borne Of Christian Kings the greatest then aliue Now he the Crowne full forty yeeres had worne Doth all his Regall Soueraignety suruiue Of all men liuing and the most forlorne So strange a thing can destiny contriue So many sundry miseries as he No King before had euer liu'd to see To heare all this Queene Margarite must endâ Yet sadly to her fathers Court confin'de And now King Edward held himselfe secure When things fell out so fitly to his minde But when of rest he did himselfe assure Vpon a suddaine rose so rough a wind In his strong hand which shooke his Scepter mo ãâ¦ã Then all the stormes that ere had blowne before For then in minde to league himselfe with Fr ãâ¦ã Which he perceiu'd would be the surest way His questiond Tytle highly to aduance And at his need should serue him for a kay âo open him their policies vvhose chance âas then in casting and the next to play For Margarite still the French King Lewis prest For second aydes nor would she let him rest Wherefore he sends a marri'ge to entreat âith beautious Bona with whose rich report âame was opprest with and a taske too great âhe French Queenes sister and with her in Court âarwicke the man chose foorth to worke the feat âââ is sent thither in such sumptuous sort And in short time so well his businesse plyes That she was like to proue an English prize In the meane while this youthful King by chance âomming to Grafton where the Dutchesse lay âhen stil'd of Bedford his eye haps to glance ãâ¦ã her bright Daughter the faire Widdow Gray ãâ¦ã se beauties did his senses so intrance ãâ¦ã stole his heart so suddainly away That must he lose his Crowne comeweale come woe She must be his though all the world say no Her lookes like Lethe make him to forget âon what businesse he had Warwicke sent ãâ¦ã this Lady he his loue so set ãâ¦ã at should his Crowne from off his head be rent âhis rebellious people rise to let âs choyse of his they should it not preuent For those pure eyes his bosome that had pierc'd Had writ alaw there not to be reuers'd What lesse amends this Lady can I make For her deere husband in my quarrell slaine Then lawfull marri'ge which for iustice sake I must performe quoth hee lest she complaine For a iust Prince so me the world shall take Soothing himselfe vp in this amorous vaine With his affections in this sort doth play Till he a Queene made the faire Lady Gray This Act of Edwards com'n to Warwicks eare And that the sequell show'd it to be true In his sterne eyes it eas'ly might appeare His heart too great for his strait bosome grew He his Commission doth in piece-meale âeare Breakes the broad Seale and on the ground it thâ And prayes blest heau'n may curse him if that â For this disgrace reuenged would not be Haue I quoth hee so lifted thee ãâ¦ã That to thy greatuesse I the scorne am growne Haue I for thee aduentur'd beene so oft In this long Warre as to the world is knowne And now by thee thus basely am I scoft By this disgrace vpon me thou hast throwne If these thy wrongs vnpunish'd slightly passe Hold Warwicke base and falne from what he was Know t w'as the Nevills forthy Title stood Else long e'r this layd lower then the ground And in thy cause my Father shed his blood None of our house for thee but beares a wound And now at last to recompence this good ãâ¦ã for me this Guerdon hast thou âound ãâ¦ã proud head this hâd shal pluck thy crown Or if thou stand then ãâ¦ã Warwick down Yet he to England peaceably repaires And with a smooth browe smotherâ his intent And to the King ãâ¦ã the French affaires ââ what in Court had past there since he went His spleene he for a fitter season spares ãâ¦ã he the same more liberally might vent Calme was his countenance and his language faire But in his brest a deepe revenge he bare MEane while Queene Margarit a poore exile heares How things in England in her absence went ãâ¦ã halfe burst heart which but a little cheeres âââ from her head she felt the Crowne was rent âet though fare off a little glimpse appeares â seeming hope and though it fainâly lent It might hauâ said had not the Fââes said no These stormes at home might her some profit blow ãâ¦ã heares how Warwicke cunningly had wrought ãâ¦ã Duke of Clarence from his brothers side âââ that braue Youth at Callice hauing caught âââ eldest daughter had to him affide How to rebell the Northerne men were brouâ And who by Warwicke poynted was their guide Aâ on the Wâlâh he had a mighty hand By Edward rais'd those rebels to withstand Of new Rebellions at Northampton rais'd And to despight the King what they had done How they at Grafton the Earle Riuers seas'd And Sir Iohn Wooduile his most hopefull Sonne Who with their heads could hardly be appeas d And of the fame by puissant Warwicke wonne Who hauing taken Edward in his Tent His King his prisoner into Yorkâshirâ sent Then heares againe how Edward had escapt And by his friends a greater power had got How he the men of Lincolneshire intrapt Who neere to Stamford pay'd a bloody shot And when the Earle his course for Callice shapt When England lastly grew for him to hot Vaucleere who there his Deputy he put The Ports against his late grand Captaine shut Lastly shee heares that he at Deepe ariues And lately com'n to Amboyes to the Court ââereas King Lewis to his vtmost striues âo entertaine him in most Princely sort When the wise Queene her businesse so contriues That she comes thither small what though her port Yet brings along the sweet yong Prince her sonâe To proue what good with Warwick might be done Wen both in Court and presence of the King Their due respect to both of them that gaue ââ will'd them in so pertinent a thing That they the like should of each other haue The teares began from both their eyes to spring That each from other Pitty seeâ'd to craue In gracefull manner when the grieued Queene Thus to that great Earle gently breaths her spleene Warwicke saith shee how mercilesse a Foe ââst thou beene still to my poore child and mee âhat villaine Yorke which hast aduanced so Which neuer could haue risen but for thee âhat Valour thou on Edward didst bestow â hadst thou show'd for him thou here dost see Our Damaske Roses had adorn'd thy Crest And with their wreathes thy ragged Staues bene drest First at Saine Albans at Northamptoâ then ãâ¦ã fatall Towtân that most fearefull fight ãâ¦ã many nay what multitudes of men ãâ¦ã fierce Warwicke slaine and put to flight O if thy Sword that euer stood for âen Had but beene drawne for Henry and his right He should
against the French Anthony Duke of Brabant sonne to the Duke of Burgundy The valiant Duke of Brabant slaine Many of the French in âhotr flight get ââto an old Fort. The Kings slight answere Woodhouâââeereth at the attempt Braues passe between Gam and Woodhouse Caâtainâ Gam ââaiâe For this seruice done by Woodhouse there was an addition of honour giuen him which was a hand holdingâ club with the word Frappe Fort which is borne by the Family of the Woodhouse of Norfolke to tâââ day A deuisâââ Burbons to giue incouragement to the French A Simily of the French Lewis of Burbon taken prisonâ by a meane souldiour Lewis of Burbon stâbd by a Souldier that tooke him prisoner The Lords Dampier an â Sauesses tataken prisoners Arthur Earle of Richmount taken prisoner The Count du Marle slaine The misery of the French The French forced to beare the wounded English on their backs A ãâ¦ã of rasâal French ãâ¦ã the King Englands ãâ¦ã The ãâ¦ã The English kill ãâ¦ã pââsoners Ex ãâ¦ã ion The French âause of their owne massaâhre A discriptiân of the Massacre in the foure following Stanzaes The family of Yorke soughâ under hand to promoue their title about that time After the second conqueââ of France by Henry the âift The Christian Princes seeke to ãâ¦ã a peace between ãâ¦ã and France A ãâ¦ã 18 moneths Pooâe in this time of âeacââââourâth âââoncludâ a Marââage beââixt thâ Lady Margarire and the King his Master Poole taken with the exâââding ãâ¦ã ây of the Princesse He had only the title of these Kingdomes without any lâââlyhooâ Margarite Duk Reyners Daughter A ãâ¦ã of a ãâ¦ã Amba ãâ¦ã our with ââe ââââ of ãâ¦ã onely daughter The high praises of the Princesse Margarites beauty Pooleâ followers placed about the King to work ââ owne ends The prouinces of France giuen to Duke Reyner for ãâ¦ã Daughter Poole created first from an Earle Marque ãâ¦ã and afteâ Duke of Suffolke The people exceedingly râpinâ for the giuing aâay of the Prouinces A Simily Sâffolke Procurator for the King The marriage solemââzedâââ the city of Towers The great concourse to honour the Solâânization Margaret in French signifââth a Daysâe The Queene brauely enteâtained in passing through Normandy The King stayeth for the ãâ¦ã at Portâmouth Great and fearefull Tempests at the comming in of the Queâne The Duke of Yor ãâ¦ã discharged of hiâ Regency in France and the Duke of Sommerset in hââ place A Charractââ of the Duke of Glocester The greatest persons of the Queenes Faâââââ A Parliamentat Saint Edmunds-Bury The Duke of Gloster aresâed by the high Marshall of England The Duke murthered The pââpââ mutiny The death oâ the Duk was the vtter ãâ¦ã row of the house of Lââcaster The affaires of England fall tâ ruinââpon the death of the Duke The Irish rebell The French âre vp in A ãâ¦ã s. The Norman râuolt Townââ in Normandy yâelded to th ãâ¦ã enemy There had been a formâ contract betwene the King and th ãâ¦ã Earle of Arminacks only Daughter but being by the Duke o ãâ¦ã Suffolke annulled cause ãâ¦ã âhe Earle âââ after to be â vowed ene ãâ¦ã ââ the Englis ãâ¦ã The commons chargââhe Duke of Sommerset with thâ lossâ of Normand Articles of Treason put into the Parliament against the Dukes oâ Sommerset ând Suffolke The Duke of Sufâolkeâanâââea for sine yââres The extreame hate the people had to the Duke This ship was as our hystories report called the Nicholas oâ thâ tower a ship that belongd to the Duke of Excestâr of whom ânâ Water was the Captaine The subââll policie of the Duke of Yorke The character of Iacke Cads Deriuing his title from Phillip the onely Daughter and heire of Lyonel Duke of Clarence the third sonne of Ed the 3 wedded to Edmund Mortimur Earle of March The Staffordâ slaine by thâ Rebels Iacke Cade takes London * The Vulgar The Valiant Talbot slaine Richard Neuill the Father and Richard Neuill the sonne The Duke of Sommerset arested The King reââuired of a dangerous sicknesse The Queene preuailing against the Duke of York The Duke of Yorke ãâ¦ã seth an army in the Marches of Wales The first Battaile at Saâââ Albans Humfrey Earle of Stafford eldest sonne to the Duke of Buckingham The King crept into a poore Cottage The lawlesse âsurpation of the Yorkâstâ Salsbury made Ch ãâ¦ã Warwicke Captaiue of Caâââce Henry Beufoââ Duke of Summerset after the decease of his father Edmond The Duke of Excester taken out of the Sanctuary aâ Westminster The Duke of Yorke the Earles of Salsbury and Warwicke put out of office The Queene had plotted to haue the Duke murthered at Couentry A solemne procession in Pauls by both the factionâ The Queene inwardly gâuching at Warwickes greatnesse Warwick in perill to hauâ bin slaine passing thâ street The men of Cheshire âpanâân the quarreââ The ãâ¦ã A great ãâ¦ã The Lord A ãâ¦ã Eââârd Earl of March eldest sonne to âââ Duke tââ Ea ãâ¦ã and Warwicke A Simily A Parliââent at ãâ¦ã The men of Kent rise with the Torkists The name of Warwicke fearefull to hu enemies A great paââ of the Nobility slaine at Nerthampton The Duke of Yorkeâ insolence The Queeââ impatient â the Dukes pride The Dukes oft ãâ¦ã ruine The Eârle ââ Salsbury bââ headeâ The end of young Rutland The Battaile ââ Mortiâââs Crosse Three sânâey seene at one time Owen Tudorâ end King Henry left before to the keeping of the Duke of Norfolke and the Earle of Warwicke The Queene getteth the day at Saint Albans The Yorkists Army disâomfited at this second Battâll at Saint Albans King Henry of no account The King ââetâ with the Queene and her âââââ ãâ¦ã The cruelty of the Queen King Henry most ãâ¦ã The Londoners deny the Queene victuaile for her Army The Duke of Yorke entreth London with applause of the people Edward mââ King by the suffrage of the Commons King Edward ãâ¦ã from ãâ¦ã to ãâ¦ã The Lord Fitzwater and Bastard Neuill slamâ Warwicke ââwââ to reâsnge his brothers death Warwickes deââeraâe âââ sâlutiââ No quarter âeât at Towton Towton field A miserable defect of the Queenes friends The greateââ slaughter in all that ciuiââ Warre The King and Queen forced to forsake the Land The Earle of Oxford and ââ Sonne attainted Queene Margarit a womaÌ of an ândainted spirit The Queene in euery enterprise most vnforâânate Queene Margarite raiseth â new Army Sâme that âad submitted themselues to King Edward âeâolt at king Henrys comming Kin Edward prouideth to resist Queenâ Margarites comming in The Conflict at Hegly-More The Botâaile of Exhââ Queene Margarites ãâ¦ã goes still âââwrackâ King Henry and the Queane ââââ The Conflict at Hegly-More The Botâaile of Exham Queene Margarites perty goes still to â wracke King Henry and the Queene parâ King Henry comming dis guised into England is discouered and taken prisoner King Henry was borne the greatest of Christian Kings The pollicie of King Edward Warwick sent into France to intreat for a marriage betwixt King Edward and
Bona the French Queens sister The Dutchesse of Bedford after Iohn her husbands deceasâ was wâddedââ Sir Richard Wooquile Knight whosâ daughter âââ Lady was Her husband slain at Saint Albans on the âââgâ part ãâ¦ã King ãâ¦ã Warwicke deeply diââââbles his dis ãâ¦ã a George second brother to King Edward and by him ãâ¦ã Duke of Clarence b Warwicke by his Agents had stirred vp this rebellion in the North he himselfe being at Calliââ thâ it might sââââ not to be done by him they had to their Captaines Henry Fitz-Hugh Henry Neuil and Sir Iohn Coniers c The Earâe of Penbroke and hââ brother Richard Herbert ouerthrowne at Banbury field d These Râbâls had to their Captain one whom they termed Robin of Rids dale The Earle Riuers was Father to the Lady Gray then Queene of England f The Earle âaketh the King prisoner at ââlney in Warwickeshirâ entring open this campe ãâ¦ã the ââght g They had to their Captaine Robert Wâlls sonnâ to the Lord Wâlles T ãâ¦ã field h The Lord Vaucleere a Gascoyne borne i A knowne Port Towne of Normandy k A Towne where the French King lay l ãâ¦ã The Queeneâ speech to the Earle in the soure following Stanzaes Barron ââulcoâ bringe was brother to Richard Neââll Earle of Salsbury and Richard Earl of Warwicke Iohn Marquesse Mounâacute were Sonnes to the sayd Earle Warwickes reply in the two following Stanzaes Prince Edward affyed to Anne the Earle of Warwicks daughter Warwicke makes preparation for a ââw Warre Warwicke so famous that he was seene with wonder A Simile Warwick driueth King Edward out of the Kingdome Warwicke takes Kiâ Henry the T ãâ¦ã King Edward and his adherents aiâaiâted by act of Parliament Queene Margarite neuer sees any thing that might giue her comfort The Duke of Burgondy brother in Law to King Edward so was âhe ãâ¦ã King Henry by his Grand mother being the daughter of Iohn of Gaunt Torke yeelded vp to King Edward Succoursâonâââing into Edward King Edward sets downe hâ Army besoâ Couentry daring Warwicke to the field Clarence ãâ¦ã his father in Law the Earle of Warwicke Warwicke followes the King towards London King Edward ââts âââ of London ãâ¦ã The Armies meet at Barât * The Armes of England Warwickes high ãâ¦ã The Earle of Warwicke âis brother Marquesse Mountacute âaine âhat very day âhat Warwick âas slaine the Queene âands âhe Queenes âeech heaâng of Warwicks defeat ãâ¦ã the three âollowing âanzaes Cause of new sorrow to the Queene The remnant of the Army which escaped aâ Barnet resort to the Queene The Queene encouraged by her friends The Armies meete at Tukesbury A place ill ââosen on the Queenes part A bloody battell The Queeneâ Army ouerthrowne Prince Edward taken prisoner Vpon the Kings Proclamation of a great reward to him that could bring him ãâ¦ã As also of the Princes safety Sir Richard Crosts is won to discouer his prisoners Prince Edward stabd to death Queene Margarite gets into a poore Cell Lewis of France Duke Rayner ââdââth himselfe to rans ãâ¦ã his Daughter The Earle of Gloster after Richard the third The Furies fetcha from hell to bring the World to ââd A description of the furies ââe Mooneâlfe beg ât the diuell The prodigious signs that foreran the birth of the Moone-Calfe A description of the Moon Calfe Mother Red-Capâ talâ The moraliây of mother Red-Caps tale The morallity of mother Bumbyes âalâ The morality of mother Howlets tale Gammer Gurtons tale The morallity of Mother Gurtons * The nearest harbour of Spaine An I le for the abundeâ of wine supposed to be the habitaâ on of B ãâ¦ã * An I le for the abândance âf Wine supposed to bee the habitatiân of Bacchus
well that all things went not right For with his succours Clarence came not in Whom to suspect he greatly doth beginne And not in vaine for that disloyall Lord Taking those forces he had leuied leaues The Earle and with his Brother doth accord Which of all hope braue VVarwicke so bereâueââ âhat now King Edward hopes to be restor'd Which then too late the credulous Earle perceiues Edward towards London with an Army sped To take the Crown once more from Henrys head The Queene in France this woful newes that heard How farre through England Edward thus had past As how by Glarence whom she euer fear'd VVarwicke behind-hand mightily was cast This most vndaunted Queene her hopes yet cheer'd By those great perills she had lately past And from King Lewis doth three thousand prest To ayde her friends in England in distresse Whilst she is busie gathering vp those aydes In so short time as France could her afford Couragious VVarwicke basely thus betray'd By Clarence lewdly falsifying his word The most couragious Earle no whit dismayd But trusting still to his successefull Svvord Follovves the King towards London march'â before Each day his Power increasing more and more But Edward by the Londoners let in Who in their Gates his Army tooke to guard VVarwicke this while that trifling had not bin But with a povver sufficiently prepar'd T' approach the City brauely doth begin To dare the King vvho lately him had dar'd Who then from London his Arm'd forces leades Towards where his march ambitious VVarwicke treadâ From London this that from Saint Albans set These two graÌd souldiers shoulâring for the Crown They in the mid-way are at Barnet met Where then they set their puissant Armies downe VVarwicke as neere as euer hee could get But Edward onely taketh vp the Towne Betwixt whose âents a Heath call'd Gladmore lyes Where they prepare to act this bloody prize With Drums and Trumpets they awake the day âuffled in mists her lowring selfe that showes To stop their madnesse doing all it may âhowing what blood her light was like to lose But hope of slaughter beares so great asway That with the Sunne their rage still higher growes Full were their hands of death so freely dealt That the most mortal wounds the least were felt The aduerse Ensignes to each other waue As t' were to call them forward to the field The King the Earle The Earle the King doth braue Nor cares he for the Leopards in his shield And whilst one friend another striues to saue He 's slaine himselfe if not enforc'd to yeeld In either Army there is not one eye But is spectator of some Tragedy Those wrongs the King had from the Earle receiu'd ââpulst the Kingdome onely by his power ââen to the height his powerfull hand vp heau'd âor full'reuenge in this vnhappy houre And by the King the Earle his hopes bereau'd âheltred by him from many a bloody shower Spurres vp reuenge and with that violent rage That scarsely blood their fury could asswage VVarwicke who sees his Souldiers had the worse And at a neere point to be put to flight Throwing himselfe from oâ his Armed Horse Thrusts in on foote into the deadliest fight Edward againe with an vnusuall force In his owne person in the Armies sight Puts for the Garland which if now he lose Warwicke his Crowne at pleasure would disposâ To Edwards side but fortune doth encline Warwickes high valour then was but in vaine His noble soule there destin'd to resigne Braue Mountacute his valiant Brother slaine Here Sommerset with them that did combine Forced to flye and Excesteâ is faine To saue himselfe by Sanctuary this day Edward's victorious and beares all away THis fatall field vnluckily thus lost That very day so Destiny contriues That the grieu'd Queene at Sea turmoyl'd and tost Neere twenty dayes in Weymouth Road ariues Where scarcely landed but Post after Post Brings her this ill newes vvhich so farre depriues Her of all comfort that shee curst and band Those plaguy winds that suffered her to land Wert thou quoth shee so fortunate in fight O noble VVarwicke when thou wert our foe And now thou stood'st in our indoubted right And should'st for Henry thy high valour show Thus to be slaine what power in our despight Watcheth from heau'n vpon our ouerthrow Th' vnlucky Starres haue certainly made lawes To marke for death the fauourers of our cause O vvhat infernall brought that Edward backe ãâ¦ã late expel'd by VVarwickes powerfull hand Was there no way his rotten Ship to wracke Was there no Rock was there no swallowing sand And too the wretched Subiects were so slacke To suffer him so traiterously to land Surely whole heau'n against vs haue conspir'd Or in our troubles they had else beene tyr'd Was I for this so long detayn'd in France From ragefull Tempests and reseru'd till now That I should land to meete with this mischance ât must needes be the Powers haue made a vowe Vp to that height my sorrowes to aduance That before mine all miseries shall bowe That all the sorrow mortalls can surmise Shall fall far short oâ Margarites miseries These vvords scarse spoke her halfe-slaine heart to ease ât the least breath of comfort to preuent âhe next ill newes in rushing after these âas that King Henry to the Tower was sent As though it selfe euen Destiny should please ãâ¦ã wretched Margarites heauy discontent Thrunging so thick as like themselues to smother Or as one ranne to ouertake another Those scattered Troopes from Barnet that escap'd âearing the Queene thus landed with her power âugh much dismay'd with what had lately hapt ãâ¦ã Gore drown'd Gladmore in that bloody shower And fearing by the foe to be entrapt Through vntrod grounds in many a tedious howâ Flocke to her dayly till that by her ayde Equall with Edwards they her Army made When Somerset and Devonshire came in To the sad Queene and bad her not dispaire Though they of late infortunate had bin Yet there vvas helpe that Ruine to repaire What they had lost they hop'd againe to win And that the way lay open yet and faire For that the West would wholly with her rise Besides from VValles assur'd her of Supplyes And euery day still adding to their Force As on their Host tow'rds Glocester they guide When Edward finding their intended course Againe for Battell strongly doth prouide Both Armies they supply vvith Foote and Horse By both their friends as they affect the side And in their march at Tâwkesbury they met Where they in Order their Battalions set Ill was her choyse of this vneuen ground Lucklesse the place vnlucky vvas the howre The Heauens vpon her so extreamely frownd As on her head their plagues at once to powre As in a Deluge here her hopes were drown'd Here sees she death her faithfull friends deuoure The earth is fil'd with grones the aire with cry ãâ¦ã Horrour on each side
come to sway He would put faire as euer man did yet Vpon the height of Fortunes whâele to sit Loue and Ambition spurre hââ in such sort As that alone t' accomplish hââ desire To fall with Phaeton he would thinke it sport Though he should set the Vnlâââsâ on âire Nor recks he what the world of him report He must scorne that who will dare to aspier For through the aire his wings him way shal make Though in his fall the frame of heauen he shake Reyner descended from the Royall stem Of France the Duke of Anâoâ stiled King Of Naples Cicil and Ierusalem Although in them he had not any thing But the poore title of a Diadem Seing by Suffolke greater hopes to spring Puts on his Daughter that great Lord to please Of Englands Counsailes who kept all the keyes But strange encounters strongly him oppose In his first entrance to this great Designe Those men were mighty that against him rose And came vpon him with a Countermine That he must now play cunningly or lose Cunning they were against him that combine Plot aboue plot doth straine aloft to tower The conflict great twixt pollicy and power For Humfrey Duke of Gloster stil'd the good Englands Protector sought a match to make ââth a faire Princesse of as Royal blood The Daughter of the Earle of Arminake And hââ crown'd Nephew but stout Suffolke stood Still for his Mistresse nor will her forsake But make her Henryes Queene in spight of all Or she shall rise or Suffolke sweares to fall By the French faction when she vp is cryde Of all Angellique excellence the Prime Who was so dull that her not Deifide To be the onely Master-piece of time The prayse of her extended is so wide As that thereon a man to heauen might clime All tongues and eares inchanted with delite When they doe talke or heare of Margarite And those whom Poole about his Prince had plac'd And for his purpose taught the tricks of Court To this great King and many a time had grac'd To make his eares more apt for their report âauing the time most diligently trac'd ând saw these things successiuely to sort Strike in a hand and vp together beare To make faire Margarite Musicke in his eare Aniou a Dutchy Mayne a Countrey great Of which the English long had beene possest ând Mauns a city of no small receite âo which the Duke pretended interest âor the conclusion when they came to treate ând things by Poole were to the vtmost prest Are to Duke Reyner reudred vp to hold To buy a Hellen thus a Troy was sold When of an Earle a Marquesse Poole is made âhen of a Marquesse is a Duke created âor he at east in Fortunes lap was layd âo glorious actions wholly consecrated Hard was the thing that he could not perswade ân the Kings fauour he was so instated Without his Suffolke who could not subsist So that he ruled all things as he list This with a strong astonishment doth strike âh'amazed world which knew not what to say What liuing man but did the act mislike âf him it did not vtterly dismay âhat what with blood was bought at push of pike Got in an age giu'n in an houre away Some largely speake and some againe are dumbe WoÌdring what would of this straÌge world become As when some dreadfull Comet doth appeare Athwart thâ hâ aâeÌ thaâ throws his threatning light The peaceful people that at quiet were Stand with wild gâzâs wond'ring at the sight Some War some Plâgues so ãâ¦ã faââin greatly feare Some falls of Kingdomes or of ãâ¦ã of migât The grieued people thus their iudgements spend Of these strange Actions what should be the end When Suffolke Procurator for the King Is sââp'd for France t'âspouse the beautious Bride And fitted to the full of euery thing Followed with Englands Gallantây and pride As fresh as is the brauery of the Spring Comming to Towers there sumptâoâsl affide This one whose like no age had seene before Whose eyes out-shone the Iewels that she wore Her reucrent Parents ready in the place As oneâioy'd this happy day to sâe The King and Queene the Nuptials there to grace On them three Dukes as then attendânts be Seuen Earles ãâ¦ã Barrons in their âquâpace And twenty Bishops whââââ that onely she Like to the Roââ morning towards the rise Cheeres all the Church as it doth cheere the skiââ Tââumphaâl Aâches the glad Towne doth raise And sâlts and Turââys are ãâ¦ã at Court Conceited Masks ãâ¦ã Banqâeâs witty playes ãâ¦ã them many a pretty sport âoâts write Prothalamions in their praise ântill mens eares were cloyd with the report Of either sexe and who doth not delight To weare the Daysie for Queene Margarite The Tryumphs ended he to England goes With this rich Gem allotted him to keepe ãâ¦ã ill entertained with most sumptuous showes ân passing thorough Normandy to Diâpe Where like the Sea the concourse dayly flowes âor her departure whilst sad France doth weepe And that the ships their crooked Anchors waide By which to England she must be conuayd And being fitted both for Winde and Tide Out of the Harbour flyes this goodly Fleet ând for faire Portsmouth their straight course they plyd Where the King stayd his louely Bride to meete âonder she comes when as the people cryd Busie with Rushâs strevâing euery streete The brainelesse Vulgar little vnderstand The Horrid plagues that ready were to Laâd Which but to soone all-seeing heauen foretold For shee was scarsely safely put a Shore âât that the skies ô wondrous to behold Orespred with lightning hideously doth rore The furious winds with one another scold Neuer such Tempests had beene seene before With sudden floods whose villages were drown'd Steeples with earthquaks tumbled to the ground VVHeÌ to their purpose thiÌgs to pass wer broght And these two braueaÌbitious spirits wer me The Queene and Duke now frame their working though Into their haÌdâ the Soueraignty to get For soon they found the King could not be wrought Vp to their ends nature so low had set His humble heart that what they would obtaine T is they must do'â by collour of his Raigne And for they found the grieued commons grutcâ Aâ this which Suffolke desperately had done Who for the Queene had parted with so much Thereby yet nothing to the Realme had wonne And those that spur'd the people on were such As to oppose them openly begunne Therefore by them some great ones down must go Which if they mist of they themselues must so Yorke then which had the Regency in France They force the King ignobly to displace Thereto the Duke of Summerset t' aduance Their friend and one of the Lancastrian Race For they betwixt them turnd the wheele of Chanââ T is they cry vp t is they that doe abase He 's the first man they purpos'd to remoue The onely Minion of the peoples
my conceipt friend thou didst neuer see A righter Madam then thou hast of mee For now as Elegiacke I bewaile These poore base times then suddainely I le raile And I am Satiricke not that I inforce My selfe to be so but euen as remorse Or hate in the proud fullnesse of their hight Master my fancy iust so doe I write But gentle friend as soone shall I behold That stone of which so many haue vs told Yet neuer any to this day could make The great Elixar or to vndertake The Rose-Crosse knowledge which is much like that A Tarrying-iron for fooles to labour at As euer after I may hope to see A plague vpon this beastly world for mee Wit so respected as it was of yore And if hereafter any it restore It must be those that yet for many a yeere Shall be vnborne that must inhabit here And such in vertue as shall be asham'd Almost to heare their ignorant Grandsires nam'd With whom so many noble spirits then liu'd That were by them of all reward depriu'd My noble friend I would I might haue quit This age of these and that I might haue writ Before aâ other how much the braue pen Had here bin honoured of the English men Goodnesse and knowledge held by them in prise How hatefull to them ignorance and vice But it falls out the contrary is true And so my Ieffereyes for this time adue Vpon the death of Mistris Elianor Fallowfield ACcursed Death what need vvas there at all Of thee or who to councell did thee call The subiect vvhere upon these lines I spend For thee was most vnfit her timelesse end Too soone thou wrought'st too neere her thou didst stand Thou shouldst haue lent thy leane and mâager hand To those who oft the helpe thereof beseech And can be cured by no other Leech In this wide world hovv many thousands be That hauing past fourescore do call for thee The wretched debtor in the Iayle that lyes Yet cannot this his Creditor suffice Doth woe thee oft with many a sigh and teare Yet thou art coy and him thou wilt not heare The Captiue slaue that tuggeth at the Oares And vnderneath the Bulls tough sinewes rores Begs at thy hand in lieu of all his paines That thou vvould'st but release him of his chaines Yet thou a niggard listenest not thereto W ãâ¦ã short gaspe which thou might'st easily do But thou couldst come to her ere there was need And euen at once destroy both flovvre and seede But cruell death if thou so barbarous bee To those so goodly and so young as shee That in their teeming thou wilt shew thy spight Either from marriage thou wilt Maides affright Or in their Wedlocke Widdowes liues to chuse Their husbands bed and vtterly refuse Fearing conception so shalt thou thereby Extirpate mankind by thy cruelty If after direfull Tragedy thou thirst Extinguish Himens Torches at the first Build Funerall pyles and the sad pauement strew With mournful Cypresse and the pale-leau'd Yewe Away with Roses Mirtle and with Bayes Ensignes of mith and iollity as these Neuer at Nuptialls vsed be againe But from the Church the new Bride entertaine With Weeping Nenias euer and among As at departings be sad Requiems song Lucina by th' old Poets that wert sayd Women in Child-birth euermore to ayde Because thine Altars long haue layne neglected Nor as they should thy holy fiers reflected Vpon thy Temples therefore thou doest flye And wilt not helpe them in necessity Thinking vpon thee I doe often muse Whether for thy deare sake I should aâcuse Nature or Fortune Fortune then I blame And doe impute it as her greatest shame To hast thy timelesse end and soone agen I vexe at Nature nay I curse her then That at the time of need she was no stronger That wee by her might haue enioy'd thee longer But whilst of these I with my selfe debate I call to mind how flinty-hearted Fate Seaseth the olde the yong the faire the foule No thing of earth can Destiny controule But yet that Fate which hath of life bereft thee Still to eternall memory hath lefâ thee Which thou enioy'st by the deserued breath That many a great one hath not after death FINIS * The law Salique was that women should noâ iâ herite whâ law Edward the third â his right to â the Crowne by his motâ cancelled wâ his sword so much as at that tiâ made way his clarme though in France thâ law bee inviolable * Henry thâ so named â Town in Lâ colne Shiâ where he borne * Henry the fift borne Munmouâ in Wââââ Dowglas in that battaile âew three in the Kings âoat Aâmoââ Wickliffe a learned Diuine and the greatest Propestant of those times A Parliament at Leicester Henry Chichly succeeding Arundâll late decââsed in that See * So they termed it as unworthy of a better title The Archbishop of Canterburies Oration to tââ Kingâând Parliament at Lecesterâ in the ãâ¦ã following Stanzaes The Crââââ of France descended vpon Edward the third from Isabell âu Mother Daughtar and suâââââing heire to King Philip of France named the faire * Iames Daulpââââ of Viennoies The Dukes of Lââraine Burbon The Earles of Aumerlâ Savoye Mountbilliard Flaunders Nevers ââarcourt King Iohn of France and Philip his son taken by the Blacke Prince at the Battaile of Poyteers brought Prisoners to ââ land Iohn of Cleumount Peter of Burbon Examples of such as haue aduanâd themselues to the Crowne of France against the strict letter of the lawe Salique in two following Stanzaes Ralph Neuill then warden of the Marches betwixt England and Scotland An âââ adagâ He that will France wiâ must with Scotland first beginne The Duke of Excester the Kings owne ââââ The first breaâh with France The Countries demanded by the King of England The King and Daulphine of France dâââdeth the King of England Henry the fist answered for the Tennis Balles The language of Tennis * Blades accounted of the best temâer Armed at all poynts * Armings for the thigh and legge * Armings for the arme and shoulder Great Ordnance then âuâ newly in âââ Halfe thâââââ cutt of the Island from the Spanish to the German Ocean Edward the third * The Soa betwixt France and England ââ called A Catalogue of the Sâps in ââ Stanzaes The names of the Kings 7. Ships of War An Indian Bird so great that she is able to carrie an Elephant The Bay of Portugal â of the high working Sâ that is knowââ * A country ââng vpon âe âast Sea ordering vpon Poland âamous for ââerring fishng âydes to the âing by the âobility a A blazon of the Ensignes of the seueral Shireâ in 14. Stanzas following b Expressing their freedome as still retaining their ancient liberties by surprizing the Conqueror like a mouing wood c An expression of King Harolds deatâ slaine with an Arrow iâ the head at â the Baâtaâââ of Hastings fighting against the Conquerour d The first famous Earle of