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A09227	The honour of the garter Displaied in a poeme gratulatorie: entitled to the worthie and renowned Earle of Northumberland. Created Knight of that order, and installd at VVindsore. Anno Regni Elizabethæ. 35. die Iunij. 26. By George Peele, Maister of Artes in Oxenforde.	Peele, George, 1556-1596.	1593 (1593)	STC 19539; ESTC S110386	7,934	24

This worthy King in his Procession Caesar himselfe was there I saw him ride Tryumphing in his three and twentie wounds Because they shewed the malyce of the world Pompey was there the riuall of his fame That dyed a death as base and vyolent Leaue I this theame The mightiest that haue liued haue fallen and headlong to In miserie It is some comfort to haue companie Hector of Troy and Kings ere Troy was built Or Thrace was Thrace were there Olde Dardanus And Ilus and Assaracus came along For in the house of Fame what famous man What Prince but hath his Trophie and his place There Iosua Dauid and great Machabee Last Anker-hold and stay of Iacobs race Did march and Macedonian Alexander Victorious Charles the great the flowre of Fraunce Godfrey of Bullen whom the Christian Kings Created King of great Ierusalem And Arthur glorie of the Westerne world And all his Kinghts were in this royall traine Iason was there Knight of the golden Fleece Knights of the Tosson and of S. Iago Knights of the Rhodes Knights of the Sepulchre Were there the ayre was pestered to my thought Among them all a worthy man of marke A Prince of famous memorie I sawe Henry the eight that led a warlik band Of English Earles and Lordes and lustie Knightes That ware the Garter sacred to S. George Who was not there I thinke the Court of Fame Was naked and vnpeopled in this trayne There was so many Emperors Lords and Kings Knights errant and aduenturous In the booke That on a Desk lay open before Fame For in a sumptuous Charriot did he ride Of Christall set with leaues of glittering Golde And faire tralucent stones that ouer all It did reflect Within that glorious booke I sawe a name reioyced me to see Fraunces of Bedford I could read it plaine And glad I was that in that precious booke That name I found for now me thought I sayd Heere vertue dooth outliue th'arest of death For dead is Bedford vertuous and renownd For armes for honour and religions loue And yet aliue his name in Fames records That held this Garter deere and ware it well Some worthy wight let blazon his deserts Onely a tale I thought on by the way As I obserued his honourable name I heard it was his chaunce ore-tane with sleepe To take a nap neere to a Farmers lodge Trusted a little with himselfe belike This aged Earle in his apparell plaine Wrapt in his russet Cloake lay downe to rest His badge of honour buckled to his legge Bare and vnhid There came a pilfring swad And would haue prayd vpon this ornament And saied t'vnbuckle it thinking him a sleepe The noble gentleman feeling what he meant Hold foolish ladde quoth he a better pray Thys Garter is not fitte for euery legge And I account it better then my purse The varlet ranne away The Earle awaked And told his freends and smyling said withall A would not had a vnderstood the french Writ on my Garter dared t'haue stolne the same Thys tale I thought vpon told me for trueth The rather for it praisde the poesie Ryght graue and honourable that importeth much Ill be to him it sayth that euill thinkes O sacred loyaltie in purest harts Thou buildst thy bowre thy weedes of spotlesse white Like those that stoode for Romes great offices Makes thee renownd glorious in innocencie Why sticke I heare The traine cast in a ring About the Castle making melody Vnder the glorious spreading wings of Fame I sawe a Virgin Queene attyrde in white Leading with her a sort of goodly Knights With Garters and with Collers of S. George Elizabeth on a compartiment Of gold in Bysse was writ and hunge a skue Vpon her head vnder an imperiall crowne She was the Soueraigne of the Knights she led Her face me thought I knewe as if the same The same great Empresse that we here enioy Had clymed the clowdes and been in person there To whom the earth the sea and elements Auspicious are A many that I knew Knighted in my remembrance I beheld And all their names were in that Register And yet I might perceiue some so set downe That how so ere it hapt I cannot tell The Carle Obliuion stolne from Laethes lake Or Enuy stept from out the deepe Auerne Had raced or blemisht or obsured at least What haue those Fiends to doo in Fames faire Court Yet in the house of Fame and Courtes of Kings Enuy will bite or snarle and barke at least As dogs against the Moone that yelpe in vayne Say Frustra to those Curs and shake thy coate And all the Kings since that King Edwards daies Were with their Knights and companies in that trayne When all were whist King Edward thus bespake Haile VVindsore where I sometimes tooke delight To hawke and hunt and backe the proudest Horse And where in Princely pleasure I reposde In my returne fro Fraunce A little sigh I heard him fetch withall His reason why I cannot gesse I thinke it was for this That England had giuen ore their traffique there And twentie tymes hayle VVindsore quoth the King Where I haue stalled so many hardy Knights And turnaments and royall Iusts performed Behold in honour of mine auncient throne In honour of faire England and S. George To whom this order of the Garter first I sacred held in honour of my Knights Before this day created and installed But specially in honour of those fiue That at this day this honour haue receiued Vnder Elizabeth Englands great Soueraigne Northumberland VVorcester noble Earles Boroughe Sheffeilde Lords of liuely hope And honourable olde Knowles famed for his sonnes And for his seruice gracious and renownde Loe from the house of Fame with Princely traynes Accompanied and Kings and Conquerers And Knights of proofe loyall and valorous I resalute thee heere and gratulate To those new Knights created by a Queene Peerelesse for wisedome and for Maiestie The honour of the Garter May they long Weare them as notes of true Nobilitie And vertues ornaments Young Northumberland Mounted on Fortunes whele by vertues ayme Become thy badge as it becommeth thee That Europes eyes thy worthinesse may see And VVorcester what pure honour hath put on With chast and spotlesse hands in honour weare Answere the noblest of thyne auncestry In deedes to fame and vertue consecrate Borough brought vp in learning and in Armes Patrone of Musicke and of Chiualrie Brandish thy sword in right and spend thy wits In Common welth affaires It shall become Thy forwardnes to follow vertues cause And great designes of noble consequence And Sheffeilde shape thy course no otherwise Then loyaltie the loade-starre of renowne Directs that as thine auncestors haue done Thyne earthly race in honour thou maist run To thee old man with kindnes quoth the King That reapest this honour in thy waning age See what a Trophey Queene Elizabeth Prepares before thy herce long maist thou liue And dye in fame That hast well neere atchiued The Noble Norris honour in thy sonnes Thrice noble Lord as happy for his fewe As was the King of Troy for many moe With that he ceased and to the formost Earle For why me thought I see them euery man Stalld in their places and their ornaments Percy quoth he thou and thy Lordly Peeres Your names are in this Register of Fame Written in leaues and characters of golde So liue as with a many moe you may Suruiue and triumph in eternitie Out of Obliuions reach or Enuies shot And that your names immortally may shine In these records not earthly but diuine Then Shalmes and Shakebutts sounded in the ayre But shrilst of all the Trumpet of Renowne And by and by a loud rertaite he runge The trayne retyred as swift as starres don shoote Frome whence they came And day began to breake And with the noyse and Thunder in the sky When Fames great double doores fell to and shutt And this tryumphant trayne was vanisht quite The gaudy morne out of her golden sleepe Awaked and little Birds vncagde gan sing To welcome home the Bridgrome of the Sea Epilogus WHerewith I rouzd recounting what I sawe And then thought I were it as once it was But long agoe when learning was in price And Poesie with Princes gracious I would aduenture to set downe my dreame In honour of these newe aduaunced Lords S. Georges Knights I was encouraged And did as I haue doone VVhich humbly heere I yeeld as firstlings of my Schollers crop Consecrated purely to your noble name To gratulate to you this honours heigth As little boyes with flinging vp their cappes Congratulate great Kings and Conquerours Take it en gree faire Lord Procul hinc turba inuidiosa Stirps rudis vrtica est Stirps generosa rosa. G. P. FINIS

THE HONOVR OF THE GARTER Displaied in a Poeme gratulatorie Entitled to the worthie and renowned Earle of Northumberland Created Knight of that Order and installd at VVindsore Anno Regni Elizabethae 35. Die Iunij 26. By George Peele Maister of Artes in Oxenforde AT LONDON Printed by the Widdowe Charlewood for Iohn Busbie and are to be sold at the VVest doore of Paules HONY·SOIT QVI·M●● Y·PENSE· SEMPER EADEM Gallia victa dedit flores inuicta Leones Anglia ius belli in flore leone suum O sic O semper ferat Elizabetha triumphos Inclyta Gallorum flore Leone suo Ad Maecaenatem Prologus PLaine is my coate and humble is my gate Thrice noble Earle behold with gentle eyes My wits poore worth euen for your noblesse Renowmed Lord Northumberlands fayre flower The Muses loue Patrone and fauoret That artizans and schollers doost embrace And clothest Mathesis in rich ornaments That admirable Mathematique skill Familiar with the starres and Zodiack To whom the heauen lyes open as her booke By whose directions vndeceiueable Leauing our Schoolemens vulgar troden pathes And following the auncient reuerend steps Of Trismegistus and Pythagords Through vncouth waies and vnaccessible Doost passe into the spacious pleasant fieldes Of diuine science and Phylosophie From whence beholding the deformities Of common errors and worlds vanitie Doost heere enioy that sacred sweet content That baser soules not knowing not affect And so by Fates and Fortunes good aspect Raysed In thy heigth and these vnhappy times Disfurnisht wholy of Heroycall spirites That learning should with glorious hands vphold For who should learning vnderbare but hee That knowes thereof the precious worthinesse And sees true Science from base vanitie Hast in regard the true Philosophie That in pure Wisedome seates hir happines And you the Muses and the Graces three You I invoke from Heauen and Helicon For other Patrons haue poore Poets none But Muses and the Graces to implore Augustus long agoe hath left the world And liberall Sidney famous for the loue He bare to learning and to Chiualrie And vertuous Walsingham are fled to heauen Why thether speede not Hobbin and his pheres Great Hobbinall on whom our shepheards gaze And Harrington well letter'd and discreet That hath so purely naturalized Strange words and made them all free-denyzons Why thither speedes not Rosamonds trumpeter Sweet as the Nightingall Why goest not thou That richly cloth'st conceite with well made words Campion accompaned with our English Fraunce A peerelesse sweet Translator of our time Why follow not a thousand that I know Fellowes to these Apolloes fauourets And leaue behind our ordinary groomes With triuiall humors to pastime the world That fauours Pan and Phoebus both alike Why thither post not all good wits from hence To Chaucer Gowre and to the fayrest Phaer That euer ventured on great Virgils works To Watson worthy many Epitaphes For his sweete Poësie for Amintas teares And ioyes so well set downe And after thee Why hie they not vnhappy in thine end Marley the Muses darling for thy verse Fitte to write passions for the soules below If any wretched soules in passion speake Why goe not all into th' Elisian fieldes And leaue this Center barren of repast Vnlesse in hope Augusta will restore The wrongs that learning beares of couetousnes And Courts disdaine the enemie to Arte. Leaue foolish lad it mendeth not with words Nor herbes nor tyme such remedy affoordes Your Honors in all humble seruice Geo Peele The Honour of the honourable order of the Garter ABout the time when Vesper in the West Gan set the euening watch and silent night Richly attended by his twinckling traine Sent Sleepe and Slumber to possesse the world And Fantasie to hauzen idle heads Vnder the starrie Canapie of heauen I layd me downe laden with many cares My bed-fellowes almost these twentie yeeres Fast by the streame where Tame and Isis meet And day by day roule to salute the sea For more then common seruice it performd To Albions Queene when Foe-men shypt for fight To forrage England plowde the Ocean vp And slonck into the channell that deuides The French-mens strond fro Brittaines fishie townes Euen at that time all in a fragrant Meade In sight of that fayre Castle that ore-lookes The Forrest one way and the ferull vale Watred with that renowmed Riuer Thames Olde VVindsore Castle did I take my rest When Cynthia companion of the night With shining brand lightning his Eben Car Whose axeltree was Iet enchac'd with starres And roofe with shining Rauens feathers cealed Peircing myne eylyds as I lay along Awaked me through Therwith me thought I saw A royall glimmering light streaming a loft As Titan mounted on the Lyons backe Had clothed himselfe in fierie pointed beames To chase the night and entertaine the morne Yet scarse had Chaunticleere ronge the midnight peale Or Phoebe halfe way gone her iourney through Sleeping or waking as alone I lay Mine eyes and eares and senses all were serued With euery obiect perfect in his kinde And lo a wonder to my senses all For through the melting aire perfum'd with sweets I might discerne a troope of Horse-men ride Armed Cape de Pe with shield and shiuering launce As in a plash or calme transparent brooke We see the glistring fishes skoure along A number numberlesse appointed well For turnament as if the God of warre Had held a Iusts in honour of his loue Or all the sonnes of Saturne and of Ops Had beene in armes against Enceladus Therewith I heard the Clarions and the Shalmes The Shakbuts and a thousand instruments Of seuerall kindes and lowdest of them all A Trumpe more shrill than Tritons is at Sea The same Renowne Precursor of the traine Did sound for who rings louder than renowne He mounted was vpon a flying horse And clothed in Phawcons feathers to the ground By his Escutchion iustly might you gesse He was the Herauld of Eternitie And Purseuant at armes to mightie Ioue I looked to see an end of that I sawe And still me thought the traine did multiply And yeelding clowdes gaue way and men at armes Succeed as fast one at onothers heeles As in the Vast Mediterranean Sea The rowling waues doo one beget another Those that perfumed the ayre with myrrhe and balme Dauncing and singing sweetlie as they went Were naked Virgines deckt with Garlands greene And seemed the graces for with golden chaynes They lincked were three louelir countenaunces About them Cupid as to me it seemed Lay playing on his partie colloured wings And sometime on a Horse as white as milke I see him arm'd and mounted in the thronge As loue had right to march with men of warre Wearie of looking vp I laide me downe Willing to rest as sleepie soules are wont When of a suddne such a noyse I heard Of shot of Ordnance pealing in mine eares As twentie thousand Tyre had plaid at Sea Or Aetna split had belcht her bowels foorth Or Heauen and Earth in armes thundring amaine Had bent