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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06147	A brief discourse of the most renowned actes and right valiant conquests of those puisant princes, called the nine worthies wherein is declared their seuerall proportions and dispositions, and what armes euerie one gaue, as also in what time ech of them liued, and how at the length they ended their liues. Compiled by Richard Lloyd gentleman.	Lloyd, Richard, gentleman.	1584 (1584)	STC 16634; ESTC S119668	23,584	52

punishment vpon adulterers is seene Whom sodainly he doth preuent with sharpe correction in his teene The proofe thereof no lesse doth tell of his incest beeing wayed well For Mordred his fatall fo he did beget incestuously Vnto his vtter ouerthrow on his owne sister wickedly And thus the father was forlorne through his sons force in incest borne A good example to bewray the due reward of euerie vice Thy sinnes the scriptures plainly say shal thee condemne before thine eies And likewise he the death shal die who doth commit adulterie Was not the world once ouerflowen for this offence of lauish lust Sodom and Gomor ouerthrowen with fire and brimstone vnto dust Was not Sichem through lust destroide and all his cittie sore annoide Died not Ammon through his incest and was not Absalon eke spilt Through lecherie as is exprest and died not Abner through this gilt And what incestuous seed by Lot vpon his daughters was begot Lewd lust did Hollofernes kil through lust the Iudges lost their life Bicause they might not haue their wil accomplisht on Ioakims wife What plagues did fal on Beniamin onely through lust that filthie sin Thus may you see of lecherie the punishment and due reward Then flie far from such miserie and therevnto take no regard Gods plague is sore if he begin and death is the reward of sin FINIS SPLINDIDA CRVDELEM POST MORTEM FAMA MANEBIT THE HISTORIE OF THE conquests of the mightie conquerour CHARLES the great I Am the Emperour Charlemaine surnamed Charles the great I reigned six and fortie yéeres as King in roiall seat Both King and Emperour also of kingdoms manie one I am a Christian and beléeue in Iesus Christ alone The Father and the holie Ghost one God in Trinitie Which made both heauen and the earth and liueth eternallie My fathers name Pipinus was in Inglehem also In the countie of Palatine my mother bare me tho But little from the citie Meutz My fame and woorthinesse Is knowne well through Christendome and also heathenesse I warred against the Sarracens in Gascoine manie a daie And caused them to yéeld and turne vnto the Christian laie The Saxons fierce I did pursue for thirtie winters space And at the last constrained them on knées to sue for grace And to my Empire to obey and christian faith to take And eke their Painims false beleefe for euer to forsake King Desiderius I subdued with many a Lumbard mo As he was marching towards Rome to worke Italians wo And saued Rome and Italy from danger of the fire Whose spoile this king of Lumbards did malitiouslie conspire And laid him his children and his wife in prison strong At Liege the citie great whereas they all remained long I tooke all Lumbardie by force with famous victorée And placed officers therein to gouerne vnder mée Tassilo Duke of Baiarland I conquered in fight His men of wars I ouerthrew his sonne a noble knight Renowmed through his manlie acts and feats of chiualrie I ouercame with mine owne hands in battell valiantlie The bishop Leo I restord vnto the dignitée Whom Romans had exiled Rome when he fled vnto mée All Italie I brought perforce to my obeisiance Where I slew manie doughtie knights with dent of deadlie launce Eight yéeres I warred in Hungarie against those nations stout And ceased not till finallie I rooted them all out From whence I brought abundance great of gold and siluer bright And therewith highlie did aduance and prefer manie a knight Lecho king of Behemie I vanquished in field Both he and all his subiects did to my subiection yéeld All France I had vnder my power all Germanie was myne And all the countries that doelie vpon the riuer Rhyne In France I held long wars and great against foure kings of fame Who were the Duke of Dordons sonnes at last I did them tame In Rome I was crownd Emperour whereby the monarchie Translated was from Rome vnto my countrey Germanie I was both King and Emperour of all the west empire And brought the same to quiet state what should I more desire All the kings through Christendome I might command at will It laie in me as souereigne Lord to pardon or to spill When I had thus triumphantlie obtained what I would I was content to liue at rest bicause I waxed old And then I led in quietnesse the last part of my life Redressing wrong maintaining peace suppressing euerie strife In which time I did build and found thrée Vniuersities Of fame in Italie and France whose seuerall names be these Bononie and Padua which lie in Italie And Paris the chiefe towne of France these founded were by me In fine as euerie mortall wight to death must yéeld his due At Aken so I changed life I could it not eschue When I had liued seuentéene yeres and two accounted iust My bodie was enterd in earth where it consumes to dust In the yéere after Christ his birth eight hundered and mo By true account of authors old full seuentie and two FINIS ❧ An Example of this former Historie THe blisse and long felicitie which here this worthie did enioie Through palme of famous victory raining most like a princely boy Foresheweth vnto euery wight the vertues of this noble knight The zeale he bare to learnings lore his life also declares the same And God aduanced him therefore with much increase of daily fame And held him vp in his renown that no foes forse could pluck him down For God will alwaies his defend and them direct in euery cause He giues long life and happie end to such as doe obserue his lawes In whom he doth good workes begin he wil continue them therein FINIS QVI FAMAM QVERIT VIGILET 〈…〉 IVVENILIBVS ANNIS THE HISTORIE OF THE conquests of the puissant conquerour GVY. I Am Guy the Barron bold of déede the doughtiest knight That in my daies in England was with shield or speare in fight An English man I am by birth in faith a Christian true The wicked lawes of Infidels I vtterlie eschue Nine hundreth twentie yéeres and one after Christ his birth When King Athelstone ware the crowne I liued vpon earth Sometime I was of Warwicke Earle and for to say the truth A Ladies loue did me constraine to trauell in my youth To win me fame in feats of armes in strange and sundrie lands Where I atchieued for hir sake great conquests with my hands First I said to Normandie and there I wan in fight The Emperours daughter of Almaine from manie a worthie knight Also in Lumbardie my selfe with thrée knights and no more Slew sixtéene Lumbards beeing ambusht to murder me before Through false Duke Ottons trecherie who bare me mortall hate Cause of the wound I gaue to him in Normandie of late Then passed I the seas to Greece to helpe the Emperour right Against the mightie Souldans host of Persia to fight Where I did kill of Sarracens and Painims manie a man And slew the Souldans cousin eke who had

to name Coldran And Eskeldart a famous knight to death I did pursew And Elman King of Tire also most horrible to vew I went vnto the Souldans host vpon ambassage sent And brought his head away with me hauing kild him in his tent There was a Dragon in that land which also I did slay As he a Lion did pursue most fiercely by the way To Almaine thence I did retire and thence to Loraine right Where I the Duke of Painie kild his treason to requight Then into England I did saile to wed Phelis the bright For loue of whom I trauelled so far to trie my might And when I had espoused hir I staide but fortie daies Vntill I left the Ladie faire and went from hir my waies Vnto the seas in pilgrime sort my voyage for to take Euen vnto the holie land for Iesus Christ his sake Where I Earle Ionas did redéeme and all his sonnes fiftéene Who with the cruell Sarisins in prison long had béene I slew the Giant Amerant in battell hand to hand And doughtie Barnard killed eke and Duke of Painie land And sithens came into England and there with Colbrand fought An vglie Giant whom the Danes had for their champion sought And ouercame him in the field and siue him valiantlie And thereby did release the land from tribute vtterlie And afterwards did offer vp the weapon solemnlie In Winchester wherewith I fought in sight of manie an eie In Windsor forrest I did kill a Bore of passing strength Whose like in England neuer was for highnes breadth and length Some of his bones in Warwicke yet within the castle lie One of his shields vnto this daie doth hang in Couentrie I slew also in Dunsmore heath a monsterous wild beast Cald the Dun cow of Dunsmore which manie men opprest Hir bones also in Warwicke lie yet for a monument Which vnto euerie looker on a woonder may present And in Northumberland I did a Dragon fell destroie Which did both men and beasts oppresse and countrey sore annoie And then to Warwicke came againe but there I was not knowne Wherefore I led an Hermits life a mile out of the towne Where with my hands I hewed a house out of a rocke of stone And liued as a Palmer poore within that caue alone And dailie came to seeke my food vnto my castell gate Not knowne of my louing wife which mourned for hir mate Till at the last I fell sore sicke and found that I must die I sent to hir a ring by which she knew me presentlie And so repairing to the caue before I gaue the ghost She closed vp my dieng eies whom once I loued most Thus dreadfull death did me arrest and laid my corps in graue Thus as a Pilgrime died I and all my soule to saue My bodie in Warwicke lieth yet though now consumed to mould My stature there engrand in stone this day you may behould FINIS ❧ An Example of this former Historie THe affection of impatient loue procurd this knight to take His manlie forse might to proue in many a strang forren land Whereby it came to passe that he aduanced was exceedinglie For through his warlike feates of fame and marshall magnanimitie He wan to wife a passing dame being borne of high nobilitie With Earledoms two which by hir right descended to this noble knight But see in him example rare when he the ladie wedded had With hir the storie doth declare but fortie daies his life he lad Till leauing all in poore araie on pilgrimage he tooke the waie Towards Ierusalem to obtaine remission for his sinfull life Bicause he had so manie slaine for loue of hir which was his wife And not for Iesus Christ his sake for which he thoght amends to make With punishing his bodie so as then it was the wonted vse Which of repentance plain doth sho a token thogh through great abuse For want of knowledge of the truth of holie scriptures the more ruth And afterwards at his returne all worldly pleasures he defied In pouertie he did bemourne his youthfull daies and so he died All these declare a contrite hart which God accepted in good part Finis huius libri