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The first booke of the preseruation of King Henry the vij. when he was but Earle of Richmond, grandfather to the Queenes maiesty compiled in English rythmicall hexameters.
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1599
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STC 13076; ESTC S116380
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his soule to the ioyes that ar euer abiding Therewithal he faynting in a swoune grewe straight to be speachlesse Gasping breath who did yeald with a pale face and body senselesse Whose soule imparadiz'd I belieue is with the Creator Our Lord Emmanuell our Christ and sole mediator Who when he had regaliz'd 3. yeares and credibly twenty Tomb'd in a faire monument at Windsore lies in an abbey How that he dy'd many men did doubt For he dy'd on a suddayn Sundry by surfet afirm'd which no body knew to be certayn But many thought that he was put away by the vile priuy treason Of tyranus Richard by the meanes of some sory poyson As Sir Thomas More in his owne book skilfuly penned Thought by the speach that he learn'd that he was sure priuily poysned And not a thing vnlyke For he spared no body whose life Might dominire as a King whose life might work him a mischiefe He was a vile Machauile and still tooke time at a vauntage To work such stratagemes his lew'd mind gaue him a courage Similie As wax is molify'd and clay made hard by the sun-shine So to the word of God good mens hearts daily wil enclyne But lewd are hardned by the word Such obstinat error Permaneth in reprobates whose end is damnable horror Description of Edward the fowerth This valiaunt Edward was a Prince of a beawtiful aspect Whose face shyn'd with a faire sanguine complexion indeckt Whose yelo burnished haire did shyne like glorius amber Similies Whose gray eyes twinkling like starres did cheerefuly glister Comelines of person very tall of bodily stature Exquisit euery part was featured and of a nature Merciful and liberal whose stout hart bouldly by wisedom And politick valiaunce of right did atayn to the kingdom He was a Prince patient in great prosperity pleasant And not at all arogant in great aduersity constant Not timorus wauering to steadfast friend very faithfull To fra'dulent enemyes seâ—ere implacabel hatefull Fortunat in warfare but somewhat gi-uen in excesse To womanish daliaunce as his hystorie plainly doth expresse This stout king Edward many times would say that he lov'd well Three speciall paragons in seu'ral gifts who did excell First was wily by kind but an other seem'd to be godly Shores wife was meriest as a woman void of al enuy The iust and lawfull title that Richard Duke of Yorke father to king Edward made to the Crowne of England RIchard Plantagenet Duke of Yorke rightly the garland Sought by law to regaine his right to the Crowne then of England And he preferred a byll to the nobil common asembly Grafton fo 757. et 758. Held at Westminster Where after merciful Henry Namely the sixth his death they all there iointly together Graunted by parliament Gaue this Realme to the Duke his right heires in the remainder But this stout Richards stout lucklesse mynd was vnabel For to prolong so long but in end was slaine in a battell Neare to the towne Wakefield and left here these many children Edward George Richard all three well knowne to be brethren And yet he sware many times by solemne othes Stow. fol. 944. fol. 972. that he neuer Would any treason atempt or against him raise any power His three sonnes whom I nam'd were like three Martial Hectors All of a stoutnes alike on anothers glory detractors This foresaid Richard to the foresaid fortunat Edward Was father vndubitate sonne and heire namely to Richard Stout Earle of Cambridge Who maried Dame Anne sole heire and daughter of Edmund Mortimer Earle of March Richards neece namely the second So that he was by the lawes right lawfull heire to the Kingdome Which Edward did ataine by force and partly by wisdome Henry the fourth did vsurpe and put downe wrongfuly Richard Second King by name at Pomfort slaine by the coward Sir Pierce of Exton who strake him downe as a butcher Striketh an ox on his heade Wo worth so shameful a monster This trecherus bludy Duke did bring eight tal men in harnesse Grafton fol. 412. Henry 4. Each man a bill in his hand like thieues to murder his Highnesse Who with a bill that he got by force did manfuly withstand Those Machauile hypocrites for he kild foure men with his owne hand Till that he was struck downe by the Knight who leapt in a chay-er Like crauenus coward to repose him selfe from a daunger The Second booke of the tyranny and vsurpation of king Richard and how king Henry the seauenth when he was Earle of Richmond was preserued in his time A praier I He that here doth a peale to the sacred seate of a Kingly Kingly tribunall throne of a King celestial only Only the King of Kings the triumphant Lord God imortall Three persons one God deifi'd with glory coequall Humbly before thee my God that King Lord God of heauen Wholly my selfe prostrate giue eare O Lord to me listen Ephe. 2.5 8. Sanctify me by thy grace and iustify me by thy mercy For by the grace of God comes our saluation only Graunt that I may paraphrase stout Henries glory to publish And to promulgat abroad King Richards tyrrany diuelish I He that only before in Romane rythmery verses Did modulate with a thinne oten pype fortunat Henries Flight that he made to the Duke with his vncle there in a safety Both to remaine for a time till time should prooue to be friendly Which was a worke of thanks But now now murtherus horror And Machauile stratagemes I record of a lewde malefactor That did vsurpe as a king that killed his owne very brethren Murdered his Nephues wife and many â—â—ores or a sudden Mournefuly Muse manifest the detested deedes of a tyrrant Monster of all mankinde whose sinnes to the world ar aparant With salt watery teares this wofull tragedy pensill Teares from a sabel penne of direfull Ebony distill I to the clowdes seeke not to mount like Icarus in sky Ouid. poeticè Nor like proud Phaëton with a minde presume to be lofty Witty Thales maiden that saw him looke vp on heauen And in a ditch to decline he is wel seru'd quoth the maiden For that he looked aloft when he should haue lookt on his owne feete Looke not aloft sily Muse but shew thy selfe to be discreet Here I do meane to declare O Queene how shamefuly Richard That Duke of Gloster but a younger brother of Edward Lately the King did ataine to the Crowne and dignity regal Trewly my minde doth abhorre that I should here make the recitall What Machauile policies what shifts what crafty deuises What tyranus stratagemes he deuis'd to crucifie Princes First of al here to beginne he stab'd and kill'd with a dagger Grafton fol. 713. Edw 4. Henry the sixt when he was safe kept as a prisoner in Tower For that he considered King Henries life was an hind'rance Both to the King and him by the which they wanted asurance Therefore he did this fact
Knight to the Duke his whole minde wofuly distrest Plainely without any guile or dissimulation exprest Lastly by perswasions this wise Duke rul'd by the Counsell Of good Iohn Chewlet who this Earles state knew to be feebel Sent Peter Landoyse chiefe Treasurer only the foresaid Embassadors to delay that th' Earle might safely be conuai'd Vnto the Sanct'ary there which was with speede then efected Which so delighted his heart that his health there quickly reuiued Like as an Hart in a chace that is hurt or pincht with a greyhound Similie Bounceth away on a maine and runnes most swiftly to get ground Yer that he should b'imbost fro the greyhound speedily doth get And priuy lewnes in a brake imbaies himselfe in a thicket There to recouer his hurt So this Earle escapte from a daunger Liu'd in a place priuiledg'd his former health to recouer Would to God euery Prince that ruleth in euery Kingdome Would be so rul'd by the good wise counsell and by the wisdome Of plaine trouth-speakers and also that euery Courti'er Would not aledge any lyes to the Prince to defame on another Now to my matter againe When these Embasadors perceiu'd they were so deluded Grafton fol. 739. Edw 4. Both of an Earle their prey and of gould freely deliuer'd Tould Peter Landoyse their king would take it in ill part They to retorne so deceiu'd of their Earle and mony homeward But Peter Landoyse assured them that he should be Safe in a sanct'ary kept which they would warily foresee Or to be streightly detein'd in a safer custody forthwith So they neede not at all to doubt or feare any mischiefe They pacifi'd by the meanes of Landoyse curteus answere Thought it a folly to stay in Brittain Realme any longer But willed Landoyse to the Duke their duty remembring Those promises to be kept their leaue there then fuly taking Who promised that he would So these Embasadors sail'd thence and landed in England Grafton fol. 755. Edw. 4. And there tould to the King each chiefest point of his arrand Who when he heard their speach perswaded partly by reason How that he should be detein'd there safe or safe in a prison He not at all fearing th'intendment of fory persons Shew'd himselfe as a Prince more bountiful vnto the Commons And liberal to the poore But time his course hath time staylesse daiely doth happen Sentences With swift breach curelesse with gould not againe to be gotten O wauering fortune when thou seem'st most to be smiling Poeticè Mutabil intendment meanest and mischievus ending Euery time hath an end O worldly varietie neuer Knowne to remaine constant What is here that permaneth euer For stout king Edward when he found himselfe to be sore sick And when he thought that he was in a manner past any physick Streight to the Queenes kindred did send on away in a poste-hast Grafton fol. 760. fol. 761. Edw. 5. Vnto the Lord Riuers whom he knew to be firme to be stedfast And to the Lord Hastings Lord Chamberlaine then of England And to the Lord Marquesse whom she first had by her husband Named Sir Iohn Gray which was made knight in a battell Fought at Saint Albons and there was slaine who did excell In valor of Knighthood Willing them to repaire to the Court with speedines eftsoones And to resort to the King for diuers and many reasons VVho to the Court in al hast did come who courtly saluting Were resaluted againe on another semblably greeting Euery Lord that came to the Courte by the King his apointment VVent to the Kings presence When he saw them there to be present He took them by the handes though inward panges with a sorrow Greatly molested his hart and vnderset with a pillow Spake to them as foloeth My Lordes and kynsmen your presence hartily welcom King Edwards last will or admonition to the Queene his children and Nobility Whose frendshippes I found more sure to me than a kingdom My life is but a blast I feele death woful aproching And I reioyce that I haue my freendes here at my departing My body wasteth away I fynd my self to be feebel Also my blud to decay I feele my self but vnabel For to pronounce many wordes Therefore my Lordes to me listen Concord in friendship be faythfull vnto my chyldren And to my Sonne your Prince I charge you for to be loyall Safe to preserue his Grace to defend this Realme vniuersall For the Cicil tyrrants could find no greater a torment Then cruel enuy that hagge which fosters deadly reuengement Seneca in Epist lib. 14. Marcus Agrippa declar'd that small thinges daily by concord Eftsoones grow to be great and great thinges fondly by discord Quickly declyne to ruine Plutark in reg Apo. theg Stob. ser 82. That graue ould sapient Scyllurus nam'd Chironensis Fowre score sonnes who begate when he lay sick thus did he publish Euery one deare sonnes in his hand here take but an arrow And break them forthwith Which they did speedily But now Each on a sheafe of shaftes my sonnes take forcibly break them Which to do each did asay but could not Then with a solemne Similie Speach thus he spake As you could not them break So my children Trew fyrme and constant coniunction of many brethren No body can dissolue Therefore liue frendly together If so be you seperate your selues each one from an other Then shall your enemies as a prey snatcht vp of a Tyger You disagreeing so with a small force easily conquer So my beloued Lordes if you by malicius enuy Shall fall at variaunce which of you standes in a safety Prosperus are Kingdomes publick weales statefuly florish Sentence Where States concording do perfect amity stablish But when a Realme disagrees that Realme is seene very seldom Long to remaine a Monarche For certaine euery Kingdome Hatefuly disseuered fayth and tranquillity wanting Turned is vp side downe ruinus disconsolat ending Hate doth a Realme ruinate Therefore my Lordes I beseech you Euery one to be frendes my precepts duly to follow Euery Lord by the hand there present tooke on an other Who did apeare to be frendes though their heartes were far asunder And then he spake to the Queene sore greev'd who mournefuly looking Teares from hir eyes gusht forth as bubbling blobbes from a welspring Farewell dearly belov'd your children charily cherish See them well to be bred with good and singular aduise And you my children be dutiful vnto the mother Vse these your kinsmens counsayle in stead of a father For litel yong children should wisely be rul'd by the counsayle Of wity graue Senators whose fame and vertue doth excell And with a sorroful hart his children sadly beholding Stretched his hand to them all these same wordes faintily speaking God blesse you children farewell Lordes dearly beloued Who with trickling teares sad sighing wofully mourned And then he held vp his handes to the Lord his mercy beseeching And to receiue