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A04560	The most pleasant history of Tom a Lincolne that renowned souldier, the Red-rose Knight, who for his valour and chivalry, was surnamed the boast of England. Shewing his honourable victories in forraigne countries, with his strange fortunes in the Fayrie land: and how he married the faire Anglitora, daughter to Prester Iohn, that renowned monarke of the world. Together with the lives and deathes of his two famous sonnes, the Blacke Knight, and the Fayrie Knight, with divers other memorable accidents, full of delight.; Tom a Lincoln	Johnson, Richard, 1573-1659?	1631 (1631)	STC 14684; ESTC S105584	66,530	98

The most pleasant History of TOM ALINCOLNE That renowned Souldier the RED-ROSE Knight who for his Valour and Chivalry was surnamed The Boast of England Shewing his Honourable Victories in Forraigne Countries with his strange Fortunes in the Fayrie Land and how he married the faire Anglitora Daughter to Prester Iohn that renowned Monarke of the World Together with the Lives and Deathes of his two famous Sonnes the Blacke Knight and the Fayrie Knight with divers other memorable accidents full of delight The sixth Impression LONDON Printed Aug Mathewes and are to bee sold by Robert Byrde and Francis Coules 1631. TO THE RIGHT VVORSHIPFVLL SIMON WORTEDG of Okenberrie in the County of Huntington Esquire health happines and prosperitie THE generall report and consideration right Worshipfull of your exceeding courtesie and the great friendship which my parents haue heretofore found at the hands of your renowned Father doe imbolden me to present vnto your Worship these my vnpolisht Labours which if you shall vouchsafe to cast a fauourable glaunce vpon and therin find any part or parcell pleasing to your vertuous minde I shall esteeme my trauell most highly honoured The History I present you shall finde delightfull the matter not offensiue to any only my skil in penning it very simply and my presumption great in presenting so rude a peece of worke to so wise a Patron which I hope your Worship will the more beare with and accompt the rather to be pardonable in that the fault proceedeth from a good meaning Your worships deuoted and poore Country-man R. I. The Pleasant Historie of TOM A LINCOLNE the RED-ROSE Knight for his valour and Chiualrie surnamed the Boast of England CHAPTER 1. How King Arthur loued faire Angellica the Earle of Londons Daughter and likewise of the birth of Tom a Lincolne WHEN as King ARTHVR wore the Emperiall Diadem of England and by his chiualrie had purchased many famous Uictories to the great renowne of this mayden Land hee ordeined the order of the round Table and selected many worthy Knights to attend his Maiestie of whose glistering renowne many ancient Histories doe record and witnesse to all insuing ages This worthy Prince vpon a time intending to visit the city of London with some few number of his Knights came and feasted with Androgius being at that time Earle of London whose house as then was not only replenished with most delicate fare but grat●st with a number of beautifull Ladyes who gaue such a pleasing entertainement to King Arthur and his Knights that they were rauished with pleasure and quite forgot the sound of martiall Drummes that had wont to summon them foorth to the fields of Honour Amongst these glorious troupes of London Ladyes Angellica the Earles daughter had the chiefest prayse for beauty and courtly behauiour for euen as the siluer-shining Moone in a Winters fr●sty night surpasseth the brightest of the twinckling Stars ●o farre Angellicaes sweete feature excéeded the rest of the Ladyes whereby King Arthur was so intangled in the snares of loue that by no meanes he could withdraw his affections from her diuine excellence He that before delighted to tread a weary m●rch after Bellonas Drummes was now constrayned to trace Cupids Measures in Ladyes Chambers and could as well straine the strings of a Louers Lute as sound a Souldiers alarme in the field her beauty like the Adamant drew his stéeled heart to lodge in the closure of her breast and no company delighted so much the loue-sicke King as the presence of faire Angellica So vpon a time as hee stood looking out of his Chamber window hee espied the Mistris of his soule sitting in a Garden vnder a Bower of Uines prettily picking the ripest Grapes with her delicate hands and tooke such pleasant pains in that maydenlike exercise that the well coloured blood in her face began to ware warme and her chéekes to obtaine such an excellent beauty that they séemed like two purple Roses intermixt with Hawthorne-buds whereby King Arthur grew inamored vpon her and stood for a time sencelesse through the extreame passion he tooke in beholding her be●uty But at last recouering his senses he spake to himselfe in this manner Oh most diuine Angellica Natures sole wonder thou excellent ornament of Beauty thy louely Face painted with a crimson die thy rosicall Chéekes surpassing Snow in whitenesse thy decent Necke like purest Iuory hath like a Fowlers net intangled my yéelding heart whereby it is for euermore imprisoned in thy breast Oh that the golden Dresses of thy dainty Haire which shine like the Rubyes glittering in the Sunne had neuer twinckled before my rauisht eyes then had my heart inioyed his wonted liberty and my Fancie béen frée from Louers vaine imaginations Thus and in like manner complayned the King vnto himselfe séeking by all meanes possible to exclude Loues fire from his breast But the more hee stroue to abando● it the more it increased and féeling no pollicie might preuaile but that this burning torment must of force bee quenched with her celestiall loue hee descended from his Chamber and went bouldly into the Garden where taking Angellica by the hand as shée sate vpon a bed of Uiolets which as then grew vnder the Arbour in this manner began to court her Faire of all faires sayd the King deuine and beautious Paragon faire Flower of London know that since my aboad in thy Fathers house thy beauty hath so conquered my affections and so bereaued me of my liberty that vnlesse thou vouchsafe to coole my ardent desires with a willing graunt of thy loue I am like to dye a lan●uishing death and this Countrey England of force must l●ose him that hath filde her boundes with many triumphant Uictories therefore swéet Angellica if thy hard heart be so obdurate that the teares of my true loue may nothing molliffe yet take pitty on thy Countrey that through thy cruelty she loose not her wanton glory and be made vnhappy by the losse of her Soueraigne thou séest my diuine Angellica how I that haue made Princes stoope and Kings to humble when I haue frownde doe now submissiuely yéeld my high honour to thy feete either to be made happy by thy loue or vnhappy in thy hate that in time to come Children may either blesse or cu●se thee Of these two consider which thou wilt performe either with cruelty to kill mee or with clemencie to pre●eiue mee This vnexpected request of the King so amazed Angellica that her Cheeks were ●tayned with blushing shame and like a bashfull Maiden for a time stood silent not knowing in what manner to answere him considering hee was King of England and she but Daughter to an Earle But at last when feare and shame had a while stroue together in her heart shee replyed in this sort Most mighty King said shee if your entertainement in my Fathers house hath beene honourable séeke not the foule dishonour of his Daughter nor proffer to blemish the bud of her virginitie with the least

where euery one as well Strangers as others were most royally feasted The Portingale King séeing his kind entertainement in the English Court where he was vsed more like a Friend then an Enemie had small care to returne home but ●rolik'd many a day amongst the English Lords whose loues vnto strangers be euermore most honourable But so great were the courtesies that the Noble King Arthur bestowed vpon the Portingales who for their proffered disgraces requited them liberally with honour and not onely sent them home ransomlesse but promised to lend them ayde and succour from England if occasion required So bearing them company to the Sea side hee most friendly committed them to the mercy of the winds and waues which were so fauourable that in short time they arriued safe in their owne Country where many a day after they remembred the honourable kindnesse of the English-men and caused the Chronicles of Portingale to record the renowne of King Arthur and hi●●●●●●ts of the Round Table CHAP. IIII. How the Red-rose Knight trauelled from the King of Englands Court and how he arriued in the Fayerie-land where he was entertained by a Mayden Queene and what happened to him in the same Country NOw after the Portingales were thus conquered and sent home with great honour the English King and his Lordes rested themselues many a day in the Bowers of Peace leau●ng their Armours rusting and their pampered Steedes standing in their Sca●les forgetting their vsuall manner of wrathfull warre which idle ease greatly discontented the magnanimious Red-rose Knight who thought it a staine to his passed glory and a scandall to his Princely mind to entertaine such base thoughts and considering with himselfe how ignorant hee was of his true Parents and from whence hee was descended hee could not imagine therefore hee purposed to begin a new enterprise and to trauaile vp and downe the World till hee had either found his Father and Mother or else yéelded his life to Natures courle in that pretended Journey so going to the King full little thinking that he was sprung from so Noble a stock crauing at his Graces hand to graunt him such liberty for to try his Knight-hood in forraine Countries whereas yet did neuer Englishman make his aduenture and so eternize his name to all posterity rather then to spend his life in such home-bred practises To this his honourable request the King though loath to forgoe his company yet because it belonged to Knightly Attempts hee gaue him leaue and withall furnished him a Shippe at his owne proper cost and charges giuing free Licence to all Knights whatsoeuer to beare him company amongst which number Sir Launcelor du Lake was the chiefest that proferred himselfe to that Uoyage who protested such loue to the Red-rose Knight that they plighted their Faiths like sworne Brothers and to liue and die together in all extreamities So these two English Knights with the number of a hundred more all resolute Gentlemen tooke leaue of the King and with all spéede went a Ship-boord wherein being no s●●ner entred but the Pylot hoysed Sayle and di●an●hored and so committed their liues and Fortunes to the pleasure of Neptunes mercie vpon whose 〈◊〉 Kingdome the 〈◊〉 many dayes sayled but Ae●●us brazen gates ●u●st open and the Windes so violently troubled the swelling waues that euery minute they were in danger to end their liues in the bottome of the Seas Thrée moneths the winde and the waters stroue together for supremacie during which time they sawe no land but were driuen vp and downe to what place the euer-changing Destenies listed so at last they sayled beyond the Sunne directed only by the light of the Starres not knowing which way to trauell towards land but in such extrenity for want of Uictuall that they were forced to land at a certaine Iland in the Westerne parts of the world inhabited onely by women where being no sooner on land and giuing God thanks for deliuering them from that mortall perill but the Red-rose Knight cast vp his eyes towards the higher parts of the Countrey and espied more then two thousand women comming foorth at a Citie gate all most richly armed with Breast-plates of Siluer marching in trim aray like an Army of well approoued Souldiers the which number comming néere to the Sea side they sent two of their Damsels as Messengers to the English Knights willing them as they loued their liues presently to retire againe back to the Seas for that was no Countrey for their abode But when the Red-rose Knight of England had vnderstoode the hold message of the two Damsels he was sore abashed considering the number of armed women he saw before him and the great dangers they had suffered before on the Sea for want of v●●●uals that he knew not in what manner he were best to answere them but hauing a good courage hee at last spake to the two Damsels in this sort Right Noble Ladies I haue well vnderstood your spéeches therefore I desire you for to shew such fauour vnto wandering Trauailers as to tell vs in what Country Fortune hath brought vs to and for what cause we are commanded by you to returne to the Sea Surely Sir Knight answered one of the Damsels this Countrey whereon you are ariued it is not very bigge but yet most fertile and commodious and is called by the name of the Fayrie-Land And now to shew you the cause why you are commaunded to returne this it is Not many yeares agoe there raigned in this Countrey a King which had to name Larmos for wisedome and prowesse not his equall was found in any of these parts of the world This King had such continuall warre against the bordering Ilanders that vpon a time he was constrained to muster for the same warre all the men both young old which were found in his Kingdome whereby the whole Countrey was left destitute of men to the great disconten●ment of the Ladies and Damsels that here inhabited whereupon they finding themselues so highly wronged liuing without the company of men they generally assembled themselues together with the Daughter of King Larmos which is called Caelia no lesse in Beautie then in Uertue and Wisedome These Ladyes and Damosels beeing gathered together with a generall consent dispatched certaine Messengers to the King and to their Husbands willing them to returne into their Countrey and not to leaue their wiues and children in such extremity without the comfort and company of man Upon which the King answered that hee had besieged his Enemies in their Townes of Warre and before one man should returne home till he came with Conquest his Country should bee lost and made desolate and the Women giuen ouer to the spoyle of his Enemies Which answere when the Ladies had receiued they tooke it in such euill part that they conspired against their King and Husbands and put to death all the men children that were in the Countrey and after determined when their Husbands Fathers and Friends

renowned Prester Iohn sitting vpon his Princely Throne vnder propt with pillers of Iasper stone who after he had giuen them an honorable welcome he took the Red-rose Knight by the hand and led him vp into a large and sumptious Hall the richest that euer he had séene in all his life But in going vp certaine stayres hée looked in at a window and espied fayre Anglitora the Kings daughter sporting amongst other Ladyes which was the fayrest mayde that euer mortall eye behelde and I thinke that Nature her selfe could not frame her like but being entred the Hall they foūd the Tables couered with costly fare ready for supper when as the English Knights were set at the Kings Table in company of Prester Iohn and Anglitora with other Ladyes attending hauing good stomaches they fedd lustily but Anglitora which was placed right ouer against the Red-rose Knight fedde only vpon his beauty and princely behauiour not being able to withdraw her eyes from his diuine excellencie but the renowned Prester Iohn for his part spent away the supper time with many pleasant conferences touching the countrey of England and King Arthurs princely Court the report of which fame had so often sounded in his eares But amongst all other deuises he told the English Knights of a Trée of gold which now grew in his Realme and yéerely brought foorth goldē fruit but he could not enioy the benefit thereof by reason of a cruell Dragon that continually kept it for the conquest of which golden tree hée had many times solemnly proclaimed through that part of the World that if any Knight durst attempt to conquer it and by good fortune bring the aduenture to an end he should haue in reward thereof his Daughter the faire Anglitora in marriage to which many Knights reserted as well of fortaine Countreys as his owne Nation but none proued so fortunate to accomplish the wished conquest but lost their liues in the same aduenture therefore I fully beléeue if all the Knights in the world were assembled together yet were they all vnsufficient to ouercome that terrible Dragon With that the Red-rose Knight with a bold courage stood vp and protested by the loue he bore vnto his countryes King he would performe the enterprise or lose his life in the attempt so in this resolution hée remained all supper time which being ended the English Knights were brought into diuers chambers but amongst the rest the Red-rose Knight and Sir Launcelot were lodged néere to the fayre Anglitora for there was nothing betwixt their Chambers but a little Gallery into which being come and no sooner layd in their beds but the Red-rose Knight began to conferre with Sir Launcelot in this manner What thinke you quoth he of the enterprize I haue taken in hand Is it not a deed of honour and renowne Surely replyed Sir Launcelat in my iudgement it is an enterprize of death for euery man in this countrey adiudgeeth you ouercome and destroyed if you but once approach the sight of the Dragon therefore bee aduised and goe not to this perrilous aduenture for you can obtaine nothing thereby but reproach and death and doubtlesse they are counted wise that can shun the misuentures and kéepe themselues from danger But then quoth the Red-rose Knight shall I falsifie my promise and the promise of a noble minde ought still to bée kept therefore ere I will infringe the Uow I haue made I will be deuoured by the terrible Dragon And in speaking these words they fell asleepe During which time of their conference fayre Anglitora stood at their chamber doore and heard all that had passed betwixt them and was so surprized with the loue of this gentle Red-rose Knight that by no meanes shée could restraine her affections and returning to her chamber casting her selfe vpon her Bedde thinking to haue slept but could not shée began to say secretly to her selfe this sorrowfull lamentation Alas mine Eyes what torment is this you haue put my heart vnto for I am not the woman that I was wont to be for my heart is fiered with a flame of amorous desires and is subiect to the Loue of this gallant English Knight the beautie of the world and the glory of Christendome But fond feele that I am wherefore doe I desire the thing which may not be gotten for I greatly feare that hee is already betr●thed to a Lady in his owne Countrey And furthermore his minde is garnished with Princely cogitations that I may not enioy his Loue and he thinketh no more of me then on her that he neuer saw But graunt that hee did set his affection vpon mée yet were it to small purpose for he is resolued to aduenture his life in the conquest of the Golden trée where hee will soone bee deuowred by the terrible Dragon Ah what a griefe sorrow will it be to my heart when I shall heare of his vntimely death for hee is the choise of all Nature the Prince of Nobilitie and the flowre of worship for I haue heard him say that hee had rather die honourably in accomplishing his Uow then to returne with reproach into England Which happy country if these eyes of mine might but once behold then were my soule possessed with terrestriall ioyes Anglitora with these words fell asléepe and so passed the night away till the day came who ●o sooner with his bright beames glistered against the Pallace walles but the Red-rose Knight arose from his bed and armed himselfe in great courage ready for the aduenture where after hée had taken leaue of the King and all the rest of his English friends hée departed foorth of the Citie towards the Golden trée which stood in a low vally some two miles from the Kings Pallace This morning was fayr and cleare and not a cloud was séene the elements and the Sun cast his resple●dant beames vpon the earth at which time the Ladyes and Damosels moūted vpon the highest Towers in the Pallace and the common people came vp to the battlements and walles of Churches to behold the aduenture of this valiant Knight who as then wet most ioyfully on his iourney till he came to the vaile of the Golden trée wherein being no sooner entred but he behelde a most cruell and terrible Dragon come springing out of his hellow Caue This Dragon was farre more bigger then a horse in length full thirtie foote the which incontinently as soone as hee was out of his Caue began to raise his necke set by his eares and to stretch himselfe opened his throate and casting foorth thereat most monstrous burning flames of fire Then the Red-rose Knight drew cut his good Sword and went towards him whereat the Monster opened his terrible throat whereout sprang three tongues ●asting foorth flaming fire in such sort that it had almost burnt him The first blowe that the Knight strooke hit the Dragon betwixt the two eyes so furiously that hée staggered but being recouered and féeling himselfe most grieuously hurt