Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	henry_n	king_n	stephen_n	5,689	5	11.2407	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20849	The second part, or a continuance of Poly-Olbion from the eighteenth song Containing all the tracts, riuers, mountaines, and forrests: intermixed with the most remarkable stories, antiquities, wonders, rarities, pleasures, and commodities of the east, and northerne parts of this isle, lying betwixt the two famous riuers of Thames, and Tweed. By Michael Drayton, Esq.; Poly-Olbion. Part 2	Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631.	1622 (1622)	STC 7229; ESTC S121634	140,318	213

next Booke the Muses to awake The two and twentieth Song THE ARGVMENT The Muse Ouze from her Fountaine brings Along by Buckingham and sings The Earth that turneth wood to stone And t'holy Wells of Harlweston Then shewes wherefore the Fates doe grant That shee the Ciuill warres should chant By Huntingdon shee Waybridge meetes And thence the German Ocean greetes INuention as before thy high-pitcht pinions rouze Exactly to set downe how the far-wandring Ouze Through the Bedfordian fields deliciously doth strain As holding on her course by Huntingdon againe How brauely shee her selfe betwixt her Bankes doth beare E'r Ely shee in-Ile a Goddesse honored there From Brackley breaking forth through soiles most heauenly sweet By Buckingham makes on and crossing Watling-Street Shee with her lesser Ouze at Newport next doth twin Which from proud Chiltern neere comes eas'ly ambling in The Brooke which on her banke doth boast that earth alone Which noted of this I le conuerteth wood to stone That little Aspleyes earth we anciently instile Mongst sundry other things A wonder of the I le Of which the lesser Ouze oft boasteth in herway As shee her selfe with Flowers doth gorgeously aray Ouze hauing Ouleney past as shee were waxed mad From her first stayder course immediatly doth gad And in Meandred Gyres doth whirle herselfe about That this way here and there backe forward in and out And like a wanton Girle oft doubling in her gate In Labyrinth-like turnes and twinings intricate Through those rich fields doth runne till lastly in her pride The Shires Hospitious towne shee in her course diuide Where shee her spacious breast in glorious bredth displayes And varying her cleere forme a thousand sundry wayes Streakes through the verdant Meads but farre she hath not gone When I vell a cleare Nymph from Shefford sallying on Comes deftly dauncing in through many a daintie Slade Crown'd with a goodly Bridge arriu'd at Bickleswade Encouraged the more her Mistris to pursue In whose cleere face the Sunne delights himselfe to view To mixe her selfe with Ouze as on she thus doth make And louingly at last hath hapt to ouertake Shee in her Chrystall Armes her soueraigne Ouze doth cling Which Flood in her Allie as highly glorying Shoots forward to Saint Neots into those nether grounds Towards Huntingdon and leaues the lou'd Bedfordian bounds Scarce is she entred yet vpon this second Sheere Of which she soueraigne is but that two Fountaines cleere At Harlweston neere hand th' one salt the other sweet At her first entrance thus her greatnesse gently greet Once were we two faire Nymphs who fortunatly prou'd The pleasures of the Woods and faithfully belou'd Of two such Syluan gods by hap that found vs here For then their Syluan kind most highly honoured were When this whole Countries face was Forresty and we Liu'd loosely in the Weilds which now thus peopled be Oft interchang'd we sighs oft amorous lookes we sent Oft whispering our deare loues our thoughts oft did we vent Amongst the secret shades oft in the groues did play And in our sports our ioyes and sorrowes did bewray Oft cunningly we met yet coyly then imbrac't Still languish'd in desire yet liu'd we euer chast And quoth the saltish Spring as one day mine and I Set to recount our loues from his more tender eye The brinish teares drop'd downe on mine impearced breast And instantly therein so deeply were imprest That brackish I became he finding me depriu'd Of former freshnesse quite the cause from him deriu'd On me bestow'd this gift my sweetnesse to requite That I should euer cure the dimnesse of the sight And quoth the fresher Spring the Wood-god me that woo'd As one day by my brim surpriz'd with loue he stood On me bestow'd this gift that euer after I Should cure the painfull Itch and lothsome Leprosie Held on with this discourse shee on not farre hath runne But that shee is ariu'd at goodly Huntingdon Where shee no sooner viewes her darling and delight Proud Portholme but became so rauish'd with the sight That shee her limber armes lasciuously doth throw About the Islets waste who b'ing imbraced so Her Flowry bosome shewes to the inamored Brooke On which when as the Ouze amazedly doth looke On her braue Damask'd breast bedeck'd with many a flowre That grace this goodly Mead as though the Spring did powre Her full aboundance downe whose various dyes so thicke Are intermixt as they by one another sticke That to the gazing eye that standeth farre they show Like those made by the Sunne in the Celestiall Bow But now t' aduaunce this Flood the Fates had brought to passe As shee of all the rest the onely Riuer was That but a little while before that fatall warre Twixt that diuided Blood of Yorke and Lancaster Neere Harleswood aboue in her Bedfordian trace By keeping backe her streame for neere three furlongs space Laying her Bosome bare vnto the publique view Apparantly was prou'd by that which did ensue In her Prophetique selfe those troubles to foresee Wherefore euen as her due the Destinies agree Shee should the glory haue our ciuill fights to sing When swelling in her bankes from her aboundant Spring Her sober silence shee now resolutely breakes In language fitting warre and thus to purpose speakes With that most fatall field I will not here begin Where Norman William first the Conqueror did win The day at * Hastings where the valiant Harold slaine Resign'd his Crowne whose soyle the colour doth retaine Of th' English blood there shed as th' earth still kept the skarre Which since not ours begot but an inuasiue warre Amongst our home-fought fields hath no discription here In Normandy nor that that same day fortie yeare That Bastard William brought a Conquest on this I le Twixt Robert his eld'st sonne and Henry who the while His Brothers warlike tents in Palestine were pight In England here vsurp'd his eld'st borne brothers right Which since it forraine was not strucke within this land Amongst our ciuill fights here numbred shall not stand But Lincolne Battell now we as our first will lay Where Maud the Empresse stood to trie the doubtfull day With Stephen when he here had welneere three yeares raign'd Where both of them their right couragiously maintain'd And marshalling their Troups the King his person put Into his well-arm'd Maine of strong and valiant Foot The Wings that were his Horse in th' one of them he plac'd Young Alan that braue Duke of Britaine whom he grac'd VVith th'Earles of Norsolke and Northampton and with those He Mellent in that wing and Warren did dispose The other no whit lesse that this great day might sted The Earle of Aubemerle and valiant Ipres led The Empresse powers again but in two Squadrons were The Vaward Chester had and Gloucester the Reare Then were there valiant Welsh and desperate men of ours That when supplies should want might reinforce their powers The Battels ioyne as when two aduerse

neere me any one To Neptunes Court I come for note along the Strond From Hartlepoole euen to the poynt of Sunder land As farre as * Wardenlaws can possibly suruey There 's not a Flood of note hath entrance to the sea Here ended shee her Speech when as the goodly Tyne Northumberland that parts from this Shire Palatine Which patiently had heard looke as before the Wer Had taken vp the Teis so Tyne now takes vp her For her so tedious talke Good Lord quoth she had I No other thing wherein my labor to imply But to set out my selfe how much well could I say In mine owne proper praise in this kind euery way As skilfull as the best I could if I did please Of my two Fountaines tell which of their sundry wayes The South and North are nam'd entitled both of Tyne As how the prosperous Springs of these two Floods of mine Are distant thirty miles how that the South-Tyne nam'd From Stanmore takes her Spring for Mines of Brasse that 's fam'd How that nam'd of the North is out of Wheel-fell sprung Amongst these English Alpes which as they runne along England and Scotland here impartially diuide How South-Tyne setting out from Cumberland is plide With Hartley which her hasts and Tippall that doth striue By her more sturdy Streame the Tyne along to driue How th' Allans th' East and West their bounties to her bring Two faire and full-brim'd Floods how also from her Spring My other North-nam'd Tyne through Tyndale maketh in Which She le her Hand-mayd hath and as she hasts to twin With th' other from the South her sister how cleere Rhead With Perop comes prepar'd and Cherlop me to lead Through Ridsdale on my way as farre as Exham then Dowell me Homage doth with blood of Englishmen VVhose Streame was deeply dy'd in that most cruell warre Of Lancaster and Yorke Now hauing gone so farre Their strengths me their deare Tyne doe wondrously enrich As how cleere Darwent drawes downe to Newcastle which The honour hath alone to entertaine me 〈◊〉 As of those mighty ships that in my mouth I beare Fraught with my country Coale of this * Newcastle nam'd For which both farre and neere that place no lesse is fam'd Then India for her Mynes should I at large declare My glories in which Time commands me to bee spare And I but slightly touch which stood I to report As freely as I might yee both would fall too short Of me but know that Tyne hath greater things in hand For to tricke vp our selues whilst trifling thus we stand Bewitch'd with our owne praise at all we neuer note How the Albanian Floods now lately set afloat With th' honour to them done take heart and lowdly crie Defiance to vs all on this side Tweed that lye And hearke the high-brow'd Hills alowd begin to 〈◊〉 With sound of things that Forth prepared is to sing When once the Muse ariues on the Albanian shore And therefore to make vp our forces here before The on-set they begin the Battels wee haue got Both on our earth and theirs against the valiant Scot I vndertake to tell then Muses I intreat Your ayd whilst I these Fights in order shall repeat When mighty Malcolme here had with a violent hand As he had oft before destroy'd Northumberland In Rufus troubled Raigne the warlike Mowbray then This Earledome that 〈◊〉 with halfe the power of men For conquest which that King from Scotland hither drew At Anwick in the field their Armies ouerthrew Where Malcolme and his sonne braue Edward both were found Slaine on that bloody field So on the English ground When Dauid King of Scots and Henry his sterne sonne Entitled by those times the Earle of Huntingdon Had forradg'd all the North beyond the Riuer Teis In Stephens troubled raigne in as tumultuous dayes As England euer knew the Archbishop of Yorke Stout Thurstan and with him ioynd in that warlike work Ralfe both for wit and Armes of Durham Bishop then Renownd that called were the valiant Clergy men With th' Earle of Aubemarle Especk and Peuerell Knights And of the Lacies two oft try'd in bloody fights Twixt Aluerton and Yorke the doubtfull battell got On Dauid and his sonne whilst of th' inuading Scot Ten thousand strew'd the earth and whilst they lay to bleed Ours followed them that fled beyond our sister Tweed And when * Fitz-Empresse next in Normandy and here And his rebellious sonnes in high combustions were William the Scottish King taking aduantage then And entring with an Host of eighty thousand men As farre as Kendall came where Captaines then of ours Which ayd in Yorkshire raisd with the Northumbrian powers His forces ouerthrew and him a prisoner led So Long shanks Scolands scourge him to that Country sped Prouoked by the Scots that England did inuade And on the Borders here such spoyle and hauock made That all the land lay waste betwixt the Tweed and me This most coragious King from them his owne to free Before proud Berwick set his puisant army downe And tooke it by strong siege since when that warlike towne As Cautionary long the English after held But tell me all you Floods when was there such a Field By any Nation yet as by the English wonne Vpon the Scottish power as that of Halidon Seauen Earles nine hundred Horse and of Foot-souldiers more Neere twenty thousand slaine so that the Scottish gore Ranne downe the Hill in streames euen in Albania's sight By our third Edwards prowesse that most renowned Knight As famous was that Fight of his against the Scot As that against the French which he at Cressy got And when that conquering King did afterward aduance His Title and had past his warlike powers to France And Dauid King of Scots heere entred to inuade To which the King of France did that false Lord perswade Against his giuen Faith from France to draw his Bands To keepe his owne at home or to fill both his hands With warre in both the Realmes was euer such a losse To Scotland yet befell as that at Neuills Crosse Where fifteene thousand Scots their soules at once forsooke Where stout Iohn Copland then King Dauid prisoner tooke I' th head of all his troups that brauely there was seene VVhen English Philip that braue Amazonian Queene Encouraging her men from troupe to troupe did ride And where our Cleargy had their ancient Valourtride Thus often comming in they haue gone out too short And next to this the fight of Nesbit I report VVhen Hebborn that stout Scot and his had all their hire VVhich in t' our Marches came and with inuasiue fire Our Villages laid waste for which defeat of ours When doughty Douglasse came with the Albanian powers At Holmdon doe but see the blow our 〈◊〉 gaue To that bold daring Scot before him how he draue His Armie and with shot of our braue English Bowes Did wound them on the backs whose

Seas are dasht Against each others waues that all the plaines were washt With showers of sweltring blood that downe the furrowes ran Ere it could be discern'd which either lost or wan Earle Baldwin and Fitzvrse those valiant Knights were seene To charge the Empresse Horse as though dread Mars had beene There in two sundry shapes the day that beautious was Twinckled as when you see the Sunne-beames in a glasse That nimbly being stirr'd flings vp the trembling flame At once and on the earth reflects the very same With their resplendent swords that glistred gainst the Sunne The honour of the day at length the Empresse wonne King Stephen prisoner was and with him many a Lord The common Souldiers put together to the sword The next the Battell neere Saint Edmundsbury fought By our * Fitz-Empresse force and Flemings hither brought By th' Earle of Leister bent to moue intestine strife For yong King Henries cause crown'd in his fathers life Which to his kingly Syre much care and sorrow bred In whose defiance then that Earle his Ensignes spred Back'd by Hugh Bigots power the Earle of Norfolke then By bringing to his ayd the valiant Norfolke men Gainst Bohun Englands great high Constable that swayd The Royall forces ioyn'd with Lucy for his ayd Chiefe Iustice and with them the German powers to expell The Earles of Cornewall came Gloster and Arundell From Bury that with them Saint Edmonds Banner bring Their Battels in aray both wisely ordering The Armies chanc'd to meet vpon the Marshy ground Betwixt Saint Edmunds towne and Fornham fitly found The bellowing Drummes beat vp a thunder for the charge The Trumpets rend the ayre the Ensignes let at large Like wauing flames farre off to either hoste appeare The bristling Pykes doe shake to threat their comming neere All clouded in a mist they hardly could them view So shaddowed with the Shafts from either side that flew The Wings came wheeling in at ioyning of whole forces The either part were seene to tumble from their horses Which emptie put to rout are paunch'd with Gleaues and Pyles Lest else by running loose they might disranke their 〈◊〉 The Bilmen come to blowes that with the cruell thwacks The ground lay strew'd with Male and shreds of tatterd Iacks The playnes like to a shop lookt each where to behold VVhere limbes of mangled men on heaps lay to be sold Sterne discontented Warre did neuer yet appeare With a more threatning brow then it that time did there O Leicester alas in ill time wast thou wonne To ayd this gracelesse youth the most ingratefull sonne Against his naturall Syre who crown'd him in his dayes VVhose ill requited loue did him much sorrow raise As Le'ster by this warre against King Henry show'd Vpon so bad a cause O courage ill bestow'd VVho had thy quarrell beene as thou thy selfe was skild In braue and martiall feats thou euermore hadst fild This I le with thy high deeds done in that bloody field But Bigot and this Lord inforc'd at length to yeeld Them to the other part when on that fatall plaine Of th' English and the Dutch ten thousand men lay slaine As for the second Fight at Lincolne betwixt those VVho sided with the French by seeking to depose Henry the sonne of Iohn then young and to aduaunce The Daulphin Lewes sonne to Philip King of France VVhich Lincolne Castle then most straightly did besiege And William Marshall Earle of Pembroke for his Liege Who led the faithfull Lords although so many there Or in the conflict slaine or taken prisoners were Yet for but a surprize no field appointed fight Mongst our set Battels here may no way claime a right The Field at Lewes then by our third Henry fought VVho Edward his braue sonne vnto that Conflict brought VVith Richard then the King of Almaine and his sonne Young Henry with such Lords as to his part he wonne VVith him their Soueraigne Liege their liues that durst engage And the rebellious league of the proud Barronage By Symon Mounford Earle of Le'ster their chiefe Head And th' Earle of Gloster Clare against King Henry led For th' ancient Freedomes here that bound their liues to stand The Aliens to expulse who troubled all the land Whilst for this dreadfull day their great designes were meant From Edward the young Prince defiances were sent To Mountfords valiant sonnes Lord Henry Sim and Guy And calling vnto him a Herauld quoth he Flie To th' Earle of Leisters Tents and publikely proclame Defiance to his face and to the Montfords name And say to his proud sonnes say boldly thus from me That if they be the same that they would seeme to be Now let them in the field be by their Band roules knowne Where as I make no doubt their valour shall be showne Which if they dare to doe and still vphold their pride There will we vent our spleenes where swords shall it decide To whom they thus replide Tell that braue man of Hope He shall the Mountfords find in t'head of all their Troupe To answere his proud braues our Bilbowes be as good As his our Armes as strong and he shall find our blood Sold at as deare a rate as his and if we fall Tell him wee le hold so fast his Crowne shall goe withall The King into three fights his forces doth diuide Of which his princely * sonne the Vaward had to guide The second to the King of Almaine and his sonne Young Henry he betooke in the third Legion Of Knights and Men of Armes in person he appeares Into foure seuerall Fights the desperate Barons theirs I' th first those valiant youths the sonnes of Leister came Of leading of the which Lord Henry had the name The Earle of Gloster brought the second Battell on And with him were the Lords Mountchency and Fitz-Iohn The third wherein alone the Londoners were plac'd The stout Lord Segraue led the greatest and the last Braue Leicester himselfe with courage vndertooke The day vpon the host affrightedly doth looke To see the dreadfull shocke their first encounter gaue As though it with the rore the Thunder would out-braue Prince Edward all in gold as he great Ioue had beene The Mountfords all in Plumes like Estriges were seene To beard him to his teeth toth' worke of death they goe The crouds like to a Sea seemd wauing to and fro Friend falling by his friend together they expire He breath'd doth charge afresh he wounded doth retyre The Mountfords with the Prince vye valour all the day Which should for Knightly deeds excell or he or they To them about his head his glistring blade he throwes They waft him with their swords as long with equall showes Now Henry Simon then and then the youngest Guy Kept by his brothers backe thus stoutly doth reply What though I be but young let death me ouerwhelme But I will breake my sword vpon his plumed helme The younger Bohun there to high atchiuements bent With whom two other Lords

avonton the towne vpon the North of Auon So called of his many wells or Fonntaines A place in the North part of Northomtonshire excellent for coursing with Greyhonnds The Hare-finder A description of a Course at the Hare A Curre When one Greyhound outstrips the other in the Course The Fountaine of VVelland An ancient Prophecie of the 〈◊〉 of VVelland The conrse of VVellana to the Sea Saints in the Primitiue British Church Britain sendeth her holy men to other countries The Cambro British Saints Those that came from forraine parts into this I le were canonized here for Saints An Islet vpon the coast of Scotland in the German Sea How the name of Henry came so frequent among the English Henry the second Natiue English 〈◊〉 into 〈◊〉 parts canonized Bishops of this land canonized Saints An Isle neere to Scotland lying into the German Ocean since that called Holy Iland as you may read in the next page following Henry the first Saxon Kings canonized for Saints A Towne in 〈◊〉 A people of the Saxons who gaue the name to England of Angles land Saint Edmunsbury Holy women Canonized Saints Saint Audries Liberties Wild. geese falling downe if they fly ouer the place Holland diuided into two parts the Lower and the Higher The iength of Holland by the Sea shore from the coast of Norsolke to VVainfleet The Description of the VVashes Hollands Orztion A Nymph supposed to haue the charge of the Shore Fuell cut out of the Marsh. Brookes and Pooles worne by the water into which the rising floods haue recourse The word in Palconry for a company of Teale Salt water The pleasures of the Fennes Kestiuens Oration Ancaster Heath No Tract can 〈◊〉 so braue Churches A Towne so called Lincolne anciently dyed the best greene of England Botulphs towne contractedly Boston Lyndsies oration VVytham Eele and Ancum Pyke In all the world there is none syke The Bounds of Kestiven The Vale of Beuer bordreth vpon 3. Shires Not a more pleasant Vale in all great Britaine then Beuer. The 2. famous Wayes of England See to the 13. Song A little Village at the rising of Soare Lecester Forrest A Simily of Soare Two mightie Rocks in the Forrest A Hill in the Forrest A Simily of Charnvvood Forrest Two Riuers of one name in one Shire Whence Trent is supposed to deriue her name See to the 12. Song The 〈◊〉 Robin Hoods Story A Riueret parting the two Shires The Peakes Wonders The Diuels-arse in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hole Elden Hole Saint Anne of Buskston 〈◊〉 Sandy Hill The Peake Forrest Darvvin of the British Doure Guin which is White water Darby from thence as the place by the water The Irish Sea The circuit and true demension of 〈◊〉 The Lancashire Horne-pipe Ervvels oration He that wilfish for a Lancashire man at any time or tide Must 〈◊〉 his booke with a good 〈◊〉 or an Apple with a red side A wonder in Nature A part of Lancashire so called Jngleborovv Pendle and Penigent The highest Hils betwixt Barvvick and Trent See to the 28. Song Lunesdale Lancashire Faire women Lancashire Breed of cattel the best Lancashire Deepe mouthd Hounds Lancashire Bowmen The White and Red 〈◊〉 See to the sixt Song Llun in the British sulnesse A part of Lancashire iutting out into the Jrish Sea The Calfe of Man a little Island A mountaine in the Isle of Man Barnacles one of the 〈◊〉 Wonders A scarre is a Rock A great brauery of Yorkshire The VVest Ridings oration Much Ewe and Elme vpon the Bank of Don. A strange opinion held by those of the neighboring Villages Beheading which we call Halifax Law Robin Hoods burying place See to the 22. Song 〈◊〉 Forrest Pendle Hill is neere vpon the verge of this Tract but standeth in Lancashire Scotland The Metamorphosis of that Fountaine Nymphs of the Mountaines The supposed Genius of the place Your the chiefest Riuer of Yorkshire who alter her long course by the confluence of other floods gets the name of Ouse The North-Ridings Oration The Simily Rippon Fayre The reason why Svvale is called Holy Richmondshire within Yorkeshire A Countie within YorkeShire Nymphs of the Woods A Simily of Yorkshire The Bishoprick of 〈◊〉 A Catalogue of the wonders of the North-Riding The East-Ridings 〈◊〉 Yorks 〈◊〉 The Church of 〈◊〉 The marks how farre he is called Number The length of the East Riding vpon the Sea Quzes Oration The title of the house of Yorke to the Crowne The Oration of Humber A fall of water The roring of the waters at the comming in of the Tyde A Liberty in the 〈◊〉 Some wonders of the East Riding The Bishoprick of Durham 〈◊〉 springeth out of Stanmore which lyeth almost equally between Cumberland 〈◊〉 The Bishoprick of Durham A Mountaine on that part of the Shire Nevvcastle Coale The 〈◊〉 of Anvvicke See to the 18. Song The Battell of 〈◊〉 Henry the second The second Battell at Anvvicke The Battell at Halidon The Battell at Neuils Crosse. The Battell of 〈◊〉 The Battell of Flodden A Road into Scotland by the Duke of Norfolke The Siege of Leeth The Road into Scotland by the Earle of Sussex A repetition of the Hils parting Northumberland and Scotlād as they lye from South to North. 〈◊〉 vvall See to the 〈◊〉 Song The great Riuer on which Edenborough standeth The Holy Island A Catalogue of the Riuers of Northumberlād as they run into the German sea vpon the East part of the countrey betwixt the Fals of Tine and 〈◊〉 See to the 〈◊〉 end of the 27. Song See to the 27. Song The first place of note which shee runnes through Two fountains the one in the South th' other in Northvvales See to the 5. 10. and 27. Song Nymphes of the Forrest The Isle of Darvvent The Mynes Royall A Hill in Scotland See to the 29. Song The West end of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Why 〈◊〉 so called