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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22071	Elizabetha triumphans Conteyning the dammed practizes, that the diuelish popes of Rome haue vsed euer sithence her Highnesse first comming to the Crowne, by mouing her wicked and traiterous subjects to rebellion and conspiracies, thereby to bereaue her Maiestie both of her lawfull seate, and happy life. VVith a declaration of the manner how her excellency was entertained by her souldyers into her campe royall at Tilbery in Essex: and of the ouerthrow had against the Spanish fleete: briefly, truly, and effectually set foorth. Declared, and handled by I.A.	Aske, James.	1588 (1588)	STC 847; ESTC S100272	22,747	44

the credit of the Pope Renewe againe had from his holinesse Both money men with many of his Bulls In which he sings the Coockoes song all one Except this clause He hath both disposs'd Our royall Queene of this her happy seate And all her Nobles with graue Counsellers Which shall alliant be vnto our Queene Eke all her Subiects who shall her defend Gainst Spanish King the King of Catholiques And also doth his Holinesse giue power That this our Queene with all her subiects true Should euery one be put vnto the sword And all their Lands with liuings he bestowes On vanquishers which come to execute His holy will and diuelish purposes Sée these the works of Christs Uicker on earth Who doth forsake his charge the cure of soules And practiseth how to destroy both soules And bodies of Christs deare and sacred flocke Through this his damned doome in that his Bull. Through which his Bull much like the horned beast Which sent the same the King of Spayne naught feares But that he shall receiue his former seate In England heere ere end of eighty eight And therefore hath imbarqued all his men Within a sort of huge and warlike Ships Seauenscore and tenne of the best fighting Ships Which could prouided be within seauen yeares With all his men which able are to fight Are ready now to sayle to England-ward But when the Ruler of this little Isle A famous Isle through this her Gouernour Did vnderstand of this their whole pretence She was not flacke in mustrings of her men For lesse then in the space of two whole moneths She mustered had out of all her Shires A hundred thousand able fighting men The Lord Haward her worthy Admirall Sir Frauncis Drake Vize-Admirall vnder him Lord Thomas Howard and the Sheffild Lord With diuers other forward Gentlemen To Sea were sent with all her royall Fléete To guard the Streights and méete with that his Fléete BUt least they should perhaps escape their hands And land their forces on her aim'd-at land A Campe of fiftie thousand able men Appointed should haue layne on Tilbery hill Where Leicesters thrise made renowned Earle Lieutenant was vnto our royall Quéene And Sir Iohn Norris honor'd for his deedes Lord Marshall was among that companie Eake Deuorax of Essex famous Earle Whose forwardnesse hath made his house renown'd Was Generall of braue fiue thousand horse Which should haue come vnto that royall Campe. Sir Thomas Laiton chiefest Colloner Of all the footemen which should thether come Sir Francis Knowles of the great Ordinance Was Mayster there a place of great accompt And Nicholas Dawterie Captaine long agoe For former deedes her Seriant maior was Sir Roger Williams had the second chardge Of Complet horsse which armed Launcers bore And Robert Sidney Knight had equall chardge Of braue light Horsse belonging to that Campe. There Captaine Edward Yorke obtain'd the place Of quarter-Mayster to the placed Campe And Captaine Crispe her Prouish-mershall now Did beare that office in the royall place The regiments which out of euery Shire Elected were for this most famous Campe Except those Shires next neighbours to the Sea Did dayly marche by companyes thereto Now mightie Mars a stranger heere-tofore In armour bright with neuer-yeelding sword Commes brauely mounted on a foming Steede Whose trampling causeth such a fearefull noise As all the world is shaked with his power Now might you see the field late pasture greene Wherein the beasts did take their foode and rest Become a place for braue and worthie men Heere noble men who stately houses haue Do leaue them voide to liue within their Tents Heere worth ' Esquires who lay on beds of doune Do Cabben now vpon a coutch of strawe In stead of houses strong with timber built They Cabbins make of powles and thinne greene bowes And where of late their Tables costly were They now do dine but at an earthie banke Ne do they gréeue at this so hard a chainge But thinke them-selues thereby thrise happy made For when there were a twentie thousand come Of braue footemen vnto this placed Campe And twise-tenne hundred well appointed Horsse To serue with Launce and Demilances there They all on heapes do make so braue a showe As it was thought that then there were ynowe For to encounter with their look'd-for foes Wherefore there went commaundement from the Lords Who of her honorable Counsell are That those which were as yet not thether come Should stay from thence within their seuerall Shires Untill there came some newes of farther neede They thereby stai'd do greatly greeue thereat And often say for that their hap is bad Yea which is more there was a regiment But of one thousand men of Dorset-shire Which offered fiue hundred pounds that they Might forward goe vnto the royall Campe. And further marke I tell a right strange tale I hard of one who was of great regard In Tilb'ry Campe There serued with the rest An Essex-man who was a Muskater Who being met by one which néere him dwelt Was asked why he serued with a gunne The souldier sayd my friend you are deceiu'd This is no gunne a Musket we it call The other said but sir you haue enow Of seruants who are very able men And might haue had performed this your charge In better sort then can your weakely selfe It is right true replied the souldier then I haue some store of seruants at my house And thanks to God I able am and will If that our Quéene shall stand in any néede Prouide fiue hundred well appointed men To serue where-as her Highnesse shall thinke good And they euen there at mine owne cost shall serue Iust three whole months and yet will I my selfe There like-wise be as now a Muskater The fame of this her Subiects forwardnesse Did please so well our sacred Soueraigne As she desires to sée her placed Campe There-fore there was by her a downe-set day Where-in she would fullfill her purpose meant NOw came the day the happy blisse-full day Where-in Aurora putting foorth hir head Hir curled head with wirey hanging locks Of brightest Siluer whence did newlie shine Hir clearest streames and neuer-darkened lights The morning gray wher-in the houering Larks Whose sweete shrill notes recording hermonie Resound with-in the heauenly creatures eares Did notise giue to wretched Phaetons Sire To harnesse vp his fierce and furious Streeds To drawe him thence vnto his Westerne home From whose cleare beames once in his Chariot plast Did gladsome glimps as bright as burnisht Gold Shine all displai'd vpon the Waightie Globe On this same day a faire and glorious day Came this our Queene a Queene most like her selfe Unto her Campe now made a royall Campe With all her troupe her Court-like stately troupe Not like to those who coutch on stately Doune But like to Mars the God of fearefull warre And heauing oft to Skies her war-like hands Did make her selfe Bellona-like renown'd The Lord Lieutenant notice had there-of

Who did forth-with prepare to entertaine The sacred Goddesse of this English soyle The order how thus presently ensues On euery side of that directest way From Block-house where she should be set on land Unto the outward quarter of the Campe There rancked were both armed men and shot With Captaines who of them had taken charge To entertaine their sacred Generall The other Captaines with their companies Still resident were at their Corps du guard Where-as they ranked all their arm'd-men first Behinde them were the shot in seuerall ranks With equall distance twixt the placed rowes Which made a passing braue and war-like showe The Earle of Leicester with those Officers Which chosen were to gouerne in the field At water-side within the Block-house stayd In readinesse there to receiue our Queene Who landed now doth passe along her way She thence some-way still marching kinglike-on The Canons at the Block-house were discharg'd The Drums do sound the Phiphes do yeeld their notes And Ensignes are displayd through-out the Campe. Our peerelesse Queene doth by her Souldiers passe And shewes her selfe vnto her Subiects there She thanks them oft for their of dutie paines And they againe on knees do pray for her They coutch their Pikes and bowe their Ensignes downe When as their sacred royall Queene past by In token of their loyall beared hearts To her alone and none but only she A troupe of braue and warre-like Horssemen did Conducted by Sir Roger Williams Knight Meete with the Queene amid the way she came The halfe whereof which was fiue hundred Horsse Most stately Stéedes made complete for the field With neighing sounds and fomed champing bitts Betrampling sore the ground whereas they stoode Attended on her sacred selfe The rest Fiue hundred more in nought to them vnlike Before her traine in stately order marcht These ioyntly did with twentie hundred men Which footemen were our gratious Soueraigne guard Unto the house whereas she lay all night Whether once come the horse-men turned backe But all the rest with her great Seriant did Watch there all night aloofe her royall Court The souldyers which placed were farre off From that same way through which she past along Did hollow oft the Lord preserue our Queene He happy was that could but see hir Coatch The sides whereof beset with Emmerods And Diomonds with sparkling Rubies red In Checker-wise by strange inuention With curious knots embrodered with golde Cast such a glimse as if the heauenly place Of Phebus were by those his foming Steedes On foure round wheeles drawne all along that way Thrise happy they who sawe her stately selfe Who Iuno-like drawne with her proudest birds Whose tayles do hold her Heard-mans hundred eyes Passed along through quarters of the Campe. Thus all along her Highnesse like her selfe Hath passed by her subiects ioyfull made Through this her louing and renowned déede From out the Campe vnto her lodging then Full three miles distant from that warlike place Prepared for her to Maister Ritche his house With purpose meant for to returne next day That way againe the better it to view NOw when Bright-day was to her pallace gon And by that time had locked vp her lights Within their place strong walled with cleere glasse To take their rest vntill the morning tide By this same time our sacred Generall Was come vnto her new prepared Court. There entred once and in their lodgings plast The Courtiers talke is of the warlike show They sawe that day within the royall Campe. Some praise the place whereas they camped are Some praise the discipline is vs'd therein And othersome the passing forwardnesse Of Noble men and Gentels lying there But all of them do say the Souldiers are Most comely men appoynted well thereto Thus with this talke Time hasted fast away And wish'd-for Rest did come among them then Who bids them all vnto his loued house They willingly do yeeld to her request And euery one is come vnto her place The doore whereof was called Wearines And Drowsines bore name of her first roume The other were term'd Slumbers passing sweete A Sound-sleepe was the name of that her house Her seruants who did entertaine her guestes Were these A mind free from all worldly care An earnest will with A conuenient place The guests thus come at this their welcome ioy And there do finde all things they could desire But Enuie who doth ioy in nought but warres Doth helpe to end this their so pleasant mirth For fearefull Dreames with foolish phantasies The formost foes that quiet Rest torments Come first to make an hurly-burly there Then brightest Day the others Generall Doth banish Rest quite from her late-held house And leaues her guests vnto their day-ment deedes NOw by the time that Phaebus had beyok'd His foming Steedes within their harnesses To draw his bright and neuer-darkned lights The Captaines of the Campe with all their men Did from their quarters with their seuerall charge Come marching to the place prepar'd for Armes When thether come was euery officer A royall battell royally was set With two most strong and braue Battallians The Vangard whereof by the Lord Marshall The Reerward by Sir William Knowles was set And last the Seriant Maior Generall The Battell set in like most war-like sort Twixt euery fight their seuerall troopes of horse And two braue troopes did guard the outward Flankes The Battells set do match in braue aray Both too and fro the stately Generall Who now was come vnto the place of Armes With all her noble and renowned trayne Where glittering harnesse giues such gleaming lights And from those lights reflecteth such a heate As Heauen and Earth with Planets greatly feare Least Phaeton agayne to Heauen was come And had obtain'd to guide his fathers lights The trampling horses with their mist-like breath Do fill the Ayre with such a sodaine smoake As Iupiter did feare least Terra was New set on fire by that fore-named heate The Drommes the Phiphes the Trumpets passing-shrill Do sounded yeeld such marching forward notes As Mars himselfe with all his train'd-vp men In Armes are prest as if the Goddesse Peace Were comming now to banish him the field Which war-like showe with that Mars thundring noyse So rauished our princely Soueraigne Addicted only then to Marshall prowes As that she doth her trayne forbid therefro Most brauely mounted on a stately Steede With Trunchion in her hand not vs'd thereto And with her none except her Liutenant Accompaned with the Lord Chamberlaine Come marching towards this her marching fight In nought vnlike the Amazonian Queene Who beating downe amaine the bloodie Greekes Thereby to grapple with Achillis stout Euen at the time when Troy was sore besieg'd He had that wight that thrise puissant wight Who well perform'd twelue labors passing straunge A brauer grace encountring with his foes Then this our Queene in that her marching pace Thus comes our Queene our thrise renowned Queene A Generall beseeming such