pes enter Sotland I eithe and Edenborowe ransacked The Scottes placed their ordinauâ⦠full agâ⦠their gâ⦠The Scottes forsake their Ordinaunce Preparation of wars against Fraunce The king of Fraunce his league with the Turke The Dukes of Northfolkâ⦠and Suffolkâ⦠the Earle of Arundeil Lord Paulet Lord Russell appointed chiefe in this warfarâ⦠Sir Anthonie browne master of the horse Or Titaâ⦠set that is or when the Sunne is set The discription of king Henry thâ⦠8. ââ¦ulcanus The descripââ¦ion of the workeman ââ¦hip of kyng Henries harââ¦ish King Henry landeth at Callice Bullen besiged The English giue assault The gallâ⦠resist The vse of the great gunne Iohn Dadley beâ⦠checâ⦠the king that bee with his marriners might first scale the was Corona murâ⦠lis in old time he that first entred the Enemies fort wanne great honour and therefore crowned with a garland in the triumphe The oration of Iohn Dudâ⦠ley to his mâ⦠riners The King considering the daunger that Dudley with his men wear like to runne into commaundes them to desist Bullen rendred Iohn Dudley Lieuetenant of Bullen Preparation of the Frank against England The Frenchmen with a great nauy it uade the I le of wight ââ¦enry 8. afââ¦er 3â⦠yeares ââ¦yeth ââ¦dward the sixt begunne ââ¦o ââ¦aigne â⦠546. The Earle of ãâã created Duke of Sommerset Iohn Dudley made Earle of VVarwicke Expedition of souldiours into Scotland The Duke of Sommerset Ealre of VVarwicke and Lord Dacies assigned chiefe in this warfare Lord Graiâ⦠captaine of the horsemen A light skirmage of the horsemen of both partes the day before the battaile VVhori it was neare sunne set The Farle Arreine gouernour of Scotland sen. deth an Herault vnto the the Duke of Somerset and the Harle of Huntley prouoketh him had to hand Huntley challenged The Duke of Somersets reply The aunswere of the Earle of VVarwick to the messenger The Earle of VVarwicke chalengeth Huntley to single cumbat The Engliâ⦠army is set order The on set ââ¦uskelborow ââ¦lde The Scots send into Frauncc to intreate a league betweene the heires of Scâ⦠land and Fraunce Hymen God of wedlââ¦k To Dusson dale The Rebels ââ¦nclosed themselues with their cariages on euery side ââ¦o keep of the assaults of the Barle of war wickes horsemen The Harle of VVarwicke subdueth the rebels in Northsolke The Giants in old tiââ¦e rebelled against the Gods and would haue pulled ââ¦ubiter out of heaueÌ The Earle of VVarwicke created Dukâ⦠of Northumberland The death of king Edward King Edwards praise Mary beginneth to raign 1553. Queene Mary marrieth to king Phyllip Sââ¦itium ââ¦ernum is ãâã the eight Calendes of Ianuary Christmas he meaneth Henry of Fraunce inuadeth Flaunders Preparation of warres against the Frenchmen Diuers nations in phillips ãâã Saint Quintinnes besieged Saint Quintines ââ¦ted Henry Dudley slayne Saint Quintinnes taken The Castell ãâã Houne taken ransackt The Admiral of England with too shipps sayleth into Frauncâ⦠and burneth Conque Sir VVilliam VVinter with many of the Queenes shipps taketh ââ¦gayne Alderne I le ââ¦oÌ he handes of ââ¦e Frenchmen The words of Sir VVilliam VVinter to his souldiours Sir VVillim VVinter meeting with the Frenche Captaine slaieth him valiantly The Frenchmen subdued Cââ¦lice lost Thirlby Bishoppe of Elye Queene Mary dyeth Aegis the shield of Pallas The Censures of the Vniuersities of Italy and Fraunce against the Pope The toune Princes of Europe more or leââ¦se are ment to be as ten hornes vnto this beast Hymeneus or Hymen God of mariage A solempne pompe at the mariage of Henry and Anno. Anne great by King Henry Anne crowned which hapneth to none but to the heires of the kingdom Nestor liââ¦ed three hudred yeares The conduiâ⦠ran with wine at the coronation of Queene Anne VVhitââ¦hall Sainct Peters at VVestminster Thomas Duke of Northfolke made chiefe Steward of England ââ¦rle of Arundeil Tââ¦ster Phoebe two sillables vsed for the Moone Elizabeth borne on tht seuenth day of December being the sabboth day Elizabeth baptised and confirmed in the true faith Her sureties were the Archbishop of Cannterbury the duthesse of Norfolke and the Lady Mââ¦ques of Exeter Elisabeth poââ¦laimed heite vnto the Crowne by ââ¦n Herault The surties giue gifts of pââ¦e gold The Englisâ⦠people by oâ⦠vowe their loyaltie and obedience vnto Queen Elizabeth The toward nes of Elizabeth in her childhood Description of the spring tyme. ââ¦orpheus ââ¦od of dreaââ¦es ââ¦he dreame ãâã Queene ãâã whereâ⦠she was ââ¦ed of ãâã death at ãâã and of ââ¦ny other ââ¦ble cââ¦es A foreshew ââ¦ng of the exterminating and ioâ⦠ting out of Idols Restâ⦠ãâã ãâã ãâã by kââ¦g ââ¦dward Acheron oâ⦠of tââ¦e ââ¦ue ãâã uers of hell where ãâã are ââ¦mented Maries gouâ⦠nement Anne declareth her dreame vnto a noble matrone Anne dyeth Annes prayse for almes giuing Henry marieth Queene Iane. Edward borne Prince Edward and Elizabeth skilfull in the Greeke and Latin tong Henry 8. dyeth Edward 6. crowned Hatfield Periphrasis sixe yeare for the Sunne once a yeare ouerg es the xâ⦠signes so that be meaneth by ouertaking the signes vi times vi yeare Edward the. 6 dieth Queene Mary ruleth The Bishoppe of VVinchester Holie sort Ironia cuius contrarium veâ⦠est licolas Baââ¦ns Lord priuy seale Thomas Brockley Lord chauncolour VVilliam Paulet Marques of VVin chester Lord Cicill high treasurer of England Ae lus God the windes Baron of Burghley The Earles o Arundell an Penbroke Stewardes o the Queenes house Clinton Lord Admirall Earle of Lin colne Villiam hoââ¦ard ââ¦he Earle of ââ¦ssex high ââ¦hamberlaine ââ¦f England ââ¦e also was ââ¦esetenant in ââ¦eland Robart Dudly Castor Polââ¦ux hatched ââ¦fan agge by ââ¦eda whom ââ¦upiter rauish ââ¦ed in forme of ãâã swanne Master of the horse Achates companion of Aeneas in all his toiles trauailes Farle of Lecester Hospitall built by the Earle Lecester Earle of Huntington liefe tenaunt of Yorke Scoolefellow and plaimare with king Edward the 6 Earle of warwicke Earle of Bedford Iord Hunsdon liesecenant of Barwicke Queene Anne aunt to the Lord Hunsden Syr Henry Sidney Lord President of wales Thomas Pary The Duke of Northsolke Syr Thomas Smith Syr Frauncis Knolls Syr Frauncis Knolls in Q. Maries dayes fled into Germanie Syr Ambrose Caue Syr Christopher Hatton master of the Garde Sir Raph Sadler Syr Gwaltor Mildmay Syr Iames a Crostes Secretary VValsinghaâ⦠D. VVilson ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã
a shew did make Agaynst him therfore for to warre renowned Henry bent UUith suffrage of the primates chief and councels graund consent He armes of proofe prouides and souldiours customed long to warres And doughtie ladds of courage stout and prompt to bickering iorres And valiant guides of stomacke haut all such he bringeth out The nobles present weare and commons eke a hugie rout And first that Peeââ¦e whom Suffolke name and title hye assignde Up mounted on a trampling steed in Tyrian purple shinde UUith golden helmet deckt whose copped crest did streeming stare Then he to whom like title rich of sheepes woll Norfolke ââ¦are Exulting skipping came a Duke to wrothfull anger prest Howbeit of minde vnconquered nor by Mars to be supprest Then Arundell an Earle of youthfull yeares a strippling braue UUith Pawlet which did corne and needefull foode prouide and saue Lord Russell then which warlike troupes of burly ladds did trace UUhich Deuon fostred vp of white tinne mines a fertile place Walles sent a iolly route and Ireland eke a few did yeld UUhich neither dred the bright drawne sword nor blouddy foes in field In running springoldes light of hart and handes of valure tried The chosen Northarne crue on warlike Coursers fierce to ride In mayled shurtes of sturdy yron sweltes fine forged dight By swift course of their horse could equall striue with birdes in flight Anthony Browne whose comely corps if men you would behold In portrature none excelde nor in exploites of Mars more bold Most willingly the horsemen troupes by Princes hest did guide From all the coastes of Britayne came thicke thrunging far and wide A mighty power of Springoldes fresh and store of palfrays fierce The horne hoofe of the foming horse the trembling earth doth pearce And horsemen armde with sturdy launce do runne with frisking pace The campe thus ordred well in long rankes marcheth on a pace And aierie region vast with clamorous noyse discordant fills UUith armed troupes the hollow vales and loftie mounted hills As with falne flakes of snow or Titan set with dropps of due You might all scattered thick in complet harnish cluttering vue whose blasing brightnesse through the rayes of Phoebe so dimd the looke Of vewers all that Titans beames away the prospect tooke New rayment partie coloured made of woll by skilfull art The souldiours of ech Captaine did disseuering set apart Fine silken banners broad displayed before ech ââ¦and doth goe The skipping souldiours of his guide the Ensigne spread doth know Euen as the fragrant floures aboue the greene grasse loftie show In pleasaunt time of spring and with their coloures do delight If any man of fayre fresh fieldes shall walke to take the sight Such semblaunce hath out bands whilst oer the playne heathes thick they gad In silken iacketts fine with skirtes imbrodered curious clad Their glittering armour glimsing rayes like Sunne beames casting fro King Henry loftier by the head all boistrous stout doth goe A great and mighty Peere where you his strong armes do behold Or huge thighs sturdy pight which art had closd in pretious gold And eke his manly corps with mighty brestbont bolstred broad By no force to be tawde nor through with hard steele to be throad Him armour strong inclosde of finest mettall polisht wrought Such as by fierie puissant God yforgd you would haue thought Or by the monstrous Cyclops vast in smoldring Aetna caues The workman there sleepe clammering hills and liquid flouds ingraues Here shadowy darkesome woodes are set their shrubby salowes lowe Moreouer Themmes which with straight course into the sea doth goe And on that side whence Easterne windes with boistrous blastes do sweepe Were Seuerne grau'de and Trent two mighty floudes with chanells deepe Whose weried streames to th'greedy gulf of th' Ocean vast do passe On the vpper margent of the shining brestplate grauen was The shapes of mighty kinges and ginning of his auncient race Edward Plantagenet the fourth there had his royall place The liuely Image then and antike forme of Henry sixt Of mothers and of fathers side his grandsiers next were fixt Then Henry seuenth with loyall spouse adioynd in seates are stalde By name of royall Salomon most worthy to be calde For that he prudent was and godly eke which vertues twaine Unto a Princely Peer eternall fame deseru'd can gaine His sonne of yong and tender yeares the staring hellmethad Whom ruling here on earth dire death did enuie youthfull lad Two Princes virgines last by seuerall mothers brought to light Successours to the crowne so lawes and rites requirde by right Two royall chaires possest ingrau'd in crest of headpeece bright Where from his sturdy bow the king his flickering shaft did wrest All showting loude out cried that he therein exceld the best Or whither he with straining force did charge the shiuering speare He had agayne the prayse If valiant Hector liuing weare And now Achilles should assayle with gastly gleiue agayne Like force of thunderbole so he his sword with might did straine But to de short euen as their king the army all desires To be the like hye honours pricke their hautie stomackes siers Incensing more with courage great aduentures great to take The souldiour will be stout which vnder stout guide wars doth make Upon his armour honge a vesââ¦ure dect with pretious gemmes From vtmost Indies brought Emerauldes dazeling eyes with glemmes The Diamond shining Saphire eke and Iasper were infold His hangers guilt his sword hilts gold his buckler bosse of gold Or if that any thing then red gold were more pretious found And to be brief his gorgeous trappers gay and bitt linkes round Did cunning rare containe and cost which such a king beseemd The common sort thus richly dight him not a man esteemd But thought a God For God himselfe the heauenly monarch hie Will earthly Princes haue also in royall dignitie To be as Salomon in glittering ornamentes we know And now the sea which through the strait clifes rough with rage doth flow By blastes of prosperous westerne windes the Britaines ouer cast At Callice landing safe Refreshing toyles and labours past The king and all his warlike troupe their viandes gladlyer tast And now the dimme night weried corps all drouping layes to rest The greatest part do watch perplexing cares them so opprest Ech little stay or none to wights destrous seemes delay When Titan from the Easterne flouds with bright beames gan his way The dreadfull trompet soundeth shrill ech tooles in hand doth take And towardes coastes of Celtane kyng forthwith do iourney make Towardes the glistering beames of Titans flashing charriot bright There is an ample soyle amongst the Galls which Artoyse hight A frutefull plague for pasturing fieldes to feede the fleesie sheepe Abounding eke with loftie trees and bushie mountaines steepe There see we stand aloof with pompous houses Bulloine old On rough sea shore ybuilt with walls of hard rocke round infold In elder
Valloyâ⦠The Bridge a Paris built bâ⦠the English campe in twâ⦠dayes Phaeton thâ⦠sonne of Phâ⦠bus by misgouernyng his fathers chariotâ⦠had almost burn the whole world The Britaine proceedingâ⦠to Callice pitch their tentes neare the forrest of Crââ¦sse or Crââ¦ssey Valoys Insuâ⦠eth the English army with a greaâ⦠boost King Edwardes exhortation tâ⦠his souldiouâ⦠before thâ⦠battaile ãâã English battailes placed The first battaile was led by the Prince of VValles beyng but xviii yeares of age The king causeth his army to retire neare the woode to auoyde backe ossâ⦠The Frenchâ⦠ãâã ââ¦king the ãâã to hauâ⦠fled insues and assailes them The horses of the Frenchmen hurt with arrowes throw their riders and breake the rayes The noblest of the French army ãâã slayne The Duke of ââ¦orreine The Duke of Alanson or Dalanson The king and ãâã Eddward his sonne fight valiantly Thirtie thousand Prench men sââ¦yne Valois seeing such slaughter of his men flyeth The Britaine victor Mutabilis alea Martis The next daâ⦠after the battaile the Frenchmen gathered them selues againe who by these threâ⦠Baââ¦les of VVarwike Huntington and Northampton were cleanâ⦠subuerted distroyed Callice besieged Dauid king of Scottes ãâã instigation ãâã the French king inuadâ⦠England Prince Edward and the ââ¦ench kyng oyne battaile ââ¦care ãâã King Iohn ââ¦aken There were ââ¦ken in this ââ¦attade at Poytiers ââ¦500 of the ââ¦iefest of all ââ¦aunce The two ââ¦inges Dauid of Scotland ââ¦nd Iohn of ââ¦aunce ãâã with ââ¦he rest of the ââ¦aptiues Edward the ãâã dyeth ââ¦efore the ãâã ãâã one ââ¦f the three ââ¦adies of ãâã whiche ââ¦tts the ââ¦ed of mans ãâã ââ¦ward the ââ¦ther dyeth ââ¦ichard the ââ¦cond began ãâã raigne ââ¦377 ãâã Goâ⦠desse of Battaile Iustes ãâã nyng at the Tilt between Englimen foââ¦reyners Foure and twenty Britayne Peeâ⦠prouoke as many as will come Southfield Most in ãâã ber ââ¦oth the Englishmen and ââ¦einers beââ¦aues themââ¦elues stoutly Iohn of Gaâ⦠Duke of Lancaster desired aide of king Riââ¦o inuado spaigne Gaunt The aunsweeâ⦠of king Ri. Spaigne inuaded by the Duke of Lancaster The Spââ¦nvard ââ¦teth For peace Peace graunted ConstaÌce the Dukes eldest daughter maââ¦ed to the kyng of Spayne Anne the second daughter to the kyng of ãâã An insolent challenge of ãâã Scoâ⦠ãâã the Englishmen The ãâã ãâã ãâã in the Torney Ireland subâ⦠by kyââ¦g Richard Henry the fourth began to raigne 1ââ¦99 Henry ãâã fiââ¦t succedeth his father 1412. Henry banisheth from the Court all his leude coÌpanions left they should corrupt him by their euill counsell Legates sent into Fraunce to require the king of Englandes right The Oration or speech of thâ⦠English Legate The reply of the king of Fraunce Henry sayleth into Fraunce Seine a mightie ââ¦uer ãâã from a ãâã floweth by Roan ââ¦nd through a great part of Fraunce at length falleth in at Caâ⦠or Kââ¦d Caâ⦠where are two strong townes Henry goeth agayne into Fraunce Henry offreth the Dolphin battaile which he refuseth Henry taken with a feuer The speach of Henry before his death Henry in his death bed committeâ⦠his hââ¦yre Hââ¦ry with hiâ⦠wife Queenâ⦠Catherine to his brothers and exhoââ¦teth theâ⦠to loue and ãâã ãâã Henry the sixt his ãâã was crowned at Paris 1422. For the. Duke of yorke claimed the crown whose sonne and heire Edward Earle of ââ¦h afterward ' obtained it by name of Edââ¦ward the fourth VVilliam coÌquerour first Duke of Normandie At S. Albons was foght the first battaile betweene kyng Henry and the Duke of Yorke Blore heath field 2. The onseâ⦠giuen valiand by the Ascâ⦠Duke of Bââ¦ââ¦layne Some of ãâã nobles of Fraunce sââ¦yne ãâã God oâ⦠ãâã ââ¦l these citââ¦tances exââ¦ressed in son ââ¦y places ââ¦ane noââ¦ing els but ââ¦e dyed as ââ¦ndyng to ââ¦utoes kingââ¦es to ãâã the riuers ãâã c. The Citizens ââ¦f London ââ¦eaue home ââ¦e kyng ââ¦th great solempnitie ââ¦o in like maââ¦er doe the ãâã ââ¦vgismunds ââ¦he Empeââ¦our coÌmeth ââ¦o England ââ¦o treat a ââ¦ce beââ¦weene kyng ãâã and ââ¦he French ââ¦yng ââ¦he speach of ãâã ãâã ââ¦halfe of ãâã Frankes The Frenchmen violaâ⦠their ãâã Sygismond ãâã Henry strike a league during their ãâã Sygismond departeth The kyng of England reneweth his warres in Fraunce Many townes in Normandie subdued Roane besieged Eight dayes truce ââ¦ded Englishmen goe to inhabite Harflu their owne country left Bridges ãâã Some Henry was aduertise ãâã a great ãâã of Frenchâ⦠approching Sol the sunne Henry a little before night calleth his Lordes to Counsaile as concernyng their daunger through the multitude of their enemies Thetis Goddesse of the sea vsed for the Sea A stratageme oâ⦠sleight to intrapt the the enemy by fraude The English army set in order Henry rising out of his bed prayeth God to ayde him The Duke of Yorke beseecheth the king that he might lead the forefront of the battââ¦e The kyng graunted the Duke of Yorke the con lucting of the forefront The Earle of Suffolke The Earle of VVarwicke The kyng of England exhorteth his souldiours to fight At Northaââ¦ton was foughten the third battaile where the kyng was taken prisoner in the field The fourth famous battaile was at VVakefield where the Queenes pow et slue the Duke of York with his sonne the Earle of Rutland and destroyed his hoast The fift battaile fought at S. Albons againe where in the Queene discomfited her enemies and deliuered her husband The battaile at Exam fought betweene Eddward the fourth and the Lord Moâ⦠tague lieuetenaunt of the North to recouer the crowne for kyng Henry the sixt The battailes at Banbury Barnet Todeastell and Teuxbury were fought in Edward the fourthes dayes Henry Earle of Richmond at Bosworth slue Richard the third beyng third brother of Edward the fourth and then maried the Lady Elizabeth daughter to kyng Edward and obtaineth the crowne he first ioyned the houses of Lancaster and Yorke beyng long tyme at variaunce ââ¦try ãâã 509. A great expedition into Franticâ⦠ââ¦ir Rice ap Thomas Turwyn ãâã Maximilian the Emperour seââ¦ues kyng Henry for pay Turwyn wonne Tornay rendred payes the king ten thousand duckets for yearely rent VVhilst kinge Henry is busie in Fraunce Iames King of Scottes inuadeth England Lord Haward admirall and his brother in blacke harnish The Scott had pitcht then tents on flodden hill Iames king of Scots slain and all his armie discomfited A Scottish legate comes into England The Scots ââ¦reaking into ââ¦ngland ââ¦ore Carlile VVharton with two M. ââ¦uldiours ââ¦bdues the ââ¦cots and ââ¦uts them to ââ¦ght ââ¦ames King of ââ¦cots swimââ¦ing ouer a ââ¦uer as some ââ¦y was drow ââ¦ed The Chiefest ãâã Scotland ââ¦aken prisoââ¦ers sent to ââ¦he Towre The clemen of King Hery The oration of the Scottish Captiuâ⦠to King Heâ⦠rie King Henryes ââ¦cence The Scots set ââ¦t freedome and pardoned without any ââ¦aunsome on them The Sââ¦ts dâ⦠hââ¦t the Queene ãâã mââ¦ying hâ⦠daughter to the Englishe Prince Edward ãâã of Heââ¦forde and Iohn Dudley Lord admiââ¦all with a nauy of ship
and Iustice proude Of euerlasting memory the king now layd in grounde The Iunior Henry chearefull babe with diademe was crownde At Paris and about the streetes as custome was did ride But ââ¦icle Fortune wauering dame will not still firme abide UUhich with her turning wheele is alwayes tost in compas wise The Frenchmen here the tender Prince rebelling do despise A periur'de nation false and violate their faithes yplight In sacred Sinode late beforne But Bedford Duke by might Doth tame their rage great slaughter made and Dolphin puts to flight The king peace thiefly lou'de when that to ripe yeares he attainde And gastly bickering sââ¦kirmages of dreadfull Mars disdainde And neuer busied was in ciuill hatredes restlesse race But voyde of care with settled minde did gratefull rest imbrace To prayer much addict and oft on God in secret cried But wicked people fell such godly kinges cannot abide But loothes them and detestes with vertue vice cannot agree And glimmering light darke duskish cloudes eschewing swift do flee The gentle disposition therfore of Britaines guide When that the Dolphinne and the rest of Celtaine peeres had spide They blouddie battaile moue and some by fraud betraying take Some townes by conquering might vnto their force to yeelde they make The Britaines hope retired backe and hearts to faint began Since Henry fift of that name kinge a stout and valiant man UUas laide in graue Hereon a cause insude of greater griefe For suddaine strife at home concerning rule and title cheife Perdition threatning dire increasing kindled more the iarres Muse silence keepe or muttring soft the Britaines ciuill warres In dolefull verse declare because that gastly woundes againe By touching blede afreshe and doe renew the former paine Old Henry now forgotte none Normand nation stout regards UUhich barren and bereft all destitute of auncient wardes In vain doth denth of William monarch haunt bewailing rue Faire citties wresting out by force from their possessours true The Dolphin through the region vast of Fraunce doth roming strake Prohibited of none and townes assaulting first doth take A willing people to subdue it is an easie thing And freely offering vp their handes Howbeit small glorie bring It came vnto the conquerour th'out bloudshed landes to winne Such hurlie burlie ciuill broyles the Britaine land within How could they force of forraine foe oppose them selues to bend The Britaine is the Britaines foe the hand the wombe doth rend What that the foote with rechles anger mou'd the head doth crushe And Citizens do Citizens in furious rage through pushe UUith drierie blade his Lord the slaue his man the master slaies Fell slaughter beares the swaye and blouddie Mars wide raââ¦ging straies Alacke for little breach the Brother workes his brothers end One neighbour thrustes an other out no place could safetie lend From sauage enemies rage the holy sanctuarie vailed naught Which euer safety heretofore to wightes distressed brought These places were most famous made through griesly slaughters vast Saint Albones Blore Northampton Banbury fields and Barnet plast Neer copped hils Wakefielde Saint Albones than the second time And Northerne Exam which with Scottishe borders doth confine So that the husbandmen that habite neer those blouddie soiles Out wayling to this day as often as the plough turmoyles Those fieldes where casting furrowes large of men halfeburied bones The chawââ¦g souldiour wââ¦th with ââ¦uglte showtes the sââ¦es doth rend And now they diâ⦠wearâ⦠as farre ãâã ââ¦urdie ãâã toâ⦠ãâã The whistling shaft with strength pulâ⦠vp Shoââ¦te Shoote the Captaine Ye Britains stout your pââ¦rsing ââ¦ems steââ¦nt ââ¦kering flights ââ¦reights Applie your bending bowes applie your hatrd enemies scoure Like hailstââ¦nes thick when ââ¦ttling downe doth fall a winter shoure The arrowes girt forth flie and light of Sunne obscure do make In shoulder wounded deepe with beating pawes the ââ¦ier doth rake All endlong reeââ¦d aââ¦ooft the ââ¦ourser flerce his master cast The Celtaine horsemen galled thus more sauffer thincke at last Upon our footemen for to ruime with point of charged speare Forthwith our ãâã ââ¦ronglie sensâ⦠with bowes to ground to beare They fiersly presse with launce the sight than bloudie wareth more Stabd in with sharpened stakes euen as the Prince had shewed before The horses foundred lie vpon the ground their sitters slaine By drierie blade And when no shaftes their quiuers did retaine The bowmen take their gleiues and downe their enemies tombling fell The King endeuoring fierce with sword in hand beââ¦res him well Ech noble Captaine did the same and with them all the rout The bouncing Helmet knockes did shrill resound the woudes throughout With clattering clashing loud of harnish ringes the waters cleere And morning grones the bordring hils and hollow valeis neere Of dying soules receiue The goorie bloud streames so abound As doth the earth with standing pooles when Saturne old is founde And Ioue inferiour in degree Mars Sol and Venus neate Hermes and Lune in Cancers house Pisces or Scorpion weat Iust through the brainpanne with a shaft the Duke of Barre yshot Comes tumbling of his steed his fainting spirite and hart bloud hott Out through the deadly wound disperst in thinne ayer vanisht quite The noble Duke of Alanson with fatall arrow smitte The timber pulleth out but steelehead leaues in scull remaine Dire death insââ¦es the deadly wound wherefore in deeps disdaine His steed hee falleth fro and hard earth rending with his seeth His aierie ghost out startes and thinne in starie region fleeth Like bane thy Duke O Brabant bringes vnto his fatall end These Peeres the first ranke did conduct the seconds guiders send Like wise their dying spirites to Plutoes kingdomes large to flie As th' Earle of Nauarre with whome O Sans thy Byshoppe ââ¦te Eight Earles more beside their flickering ghostes did send to sââ¦e With grieslie wound yâ⦠And of those Peeres which Barons hight Aboue an hundred lost their liues Of Knightes and Squiers in ââ¦ght ââ¦ue times full sixtene score their breaths out gaspt the common sort Unto ten thousande soules and morâ⦠did Stigie varge transportt Of Celtans army huge Three hundred Britaines onely slaine And in the handes of Henry king the victorie did remaine Alack the Duke of Yorke with staggering launce his death wound gott Where first agaynst our men the bickering skirmage waxed hott And Suffolke Earle ' huge heapes of ghostes first sent to Limbo lake Of Frenchmen Peers his vitall breath with hart bloud did forsake The Captiue Celtane Lordes were safely kept in trustie hold These thinges thus done his men inricht with th' enemies spoyles and gold The noble Victor with his fleet hastes backe to Callice shore And cutting ore the strait sea gulfe of auncient kinges of yore To royall pallaces he wendes triumphantlike a trayne And after him he drawes the Maior of pompous London fayne UUith all his troupe of Aldermen in roobes of Ermines clad Three miles agaynst his royall grace for honours sake gan
them infold Commending high their haughtie heartes and manly courage bold Meane time the Scottish Peeres with ââ¦ckle lightnesse puft in minde And Enuies rage vp swolne that frustrate hope might Britaines blinde UUith generall consent in moneth which December hight Unto the Celtane nation send that their young princesse bright Right heire vnto king Iames be knit in bandes of wedlocke might To the heire of Fraunce If Henry king this profer would not take That so an euerlasting truce two nations one might make Yet that the mightie guide of Frankes this would vouthsafe to yeeld That for the loue which loyall league twixt nations both did build As Scottish and the Celtane eke he would not once permit One of them torne by dreadfull warres whereby the league might flit Or spoyld by dint of th' enemies sword to forreine empire bend The Brutes by force of conquering hand that onely to intend And in the sequent spring the surging flouds with nauy vast Quite couered for to be and troupes of horsemen flocking fast To enter scottish landes proposing this their onely stay The Scottish heire from mothers lap by force to take away which pray if they attayne by aduerse lucke and spurning fate O woefull realme of Scottes O blacke and lamentable state Nothing but mourning sobs and blubbering salt teares left behind UUherefore by Gods by sacred rites they prayd that cald in mind Their auncient league establisht erst he would the virgin take Before for long delay doth often greater daunger make which tender Impe if with the king of Fraunce she be vp traind with princely education eke within his court containd That then they had a certayne hope of great good to succeede which might the perfit happinesse of both their kingdomes breede And after that through yeares mature she may in Himens Iace Be ââ¦nked fast to whome he please let king of Galls her place Forthwith by princes hest the Celtane Fleet launch'd from the shore Is finely furnisht neet and Galââ¦ies swift with saile and ore which after from the callmy harbour close wih Southwindes shrill Swift sliding through the deepes the Scottish realme they come vntill The Princesse Mary now to painted Pull with pomp was led where for her princely Grace was set a stately purple bed Soft cushions vnderneath with soft Downe stuft as white as milke And costly Arras Cabbins decks ywoucn of gold and silke Great heapes of siluer plate was brought with shapes of gold inwrought And whatsoeuer els for virgin Princesse meete was thought Forthwith the comely damesell thus a shipbord portlike plac'd withall her virgine troupe and men of armes which after trac'd Shee steââ¦ting fast is borne the aire the spred sayles driuing on And merry gales of winde them through the rough seas course anon The flecte in order saild as Swannes twixt fishie riuers bankes whil'st middle and the third insues the first and in long rankes The third day comes and Phoebe the worlde with cleere light ouer goes Stout Dudley with his warlike mates them selues in tents do close So do the doughtie bandes which London mightie Citie yeelds Neere auncient Norwich walled towne downe pitcht in open fieldes Which when the country crautus tought with pale feare had espied In briery brakes and lucking holes in shadowy groues they hide In no place daring peepe but after boldnes fiercer growne In time that all those soddaine panges of feare away were flowne They rushing thicke out brake and to a valley bordring hye No man remembring calde to minde the daunger preasing nye But armed stoode with carres and waynes their winges incompast round On thother side the princes hoast with cheerefull trumpets sound Proceedes and first the blowes begins and egar fight vp reares But Warwicke furious wroth with blouddy blade his foes downe beares At length when beastlike backes to turne on this side shame forbad On that side certayne death the rebels ãâã outragious mad One part resisting fierce downe falles the other groueling flat Is battered but stout Warwicke Peere respected chiefly that Least all at once were ouerthrowne those men of peruerse wit Hawbeit of courage such as daungers done should force to flit He causeth through the Martiall field an Herault loud to cry If anie armour would abiect which he most traiterously Had tane in hand and for his fault would pardon humbly craue He should vnpunisht life and goods and former freedome haue Which when the commons heard they tooles and armour laid aside On bended knees with mourning teares and Pardon Pardon cride The mercy then of Warwicke Earle did so resplendent shine That penaunce of their haynous fact he pardoned free that time No Britaine now remainde whom Giaunt like rebellious rage Did rechlesse beare away none did from loyall duetie gage But to their true annoynted king remainde and country staââ¦e The Princes court from this lugubrious war did Dudley take With solempne pompe and ioy with flitting wings whom Fame did make Renowmed through the warlike townes of Britaine kingdomes stout How in king Henries dayes he hard aduentures brought about Whil'st that his thundring gleiue he rold amongst the enimies rout Not of deathes drierie launce or dreadfull edge of sword agast He neuer doubtfull stoode himselfe to daungers all to cast If great affaires or countries cause required him to goe Or hest of sacred king incenst his minde for to do so Howe manie times with boties rich and laud immortall wonne Did he to natiue soyle againe from externe Regions come His enimies battered downe or els in fearefull flight back driu'de Whereby he royall dignitie and endlesse Fame atchiu'de God prospering the euent which he begonne in luckie houre Wherefore as yet he higher was extolde in Fortunes bowre The King him Duke creating whom with ioy and mickle cheere Northumberland did title giue and honouring loue full deere Him Lord chiefe Stuard eke the Princes Court imbraced fayne Till Atrapos the fatall threed of Edward cut in twayne Renowned Edward from the paps framde of his noble Dame Instructed in all Sciences by learned men became Who Greekish phrase with Latine speech conioyning in short space Did reape such ample fruite that vnto none of princely race He was inferior found which Britaine nation fostring reares Nor Peere hee anie had if flexile age and tender yeares Ye do respect which three times fiue and two had scarse expirde Or redy sharpnesse of his wit or iudgement ye requirde In anie point to learning which or morall vertues bright Did appertaine the Phoenix rare of Europe and the light UUhom death vntimely like the flowre from tender stalke of rapt From Britaines tooke away and youthfull corps in coffin lapt Death enuies on the earth who sacred lawes obserue and keepe So boyes and springoldes fresh he with his dart away doth sweepe which Ioue th' almightie king vouchsafes to heauen to haue extold The king thus dead him after doth a woman scepter hold UUhich Mary hight one
Applauding euerie one their inward ãâã did they bewray UUhich noble conquest is to mortall men ââ¦nt to defray These thinges in August done Then after in Decembers frost The Frenchman it besieging was vnhappy Callice lost Unspeakable mishap which adge and feeble folke contaynd For the most part within her walles fewe souldiers fresh remaind Howbeit fewe souldiers cannot force of many men abide This auncient sort neglected and a woman Prince beside whome then a trecherous prelate made by peruerse councell stray Her noble spowse in forraine coastes disseuered far away Hereto add rough and boistrous flouds which raging sweld that tide And farre disiung'd beyond the seas the sandy Callice banke Unwilling it to take the towne might thrust vnto the Franke. This fortresse lost the Spanyardes wife gan to consume away whom eating eares with parching griefe brought to her fatall day Thus endeth the second Booke ELIZABETH QUEENE OR A SHORT AND compendious declaration of the peaceable state of England vnder the gouernment of the most mighty and vertuous Princesse ELIZABETH ¶ Wherevnto is added a briefe Catalogue or rehearsall of all the noble men which being nowe dead haue been or yet liuyng are of her Maiesties Counsaile Written in Latin verse by C. O. Done into Englââ¦she by Iohn Sharrock Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit vtile dulci. AT LONDON Printed by Robert Walde-graue Anno. 1585. To the worshipfull his approued good frend M. IOHN ESTMOND Bacheiler of Law one of the fellowes of Sainte Mary Colledge commonly called the Newe Colledge in Oxenford WHen as at the request and earnest instigatioÌ of some of my frends worshipfull M. ESTMOND I had done into English meeter the two first bookes of that Poeme of C. O. coÌtainyng the battailes high aduentures of the English Nation I was determined there to stricke sayle and to cast myne anker knowing that the longer my craced keele scoured the seas the more water she would leake fearing least that Scilla escaped I should be sunke in Charibdis or Libia shunned I should be swallowed in Syrtes If Cherilus that fielie Poet had brought but a brief Pamphlet when he dedicated a huge Volume vnto the Macedonian kyng Alexander his gayne peraduenture had bene the more his paine vndoubtedly the lesse in escaping a great many lashes whiche he suffred to his extreme grief and endlesse infamie Euen so was I perswaded of my selfe that the more I wrote the more want of skill I shewed whereby I might heape the more dislike and so by a consequeÌce the more reproch But when I called vnto mind Gentle Syr How greatly I should dye in your dett for your manifold benefites frendly yea rather fatherly affection where with you did imbrace me beyng your pupill in Oxon to my no lesse comfort the commoditie It were incredible to thinke with what celeritie and disdayne I shooke of those terrifying causes how ardently I burned with a vehement desire yet at the least by this kinde of writtyng in as much as I cannot otherwise sufficiently expresse my zeale and true affectioÌ to testifie my good wil and my hart full of all humilitie and sinceritie towardes you and to bring to passe if I might that in all ages and posterities as long as euer these my watchynges and writtynges shall liue amongst men your name should neuer dye but remayne as a patterne to our nephewes and ofspring of all gentilitie courtesie and humanitie and that as euery fautor and maintainer of good letters is called ALTER MAECENAS an other MAECENAS so euery one which imbraceth his frend with faythfull loue hateth no man is free from all basenes and slauerie of the mynd as beseemeth a gentleman might be named ALTER ESTMONDVS an other ESTMOND Take therfore well in worth deare Syr these my simple indeuours beyng a compendious declaration and treatise of the peaceable raigne of our renowmed Lady ELIZABETH compiled by Maister O. by me metrized as a certaine testimony and the expresse tipe of my good will Communicate them with your frendes shroude them from my foes This is all I doe request this me thinkes I already see your Courtesie and gentlenes to graunt me The Lord preserue you in health wealth and felicitie AMEN Yours assured in that he may Iohn Sharrock ⧠TO THE NOBLE AND most vertuous Lady indued with all kinde of good Literature excellent both in the Greek and Latine tongue the Lady MYLDRED Wife to the right honourable Lord Baron of Burghley Lord high Treasurer of England REnowmed Greece in elder age with learned dames did shine Whose written workes remaine as yet with phrase mellifluous fine Of Muses bright besprinckled drawne out of Parnassus spring Of female sexe erst mighty Rome a hugie troupe did bring All expert in the Latine tong how heit they lesser prayse Adornd with natiue language wanne their fame to heauen to rayse And euerlasting memorie by writing to attaine Than due is to those Noble Nymphes which seuered farre remaine In externe Regions wide in tender yeares whose natiue tong Is to be learnd the Romayne then by toiles and labours long Of forme renewde with limites straight and bondes incompast round As English Ladies many may of worthie name be found Which florish at this day which through the world swift Fame doth blase Who ioyne like learned men the Greekish tong with Latine phrase Yea which is more like skilfull Poets in dulcet verse they floe Wherewith Homerus frought his bookes or Mantuan Maro If cause requirde ex tempore their meeters framing fine O Nymphes O noble Sisters foure but Myldred vnto thine High fauour as the chiefest I appeale be thou mine aide And like an other Pallas let thine Aegis strong be laide Before my brest that this my booke feele not the byting iâ⦠Of Theon Viper fell or carping Zoils slaunderous flawes If me beholding with thy shining lookes thou wilt defend The Enuious and Malicious crue dare not me once to rend So as in sanctuary shut I shall no daunger feere Inferiour farre I know my Muse vnto the vertue cleere Of the renowmed Prince howbeit the will of subiect true May here appeare if that the iust and courteous reader view And pondering way the worke aright and not with censure hard If that this long and prosperous peace hereafter ãâã ââ¦clarde By trompe more shril I wish and bâ⦠these writinges vnto nought By sparkling flames to be consumde meane time I them haue brought Renowmed Lady to be shrinde vpheld and set in stay By your high honour turne not from your Clyent I you pray This doth your true Nobilitie and manners meeke in brest Ingraft this doth your Godlines require aboue the rest Your Ladiships in all humilitie C O. ¶ To the gentle Reader IF verses you delight with stately stile and sounding wordes VVhich loftie swell seeke Poetts bookes which such high thinges You will perchance affirme that of so high mighty a Queene affords A worke should of more maiestie and