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A06147	A brief discourse of the most renowned actes and right valiant conquests of those puisant princes, called the nine worthies wherein is declared their seuerall proportions and dispositions, and what armes euerie one gaue, as also in what time ech of them liued, and how at the length they ended their liues. Compiled by Richard Lloyd gentleman.	Lloyd, Richard, gentleman.	1584 (1584)	STC 16634; ESTC S119668	23,584	52

againe And for I should not enter in I made my passage playne And battered them vnto the ground and made the townes men thrall Who yéelded them on trembling knées to be my liege men all Whereas I gouerned in peace and ruled as I would Of Europe all as soueraigne Lord as Mars in battell bould Hauing subdued with my might in Gaule and Germanie Eight hundred statelie townes at least and conquered valiantlie Thrée hundred seuerall nations in lesse than ten yéeres space So highlie I estéemed was in fawning fortunes grace But lo whom millions could not match nor all Europa staine Not Mars himselfe were he aliue the same hath enuie slaine Whose secret traines and hidden traps vnwares preuented mée With sodaine death by foes conspird amid my iolitée For as I in the Senate sat with many other mo By Cassius and Brutus hands there I was murthered tho With bodkins kniues and daggers sharpe when I did déeme no ill They fell vpon me sodainlie and thus they did me kill My carcase after Painims rites in Rome enterred was Lo thus the glorie of the world doth were awaie and passe FINIS ❧ An Example of this former Historie THe hautie and ambitious mind desireth daily to aspire Vaine glorie doth his eies so blind and set his hart on such a fire Till enuie come and plucke him downe and rifle him of his renowne As by example may appeere of this most puissant conquerer Who for his conquests far and neere was in his daies the onlie flower Yet such was his ambition to clime vp to promotion That he enuied at other men who were in rule and dignitie Seeking to suppresse them then for feare of coequalitie For hautinesse doth euer hate the fellowship of any mate And onlie this procured the iar of mortall war and deadlie strife Betweene Pompeius and Caesar which was the losse of manie a life And brought to ruine vtterlie the state of the whole monarchie For Pompei died most miserablie as you haue heard declared before Caesar for all his victorie through enuie also was forlore The measure he to others gaue the same did shape his fatall graue Thus may you see where enuie is what mortall plagues therwith ensue How fickle is the vading blisse of enuious men appeereth true And how vnhappie is the land where enuie hath the vpper hand Through enuie Herod long ago did manie a harmelesse infant kill Enuie procured Saule also to seeke king Dauid for to spill Through enuie eeke was Abel slaine and murdered by wicked Caine. Through enuie Christ our sauior accused was and put to death Through enuie Satan did procure to mortall man the losse of breath What plague on earth is greater then where enuie reigneth amongst men FINIS HONORE MORI QVAM VITAM DEFERE PBRO PRESTAT THE HISTORIE OF THE conquests of the noble conquerour ARTHVR OF Brutus blood in Brittaine borne I Arthur am by name Through christendome heathenes well knowne is my fame In Iesus Christ I do beléeue I am a Christian borne The father sonne and holie ghost one God I do adorne In the foure hundreth ninetie yéere ouer Brittaine I did raigne After Christ my sauiours birth what time I did maintaine The fellowship of the table round so famous in those daies Whereat a hundreth noble knights and fiftie sate alwaies Who for their fame in martiall feats as yet bookes do record Amongst all kind of nations were feared through the world In the castell of Tintagill King Vter me begate On Igrayne the beautifull a Ladie of high estate And when I was fiftéene yéeres old then was I crowned King All Brittaine béeing in vprore I did to quiet bring And draue the Saxons from the realme who did vsurpe the land And conquered through manly mart all Scotland with my hand The Orcades eke I ouercame and Ilands all about Which on the Ocean seas do lie with manie nations stout Ireland Norway and Denmarke these countries wan I all Gutland and Island also and made their Kings my thrall King Bladulfe and King Collegrine both two I slew in fight And forst Cheldrike of Almayne King to take his death by flight And Lot the King of Orkeney I brought to déepe distresse With manie a valiant knight with him which came me to suppresse I conquered all Gallia which now is called Fraunce And slew the hardie Froll in field my honour to aduaunce The ouglie Giant Dinabus so horrible to vew Which in Saint Bernards mount did lie through force of arms I slew And Lucius the Emperour great of Rome I brought to wracke With thousands mo whom feare of death had forst to turne their backe Fiue Kings of Painims I did kill amid that bloodie strife Beside the Emperour himselfe who also lost his life Whose carcase I did send to Rome clad poorelie in a béere And after I did passe Mount loy the next approching yéere I came to Rome where I was met right as a conquerour By all the Senate solemnlie and crowned Emperour One winter there I made abode then word to me was brought How Mordred had vsurpt the crowne what treason he had wrought At home in Brittaine with my Quéene wherefore I came with spéed To Brittaine backe with all my power to quite that traiterous déed And as at Sandwich I did land there Mordred me withstood Yet landed I at length but with effusion of much blood For there my nephew Gawin died béeing wounded on that sore Which Launcelot du lake in fight had giuen him before Thence chased I Mordred away he fled to London right From London to Winchester thence to Cornewal tooke his flight And still I did pursue with spéed till at the last we met Where by accord the day of fight appointed was and set Betwene vs both and at the time we encountred in the field With manie a noble knight to trie it out with speare and shield Where we did fight so mortallie of life ech to depriue That of an hundreth thousand men scarce one was left on liue There all the traitors men were slaine not one escapt away There died all my valiant knights alas the dolefull day There all the noble chiualrie of Brittaine tooke their end Sée how vncertaine is their state which do on fate depend There slew I Mordred with my hands the causer of this strife And there my selfe receiud the wound which tooke away my life But yet I went from thence aliue to be cured againe To the vale of Auillion as Chronicles write plaine And afterwards was neuer séene nor what became of mét Was neuer knowen vnto this day for anie certaintée I raigned two and twentie yéeres in honour and much fame And thus by death am sodainlie depriued of the same FINIS ❧ An Example of this former Historie THe liking of vnlawfull lust whereto this worthie was inclind Depriued him by iudgment iust from life and kingdome as I find And threw him downe most sodainlie amid his fame and victorie Whereby Gods plague and

stout vnto his enemy but giuen to adultery In martiall acts he did delight and loued euery noble Knight He thirteene crownes did beare also or in asure against his foe CHarles was well proportioned strong and wise and doughtie of deed Of learnings lore a fauourer and very pollitike in warre Mercifull and fortunate and gentle vnto euery estate This king bare the Ierusalem shield paid with the imperiall coat in field GVI was tall and large of limbe none in his dayes were like to him Of good complexion seemely of face and liberall in euery place Valiant strong and venterous godly kind and courteous He or and asure bookes discrie a cheueron ermine bare checkie VTERE IVSTITIA SI VIR VIS IVSTVS HA 〈…〉 THE HISTORIE OF THE conquests of the noble and vertuous Duke IOSVA I Am the worthie conquerour Duke Iosua the great Whom God did ordeine and appoint to raigne in Moises seate To lead his people Israel to the land of behest Which God to Moises promised as scriptures haue exprest When he dwelt in the wildernesse and had miraculouslie Escaped through the great red sea from Pharaos tyrannie Two thousand and two hundreth yéeres with fiue and thirtie more After God had made the world I raigned and before The daie that Iesus Christ was borne in bookes as plaine appeeres One thousand and seauen hundreth and seuen and twentie yeeres A Iewe I am by due discent of such exceeding fame As through the world shall florish ay the honor of my name Much fauour with the Lord I found whose thundering voice full oft Appeared vnto me on earth from scarlet skies aloft Commanding me nothing to dread but boldlie on to fight Assuring me the vpper hand of euerie liuing wight And not to part form me where so I did my armie lead Yea and to giue me all the lands whereon my feete should tread The great floud Iordan he dried vp for me and all my power And brought vs safelie through the same and all within an hower Diuiding with his mightie arme the waues most woonderfullie On either side as we did passe like hils or mountains hie The loftie walles of Ierico fell at my praiers downe Through which I entred valiantly and quite destroid the towne I put ech woman man and child therein vnto the sword As I had incommandement by Gods most holie word No liuing soule escapt awaie out of that bloodie strife But Rahab and hir familie to whom I graunted life For that she in hir house did hide the men I sent to view The Citie and did them conuey from those that did pursue I sackt the citie of Ay eke Bethoron and Bethell And manie mightie cities more which now were long to tell I slew there people more and lesse with famine sword and fire For God appointed me his scourge to accomplish his iust ire The Lord at my request did stay the sun amid the skie While I causd manie hundereths and thousands for to die Whose numbers were so infinite that God did also raine Great stones from heauen on their heads and slue them on the plaine As they did flie before my face euen from Bethoron Vntill they to Esaka came that few escapt or none I chased great and mightie kings to hide them on the earth In caues and there to curse the time of their vnhappie birth And burnt their cities townes and towers vnto the verie ground And they themselues I hangd on trées in place where I them found And after threw their carcases into the caues againe And rouled thereunto great stones where yet their bones remaine And at the water of Merom I killed with my hands Thousands of mine enimies whose number as the sands Were gathered against Israell but God the Lord of might Deliuered them all vnto me not one but died in fight Their horses and their chariots eke I burned and destroide Their countries townes and cities all which latelie they enioide Wherein were one and thirtie kings all which with one accord Were enimies to the liuing Lord and his precepts abhord Whose names in the old testament the scripture plaine doth sho In order written the first was the King of Ierico The kings of Ay and Ierimoth of Lachis and Hebron The kings of Ierusalem of Gaser and Eglon. The kings of Dabir and of Cred of Gader and Horma Of Magedo and Makeda and the King of Libna The kings of Hepher and Bethell the kings of Adolam The kings of Apheck and Thaphnah the King of Iackanam The kings of Laseron and Madam and the King of Gilgall The King of Simron Merom eke Ibrought to vtter thrall The kings of Hasor and of Dot of Cades and Tenach The kings which raigned in Ascaph and the kings of Thersach The Enakites I ouercame which in the mountaines dwelled I put them all to cruell death bicause they then rebelled Neither did I cease continually ech liuing wight to kill Till all the land of Canaan was subiect to my will The confines of which coast doth reach from the wide wildernesse And desert wasts of Libanon to the floud of Euphrates And also vnto the gréeke sea whereas the sun goeth downe These countries all I conquered vnto my high renowne And plast my people in the same who did the land possesse And liued ioifully therein with rest and quietnesse Where I long raigned ouer them by the Lords onely grace In vertue honour and much fame and led a happie race Instructing them in God his lawes and offering sacrifice Vnto the Lord of thankesgiuing for his gifts manie wise At last vnweldie age approcht and dreadfull death béeing prest Did bring my carcasse to my graue where yet my bodie rests In mine owne Citie which I built that Thamnath Sereh hight Béeing fiue score yéeres and ten of age my soule with Angels bright FINIS ❧ An Example of this former Historie BY this renowned prince we see and by his life we vnderstand How vertuous men continuallie prosper in that they take in hand And how the godlie florish still possessing all things at their will For in the scripture is discride the vertues like the planted tree Which groweth by the riuer side shall florish in prosperitie And God his Lord shall him defend in all his dooings to the end The lord the righteous shal vphold for why his waies to him are known God shall him blesse a thousand fold he shall be neuer ouerthrowne He shall for ay the land possesse and liue therein in quietnesse His seede for euer shall endure and their inheritance enioy What so the wicked do procure shall worke the righteous no annoy For in ech perill God will see that he shall not confounded be And by these heathen kings also whom he did conquer and destroie We find as scriptures plainly sho of wicked men the fading ioie Who like a floure shall withered be and blowen quite out of memorie And as the smoke consumes awaie or as the fat of lambes do melt So the vngodlie shall

due to God on hie he attributed to his owne name And in his swelling surquedrie the Lord he robbed of the same Wherefore amid his most renowne God for his folly threw him downe For by the prophet Ieremie the Lord himselfe euen thus doth say I will to none giue my glorie and eke by the prophet Esay The haughtie I will pull downe low and cause the meeke harted to bow To Moises eke in Exodus A ielous God saith he am I The prophet Sophony writeth thus I will visite ech arrogancie In Ecclesiasticus I reede Thy selfe exalt not in thy deede The eight of Iohn doth beare record No man can anie thing receiue But it proceedeth from the Lord who euerie perfect gift doth giue And if ech gift from him proceed to glorie than what haue we need All flesh is hay and as a flower his glorie all away shall passe The prophet saith and in one houre as Iob doth tell consume to grasse All pride as Salomon doth write is abhominable in Gods sight Lucifer once an angell bright for pride was throwen downe to hell Antiochus for all his might Herod who did in pride excell Through pride with plagues most miserably tormented were or they did sdie Nabuchodonozar the King God plucked downe from regall seate And for his pride in euerie thing became a beast and grasse did eate And manie mightie Kings beside the Lord hath plagued for their pride Abandon then this wicked pride which God himselfe doth so abhorre Or els it cannot be denide but God will plague vs heeretofore For euerie gift giue God the fame and honor still his holie name FINIS NON HOMINVM CONSTAT TVRBA SED NVMINE PALMA THE HISTORIE OF THE conquests of the vertuous conquerour IVDAS MACHABEVS I Am Iudas Machabeus in might surpassing all I found not yet in Israell for strength my peregall A Lion fierce I was in field as holie scriptures say And as a raging Lions whelpe that roreth at his pray An enimie to wicked men a frend vnto the good A plague and scourge to euerie such as shed the guiltlesse bloud A Iew I am of noble birth I saw the liuing God For feare of me the heathen fled as children from the rod I am the same which did redeeme all Israell from thrall Euen he whom God the Lord did raise Antiochus pride to appall Who had the land of Israell most cruellie opprest The citie of Ierusalem both sacked and distrest The temples robbed and destroide and thousands piteouslie Murthered and led away into captiuitie And placed wicked officers throughout the land likewise His heathenish lawes to maintaine and Gods lawes to despise As Phillip in Ierusalem a cruell man of mind Andromichus and Menelaus at garrison assignd And Apollonius a prince of Syria also With two and twentie thousand men who wrought the Iewes much wo And murthered them in wilfull wise without desert or cause Compelling such as did remaine to obey his wicked lawes Whose bloodie hand to euitate I was constraind to flie Vnto the woods and wildernesse in desart caues to lie With manie of my brethren mo where we consulted long Amongst our selues what we should do for to redresse this wrong At last with one consent we agréed couragiouslie to stand Against the wicked heathen sort who then possest the land And béeing about six thousand men I tooke the charge on me By one accord chose and elect their captaine chiefe to be To fight it out with manlie hart and after praiers made I marched forward with my folke the heathen to inuade And met with Apolonius and slew him with my hand And all his people more and lesse which then with me did stand His sword I tooke amid the strife perforce from him away And therewith fought during my life in manie a bloodie fray The citie of Ierusalem I wan from them againe And slew the heathen vpon heaps which did therein remaine I tooke the temple and did clense and purifie the same I did destroy the altars which they builded there with shame And since erected altars new as they had béene of yore And offered thereon sacrifice and incense as before I ouercame Seron in fight with thousands of his traine By me eight hundreth of his men were in one battell slaine Gorgias the captaine great I put to shamefull flight And slew there thousands with the sword and by Gods onely might Who sent his angels from aboue armed in glistering gold On horsebacke with a speare in hand most terrible to behold The valiant captaine Lysias of King Antiochus With thréescore thousand in one troupe though it be woonderous I conquered and put to flight and slew fiue thousand tho Yet had I to encounter them ten thousand and no mo In Idumea I did kill of heathens manie a man At Arabathan in like sort great slaughter I began Gazer Maspha and Casbon I did destroy with fire Mageth Bosor for they did gainst Israel conspire The gate of Iamnia I did burne and manie a ship therein And all that dwelt in Ioppa I plagued for their sin Timotheus with his Asia troupe I met and through Gods aide Which he from heauen sent to me my foes were so dismaide And confounded with such darkenesse of lightning on them throwen And fierie darts of present death that therewith they fell downe For feare where twentie thousand men and fiue hundreth were slaine Of footemen and of horsemen more six hundreth on the plaine And Timotheus béeing fled and in a corner found With Cereas his brother hid I slew with manie a wound Ephron and Carnaym eke strong cities I did sacke And euerie male therein with sword did bring to vtter wracke Yea so great a multitude that euerie stréet therein Was couerd with dead carcases so God did plague their sin The citie Hebron in like sort and Azot I did burne With altars idols images which heathen did adorne The puisant King Antiochus I met with all his traine And slew six hundreth of his men as scripture telleth plaine His captaine Nican or also I kild at Bethoron And all his soldiours in one day there scaped neuer a one His head and hand I did cut off béeing of the Iewes abhord His toong I cast vnto the fowles which did blaspheme the Lord. Thus ruled I in Israel with honor and renowne And wan the palme of victorie in countrie field and towne At last it was my fatall lot amid my foes to die Euen as the Lord decréeed had vpon my destinie For secret causes to him knowen which must be accomplished My death was this as you may ●nd in scripture if you reed When King Demetrius vnderstood how Nicanor was slaine He sent his captaine Bachydes to Iuda land againe With two and twentie thousand men well furnished to fight With whom my countrie to defend I met as it was right Accompanied but with a few thrée thousand and no mo Whereof the most part stole away or I to fight did go And left me there