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A04560	The most pleasant history of Tom a Lincolne that renowned souldier, the Red-rose Knight, who for his valour and chivalry, was surnamed the boast of England. Shewing his honourable victories in forraigne countries, with his strange fortunes in the Fayrie land: and how he married the faire Anglitora, daughter to Prester Iohn, that renowned monarke of the world. Together with the lives and deathes of his two famous sonnes, the Blacke Knight, and the Fayrie Knight, with divers other memorable accidents, full of delight.; Tom a Lincoln	Johnson, Richard, 1573-1659?	1631 (1631)	STC 14684; ESTC S105584	66,530	98

went vntill such time a● the Portingale King had gathered together a marueilous number os Souldiers both olde and of much experience by reason of the continuall Warres that they had with the 〈◊〉 Nation adioyning néere vnto them But when this Portingale King like an expert Souldier séeing that no way he might resist the English Army nor expell them his Countrey vnlesse he gaue them present Battaile therefore trusting in his approued Manhood and the prowesse of his Souldiers he set his Army in a readinesse and so marched forward to méet the Red-rose Knight and his warlike followers which at that time had pitched his Campe in a large Champion Plaine adioyning néere vnto the Citie of ●●shborne whereas both these Armies met and setting them in order as it became good Captaines there they began in the breake of the day she most cruell and terriblest Battle that euer was heard of or fought in that age considering the number of both parties their experience and pollicy with the valiant courage and prowesse of their Captaines In great danger continued this fight till the Sun beganne to set with marueilous ●laughter on both sides yet remayned the victory doubtfull declining neither to the Portingales nor yet to the English but at last though long the Portingales began to saint and flie more indeed opprest with she multitude then for any feare they receiued in the Eatte●● for the most part of them with honour dyed manfully in the Field some taken prisoners and the rest fled for their better safety but now the Portingale King perceiuing his Souldiers begin to flye with courage hee sought to withdraw them from flight resisted in person valiantly the furious rage of the enemy but in that enterprise he gained such and so many knockes that at last he● was vnhorst and for want of reskew was forst to yéeld himselfe as prisoner whereat the whole armie of the Portingales were discomforted and the victory fell to the Englishmen the which being obtayned the Red-rose Knight with his Armie entred into the Citie of Lishborne where the common Souldiers were inriched with wealthy spoyles and the Kings Pallace ran●acked by the Red-rose Knight where hée tooke such prisoners as him best liked and the rest like an honorable souldier he set at liberty commaunding that no violence should be proffered any way After this setting his Army in a readinesse he marched towards England where after some few dayes 〈◊〉 hee arriued with all his Ho●st in the Westerne parts of Deuonshire and marching towards London where against his comming the Citizens with the Inhabitants of other villages néere adioyning were that day séene in their most sumptucus and rich attire euery one of them endeauoring to place himselfe in some Gallery or Window that the better and with more ease they might behold the triumphant returne of the Red-rose Knight All the Churches in London were on euery side set open hanged round about with most costly forniture the stréetes were also most gloriously beset with gréene Boughes and strowed with Perfumes of no small value and for the infinite multitude of people that were séene in the Citie there were appointed a hundred Whiflers most richly attyred to kéepe the stréets plaine and open whereby the triumphs might haue the easier passage and for that the diuersity of the shewes were so many that they of necessitie were constrained to part them into three seuerall dayes The first day hardly sufficed in good order to bring in the Banners Standards and Ensignes of the Conqueror the golden Images and Tables of price which were all brought in on C●rts very curiously painted and trimmed On the second day came in the Armour of the Conquered King as also of all the other Portingale Lords and as they were rich bright and glittering so were they with most cunning ordered and couched in waggons After these entred thrée thousand men in order bearing nothing but Money openly to b●e seene and that in huge Platters and Uessels of Siluer of which were thrée hundred and fiftie in number and foure of our men allotted to euery vessell the other brought in most artificiall Tapestry works beautified with gold and siluer And thus was the second dayes Triumph ended in most pompous s●lemnitie Upon the third day euen at the rising of the Sunne with the first Band entred as a ioyfull sound of Conquest an infinite number of Flutes Drummes and Trumpets with other like Martiall and Warlike Instruments sounding not after a most pleasant and swéet manner but in most terrible sort as it was possible to be done euen in such order as they doe when they presently ioyne Battaile And after them came a hundred and twentie Kine all white hauing their Hornes curiously gilded with Gold their bodies couered with Uayles which they accompted most sacred and holy bearing also Garlands of Flowers vpon their Heads driuen by certaine young Gentlemen no lesse well fauoured then gorgeously att●red After these followed the Coach of the conquered King of Portingale with his owne Armour layd thereon openly to bée séene of all men his Crowne and royall Scepter was layd in seemely order vpon his Armour After his Coach came Prisoners on foot with his owne naturall Children being little Infants and after them followed a great Troup of his Seruants and Officers as Masters of his Housheuld Secretaries Ushers Controlers Chamberlaines with other Gentlemen of his Court all in a most sorowfull manner seeing themselues brought into such extremitie and seruitude that they mooued to companion all such as beheld them Of the Kings children there were two Boyes and one Girle of age so young and tender that they had small vnderstanding of their misfortune and misery In this triumph followed the Father his owne Children after the vsage of his Countrey clad in black mourning garments sorrowing likewise for his hard misfortune Then followed sundry of his approoued Friends which beholding in that plight their vnhappy Prince brake cut into teares and sighes so bitterly that their enemies themselues grieued at their mishaps After these followed one which carryed certaine precious Stones that had béen presented to the Red-rose Knight from some ancient Cities in Portingale who immediatly followed in person triumphantly in his Iuory Chariot apparelled in vestures of purple Tissue hauing a Lawrell bough in his hand and a Crowne of the same vpon his Head After him followed his owne Souldiers both foot-men and Horse-men all marching in most decent order armed with rich Furniture holding also each of them a Lawrell bough in his hand their Ensignes and Banners Souldier-like displayed sounding Martiall Melody in honour of their triumphant Captain with many other like presidents most royall and magnificent Thus in this gallant order marched they to the Kings Chappell where in the presence of the King and his Lords which came to honour and grace their Triumphs they gaue thanks to God for their succesfull victory were after solemne Seruice was ended they departed to King Arthurs Court

returned from the Warre that they should the first night of their comming bee slaine sléeping in their Beds and that neuer after they should suffer man to enter into their Countrey After this conclusion they crowned Caelia the Kings Daughter for their Quéene And so afterward when the King and his Armie returned from his Warres this bloudy murther was practised and not a man left aliue but onely the King reserued whom Caelia would in no wise against nature murther but yet notwithstanding shee deliuered him into the hands of her chiefest Ladies which put him into a Boat alone and so sent him to the Sea to seeke his fortune Therefore most noble Knights this is the cause why you may not enter into our Countrey which if you doe and not presently withdraw your selues vnto the Sea the Ladies will suddenly giue you a meruailous Battell Now by the Euer-liuing 〈…〉 which English-men adore said the Noble Red-rose Knight such extremitie haue wee suffered at Sea that wée are like to perish and dye with hunger vnlesse wée finde some succeur at your hands and before we will end our liues with famine we will enter Battell with those Ladies and so dye with Honour in the Field yet this kindnesse doe we humbly desire at your hands to returne vnto your Quéene and certifie her of our poore estate and necessity and that we altogether instantly desire her that if there be any sparke of Uertue or Nobility harboured in her breast that shée will haue pitie vpon vs and suffer vs not to end our liues by such an unhappy kind of death With this request the two Damsels returned to the Quéen and recounted from word to word the humble suit of the Red-rose Knight and what extremitie they were in Which when the Quéene vnderstood and that they were Knights of England the fame of which countrey shée had so often heard reportes shée demaunded what manner of people they were and of what condition Surely Madam answered one of the two Damsels I neuer in all my life saw more goodly men nor better spo●en and it is to bée supposed they bée the choyce of all humane people and with their courteous demeanors are able to draive the mercilesse and sauage Nation to affect them The Quéene hearing the Damsels so highly to commend the English Knights thinking also vpon their request began in minde to haue pitie of their misaduentures and so instantly sent for them and gaue them frée libertie to make their abode in her Countrey which incontinently when the English Knights heard how they should receiue a kinde welcome and a friendly entertainement grew so exceeding ioyfull as though Heauen had sent them present comfort so comming before the Quéene and her Ladyes they saluted each other most courteously and with great reuerence But when the vertuous Quéene behelde this noble company before her in all humilitie shée deliuered to a hundred of her Ladies the hundred English Knights and reserued the Princely Red-rose Knight vnto her selfe and so were they brought to the Quéenes Pallace where euery Lady feasted her Knight in most gallant sort and to their hearts content But now when the Quéene had the Red-rose Knight in her Chamber and had beheld the exceeding beautie of the noble Prince shée tooke him by the hand and led him into one of her Chambers where the shewed him her Riches and Treasure and after sayd vnto him in this manner Most noble and valiant Englishman these Riches bée all onely at thy Commandement and also my body which here I offer vp as a gift and Present to thy diuine excellencie and furthermore there is nothing of value which I am Mistris of but shall be at thy disposing to the intent that my loue may be acceptable to thy gracious eyes But when the Red-rose Knight perceiued to what intent she spake these words in this manner answered her saying Most deare Princesse and faire Quéene of this Maiden countrey I giue you right humble thankes for these your courtesies and by no meanes possible may I deserue this high honour you haue grac'd me with Oh great Knight replyed then the Quéene the smallest thought of your honourable minde is sufficien●●o recompence the vttermost of my deserts yet let me request this one thing at your noble hands that neuer asked the like fauour of any one before for she that neuer knew the least motion of loue is now pricked with a hundred torments and vnlesse you quench the ardent affection wherwith my heart is fired with the pleasant hopes of your comfortable smiles I am like to die desperat and then the world will accuse you of cruelty in murdering a consiant Lady but if it shall please you to grant me loue and so espouse me according to Himens holy Kites héere shall you rule sole King and be the Lord of all this Countrey My right deare Lady answered then the Red-rose Knight you haue done such pleasure to mée and to my distressed followers in preseruing vs from famine as I shal neuer requite it though I should spend all the rest of my life in your Seruice And know most excellent Princesse that there is no aduenture so dangerous yet at your commandement would I practise to accomplish yet for to tye my selfe in Wedlockes bonds there is no woman in the world shall procure mee for till I haue finished an Aduenture which in my heart I haue vowed I will not linke my affection to any Lady in the world But thinke not Madam that I refuse your loue through disdaine for I sweare by the dignity King Arthur grac●d mée with I should think my selfe most fortunate if I had so faire and noble a Lady as your diuine selfe Most worthy Knight then answered the Quéene I imagine that the Gods haue sent you into this Countrey for two causes principally The first is that you and your followers should be preserued from death by my meanes The second is that you should inhabit in this Countrey least it should in short time be left as a desert wildernesse for it is inhabited onely by Women without a King and haue no other Gouernour but me which am their chiefe Princesse And for so much as I haue succoured you so succour you this desolate Citie that it may be repeopled with your séed and in so doing you shall accomplish a vertuous déed and winne to your names an eternall memory to all ensuing ages I confesse quoth the Red-rose Knight that you and your Ladies haue succoured mée and my followers in our great necessitie and in recompense whereof wee will imploy all our indeauours to the repeopling againe of this Countrey But in regard of the secret vow my heart hath made I will not yéeld my selfe to your desires for if I should infringe my oath mine Honour were greatly impaired And before I would commit that dishonourable fact I would suffer the greatest torment that mans heart can imagine Incontinently when the loue-sicke Quéene heard this answere of

where euery one as well Strangers as others were most royally feasted The Portingale King séeing his kind entertainement in the English Court where he was vsed more like a Friend then an Enemie had small care to returne home but ●rolik'd many a day amongst the English Lords whose loues vnto strangers be euermore most honourable But so great were the courtesies that the Noble King Arthur bestowed vpon the Portingales who for their proffered disgraces requited them liberally with honour and not onely sent them home ransomlesse but promised to lend them ayde and succour from England if occasion required So bearing them company to the Sea side hee most friendly committed them to the mercy of the winds and waues which were so fauourable that in short time they arriued safe in their owne Country where many a day after they remembred the honourable kindnesse of the English-men and caused the Chronicles of Portingale to record the renowne of King Arthur and hi●●●●●●ts of the Round Table CHAP. IIII. How the Red-rose Knight trauelled from the King of Englands Court and how he arriued in the Fayerie-land where he was entertained by a Mayden Queene and what happened to him in the same Country NOw after the Portingales were thus conquered and sent home with great honour the English King and his Lordes rested themselues many a day in the Bowers of Peace leau●ng their Armours rusting and their pampered Steedes standing in their Sca●les forgetting their vsuall manner of wrathfull warre which idle ease greatly discontented the magnanimious Red-rose Knight who thought it a staine to his passed glory and a scandall to his Princely mind to entertaine such base thoughts and considering with himselfe how ignorant hee was of his true Parents and from whence hee was descended hee could not imagine therefore hee purposed to begin a new enterprise and to trauaile vp and downe the World till hee had either found his Father and Mother or else yéelded his life to Natures courle in that pretended Journey so going to the King full little thinking that he was sprung from so Noble a stock crauing at his Graces hand to graunt him such liberty for to try his Knight-hood in forraine Countries whereas yet did neuer Englishman make his aduenture and so eternize his name to all posterity rather then to spend his life in such home-bred practises To this his honourable request the King though loath to forgoe his company yet because it belonged to Knightly Attempts hee gaue him leaue and withall furnished him a Shippe at his owne proper cost and charges giuing free Licence to all Knights whatsoeuer to beare him company amongst which number Sir Launcelor du Lake was the chiefest that proferred himselfe to that Uoyage who protested such loue to the Red-rose Knight that they plighted their Faiths like sworne Brothers and to liue and die together in all extreamities So these two English Knights with the number of a hundred more all resolute Gentlemen tooke leaue of the King and with all spéede went a Ship-boord wherein being no s●●ner entred but the Pylot hoysed Sayle and di●an●hored and so committed their liues and Fortunes to the pleasure of Neptunes mercie vpon whose 〈◊〉 Kingdome the 〈◊〉 many dayes sayled but Ae●●us brazen gates ●u●st open and the Windes so violently troubled the swelling waues that euery minute they were in danger to end their liues in the bottome of the Seas Thrée moneths the winde and the waters stroue together for supremacie during which time they sawe no land but were driuen vp and downe to what place the euer-changing Destenies listed so at last they sayled beyond the Sunne directed only by the light of the Starres not knowing which way to trauell towards land but in such extrenity for want of Uictuall that they were forced to land at a certaine Iland in the Westerne parts of the world inhabited onely by women where being no sooner on land and giuing God thanks for deliuering them from that mortall perill but the Red-rose Knight cast vp his eyes towards the higher parts of the Countrey and espied more then two thousand women comming foorth at a Citie gate all most richly armed with Breast-plates of Siluer marching in trim aray like an Army of well approoued Souldiers the which number comming néere to the Sea side they sent two of their Damsels as Messengers to the English Knights willing them as they loued their liues presently to retire againe back to the Seas for that was no Countrey for their abode But when the Red-rose Knight of England had vnderstoode the hold message of the two Damsels he was sore abashed considering the number of armed women he saw before him and the great dangers they had suffered before on the Sea for want of v●●●uals that he knew not in what manner he were best to answere them but hauing a good courage hee at last spake to the two Damsels in this sort Right Noble Ladies I haue well vnderstood your spéeches therefore I desire you for to shew such fauour vnto wandering Trauailers as to tell vs in what Country Fortune hath brought vs to and for what cause we are commanded by you to returne to the Sea Surely Sir Knight answered one of the Damsels this Countrey whereon you are ariued it is not very bigge but yet most fertile and commodious and is called by the name of the Fayrie-Land And now to shew you the cause why you are commaunded to returne this it is Not many yeares agoe there raigned in this Countrey a King which had to name Larmos for wisedome and prowesse not his equall was found in any of these parts of the world This King had such continuall warre against the bordering Ilanders that vpon a time he was constrained to muster for the same warre all the men both young old which were found in his Kingdome whereby the whole Countrey was left destitute of men to the great disconten●ment of the Ladies and Damsels that here inhabited whereupon they finding themselues so highly wronged liuing without the company of men they generally assembled themselues together with the Daughter of King Larmos which is called Caelia no lesse in Beautie then in Uertue and Wisedome These Ladyes and Damosels beeing gathered together with a generall consent dispatched certaine Messengers to the King and to their Husbands willing them to returne into their Countrey and not to leaue their wiues and children in such extremity without the comfort and company of man Upon which the King answered that hee had besieged his Enemies in their Townes of Warre and before one man should returne home till he came with Conquest his Country should bee lost and made desolate and the Women giuen ouer to the spoyle of his Enemies Which answere when the Ladies had receiued they tooke it in such euill part that they conspired against their King and Husbands and put to death all the men children that were in the Countrey and after determined when their Husbands Fathers and Friends

this thy monstrous disobedience These words being ended hee gaue such an extreame sigh that his very heart brake with griefe and hee immediatly dyed in the presence of the Red-rose Knight For whose death hee made more sorrowfull lamentation then Niobe did for her seuen Sonnes But in recompence of old Antonioes kind loue that preserued his infancie from the fury of rauenous Fowles he intombed him most stately in the Citie of Lincolne whose body he sent thither by certaine Passengers whom hee had taken and withall a thousand pound in treasures to be bestowed vpon a great Bell to bee rung at his Funerall which Bell hee caused to bee called Tom a Lincolne after his owne name where to this day it remaineth in the same Citie These Passengers being as then rich Merchants of London hauing receiued the dead body of old Antonio and withall the treasure went with all speed vnto Lincolne and performed euery thing as the Red-rose Knight had appointed The death of this good old man not onely caused a generall sorrow through the whole Citie but stroke such an extreame griefe to old Antonioes wife that shee within few dayes yeelded her life to the remorcelesse stroke of the frowning destinies and was buried in the same graue where her Husband was intombed Whose deaths we will now leaue to be mourned by their dearest friends and likewise for breuities sake passe ouer many stratagems which were accomplished by the Red-rose Knight his followers vpon Barnsedale Heath and returne to King Arthur his Knights flourishing in the English Court. CHAP. III. Of the first Conquest of Portingale by the Red-rose Knight and how hee was the first that euer triumphed in the Citie of London THe report of Tom a Lincolnes practises grew so generall amongst the vulgar sort of people that at last it came to King Arthurs eares who imagined in his Princely minde that he was sprung of his bloud and that hee carried lofty thoughts of honour planted in his brest though shrowded vnder a Countrey life therefore through kinde nature hee purposed to haue him resident in Court with him that hee might daily sée his liuely sparkes of honour shew their resplendant brightnesse yet in such obscurity that hee should not know the smallest motion of his Parentage therefore hee called together thrée of his appr●ued Knights namely Lancelot du Lake Sir Tristram and Sir ●●●amore and gaue them in charge if it were possible to fetch the Red-rose Knight vnto his Court of whose aduenturous exployts hée hath heard so many times reported and withall he gaue them generall Pardon sealed with his priuie Seale for him and all his lawlesse followers This Commission beeing receiued by the three worthie Knights they with all spéede armed themselues in rich Corselets and strong habiliments of Warre and so rode towards Bransedale H●a●h where being no sooner come and deliuered their message from the King but the Red-rose Knight gaue them an honourable welcome and for thrée dayes most royally feasted them vnder large Canuasse Tents wherein they slept as securely as they had béene in King Arthurs Court or in a strong Castle of warre After this Tom a Lincolne selected out a hundred of his resolute Followers such as he best liked of and came with Sir Lancelot and the rest to the English Court where King Arthur not onely gaue him a friendly entertainment but also installed him one of his Knights of the Round-table and withall preclaimed a solemne Turniament that should be h●lden in the honour of this new made Knight to which Turniament assemble from other Countries many Princes Barons Knights of high honour which behaued themselues most nobly and woon great commendations of euery beholder but especially the Red-rose Knight who for that day stood as chiefe Champion against all commers In that Turniament or first dayes deede of his Knighthood where onely by his valour and prowesse hee ouerthrew thrée Kings and thirty other Knights all famouzed for Chiualry whereby he obtained such grace in the English Court that he had by the King a paire of golden Spurres put vpon his féet and generally of the whole assembly he was accounted one of the brauest Knights that then liued in the world But now marke how frowning Fortune ended their Triumphes with vnlucky Newes for the same day before the Knights had vnbuckled their Armours there arriued a Messenger who certified King Arthur how his Ambassadour was vniustly done to death in the Portingale Court which was an Act contrary both to the Faith of Princes and the Law of Armes For whose death King Arthur grew so enraged that he sware by the Honour of his bright Renowne and by the golden Spurre of true Knighthood the Portingales should repent that inhumane violence with the death of many thousand guiltlesse soules and that Babes vnborne should haue iust cause to curse the first contriuer of that vniust murther therefore with all spéede hée mustered vp a mighty Armie of Souldiers and because hee was continually molested with home-bred Mutinies and treacherous rebellions the which himselfe in person of force must pacifie appointed the Red-rose Knight as chiefe Generall ouer the Armie mustered for Portingale In which Seruice hée accomplished so many famous Exployts that hee was for euer after surnamed The Boast of England For no sooner had hée the whole Campe in charge and aboard their Shippes but hee prooued the perfect Patterne of an exquisi●e Souldier such a one as all martiall Captaines may learne to imitate for hée so circumspectly ordered his Captaines that in his Campe was neuer knowne any brawle or mu●●nie ●e was very courteous and liberall doing honour to all men according to their deserts He so painfully and with such care instructed his Souldiers that at an instant alwayes if it were needfull euery man by the sound of a Drumme or a Trumpet was found in his Charge and Quarter And to be briefe his Campe resembled one of the greatest Cities in the world for all kind of officers were there found in order and also a great number of Merchants to furnish it with all manner of necessaryes Hee 〈◊〉 case permitted any robberies priuy fighting force or violence but with seuerity punished those that were therein found guiltie His desire was that his Souldiers should glory in nothing so much as in Martiall prowesse Uertue and Wisedome He euermore gaue them their pay without fraud or deceit He honoured he praysed he imbrac'd and kist them and withall kept them in awe and subiection by which meanes his fame and honour grew so renowned that his Army dayly encreased more and more For when he first arriued vpon the Confines of Portingale his Campe grew to bee as great as euer was Caesars when he conquered the Western World and in matchlesse pro●●esse nothing inferiour vnto his So fortunate were his proceedings that he made a great part of the Prouinces of Portingale desolate not being intercepted by any but poyling euery Towne and Citie as hee