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A03482 The fall and euill successe of rebellion from time to time wherein is contained matter, moste meete for all estates to vewe. Written in old Englishe verse, by VVilfride Holme. Holme, Wilfrid. 1572 (1572) STC 13602; ESTC S106195 38,716 70

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battels by Otho was magnified But pouertie at the length was the diffinition Rose not Maxencius with Knights of the Pretorie Against Seuerus and Galerius Augustus And Seuerus Knightes betrayed him by Trecherie And then came assistaunce of noble Herculius Which was onely father to the saide Maxentius Prouoking Dioclesian for to take the dignitie But in my coniecture this was to them dolorous Pondring this mutable and sodeine diuersitie There Marcus the Consull in Italie confounded Three score thousand Riotors of that domination And also Metredas in force which abounded Contrarie to alegiance made great litigation Aboue twentie yeares with great confutation But in the sequele as Fortune did execute Destroyed was he and his procreation His posteritie slaine his Regions destitute The Bible is euident how Sichem congregation By slaying of Abimeleck them selues made fatigate And the storye Iudicum maketh cleare declaration How a Concubine was wrapped with lecherie insatiate Whose husband in twelue her members mutilate Sending to the Tribes with great lamentation Wherefore Israell had almost abrogate The whole tribe of Beniamin for their abomination In the seconde booke of Samuell it is playne expressed How Absolons disobedience and false peruersitie Made himselfe to be slayne and Israell oppressed With great effusion of bloude by his dualitie By the doughtinesse of Dauid and his nobilitie And eke Achitophell the counseller sapient Was so dispaired and in perplexitie That he hanged himselfe the traitor negligent Fiue hundred thousand of Israell were slaine necated Of the house of Ieroboam their king and principal In Paralipomenon it is cleare dilated How Abia of Iuda destroyed them for beliall And Iehu slew Achab and his sonnes collaterall Uanquished his bloud his stocke and Genealogie And also Ochosias of Iuda most royall Was slaine and his bretherne by Iehues conspiracie Sundry ingratitudes amongs the Iewes haue bene As Saul against Dauid and Ioab with Abnere And the séede of Ochozias with Alathia the Quéene With deuiding of Kingdomes as plainly doth appéere Of Iuda and Israell which was the cause cléere Of their captiuitie and the transmigration For diuers heades made diuers Gods seyre Wherefore God gaue them vp to their great damnation The bookes of Machabes discribeth the perturbance Of the male Caliditie that came by Alcinous To them pestiserous and to their great doliance Besides the destruction of noble Machabeus And eke the discorde of yong Antiochus Against Phillip the Traytor disloyal With the treason of Triphon against King Demetrius With the vniustnesse of Iason the théefe most vnnaturall In Iosephus we may sée that the Iewes for Rebellion Were conquered of Titus the sonne of Vaspasian And other stories say ther was slayne a Mylion With a hundreth M. moe and C. thousand tane And afterward contempt oppressed them by Adrian And cleane deiect them from their habitation Making in Ierusalem Foreners remayne And now pay they tribute in euery other Nation What should I recounte the Rebellion of Cresius With a thousand such moe to make macrologie My matter to prolong it were but superfluous But yet I will rehearse to touch somewhat briefly As concerning England our owne natiue Countrey For why the Auctors do wonderously dissent Therefore I will rehearse to this antilloquie But only the cognisaunce which appéereth verament This Region was maculate and put to rapacitie With the force of the Danes by Buerne contention And slaine was King Edmund King Osbridge and Ellée And ouer this one Mordred he made false preuention With Arthur his Soueraigne with such great dissention That only it caused not greate desolation But also perturbed the Royall intention From the Romaine Diademe with the Coronation Iulius Caesar for all his audacitie Was twice expulsed of Cassibolanus And made to recuile for all his Artillerie To the maledict conflict of one Andragius The Earle of London a Traitour contagious Whose ayde procurement and false introduction Foundred al Britaine from the estate prosperous And made vs be subiect to our great destruction Sithens the Conquest hath ben mischiefe inestimable As against king Stephen Maude the Empresse excitation But Henry the yonger an acte more myrable Contended with his Father with strife and mination What sapience was héere in this procuration To subdue his Father by his conuexitie Was not the Deuill in this inclination To make such discorde amongst the commontie The well redoubted king in act as most martiall Richard Curedelion from his Conquest ineffable Was made to recule by his brother naturall Pretending the Crowne with wayes inexecrable But alas for sorowe this Prince inexpugnable Was taken by the way but yet difficulate At the last was he with Raunsom innumerable And his enimies were taken and cleane exuperate I am ashamed to pronounce to publish and declare The Baronage commotion against Iohn their King And how to extringe his Sonne they did compare It museth my mynde suche naughty demeaning But what was the finall that came by transgressing Murder and death to the Realme right exial Destroying of Fortresses which yet is remayning Subduing of Townes to vs all preiudiciall Thomas Earle of Lancaster was hanged and decollate With sixtene Barrons moe in Edward the secōds days The filthy demeanor that then was approbate I abhor to recite they tooke such naughtie wayes For Tullius were not able at the full to disprayse The naughtinesse of the Queene with her malignitie But GOD doth requite with a corrosie alwayes For Mortimer was slaine for all his pompositie Iacke Straw Wat Tiler that Chiestains of Essex Kent Against Richard the seconde began to make pretence But after a little rumour on Gallous were they hente By fortie by fyftie this was their best defence And the Ear●● of Ratcot bridge which had the preheminence By processe were slaine with doth enterlarded For iniquitie by Iustice of very congruence Against true alegiance is oft thus rewarded The Dukes of Surrey and Exeter with treason infect With the Earle of Glocester the Earle of Salisburie Pretended in a mumming like traitours detect To ●lea their liege Lorde the noble fourthe Henry But headed were they with all their affinitie By the Commons purveyance and the diuine regiment In likewise with battell was slayne the yong Percie His Uncle hanged and drawen of Gallous first pendent The Archbishop of Yorke with the Earle Marshall of England For their insult was hanged their inquietude And the Lord Bardolfe with the Earle of Northumberlād Was instigate to insurge their Prince to illude To their intermission the veritie to conclude For by the Commons they were hanged and inquinate Here may be perceyued how that a small valitude Wyll reskue a Prince from subiects insaciate In the dayes of the sixth Henrie Iacke Cade made a brag With a multitude of people but in the consequence After a little insanie they fled tag and rag For Alexander Iden he did his diligence So interuention was Iacke Cades recompence And the commons were hanged in diuers partes séere By the kings iustices
by Nigromancie Gerebert had answere To sing at Ierusalem a Masse or euer he dyed And the Puppet sang at Rome in a Church or a Quere Called by that name or euer the spirite he espied And one Stephin of Angeo by a spirite had specified That he should dye in Pluma by which words ociabund He was resident from fethers and might them not abide And in a Castle so named he died like a vacabund One Alberice also Earle of Northumberlande Had answere by a diuell Grecia to obtayne Which made him resulte and ioyous to take in hande To conquere all Grece to his ligitious payne And made him to pampereske and to returne agayne To the countrey of Normandie where he had pollicite By king Henry of Englande a widowe for certayne A wife called Grecia thus was his chaunce finite Pirrhus of Appolline had suche a like responcion With diuers mo than these ouer long determinable But other wayes than this there is muche preuention By the figure sayd before as a spirite ineffable Might say to a maried man these words comfortable Thou shalt haue to thy wife lady Rosa or thou dye Here were a doubt whether he should wed the flore venerable Or to haue hir to his associate wife company Also one might say thou shalt haue viuacitie As many yeres as this yard wand is inches of length Now some would mete the inches and think no duplicitie Yet one might sure pernoske another way such strength As to rumpe or burne the yarde or to burne it to dust For then were the yarde not an inche of length at all And it not inches long then might a man proue iuste The destenie may be done by this color duall Also if a woman solde géese in the faire To one called Pecock and another swan nominate I had Géese Swans and Pecocks she might well declare Also one might by this color figurate Of a man called Foxe buy Turues parate And say I bought Turues which I thought to leide The which was Foxes thus double words ornate Wil make a false sense true and a true a lye in déede Ouer this prophesies by true declaration Doth more resemble to nature than to words of vanitie As Daniell figured regions to beasts and variation So may we thinke for rapine the Cleargie And for true noblenesse a Lion to the Lai●ie May not Marlin meane thus by his words miraculous ▪ And a Dragon for his venime to compare to the cōmontie This doth appeare better than playne reasons linguous A thousand suche wayes in prophesies are contriued And Peter sayth the good hath no priuate exposition Then must the ill with subtiltie and ill be deuised As plaine it doth appeare by many an ill peruersion And specially in Yorkshire at this last commotion For amongst diuers people there was one right profoūd Whose ende to perceiue there can be no direction Howbeit the beginning made diuerse not fremebounde Now this was their prophesie and their nugacitie Without a word added or a worde of minoritie Foorth shall come a worme an Aske with one eye He shall be the chiefe of that meinye He shall gather of chiualrie a full faire flocke Halfe Capon and halfe Cocke The Chicken shall the Capon slay And after that shall be no May. Of the first part of this we may haue some inspiration But the last parte is colored too far from mans minde Thus are diuelish prophesies made by such obiection That falshod in the ende that is their proper kinde Of the Mouldwarpe who wil scrute he shal the same find For thrée of the laste prophesies by Marline pagynate No man can finde true but abscondent and blinde And I can proue them playne bothe past and depopulate For in the English Chronicles who liste to aspicer In the last chapter of king Cadwalader They may perceiue an angel said the wil of god was plaine How the Britons shuld neuer more in Britaine raigne Till the prophesies sayd before by Marlin be fulfilled And that time should neuer be vnto the time future That the reliques of his body into Britaine wer trāslated From Rome with the reliques of other saincts sure That hath ben hyd for the Paynim folkes persecution Which shall be published and found and openly shewed Then should they of that laude haue perfite restitution Here may be noted Marlins prophesies subdued For Henrie the seuenth Cadwalladers bloud renued And the kings grace maketh Britons by the number plural Which is very relikes it cannot be eschued Of flesh bloud and bone of the same stocke paternal Which is from Rome translated and that false obedience As supreme head in earth vnder Christ to sustentande And Gods word the reliques of other sainctes pretence Which for persecution of their sore fire brand Is now openly shewed all heretikes to granand Now thanks be to God for his great largition Now before the seuenth Henrie this doth promulgand The prophesies of Marlin haue ended their condition And this is the meaning of Marlins prophesie Where he saith that the right heirs of England shall end That is to continue shal that genealogie For euermore as the angel did pretend To Cadwalader whē he promised his blud again to send ▪ And where Marlin saith sixe of the last kings In that of the last halfe he did comprehend To take where he list these were his meanings And by the seuenth Henry it is plaine manifest As for calling the same to be the land of conquest And it séemeth the fourth Edward the Mouldwarp for to be For diuers causes but for one most specially Which soweth his séede fatherlesse in a strange land That is by the king of his owne procreation which hath lost his Romain father the truth to vnderstād Of whom therfore good men haue made declaration This is the Britishe Lion by Sibilla prophesied This is the Egle surmounting which Festome hathe notified This is the king anoynted which S. Thomas specified This is the three folde Bul which Siluester magnified This is the king which S Edward in words glorified Which shuld win Ierusalem with all the holy land And many realmes mo with the crosse that Christ crucified By his abundant fortitude without dint of hand Is not his grace a Lion and accompt his audacitie And a prodigious Egle high volant in things diuine And anointed with faith by the spirite of veritie And of faith hope and charitie a fierce Bul in trine He hath obtained Christes crosse as they did vaticine With the heauenly Ierusalem aboue Ezechias Repairing the true temple in vbertuous wayes to shine Maumetrie destroying as the vertuous Iosias Ye this is he which hath made al the Romain bels to ring Without pul of hand their false tongs papistical Hauing oile in his lampe he is a maiden king Though they take it otherwise by their senses carnal And in the true vale of Iosaphat the scripture canonical There no doubt but his grace is sepelite For doubtlesse all the English prophesies autentical