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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85971	Edovardus Confessor redivivus. The piety and vertues of holy Edward the Confessor reviv'd in the sacred Majesty of King James the II. Being a relation of the admirable and unexpected finding of a sacred relique, (viz. the crucifix) of that pious prince; which was found in Westminster-Abby, (the place of his interrment) 622 years succeeding; and is since worn sometimes by his present Majesty. With a comment thereon. Previous to which relation, are recited many wonderful casual discoveries; all of them being presagious, or very effective.	Gibbon, John, 1629-1718.	1688 (1688)	Wing G649; Thomason E1963_13; ESTC R225399	23,999	46

Sooth our Lord nourished his Meekness and yat him great Grase that Men should be addrade of him that routh not be Wrath and though Men trowed him to be Slow he had such Subjects under him that at his hest daunted his Enemies as Syward Earl of Northumberland and Leofricus of Hereford c. Our Legists tell us Qui facit per alium facit per se King Edward did His Enemies business by others But our Prince JAMES the Good and Just is able to be His own Conduct to be Immensi tremor Oceani Terrarum Arbiter the Terror of the Ocean the Ballance and Arbiter of Nations Who shall dare to raise up this Lyon of England Gen. 49.9 Day-Fatality Edit 2. P. 1. tells us Normandy was Conquered from Duke Robert that Day Forty Years the Normans had won England Edward the Confessor came from Normandy to Reign in England His Father's Kingdom unjustly detained by His Maternal Brother Why may not our Dread Soveraign the Possessor of the Holy Confessor's Religious Badge so strangely and ominously Recovered go out of England Si fas sit ita loqui into Normandy and Recover and Annex it to its Pristine Union being His rightly descended Dukedome Nihil loquor de Andegavia de Comit ' Pontino Aquitania c. He being a Prince certainly Born for Great Actions and Blessed with a continuation of Lucky Omens Vnanimes cuncti quae semper habeto precemur How Benignly and Courteously by His Means and Incouragement are the Exiled French Received by Us A Royal Brief being granted by His Majesty for a Liberal Collection towards Their Relief I have by me an Antient Book written at first in the German Tongue by Sebastian Brandt Doctor of both Laws and Profest Orator and Poet and Stiled by him the Ship of Fools laying open the Folly and Frailty of all sorts and conditions of Men a Book very expedient and necessary to the Reader This Book Jacobus Locherus Translated into Latin Verse and from him one Alexander Barcklay Canon of St. Mary Ottry having Perused it in Three Languages Latin French and Dutch as he Solemnly Professes in his Epistle Translated into English Meetre In his Chapter of the Ruine of the Holy Catholick Faith and Diminution of the Empire by the Turks he Exhorts all Christian Princes and Potentates to joyn Hand in Hand against the Incroaching Infidels Now whereas Brandt and Locher place all their hope in Maximilian King of the Romans as a most fit Leader Our English Canon transfers it by a Poetical Digression and Diversion to the Famous King James the IV. of Scotland Let us hear first the Latin and after the English Poetry of that Age and first for Lecher Maxmilianus adest quo major Tempore nullo Rex fuit à digno Stemmate Sceptra gerens Invideat quicunque velit non justior illo Principe non Heros clarior ullus erat Caesareum vultum praefert inque ore nitescit Majestas mores Nobilitatis habet Fraudibus attentat nihil hic nihil ille Dolosum Concipit at plano Tramite vita meat Hunc non insani fastus sed Candida virtus Elevat Hic solus faedera pacis amat Hoc duce crescet Honos terris c. Hoc duce Sarmaticas gentes superabimus atque Euxinum Pelagus Bistonicosque lares Now comes in Barcklay whose Translation is Paraphrastical and from whom we gather what an Opinion the World had of James the IV. aforesaid Predecessor to His Present Majesty But ye Christian Princes whosoever ye be If ye be destitute of a Noble Captain Take James of Scotland for His Audacity And proved Manhood if ye will Laud attain Let Him have the forward have ye no Disdain Nor Indignation for never King was Born That is of War so much a Unicorn For if He take once His Spear in Hand Against these Turks strongly with it to Ride None shall be able His Prowess to withstand Nor before His Face so hardy to abide Yet this His Manhood Increases not His Pride But ever shews His Meekness and Humility In Word or Deed to high and low Degree In Prudence peerless is this most comely King And as for His Strength and Magnanimity Concerning His Noble Deeds in every thing One found on Ground like Him there cannot be By Birth born to Boldness and Audacity Vnder the bold Planet of Mars the Champion Surely to Subdue His Enemies each one Let Him be foremost then doubt ye not at all For only His Look so Bold is His Courage The Turks Pride shall make Decay and Fall. Like to a Lyon in Deeds He shall Rage Thus He being Guide the Fury shall asswage Of the false Turks so that they shall be fain Our Christian Lands to Vs to yield again If the English Lyon His Wisdom and Riches Conjoyn with True Love Peace and Fidelity With the Scotch Unicorn's Might and Hardiness There is no doubt but then all Christianity Shall Live in Peace Wealth and Tranquility And the Holy Land come in Christian hand is This our Poet concluded his Translation 1508.23 Henry the VII as he says Pag. 259. But I perceive by some Marginal Notes 't was not Printed till Henry the VIII began His Reign And I cannot but take notice of his Heraldical Allusion expressing the two Kings of England and Scotland the First by His Arms and Supporters and the Last by the Last which accidently I imitated in a Distich I composed when an over-confident Report was of the French King's Death in Aug. 85. Lilia Flaccescunt fit Carbunculus ater Mars Moeret summus ejus Alumnus obit French Lilies hang their Head and Navarrs Radiant Stone Grows dark Mars grieves his dearest and chief Pupil's gone Now as to the Vnicorn of Scotland and the Poets Allusion aforesaid read Numb 23.22 and 24.8 and Job 39.9 and 10. Verses But I return to James the IV. He was as well as very Valiant a Wise and Politick Leader for at the Battle of Flodden Field observing the great number of English Horse and those of large and strong size the Scotch Horse being small He told His Nobles and Commanders We shall do no good with our Horses We are as Valiant and Strong as to our Persons as our Enemies We must make Foot work of it Stow describes the Battle at large and says The Scotch Spears did twice sore indanger the English Forces that the King himself even in the foremost Rank Fought right Valiantly encouraging His People as well by Example as Perswasions to do their best In fine the Lord Dacres with his Horse was the cause of the Scotch Defeat and the King most Valiantly Fighting was unfortunately Slain See Weaver Pag. 394. We have heard Barcklays Elogiums of this most Heroick Prince and Stow's Testimony of His Valour let us hear what others say John Johnston in his Historical Description of the Scottish Kings concludes one of his Stanza's thus to his Eternal Praise Quod si animis ortisque tuis sors aequa fuisset Imperii fines