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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

all desolate but with eight hundreth men For which my doubtfull mind was tost with extreme trouble then Yet chusing rather losse of life than cowardlie to flie I gaue the onset on my foes and fought it valiantlie From morning vntill it was night where I slew manie a one But what against so great an host could I preuaile alone There was I killed in the field yet to my lasting fame Far better is to die renownd than for to liue in shame Thus in defence of God his lawes I shed my vitall blood Wherein I trust I pleasd the Lord and did my countrie good My mangled corps conueied was out of the bloodie field And to the citie of Modin brought his due to earth to yéeld Whereas the same enterred was after the world was made Foure thousand saue one hundreth yéeres in authors as I reade And before Christs birth also about two and threescore When I was dead all Israel was in a great vprore FINIS ❧ An Example of this former Historie THe wisedome wit nor pollicy the courage strength nor worthines The might nor magnanimitie the manlie force nor valiantnes Of anie wight but litle may Preuaile if God be not his stay A vaine thing is a horse god wot to saue mans life the speare nor shield Nor thundering cracks of cannon shot rare or neuer winnes the field Except the Lord God present be Who giueth euerie victorie What doth preuaile the Elephant so fierce and terrible in sight Or numbers great of men to daunt the enimy through their own might Since victorie scripture concludes Confisteth not in multitudes But in the Lord the God of hosts who made the earth and heauen hie And onely ruleth in all costs and giueth euerie victorie As by examples permanent Vnto this day is euident Senacharib of Assyria King manie thousands in one rout Of the Assyrians did bring King Hezekiah to roote out But for that he blasphemed God He sharpelie felt his heauie rod. For in one night the Lord did slay an hundreth fourescore fiue thousand Of the Assyrians which then lay of purpose to inuade the land And draue Senacharib againe To Niniueh where he was slaine King Pharao with a mightie host the Israelits pursued apace But in the seas his life he lost and all his people in the chase Yet Israel through it did passe For God the Lord their leader was The great Antiochus also as plaine this historie doth expresse With thousands and with millions mo this worthie Iudas did distresse And onely with six thousand men For why the Lord fought for him then Bicause his onely quarrell was in the defence of God his lawes For which it after came to passe that God did helpe them in ech cause And gaue him victorie with fame Which purchast him a lasting name Wherefore you worthie warriors all no quarrell take but it be right Learne warilie by others fall to serue the conquerour of might Who doth reward most liberallie His soldiours with victorie Fight valiantly in the defence of his pure lawes and ordinance The kingdome shall not be long hence whereto the Lord shall you aduance For euermore in blisse to dwell The ioies whereof no toong can tell FINIS MORI QVAM VITAM DEGRE PBRO PR 〈…〉 〈…〉 E THE HISTORIE OF THE conquests of the famous conquerour IVLIVS CAESAR I Am the worthie conquerour the prince of high renowne Who first by name of Emperour did weare the Roman crowne And Iulius Caesar is my name well knowne both farre and néere A Painim I am in beléefe I reigned in the yéere Since the creation of the world foure thousand fully told Deducting fourescore yéeres and two by count of writers old And fortie yéeres before Christs birth I am the verie same Which wan great victories in Spaine to my perpetuall fame And conquered most valiantly the people all and summe Where I did passe euen vnto the sea Oceanum And marched into Gallia which now is called France And into Germanie also mine henor to aduance And conquered the Heluetians and Latobrigians Tulingians and Rauratians with warlike Boyans And ouercame the Marcomans the strong Seducians The Haruds Tribocks Vangians and the Sueuians The Nemets Sedunes Veragrines the Ambiliats and Venets The Diablinters Digerons the Tarbels and Naunets The Osisenes and Tarrusats the Vocats and Pretians The Flustrats Garites and Garumnes the famous Ansians The Sibuzsates and Cocosats the Aulerks fierce in field And did compell Viridouix their captaine stout to yéeld And slue in numbers infinite the Morines and Treuires Menapians and Lexobians and burnt their townes with fires And strong Induciomarus kild the captaine with my hand The Belgies Neruians Aduaticks and chased them from their land And Acco prince of the Senons did kill in knightlie wise Condrosies Segnies Eburons which did against me rise And ouercame the Brittons fierce to my perpetuall fame And causd Caslibelan their King pay tribute for the same And forced Catiuulcus king for feare with poisons force By drinke to worke his fatall fine to worke his trembling corse And vanquished Lytauicus a valiant man in fight The citie of Genabum eke did sacke through my great might The citie Valaundunum and Nouiodunum too I causd to yéeld vp vnto me my will with them to doo And battered Auaricum vnto the verie ground And fortie thousand slew therein with manie a mortall wound King Theutomatus I subdued Camalogenus kild Eporidorix Cotus Canarill tooke prisoners in the field Sedulius prince of Lemouix I at Alexia slew Vergassilaunus tooke aliue and causd thousands to rew Thréescore banners and fourtéene at one conflict I wan With twentie thousand prisoners and manie a noble man The captaine of Bellouocans a man of worthy fame In marshall wise I conquered which Corbey had to name Drapes Surus Suturuate renowmed captaines all With bloody sword I ouercame and made their men to thrall Luctarius a valiant prince I chast so narrowlie That he through famine was constraind for want to food to die And versing Etorix also a great and famous king His owne soldiers I forst to me as prisoners to bring And Pompei proud the Romane prince in manie a bloodie broile I chast abroad from place to place and gaue him manie a foile And at Pharsalia in fight I killed in one daie Manie thousandes of his men where he in poore aray Out of the campe conueyed him selfe in Egypt finally Through treasons traine his life he lost most miserably The King of Aegypt I subdued and in his seate did place His sister Cleopatra Quéene who in my fauour was And Pharnases of Pontus King I chased from his land And Iuba King of Africa I conquered with my hand And tooke strong cities in the same whose names at large appeare Where diuerse of mine enemies did kill themselues for feare The sonnes of Pompei with their power I ouercame in field Séeking to venge their fathers death with many a speare and shield I came vnto the gates of Rome which were shut me

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

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