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A19811	The whole vvorkes of Samuel Daniel Esquire in poetrie; Poems	Daniel, Samuel, 1562-1619.; Danyel, John, 1564-ca. 1626.; Cockson, Thomas, engraver.; Rogers, William, b. ca. 1545, engraver.	1623 (1623)	STC 6238; ESTC S109251	133,499	245

haue beene there So that the heauens the sea the winde partakes With him as if they of his faction were Or that his spirit and valour were combin'd With destinie t' effect what he design'd 49 Which working though without and on the shore Reacht yet vnto the centre of the Land Searcht all those humors that were bred before Shakes the whole frame whereon the State did stand Affection pittie fortune feare being more Farre off and absent then they are at hand Pittie becomes a traytor with th' opprest And many haue beene rays'd by being supprest 49 For they had left although themselues were gone Opinion and their memorie behinde Which so preuayles that nought could here be done But straight was knowne as soone as once design'd Court Councell-chamber Closet all were-won To be reuealers of the Princes minde So false is Faction and so smooth a lyer As that it neuer had a side entire 50 Whereby th'exil'd had leasure to preuent And circumuent what-euer was deuiz'd Which made that Faulconbridge to Sandwich bent That Fortresse and the Gouernour surpriz'd Who presently from thence to Calais sent Had his vnguiltie blood there sacrifiz'd And Faulconbridge returning backe relates Th' affection here and zeale of all estates 51 Drawne with which newes and with a spirit that dar'd T' attempt on any likelihood of support They take th' aduantage of so great regard Their landing here secur'd them in such sort By Faulconbridge the fatall bridge prepar'd To be the way of blood and to transport Returning furie to make greater wounds Then euer England saw within her bounds 52 And but with fifteene hundred men do land Vpon a Land with many millions stor'd So much did high-presuming Courage stand On th' ayde home-disobedience would afford Nor were their hopes deceiv'd for such a hand Had Innouation ready for the sword As ere they neere vnto the Cittie drew Their powre beyond all former greatnesse grew 53 Muse what may we imagine was the Cause That Furie workes thus vniuersally What humor what affection is it drawes Sides of such powre to this Nobilitie Was it their Conscience to redresse the Lawes Or malice to a wrong-plac't Sov'raintie That caus'd them more then wealth or life desire Destruction ruine bloud-shed sword and fire 54 Or was the Powre of Lords thus inter-plac't Betwixt the height of Princes and the State Th' occasion that the people so imbrac't Their actions and attend on this Debate Or had their Greatnesse with their Worth imbas't The Touch of Royaltie to so lowe rate As their opinion could such tumults moue Then Powre and Virtue you contagious proue 55 And Perianders leuell'd Eares of Corne Shew what is fittest for the publique Rest And that the hyest Minions which adorne A Common-weale and doo become it best Are Zeale and Iustice Law and Customes borne Of hye descent that neuer do infest The Land with false suggestions claymes affrights To make men lose their owne for others rights 56 But now against this disproportion bends The feeble King all his best industrie And from abrode Skales Louell Kendall sends To hold the Cittie in fidelitie The Cittie which before for others ends Was wrought to leaue the part of Royaltie Where though the Kings commaund was of no powre Yet worke these Lords so that they tooke the Towre 57 And from thence labour to bring-in againe The out-let will of disobediencie Send terror threates intreaties but in vaine VVarwicke and March are with all iollitie And grace receiv'd The Citties loue did gaine The best part of a Crowne for whose defence And intertaining still stayes Salsburie Whil'st March and VVarwicke other fortunes try 58 Conducting their fresh troupes against their King Who leaues a woman to supply his steed And neere Northhampton both imbattailing Made now the very heart of England bleed Where what strange resolutions both sides bring And with what deadly rancour they proceed Witnesse the blood there shed and fowlly shed That cannot but with sighes be registred 59 There Buckingham Talbot and Egremont Bewmont and Lucy parts of Lancaster Parts most important and of chiefe account In this vnhappy day extinguisht are● There the Lord Grey whose sayth did not amount Vnto the trust committed to his care Betrayes his King borne to be strangely tost And late againe attain'd againe is lost 60 Againe is lost this out-side of a King Ordain'd for others vses not his owne Who to the part that had him could but bring A feeble body onely and a Crowne But yet was held to be the dearest thing Both sides did labor-for so much to crowne Their Cause with the apparency of might From whom and by whom they must make their Right 61 When he himselfe as if he nought esteem'd The highest Crowne on earth continues one Weake to the world which his Religion deem'd Like to the breath of man vaine and soone gone Whil'st the stout Queene by speedy flight redeem'd The safety of her selfe and of her Sonne And with her Sommerset to Durham fled Her powres supprest her heart vnuanquished 62 So much for absent Yorke is acted here Attending English hopes on th' Irish coast Which when vnlookt-for they related were Ambition still on horse-backe comes in poast And seemes with greater glory to appeare As made the more by be'ing so long time lost And to the Parlement with state is led Which his associates had fore-summoned 63 And com'n into the Chamber of the Peeres He sets himselfe downe in the chayre of State Where such an vnexpected face appeares Of an amazed Court that gazing sate With a dumbe silence seeming that it feares The thing it went about t'effectuate As if the Place the Cause the Conscience gaue Barres to the words their forced course should haue 64 T is strāge those times which brought such hāds for blood Had not bred tongues to make good any side And that no prostituted conscience stood Any iniustice to haue iustifi'd As men of the forelone hope onely good In desperatest acts to be imploy'd And that none in th' assembly there was found That would t'ambitious descant giue a ground 65 That euen himselfe forc't of necessitie Must be the Orator of his owne Cause For hauing viewd them all and could espie None proff'ring once to speake all in a pause On this friend lookes with an inuiting eye And then on that as if he woo'd applause Holding the cloth of State still in his hand The signe which he would haue them vnderstand 66 But se'ing none moue with an imperiall port Gath'ring his spirits he ryses from his sent Doth with such powre of wordes his Cause support As seemes all others Causes to defeat And sure who workes his Greatnesse in that sort Must haue more powres then those that are borne great Such Reuolutions are not wrought but when Those spirits doe worke which must be more then men 67 He argues first his Right so long with-held By th'vsurpation of the Lancasters

but to see this exercise Of blood and wounds endes ere he did beginne Whose teares whose mone whose lamentable cryes Could neither mercie nor compassion winne The branch of such a tree though tender now Was not thought fit should any longer growe 88 Which turning Chaunce t' a long vngraced side Brings backe their almost quayled hopes againe And thrust them on to vse the present Tide And Flowe of this occasion to regaine Th'inthralled Monarch and to vndecide The late concluded Act they held for vaine And mooues their Armies new refresht with spoyle For more confusion and for more turmoyle 89 Victoriously proceeding vnwithstood Till at S. Albones VVarwicke forc't a stand Where-as to make his owne vndooing good The King is brought against himselfe to band His Powre and Crowne is set against his Blood Forc't on the side not of himselfe to stand Diuided King in what a case thou art To haue thy hand thus bent against thy hart 90 And here this famous fatall place againe Is made the stage of blood againe these streets Imbru'd with slaughter cov'red with the slaine Witness what desp'rat wrath with ran●or meets But Fortune now is in an other vaine Another side her turning fauour greets The King heere lately lost is now heere won Still sure t' vndoe the side that he was on 91 VVarwicke with other Genius then his owne Had heere to doe which made him see the face Of sad misfortune in the selfe same Towne Where prosp'rous winning lately gaue him grace And Marg'ret heere this Martiall Amazon Was with the spirit of her selfe in place Whose labors Fortune euen to pittie stir And being a woman could but giue it her 92 The reputation and incouragement Of VVakefield glory wakened them to this And this seemes now the full accomplishment Of all their trauell all their combrances For what can more disturbe this Gouernment When Yorke extinct VVarwick conquered is Directing Salsburre left without a head What rests there now that all 's not finished 93 Thus for the sicke preseruing Nature striues Against corruption and the loathsome Graue When out of Deaths colde hands she backe repriues Th'almost confounded spirits she faine would saue And them cheeres vp illightens and reuiues Making faint Sickenesse words of health to haue With lookes of life as if the worst were past When strait comes dissolution and his last 94 So fares it with this late reuiued Queene Whose Victories thus fortunately wonne Haue but as onely lightning motions beene Before the ruine that ensu'd thereon For now another springing powre is seene Whereto as to the new arysing Sunne All turne their faces leauing those lowe rayes Of setting Fortune which no Climer waighes 95 Now is yong March more than a Duke of Yorke For youth loue grace and courage make him more All which for Fortunes fauour now do worke Who graceth freshest Actors euermore Making the first attempt the chiefest worke Of any mans designes that striues therefore The after-seasons are not so well blest For those first spirits make their first actions best 96 Now as the Libyan Lion when with paine The wearie Hunter hath pursu'd his prey From Rockes to Brakes from Thickets to the Plaine And at the point thereon his hands to lay Hard-by his hopes his eye vpon his gaine Out-rushing from his denne rapts all away So comes yong March their endes to disappoint Who now were growne so neere vnto the point 97 The loue of these important southerne parts Of Essex Surry Middle sex and Kent The Queene had wholly lost as they whose hearts Grew ill affected to her gouernment Vpon th'vnciuile and presumptuous parts Play'd by the Northerne troupes growne insolent Whom● though she could not gouerne otherwise Yet th' ill that's wrought for her vpon her lies 98 So wretched is this execrable Warre This ciuile Sworde wherein though all wee see Be foul and all things miserable are Yet most distresse-full is the victorie Which i not onely th'extream ruiner Of others but her owne calamity Where who obtains what he would cannot do Their powre hath part who holpe him thereunto 99 The Citty whose good will they most desire Yet thereunto durst not commit their state Sends them not those prouisions they require Which seem'd restrained by the peoples hate Yet Marches help farre off and neere this fire So winne them time forc't them to mediate A reconcilement which well entertain'd Was fairely now growen-on and neerely gain'd 100 When with a thousand tongs twist-wing'd Fame coms And tells of Marches gallant Victories Who what withstands subdues all ouercomes Making his way through fiercest enemies As hauing now to cast in greater Summes The Reckning of his hopes that mainly rise His fathers death giues more life vnto wrath And vexed valour greater courage hath 101 And now as for his last his lab'ring worth Works on the coast which on faire Seuerne lyes Whereto his Father passing to the North Sent him to leuie other fresh supplies But hearing now what Wakefield had brought forth Imploring ayde against these iniuries Obtains from Gloster Worster Shrewsburie Important powres to worke his remedie 102 Which he against Pembrooke and Ormond bends Whom Margaret now vpon her victory With all speed possible from VVakefield sends With hope to haue surpris'd him suddenly Wherin though she all meanes all wit extends To th' vtmost reach of wary policie Yet nothing her avayles no plots succeed T' avert those mischiefes which the heauens decreed 103 For neere the Grosse ally'd vnto his name He croslt those mighty forces of his foes And with a spirit or day'nd for deeds of fame Their eager-fighting Army ouer-throwes Making all cleer behind from whence he came Bearing-downe wholly what before him rose Like to an all-confounding Torrent seemes And was made more by VVarwicks mighty streames 104 With th'inundation of which Greatnesse he Hauing no bounds of powre to keepe him backe Marcht to the Citie at whose entrance free No signes of ioy nor no applaudings lacke Whole neere approach when this sad Queene did see T' auoyde these rocks of her neere threatning wrack With her griev'd troupes North-ward she hence departs And leaues to Youth and Fortune these South-parts 105 Glory with admiration entring now Opened that easie doore to his intent As that there needes not long time to allow The Right he had vnto the Gouernement Nor Henries iniuries to disauow Against his oath and th' Act of Parlement For heere the speediest way he takes t' accord Difference in law that pleades it with the Sword 106 Gath'red to see his mustred Companies Stoode all the flocking troopes of London streets When Faulconbridge with gentle feeling tries How strong the pulse of their affection beates And reckning vp the grieuous miseries And desolation which the Country threats Askt them whom they would haue to be their King To leade those troopes and State in forme to bring 107 Whereto with such an vniuersall showr The Earle of March the multitude

replyes As the rebounding Eccho streight through-out From Towre to Towre reuerberated flyes To th' eares of those great Lords who sate about The consultation for this enterprise Whose care is sav'd which most they stood vpon For what they counsell how too doe is done 108 And nothing now but to confirme him king Remaines which must not long remaine to do The present heare doth strait dispatch the thing With all those solemne rites that long thereto So that what Yorke with all his trauayling Force and intrusion could not get vnto Is now thus freely layd vpon his sonne Who must make faire what fowlly was begunne 109 Whos 's end attayn'd had it here made an end Of foule destruction and had stay'd the bloud Which Towton Exham Tewksbury did spend With desp'rate hands and deeper wounds withstood And that none other Crowne brought to contend With that of his had made his seeme lesse good How had this long-afflicted Land been blest Our sighes had ended and my Muse had rest 110 Which now but little past halfe her long way Stands trembling at the horrors that succeed Weary with these embroylements faine would stay Her farther course vnwilling to proceed And faine to see that glorious holy-day Of Vnion which this discord reagreed Knowes not as yet what to resolue vpon Whether to leaue-off here or else go-on The end of the seauenth Booke THE EIGHTTH BOOKE THE ARGVMENT King Edward Powre against King Henry led And hath at Towton-field the victory From whence King Henry into Scotland fled Where he attempts his States recouery Stea'es into England is discouered Brought Prisoner to the Towre disgracefully And Edward whiles great Warwick doth assay A Match in France marries the Lady Grey 1 ON yet sad Verse though those bright starres from whence Thou hadst thy light are set for euermore And that these times do not like grace dispense To our indeuours as those did before Yet on since She whose beames do reincense This sacred fire seemes as reseru'd in store To raise this Worke and here to haue my last Who had the first of all my labours past 2 On with her blessed fauour and relate With what new bloud-shed this new chosen Lord Made his first entry to th' afflicted State Past his first Act of publique with the sword Ingor'd his new-worne Crowne and how he gat Possession of affliction and restor'd His Right vnto a Royall miserie Maintained with as bloudy dignitie 3 Shew how our great Pharsalian Field was fought At Towton in the North the greatest day Of ruine that dissension euer brought Vnto this Kingdom where two Crownes did sway The worke of slaughter two Kings Causes wrought Destruction to our People by the waie Of their affections and their loyalties As if one for these ills could not suffise 4 Where Lancaster and that couragious side That noble constant Part came furnished With such a Powre as might haue terrifi'd And ouer-run the earth had they been led The way of glory where they might haue tri'd For th' Empire of all Europe as those did The Macedonian led into the East Their number being double at the least 5 And where braue Yorke comes as compleatly mand With courage valour and with equall might Prepar'd to trie with a resolued hand The metall of his Crown and of his Right Attended with his fatall fier-brand Of Warre Warwicke that blazing starre of fight The Comet of destruction that portends Confusion and distresse what way he tends 6 What rage what madness England do we see That this braue people in such multitude Run to confound themselues and all to be Thus mad for Lords and for meere Seruitude What might haue been if Roman-like and free These gallant Spirits had nobler ends pursu'd And strayn'd to points of glory and renowme For good of the Republique and their owne 7 But here no Cato with a Senate stood For Common-wealth nor here were any sought T'emancipate the State for publique good But onely headlong for their faction wrought Here euery man runs-on to spend his bloud To get but what he had already got For whether Pompey or a Caesar wonne Their state was euer sure to be all one 8 And first before these fatall Armies met Had forward Warwicke lay'd the passage free At Ferry Brigges where the Lord Clifford set With an aduentrous gallant companie To guard that streight Yorkes farther march to let Began the Scene to this great Tragedie Made the first entrance on the Stage of blood Which now set wide for wounds all open stood 9 When Edward to exhort his men began With words whereto both spirit and Maiestie His pers'nage gave for-that he was a man Besides a King whose Crowne sate gracefully Com'n is the day sayd he wherin who can Obtaine the best is Best this day must try Who hath the wrong and whence our ills haue beene And t is our swords must make vs honest men 10 For though our Cause by God and men allow'd Hath in it honor right and honestie Yet all as nothing is to be avow'd Vnless withall we haue the victorie For Iustice is we see a virtue proud And leanes to powre and leaues weake miserie And therefore seeing the case we now stand in We must resolue either to dy or winne 11 So that if any here doth finde his heart To fayle him for this noble worke or stands Irresolute this day let him depart And leaue his Armes behind for worthier hands I knowe e now will stay to doo their part Here to redeeme themselues wiues children landes And haue the glory that thereby shall rise To free their Country from these miseries 12 But here what needed wordes to blowe the fire In flame already and inkindled so As when it was proclaym'd they might retire Who found vnwillingnes to vnder-goe That ventrous worke they all did so conspire To stand out Fortune that not one would goe To beare away a hand from bloud not one Defraud the Field of th' euill might be done 13 Where VVarwicke too producing in their sight An argument whereby he did conclude There was no hope of safetie but by fight Doth sacrifize his horse to Fortitude And thereby did the least conceipt of flight Or any succour by escape exclude Se'ing in the streight of a necessitie The meanes to win is t' haue no meanes to flye 14 It was vpon the twi-light of that day That peacefull day when the Religious beare The Oliue-branches as they go to pray And we in lieu the blooming Palmes vse here When both the Armies ready in array For th' early sacrifize of blood appeare Prepar'd for mischiefe ere they had full light To see to doo it and to doo it right 15 Th' aduantage of the time and of the winde Which both with Yorke seeme as retayn'd in pay Braue Faulconbridge takes hold-on and assign'd The Archers their flight-shafts to shoote away Which th' aduerse side with sleet and dimnesse blinde Mistaken in the distance of