ultima Terra daret If to Thy Mind and Aim Fate had been Just The World unto Thy Rule submitted must Again Illum fama vehens latè Circumsona Olympo Aequat pro tumulo maximus orbis erit The Universe His Funeral Pile shall be Whom by Fames Trump to reach the Stars we see And in Camden's Remains we have an Epitaph for him concluding thus as if speaking to His Royal Self Si mihi dent animo non impar fata Sepulchrum Augusta est tumulo terra Britanna meo Which intimates That if the Fates had given him a Monument equal to His Great Mind not a small rais'd-up heap of Earth As Antiently was the Custom See Weaver Pag. 6. and Virgil Lib. 7. speaking of Caietas Monument Aggere compesito tumulus and so Aeneid 11. Fuit ingens monte sub alto Regis Dercenni terreno ex aggere Bustum Thus Translated by Doctor Thomas Twine Beneathen Hill full hye The Tomb of King Dercennus raised up aloft doth lye With mighty Mount of Laureat Ground c. See Stone-henge Restored Pag. 27. and 30. quoting Leland In Egestis per campos terrae tumulis quos Burghos appellamus sunt Sepulti I say Not a small heap of Earth not a mean Berry or Barrow but all Britain it self should have been His Funeral Mole and Pile The Magnanimity of our present Soveraign cannot make us believe otherwise than that the Virtual and Warlike Genins of this Famous JAMES is by Generative Descent I will not say Pythagorean Transmigration streamed down into himself I must not omit one thing The late Duke of Norfolk having the Sword of this Valorous Prince as an Heir Loom in his Possession taken by his Ancestor bestow'd it as a great Rarity upon the Heralds Office. The present Duke presently after His Late Majesty's Decease discoursing with His Present Majesty about it He had a mighty desire to see it so 't was sent for and the King Pois'd it several times in His hands with more than ordinary Pathetick Impression As I have been assured by the Porter of the said Office who bringing it back call'd at a place where I was with some Friends to whom this accidental Overture of seeing the Sword was exceeding Acceptable and Diverting For my part I have often thought of this Passage When I consider'd the Vertues of the Prince that wore this remarkable Weapon viz. James the Fourth whom our Chanon of Saint Mary Ottry would have had to have been the Christian Prince's Agamemnon against the Infidels I have said before Qui facit per alium facit per se Now if what the Chanon would have had done by the Predecessor be done by the Arriere-Nephew and Successor his Wish is fulfilled and in Him the Lyon and Vnicorn are united viz. Henry the Seventh and the most Valiant James the Fourth His Royal Names sake aforementioned Poets are a kind of Prophets and Seers Now Mr. Payne Fisher in an Ode which he made upon his Sacred Majesty's Inauguraration concludes thus Oremus Vt Rex Jacobus diu vigeat Nec Britannus Orb 's indigeat Rege nato de Jacobis Donec adsit Shiloh nobis Which I presume to English thus Let 's Pray our James may Live full long And that there never may want one To Rule the Britains Brave among From many Royal James's Sprung Till it please God Shiloh shall come Which Verses plainly Import as if in that Name some secret hidden Vertue lay Divinely couched and enshrined In my Christian Valour Incouraged set out 84. when the Venetians made their Inroad into Morea I strongly Insinuate the French King was the Man must be mainly Instrumental to ruine the Turk I recited several Prophesies but especially that of Joachim The Turk shall be Destroyed by Three Nations By the French Propter bonos Equites for their excellent Cavalry By the English Propter bonos Marinarios for their excellent Seamen and By the Venetians Propter bonum Consilium for their Prudent Councils This Prophecy is worthy of Remarque and the French in the Van. I go on and add The French Monarch is become Potent in Shipping but He is not King of the English Mariners which must make up the Ternary according to Joachim Strange Revolutions have happened to England since the Year 78. That Generous Maximus Maâ—inus mentioned in Day-Fatality once Great Admiral of Arragon and till the Year 73. High Admiral of England is now again at length re-invested in all His Honours and that in spight of that Crew mentioned in Introductio ad Latinam Blasoniam Pag. 165. with strange Prophetical Heraldieal Reflections He I say is restor'd Influenc'd by a Divine Power and Favour and the Benevolent Rays of Fraternal Love The Love of the greatest Sea Prince in the World Charles le bon le grand Pray God incline the Heart of the Great French Cyrus The Heart of the Great Charles of Great Britain And then the French Cavalry and the English Mariners Influenc'd by the Auspicious Genius and Success of Prince Maximus Marinus His Royal Highness will be Assistant to the Venetian Counsels and Undertakings Thus I in my said Little Treatise Since which Sic dii voluêre Charles le bon is departed into another World and James the Great is become Sole Arbiter of His Brothers Power and needs none of His Brothers Influence I say no Influence but that of God Which let 's pray He may never want to Subdue the Enemies of Cristendome as well as Those of His own peculiar Kingdoms faxit Deus Auxilium contra Turcas Rex inclite praele Anglus Venetis Gallus addat opem An Liceat optare insuper Ferraram jungas Mutinae Rhegioque celebrem Imperii quam Sacra fames dis-junxit iniquâ— Ducatus rapti quis promptior Arbiter adsit Quà m qui Ferrariam Prolem jam duxit Herôus Estensem natam dico Successio cujus Stemmatis eximii jam mille cucurrerat annos Ducentosque super * Pigna quae Scripsit Pignensia chronica firmant Thus have I finished This small Piece Treating of the Wonderful Discovery and Finding of that Sacred Relique belonging to a Royal Confessor of that Religion which our most Serene Soveraign has Restored and solemnly Professes When I had Published my Day-Fatality Anno 1679. one whom I am loath to name and whom I Answered in a Pamphlet Intituled Mercurius Antiducalis Flagella us and have also mentioned with special Remark Pag. 157. of my Introductio ad Latinam Blasoniam exposed me in his Popish Courant as a Red-Letter-Man and Abus'd me most horribly in his Touch of the Times What will he think of me now I only gently tell him and all the World In tali Relligione Quali plura nitent moralia cur ego paucis Offendar dubiis tolerarier ergo meretur Nec minùs à nostro jam Rege foverier almo Sic reor raturus ero Stabilitus in aevum Diligo Romanae moralia Religionis I need not English this to the Author aforesaid who began that part of his Popish Courant so Picquant to me with a Quotation out of Horace FINIS ERRATA PAge 4. Line ult for Plenas read Plenus p. 11. l. 22. for Europian r. European p. 13. l. 23. for Cords r. Corps p. 19. l. 19. r. Excommunicata p. 23. l. 2. for Edovardus r. Edwardus Ibid. l. 15. for Rivalleness r. Rivallensis p. 24. l. 26. for Edovarde r. Edovardi p. 31. l. 27. for Hand is r. Handys p. 32. l. 5. for accidently r. accidentally
His Palace there to receive my Cure if so be He vouchsafes to do it Oh wonderful Humility The King takes him on His Shoulders and carries him the Man stretches out his Leggs his Hams being become Flexible and is Cured Thus is the Story related by my Author who Dedicated his Book to Pope Sixtus Quintus God Blessed these his admirable Vertues with the wonderful Gift of Healing the King's-Evil The Author of the Book called Vita Edovarde says thus This King Edward of Famous Memory before the Day of His Nativity was Elected of God wherefore as we have known produced by good and sufficient Witnesses God greatly Glorified Him in His Life-time with wonderful Signs among the which this that follows was one A Young-Woman Married but without Children c. had a Disease about her Jaws and under her Cheeks like Kernels and this Disease so Corrupted her Face with Stench that without great shame she could not speak to any body This Woman was admonished in her Sleep To go to King Edward and procure Him to Wash her Face with Water and she should be Cured To the Court she came and the King Informed of the Matter disdained not to make Tryal having therefore a Bason of Water brought unto Him He dipped His hands therein and washed the Womans Face oft-times rubbing the Diseased place sometimes also signing it with the Sign of the Cross Now after He had thus Washed it the hard Crustation or Swelling was softned and dissolved and the King pressing with His hand the Tumors out of them came little Worms of which they were full as also much Corrupt Matter and Blood The King still persevered with His hands to bring forth the Corruption This done He commanded her a sufficient Allowance every day for all things necessary until she had received perfect Health which was within a Week after And whereas she was before Barren she had a Child by her Husband Ex libro cui Titulus Vita Edovardi Again Authors affirm That a certain Man named Vlfunius Spillcorne when he had hewn Timber in a certain Wood laid him down to Sleep after his sore Labour Now the Blood and Humors of his Head so settled about his Eyes that he was thereof Blind for Nineteen Years But admonish'd in his Sleep he went in Pilgrimage to many Churches to implore the help of God for his Blindness and last of all he came to Court where he stood at the Entry of the King's Chamber an earnest Suitor for his Royal Help At length the King being Informed of the Poor Man's Dream He said By Our Lady Saint Mary I would do any thing with a good Will if it would please God by Me to have Mercy upon this Poor Wretch So being also much put on by His Attendants He call'd for Water and washed the Blind-Man's Eyes and strait-ways the Blood dropped plentifully out and the Man being Healed cryed out with a chearful Voice I see Thee O King Thus having recovered his Sight he kept the King's Palace at Windsor a long Season for there he was Healed after King Edward was Dead and Deceased in the Reign of William the Conqueror Now although these things seem strange yet the Normans ever averred That He often did the like in His Youth while He remained in Normandy in Exile How much more then when He came to be a King in Possession actually a Vicegerent of the Omnipotent God that by what means soever pleases himself works Wonders I have been the more large in the Recital of these Two remarkable Passages because our Kings of England deduce their Gifts and Faculties of Curing the King's-Evil called in Latin Struma in French Les Escroueles from Edward the Confessor upon these Two Cures And because Cured by Our Kings we call it the King's-Evil and in our Modern Latin Morbus Regius And to this will I make particular Application at the End of my Discourse Neither will I omit from the Recitals aforesaid to speak something in savour of Dreams Johannes Spondanus in his Comment upon Penelopes Dream Lib. 14. Hom. Odys says Re vera hic testor c. I do avow which also I have heard made good by Persons of undoubted Credit as to themselves nothing considerable either Good or Ill ever happened to me but I foresaw it in my Dreams He Dedicated his Book to Henry the Third King of Navarre which was after King of France and known by the Name of Henry le Grand and to whom he durst not have uttered any thing but Truth Nam Sacra est Reverentia Regnum I could say something as to my own particular very patt to the purpose But I esteem it fitter for Private Discourse than Publick Edition and return to the Matter in hand These before-recited were the Vertues Qualifications and Endowments of the Prince whose Crucifix was so strangely preserved which being so secretly found and not known of before might easily have been detain'd But as the Vision of St. Brightwald sometimes Monk of Glastenbury and after Bishop of Wilton assured him The Kingdom of England was the Kingdom of God and He would give it to whom He pleased So this Regium Cimelium this Royal Rarity was ordained for One Elect of God whom though the Numerous and Powerful Exclusive Party in England and a Malevolent Party in Scotland would have put by yet maugre all He is become Saint Edward the Confessor's Successor to His Crown Scepter and This Religious Relique so wonderfully preserved Which is the more Remarkable in that the Massy Silver Head belonging to the Royal Image covered all over with Silver Plate guilded which Queen Catharine caused to be laid upon the Tomb of Henry the Fifth was at the Suppression in Henry the Eighth's Time when the battering Hammers of Destruction made havock almost in every Church Sacrilegiously purloined forth Westminster-Abby though one would think it being so manisest and obvious a thing it should have Incited and Commanded the Care of the Church Officers to its Security and Preservation from Sacriledge No doubt the having of this Pious Symbole and Badge so auspiciously come by is an evident Omen and Presage our Soveraign as was its Pristine Owner will be Blessed with an happy Hand in the Cure of the King's-Evil Be as sparing of heavy Taxes as may be A great Conservator of the Laws of he Land A Pattern of Piety A Mirrour of Mercy A Fountain of Pity and Liberality towards the Poor Gentle and Just towards all Men In a word an Exchecquer of all Vertue as was the former Bearer thereof I have mentioned before That Wardner says of St. Edward That He set His Kingdom free from all Wrongs and Foes Serlo of Paris says of Him to the same Effect Hic bello sic pace suos exterruit Hostes Praesumpsit pacem rumpere nemo suam In Peace and War He so o're aw'd His Foes None dare His Peace and Quiet discompose Hear Old Robert of Glocester speaking to the same effect
Sooth our Lord nourished his Meekness and yat him great Grase that Men should be addrade of him that routh not be Wrath and though Men trowed him to be Slow he had such Subjects under him that at his hest daunted his Enemies as Syward Earl of Northumberland and Leofricus of Hereford c. Our Legists tell us Qui facit per alium facit per se King Edward did His Enemies business by others But our Prince JAMES the Good and Just is able to be His own Conduct to be Immensi tremor Oceani Terrarum Arbiter the Terror of the Ocean the Ballance and Arbiter of Nations Who shall dare to raise up this Lyon of England Gen. 49.9 Day-Fatality Edit 2. P. 1. tells us Normandy was Conquered from Duke Robert that Day Forty Years the Normans had won England Edward the Confessor came from Normandy to Reign in England His Father's Kingdom unjustly detained by His Maternal Brother Why may not our Dread Soveraign the Possessor of the Holy Confessor's Religious Badge so strangely and ominously Recovered go out of England Si fas sit ita loqui into Normandy and Recover and Annex it to its Pristine Union being His rightly descended Dukedome Nihil loquor de Andegavia de Comit ' Pontino Aquitania c. He being a Prince certainly Born for Great Actions and Blessed with a continuation of Lucky Omens Vnanimes cuncti quae semper habeto precemur How Benignly and Courteously by His Means and Incouragement are the Exiled French Received by Us A Royal Brief being granted by His Majesty for a Liberal Collection towards Their Relief I have by me an Antient Book written at first in the German Tongue by Sebastian Brandt Doctor of both Laws and Profest Orator and Poet and Stiled by him the Ship of Fools laying open the Folly and Frailty of all sorts and conditions of Men a Book very expedient and necessary to the Reader This Book Jacobus Locherus Translated into Latin Verse and from him one Alexander Barcklay Canon of St. Mary Ottry having Perused it in Three Languages Latin French and Dutch as he Solemnly Professes in his Epistle Translated into English Meetre In his Chapter of the Ruine of the Holy Catholick Faith and Diminution of the Empire by the Turks he Exhorts all Christian Princes and Potentates to joyn Hand in Hand against the Incroaching Infidels Now whereas Brandt and Locher place all their hope in Maximilian King of the Romans as a most fit Leader Our English Canon transfers it by a Poetical Digression and Diversion to the Famous King James the IV. of Scotland Let us hear first the Latin and after the English Poetry of that Age and first for Lecher Maxmilianus adest quo major Tempore nullo Rex fuit à digno Stemmate Sceptra gerens Invideat quicunque velit non justior illo Principe non Heros clarior ullus erat Caesareum vultum praefert inque ore nitescit Majestas mores Nobilitatis habet Fraudibus attentat nihil hic nihil ille Dolosum Concipit at plano Tramite vita meat Hunc non insani fastus sed Candida virtus Elevat Hic solus faedera pacis amat Hoc duce crescet Honos terris c. Hoc duce Sarmaticas gentes superabimus atque Euxinum Pelagus Bistonicosque lares Now comes in Barcklay whose Translation is Paraphrastical and from whom we gather what an Opinion the World had of James the IV. aforesaid Predecessor to His Present Majesty But ye Christian Princes whosoever ye be If ye be destitute of a Noble Captain Take James of Scotland for His Audacity And proved Manhood if ye will Laud attain Let Him have the forward have ye no Disdain Nor Indignation for never King was Born That is of War so much a Unicorn For if He take once His Spear in Hand Against these Turks strongly with it to Ride None shall be able His Prowess to withstand Nor before His Face so hardy to abide Yet this His Manhood Increases not His Pride But ever shews His Meekness and Humility In Word or Deed to high and low Degree In Prudence peerless is this most comely King And as for His Strength and Magnanimity Concerning His Noble Deeds in every thing One found on Ground like Him there cannot be By Birth born to Boldness and Audacity Vnder the bold Planet of Mars the Champion Surely to Subdue His Enemies each one Let Him be foremost then doubt ye not at all For only His Look so Bold is His Courage The Turks Pride shall make Decay and Fall. Like to a Lyon in Deeds He shall Rage Thus He being Guide the Fury shall asswage Of the false Turks so that they shall be fain Our Christian Lands to Vs to yield again If the English Lyon His Wisdom and Riches Conjoyn with True Love Peace and Fidelity With the Scotch Unicorn's Might and Hardiness There is no doubt but then all Christianity Shall Live in Peace Wealth and Tranquility And the Holy Land come in Christian hand is This our Poet concluded his Translation 1508.23 Henry the VII as he says Pag. 259. But I perceive by some Marginal Notes 't was not Printed till Henry the VIII began His Reign And I cannot but take notice of his Heraldical Allusion expressing the two Kings of England and Scotland the First by His Arms and Supporters and the Last by the Last which accidently I imitated in a Distich I composed when an over-confident Report was of the French King's Death in Aug. 85. Lilia Flaccescunt fit Carbunculus ater Mars Moeret summus ejus Alumnus obit French Lilies hang their Head and Navarrs Radiant Stone Grows dark Mars grieves his dearest and chief Pupil's gone Now as to the Vnicorn of Scotland and the Poets Allusion aforesaid read Numb 23.22 and 24.8 and Job 39.9 and 10. Verses But I return to James the IV. He was as well as very Valiant a Wise and Politick Leader for at the Battle of Flodden Field observing the great number of English Horse and those of large and strong size the Scotch Horse being small He told His Nobles and Commanders We shall do no good with our Horses We are as Valiant and Strong as to our Persons as our Enemies We must make Foot work of it Stow describes the Battle at large and says The Scotch Spears did twice sore indanger the English Forces that the King himself even in the foremost Rank Fought right Valiantly encouraging His People as well by Example as Perswasions to do their best In fine the Lord Dacres with his Horse was the cause of the Scotch Defeat and the King most Valiantly Fighting was unfortunately Slain See Weaver Pag. 394. We have heard Barcklays Elogiums of this most Heroick Prince and Stow's Testimony of His Valour let us hear what others say John Johnston in his Historical Description of the Scottish Kings concludes one of his Stanza's thus to his Eternal Praise Quod si animis ortisque tuis sors aequa fuisset Imperii fines