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A06935	Honour in his perfection or, A treatise in commendations of the vertues and renowned vertuous vndertakings of the illustrious and heroycall princes Henry Earle of Oxenford. Henry Earle of Southampton, Robert Earle of Essex, and the euer praise-worthy and much honoured Lord, Robert Bartue, Lord Willoughby, of Eresby: with a briefe cronology of theirs, and their auncestours actions. And to the eternall memory of all that follow them now, or will imitate them hereafter, especially those three noble instances, the Lord Wriouthesley, the Lord Delaware, and the Lord Montioy.	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.	1624 (1624)	STC 17361; ESTC S112100	25,787	50

King of Denmarke stood oppressed with Iniurious Neighbours it pleased him for his Vertues sake to elect this Noble man and made him Generall of an Army which he sent to his succour There this Lord acted all the parts of a most glorious Souldier for he gaue to the King of Denmarke all satisfaction made the enemie feele his courage and his friends taste his loue he cloathed euery great desert with Honour and euery lesse with his Bounty so that after his worke finished he returned home with praise and found fauour in the eies both of his great Master and Royall Mistresse After this expedition the peacefulnesse of the times kept both his body and minde a prisoner till now at last our Neighbours harmes teaching vs how to husband safetie hath giuen libertie to this new Armie in which this Lord is a principall Commander Goe on then braue Lord in this braue designe and make euery obstacle the Enemie would finde to deterre or hinder thee a new spurre to quicken thy resolution a new flame to kindle thine anger thou hast a plentifull Catalogue of presidents in thine owne Bloud reade them ouer and ouer and when this great Substance of Martaill resolutions shall bee brought to a comely and inuincible Body be thou the prosperous and successefull Foote which in despite of all oppositions shall march forward and bring the rest to the long wisht for Palatinate Doe this prosperously doe this bouldly for I presage it is a worke to which God hath called thee and Angels will clap their wings when they see it effected When O Britaine thou hast read these foure Chronicles to thy younger Schollers if thou findest any heauie or vnapt for Noble Action especially where youth and abilitie of body hath giuen incouragement of better hopes then point them out these three young Coesars the Lord Wriothesley the Lord La-Ware and the Lord Montioy let them looke vpon them with admiration and when they haue perfitly viewed them let them sigh and blush for shame that they are not equall partners of their vndertakings let them behold the obiect whereat they looke and they shall finde it is sacred and not profane a marke of holinesse not a blazing meteor of greatnesse looke on the chaine which drawes them and they shall finde it iustice not the quarrel of earthly passion and let them looke at the end whereat they would aime and they shall finde it is Heauen and the Communitie with Saints not the Court which is the Theater of worldly praise nor the Princes fauour But if all this preuaile not but still this secure Slumber of Peace will lye heauy vpon them then stirre vp thy warme bloud and modestly thus chide them Tell them that as the King is the great maine Ocean or Sea of all Honour and may bestow his waters freely at his pleasure so he expects from those which are his pettie Riuers that hourely to him they pay backe their Tributes That hand which giues Honor euer lookes from the honour'd hand to receiue some seruice Then you O you yong men you ablemen you that haue receiued honors beyond expectations fauours past hope and wealth past merit Looke whether your Riuers be not conuerted to standing lakes and no Tribute returned and whether your seruices be not concealed whilest poore barren wishes only make good the place of a dead duty if you finde these falts amend them if you finde these falts forsake them Againe tell these great ones whom hardly Thunder can awaken that when they neglect Honour they neglect and are rebellious against God and it is a meere folly for them to hope to rule men when they will not be ruled by him that made them But they will answere thee that greatnesse of place giues them priuiledge from Censure and so they can cary a faire shew no matter for sufficiencie Reply thou that it is folly to thinke so for assure them that a superficiall shew of sufficiencie is but like small Wines which will not keepe and being once tainted no poison like that of Contempt Say vnto those which are dull and want good matter whereon to build great thoughts that as small springs are soone emptied if they be often drawne so spirits that haue weake foundations silence is good to make them seeme wise but when Wisedome comes to proue them euery imagined good thing in them fals asunder like so many disioyned peices Tell the phantasticke Mimmickes of honour those which are caried away with euery shadow of fauour or fashion that neuer fixe vpon any thing that is constant or serious that alwaies hunt after vanities and thinke no exercise in Armes so meritorious as tossing a Shyttelwike tell them the study of vaine things is a toilesome Idlenesse and a painefull Folly the spirit which is strucke with this disease are very hardly cured neither can their curiositie in this kinde how carefull soeuer afford them any thing but Ignorance and belieue it there is nothing more dishonourable or daungerous either to Court or Common-wealth then an Ignorant great one Tell them that Henry the Great of France call'd Ignorant Noble-men Golden Calues and all that did Reuerence to them were worthy to perish for Idolatrie It was his opinion that Noblemen might bee borne good Generous and capable of Vertue but Instruction only makes them wise Wisedome cannot be gotten without paine she cannot be sold or if she could it is ten to one this sort of Nobilitie would neuer buy her there are so many follies to step betwixt her and them which are both cheape and euer ready to pull downe the market Lastly and for a Conclusion of this small Treatise say to him whatsoeuer hee be that shall taxe me of bitternesse or thinke I haue gone beyond the bounds of good manners in seeking to aduise them who are aboue the rule of my knowledge and that whatsoeuer is aboue me doth nothing belong vnto me tell them they are mistaken Bid them call to minde that the Tree which grew from Romulus Iaueling when he threw it into the ground was walled about by the Romans and kept so carefully that if any man of what degree soeuer saw the leaues begin to wither he presently gaue an allarum to the whole Citie and cryed for water as if all had beene on fire In like manner Subiects haue cause to grieue and call out when as those plants from whence the hope to gather the strength of Protection the fruits of Iustice and the shadow of their rest doe wither either through the negligence of those which should prune and preserue them or through the want of good Sap which might be infused into them by due watering and manuring FINIS The excellencie aed necessitie of a Souldier The antiquity of a Souldier What a Souldier is and his duties What Glories attend a Souldier Why the Souldier is glorified The Reward of a Souldier Fame Wealth Honour What Honour is The difference betwixt Honor and Laude The antiquitie of Honour Honour is eternall Honour vniuersall The priuiledges of Honour Inuocation on Great Britane The foure Vndertakers What they goe to doe 〈…〉 Britaine An Incouragement to her friends Who are her foes Gifts for her friends Difference of gifts The effects of good gifts How to helpe weake minde The Storie of the House of Oxford compared with Caesar. A memorabse note The Storie of Iohn Earle of Oxford the 15. Earle Edward the 4. his opinion of Oxford Oxford against Rchard the third Oxford comes to Earle Richmund Oxford brings Richmund into England Oxfords actions at Bosworth field Oxford leades the Vanguard Oxford wonne the field Oxfords happinesse A discourse of Iohn the 16. Earle of Oxford Oxford kils a Wild Boare The Frenchmens admiration Edward the 17 Erle of Oxford Sir Francis Vere and Sir Horace Vere Henry Earle of Oxford the 18. Earle Sir Horace Vere The Storie of the House of Southampton Thomas Earle of Southamton Henry Earle of Southampton Henry second of that name Earle of Southampton The Iourney to the 〈◊〉 The Earles education His going to the warres Robert Earle of Essex Fiall taken Robert Earle of Essex Spaines Indian Fleete beaten The Earle of Essex Villa Franca taken and a Carrackt split The Enemies assault and are beaten Southampton Knighted Southampton goes to Ireland He appeases Munster The Storie of the House of Essex Walter Deuereux Earle of Essex Robert Earle of Essex The Earles education His seruice in the Low-countries The Earle of Essex seruice in Portugal The Earle of Essex seruice in France The Earle of Essex seruice in France The meeting of the Earle and the King The Earles iourney to Cales The Earles iourney to the Azores The Earles seruice in Ireland Robert second of that name Earle of Essex Mr. Henry Alexander The Earle went a Captaine into the Palatinate The Storie of the House of Willoughby William Lord Willoughby Katherine Duchesse of Suffolke Peregrine Lord Willoughby The Lord Willoughby made gouernour of Berwicke Robert Lord Willoughby A remembrance of the Lord Wriothesley the Lord De-Ware and the Lord Montioy

would haue told him that a wiser Prince there was not any found a more couragious the World bare not and a better there could not be and to this his after actions gaue testimonie for when he had seene the last ruine of his royall Master with whom although he could not vtterly fall yet hee must of necessity a little decline and although the smallest capitulation might haue made him greater then his owne desires or full as great as the greatest of his friends wishes yet did neither the one nor the other moue him but he is content to sit silent and fixing his heart neither on this side nor beyond the loue of his Country but iust vpon that obiect watches and consumes his times to behold what constellation rules her as soone as he espies that Canicular starre Richard the third to arise and sees how he burnes vp the Nobilitie wasts the Gentry brings into contempt the Clergie and leaues no moisture to supple the whole face of the Land but blood weepings then this Romane Eagle Iohn of Oxford rouses himselfe shakes his wings and flyes into the bosome of Henry Earle of Richmund the greatest and next suruiuing branch of the House of Lancaster him she inspires with the knowledge of his own right with wisdome how to chalenge that right and with courage how to gaine it hee giues him a feeling of those calamities which call vpon him shewes how needfull it is that those teares should be dryed and lastly with what ease his Sword may performe both the one and the other cuer This done hee brings him into England pitches his Tents neere vnto Bosworth makes that field a Theater where Richmund acts his part so to the life that Honour comes downe from Heauen to dwell with him and his posteritie for euer and Richard acts his part so for life that valour and courage appeare glorious how euill soeuer the cabinet be which containes them and betwixt these Oxford acts his part with such Iustice that wheresoeuer his sword comes Angels seeme to weild it while Victorie Crownes it neither did he in this Battaile suit his place according to his greatnesse which Reason and the necessitie of those times would haue wisht to haue beene most secure for there were greater expectations in him then Hazard but hee makes his Greatnesse now to serue the necessitie of the place and where danger appeared most powerfull there he made his abode and there he triumphed The Front or Vanguard that day of the Earle of Richmunds Armie were Archers and these the Earle lead these hee brought on with such brauery these hee ordered with such skill and these he taught to fight with such noble encouragements that euery shower of arrowes which he sent to the Enemie fell like Tempests vpon them so that some split with the Lightning some perisht with the blow and a world of hearts fell downe with amazement whilst still this braue Earle keepes his constant behauiour and like a Thunderbolt flyes through his enemies Battalions and breakes them asunder and when any of his party began to droope it is said that the very sight of him and his actions like liquid Bitumen set them new on fier and made their flames so strong there was no power to quench them thus he brought victorie to the wisest of Princes Henry the seuenth and restored againe to its former greatnesse the almost lost House of royall Lancaster and that it might neuer fall againe he ioyned it in a perpetuall loue-knot with the House of Yorke making the white Rose and the Red one entier flower by the happy and blest Marriage with the Lady Elizabeth daughter to Edward the fourth vnto which Obligation only the Earle of Oxford first bound the Earle of Richmund before he vndertooke his quarrell what shall we say more of this excellent Prince this good Prince but only thus that as few or none equalled his great deeds so fewe or none ariued at his great reward for his life was happy and crownd with all the blessings which Greatnesse could desire as the loue and fauour of a wise King the respect of a powerfull Nobilitie and the admiration of a strong and potent people So also was his death happy for he dyed ere any of these blessings could wither and so carryed them all to the graue greene and flourishing Lastly he was blest in his posteritie for he left an Issue behind him which were then as hopefull and proued after as fortunate and of this Issue Time hath yet neuer found an end neither doe I thinke it euer shall while Vertue ruleth After this Iohn succeeded his sonne who in the daies of Henry the eight shewed equall vallour and encountered with equall Fortune all which to expresse at large were to turne a short Encomium into a large Chronicle and therefore to those Annals I referre you only as Geographers doe demonstrate out infinite Riuers by small lines and huge Cities by little prickes so I will by a short relation of one of his smalest actions discouer the vnbounded greatnes of his minde and the rare temper of his condition Being in France vpon serious negotiations for the King his Master this Earle of Oxford was entertained with all the pompe and State that either Pleasure or Magnificence could produce and amongst the rest by reason of his warlike disposition he was inuited to the hunting of a wilde Boare a sport mixt with much danger and deseruing the best mans best care for preseruation of his safetie whence it comes that the Frenchmen when they hunt this beast are euer armed with light Armes mounted on horse-backe and hauing chasing staues like launces in their hands To this sport the Earle of Oxford goes but no otherwise attyred then as when hee walked in his owne priuate bed-Chamber only a dauncing rapyer by his side neither any better mounted then on a plaine English Tracconer or an ambling Nagge Anone the Boare is put on foote which was a Beast both hudge and fierce the chase is eagerly pursued many affrights are giuen many dangers escaped at last the Earle weary of the toyle or else vrged by some other necessitie alights from his horse and walkes alone by himself on foot whē suddenly down the path in which the Earle walked came the inraged Beast with his mouth all foamie his teeth whetted his bristles vp al other signes of fury and anger the Gallants of France cry vnto the Earle to run aside saue himself euery one hallowed out that he was lost more then their wishes none there was that durst bring him succour But the Earle who was as carelesse of their clamours as they were carefull to exclame alters not his pace nor goes an haires bredth out of his path and finding that the Boare and he must struggle for passage drawes out his Rapyer and at the first encounter slew the Boare which when the French Nobilitie perceiued