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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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this answer he gaue that he was content to deliuer Henry that Earle not a sheepe to the wolfe but a sonne to the father Similie And in a letter he wrote how th' Earle was much had in honor Both for his owne wisdome valiaunce and witty behaui'our They then seiz'd of a prey which they had greatly desired Thankfuly tooke their leaue and from thence quickly departed Vnto the towne of Saint Malo bord'ring neare to the sea shore Minding thence to depart when ships were made ready Wherefore Th' Earle when he knew that he should be return'd home for very sorrow Since that he was so betrai'd he fell sore sicke of an ague Imagining that he should as soone as he landed in England Be stratagiz'd but see who can Gods dignity withstand Gods diuine prouidence and sacred dignity supreame Ruleth al humane cause though humane causes ar extreame Sentence Marke gods omnipotence whose workes ar wonderus extant Still to be seene who preseru'd this venturus Earle at an instant Sau'd as a strange miracle by the faithfull loue of a stranger For many times men ar helpt and sau'd by the meanes of another Like as a Physition doth seeke mans health to recouer So wil a friend for a friend in trubbels stand a defender Vulcan against Troy was but Troians friend was Apollo And Venus indiferent Pallas not mortaly Iuno Malliced Aeneas as alyed wholy to Turnus Yet was he by Venus helpe preseru'd from her enmitie grieuus Vndubitate Pylades was a friend to woful Orestes To Damon Pythias Patrocles friended Achilles Diuers examples Virg. Alcyde ayded Hylas Aeneas friend was Acbates Eurialus Nisus Diomedes friended Vlisses And to be chiefe memoriz'd that firme and trusty Zopirus * Who cut his owne eares off Babilon to procure Darius Darius stout King in his hand faire Pomegranat hauing Plâ—tarch in Apo One of his especial friends askt him merrily iesting What things especiall if he might haue that that he wished Would he request for his owne As there were graines to be counted So many friendly Zopyres as a wise King wisely did answer For what more pretius then a friend that friendeth another Pluta in Apo As fire and heate both cannot be parted asonder So loue and friendship cannot be without one another For when on Iohn Chewlet that was for a Courtier only Counted a stout man at armes who lou'd this gratius Henry Heard that he was very sick and from thence like to be conueigh'd Grafton fol. 738. Edw. 4. Shortly to King Edward he therewith wofuly dismaid Posted amaine to the Court and present stept to the Kings Grace Heauily perplexed who looking sad with a pale face Stood as amased afore this Duke with a stearne heuy count'nance And not a word did speake as a man that wanted his vttrance Therewithal astonied to behold so feareful an obiect Like as a Prince vigilant he did some treachery suspect Yet when he considered this Knights state chearefuly thus spake Shew me the cause good Iohn that thou so monefuly dost looke Therewithal he to the Duke reuerent with an humbel obeysance Boldly declar'd what he meant and spake with a treatibel vttrance Sentence Pardon I craue Soueraigne if I speake Truth verily neuer Shameth his owne master What auailes then fondly to flatter Heare then a truth O Duke for like as Cynthia shining Inueloped with a clowde obscures her selfe from ilustring Similie Semblably truth for a time obscur'd many times lieth hidden Truth yet in end wil apeare truth neuer permaneth vnknowne O my renowned Duke wilt thou now falsify promisse Firmely betroth'd to this Earle What a fault is this what a blemmish O that I were buried Shal I liue to know thy dishonor Truly my minde O Duke is vext with an infinit honor Similie For that I greatly do grieue that this stout Earle to the slaughter Should as a lambe be betrai'd and there to be slaine of a Butcher This wil bring thy renowne O Prince which euery mans mouth Extols vp to the clowdes to decay For plainely to tell trouth If so be my Soueraigne thou wilt so shamefuly suffer Henry this Earle to depart thou stain'st thy glory for euer Thy former valiance and fame that shine to the worlds end Shall as a smoake pas away Shal a Prince such craftines intend Similie Peace good Iohn quoth the Duke peace peace I pray thee beleeue mee For these Embasadors do protest and say that he shal be Grafton fol. â—38 Edw. 4. Spows'd to the Kings daughter which their King faithfuly promist And to be next to the King plaste in authority chiefest Well said Iohn to the Duke in whom shall shame be reputed If that he dye by the way or in English Realme be beheaded For that I dare venture my life that it is but a practice This sily soule to deceiue this sicke Earles life to relinquish If that he shal be beguil'd in such sort let me no longer Liue to repaire to thy Court if he should dye dye had I rather Laertius lib. 4 chap. 2. When Dionise the tyrant would needes haue Plato beheaded Zenocrates answer'd not afore that mine be depriued But many say that a King that knowes not how to disembel Knowes not at all to rule such sleights be deuis'd by the Diuell If that I may be so bould to speake but a word in his absence O my benigne Soueraigne lend eare and giue to me credence For why This Earle of a truth lyes sick and likely to perish Similie If fro thy Realme he depart what Prince will trust to thy promise Nothing more perilus then a compound poysonus honny No body more trecherus then a foe that seemes to be friendly With tunes harmonicall sweete singing merrily Meremaides Similie Falsly betray Mariners So these men sent as aforesaid Smoothly deceiue your Grace with faire speach and mony giuen Vnder a cloake of loue lies concea'ld craftines hidden Sentences O fond discrecion on faire wordes wholly relying Experiment best is where wordes and deedes are agreeing Craft hath a godly pretence but a murderus end Similie For a fowler Merrily playes on a pipe when he craftily taketh a plouer Iscariot Iudas that false and wicked Apostel Falsely betrai'd with a kisse and sould our Lord for a trifel Laomedons falshood Priamus father and son of Ilus Caused his owne bludy death and losse of Troy city famus 1 Macha ch 11 Was not Alexander by craft of King Ptolemaeus His false fath'r in law depriu'd of his Empery famus Bluddy Polymnestor which of gould was so desirus Beastly did obtruncate Priamus sonne young Polidorus Virg. More to recite what auailes Therefor I humbly beseech your Grace O Duke to remember Grafton fol. 739. Edw 4. This disconsolate Earle that lyes neare dead of a feauer Send that he may be retain'd Let not thy glory be blemmisht Keepe faith inuiolate let a prince performe what he promist Thus this
life but a blob but a blossom When death strikes with a dart what auaileth a King or a Kingdom â—mus in â—a de morâ— That Platonist Socrates did afirme that a mans bodie liuing Was but a graue to the soule which to felicitie lasting Should by deserts demigrade most diuine speach of an heathen For by the faith in Christ we come to the kingdome of heauen â—ilie As radiant rud-y Phoebe exhales his vapory moysture Vnto the firme Element with his ardent hote sun-y lusture So the God omnipotent our soules with sinnes heuie loden Freely by mercy benigne extolles to the kingdom of heauen â—ilie Death bringes euery thing to decay For like as a fresh flower Springs for a time redolent but can not possibil endure So doth a king for a while reigne with great dignitie present Whose great glorie decaies whose prowde pompe dures but a moment Like as a man doth in yeares wax ould so should he be wiser And as he groweth in age so should his life be the beter Thinke this world to be vaine and thinke this life to be mortal And to the King of Kings let vs yeald out selues to be loyal Who to redeeme our soules ordained his only begotten Only beloued sonne to be sent downe freely from heauen And to be here crucifi'd as a sinlesse man for a sinner To mitigate Gods wrath t' appease his infinit anger Who by the death that he di'd hath cleans'd vs freely from euill For that he conquered hath sinne death and also the Diuel Whiles we do liue let vs al liue wel Time stailes away leapes Similies Like as a cloud vanisheth For as euery steppe that a mans steppes Is but a steppe to the graue so plodding age pedetentim Stouping creepes on a pase Age is to death as a pilgrim Which for a time dothabroad wander but in end he returnes home Similie So for a time we do liue but in end death will be the bridegroome â—tence â—ilie No body can stay time Time staies for no body Time swift Flyeth away on apase as a bird that flyes from a mans sight Therefore Princely Regents both vice and tyrranny forgoe â—k ch 8. 〈◊〉 36. For what auaileth a King what auaileth an Emperor also If that he lose his soule to liue here fortunat alway As patient Iob said each mortall King to thy selfe say 〈◊〉 ch 1 ver Naked I came to the world fro the world hence naked I shall go Formed of earth was I first to the earth yet againe shall I turne to â—lesiastes 1. That sapient Salomon naught here but vanitie could finde With manyfould miseries with great vexation of minde What man aliue can afourd as gods word plainly doth expresse â—t 6.27 â—rouerbe One cubit vnto his height by carking eares that ar endlesse Let not a man be to bolde though God be mercifull and staies For when he strikes his stroke is a stroke importabil alwaies And then he plagues when he strikes For where th' almighty Iehoua Rightfuly plagues for ofense what auaileth a mans cataplasma For with a slouthfull pase gods anger goes to reuengement But when he comes he rewards eternall paines for a torment Here I wil end O Queen O Lord our only creator Our Lord Emmanuel our Christ and sole mediator Adde to thy life many yeares as he did to the King Ezechias 2. of Kings ch 20. ver 6. Safely defend thee from harme as he safely preserued Elias And that he graunt to thy Grace after this life as a chosen Vessel of his purify'd ioyes in Celestiall heauen Ioyfuly there to remaine with Iesus Christ the Redeemer Imparadiz'd as a Saint with Saints in glory for euer As two Greeke letters in Grecian Alphabet Alpha First letter plaste is but placed last is Omega So wil I continuall first and last praise thee for euer If that I could Poetize as I would thy glory to further Your Graces Subiect in faith loue duty to commaund THE FIRST BOOKE OF The preseruation of King Henry the vij when he was but Earle of Richmond O Father Omnipotent our Lord and only Redeemer Which on a throne deifi'd there sits and shines as a Iasper And as a Sardine stone incompast round with a Raine-bow The first part of the Reuelation of Saint Iohn in effect verbatim Like to the bright Emeraud with thy grace my spirit endow From which throne lightnings voices with lowde flashy thunders Duly proceed Where fowre and twenty colaudabil Elders Seated in as many seats all cloth'd with a white lily garment Crown'd with Crownes of gould on their heads stately refulgent Seauen Lampes of fire ar there eternaly burning Gods very godly spirits on God there faithful atending Neare to the throne is a sea of glasse which shin'd as a Crystal There fowre beasts ful of eyes ar about that stately Tribunal First was like a Lyon next seemed a calfe to resembel Third had a face of a man fourth beast was form'd as an eagel Euery beast of them six wings had them to belonging And ful of eyes ar within day and night ioyfuly singing Three times holy be God th' almightie that euer is holy Holy before which was which is which shal be God only And when those fowre beasts gaue praise to the Lord God Iesus Which on that throne sate who for euer liu'd who redeem'd vs Those reuerent Elders their Crownes commendably threw downe And fell flatly before that Lord that sate on a Tribune Worshiped him that liu'd and liues with glory for euer For thou glory deseru'st that made all things by thy power Vnto whom Archangels and Angels greatly reioycing With Cherubins Seraphins are there eternaly singing Thou father only my God which art wast shalt be for euer Gen. ch 1. ver 1.2 c. Who the terestriall Orbe which staies it selfe by the Center Quadruply partiting fire ayre earth watery substance Out of an vgly Chaos did'st frame and store with abundance Of seuerall creatures and made man last as an image Like to thy selfe vpright to behold this globe with a visage Gen. ch 1. v. â— â—7 Placed him in Paradice in a sacred garden in Eden Where by the fondnes of Eue they lost those ioyes then of heauen Thou Lord only for aye whose power and glory supernall Genesis ca. 2. vers 2. This star-y spang'd Element and this whole world vniuersal Made as a mightie Monarche n six daies only the seauenth Day he reseru'd to be kept as a sacred day as a Saboth Which God by Moyses did apoint and consecrat holy And that day to be kept by the cou'nant from labor only Thou he the same very God three persons one God in essence Exod. ca. 20. ver 8.9.10 Raise vp aloft to thy selfe my weake spirit hale to thy presence Leauy the lines that I write let thy law still be my load-starre Still to direct mee my course here trewly to write that I differ No not a word