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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

it the more Which in his mightie spirit still rooted did remaine By his too much default whom he imputed slaine At Shrewsbury before to whom if he had brought Supplies that bloody field when they so brauely fought They surely it had wonne for which to make amends Being furnished with men amongst his forraine friends By Scotland entred here and with a violent hand Vpon those Castles ceaz'd within Northumberland His Earledome which the King who much his truth did doubt Had taken to himselfe and put his people out Toward Yorkshire comming on where soone repaid his owne At Bramhams fatall More was fowly ouerthrowne Which though it were indeed a long and mortall fight Where many men were maim'd and many slaine outright Where that couragious Earle all hopes there seeing past Amongst his murthered troups euen fought it to the last Yet for it was atchieu'd by multitudes of men Which with Ralfe Roksby rose the Shreefe of Yorkshire then No well proportion'd fight we of description quit Amongst our famous fields nor will we here admit That of that Rakehel Cades and his rebellious crue In Kent and Sussex raisd at Senok fight that slue The Staffords with their power that thither him pursu'd VVho twice vpon Black heath back'd with the Commons rude Incamp'd against the King then goodly London tooke There ransoming some rich and vp the prisons broke His sensuall beastly will for Law that did preferre Beheaded the Lord Say then Englands Treasurer And forc'd the King to flight his person to secure The Muse admits not here a rabble so impure But brings that Battell on of that long dreadfull warre Of those two Houses nam'd of Yorke and Lancaster In faire Saint Albans fought most fatally betwixt Richard then Duke of Yorke and Henry cald the sixt For that ill-gotten Crowne which him his * Grandsire left That likewise with his life he from King Richard reft When vnderhand the Duke doth but promoue his claime Who from the elder sonne the Duke of Clarence came For which he raised Armes yet seem'd but to abet The people to plucke downe the Earle of Somerset By whom as they gaue out we Normandy had lost And yet he was the man that onely rul'd the roast With Richard Duke of Yorke into his faction wonne Salsbury and Warwicke came the father and the sonne The Neuils nobler name that haue renown'd so farre So likewise with the King in this great action are The Dukes of Somerset and Buckingham with these Were thrice so many Earles their stout accomplices As Pembroke great in power and Stafford with them stand With Deuonshire Dorset Wilt and fierce Northumber land VVith Sidley Bernes and Rosse three Barons with the rest VVhen Richard Duke of Yorke then marching from the west Towards whom whilst with his power King Henry forward set Vnluckily as 't hapt they at Saint Albans met Where taking vp the Street the buildings them enclose Where Front doth answer Front strength doth strength oppose Whilst like two mightie walls they each to other stand And as one sinketh downe vnder his enemies hand Another thrusting in his place doth still supply Betwixt them whilst on heaps the mangled bodies lie The Staules are ouerthrowne with the vnweldy thrust The windowes with the shot are shiuered all to dust The Winters Sleet or Hayle was neuer seene so thicke As on the houses sides the bearded arrowes sticke Where Warwicks courage first most Comet-like appeard Who with words full of Spirit his fighting Souldiers cheerd And euer as he saw the slaughter of his men He with fresh forces fil'd the places vp agen The valiant * Marchmen thus the battell still maintaine That when King Henry found on heaps his Souldiers slaine His great Commanders cals who when they sadly saw The honour of the day would to the Yorkists draw Their persons they put in as for the last to stand The Duke of Somerset Henry Northumberland Of those braue warlike Earles the second of that name The Earle of Stafford sonne to th' Duke of Buckingham And Iohn Lord Clifford then which shed their noble gore Vnder the Castles signe of which not long before A Prophet bad the Duke of Somerset beware With many a valiant Knight in death that had his share So much great English blood for others lawlesse guilt Vpon so little ground before was neuer spilt Proud Yorke hath got the gole the King of all forfaken Into a cottage got a wofull prisoner taken The Battell of Blore-heath the place doth next supply Twixt Richard Neuill that great Earle of Salisbury Who with the Duke of Yorke had at Saint Albans late That glorious Battell got with vncontrouled Fate And Iames Lord Audley stir'd by that reuengefull Queene To stop him on his way for the inueterate spleene Shee bare him for that still he with the Yorkists held Who comming from the North by sundry wrongs compeld To parley with the King the Queene that time who lay In Staffordshire and thought to stop him on his way That valiant Tuchet stir'd in Cheshire powerfull then T' affront him in the field where Cheshire Gentlemen Diuided were th' one part made valiant Tuchet strong The other with the Earle rose as he came along Incamping both their powers diuided by a Brooke Whereby the prudent Earle this strong aduantage tooke For putting in the field his Army in aray Then making as with speed he meant to march away He caus'd a flight of Shafts to be discharged first The enemy who thought that he had done his worst And cowardly had fled in a disordred Rout Attempt to wade the Brooke he wheeling soone about Set fiercely on that part which then were passed ouer Their Friends then in the Reare not able to recouer The other rising banke to lend the Vaward ayd The Earle who found the plot take right that he had layd On those that forward prest as those that did recoyle As hungry in reuenge there made a rauenous spoyle There Dutton Dutton kils A Done doth kill a Done A Booth a Booth and Leigh by Leigh is ouerthrowne A Venables against a Venables doth stand And Troutbeck fighteth with a Troutbeck hand to hand There Molineux doth make a Molineux to die And Egerton the strength of Egerton doth trie O Chesshire wert thou mad of thine owne natiue gore So much vntill this day thou neuer shedst before Aboue two thousand men vpon the earth were throwne Of which the greatest part were naturally thine owne The stout Lord Audley slaine with many a Captaine there To Salsbury it sorts the Palme away to beare Then faire Northampton next thy Battell place shall take Which of th' Emperiall warre the third fought Field doth make Twixt Henry cald our sixt vpon whose partie came His neere and deare Allies the Dukes of Buckingham And Somerset the Earle of Shrewsbury of account Stout Vicount Beaumount and the yong Lord Egremount Gainst Edward Earle of March sonne to the Duke of Yorke With

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

my Ricall making on By Rydale towards her dear-lou'd Darwent who 's not gone Farre from her pearly Springs but vnder-ground she goes As vp towards Crauen Hills I many haue of those Amongst the cranied Cleeues that through the 〈◊〉 creepe And dimbles hid from day into the earth so deepe That oftentimes their sight the senses doth appall Which for their horrid course the people Helbecks call Which may for ought I see be with my Wonders set And with much maruell seene that I am not in debt To none that neigboureth me nor ought can they me lend When Darwent bad her stay and there her speech to end For that East-Riding cald her proper cause to plead For Darwent a true Nymph a most impartiall Mayd And like to both ally'd doth will the last should haue That priuiledge which time to both the former gaue And wills th' East-Riding then in her owne cause to speake Who mildly thus begins Although I be but weake To those two former parts yet what I seeme to want In largenesse for that I am in my Compasle scant Yet for my Scite I know that I them both excell For marke me how I lye ye a note me very well How in the East I raigne of which my name I take And my broad side doe beare vp to the German Lake Which brauely I suruey then turne ye and behold Vpon my pleasant breast that large and spacious Ould Of Torke that takes the name that with delighted eyes When he beholds the Sunne out of the Seas to rise With pleasure feeds his Flocks for which he scarse giues place To Cotswold and for what becomes a Pastorall grace Doth goe beyond him quite then note vpon my South How all along the Shore to mighty Humbers mouth Rich Holdernesse I haue excelling for her graine By whose much plentie I not onely doe maintaine My selfe in good estate but Shires farre off that lye Vp Humber that to Hull come euery day to buy To me beholding are besides the neighbouring Townes Vpon the Verge whereof to part her and the Downes Hull downe to Humber hasts and takes into her Banke Some lesse but liuely Rills with waters waxing ranke Shee Beuerley salutes whose beauties so delight The fayre-enamoured Flood as rauisht with the sight That shee could euer stay that gorgeous Phane to view But that the Brooks and Bournes so hotly her pursue To Kingston and conuey whom Hull doth newly name Of Humber-bordring Hull who hath not heard the fame And for great Humbers selfe I challenge him for mine For whereas 〈◊〉 first and Sheifleet doe combine By meeting in their course so courteously to twin Gainst whom on th' other side the goodly Trent comes in From that especiall place great Humber hath his raigne Beyond which hee 's mine owne so I my Course maintaine From Kilnseys pyle-like poynt along the Easterne shore And laugh at Neptunes rage when lowdl'est he doth rore Till Flamborough iutt foorth into the German Sea And as th' East-Riding more yet ready was to say Ouse in her owne behalfe doth interrupt her speech And of th' Imperious land doth liberty beseech Since she had passed 〈◊〉 and in her wandring race By that faire Cities scite receiued had such grace Shee might for it declame but more to honor Yorke Shee who supposd the same to bee her onely worke Still to renowne those Dukes who strongly did pretend A title to the Crowne as those who did descend From them that had the right doth this Oration make And to vphold their claime thus to the Floods she spake They very idly erre who thinke that blood then spilt In that long-lasting warre proceeded from the guilt Of the proud Yorkist 〈◊〉 for let them vnderstand That Richard Duke of Yorke whose braue and martiall hand The Title vndertooke by tyranny and might Sought not t' attaine the Crowne but from succesfull right Which still vpheld his claime by which his valiant sonne Great Edward Earle of March the Garland after wonne For Richard Duke of Yorke at Wakefield Battell slaine Who first that title broach'd in the 〈◊〉 Henries raigne From Edmond a fift sonne of Edward did descend That iustly he thereby no title could pretend Before them com'n from Gaunt well knowne of all to be The fourth to Edward borne and therefore a degree Before him to the Crowne but that which did preferre His title was the match with Dame Anne Mortimer Of Roger Earle of March the daughter that his claime From Clarence the third sonne of great King Edward came Which Anne deriu'd alone the right before all other Of the delapsed Crowne from Philip her faire mother Daughter and onely heire of Clarence and the Bride To Edmond Earle of March this Anne her daughter tide In wedlocke to the Earle of Cambridge whence the right Of Richard as I said which fell at Wakefield fight Descended to his sonne braue Edward after King Henry the sixt depos'd thus did the Yorkists bring Their title from a straine before the line of Gaunt Whose issue they by Armès did worthily supplant By this the Ouze perceau'd great Humber to looke grim For euermore shee hath a speciall eye to him As though he much disdain'd each one should thus be heard And he their onely King vntill the last defer'd At which hee seem'd to frowne wherefore the Ouze off breaks And to his confluent Floods thus mighty Humber speaks Let Trent her tribute pay which from their seuerall founts For thirtie Floods of name to me her King that counts Be much of me belou'd braue Riuer and from me Receiue those glorious Rites that 〈◊〉 can giue to thee And thou Marsh-drowning Don and all those that repaire With thee that bringst to me thy easie 〈◊〉 Aire Embodying in one Banke and Wharfe which by thy fall Dost much augment my Ouze let me embrace you all My braue West-Riding Brooks your King you need not 〈◊〉 Proud Nyades neither yee North-Riders that are borne My yellow-sanded Your and thou my sister Swale That dauncing come to 〈◊〉 through many a daintie Dale Doe greatly me inrich cleare Darwent driuing downe From Cleeueland and thou Hull that highly dost renowne Th' East-Riding by thy rise doe homage to your King And let the Sea Nymphs thus of 〈◊〉 Humber sing That full an hundred Floods my 〈◊〉 Court maintaine Which either of themselues or in their greaters traine Their Tribute pay to me and for my princely name From Humber King of 〈◊〉 as anciently it came So still I sticke to him for from that Easterne King Once in me drown'd as I my Pedigree doe bring So his great name receiues no preiudice thereby For as he was a King so know ye all that I Am King of all the Floods that North of Trent doe flow Then let the idle world no more such cost bestow Nor of the muddy Nyle so great a Wonder make Though with her bellowing fall shee violently take The neighbouring people