Their wepoÌ„s armor was lost by gods puruciaÌ„ce They did I assure you behaue themselues nobly To requite the kings grace they had good perseuerance Pondeâ—ing the preferment by his magnanimitie This notwithstanding the commons besides Doncaster Ascribed a Carter to a King coequall in degrée With coshe Crommoke coshe I would we had thée here Like sauage beastes loosed and put to their libertie Enioying in the splendent after obscuritie Deuising and inuenting Articles presumptuous Euery one discording from other verily Two Gentlemen did open their quarel contentious But one lanterne of Englande and patrone of defence A shield for vs Borials and floure of audacitie The Duke of Norfolke with all his violence To the kings armie Royall to Doncaster came he With the noble prince Pere of the kings consanguinitie The Marques of Exeter nigh to the bloud Royall With the auncient Lord th therle of Shrewesbury Whose truthe in decrepitie approueth the tryall Their veritie to their Prince my hart hath enrachened Like a woman rauished with the rase of loue esprised And many nobles mo them selues so well demeaned That of me their worthynesse it can not be deuised As Th erle of Surrey with these Earles comprised That is to say of Huntington and Rutlande also With many other nobles which was there surmised And as for Lords honorable there was many mo Thus lay they in Doncaster with Curtall Serpentine With Bombard Basilisk with men prone vigorous The Commons knew it not to them it was claudestine That made them more malapart and also more rigorous For they sent home for money their harts was so furious Purposing openly at London to holde a Parliament But the king herauld came to know their minds furious Uiewing them twise or thrise with faire words diligeÌ„t But ere the Battell was ready procincte and proponed Sir Arthure Darcy knight with the coÌ„mons was segregate And fled to the kings grace and by the way commoned With the duke of Norff. where promtly he promulgate All the Commons priuitie and I suppose effugate He was by the consent of his brother confiducion For at the first rising sir George with letters ornate Aduertised all gentlemen to leaue that ill conclusion But wheÌ„ the duke of Norf. of the Barons had intelligeÌ„ce And so many knights squires with the coÌ„mons in defeÌ„ce It incrampished his hart that they should make pretence Weying his fathers honor by their magnificence Their antique zeale amitie he thought to recompence Bringing both the parts to a communication So diuers of the principals met with diligence Concluding a purpose with good deliberation So sir Rafe Ellerker and Robert Bowes Esquire With the articles intitled went to the kings maiestie The battels both prorumped and went euery where For the duke behight to intercéede in their sedulitie In causes reasonable but not in their cecitie And so within a moneth according to promission An answere correspondent to their secularitie Was made by the kings grace to their whole petition The firste Article To the first article Fayth the kings grace replied It was a terme to general that which they did present But if they meaned christes faith he was the prince the certified That the sincere puritie therof was his intent And like a valiaunt prince he spake these words vrgent Who dare set his foote to ours the contrary to proue And said he reckned learned he was what the faith ment Marueling that the ignorant in this thing shold him moue To the Article To know which fayth was prudeÌ„ce perceiuing we Christians He hath herd of such heresies as of the Selcucians Of Sabelline and Neotus with the Patrispassians The Origenistes the Ebionites and the Donacianes The Epicures the Iacobites with the Nestoriens Of Seuerus of Menander and eke of Valentine The Antropomorphites and also the Spalmeniens The Ariens and Manacheis of Pallas and Scotine Also of Marcio Basillid es and Saturnius Of Carpocrates of Photyne and of Macedonius Of Chiliastes of Corinthius and of Heluidius Of Eutiches Galanus and also Seleucius Of Eunonius Elsesates with many a secte mo Of Montanus of Apelles and also Nouatus And Samosatenses and Appolinarius also With Antichrist the Romane the Idoll monstruous This is the groue image which the sinful world Manasses Put in the congregation the house perpetuall This is the Idoll shepheard which Zachary doth expresse And also the deuourer the false God Baall An vnshamefull King with faces Daniell doth him call This is the Iudge in earth in the xviij of Luke expressed For wée haue lost our Husband Chryst with his bloud royal And Sathan our enimie he is not yet oppressed This is the childe of perdition prophesied of by Paule In our conscience sitting Gods Temple verament The Apocalips fysgyg the whoore Babilonicall Of whom Prophets Apostles rehearseth words tâ—rgâ—t Nowe to this particle fayth was it not expedient They to haue recognised what fayth was their intention For besides Christs faith there reigneth faithes negligeÌ„t As Turke Iew Pagane with Mahâ—mites inuention As touching Christes faith sithence Christes incarnation Neither Emperour nor king nor prince of nobilitie Was like to the kings grace for in his conuocation The Anabaptists and Pelagians confuted hath he And permitted shadowes positiue of olde antiquitie For error of the people by a new altercation And also shewed like Gods knight elect in fidelitie Chrystes bloud and his death with the true iustification Of Fayth But to the misbeléeuers I put this proposition By way of interrogatorie if one of them should dye And know no refuge nor no propiciation But in Mormet in fistill they should euer lye And the prince they offended should fortune come theÌ„ by And say loue my friends and forgiue as I will thée And when thou can not repent my sonne shal for thée die And doo but this to day and rewarded shalt thou bée For to morrow thy riches shal abounde like to Croesus Thy force â–ª like Hercules thy sapience like Salomon Thou shalt haue meates delicate far aboue Vitellus In fame like Alexander thy fortune like Gedeon The luste of Augustus the pulchritude of Absolon The science of Aristotle and his Philosophie As facunde in Rethorike as was king Amphion With the health of Galen and age of Methusalie What man liuing considering this gratitude But for loue of this Prince feare of this miserie And for hope of this ioy but with his fortitude He would one day labour and suffer aduersitie And passe for no riches nor yet of iocunditie Nor of no fortune dolorous nor yet of no payne Nor of meate drinke ne cloth ne no felicitie But would fayne haue to morrow this glory to obtayne Then may we consider Adams disobedience By whose transgression equitie hath giuen death eternal And as for Moyses law it gathered more offence To the highe deitie and Plasmator potentiall Tooke pitie and mercy to make his sonne carnall And Sathanas hath loste him for all his temptation
battels by Otho was magnified But pouertie at the length was the diffinition Rose not Maxencius with Knights of the Pretorie Against Seuerus and Galerius Augustus And Seuerus Knightes betrayed him by Trecherie And then came assistaunce of noble Herculius Which was onely father to the saide Maxentius Prouoking Dioclesian for to take the dignitie But in my coniecture this was to them dolorous Pondring this mutable and sodeine diuersitie There Marcus the Consull in Italie confounded Three score thousand Riotors of that domination And also Metredas in force which abounded Contrarie to alegiance made great litigation Aboue twentie yeares with great confutation But in the sequele as Fortune did execute Destroyed was he and his procreation His posteritie slaine his Regions destitute The Bible is euident how Sichem congregation By slaying of Abimeleck them selues made fatigate And the storye Iudicum maketh cleare declaration How a Concubine was wrapped with lecherie insatiate Whose husband in twelue her members mutilate Sending to the Tribes with great lamentation Wherefore Israell had almost abrogate The whole tribe of Beniamin for their abomination In the seconde booke of Samuell it is playne expressed How Absolons disobedience and false peruersitie Made himselfe to be slayne and Israell oppressed With great effusion of bloude by his dualitie By the doughtinesse of Dauid and his nobilitie And eke Achitophell the counseller sapient Was so dispaired and in perplexitie That he hanged himselfe the traitor negligent Fiue hundred thousand of Israell were slaine necated Of the house of Ieroboam their king and principal In Paralipomenon it is cleare dilated How Abia of Iuda destroyed them for beliall And Iehu slew Achab and his sonnes collaterall Uanquished his bloud his stocke and Genealogie And also Ochosias of Iuda most royall Was slaine and his bretherne by Iehues conspiracie Sundry ingratitudes amongs the Iewes haue bene As Saul against Dauid and Ioab with Abnere And the séede of Ochozias with Alathia the Quéene With deuiding of Kingdomes as plainly doth appéere Of Iuda and Israell which was the cause cléere Of their captiuitie and the transmigration For diuers heades made diuers Gods seyre Wherefore God gaue them vp to their great damnation The bookes of Machabes discribeth the perturbance Of the male Caliditie that came by Alcinous To them pestiserous and to their great doliance Besides the destruction of noble Machabeus And eke the discorde of yong Antiochus Against Phillip the Traytor disloyal With the treason of Triphon against King Demetrius With the vniustnesse of Iason the théefe most vnnaturall In Iosephus we may sée that the Iewes for Rebellion Were conquered of Titus the sonne of Vaspasian And other stories say ther was slayne a Mylion With a hundreth M. moe and C. thousand tane And afterward contempt oppressed them by Adrian And cleane deiect them from their habitation Making in Ierusalem Foreners remayne And now pay they tribute in euery other Nation What should I recounte the Rebellion of Cresius With a thousand such moe to make macrologie My matter to prolong it were but superfluous But yet I will rehearse to touch somewhat briefly As concerning England our owne natiue Countrey For why the Auctors do wonderously dissent Therefore I will rehearse to this antilloquie But only the cognisaunce which appéereth verament This Region was maculate and put to rapacitie With the force of the Danes by Buerne contention And slaine was King Edmund King Osbridge and Ellée And ouer this one Mordred he made false preuention With Arthur his Soueraigne with such great dissention That only it caused not greate desolation But also perturbed the Royall intention From the Romaine Diademe with the Coronation Iulius Caesar for all his audacitie Was twice expulsed of Cassibolanus And made to recuile for all his Artillerie To the maledict conflict of one Andragius The Earle of London a Traitour contagious Whose ayde procurement and false introduction Foundred al Britaine from the estate prosperous And made vs be subiect to our great destruction Sithens the Conquest hath ben mischiefe inestimable As against king Stephen Maude the Empresse excitation But Henry the yonger an acte more myrable Contended with his Father with strife and mination What sapience was héere in this procuration To subdue his Father by his conuexitie Was not the Deuill in this inclination To make such discorde amongst the commontie The well redoubted king in act as most martiall Richard Curedelion from his Conquest ineffable Was made to recule by his brother naturall Pretending the Crowne with wayes inexecrable But alas for sorowe this Prince inexpugnable Was taken by the way but yet difficulate At the last was he with Raunsom innumerable And his enimies were taken and cleane exuperate I am ashamed to pronounce to publish and declare The Baronage commotion against Iohn their King And how to extringe his Sonne they did compare It museth my mynde suche naughty demeaning But what was the finall that came by transgressing Murder and death to the Realme right exial Destroying of Fortresses which yet is remayning Subduing of Townes to vs all preiudiciall Thomas Earle of Lancaster was hanged and decollate With sixtene Barrons moe in Edward the secoÌ„ds days The filthy demeanor that then was approbate I abhor to recite they tooke such naughtie wayes For Tullius were not able at the full to disprayse The naughtinesse of the Queene with her malignitie But GOD doth requite with a corrosie alwayes For Mortimer was slaine for all his pompositie Iacke Straw Wat Tiler that Chiestains of Essex Kent Against Richard the seconde began to make pretence But after a little rumour on Gallous were they hente By fortie by fyftie this was their best defence And the Earâ—â— of Ratcot bridge which had the preheminence By processe were slaine with doth enterlarded For iniquitie by Iustice of very congruence Against true alegiance is oft thus rewarded The Dukes of Surrey and Exeter with treason infect With the Earle of Glocester the Earle of Salisburie Pretended in a mumming like traitours detect To â—lea their liege Lorde the noble fourthe Henry But headed were they with all their affinitie By the Commons purveyance and the diuine regiment In likewise with battell was slayne the yong Percie His Uncle hanged and drawen of Gallous first pendent The Archbishop of Yorke with the Earle Marshall of England For their insult was hanged their inquietude And the Lord Bardolfe with the Earle of NorthumberlaÌ„d Was instigate to insurge their Prince to illude To their intermission the veritie to conclude For by the Commons they were hanged and inquinate Here may be perceyued how that a small valitude Wyll reskue a Prince from subiects insaciate In the dayes of the sixth Henrie Iacke Cade made a brag With a multitude of people but in the consequence After a little insanie they fled tag and rag For Alexander Iden he did his diligence So interuention was Iacke Cades recompence And the commons were hanged in diuers partes séere By the kings iustices
and Sodomie The third office the mundayne occupation Was commaunded to Adam in Genesis we may sée And by the holy ghost and his inspiration The influence thereof hath muche diuersitie For the profite of man and his vtilitie And in Moyses law commaunded was the same And Chryst of his goodnesse and benignitie This office and power did not correct ne blame He commaunded not to care for meate drinke and cleth As who say our minds on such things should not be But to prouide it and haue it he hath confirmed both For he vsed it him selfe in his cathedralitie Paule sayth worse than an Infidell in cenositie Is he which will not for his housholde prouide Peter and Paule to seruaunts for industrie Commaunded to obey their maisters for their guide Muche Scripture recordeth this office not prophane If they be wrought in fayth they be good works no doubt These shuld be always operous mens nedes to sustaine And not inproÌ„pt but assiduous their works to bring about As to delue to dike to spin to grinde or boulte For their housholde charges and their reparation Be it Tinker or Cobler which setteth but on a clout They may worke when they nede hinder no saluation For necessitie Paule wrought and made diuers tentes And for error of the weake as I suppose and gesse But our Prelates should not so hauing léefull stipends For feare of filthy lucre and hindring their office Artificers and laborers should worke this businesse And Iusticiers do iustice with all their might puissance Here the hande and the foote can not well expresse Nor the foote to the loynes I néede not thy assistance This churche or body muste haue a head generall Which is Chryst God and man our Lorde essentiall And his generall minister for gracious influence Is the holy ghost promised by his magnificence And I am with you sayd he vnto the worlds ende That is with vs say the prelates for his churche can not erre That is not so say I marry God defende For of all creatures there is no men werre Was the holy Ghost in him that deceiued Celestinus With a trumpe in his eare and so got the Papasie Or with him that tooke out of his graue Formosus And dight him in a chayre in his pontificalitie And stroke of his head to reuenge his olde iniurie And one depriued another without any fayle And made him ride to Rome to his incommoditie With his face reuersed spectant to the tayle One bequest him selfe long life by the spirit of prophesie And soone after brake his necke without incolumitie And through discorde in seuen yeres there were puppets nyne And one through strife put out anothers eyne And Semachus and Laurence and many mo did come To the Romane Sée with great abhomination And fortie mo then these in Catholico pontificum Their déedes are not described for their great detestation Thrée at once was a trifle for the roume to compare Or with the Arians opinion Liberius infecte Their vice in ten volumes one can not well declare As Ioane English a woman their puppet elect Which trauelled in procession which is an ill respecte That the holy Ghost with them shuld gouerne domine For let their déedes be wayed vnto a true effecte And by al gracious vertue their works hath lost the signe I maruell by what signes they do thus inherite By thrée crownes or by crosses or pillers principall Or orders deuised should thus haue the espirite Or Myters Crochet or Crownes or hattes Cardinall With â—ippets or rochets or garments Pharisaicall Chryst vsed not this nor his Apostles deare But were prudent as Serpents and simple as doues all With pouertie and payne to make their fayth appeare They spake with new tongs without humane instructioÌ„ Some reuiued the dead and maladies mortiferous To palpe Serpents ne venime to them was destruction Some Disciples prophesied with many signes vertuous And said not master master and vsed things sumptuous For wheÌ„ Christ said I am with you vnto the worlds end That was with you with such elect to faith prosperous My grace by instinction wil I euer send Of the supreme head of the Church in earth Now to punishe not procéeding vpon the holy Ghost Within realmes politike there must be heads capital And to commaund those things to be done to the vttermost With all humane businesse and iustice terrestial Our prelates shuld not their works shuld séeme temporal Christes kingdom was not héere then who shuld haue the power But the owners of the soiles to kéepe truth legal Be he Marques or Duke Prince king or Emperor All power in heauen earth quod Christ is giuen to me Our prelates can chalenge by this no domination For they must follow Chryst in his humilitie And not in the power of his glorification Who would be maister must serue to do ministration And the disciple aboue his master should not bée It is inough to be equall by Chrystes declaration Now our Prelats by this shuld haue no gret souerainty When Chryst sayd all power that is to vnderstande Both kings power and euery power by my father constitute As now corroborate and put into my hande Their offices vnder me to do and execute For he came to lose no lawes by his father institute But to make that perfect which should giue life perpetual And that should those ministers alway execute And preache to all creatures the truthe euangelicall In the same Chapter it foloweth apparant His precepts should be obserued before which he had said And which is Gods giue it God these words are illustraÌ„t And which is Cesars giue Cesar no maÌ„ can this persuade And Peter for Christ and him tribute to Cesar paide some wil say like gentils they shuld haue no king ne lord This maketh not for their purpose by no reason made But against their Romaine Uiper al scripture to record When Christe said there shal be no king ouer you That was your rightuousnesse all other shuld transcend Yee shuld néede no law for vice yee shuld eschue For Christe came to minister all vertue to amend And not to haue a minister for that he would offend But for obedience and vnder gouernance When he payed the tribute that doth the truth pretend And Peter proueth it plaine Gods diuine purueyance Some wil say in the Actes and by Paule we may sée That the Apostles to Princes were not obedient In election ne vsage but among them selues frée To them I put the case by way of argument If the kings grace shuld send by his minde beneuolent Twelue discrete persons to the regions of Asia To the Turks laÌ„ds or Sophies to preach Christ omnipoteÌ„t And to Prester Iohns and the great Canis of Catha These wold elect those which in faith were constant To minister and preach and make predication And cleane abiecte those in faith which were variant And of the Turke and the Sophie make no reputation
Mynstrels soong songs with many moe abusions More lyke beastes than men to make so great offence To vilipend their Prince with such naughtie illusion The later Insurrection Thus of the first rysing I made a definition But yet the Lady Anglia toke me by the sleeue And sayde Holme I haue more inquisition Of a latter commotion which greatly doth me gréeue Doone by sir Frauncis Bigot which maketh my heart fremeske For he was reconed one of the veritie perculent And what a shame was it contrarie to flameske And to forsake the truth such wrongfull things petent According to the prouerb and it please your grace quod I The Dog is reuersed vnto his vomit againe And the Sowe cleane washed in hir puddle wil she lye What nowe quod Anglia I see thou dost but fayne For shewedst thou not me who as beleeue plaine Had the holy Ghostes gyft to keepe them to saluation That saying quod I I will not once refrayne If it please your grace to heare with good deliberation It followeth not the gyft should kéepe alway from sinne For the olde Adam wil rebel and the Deuil is inuidious The flesh with the spirite to repugne he will begin That is the il spirit with the good is euermore contrarious To make thornes to growe to let the corne fructious Howbeit the holy Ghost to them which be elect At the last will subdue the olde Sathan viscous And kepe to saluation this is the true effect And I doubt not his repentance who knoweth it inwardly Though the Deuill for to syft him his heart did resarcyne By pouertie and vaine glorye to haue frugalitie To make him proue to intend for to facyne Well quod Anglia no more but now of this defyne And shewe me how he roâ—e and the insurrection Forsooth Madame quod I I will the same combine And it please you giue audience vnto his yl suggestion Truth it is after the commons had their pardon The king sent Aske and diuers moe than he And lyke a condigne Prince to their costage and guerdon Some had twentie pound some sortie some more verily But Bigot this perceyued with all his affinitie And thought the king wold stay the mater by his prudeÌ„ce And or euer they came home by their peruicacie They purposed by craft to take Hull for defence So Monkes Friers and Chanons and Eigot altogether With many moe of counsell they sent for to espye Hull One Halame a yeoman but when he came thether Knowles had an inkling of his comming at the full Which manfully tooke him and there brake his skull And rypping him found letters of a great pauitude Which purposed playne clearly to disanull The Kings purpose before by their high gratitude But when Bigot heard that Halame was in captiuitie He burned vp a Bekyn and raysed nygh twentie score And sente fourth diuers letters to collect more companie Himselfe toward Hull drawing euer more and more And sent to them thither Halame to restore Craftely colouring that was his whole pretence But by that Aske came home the Captaine before Which wrote him a letter to leaue his frowardnesse When Bigot perceyued this letter described Not only by Aske but by moe of habilitie Of his counsell before then shortly he contriued To deuise in his heart this craftie subtiltie To call the Burgeses of Beuerley to him openly Beseeching them record he did not pretend The kings grace ne his counsell any ignobilitie But Halame to obtaine an yl déed to amend And of this stale away sodenly from his host With a knauish Fryer or a Paliard or twaine After that diuers Gentlemen being of the coaste Toke of them whoÌ„ they thought most busiest for certaine By deede obligatorie bynding eche for other playne To appeare at Yorke at the consequent repaire Of the kings counsel thither to aunswere againe Such faultes and iniuries as should be shewed then there All other hearing this beginning for to ryse Casting in coniecture another tyme was better Surseased of their purpose and naughtie enterprise For openly they knewe by many sundry letter The Duke of Norfolk would come this nugous thing they herd And thought theÌ„ more ample their purpose to obtain For they perceyued he would amongst them long retard Therefore they regarded not their fact for to refrayne But marke the prouision which God dyd prouide For the king commaunded Iustices at Hull for to sitte To inquire and to sée what fault might be espide And there by the countrey was determined euery whit Among them selues they could it not remyt But condemned Halame with other two so thée Thus hanged were they thrée for the fault they dyd coÌ„mit As Haman in the stéede of Mardocheus verily Soone afterward the Duke to their newes according Came downe by commaundement Iustice to redresse By the waye diuers of Bigots counsell méeting Commaunded by the king to apeare for their businesse But procéede dyd the Duke more wrongs to oppresse And kéept at Yorke a Oyer Determiner Where by due executioÌ„ were hanged for their frowardnes Ten of pertinacitie of Bigots partie cleare At that tyme present in a chappell in Cumberland Bigot was taken and had to Carlyle Castle Then by Priestes inticements rose the coÌ„mons of Westmerland With Cumberland associate purposing to expel Bigot from the Castle but then the citie Carlyle According to aligiaunce their malice did floxipend Estéeming them as traitours so falsly to rebell And them perturbed manfully their citie to defend The Duke then intending more iustice to execute In diuers other places this Insurrection hering Gathered a great number these traitours to confute For Rychmondshire Kendal came at a short monishing And there was of Yorkeshire in his trayne following Diuers gentlemen furnished to this battaile vigorous But at Barney Castle when they were there gathering â–ª The Commons had a brawle to them ignominious For at Carlile they lost with shooting at the Citie Al their arrowes their artillerie most principall And then fled away from their villanous enormytie This perceyued by the citie and gentlemen patrimoniall They came forth with Speares v. C. substantiall Well horsed in aray following in a chace By whome they lost their Crosse their standard principal And had thrée hundreth taken within a little space The other fled awaye as Shéepe with Wolues chased Some oppressed some spoyled some with lamentation Thus sixe thousand by fiue hundred were vtterly defaced Latrant like Dogs for their abomination But after these newes and this expiation The Duke of Norfolk as a Prince not in hebitude Came swiftly to Carlyle to do ministration Of iustice for their faultes to their great penitude For there was hanged vppon their heades capitall Thrée score and sixteene vnto their friendes puderous On trees in their Gardens to record for memoriall Thus héere was the end of this acte periculous But then began Tyndale like traitours contencious To ryot vp with Rydsedal as they would make a brawle The Duke héering this as
a raged Lyon furious Resorted to thâ—se countreys to proue their actes meutall Those countreys seing this with al the Dukes parature By a small entisement dyd humbly them submit As a Hawke from his praye entised to the lure Whereby by fauour their trespasse was remyt Reserued pledges taken bycause they should not flyt And so the Duke departed resorting againe To Yorke to doo iustice on Traytours to sit Where ther were four hanged approued traytours plans After that to Duresme the Duke dyd repare And there by execution fourtéene dyd apprehend And thus in all partes they were taught to compare Hanging in the places where they dyd offende Some on trées some on gallows to learne them to pretend With diuers Priors Chanons as traitours wauing hye To teach them eftsones their Prince to paruipend As Babes to be busie with such petulancie Then sir Frauncis Bigot was had vp to London Intreated as a traitoure with handes and feete bounden And Aske the first Captaine and diuers moe than he Was sent for to London and put in captiuitie Bycause they were paranymphes to Bygots insurrection â–ª And for that they were traitours of a later consent Thus being in prison Gentlemen of discretion Indited them in Yorkeshire as traytors euident Now after that the Duke had sitten on this Commission â–ª They were arained at London before the Kings Counsel â–ª And by open proofe attainted of Treason And condemned by true Iustice for that they did rebel Yet some there were fortunate the which escaped wel But what will yée more their Isagog so naughtie Hath brought all the other to durous death fell â–ª Disheriting their children by his false operacitie There was of this number Aske and Bigot Captaines A Baron a Barons sonne foure Knights and a Squire Two Priors three Quondams and two false Chaplains Which Prelates haue caused to be confuted cléere Foure principall Abbayes as playne doth appéere And diuers hang on Gallowes in irons well parate And many of their adherentes in sundrie countreyes séere As fugitiues and vagabonds they are cleerely fugate Ah ah quod Anglia then makest me to smile â–ª But I pray thee why shewest thou not Lincolnshire rebellion â–ª Nor yet of Norfolke why doest thou not compile And it pleased you quod I for this consideration The shires are very far distant from my habitacion Therefore it is more méete for other to discriue Howbeit the finall of their abomination As the other saide before was complete finitiue For the Duke of Suffolk hath caused in Lincoln shyre As great execution to the countrey lamentuous Beside in yrons hanging which began to conspire And some was headed at London for their acte iniurious And as for in Norfolk the gentlemen salubrious Toke their Captaines at the first ere they could fully ryse And after they were hanged for their facte scelerous With sore execution to teache them to be wise But and it please you quod I this rysing to pernote It is like as Iosua when he reached out his speare And as God with thrée hundred Gedion did promote The Medianites to confound by their own brawlege cléer So these men with déedes more bitter than I paxere Must néedes fortune like considering that the King Setteth forth Gods worde lyke as the true Elixere Turning brasse into golde by his mynerall working Of the Mouldwarp But ther is one thing quod I which I dare scantly moue What is that quod Anglia forsooth Madame quod I Al the time of this bloonder to their own reprouse Lyke furious Bulls baited they spake of a prophesie Ascribing the king lyke traitours in trecherie To the Mouldwarp which Marline doth account And I can proue playne their false fayned fantasie Is not against his grace for ought they can account It is thy dutie quod Anglia herein to descriue To the publique cognisaunce of euery creature Whereby true men their spirits may reuiue And to make the king ioyous thou ought to do thy cure That his grace may perceiue their fantasie so obscure Therfore do it quod she and be not desidecious For herein to labour thou may be firme and sure The Papistes to perturbe though they be prodigious Then cryed I to the altitude to the Iupiter superne In the autentique mount of Hellicon so hye Surmounting Pernassus Alpha and ω eterne To inspire me with his grace in sâ—eede of Terpsiâ—orie Herein to pronounce the perfite veritie To the laude of my king and my prince naturall For I lacked Calliope and the Muse Melponione With all the sciences which are sermocinall Yet I tooke vpon hande and these words I sayde Ye Palyardes imprudent so prompt and prone to prate To search well the Chronicles your self it shall vpbraide For of the sixe kings by Marlin nominate The third Henry was the first of that number preparate And his sonne Edwarde and Edwarde that made thrée And of very consequence the number of that date By royall succession that was the fourth Henry And as for the kings grace he is the twelfth king Therfore that way your reasons be vacuate And if by Edmonde Crochbacke ye would make your reckening Your number is not right nor yet wel perambulate And further than that yée should cleane perfigurate The prophesie of nought and of no reputation For Edwarde and Edwarde they are twayne declarate Which descended not of him as by true probation What can ye say now except ye skippe at pleasure To take héere one and there one your purpose to defende Then what déede ignoble were it aboue measure To so prudent a prince as the king for to condiscende To ascribe it to him his grace to naucipende Oh people lusolitous way me the prophesie And there may yée proue how greatly yee offende For no worde is like vnto the kings maiestie The prophesie of the Mouldwarpe declareth he shal be A Caitife a Cowarde with a helderly skin But is he a Caitife when playnely we may sée His portrature and vigor a very Herculine And is he a cowarde the truthe to define When in Fraunce and in Scotlande his noble chiualrie And in many places mo so gloriously doth shine That he is accounted a Gemme in actiuitie And hath his grace a henderly skin like a Gote When his pingued of nature will cause his pubertie Long time to appeare Oh Dawcockes ye dote To nihilipende your prince with such perputilitie But ye passe not of Antichryst for all his ill prauitie For him ye would inhaunce with all ye could indite To skip to transalpine ouer mountaynes for to flie And to stumble at a straw not so muche as a myte Peraduenture yée will say the words of the prophesie Dothe nothing resemble to the outwarde intente Then with a chéere risible to that mitalogie I will playnly concorde agrée and consente And to all other particles in that prophesie ment For prophesie locute by prophane men alway And responsions by diuels they be things stultent Perfructe by the figure called Amphibologia As