set to sea But that soone was too late when towres doe stand With bending browes men will immediately Set buttresses he that would save a state In its decline must not procrastinate This stay made Henry censur'd and the blot Was mark'd of all set in so high a fane As Henries worth Small Starres obscur'd would not Be mark'd by Kepler or the Noble Dane But be the Sunne Eclips'd th' Eclipse will be Tooke to a Digit by some Alestrâ—e That which deceived him was he set his rest That Charles meant faire but he drew closely on His warre i' th' Treatie and that Rule profest That th' Eleventh Lewis lectur'd to his sonne To learne but so much Latine as might tell And tutour him how to dissemble well Besides his trust in Maximilians strength Who was to marry with Brittanias heire Impos'd upon him for that King at length Shew'd himselfe nothing when he lost so faire A Hope as She for he cold Suitour did Dutchesse and Dutchy too by Proxie wed This Confidence her followers betrayes Mounts us to foile us like the Eagle just When she will breake she will the Tortoise raise Henry had sav'd this Dutchy by distrust That argument of weakenesse seldome heard The weakest thing should be the strongest guard The subsidie was now to be collected But he must be beholden to his sword For 's mony which the Northerne men protected As Gryphons doe the Ingots which they hoord Or like the Mines which as Olaus writes Have for their Guardians Subterranean sprites For the Commissioners no sooner came To York-shire but they rais'd a mutinie In stead of mony for King Richards name Being there still in recent memory Rose like a spirit at some conjuration And the great word i' th' Circle was Taxation For they as once the Androsians did pretend Want whom when Athens did enjoyne to pay A Tax and for the levying it did send The Goddesse Violence We have sayd they A Goddesse too as powerfull as she A Goddesse which we call Necessity This roused Henry in just rage to see Th' authoritie of Parliament cast downe To countermand what there th' Estates decree Doth make a blow directly at the Crowne And should he suffer that he should commit Implicit treason ' gainst himselfe and it And should he winke at th' Antecedent there He would be forc'd this Consequent to see The rest by dangerous Logick would inferre If Yorke-shire will not pay it why should we And by strange Grammar never taught in Schoole From on Example make a Generall rule Then to Northumberland his Mandates goe With strict injunctions nothing to remit But he the businesse doth carry so That by the People thought the cause of it He 's slaine in th' Act sure Henry was at cost Before a Pennie got a Noble lost Being thus in Blood the malcontents agree To goe against King Henry and conclude Chamber and Egremond their chiefes should be And thus the many-headed Multitude Although it boasted Heads enough before To be more Monster will have two Heads more Fame with one of her Pinions soone had writ This newes to Court Surrie as soone was sent To hush this Tumult and annihill it Who like a Tempest scouring as he went Some of those Clouds scar'd at his presence flew But like the wind call'd Cecias others drew For the Principalls were tooke and led To Yorke where they did by just vengeance fall Chamber in gallant manner suffered For he was hang'd in State above them all Thus Chamber even in ruine did aspire For they erected him one story higher But Egremond seeing the cause miscarry And all his followers like a mist dispeld Fled into Burgundy that Sanctuary Of Traytours who like vapours hence expeld To Her as to the middle Region flew The Place whence Henries greatest Tempests grew Then Henry call'd a Parliament againe For subsidies he did remunerate With Lawes and such were framed in his Reigne As with th' old Heroes shall him celebrate Lycurgus would be prow'd if hither sent To be but Clerke of Henries Parliament For 't was a Principle amongst the Prime Of their Law givers t' have the law aspire To the Condition of the present time And seldome had their mounture planted higher But in all Henries statutes Henries eye Look'd through the present at futurity In England then as in Polonia now Were but two sort of People the whole land Or in too base servility did bow Or in too high a statelinesse command To have no meane a vacuum doth imply Abhor'd in states as in Philosophy The reason was inclosures farmes were then Turn'd to demesnes therefore the land as yet No Yeomen had but clownes or Gentlemen Th' abuse reform'd did that third sort beget So proving what our Logicke doth deny The best division is Trichotomie By this mysterious way our Soldiery Had its foundation layd in any states To live too poorely or too gallantly Vnapts the spirits and emasculates For through a softnesse and habituall feare One cannot suffer th' other cannot dare Which makes a morall Monster in the state A fortitude defective in one part For action joyn'd with passion integrate The All of valour and a Souldiers heart Must have them so that yet they hardly know Which is the chiefe to suffer or to doe But then this sort of men as a third creature Bred up in fulnesse and some taking paines Amphibion like partaking of each nature Made able foote so having equall graines Of pow'r to doe and suffer valour went By this new mixture to a temperament This time were Maximilians subjects growne To Rebells and the newes to Henry flies Who like a King did make the case his owne For he stood Vmpire in all injuries As if Astrea when she did abhorre The Earth had made him her Executour And to such perfect Rebels that they tooke Their Soveraigne Prisoner after faith was made And loyalty was vow'd when he did looke For all things rather than to be betray'd Dangers most dangerous when we doe not minde it Not to looke for it is the way to finde it And in this Act a Smith stir'd most about Basenesse first tramples on a humbled Crest The Emblem proves that the ignoble rout Scoffes most at greatnesse clouded and deprest The Pygmies mocked Alcides when he slept And none but Hares by the dead Lyon leapt A Smith was busiest with the Emperour The Cornish Rebels did a Smith obey A Bardeaux Smith first strooke the governour Who came a civill discord to allay And the Ephesian Silver-smiths did make An uprore for their great Dianas sake Tumults seeme incident to Smiths by fatâ— Whose very Trade doth as an Emblem show Both the Incendiaries of a State And bellowes too which the sedition blow The Hammers with their harsh tumultuous jarre Make in their braines a kind of Civill warre How did that Time crosse its first course when fate Would Kings subject to their owne subjects doome Th' English rebell These their King Captivate The Scots Kill
her plates The wreath of Conquest in a Generous minde Is an inducement to a moderation In all exalted spirits you shall finde Something of humblenesse for mitigation And Old Rome built as Marius thought best The Fane of Honour lower than the rest He conquer'd yet lay prostrate in the field His sacred Campe did like a Temple looke Where Henry first diâ— stand now Henry kneeld And chang'd his sword into a Prayer Booke And solemnely did a Te Deum say Heaven 's a kinde Creditour whom thankes can pay Care and his Crowne met at his Head together He is no sooner King but he must be An Oedipus and solve this riddle whether He 'le claime by Wife or Birth or Victory But for this Triple Knot Henry had stor'd A Tripple wedge and broke this threefold Cord. If by his Wife he in effect had sayd The line of Yorke was better than his owne Or why should man who is the womans Head To a womans hand doe Homage for a Crowne And Henry thought it an unkingly thing To have his Crowne indebted to his Ring Nor would he claime by Conquest or give part Vnto the sword for that would but affright The Realme to forc'd obedience and start Men into giddy subjects for it might Make their faith stagger and obedience reele If Henries Scepter had beene made of Steele At last his love to himselfe made the case plaine That Titles Royall in his blood did flow And every Veine was a Basilick veine This made him absolute Henry did know That Princes were most independent when Their Crownes doe hold of Nature not of men Having thus defin'd which sodainely was done For 's consultation and his choyse did goe Together in a Progresse he set on For London in a Coach unseene and so Appearing not some God appear'd to be Whom men adore and yet no shape doe see Then Orisons and Hymnes at Pauls were sung And as before Te Deum sung agen His Banners in the Church for offrings hung When Henry pray'd in th' Armie the Campe then Appear'd a Church when he his Banners rear'd Within the Church the Church a Camp appear'd Suspicion now whisper'd these aires about That Henry was not reall every head That could nor cleare yet could create this doubt That Henry never would with England wed And joyne with Yorke How can a sâ—eete enfold Two houses which a Kingdome could not hold This doubt had ground for he had given some Hope To match with Brettaigne But his case requir'd Some reservation and an other scope Than he pretended or than they desir'd In Common Tracts great actions must not goe Here that 's the Kings high way which fewest know To hush this talke he promis'd faithfully To match at home and make this noise appeare A Fable gotten in adultery Betweene a scandalous Tongue and itching Eare. Bad them trust Henry not the Buzze of Fame Which like some Hound opens where is no game His Coronation then he hastened Which that the title might be all his owne â—efore the marriage was accomplished â—east she might seeme a sharer in the Crowne For though in other loves 't is strange yet he Knew that his love might here his Riv all be â—nd for his Glory and his safety too â—e did erect the Guard Henry conjorn'd â—hings different in themselves what none could doe â—he two discordant Roses he combin'd And which have rarely beene allie'd by fate He did unite security and state â—hen cal'd a Parliament so to proclaime â—hat Iustice was the Rule he 'de governe by â—nd that a Crowne alone was not his ayme â—hus Hercules constelled in the skie Though with one hand he at the Crowne doth reach He doth the other to the Balance stretch There with a Generall Pardon he allaies The feares of th' Adverse Party he did finde That feare lodg'd in a subjects brest can raise A dangerous Passion as we see combind Th' Order of Causes in the Chaine of Fate So 't is in Passions if we feare we hate Statutes 'gainst Riots were enacted then By penalties to crush sedition I' th' shell for a confused Masse of men Is as the Chaos whence Rebellion Is first created and all Riots are The seedes and Elements of Civill warre The Parliament dissolved he begunne To make his summer Progresse with his shine To cleare the Northerne ayre and like the sunne To Cancer did approach the Tropicke signe And warming there the Yorke-addicted Hearts He made the Summer Solstice in those parts Stafford and Lovell now who had not dar'd To leave their Sanctuaries had he beene neare Rise in the South like some new starres nor feard The King thus distant boldly to appeare Like Venus shine at noone if she doth runne Her greatest Elongation from the sunne Lord Lovell with his powrs advancing forth March'd towards Yorke the King to let them know He was in 's Zodiack still though so farre North Did suddenly against the Rebels goe In civill discords a delay may be More dangerous than a temeritie But by his Heralds first he pardons sent So Tamberlane sent his white flagge before Henry by lenitives not corsives meant Those ulcerated members to restore No soldier but a Herald nor a blow But strange a Pardon overthrew the foe The best of Trophees chiefely when the warre Is betweene King and subject those are best Complexion'd conquests which least sanguine are And those most modest which doe blush the least Camillus once was by Romes Senate thought Worthy to Triumph though he had not fought And greatest Trophee too they layd their hearts At Henries feete to be triumphed o're And yeelded their mindes captive which imparts The bravest glory to the Conquerour For 't is more hard to reconcile than kill For you may force ones pow'r but not his will After this Northerne blast was overblowne The King is made the Father of a Sonne Arturus cal'd after whose birth did frowne State-tempests in the land new stormes begun To shake his throne thus tempests beate the skies Soone as that starre which beares his name doth rise A new King is in making who pretended Fourth Edwards blood and that his line was not Broke off nor yet his lawfull issue ended And when a King a Prince of Wales had got A Priest steps in and undertakes to get A Duke of Yorke or a Plantagenet A Bakers sonne the Preist intends to mold Into a Prince a matter that would sute Well wrought with any feature how they could Transchange the Bakers bread I le not dispute This act is almost of as high a state The Bakers sonne he 'le Transubstantiate First he resolv'd his scenicke Prince should play The Duke of Yorke but when he heard the King Purpos'd to make Plantagenet away He chang'd his Theame and his Mercuriall thing Must act young Warwicke when this Prince is slaine Enter his Ghost new conjur'd up againe The Boy was capable all formes t' admit Like the Materia prima and might be By some Philosopher mistooke
English did to France sayle or'e The Scots oblig'd by the French courtesies Made their incursions at the Posterne dore And stop'd the Current of our victories Which did the Proverbe make He that would wiâ— The Day of France with Scotland must begin When 'twixt sixt Edward and the Scottish Queene The match was almost to conclusion brought T was broke by France whose gifts did intervene Then was the field at Mussell Borrough fought Where Mars did quit the wrongs by Venus done And though the Night was lost the Day was won At last Great Iames this Vnion contriv'd Whose Royall blood by lineall descent Was from the Monarchs of both Realmes deriv'd He joyn'd this Isle and in the Parliament Call'd it his Wife the Angells Peace did sing When he espous'd her with Astreas Ring Here is a threefold Cord a threefold Knot The Saxons Heptarchie was first combind Then Wales was added then the valiant Scot This twist by Mortalls cannot be untwin'd And as the lippes of Sacred truth have spoke A threefold Cord cannot be easily broke My Soveraigne now Heire of his fathers Peace And great Confirmer of it doth defend Her Rights which doe encrease with his encrease Triumphs of Peace Trophees of warre transcend In Glory and an Olive branch will raise A name as high as a whole Grove of Bayes Being now at Peace Henry did wealth pursue For soone as Iron was layd downe he had Some thought on Gold we but foure Ages knew Gold Silver Iron Brasse till he did adde This fift a compound different from either His Age was Gold and Iron mix'd together And as the lower Orbes are wheel'd about Rapt by the motion of the Orbe above So were Inferiour agents soone found out Which mov'd and turn'd when he began to move For 't is observ'd that Princes sooner get Men for their humour than their honour fit Empson and Dudly men of wide desires Which could not be or satisfi'd or sham'd The Creatures were whose avaritious fires Like Hells could not or be extinct or tam'd Had they drunke Tagus and Pactolus quaft Their Golden streames had beene too small a draught Nay if they owners had and heires become Of all the treasures which interred lye Where nature teemes the burden of her wombe Conceiv'd with Sulphur mix'd with Mercury Even nature had growne barren and her stuffe Beene all consum'd yet they not sayd Enough The wisest King in sacred leaves hath writ The Horse-leach hath two daughters which doe cry Give give nor have enough if she thought fit This longing Paire should not unmarryed dye Here is a Paire which may their longing save So they two husbands she two sonnes may have Let darke Antiquity cease to avouch Her Midas whom the angry Gods decreed Should with his fingers admirable Touch Turne all to Gold for these men did indeed What he did but in fiction and were able To make that Story which was once but Fable These out of subtile malice and not errour Did wrest the penall statutes to their bent And make that Rigour which was meant but Terrour Pretense of law did colour their intent And their oppression gild as if they would Imploy the scales of Iustice to weigh Gold The sweete of Riches did pervert the Law To Gall and wormewood which their greedy mind Did with Gold-wires to its owne vastnesse draw And passe the lines which Iustice had defin'd Nay man will venture to an Indian Mine Though in the passage he twice cuts the Line This was the noted Blemish of his Time And most disfigur'd it though else a Man Built to be Great by goodnesse the same Crime Story hath cast upon Vespasian A Prince fram'd all of Clemency and one Too high for Censure but for that alone Yet one Historian for the Emperour pleades Sayes he was forc'd by the necessity Of Publicke stocke and the Exchequers needes But Henry found as leane a Treasurie Thus Victor with Vespasian did dispense One is the fault then one be the defence I am not of their Party who contend He us'd these Arts to Keepe his subjects low And by the weight of Poverty to bend Their minds to Concord and to Vnion bow Want is too sordid and too base will prove To beare so trimme a Paire as Peace and Love What though the Scribe of Florence doth mainteine To keepe men quiet is to keepe them scant Clowds of Examples and all Henries Reigne Refell him whose Rebellions sprung from want Want's a strange Herald for some men had bore No Armes at all unlesse they had beene poore To men exhaust and worne with Penâ—ry New things are pleasing and the Old ingrate And innovation is their Remedy Rebellions are the Monsters of a state And nature showes that they proceed no lesse From the defect of matter than th' excesse They who to Fortunes lowest forme are throwne To ruine and confusion doe aspire As if anothers wound could salve their owne And when their owne Estates are set on fire Then Catilines resolve is judg'd most fit With fire not water to extinguish it He rather did observe the Exigents The want of Treasure brought some Princes to And taught himselfe by those experiments The danger to be unprovided so He 's a Good husband who so buies his wit That others not himselfe doe pay for it The Case of neighbour Kings did him instruct The inconvenience not to have at hand The three maine things which doe a warre conduct As when one did Trivulcio demand What things in warre a Prince most pow'rfull made He answer'd three and three times Money sayd And may not Henries Buildings speake him cleare And not so poore that he did riches prize His Royall Chappell this record shall beare That he to Gold did not Idolatrize For if he did succession might object He spent his God his Chappell to erect But grant it was his fault who will deny That Henry was a man if you will say That Henry had not his infirmity Maintaine this Paradox He was not Clay Man is Gods Coyne yet he was never made Of any Ore so pure but was allaide A constant cleerenesse is above the law Of Mortall nor within that Region stands As those elaborate peeces which doe draw Breath from exact Van-Dyks unerring hands Are deepely shadow'd and a duskie Sable Doth Clow'd the borders of the Curious Table Now least that Henry should be too intent With an affection totally inclin'd On wealth the times a danger did present To waine his thoughts and avocate his minde Sent Heav'n no trouble man no Watch would Keepe Without this Thorne the Nightingall would sleepe For at this time Suffolkes wild Earle did take His second sally forth Henry forgave His first but that did small impression make Who in such haughty soules thinkes to engrave A favour writes it in the Horne of Deere Where it is cast and mued in a yeare He fled before for having rashly slaine A Private man was forc'd to pleade his Case In Publicke which in him
theirs as if the dayes were come The Cynick spoke of that when he was dead Nature inverst should stand upon her head Then into France the King some forces sent In show to keepe the English Pale unwonne But in his secret and his chiefe intent To succour Maximilian thus the Sunne In his apparent course posts to the West But by his hidden tract creepes to the East Now before Dixmue were the French set downe And raised thus by th' English a French spie Promis'd in lieu of Pardon from the Towne To bring them safe upon the Enemie So whilst the Towne by th' English then releev'd Reprev'd a Rogue a Rogue the Towne reprev'd This Emissary brought them all unseene Close to the Campe which carelesse never thought That th' English Forces could so neere have beene Who for a hundred lives the Conquest bought This Engin first against the Towne did lye But a Rope turn'd it on the Enemie Lord Cordes madded to be thus disgrac'd Beleagred Newport and so farre prevail'd That the French Banner on a Fort was plac'd But soone remov'd so powerfully assail'd Such stormes came whistling from the English bow Their Lilies planted there not long could grow For some few Archers newly had put in At Newport Hav'n who by successe did show So much of strength that Cordes thought they had bin More than indeed they were for looking through Th' Event as through a Multiplying Glasse He judgd their number greater than it was Conceite the weakest things can fortifie And in a turne the strong debilitate This few thought more did thousands terrifie For our Imagination may create Reall effects though here no cause to yeeld His owne Opinion beate him from the field This Lord wish'd madly that he might be fir'd Seven yeares in hell so he might Callis take But when his seven yeares lease had beene expir'd I doubt this wish he would his second make To lye there seven yeares longer to have beene Secur'd by faith ne'r to come there agen Having for Maximilian thus prevail'd He pres'd him to the Marriage with the Heire Of Brittaine for although his armes had fail'd He thought the losse of Brittaine to repaire This way and judg'd that though his Armes did misse A Ladies Armes more Powerfull than his And Maximilian did so farre proceed He married her by Proxie who did lye â—'th ' spowsall sheetes with one legge but indeed That Court devise had no validity 'T was a lame match what could the Proxie doe With his one leg where 's master should have two King Charles resolved that this tricke was vaine Nor caring though his friends turn'd Enemies Mockd at the Ceremony and to gaine The Lady planted golden Batteries Not so to win a woman is hard hap When Iove rain'd Gold Danae held her lap And that which winneth in a Ladies eye King Charles was lusty Maximilian old Content to lye with her by Deputy Who would not choose this heate before that cold The Lady yeeldes nor will I thinke it strange That two such things should make a woman change Nor could she well deny if Charles entreat For if she should in Opposition lye Then out of France warres did her Country threat Therefore to yeeld was her best Policie Turne Mars to Venus and not fight but wed And so conclude the quarrell in a bed But here 's the Knot King Charles himselfe is bound To Maximilians daughter by contract And she to Maximilian but he found A tricke to solve both riddles with one Act. And by the dextrous cunning which he try'd One knot he loosed and another ty'd Want of consent did both contracts bereave Of validnesse the Dutchesse was his Ward And could not match her selfe without his leave Th' other by her minority was bard Charles having thus broke this made a new band And set his owne for Maximilians hand But that his drift may lye obscur'd he sends Embassadors to enterteine our King In vaine beleefe and to atcheive his ends Whilst Henry mock'd imagin'd no such thing Charles by dissembling first this Dutchie gat Therefore to keepe it there 's no Art but that In bodies naturall the same things doe Keepe them which made them and Philosophy Saith Elements are Aliments T is so In Bodies Civill for in Policie 'T is a rul'd Case That as a State is gain'd By the same Arts that state must be mainteind They to divert his thoughts doe pray our King Would let their Master his owne Ward dispose Thus they the match would to conclusion bring And the first note scarce heard be in the close And by strange Method make our Henry see A Bridegroome e're he should a Suitour be They tell him that their Master did intend A warre against the Turke and to advance His Flower de Lis against their Moone and send Against the Turkish bow the Gallicke Lance. True he was Plannet-strooke but that was done By Brittaignes Venus not the Turkish Moone But now his misted Counsels did appeare The marriage did breake out for all to see 't Which plainely sundred the two Kings who were Like to lines Parallell which will not meete ' Though drawne to an infinity for they Who differ in their Ends part in their way This double Injury to lose his owne And daughters match made Maximilian breake To boundlesse rage with which sweld up and blowne The lesse he could performe the more did speake 'T is hollownesse and emptinesse of ground Which makes an Eccho multiply the sound His passion something cold Reason step'd in To shew his weakenesse and advise him looke For aydes abroad nor his revenge begin Vnsided Henry with his wrongs is strooke Like needles of the same magneticke touch If you moove one the other moves as much But knowing that Conjunction of Heads Is a good part of speech Henry unites His Councels with his owne though a Prince leads Th' Action in chiefe he in the Plurall writes Mandamus volumus to let men know He doth in Businesse with his Councell goe Then warre was noys'd in Parliament which nam'd As if some exorcisme had beene conceiv'd To call up spirits they were all inflam'd To wipe of the disgrace which they receiv'd For Brittaignes losse and to repaire their shame He slighteth vertue that will slight his fame Their memories present them with the sight Of the French Trophies by their Gransires wonne Here the fift Henry there the Edwards fight I' th' field of their Imagination Before the Sonnes when such faire Coppies stand They must write bravely or a bastard hand That Parliament which much conduc'd to warre He did a Stature against Mort-paies make Least Captaines should defraud their men who are Cold Gamesters when no money is at stake They 'l beare no Armes but when the Field is fuller And bravelier charg'd with Metall than with Colour And so 't was here they such a Taxe did grant That not a Souldier justly could repine 'T is fearefull when they doe their wages want Or food for hunger keepes no