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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20134	Thomas of Reading. Or, The sixe worthy yeomen of the west. Now the fourth time corrected and enlarged by T.D.	Deloney, Thomas, 1543?-1600.	1612 (1612)	STC 6569; ESTC S105320	56,723	76

my sweete heart speake to me good wife alacke alacke call in the neighbours you queanes quoth he With that shee lift vp her head fetching a great groane and presently swouned againe and much adoe iwis he had to keepe life in her but when she was come to her self How dost thou wife qd he What wilt thou haue for Gods sake tel me if thou hast a mind to any thing thou shalt haue it Away dissembler quoth she how can I belieue thée thou hast said asmuch to mee an hundred times and deceiued mee it is thy churlishnesse that hath killd my heart neuer was woman matcht to so vnkind a man Nay good wife blame me not without cause God knoweth how dearly I loue thée Loue me no no thou didst neuer carry my loue but on the tip of thy tongue quoth she I dare sweare thou desirest nothing so much as my death and for my part I would to God thou ha●st thy desire but be content I shal not trouble thee long and with that fetching a ●●gh she swouned and gaue a great gr●ane The man séeing hir in this cafe was wondrous woe but so soone as they had recouered her he said O my deare wife if any had conceit hath ingendered this sickenes let me know it or if thou knowest any thing that may procure thy health let me vnderstand thereof and I protest thou shalt haue it if it cost me all that euer I haue O husband quoth she how may I credite your wordes when for a paltry su●e of apparell you denied me Well wife quoth he thou shalt haue apparell or any thing else thou wilt request if God send thée once health O husband if I may find you so kind I shall thinke my selfe the happiest woman in the world thy words haue greatly comforted my heart me thinketh if I had it I could drink a good draught of renish wine Well wine was sent for O Lord said she that I had a péece of a chickin I féele my stomacke desirous of some meat Glad am I of that said her husband and so the woman within a few dayes after was very well But you shall vnderstand that her husband was faine to dresse her London like ere he could get her quiet neither wold it please her except the stuffe were bought in Cheapeside for out of Cheapside nothing would content her were it neuer so good insomuch that if she thought a tailer of Cheapside made not her gowne she would sweare it was quite spoiled And hauing thus won her husband to her will when the rest of the Clothiers wiues heard thereof they would be suted in the like sort too so that euer since the wiues of South-hampton Salisbury of Glocester Worcester and Reading went all as gallant and as braue as any Londoners wiues How the Clothiers sent the King aid into France and how he ouereame his brother Robert and brought him into England and how the Clothiers feasted his Maiesty and his sonne at Reading Chap. 7. THe Kings maiesty being at the warres in Fraunce against Lewis the French king and duke Robert of Normandy sending for diuers supplies of souldiers out of England the Clothiers at their owne proper cost set out a great number and sent them ouer to the King Which Roger Bishop of Salisbury who gouerned the realme in the Kings absence did alwayes certifie the King thereof with his letters written in their commendations And afterward it came to passe that God sent his Highnes victory ouer his enemies and hauing taken his brother prisoner brought him most ioyfully with him into England and appointed him to be kept in Cardife castle prisoner yet with this fauour that he might hunt and hawke where he would vp and downe the countrey and in this sort he liued a good while of whom we will speake more at large hereafter The King being thus come home after his winters rest he made his summers progresse into the west country to take a view of al the chiefe townes whereof the Clothiers being aduertised they made great preparation against his comming because he had promised to visite them all And when his Grace came to Reading he was entertained and receiued with great ioy and triumph Thomas Cole being the chiefe man of regard in all the towne the king honored his house with his princely presence where during the kings abode he and his son and nobles were highly feasted Where the king beheld the great number of people that was by that one man maintained in worke whose harty affection and loue toward his maiestie did well appeere aswell by their outward countenances as their gifts presented vnto him But of Cole himselfe the king was so well persuaded that he committed much trust to him and put him in great authoritie in the towne Furthermore the king said That for the loue which those people bore to him liuing that he would lay his bones among them when he was dead For I know not said he where they may be better bestowed till the blessed day of resurrection than among these my friends which are like to be happy partakers of the same Whereupon his Maiesty caused there to be builded a most goodly and famous Abbey in which he might shew his deuetion to God by increasing his seruice and leaue example to other his successors to doe the like Likewise within the towne he after builded a faire and goodly castle in the which he often kept his court which was a place of his chiefe residence during his life saying to the Clothiers that séeing he found them such faithfull subiects he would be their neighbor and dwell among them After his Maiesties royal feasting at Reading he procéeded in progresse til he had visited the whole west countries being wondrously delighted to sée those people so diligent to applie their busines and conuning to Salisbury the Bishop receiued his Maiesty with great ioy and with triumph attended on his Grace to his palace where his Highnes lodged There Sutton the Clothier presented his Highnesse with a broad cloth of so fine a thréed and excéeding good workmāship and therewithall of so faire a colour as his Grace gaue commendation thereof and as it is said he held it in such high estimation that therof he made his parliament robes and the first parliament that euer was in England was graced with the Kings person in those robes in requitall whereof his highnes afterward yielded Sutton many princely fauours And it is to be remembred that Simon of Southhampton séeing the King had ouerpast the place where he dwelt came with his wife and seruants to Salisbury and against the K. going forth of that city he caused a most pleasant arbour to be made vpon the toppe of the hill leading to Shaftesburie beset all with red and white roses in such sort that not anie part of the timber could be séene within the which sate a maiden attired like a Quéene attended on by a faire traine of maidens who at

occasion he said to his Nobles That it would neuer grieue a King to die for the defence of a fertile countrie and faithfull subiects I alwayes thought quoth he that Englands valour was more than her wealth yet now I see her wealth sufficient to maintaine her valour which I will seek to cherish in all I may and with my Sword keepe my selfe in possession of that I haue Kings and Louers can brooke no partners and therefore let my brother Robert thinke that although hee was heyre to England by birth yet I am King by possession All his fauourers I must account my foes and will serue them as I did the vngratefull earle of Shrewsbury whose lands I haue seized and banisht his body But now we will leaue the King to his ●ourney into Wales and waiting his home returne in the meane time tell you of the meeting of these iolly Clothiers at London How William of Worcester Gray of Gloucester and old Cole of Reading met all together at Reading of their communication by the way as they ●ode to London Chap. 2. VVHen Gray of Gloucester and William of Worcester were come to Reading according to their custome they always called old Cole to haue his company to London who also duly attended their comming hauing prouided a good breakefast for them and when they had well refreshed themselues they tooke their horses and rode on towards the Citie and in their iourney William of Worcester asked them if they had not heard of the Erle of Moraigne his escape out of the land what is he fled quoth Gray I muse much of that matter being in such great regard with the king as he was but I pray you do you not know the cause of his going quoth Cole The common report quoth Gray is this that the couetous erle who through a greedy desire neuer left begging of the King for one thing or other and his request being now denied him of méere obstinacie and wilfull frowardnesse hath banished himselfe out of the land and quite forsaken the Countrey of Cornewall hauing made a vow neuer to set foote within England againe and as report goeth he with the late banisht Earle of Shrowsbury haue ioyned themselues w t Robert duke of Normandy against the king the which action of theirs hath inflamed the kings wrath that their Ladies with their children are quite turned out of doores succorlesse friendlesse so that as it is told me they wander vp and downe the countrie like forlorne people and although many do pittie them yet few do releeue them A lamentable hearing qd William of Worcester and with that casting their eyes aside they espied Tom Doue with the rest of his companions come riding to méete them who as soone as they were come thither fell into such pleasaunt discourses as did shorten the way they had to Colebroke where alwaies at their comming towards London they dined and being entred into their Inne according to olde custome good chaere was prouided for them for these Clothiers were the cheefest ghests that trauelled along the way and this was as sure as an acte of Parliament that Tom Doue could not digest his meat without musicke nor drinke wine with out women so that his hostesse being a merrie wench would often times call in two or three of her neighbours wi●es to keepe him companie where ere they parted they were made as pleasant as P●es And this being a continuall custome amongest them when they came thither at length the womens husbands beganne to take exceptions at their wi●es going thither whereupon great controuersie grew betweene them in such sort that when they were most restrayned then they had most desire to worke their willes now gip quoth they must we so be tied to our taske that we may not drinke with our friends ste fie vpon these yellow hose will no other die serue your turne haue wee thus long vin your wines and do you now mistrust vs verily you eate two much salt and that makes you grow cholericke badde liuers iudge all other the like but in faith you shall not bridle vs so like Asses but wee will go to our friendes when wee are sent for and do you what you can Well quoth their husbands if you be so head-strong we will teme you it is the duty of honest women to obey their husbands sayings And of honest men quoth they to thinke well of their wiues but who doo sooner inpeach their credite then their husbands charging them if they do but smile that they are subtill and if they doe but winke they account them willy if sad of countenance then sullen if they be froward then are they counted shrewes and sheepish if they be gentle if a woman keepe her house then you will say she is melancholie if shee walke abroade then you call her a gadder a Puritane if shee be pretise and a wanton if shee be pleasant so there is no woman in the world that knowes how to please you that w●s thinke our selues accurst to be married wiues liuing with so many woes These men of whose company you forwarne vs are for aught that euer we sawe both honest and curteous and in wealth farre beyond your selues then what reason is there why we should refraine to vsite them is their good will so much to be requited with scorne that their cost may not be counteruayled with our company if a woman be disposed to play light of loue alas alas do you thinke that you can preuent her Nay wée will abide by it that the restraint of liberty inforceth women to belewd for where a woman cannot be trusted she cannot think her selfe beloued and if not beloued what cause hath she to care for such a one● therefore husbands reforme your opinions and do not worke your owne woes with our discredit These Clothiers we tel you are tolly fellowes and but in respect of our curtesie they would scorne out company The men hearing their wines so wel to plendfor themselues knew not how to answer but sayd they would put the burden on their consciences if they dealt vniustly with them and so left them to their owne willes The women hauing thus conquered their husbands conceits would not leaue the fauour of their friends for frownts and as about the rest Tom Doue was the most pleasantest so was he had in most reputation with the women who for his sake made this Song Welcome to towne Tom Doue Tom Doue The merriest man aliue Thy company still we loue we loue God grant thee well to thriue And neuer will depart from thee For better or wor●e my ioy For thou shalt still haue our good will Gods blessing on my sweete Boy This song went vp and downe through the whole countrey and at length became a dance among the common sort so that Tom Doue for his mirth and good fellowship was famous in euery place Now when they came to London they were welcome to the host larrat