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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

And Marquesse Mountacute his brother that braue stem Of Neuils noble Stock who ioyned had to them The Dukes of Somerset and Excester and take The Earle of Oxford in the Armies forward make And meeting on the plaine to Barnet very neere That to this very day is called Gladmore there Duke Richard to the field doth Edwards Vaward bring And in the middle came that most couragious King With Clarence his reclaim'd and brother then most deare His friend Lord 〈◊〉 had the guiding of the Reare A man of whom the King most highly did repute On puisant Warwicks part the Marquesse Mountacute His brother and his friend the Earle of Oxford led The right wing and the left which most that day might sted The Duke of Excester and he himselfe doe guide The middle fight which was the Armies onely pride Of Archers most approu'd the best that he could get Directed by his friend the Duke of Somerset O Sabboth ill bestow'd O drery Easter day In which as some suppose the Sunne doth vse to play In honour of that God for sinfull man that dy'd And rose on that third day that Sunne which now doth hide His face in foggy mists nor was that morning seene So that the space of ground those angry hosts betweene Was ouershadowed quite with darknesse which so cast The armies on both sides that they each other past Before they could perceiue aduantage where to fight Besides the enuious mist so much deceiu'd their sight That where eight hundred men which valiant Oxford brought Ware Comets on their coats great Warwicks force which thought They had King Edwards beene which so with Sunnes were drest First made their shot at them who by their friends distrest Constrayned were to flie being scattered here and there But when this direfull day at last began to cleere King Edward then beholds that height of his first hopes Whose presence gaue fresh life to his oft-fainting troupes Prepar'd to scourge his pride there daring to defie His mercie to the host proclaiming publikely His hatefull breach of faith his periury and shame And what might make him vile so VVarwicke heard that name Of Yorke which in the field he had so oft aduanc'd And to that glorious height and greatnesse had inhanc'd Then cried against his power by those which oft had sled Their swist pursuing foc by him not brauely led Vpon the enemies backe their swords bath'd in the gore Of those from whom they 〈◊〉 like heartlesse men before Which Warwicks nobler name iniuriously defide Euen as the irefull host then ioyned side to side Where cruell Richard charg'd the Earles maine battell when Proud Somerset therein with his approoued men Stood stoutly to the shocke and flang out such a flight Of shafts as welneere seem'dt'eclipse the welcom'd light Which forc'd them to fall off on whose retreit againe That great Battalion next approcheth the fayre plaine Where in the King himselfe in person was to trie Proud VVarwicks vtmost strength when Warwicke by and by With his left wing came vp and charg'd so home and round That had not his light horse by disuantagious ground Been hindred he had strucke the heart of Edwards host But finding his defeat his enterprise so lost He his swift Currers sends to will his valiant brother And Oxford in command being equall to the other To charge with the right wing who brauely vp doe beare But Hastings that before raught thither with his Reare And with King Edward ioynd the host too strongly arm'd When euery part with spoyle with rape with fury charm'd Are prodigall of blood that slaughter seemes to swill It selfe in humane gore and euery one cries kill So doubtfull and so long the battell doth abide That those which to and fro twixt that and London ride That Warwicke winnes the day for certaine newes doe bring Those following them againe sayd certainly the King Vntill great VVarwicke found his armie had the worse And sore began to faint alighting from his horse In with the formost puts and wades into the throng And where he saw death stern'st the murthered troupes among He ventures as the Sunne in a tempestuous day With darknesse threatned long yet sometimes doth display His cheerefull beames which scarce appeare to the cleere eye But suddenly the clouds which on the winds doe flie Doe muffle him againe within them till at length The storme preuailing still with an vnusuall strength His cleerenesse quite doth close and shut him vp in night So mightie Warwicke fares in this outragious fight The cruell Lyons thus inclose the dreaded Beare Whilst Montacute who striues if any helpe there were To rescue his belou'd and valiant brother fell The losse of two such spirits at once time shall not tell The Duke of Somerset and th' Earle of Oxford fled And Excester being left for one amongst the dead At length recouering life by night escap'd away Yorke neuer safely sat till this victorious day Thus Fortune to his end this mightie Warwicke brings This puisant setter vp and plucker downe of Kings He who those battel 's wonne which so much blood had cost At Barnets fatall fight both Life and Fortune lost Now Tewksbury it rests thy storry to relate Thy sad and dreadfull fight and that most direfull Fate Of the Lancastrian Line which hapned on that day Fourth of that fatall Month that still-remembred May Twixt Edmund that braue Duke of Somerset who fled From Barnets bloody field againe there gathering head And Marquesse Dorset bound in blood to ayd him there With Thomas Courtney Earle of powerfull Deuonshire With whom King Henries sonne young Edward there was seene To claime his doubtlesse right with that vndaunted Queene His mother who from France with succours came on land That day when VVarwicke 〈◊〉 at 〈◊〉 which now stand Their fortune yet to trie vpon a second fight And Edward who imploy'd the vtmost of his might The poore Lancastrian part which he doth eas'ly feele By VVarwicks mightie fall already faintly reele By Battell to subuert and to extirpe the Line And for the present act his army doth assigne To those at Barnet field so luckily that sped As Richard late did there he here the Vaward led The Maine the King himselfe and Clarence tooke to guide The Rearward as before by Hastings was supplide The Army of the Queene into three Battels cast The first of which the Duke of Somerset and fast To him his brother Iohn doe happily dispose The second which the Prince for his owne safety chose The Barons of Saint Iohn and Wenlocke and the third To Courtney that braue Earle of Deuonshire referd Where in a spacious field they set their Armies downe Behind hard at their backes the Abbey and the Towne To whom their foe must come by often banks and steepe Through quickset narrow Lanes cut out with ditches deepe Repulsing Edwards power constraining him to prooue By thundring Cannonshot and Culuering to remooue Them from that chosen ground so tedious to

speake her low'dst Of Lane shee could not lie Who in Virginia left with th' English Colony Himselfe so brauely bare amongst our people there That him they onely lou'd when others they did feare And from those Barbarous brute and wild Virginians wan Such reuerence as in him there had been more then man Then he which fauoured still such high attempts as these Rawleigh whose reading made him skil'd in all the Seas Imbarqu'd his worthy selfe and his aduenturous crue And with a prosperous Sayle to those faire Countries flew Where O renoque as he on in his course doth roule Seemes as his greatnes meant grim Neptune to controule Like to a puisant King whose Realmes extend so farre That many a potent Prince his Tributaries are So are his Branches Seas and in the rich Guiana A Flood as proud as he the broad-brim'd Orellana And on the spacious firme Manoas mightie seat The land by Natures power with wonders most repleat So Leigh Cape Briton saw and Rameas Iles againe As Tompson vndertooke the Voyage to New-Spaine And Hawkins not behind the best of these before Who hoysing sayle to seeke the most remotest shore Vpon that new nam'd Spaine and Guinny sought his prize As one whose mighty mind small things could not suffice The sonne of his braue Syre who with his furrowing Keele Long ere that time had touch'd the goodly rich Brazeel Couragious Candish then a second Neptune here Whose fame fild euery mouth and tooke vp euery eare What man could in his time discourse of any Seas But of braue Candish talk'd and of his voyages Who through the South Seas past about this earthly Ball And saw those Starres to them that onely rise and fall And with his silken sayles stayn'd with the richest Ore Dar'd any one to passe where he had been before Count Cumberland so hence to seeke th' Asores sent And to the Westerne-Inde to Porta Ricco went And with the English power it brauely did surprize Sir Robert Dudley then by sea that sought to rise Hoyst Sayles with happy winds to th'Iles of Trinidado Paria then he past the Ilands of Granado As those of Sancta Cruz and Porta Ricco then Amongst the famous ranke of our Sea-searching men Is Preston sent to Sea with Summers foorth to finde Aduentures in the parts vpon the Westerne-Inde Port Santo who surpriz'd and Coches with the Fort Of Coro and the Towne when in submissiue sort Cumana ransome crau'd Saint Iames of Le on sack'd Iamica went not free but as the rest they wrack'd Then Sherley since whose name such high renowne hath won That Voyage vndertooke as they before had done He Saint Iago saw Domingo Margarita By Terrafirma sayl'd to th'Ilands of Iamica Vp Rio Dolce row'd and with a prosperous hand Returning to his home touch'd at the New-found-land Where at Iamicas Iles couragious Parker met With Sherley and along vp Rio Dolce set Where bidding him adue on his owne course he ran And tooke Campeches Towne the chief'st of Iucatan A Freegate and from thence did home to Britan bring With most strange Tribute fraught due to that Indian King At mightie Neptunes beck thus ended they their Song VVhen as from Harwich all to Louing-land along Great claps and shouts were heard resounding to the shore Wherewith th' Essexian Nymphs applaud their loued Stour From the Suffolcean side yet those which Stour preferre Their princely Orwell praise as much as th' other her For though cleare Briton be rich Suffolkes from her spring Which Stour vpon her way to Harwich downe doth bring Yet Deben of her selfe a stout and stedfast friend Her succour to that Sea neere Orwels Road doth send When Waueney to the North rich Suffolks onely meere As Stour vpon the North from Essex parts this Sheere Lest Stour and Orwell thus might steale her Nymphes away In Neptunes name commands that here their force should stay For that her selfe and Y ar in honor of the Deepe Were purposed a Feast in Louing-land to keepe The twentieth Song THE ARGVMENT The Muse that part of Suffolke sings That lyes to Norfolke and then brings The bright Norfolcean Nymphes to ghest To Louing-land to Neptunes Feast To Ouze the lesse then downe shee takes Where shee a Flight at Riuer makes And thence to Marsh-land shee descends With whose free praise this Song shee ends FRom Suffolke rose a sound through the Norfolcean shore That ran it selfe the like had not bin heard before For he that doth of Sea the powerful Trident weld His Tritons made proclaime a * Nymphall to be held In honor of himselfe in Louing-land where he The most selected Nymphes appointed had to be Those Seamayds that about his secret 〈◊〉 doe dwell Which tend his mightie heards of VVhales and Fishes fell As of the Riuers those amongst the Meadowes ranke That play in euery Foar'd and sport on euery banke Were summon'd to be there in paine of Neptunes hate For he would haue his Feast obseru'd with god-like state When those Suffolcean Floods that sided not with Stoure Their streames but of themselues into the Ocean powre As Or through all the coast a Flood of wondrous fame Whose honored fall begets a * Hauen of her name And Blyth a daintie Brooke their speedy course doe cast For Neptune with the rest to Louing-land to hast When Waueney in her way on this Septentriall side That these two Easterne Shires doth equally diuide From * Laphamford leads on her streame into the East By Bungey then along by Beckles when possest Of Louing-land 'bout which her limber Armes she throwes VVith Neptune taking hands betwixt them who inclose And her an Iland make fam'd for her scite so farre But leaue her Muse awhile and let vs on with Y ar VVhich Gariena some some Hier some Y ar doe name VVhorising from her spring not farre from Walsingham Through the Norfolcean fields seemes wantonly to play To Norwich comes at length towards Yarmouth on her way VVhere Wentsum from the South and Bariden doe beare Vp with her by whose wealth she much is honored there To intertaine her Y ar that in her state doth stand With Townes of high'st account the fourth of all the land That hospitable place to the Industrious Dutch Whose skill in making Stuffes and workmanship is such For refuge hither come as they our ayd deserue By labour sore that liue whilst oft the English starue On Roots and Pulse that feed on Beefe and Mutton spare So frugally they liue not gluttons as we are But from my former Theame since thus I haue digrest I le borrow more of Time vntill my Nymphs be drest And since these Foods fall out so fitly in my way A little while to them I will conuert my Lay. The Colewort Colifloure and Cabidge in their season The Rouncefall great Beanes and early ripening Peason The Onion Scallion Leeke which Housewiues highly rate Their kinsman Garlicke then the poore mans Mithridate The

proud aray tow'rds London march along Which when King Edward saw the world began to side With Warwicke till himselfe he might of power prouide To noble Pembroke sends those Rebels to withstand Six thousand valiant We sh who mustring out of hand By Richard 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his brother them doth bring And for their greater strength appointed by the King Th'Lord Stafford of his house of Powick named then Eight hundred Archers brought the most selected men The Marches could make out these hauing Seuerne crost And vp to Cotswould clome they heard the Northern host Being at Northampton then it selfe tow'rds Warwicke wayd When with a speedy march the Harberts that forlayd Their passage charg'd their Reare with neere two thousand horse That the Lancastrian part suipecting all their force Had followed them againe their armie bring about Both with such speed and skill that 〈◊〉 the Welsh got out By hauing charg'd too farre some of their Vaward lost Beat to their 〈◊〉 backe thus as these Legions coast On Danemore they are met indifferent for this warre Whereas three easie hils that stand Trianguler Small Edgcoat ouerlooke on that vpon the West The Welsh encampe themselues the Northerne them possest Of that vpon the South whilst by warres strange euent Yong Neuill who would braue the Harberts in their Tent Leading a troupe of Youth vpon that fatall plaine Was taken by the VVelsh and miserably slaine Of whose vntimely death his friends the next day tooke A terrible reuenge when Stafford there forsooke The army of the Welsh and with his Archers bad Them fight that would for him for that proud Pembroke had Displac'd him of his Inne in Banbury where he His Paramore had lodg'd where since he might not be He back ward shapes his course and leaues the Harberts there T' abide the brunt of all with outcries euery where The clamorous Drummes Fifes to the rough charge do sound Together horse and man come tumbling to the ground Then limbs like boughs were lop'd from shoulders armes doe flie They fight as none could scape yet scape as none could die The ruffling Northern Lads and the stout Welshmen tri'd it Then Head-pieces hold out or braines must sore abide it The Northern men Saint George for Lancaster doe crie A Pembroke for the King the lustie VVelsh replie When many a gallant youth doth desperatly assay To doe some thing that might be worthy of the day Where Richard Harbert beares into the Northern prease And with his Poleaxe makes his way with such successe That breaking through the Rankes he their maine Battell past And quit it so againe that many stood aghast That from the higher ground beheld him wade the crowd As often ye behold in tempests rough and proud O'rtaken with a storme some Shell or little Crea Hard labouring for the land on the high-working Sea Seemes now as swallowed vp then floating light and free O' th top of some high waue then thinke that you it see Quite sunke beneath that waste of waters yet doth cleere The Maine and safely gets some Creeke or Harbor neere So Harbert cleer'd their Host but see th' euent of warre Some Spialls on the hill discerned had from farre Another Armie come to ayd the Northerne side When they which Claphams craft so quickly not espide Who with fiue hundred men about Northampton raisd All discontented spirits with Edwards rule displeasd Displaying in the field great 〈◊〉 dreaded Beare The Welsh who thought the Earle in person had been there Leading a greater power disheartened turne the backe Before the Northerne host that quickly goe to wracke Fiue thousand valiant VVelsh are in chase o'rthrowne Which but an houre before had thought the day their owne Their Leaders in the flight the high-borne Harberts t'ane At Banbury must pay for Henry Neuill slaine Now Stamford in due course the Muse doth come to tell Of thine owne named field what in the fight befell Betwixt braue youthfull Wells from Lincolnshire that led Neere twentie thousand men tow'rd London making head Against the Yorkists power great VVarwicke to abet Who with a puisant force prepared forth to set To ioyne with him in Armes and ioyntly take their chance And Edward with his friends who likewise doe aduance His forces to refell that desperate daring foe Who for he durst himselfe in open Armes to show Nor at his dread command them downe againe would lay His father the Lord Wells who he suppos'd might sway His so outragious sonne with his lou'd law-made brother Sir Thomas Dymock thought too much to rule the other He strangely did to die which so incens'd the spleene Of this couragious youth that he to wreake his teene Vpon the cruell King doth euery way excite Him to an equall field that com'n where they might smite The Battell on this plaine it chanc'd their Armies met They rang'd their seuerall fights which once in order set The loudly-brawling Drummes which seemed to haue feard The trembling ayre at first soone after were not heard For out-cries shreekes and showts whilst noyse doth noyse confound No accents touch the eare but such as death doe sound In thirsting for reuenge whilst fury them doth guide As slaughter seemes by turnes to sease on either side The Southerne expert were in all to warre belong And exercise their skill the Marchmen stout and strong Which to the Battell sticke and if they make retreat Yet comming on againe the foe they backe doe beat And Wels for Warwicke crie and for the rightfull Crowne The other call a Yorke to beat the Rebels downe The worst that warre could doe on either side she showes Or by the force of Bils or by the strength of Bowes But still by fresh supplies the Yorkists power encrease And Wels who sees his troups so ouerborne with prease By hazarding too farre into the boystrous throng Incouraging his men the aduerse troupes among With many a mortall wound his wearied breath expir'd Which sooner knowne to his then his first hopes desir'd Ten thousand on the earth before them lying slaine No hope left to repaire their ruin'd state againe Cast off their Countries coats to hast their speed away Of them which Loose-coat field is cald euen to this day Since needsly I must sticke vpon my former text The bloody Battell fought at Barnet followeth next Twixt Edward who before he setled was to raigne By VVarwicke hence expuls'd but here ariu'd againe From Burgundy brought in munition men and pay And all things fit for warre expecting yet a day Whose brother * George came in with VVarwicke that had stood Whom nature wrought at length t' adhere to his owne blood His brother Richard Duke of Gloster and his friend Lord Hastings who to him their vtmost powers extend And VVarwick whose great heart so mortall hatred bore To Edward that by all the Sacraments he swore Not to lay downe his Armes vntill his sword had rac'd That proud King from his Seat that so had him disgrac'd

assayle And with the shot came shafts like stormy showres of Hayle The like they sent againe which beat the other sore Who with the Ordnance stroue the Yorkists to outrore And still make good their ground that whilst the Peeces play The Yorkists hasting still to hand-blowes doe assay In strong and boystrous crowds to scale the combrous Dykes But beaten downe with Bills with Poleaxes and Pykes Are forced to fall off when Richard there that led The Vaward saw their strength so little them to sted As he a Captaine was both politique and good The stratagems of warre that rightly vnderstood Doth seeme as from the field his forces to withdraw His sudden strange retire proud Somerset that saw A man of haughtie spirit in honour most precise In action yet farre more aduenturous then wise Supposing from the field for safetie he had fled Straight giueth him the chase when Richard turning head By his incounter let the desperate Duke to know T was done to traine him out when soone began the show Of slaughter euery where for scarce their equall forces Began the doubtfull fight but that three hundred horses That out of sight this while on Edwards part had stayd To see that neere at hand no ambushes were layd Soone charg'd them on the side disordring quite their Ranks Whilst this most warlike King had wonne the climing Banks Vpon the equall earth and comming brauely in Vpon the aduerse power there likewise doth begin A fierce and deadly fight that the Lancastrian side The first and furious shocke not able to abide The vtmost of their strength were forced to bestow To hold what they had got that Somerset below Who from the second force had still expected ayd But frustrated thereof euen as a man dismaid Scarce shifts to saue himselfe his Battell ouerthrowne But faring as a man that frantique had beene growne With Wenlock hap'd to meet preparing for his flight Vpbraiding him with tearmes of basenesse and despight That cow'rdly he had faild to succour him with men Whilst Wenlock with like words requiteth him agen The Duke to his sterne rage as yeelding vp the raines With his too pondrous Axe pasht out the Barons braines The partie of the Queene in euery place are kild The Ditches with the dead confusedly are fild And many in the flight i' th neighbouring Riuers drown'd Which with victorious wreaths the conquering Yorkists crownd Three thousand of those men on Henries part that stood For their presumption paid the forfeit of their blood Iohn Marquesse Dorset dead and Deuonshire that day Drew his last vitall breath as in that bloody fray Delues Hamden Whittingham and Leuknor who had there Their seuerall braue commands all valiant men that were Found dead vpon the earth Now all is Edwards owne And through his enemies tents he march'd into the towne Where quickly he proclaimes to him that foorth could bring Young Edward a large Fee and as he was a King His person to be safe Sir Richard Crofts who thought His prisoner to disclose before the King then brought That faire and goodly Youth whom when proud Yorke demands Why thus he had presum'd by helpe of traytrous hands His kingdome to disturbe and impiously display'd His Ensignes the stout Prince as not a iot dismay'd With confidence replies To claime his ancient right Him from his Grandsires left by tyranny and might By him his foe vsurp'd with whose so bold reply Whilst Edward throughly vext doth seeme to thrust him by His second brother George and Richard neere that stood With many a cruell stab let out his princely blood In whom the Line direct of Lancaster doth cease And Somerset himselfe surprized in the prease With many a worthy man to Gloster prisoners led There forfeited their liues Queene Margaret being fled To a religious Cell to Tewksbury too neere Discouerd to the King with sad and heauy cheere A prisoner was conuey'd to London wofull Queene The last of all her hopes that buried now had seene But of that outrage here by that bold Bastard sonne Of Thomas Neuill nam'd Lord Falkonbridge which wonne A rude rebellious Rout in Kent and Essex rais'd Who London here besieg'd and Southwarke hauing seas'd Set fire vpon the Bridge but when he not preuaild The Suburbs on the East he furiously assayl'd But by the Cities power was lastly put to flight Which being no set Field nor yet well ordred fight Amongst our Battels here may no way reckoned be Then Bosworth here the Muse now lastly bids for thee Thy Battell to describe the last of that long warre Entit'led by the name of Yorke and Lancaster Twixt Henry Tudor Earle of Richmond onely left Of the Lancastian Line who by the Yorkists reft Of libertie at home a banish'd man abroad In Britany had liu'd but late at Milford Road Being prosperously ariu'd though scarce two thousand strong Made out his way through Wales where as he came along First Griffith great in Blood then Morgan next doth meet Him with their seuerall powers as offi ing at his feet To lay their Lands and liues Sir Rice ap Thomas then With his braue Band of Welsh most choyce and expert men Comes lastly to his ayd at Shrewsbury ariu'd His hopes so faint before so happily reuiu'd He on for England makes and neere to Newport towne The next ensuing night setting his Army downe Sir Gilbert Talbot still for Lancaster that stood To Henry neere Alli'd in friendship as in Blood From th' Earle of Shrewsbury his Nephew vnder age Came with two thousand men in warlike Equipage Which much his power increas'd when easily setting on From Lichfield as the way leads foorth to Atherston Braue Bourcher and his friend stout Hungerford whose hopes On Henry long had laine stealing from Richards troups Wherewith they had been mix'd to Henry doe appeare Which with a high resolue most strangely seem'd to cheere His oft-appauled heart but yet the man which most Gaue sayle to Henries selfe and fresh life to his host The stout Lord Stanley was who for he had affide The mother of the Earle to him so neere allide The King who fear'd his truth which he to haue compeld The yong Lord Strange his sonne in hostage strongly held Which forc'd him to fall off till he fit place could finde His sonne in law to meet yet he with him combinde Sir William Stanley knowne to be a valiant Knight T' assure him of his ayd Thus growing tow'rds his hight A most selected Band of Chesshire Bow-men came By Sir Iohn Sauage led besides two men of name Sir Brian Sanford and Sir Simon Digby who Leauing the tyrant King themselues expresly show Fast friends to Henries part which still his power increast Both Armies well prepar'd towards Bosworth strongly preast And on a spacious Moore lying Southward from the towne Indifferent to them both they set their Armies downe Their Souldiers to refresh preparing for the fight Where to the guiltie King that black fore-running

And trumpets euery way sound to the dreadfull charge Vpon the Yorkists part there flew the irefull Beare On the Lancastrian side the Cressant wauing there The Southerne on this side for Yorke a Warwicke crie A Percy for the right the Northerne men reply The two maine Battels ioyne the foure large Wings doe meet What with the shouts of men and noyse of horses feet Hell through the troubled earth her horrour seem'd to breath A thunder heard aboue an earth-quake felt beneath As when the Euening is with darknesse ouerspread Her Star-befreckled face with Clouds inuelloped You oftentimes behold the trembling lightning flie VVhich suddenly againe but turning of your eye Is vanished away or doth so swiftly glide That with a trice it touch t'Horizons either side So through the smoke of dust from wayes and fallowes raisd And breath of horse and men that both together ceasd The ayre one euery part sent by the glimmering Sunne The splendor of their Armes doth by reflection runne Till heapes of dying men and those already dead Much hindred them would charge and letted them that fled Beyond all wonted bounds their rage so farre extends That sullen night begins before their fury ends Ten howers this fight endur'd whilst still with murthering hands Expecting the next morne the weak'st vnconquered stands Which was no sooner come but both begin againe To wrecke their friends deare blood the former euening slaine New Battels are begun new fights that newly wound Till the Lancastrian part by their much lesning found Their long expected hopes were vtterly forlorne When lastly to the foe their recreant backs they turne Thy Channell then O * Cock was fild vp with the dead Of the Lancastrian side that from the Yorkists fled That those of Edwards part that had the Reare in chase As though vpon a Bridge did on their bodies passe That Wharfe to whose large banks thou contribut'st thy store Had her more Christall face discoloured with the gore Of fortie thousand men that vp the number made Northumberland the great and Westmerland there layd Their bodies valiant Wels and Dacres there doe leaue Their carkases whose hope too long did them deceiue Trolop and Neuill found massacred in the field The Earle of VViltshire forc'd to the sterne foe to yeeld King Henry from fayre Yorke vpon this sad mischance To Scotland fled the Queene sayld ouer into France The Duke of Somerset and Excester doe flie The rest vpon the earth together breathlesse lie Muse turne thee now to tell the Field at Hexam struck Vpon the Yorkists part with the most prosp'rous luck Of any yet before where to themselues they gain'd Most safetie yet their powers least damage there sustain'd Twixt Iohn Lord Mountacute that Neuill who to stand For Edward gathered had out of Northumber land A sort of valiant men consisting most of Horse Which were againe suppli'd with a most puisant force Sent thither from the South and by King Edward brought In person downe to Yorke to ayd if that in ought His Generall should haue need for that he durst not trust The Northerne which so oft to him had been vniust Whilst he himselfe at Yorke a second power doth hold To heare in this rough warre what the Lancastrians would And Henry with his Queene who to their powers had got The liuely daring French and the light hardy Scot To enter with them here and to their part doe get Their faithfull lou'd Allie the Duke of Somerset And Sir Ralfe Percie then most powerfull in those parts Who had beene reconcil'd to Edward but their hearts Still with King Henry stay'd to him and euer true To whom by this reuolt they many Northerne drew Sir William T aylboys cald of most the Earle of Kime With Hungerford and Rosse and Mullins of that time Barons of high account with Neuill T unstall Gray Hussy and Finderne Knights men bearing mighty sway As forward with his force braue Mountacute was set It hap'd vpon his way at Hegly More he met With Hungerford and Rosse and Sir Ralph Percy where In signe of good successe as certainly it were They and their vtmost force were quickly put to slight Yet Percy as he was a most couragious Knight Ne'r boudg'd till his last breath but in the field was slaine Proud of this first defeat then marching forth againe Towards Liuells a large Waste which other plaines out-braues Whose Verge fresh * Dowell still is watring with her waues Whereas his posting Scouts King Henries power discri'd Tow'rds whom with speedy march this valiant Generall hied Whose haste there likewise had such prosperous euent That lucklesse Henry yet had scarcely cleer'd his Tent His Captaines hardly set his Battels nor enlarg'd Their Squadrons on the field but this great Neuill charg'd Long was this doubtfull fight on either side maintain'd That rising whilst this falls this loosing whilst that gain'd The ground which this part got and there as Conquerors stood The other quickly gaine and firmely make it good To either as blind Chance her fauors will dispose So to this part it eb'd and to that side it flowes At last till whether 't were that sad and horrid sight At Saxton that yet did their fainting spirits affright With doubt of second losse and slaughter or the ayd That Mountacute receau'd King Henries power dismayd And giuing vp the day dishonourably fled Whom with so violent speed the Yorkists followed That had not Henry spur'd and had a Courser swift Besides a skilfull guide through woods and hilles to shift He sure had been surpriz'd as they his Hench-men tooke With whom they found his Helme with most disastrous lucke To saue themselues by flight ne'r more did any striue And yet so many men ne'r taken were aliue Now Banbury we come thy Battell to report And show th' efficient cause as in what wondrous sort Great VVarmicke was wrought in to the Lancastrian part When as that wanton King so vex'd his mightie heart Whilst in the Court of France that Warriour he bestow'd As potent here at home as powerfull else abroad A marriage to intreat with Bona bright and sheene Of the Sauoyan Blood and sister to the Queene Which whilst this noble Earle negotiated there The widdow Lady Gray the King espoused here By which the noble Earle in France who was disgrac'd In England his reuenge doth but too quickly hast T' excite the Northerne men doth secretly begin With whom he powerfull was to rile that comming in He might put in his hand which onely he desir'd Which rising before Yorke were likely to haue fierd The Citie but repuls'd and Holdorn them that led Being taken for the cause made shorter by the head Yet would not they disist but to their Captaines drew Henry the valiant sonne of Iohn the Lord Fitz-Hugh With Coniers that braue Knight whose valour they preferre With Henry Neuill sonne to the Lord Latimer By whose Allies and friends they euery day grew strong And so in

night Appeare the dreadfull ghosts of Henry and his sonne Of his owne brother George and his two nephewes done Most cruelly to death and of his wife and friend Lord Hastings with pale hands prepar'd as they would rend Him peece-meale at which oft he roreth in his sleepe No sooner gan the dawne out of the East to peepe But Drummes and Trumpets chide the Souldiers to their Armes And all the neighboring fields are couered with the swarmes Of those that came to fight as those that came to see Contending for a Crowne whose that great day should be First Richmond rang'd his fights on Oxford and bestowes The leading with a Band of strong and Sinewy Bowes Out of the Army pick'd the Front of all the field Sir Gilbert Talbot next he wisely tooke to weeld The right Wing with his strengths most Northern men that were And Sir Iohn Sauage with the power of Lancashire And Chesshire Chiefe of men was for the left Wing plac'd The Middle Battell he in his faire person grac'd With him the noble Earle of Pembroke who commands Their Countrey-men the VVelsh of whom it mainly stands For their great numbers found to be of greatest force Which but his guard of Gleaues consisted all of Horse Into two seuerall fights the King contriu'd his strength And his first Battell cast into a wondrous length In fashion of a wedge in poynt of which he set His Archery thereof and to the guidance let Of Iohn the noble Duke of Norfolke and his sonne Braue Surrey he himselfe the second bringing on Which was a perfect square and on the other side His Horsemen had for wings which by extending wide The aduerse seem'd to threat with an vnequall power The vtmost poynt ariu'd of this expected hower He to Lord Stanley sends to bring away his ayd And 〈◊〉 him by an Oath if longer he delayd His eldest sonne young Strange imediatly should die To whom stout Stanley thus doth carelessely reply Tell thou the King I le come when I fit time shall see I loue the Boy but yet I haue more sonnes then he The angry Armies meet when the thin ayre was rent With such re-ecchoing shouts from eithers Souldiers sent That flying o'r the field the Birds downe trembling dropt As some old building long that hath been vnderpropt When as the Timber fayles by the vnweldy fall Euen into powder beats the Roofe and rotten wall And with confused clouds of smouldring dust doth choke The streets and places neere so through the mistie smoke By Shot and Ordnance made a thundring noyse was heard VVhen Stanley that this while his succours had deferd Both to the cruell King and to the Earle his sonne When once he doth perceiue the Battell was begun Brings on his valiant Troups three thousand fully strong Which like a cloud farre off that tempest threatned long Falls on the Tyrants host which him with terrour strooke As also when he sees he doth but vainly looke For succours from the great Northumberland this while That from the Battell scarce three quarters of a mile Stood with his power of Horse nor once was seene to stirre VVhen Richard that th' euent no longer would deferre The two maine Battels mix'd and that with wearied breath Some laboured to their life some laboured to their death There for the better fought euen with a Spirit elate As one that inly scorn'd the very worst that Fate Could possibly impose his Launce set in his Rest Into the thick'st of Death through threatning perill prest To where he had perceiu'd the Earle in person drew Whose Standard 〈◊〉 he Sir William Brandon slew The pile of his strong staffe into his arme-pit sent VVhen at a second shocke downe Sir Iohn Cheney went Which scarce a Launces length before the Earle was plac'd Vntill by Richmonds Guard inuironed at last VVith many a cruell wound was through the body gride Vpon this fatall field Iohn Duke of Norfolke dide The stout Lord Ferrers fell and Ratcliffe that had long Of Richards counsels been found in the field among A thousand Souldiers that on both sides were slaine O Red-more it then seem'd thy name was not in vaine When with a thousands blood the earth was coloured red Whereas th' Emperiall Crowne was set on Henries head Being found in Richards Tent as he it there did winne The cruell Tyrant stript to the bare naked skin Behind a Herauld truss'd was backe to Le'ster sent From whence the day before he to the Battell went The Battell then at Stoke so fortunatly strucke Vpon King Henries part with so successefull lucke As neuer till that day he felt his Crowne to cleaue Vnto his temples close when Mars began to leaue His fury and at last to sit him downe was brought I come at last to sing twixt that seuenth Henry fought With whom to this braue Field the Duke of Bedford came With Oxford his great friend whose praise did him inflame To all Atchieuements great that fortunate had bin In euery doubtfull fight since Henries comming in With th' Earle of Shresbury a man of great command And his braue sonne Lord George for him that firmly stand And on the other side Iohn Duke of Suffolks sonne Iohn Earle of Lincolne cald who this sterne warre begun Subborning a lewd Boy a false Imposter who By Simonds a worse Priest instructed what to doe Vpon him tooke the name of th' Earle of Warwicke heire To George the murthered Duke of Clarence who for feare Lest some that fauoured Yorke might vnder hand maintaine King Henry in the Tower did at that time detaine * Which practise set on foot this Earle of Lincolne sayld To Burgundy where he with Margaret preuayld Wife to that warlike Charles and his most loued Aunt Who vexed that a proud Lancastrian should supplant The lawfull Line of Yorke whence she her blood deriu'd Wherefore for Lincolnes sake shee speedily contriu'd And Louell that braue Lord before him sent to land Vpon the same pretence to furnish them a Band Of Almanes and to them for their stout Captaine gaue The valiant Martin Swart the man thought scarce to haue His match for Martiall feats and sent them with a Fleet For Ireland where shee had appoynted them to meet With Simonds that lewd Clerke and Lambert whom they there The Earle of Warwicke cald and publish'd euery where His title to the Crowne in Diuelin and proclaime Him Englands lawfull King by the fift Edwards name Then ioyning with the Lord Fitz-Gerald to their ayd Who many Irish brought they vp their Ankres wayd And at the rocky Pyle of * Fowdray put to shore In Lancashire their power increasing more and more By Souldiers sent them in from Broughton for supply A Knight that long had been of their confederacy Who making thence direct their marches to the South When Henry saw himselfe to farre in dangers mouth From Couentry he came still gathering vp his Host Made greater on his way and doth the