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A09832	The hystories of the most famous and worthy cronographer Polybius discoursing of the warres betwixt the Romanes [and] Carthaginenses, a riche and goodly worke, conteining holsome counsels [and] wonderfull deuises against the incombrances of fickle fortune. Englished by C.W. Wherevnto is annexed an abstract, compendiously coarcted out of the life & worthy acts, perpetuate by our puissaunt prince king Henry the fift.; Historiae. English	Polybius.; Watson, Christopher, d. 1581.	1568 (1568)	STC 20097; ESTC S114792	81,252	276

at the ende a replye to the same made by the right honorable Lorde Rafe earle of Westmerlande a man of no lesse grauitie than experience which was garnished with such floures of Rethoricke and matter of importance that if it had ben in Greke and Latine it had ben nothing inferiour but equiualent with the Orations of Demosthenes or Tully When I had taken a superficial sight of it I was rapte in minde more profoundly to digest his stately stile knit together as the Ambre and argumentes indissoluble as the Adamant After that I had circumspectly pondered and wayed it with deliberation I wondered not a little to sée such eloquence and pithie sentences procede out from such a potentate as scant in these our dayes demane from graue great learned Doctors There lacked no copie of examples as of the Persians the Africans the Grekes and especially of the Romans by diuerse other nations yea of Englande and Scotlande When I had perused the mellifluous Oration of this worthy Oratour and mightie magistrate I determyned with my selfe to reade some of the famous Histories out of which he had picked such pleasant pearles and especially before the rest that Historie intreating of the warres made by the Romans for Scicilie and the Citie of the Samnites out of the which he hadde collected the most firme infringible argumentes of his Oration With the perusing of the which History I was so rapt and pleasured that my appalled senses were quickned and my dul wit sharpened reuiued For the which causes I vowed to apply my vacant houres in reducing it to our maternal vulgar tong vnder the protection gouernāce of the most worthy sequele hautie successours of the incomparable Earle trusting so much to their boūtiful beneuolēce accustomed gētlenes which naturally is plāted in that stock so that they would gratefully accept my good wil towards them When the matter was come to this point I thought that of necessitie I must nedes pen the oration which was the originall cause of this my translation that thereby I might satisfie them which were desirous to know for what cause I toke this worke in hand which could not be done without declaring of the bishops which was the cause of the earls So then I was persuaded that euery man would be desirous to know for what cause the bishop made his which could not be shewed without entring into the life of King Henry the which percell of his life would haue caused him to haue ben iudged of some maligne cursed persons a wicked prince But for their confounding which would go about to take such a cause where none is offered I iudged it as a thing necessarie at the leaste compendiously to shew this abstract of the life of our worthy and renoumed prince and gouernour not neding any argelier to explicate set forth his workes bothe bicause I should soner emptie the Occeans and fill the vorages of Scilla and Caribdis than shew his merited praises which are done alredy as worthely as may be by any man in the vnion of the two illustre and noble families of Lancaster and Yorke compiled by the forenamed Hal but yet not accordingly as they ought to haue ben or as he deserued and also bicause this may sufficiently serue for the vnderstanding of that which I intēded Thus fare you well from my study in saint Iohns Colledge at Cambridge Yours Christopher Watson ¶ The victorious actes of king Henry the fift THe mightie puissāt prince Henry sonne heire to king Henry the fourth toke vpon him the highe power and regimēt of this Realme of England the twenty day of March in the yeare after that Christ our sauiour had entred into the immaculate wombe of the holy Virgin his natural Mother a thousand foure hundreth and eyght and was crowned King the ninth day of April next ensuing and proclaimed King by the name of King Henry the fift This King was the man which according to the auncient prouerbe declared shewed that honour ought to chaunge maners for incontinently after that he was inthronised in the siege royall and had receiued the diaadem and scepter of this famous and fortunate region he determined with him selfe to put on the shape of a new man to vse an other sort of liuing turning insolency wildenesse into grauitie and sobernesse and wauering vice into constant vertue and to the entent that he would so persiste without reflection either least he should bée allured by the sinister persuasions of his familyer companions with whome he had passed his adolescencie in wanton pastimes and ryotous rufflings he banyshed and separated from him all his olde flatterers and lighte bolde brainesicke playféeres but not vnrewarded inhibiting them from thence forth on a great payne not once to approche eyther to his speach or presence nor yet to lodge or soiourne within ten miles of his highe Courte or royall mansion and in their places elected chose men of grauitie and great wit with such as were practised in pollicie and martial prowes by whose skilful wisdome curious counsayle prudent pollicies and ingenious instructions he might at all times rule regally to his high honour guide his gouernāce princelike to his profit This péerlesse prince was righteously reported to be the rare Arabical Phoenix and the very Peragone of his predecessours This haughty Henry was a King whose life was exempt from al faults his liuing vnspotted with obloquie this curtuous king was a princely potentate whome all men leally loued none disdained or dreade this prewe Prince was a coragious Captaine against whome fickle Fortune neuer fraudulently frowned nor irous mischaunce once spitefully spurned this warlike Captaine was a sincere shepherd whome his fawning flocke faithfully fauored and obediently obeyed and with continuall acclamations reknowledged their louing lorde Thys our pastor was such a iust iusticiarie that no facinorous fact was pretermitted vnpunished or faithfull frendshyp destitute of due desert This gentle Iusticiarie was so vnfaynedlye feared that all rage and rebellion were quite banished and all sedition suppressed His feruēt vertues were no more notable than his fine qualities wer worthy of praise for the whiche fewe or none were to him comparable No mā could be found more temperate in eating and drinking than he was he fained no frugalitie his diet was not delicate dainties but rather rurall and grosse more to be desired of the wearied warrier than to be offred to amorous ladies Hys indomable courage was so constant and his hearte was so immutable that he reiected al feare and dastardly dread from him was vtterly banished He had such profound knowledge in conducting and ordring an armie and suche a rare grace in the incoraging of his souldiers that frēch men publikely pronounced him to bée inuincible and impossible to be vanquished Hée was endued with suche pregnant wyt such perfecte prudence and admirable policie that he neuer enterprised any thing before he hadde

youre victuals are nere your aide is euen at your backe so that in that voyage and exploite you shall haue abundance and plentie of all things neither shal any necessaries to that conquest be wanting Sée what an occasion fauourable fortune hath friendly offered vnto you is not their king your captiue and prisoner is not the realme in greate diuision and at intestine discorde for the Duke of Albanie nowe presentely wisheth rather to haue a straunge gouernor than a naturall tyrant Wherfore as I began so do I persist that it is necessarie before your profection to Fraunce to inuade Scotlande by Gods grace to conquere and ioyne that regiō to your empire and to restore the estate old préeminence to the renoumed monarchy of Britain and so being beautified with realms furnished which people you may with more ease enter Fraunce for the recoueryng of youre righteous title and true inheritaunce in obseruyng the old ancient prouerb which sayth He which intendeth Fraunce to winne With Scotlande let him first beginne After this Oration of the worthye Earle the Duke of Excester rose vp and spake an other in the which he per suaded the Kings Maiestie to take in hande the conquest of Fraunce but not without attributing great laude and praise to the Oration of the Earle but especially he commended the entrance of his confirmation in the which hée had alleaged howe the Romanes more desired such as wer vnder the flight of their owne Egle or whose possessions were a moate to their eyes as the I le of Scicilie and the Citie of the Samnites and other which he clearkly declared than other regions farre distant and not obiect to their horizon But by them he nothing preuailed for the King so muche regarded the sayings of hys vncle that incontinently he sent hym and others ambassadors to the French King And shortly after hauing furnished his nauie with all things fitte for such a royall voyage yet beyng mindfull of the wordes which his true and loyall péere the Erle of Westmerlād a faithfull Codrus toward his countrey had spoken he apointed him as a most worthie champion and one in whome he had fixed great hope and confidēce with the Lorde Scrope and other dyuers hardie personages valiant captains and worthy warriers to defend the marches and frontiers adioyning to Scotland in the which they dyd many hauty and valiant enterprises When the King had thus ordred and disposed all things for the tuition and safegard of his realme perceiuing that the winde was prosperous and pleasaunt for the nauie to set forwarde they weyed vp their ankers hoysed vp their sailes tooke sea wyth a hundreth and fortie ships and on the vigile of the Assump tion of our Lady with al his fléete lan ded at Kidcauxe in Normandy without resistence or bloudshedding and shortly after wonne the towne of Harflew conquered the battaile of Aegincourte subdued Caen with the Castle obteined Roan wanne Ponthoys and then concluded peace hauing maried Lady Catherine the French kings daughter and being proclaimed heire and regēt of France keeping such a noble house in Roan that all men resorted to hys court and few or none to the French kyngs after Christmasse he ordeined his brother duke of Clarence his lieutenant generall bothe of Fraunce and Normandie and on the morowe after Cādlemasse day toke shippyng at Caleys and landed at Douer And thus was the supplication put vp for dissoluyng of the deuils stewes falsely named religious houses clerely forgottē and buried according to the myndes of the sinfull Sathanistes and hooded hipocrites After this the Kyng made an other voyage into Frāce for certain wrongs offred vnto him pursued the Dolphin in such wise that he coulde scant find Hiempsalles hole to hyde him self in Thus after many victorious cō quests vpon that Frenchmen this floure of chiualry passing to aide them of Cosney whiche were besieged by the Dolphins adherents came to Corbell so to Senlesse where whether it were through the heate of the ayre or dayly labour being sore féebled weakened he began to waxe sicke yea and so sick that he was cōstrained to desist frō his pretensed purpose and sende the duke of Bedford his brother to perform his iorney and enterprise Then he began to waxe sicker sicker was cōueyed in a horselitter to Bloys where perceiuing himself to draw towards his end that death the stealing thefe whiche goth about to subuert in a momēt of an houre clerely to suppeditate al prin ces intētiōs came rūning vpon him which his piercing darte he rendred to God most heartie thankes chiefly for that he woulde call him out of this miserable life at such a time when as he was of most perfect remembrance both toward God and the worlde and also in the time of his flourishing conquest in whiche he had neuer receiued misfortune euil chaunce or spot of dishonor affirming that he was bothe glad and inwardly reioyced bicause the shorte tyme and small tracte of hys mortall lyfe shoulde bee a testimonie of hys strength a declaration of his Iustice and a setting forth of his acts and procedings also that by his death he shold obteine fame glorie and renoume escapyng the reprehension of cowardnesse the moate of all infamie which by chance he might haue gotten if nature had prolonged his life Saying as eternitie is the triumpher of time so he trusted after this fragile caduce life to obteine eternall being and after this miserable pilgremage to enioy the celestiall kingdome to come to the place of rest quietnesse Thus committing his soule to God his yong sonne prince Henry to his nobles his loue to his frends and his bodie to the earth he sayd certaine godly psalmes and receiued the blessed communion afterward reciting the Psalme of the Passion he completed and expyred his fatall breth the last day of August in the yeare of our Lord a thousand foure hundreth twentie two in the ninth yeare the fift moneth and twentie fourth daye of his raigne the eight thirty yeare of his age When the death of this Doctour in Martial affaires of all cheualry the very peragon was published among the common people incontinently their hearts were appalled their courages abated their dolour much encreased yea their wits were so troubled that like mad men they tare their haire accusing and blaming Fortune which had bereft them of so rare a iewel for robbing them of so noble an ornament and defacing them of so sure a defence and for euerting of their strong bulwarke Thus this worthie King dyed of a pleurisey which at that time was a rare sicknesse and strange disease for the name was to the most part of men vnknowne Phisiciōs were little acquainted with any remedie for the same his bodie was imbaumed closed in lead laide in a royal Chariot sumptuously adourned with cloth of golde Vpon the corps was laide a liuely represētation of his proper person beset with robes diademe and scepter with ball other abilimēts apperteining to a King the which chariot was drawn with braue Coursers gorgiously trapped in seuerall armes accompanied with diuers dolent mourners Thus with great funerall pompe his body was conueyed from Boys de Vincence to Paris and so to Roan from thence to Abinell after that to Caleis then to Douer and so through the citie of London to Westminster where he was enterred with such solemne ceremonies such mourning of Lordes such prayers of prelates such lamenting of commons as neuer before that day was séene in England Thus ended this noble and puissant prince an Vlisses in worldly pollicie a very Nestor in prudent wisdome an other Hector for manhod victorious actes an other Tully not onely in eloquence but also in defending his people and him self from priuate cursed conspiracies as he shewed at his departure from Southamptō into Fraunce his most worthy and fortunate reigne ouer this our Realme of England Whose life although cruell Atropos before his time abbreuiated yet neither fire rust or furious fretting time shall amongst our English nation eyther appal his honor or obliterate his glory which in so few yeares briefe dayes at chiued so high and glorious aduentures and made so many great and famous conquestes to the preseruing of his name in perpetuall memory and the glory of vs English men in omnen perennitatem Thus endeth the recapitulation of the life and victorious actes perpetrate by our puissaunt Prince of famous memorie King Henry the fift of that name FINIS ¶ Imprinted at London in Knightrider strete by Henry Bynneman for Thomas Hacket and are to be sold in Paules churchyard at the signe of the Key Anno. 1568.

bold Britains as their owne neighbours extracte of one propre parente and descended of one progenie For the auaricious Albanacts otherwise called the false fraudulent snatching Scottes and the carelesse Cambers otherwise denominate vnstable wauering Welshmen falsified their faith not only by withdrawing their fealtie denying their homage refusing their allegiance due to their soueraignes the Kings of this realm but also made continual warre and destroyed their townes and slew the friendes of their neighbours the Britains For whiche cause diuers of your hautie progenitors haue not only made warre and subdued the faythlesse Scots for denying of their homage and reaping of rebellion but also haue deposed their Kyngs and Princes inthronising settyng vp other in their estates and dignities Was not Scater their king slaine and extincted for hys rebellion by your noble predecessour Dunwallo Moluncius Arthur also the glory of the Britains directed Angosile to the scepter of Scotlande and receyued of hym homage and fealtie If I shold recken how many of their kings haue done homage to youre auncient predecessors or reherse what numbre of Scottish Kings they haue corrected and punished for disobedience and denying their dueties or if I should declare what Kyngs they as superioure lordes and high Emperours ouer the vnder kings of Scotlande haue elected and made rulers to the intent that all people mighte manifestely perceyue that it was more glorious more honourable and more famous a Kyng to make a King than to be a King by naturall descent I assure you that your eares woulde be more wearie of hearing than my tongue fatigate with telling the truth Your noble progenitour Kyng Edwarde the first coueting to be superiour to surmount in honor or at the least to be equiualēt in fame with his noble ancesters and famous progenitours studied dayly hourely compassed howe to associate together and tourne the whole I le of Britaine which was diuided by Brute into thrée seuerall partes to the pristinate Monarchial state and one dominion After long study and greate consultation hée victoriously subdued Wales tamed their wildenesse and bridlyng them with sharpe bittes turned them to their olde home and aunciente degrée whiche thyng done he semblably inuaded Scotlande and conquered the countrey to the towne of Pearche uent with the serpentine policie to auoid and eschue al things which might either be impedimentes to their progression and setting forwarde or occasions of their returne and losse of their enterprise least they leauing behinde them a noysom neighbor a continuall aduersarie and a secrete ennimie may as soone come to leese their owne patrimonie as conquere or gaine the dominions of other Wherefore the trite and common adage sayth Better one birde in hande than tenne in the woodde Leaue not the certain for the vncertaine for whiche consideration it is expedient and nedeful that I enūciate or declare vnto you certaine articles contained in the ancient league and amitie continued betwixt the realmes of France Scotland wherof the wordes be these The warres and iniuries moued or done by the Englishe nation to either of the sayd countreys to be as cōmon wrong to bothe If the English mē make warre on the french nation then the Scottes at the costes charges of the French king shal minister to them succoures Semblably if the Scottes be molested by the English warres the Frenchmen hauing their costes allowed shall be to them as aiders and assisters And that none of both nations shall either contract or make peace with the Realme of England without consent or agréemente of the other And to the intente that this league and amitie should be kept vnuiolate Robert le Bruse the vsurper of Scotlande willed by his testament two things especially to be obserued the one neuer to breake the treatie cōcluded with France the other neuer to kepe peace or paction made with Englishemen longer than the obseruing thereof were to them commodious or profitable Yet Mare and other Scottish writers colour thys cause saying that he would haue no treatie or peace concluded wyth Englande aboue thrée yeares But what so euer writers write or talkers tel they be to him most faithful executers haue neuer yet falsified or broken his testament but continually performed hys commaundement Yea for the verificatiō of Bruses brutish bidding and for the performaunce of this his wycked will and to kéepe and preserue thys league vnuiolate none of your auncesters euer inuaded Fraunce but incontinently the Scots troubled and vexed Englande none of your progenitors euer passed the seas in a iust quarel against the French nation but that Scots in their absence entred your realme spoyled your townes burned and destroyed youre villages sacked youre houses pilled and forraged your countrey afflicted your subiects slew your people taking and distributing booties innumerable and thus continually abandoning your countrey the caitifes are and haue bene accustomed couertly to kepe themselues in wooddes and secrete places that they myght there fight and with sodaine assaults and at vnwares inuade the defēders of your frontiers and all these deceipts were and are practised to prouoke then your auncesters and now you to desist and returne from the inuading of Fraunce If I should vnbuckle to you their com mon breakyng of leagues if I should vncaste theyr craftie and subtill dissimulation if I should drawe the vaile of their falsified faire promises often sworne and neuer kepte if I shoulde vnsheath all their shamefull shifts if I should shew open the pestiferous pack of their peuishnesse I doubte not but you would ten times more abhorre to heare of their detestable dealing than I should be ashamed of the truthe telling Therfore I will not only persist in aduouching my assertion but also affirme and proue that of necessitie and constrainte to swéepe all corners of priuate enimies shall be néedefull suffering no lurking moates behynde your backe which may proue mischenous lettes when you go to conquere aduersaries before your face Moreouer beside all these if you consider the quotidian charges the inconstant chāces which may happen I thinke yea and litle doubte but Scotlande shall be tamed before your iourney can be framed to Fraunce for if you intende to inuade it accompte what numbre of ships must bée prepared to the transportation of your armie recōpt what a charge of ankers forcast what a com panie of cables and what other innumerable necessaries appertaine to a nauie After your nauigation and safe arriuall as I truste God will prosper your iourney if your men chaunce to decay by sicknesse or to be extincte by sworde if victuals faile if money wax scant if the windes turne contrary or hoistyng tempestes make the sea to outrage with belchyng dashes when these necessaries shold be transuehate to your armie then shall you be destitute of aide prouision and treasure which in a foraine region are the confusion and defacing of an armie On the contrary part if you inuade Scotlande your men be hard at hand