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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02624	A prophesie of Cadvvallader, last king of the Britaines containing a comparison of the English kings, with many worthy Romanes, from William Rufus, till Henry the fift. Henry the fift, his life and death. Foure battels betweene the two houses of Yorke and Lancaster. The field of Banbery. The losse of Elizabeth. The praise of King Iames. And lastly a poeme to the yong Prince.	Herbert, William, fl. 1604.; Cadwaladr, Vendigaid, d. 664?	1604 (1604)	STC 12752; ESTC S103828	31,064	72

fauorite This he intreates for this his penne doth write Cease to command learne subiects to obay Reason where iustice rules beares greatest sway Is it not peerlesse praise with peace to gaine That for the which our fathers spent their blood And neuer age but ours could reobtaine O happy men if that you saw such good But will is masked still with errors hood Let ture obeisans vp this diet breake So Caesar wils so Cicero doth speake The fect was this the prophesie was such Which he had read with carefull industry And quoted euery line with iudgments touch A midst his study casting vp his eye Seeing his mistresse Fortune was not nye His booke he sleightly set into his gowne Which on the yellow sand fell quickly downe Thence posted he on his maiestique Asse Like some slow rider pacing to the race Than Isis siluer channell did I passe And thither went where as mine eyes might gaze On that faire booke clad in a golden case I past the Annales for it pleasde mine eye To muse vpon that sacred prophesie When I had read vnto the latter lyne I saw the aged king returne with speede Kind Syr quoth he saw you a booke of mine I Syr quoth I if this be he indeed I gaue it him he gaue me thankes for meed He posted thence I to my study went Where on this matter many houres I spent At last I was resolu'd for to relate In Poetry the things mine eyes did see Which was the vncertainety of humane state To paint the things a right with equitie I did implore the ayde of memorie Which she denide Oh worthies pardon mee If ought I write amisse which you shall see Not Orpheus trees and birds inchanting quill Nor Homers art heere Reader shalt thou see Expect not Ouids verse nor Maroes skill For if you doe you shall deceiued bee If bad it is pray gentles beare with mee Say it is meane thou dost mee much commend I 'de haue it meane because I meane to mend Mistake mee not I liue in hope to please Dispraise mee not before thou knowest mee well Maugre sweete not reuenge my lines loue peace Doe not my shame before thou seest it tell Marke euery line and each wordes nature spell Ere thou beginst to reade looke beare in minde Of whom I write yea how and in what kind Faire Englands Peeres with Romanes I compare Their warres their spoiles their fightes and victory Their filthy vices with their vertues rare Their laud dispraise their praise and infamy Their conquests triumphes with their treachery Then doth our muse declare intestine warres Kings conquering fields and Princes wounding iarres Then doth she mount the ayre with Eagles winges Then to the North shee goes and passeth Twidet And sings his praise which endles glory bringes Who like a Pilot doth this Island guide Which like a barke within the Sea doth ride This land is seated like to Venice state The waues the walles and euery ship a gate Least that my Gates be wider then my towne And that Diogines my folly see My proems prologue I le set quickly downe And bend my muse vnto the Prophesie Where you may reade art mixt with industry Needs must I erre to erre all men are bent To perseuere is a bad beasts intent The Comparison O What a sea of blood shall England spill When Normans Prince and Palastinas friend With burgonets of steele our fieldes doth fill Brothers must striue as did Seuerus kind Enuious ambition makes iust nature blind Arunce and Brutus dead Alarums cease Publicola doth liue and loueth peace When Brutus dide Valerius then did raigne When Arunce fell the Tuscan Emperour fled When Tirrolls shaft shall enter Rufus braine When Henries life with Roberts lightes are fled When all these sleepe in natures earthly bed Norfolke shall giue to Stephen Henries due Peace then shall be but warre shall soone ensue Flora is fled stout Hiems weares her crowne Attir'd like Mars in furniture of steele Aniow and Blois striue for the Imperiall Crowne A griefe surpassing griefe doth England feele Whilst doubtfull Fortune turns her doubtfull wheele Camillus comes the Frenchmen feare his voice Alba is freed and Albion hath her choice When Rome was sackt Camillus ended strife And made Bellinus brother to dispaire When Germanes Empresse Mawd shall end her life Henry shall claime the crowne as lawfull heire His Eame in graue but he in regall chaire Is plac't and rules his princely Peeres with peace His sonnes rebell and concord gins to cease Now springs the plant from hence our ioy shall spring Victorious Aniow crownd in regall state Liuing adopts an heir inuests a King Vagratefull child spurd by a womans hate Sturd forraine foes the land to ruinate Romes sword is Consul foe-men tribute paies Both Henries dead Christs friend the Septer swaies Marcellus which did Syracusa burne Made Affricks praise to praise his matchles minde And place his ashes in a golden vrne So Aibious lyon sprung from lyons kinde When death the king and prince in cords shall binde Hee le spend his treasure for Iehouas good But woe alas a slaue shall spill his blood Designed Iohn disuests young Britaines Duke But Antichristians prince our sauiours foe Bringes Lewis in and doth him straight rebuke Egles of England yeeld to Swans of Poe A Monarch falles by Monkes fates wills it so Titus suruiues though flames Flaminius burne Worster is safe and Lewis doth returne At Thrasimenus valiant Titus fell In Prusias Court his sonne reuengde his death Form happie heauen though Iohn to haples hell Headlong did slide his sonne shall weare the wreath The Dolphen flyes and Mars begins to breath Tempestuous whitle-windes breake the Temple gate Of Peace the peers the king the prince the Baron hate Ciuill dissention and dislovall armes Cleerly declares Clares hidden enmitie A fatall starre foretelleth future harmes The legions meete each doth the other spye Eccho resounds S. George S. George both cry Gracchus is stabd young Scipio peace maintaines The Barrons tam'd all conquering Longshanckes raignes Romes enuious Tribunes that ignoble Tribe The vitious issue of a vertuous dame Did the base mindes of poore Plebeians bribe To gaine them honour with their Countries shame They dead the world did ring with Romanes faine So Clare and Mountford shall who being slaine Edward shall vanquish Calidonias plaine Acon is tane and Tunis feares his stroakes He loued peace yet bare a warriors shield Cambria disdain'd to weare her sisters yoake The Ensignes spred both striue to win the field The bridge is past and Leoline must yeeld Marius departs Proscriptio●s gin to cease The Prince of warre shall end his dayes in peace Destruction graz'd on fertill Italy Till Syllas legions vanquisht Marius might So ciuill warres shall feed on Britany Till Leolinus that all daring Knight Is tane by Edward in vnequall fight When Marius fell Concordia gan to smile So Wales will amplify faire Englands stile

Resplendant Iuno leaues her sacred throne Young Gaueston bewitcht great Edwards hart The minor Gods bewaile Saturnias mone Bohume and Beaumount takes the Marchers part And false Matreners stabbes Carnaruans hart For Caesars office Scipio striues in vaine And March too soone retells his triple gaine When that the Romane Eagles graspt of yore Scipio with auncient Lentulus did striue For Iulius priesthood whose deserts were more But when that Pompeys legions did not thriue They tasted gall within the honies hiue So Wigmore seekes in vaine to get a Crowne But by Lord Mountaoute is tumbled downe Terras proud issue tam'd immortall Ioue Rides in his Chariot through the azurde skie Adornd with Valure Mercy Peace and Loue So Caesar rode in Rome with maiesty Scipio would liue life Cato doth deny So Wigmores honor seekes but must not part Matreuers hand hath stabd Matreuers hart Warres thunderbolt with his Egiptian pearle Illustrious Venus and her martiall Bride Phillips faire sister with great Mercias Earle Submits to Henaults mounting-minded bride Vengeance and Fury scourge inhumane pride Egipt is lost and Authony must die March is immurde and twise he may not flie When Anthony did Cleopatra loue And did Augustas chamber-bed forgoe Bellona Caesars irefull minde did moue To worke reuenge on chaste Octauias foe Marcus is slaine he must his Loue forgoe As Anthony and Cleopatra were So is Queene Ifabel and Mortimer Depressed waters element some thinke Is downe supprest by powers most diuine Some iudge that Terra doth the moisture drinke Yet certes shall men see with mortall evne When deadly water shall with ayre combine Great Mortimer whose name from waters sprang Shall waue in waues of ayre and there shall hang. Vermilion collour'd clowdes of purple warre Are by the radiant beames of Edwards raigne Form Englands territors exiled farre But stay me thinkes Bellona soundes againe And calles forth Mars to fight in Aquitaine Stay Caesar stay let valiant Drusus goe Great Arthurs heire can vanquish Artois foe When that Tiberius did the Septer sway Of Albas Empire great Saturnias king Germanicus whose head was deckt with bay Fought still abroad and conquest home did bring So Edward did whose praise the Spanyards sing Let Beaumount witnes fearfull Phillips flight And Iohn which yeelded to the Gascoigne knight The wandring Planets of the burnisht skye Are by the vncomprised Spheare of loue Thrust here and there as men condemn'd to dye Heauen were nought if Heauen did not moue So nature taught so natures sonne did proue Like vnto these or like a Comet bright Through euery region Caesar sent his light The Zodiaks lamp in the Eclipticke line Twice vrgd his courser to a swift careere The Hitrurian sonne doth in the East decline In Europes West his praise did first appeere Oh Climatericall disaster yeere Caesar thy glory in the West did rise The poisoned East thy raine did deuise So siluer streames and toplesse Apenine Which doe confront terrestriall Paradise Must not great Edwards wandering Fame confine Mars and Bellona stratagems deuise That he with Honors wings should mount the skyes Exiled Peter doth implore his ayde Iberia quakes to see the crosse displayd Reuolting Henault and relenting Iohn Are terrified at Bruse and Balliols fall No Salike law can barre bold Phillips sonne His matchlesse valure caused a kingdomes thrall Whilst slothfull Charles immur'd him in a wall Germanias terror wan a glorious field So Cambrias monarch made a King to yeeld Carelesse of death like to a thunder-bolt Englands Crasinius with a massie lance And not vnlike a fierce vntamed Colt Glides like the siluer Rheine through yeelding France Blinded with age great Boheme falls by chance Caligula is borne the sinke of shame Richard misled deserues an endlesse blame The worldes faire mistresse Empresse of the earth Ordaines a triumph for Augustus heire So Gascoigne triumphes at young Gascoignes birth Wonder of Armes set in Victorias chaire To Troynouant with Tropheys doth repaire Romes Senators attended Albas starre So Albion Peeres did waite on Albious carre Two glorious sonnes rules the celestiall Globe Cheering the world with their transpearcing rayes Garnisht with Saphires and a Iasper robe Vntimely chaunce times wonder ends his dayes Aemilius mournes amidst his Tropheys praise Troies hope is dead and Priams Hector slaine Edward hath lost his sonne his sonne a raigne Impartiall death maskt in a sable weede Passeth the Romanes watch and Praetors guard And to Tiberius royall tent doth speede Phisicke resists and death by art is bard But art doth yeeld for death was too too hard He laid in graue his nephewes sonne doth raigne The scourge of Rome and Europes Empresse slaine So when that death of Edward made an end Essence of value substance of renowne Whome peace for iustice warres for rule commend Exalting vertue putting vices downe His bones entombd his worthy sonnes doe crowne Their nephew Richard second of that name The first though not the last disgrac't by fame Me●omene thou dismal muse appeare And moralize the Anthemes which I bring Richard misled by Bushy Poole andVere Ignoble Scroope in his new Empires spring Inchaunting charmes vnto his eares did sing Flattry corrupteth kings but good aduise Makes Counsellors gratious and the Princes wise When Neroes sonne was borne in Neroes campe Quirinus father Rheas valiant spouse In his red Spheare enlightned had his lampe Leauing his yron roabes and brazen house Did to Bellona cups of blood carowse Saturne then ioynd with Mars which did foretell That Neroes sonne for murther should excell Whom Brutus freed by death from Tarquines stroakes Princes of peace for warres admirde of all The worlds Arch monarches rent their chained yoakes Consulls and Tribunes do a Senate call Their voice is one Caligula must fall Nature doth swarue and from her limits passe The Imperious Lyon got an abiect Asse So when chaste Alice Richard forth shall bring In Edwards Campe Victorias sacred seate Prophets like starres ensuing harmes shall sing The Peeres like Albas knights were all repleate With wrath disdain was in a mightie sweate In working waies the king for to depose Which being done the Nobles Darby chose The Northerne Planet great Northumberland Whose peerles issue neuer shall decaie Till Nature doth confound both Sea and land And shapeles Chaos comes his part to play Vertue must liue though men be turnd to claye This glorious Moone true badge of Honor bright Disdaynes the Sunne and did not borow light Foreseeing Gaunt like to a carefull fire Seeing that lost by Sloth which Labour wonne Doth contermaund his Soueraignes hot desire And like a blast doth caulme the scorching Sunne Which by illuding Sycophantes is wonne Two Combatants on their earth threatning steedes Attend the trumpets sound in yron weedes The reuerent Consulls Yorke and Lancaster Doe conuocate a Senate of the Peeres And equalizing Woodstocke did preferre Due banishment to those ambitious Peeres The Barons ioynd to this the Champions sweares