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A04560	The most pleasant history of Tom a Lincolne that renowned souldier, the Red-rose Knight, who for his valour and chivalry, was surnamed the boast of England. Shewing his honourable victories in forraigne countries, with his strange fortunes in the Fayrie land: and how he married the faire Anglitora, daughter to Prester Iohn, that renowned monarke of the world. Together with the lives and deathes of his two famous sonnes, the Blacke Knight, and the Fayrie Knight, with divers other memorable accidents, full of delight.; Tom a Lincoln	Johnson, Richard, 1573-1659?	1631 (1631)	STC 14684; ESTC S105584	66,530	98

where euery one as well Strangers as others were most royally feasted The Portingale King séeing his kind entertainement in the English Court where he was vsed more like a Friend then an Enemie had small care to returne home but ●rolik'd many a day amongst the English Lords whose loues vnto strangers be euermore most honourable But so great were the courtesies that the Noble King Arthur bestowed vpon the Portingales who for their proffered disgraces requited them liberally with honour and not onely sent them home ransomlesse but promised to lend them ayde and succour from England if occasion required So bearing them company to the Sea side hee most friendly committed them to the mercy of the winds and waues which were so fauourable that in short time they arriued safe in their owne Country where many a day after they remembred the honourable kindnesse of the English-men and caused the Chronicles of Portingale to record the renowne of King Arthur and hi●●●●●●ts of the Round Table CHAP. IIII. How the Red-rose Knight trauelled from the King of Englands Court and how he arriued in the Fayerie-land where he was entertained by a Mayden Queene and what happened to him in the same Country NOw after the Portingales were thus conquered and sent home with great honour the English King and his Lordes rested themselues many a day in the Bowers of Peace leau●ng their Armours rusting and their pampered Steedes standing in their Sca●les forgetting their vsuall manner of wrathfull warre which idle ease greatly discontented the magnanimious Red-rose Knight who thought it a staine to his passed glory and a scandall to his Princely mind to entertaine such base thoughts and considering with himselfe how ignorant hee was of his true Parents and from whence hee was descended hee could not imagine therefore hee purposed to begin a new enterprise and to trauaile vp and downe the World till hee had either found his Father and Mother or else yéelded his life to Natures courle in that pretended Journey so going to the King full little thinking that he was sprung from so Noble a stock crauing at his Graces hand to graunt him such liberty for to try his Knight-hood in forraine Countries whereas yet did neuer Englishman make his aduenture and so eternize his name to all posterity rather then to spend his life in such home-bred practises To this his honourable request the King though loath to forgoe his company yet because it belonged to Knightly Attempts hee gaue him leaue and withall furnished him a Shippe at his owne proper cost and charges giuing free Licence to all Knights whatsoeuer to beare him company amongst which number Sir Launcelor du Lake was the chiefest that proferred himselfe to that Uoyage who protested such loue to the Red-rose Knight that they plighted their Faiths like sworne Brothers and to liue and die together in all extreamities So these two English Knights with the number of a hundred more all resolute Gentlemen tooke leaue of the King and with all spéede went a Ship-boord wherein being no s●●ner entred but the Pylot hoysed Sayle and di●an●hored and so committed their liues and Fortunes to the pleasure of Neptunes mercie vpon whose 〈◊〉 Kingdome the 〈◊〉 many dayes sayled but Ae●●us brazen gates ●u●st open and the Windes so violently troubled the swelling waues that euery minute they were in danger to end their liues in the bottome of the Seas Thrée moneths the winde and the waters stroue together for supremacie during which time they sawe no land but were driuen vp and downe to what place the euer-changing Destenies listed so at last they sayled beyond the Sunne directed only by the light of the Starres not knowing which way to trauell towards land but in such extrenity for want of Uictuall that they were forced to land at a certaine Iland in the Westerne parts of the world inhabited onely by women where being no sooner on land and giuing God thanks for deliuering them from that mortall perill but the Red-rose Knight cast vp his eyes towards the higher parts of the Countrey and espied more then two thousand women comming foorth at a Citie gate all most richly armed with Breast-plates of Siluer marching in trim aray like an Army of well approoued Souldiers the which number comming néere to the Sea side they sent two of their Damsels as Messengers to the English Knights willing them as they loued their liues presently to retire againe back to the Seas for that was no Countrey for their abode But when the Red-rose Knight of England had vnderstoode the hold message of the two Damsels he was sore abashed considering the number of armed women he saw before him and the great dangers they had suffered before on the Sea for want of v●●●uals that he knew not in what manner he were best to answere them but hauing a good courage hee at last spake to the two Damsels in this sort Right Noble Ladies I haue well vnderstood your spéeches therefore I desire you for to shew such fauour vnto wandering Trauailers as to tell vs in what Country Fortune hath brought vs to and for what cause we are commanded by you to returne to the Sea Surely Sir Knight answered one of the Damsels this Countrey whereon you are ariued it is not very bigge but yet most fertile and commodious and is called by the name of the Fayrie-Land And now to shew you the cause why you are commaunded to returne this it is Not many yeares agoe there raigned in this Countrey a King which had to name Larmos for wisedome and prowesse not his equall was found in any of these parts of the world This King had such continuall warre against the bordering Ilanders that vpon a time he was constrained to muster for the same warre all the men both young old which were found in his Kingdome whereby the whole Countrey was left destitute of men to the great disconten●ment of the Ladies and Damsels that here inhabited whereupon they finding themselues so highly wronged liuing without the company of men they generally assembled themselues together with the Daughter of King Larmos which is called Caelia no lesse in Beautie then in Uertue and Wisedome These Ladyes and Damosels beeing gathered together with a generall consent dispatched certaine Messengers to the King and to their Husbands willing them to returne into their Countrey and not to leaue their wiues and children in such extremity without the comfort and company of man Upon which the King answered that hee had besieged his Enemies in their Townes of Warre and before one man should returne home till he came with Conquest his Country should bee lost and made desolate and the Women giuen ouer to the spoyle of his Enemies Which answere when the Ladies had receiued they tooke it in such euill part that they conspired against their King and Husbands and put to death all the men children that were in the Countrey and after determined when their Husbands Fathers and Friends

thy bounds and with the spoyles of forraigne Countries made thee the onely Prince of Kingdomes yet thou repayest me with disgrace and load'st mée with more contempt then my neuer conquered Heart can inture so kissing the ground with his warme lippes that had so long fostered him and with many a bitter teare and deepe sobbe like a Pilgrime as I said before hée tooke leaue of his natiue Countrey and so went to the Sea side where hee heard of his Wife and his Sonnes departure after whom as soone as the Wind conueniently serued hée tooke shipbord Where wée will now likewise leaue him to his fortune vpon the Sea and speake of the professed malice the Quéene prosecuted against Angellica the mother of the Red-rose Knight CHAP. 3 Of the wofull death of Angellica Mother to the Red-rose Knight and of the death of the iealous Queene and others THe beautious Angellica béeing left by her Sonne the Red-rose Knight at his departure in a Monestarie at Lincolne there to bewaile her former offences and for her youths pleasure in age to taste the bitter food of sorrow the day time shée spent in grieued passion 〈…〉 night shée wasted with s●ghs and heart-breaking sobbes shée fed on carefull thoughts her drinke was streames of salt teares her companions thoughts of her passed wanton pleasures her bed no better then the cold earth her sléepes were few but her comforts lesse her continuall exercise was with a Néedle to worke in silke vpon the Hangings of her Chamber how shée was first woed then won to King Arthurs pleasures in what manner their meetings were their wanton daliances his imbraces her smiles his Princely gifts her courteous acceptance and lastly the birth of her thrice worthy Sonne his bringing vp his honours in the Court and his strange discouerie all which shee had wrought as an Arras worke with silke of diuers collours in a peece of the purest Holland cloath In doing this twise had the golden Sunne runne his circumference about the world twise had the pleasant Spring beautified the Earth with her changable mantles twise had nipping Winter made the Fields barren and the Woods leafelesse and twise had the yeere shewed himselfe to all mankind in which time of twise twelue moneths euery day made shée a sorrowfull complaint for the wracke of Honour and her Uirginities losse which so willingly she surrendred in this time so greatly had sorrow and griefe changed her that her eyes which had wont like twinckling Diamonds to giue light to all affections were now sunke into their Cels and séemed like a hollow Sepulcher new opened her Face wherein Beautie her selfe dwelt and her Chéekes the true die of the Lillie and the Rose intermixt now appeared old and writhen like to the countenance of Hecuba when her husband King Priamus and all her Princely Children were slaine at Troyes destruction and her tresses of Gold-like Hayre which like to Indian Wyers hung ouer her shoulders were now growne more white then Thistle downe the Isickles of frozen Ice or the white mountaine Snow all these griefes of Nature had not age changed but the inward griefe of her carefull heart But now marke the wofull chance that hapned euen vpon the day which by computation she had in former times yéelded vp her Maydens pride and lost that Iewell that Kingdomes cannot recouer vpon that haplesse day came there a Messenger from the Quéene to bid her make preparation for death for ●● that day should bee her liues end and her fortunes period which she most willingly accepted of and tooke more ioy thereat then to be inuited to a Princely Banquet Be not dismayde said the Messenger for you shall haue as honourable a death as euer had Lady seauen seuerall Instruments of death shall be presented to you for a choyse and your owne tongue shall giue sentence which of them you will die by whereupon this Messenger set this sorrowsull Lady at a round Table directly in the middle of a very large roome whereinto he had led her hung all about with blacke where being placed as to a Banquet or some solemne Dinner of State there entred seauen Seruitours in disguised shapes like vnto Murtherers with seauen seuerall deadly seruices in Dishes of siluer Plate The first brought in Fire burning in a Dish if shée would to consume her body to ashes The second brought in a Dish a twisted Ceard to strangle her to death The third a Dish full of deadly Poyson to burst her body withall The fourth a sharpe edgd Rayzor or Knife to cut her throat The fifth an Iron wracke to teare her body into small péeces The sixth a Dish full of liue Snakes to sting her to death And the seuenth an impoysoned Garment being worne that will consume both flesh and blood These seauen deathfull Seruitours hauing set downe their Dishes the least whereof brings present death shée was commanded by the Messenger which of them she should choose to die withall and to make spéedy choyce for he was sworne to the Quéene on whom he attended to sée it that day accomplished At these his words shée fell presently vpon her knées and with a courage readier to yéeld to deaths furie then to the mercie of the liuing Quéene said as follloweth Oh thou guider of this earthly Globe thou that gauest my weake nature ouer to a wanton life and from a Uirgin chast hast made me an infamous Strumpet thou that sufferedst only a King in Maiestie to preuaile against mée and with the power of greatnesse worme mée to lewdnesse for which I am now doomed to a present death and forced by violence to bidde this tempted world a●ue Inspire mee with that happy choyce of death as my Soule may haue an easie passage from my body First to dye by Fire to an earthly imagination séemes terrible and farre different from nature secondly to die with strangling cord were base and more sitting for robbers théeues and malefactors thirdly to die by deadly poyson were a death for Beasts and wormes that féeds vpon the bosome of the Earth fourthly to die by cutting kniues and slicing razors were a death for cattle fowles and fishes that dies for the vse of man fitly by an iron wracke to end my life were a barbarous death and against mans nature but seuenthly to die a lingring death which is a life consuming by wearing of impoysoned garments where repentance may still bée in company will I choose therefore swéet Messenger of my death doe thy office attyre me in these robes and the manner of my death I beséech thée make knowne vnto the Quéene tell her I pray thée I forgiue her and may my death bée a quiet vnto her soule for my life is to her eares as the fatall sound of night Rauens or the Mermaides tunes Uaine world now must I leaue thy flattering intisements and in stead of thy pompe and glory must shortly treade the dolefull march of pale death and this body that hath béene so pleasing

Knight gyrt his Sword round about him and stood on Thornes till hee was set forward to seeke Martiall aduentures Hereupon these two Knights departed toward England and performed many noble deeds of Chiualrie by the way But amongst all others being in the Turkish Court this is worthy to bée noted for with one Boxe of the eare the Blacke Knight killed the Turkes Sonne starke dead for which cause by treason were their liues conspired and the following night had their Lodging entred by twelue of the Turkes Guard with an intent to murther them but by reason of the inchaunted Ring in the which they put both their little fingers the Guard of a sodaine fell all fast in a traunce hereupon the two Knights departed the Turkish Court But no sooner were they out of the Citie but a troupe of armed Knights pursued them and followed them so néerely that they were forced to enter a Castle that stood by the Sea side wherein no creature had abyding comming to the Gate the Fayerie Knight with his Sword strucke thereat an it presently opened wherein being no sooner entred but the armed Knights of the Turkish nation closed them fast in and caused the Gates to bée walled vp with Free Stone and so departed Now were these two Knights in more danger of death then euer they had beene in all their liues and sure they had starued had not good pollicie preserued their liues for the Castle walles were so high that none durst venture downe without great danger As in greatest extreamity mans wit is the quickest for inuention so the two Knights cut off all the Hayre from their heads which were very long and therewithall made along ●oo●sted Line or Cord with the which they slid from the top of the Wall to the Ground But this mischaunce hapned as the Fayerie Knight glyded downe the Coard broke and his body tooke such a violent blow against the stonie Ground that it strucke the breath quite out of his body no life by the Blacke Knight could bee perceiued but that his soule was for euer diuided This of all misfortunes was held the extreamest therefore in great griefe hee breathed foorth this lamentation Oh you partiall Fates quoth hee Oh you vniust Destinies Why haue you reft two liues by wounding one Now let the Sunne forbeare his wonted light Let Heate and Coulde let Drought and Moysture let Earth and Ayre let Fire and Water be all mingled and confounded together let that old confused Chaos returne againe and heere let the World end And now you Heauens this is my request that my Soule may presently forsake this flesh I haue no soule of mine owne for it is the soule of the Fayerie Knight for but one Soule is common to vs both then how can I liue hauing my Soule departed which spightfull death hath now separated Oh thou my Knightly brother though the Fates deny to giue thée life yet in spight of them I le follow thée You Heauens receiue this halfe soule of my true Friend and let not life and death part vs with Eagles wings will I flye after him and in Ioues cele●●iall Throane ioyne with him in friendship We two in life were but one one will one heart one minde one Soule made vs one one life kept vs both aliue one being dead drawes the other vnto death therefore as wee liued in loue so will we dye in loue and with one Graue wee may interre both our bodyes How glorious and happy were my death to dye with my beloued friend Now doe I loath this life in liuing alone without my deare Brother whereupon drawing his Sword from his side hée sayd Oh thou wofull Weapon euen thou shalt be the meane to ridde my soule from this prison of body Oh faith vnfaigned Oh hand of sacred friendship I am resolued both with the force of Heart Hand and Armes to giue my Heart deaths deadly wound for now my noble Fayerie Knight this blood I offer vp vnto thy Soule But being ready with his Sword to pierce his owne heart hée saw a liuely blood spread in his friends face and those eyes that were so dolefully closed vp began now to looke abroad and the countenance that was so pale and wan receiued a fresh complexion whereupon the Blacke Knight stayed from his desperate resolution and from a bloody tragedian became the recouerer of his brothers life who after a while began to be perfect sencible so binding his bruzed bones together they went a Shipboard on a Shippe that lay at anchor at the next Port making for England so the next morning the wind serued well the Pilots hoysted sayle merily floting on the waters Ten wéekes had not passed toward the finishing of a yéere before they ariued on the Chaulkie cliftes of England vpon which they had no sooner set footing but with their warme lippes they gently kissed the cold earth This is the Land of promised glory said the Fayerie Knight to finde this Land I haue indured many miseries to find this Land I haue passed many Countries and in this Land must I seale vp the last quittance of my life here shal my bones rest for I am lawfully descended from the loynes of an English Knight peace bee in my ende for all my dayes haue béene spent in much trouble In such like discourses left they the shore side trauayling further into the Land they met with one of King Arthurs Knights named Sir Launcelat Dulake so old and lame that through his bruises in chiualry hée séemed rather an impotent creature then a Knight at Armes yet at the sight of these two aduenturous Knights his blood séemed to grow young and hée that before could not march a mile on foote for a Kingdome now went as tiuely as any of the two other Knights did First came they to London where for their fathers sake they were by the Gouernours most gallantly entertained the stréets were hung round with Arras hangings and Tape strie workes Pagiants were builded vp in euery stréet the Cond●nts ran with Wine and a solemne Holy-day was then proclaimed to be kept yearely vpon that day To speake of Banquets prepared for them the Tilts and Turnaments and such honourable graces I thinke néedlesse In London in great content stayed they some twenty dayes in which time came noble messengers from the Court to conduct them to the King that then raigned for since the Blacke Knight and his mother departed the Land hapned thrée changes euery one maintaining the ancient honour of King Arthurs Knights of the Round Table whereof these two in presence of all the Nobilitie were in Knightly sort created After this the King ordained a solemne Iusting to be kept in his Court held in great honour for fortie dayes to which Knightly sports resorted the chiefest flowers of Chiualrie from all Countries as Kings Princes Dukes Marquesses ●arles Lords and Knights and for chiefe Challenger and Champion for the Countrey was the Fayerie Knight who for his matchlesse man-hood therein showne had this title giuen him by a generall consent to bee called The Worlds Wonder After this being desirous to sée the Citie of Lincolne where the Red-rose Knight was borne hee in company of his Brother true friend the Blacke Knight and old sit Lancelat Dulake rod thither at whose comming into the Citie the great Bell called Tom a Lincolne was rung an houre which as then was seldome showne to any excepting Kings and renowned warriours returning victoriously from bloody ●attles Here builded they a most sumptuous Minster which to this day remaines in great magnificence and glory Likewise here builded they a most stately Tombe in remembrance of their Parents the like as then no place of England afforded Thus hauing left the noble feats of Chiualry they liued a life zealous and most pleasing to God erecting many Alms-houses for poore people giuing thereto great Wealth and Treasure And when nature ended their dayes they were buried in the same Minster both in one Tombe which likewise was so richly set vp with Pillars of Gold that aboue all ot●er Cities it grew the most famous whereupon since that time hath this old Prouerbe of thrée Cities gr●wn common which is vsed in these words Lincolne was London is and Yorke shall be FINIS R. I.