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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

distresse what enuie comes through couetousnesse What rigor wrong and periurie what rauine and what mortall strife What malice and what crueltie and finallie what losse of life Breeds couetousnes to euerie such as loue this worldly mucke too much This noble prince and conquerour a good example well may be Whom couetousnes did quite deuoure beeing drowned in this miserie But Gods iust iudgement hath prepard for euerie sinne a due reward FINIS NON IN 〈…〉 ●VSTVM NEC SEMEN EGENVM THE HISTORIE OF THE conquests of the vertuous and valiant King DAVID I Am Dauid most doughtie of déede the King of Israell By Samuel the prophet great annointed there to dwell A Iew I am in Bethlehem borne and by Gods onelie grace Promoted vp to regall rowme though come but of meane race Next to Saule I ware the crowne I had continually Seuen and thirtie mightie men as captaines vnder me Whose names in the old testament in the bookes of the Kings At large are written and set foorth with manie other things Peruse well the old testament and marke the text aright Then thou shalt find that I am he in whom God did delight Of whom in pleased him to say Behold in euerie part At last I haue found out a man according to my hart No prophet euer raignd on earth more greater than was I To whom the Lord did deigne to giue such spirit of prophesie Nor vnto whom my God vouchsafd so largelie to behight Such ioifull promises nor found more fauour in Gods sight First in my childish yéeres when I a shepheard was I slew a Lion with my hands as he my shéepe did chase And kild a great and vglie Beare which came in rauenous wise Out of the wildernesse to spoile my flocke before mine eies And béeing by my father sent my brothers food to bring Who serued then as soldiours in field with Saule the King I slew the Giant Goliath most lothlie to behold Who was from the Philistines sent on Israelites to scold And proudlie stood betweene the hosts trusting vnto his might And called vpon Israel to send him one to fight This man was captaine of their host which then in Socohe lay He ware a coat of maile which did fiue thousand siccles way And was six cubits large in length and on his legges did weare Boots of brasse and on his brest a brasen shield did beare And in his hand a speare he held whose brasen head also Did wey as scriptures do declare six hundred siccles mo Which thing when Saule the King beheld he highlie estéemed me And brought me home vnto his house his seruant for to be And gaue me his daughter to wife for whom I paid in fight Two hundred foreskins of my foes whom I slew through my might With manie a thousand mo beside whereby my fame so sprung Throughout the land of Israel that women on me sung In all the cities where I past dauncing most ioifullie With fiddles and timbrels well tund to aduaunce my victorie Saieng Dauid hath ten thousand kild and Saule one thousand slaine Wherefore the King was woonderous wroth that I did so attaine To worthie honour and renowne and for this did conspire My death by all the meanes he could in his outragious ire And often times he did attempt when he tormented was And vexed with the euill spirit to slay me in the place But then I plaid vpon my harpe and so I did expell The wicked spirit by Gods grace which in King Saule did dwell And yet as soone as I did cease the spirit would him torment And then to slay me as before againe he would attempt At last to shun his wicked hand by helpe of Ionathas I fled vnto the wildernesse where I in sorrow was And déepe distresse for manie a day opprest with hungers rage Vntill Ahimelech the priest my hunger did asswage And after fled to Achis King thence to the desert caue Of Odolam to Mazphah thence my selfe from Saule to saue To Engedi and Keilah thence to the wildernesse Of Phran thence to Zikelege where I brought to distresse Thousands of Philistiens at last King Saule was slaine And then ouer all Israel I was elect to raigne And ruled as their soueraigne King with famous victorie Subduing great and mightie Kings and nations vnder me As the peruerse Amalakites which Zikelege did burne Whom I pursued so narrowlie that few did backe returne The Syrians and the Edomites the Iebusites likewise The Iesurites and Gersites that did against me rise The Philistines and Moabites the tower of Sion éeke And Isboseth the sonne of Saule who did the kingdome séeke I ouercame Iesby of Nob a Giant fierce and fell Who had six fingers on ech hand as scriptures truely tell And Saphon strong whose fearefull lookes all Israel did dreed The ghastlie Giant I subdued and causd his men to bleed Adadasor the mightie King as prisoner I did hold Bereauing him in battell strong of manie a shield of gold Vnhappie Absalon my sonne who thought ambitiouslie To conquer me although his sire was brought to miserie Yea vnto such a wofull end that others iustlie may Example take and learne by him their parents to obay For as he through the woods did flie my soldiours force to shun Who fiersly him pursued behind the field when they had wun His locks béeing long the trées being low the boughs crauld in his haire And pluckt him from his foming stéed and hangd him in the aire Where finally Ioab him found and piteouslie him slew With manie of his confederates whose death I much did rue This wofull slaughter brought to end I raigned quietly Amongst my people manie a day and found no enemie For God my Lord was on my side whose force than should I feare Thus raigned I in Israel and Hebron fortie yeare And in my crooked extreme age my bodie fell on sleepe And in the citie of Dauid lieth in earth inclosed deepe After the framing of the world two thousand and fiftéene Adding seuen hundreth yeres and ninetie as I weene And one thousand yeeres also ere Iesus Christ was borne One hundreth fiftie yeeres and seuen expired out and worne FINIS ❧ An Example of this former Historie LO here behold a mirrour bright wherein the reader well may find Expressed and set forth aright the vertues of a pacient mind And learne also himselfe thereby both meekenes and humilitie Which vertues being duely waide ech liuing wight ought to imbrace For in the scriptures it is saide and writ at large in manie a place By the old prophets long time since what vertue is in patience By patience saith Salomon a prince may soone be pacified And patience is a iust token whereby mans wisedome is discried The patient man also saith he shall gouerne in prosperitie And Dauid this most vertuous King saith in his Psalms The patient Out of his troubles God shall bring he will not suffer him be shent For patience commeth of the Lord euen as the prophet