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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20095	VVorke for armorours: or, The peace is broken Open warres likely to happin this yeare 1609: Written by Thomas Dekker.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.	1609 (1609)	STC 6536; ESTC S105259	34,752	54

veluet scabert within 40. yards of our precincts Quis talia fando Myrmidonum Dolopumue aut duri miles Vlissi Temperet a lachrimis O Neither the Mermaide nor the Dolphin nor he at mile-end greene can when he list be in good temper when he lackes his mistres that is to say Money May it therefore please thee O thou pay-mistresse to all the fidlers that should haunt our howses if thou wouldest put them in tune to send at least some of thy Harpers to sound their nine-penic musicke in our eares but we rather humbly beg it that thou wouldest enrich vs with thy Angellike-presence be no longer percullized vp in the Citie visit the subburbes against thy comming all her cawseies shall be paued made euen how broken soeuer her conscience be left and vnmended Our houses stand emptie as if the plague were in them onely for want of thee our Drawers cannot be drawne to any goodnesse nor our Hostlers to deale honestly with horse or man onely by reason of thee Issue therefore forth amongst good fellows that will sooner fight for the●… then those snudges miserable cormorants that now feede vpon thee This lamentable supplication together with the feare of a mutiny amongst her soldiers so wrought with the Empresse that cleane against the pers●…uasion of her councell she determined to leaue the Cittie and to march into the ●…ield hereupon her Army Royall was set in order to the intent she might take a full view of all her Colonels Generals Captaines and men of warre She went from squadron to squadron not so much delighting her owne eies 〈◊〉 beholding so many thousands ready to fight in her defence as they were gréedy to enioy her presence which with braue encouragement lifted vp the deadest spirit all swore to follow her none to leaue her or if any did a curse was laid vpon him to die a begger The first regiment consisted of Courtiers some of them being Lords who came very well prouided some Knights but most of the valiant knights that were true soldiers indéed serued in the other armie Conncellors at Law gaue directions where to encampe what ground was best to defend themselues and annoy the foe by what trickes and stratagems to circumuent her how to leade the Troopes on how to come off and by plaine demonstration shewed how easie it was to put Pouertie to her shifts and to haue her her troopes in execution if Money would be pleased to say the word and for that purpose they made orations to set the armies together by the eares which accordingly tooke effect Attorneys were very busie and serued as Clarkes to the Bandes running vp and downe from one rancke to another expressing a kinde of puzled and dizzie distraction in all their businesses But that which made the best shew of all was a lane of Brokers who handled their Pieces passing well were old dog at a marke they had skill in any weapon Musket Caliuer Petronel Harguibusse a Crock Po●…lax Holbert Browne-bill Pike Dimilance sword Bow and arrowes nothing came amisse to them and which was most strange they fought by the Booke at a breach none so forward as they they had beene at the ransacking of many a house and would vndertake to vndoe all the troopes that were led by Pouertie These Brokers were armed with thrumd cappes but they should haue had Murrions and those they ●…ore to keepe their wits from taking cold for they had all diuellish heads and were suited in sparke of veluet Iackets with out sleeues tust taffatie bréeches c●…ose to them like Irish Stroozes Sattin doublets with sagging bellies as if bagpuddins had bumbasted them and huge dutch Ald●…mens sleeues a●…ed strongly with back péeces of canuas dugeon daggers instead of Pistols hanging by their sides ●…ine peird silke stockens on their legs tyed vp smoothly with caddis garters all which had béene taken as spoiles from the other Armie The Inuader vnderstanding that the quarrell would be decided in a pitcht field and that crackt crownes would be both giuen and taken on either side grew exceeding ioyfull and therefore calling for Sharker one of her boldest wittiest Heralds him she sent to Money to know where the Rendeuous should be made for both armies to meete in and what péece of ground should be best famous to posterities by their battaile Money tooke aduice vpon this most of her old beaten Captaines laboured earnestly to haue it at Bagshot but all the gallants cryed baw waw at him that named Bagshot so that for a quarter of an hower none could be heard to speake there was such a Baw wawing The Herald Sharker in name of his Mistresse who sent him requested it might be at beggers bush But euery soldier swore that was a lowzy place and so for a day or two it rested vncertaine and vndetermined In which Interim a murmuring went vp and downe that not onely Pouorty had maintained this terrible Siege against the City but that Dearth also Famine and the Plague were lately ioyned with the same Army besides many strange and incurable diseases were crept into the camp that followed Money for Ryot her minion was almost spent and lay in a consumption A hundred in a company were drowned in one night in French bowles fiue tunes as many more were tormented with a terrible gnawing about their consciences All the Usurers in the Army had hung themselues in chaines within lesse then three howers and all the Brokers being their Bastards went crying vp and downe The Diuell the Diuell and thereupon because they should not disquiet the rest of the Soldiers they were fetched away These and such other vnexpected mischifes put Money into many feares doubts and distractions so that she inwardly wished that these vnlucky warres had either nener béene begun or else that they were well ended by the conclusion if it might be of some honourable peace And as these stormes of misery fell vpon Money and her troopes so was the army of Pouerty plagued as much or more on the other side nothing could be heard amongst the Souldiers but cries complaints cursings blasphemies Oathes and ten thousand other blacke and damned spirits which euer hawnted them and their Generall herselfe Want pinched them in the day and wildnesse and rage kept them waking and raueing all the night Their soules were desperate their bodies consumed they were weary of their liues yet compelled to liue for furder miseries and nothing did comfort them but a foolish hope they had to be reuenged vpon Money So that so many plagues so many diseases so many troubles and inconueniencies following both the armies by meanes of the tedious Siege a perpetuall truce league and confederacy was confirmed by Money and Pouerty and the councellors on either part that in euery Kingdome euery Shire and euery City the one should haue as much to doe as the other that Pouerties subiects should be euer in a redinesse as the Switzers

hearing of this fled from the Uniuersities and made such hast to be in pay with Pouerty whom they had knowne a long time that some of them had scarce put shoes to their seete The Queene bestowed very good words vppon them because Schollers had alwayes béene fauored by her progenitors and vpon her bare command they tooke such place vnder her in the Army as was sutable to their professions Young Gentlemen that neither durst walke vp and downe the Citty for feare of Rauens and Kites that houered to catch them in their tallons and could get no entertainement in the court of Money because they were yonger brothers and condemned by the verduict of Silkemen and Mercers to be most Desperate fellowes yet were they all wellcome to Pouerty These yonger Brothers were appointed to stand Infans perdus or the Forlorne hope because though they had little to loose but their liues yet they should winne honour nay perhaps knighthood which in these dayes are better then lands if fat widdowes can be but drawne to nibble at that worshipfull baite And for that purpose did a goodly troupe of knights put themselues as knights errant into Armes in defence of the innocent wronged Lady Pouerty which Cheualiers though they durst not as some ill-tongd people gaue out shew their heads in the Cittie yet were they appointed Masters of the field and had the charge of the most resolute troopes that were to scale the Cittie If the enemie should cowardly happen to fly thether and to ransacke all the Mercers and Gold-smiths shops not so much to set frée the silkes veluets plate and iewels imprisond most cruelly in them as to vndoe the old Cittizens then to marry their yong wiues and so to raise them vp to honour in their most knightly posteritie A regiment of old seruingmen were sworne the guard to Pouerties person of whom there was great hope that they would both stand stifly to her in any danger and if the maine battailes did euer ioyne would be the onely Canonéeres to breake their ranckes because they had such excellent skill in charging and discharging of the great Bombard There came in some seuen thousand Banckrouts offering their seruice to the distressed and wronged Princesse who gaue them thankes for their loue yet was she fearefull to trust them because a number in her owne army exclaimed vpon them as the ranckest villaines in a common wealth and that they had vndone them their wiues and children But the dangers wherein they now all stoode requiring rather hands to punish the wrongs done by an enemie then to rip vp old wounds of their owne Those seuen thousand had the ordering of all fire-workes Mines and countermines as béeing the onely rare fellowes for damnable and spéedy blowing vp of men in any assault The vanguard béeing filled vp thus with their troopes before named a stoute company of honest Housholders whose seruants like Acteons dogs had with whoring dicing and drinking eaten vp their Masters came brauely vp in the Reare their wings consisted of schoolemasters husbandmen fencers Knights of the Poste and such like who had all vowed by the crosse of their swords and by the honour of a souldier to die at Pouerties féete It was in the middle of a Terme when the fire of these ciuill broiles first began to kindle but Law hauing with many hard words on both sides taken vp a number of brabling matters and for her healths sake beeing rid into the country whereby a great crew of her followers that were not able with bag and baggage to march after her in that progresse were ready to giue vp their cloakes the summer was so hot for them and because all their practise was but to set people together by the eares a number of them therfore vpon their bare knees begd that they might serue Pouertie in her warres whereupon certaine broken-héeld gowtie-legd durty-hamd pettifoggers with some lack-latine prowling pennurious country Attorneys were promoted to be Clarkes of Bands Pandors Pimpes and Apple-squires came thicke and thréefold and had the leading of the Pioners because they had déepest skill in digging of Trenches The victualers to the Camp were a company of double-chind polt-footed stincking-breathd Bauds who with pewter bottles of Aqua vitae at their girdles rings with deaths heads on their fore fingers and old stitchd hats out of fashion on their heads came along with the bag baggage and were ready if any poore soldier fainted to put life into him againe by a sip from their bottles and to lift vp his spirits The whole Army being thus leuyed Pouerty was found to be one hundred thousand strong in the field whom martialling in the best order of warre they marched forward w e full resolution either to take Money and her subiects prisoners or else neuer to come out of the field so long as they Pouertie their mistresse and powrefull commander could be able to hold life and soule together The Preparation strength and stratagems of the second Armie NO treason was euer so secretly contriued so cunningly carried nor so resolutely attempted but either in the very growing vp it hath beene discouered or the head of it cut off where it was at point to come to the full ripenesse The workes of Princes are great and require many hands to finish them and a number of engines cannot be set going so closely that no eare shall heare them Ioue may talke in his big voice of thunder as soone and not be vnderstoode as a kingdome may call vp her owne subiects with the yron tongue of warre and not awaken those people that are her neighbours The eies of a true State do neuer sléepe Princes are quickest of hearing the blowes that forraine enemies giue are broken for the most part because the weapon is alwaies séene and put by otherwise they would cut déepe and draw blood where by such preuention they scarce giue bruises This mercilesse tyrant therefore Pouerty could not kindle such fires of vprores and ciuill mischiefes but that the flames like burning beacons armed her enemies with safetie euen as they put them into feare Her ragged troopes were more apt to betray themselues and their procéedings then polliticke to betray the foe into any danger With swift wings therefore did the newes of this inuasion fly abroad into all countries and at last alighted before that glorious and most adored Empresse Money whom néerest it concerned because all the arrowes of their enuie and intended malice were shot at her bosome The drom of warre beate in her eare not in the dead of night when her glories and beauties were darkened and eclipsed but when she was seated in the throne of all her pleasures which a whole world was rifled and trauailed ouer to maintaine in height and fulnesse when her pallate surfeited on the variety of dishes and delicacy of féeding when her body shone brighter then the sunne it selfe who in his