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A17848	Remaines of a greater worke, concerning Britaine, the inhabitants thereof, their languages, names, surnames, empreses, wise speeches, poësies, and epitaphes; Remaines concerning Britain	Camden, William, 1551-1623.	1605 (1605)	STC 4521; ESTC S107408	169,674	306

planted himselfe in Vlster in Ireland advised his sonne for to builde a castle for his better defence against the Irish enemy who valiantly answered that hee woulde not trust to a castle of stones but to his castle of bones Meaning his body Mar●ebrigensis Robert B●anchmaines Earle of Leicester was wont to say Soveraigne Princes are the true types or relemblances of Gods true maiestie in which respect saieth mine Author treason against the Princes person was called Crimen maiest at is Polycraticon Pope Adrian the fourth an English man borne of the familie of Breakespeare in Middlesex a 〈◊〉 commended for converting Norway to christianity before his Papacie but noted in his Papacie for vsing the Emperour Fredericke the second as his Page in holding his stirroppe demaunded of Iohn of Sarisbury his countryman what opinion the world had of the Church of Rome and of him who answered The Church of Rome which should be a mother is now a stepmother wherein sit both Scribes and Pharises and as for your selfe whenas you are a father why doe you exspect pensions from your children c. Adrian smiled and after some excuses tolde him this tale which albeit it may seeme long and is not vnlike that of Menenius Agrippa in Livie yet give it the reading and happly you may learne somewhat by it All the members of the body conspired against the stomacke as against the swallowing gulfe of all their labors for whereas the eies beheld the eares heard the handes labored the feete traveled the tongue spake and all partes performeds their functions onely the stomacke lay ydle and consumed all Hereuppon they ioyntly agreed al to forbeare their labors and to pine away their lasie and publike enemy One day passed over the second followed very tedious but the third day was so grievous to them all that they called a common Counsel The eyes waxed d●mme the feete could not support the body the armes waxed lasie the tongue faltered and could not lay open the matter Therefore they all with one accord desired the advise of the Heart There Reason layd open before them that ●ee against whome they had proclaimed warres was the cause of all this their misery For he as their common steward when his allowances were withdrawne of necessitie withdrew theirs fro them as not receiving that he might allow Therfore it were a farre better course to supply him than that the limbs should faint with hunger So by the perswasion of Reason the stomacke was served the limbes comforted and peace re-established Even so it fareth with the bodies of Common-weales for albeit the Princes gather much yet not so much for themselves as for others So that if they want they cannot supply the want of others therefore do not repine at Princes heerein but respect the common good of the whole publike estate Idem Oftentimes would he say All his preferments never added any one iote to his happinesse or quietnesse Idem He also that I may omitte other of his speeches would say The Lord hath dilated me by hammering me vpon the anvild but I beseech him he would vnderlay his hand to the vnsupportable burthen which he hath layde vpon me Idem When it was signified vnto king Richard the first son to the foresaide King Henry sitting at supper in his pallace at Westminster which we call the old pallace now that the French king besieged his towne of Vernoil in Normandie he in greatnes of courage protested in these wordes I will never turne my backe vntil I have confronted the French For performance of which his princely word hee caused the wall in his pallace at Westminster to be broken downe directly towardes the South posted to the coast and immediately into Normandie where the very report of his sodaine arrivall so terrified the French that they raised the siege and retired themselves Ypodigma The same king Richard purposing an expedition into the holy land made money at all handes and amongst other things solde vnto Hugh Pudsey Bishop of Durham the Earledome of Northumberland merrily laughing when he invested him and saying Am not I cunning and my crafiesmaister that can make a yoong Earle of an olde Bishoppe But this Prelate was fitte to be an Earle for the worlde as one of that age saide of him was not crucifixus to him but infixus in him Lib. Dunelm One Fulke a Frenchman of great opinion for his holinesse tolde this king Richard that hee kept with him three daughters that would procure him the wrath of God if he did not shortly ridde himselfe of them Why hypocrite quoth the king all the worlde knoweth that I never hadde childe Yea saide Fulke you have as I saide three and their names are Pride Covetousnesse and Lechery It is so saide the king you shal see me presently bestow them the Knightes Templers shal have Pride the while M●nkes Covetousnesse and the Cleargy Lechery and there have you my three daughters bestowed among you When there was a faire opportunitie offered vnto this king Richard and to Hugh duke of Burgundie for the surprise of Ierusalem they marched forward in two battalles from Acres The king of England led the first the Duke of Burgundie the other when they approched the Duke of Burgundie envying the glory of the English signified to the king of England that he would retire with his companies because it should not be said that the English had taken Ierusalem While this message was delivering and the King grieving that so glorious an enterprise was so overthwarted by envie one amongest the English companies cryed alowde to the King and said Sir S●r come hither and I will shew you Ierusalem But king Richard cast his coate of armes before his face and weeping vttered these wordes with alowde voice Ah my Lord God I beseech thee that I may not see thy holy Cittie Ierusalem whenas I am not able to deliver it out of the handes of the enemies Ian Sire Signour de Ionville in the life of Saint Le wes cap. 70. This Author also giveth this testimony of the saide king in the eight chapter of the saide Booke This Prince was of such prowesse that he was more feared and redoubted amongest the Sarazens then ever was any Prince Christian Insomuch that when as their little infants beganne to crie their mothers would say to make them holde their peace King Richard commeth and wil have you and immediately the little children hearing him named would forbeare crying And likewise the Turkes and Sarazens when their horses at any time started they woulde putte spurre to them and say What you iades you thinke King Richard is heere When the same king Richard had fortunately taken in a skirmish Philippe the Bishop of Beavoys a deadly enemy of his hee cast him in prison with boltes vpon his heeles which being complained of vnto the Pope he wrote earnestly vnto him not to detaine his deere sonne an Ecclesiasticall person and a sheepheard of the Lordes but to send him

REMAINES OF A GREATER WORKE Concerning Britaine the inhabitants thereof their Languages Names Surnames Empreses Wise speeches Poësies and Epitaphes AT LONDON Printed by G. E. for Simon Waterson 1605. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL WORTHY and Learned Sir Robert Cotton of Connington Knight TEmples saith the auncient Aristides are to be dedicated to the Gods and Bookes to Good-men Vpon warrant of which words and long experience of your goodnesse Right worshipfull this silly pittifull and poore Treatise was once vnaduisedly forward to haue bin dedicated to your good worship But vpon more aduised consideration whereas Aristides in his wisdome knew nothing but that which was good to be seemly and sortable for goodmen therfore meant most certainly that onely good Bookes are to be dedicated to good men It recalled it selfe in good tine for that it cannot challenge any such title either for matter or manner of handling being only the rude rubble and out-cast rubbis● as you know of a greater and more serious worke Whereas therefore neither in respect of it selfe it dare neither in regarde of you it may present it selfe by way of Dedication for that should implie honour vnto you which it cannot bring and require patronage from you which it needeth not beeing by the pittifull sillynesse thereof secured from enuie onelie reaching at eminencie I heere sende it vnto you in lose leaues as fitt to be Ludibria venti and withall submit it to your censure not as he did Siue legi siue tegi iusseris Albeit I assure my selfe that you in your learned iudgement cannot but sentence it as I haue done with this doome Tineas pascat taciturnus inertes From my Lodging xii Iunii 1603. Your worships assured M. N. Britaine WHereas I have purposed in all this Treatise to confine my selfe within the bounds of this Isle of Britaine it cannot be impertinent at the verie enterance to say somewhat of Britaine which is the onely subiect of all that is to be said and well knowne to be the most flourishing and excellent most renowmed and famous Isle of the whole world So rich in commodities so beautifull in situation so resplendent in all glorie that if the most Omnipotent had fashioned the world round like a ring as hee did like a globe it might haue beene most worthily the onely gemme therein For the ayre is most temperate and wholesome sited in the middest of the temperate Zone subiect to no stormes and tempests as the more Southerne and Northerne are but stored with infinite delicate fowle For water it is walled and garded with the Oc●an most commodious for trafficke to all parts of the world and watered with pleasant fishfull and navigable rivers which yeelde safe havens and roads and furnished with shipping and Saylers that it may rightly be termed the Lady of the sea That I may say nothing of healthfull Bathes and of Meares stored both with fish and fowle The earth fertile of all kinde of graine manured with good husbandrie rich in minerall of coles tinne lead copper not without gold and silver aboundant in pasture replenished with cattell both tame and wilde for it hath more par●es than all Europe besides plentifully wooded prouided with all complete provisions of Warre beautified with many populous Citties faire Borroughs good Townes and well-built Villages strong Munitions magnificent Pallaces of the Prince stately houses of the Nobilitie frequent Hospitals beautiful Churches faire Colleges as well in other places as in the two Vniversities which are comparable to all the rest in Christendome not onely in antiquitie but also in learning building and endowments As for governement Ecclesiasticall and Civill which is the very soule of a kingdome I neede to say nothing whenas I write to home-borne and not to strangers But to praise Britaine according as the dignitie thereof requireth is a matter which may exercise if not tier the happiest wit furnished with the greatest variety of learning and some already have busied their braines and pennes heerein with no sma●l labour and travel let therefore these few lines in this behalfe suffice out of an antient Writer Britaine thou art a gloriou●●sle extolled and renowmed among all Nations the navies of Tharsis can not be compared to thy shipping bringing in all pretious commodities of the world the Sea is thy wall and strong fortifications doe secure thy Portes Chivalrie Cleargie and Merchandize do flourish in thee The P●sans Genoveses and Venetians do bring thee Saphires Emeraldes and Carbuncles from the East Asia serveth thee with Silke Purple Affrica with Cinamon and Balme Spaine with Golde and Germanie with Silver Thy Weaver Flaunders dooth drape Cloth for thee of thine owne Wooll Thy Gascoigne dooth send thee Wine Bucke and Doe are plentifull in thy Forrests Droves of Cattle and Flockes of Sheepe are vpon thy Hilles All the perfection of the goodiust ●and is in thee Thou hast all the Foule of the aire In plenty of Fish thou doost surpasse all Regions And albeit thou art not stretched out with large limites yet bordering Nations clothed with thy Fleeces doe woonder at thee for thy blessed plenty Thy Swordes have beene turned into Plow-shares Peace and Religion flourish in thee so that thou arte a Mirrour to all Christian Kingdomes Adde heerevnto if you please these few lines out of a farre more antient Panegyrist in the time of Constantine the Great O happy Britaine and more blisfull then all other Regions Nature hath enriched thee with all commodities of heaven and earth wherein there is neither extreame colde in Winter nor scorching heate in Summer wherein there is such aboundant plenty of Corne as may suffice both for Bread and Wine wherein are Woodes without wilde Beasts and the Fields without noysome Serpents but infinite numbers of milch Cattle and Sheepe weighed downe with rich Fleeces And that which is most comfortable long dayes and lightsome nights So that not without cause it was accounted one of the fairest and most glorious Plumes in the triumphant Diademe of the Roman Empire while it was a Province vnder the same and was truely called by Charles the Great The Store-house and Granary of the whole westerne world But whereas the saide Panegyrist falleth into a gladsome admiration how from hence there hath risen gratious princes As good gods honoured throughout the whole world That if ever as it was lately to our glorious ioy evidently effectually verified in our late Soveraigne of most deare sacred and ever-glorious memorie QV●ENE ELIZABETH the honour of her time and the mirrour of succeeding ages so with an assured confidence wee hope it will likewise bee prooved true in her vndoubted and rightfull successor our dread Lord and Soveraigne That to his endlesse honour MERCIE and TRVTH RIGHTEOVSNES and PEACE may heere kisse together and true RELIGION with her attendants IOY HAPPINES and GLORY may heere for ever seate themselves vnder him in whose person the two mightie kingdomes of England and Scotland hitherto severed are now