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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20825	The legend of great Cromvvel. By Michael Drayton Esquier	Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631.	1607 (1607)	STC 7204; ESTC S105399	16,702	48

Christ a Colledge and together brings All that thereof the great foundation wills There me imploies whose industrie he found Worthie to worke vpon the noblest ground Yet in the entrance wisely that did feare Coyne might fall short yet with this worke on fire Wherefore such houses as Religious were Whose being no necessitie require But that the greater very well might beare From Rome the Card'nall cunningly did hier Winning withall his Soueraigne to consent Both colouring with so holy an intent This like a symptome to a long disease Was the forerunner to this mightie fall And but too vnaduisedly did ceaze Vpon the part that ruinated all Which had the worke been of so many daies And more againe recouer hardly shall But loe it sunke which time did long vphold Where now it lies euen leueld with the mould Thus thou great Rome here first wast ouerthrowne Thy future harmes that blindly couldst not see And in this worke they only were thine owne Whose knowledge lent that deadly wound to thee Which to the world before had they not showne Nere had those secrets been descri'd by mee Nor by thy wealth so many from the plow Worne those hie types wherein they florish now After when as the Cardinall againe Into hie fauour with the King mee brought With whom my selfe so well I did demeane As that I seem'd to exercise his thought And his great liking strongly did retaine With what before my Master me had taught From whose example by those Cels were small Sprang the subuersion lastly of them all Yet many a let was cast into the way Wherein I ran so steddily and right And many a snare my aduersaries lay Much wrought they with their power much with their slight Wisely perceiuing that my smallest stay Fully requir'd the vtmost of their might To my ascendant hasting me to clime There as the first predomining the time Knowing what wealth me earnestly did wooe Which I through VVolsey hapned had to finde And could the path most perfectly vntoo The King thereafter earnestly inclin'd Seeing besides what after I might doe If so great power me fully were assign'd By all their meanes against me strongly wrought Lab'ring as fast to bring their Church to nought Whil'st to the King continually I sue And in this businesse faithfully did stirre Strongly t' approue my iudgement to be true Gainst those who most supposed me to erre Nor the least meanes which any way I knew Might grace me or my purposes preferre Did I omit till wonne I had his eare Most that me mark'd whē least he seem'd to heare This wound to them thus violently giuen Enuie at me her sharpest darts doth roue Affecting the supremacie of heauen As the first Giants warring against Ioue Heap'd hils on hils the Gods till they had driuen The meanest shapes of earthly things to proue So must I shift from them against me rose Mortall their hate as mightie were my foes But their great force against me wholly bent Preuail'd vpon my purposes so farre That I my ruine scarsely could preuent So momentarie worldly fauours are That till the vtmost of their spight was spent Had not my spirit maintain'd a manly warre Risen they had when laid I had been low Vpon whose ruine after I did grow When the great King their strange reports that tooke That as pernitious as they potent were Which at the faire growth of my fortune strooke Whose deadly malice blame me not to feare Me at the first so violently shooke That they this frame were likely downe to beare If resolution with a setled brow Had not vpheld my peremptorie vow Yet these encounters thrust me not awry Nor could my courses force me to forsake After this ship wrack I againe must trye Some happier voyage hopefull still to make The plots that barren long we see did lie Some fitting season plentifully take One fruitfull haruest frankly doth restore What many winters hindred had before That to account I strickly call my wit How it this while had managed my state My soule in counsell summoning to sit If possible to turne the course of fate For waies there be the greatest things to hit If men could finde the peremptorie gate And since I once was got so neere the brinke More then before t' would grieue me now to sink Bedford whose life some said that I had sau'd In Italy one me that fauoured most And reuerend Hayles who but occasion crau'd To shew his loue no lesse that I had cost Who to the King perceiuing me disgrac'd Whose fauour I vnluckily had lost Both with him great a foote set in withall If not to stay to quallifie my fall Hie their regard yet hier was their hap Well neere quite sunke recouer me that could And once more get me into fortunes lap Which well my selfe might teach me there to hold Escap'd out of so dangerous a trap Whose praise by me to ages shall be told As the two props by which I only rose When most supprest most trod on by my foes This me to vrge the premunire wonne Ordain'd in matters dangerous and hie In t'which the heedlesse Prelacie were runne That back vnto the Papacie did flye Sworne to that sea and what before was done Due to the King dispensed were thereby In t'which first entring offred me the meane That to throw downe alreadie that did leane This was to me that ouerflowing sourse From whence his bounties plentifully spring Whose speedie current with vnusuall force Bare me into the bosome of the King By putting him into that readie course Which soone to passe his purposes might bring Where those which late imperiously controld me Pale strook with feare stood trēbling to behold me When state to me those ceremonies show'd That to so great a fauorite were due And fortune still with honours did me load As though no meane she in my rising knew Or heauen to me more then to man had ow'd What to the world vnheard of was and new And was to other sparing of her store Till she could giue or ask I could no more Those hie preferments he vpon me laid Might make the world me publikely to know Such as in iudgement rightly being wai'd Seemed too great for me to vndergoe Nor could his hand from powring on be stai'd Vntill I so abundantly did flow That looking downe whence lately I was cloame Danger bid feare if further I should roame For first from Knighthood rising in degree The office of the Iewell house my lot After the Rowles he frankly gaue to mee From whence a priuie Counseller I got Chose of the Garter and the Earle to bee Of Essex yet sufficient these not But to the great Vicegerencie I grew Being a title as supreame as new So well did me these dignities befit And honour so me euery way became As more then man I had been made for it Or as from me it had deriu'd the name Where was that man whose loue I not requit Beyond his owne imaginarie aime Which