I also had Wose fortunes some were good and others bad When palefac'd death had seiz'd vpon my King My Lord my loue the hope of all my ioy And by that stroake had blemisht euery thing That might preserue and keepe me from annoy The Nobles droopt the common people mournd And all my hopes to sad despaire were turnd Some sparke of future good I hop'd to see Since to the Crowne my sonne by due descent Was heire apparent but what state so free But trust in treason brings to hard euent Vsurping Richard such a plot laid downe To work their deaths and gain himself the Crown Such fearfull thoughts my senses so did fright That some mishap I feared would befall To the yong King sad visions in the night So troubled me I could not sleepe at all Deuouring beasts but most of all the Boare My tender child me thought with tusks did goare From Ludlow towards London the yong King Did go to haue his right the royall Crowne Litle suspecting trechery would spring Nor that his vnkle Gloc'ster would put downe The lawfull King the sonne of his owne brother But tyrannie regards ne one ne other To heape more sorrowes on my wounded heart My brother the Lord Riuers was arrested Sir Richard Gray and Vaughan bare a part As guiltie of the fact which they detested Whilst in Northampton in their Inne they stayed Vnwares alas they guiltlesse were betrayed The keyes of all the doores were safely kept By those that sought to worke their ouerthrow Whilst they nothing misdoubting soundly slept Litle suspecting vndeserued woe Would light on thē that to their Prince were loyal But truth by treason tript nere comes to triall Gloc'ster and Buckingham hauing effected Their bloudy plots gainst such as were my friends A warrant was with speed by them directed To bring those prisoners to vntimely ends And from Northampton vnto Ponfret they Like lambes to slaughter led were sent away Sir Richard Ratcliffe hauing the commission To him directed that by such a day He should be carefull with all expedition Those innocents most bloudily to slay He acted it without due course of lawes Or asking why or what should be the cause The cruell Dukes then poasted with all speed To Stony stratford where the King then lay The King alas not knowing of this deed Said Where 's my vnkle what doth cause him stay Gloc'ster replide my kinred traitors were As by due proofe his Maiestie should heare Saying they had conspir'd to rule the State To ouerthrow the Nobles of the land To rule the King and giue him the checke mate All the Nobilitie in great feare did stand Of them that had of late bene too much grac'd And now high time they should be all displac'd And that the Lord Gray brother to the King And with the King in presence at that time Might well be charged with the selfe same thing Thus did they plot the fall of me and mine The King replide that iustly he might sweare His brother Gray was innocent and cleare And with those words teares trickled from his eies But though that sight was pitifull to see It nought reclaimd them from their cruelties What sadder signe of griefe could euer be Then that a King whose word should be a law With teares should plead as though he stood in aw My father and my brethren murthered In this might well be seene the future hap Of ill presaged fortune furthered By those two bloudie Dukes that sought to wrap In sad despaire and death me and my friends And bring vs quickly to vntimely ends When I had heard of this vnlookt for lot This vndeserued crueltie inflicted Vpon my brother who without all spot Had cleare remaind and could not be conuicted Of any one conceiued thought of ill Against his King in heart in mind or will Vnto the Sanctuary then I fled My friends and children I did take with me To scape their hands that sought our blouds to shed Cleare out of hope that euer I should see My son receiue the Crowne my feare prou'd true Which shortly after I had cause to rue The litle King was brought vnto the Tower As surest place of safetie for his person Accursed be that day and fatall hower That ere he entred there for his subuersion Was by the Dukes in cruell fashion wrought When least of death alas he had a thought And to cut off Edwards posteritie From sitting in their Fathers regall seate My yonger sonne with me in Sanctuarie They plotted how they might by false deceit Take him from me that to augment my paine Euen at one instant they might both be slaine Which to effect the Cardinall was sent To deale with me to get my second sonne Into their hands which deed I now repent I thought